the vaporwave resource network
While everyone *else* was releasing albums celebrating Halloween, Hairs aBlazin’ issued an album themed around the season of fall. Moments of the Fall is a twenty-track album with tracks from all over the spectrum of vaporwave and its related genres. Featured artists include AUT2M, Cyparissus, Van Jack, Saros-FM, and Jamie Awakshidar; a strong mix of established and new names. Moments […]
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Hey wait a minute – this isn’t vaporwave! Yeah, but we’ve featured all kinds of stuff on Sunbleach before, so you’ll have to stay with me here. Midnight is a six-track EP from The Motion Epic released through Business Casual, a vaporwave/synthwave/retro-wave/whatever-wave label. Midnight mixes old-school 80s new age and synthpop music with modern electronica tropes. Choice track is “Drive” […]
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Here’s a new full-length release of retro-synth music from Alpha DreamDrift X, a pseudonymous producer. Ætherloop is a twelve-track album released through the newly-minuted V-Nights Records label. Tracks are composed of progressive electronica pieces with arpeggios, some simple percussion, and the occasional old-school IDM flavor. Choice track is “An Hour Before”. Recommended for fans of Oneohtrix Point Never, especially albums […]
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Dinosaur on Fire is one of several long-running projects under the Ghost Diamond umbrella, a label that features members like tech honors of death’s dynamic shroud.wmv. Populous Romantique is the newest release from this label, released alongside new music from HCMJ and two others. Populous Romantique features old-school, cinematic synthesizer music that recalls 70s/80s sci-fi films. It’s the first album […]
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Winter Sleep is a project associated with the Ghost Diamond Collective through the artist James Webster. Their debut release was Dreams on Dream Catalogue back in December 2012, back when DC was just getting started. Coming almost six years later, Return to Dream City celebrates the early digital aesthetic when virtual worlds were little more than abstract polygons that slightly […]
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Virtual Dawn is a short, four-track EP from Polaroid Panther that’s available through the Seikomart label. Virtual Dawn consists of a vaporhop and sample curation works that merge pure sampled material with original material. “In my mind” is either a direct sample or some pretty impressive modern funk – I honestly can’t tell which. None of the four tracks sound […]
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Ah yes, some retro-synth to top off September 2018. Virtual Skies is a new release from Meszamii Moon, available through the Australian label Sunset Grid (which is run by vaporwave artists b l u e s c r e e n and ΔCID.rar). Virtual Skies features nature stock recordings, acoustic instrumentation, and MIDI synthesizers, giving it a rather contemporary feeling […]
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