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Ben Cardew's avatar

barber beats? then signal wave? I dunno, I was always more of a broken transmission man. (I am, of course, joking - hadn't even heard of signal wave until this morning.) I really liked this: " listeners can interpret the personality behind the project as they wish, whether it be a tired TV studio employee or an entire television company."

Stephan Kunze's avatar

Well, sometimes these vaporwave microgenres are a bit confusing and many artists are working across them. Signalwave – like slushwave or barber beats – is one of the more popular styles, even though it's very open and experimental. It's mostly about online communities though, things like which Discord server you spend more time on.

Ramiro Blanco's avatar

I didn't even know this genre had a name...

Interesting post, although the line where they say "I even recorded tracks from the radio on a tape recorder so I could listen to them later" made me feel very old. That was normal in my days.

Stephan Kunze's avatar

Well, I don't know how old IT is but we can guess. He mentions being into Ghostemane and Suicideboys "as a teenager". Those artists didn't start releasing music until the mid 2010s.