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Of all the vaporwave artist names, Trademarks & Copyrights has to be the most self-aware. From the genre’s inception, issues of copyright and whether or not vaporwave artists actually own their songs have been in the forefront of discussion. Just take a walk over to the vaporwave subreddit or check out some early archived posts on 4chan; each week, there’ll […]
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Trademarks & Copyrights is purely a sample curation/classic-style vaporwave project, and it’s been around for several years by this point. Late Night Hour is a new full-length on DMT Tapes FL that doesn’t change the formula; it’s eleven songs of sample curation with a hypnotic, wistful atmosphere also utilized by Cosmic Cycler and waterfront dining. The synth portions on many […]
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Recommendation: ☀☀☁ | Classic-style vaporwave from 2015 filled with subtle and not-subtle production edits of adult contemporary music; one of the first albums on the Lost Angles label.
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Artist: Trademarks & Copyrights Album: Tales from the Heartside Track: “angel eyes” Subgenre tags: Vaporwave, classic-style Label: DMT Tapes FL; Verbatim Consciousness Recordings Format: Digital Video release date: 1 June 2017 0
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Get your 80s/90s on with Unknown Lover by Trademarks & Copyrights, freshly out on Canadian label Lost Angles. This is a full-length of sample curation, by which snippets of tracks are presented and recontextualized with light editing. Many of the Trademarks & Copyrights albums feature R&B and pop songs, as if to elicit the vibe from a cassette mix for […]
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Don’t think we’ve had one of these before! Tales from the Heartside is a four-way split release between the artists 「サンセット Nｅｔｗｏｒｋ❾❶」, Trademarks & Copyrights, VITO蒸気の波を行います, and Waterfront Dining (the last one spelling his name with capital letters this time). All four of these artists have been quite active within the classic-style and sample curation scenes within vaporwave, and Tales […]
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That backless one-piece is getting me hot. Whew boy. So Hot by Trademarks & Copyrights is classic-style vaporwave with a sheen of hypnagogic drift, utilizing the former genre’s sampling styles while adding a layer of swirly dust that’s familiar to fans of the latter. Recommended for fans of artists such as waterfront dining. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. […]
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