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AESTHETIC FM

Smile Machine Music · AESTHETIC FM · Vaporwave Radio

Vaporwave · synthwave · retro · ambient. Hand-picked, independent and on air around the clock.

  • 2,076,869tracks played since Jan 2017
  • 500,000hours listened
  • 235.24terabytes streamed since 2017
  • 12,940 hlongest unbroken broadcast
  • 1,000+ hof music in the library
  • 9,320+subscribers on YouTube
  • 1.1M+channel views, all time
  • 2,652+likes on the stream
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Tuning in…

AESTHETIC FM

Smile Machine Music

Chat on YouTube ↗

The radio pops up in the corner and keeps playing while you look around. Requests and shout-outs go in the live chat.

Live 24/7Last.fm · YouTube
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The live track list lives on Last.fm, where every song we’ve played since 2017 is logged.

Full history on Last.fm ↗
Every track since 2017Last.fm
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A guide to vaporwave sub-genres

The vaporwave family tree

Vaporwave has borrowed from everywhere since day one, so it gets confusing fast, even for people inside it. Here are fifteen of its sub-styles and close cousins, all on rotation here. Pick one to see where it came from, or hit ▶ for a five second taste from the station’s own library.

The stations

Before AESTHETIC FM

The music side is where the machine started, and it’s still the heart of it. Over the years it has run lofi, EDM and late-night lounge stations. Here they all are.

  • 2017–2020

    Chilled Vibes Radio

    Lofi and chill beats. Where a lot of you first found us.

  • 2017

    24/7 Vaporwave Radio

    The one that stuck.

  • Fall 2017

    Electric Jungle Radio

    EDM, briefly and loudly.

  • Fall 2017

    Night Lounge Radio

    Late-night lounge for the night owls.

  • Oct 2017 → now

    AESTHETIC FM

    Vaporwave Radio, all grown up. Still on air.

The whole story, year by year →

Artists

Get your work on air

Music, digital art, visuals. The stream runs on all three, and a lot of what plays and loops here comes from independent and up-and-coming artists.

Submissions are closed for now. When they reopen, tracks, loops and artwork will all be welcome.

See every track we’ve played ↗

Listeners

Free to play. Not free to make.

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SMILEYS_PICKS.EXE 2 tapes found

Mixtapes · 2021

Smiley’s Picks

Two tapes of favourites pulled from the rotation. Every name here is an independent artist worth looking up.

Side A · 2021

Smiley’s Picks

C-96
  1. Chip Jewelry ALL HAIL OUR QUEEN
  2. Clinton Affair S l e e p l e s s
  3. Computer Dreams Drips
  4. Discandy ＣＯＫＥ ＢＲＥＡＫ
  5. Dreams West EMC Corporation
  6. Iacon Don’t Know
  7. MISE $un$hine
  8. Napolian Olympia
  9. OceanCountyMall Reality Beyond Redemption
  10. OceanCountyMall choice of a new Generation
  11. Office expressway
  12. Phoenix #2772 Virtual Break-Up
  13. QUADRA 630 TECHNOLOGY
  14. Replica Federation Narcissistic Lover
  15. Rodrigo Passannanti Lucid dream
  16. SUI UZI Heartbreak Beat - Lonely Goodbyes
  17. SYLLABUS NEON NIGHT
  18. Secret World Tonight is a Fantasy
  19. Topaz Gang tribute to saint pepsi
  20. V ▲ P Y D Resignance
  21. VHSテープリワインダー 21st century lipo chitosan
  22. Virtua Bones Crash
  23. luxury elite saint laurent
  24. 猫 シ Corp. First Floor

Side B · 2021

Smiley’s Picks #2

C-92
  1. Ambientcloud Vapor
  2. Chip Jewelry Go Back to Sleep
  3. Clinton Affair L o s t
  4. Combo Reseller ¥１０００
  5. Digital Waves Baby
  6. Diskette Park Wrong
  7. General Translator 防府マネキン Ｅｘｐｏ．#1
  8. HEAVY SYSTEMS, Inc. ill terminal
  9. NOT HEAD CLEANER Pinky-Wave
  10. Phoenix #2772 Play Pause Fastforward
  11. Silver Richards Her Touch
  12. VENO Relax FM
  13. VHS Logos Golden Era
  14. Vaporplaid It’s Alright With Me
  15. VentureX Show Me
  16. Vincent Remember ｎｅｏｎ ｂｏｘ ｆａｄｅ 英国の騎士
  17. XWaves 性交波 Virtual Racing 1999
  18. ギタラクル pOISON dART hEAD WONT LET GO
  19. チェスマスター 駄目 SADNESS
  20. デジタルフォーチュン LEVEL １０ 駐車場の屋上
  21. 音 LIGHT システム 家族 ｗａｋｅ-ｕｐ
  22. ｍｏｄｅｒｎ dream 新生THOUGHTS
  23. ｍｏｄｅｒｎ dream ヘイズREWORK