バーチャルボーイA t s u – Nocturnal Walk

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Nocturnal Walk was released on Velvet Bazaar, and intermittently-active label that once released an album each month from September 2015 through January 2016. Nocturnal Walk is the label’s penultimate (for now?) release, but it’s only one of the first for バーチャルボーイA t s u,1 who went on to release a couple more albums in 2016 and at least […]

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khoven – ファーリー・ファンダム

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ ファーリー・ファンダム1 is the fourth album released on Velvet Bazaar, which has been home to artists such as 2047, .mp3neptune, reef frequent, and MindSpring Memories – an impressive roster for a label that’s only had ten releases! This is a twenty-six minute mini-album2 of ambient vaporwave music from the artist khoven. Each track is a little less uptempo than […]

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Velvet Bazaar releases “International Memories” split by Mindspring Memories and Intl. Debris

Velvet Bazaar is back for the first time in almost six months with a split release between hypnagogic mainstays Mindspring Memories and Intl. Debris. International Memories consists of two long-form tracks that demonstrate slow evolution of sampled adult contemporary music buried under slushy waves of noise. If you’re a fan of telepath’s long-running Virtual Dream Plaza (仮想夢プラザ) series, then you […]

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Velvet Bazaar releases “Existential Experience” by LeonLS

Earlier this week (oops!), Velvet Bazaar dropped new music by LeonLS, titled Existential Experience. This ambient-esque release takes considerable influence from downtempo electronic music production, with similarities to mainstay artists such as HKE and telepath. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below:   Existential Experience by LeonLS 0

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