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New World is a label based out of New Zealand and the USA. It went on an unannounced hiatus beginning in November 2017, but returned to release more music starting in June 2018. Killer in Kowloon by Virtual Vice is their second album since the return. Killer in Kowloon is a six-track EP in the style of outrun, which refers […]
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Australian label Sunset Grid has a new album by Axiom Federation out called Sentinel Run. This release is eleven tracks of pure outrun/synthwave music. Several tracks also have downtempo moments, such as on “As On”. For the interested, “Sector: Axiom” is the choice track. Recommended for fans of the Hotline Miami soundtrack. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check […]
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Zero One is a compilation of eighteen tracks from eighteen artists issued in celebration of Sunset Grid’s first anniversary. The album features a large variety of vaporwave and vaporwave-inspired songs, such as classic-style, hypnagogic drift, outrun, and vaporhop. As with DMT Tapes FL’s Video Home Singles compilation, this is an excellent place to begin for those who are curious about […]
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Business Casual’s Friday album this week is Vista of Chaos by White Gavri’el. BC has generally released works of vaporwave, chillwave, and trap music; Vista of Chaos demonstrates their foray into outrun music. The release consists of twelve tracks. Most of it is four-on-the-floor old school electronic music beats with hip-hop influence; there are a couple ambient interludes as well. […]
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Saphron Squares is a label based out of Norway that is primarily the vehicle of vaportrap artist and Dream Catalogue alumnus 音 LIGHT システム. THE FUZZ by UNICODE SKULL is an eight-track full-length of outrun music that is highly influenced by 90s European techno music. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below: THE FUZZ by […]
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Recommendation: ☀☀☁ w u s o 命’s Lonely Streets is described as an album that seeks to elicit “solitude in a bustling city,”1 that feeling where you’re wandering aimlessly through darkened streets and alleyways at unknown hours of the night. Each of this album’s six tracks are mixed as single continuous song that’s pulsating, rhythmic, and distinctly rooted in underground […]
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It seems that BLCR Laboratories has branched out into a little outrun! Death FM ’83 is a cinematic electronic experience with hints of early-mid 80s darkwave and a bit of 90s techno by the artist Austin Godburn. The album’s general concept is of a man who killed Death and must take his place, riding his pale horse – or in […]
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