Dec 16, 2013

this year in vaporwave

premium tracks selected by a fan of all things groovy. with vaporwave it's important to take the music for what it usually is: taking something another person has made and slightly altering it to create magic. 

celebrate the music rather than the "musician." 

1- Eyeliner - Nespresso
2- Contact Lens - FREE THROW BOUQUET
3- Kodak Cameo - Casino Speedway
4- オウムのジャングルParrot Jungle 95 - College Crush
5- luxury elite - Mild Seven
6- БИЗНЕСМЕН - ТЕРМИНАЛ
7- Infinity Frequencies - As Darkness Falls
8- SAINT PEPSI - Pineapple Juniors
9- luxury elite - homebound
10- ECO VIRTUAL - Bermuda High
11- Wasted Nights - Girl (1986)
12- Young Muslim - New World Style

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Nov 4, 2013

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broken links from this years posts should be updated now. possible request list by the end of the year. if a link is broken and you would like it, let me know

Paul Jebanasam - Rites [2013]

one of the best releases of the year for me. a mixture of so many styles that I will need to stop typing before I make a fool of myself.

let's just say it's grim. it's noisy. it's good.

dl / buy [320]

Dark Matter Travelers - Lotus Birthing The Cosmos [2013]

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Nov 3, 2013

Lucette Bourdin

RIP. An ambient god. Think Roach, think Budd. All her releases are available free in lossy/lossless, full detail, and reviews on archive.org. These are just a few of my favorites.

Radiant Stars [2009] 

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Silver Moon [2009]

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Secret Pyramid - Distant Works I [2013]

An incredible release. Nothing flashy, just incredibly moving. I look forward to his future releases very much.

dl / buy cassette [320]

Oct 13, 2013

Henrik Nordvargr Björkk ‎– Sleep Therapy [2011 reissue]

an 8 hour release of dark ambient that would give lustmord nightmares. incredibly subtle and atmospheric (aside from tuesday's BC which runs heavy on bass) .

monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
etc

[320]

Sep 20, 2013

Dream Safari - Buried Mics [2009]



2009 golden age of drone
imagine a swarm of angry bees slowed down 1000 times

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Aug 26, 2013

Paa Annandalii - Transhumance [2013]

Another project from Robert Thompson (Mohave Triangles, Quartz Safari, REALMS). This guy blows me away with everything he does. Some other-worldly quality. Some of the absolute best music of it's type I've ever heard. Keep a look out for this cassette on his up and coming label, which I expect huge things from.


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Quartz Safari - Quartz Safari [2013]

Two good buddies. Incredible warm drones that are more complex than they may first appear. 

"Quartz Safari is an experimental ambient collaboration between Robert Thompson (USA) and Sepehr Lemar Nabi (Norway). The duo released their explorative debut tape release “Pineal Origins” (Rotifer Cassettes) in 2011, before their self-titled album was released on the Fadeaway Tapes label in 2013. More info/streaming/downloads at http://quartz-safari.bandcamp.com."

dl / buy [v0]

Aug 18, 2013

Sick Llama - Barf Box [2007]


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Beter Traag Dan Nooit [Compilation, 2011]



Tracklist
A1 Vom Grill – Zit En Braaf
A2 Floris Vanhoof – A Layered Analysis Of Parallelograms' Pitch To Voltage
A3 La Danse Du Sperme – Le Desirable Et Le Sublime
A4 Edgar Wappenhalter – Stroom (Hendrik Marsman)
A5 Kosmische Keuterboeren – Fata Morgana's Op Solyaris
A6 JB Donaldo – The Eagle
A7 Cosmic Trip Machine – Mantra 7777
A8 Bear Bones Lay Low* – Lawrence In Newark
A9 Kohn* – Nevkha
A10 Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat – Weltuntergangsstimmung
A11 Innercity – Untitled
A12 Sylvester Anfang II – Stoned
B1 Dolphins Into The Future – Ilha Da Culatra: Embracing The Outer Island Of Our Dyad, Commended By The Atlantic
B2 Eekhoorn X – Astronuts
B3 Etherik – Row Your Boat
B4 Shifter (3) – For Charly
B5 W. Ravenveer – Glazen Oog
B6 Acid Child – Untitled
B7 Ping Pong Tactics – Flash
B8 Ludo Mich / Maarten Tibos / Maximilliam I – Maxibots And Droidiots
B9 Huur Is Duur – Geen Titel
B10 Gangalai & Gourabai – Deux Departs
B11 Hellvete – Indiaans Blauw
B12 Gerard Herman – Sloow But Nice
B13 Witchbikers – Een Zwart Boeket
B14 Beez, The – A Thing Or Two


Heroin In Tahiti - Death Surf LP [2012]

">>in tahiti

>>slamming heroin"


best death surf out there
also the only death surf I have ever heard

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Aug 16, 2013

Hakobune


Watching The Prescribed Burn [2013]

 true drone. peaceful. beautiful.

dl [320] / buy

Dead Leaves Crumble [2013]

dl [v0] / buy


support Hakobune. Incredible, prolific artist.


1958-2009 - II [2010]

wowe

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Aaron Dilloway

Boggs Vol. Two [2005]

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Siena [2013]

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Quiet Evenings / Sundrips ‎– Split [2013]

fadeaway tapes release. follow them. support them.

dlbuy [320]

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Gift of Tongues [2013]

noisy. dark. distant. droned the fuck out

dl / buy [320]

Josh Burke - Absorbent Lens [2009]

drone for the gods

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JK Flesh / Prurient - Worship is the Cleansing of the Imagination [2013]


jk flesh tracks are larger than you can imagine

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Black Swan - Redemption [2013]



















pretentious. extravagant. atmospheric. good.

dl / buy [320]

Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 [2010]













be real
father of vaporwave (ecco > eco)
thank you chuck person

dl [256]

1991 - High-Tech High-Life [2012]






















Initial reaction: "where the fuck did this come from and why didn't anyone tell me about it"

close to perfection. and I'm pretty sure this came from space

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36 - Shadow Play [2013]





















He's still got it. 

dl / buy [320]

Julia Kent - Character [2013]






















cello + melancholy. 


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Jun 4, 2012

What, indeed? thinks Snowman. When dealing with indigenous peoples, says the book in his head—a more modern book this time, late twentieth century, the voice a confident female’s—you must attempt to respect their traditions and confine your explanations to simple concepts that can be understood within the contexts of their belief systems. Some earnest aid worker in a khaki jungle outfit, with netting under the arms and a hundred pockets. Condescending self-righteous cow, thinks she’s got all the answers. He’d known girls like that at college. If she were here she’d need a whole new take on indigenous.
“I was telling him,” says Snowman, “that you ask too many questions.” He holds his watch to his ear. “And he’s telling me that if you don’t stop doing that, you’ll be toast.”
“Please, oh Snowman, what is toast?”
Another error, Snowman thinks. He should avoid arcane metaphors. “Toast,” he says, “is something very, very bad. It’s so bad I can’t even describe it. Now it’s your bedtime. Go away.”

“What is toast?” says Snowman to himself, once they’ve run off. Toast is when you take a piece of bread—What is bread? Bread is when you take some flour—What is flour? We’ll skip that part, it’s too complicated. Bread is something you can eat, made from a ground-up plant and shaped like a stone. You cook it… Please, why do you cook it? Why don’t you just eat the plant? Never mind that part—Pay attention. You cook it, and then you cut it into slices, and you put a slice into a toaster, which is a metal box that heats up with electricity—What is electricity? Don’t worry about that. While the slice is in the toaster, you get out the butter—butter is a yellow grease, made from the mammary glands of—skip the butter. So, the toaster turns the slice of bread black on both sides with smoke coming out, and then this “toaster” shoots the slice up into the air, and it falls onto the floor…
“Forget it,” says Snowman. “Let’s try again.” Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it to regurgitate in verbal form the sins and crimes of their past lives. Toast was a ritual item devoured by fetishists in the belief that it would enhance their kinetic and sexual powers. Toast cannot be explained by any rational means.

Toast is me.
I am toast.

Jul 8, 2010

Fennel - A Leap Across A Chasm [2010]


My buddy Franciscus is a true artist and one of the few people whose taste in ambient/drone I fully trust. Over the past few years we have sent our doodles and ideas back and forth, and it's been a pleasure to watch his techniques and style grow. This release is his first full length dive into ambient music, and it is professional as well as exceptional. As he finished his last semester at UCSB in Mathematics, Franciscus was overcome with nostalgia and decided to create an album to pay homage to his years on campus. Various field recordings from the area are accompanied by hums and swells, creating a tranquil and smooth album. A sound that is not too far from something Fennesz would do, yet original in its own way.

1: Fluid Boundary / Radiant Yellow, Humid Green (7:18)
2: Hollow Reverie (3:29)
3: Twilit Bioswales (4:44)
4: Windswept Chaparral / Fluid Boundary 2 (9:39)
5: Fabricating Memories (7:18)
6: Zona Glacialis (6:03)

DOWNLOAD (Mediafire/mp3/320/85mb)