the vaporwave resource network
Business Casual is an American label that releases new music every Friday – generally within synthwave, chillwave, future funk, or vaporwave. This week’s release is Yesterday at 8:11am by Sunnli5hh/t (assumed to be pronounced as “Sunlight”). This release is sixteen tracks of ambient vaporwave and progressive electronica – quite the change from the last few albums of uptempo future funk […]
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This week’s Friday release from Business Casual is Rotti by Mere. This continues BizCaz’s string of releases in future funk and modern funk releases. Rotti is a quirky electronic and dance album. It features French house beats, sampled wind instruments, and heavily chopped-and-screwed vocals that act as another instrument instead of vocals you’re supposed to understand. Judging by that album […]
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Hey wait a minute – this isn’t vaporwave! Yeah, but we’ve featured all kinds of stuff on Sunbleach before, so you’ll have to stay with me here. Midnight is a six-track EP from The Motion Epic released through Business Casual, a vaporwave/synthwave/retro-wave/whatever-wave label. Midnight mixes old-school 80s new age and synthpop music with modern electronica tropes. Choice track is “Drive” […]
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Business Casual is primarily known for its synthwave, future funk, and vaporwave releases over the past few years; the self-titled release from Mélonade fits firmly in the second category. Mélonade is an uptempo album of future funk music with significant influences from French house music. Tracks incorporate remixes of funk music to which sidechain, four-on-the-floor beats (per Chicago house music), […]
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Ah, ECCOJAMS – the place where “mash-up” and “vaporwave” become exchangeable. Flower is a new mini-album from Cacola that’s now available through the Business Casual label. Flower‘s tracks feature significant samplism from various pop and contemporary songs of the last ten years, along with some mixes of psytrance and vaporhop for good measure. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. […]
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Subhumanizer was a (very) brief project that released two albums – one at the end of 2015, and the other at the beginning of 2016. These were issued at the height of the “hardvapour” trend, which mixed industrial techno, noise, glitch, and samplism with a distinctly Eastern European aesthetic in a way that was antagonistically directed toward vaporwave. Hardvapour has […]
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OMI5 has played the genre roulette rather well in vaporwave and “retro” music at-large. Beauty and Decay is their new full-length for Business Casual, combining synthpop, contemporary R&B, and some ambient house music. Recommended for fans of Celldeath Tapes and Ephemeral Dream, which are both focusing on this understated realm of electronic media. Choice track is “Whale Pt2”. Beauty and […]
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