バーチャルSound Terminal – 寂しい地下鉄 dreaming
Recommendation: ☹ | Vaporwave-plunderphonics and glitch music wrapped up in a ninety-three minute package.
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High School Drama Teacher – HEARTWORK.EXE
Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ HEARTWORK.EXE is a four-track EP produced by Canadian artist High School Drama Teacher, who also works under the alias Donkey Boy. It’s available through Beer Wizard and was originally released on cassette as well as digital format, the former of which have been sold out for quite some time. This release is classic-style vaporwave/ECCOJAMS that heavily pitch-/tempo-shifts samples […]
Continue reading »1983FILM – ☠肉に大きな白い死亡☹
Recommendation: ☹ ☠肉に大きな白い死亡☹1 is a chaotic classic-style vaporwave album that is constructed from audio rips of Japanese anime.2 It comes from the artist 1983FILM, who released a couple albums in 2015 before fading back into the obscurity that is the sea of pseudo-anonymous vaporwave producers.3 Tracks are composed by one of two methods: small snippets of media that are repeated […]
Continue reading »コンシャスTHOUGHTS – Can’t Get Enough
Recommendation: ☹ Can’t Get Enough doesn’t have “bad” songs, it’s just highly derivative. Minimally-edited French House with vaporwave can only go so far, especially when it’s twenty tracks of the same beats/percussion/etc. コンシャスTHOUGHTS1 falls into the quagmire found by a lot of future funk producers: such heavy focus on dance ends up limiting the music, and there’s only so much […]
Continue reading »Beer Wizard reissues two albums on cassette
Have you ever played Beer Wizard? It’s a drinking game: every time you open a can of beer or cider (or whatever), you tape it to the top of the cans you just drank, progressively adding more and more to make a wizard’s staff by the end of the night. You win if you have the most cans stacked. Good […]
Continue reading »Beer Wizard releases “WEAK WAVES EP” by §E▲ ▓F D▓G§
The twenty-fifth release out on the Beer Wizard label is WEAK WAVES by §E▲ ▓F D▓G§. This release is an extremely hypnagogic, effects-laden classic-style vaporwave release with some early breakbeat influence in the percussion: think some of the stuff that’s been coming out of Windows 98の. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download and for $6 on cassette format in […]
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