Basement Tapes releases “keygen 成果物” by Haircuts for Men

Haircuts for Men is using capital letters in their name now?? Hot damn! keygen 成果物 is a new full-length from this long-running (hey, a few years is a long time in vaporwave) sample curation/vaporhop project, released through Basement Tapes. As with previous releases, HFM primarily samples midtempo jazz music and funk with additional production effects, screw, and percussion to implement […]

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Basement Tapes releases the “CURATED VAPORWAVE VOL. 2” compilation

CURATED VAPORWAVE VOL. 2 is a new compilation released by Basement Tapes from Oklahoma, USA. This album collects fourteen tracks from various subgenres of vaporwave including vaportrap, hypnagogic drift, lo-fi hip-hop, and ambient vaporwave. Featured artists include BABEFAKE, PZA, Rangar, and E L E G A N Z. Listen for a smooth look into the Basement Tapes sound. It’s available […]

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Gradient Plaza – PLAZA

Recommendation: ☹ PLAZA by Gradient Plaza come out on 18 October 2016, making it the first album released through Oklahoma label Basement Tapes. This album contains twelve tracks of downtempo vaporhop music. Songs flow into each other, making the whole piece more of a twenty-four minute suite rather than twelve individual tracks. The album alternates between quiet ambient pieces and […]

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Basement Tapes releases “Fatigue” by Rangar

Fatigue is a new twelve-track full-length from Rangar, available now through Oklahoma label Basement Tapes. Fatigue utilizes lo-fi, downtempo hip-hop beats with classic-style samplism, with the result being something closer to Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza than that implied by “lo-fi hip-hop”. Fatigue is available as a pay-what-you-want digital download and for $8 USD on cassette in an edition of ten. Check […]

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Louvain – dazed

Recommendation: ☹ dazed is a five-track EP of sample curation by Louvain available through Basement Tapes, a label based out of Oklahoma. It consists of twelve minutes of adult contemporary tracks spliced together with minimal equalization. While that is a hallmark of classic-style vaporwave, dazed is a problematic release because of how it is literally just copied and pasted tracks […]

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Basement Tapes releases “Lasagna Boi” by jj

Lasagna Boi is the newest release out on Basement Tapes, a record label based out of Oklahoma, USA. The album’s sixteen tracks consist of short hip-hop influence edits of soundtrack and adult contemporary sources, similar to (but a higher-quality production than) Contact Lens. Give this plunderphonics vaporhop a try if you like your music in smaller portions. It’s available as […]

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Basement Tapes release “BROKEN​.​TAPE​.​MEMORY” by WINDOWS NASHVILLE ’96

Basement Tapes is a label run from Oklahoma, USA. BROKEN​.​TAPE​.​MEMORY is their newest album, coming from the artist WINDOWS NASHVILLE ’96. The album is purely classic-style vaporwave; being funk, soul/R&B, and adult contemporary samples with some ECCOJAMS-screw applied. Check it out if you’re a fan of DMT Tapes FL’s early catalogue, and maybe even Fortune 500 as well. BROKEN​.​TAPE​.​MEMORY is […]

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