Adhesive Sounds releases “PHANTASM // ESPRESSO” by MindSpring Memories & KöSHRiMP

PHANTASM // ESPRESSO is a split release featuring MindSpring Memories & KöSHRiMP, available through the Adhesive Sounds label. Both artists provide one long-form track each for a total runtime of approximately a half hour. The first track is from MindSpring Memories – it’s an evolving hypnagogic drift/ambient vaporwave track that slowly flows into reverb-heavy classic-style vaporwave that makes full use […]

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House of the Leg releases “METAPOLiS: HiDDEN DiSTRiCT” by KöSHRiMP

METAPOLiS: HiDDEN DiSTRiCT by KöSHRiMP is the third in the artist’s Métapolis series, which started with Métapolis – Département Isolation Temporelle on Adhesive Sounds in 2015 and continued with Métapolis – Educational Program [Tape 01] on Bogus Collective in July 2017. This album appears on House of the Leg, a UK label that specializes in garage music, electronica, and ghost […]

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House of the Leg releases “Jars” by KöSHRiMP

Jars is a four-track EP of glitchy hardvapour/vapornoise from KöSHRiMP, who’s been releasing music in the vaporwave/vapor scene for several years now. Jars was release on Halloween through House of the Leg, and it’s a strange, somewhat spooky collection of trippy sounds in which every track is named after a commonly utilized molecule in organic chemistry. Recommended for fans of […]

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Bogus Collective releases “Métapolis – Educational Program [Tape 01]” by KöSHRiMP

Métapolis – Educational Program [Tape 01] is purported to be the first of several found cassettes by KöSHRiMP. This classic-style vaporwave release is currently available through Bogus Collective. The album consists of two tracks, both presented as different “sides” to the cassettes whereby various classic-style movements are stitched together as if someone simply pressed “play” and let the reel-to-computer process […]

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Köshrimp – Red Luna District

Recommendation: ☹ Köshrimp is the alias of Tom Cochien, a producer from France who specializes in hypnagogic drift,1 a form of vaporwave that utilizes extreme lo-fi samples with lots of reverb and effects to emphasize a surreal, dream-like atmosphere.2 Red Luna District is Cochien’s third album, released in December 2015 only six months after beginning his vaporwave career. For the […]

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Adhesive Sounds releases “精油​/​鬼香水” by Famicom Fountains and KöSHRiMP

精油​/​鬼香水 is a split between vaporwave artists Famicom Fountains and KöSHRiMP out on Ontario label Adhesive Sounds. The release consists of two tracks, one by each artist, each with a run-time of a little over twenty minutes. The former track is classic-style ambiance with some dreampunk elements (but without the lugubriousness with which that tag may be associated), but the […]

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