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Luxury Elite, [a] also simply known as Lux (born August 17, 1988), is an anonymous American musician known for her significant influence in the vaporwave genre. During the 2010s, her lo-fi sound and visual style, along with her relaxed melodies, made her an impactful figure in the "late night lo-fi" subgenre.
In October 2014, it peaked as the 24th best-selling vaporwave album on Bandcamp. [13] In interviews, Elzinga stated his favorite release of the Cat System Corp. discography is Palm Mall, and along with Hiraeth, are "some of my best". [1] He later released two albums with similar themes, Shopping @ Helsinki (2016) and Palm Mall Mars (2018). [4] [5]
YouTube videos often pair mallsoft tracks with images of malls, with an emphasis on selected images that appear to have been taken from the 1980s and 1990s. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The visuals can often be meant to invoke a sense of loneliness along with the cold nature of meandering through overly-corporate mercantile environments.
It is composed almost entirely from slowed-down samples [1] and its creation requires only the knowledge of rudimentary production techniques. [41] Although, some artists like Dan Mason create vaporwave music from scratch. [42] The name derives from "vaporware", a term for commercial software that is announced but never released. [40]
The album is a collaborative project with high-profile producer Pharrell Williams, who is credited for production and features on several songs. [5] Recording for the album started in late 2018. [5] Music journalists describe the album as synth-pop and vaporwave aesthetic-inspired, though Beck draws from several genres.
Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 is a 2010 album of remixes by American electronic musician Daniel Lopatin under the pseudonym Chuck Person. Its tracks consist of chopped, looped samples of various songs—including popular songs from the 1980s and 1990s—processed with effects such as delay, reverb, and pitch shifting; the results highlight mournful or existential moments from the sources.
Hardvapour is an Internet-based microgenre [1] of music that emerged in late 2015 as a tongue-in-cheek response to vaporwave, [2] departing from the calm, muzak-sampling capitalist utopia concept of the latter in favor of a gabber- and punk-influenced sound.
Laurila's first creation of 2016 was a music video for the Interstellar Intercourse track "Late Night Love", released on January 5. [26] He also produced a track for Hacking for Freedom, a collaborative project led by musician wosX. He described Laurila's work as the album's highlight, and the track's music video was released on January 17.