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Album information: Artist: Employee#6817 Album: 20061027:1820 Type: Full-length (LP) Release date: 2006 / 20 July 2016 Label: The Basement Labs Format: Digital download (The Basement Labs, 2006) Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Employee#6817 is an experimental/noise musician who is most well-known within the vaporwave community for Eulogy, a double album that incorporated plunderphonics and a retro-digital aesthetic that was not too far […]
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This week’s AOTW is one of the more bizarre releases in vaporwave: it’s Eulogy by Employee #6817. Check out this often intense and occasionally disturbing release of oscillating pure tones, madness-mantra voice sampling, and industrial-esque pitch-shifting. It’s weird, frequently disturbing, and an oft-overlooked addition to the vaporwave scene. Check out the music below and read Sunbleach‘s review here. Eulogy […]
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Recommendation: ☀☀☁ Eulogy‘s connection to the vaporwave scene is tenuous as best – one that is due more to the circumstances of its release and glitch-aesthetic than any large connection to the scene. It’s the first album by Jonathan Burgess of the New Jersey label Scolex Recordings under the thoroughly big-business moniker “Employee#6817,” the sterility of which is unsettling. Now […]
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