An analysis of what happened to Vaporwave—the music that captured the Internet with an obsession of '80s and '90s consumer culture.

Vaporwave, to the extent it can be said to still exist, is sample based, layering and warping pieces of the most reviled forms of music in the recording era: chintzy 80s lounge, smooth jazz, Muzak.

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Other YouTube channels soon followed, but they weren’t quite the same as the videos being shared today. Back then, the videos all had the same lo-fi aesthetic recycled from the Vaporwave scene.

Vaporwave incorporates easy listening-style music (or muzak), old-school Web imagery, glitch art, advertising and brand satirization, and ’80s/’90s aesthetics.

The aesthetic niche combining electronic music and digital art finds an ancestor in Surrealism, particularly in the self-taught French painter Yves Tanguy.

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