People will always say "sample-free vaporwave? isn't that just synthwave/chillwave/hypnagogic pop/insert x genre here?". But this is only because of how meaningless the term "vaporwave" has become. People WILL make synthwave/chillwave/hypnagogic pop etc. then simply market it as "vaporwave" which leads to people hearing "sample-free" and associating it not only with a very different sound, but genre tourism as well. However there are plenty of sample-free vaporwave releases with the "I can't believe it's not butter!" effect, where it sounds so convincing most people would assume it's sampled until proven otherwise. This is why it makes no sense to me, everyone knows how diluted the term "vaporwave" has become but that doesn't mean anything sample-free is automatically not vaporwave. If you make a track that sounds like it came straight out of The Weather Channel then chop and screw it, that's effectively vaporwave to most people, not because it's "vaporwave" in the traditional sense of the word but because it fulfills the sonic criteria of what has been collectively decided as "vaporwave", and if you manage to pull it off right then it becomes irrelevant whether it used pre-existing music or not. Which ironically is kind of "vaporwave" in its own way.
>>128487079>vaporwaveWhat is this 15 years ago?
If it sounds like vaporwave, it's vaporwave.
>>128487099Thats not how it works. Vaporwave is a plunderphonics subgenre. Vaporwave cannot be sample free by definition.
>>128487099>>128487124It's ironic that people who LARP as vaporwave purists conveniently ignore that one of the foundational vaporwave albums wasn't sample-based.>b-but that's utopian virtual!You mean a "genre" that was retroactively created by tourists to arbitrarily delineate what's "true" vaporwave or not based on sonic characteristics alone rather than how it fits into the natural evolution of the genre? Granted, this contradicts my original point, but if anything it just goes to show that people have no idea what they're talking about.
>>128487124>Vaporwave is a plunderphonics subgenre.Not only.>Stylistic origins>art pop[1]chopped and screwed[2][3]chillwave[4]city pop[5][6]dance[4]Electronic[7][8]elevator music[3][9]hypnagogic pop[1][10]italo disco[11]lounge[12][13]muzak[12][14]new-age[12]new wave[15]plunderphonics[3]pop ballads[16]post-Internet[17][18]R&B[3]smooth jazz[3][12]>Vaporwave cannot be sample free by definition.Whose definition?
>ăăȘăFucking posers
>>128488582heh, i noticed that too
>>128488582Speaking fluent Google Translate Japanese is pretty vaporwave though
>>128487124who died and made you a wikipedo editor?
