Question 01 / 09
What is vaporwave, exactly?
An internet-born microgenre of electronic music and an attached visual aesthetic, both surfacing in the early 2010s. The music is built on slowed-down, chopped-and-screwed samples of 1980s–90s smooth jazz, R&B and corporate muzak. The imagery is retro-futurist and assembled from the same period's commercial material.