classic vaporwave

obligatory, still mostly holds up, still more experimental and weird than much of what would follow. and i still don't love it for some reason. but it must've struck a chord because i fell down the vapor hole for years after

puts the "haunt" in "hauntology." it's a classic for a reason. this was the second vaporwave album i listened to all the way through after a friend introduced me to floral shoppe

mantra, though, is one of my absolute favorites. so much that i sought out its cassette

also one of my absolute favorites. eclectic and interesting

short but sweet and with lots of energy. i genuinely wish there were more of it

a moodier take on the genre. i remember this one getting taken down every few months for copyright

distinctly funky. i have trouble differentiating macross releases, but they were wildly popular in the scene (and this list would have a gigantic hole in it if i didn't include at least one of their releases)

blank banshee is still around and still doing cool stuff. i listen to every new album they put out and they haven't missed yet, nor have they stagnated

definitely has an aquatic feeling--a lot of vaporwave does, which may be related to its roots in seapunk. this is a good one to relax to

when i think of future funk, i think of the old pepsi commercial clips set to music from this album

this is the first vaporwave record i remember experiencing as a journey through memories of a real place. many of the other records were memories of digital pseudo-places. after enjoying this one i sought out a lot more mallsoft

this is how 1996 sounded to me. luxury elite is prolific as hell but this one is my favorite of hers

the actual acme of mallsoft. cat systems corp is on this like three times but i just really like them lol

kind of swanky "classic" vaporwave. this artist is still active and making good music

a smooth and clean experience i had lost in the depths of my music folder until recently. happy to have found it again

a true audio journey, and not a happy one. i found this in a big vaporwave .zip on /mu/

i don't know why, but this album's lostalgia is really acute to me, like hologram plaza

there are, i think, four volumes of atmospheres now? this one is my personal favorite. it meets the promise of its name

this isn't one of my favorites, but i think it has to be on any list of vital vaporwave. also i'm not totally sure because vaporwave artists change pseudonyms constantly but i think this is the same guy as telepath

personally i like some of their other early releases more, but this is the one that got popular (and i do consider it good)

tends towards the repetitive, though that's hardly new for this genre. good for zoning the fuck out

the trappiest vaportrap. a bop

i think if i had to show somebody what "vaporwave" sounds like generally, without getting into the experimentation or painful useless nostalgia in a lot of vaporwave, i'd pull out this record

the audibly decaying state of these samples is giving disintegration loops

another artist i never really got into because i'm not very funk-tolerant, but he became wayyy more influential and real-world popular than like any of these other ones. way to go

i never really got into the slushwave part of the scene--maybe i thought it was too formless? but this is a good album for getting a hit of slush without drowning

just barely squeaking in through my ten-year cutoff. i have to be in the right mood, but when it hits, it hits

a vektroid classic. though i don't even like this one. maybe i'm a fake fan. a poser. a tourist

a compilation album and a pretty good who's who of the scene back then

another who's who, but funkier. if you clicked the previous one and were like "where the fuck is luxury elite," here she is