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TKX Vault opened in September 2014 with Y. 2089 by テレビ体験, a hallmark of vapornoise and broken transmission music. Well, in case you didn’t believe that TKX Vault was going to be a little bit different from parent label and dreampunk codifiers Dream Catalogue, a little album called my empire dropped nine days later from the enigmatic emperor tangerine. Whereas […]
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As stated in our article on it, Empire is a project born out of failure. Failures, in fact. The album was created over a span of two years by Asura Revolver founder and co-owner R0x4ry, taking pieces and fragments from other works that had not panned out and transforming them into Empire. The album is also the first release on […]
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prism genesis comprises one of the earliest releases in broken transmission music, whereby albums (typically EP format) are constructed out of media clips, advertisements, and similar sources with a short, discursive editing style. The results typically evoke the feeling of falling asleep in front of a TV and hearing the transmission float in and out of one’s subconscious, or of […]
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The second week in May is a new label feature! This time, it’s on Smirk Sounds, following Acid Medical in March and Nirvana Port last November. Smirk Sounds is a label based out of Dublin, Ireland that focuses on “the smuggest experimental and vapour releases from around the world”.1 Many of its releases fall into the realms of ambient vaporwave, […]
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It’s my birthday today! While these AOTWs are chosen due to specific cultural or compositional importance to vaporwave, I’m going to choose one that’s both an excellent example of vaporwave/cyberpunk music and also one of my personal favorites regardless of genre: Replica by Oneohtrix Point Never. OPN’s contribution to vaporwave is visibly recognized in the literal creation of ECCOJAMS via […]
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NTSC Memories is an ode to late nights spent on the brink of falling asleep with cable TV playing in the background before falling on “sleep” mode. This release by Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza is the quintessential classic-style vaporwave album, by which samples are recontextualized from their original sources to create works of arts divorced or in light of their former […]
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Along with Floral Shoppe, Chuck Person’s ECCOJAMS Vol. 1, and HK, James Ferraro’s Far Side Virtual is one of the most influential albums in the extant history of vaporwave and modern cyberpunk music. Although its distinct MIDI sound found few imitators (notable exception: High Fashion Mood Music by Eyeliner), Far Side Virtual catalyzed the corporate utopia/faux-utopia that informed much of […]
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