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==Determining Vaporwave==
Vaporwave is something difficult to define at times, making participants often assume more towards a fringe release being vaporwave rather than vice versa. On vaporwave.wiki, however, our reaction works the other way around, emphasizing clarity in every release's nature and relationship to the genre and scene. The following subtopics should explain this better.
===Not Everything on a Label with Vaporwave is Vaporwave===
Those familiar with labels such as Illuminated Paths, Ailanthus Recordings or Adhesive Sounds recognize that though they are considered labels within the vaporwave scene, this does not quality each release published as vaporwave by default. Even heavily influencial projects in the scene such as Business Casual are known to publish music outside of the genre (i.e. Golem Who Goes Fish), so please keep this in mind when considering a submission.
===Not Everything by an Artist who Made Vaporwave is Vaporwave===
Simply put, the actual audio behind a release (along with the artist's stance on whether or not it fits criteria) determines a release's stance as vaporwave more than the creator behind it. This includes Vektroid's later works (including Seed & Synthetic Earth and GDGA1, to only name a couple), INTERNET CLUB (and related projects), and NYKDLN, as core examples.
===Not Everything Inspiring Vaporwave is Vaporwave===
This is something that applies especially, if not exclusively, to releases that are sometimes referred to as "proto-vaporwave" or the like. Releases such as Oneohtrix Point Never's Replica, Vektroid's Neo Cali, or James Ferraro's Far Side Virtual have a tendency to be grouped with vaporwave for sharing specific aesthetics and being released around the time of the scene's origin point. For the sake of consistency and respecting the visions of artists before the scene's primary existence, these releases will not be covered on vaporwave.wiki as a vaporwave release. This is done both out of respect for creator identification both inside and outside of the scene, and to better define the genre.
===Not Everything Called Vaporwave Is Vaporwave===
As quite possibly the most elastic netmusic genre to date, vaporwave can be difficult to define. However, it is worth understanding the nuances of genres outside of vaporwave so that releases on the wrong side of the fringe are not picked up mistakenly. If an artist has music that is stylistically closer to another genre than vaporwave and has had little to no interaction with the vaporwave scene, it's safe to say the music isn't vaporwave. To specify, plunderphonics is not vaporwave. Seapunk is not vaporwave. Lo-fi is not vaporwave. Synthwave, retrowave, outrun or whichever term best covers it is not vaporwave. Vaporwave can explore these concepts on a by-album basis, and vaporwave, can have sections akin to these genres, but they are not concrete parts of the genre as a whole in that way. Think of this as the relationship of a rectangle and square, essentially.
===Not All Vaporwave Can Be Properly Documented===
Now, this is where things can get seriously subjective.
Vaporwave is something easily accessible by nature (quick but effective editing that may or may not have bumped up people's image of Audacity in the DAW world), but this is something that can lead to saturation from quick, if not careless, production. With this in mind, it is generally discouraged to cover work here that is intentionally or otherwise low-effort and throwaway in nature. This includes "parody albums" almost unanimously, though some sincere works may also be pruned as a result when releases are made in a my-first-vaporwave-track fashion. Minimalist modification of samples is not a sign of a release being unworthy of coverage, but when it borders plagiarism or basic mockery of the scene this raises a red flag. Not to say no parody releases are valid, but it's low-hanging fruit that can usually end up filling up the Bandcamp tag for new releases. In the end, the state of the music being heartfelt is worth more than its production quality.


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