Tag: vapormeme

Various Artists – NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL VAPORWAVE

10 August 2016 Sunbleach Leave a comment

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL VAPORWAVE refers to a 2012 fabricated compilation album of the same name. One that, fittingly enough, never came out – because that’s the point, right? But in 2015, Colosseum Records1 went ahead and did it, and the result is forty-two tracks compiled from various artists within the vaporwave scene, mostly those who have […]

bl00dwave – ＮＥＷＶＩＳＵＡＬＳ

18 July 2016 Sunbleach Leave a comment

Recommendation: ☀☀☁ /r/vaporwave’s “Guide to Vaporwave Subgenres” lists bl00dwave as a part of the “vapormeme” subgenre, which is described as “a derisive term […] [that] tend[s] to take multiple aesthetic styles of vaporwave with no contextual reason […] presenting them in a confused light that has no purpose.”1 Ouch. Is it all deserved? Well, not entirely – at least not […]