the vaporwave resource network
Is it vaporwave? … Honestly, that’s kind of a hard question to answer. Casino Gardens is heavily featured in collections and guides discussing early vaporwave releases. For example, it’s part of the famous Ultra Guide that collected vaporwave releases from 2010 to 2014. It’s also notable for being the very first album ever released through the Beer on the Rug […]
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“Scar city” or “scarcity”? I know it’s probably the latter, but I learn toward the former anyway. SCARCITY is a new release of experimental electronica by orthodontrix that sounds like a mix between ambient music and deep house. It’s available through Beer on the Rug, the label that released FLORAL SHOPPE by MACINTOSH PLUS back in 2011 and has done […]
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What is “photon slobber”? Well, according to SURYUMMY, it’s the nature of the universe itself trickling out from information pckets as they travel through space as light-speed. Or something. I don’t know, I took Physics like three years ago. Anyway, PHOTON SLOBBER is a dreampunk/cyberpunk odyssey through space in fourteen tracks. This release consists of lots of upbeat, major-key progressions […]
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Interiors, Vol 1 is a four-track EP released by Duncan Malashock through Beer on the Rug. This release consists of a variety of synthwave tracks with some chill, downtempo influences. “Cascade” has a bit of a MIDI-corporate aesthetic that might appeal to fans of James Ferraro and similar artists. Interiors, Vol 1 is available for $5 USD as a digital […]
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At the risk of coming across as totally lazy, the promo blurb from Beer on the Rug regarding LOUD FORMATIONS by VRTUA is pretty interesting, so I’m just going to copy and paste it from them: Loud Formations is a varied collection of works from over the past 4 years, exploring the aesthetics of the YM2612 sound chip’s FM synthesis. […]
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Is Beer on the Rug also getting into the ghost tech thing started by Tekres and Pyramids? I dunno, but RARE TPAX by AL-90 Dx2ov totally has some of those flavors. Out on Beer on the Rug (which generally leans more toward future funk and chillwave), RARE TPAX is a fifteen-track mix of lo-fi house music similar to stuff that […]
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New music out from Rhucle, the artist’s third album in the past year. Wonderland is available on Beer on the Rug. It’s a chillwave release with several long-form songs (e.g. “Delusion of an Angle” at over nine minutes) that has a bit in common with the futurevisions of Shader by Sacred Tapestry (a Vektroid project). Check it out for some […]
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