Well, Deep Fantasy definitely hits the spot. Another artist in vaporwave working purely with instruments is Golden Living Room, so this is by no means an isolated incident.
Probably one of the finest vaporwave albums...and for that matter, one of the better albums in general I've heard in recent years...has to be 2814's "Birth of a New Day". It tends in the ambient direction, but it has this kaleidoscopic feel to it, like some sort of DMT vision of Tokyo in the rain sometime in the 25th century. It's best experienced like "Zeit"...just kill the lights, let the sounds wash in. Another fave artist is ? ? Corp ...post-data soundscaping tends to be their forte. They also did a very elegiac album in memory of the 9/11 attacks: "NEWS AT 11", but their trippier moments are what works for me, such as on "Palm Mall Mars" or "OASYS ? ???". And then there's t e l e p a t h ????????...a _16 year old_ prodigy of sound manipulation; check "???" as a good example.
Granted, yes, some of it is nonsensical post-commercial meandering. But when there are gems amongst the dross, they gleam with a very strange and compelling radiation, indeed!
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