Perhaps the first album's most notable track was Snake Way, named after a concept from Dragon Ball Z.
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A similar concept was used by Netherlands-based Vaporwave composer Maitro, who produced three albums in a series he titled Dragonball Wave. The music videos for similar Future Funk songs do have closer ties, with said videos featuring unrelated but cute GIFs from the Sailor Moon anime. The actual songs on the album typically have very little if anything to do with Sailor Moon, with the link mainly being made due to the album cover. Yamashita is also the husband of J-Pop and Vaporwave goddess Mariya Takeuchi, whose beloved song Plastic Love has become an anthem of both Vaporwave and Future Funk. The first of these albums was released in the tail end of 2013, tickling listeners' ears with songs such as NEW DAWN, which samples and heavily remixes Merry Go Round by J-Pop icon Tatsuro Yamashita.
The Sailorwave trilogy is a great example of this, as the albums' genesis was the producer being heavily into rewatching Sailor Moon at the time. Also an avid fan of anime and Japanese culture in general, he wanted his music to reflect these interests. Macross 82-99 - real name Alberto Munoz Calderon - was inspired by electronic acts such as Daft Punk before beginning his own career in the burgeoning Future Funk subgenre.
RELATED: Where To Watch Every Dragon Ball Series Online The Future is Bright The disco and house elements are usually combined in music videos with footage from anime such as Urusei Yatsura, Super Dimension Fortress Macrossand Sailor Moon, especially when involving the work of the aptly named Macross 82-99. Whereas Vaporwave typically slows and deepens songs' audio, Future Funk increases the speed and raises the pitch, all while adding snazzy, pulse-pounding drums. Songs in this genre take the anime presence to an extreme by pairing it with peppy Japanese City Pop fit for a disco. Simpsonwave combines old-school tunes with VHS-ified footage of The Simpsons, while Fashwave is a political genre that many times features Nazi iconography.Įasily the most popular subgenre of Vaporwave is Future Funk, which is much more upbeat than the more atmospheric main genre. The former ties into the incredible mall culture of the late 20th century, further extending the genre's influence by being integral to the growing fandom of Dead Mall videos on Youtube. Official offshoots include Hardvapour, which combined an edgier sound with a dystopian, Post-Soviet rejection of Capitalistic excess, as well as Mallsoft, Simpsonwave and Fashwave. The genre is very similar and closely related to Synthwave, Chillwave, and lo-fi music, causing some confusion as to where one genre begins or ends. The genre quickly rose in popularity, especially among classic video game and anime enthusiasts, as well as those simply seeking to experience the '80s again or for the first time. Macintosh Plus' Floral Shoppe solidified other elements of the genre, such as the presence of Greco-Roman statues, Arizona Green Tea, video game sounds, old-school anime and Memphis Milano artwork. This album had cover art based off of the Sega video game Ecco the Dolphin, with the songs within sampling and remixing old hits from Fleetwood Mac, Toto and others into ambient, dream-like tunes. Though plunderphonics songs that heavily sampled other works existed long before, the Vaporwave genre is seen by many as beginning in 2010 with the release of Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol.
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