Yummyvhs – Virtual Shine

Recommendation: ☹ Virtual Shine is an experimental vaporwave album created from MIDI sounds by Camden, New Jersey artist Yummyvhs and released in February 2017. It is accompanied by a brief discussion on how vaporwave was “going through an identity crisis” at the beginning of 2017, and that the genre’s inherently “dynamic nature” resisted attempts by people to “attached a specific […]

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めんどりnegra – Shell Expansion

Recommendation: ☹ めんどりnegra1 is a pseudonymous vaporwave artist who released the album Shell Expansion simultaneously on Sud Swap Audio Brewing, Seikomart, and Botanica1. Don’t worry – those three labels work with each other, so there’s nothing questionable going on there. Shell Expansion is an hour-long album of vaporgoth music that combines dark ambient with lonely tribal music. Each track consists […]

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Gradient Plaza – PLAZA

Recommendation: ☹ PLAZA by Gradient Plaza come out on 18 October 2016, making it the first album released through Oklahoma label Basement Tapes. This album contains twelve tracks of downtempo vaporhop music. Songs flow into each other, making the whole piece more of a twenty-four minute suite rather than twelve individual tracks. The album alternates between quiet ambient pieces and […]

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Unwanted Nostalgia Destroyer – Corrupted Memories

Recommendation: ☹ Corrupted Memories is a five-track EP from Unwanted Nostalgia Destroyer. With a name like that, you can expect some classic-style vaporwave or ECCOJAMS that samples from popular media. You would be correct in this expectation. Corrupted Memories starts off with an ECCOJAMS track of “Sk8er Boi” by Avril Lavigne1 that speeds up and slows down at somewhat random […]

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LOGICAL CRASH – OASIS

Recommendation: ☹ LOGICAL CRASH is a project of Californian artist Dave Space, who is also the man behind Bonus Fruit and is a significant contributor to Pizza Beast.1 OASIS is twelve songs in twenty-six minutes, and it was originally released in August 2016 on the Clear Visions label. As with the rest of the Clear Visions albums, OASIS was a […]

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Arthur Yamamoto – No Sleep

Recommendation: ☹ Arthur Yamamoto’s debut release came out on Fantasy Deluxe in February 2016. No Sleep consists of lo-fi instrumental hip-hop beats that are laid over jazz and other source material with the sample curation aesthetic of early classic-style vaporwave. It’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect: simple progressions and a laid-back style of compressed beats. The production inconsistently varies […]

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