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Closing out February as our fourth album-of-the-week for 2018 is Obviate by Darksleep. Darksleep started off in 2014 with Identity Ender, which – for coming relatively late in the vaporwave game – sounded more like a 2011 ECCOJAMS album than most of the releases in 2011. However, Darksleep quickly changed tones to darker and more ambient-influenced albums, which culminated in […]
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Recommendation: ☀☀☁ Darksleep is a household name among fans of early vaporwave for his debut release Identity Ender, an ECCOJAMS album that perhaps got the closest to Daniel Lopatin’s genre-codifying (and naming) album than any other. For most, it stops there, or it’s assumed that Darksleep would continue to explore classic-style vaporwave for the rest of his career. Well, like […]
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Animal Intelligence is new music from Darksleep, an electronic music artist who got his start with the ECCOJAMS of Identity Ender and moved on from vaporwave to more eclectic forms of experimental music such as Obviate. This release is newly available through BLCR Laboratories. It combines ambient music, jungle, and breakbeat with some flavors of early-90s IDM (such as in […]
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For many, ECCOJAMS began and ended with Daniel Lopatin’s ECCOJAMS (producing as Chuck Person). That’s not quite true. Now ECCOJAMS certainly had its most thriving period in the early era of vaporwave (2010-2012), but there are a multitude of artists who continue(d) to release music that evoked Lopatin’s surreal vaporwave trendsetter. Identity Ender is one of those albums. The first […]
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Recommendation: ☀☁☁ You’d be forgiven for thinking that Identity Ender was one of the first ECCOJAMS to be recorded. Darksleep’s sophomore release is pure chopped-and-screwed samples of popular hits from the eighties and nineties, such as “Time After Time” by Cyndi Lauper. Track titles generally have some wry comment on the theme of the original sample and Darksleep’s resultant edit: […]
Continue reading »BLCR Laboratories – also known as Bloody Carpet – re-released ECCOJAMs classic Identity Ender by long-time producer Darksleep today with re-designed album art. In addition to the usual pay-what-you-want digital download, Identity Ender is being featured on an edition of ninety cassettes available for $9 per tape, shipping out within five days. There’s also an edition of forty posters featuring […]
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