Vapor is a term used to describe an internet-based Electronic musical movement that arose in the early 2010s, beginning with the rise of Vaporwave. The 2010 release of Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 by Daniel Lopatin under his Chuck Person alias is commonly recognised as the beginning of vaporwave as a genre as well as the vapor movement as a whole (Eccojams is used as a name for this original style). The album would soon be followed by Macintosh Plus's Floral Shoppe and James Ferraro's Far Side Virtual in 2011, bringing greater exposure to the sound of vaporwave and its associated aesthetics. Most early vaporwave releases were based around processed and manipulated samples of corporate mood and background music, particularly of 1980s and 1990s Pop, Contemporary R&B, and Smooth Jazz, combined with influence from Chopped and Screwed editing techniques (slowing down and cutting up) and the psychedelic, hauntological trends that cropped up in the late 2000s: Hypnagogic Pop, Chillwave, and Witch House. The use of looping, glitching, pitch-bending, panning, and echoing these samples came to define the sound of not just the original vaporwave style but also the derivatives and variations which soon emerged, giving this music a hazy, surreal, and often atmospheric quality. The original "vaporwave" name itself comes from the concept of "vaporware" (a software or hardware project that fails to be released to the public); as such, the movement alludes to a disconnection or separation from reality presented through its original form (heard by a song's manipulation vs. its original source). Also, Far Side Virtual would introduce the usage of retro MIDI-esque electronic instruments to evoke muzak with a focus on hyperreality, and the album is considered to be a defining work in the substyle known as Utopian Virtual. In addition, vaporwave birthed a distinct aesthetic that would come to be associated with the term and, subsequently, the whole of the vapor movement. The visual sid
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| Last.fm | Vapor | Derived from data | — |
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