AOTW | 25 December – 1 January: 骨架的 – Holograms

Here’s a total vaporwave throwback to cap off 2017! Holograms is the second album from 骨架的, one of those artists who could stake a claim on the “founder of vaporwave” epithet. Unless there’s something earlier floating around in the void of 2000s Internet forums, Holograms is the first album to utilize the sampling curation aesthetic of vaporwave that has since […]

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骨架的 – Holograms.zip

Recommendation: ✂ (“Ancient,” “Wires”) Holograms.zip (also known as Holograms Beta Version) is a kinda-sorta unofficial version of 骨架的’s landmark proto-vaporwave release Holograms that’s been floating around the Internet and various share folders for some time. The main differences are the order of tracks and a few songs: “Computer” is not on the album,1 and there are two excised tracks via […]

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骨架的 – Holograms

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ [Originally posted to the SongSavers music blog on 31 March 2016.] Vaporwave’s association with kitschy pitched-down R&B is so intrinsic to the genre as to be memetic, and it all started with 骨架的’s Holograms back in 2010. Released around the same time as Chuck Person’s Eccojams Vol. 1 by Daniel Lopatin, Holograms ditched the “post-Internet” ethereal gloom that […]

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