Apk ♀ ᴎᴇᴛ ☯ Ltd℻ – ༼ཧ༐࿏༽

Recommendation: ☹ The impossibly-pronounceable Apk ♀ ᴎᴇᴛ ☯ Ltd℻ creates noise music on the even-more-impossibly-pronounceable ༼ཧ༐࿏༽.1 This RKM Records album takes the Swamp Circle predilection for frequently challenging and occasionally punishing vaporwave-as-noise to a whole new extreme, being twenty-one minutes of sound collage with the occasional classic-style section. ༼ཧ༐࿏༽ begins with a sample of deathcore chugging before launching into a […]

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香港黑手黨 – 上升

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Do your ears hurt? Good. 上升1 is the debut EP by the anonymous artist 香港黑手黨.2 This HVRF release is a mixture of power electronics, hardvapor, and jungle music in a distorted mess of six tracks. The confluence of hardvapor and noise (hardvapornoise?) almost entirely lapses into the “noise” part of the equation, which is only saved by the […]

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[Feature] 2-0-1-7

In the fall of 2016, matdmoon and Hantasi came together to create Online Records, a netlabel that features experimental music primarily dealing with noise, field recordings, and musique concrète. Albums generally featured long tracks that steadily developed into layered progressions of static and found sounds, utilizing the samplism techniques that are commonly found in vaporwave. Several live recordings were released […]

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Online Records releases “American Girls”

Online Records is back from a hiatus with American Girls. True to the form of previous releases, American Girls is a single track of noise music with several movements and electronic effects that give it something of a live-performance feel. Recommended for those who enjoy tape recordings, noise collage, and previous Online Records albums. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital […]

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KEITOBOT – HAPPY

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ HAPPY is a three-track EP on Vault XYO, the third of Dream Catalogue’s Vault series of imprints. It was created by KEITOBOT, an engimatic character hinted at being related to Keito Shimuguchi, who released two drone and vapornoise works on TKX Vault.1 HAPPY is a strange semi-noise work that contains elements of hardvapor and ghost tech music. Leading […]

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