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Synthwave‘s cheery, Vaporwave‘s sad/depressed. I never liked the latter for that reason.

• wraptile 5y ago
  That's not true at all. There are plenty of cheery vaporwave songs mentioned in the article itself: saint pepsi [1], macross 82-99 [2] etc. all early vaporwave entries based on city-pop which is as cheery as you can get! In fact that's probably the most popular remaining evolutions of the genre, both of the mentioned artists are still huge! (multi-million listens on spotify) 1 - https://saintpepsi.bandcamp.com/album/hit-vibes https://saintpepsi.bandcamp.com/album/hit-vibes 2 - https://soundcloud.com/macross-82-99/popular-tracks https://soundcloud.com/macross-82-99/popular-tracks
  • Dracophoenix 5y ago
    Saint Pepsi and Macross are generally classified as Future Funk artists rather than "pure" vaporwave in the vein of Macintosh Plus. For anyone who is interested in Future Funk (i.e. "cheery" vaporwave) a now-archived and inactive youtube channel by the name of Artzie Music [1] collected classics of the FF genre and is, for now, still available to peruse. The best ones in my opinion were uploaded between 2017 and 2018. [1]https://youtube.com/c/ArtzieMusic/videos https://youtube.com/c/ArtzieMusic/videos
    • fithisux 5y ago
      I can suggest this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHY1RpbKDDA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHY1RpbKDDA
    • dhdkakfb 5y ago
      Yes. Saint Pepsi killed vaporwave.
  • fithisux 5y ago
    Very good artists, additionally I can suggest Jesse Cassetes. https://soundcloud.com/jessecassettes https://soundcloud.com/jessecassettes And Stinkbug.