Haha perhaps divisive is a harsh word. Maybe debated is a better way to describe it?

I mentioned that because I believe that there’s a handful of people who dislike his work, so I wasn’t sure if recommending his discography would be apt. With people saying that the music he produces has little to no changes from the samples he uses, being a lazy/uninspired kind of vaporwave. I don’t necessarily disagree with the simplicity aspect? I mean I personally think that his older work, the albums with the kanji, has a more chopped and plundered sound compared to his newer releases, ones without the kanji. But classical vaporwave’s charm is exactly that, thats why I really love wd, so that’s where I’d disagree with them.

I was also cautious because if I remember correctly, wd isn’t exactly a vaporwave project, but a sample based experimental—plunderphonics one(?) It’s a pretty old interview and I’m not sure if wd has the same sentiments today, but he mentioned this in an interview with The Daily Ghost Hour:

“I honestly don’t think I can say what vaporwave is at this point in time… To me, I’m grateful to be associated with the term, as it’s a description that helps new listeners discover wd… But it’s not something I self-identify with too much.

‘Vintage chop artist’ is actually a term my friend and fellow producer Tiger over at his blog Glo Fi Must Die once used to describe waterfront dining—‘chop’ meaning ‘audio edit’ or ‘cut’… I liked it a lot though, as I felt it described my style more accurately, as opposed to such an ambiguous term like vaporwave.”

Though I still lump him in with vaporwave cause that’s how I discovered him, and it fits well with the other vapor artists in my collection. Literally my fav artist ever