the vaporwave resource network
Back in the day (we’re talking, like, five or six years ago), there was a thing called “futurevisions” that I occasionally bring up just to say there was once a thing called “futurevisions”. This referred more to an aesthetic than any real musical form, where albums were created with a far-off, semi-futuristic perspective with a somewhat positive outlook on where […]
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Información del Álbum Artista: Sacred Tapestry Álbum: Shader Tipo: Full-length (LP) Dato del estreno: 30 August 2012 Sello musical: New Dreams Ltd. Formato: Descarga digital (New Dreams Ltd., 2012) Descarga digital por Shader Complete (Vektroid auto-lanzamiento, 2016) Recomendación: ☀☀☀ Sacred Tapestry fue un proyecto paralelo aislado de Ramona Xavier, una artista de Portland que está detrás de Macintosh Plus, […]
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Net Century is a cyberpunk music label that’s been releasing music for approximately ten months at the time of this writing, releasing everything from vaporwave to progressive electronica. 過去の思い出 by 異星人 falls on the latter end of the spectrum. This four-track album consists of three drone/cyberpunk tracks produced with digital and analogue synthesizers that dives deep into the electronic music […]
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テレビ終焉 by 暗い欲望 is a twenty-track album of hypnagogic drift and signalwave music that primarily utilizes lo-fi samples of Japanese adult contemporary music and other media. The album feature the signalwave jump-cut style of production that builds rhythm out of repetition. Choice cut is “神秘的な領域”. Recommended for fans of ULTRACOMPUTER and チェスマスター. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check […]
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P A T H S パス is back just barely a week after dropping SKY on Sea of Clouds with new music on Seikomart, a sister label to Sud Swap Audio Brewing and Botanica1. A l o n e A t M i d n i g h t is an eight-track album that chronicles an imaginary drive down lonely […]
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Well this is a name I haven’t heard for quite some time. Psychic LCD is an ambient vaporwave artist known for their 2013 release Nexxware, a notable example of “futurevisions” alongside Shader by Sacred Tapestry. FACADE is the anonymous artist’s first album since then – so far as I’ve been able to find. It features eight tracks of similar breathy […]
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目を覚まし by 暗い欲望 is pretty different for the Evaporated Sounds label. Whereas most of their previous albums focused on classic-style vaporwave and mallsoft akin to Elemental 95 and VCR, 目を覚まし is totally different, being four (two long-form) ambient vaporwave tracks that incorporate elements of broken transmission, field recordings, futurevisions, and hypnagogic drift. The first track (simply “Untitled”, as with the […]
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