DARKPYRAMID – ELECTRIC▲L TE▲RDROPS

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ ELECTRIC▲L TE▲RDROPS is the first album from the DARKPYRAMID1 project, released through Dream Catalogue in March of 2014 as the twelfth overall release by the fledgling label. It’s the start of the “love story”2 narrative in the DARKPYRAMID albums, which isn’t readily apparent but may be seen in the accompanying text of a woman finding comfort in the […]

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骨架的 – Poor Homme

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Poor Homme1 ended the anonymous producer 骨架的’s two-year hiatus following the release of Ancient Science in 2013. His(Her?) ninth overall full-length harkens back to the classic-style/proto-vaporwave of 2010’s Holograms and 2012’s Reflections, blending hazy vignettes of smooth jazz/easy listening with computer music. It’s also one of 骨架的’s longest albums to date: at twenty-one tracks in over fifty minutes, […]

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C A S I N O ☆★☆★☆ M A S T E R – 勝 者 ! ! ! !★W I N N E R★

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ 勝 者 ! ! ! !★W I N N E R★1 is a clusterfuck of casino noise. The second and final album from C A S I N O ☆★☆★☆ M A S T E R is a twenty-minute sound collage of Japanese pop music, sound effects, and bit phrases. Previous album ☆★☆ ボーナススピン幸運 !!! almost entirely relied […]

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cereaʟ – Opening Soon

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Opening Soon is a five-track extended-play by cereaʟ, one of only two releases ever put out by this Australian artist. This EP is mallsoft, but with a twist: rather than produce what would come from the PA speakers in a mall or make the soundtrack to an empty and soulless shopping experience, Opening Soon is a field recording […]

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Infinity Frequencies – Computer Afterlife

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ If vaporwave is often interpreted as a nostalgia trip, then Infinity Frequencies is a nostalgia trap. Computer Afterlife is the third album in a trilogy that also spans Computer Death and Computer Decay. All three albums utilize samples from old commercial tapes and Weather Channel broadcasts that have been cut and repurposed to portray a pensive and occasionally […]

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Flamingosis – Kahunastyle

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ A lot of future funk tries hard to be funny, retro, or clever – and it appears to be the genre’s downfall. I make no attempt to hide my less-than-favorable impression on the subgenre, mostly because I find that many future funk artists are limiting themselves within it. There’s only so much that one can do with an […]

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Pursuance – Cold Light

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Cold Light is your soundtrack to staring at the sun. This twenty minute single-track release is an excursion through loud drones, trip-hop, nineties techno, stark ambient music, and hardvapor in a seamless suite – and one that’s far more cohesive than such disparate tags may initially belie. The album starts off in standard dreampunk style with long, airy […]

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