Vancouver
Vancouver appears in 2 Songsheets issues: Vaporwave and Industrial. 2 artists in the archive came from here, including Blank Banshee and Skinny Puppy.
Vancouver's 1080p label, founded in 2010, became one of vaporwave's most important early institutions, releasing seminal works during the genre's 2011-2013 crystallization period. The city's position as a tech hub with strong Asian cultural influences aligned perfectly with vaporwave's appropriation of Japanese corporate aesthetics and its commentary on Pacific Rim capitalism. Vancouver's affordable studio spaces and digitally-connected music community allowed producers to experiment with the slowed-down, sample-heavy sound that defined the genre.
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Artists from Vancouver
- Blank Banshee
Blank Banshee released Blank Banshee 0 in September 2012, folding trap music influences into vaporwave's sample-heavy template and pushing the genre toward a wider range of production techniques.
- Skinny Puppy
Formed in Vancouver in 1982 and signed to Nettwerk, Skinny Puppy built a dark, sample-dense sound that would feed directly into the next decade's industrial breakthrough.