404Jackpot releases “Octahedron’s Agents” by ਅ ਣ ਜਾ ਣ

Don’t think I’ve seen the Gurmukhī script used in electronic music until now! Octahedron’s Agents is new music out by the French label 404Jackpot, released under the moniker ਅ ਣ ਜਾ ਣ. This album is a thirty-three track behemoth of hardvapor, vaporwave, IDM, dubstep, and trap music; it’s easily one of the most versatile releases by a single artist to […]

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Orange Milk Records triple release: toiret status, Honnda, and Diamond Soul

The Orange Milk Records triple release that was announced over a week ago will be out and available for purchase today. The first album is ◎omaru◎ by toiret status, a whirlwind of hyped-up, ADHD electronica that utilizes some tropes familiar to those fans of ECCOJAMS. Diamonds in the Microwave by Honnda is similar, but has more of a remix aesthetic […]

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Adhesive Sounds releases “サウンド – RPG” by R23X

Ontario label Adhesive Sounds put out a new album by R23X today, titled サウンド – RPG. This album is sixteen tracks of glitchy, downtempo vaporwave music with some trap influences (e.g. “EQUIP”). Video game themes run through the whole release in titles, tracks, and album artwork. サウンド – RPG was originally released on Gentle Records, and is now on Adhesive […]

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Penthouse Apartment – Y2K Millenium Nightclub

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Penthouse Apartment’s debut for TKX-Vault (then known as “Tokyo Exchange”) is an album of ambient techno that anticipates the ghost tech movement by almost two years. Tracks are skeletally rhythmic and often feature little more than sparse clicks and cuts that evolve into something akin to old-school IDM. It’s an unsettling release, but it’s not disturbing: Y2K: New […]

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Seabaud – 陽光 微笑 Sunshine Smile

Recommendation: ✂ (“system_dream”) 陽光 微笑 Sunshine Smile1 is the eighteenth record to be released on the Cyber Dream Records, a label founded in January 2016. It’s the debut of New York artist Seabaud, who utilizes electronica, underground club music, R&B, and vaporwave sampling techniques to create a hazy, distinctly modernist extended-play. Interestingly, it’s almost entirely written in major progressions, which […]

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Vektroid – Starcalc

Recommendation: ✂ (“Interstellar Safari,” “Awakening Parakeet,” “Nova Prophet,” “Dusk at Temple Amiga,” “Interstellar Clusters”) Starcalc is one of the early releases by Ramona Xavier as Vektroid – even before Macintosh Plus, fuji grid tv, and Laserdisc Visions. This album follows Xavier’s early interest in chillwave sounds, something that would be fully realized on 2012’s Color Ocean Road. Tracks have trap […]

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