Are you familiar with vaporwave? It’s a “genre” that combines late 1980s/early 1990s VHS nostalgia, Japanese culture references, glitch art, culture jamming, shopping mall worshipping pro-consumerism, and half/quarter speed songs from that era to create a unique aestheticＡＥＳＴＨＥＩＣ (full width Latin characters are a must to properly convey the astheticism) - all presented with a healthy dose of irony.
It started out (and still kind of is) as more of a satire rather than something meant to be taken seriously. It’s hard to like it while not being “in on the joke”. That said, some really cool music has come out from it as a result.
I can listen to this over and over again - this is peak vaporwave:
Anyway, with the weird audio effects from Q Sound combined with the bad belt on the motor causing cassettes to play extra slowly, it’s like a vaporwave machine in a box.
