the vaporwave resource network
Lansing, Michigan (USA) label Kaiseki Digital prides itself on being a “story-telling label”, so practically every label has an accompanying concept or explicit narrative. That might sound par for the course for lots of vaporwave and retro-aesthetic releases, but releases through Kaiseki Digital generally stand out by making the narrative front-and-center in how the album should be consumed. One such […]
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dreyt nien is one of those artists who releases all kinds of shit, and it’s neither possible nor fair to categorize them. The Prismatic Principles is a new sixty-minute full-length album available through Hairs aBlazin’. This release consists of two thirty-minute tracks presented as if they are two unbroken sides to a cassette release. Each track incorporates long series of […]
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life of a cowboy is a new release from 45″ Pinwheel Pinwheel visions of the angels, one of the (many) projects of the artist simply known as hannah. hannah’s discography (at least for Online Records) is mostly composed of experimental plunderphonics works (as if plunderphonics isn’t already experimental) that are heavily informed by the aesthetics of tape music and drone. […]
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“Desert Beagles”, huh? Is that a pun? You should be ashamed of yourselves. Tungalow is a new nine-track full-length from this enigmatic artist on the similarly-enigmatic Dark Triad Records. It contains dark ambient, instrumental hip-hop, and glitch music with a significant influence from progressive electronica, which is pretty different from the hardvapour and noise that characterizes much of the DTR […]
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Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In primarily releasing noise music, emperor tangerine is the outlier project of Dream Catalogue co-owner HKE, whose albums/aliases are known for their eclectic takes on ambient vaporwave, dreampunk, and ghost tech. Following the same blueprint of str grl †, slaves is a thirty-minute long drone track that relishes in the slow burn. slaves is the least abrasive album […]
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Following this week’s surprise double feature is more music from Online Records, this time released by Karma Bus. The Fall of Domina is three tracks of dark techno music – not quite hardvapor, but certainly something that’s far different from Online Records’ vast discography of vapornoise and straight-up noise music. All tracks are fairly long as well, making The Fall […]
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Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Who Else Are You is an album released by James Beardmore under the moniker of CARES on Collusion Records in November 2016. It’s the first full-length album from this Canadian artist and his third overall release, following fall 2015’s extended-play Come Back When Serious and single Reparations. While these previous releases were firmly rooted in noise and drone […]
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