Botanica1 releases “Death Euphoria” by C!erraMy$t

Death Euphoria starts out like a classic-style vaporwave album with its modem connection and decrepit spoken word admonishment (not to mention the 50% opacity album artwork), but it’s actually a pretty engaged utopian/synthwave/dreampunk album. If you’ve wanted some upbeat vaporwave that actually sounds excited about the future instead of snarky or scared of it, then this album is for you. […]

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Seikomart releases “Operational Excellence” by b a k m a h n

Here’s new music out on Seikomart from bakmahn (typeset “b a k m a h n”), titled Operational Excellence. This is a seven-track mini-album of classic-style vaporwave with pitch-/tempo-shifted spoken word bits, coming together like a trippy rendition of a corporate training video. The accompanying artwork and text makes it sound as if Operational Excellence exists in the same business-utopia […]

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Adhesive Sounds releases “Welcome to Villa Zodone ℞” by Viibryd

There’s a very specific strand of vaporwave music called “utopian vaporwave”. It’s more of a general pool of albums than it is an actual aesthetic. Utopian vaporwave imagines perfect communities and environments, often pairing such imagery with tracks that have simple major melody leads and the slight sterility of corporate muzak. Welcome to Villa Zodone ℞ is one such album, […]

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s t e f – Inside of Clouds

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Do you know stef? He’s a downtempo electronica and vaporwave producer out of the UK, and he’s released four albums in three months. Inside of Clouds is stef’s November 2016 release; it’s an eight-track album of utopian vaporwave with imagery akin to INTERNET CLUB’s Redefining the Workplace and PrismCorp Virtual. Beats flow in each and every track, giving […]

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