>>1112
Cyberpunk is literally my favorite thing. Ghost in the shell, Psychopass, Armitage, the matrix, Terminator. you speak my language.
The thing is, if you think about it, as GITSSAC might describe it, Vaporwave IS a stand-alone complex. It is a copy of a copy of a copy with no original.
Sure, vaporwave "started" as a joke, but it was a copy of other jokes, like seapunk and the like. piles of genres of re-sampling music to become something new.
That in turn can go back to 80's & 90's house music, everything from the more serious Prodigy, to the Less serious KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front, AKA the JAMMS), and to the Not serious at all art-movement of sound-collage, such as "Evolution control committee" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg-x0gLm88c )
And can also be tied back to hip-hop, and even early experimentation with disco, which pioneered the use of drum machines, and layered recordings. (which is part of why we in the US ended up with disco demolition night. not the only reason, and the whole thing was stupid, but it's still a thing that happened)
Or you could consider it going back to the 60's and 70's, with british rock and roll bands playing blues and folk music on distorted guitars calling it "heavy metal"
and the concept that Everything is a remix
( http://everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/ )
technically, vaporwave's history is older than the internet, despite only being a few years old. I think that's pretty damn cool. It's also probably why the "aesthetic" of vaporwave is like you found something in a dumpster full of 80's and 90's nostalgia. The genre itself, the ways it's made, and the thought that goes into it, is itself like a time machine. the idea itself is anachronistic, which is the exact reason that I like it.