The Library releases “Silhouette” by Broken Light

About a month and a half after the release of New World, Broken Light is back with another album of hypnagogic drift-inspired music with Silhouette, out on The Library. Silhouette utilizes the signalwave-style samplint techniques of artists such as Infinity Frequencies, except Broken Light’s samples are typically a bit creepier – for lack of better words. Tracks are processed in […]

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Lost Angles releases “Aokigahara Online” by Aokigahara Online

Coming off their reissue of Costanza on cassette, the Lost Angles label out of Ottawa announced the self-titled album by Aokigahara Online yesterday for purchase. This record is four tracks of downtempo hypnagogic drift with new age samples of birdsong and insect chatter. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download and for $8 on cassette. Check it out below:   […]

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t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 – 未来へ

Recommendation: ☀☀☁ 未来へ1 2 is one of telepath’s3 earliest records, his fifth overall, and his first released in 2014; predating his activity with 2814 and the Virtual Dream Plaza project by several months. 未来へ demonstrates telepath’s early attempts to refine his now-signature phaser effect, whereby tracks sound as if they’ve been stuck in the VCR for one year too many […]

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猫 シ Corp. – OASYS 博物館

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ OASYS 博物館1 is one of, well, quite a few albums by 猫 シ Corp.2, whose various collaborations and features – in addition to solo material – amount to over seventy releases since Global Catwork dropped in the summer of 2013. Many of these releases swim about in the realm of “hypnagogic drift,” a style of swirling, mostly ambient […]

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Elemental 95 releases “Blurrydog’s Quest” by Blurrydog

Miami label Elemental 95 released new music from Blurrydog, titled Blurrydog’s Quest. This release features downtempo vibes with a bit of a surreal twist. It’s cinematic, but not so much in the sense of epic; just a pretty, cohesive journey into ambient textures. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below:   Blurrydog's Quest by Blurrydog 0

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Infinity Frequencies – Dream Recovery

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Dream Recovery predates Infinity Frequencies’ Computer trilogy by almost a year. The artist’s fourth release, this album features many of the sample curation techniques that would make Infinity Frequencies a household name in signalwave, broken transmission, and vaporwave as a whole: classical music sources, extremely short songs, and ultra-small loops. Those who have heard Infinity Frequencies’ later releases […]

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Köshrimp – Red Luna District

Recommendation: ☹ Köshrimp is the alias of Tom Cochien, a producer from France who specializes in hypnagogic drift,1 a form of vaporwave that utilizes extreme lo-fi samples with lots of reverb and effects to emphasize a surreal, dream-like atmosphere.2 Red Luna District is Cochien’s third album, released in December 2015 only six months after beginning his vaporwave career. For the […]

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