AOTW | 31 October – 6 November: Nyetscape – Nyetscape 4

Nyetscape 4 is a mallsoft album by Nyetscape. As with many mallsoft releases, Nyetscape 4 seeks to enhance and elicit the feeling of being inside of a mall – abandoned or otherwise. But where Nyetscape 4 differs is the strange, foreboding darkness that slowly creeps in upon the album’s progression. “Fever” and “AgenciesXL” may be lively-ish muzak tracks, but nobody […]

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AOTW | 17 October – 23 October: Dante Mars Ajeto! – Life Enterprises

At its best, future funk just plain feels good. It’s happy, it’s fun, and it’s not always light – sometimes, it’s actually pretty hard-hitting. Dante Mars Ajeto’s Life Enterprises is one of such albums. It opens with one of the best tracks in future funk at the time of this writing: “Quick Script Big Bux,” which samples an uptempo funk […]

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AOTW | 26 September – 2 October: death’s dynamic shroud.wmv – I’ll Try Living Like This

After skipping last week’s AOTW update due to personal vacation, Sunbleach is back with a new featured album – this time, something from death’s dynamic shroud.wmv (a.k.a. dds.wmv). I’ll Try Living Like This is probably one of the most recognizable albums in the ECCOJAMS subgenre of music, next to Daniel Lopatin’s genre-defining/-naming release. I’ll Try Living Like This is a […]

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AOTW | July 25 – July 31: computer slime – ミスト

ミスト encompasses much of the early dealings in the “signalwave” subgenre, whereby candid microsamples from unidentifiable sources are cut and pasted outside of their context into a new cohesive work. The cool part about computer slime’s only full-length album is how entirely transient each song is: this is a textbook example of music that is by-and-large forgettable background fluff that […]

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AOTW | July 11 – July 17: Midnight Television – Midnight Television [EP]

Midnight Television is one of the earliest and most well-known albums within the subgenre of late night lo-fi, which samples smooth jazz, radio, television, and muzak/easy listening sounds in an apolitical light meant to evoke the milieu of leaving one’s analogue television set on late at night. This short release founds its way to many a best-of vaporwave list/guide (including […]

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