00:00 Deep Swim 04:15 Hazy Trip 07:34 Exordium 10:05 Venus Aire 14:54 Hello Earth 17:44 Hypnosis 21:57 Cathode Rays 24:49 Illyuziya 27:35 Wasting Time 31:30 Golden Triangle 34:09 Bonita Camisa 37:27 Lead

"It's nice to look in a vaporwave comment section that isn't 3-4 years old." -3 years ago 🫠 Sands of time, never stop, so don't wait.

I think that Windows 96 is such a good name for a vaporwave artist. It says just what vaporwave is, a future that never was, a dream that never came to pass, and in this case, an operating system that never existed.

this album is how it feels when you're sleep-deprived but also not tired.

vaporwave comments: (deep introspective essays on nostalgia and emotions and the human brain) also the same people: s o u n d s l i k e j e l l o

This is like a jacuzzi for the mind...

One day we'll be old and we'll be nostalgic about the nostalgia we felt when we were listening to this. It will hit hard

this is UPGRADED vaporwave. It's not just an 80s song slowed down with reverb, it's an actual collection of real songs, that's awesome.

I'm 44. This is my first time even hearing about vaporwave but boy am I glad to find it.

It's nice to look in a vaporwave comment section that isn't 3-4 years old.

this feels like crying and smiling at the same time, worrying and feeling adventurous at the same time

i come here every single day... life's not easy, but this playlist is a way to escape. while i listen to this, i'm not in this world. i'm somwehere else, where barely anyone can reach me. an unhealthy way to cope? maybe. but it's worth it. hello, stranger. welcome to my world.

the first four notes had me hooked for the whole album.

Windows96 has transcended vaporwave and is practically his own genre at this point.

you're listening to something special

This is what I hear in my head when I lay down in my bed, on a cloudy afternoon, with the lights off. The small amount of gray light coming through the window, making me feel like I woke up 3000 years in the future. A sort of romantic loneliness that becomes much more as the minutes go by and my head becomes more and more stuck to the pillow.

This has become one of my favorite albums of all time. What a masterpiece.

and here we see a refined vaporwave in its natural habitat

I think that the best way to describe the internet generation’s obsession with vaporwave/synthwave etc is.. We’re trying to feel the nostalgia of a time we’ve never expierenced ourselves, so we create our own past. We’re distorting the existing past and forming it to our ways. We think about that past as a place without no worries, no negativity, an imaginary world full with bright neon lights and early CGI, because there can be no bad vibes in a dream world. And this music is all the emotions we feel put in to sound waves, making us dwell deeper in to the nostalgia trip. By listening to this we’re trying to quench our thirst for this time but we’re just fueling it more and more.

I just cant stop coming back to this masterpiece

I wanna lay in a field of sunflowers and look up at the blue sky with this playing

humanity is splitting in so many different directions, like a rope unraveling, revealing its little strands.

I love how each of Windows 96’s albums may have some of the same synths, but each has their own twist. I always come back to each album for a different mood or feeling. No two of his albums are alike.

Time slips away so quickly. I remember back in 2009-2008, "Vaporwave" was just coalescing into a definable genre. I was halfway through university when it arrived to NYC, and it was so magical to experience. For many millennials, Vaporwave is a remix of what the world looked, felt, and sounded like during our early childhoods.

This Gives off a Vibe that doesn't exist.

These are the only updates from Windows I love and happy to get.

I have synesthesia, which means I naturally create images in my mind from, in my case, music. Basically, I can see music. This music is some of the most visually interesting I've ever seen, err, heard.

i am now a proud owner of a vinyl copy of this album :) its a transparent purple marble textured record, and watching it spin is so hypnotic i could watch it forever to the beat of cathode rays...

A KZfaqr called Solar Sands made a video about Liminal spaces and used Bonita Camisa in one part of the video. That’s what brought me here, and I must say that this album is so strangely beautiful to listen to. It feels like it’s nostalgic for a time I really never lived, I don’t know how to describe it. Bonita Camisa kind of feels out of place almost, but not in a bad way. I think the effect of the song was to take you somewhere away from where the other songs brought you, maybe to a tropical island? I feel like that was what Windows96 was trying to get at but I’ve imprinted my mind with images of empty “liminal space” houses and such because of that Solar Sands video that the song just feels nostalgic and slightly reminiscent of a past that didn’t exist. The song kind of makes me just sink into my thoughts and see pictures in my head of liminal spaces while I listen to it. It’s quite a strange effect. So I guess, thanks to Solar for showing me that song because it is very beautiful and gives me feelings I honestly can’t identify. And thank you Windows96 for making this beautiful album. I listened to it this summer while I just played with my dog in my backyard and it was so beautiful to listen to.

Pink mist billows forth from chrome industrial spires and settles down in the valleys of discarded micro circuitry under a sky tuned to a dead channel

to me this feels like there’s something i’m trying to grab but it’s constantly just out of reach. an idea, both there and not and i feel it but when i think too deeply about it, it gets further away from my grasp. it feels like this super spacey slow and calm future that never seems possible.

I just want to exist... Isn't that okay?

2nd track is so beautiful and its hurting me, because that's how i wish my life would sound like

me: i want to die me after listening to enchanted instrumentals and whispers: i want to swim in a secret isolated cave with a shore and dozens of poplars with yellow-green leaves and grey trunks inside. blue faint light illuminating every corner, shading the cave in a way it looks like an endless void. violet mist covering the moss and rocks , creating an ethereal aura. water pouring through openings between the rocks, cascading like transparent curtains. crystals on the roof of the cave reflecting their colours to the mirror-like water. i want to float there until i feel nothing but total inner tranquillity. i want to get the closest i can to becoming one with nature

Reminds me of 2004 when times were actually good with my playstation 2

dear god this one hits the spot so hard. w96 just gets it. all his albums are so distinct and stylish, which is sadly a big problem for many vaporwave creators. each is made with purpose in mind, like to capture a specific era and make something sounding familiar, but still very distinct and somehow personal. I really like this guy

This deserves a spot on every Vaporwave playlist. Win96 knows how to create a fantastic soundscape that perfectly captures the past and future that never was...

"Vaporwave is a subgenre of electronic music which features heavy sampling and editing, surreal and futuristic themes" i understand where you guys are coming from when you call this vaporwave, but give this guy the credit he deserves. Everything he makes is 100% original and his music resembles more of a niche area of synth, he's almost his own genre. Love his music by the way, I just wanted to point this out.

i can't be the only one getting earthbound vibes

just secretly cried while eating a salad at my school lunch, this helped my anxiety

Exodium transition to Venus aire is perfect. I liked to listen to this album to get to this part, smoke a cigarrette and feel sad... I no longer smoke... there's only one thing left.

It's been a while since an album has had such an emotional impact on me. Thank you Windows96 for inspiring people around the world and giving me another reason to be happy in a time where the future seems uncertain.

JEZUS, I was looking for some music to study, It was a long time that I listened to vaporwave, so I played this new album from an old friend :). After 2 minutes staring in emptiness. I get a cold feeling over me, my fingertips are tingling and I feel my hard pounding. It feels like I did something new and exciting, a bit dreamy. I look through my window into the sky but in the city, there are no stars. I don't mind, here are the stars on the street not in the sky hahaha :). Now I am typing this comment laying down in my bed with my sparkling eyes and a big smile on my face. Enjoying my new exciting feeling I got from this beautiful album. Across my room my papers and laptop are looking disappointing at me, I rather lay here in peace. Thanks, Windows96. I am thinking about you x

Don't mind me, just scrolling down the comment section reading really wordy comments about the meaning of vaporwave.

This artwork is amazing, this is what I have been looking for. I constantly obsess about my own artwork because I am never satisfied with it. It is on my mind day and night, it's like my head is being split open. I realize this obsession with mastering my craft has actually become unhealthy but I don't care about that. My salvation and my damnation are one and the same. Because when I am creating my art it feels exactly like this music, I'm just floating and completely lost in it. All my worries about work, school, family, friends, and the future all just go away for a short time. And for that brief moment I am taken back to my childhood where I'm sitting at my 1st grade desk and I'm putting my imaginations onto paper with a box of Crayola crayons. Back to a time where I could breathe in the air and everything was much simpler. I don't have anything else to say.

Haircuts For Men and Windows96 are the best

Item: Windows 96 Effects: Healing and Chill Vibes, +3 Happiness

This feels like laying on the yellow grass with a light purple sky at sunset. Is a very specific feeling...

This album itches my brain in all the right ways. I love it.

Drinking my morning coffee, eating my breakfast. Can't get better than this.

Where my fams at in 2020 vibin’ during this pandemic...

Any still here as of December? My thoughts on wether or not vapor is ded are conflicted pls repley if u see

I can feel the beat in my brain and it sounds like its echoing throughout my mind. unexplainable feeling.

It's 1995 I'm over at my friend's house playing sega genesis His mom is baking us cookies and I never wanna grow up

"Hazy Trip" is the most special track to me.

Huh. Longtime Vaporwave fan, and has been a Windows96 fan for about two in a half years. And yet....have never listened to this whole dang album all the way through until now. My ears are in space, man!

y'all mind if I disassociate

This album is an unbelievably pleasant experience. I honestly can’t pick my favorite song, but I think the final track is such a perfect conclusion with the interstellar, nostalgic feel.

Love all of Windows96's music but this album hits in a very unique way and is by far my favorite

This feels like a trip to the mall walking along and seeing all the stores.

when u finally fall asleep from sleep deprivation

I didn’t even know this type of music still existed but now I’m obsessed 😩

I'm in Kmart, don't know the time of day as it doesn't exist in this space. Everything is so revoltingly average and the few people around me don't look particularly happy, but they look content. Little do they know is this contentment will be the best feeling of their entire lives. This fleeting moment will be remembered decades later, this seemingly average yet now idolized moment.

This is what I would consider to be true vaporwave, the different variable of intruments being used in such a creative way with the old school vibes. The sounds overlap eachother so perfectly and the synth sounds are not excessively used. I've listened to so much ''vaporwave'' where it's just the same basic 2 synth notes being repeated over and over, or the worst one yet; a normal song that's just slowed down and then gets slapped with the vaporwave label. I feel like Windows 96 definitely solidifies vaporwave as a genre, truly a masterpiece. at least in my opinion.

Thanks so much for continuing what you do. You have no idea how much of my day your music is playing in my head, fitting perfectly into this life. What you do is special and I appreciate it so much. May you live a long, long life filled with more beautiful works like this.

This is everything

the opening of deep swim gives me chills every time dude

It makes me feel nostalgic for the present.

I’ve listened to the whole album through several times. There is a deeply indescribable, dreamlike existential knowing that this entire work helps me come to terms with. I sincerely thank you for sharing this creation with us.

10:04. Omg, that Venus Aire track left me speachless. One of the best pieces of souns I have ever experienced, thank you!

These songs mean a lot to me, last year I was crossing the most strange places inside myself and this album was like my candle in the dark, it’s visual, it’s vibrating, it goes on places that i can’t put into words

You are probably the best vaporwave artist. You have taken the genre and made it something greater.

Is sad the fact that you know that all this vaporwave comments will go to oblivion, and no body will remember it. *Oblivion Wave*

I remember listening to this during zoom classes in 2020 after staying up for days shit was wild

to the person whos reading this... adult life isnt as you think it is, you need to work hard to get money and with that money you mostly pay taxes and bills and do this for the rest of your life. try to enjoy your childhood moments as much as possible please.

in the words of someone who recommended this to me, this is top tier "backseat avant garde fucking music"

Thanks to this album, I experienced feelings that I had not experienced earlier in my life. This is real art.

The irony about the comments saying there’s no comments that 3-4 years ago while exactly being from 3-4 years ago 💀

Y'all can't imagine how this piece of art make me feel..

Happy birthday "Enchanted Instrumentals and Whispers" 🎈🎉

I love how otherworldly "Bonita Camisa" sounds. The deep rumbling throughout its entirety is especially great.

I was, of course, born in the early 2000's and have no firsthand experience with the 90's, however this music feels so nostalgic and makes me feel a sense of security

a friend i met some minutes ago told me he was hearing this, good taste dude

I missed the release of this because I was In jail for most of this year. Glad I could hear it (: beautiful to hear on the first day out

Inject this strait into my bloodstream

28/3/2023 Today is sunny day. Stay vibes everyone!

if there's one thing i keep coming back for, it's gotta be the vocals. i loooove how they feel so light and almost surreal, capturing the trippy aesthetics perfectly.

*releases another album in less than a year* Ｏｋａｙ ｔｈｉｓ ｉｓ ａ ｅ ｓ ｔ ｈ ｅ ｔ ｉ ｃ

Beautiful album. Transcends the genre in quality.

This is only the 2nd album I’ve heard from this guy, but back in 2016 I used to listen to a lot of vapor wave. This just somehow inflicts such a nostalgia and all kinds of obscure memories are flooding my mind...

Bonita Camisa has a very special place in my heart. My favourite by far. It’s like something you can do the cha cha cha to.

14:54 Hello Earth and Venus Aire 10:05 is a bop! in fact this whole album is.

This defines the genre

Wow this is so relaxing and not distracting at all if I want to put it on doing homework or writing. Love it!

I play this song when i'm studying or when its rainy. This song helps stay calm when i start to get mad or panic. Thank you for making this, really appreciate it. :-)

this genre would still be good like even after a million years in the future

This takes me back to the days of Netscape Navigator

I love this album, listened to this 3 times over already and it's just so relaxing and pleasant to the ears

I love these types of playlists for studying. It gives me good vibes without distracting me!

Wohooo more Windows 96 And it's just as weirdly fantastic as always