“Your best and only access to it is the Internet,” he said. “You’ve got to put in ‘vaporwave’ on YouTube and follow it down. It’s an endless cavern of inter-connected convolutions. I tell everybody I meet about it. Once you open it up, it’s like cracking an egg. It goes all over the place.”
Lest you think he’s a fairweather fan, Nesmith backed up his statements with a deep knowledge of the genre. He praised the Macintosh Plus’ genre-defining Floral Shoppe (“It’s the most psychedelic stuff I’ve heard ever since psychedelics”) before diving into 2814’s Birth of a New Day and remixes of music from Toto (“This is on the channel called Shitpost Wizard,” he said), ABBA and Tears for Fears.
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