A. Thank you for your kind words on this, it's always cool to see people be normal about music instead of insisting I listen to bad stuff.
B. I see that you were unaware of Vaporwave as a music genre so I'm gonna overshare for a moment because I'm autistic about this and I hope that's okay.
Basically as I understand it, and I won't be doing a fully history deep dive but; Vaporwave popped up around 12 years ago with THIS video:
It's arguably a remix, but it was made via a sample of Chris Deburgh's Lady in Red, you can actually hear the exact sample here at 2:40:
The song was essentially slowed down and given a sort of reverby-ethereal vibe to the whole thing. Something I overall enjoyed but found a bit too repetitive for me in the original Nobody Here video.
This sort of "Reverbed Ethereal Vibe" carries through a lot of Vaporwave music such as this:
This one lacks any lyrics at all focusing heavily on melody and I honestly think it's a lot better for it in my opinion because I'm less likely to recognize the repeating than I am with literally two words lol.
Of course, it would be wrong not to mention MACINTOSH PLUS, who basically popularized Vaporwave with FLORAL SHOPPE - 02 リサフランク420 - 現代のコンピュー which you've likely heard before even if you don't recognize the name:
And now is where it branches off into a ton of different micro sub-genres, you have a ton popping up but the one that caught my eye specifically was Future Funk. A sort of focus on the capitalistic boom of the 80's where new tech was all the rage, and brands meant everything. Except with a sort of fun and lively vibe rather than dystopian capitalistic hell. Future Funk also makes use of a lot of anime aesthetics and city pop / J-pop influences.
The big Future Funk influence of the era was SAINT PEPSI, Pepsi was sort of the artist that people looked to in order to say "sure I like Future Funk, at least the GOOD STUFF that isn't like all that cringe shit, I only listen to SAINT PEPSI because he makes GOOD music." Which is :| but the music slaps. Like if Vaporwave is too slow for you, or you're in the mood for something a little more upbeat, here ya go!
Right out the gate we can hear so much more energy here. This was sort of set as the norm for Future Funk, but for a lot of artists it strayed too far from it's Vaporwave roots and some took to making music somewhere in the middle, still upbeat and lively but with more of that classic ethereal feel to it.
To this day I will use this hour long beautiful mix of upbeat future funk classics whenever I'm cleaning the house or driving anywhere or doing anything that really requires me to just have energy.
This SLAPS and I know it by heart because I'm dumb and I've listened to it significantly too much. I think what really makes it for me is that it's not just a playlist video, it's a proper DJ mix seamlessly moving from one song to the next.
ANYWAYS, yea Vaporwave has a ton of sub genres and stuff to look into if anyone has any interest in it. I admittedly got hardcore into Future Funk but there's almost always something for everyone when it comes to Vaporwave.
You've got artists like Blank Banshee, Manapool, VAPERROR, MACINTOSH PLUS, SAINT PEPSI, ΛDRIΛNWΛVE, Vantage, Future Girlfriend 音楽 , 悲しい Android - Apartment , ミカヅキBIGWAVE
There's a ton, including indie artists like Strawberry Station (who's actually a really nice guy, we've spoken on occasion and it was nice to learn he's a chill dude.)
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悲しい Android - Apartment - Let Me Stay Close To You
Future Funk remix of Simple Love by Junko Ohashi
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悲しい Android Apartment X Architecture In Tokyo - How I Feel About You
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Future Funk playlist
SUPERSEX420 - da b00ty brigade
ceruleancerise - Lightspeed Love (愛の光速)
ミカヅキBIGWAVE - トキメキTONIGHT
Escape - Kiss
TENDENCIES - Numberone
Amherst - Dozier
SUPERSEX420 - 私は性交のような高いPa r ty おっぱい
Yuni Wa - 7 Waves
Desired - For You
childhood - BBYLUV
Amherst - Little Caesars In Retrograde
JD senuTi - Wangan
childhood - thinking of you
Night Tempo - Rolling With Me!
92' - Vacancy
Wanderer - Moonlight Bay
Night Tempo - Dreamer
PRISM LITE - WITH YOU
Nameless Warning - Next Exit
SEASON - Move Me
悲しい ANDROID - APARTMENT¶ - Romance nights
"Times We Had" by "Digital Waves"
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