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This is an update that’s literally years in the making. Some time ago, luxury elite (a long-time vaporwave artist who released a series of community-acclaimed works in late night lo-fi and also headed up the Fortune 500 label) had her computer die, which made it impossible for her to continue to produce new music albums. Well, earlier this year, she […]
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Recommendation: ✂ (“into the great unknown”, “check it out”, “last moments of life”) III is a misnomer title: it’s actually luxury elite’s fifth album but her third in the main line of releases. This “babewave” record follows a split with Mensa Group International. It’s filled with sample curation: each track is one or two minutes in length and features little […]
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The next installment to 3D Blast’s curated series of Comfort Zone remixes is out, this time featuring the music of luxury elite. This album features remixes of the classic-style vaporwave artist by similarly-minded and vaportrap artists such as Suli Hyuga, COSMIC CYCLER, .mp3 Neptune, and Ezhak. Give it a shot if you’re into luxury elite and the now-closed Fortune 500 […]
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Recommendation: ✂ (“hurt”, “sweetness”, “rain”, “bayside”, “elegance”) To many, luxury elite is the figure of vaporwave, equally if not more so than Vektroid, HKE, and Daniel Lopatin. Although the slowed-down jazz thing was pretty well disseminated through vaporwave by the time she came around, luxury elite is mostly responsible for inserting other sources of old media into vaporwave production and […]
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Verbatim Consciousness Recordings’ celebration of the Fortune 500 label and the discography of artist luxury elite continues with nights by hotline. Had it not been released as a hotline album, it’d be very easy to listen to this and immediately think it were luxury elite or similar album. Tracks are nearly-entirely instrumental new wave and adult contemporary songs from some […]
Continue reading »Floridian label Illuminated Paths recently reissued four albums on physical format, available for purchase on the label’s bandcamp page. The albums are: Ryan Harris – Android Skeleton [DVD version, ed. 50, $5; VHS version, ed; 50, $5] Illuminated Paths & Broken Machine Films – Vapor Nights [cassette version, ed. 20, $7] SAINT PEPSI & LUXURY ELITE – LATE NIGHT DELIGHT […]
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