Slushwave is a sub-genre of vaporwave based around the works of t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者. The style generally uses samples of music from the 80s and 90s with excessive amounts of looping, reverb, flangers, and delays to give it that classic slushy sound. While for the most part being identical to classic vaporwave, slushwave is distinguished by embodying the onomatopoeia of its namesake.
Read MoreIn the year 2022, a post-vaporwave internet emerged in an increasingly de-centralized, de-stabilized, and hyper-globalized world. Despite rapidly increasing technological progress, many people within the post-vaporwave sphere have created a metaphorical bubble of accepted norms where fetishized aesthetics of 80s, 90s, and an incoherent amalgam of the two, allows for a faux-authentic lifestyle that aggressively glorifies memes, corporate machinations, obsolete products, and gaudy iconography.
Read MoreBarber Beats are simply a sub-genre of the micro-genre Vaporwave, or a spin-off, whatever. It was coined by Aloe City Records to refer to Haircuts for Men, who is often credited with popularizing the style and aesthetic. The sub-genre as an established style began gaining notoriety in early 2022, making it one of the newest iterations of Vaporwave.
Read MoreVaporwave in 2021 is a bit of a quagmire. Almost everything that can be said about it has already been written or blogged about somewhere online since its early inception around 2010. Countless articles will flood your search pages all theorizing on either the intense faux-philosophical undertones of the music or some pseudo-intellectual analysis of the artwork that permeates the genre like a parasitic neon haze that suffocates your eyes.
Read MoreEveryone has heard of Vaporwave by now, so I won’t go into an extended exegesis about its themes of dystopian futuristic pseudo-philosophical meanderings, but since it started appearing online around 2010 there has been a slight decline in interest from the denizens on the fringe internet. Once a sonic oddity that created a mystique so aesthetic that it sliced through the web like a blade running through neon butter, this genre of reverbed slowings has somewhat diminished in intrigue in the last few years.
Read MoreArtzie Music was hit with multiple copyright strikes by an agency called ShoPro otherwise known as Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Co., Ltd. A Japanese production company and a subsidiary of the Japanese publishing group Hitotsubashi Group. The YouTube channel received several violations at once prompting the Google-owned video platform to issue a termination date set to October 27, 2020.
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