Hellscape Recordings releases “Rotary Blade” by Sour Gout

Music on Hellscape Recordings sounds… like hell. Picking up where HVRF and Antifur left off, this Detroit, Michigan label primarily releases hardvapour, industrial techno, and experimental noise-influenced music. Rotary Blade is a new EP from Sour Gout that leads with three tracks in the intense hardvapour vibe and finished with two ambient, glitch-ish tracks dubbed “cello studies”. Recommended for fans […]

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Section 9 Tapes releases “PHTMDRPZ” by thisisIdm

Section 9 Tapes is a Pennsylvanian label that specializes in cassette issues of vaporwave and experimental electronica releases (here, the “tapes” modifier is by no means decorative). PHTMDRPZ by thisisIdm is their newest release, issued this past Friday night. This is by far the most intense and non-vaporwave album out on Section 9 Tapes, being a straight-up hardvapour album filled […]

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SHUT_INS releases “REFLECTIONS” by MALK

SHUT_INS is a fairly eclectic label, and REFLECTIONS is a fairly eclectic release. This new album by MALK combines lo-fi hip-hop (“Zero Gravity”), ghost tech (“Amber Leaf”), and hardvapour (“1 Note Samba”) with some extremely high-quality production. It fits in well among other releases from SHUT_INS including last year’s release from New Shoppe and this year’s releases from Des Une […]

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