The "New" World of Vaporwave? 

Thanks Pad! and thanks everybody for your kind words!

every day vaporwave evolves and gets much bigger I’m very proud of it

Favorite is still Saint Pepsi, just classic vaporwave and got me into other genres like City Pop as well!

My favorite is probably Windows96. I just kinda found One Hundred Mornings on Spotify and instantly fell in love.

I'm a simple man I see pad I click

i'd have to say 猫 シCorp. is my favorite, with g r o c e r i e s coming in close second i'm a sucker for some good mallsoft, and they're the two best in my eyes

Dang, vaporwave is a very interesting mix of feelings, happy yet sad, old yet new, that's what makes it so interesting to listen to.

My favorite artist is probably George Clanton, I really like his more traditional vaporwave stuff and his most recent album Slide really gave off some nostalgic and hopeful vibes that I could not stop listening to. Really helped me get through my senior year of high school. 👌🏼

This album is a legendary ambient album. Super fucking chill. Favorite vaporwave artist is no doubt George Clanton. His music and vocal-driven style is what brought me into the scene. The dude has given so much to the community through his music, live shows, putting together the very first vaporwave festival, etc. He performed 3 shows in a wheelchair with a broken fucking leg. He’s a legendary member of the vaporwave community, and it wouldn’t be the same without him.

I really like Death's Dynamic Shroud because of its obscurity and mysteriousness

I love all of your stuff Pad. One quick question for you if you ever end up seeing this, is the Vaporwave Essentials series over?

Vaporwave just keeps dividing itself into more and more incredible sub-genres. Those sub-genres evolve and become something beautiful.

Windows 96 is my favourite for suuurreee, and plume valley is >

INTERNET CLUB I'd say is my favourite vaporwave artist because i find their music describes the genre as a whole, and every song i listen to by them sounds so nostalgic of the late 80's/early 90's

My favorite vaporwave artist is Saint Pepsi. Beats almost always go hard, and delivers an idealistic 80's vibe that while it's obviously "plastic", still gets you nostalgic and almost (strangely) optimistic. That's vaporwave/future funk for me! Unlike other artists, he achieves to be immersive in fun hit singles that don't require a certain environment or a lot of "mental work".

haircuts for men is my favorite. I just thoroughly enjoy the textures brought out in the albums "1982" and "jazz and milk breaks rebroke"

I love Skeleton, it inspired a lot of the dread I use in my music.

I don't really like one artist because I prefer getting lost in youtube playlist But if I had to choose, saint pepsi

Catsystem corp is my favorite vaporwave artist telepath is my second fav pad is my fav vaporwave channel aka: my wetdream

Gotta go with TUPPERWAVE for my favorite artist, especially looking forward to the (possible) new album on it's way.

Windows96 had some really really nice tunes this year!

I'll Try Living Like This is my fav vapewave album, it's the perfect music to dissasociate to, an amazing mix. My twitter is @TakumiAleijado

Deaths Dynamic Shroud or Blank Banshee probably, I just love the journeys they take me on

Architecture in Tokyo just to pick one but World Tour and Sailorwave were both masterpieces

There is no favorite all give a different flavor and feeling

Eco virtual because I love the 80s news channel vibe and of course how aesthetic his music is

I think 猫 シ Corp. is my favorite artist. I love how mallsoft brings back memories from when I was a kid, the 90s were going strong and stuff seemed more simple to me. When I see or listen to mallsoft stuff it's like a trip back to that time and I can finally relax from all the sh*t going on with the world, I can stop overthinking and just enjoy.

im a huge fan of the self production and break from sampling! truly new!!!

I love 猫 シCorp.'s アウディAudi for the for the sense of being trapped in a utopian infomercial and CLASSROOM SEXXTAPE by death's dynamic shroud for their consistency and complexity. My absolute favorite album is Electric Specter 電妖怪 's Arctic Circuitry. Living near the Arctic Circle, the sense of dread of 24 hours of darkness is perfectly encapsulated in this album for me.

My favorite Vaporwave artist is Saint Pepsi/Skylar Spence.

My favorite vaporwave artists are ESPRIT (due to his consistency) and Whitewoods, because Spaceship Earth is a phenomenal callback to the 90s

I really like those dystopian future-synth vibes of 2814's stuff. Pad my guy, how do I stay savvy to these bomb releases? I'm tired of buying fancy Vinyls scalped but I feel like I'm not looking in the right places to get updates from the Vaporwace community.

I think that my favourite vaporwave artist is haircuts for men. His songs are very hypnotic also combining this with sexy jazz samples almost always makes a perfect listen to just lay down and relax. My favourite album from him has to be パステル勾配 lp. Listening to it almost fells like im going through Hong Kong on a late night surrounded by beautiful and colorful neon lights. One of the best artists in vaporwave genre for sure. Great video as always Pad! If you looking for twitter here it is: Oliwson4347

It's really hard to choose, but I'd have to go with catsystemcorp He Introduced me to mallsoft and his discography is very diverse. All his albums feel like a fresh start but still very similar. Albums like HIRAETH, corporate mixtape, news at 11, and good morning america easily land I'm my top 15 favorite vaporwave albums. He makes the most nostalgic sounding music to me and I cant find a single album in his discography that I didnt enjoy.

My favorite has to be Blank Banshee. The first time I listened to B.B.0 gave me an out of body experience, and I loved every second of it. Twitter: @annoying_noah

Emil Rottmayer will always be my favorite vaporwave artist. I find a lot of their tracks just a little bit punchier than other artists in the genre and that's probably because most of my favorite music is some type of EDM. I first discovered them through the channel Electronic Gems, which I think we can all agree has helped us find a lot of amazing music!

I like dds, in my opinion they are the most experimental vaporwave group who still sounds good, although building a better world is pretty good. Also, there’s a song from the eighties that strangely evokes a lot of of the same feelings music like this does. Just search “watering a flower”. The comment section for this video is a treasure in itself

I’m really interested to see to see where this label goes, I wouldn’t be surprised if Hiraeth becomes a powerhouse in not the vaporwave scene, but in ambient scenes as a whole.

My favorite vaporwave artist has to be Blank Banshee, bc of his distinct style and his (very refreshing) use of samples in a genre where (sometimes) the "typical" vaporwave sound can get repetitive (I hope that made sense LOL)

my favourite artist is telepath his best album is 2814 birth of a new day

*Wow, such physical variety! I guess with all these physicals, we could build a* *better world*

I guess my favorite artist is christtt, i like the floaty and nostalgic feeling of the classic vaporwave but cristtt albuns always manage to put a nice melody amidst the waves of vapor.

It's nice to see some utopian vaporwave for once.

Damn, can't wait to get my hands on this gem! My favourite vaporwave artist's gotta be HKE with his 2047 album

t e l e p a t h is probably my favorite at this point, very easy to get lost in their older stuff and the newer stuff has never disappointed me yet. Not a huge fan of this new album's artwork, but the content is wonderful.

I love Saint Pepsi because "Enjoy Yourself" was the very first Vaporwave song I ever heard, and I can now say the genre has quickly become my favourite

vapperor Will always be my favorite Def not saying this just to enter

I rally love My boi Saint Pepsi, his songs made me appreciate the genre, and he makes me feel like I'm really in a prom in the 80's (despite the fact that I'm not american and I haven't been in a prom or in the 80's) it just feels magical.

It's quite timely when you have the tenth anniversary of vw's beginnings (...there's nobody here...here...here...here...) and next January will be five years since 新しい日の誕生 . Building a Better World may very well be another milestone and flag planted for the art movement. And in general, this affirms, even more, my own take of the whole thing. It's still art built on mood but I think runs even deeper than that where we all want to build a better world, whether it's on our own terms or better terms or both. Perhaps now, we can see the future as what it can be. =]

This album. Oh man, this album. We were all hyped hearing that Cat System was making a complete re-imagining of Cat's idea of sampleless vaporwave. Then, we heard the thing that would blow our minds: it's a collab album. It's a collab album with telepath. We collectively could not hold in our excitement to hear after that preview earlier in the year. With it out now, I can 100% say this is Cat and telepath at their sincerest. This is the most dream-like landscape they have both created so far, as if they had went to bed the same time and slept in the future. To think, vaporwave is now ten years old, and this is the product of ten years of progression from using samples to a complete ambient rebirth. It's that nostalgia and sort of naughty smile of skewering the past, it now the very same excitement of the future what people were doing during the early 80's. This is the future brought to life once again. It truly building a better world for vaporwave. This isn't also just a thing for the album itself, it's the release of it. Cat and Telepath spared no expenses for it and decided that the major formats got love. we have numerous vinyl releases, various cassettes, and even a little something for CDs in the form of a format I wasn't even thinking I could remember. I'm an owner of the CD, and I can tell you it sounds exactly like something I would hear on my old IBM if I plopped the CD in there. We've gone from a complete joke of a genre to something that is legitimately trying to catch that dreary and dreamy landscape that not even the most apt of lowkey or ambient are touching. What we're touching on is an important album for electronic enthusiasts. This isn't simply an important vaporwave album. This is an actual movement that is taking shape right on the internet, and two producers that are making their name in history. I can tell you, this will be along the same as important albums like Dark Side of the Moon or Nevermind that created a sound and feel of a musical movement. A signification of the times of that culture during the 2010s to 2020s where that dreamy future never came. The gap of people in the 50s to the 2000s could almost taste a Jetsons future, and we got Wall*E instead. That is palpable in terms of what we can feel for generations told to put the future on hold. Now, with this album? It's that dream once again, coming from the ruins of what vaporwave was originally, and it is a longing and aching look to what we really could do on a world if we truly want to see that future blossom. Welcome to the future, citizens of Hierath. Please enjoy your stay at your new interplanetary home. We're delighted to have you with us.

My favorite vaporwave artist is definitely a hard question, because I love what each one that I've heard brings to the table. deaths dynamic shroud's albums REGRET (not gonna try to type the Japanese characters) and I also liked DERELICT, as well. I loved Macintosh Plus's album Floral Shoppe, cause why wouldn't I? I'm also a big fan of what Yung Bae and Skylar Spence have brought to the table, especially on Skyscrapers Anonymous and Prom King. And I'm also a big fan of anything future funk related. Cat Systems Corps Palm Mall is absolutely beautiful though. Pad Chennington is dope artist too though.

Favorite artist has got to be Night Passage. Check him out, it's life changing stuff.

My favorite Vaporwave Album is actually CatSystemCorp. His relaxing and adventurous Mall like music is good to work with. Telepath is algo a good listen while working so this album is so 10/10 for me

My favourite right now is synchro//start (if we consider modern future funk as vaporwave), his/her music is really funky I love the beats and i love the samples. My second favourite must be Windows 96, he creates amazing soundscapes and great atmosphere with retro synths. Well i love future funk, what can I say it is the stuff that pulled me into vaporwave, if I would have to talk only about more thematically vaporwavish vapor i like the works of Vektroid and synth based retrowave, for example Windows96 works (or HOME but it depends on your definition of vaporwave and retrowave (bcs he is very, but very synth based)). It is my submission for a giveaway!

I really like VAPERROR, his music is super chill but super upbeat at the same time, and I love that you can play it and get an amazing experience whatever your mood is

I just bought the CD, that purple back drew me in. Also Pad I'd love if one day you could make tips on like...how to vaporwave since you've been making music and albums recently. It's all so vast and its hard to know where to start ya know?

So hypeeeed for this album! And hands down, my favorite vaporwave producer is death's dynamic shroud.wmv, always come back to those dreamy synthy vibes

My favourite definitely is Saint Pepsi. As to why: energy of Hit Vibes, enough said🌸

My favorite artist is Dan Mason. I really like every one of his albums and his style keeps changing and never gets old.

Vaporwave is getting better and better every second

Love your channel man, Deaths Dynamic Shroud or 2814 is my favorite!

You know I gotta say vektroid is my favorite vaporwave artist, not just for macintosh plus but also for that sweet sweet old school stuff like Starcalc.

猫 シ Corp. Is definitely my favorite, he has such a large catalog with varied styles. So many of his albums are my favorites to listen to. Then with this new style and collab with telepath? Too awesome.

...Holy shit... I just remembered that I STILL haven't received my vinyl copy of Floral Shop in the mail lololol. Damn, those foos straight up scammed me lol

I was planning to produce a radio show with vaporwave however I'm not sure what to talk about between songs. Any ideas folks!?

If Telepath collabs with anyone, it becomes legendary and classic.

Eyeliner, his music is the embodiment of the fully automated retro future of Vaporwave at its finest, both soothing and dancey.

R U N N E R S C L U B 9 5 , he just reminds me of some classic atmospheric vaporwave.

I really like desired since it's the first vaporwave or well really future funk artist I got a vinyl of while I was on my first trip to Tokyo!

I don't really have a favorite but Midnight Television is great for the classic throwback vibe and Haircuts For Men's got the smooth jams.

my favorite artist is definitely the pre Rain Temple HKE, followed by 猫 シCorp and t e l e p a t h

My favorite vaporwave artist is waterfront dining, I think his choice in samples is superb.

One of my favourite vaporwave artists is definitely Windows96. Each album is always an improvement on the previous, not that it diminishes the quality of the previous release; there’s is just always this perfect evolution from album to album. The dusty synths are just the sexiest sounds ever and never in a million years did I think something better than One Hundred Mornings would be released, but Enchanted Instrumentals and Whispers happened and I was blown away. Hazy Days honestly sounds like it belongs to some unreleased beach track or level from something like Mario Kart or Donkey Kong Country. I love it.

United States of vaporwave

Personally, Electric Specter is my favorite Vaporwave artist. I'd never heard music that was so furiously depressed, or so viciously chill that it makes you feel like you're slowly freezing to death while being blasted by a jet engine in hyperspace, until I'd heard Electric Specter. If there is a digital superheaven with virtual angels, it sounds like Electric Specter.

Tbh I don't have a favorite artist. I just find what sounds good and listen too it and enjoy and relax

If I had to go with the artist I listen to the most, it'd have to be George Clanton. See you cool cats at Electonicon

18 Carat Affair, Games, Skeleton, Waterfront Dining, (early) Cat System Corp., Lazership Stereo, DARKTWAINE....the list goes on and on.

It's very hard for me to choose my favorite artist, but if I had to choose? It probably be Luxury Elite. When I was discovering vaporwave I feel into those compilation videos with Saint Pepsi, 猫 シCorp, Macross 82 ,but Luxury hooked me. The nostalgia sounds of being back in the shopping malls & KMarts when they were at their prime; and picture myself as a kid reliving those memories. And watching/listening to these artist evolve over the years is amazing! So glad that Corp did this collab because it's art!

oh shit my favoirte vaporwave artist would have to be SERVICE AREA he mixed vaporwave and future funk together and i cant stop listening to him. and the new Album by corp is sick as hell

Blank Banshee just gets me, you know? They’re so good

We will rise once again.

Daniel Lopatin/Oneohtrix Point Never and T e l e p a t h need to collab. I’d love they’d do.

Very late on this, but my favorite vaporwave artist is George Clanton, because I think he revolutionized the whole vaporwave genre with new and wobbly synths, while adding in a very funky feeling of his music, such as his albums 100% Electronica and Slide, and I do enjoy his disctinctive, yet very awesome work.

Hi, Pad! Nice video as always, it's so cool to see Vaporwave evolving and creating new sensations and making as feeling in unexpected ways. Building a Better World is a masterpiece from two iconic and awesome artists, and I love the fact that of the two is 猫 シ Corp., because I love his albums, from Palm Mall to this album. And was because of Palm Mall that a felt in love with Mallsoft, one of my favorite subgenres in the Vaporwave scene, because I have a lot of great memories of shopping with my family when I was a child and in some ways, makes me feel relaxed and comfortable. Also, I love Palm Mall Mars because is the same concept but in a new world, and give us the sensation of something very familiar but also unknown. Another album that I love is NEWS AT 11, because that Broken Transmission feel and the tragic message that contains, cutting the samples right before the 9/11 horrible news. So, if I have to choose one, my favorite artist is 猫 シ Corp.

ok... Favorite Vaporwave artist? M4 - this girl is pure Fucking magic. Every single album of her is a journey not only on specific location but in an imaginary situation -------- m4sound.bandcamp.com/album/one-cherry-night ----- m4sound.bandcamp.com/album/in-da-beach

I need to listen to Building a Better World again, it lowkey slipped past me. My favorite Vaporwave artist is b e g o t t e n 自杀, I love the dark, ominous, and depressing atmospheres his music creates as well as his unique sampling choices. I'm not sure I've heard anyone else sample Post Malone 🤣 I also an fascinated by the story surrounding Geometric Lullaby receiving the albums. Great stuff 💖

My favorite vaporwave artist is saint Pepsi I love late night delight and my Twitter is @cyberghost_VEVO

Blank Banshee's probably my go-to if only because I can't tell you how many times I spun BB1 and Mega. They're probably two of my favorite albums in the genre.

I love Infinity Frequencies because of their mystique in a genre that has been slipping out of anonymity. Plus I've been meditating to their music for four years now LOL. I was able to interview them about a year ago for a self-published article, and I still get thrilled when I think about it. (also i already follow u on twitter @biancabeefanty :3 )

Personally I’m a fan of Luxury Elite - their samples just remind me of my childhood and bring me back to the malls I grew up with

I'm still pretty new to vaporwave and finding what subgenres I'm into. So far I'm a huge fan of retrowave and Japanese 80s city pop. However, I stumbled across 2814s album Birth of a new day (or something) and INSTANTLY fell in love. It was haunting and terrifyingly nostalgic all at the same time. I think the album is also a collab featuring T E L E P A T H. So I guess HKE and T E L E P A T H are my favorite

For me, it's gotta be 猫 シ Corp. It's mostly because of NEWS AT 11 -- by far my favorite and most meaningful Vaporwave album. - @VaporGrips

INTERNET CLUB is probably my favourite vaporwave artist due to the obscurity and aesthetics in the music, it’s soooo good

for me, mediafired was one of my favorite artists from the list of vaporwave essentials. gotta love classic slush.

Oh man. That's a hard question. Vaporwave is so vast, but I think my favourite is a toss up between 猫 シ Corp and Alternate Skies. News at 11, Palm Mall, and SUNDAY TELEVISION are such amazing albums. I hold them as top tier for sure. 猫 シ Corp is just an unstoppable force. The whole library is amazing. Signalwave is my jam. It's what really takes me back to being a kid with all these big false ideas that were fed to me hahaha, but Weatherwave in particular is what brings a calm to the storm. The Weather Channel is something I'd turn on as a kid whenever I was scared. So when I discovered Alternate Skies, it felt like I found something that was tailored for me.

Well, i can't really pick one artist since i always switch up fav. artists with the mood i'm in. but i gotta say i really listen a lot to "HOTEL BY NIGHT" by MIRAGE such an amazing album and for that, i think he might be my favourite. :)

For me it always comes back to Telepath with 2148 Birth of a New Day. That album is the stuff of legends

This is easily my favorite ambient album ever, and my 2nd favorite Vaporwave album only behind 200% Electronica by George Clanton. It truly does take me

I must admit after the 12th or 13th time i played through this album after watching this video, this may be my new groove. 猫 シ Corp. and t e l e p a t h have created an experience like flying through a city in the liking of Bladerunner, but with a beautiful indigo sky that never darkens, and purple oceans that go on forever. "Building a Better World " is now my new favorite album. THANK YOU.