Contact Lens – MEDIAFIRE KINGDOM

Recommendation: ☹ Contact Lens’ MEDIAFIRE KINGDOM isn’t too different from the rest of the artist’s discography. Like ICE IN THA VEINS, this album is an entirely ironic release of instrumental lo-fi hip-hop with a goofy 90s aesthetic. This work is like-it-or-hate-it; it’s the cheapest-sounding compressed beats mixed with anti-sly G-funk. Its potential charm is in how much one is willing […]

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NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL – NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL

Recommendation: ☹ Yup, that’s the title. The music sounds exactly like what you’d expect. This one-off release as NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL from the Orlando producer Windows 98の is music from the Now That’s What I Call Music! series edited to sound nigh-unidentifiable. But instead of the pitch/tempo-delay and filters that typically accompany such a phrase, this album uses […]

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S U R F I N G – Deep Fantasy

[Editor’s note: This article has been deprecated. It no longer reflects the views of Sunbleach Media or its writers. For an updated article on Deep Fantasy and its place in vaporwave history, please click here.]   Recommendation: ☹☹☹ Plagiarism. You don’t get to copy and paste full songs, call them your own, and make money off of them. The only […]

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Köshrimp – Red Luna District

Recommendation: ☹ Köshrimp is the alias of Tom Cochien, a producer from France who specializes in hypnagogic drift,1 a form of vaporwave that utilizes extreme lo-fi samples with lots of reverb and effects to emphasize a surreal, dream-like atmosphere.2 Red Luna District is Cochien’s third album, released in December 2015 only six months after beginning his vaporwave career. For the […]

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PZA – CAPITAL CUSTOMER

Recommendation: ☹ PZA is slightly-famous within vaporwave for putting out what seems like a new album per week for the past year – at least. That’s pretty cool: an artist who is so interested and active within the scene that he or she feels the need to constantly release new material and push their artistic expression to an almost absurd […]

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