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easy listening is some true easy listening. This new release from invisible lover is now out on the DMT Tapes FL label. easy listening incorporates lo-fi sample curation of, well, easy listening and instrumental music. The samples have been mastered at similar levels despite their varying sources. Additionally, crackle and pop is added over the mix to sound as if […]
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Here’s more music from waterfront dining, this time out on Naughty Night Records. drown is an easy listening/adult contemporary curation album, featuring the waterfront dining standard of minimally-edited samples that’s heavy on the nostalgia for the 80s/90s in whatever way the listeners chooses to remember such. A few tracks have more equalization/editing than others; “lavender nights” is definitely more lo-fi […]
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French-American label Elemental 95 is out with new music from 幽霊, T O G E T H E R!, titled Almost Dead. The release is classic Elemental 95 and Fortune 500-style vaporwave, featuring samples of smooth jazz, easy listening, and muzak with a slightly lo-fi sheen as if the album is ripped straight from the cassette. Almost Dead is available […]
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Ailanthus Recordings has the third installment out on the Trademarks & Copyrights Marble Girls series. For those who haven’t heard of it before, Marble Girls is a collection of easy listening, smooth jazz, and adult contemporary music samples that are contextualized through the lens of bygone “greatest hits” albums. This particular album features collaborations from artist such as Ezhak, waterfront […]
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Recommendation: ✂ (“離散 Sunsuit Girls,” “Malibu Beach,” “Shanghai,” “初デート”) Ocean Beach is a collaboration/split album between 猫 シ Corp.1 and Stereo Component, originally released in January 2014 on the defunct Fortune 500 label – and re-released several times since on other labels. This album is one of the earlier albums in 猫 シ Corp.’s impressive discography, who – at the […]
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Louisiana label Advanced Materials released the long-titled 992 Avenue Boulevard, Star Key FL 34659 by producer VITO蒸気の波を行います of DMT[REC] in Florida. The album is mostly classic-style vaporwave, utilizing the subgenre’s characteristic easy listening and smooth jazz samples. It gets quite jazzy at times, as on “LITTLE RIDGE XP,” which features F-PORT_RICHEY. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it […]
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