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Methyr is a vaporwave, electronic music, and modern classical composer (although he might deny that last one) who is the owner and operator of Question Records. Having released quite varied albums on an even more varied selection of labels (Smirk Sounds, Neetspeak, Bedlam Tapes, & Options), Methyr tries his hand at pretty much any form of electronic music in which […]
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Recommendation: ✂ (“Brisk Wind”, “Snake / The Bowl of Rice and the Bamboo Tree”, “Someone, Anyone, No-one”, “Seaweed”) Ocean Dreams1 is a split release between lukepi and methyr that was released through Smirk Sounds. lukepi2 released his first EP at the ripe age of 17, then took a few years off until dropping No Wonder on Neetspeak in 2015. He […]
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Recommendation: ☀☀☁ methyr is Mitchell Hopkins of Brighton, England. Digital Autopsy is his third overall full-length. Hopkins is not an artist who is content to stay within genre lines. Over the past year and a half, his music has touched all sorts of areas of cyberpunk culture such as vaporwave, glitch music, IDM, and dreampunk. He released a classical music […]
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Here’s some computer music from methyr, who’s worked with artists such as lukepi in the past. Available on & Options is BLOOPERS, which, contrary to its title, does not sound like a collection of outtakes at all. These ten tracks are odd electronic experiments in ambient music and progressive electronica. Recommended for fans of the Manhattan Research Inc. compilation album […]
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& Options has always had a penchant for the darker side of experimental electronica and the “vapor-” tag, and such a trend continues with the release of Digital Autopsy by methyr. In the first two tracks alone, this album goes through techno-crazed hardvapor, dark ambient music, and instrumental hip-hop. Easily one of the weirder releases within the & Options catalogue; […]
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New music out on Smirk Sounds is Ocean Dreams, a split between the artists lukepi and methyr. The lukepi tracks are downtempo instrumental hip-hop with significant influence from throwback-eighties and early electronica stylings. The methyr tracks have much more in common with hypnagogic pop and classic-style vaporwave. This release is available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below: […]
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