the vaporwave resource network
Fantasy Deluxe has reissued an old album from Verbatim Consciousness Recordings, a past imprint of the DMT Tapes FL label. sunset 夕日 by 「サンセット Ｎｅｔｗｏｒｋ❾❶」 is a twelve-track album of classic-style vaporwave featuring stitched-together spoken word samples, ambient smooth jazz (yes, it’s a thing – see “special 特殊”), and adult contemporary music with band filters applied. There are a ton […]
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primetime is a whopping forty tracks in an hour from the pseudonymous artist videofashion and available through the Fantasy Deluxe label. This release is mostly one or two minute samples of corporate muzak, almost all instrumental. The sample curation aesthetic is bolstered by a focus on mid-range frequencies. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download; the cassette edition is already […]
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Now that is an album title. ☆４２０ Ｄｅｌｕｘｅ☆☆☆ SUMMER~NiTES－ＭＥＧＡＭＩＸ☆ 2 . 0 is, well, the megamix of the titular album by ☆４２０永遠に☆ – newly issued through the Fantasy Deluxe label. This release presents the full uninterrupted edit of the original album in a full forty-five minutes as remixed by a host of artists. The effect gives the album a tape […]
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Album information: Artist: 01100001 S.T.A.R.D.U.S.T. Subsidiary Album: Arcadia Campus: Virtual Tour Type: Full-length (LP) Release date: 14 May 2015 Label: Fantasy Deluxe Format: Digital download (self-release, 2015) Translucent yellow “Version 1.01” cassette, unknown “very rare” edition (Fantasy Deluxe, 2016) Translucent yellow “Version 1.02” cassette, edition 50 (Fantasy Deluxe, 2016)
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I actually recognize some of these songs from when my mom played smooth jazz on the car radio back in the 90s. season depression is a new release from videofashion through the old-school vaporwave label Fantasy Deluxe. The tracks here are short vignettes into the subgenre of late night lo-fi, which takes samples of early adult contemporary and instrumental pop […]
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Is vaporgoth normally too happy for you? ありがとうございました by 「エス・デー・ジ”」 is a new half-hour release on Fantasy Deluxe that sounds a bit closer to The Caretaker than Chinese Hackers. This album consists of very ambient vaporwave music with an understated production that samples from classical and new age music. There’s also a slushwave-esque track that features 「サンセット N ｅｔｗｏｒｋ❾❶」. Recommended […]
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Western Digital (d/b/a stardrifter) mixes space music and vaporwave samplism techniques on interstellar travel for Fantasy Deluxe. This mini-album contains ten bite-sized, one to two minute-long tracks of extraordinarily lo-fi music to sound like the degraded soundtrack to an art house film on space from the ’70s. Samples are generally instrumental adult contemporary and smooth jazz, with a few lonely […]
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