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.
I like to figure out the source songs used in my favorite vaporwave (and witch house) songs. This is one I’ve listened to many times and been curious about but I’ve always come up empty searching for lyrics to find the primary original song.
But I finally found it today when I went about my lyrics search in a slightly different way. I guess it’s by an Italo Disco act from Germany.