Intro Throughout the 2010s and into the 2020s, a certain musical style has been an essential backgrounds element to various types of media. Whether its a stream devoted entirely to the music for studying, or is the backdrop to a well crafted YouTube video essay, this style of music is incredibly easy to identify as Lo-Fi. Lo-Fi as a style Quite literally being the opposite of "hi-fi", lo-fi is a s... » Continue Reading
Intro The realm of vaporwave is quite a vast one, and the various subgenres that sprouted up over the course of the early and mid-2010's proved to set themselves apart from one another while still keeping the same core feeling that helped birth vaporwave in the first place: nostalgia and anemoia. Today, we'll be heading down an incredibly early path, towards the origins of vaporelectronic music. D... » Continue Reading
Preamble There are spaces in ones life that, when reminiscing, invoke intense feelings of nostalgia. Whether or not they've actually been to those places, similar spaces can be linked to the one of the source to invoke those same feelings. With the birth of Vaporwave and Vaporelectronic music (subgenres of Vaporwave) came a slew of tunes intended to invoke such feelings. Feelings of nostalgia, hyp... » Continue Reading
Do you ever crave that feeling from when you were a kid watching the Weather Channel to see if it would snow enough for school to close tomorrow? Do you ever miss those jazzy tunes that kept you company while you figured out your plans for the next day? The emergence of a relatively new genre might just hit the spot then. A subgenre has become relatively popular recently in the vaporelectronic sce... » Continue Reading