the vaporwave resource network
Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ( ｗｉｒｅｔａｐ ) is the debut full-length album by Chinese Hackers, who developed the “vaporgoth” style upon the release of the ░▒▓死▓▒░ extended-play only three months prior to this. Vaporgoth is a highly specific1 subgenre of vaporwave that utilizes industrial music and vaporwave in the creation of dark soundscapes. Source material is all over the place – from […]
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The vaporgoth artist Chinese Hackers released a compilation of b-sides from all previous albums, appropriately titled B Sides. The album is eight tracks of his patented vaporgoth sound that merges vaporwave and industrial music, creating an unsettling and oftentimes creepy effect. Most of the songs are highly ambient in nature – often more so than the main releases. B Sides […]
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Bandcamp label VK 250 released new music from neu orpheus via the 7-inch (for vaporwave, that is) single back to ’93 / HEIL, comprising the two mentioned tracks. It’s a darkvapor, noisey release with an industrial vibe. The single is available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below: back to '93 – HEIL by neu orpheus 0
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Recommendation: ☀☀☁ Eulogy‘s connection to the vaporwave scene is tenuous as best – one that is due more to the circumstances of its release and glitch-aesthetic than any large connection to the scene. It’s the first album by Jonathan Burgess of the New Jersey label Scolex Recordings under the thoroughly big-business moniker “Employee#6817,” the sterility of which is unsettling. Now […]
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Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ humans is the debut release by zoal, a Los Angeles artist who produces a unique blend of industrial-electronic music and vaporwave. Similar to The Darkest Futures on Dream Catalogue, zoal’s modus operandi is to make samples as unrecognizably distorted as possible, with nods to the beat-tastic styles of Skinny Puppy and The Prodigy. A short four-track, ten-minute release. […]
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