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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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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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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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Disconscious’ Hologram Plaza is usually one of the first albums that the new mallsoft fan checks out, and for good reason. This album has it all: the hazy atmosphere, the semi-loneliness, and the faux-emotional emptiness of wandering around in an abandoned mall. There’s plenty of reverb for everyone to go around, and it’s easy to see how this album ended […]
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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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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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Say hello to an album that literally created its own subgenre of music: Blank Banshee 0. This week’s album of the month is a bit removed from easy listening and mall muzak: Blank Banshee 0 utilizes Beach Boys samples, aquatic themes, and computer start-up/shut-down sounds all backed up with hip-hop and trap beats. It’s a highly danceable and fun album […]
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