Seikomart & Botanica1 release “POP_UP gallery” by PARCO

Seikomart and Botanica1 (both part of a family of labels that also includes Sud Swap Audio Brewing) have co-released a new album from PARCO called POP_UP gallery. This release features classic-style vaporwave trippiness with heavily altered, pitch-/tempo-shifted samples of instrumental and adult contemporary music with a wall-of-sound production that’s not far from death’s dynamic shroud.wmv in the NUWRLD series or […]

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めんどりnegra – Shell Expansion

Recommendation: ☹ めんどりnegra1 is a pseudonymous vaporwave artist who released the album Shell Expansion simultaneously on Sud Swap Audio Brewing, Seikomart, and Botanica1. Don’t worry – those three labels work with each other, so there’s nothing questionable going on there. Shell Expansion is an hour-long album of vaporgoth music that combines dark ambient with lonely tribal music. Each track consists […]

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Botanica1 releases “midnight summit” by minddrive

midnight summit is a twenty-track release from minddrive through Botanica1, a Floridian label with deep ties to the Hispanic community that is associated with Seikomart and Sud Swap Audio Brewing. Tracks like “comes around” have a classic-style vaporwave influence; recommended for fans of the labels Sunset Grid and Flamingo Vapor, in addition to artists like bluescreen. It’s available as a […]

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LOBOGAMMA® – Proyecto1111.16

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Proyecto1111.16 is a six-track EP from LOBOGAMMA® with artwork designed by La Mano Fria of Sud Swap Audio Brewing. This release is available through Botanica1, a sister label of Sud Swap and also of Japanese label Seikomart, and originally featured a cassette run that has since sold out. Released in November 2016, Proyecto1111.16 incorporates a variety of degradation […]

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Botanica1 releases “Death Euphoria” by C!erraMy$t

Death Euphoria starts out like a classic-style vaporwave album with its modem connection and decrepit spoken word admonishment (not to mention the 50% opacity album artwork), but it’s actually a pretty engaged utopian/synthwave/dreampunk album. If you’ve wanted some upbeat vaporwave that actually sounds excited about the future instead of snarky or scared of it, then this album is for you. […]

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Botanica1 releases “The Duke’s Dear” by Freja

The Duke’s Dear is a two-track full-length of dark ambient/vaporgoth released by Freja on Botanica1, a Floridian label that is sister to Sud Swap Audio Brewing and Seikomart. These two tracks are primarily constructed from haunting tones and a cavernous-sounding production with effects that are akin to reverberating echoes down a hallway in a horror movie. Recommended for fans of […]

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Botanica1 releases “Corruption.” by informatics

Floridian label Botanica1 is back with their second release this week: Corruption. by informatics. Corruption. is a melancholy fourteen tracks that ostensibly demonstrate a surreal trip through a corrupted old PC via ambient vaporwave. Not quite in the same bent as Infinity Frequencies, but the signalwave style is somewhat employed via occasional classic-style sampling and exceptionally short tracks. Corruption. is […]

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