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And yet it's a sub with 100,000 followers: https://old.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/ There's a sub-genre that dubs Vaporwave son

And yet it's a sub with 100,000 followers: https://old.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/ There's a sub-genre that dubs Vaporwave songs with Simpsons clips that has tens of millions of views on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simpsonwave https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simpsonwave It is indeed very real. Surreal, even.

27182818284 8y ago
Simpsonwave is one of those things that reminded me just how great having the Internet is. I'm not in the community by any means, but as soon as I learned about it, I was so happy that it existed and that it had a community putting out work.
- busterarm 8y ago
  Simpsonwave really brought back my love of Memphis Horrorcore. Come & Get Yo Wig Split! (heavily sampled in one of those Ryan Celcius videos)
toomanybeersies 8y ago
If you think that Simpsonwave is weird, just wait until you discover fashwave: https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/mgwk7b/fashwave-trumpwave-far-right-appropriating-electronic-music https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/mgwk7b/fashwave-trumpwa... It's literally the same as vaporwave, but with fascist titles and graphics. Reminds me a lot of neo-Nazis appropriating metal and punk. Vaporwave is a weird genre. It's really popular on the internet, but it never quite hit mainstream, I don't see clubs playing it and most of the artists seem to be self-releasing. A vaporwave artist had a gig here in Melbourne a couple of months ago (I can't remember who it was now), and I thought about going along just to see what kind of people actually listen to it in real life.
- tgb 8y ago
  Well now I have Cybernazi in my Youtube history, guess I should read the article before clicking the Youtube link and then blithely clicking "okay" on the notice informing me that the video content has been flagged. Though I'm mostly just annoyed that they have replaced an "a" with a delta instead of an alpha.
  - fein 8y ago
    You can't see the imagery when just listening to the music. There's no message in the music, just the YT video. If you like the music, so what? No need to be ashamed. A lot of the fashwave stuff sounds great, and no one is going to know why it's considered "bad" by listening.
    - selimthegrim 8y ago
      The Trumpwave/fashwave stuff is often other songs with only the music video changed c.f. the original Trumpwave video https://youtu.be/_k1zJV0DSvc https://youtu.be/_k1zJV0DSvc
      - fein 8y ago
        CybernΔzi is an original artist. Another original artist is Xurious, who does sometimes include spoken word in the tracks (I recall at least one with Woes in it). I also wouldn't conflate Trumpwave with fashwave. Trumpwave imagery is of course popular with the TD crowd, fashwave not so much when they realize the associations. None the less, if you like the music, no need to self flagellate.
        selimthegrim 8y ago
        The video in question though has its backing track by iamMANOLIS
        fein 8y ago
        I really didn't even notice the vice article had an embedded video (the wonders of video blocker extensions). I had assumed that the OP had gone down a youtube rabbithole much in the same way I discovered fashwave from looking into synthwave and retrowave. Edit: wait the Trumpwave video isn't fashwave, and isn't CybernΔzi. I assumed you were referring to the vice article.
- selimthegrim 8y ago
  New Orleans has a whole vaporwave centric Krewe (parade and party social club) led by one of the Arcade Fire frontmen. They threw a pretty awesome party modeled after the 1984 World’s Fair earlier this year.

27182818284 8y ago

Simpsonwave is one of those things that reminded me just how great having the Internet is. I'm not in the community by any means, but as soon as I learned about it, I was so happy that it existed and that it had a community putting out work.

busterarm 8y ago
Simpsonwave really brought back my love of Memphis Horrorcore. Come & Get Yo Wig Split! (heavily sampled in one of those Ryan Celcius videos)

toomanybeersies 8y ago

If you think that Simpsonwave is weird, just wait until you discover fashwave: https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/mgwk7b/fashwave-trumpwave-far-right-appropriating-electronic-music https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/mgwk7b/fashwave-trumpwa... It's literally the same as vaporwave, but with fascist titles and graphics. Reminds me a lot of neo-Nazis appropriating metal and punk. Vaporwave is a weird genre. It's really popular on the internet, but it never quite hit mainstream, I don't see clubs playing it and most of the artists seem to be self-releasing. A vaporwave artist had a gig here in Melbourne a couple of months ago (I can't remember who it was now), and I thought about going along just to see what kind of people actually listen to it in real life.

tgb 8y ago
Well now I have Cybernazi in my Youtube history, guess I should read the article before clicking the Youtube link and then blithely clicking "okay" on the notice informing me that the video content has been flagged. Though I'm mostly just annoyed that they have replaced an "a" with a delta instead of an alpha.
- fein 8y ago
  You can't see the imagery when just listening to the music. There's no message in the music, just the YT video. If you like the music, so what? No need to be ashamed. A lot of the fashwave stuff sounds great, and no one is going to know why it's considered "bad" by listening.
  - selimthegrim 8y ago
    The Trumpwave/fashwave stuff is often other songs with only the music video changed c.f. the original Trumpwave video https://youtu.be/_k1zJV0DSvc https://youtu.be/_k1zJV0DSvc
    - fein 8y ago
      CybernΔzi is an original artist. Another original artist is Xurious, who does sometimes include spoken word in the tracks (I recall at least one with Woes in it). I also wouldn't conflate Trumpwave with fashwave. Trumpwave imagery is of course popular with the TD crowd, fashwave not so much when they realize the associations. None the less, if you like the music, no need to self flagellate.
      - selimthegrim 8y ago
        The video in question though has its backing track by iamMANOLIS
        fein 8y ago
        I really didn't even notice the vice article had an embedded video (the wonders of video blocker extensions). I had assumed that the OP had gone down a youtube rabbithole much in the same way I discovered fashwave from looking into synthwave and retrowave. Edit: wait the Trumpwave video isn't fashwave, and isn't CybernΔzi. I assumed you were referring to the vice article.
selimthegrim 8y ago
New Orleans has a whole vaporwave centric Krewe (parade and party social club) led by one of the Arcade Fire frontmen. They threw a pretty awesome party modeled after the 1984 World’s Fair earlier this year.