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Music on Hellscape Recordings sounds… like hell. Picking up where HVRF and Antifur left off, this Detroit, Michigan label primarily releases hardvapour, industrial techno, and experimental noise-influenced music. Rotary Blade is a new EP from Sour Gout that leads with three tracks in the intense hardvapour vibe and finished with two ambient, glitch-ish tracks dubbed “cello studies”. Recommended for fans […]
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At the beginning of 2018, it seemed like hardvapour was pretty much over. Dream Catalogue was no longer interested in the genre, opting more toward experimental electronic music and dark ambient (not too far from their start, in fact). Antifur was strolling along with no major releases, and HVRF was all but closed. Hellscape Recordings has filled that void. This […]
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Section 9 Tapes is a Pennsylvanian label that specializes in cassette issues of vaporwave and experimental electronica releases (here, the “tapes” modifier is by no means decorative). PHTMDRPZ by thisisIdm is their newest release, issued this past Friday night. This is by far the most intense and non-vaporwave album out on Section 9 Tapes, being a straight-up hardvapour album filled […]
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Antifur is one of the original hardvapour labels (alongside HVRF and – to an extent – Dream Catalogue). It’s ostensibly run by a man from the Ukraine, but it’s truly the project of… spoilers!1 Raizer is the label’s first hardvapour release in a couple months (they issued a jazz/neoclassical album in September 2018), and it’s by the artist Anubis. This […]
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Subhumanizer was a (very) brief project that released two albums – one at the end of 2015, and the other at the beginning of 2016. These were issued at the height of the “hardvapour” trend, which mixed industrial techno, noise, glitch, and samplism with a distinctly Eastern European aesthetic in a way that was antagonistically directed toward vaporwave. Hardvapour has […]
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Hardvapour on DMT Tapes FL? Has the world gone mad? I guess so, because that’s precisely what inevitable destruction of the universe mixtape 2k18 by Unknown Caller is – a full-length of hardvapour music released on the Floridian label that primarily focuses on straightly-played classic-style vaporwave and sample curation. inevitable destruction of the universe mixtape 2k18 (sounding slightly similar to […]
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At the end of 2015, a movement/subgenre of music known as hardvapour erupted in the vaporwave scene. Spearheaded by artists like HKE and wosX – not small names by any means within the community – this genre was informed by industrial techno and noise music while using thematic imagery from Eastern European and former Soviet Bloc countries such as Belarus, […]
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