the vaporwave resource network
Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | Debut full-length from Brazilian producer Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza, featuring a variety of ambient, VHS pop, classic-style, and sample curation tracks.
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Vapornoise/classic-style vaporwave on Ailanthus Recordings on the concept of “post-” in the digital era, predating similar experiments by Universitat de Barcelona by four months.
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Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | The debut album on the Floatsoft label is a mix of glitch-hop adult contemporary edits, ambient sound effects, and samplism.
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Ailanthus Recordings released a double-disc set of music from the artist shamane called gardens in gardens. All tracks are labeled as untitled, and each download includes an accompanying fifteen-page book with (slightly abstract) information on the album. The album is progressive electronica with elements of hypnagogic drift and slushwave, making it a good album for fans of telepath, Rifts by […]
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Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Soft Season is a brief five-track EP from Lasership Stereo that was released on 3 September 2011, making it part of the initial wave of vaporwave releases. It’s notable for being the third release ever on Ailanthus Recordings, one of the longest-running vaporwave labels with a practically uninterrupted release schedule since 2011. As with most early vaporwave, Soft […]
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Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Passion Beam by Coloradan artist Lockbox1 is an old album – at least by vaporwave standards. This November 2012 album was the forty-second release on Ailanthus Recordings, one of the original standard-bearers of vaporwave and modern cyberpunk music. In addition to availability as a free digital download, the initial release of Passion Beam included a cassette edition that […]
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Heyyy I recognize that sample of Everything But the Girl on “breaking news”! (It’s from “Wrong” off of Walking Wounded, in case you were wondering.) television paranoia is a seventeen-track signalwave release by Vortex Machine and available through Ailanthus Recordings. This album consists of short, bite-sized instrumental tracks (and the occasional glitched-up vocal clip) with significant delay and decrepitude added […]
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