One of my favorite aspects of “wave music” is that it’s spun off so many various sub-genres and niche aesthetics. We’ve got:
Synthwave, Chillwave, Vaporwave, Retrowave, Darkwave
as some of the main players, but what else is out there? What other “waves” have you come across?
Sovietwave is one of the weirder ones I’ve come across, but it works
Nightride.FM has datawave (sort of 80s/early 90s computer-aesthetic synthwave) and horrorwave (darkwave subgenre, very 80s horror movie inspired) stations.
My favorite sub-genre is probably Cyberwave, but of the niche genres I’ve come across, I’ve gotta give props to Simpsonwave (which even has its own Know Your Meme page)
I love Mallsoft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallsoft) which is a subgenre of Vaporwave.