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Fortune 500 is one of the codifying albums of vaporwave, having pretty much established the production and compositional techniques used in sample curation and late night lo-fi. One such album is Ocean Beach, a collaboration between 猫 シ Corp. and Stereo Component. 猫 シ Corp. is one of the most recognizable artists in the realm of hypnagogic sample curation that […]
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Artist: Saint Pepsi Album: Winner’s Circle Track: “Private Caller Subgenre tags: Future funk, vaporwave Label: Fortune 500 Format: Digital Video release date: 4 May 2013 0
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Recommendation: ✂ (“hurt”, “sweetness”, “rain”, “bayside”, “elegance”) To many, luxury elite is the figure of vaporwave, equally if not more so than Vektroid, HKE, and Daniel Lopatin. Although the slowed-down jazz thing was pretty well disseminated through vaporwave by the time she came around, luxury elite is mostly responsible for inserting other sources of old media into vaporwave production and […]
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Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Every once in a while, vaporwave puts out something truly ugly. Look at that album artwork: it’s as if a Southeast Asian tech support computer vomited up the collected covers to pre-Y2K Microsoft Encarta after losing a fight to a JPEG compressor’s untested run through JavaScript. It’s fucking awesome. MARKET WORLD is the first of three albums by […]
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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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Fantasy Deluxe label is re-releasing PENNS WOODS PT. II by ™CENTURY, which was originally released on the defunct Fortune 500 label in December 2013. This release consists of two tracks, each over a half hour in length. It’s classic-style vaporwave in extreme long-form, with tons of reverb, a multitude of samples, and everything from hypnagogic pop to Macintosh Plus-esque screw. […]
Continue reading »Originally released in 2013 on the defunct Fortune 500 label, Ocean Beach is a collaboration album between 猫 シ Corp. & Stereo Component. It is being re-released through Naughty Night on limited-edition cassette in a run of sixty for €8 and on limited-edition 3-inch compact disc in a run of forty for €6. Check it out below:
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