You’re in a band called §huvuuia . How did it start?

A: in 2009 or 10, we were playing in rock’n’roll bands, and I had recently gotten a laptop, to record, and we would start making these shitty jams, you know, guitar, drum machine machine, midi jams! And then from there came sampling, listening to a lot of other music that at the time that were doing it. We had no discrimination [with] what to upload, you know, throwing it on some bandcamp, soundcloud, just post it.

The way I found out about you is my friend had this index of vaporwave artists, I can send it to you. Do you recognize a lot of the names?

A: It’s so funny cause I don’t really know like any of these people irl, like some people I’ll see on twitter, thats about it, we dont know anyone from “the scene”, we were just kind of making shit songs for fun, it’s fun that it's catalogued there.

This early vaporwave scene, how did you come across it?

E: Back in the day there where music blogs, a guy with a collection would be like, hey, I’m gonna upload my records online. And I remember someone posting floral shoppe , computer dreams those sorts of bands. The eccojams stuff – I remember working at a video store, and my coworker was like “look at this weird video that’s just like this loop over and over again”, this hypnotic thing, and this was before we had any terms like eccojams or vaporwave. This [was an] interesting meme phenomenon, it didn’t have this rubric to understand it. Which made it feel like anyone could do it, very punk rock. If you have a daw [you] can do it, it doesn’t really matter what it sounds like. There [was] noone online being like, that’s not vaporwave

I feel like in recent years it became this kind of reified thing were people really started talking about what’s “real” vaporwave and not.

E: Right! And that kills it.

What projects from the scene impacted you?

A: Infinite Quazar the Grand Prix mixtape. [Evan nodding in agreement] It was this world I wanted to live in, it was very funk rnb slowed down but then there was moody, midi music, jazz. We studied jazz, so coming at from that end inspired me to make things like that. Floral shoppe , it didn’t sound like anything at the time. Love how things were like humorous, you know there’s like a level of humour, but also a seriousness E: Being in new orleans there is the chopped and screwed scene. I remember