I love stories like this. Turns out there’s a sort-of movement of music being released on floppy disk… I will have to watch it from afar with admiration though. I’m already collecting vinyl and CDs so this is probably not a good idea for me.

There are almost 2,300 floppy releases listed on Discogs.com, most of which are electronic, but other genres include hip-hop, a smattering of classical and jazz, a bunch of metal subgenres, and “non-music” like experimental field recordings from Norway and spoken word from China. In 2018, Rolling Stone covered a “mini-boom” of vaporwave releases on floppies, noting that the lo-fi, lobit nature of vaporwave was an obvious match for the storage constraints of the 3.5-inch.