the vaporwave resource network
Recommendation: ✂ (“Brain”, “Fatal Shadows”, “藕断丝连”, “Disconnected”) Released at the start of fall 2016 on the Canadian label Lost Angles,1 Unwise 2.0 is a half-hour of vaportrap by Ganz Feld that utilizes hypnagogic and ambient melodies. It expands on the artist’s 2015 six-track EP Unwise, which was released by Aloe City Records.2 Unwise 2.0 came out approximately ten months after […]
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nü-concrète is some crazy shit from Confusician, out on Lost Angles as the album’s sixty-eighth release to date. It’s a true exercise in plunderphonics in the term’s original connotation of incongruous noise made from splicing together seemingly disparate samples in an obvious way. Recommended for fans of the experimental roots of classic-style vaporwave, especially circa-2011. nü-concrète is available as a […]
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Get your 80s/90s on with Unknown Lover by Trademarks & Copyrights, freshly out on Canadian label Lost Angles. This is a full-length of sample curation, by which snippets of tracks are presented and recontextualized with light editing. Many of the Trademarks & Copyrights albums feature R&B and pop songs, as if to elicit the vibe from a cassette mix for […]
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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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