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This week’s Friday release from Business Casual is Rotti by Mere. This continues BizCaz’s string of releases in future funk and modern funk releases. Rotti is a quirky electronic and dance album. It features French house beats, sampled wind instruments, and heavily chopped-and-screwed vocals that act as another instrument instead of vocals you’re supposed to understand. Judging by that album […]
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Hey wait a minute – this isn’t vaporwave! Yeah, but we’ve featured all kinds of stuff on Sunbleach before, so you’ll have to stay with me here. Midnight is a six-track EP from The Motion Epic released through Business Casual, a vaporwave/synthwave/retro-wave/whatever-wave label. Midnight mixes old-school 80s new age and synthpop music with modern electronica tropes. Choice track is “Drive” […]
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Released at the same time as Kaleidoscope, the album Timewalk is a new full-length release by Glass Double through the Datalog label. Timewalk utilizes similar tropes as Kaleidoscope, being mostly downtempo indie-tronica with digital aesthetics similar to dreampunk and utopian vaporwave. This album is a little more focused on percussion though, as heard on tracks like “Pinnacle”. Recommended for fans […]
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OMI5 has played the genre roulette rather well in vaporwave and “retro” music at-large. Beauty and Decay is their new full-length for Business Casual, combining synthpop, contemporary R&B, and some ambient house music. Recommended for fans of Celldeath Tapes and Ephemeral Dream, which are both focusing on this understated realm of electronic media. Choice track is “Whale Pt2”. Beauty and […]
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Oh yeah, this is retro – and I mean retro. CIRCLES AND TRIANGLES is a new full-length from AlterSun available through Business Casual that was released on 4/20 this past Friday. This release is a throwback synthpop/new wave album in the purest form of the mid-80s. Expect double-tracked, self-harmonizing vocals and liberal use of both synthesizer keyboards and drum machines. […]
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We’ve got a new release of chillwave/synthwave out through Sunset Grid. Stability by Ｓｅｎｔｉｅｎｔ is fifteen tracks of synth music with some trap-esque percussion. The production has some significant equalization that gives it an edge without brickwalling. Recommended for fans of Starcalc by Vektroid. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below: Stability by Ｓｅｎｔｉｅｎｔ 0
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Recommendation: ☀☀☁ High Fashion Mood Music is 80s retro-synth music made to elicit early new wave instrumentals and the beginning of corporate muzak. The album artwork calls to mind all of those dance records that had a young, attractive woman staring into the camera, often with a bit of sultriness and stylization.1 It’s also a bit bland, suggesting that High […]
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