Scolex Recordings releases “Paid Thank You” by Crazy Gnome

Paid Thank You is the first release out from Scolex Recordings since the end of May 2016. Scolex Recordings utilizes similar cyberpunk and digital-era themed tropes that frequently dip into the avant-garde and dystopic (e.g. Eulogy by Employee#6817). Paid Thank You by Crazy Gnome utilizes elements of musique concrete, trip-hop, and industrial techno music to create a commentary on materialistic […]

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Online Records releases “Live” by Zetaprism x Pacific Sunlight

Online Records’ newest album is another recording of a live show between Zetaprism and Pacific Sunlight. The release consists of a single track with several movements based on the evolving set. The production was recorded on 3 January 2017 at Discord, at which Online Records had previously performed shows. Check it out if you’re into the weirdness of Online Records; […]

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Bludhoney releases “掘” by Delve

Last week, Bludhoney announced the imminent release of the label’s fifth album, titled 掘 by the artist Delve. This album is a six-track work of ambient electronic and noise music mixed together, at once peaceful and grating. Tracks such as “Mannerism” flip between chill synthesizers and harsh feedback and glitch music that holds similar appeal as “Nil Admirari” by Oneohtrix […]

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emperor tangerine – my empire

Recommendation: ✂ (“daisy”) emperor tangerine’s debut album for TKX Vault (formerly known as Tokyo Exchnage) demonstrates the label’s early predilection for not fucking around when it came to the most extreme avant-garde music in sampling, to the extent of rivaling Scolex Recordings in terms of music associated with the vaporwave scene. Released nine days after the similarly-chaotic label debut Y.2089 […]

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TKX Vault releases “Huylowave” by ЖЫ

Russian vaporwave artist ЖЫ1 released the hardvapor/ruskevapor album Huylowave today on TKX Vault. It’s a single, uninterrupted twenty-minute track of field-recording-esque noise music and effects with the characteristic vocal samplings, glitchiness, and digitalism of the vaporwave scene. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below:   Huylowave by ЖЫ 1Belarusian translation: “Miss” 0

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Employee#6817 – Eulogy

Recommendation: ☀☀☁ Eulogy‘s connection to the vaporwave scene is tenuous as best – one that is due more to the circumstances of its release and glitch-aesthetic than any large connection to the scene. It’s the first album by Jonathan Burgess of the New Jersey label Scolex Recordings under the thoroughly big-business moniker “Employee#6817,” the sterility of which is unsettling. Now […]

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AOTW | June 13 – June 19: ░▒▓新しいデラックスライフ▓▒░ – ▣世界から解放され▣

One of the most divisive releases in the scene, ▣世界から解放され▣ is the epitome of the broken transmission subgenre of vaporwave. This short, barely EP-length release is entirely made up of shredded television advertisements and jingles pasted together and covered with a layer of grime like an Odyssey video game set that has not seen use since the seventies. It’s difficult, […]

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