LILLITH双生 – (SEASON_1) Deathpowder
Recommendation: ☀☀☁ | A change from the Japanese artist’s previous experiments with vaporhop and classic-style vaporwave to one more deeply influenced by dreampunk and industrial techno.
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Phoenix #2772 – Experience
Recommendation: ☀☀☁ Experience is the eleventh overall release1 and first of 2016 for Miami, Florida artist Phoenix #2772, a Dream Catalogue alumnus who for some time was a co-owner of the Elemental 95 label. It was co-released in June 2016 by Elemental 95 and No Problema Tapes. The Elemental 95 release was solely on digital format, whereas the No Problema […]
Continue reading »Vitamin.D – ＰＯＷＥＲＢＯＯＫ ＯＮＥ ＦＩＦＴＹ
Recommendation: ☀☀☁ ＰＯＷＥＲＢＯＯＫ ＯＮＥ ＦＩＦＴＹ is Vitamin.D’s third full-length release and first for the Wave Rebel label. It comes with the caveat “headphones recommended”, and that is no advice to be ignored for this eclectic vaporhop/vaportrap release. ＰＯＷＥＲＢＯＯＫ ＯＮＥ ＦＩＦＴＹ is a nine-track album that incorporates a variety of vaporwave samplism and hip-hop techniques similar to those used on Blank […]
Continue reading »Sandtimer – 808 Hate Suite
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 […]
Continue reading »Darksleep – Obviate
Recommendation: ☀☀☁ Darksleep is a household name among fans of early vaporwave for his debut release Identity Ender, an ECCOJAMS album that perhaps got the closest to Daniel Lopatin’s genre-codifying (and naming) album than any other. For most, it stops there, or it’s assumed that Darksleep would continue to explore classic-style vaporwave for the rest of his career. Well, like […]
Continue reading »仮想夢プラザ – TKX Vault series
Recommendation: ☀☀☁ With the exception of the self-titled release (which is better viewed as a proof-of-concept album), the 仮想夢プラザ (Virtual Dream Plaza) series by telepath received its proper start with a series of three releases on TKX Vault over a span of ten days in May 2015. Dropped quietly and somewhat out of nowhere, these three albums were the inauspicious […]
Continue reading »Henry Wong – H Trials 7.2: Slurqpe+
Recommendation: ☀☀☁ Henry Wong is a… actually, that’s a good question. Who the fuck is Henry Wong? Along with Keito Shimuguchi, it’s likely that Henry Wong is an alias of HKE (or another close collaborator), but “alias” is a bad way to put it. The characters of Henry Wong, Keito Shimuguchi, Television Experience, etc. are better defined as just that: […]
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