We believe Milton Keynes, a ‘new town’ in the centre of England offers particular opportunities to experience life through the lens of the cultural movement that is Vaporwave. Vaporwave is an internet-based form of electronic music and art which particularly uses appropriation of 1980s and 1990s mood music styles such as smooth jazz, elevator music, R&B, and lounge music. It also incorporates early Internet imagery, late 1990s web design, glitch art, anime, 3D-rendered objec ts, and cyberpunk tropes in its cover artwork and music videos. Vaporwave’s preoccupation with 1980’s-1990’s aesthetics offers a particularly ambivalent take on nostalgia, often with an elusive sense of melancholy or loss. Vaporwave artists often play with ideas around memory as a distorted, unreliable construction of the past. Vaporwave offers us an opportunity to notice what is designed to be unnoticed- the smooth-jazz and R&B playing in the background of a 1000 shopping malls, the...
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