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I should begin this section by acknowledging that this subgenre has caused a bit of a stir within the Vaporwave community (i.e. Reddit), who feel that the practices of these artists is "theft" and "lazy," to which I will point out that the first Vaporwave track EVER is literally just a slowed down loop from Chris DeBurgh's "Lady in Red" with reverb.

Lol.

Lmao, even.

With that out of the way, I'll get on with the description.

Barber beats is a recently recognized subgenre of Vaporwave comprised of remixed or otherwise edited lounge and trip-hop music, predominately focused on heavy bass and smooth melodies combined with an acidgrafix-adjacent visual aesthetic.

The subgenre was both founded by and named after the prolific producer haircuts for men, whose back-catalogue provided a template for various other artists to try their hand at.

The list of titles below is not exhaustive.

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