It has been sampled in vaporwave multiple times and you will find that it is often played at the end of songs to add a sense of finality to it. Nagisa no Sinbad is an instrumental track from YMO’s seventh album, Behind the Mask, released on October 21, 1984. It has been used to create many vaporwave tracks, and is one of the most popular tracks within the genre. The track itself is iconic and has been used many times since its release in 1982. Technopolis is the first track on YMO’s sixth album, Technodelic.
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This track was also sampled by Macintosh Plus in his song Floral Shoppe if you listen to both tracks you can see how much of an influence this song has had on the vaporwave genre. This song has been used to create many vaporwave tracks such as this one: “Sadeness” reached number one in at least 18 countries including Switzerland and Germany where it spent ten weeks at number one on its respective chart it also won an Echo award for Best Single of the Year in Germany. It was one of two singles to be released from this album, with “Mea Culpa” being the second single. Sadeness is a single released by German musical project Enigma from their second album, MCMXC A.D. The track which is used in the vaporwave genre is “Behind The Mask”. It was released on October 21, 1984, and became their last studio album for nearly a decade, as the band would disband in 1993 after their live album Live at the Apollo was released. YMO – Behind the Mask (1984)īehind the Mask is YMO’s seventh album. This song also includes samples from other songs which are used within the genre such as “the power of love” by Huey Lewis & The News and “The End” by The Doors. He has since then continued to produce more albums within this genre and his music has been featured on many vaporwave playlists on YouTube as well as being sampled by other artists within the genre such as INTERNET CLUB. Blank Banshee began releasing his music in 2010 with his project New Dreams Ltd. Another artists worth mentioning is Blank Banshee who has been described as “the godfather of vaporwave”. The album was later re-released in 2014 with new cover art by Saint Pepsi, who released his own successful album last year, Hit Vibes, giving him the title of “the next Macintosh Plus”. It became known for its use of samples from YMO’s Obsession and a track by Enigma called “Sadeness” which helped define the style of vaporwave. In 2011, the album Floral Shoppe by Macintosh Plus was released and became an instant classic of vaporwave. After that point there were many different artists who began to produce their own albums within this style and pushing it into different directions for example EccoJams/Eccojammer released OtoHana (2010) using Nintendo game samples and slowed down j-pop beats whilst INTERNET CLUB released the album Virtual Plaza (2010) which incorporated samples from YMO’s Technodelic, a popular electronic album from 1980. In 2009, James Ferraro released Far Side Virtual which marked the beginning of vaporwave as a distinct musical genre (present day). Vaporwave was initially influenced by cyberpunk literature and movies such as Akira (1988), as well as consumerist themes found in 1980s pop culture and new age music from that same time period.