ZS History of Vaporwave (Part 1)

From hypnagogic pop to eccojams (2008-2010)

Try to come up with a snappy definition for vaporwave, and you will fail.

In his 2016 book Babbling Corpse – Vaporwave and The Commodification of Ghosts, the academic author Grafton Tanner recounts how he tried to introduce people to vaporwave, but failed at every attempt to describe its sound and his emotions listening to it: “That is, until I actually …