Very interesting when I look at the lists with ten most important Vaporwave albums and go through all Vapor Talks interviews, I notice that there are hardly any albums to be found that come from the 2020s but mainly from the years between 2011-2019. The question is what does that mean to the genre? Is this a trend saying us something about the development of Vaporwave? I have to honestly admit that my top ten doesn't look different either..
I think that's quite normal. Vaporwave is growing up, and the 'classic era' is long gone, and we're in the fourth or fifth generation of vaporwave producers now.
Dan Mason recently raised a somewhat controversial point in a Reddit thread saying that maybe the genre hasn't spawned any classics in recent years, and there are many people - professionals as well as fans - disagreeing heavily with him. People have started pointing out albums from the last five years that they would see as modern or contemporary classics.
Looking back, fans in any genre usually have deeper relationships to older albums that got them into the genre in the first place, or reignited their love affair with a certain style of music. You will hardly find anyone calling an album from the last five years a 'classic' or even just an all-time favorite of theirs.
This is really interesting: "Vaporwave is also unique insofar that it’s the first truly decentralized music genre. The main location of the genre is the internet. "
I immediately thought, no because there was..... Then I realised I couldn't come up with an example!
Very interesting when I look at the lists with ten most important Vaporwave albums and go through all Vapor Talks interviews, I notice that there are hardly any albums to be found that come from the 2020s but mainly from the years between 2011-2019. The question is what does that mean to the genre? Is this a trend saying us something about the development of Vaporwave? I have to honestly admit that my top ten doesn't look different either..
I think that's quite normal. Vaporwave is growing up, and the 'classic era' is long gone, and we're in the fourth or fifth generation of vaporwave producers now.
Dan Mason recently raised a somewhat controversial point in a Reddit thread saying that maybe the genre hasn't spawned any classics in recent years, and there are many people - professionals as well as fans - disagreeing heavily with him. People have started pointing out albums from the last five years that they would see as modern or contemporary classics.
Looking back, fans in any genre usually have deeper relationships to older albums that got them into the genre in the first place, or reignited their love affair with a certain style of music. You will hardly find anyone calling an album from the last five years a 'classic' or even just an all-time favorite of theirs.
This is really interesting: "Vaporwave is also unique insofar that it’s the first truly decentralized music genre. The main location of the genre is the internet. "
I immediately thought, no because there was..... Then I realised I couldn't come up with an example!
Also, amazing pictures from his house.
Right?! I do think it was/is really unique in that regard.