ESPRIT

ESPRIT began in 2012 as the sample-based side project of electronic pop artist George Clanton. Starting with the essential vaporwave EPs Girls Only and Summer Night, ESPRIT pushed the genre forward with the 2014 LP Virtua.zip, composed entirely of original material at a time when vaporwave was defined by found audio and manipulated samples. Their album 200% Electronica blends original compositions in their signature vaporwave style with chopped-and-screwed samples drawn from George Clanton's own catalog.