Dark Web Recordings releases “8:00” by 空気系

Dark Web Recordings is a fairly new label that releases music influenced by old-school vaporwave. 8:00 is a new full-length from pseudonymous artist 空気系, which translates to “Air system”. 8:00 is a twelve-track release of signalwave. Tracks are constructed out of short microfragments of Japanese media that have been chopped-and-screwed to extreme amounts with some influence from noise music. A […]

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Sunset Grid releases “Eins zu einer Million” by Kanal Vier

This week’s album from Sunset Grid is a new full-length from Kanal Vier titled Eins zu einer Million. It’s a twenty-two track broken transmission album that distinguishes itself by sampling from German media sources instead of anglophone or Japanese sources. Tracks are slightly pitch-/tempo-shifted and start-and-stop at random moments, much like albums from ghosting, INTERNET CLUB, and Infinity Frequencies. Choice […]

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Occasionally Tapes releases “Perfect Sound Forever” by Model-100X

Perfect Sound Forever is a new release on Occasionally Tapes by Model-100X that turns vaporwave literal. All too frequently on Sunbleach, I’ve made the statement that an album “sounds like a CD skipping” or other riff on that idea. Well, here’s a classic-style release that actually uses skipping CDs! Perfect Sound Forever is twenty-eight tracks of the real-deal CD-skip aesthetic, […]

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Sunset Grid releases “Cultural Industrial EP” by 世界は80年代に終了しました

世界は80年代に終了しました’s new album is marketed as an EP, but it’s really not in presentation. Newly available through Australian label Sunset Grid, the Cultural Industrial EP features lo-fi samples of “home video entertainment”, synth music, and bumpers. This makes it something of a cross between hypnagogic drift and broken transmission, with tracks like “Beta Maximus” applying classic-style vaporwave techniques to a […]

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Net Century releases “♥♥♥テレビ√接続✈” by ░計◈画░

Ah, I haven’t seen alt-codes like that since ▣世界から解放され▣ by ░▒▓新しいデラックスライフ▓▒░ – and this album sounds like that one, too! ♥♥♥テレビ√接続✈ by ░計◈画░ is pure broken transmission in the vein of INTERNET CLUB’s masterpiece(?). It’s thirty tracks of short, b(i/y)te-sized tracks of garbled music, television media, and spoken word clips. Hard to say if there’s a choice track in there; […]

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