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Thigh is Kagami Smile’s fourth overall release and second for BLCR Laboratories, following debut Mouthtrip. This release is lo-fi house music, industrial techno, and IDM wrapped up in a neat package that flaunts the word “polyrhythmic”. The album also includes a companion piece that you can access here. It’s recommended for fans of the Tekres label – on which Kagami […]
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Hardvapor (anti-)hero Flash Kostivich has arrived to HKE’s Pyramids label for the label’s fifteenth overall release. Mechanical Demonizer is a five-track album that marries hardvapor with ghost tech music. Each track is roughly eight minutes in length, and they are filled with the somewhat lo-fi and abrasive gabber that characterized early hardvapor with the rhythmic complexity of ghost tech. It’s […]
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Yesterday, Subaeris dropped a new two-track EP titled The Planet Is in Love through his Bandcamp page. This is the first Subaeris release since O.N. Global Tableau 44, which dropped on Pyramids two and a half months prior. As with previous Subaeris full-length Transcendental God, this EP consists of ambient techno music with polyrhythmic percussion that characterizes the Pyramids ghost […]
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Recommendation: ☹ Ghost Dragon is one of the three inaugural releases on Pyramids, a label founded by HKE as a home to ghost tech music.1 It’s the fourth release in the AIR Japan saga, which progressed from classic-style vaporwave to glitchy future funk to HKE’s highly polyrhythmic take on ghost tech. At ten tracks in twenty-five minutes, it’s one of […]
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The album that Kudatah has been teasing for the past couple of weeks is finally here: Supersymmetry by TRENDS // тенденции. This release is eight tracks (plus a bonus if you purchase the cassette) that merges glitch fun with gabber, hardvapor, jungle, and even a bit of IDM. Honestly, it’s a hard album to describe, as it kind of hangs […]
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Pyramids is back with a six-track EP from Raj Kapoor. Hard Desi Is The Future is a somewhat sardonic take on ghost tech and hardvapor music. Since “desi” refers to a person of Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi descent who lives abroad, one could interpret this album as ghost tech appropriating Indian and Hindu culture – or the other way around. […]
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Pyramids is back with their thirteenth label release with Obsidian Soldier by Crimson Kaishaku. This five-track EP consists of ghost tech music with ambient influences, similar to the recent Kagami Smile release on thematically-related label Tekres. Fans of Transcendent God by Subaeris should check this out. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below: Obsidian Soldier […]
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