The Virtual Ocean

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 

The Virtual Ocean is a “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 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 6, we sail to the world of Moe Shop.

Moe Shop is a non-binary future funk artist living in Japan that draws on inspirations like Daft Punk and J-Pop, all while being in-tune with the future funk world of vaporwave.

A warning though: this episode is one of non-stop bangers. Listen in a safe area where you have the ability to dance... You won't be able to help yourself.

ALBUMS FEATURED:
Pure Pure EP
Moshi Moshi EP
Moe Moe EP

The Virtual Ocean is a “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 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 5, we party. Forever.

We get a taste of the world of future funk, the subgenre of vaporwave that takes the catchiness and joy of funk music and distills it into its concentrated essences. 

You're going to be dancing a lot to this episode.

Play this episode when you feel like indulging in some hit vibes. 

ALBUMS FEATURED:
.CASTING - Late To Be Real
Dan Mason - Summertime EP
Flamingosis - Pleasure Palette
MACROSS 82-99 - A Million Miles Away 
Vantage - Metro City

The Virtual Ocean is a “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 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 4, we listen to the iconic hypnagogic album 新しい日の誕生 (Birth of a New Day), by vaporwave duo 2814. 

This album is one of the best selling bandcamp albums and a staple of the hypnagogic vaporwave genre. 

The album paints a broken, futuristic cyber city ridden of any human dignity and emotion.... And carries you on half-dreadful, half-euphoric journey of discovering what it's like to feel - in a neon world that doesn't.

This was my first time listening to this album and I fell in love. Join me and let's sail to this dreary cyber metropolis together.

The Virtual Ocean is a “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 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 3, Bay Area rapper Savage Mind joins us to get a taste of the world of hypnagogic vaporwave. We talk about several topics related to the music industry, life, and jazz. 

The subconscious identity-crisis of Filipino Americans and his west coast roots tailor his banger of an album “1995”, available all music streaming services.

Part of the fun of this podcast is bringing people from different musical backgrounds to enter the strange world of vaporwave, and this episode was a whole lot of fun. 

Let's set sail, with Savage Mind, on the Virtual Ocean.

MUSIC FROM THE EPISODE: 
1) ２８１４ - 恢复 

2) .mp3Neptune - World Business Report///Subaru

3) Architecture in Tokyo - SUMMER IN PARADISE

4) Luxury Elite - arrival

5) Saint Pepsi - Enjoy Yourself

The Virtual Ocean is a “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 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 2, we listen to the most essential listen of the vaporwave genre: Vektroid/Macintosh Plus's Floral Shoppe. 

This album is considered a must-listen when it comes to this genre, and I break down how the album transports you from its dark abysses to its heavenly skies. 

Let's set sail on the Virtual Ocean.

The Virtual Ocean is a “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 also very, very, aesthetic.

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

Together, we'll explore this expansive and eerie Virtual Ocean.

In episode 1, we arrive at the shore of the Virtual Ocean. To kick off the series, we will be b listening to the first three tracks of the four “proto-vapor” albums. These albums laid the foundation for what the vaporwave genre will be come; one of heavy ambience, distortion, and ghosts of a future we have yet to live.

The four albums are:

Chuck Person - Eccojams Vol. 1

James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual

骷 - Skeleton

骷 - Holograms

(Disclaimer: All music streamed on this podcast is protected by Section 108 of the US Copyright Act which states that copyrighted work reproduced for purposes of criticism and comment are not an infringement of copyright. But with that being said... let’s set sail on the Virtual Ocean. Let me welcome you to the show. )