Hardvapour is an Internet-based microgenre[1] of music that emerged in late 2015 as a tongue-in-cheek response to vaporwave,[2] departing from the calm, muzak-sampling capitalist utopia concept of the latter in favor of a gabber- and punk-influenced sound.
by DJ VLAD, released worldwide via Antifur's Bandcamp page, showcases elements and influences from a variety of styles, such as techno, industrial music and trap.
[1] Hacking For Freedom by Wolfenstein OS X's pseudonym Flash Kostivich was characterised by journalist Matt Broomfield as a "unique sonic space somewhere between early Clicks and Cuts compilations and the soundtrack to the 1995 anime Ghost in the Shell.
Examples such as "Humanoid Sound (гуманоид звук)" by Trende borrow the three-chord song structure of punk, while "Immortal" by DJ Alina features basslines distorted in a similar fashion to the works of Circle Jerks or Dead Kennedys.
[5] Arcand views hardvapour as somewhere between vaporwave and a genre journalist Adam Harper calls distroid, a style that was "hi-fi to the point of actively fetishizing the hi-frequency hisses and twinkles that lo-fi was unable to produce.
[5] Other producers like Flash, DJ Alina, and Krokodil Hunter have falsely labeled themselves to be Ukrainian and Russian, which German critic Jens Balzer felt added quirkiness to the hardvapour scene.