Elemental 95 releases “SALONエメラルド by ETHERNET CITY

Crazy to think that Elemental 95 is already on their seventy-third release as a label! The French-American label consists of Baconwave from Toulouse, France and Phoenix #2772 of Miami, Florida. SALONエメラルド is out today, coming from the artist ETHERNET CITY. The album is a classic-style vaporwave album in eleven tracks with significant ECCOJAMS influence and hypnagogic pop. It’s available as […]

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death’s dynamic shroud.wmv – I’ll Try Living Like This

Recommendation: ☀☀☁ death’s dynamic shroud.wmv (hereafter “dds.wmv”) starts off with a quote from Kim Kardashian. If that isn’t ballsy, then what is? Vaporwave has always straddled the line between kitschy self-deprecation and hipster bullshit within the popular consciousness, and I’ll Try Living Like This sure as hell pushes that to the point where it straddles the line between straddling the […]

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Online Records releases “Solution I” by Online Sleep Solutions

Finishing up our Friday releases is Solution I by Online Sleep Solutions, released through the Online Records net-label. The album is three tracks of vapordrone: loud, red-lined ambient music with a curious lo-fi quality to it that gives the impression that the hardware at the sleep solutions facility hasn’t been updated in a few decades. This release is available for […]

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Biospheres releases “รก” by เปิดตาของคุณ

Hey, that’s the Thai script! I’ve been to that country! Anyway, the third album out on the Biospheres label is รก by เปิดตาของคุณ. This is a five-track album of extraordinarily subdued ambient/dark ambient music based on a “forgotten, overgrown citadel in which time passes both forwards and backwards simultaneously.” It’s similar to some exploration game soundtracks such as that of […]

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Casino Gardens – Casino Gardens

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Casino Gardens’ self-titled album probably wouldn’t be attached to the vaporwave scene but for three reasons: 1) its release on the Beer on the Rug label, which hosted many of the well-known early vaporwave releases;1 2) its retro and super low fidelity; and 3) its faux-utopian framing. It’s actually the first album in the history of Beer on […]

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