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 7, we sail to the mountain ranges of the subgenre vaportrap.

Vaportrap fuses the elements of vaporwave and hip-hop/trap to provide high energy, mind-melting vaporwave music.

It is in this subgenre that you will find feelings of familiarity from the recognition of a hip hop beat, but at the same time find frighteningly experimental work as well.

Let's discover this subgenre together.

ALBUMS FEATURED:
240p - VIRTUAL 420 https://music.businesscasual.biz/album/--2

CAPITAL CUSTOMER - PZA https://music.businesscasual.biz/album/capital-customer

IN LIMBO, SILENT DREAM - MKULTRA https://dmttapes.bandcamp.com/album/in-limbo-silent-dream-dmt-071

FLOOR BABA - GAMEWAVE https://floorbaba.bandcamp.com/album/gamewave

BLANK BANSHEE 1 - BLANK BANSHEE https://blankbanshee.bandcamp.com/album/blank-banshee-1

RECYCLE.BIN - KING QUARTZ https://4lrecords.bandcamp.com/album/recycle-bin

DARK WEB - GIANT CLAW https://giantclaw.bandcamp.com/album/dark-web