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Everything about TKX Vault is an enigma. Everything. I’m serious, guys: everything. LOST: The Infernal Mixtape by Martin Smith is a perfect encapsulation of the weird, sardonic, experimental, and constantly subversive practices of TKX, which is notably an imprint of the Dream Catalogue label headed up by HKE. LOST: The Infernal Mixtape can be succinctly described as the surprise ending […]
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Hardvapour/Hip-hop hybrid from Martin Smith, closing the second run of TKX Vault and Smith’s former aliases. Includes multiple references to the TKX Vault / Dream Catalogue mythos as of early 2018.
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TKX Vault has apparently opened again with TKX-001 redux. For the ladies… is a short EP from Martin Smith that utilizes the same vaporwave sampling techniques utilized on the LOST mixtape, which was the final album released in the second run of the label. For the ladies… features plunderphonics hip-hop music with an extremely distorted sound not too far from […]
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LOST: The Infernal Mixtape is a new featured release from Martin Smith (f.k.a. Chessmaster/Chesumasuta). It’s also the final album for TKX Vault, being billed with the catalogue number “TKX-END”. TKX Vault originally ran for fifty albums from 2014 through 2016 before closing with the release of Hong Kong Express. It was then re-opened for ten albums starting in mid-2017. This […]
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Martin Smith is the artist formerly known as Chessmaster (a.k.a. Chesumasuta, チェスマスター), who has now shed that earlier cyberpunk-breakdown persona. The Book of Life is the first release as Martin Smith, and it being on the Antifur label should clue one in on what it’ll sound like. The album is the hardvapour equivalent of hardvapour, taking exceptionally hard-hitting rap leads […]
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