ЖЫ – RUSKE ANDEGRAUND

Recommendation: ☹ RUSKE ANDEGRAUND was released near the beginning of the hardvapor scene, which utilizes Soviet and Eastern European imagery and noise/distortion with techno. This release is the first of two from ЖЫ,1 both released on a Dream Catalogue imprint called TKX Vault that focuses on experimental, noise, and dreampunk music. It’s a sound collage of various spoken word and […]

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вовчі особи – вовки тіні

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ вовчі особи1 lies in the curious world of “deathdream,” a sub-subgenre of dreampunk that takes the latter’s highly ambient stylings to their funereal extreme.2 вовки тіні3 is two tracks – one fifteen minutes; the other, twenty – that plunge into the cavernous depths of feedback, oscillations, and echoes. There is neither percussion nor beat for the album’s entire […]

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ЖЫ – Huylowave

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Huylowave is part of a sub-subgenre1 of vaporwave called “Ruskevapor,” a highly specific movement that seeks to highlight economic, social, and political issues of the former USSR states through Slavic socialist aesthetic and sampling techniques of experimental electronic music. Most songs utilize a harsh blend of broken transmission, noise music, glitch, and digital manipulation, to create a sound […]

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