It’s that time of night they start to close up the shops, the floor buffer is running and the fountains are only dripping. You walk slowly so you’ll be the last one out. This album is everything mallsoft wants to be. What strikes me most about the sound of MAXIMUMDELUXE ’93 is how easy to […]
ARTIST: PcUniverseALBUM: 8102 The streetlights have all gone out. An abandoned, wheel-less car on the sidewalk has been burning mysteriously for weeks. Love is lost, nothing is worth scavenging, and everyone has given up. But somehow, beauty survives in the ruins. Loneliness is curiously satisfying. Memories of vacant consumerism under fluorescent lights echo among the […]
Hearing how quickly his style has evolved and matured, one can not help but marvel at what Moose might do next. With this new EP, his longest to date, Moose brings his unique approach to a whole new level with a combination of ambient and hip hop, sublime sample edits and intriguing percussion. With a […]
Blending vaportrap and synthwave, comma_komaƎda offers us a lively, innovative and captivating collection of tracks on his debut EP, “FERRIS.” Throbbing bass tones and creative, intricate percussion drive ethereal layers of synthesizers, punctuated by intriguing lo-fi samples. It all blends together for an immerse experience that keeps us wanting more. Each track is distinctly different […]
Artist: h º r ¡ z º n щ ¡ r e l e s s Album: 虚拟约会之夜 There is a particular brand of cool-jazz vaporwave that is a perfect representation of the genre, and no-one does this better than Horizon Wireless. With delicate restraint, the artist carries out the occasional skip and stutter we […]
This album is gorgeous. At once relaxing and engaging, Coastal Outpost is a unique vaporwave easy listening experience. It seems to tell a story of innocence, ambition, loss, and then a pensive combination of hope and loneliness, as perennial elevator samba rhythms give way to introspective strains of ambient classical in a sweeping, yet gentle […]
Moose applies a spare hand to three introspective, nostalgic tracks that are both sentimental and haunting. With a production style that is playful and emotionally absorbing, the artist curates a brief journey through unsatisfied dreams, yearning for things that are broken, yet still beautiful. What would life be like if “the one” hadn’t gotten away? […]
File Under_ Records launches with 5 albums by 5 artists. This EP features 1 track from each of these albums and 3 from future releases, with offerings from electronic and vaporwave genre. Turn up your heater and crank up the volume! File Under_ Nov/Dec 2019 Sampler by File Under_ Records
With a spartan touch, Moose returns us to the fundamental roots of vaporwave. Implementing some of the most raw, even primitive alterations that can be made by editing samples, Moose does it brilliantly. With audacity and aplomb, he alternately seduces us into nostalgic rumination, then prods us with a playful stutter or an abrupt shift, […]
Enigmatic, steeped in drama and mystery, akakabuto is a unique sonic journey through our own imaginations. The rhythmic portions are urgent and enticing, in the way that a lit street at the end of the alley makes you want to run. The ambient portions are at once ethereal and ominous, suspending us in temperate clouds […]