用户Wiki:Demobanker/keeping track of some up-and-coming genres I'm interested in

There are some music styles I'm interested in which have had huge developments in the 2010s and has an underground following with artists all around the world. However, they're pretty much unknown by the Touhou music scene or fans, so I made this page to keep track of their appearances in Touhou music!

Since this page will likely be a lot of people's introduction to those genres, I'm going to write a description of the genres. Then, to show the vibrancy and creativity on display in the genre, I'll note some 2010s developments in the genre.

Oh yeah, I'll also talk about Chinese artists making that genre and Chinese labels where you can find the genre. Cuz let's face it lol, if you're reading this wiki for music info instead of the EN Touhou wiki or TouhouDB, you probably are interested in learning about the country's local music scene. I wanna shill some dope local music to weebs. Maybe we can both get something out of this.

The genre descriptions will necessarily have references and links to other genres and artists. For genre links, I'm linking to the corresponding genre page on the music database Rate Your Music where possible. I've been using that site to explore music for the past few years, and for the most part, the genre descriptions are well-written and researched. Artist links will go to music.

(note: I'm not adding instances where the genre appears for like 10 seconds in a track that goes through a whole bunch of genres at once - that's the least interesting way you could do to make them appear on this list anyways - it's the equivalent of one of those eclectic prog rock bands that says they do genres like cabaret and hip hop and funk but the result turns out to be the most surface level understanding of said genres.)

Footwork

"do NOT interrupt a man when he's 4th of july footwerking" - wayneradiotv, dancing to DJ Yung Tell'em's GOD Bless the U.S.A.

RYM genre pages on footwork, footwork jungle

Footwork is an EDM subgenre that features chaotic and frantic rhythms made with sub-bass and percussion. It usually has a lot of sampling, and common instruments are snares, tom drums, and handclaps. The genre was developed in 1990s Chicago from juke, a subgenre of ghetto house that's fast and features syncopated rhythms unconventional for house music. Footwork extends juke by taking away the 4/4 kick, pushing away from its house music roots. While the focus on complex rhythmic percussions is similar to breaks-based genres like breakbeat and drum and bass, breaks are not necessary for this genre. The most notable producers in the early era are RP Boo, who is generally agreed to be the genre's creator, and DJ Rashad.

Footwork has become much more internationalized in the 2010s and mixed with a variety of genres, most notably with drum and bass, hardcore, and various post-club developments from the decade. One major subgenre is footwork jungle, which combines it with drum and bass programming and breaks, and was developed by artists in Poland and UK. Another major subgenre is footcore, which combine the genre with breakcore and its plunderphonics-oriented sibling genre mashcore. Notable producers include Pencil and Melt Unit. Footcore has gained a sizable audience in Japan, with various compilations on it. Another genre hybrid is footwork rap, with examples in English (another one), Japanese, Korean and Finnish.

There are lots of niche interesting takes on the genre. Artists like Jlin and Five Star Hotel created noisier and more industrial tracks, with the latter combining it with power noise and trap. Vapor musicians such as Vaperror and Acetantina has also created vaporwave-influenced footwork. There are also plenty of artists mixing folk and regional genres in footwork. For example, Japanese group Satanicpornocultshop combines it with East Asian folk music on The Shipboard Gardener, Indonesian-American producer Please combines it with gamelan and dangdut koplo on Bekerja Indo, and Moroccan producer Guedra Guedra combines it with North African music.

All this, and I haven't even mentioned what happens when Vocaloids get added to the mix! Here I very much have to give a shoutout to the producer voltex, whose albums feel like a robot catgirl singing and dancing in mid-air. (Which is to say that the music is quite atmospheric and surreal.)

Some Chinese artists making this style are Damacha (on the album Tuhaojin) and Petty Tyrants Meatball (who primarily makes hardcore breaks and jungle but have footwork influences). You can also hear influences of this genre in albums from post-club labels such as Svbkvlt or Do Hits.

(This list has a bunch of juke tracks on it, consider it a bonus and not me being too lazy to differenciate between the two.)

曲目信息
Rigid Footwork （2012-10-07） 社团：荒御灵 Heavily reliant on the stutter effect, but that's also what makes it a unique J-footwork release.
曲目信息
Adventures in The Box (Kouki Izumi Remix) borderline（梶迫小道具店） （2012-12-30） 社团：梶迫小道具店 编曲：和泉幸奇, 梶迫迅八 演唱：Atori 作词：chi-se 原曲：向こう側の月
Transformation in Footwork [04:17] M33 （2013-12-30） 社团：梶迫小道具店 编曲：T.B.S.A. 原曲：佐渡の二ッ岩
bakajuke ft. AYA [02:36] Bakapilation （2014-09-09） 社团：Synthikate 编曲：Stepic 原曲：おてんば恋娘
Immortal Words of Savant EP （2014-11-02） 社团：荒御灵 Puts the airy sound of 心娶 Kokorometry in a more conventional (but still pretty outside the box) dancefloor setting. Immortal Words of Savant pt.2 and Ninth Amplifier Circuit goes a step further by incorporating footwork jungle parts, with the former even venturing into hardcore breaks territory halfway through with rave stabs. (btw, Kokorometry is one of the most forward-thinking EDM albums to come out of the Touhou fandom - in an alternate universe where the album was actually appreciated and influential in its own time, I'd be gushing over the Touhou equivalent of Murlo or Howie Lee right now)
East Beat Phantasmagoria （2015-10-25） 社团：Oversleep
- II - Eyes of Instability [04:02] ［ Quadrants of the Scarlet ］ （2016-10-12） 社团：Ecriss 编曲：Ecriss 原曲：U.N.オーエンは彼女なのか？ mixed with artcore
Ashinaga Footwork Faith Manufacturer （2016-10-30） 社团：StudioMonoLite 编曲：goma 原曲：明日ハレの日、ケの昨日
Junction...Passed! [02:11] 東方幻鍵音3 -END OF ILLUSION- （2017-05-07） 社团：Glassy：oceaN 编曲：Yuun 原曲：デザイアドライブ
Incorporeal TOHO Juke trax （2017-07-09） 社团：デシマルツクモ デシマルツクモ (decimal tsukumo) is Oversleep's doujin circle. メイド ニーソ Footwork remixes a denpa song and adds future bass wubs to it. Shadow Deeper. throws juke beats over a repetitive guided relaxation sample.
I don't want you that night [04:01] GOODS！！ （2017-10-15） 社团：Echoes Construction 编曲：Oversleep 原曲：万年置き傘にご注意を
三月兎(Juke Remix) Insane Rabbits EP （2016-03-26） 社团：CHAOS MIXER 编曲：goma 原曲：お宇佐さまの素い幡
puzzled [03:07] GET TO THE STAGE （2018-05-06） 社团：Echoes Construction 编曲：Oversleep 原曲：砕月
Withering and Flowering [05:06] ［ Dualism ］ （2018-05-20） 社团：Ecriss 编曲：Ecriss 原曲：古の冥界寺
Argyle (Juke Remix by Musicarus) [04:26] PATCHOULI KNOWLEDGE RACERS (Direct Audio) （2018-12-30） 社团：flap+frog 编曲：イワクラコマキ, Musicarus 原曲：千年幻想郷　～ History of the Moon
Pyrogenesis Plasma [04:15] Empathy Subliminal Psychokinesis （2018-12-30） 社团：荒御灵 编曲：和泉幸奇 原曲：少女秘封倶楽部 With rave stabs and IDM sound design. Yeh!
freaky anchor [02:06] 東方双奏音 -RETURN OF PHANTASM- （2019-05-05） 社团：Glassy：oceaN 编曲：Oversleep 原曲：幽霊客船の時空を越えた旅
Two Shoes 或 EP （2019-05-11） 社团：EnigmaStar 编曲：Steiner 原曲：クレイジーバックダンサーズ
This Room Will Seal Your Fate [03:22] TouWHO？？ （2019-11-29） 社团：Grazepoint 编曲：DeBisco 原曲：いざ、倒れ逝くその時まで
Count Dat [04:36] X（同人专辑） （2020-07-11） 社团：MAD MIND MACHINE 编曲：SANY-ON 原曲：ハートフェルトファンシー footwork mixed with trap and Jersey club the footwork part on track 11, KOIKOIKO, is too short to count for an entry on this list, but I'll mention it anyways
Ceramik Dancefloor [03:08] ANIMA （2020-10-11） 社团：Asomosphere 编曲：HAGISOPH 原曲：セラミックスの杖刀人 footcore
lol heian gaylien [01:56] touhou speed 2 （2021-03-22） 社团：808sndmindbreak 编曲：808sndmindbreak 原曲：平安のエイリアン footcore
Highspeed Cherryblossom [03:31] 蓬莱絵 ～ HŌRAI-E Soundscape （2021-07-04） 社团：ごんばこんなか 编曲：とらっしゅ 原曲：桜花之恋塚　～ Flower of Japan
異聞見聞録 上 （2021-10-31） 社团：miso-nicomi records Wow damn the Touhou footcore scene is really popping off this year. And in a compilation by a notable Japanese breakcore label too. Going by the crossfade here but the relevant tracks are 2 (Microsecond at the atmosphere), 5 (盛るな) and 6 (FootCoreの未来宇宙). Popular footcore producer pencil is on this but seems to be making breakcore this time.
Kuso AKA Kx $ 0 the Mixtape： "God of Darkness, breathing clouds in the fantasy landscape, etc." （2021-12-22） 社团：Yung Aether Cold, lo-fi cloud rap/trap with footwork instrumentals on tracks 2-4, 10 and 14.

Bonus:

• II-L (まかろに☆けちゃっぷ) created their own style of psytrance-influenced footwork on their Mission Sputnik series. Later releases add Kirby synths.
• There are albums like The Neurobiology of Moral Decision Making and Foxconn: Trios, which, while created as an experiment in generative music and MIDI technology respectively, ends up having footwork-esque rhythms.
• For a quick overview of the early 2010s Japanese scene, I recommend this free 45-track compilation. This article from Vice is a must read, especially as it talks about the Japanese scene's importance on the history of the genre.
• And for people who thinks that this genre doesn't appeal to the video gaming crowd, here's a free 37-track compilation (with a few other genres) from 2014 by a video game podcast. Yeah, turns out many underground musicians making cool new genres are also gamers!
  • On a side note, that podcast has a surprisingly good grasp on underground music. They've talked about the underground regional genres gqom (South Africa), mahraganat (Egypt), gorge (Japan) and skweee (Finland and Sweden) in 2014 and 2015, before big-name music publications even thought about covering them.
• Planet Mu's first Bangs & Works compilation is an excellent overview of the early Chicago scene. The follow-up volume is recommended too as a look at what was considered new in the Chicago scene in early 2010s.
• Oh, and RP Boo also collaborated with an improv music artist, cuz why not.
• stuff I like

Post-Metal, Blackgaze & related genres

Working on this.

(I might separate the two genres since there's actually a lot of developments I want to talk about. The gist is that post-metal is metal that focuses on atmosphere and texture over melody, technical playing or soloing, and blackgaze is black metal with a hazy, ethereal, shoegaze-influenced sound. Shoegaze influences can also be added to death metal to make deathgaze, or post-metal to make doomgaze. There's also the term metalgaze which only weirdo PR guys use. With that said, those are crossover genres, and there are many bands in those genres that I feel are more post-rock or shoegaze than metal.)

Some Chinese bands making these genres: Dopamine, 虚症 (Asthenia), Reverie Noire, 虚极 (Bliss-Illusion). Deng from Dopamine is the owner of the label Pest Productions, which releases quite a few albums from blackgaze bands around the world.

this article on Weibo talks about other bands

曲目信息
紅魔の夢 -Her Past- Not Music （2009-03-08） 社团：人生の気だるさ日和 编曲：KAT 演唱：KAT, 小松菜 原曲：亡き王女の為のセプテット, U.N.オーエンは彼女なのか？ Listen to the midsection and you'll know why: harsh vocals over fast, distorted metallic guitars. This is a borderline case since the track as a whole is post-rock.
Vain Hopes [08:07] Al Shwed Maqam （2010-08-14） 社团：Metaluna 编曲：つきしま 原曲：幻視の夜　～ Ghostly Eyes つきしま from Al-Kamar and this circle is one of the earliest Japanese blackgaze artists (alongside Mr,M). You can hear the shoegaze influences starting halfway, as well as on track 7 Deep Fog.
サングレイザー （2013-12-30） 社团：denshūto post-rock/post-metal The first Touhou post-metal release. The album cover is a play on the popular blackgaze album Sunbather, which was released 6 months before.
morningview （2014-12-29） 社团：the distant journey to you post-rock/post-metal
TOHO DUALITY （2015-08-14） 社团：denshūto, Hyperdimension！ denshūto side is post-metal
Snowdrop（アオイツキヲミテタ） （2016-04-02） 社团：アオイツキヲミテタ Another borderline case: the circle says that they make post-metal, but most of their works are post-rock with indie rock and j-screamo vocal influences.
Stargazing （2017-10-15） 社团：Karasu first three tracks are post-rock/post-metal
She is constantly having to guide me through the world [09:33] OhDrearyWearyRedEyes （2017-12-31） 社团：Hyperdimension！ 编曲：fumo 原曲：U.N.オーエンは彼女なのか？ post-metal with slight blackgaze influences
The Hardest Struggle [04:56] The Winter of My Heart （2018-06-07） 社团：Akane 编曲：Akane 原曲：廃獄ララバイ post-metal
untitled split 3 （2018-08-10） 社团：denshūto, the distant journey to you, Hyperdimension！ tracks 1 and 3 are post-metal
有形霧消の『 』 （2018-10-14） 社团：マッコ屋 マッコ屋 is a Japanese circle run by M@coSAKi, who makes arrangements in more experimental genres such as art pop, electronics-heavy post-rock, IDM, and atmospheric breakcore. The music here is mostly a post-rock/post-metal mix. kinda hard to tell with the guitar tones but it's there.
Lunar War Chronicles Vol. 1 （2021-04-30） 社团：GENSOKYOxDEFECATOR doom metal with post-metal influences
Dispirited （2022-06-27） 社团：Dreams of Nihil blackgaze Oh hey, finally a Touhou blackgaze release! It's pretty varied too, with long and mellow post-rock parts, folky interludes, and even some post-hardcore influenced riffs. Check out the artist's influences on the Bandcamp track comments.
Life Amounds To Nothing [04:29] The Yama King （2022-10-23） 社团：Yumi Sakata 编曲：Yumi Sakata 原曲：花の映る塚 post-rock/blackgaze It's a typical track for its style with a simple quiet-to-loud buildup, but the original that's arranged here is some of the best simple melodies that ZUN has come up with, so it works out pretty well.

Bonus:

• Brazilian blackgaze/post-rock/depressive breakcore artist F1D31 has a remix of Pierrot of the Star-Spangled Banner.
• Scottish blackgaze/trip hop/EDM artist Magogaio has a remix of Tonight Stars An Easygoing Egoist. It's not blackgaze though. Their demo is on this wiki because of it, though for obvious reasons their more recent works aren't.
• On the topic of "people who made a Touhou remix who also did blackgaze (but the remix itself isn't blackgaze)", Brazilian multigenre artist Astrophysics has a synthwave remix of Tiny Little Adiantum and a darksynth remix of ALR's Bad Apple!! and dabbled with mixing blackgaze and vaporwave on their early albums. When I say multigenre I mean it - beyond the genres listed above, they also make synthpop, post-punk, drum and bass, goth EDM and baile funk.
• If you want to talk about Touhou hijacks, Russian blackgaze artist Justin Giger sampled Chirumiru on their 2010 album Akrasia. No, the year is not a typo.
• stuff I like: post-metal, blackgaze
  • Also check out my friend's list of interesting post-rock/metal (mostly metal) that she likes.

• As said in the intro, this area of genres is highly influenced by post-rock and shoegaze. sgg from Red Bullet Sequence has a comprehensive list of Touhou post-rock. I can't find a good equivalent for shoegaze, so I'm gonna try making one myself. It won't be on this page as the genre was birthed during the late 80s, but I'll link it. Don't get your hopes up for it as it's not a high priority for me and I'm not very familiar with the genre.
  • If you just want to know some notable circles, there's last little while (my favorite; their discography is shoegaze/post-rock but you only need to listen to fade and skyruin ep), Marmalade butcher (Gensou Drag EP., mixes between shoegaze, electronics-heavy post-rock and math rock), Wonder Girl Syndrome (Scintillation, mixes between post-rock, shoegaze and indie rock), United Daft Attack (I don't recommend them as their discography are about 60% EDM tracks and 40% shoegaze tracks, and about half of the vocal ones lean toward poppy alt rock), minimum electric design (Haven't heard most of their works and they're known as an electronic-heavy post-rock circle. However, I did hear them referred to as a shoegaze circle.)

Vapormusic

I wrote the following blurb in mid 2020 when I had a sudden interest in vaporwave and it's surrounding movement. Unfortunately I didn't really do anything with that. whooooops. But I listened to some nice stuff and learned what appeals to me and what doesn't, so it's fine. The movement did give birth to some of the most interesting ambient music and EDM of the 2010s, so I hope you have a lot of fun exploring it!

RYM genre pages on vaporwave (includes broken transmission, mallsoft and slushwave), vapor (includes future funk, vaportrap, hardvapour, utopian virtual, dreampunk and barber beats. There are a few notable subgenres missing from what I understand, but that may change in the future as more people write about them and give a convincing argument of said genres' existence. Sadly, a vast majority of internet-based music genres are not well documented. Heck, I don't have much of an interest in the SoundCloud/TikTok rap scenes, which is why this page doesn't have a section for genres like plugg, but from what I can tell, the documentation of some subgenres in these scenes are barren compared to the documentation of vaporwave subgenres.)

Maybe it's because quarantine does weird things to the brain, but recently I've found the whole vaporwave phenomenon intriguing. It defined a significant part of the musical underground of the 2010s, but the public perception of it is so tied up in memes that it's become associated with a lot of stereotypes.
For one, the genre isn't all based on nostalgia or an early Windows/80s+90s Japanese Anime/Japanese text/old statues/glitch art/synthwave aesthetic. (glad I was wrong on that one!)It's also no longer inherently a sampling-based genre as the genre developed (since like 2012, even).
Part of this, then, is to find out how the Touhou fanbase understand the genre, but also to document the growth of Touhou vapormusic, at least for stuff recorded on the wiki.

(This is where I'm supposed to talk about Chinese vaporwave producers, but the cryptic nature of the scene means that it's almost impossible to tell if an artist is from where their Bandcamp says they're from. So, you're better off searching on your own.)

曲目信息
水の流れるまちづくり （2011-10-30） 社团：doublingworks Not really vapormusic, but people might consider this utopian virtual. So here's an oddity in the Touhou music world, released before the whole vaporwave genre blew up in 2012. The circle describes the music style as the type of music that was used in 90s educational videos about water purification plants. Of course, it's MIDI-sounding music. As the arrangements are focused on a very specific style of sound, rather than taking influences from 90s cheesy corporate/MIDI music in general, it's not really utopian virtual. But I feel like it's still important to mention. Unfortunately the album was lost in The Great TDMD Booth Purge of 2019, but you can still listen to the crossfade.
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Gensokyo Underground Funk （2017-07-29） 社团：Zextillion Dense and energetic future funk with influences from the Jet Set Radio soundtrack.
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Mandala (Violet Delta's Vaporwave Edit) [05:02] Mandala Retrowave Remixes （2017-11-05） 社团：Frozen Starfall 编曲：Frozen Starfall, Violet Delta 演唱：Sasi 作词：Sasi 原曲：東方封魔録　～浄土曼荼羅
TouhouWave - 【Ｂａｄ Ｄｒｅａｍ Ｉｎｃｉｄｅｎｔ】 （2018-10-03） 社团：Stas Gavrik Horror vaporwave? The track structures are mostly the originals played slowly, but the detuned notes and synth choices help establish the horror mood.
幻想郷深夜ドライブ Vol.1 （2018-10-14） 社团：Violet Delta Might have some dreampunk influences
Danmaku Luminary （2018-11-10） 社团：Camarena No Signal Broken transmission. The samples are filtered in a way that sounds distant and barely warm. Most of the tracks feels like being at a party that's out of energy, and some tracks are edited to sound like ambient. And then there's Rabbit Authority, a track that only keeps the vocals from the original sampled song and makes it the focus of the track. The artist's other album Heroes Románticos isn't a Touhou remix album, even if it is tagged with Touhou.
航海１９９６ [04:59] Function -TO-HO EDM ARRANGE PACKAGE- （2019-05-05） 社团：dat file records 编曲：outlogic 原曲：ヴォヤージュ1969
My Darling Girl ~ The Frozen Lolita! (Vaporwave Version) [09:09] Absolute Zero： Perfect 9 （2019-09-09） 社团：Violet Delta 编曲：Erica-Angelina Kanarska-Sabat 原曲：おてんば恋娘
little girls are hell （2020-06-02） 社团：Dexid The music here is more "sound collage using the original OST" than vapor but some of the manipulations feel pretty vaporwave-ish. Gets more experimental on the second half.
Are you sure you want to delete all feelings？ （2020-08-09） 社团：ξ I think とらっしゅ (torash) can be considered the most notable Touhou vaporwave producer. They've released mallsoft as their circle ごんばこんなか and makes music for the mallsoft collab circle 菫 レ Corp.. ξ is torash's other circle which is all about the didgeridoo instrument. This album mixes vaporwave into the circle's style, and the resulting style is called Didgeriwave. Musically this album is quite varied, with Ｈａｖｅ　ａ　ｎｉｃｅ　ｔｒｉｐ☀京都 and あなたの全て having a video game feel and 魂の繋がり being straight-up dark ambient.
東方無限の蒸気夢 ~ Sweet forgotten dream （2020-08-19） 社团：Soulvapor vapor-chiptune
东方PORTSOFT （2020-10-11） 社团：ごんばこんなか mallsoft
SATELLITE VIRTUAL PLAZA （2020-11-22） 社团：菫 レ Corp. mallsoft
魂のネキシー （2020-12-30） 社团：ＮＥＸＵＳ⁶⁴
MOON BASE MALL （2020-02-05） 社团：ごんばこんなか mallsoft
Three Fairies of Light （2021-07-03） 社团：Heaven Topology Utopian virtual themed around the titular fairies of light. Each track is made up of mini-sections with lots of different moods. Also check out the artist's other albums!
Ａｎａｇｌｙｗａｖｅ 東方青赤波 （2021-08-28） 社团：ξ More Didgeriwave, produced with chopped and screwed techniques. This one has a semi-subtle theme about playing a video game.
ＰＥＲＰＥＴＵＡＬ永久の （2021-10-01） 社团：ごんばこんなか yeah there's a touhou vaporwave collab album now. we're living in the future baby According to torash's Twitter comment, the compilation doesn't involve illegal sampling.
Omen(予兆) （2021-11-03） 社团：2,418 Remix of a track from ＰＥＲＰＥＴＵＡＬ永久の by 2,418 (which is a collab project between Torash and producer SHE) with some atmospheric drum and bass more atmosphere at the end
（ （ （低） ） ） （2021-11-05） 社团：予報士`94 Mysterious artist 予報士`94 makes weathersoft, also called climatewave. Listening to it feels like watching the weather channel while you're half awake. It even has an AI voice synthesizer doing announcements! (I called the music broken transmission before but the term the artist uses is more descriptive of the music.)
ＰＥＲＰＥＴＵＡＬ☑☑☑ （2021-11-28） 社团：ごんばこんなか remix album of ＰＥＲＰＥＴＵＡＬ永久の
Unsealing a Better World （2022-01-10） 社团：ごんばこんなか inspired by 猫 シ Corp. and t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者's dreampunk album Building a Better World
美的セプテントリオン （2022-01-10） 社团：ごんばこんなか
永恒循环 （2022-01-11） 社团：互动导游机器龙 互动导游机器龙 makes vaporwave with a liminal space theme. Their releases so far have a dark ambient/industrial sound.
加速嗜慾 （2022-04-01） 社团：互动导游机器龙
バーチャル滝 ep （2022-04-01） 社团：予報士`94 A more beat-focused take on weathersoft. While the artists already uses beats on their previous release （ （ （低） ） ） , it was something that came halfway through and isn't the focus of the sound as it is here. This sound also parallels the growth of barber beats, a vaporwave genre with leanings toward downtempo and lounge jazz. If this description confuses you because you think it's no different from oldschool vaporwave... Well it's not, but it also is similar to the oldschool approach in a sense. There's still a predisposition towards disposable muzak like smooth jazz, except it's """respectable""" muzak this time. Even the cover aesthetics still involve tired old tropes like Roman busts and badly translated Japanese, but with a stipped down aesthetic so people can't call it irony meme shit. Well guess what, it's just """respectable""" irony meme shit, for people who think top hats and monocles are the peak of sophistication. The fact that classic vaporwave fans dislike barber beats for sampling existing vaporwave tracks when the genre is based on sampling, however, is extremely funny.
（ （ （高） ） ） （2022-05-06） 社团：予報士`94
東方気圧弾 ～ Barometric Danmaku Pressure Group. （2022-06-05） 社团：予報士`94 Compilation of （ （ （低） ） ） and （ （ （高） ） ） along with unreleased LoLK weathersoft arrangements.
Galactic Danmaku Pressure Group （2022-07-01） 社团：予報士`94 Separate release of the LoLK tracks from Barometric Danmaku Pressure Group.
월홍시장Yes! Mart Is Open（同人专辑） （2022-09-02） 社团：월홍시장Yes! Mart Is Open（同人专辑） 소유권dominions does mallsoft. The entire album, including the cover and track titles, is a stylistic parody of 슈퍼마켓Yes! We're Open, an influential mallsoft album from 2014.
𝑭𝒂𝒓𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆® Ｍａｌｌ Sharing Visions EP （2022-09-11） 社团：ごんばこんなか 编曲：とらっしゅ 原曲：六十年目の東方裁判　～ Fate of Sixty Years mallsoft
東方. 永远. 낙원. （2022-12-02） 社团：ごんばこんなか mallsoft, partial compilation of old tracks
GROUP C (torash extend remix) BREEZE ep （2023-04-02） 社团：予報士`94 编曲：とらっしゅ, 予報士`94 原曲：兎は舞い降りた This bonus track is a extended remix of a track from Galactic Danmaku Pressure Group. Track 6, another bonus track, is taken from 東方. 永远. 낙원..
Another Danmaku Pressure Group （2023-04-07） 社团：ごんばこんなか Not vaporwave, but downtempo and chill EDM remixes of tracks from Galactic Danmaku Pressure Group. There's also a mallsoft bonus track.
月軌道ラウンジ2XX3 （2023-09-03） 社团：ごんばこんなか Again, not vaporwave, but ambient techno and some downtempo. I'm adding it here anyways because the cover references 新しい日の誕生 which is a notable dreampunk album.
科学の世紀 （2023-09-03） 社团：ごんばこんなか remix album of 月軌道ラウンジ2XX3
xXx~D4rkAngelOfSilence~xXx [06:14] III ~ Lunar Pareidolia （2024-05-05） 社团：Holmgang Ov Gensokyo 编曲：Tee-vee 演唱：Tee-vee 作词：Tee-vee 原曲：逆転するホイールオブフォーチュン partially blackened vaporwave, arranger cites Fire-Toolz as an influence in the track comments

Bonus:

• この海外東方アレンジがすごい！ is a doujinshi that talks about various overseas Touhou music artists. There's a column on vaporwave, as well as an interview with Zextillion by the writer 長久手 (長久手小牧場). This is also where the 水の流れるまちづくり to vaporwave connection came from and so I have to give credit to them.
  • Also, one of the artists mentioned in the book now makes video game music themed juke/footwork, with some Touhou-related titles. The ones with Touhou-related titles aren't remixes but the artist does make VGM remixes.
• Here are some lesser-known vapor artists that I recommend: Euglossine (glossy and playful utopian virtual), Yvyy (vapor-blackgaze), PcUniverse (vaporwaved Italo-disco and related genres), Lost Cascades (utopian virtual/imaginary video game soundtracks)
• actually, check my RYM collection (vapor metagenre vaporwave genres only) for stuff I like. I'm not interested in future funk but it looks like I listen to more vaportrap than expected...
• actually actually, torash posts a lot of vaporwave recommendations on their Twitter, so go there instead.
• Even though the genre has a lot of artists with a "kewl japan" approach to things (as exemplified by all the machine-translated Japanese text on cover arts, titles and names; sampling of various forms of Japanese media; cover art using images from Japanese TV, anime and games, etc...), it has a sizable fanbase in Japan. Notably, the music curation blog Hi-Hi-Whoopee released the vaporwave compilation :::::蒸気::::: in November 2012, the year when the genre rose into prominance.
  • I also think it's worth mentioning パソコン音楽クラブ (Pasocom Music Club), a synthpop project from Japan that draws on vaporwave and utopian virtual elements. They're popular and influential enough that they were commissioned to make music for beatmania IIDX, and collaborated with Junichi Masuda on the two ending themes to the Pokémon Journeys anime.

What else?

I want to expand this page for underground genres that were heavliy developed in the 2020s, in particular hexD and dreambreak/breakgaze. Since the genres are still in their infancy (even if 2 years is a long time in the internet age lol), I'm still waiting for examples to add to the list. Actually there are a few hexD releases recorded on the wiki but they're not what you'd consider doujin music. It's a good indicator, I think, of the underground popularity of Touhou outside of doujin or even Japanese media contexts.

Thank you to all who read through the list! Hope you enjoyed the music on display. Even if you didn't, you gave it a honest shot and learned some interesting things. That's all I can ask for, really.

October 2023 edit: I wrote the above earlier this year but haven't had much motivation to work on it. Still, I have some things written down and it'd be a shame to keep good music recs hidden. If you're interested, check my sandbox for those.