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Recommendation: ☀☀☀ | The quintessential album for modern cyberpunk music and culture in a post-Neuromancer, post-Internet world. An introspectively stimulating exercise in material both sampled and original, dead and alive.
Continue reading »EDIT: Aaaaaaaand, it’s up! For $13 USD! Check it out here! Chuck Person’s ECCOJAMS Vol. 1 was originally released on cassette in a very limited run back in 2010, and the digital uploads that have been circulating since are either from these cassettes or from uploads by Daniel Lopatin’s (mostly known as Oneohtrix Point Never) YouTube handle. Several bandcamp pages […]
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Continuing last week’s focus on early vaporwave, this week’s AOTW is Chuck Person’s ECCOJAMS Vol. 1. This album pioneered the extreme chopped-and-screwed style of recognizable pop songs that launched its own couple of subgenres in addition to influencing artists such as Vektroid (e.g. Floral Shoppe, as Macintosh Plus) and Nmesh. It’s narcotic and trippy; Lopatin’s vaporwave classic is an excellent […]
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Recommendation: ☀☀☀ | One of (if not *the*) first-ever vaporwave releases, “ECCOJAMS” is a collection of chopped-and-screwed chart-toppers from the sixties through the noughties that were cut up and slowed down to a “narcotic” pace.
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