the vaporwave resource network
French-American netlabel Elemental 95 is out with new music this weekend from POCARI ステューシー, titled Lens Flare. This album is classic-style vaporwave with just a bit of future funk influence, owing to the utilization of mostly uptempo samples that have a danceable beat behind them. As with many E95 albums, there’s an ever-so-slight sheen of static and hiss over the […]
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Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Gotta hand it to Vision Girl: Amare sanguinem1 is such an interesting idea, even if it’ll appeal to only a select few listeners. This extended-play screws with the listener in one of the most fourth-wall breaking moves in vaporwave and its related genres: the mix is entirely in the left. The right has no sound at all. This […]
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Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Released in February 2012, High Emotion is the ante-penultimate album by 18 Carat Affair, a notable member of the Fortune 500 catalogue. 18 Carat Affair’s music lies in retro-styled synthwave, vaporwave, and hypnagogic pop. Tracks are typically sampled in a lo-fi aesthetic with plenty of reverb and gated percussion that evokes eighties production styles, often paired with a […]
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Disappointment Islands Executive Committee Range is of unsettling drone and ambient music by the Half.com Prefecture Administration. Although presented as two tracks, they flow into one another, and so the entire album can be treated as a single composition. The album is lo-fi and mixed as if at an exceptionally low-bitrate; it succeeds pretty well in creating a slightly disturbed, […]
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Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The Phonograph is a single-track release by experimental ambient producer Unknown Artist, out on TKX Vault. It’s a ten-minute long excursion through old tunes played on heavily degraded vinyls with extreme deterioration. You know low fidelity? This is hypo-fidelity. There’s some weird whispering1 between individual “songs,” which gives the album a creepy affect.2 When it comes to exploring […]
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Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Midnight Television is one of the original artist in the subgenre known as “late night lo-fi.” Contrary to (faux-)utopian, ECCOJAMS, futurevisions, and other such scenes, late night lo-fi utilizes a mix of musical and non-musical samples while presenting them in a distinctly apolitical light that contains little of the commentary or self-parody common within the scene. Albums here […]
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