The Virtual Ocean is the “Let’s Listen” vaporwave discovery podcast. 

What is vaporwave? 

Vaporwave is a music genre (and internet meme) that appropriates mood music from the past while presenting subtle takes on modern-day consumerist culture. The genre has drawn many passionate listeners with its powerful immersion, ambiguous commentaries, and the genre's unique ability to amalgamate with the memes created as its byproduct. 

It's a genre with several subgenres that are extremely distinct from one another in sound and style; and yet evoke similar archetypal ideas that say, either explicitly or implicitly, a lot about the modern world.

It's also very, very, aesthetic.

In each episode, we listen to tracks that make up genre and give our thoughts, emotions, and commentary on them.

In episode 11, we dive into the genre of mallsoft, starting with the album "Palm Mall" by 猫 シ  Corp (Pronounced "Cat System Corp").

This album popularized the Mallsoft subgenre; a vaporwave subgenre that attempts to summon nostalgia of pre-internet childhoods of blissfully roaming the giant hypercapitalist world of the shopping mall.

We consider this one of the greatest vaporwave albums of all time. Join us in experiencing the infinite heaven-mall of 猫 シ  Corp's Palm Mall.