ライフターン – RGB

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Although technically classified as an EP on Discogs, RGB by ライフターン1 is best viewed as a sister album to H+. Both albums were released within three months of each other in 2016, and they use similar classic-style vaporwave tropes with a strong mid-tempo base. RGB was only released as a pay-what-you-want digital download, which is practically all of […]

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Peach & Plum – Archipelago 3.0

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Archipelago 3.0 is the first release from Peach & Plum, a side-project of Tech Honors – whom some readers may recognize as one of the members of death’s dynamic shroud.wmv and a part of the Ghost Diamond collective. Peach & Plum incorporates aspects of synthpop and psychedelic music1 into the project’s releases, often with a discursive bent that […]

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メディッカル medicalmechanica メチャニッカー – Gradient Sedan

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Gradient Sedan is the second full-length album by メディッカル medicalmechanica メチャニッカー1 and the artist’s first for the Swamp Circle label. Gradient Sedan follows in the footsteps of many of the Swamp Circle projects (most of which are creative projects of label founder/director Angel Marcloid) in presenting plunderphonics vaporwave music with a noise or drone bent. In comparison to […]

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バーチャル Paragon ™ – True Feelings

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ True Feelings from バーチャル Paragon ™ is the happiest album of 2017 – maybe. It’s an eight-track, half-hour album of sample curation released through DMT Tapes FL per the Verbatim Consciousness Recordings imprint.1 The release is all alt-codes and full-width texts, a ubiquitous component of old-school vaporwave flavor. True Feelings is constructed by looping instrumental music and adult […]

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POCARI COATING – Light Lines

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ POCARI COATING – known as POCARI ステューシー until 2017 – is a French artist who has released vaporwave music since 2015. Starting in classic-style vaporwave with School Days (a split EP with 猫 シ Corp.), POCARI COATING was featured on a variety of high-profile vaporwave compilations including The Eternal Dream System from Dream Catalogue, The Vape Council, Pt. […]

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