the vaporwave resource network
知恵の噴水 is some honest ambient vaporwave, now available on Capital Tapes, Inc. This release comes from Lucid Sound Driver, who’s released before on the label in a similar ambient capacity. 知恵の噴水 shows the artist branching out into incorporating more field recordings and experimenting with longer song structures. Fans of old-school 2814 should certainly check this out. It’s available as a […]
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Capital Tapes, Inc. is run by 王阳明 (Wang Yangming), a German student of Chinese philosophy and history. The label caters to “story/conceptual albums” that generally lean toward ambient vaporwave and vapornoise with influence from Chinese culture. ◯ is the newest release of the bunch, coming from LSE人間の記憶. Akin to June’s release of 该水总把它带走 by W ̄ ̄, ◯ is an […]
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Capital Tapes is a label based out of Beijing and Munich that’s owned/operated by the creative force behind Wang Yangming. 该水总把它带走 by W ̄ ̄ is their first album since December 2016. It’s like a mix between dreampunk and a soundtrack album that purports to follow a protagonist “on his journey through an important part of his life […] through […]
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Recommendation: ☀☁☁ 催眠疗法1 is the debut album by 维新噩梦工厂2 and the inaugural release of German-Chinese label Beijing Tapes, Inc. Into plunderphonics but find the hyper-experimental works of broken transmission artists such as fuji grid tv and Television Experience to be a bit too much? Then this is an album for you: 催眠疗法 is mostly edited television, popular music, and advertisement […]
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Here’s a bit of hypnagogic drift coming to you from 首都 TAPES INC., based in Munich and Beijing. This album has two distinct flavors: drifting psychedelia like “Dysphoria” and understated head-nodders like “Is this the end.” Only on the latter track does percussion show; most of S L U M B E R flows with low bass rumbles and clear-tone […]
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