RKM Records releases the final installment of “Requiem for Malls”

Today, British label RKM Records released the final installment of the Requiem for Malls trilogy, titled “Places.” As with the other two albums in the series, “Places” is a collection of short mallsoft tracks with minimal processing and editing from the original samples of muzak and easy listening. Check it out below:   Requiem For Malls: Places by Trademarks & […]

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Meowflakes self-releases “Synthesize”

Canadian producer Meowflakes self-released Synthesize this afternoon on his Bandcamp page as a pay-what-you-want digital download. There is also a limited first-edition run of ten cassettes (nine left at the time of this writing) in transparent aqua-green. According to the artist, Synthesize was “inspired by retro synth music;” it has similarities to SURFING’s Deep Fantasy. Check it out below:   […]

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TKX Vault releases “Days of Night” by Halo Acid

TKX Vault (also/formerly known as Tokyo Exchange) released new music today by Halo Acid called Days of Night. It’s a deeply hypnagogic release with layers of white noise, static, and clever electronic beats produced with an outrun-esque, underground rave aesthetic. There are musical nods to early Autechre and Aphex Twin, especially the former’s Garbage extended-play. HKE of Dream Catalogue makes […]

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BALENTSバランス – HUMAN MUSIC脂肪豚

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ HUMAN MUSIC脂肪豚1 is the first proper album by BALENTSバランス,2 a producer who later went on to found the Beer Wizard record label. Produced in a span of 24 hours,3 HUMAN MUSIC脂肪豚 mostly consists of samples from old video game soundtrack.4 Each song is heavily reverbed and resampled, with a murky aesthetic that sounds like as if a tape […]

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.jpeg Artifacts – Ridin’ That (Information Highway) [EP]

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ [Originally posted to the SongSavers music blog on 31 March 2016.] .jpeg Artifact’s nine-minute extended-play Ridin’ That (Information Highway) sounds like – well – a JPEG artifact that’s been run through one-too-many Imageshack uploads and accidentally opened/saved in Microsoft Word. All four tracks are the lowest in lo-fi vaporwave, as if this album were made for listening at […]

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骨架的 – Holograms

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ [Originally posted to the SongSavers music blog on 31 March 2016.] Vaporwave’s association with kitschy pitched-down R&B is so intrinsic to the genre as to be memetic, and it all started with 骨架的’s Holograms back in 2010. Released around the same time as Chuck Person’s Eccojams Vol. 1 by Daniel Lopatin, Holograms ditched the “post-Internet” ethereal gloom that […]

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