Saint Pepsi – “Private Caller”
Artist: Saint Pepsi Album: Winner’s Circle Track: “Private Caller Subgenre tags: Future funk, vaporwave Label: Fortune 500 Format: Digital Video release date: 4 May 2013 0
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VentureX – Together
Recommendation: ✂ (“Together”, “All That You Got”, “Get It (feat. Saint Pepsi)”, “Homecoming”, “Hot”) Together: a catchy example of future funk out on the Stratford Ct. label. As with future funk pioneers/popularizers such as Yung Bae, マクロスMACROSS 82-99, and Flamingosis, VentureX combines French house with the sampling aesthetic of vaporwave music. Basically, if you’ve ever been curious how vaporwave would […]
Continue reading »Skylar Spence releases unfinished SAINT PEPSI tracks
Future funk mainstay Skylar Spence released a Dropbox folder of unfinished tracks from his Reflektor album, which was created around 2013 yet never released. Despite sharing a name and track titles with the Arcade Fire album of the same name, the album does not actually use any Arcade Fire samples, being something pretty different in its own right. Check it […]
Continue reading »Three major re-releases: Shima33, Trademarks & Copyrights, and Saint Pepsi
This past week saw the return of several albums to digital and cassette format: Shima33 – NO (Tattva Tapes): twenty-nine track mix of ECCOJAMS and broken transmission; available for £4 as a digital download and £9 on cassette in an edition of fifty Trademarks & Copyrights – Marble Girls II (Lost Angles): hypnagogic vaporwave with significant influence and samplism from […]
Continue reading »Illuminated Paths announces series of reissues
Floridian label Illuminated Paths recently reissued four albums on physical format, available for purchase on the label’s bandcamp page. The albums are: Ryan Harris – Android Skeleton [DVD version, ed. 50, $5; VHS version, ed; 50, $5] Illuminated Paths & Broken Machine Films – Vapor Nights [cassette version, ed. 20, $7] SAINT PEPSI & LUXURY ELITE – LATE NIGHT DELIGHT […]
Continue reading »“Hit Vibes” by Saint Pepsi turns three years old
Hit Vibes – one of the most recognizable albums within the future funk subgenre of vaporwave music – turns three years old today. Although Ryan DeRobertis retired the “Saint Pepsi” moniker in favor of “Skylar Spence,” you can still access this retro-funk hit at the Keats Collective bandcamp. Hit Vibes by SAINT PEPSI 0
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