Avant-tourist vibes abound on Orlando artist Breadbarn’s new vaporwave album | Orlando
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Vaporwave has always been primarily a sampler’s genre. There is, however, a sliver of practitioners who do it with the craft of traditional composers, and prolific Orlando artist Breadbarn is one of the newest worth noting.
Just like accomplished fellow local artist Dan Mason, Breadbarn specializes in a sample-free brand of electronic pop that weaves the vaporwave nostalgia all by hand, rather than the plunderphonic approach that’s endemic to the microgenre.
Brent Barnhart — the mind behind Breadbarn — is precise, even academic, in his pursuit of the vaporwave aesthetic. “I want people to think that what…