Vincent Remember – (私たちの休暇) [EP]

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Vincent Remember’s brief five-track, sixteen-minute extended-play (私たちの休暇)1 is telepath-esque hypnagogic vaporwave with downtempo electronic music influences. The longer songs are the best ones: these allow the artist’s chillness get into its own groove, especially with the moderate-bpm drum sampling utilized. A couple other songs have a future funk feeling to them, but they’re not as fun as the […]

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Psychic LCD – Nexxware [EP]

Recommendation: ✂ (“Ident Dream,” “Doorway”) [Originally posted to the SongSavers music blog on 10 April 2016.] Nexxware is a short, sweet extended-play of hypnagogic vaporwave. Released on the now-defunct Fortune 500 label,1 Psychic LCD’s only extant release2 is a fifteen-minute exploration of ambient loops and vague washes of sound through the imagery of “futurevisions,” which describes a largely niche (even […]

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AOTW | 30 May – 5 June: 骨架的 – Skeleton

The Album-of-the-Week for Sunbleach‘s inaugural week is the quintessential Skeleton by New York City producer 骨架的.1 One of the earliest albums of the vaporwave genre, Skeleton featured the extreme slowed-down samples that became nigh-ubiquitous with the scene, in addition to facilitating the aesthetic of East Asian influences in utilizing the Chinese Script in the eponym. A far cry from the […]

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メモレックスVISIONAL – Lucid Cycle

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [Originally posted to the SongSavers music blog on 29 October 2015.] メモレックスVISIONAL’s1 Lucid Cycle is only vaporwave insofar as visual aesthetic: this is a very new agey, ambient release that clocks in at just seventeen minutes. The artist – who has only published music under this moniker since the beginning of 2015 – describes the album as “incorporat[ing] aquatic […]

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