Kamokata – Dojo 777

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Dojo 777 is the debut release from Kamokata, an ambient/dreampunk project of HKE that released two albums through Dream Catalogue imprints TKX Vault (this album) and Nirvana Port (A Journey). Both releases came out within a month of each other, and both are situated late in the life of their respective labels. They are a part of a […]

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Shima33 – Disgraceful.

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ As with most releases by Shima33, Disgraceful. is abject melancholia expressed as music. This eight-track album was originally released as a semi-official addition to TKX Vault (then known as Tokyo Exchange) in November 2015; the Dream Catalogue imprint further facilitated Disgraceful. in artwork design and promotion.1 It’s a somewhat collaborative work: Shima33 credits HKE (as Hong Kong Express), […]

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暗い自然 – Bleed

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Bleed is a meta-deconstruction of album presentation. Take a twenty-minute ambient song and cut it into tracks of exactly one-minute each, playing on the of the method by which an album is divided into tracks has an effect on the way by which it is consumed or listened. TKX Vault is no stranger to ambient/drone music, so it’s […]

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ЖЫ – RUSKE ANDEGRAUND

Recommendation: ☹ RUSKE ANDEGRAUND was released near the beginning of the hardvapor scene, which utilizes Soviet and Eastern European imagery and noise/distortion with techno. This release is the first of two from ЖЫ,1 both released on a Dream Catalogue imprint called TKX Vault that focuses on experimental, noise, and dreampunk music. It’s a sound collage of various spoken word and […]

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AOTW | 13 March – 19 March: ULTRACOMPUTER – DECISION MOMENT

The lights in TKX Vault briefly turned on in early November 2016 after nearly four months of silence to release DECISION MOMENT by ULTRACOMPUTER. Neither announcement nor recognition accompanied it, despite its replacing of Disgraceful. by Shima33 in catalogue number (26). TKX Vault closed following the release of Hong Kong Express by HKE, the final album of the Hong Kong […]

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