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.

But now, for today’s episode.

Brandon and I have returned after a 2 month break off this show and I will say, I have gotten a little rusty at my commentary BUT, please bear with me, because this is a pretty damn good album.

In this episode, we cover one of 2019’s biggest collaborations in the vaporware space. Building a Better World by Cat System Corp and Telepath.

We have done episodes on both of these artists in the past and we highly recommend you check those out whenever you can.

This album takes the dystopian ambience that has become a vaporwave trope and transforms it into something positive, beautiful, and spaciously vast. 

The combination of Cat System Corps’s Mallsoft acumen with Telepath’s polymathic ambient powers creates a stunningly fresh take on the genre that shows where the ambient world of vaporwave can go next.

Join us, and let’s set sail for the metropolis of Telepath and Cat System Corps’ Building a Better World.