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Secret Deal is a pretty notable album in context of the TKX Vault releases for several reasons. It’s the only split released by the label in its original run of fifty albums. It features two artists who often collaborated through Dream Catalogue and – on Chungking Mansions’ behalf – would go on to release works in ghost tech and hardvapour. […]
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Mahakala is the first release from Chungking Mansions since April 2017’s Wild Guide to Anywhere on House of the Leg. Chungking Mansions got their start in vaporwave through old-school Dream Catalogue albums and TKX Vault, and later became one of the first artists not a member of the Krokodil Krew to release on Antifur with 2016’s There Is Truth in […]
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Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Secret Deal is one of very few honest-to-god vaporwave albums released by TKX Vault in their initial fifty-album run.1 It is comprised of a fourteen-track split in equal portions featuring 蜃気楼MIRAGE2 and Chungking Mansions, both of which had been active producers in the vaporwave (and related genres) scene for a couple years by the time of this album’s […]
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Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Vaporwave is an exceptional genre of music for many reasons, but one in particular is how many artists flit around through different labels, subgenres, techniques, and style within a small bit of time. It helps that the genre is so interconnected – just take a look at Dream Catalogue and follow who’s worked on what with whom – […]
Continue reading »Those who are interested in owning a bit of hardvapor history from one of the genre’s founding labels should check out ANTIFUR’s recent release of The Complete ANTIFUR Tape Collection. This short-run release encompasses the three albums that ANTIFUR has released on physical cassette format thus far in its lifespan: Trends by Meineke // Humanoid Sound; There Is Truth in […]
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Tekres’ third album is Encyclies by electronic music artist Chungking Mansions, who has made a name in over the past few years in quite a few parts of the vaporwave-and-related-genres realm. Encyclies is a four-track ghost tech album that utilizes the genre’s skeletal-esque beats with hints of early IDM, ambient techno, and urban house music. The title track has a […]
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Chungking Mansions’ fourth full-length album of the year is Teletransmissions, which fuses vaporwave and hip-hop beats. There’s a bit of classic-style vaporwave and ECCOJAMS thrown in as well (e.g. “Harmony”) which even feature some VHS pop aesthetic. According to the press release, it was “made using samples from [F]rench commercials and tv theme songs from 1985 to 1992 and its[sic] […]
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