Seikomart releases “Office of the Future” by Kuramae Station

Here’s a new six-track EP from Seikomart, a sister label to Sud Swap Audio Brewing: Office of the Future by Kuramae Station. This release mixes hypnagogic drift with classic-style vaporwave, especially the latter’s semi-glitch aesthetic. Each track is airy and languid while utilizing the vaporwave samplism to an effect not dissimilar to mallsoft and a trip to the virtual plaza. […]

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Seikomart releases “CONTENT FEELINGS” by Ocean Shores

Japanese label Seikomart is back with music from Ocean Shores, titled CONTENT FEELINGS. As one may guess from the album title, this is an album of unironically presented mallsoft music with a new age bent. It’s all given a lo-fi sheen too, just as if it were coming out of a salt-encrusted beachfront hotel PA speaker. It’s available as a […]

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Elemental 95 releases “INITIATION PACKAGE” by PEARL CITY HOTEL

INITIATION PACKAGE is some more classic-style vaporwave, out on the similarly-themed label Elemental 95, which is co-owned by Phoenix #2772 and Baconwave. This album is actually from a Baconwave side project called PEARL CITY HOTEL, and it’s all groovy but with that faint hint of sterility that comes with a corporate hotel package. It’s hyper-equalized, so expect songs that are […]

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Advanced Materials releases “Retail Endeavors” by Budget Crisis

By the sound of the title, you’d think that Retail Endeavors by Budget Crisis would be a mallsoft album – and you’d be right. This release is deranged ECCOJAMS-influenced mallsoft that’s looping out of the never-fixed speakers in some nameless mom-and-pop convenience store on South Street. It’s a bit darker than most mallsoft albums, with more focus on drone and […]

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Seikomart releases “CLEANING STAFF” by Love Hotel究極

A love hotel? Bow-chicka-wow-wow.1 CLEANING STAFF is five tracks of mallsoft out on the Seikomart label. It sounds like what might be played in the seediest, weirdest, back-alley brothel that you know. Tracks pretty vague and dark; the ten-minute opener “ROOM 612” is vaguely reminiscent of “Strugglin’” by Tricky off of Maxinquaye, except without the oppressiveness of the latter. “ROOM […]

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AOTW | 31 October – 6 November: Nyetscape – Nyetscape 4

Nyetscape 4 is a mallsoft album by Nyetscape. As with many mallsoft releases, Nyetscape 4 seeks to enhance and elicit the feeling of being inside of a mall – abandoned or otherwise. But where Nyetscape 4 differs is the strange, foreboding darkness that slowly creeps in upon the album’s progression. “Fever” and “AgenciesXL” may be lively-ish muzak tracks, but nobody […]

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