the vaporwave resource network
Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 最初の世界への道1 was the first release on Australian label Commercial Dream Records,2 which has since gone defunct (or so is assumed, as it hasn’t released any music in a year-and-a-half by the time of this writing). It was released at the same time on the certainly-active Lost Angles label, which is based out of Ottawa, Canada. It’s the only […]
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Lost Angles has a new album out from PowerPCME, who previously released Kmart 1989-1992 in 2016 (also on Lost Angles). Endless Summer is a thirteen track vaportrap album with some elements of downtempo music, outrun, and classic-style vaporwave. Recommended for fans of Blank Banshee. It comes as a pay-what-you-want digital download or for $8 CAD on cassette in an edition […]
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Odaxelagnia returns to lost Angles with mitsubawave, a follow-up to Vapor.wav from last year. mitsubawave is a twenty-eight track full-length of classic-style vaporwave and sample curation with some of the dreamlike qualities of hypnagogic pop, with a throwback to the “-wave” titles that were common in 2013 and 2014. It’s rather different from Vapor.wav in the sense that this one […]
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Almost missed this one! Last Friday, Canadian label Lost Angles released a new full-length from Open XML titled iWork. This album consists of hypnagogic drift and sample curation with a distinct late-80s new wave and adult contemporary vibe. Recommended for fans of Rez and Oscob (fans of their collaborations might recognize “Attack”). It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download and […]
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Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ DREAM蒸気TSUNAMI™1 is the first album by 懐かし２００２津波,2 an ambient vaporwave/slushwave artist who began to release music when he was fifteen years old. Originally self-released as a digital-only album on May Day 2015, DREAM蒸気TSUNAMI™ found a new home on Canadian label Lost Angles in 2016, on which it was reissued on cassette format. The former release featured four tracks […]
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The moniker “Aokigahara Online” refers to the Aokigahara Forest in Japan, also known as the “Suicide Forest” due to the high number of suicides that occur there each year – to the point where the forest contains numerous signs that implore visitors to seek help. Mori (another death-themed word) is some chill, downtempo vaporwave music that features some pseudo-new age […]
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Here’s two albums from Lost Angles that were released on St. Patrick’s Day. On a Cloud was released in 2015 by Quick Brown Fox, whom Sunbleach featured as a part of our second interview ever on the site, and now has a new home with Lost Angles. It’s ambient vaporwave with a few chillwave elements, akin to his final post-hiatus […]
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