[Weekly Recap] 9 April – 15 April
Hello, and good readings everyone. Here’s the installment of the weekly recap series from 9-15 April 2018. This week was primarily heavy in ambient vaporwave, vaporgoth, and hypnagogic drift, with several notable releases from labels like Seikomart, Sunset Grid, and Flamingo Vapor. Additionally, the deadline for Night Light Tapes’ lo-fi vaporwave compilation FIDELITY ZERO is coming up on April 20th. There are currently over forty tracks submitted, but the label is encouraging more submissions. If this interests you, submit your track to nightlighttapes@gmail.com.
See below for more new music updates and site publications. Note: the tag “vocal vaporwave” means the album incorporates original sung vocals by the artist.
New Music
Monday, 9 April
- 위스키ᴸᵗᵈ – With You (Shortly), Seikomart (nu age; hypnagogic drift)
- waterfront dining – Cottage Country, Naughty Night (sample curation)
- BROKEN_CANYON – LWA15BR, Sea of Clouds (dreampunk; ambient cyberpunk)
- V A P O R S O F T W O R K S 蒸気ソフ – フランスからの食料調, Bogus Collective (sample curation; classic-style)
Tuesday, 10 April
- First Kings – Balladry, Collapsed Structures (cyberpunk music)
- Goosebumps.wav – The Haunted Mask, DMT Tapes FL (classic-style; vaporgoth)
Wednesday, 11 April
- Princess Commodore 64 – If I Don’t Get This Message Home, Sunset Grid (ambient vaporwave; slushwave)
- NEKOSHOGUN – PERESTROIKAWAVE, Power Lunch (classic-style)
- eccodroid – Everlasting Memories, DMT Tapes FL (classic-style; vocal vaporwave)
Thursday, 12 April
- ookiiani – THOUGHTFORM, Contemporary Tapes (vaporhop; remix)
- VirtualRealityDeluxe – Dusk 暮, DMT Tapes FL (sample curation)
Friday, 13 April
- Camino 84 – Yacht Rock Breaks, Business Casual (classic-style)
- Sangam – Among the Depths of Our, Bludhoney (ambient cyberpunk music)
- Boudewijn – 브뤼셀 2058, Bogus Collective (classic-style)
- The Microgram – Savage Architecture, Kaiseki Digital (ambient music; lowercase)
- digitalage – lotusflowers, Sunset Recordings (sample curation)
Saturday, 14 April
- S U P E R プラス T H R I F T – Virtual Death, Elemental 95 (hypnagogic drift; classic-style)
- Chesumasuta – TOKYO AUDIO 4000, Asura Revolver (ghost tech; dreampunk; IDM)
- Konwave – 240, Sud Swap Audio Brewing (ambient vaporwave)
- Super Mario RPG – Geno Boost 2, DMT Tapes FL (vaporhop; vocal vaporwave)
- andrew weathers / qualchan. – andrew weathers // qualchan., Aescape Sounds (ambient vaporwave; vapordrone)
Sunday, 15 April
- Iona Dream – Doom Phase EP, House of the Leg (dreampunk)
- Arasmas – Starshine, Sunset Grid (ambient vaporwave)
- light bleeding in – Brainstorm, & Options (vaporwave; IDM)
- Synod – Digi-Cop ’93 OST, DMT Tapes FL (sample curation)