I grew up listening to 90s hip hop, so I’m familiar with some of the songs DJ Screw used in his mixes. There’s something meditative and transcendent about rap slowed down to 60 bpm combined with the repeated phrases and chopping/rewinding to extend the song and emphasize certain parts. He’d play two copies of a song and one would be a beat or two ahead, which lets you cross fade back and forth to make words repeat, he’d rewind certain lines three or four times to emphasize it, he does a decent amount of turntablism/scratching too. All of the manipulation is basically an on the fly remix with a lot of room for creative freedom.
Here’s a chopped and screwed song I like by DJ Screw
Vaporwave is basically the same set of techniques applied to 80s pop and elevator music, the song below is vaporwave but it’s more or less a chopped and screwed version of Tar Baby by Sadé
quickthrowman|3 days ago
Here’s a chopped and screwed song I like by DJ Screw
https://youtu.be/zykDlxp-hQQ
Vaporwave is basically the same set of techniques applied to 80s pop and elevator music, the song below is vaporwave but it’s more or less a chopped and screwed version of Tar Baby by Sadé
https://youtu.be/ZJrmzPavcDo