the vaporwave resource network
Online Records is the most eclectic label currently active within vaporwave (first half of 2018 – check it), releasing a variety of music within vaporwave and modern electronica such as vapornoise, ambient vaporwave, vapordrone, and musique concrete. Toxic is a three-track EP from The Web & Friends that combines vapornoise and MIDI music. Choice track is the melodic “2”. “1” […]
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Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Winter Sleep is a project of James Webster – also known as HCMJ and as a member of death’s dynamic shroud.wmv. Dreams is the project’s debut full-length. It was originally released in December 2012 through Ghost Diamond exclusively as a digital download; it saw a cassette reissue in March 2016 through (fittingly enough) Dream Catalogue. It came out […]
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Recommendation: ☹ Ｖｉｒｔｕａｌ Ｓｈｉｎｅ is an experimental vaporwave album created from MIDI sounds by Camden, New Jersey artist Ｙｕｍｍｙｖｈｓ and released in February 2017. It is accompanied by a brief discussion on how vaporwave was “going through an identity crisis” at the beginning of 2017, and that the genre’s inherently “dynamic nature” resisted attempts by people to “attached a specific […]
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ｔｏ ｔｈｅ ｓｔａｒｓ combines MIDI music with hypnagogic drift for the new nxva album, available through Bogus Collective. Most tracks are short chillwave edits (e.g. “centurion”), but a few stretch into twinkly MIDI jams (e.g. “heaven”). Recommended for fans of Winter Sleep. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below: ｔｏ ｔｈｅ ｓｔａｒｓ by nxva 0
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Recommendation: ☹ V01D231 is the second full-length release by PINK AND YELLOW and the second overall by the artist for STC Records – the first being 2015’s Cloud Blanket EP. Released midway through January 2016, V01D23 has some of the best glitch art as its cover artwork released by a vaporwave label, even earning a shout-out by Sunbleach in our […]
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Seikomart returns from Japan with something new from Lefty Larry. Welcome to Windows Mall is something that will please fans of mallsoft and MIDI music. This eight-track release is full of upbeat, sterile, corporate muzak – a little like the shopping music in early Sims or SimCity games. Recommended for fans of HexagonUnit Group International and Disconscious. It’s available as […]
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Bogus Collective returns with SCREENSAVER by CGI Gold™ 複合. It’s a short EP of MIDI music produced with the sterile, hypercorporate appeal of albums like Far Side Virtual by James Ferraro. Recommended for fans of HexagonUnit Group International and Nintendogs. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below: SCREENSAVER by CGI Gold™ 複合 0
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