Tag: MIDI

#00ff00: emergency stop key – #ffc0cb emergency shutdown

16 April 2017 Sunbleach Leave a comment

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Here’s another album released as a part of the Telepathic Data Storage project, a series of vaporwave-themed releases from 2015-2016 by matdmoon that ran the gamut of ambient vaporwave to noise music to sample curation. Although its name belies potentially harsher connotations, #ffc0cb emergency shutdown is an eight-track EP of MIDI-sounding synth and chillwave tracks, published via #00ff00: […]

新しいコンピュータのOS 98 – 2

11 April 2017 Sunbleach Leave a comment

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2 is a short EP of classic-style vaporwave by 新しいコンピュータのOS 98,1 available through STC Records.2 2 is a standard classic-style vaporwave album that utilizes pitch- and tempo-shifting of extant samples with some glitchy repetition. Half of the six tracks don’t even break two minutes. They have a small amount of dust on them in the production – just […]

Online Records double release: WWWWWWWW x Nonecco_ and MIDI™

13 December 2016 Sunbleach Leave a comment

Here’s more vapornoise music from Online Records, a label that’s joint-owned by Hantasi and mat. There are two albums out at the moment: RENDERS by WWWWWWWW x Nonecco_ and Lost in the Haze by MIDI™. The former album is weird ECCOJAMS-like craziness similar to stuff from Universitat de Barcelona, where tiny earworm samples are repeated and distorted to some weird […]

James Ferraro – Far Side Virtual

3 November 2016 Sunbleach Leave a comment

Recommendation: ☀☀☁ Hyper-realism – the concept of the artificial and the real being indistinguishable – is the key to this album. Hyper-realism is often discussed in the context of role-playing games, virtual reality, and on-line identities; all things that were exceptionally topical at the end of the first decade of the new millennium, if not as much today only because […]