I think my favorite vaporwave song is this one that VastleCania posted a few years ago:
I’ve been listening to a lot of Death’s Dynamic Shroud over the past year or so. One song I can’t get enough of is this one that’s half Final Fantasy music:
I like these ones, too:
Recently, I discovered several good albums under the netlabel Hjördis-Britt Åström.
For example, three “businesswave” albums by Malta Company Formation:
And these two more “traditional” vaporwave songs by 秋セール1986 (please excuse the racy cover image on the second one, but I think it’s a good song):
I love this Voyage Futur album from a couple years ago:
It’s on that side of vaporwave that’s less sampley and more Vangelis/Tangerine Dream evocative ambient synthy.
All their stuff is great, but that’s my favorite album of theirs so far. We used a lot of their music in Preserving Worlds and they were really lovely to connect with.
Ok, I just recommended the new Clanton album in another thread :v, but this is an already classic and just amazing vaporwave record made by the same guy
This is the vaporwave song I can’t get enough of in recent weeks. (It doesn’t sound like much until 0:40.)
Edit (a month later): About half of what I listen to these days is just a long list of random Fortune 600 songs on repeat.
If some of my favorite vaporwave (and witch house) artists were better known, I suppose they’d never get away with their blatant sampling of very well-known songs. I like the way they twist and combine sometimes familiar things into a dreamy haze.