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Recommendation: ☀☁☁ | Four-way split that shows early developments in the ghost tech subgenre of cyberpunk music as well as the ambient side to the 2016 hardvapour trend.
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Now that January is over, Sunbleach is returning to its regular format for the album-of-the-week updates! Our first for 2018 is 808 Hate Suite by Sandtimer – an album title that’s perfectly descriptive of the music (along with Black One by Sunn O))) and Fun House by The Stooges). 808 Hate Suite is notable for being one of the first […]
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Recommendation: ☀☀☁ Vaporwave Is Dead gets most of the attention as the trope-codifying hardvapour album, but there’s another release by Sandtimer that predates the artist’s (in)famous take-that by a couple months. 808 Hate Suite is the bass-heavy Ur-example1 of hardvapour music, back when the tags were “XXXX”, “XXXX”, or even “dark vaporwave”. Although its association with hardvapour is more in […]
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Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Quick – what’s the first thing you hear on opening track “God Is Coming”? It’s the same progression as that used by the first lyric in “Paranoid Android” by Radiohead! God was released late in the first run of TKX Vault by Sandtimer, a multi-genre electronic music project that has touched ghost tech, hardvapour, vaporwave, and dreampunk from […]
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Originally release on 17 October 2015, 808 Hate Suite is one of the original hardvapour albums. It is a single track of nineteen minutes of industrial techno and gabber influences that heralded a pretty big change on a label that was already known for a series of highly experimental works. 808 Hate Suite has been reissued on cassette format through […]
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Leave with Us takes up one of the saddest yet most fascinating parts of early Internet history: the Heaven’s Gate cult. In 1997, thirty-eight members of the cult committed ritual suicide at the behest of their leader Marshall Applewhite – who, true to his calling, died with his followers. Heaven’s Gate believed that earth “was about to be recycled” (as […]
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Recommendation: ☀☀☀ | A hardvapour/ghost tech concept album on the final days of the Heaven’s Gate cult if their eschaton turned out to be correct.
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