the vaporwave resource network
Tsunxmi is a young artist who got his start releasing ambient vaporwave music through labels like DMT Tapes FL. Over the past couple of years, he’s changed from long, droning synth music to stuff more influenced by noise and glitch music. Pictures of You (given the high-class merch treatment by the Bludhoney label) takes these influences to their most extreme […]
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w/ Teeeth is a compilation album of works by Angel Marcloid (head of the Swamp Circle label) and a collection of her former monikers. It’s also a charity release to help raise money for dental surgery. This release incorporates 5.5 hours of Marcloid’s music, which is based in extreme noise manipulation and other forms of glitch experimentation, including both software […]
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TKX Vault opened in September 2014 with Y. 2089 by テレビ体験, a hallmark of vapornoise and broken transmission music. Well, in case you didn’t believe that TKX Vault was going to be a little bit different from parent label and dreampunk codifiers Dream Catalogue, a little album called my empire dropped nine days later from the enigmatic emperor tangerine. Whereas […]
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30 June saw the release of two new albums from PLUS100 records, both of which are from Rhode Island artist Adjusted Speech. Captain Maggot’s Demise is a seven-track release of ambient and noise music. Third Kind Retreat is thirteen tracks of ambient music with some similarities to dreampunk. The former album is darker and more based in noise/degradation. It also […]
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A few days ago, the Sunbleach Twitter joked about how Messler 87 is ambient hardvapor and whether or not one could say that’s actually a thing. Well, 1) it definitely is (see HVRF’s first release пушка by Стaалкер; and 2) New Fragments by pscu is the most blatant example of such, newly released as of 24 May. New Fragments is […]
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Oh man. Don’t accidentally have your headphones’ volume too high when you play this. You’ll give yourself a headache like me. 1 (Missed Connections EP) by Rain Lucien Matheke is three tracks of noise music available through Swamp Circle. The second and third tracks are less brutal than the opening one, consisting of some static, glitch sounds, and contorted audio […]
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Recommendation: ☀☁☁ The Soviet Uprising is the first chapter in a series released on HVRF that imagines a near-future third World War. It’s great for HVRF (also known as the Hardvapor Resistance Front1), which uses an ultranationalist and far-right aesthetic in its imagery, music, and social media – to the extent of re-tweeting American nationalist figures on Twitter such as […]
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