9. escape into fractured, digital worlds: a taste of ambient vaporwave (ambient vaporwave episode)

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 9, we get a taste of the Ambient Vaporwave subgenre.Ambient is a much more laid back, fade into the background type of music by nature; but when it comes to vaporwave, it has the potential to conjure both hellish images and utopian feelings... something you won't get from any other genre. In this episode, we jump through several different tracks within the genre to get a taste of what it has to offer. Let's set sail for the Ambient Islands.ARTISTS/TRACKS FEATURED:Telepath - dansen (disconnect)  https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/album/--33 track 3. Something special Hong Kong Express - This https://adhesivesounds.bandcamp.com/album/thistrack 9. Aftermath HKE - HK https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/hktrack 2. WindowGOLDEN LIVING ROOM AND TELEPATH - VIRTUAL PHANTASY 2097 https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/--21track 3. t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 - 仮想快楽の宮殿 (palace of virtual pleasures)track 14. GOLDEN LIVING ROOM - NO LOVE FOR ANDROIDS Remember - ルートバックホーム (route back home) https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/--22 track 4. Bright Lights of the Strip