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.

Vaportrap. The beautiful marriage between the chill, ambient vibes of vaporwave and the power and kinetics of trap music.

Today, we will be listening to one of the most foundational vaportrap albums made: Vaperror’s Mana Pool

Released in 2014, Mana Pool infused the growing vaporwave sound with intricate trap beats; blending into an album that takes you through the insides of a machine… A machine made of water.

Brandon and I had an amazing time experiencing this one. 

Let’s set sail for Vaperror’s Mana Pools.