Occasionally Tapes releases “Perfect Sound Forever” by Model-100X

Perfect Sound Forever is a new release on Occasionally Tapes by Model-100X that turns vaporwave literal. All too frequently on Sunbleach, I’ve made the statement that an album “sounds like a CD skipping” or other riff on that idea. Well, here’s a classic-style release that actually uses skipping CDs! Perfect Sound Forever is twenty-eight tracks of the real-deal CD-skip aesthetic, […]

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Occasionally Tapes releases “Her Gaze” by Pink Blush

Lots of hypnagogic drift takes after the slushwave experiments of telepath and similar artists. This isn’t a bad thing – there’s a good reason why that aesthetic has stayed strong throughout vaporwave. It sounds pretty cool, and it’s stylistically varied enough to allow for a variety of outcomes. Well, Pink Blush takes a completely different approach with Her Gaze for […]

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Occasionally Tapes releases “Waveform Vision​(​s)” by Polygonum

In true electronica form, Waveform Vision​(​s) is an eight-track release that features seven remixes of the title track “Waveform Vision”. The track was originally written and produced by Polygonum, who then reinterpreted the tracks through ambient music (“Virtual Drone Plaza mix”), lo-fi vaporwave (“Decay mix”), and vaporgoth/dark ambient (“Ghost Town mix”). They’re all quite different interpretations. This release is available […]

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Occasionally Tapes releases “A World Long Since Forgotten” by ゾンビ

It’s been a good week for signalwave music. A World Long Since Forgotten is a new release out by ゾンビ (translates from Japanese to “zombie”). This is a haunting nine-track release of signalwave music, taking various short samples that repeat and evolve with jump-cut aesthetics. The album is quite a bit more lugubrious than Infinity Frequencies, utilizing a melancholy similar […]

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Occasionally Tapes releases “Deep Internet Sales Event” by Cardownloader.exe

Those commercials had it wrong – I think most Internet-savvy people would download a car if they could. Deep Internet Sales Event by Cardownloader.exe is a concept album that’s more or less about that, and it’s available through the Occasionally Tapes label. Deep Internet Sales Event merges sample curation of spoken word with classic-style vaporwave and tape-splicing edits with some […]

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Occasionally Tapes releases “Nothing Left” by None and Only

Always a good day to feature some broken transmission. Nothing Left by None and Only is a new mini-album available through Occasionally Tapes. It features extremely chopped-and-screwed samples with lots of production effects of short samples that have been affected way past the point of their original context. Tracks have wildly different production values, with the album beginning with an […]

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Occasionally Tapes releases “3D Skylines” by Laser Light

3D Skylines is a seventeen-track full-length by Laser Light available through North Carolina label Occasionally Tapes. This album is composed through sample curation of adult contemporary and easy listening tracks in a manner that will appeal to fans of the Fortune 500 label. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below:   3D Skylines by Laser Light […]

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