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vaporwave

Last updated: Tue Nov 04 2025 02:36:51 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Vaporwave is an electronic music genre that emerged online in the early 2010s, characterized by slowed-down samples of 1980s and 90s pop, smooth jazz, and muzak. The sound evokes nostalgic commercialism through heavy reverb, looping, and chopped vocals, often critiquing consumer culture. It's closely tied to retro internet aesthetics featuring Japanese text, old computer graphics, and dated corporate imagery.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
80		1972	Various Artists	PC Music, Vol. 1
14		1995	Os Morenos	Os Morenos	vaporwave
34		1996	Home	Falling Into Place	chillwave electronic retrowave synthwave	synthwave # 62 chillwave # 72 retrowave # 95
88		2004	Various Artists	Stranger Things (Soundtrack from the Netflix Original Series)	electronic new wave pop retrowave rock soundtrack synthwave vaporwave	synthwave # 69 retrowave # 96
100		2006-05-09	Home	Odyssey	synthwave chillwave vaporwave	chillwave # 95 synthwave # 96
38		2009-02-14	18 Carat Affair	60/40	vaporwave
89		2011-02-27	DeVon Hendryx	DREAMCAST SUMMER SONGS	instrumental hip-hop plunderphonics vaporwave	instrumental hip-hop # 85 plunderphonics # 94
74		2011-07-26	18 Carat Affair	Vintage Romance	vaporwave
72		2011-10-25	James Ferraro	Far Side Virtual	vaporwave
1		2011-10-31	18 Carat Affair	Televised Tragedies	vaporwave
81		2011-11-07	Oneohtrix Point Never	Replica	ambient plunderphonics	ambient # 60 plunderphonics # 97
51		2011-11-21	Fatima Al Qadiri	Genre-Specific Xperience	dubstep vaporwave
82		2011-12-09	Macintosh Plus	Floral Shoppe	vaporwave
33		2012-09-01	Blank Banshee	BLANK BANSHEE 0
90		2012-11-12	Cities Aviv	Black Pleasure 2012	vaporwave cloud rap
71		2013-03-15	Luxury Elite	with love	vaporwave
44		2013-03-29	Infinity Frequencies	Shrines	vaporwave
47		2013-05-31	Saint Pepsi	HIT VIBES	future funk house nu-disco vaporwave	nu-disco # 77 future funk # 80
94		2013-06-14	architecture in tokyo	Summer Paradise	vaporwave	plunderphonics # 81
6		2013-08-18	Bones	Scumbag
98		2013-09-21	Oneohtrix Point Never	R Plus Seven	vaporwave electronic	plunderphonics # 42 progressive electronic # 80
46		2014-01-29	bbrainz	internet lust	vaporwave
61		2014-02-24	GLOOMCVLT	HOSTAGE	darkwave vaporwave	darkwave # 34
45		2014-02-27	Nmesh	Dream Sequins®	vaporwave
28		2014-04-03	bbrainz	Crystal	vaporwave
53		2014-05-05	Incorporeal Visions Deluxe	Network Entities	vaporwave
4		2014-05-07	マクロスMACROSS 82-99	A Million Miles Away	vaporwave	future funk # 40
63		2014-05-10	ESPRIT 空想	virtua.zip	vaporwave
27		2014-05-17	Infinity Frequencies	Computer Afterlife	vaporwave
37		2014-06-02	VAPERROR	Mana Pool	vaporwave
64		2014-06-02	VAPERROR	POLYCHROMATIC COMPILER	vaporwave
75		2014-07-12	Hong Kong Express	2047	vaporwave
7		2014-10-25	２８１４	2814	vaporwave
97		2014-12-28	Home	Before The Night	american balearic electronic vaporwave	american # 71 balearic # 100
16		2015-01-10	HKE	HK	ambient electronic vaporwave
99		2015-01-21	２８１４	新しい日の誕生	ambient vaporwave	ambient # 65
8		2015-03-24	Hoodboi	Palm Reader	vaporwave
19		2015-06-07	Electric Mantis	Braincase (Deluxe)	vaporwave
69		2015-07-21	Luxury Elite	world class	vaporwave
31		2015-09-02	Maitro	Dragonball Wave	future funk vaporwave	future funk # 85
87		2015-09-18	Skylar Spence	Prom King	vaporwave
73		2015-10-09	Desired	Lovestory	future funk vaporwave	future funk # 91
55		2015-12	George Clanton	100% Electronica	synthpop
26		2016-05-10	猫 シ Corp.	Building a Better World	ambient vaporwave
25		2016-06-01	Luxury Elite	TV Party	vaporwave
5		2016-06-23	Hong Kong Express	Hong Kong Express	vaporwave
68		2016-07-26	２８１４	Rain Temple	vaporwave
66		2016-08-04	YUNG BAE	BA3	future funk vaporwave	future funk # 88
59		2016-08-09	NxxxxxS	Special Intervention	vaporwave
52		2016-09-30	YUNG BAE	Skyscraper Anonymous	electronic future funk vaporwave	future funk # 83
67		2017	YUNG BAE	B4E	electronic future funk vaporwave	future funk # 89
11		2017	Vapora	Hologram Plaza 2	ambient electronic vaporwave
21		2017-01-13	Windows 96	Glass Prism	chillwave vaporwave	chillwave # 7
83		2017-01-13	Windows 96	Enchanted Instrumentals and Whispers	chillwave electronica synthwave vaporwave	synthwave # 45 chillwave # 67
35		2017-05-26	NxxxxxS	Remember Last Summer	vaporwave
29		2017-09-15	Desired	nineteen	vaporwave
41		2017-09-15	George Clanton	George Clanton and Nick Hexum	vaporwave
57		2018-03-30	Emil Rottmayer	Descend	synthwave vaporwave	synthwave # 2
58		2018-04	猫 シ Corp.	HIRAETH	vaporwave
22		2018-05-22	Hoodboi	Breathing Room	vaporwave
56		2018-08-17	George Clanton	Slide	shoegaze synthpop	hypnagogic pop # 45 shoegaze # 53 chillwave # 73
15		2018-12-15	Desired	Plastic Whatever	vaporwave
23		2019-01-04	desert sand feels warm at night	囚人	ambient vaporwave
62		2019-03-04	desert sand feels warm at night	Tomorrow, 2096
12		2019-07-05	２８１４	Lost Fragments	ambient downtempo drone vaporwave
77		2020-05-15	Desired	memory tape	vaporwave
96		2020-05-31	bliss3three	C3L3STIAL天の	vaporwave	glitch # 58
17		2022-01-28	Yuni Wa	Ethereal Lover	vaporwave
42		2022-05-11	Mike	WEIGHT OF THE WORLD	hip-hop rap
10		2022-08-13	ConsciousThoughts	Volume 1	disco electronic future funk house vaporwave	future funk # 73
30		2022-09-23	death's dynamic shroud	Heavy Black Heart	electronic glitch hop glitch pop vaporwave	glitch hop # 48 glitch pop # 57
50		2022-09-23	death's dynamic shroud	I'll Try Living Like This		post-industrial # 78 plunderphonics # 88
54		2022-09-23	death's dynamic shroud	Darklife	electronic glitch glitch pop plunderphonics post-industrial progressive electronic synthpop vaporwave	glitch # 40 glitch pop # 71 post-industrial # 80 plunderphonics # 82 progressive electronic # 82
79		2022-09-23	death's dynamic shroud	Messe de E-102	electro house electropop ethereal glitch pop idm post-industrial sampling synthpop vaporwave	ethereal # 40 electro house # 42 sampling # 67 glitch pop # 76 post-industrial # 86
86		2022-09-23	death's dynamic shroud	Faith in Persona	dance-pop glitch pop plunderphonics vaporwave	dance-pop # 34 glitch pop # 84 plunderphonics # 90
24		2022-09-23	death's dynamic shroud	世界大戦OLYMPICS	ambient vaporwave
93		2023	DeVon Hendryx	JOECHILLWORLD	cloud rap vaporwave
91		2023-05	Bloodbath64	AESTHETICADELICA	vaporwave
65		2023-10-23	DeVon Hendryx	The Ghost~Pop Tape (Remastered + Original)	ambient pop vaporwave alternative rnb art pop cloud rap downtempo hypnagogic pop sound collage	hypnagogic pop # 28 ambient pop # 50 sound collage # 80
3		2023-12-18	King Palm	Air Travel	chillwave electronic lo-fi synthwave vaporwave
9		2024	Cartier God	Vapor Drip 2	vaporwave
40		2024	Cartier God	Vapor Drip	vaporwave
18			Father2006	White Death	dark ambient drone glitch plunderphonics vaporwave	plunderphonics # 77
48			Father2006	Reflection	ambient drone glitch vaporwave	drone # 1 glitch # 29
70			Future Girlfriend Music	Pink Dance EP	disco electronic future funk house plunderphonics vaporwave	plunderphonics # 84 future funk # 90
78			Dan Mason ダン·メイソン	Hypnagogia	hypnagogic pop vaporwave	hypnagogic pop # 61
92			ESPRIT 空想	200% Electronica	chillwave electronic vaporwave	hypnagogic pop # 41 chillwave # 77
95			Macross 82-99	A Millions Miles Away	electronic future funk house vaporwave	future funk # 98
2			t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者	アンタラ通信	vaporwave
13			豊平区民TOYOHIRAKUMIN	MUSIC IN THE AIR	vaporwave
20			あきお	ぼくらのいろとりどり	japanese vaporwave
32			t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者	一緒に別の夜	ambient vaporwave
36			CYBEREALITYライフ	v i r t u a l r e s o r t ™	vaporwave
39			t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者	アンドロメダ	vaporwave
43			ぬいぐるみクレヨン Lush Crayon	本物のオリジナル、部に	vaporwave
49			t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者	超越愛	ambient japanese vaporwave
76			Dan Mason ダン·メイソン	Miami Virtual	vaporwave
84			ぬいぐるみクレヨン Lush Crayon	本物のオリジナル	vaporwave
85			t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者	ロストエデンへのパス	ambient vaporwave
60			Macross 82-99	Idols, Sakura

Related genres

• electronic
• ambient
• plunderphonics
• chillwave
• future funk
• synthwave
• drone
• lo-fi
• instrumental
• downtempo