the vaporwave resource network
If there were an album to be described as “spliff-heavy”, then it would be Credit by Julio Returns. Freshly out on Australian label Sunset Grid, Credit is a new eleven-track full-length of midtempo vaporhop music. It opens up with a spoken word samplism of a man talking about the economic particulars of marijuana, and the groove just keeps going from […]
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This week’s album from Sunset Grid is a new full-length from Ｋａｎａｌ Ｖｉｅｒ titled Eins zu einer Million. It’s a twenty-two track broken transmission album that distinguishes itself by sampling from German media sources instead of anglophone or Japanese sources. Tracks are slightly pitch-/tempo-shifted and start-and-stop at random moments, much like albums from ghosting, INTERNET CLUB, and Infinity Frequencies. Choice […]
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Dregs Diamond II: P U K E T O U R is the follow-up album to Dregs Diamond’s debut album from several months ago. This edition, out on Australian label Sunset Grid, features ten tracks of wrung-out classic-style vaporwave that sounds as if it’s been on the receiving end of a few needles and is now in its burnt-out rock […]
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Sunset Grid is an Australian music label that releases a new album each week. This week’s release is For You by Terna Jay, who released Forever several months ago on the label. It’s not so much vaporwave – For You is a downtempo electronic release filled with ambient-ish synthesizers and original vocals for each track. Recommended for fans of Tycho […]
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Kicking off Sunset Grid’s October 2018 release schedule is a new ambient release from SENDAI TENNIS. The album collected fears is eight tracks of long-form ambient that incorporates some synthesizer distortion and long, clear tonal music. Choice track is “APPEARANCE”. Recommended for fans of Empire by R0x5ry. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below: collected […]
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Ah yes, some retro-synth to top off September 2018. Virtual Skies is a new release from Meszamii Moon, available through the Australian label Sunset Grid (which is run by vaporwave artists b l u e s c r e e n and ΔCID.rar). Virtual Skies features nature stock recordings, acoustic instrumentation, and MIDI synthesizers, giving it a rather contemporary feeling […]
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世界は80年代に終了しました’s new album is marketed as an EP, but it’s really not in presentation. Newly available through Australian label Sunset Grid, the Cultural Industrial EP features lo-fi samples of “home video entertainment”, synth music, and bumpers. This makes it something of a cross between hypnagogic drift and broken transmission, with tracks like “Beta Maximus” applying classic-style vaporwave techniques to a […]
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