SomaFM Vaporwaves (64k AAC) 🇺🇸

SomaFM Vaporwaves, a station within the SomaFM internet radio collective based in San Francisco, is dedicated to the Vaporwave genre and related subgenres. This station streams in 64k AAC format, balancing audio quality with bandwidth efficiency. Vaporwave music, which emerged in the early 2010s, critiques consumer culture and hyper-capitalism through slowed-down samples of 80s and 90s elevator music, smooth jazz, and commercial jingles. Synthesizers create ethereal soundscapes, while glitch effects and repetitive loops enhance the artificial atmosphere. The visual aesthetics associated with Vaporwave include pastel colors, Japanese text, classical sculptures, and early internet graphics. SomaFM Vaporwaves plays classic Vaporwave, Mallsoft which focuses on shopping mall sounds, upbeat Future Funk, and experimental Hardvapour.