DMT Tapes FL releases “Midnight Radio” by Arasmas

When your samples are this messed up, “samplism” really doesn’t do the description rightly. Midnight Radio by Arasmas is a vaporgoth album, a fairly loosely-defined term that can be interpreted as taking classic-style vaporwave tropes to the extreme of dark ambient music. Recommended for fans of Chinese Hackers – although some saxophone does drift into the mix now and then. […]

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Night Light Tapes releases “Spirits of the Stereo” by Arasmas

Here’s a novel idea. Spirits of the Stereo by Arasmas (out now on Night Light Tapes, from Pennsylvania) is a mixture of late night lo-fi and ambient vaporwave. Imagine that VHS-style aesthetic of late night lo-fi with that thin hiss and high-frequency focus combined with ambient sound effects and time-stretched original material, with only one sample in the beginning of […]

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Sunset Grid releases “Starshine” by Arasmas

Starshine is some new space-themed music from Australian label Sunset Grid, a label that usually focuses on vaporhop and hypnagogic drift but has steadily expanded its horizons over the past several months. This full-length is composed in the lo-fi ambient vaporwave milieu utilized by artists like Sacred Tapestry and Amun Dragoon. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it […]

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