Online Records double release: “PearlJams®” by HANTASI and “Happy to Be Alive” by bbtttl\ngel

“PearlJams®”? Is that a pun? Boo. Get off the stage. PearlJams® is a fresh release from HANTASI, available through the noise/experimental vaporwave label Online Records. It consists of two vapornoise singles that sound like highly decrepit classic-style vaporwave. This album is only available as a 7-inch vinyl album for $1.99 USD. Well, you *can* purchase it as a digital download […]

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Bedlam Tapes double release: Vincent Remember and Hantasi

Bedlam Tapes released two albums yesterday: Culture Vulture by Vincent Remember and CA S  T LE by Hantasi. The former album is an ECCOJAMS/vaporhop release that utilizes plunderphonics sampling to mix together various hip-hop/R&B samples and other pop jams. The entire album is self-referential, with several tracks (e.g. “The Jam (420 Remix)” and “Touch the Ground”) using similar samples and calling back to […]

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HVRF releases “HARD CLUB®” by Hantasi

Hantasi has a new release out with HVRF, the Hardvapor Resistance Front. HARD CLUB® features six tracks of ambient hardvapor music. There’s plenty of distortion, giving the mini-album somewhat of a live feeling to it. Recommended for playing in a concrete room with nothing but a staticky big-screen television and several confused strangers. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. […]

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Hantasi – ラキア2019

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Hantasi’s ラキア20191 is one of the strangest albums from the vaguely-defined “first wave” of vaporwave. Self-released in September 2012, this album is nearly seventy minutes of psuedo-noise/drone music that primarily utilizes a plunderphonics style of samplism to give each of its ten tracks a texture akin to tribal music. In fact, it pretty much is tribal music: the […]

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Online Records releases “American Girls”

Online Records is back from a hiatus with American Girls. True to the form of previous releases, American Girls is a single track of noise music with several movements and electronic effects that give it something of a live-performance feel. Recommended for those who enjoy tape recordings, noise collage, and previous Online Records albums. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital […]

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