Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Cloudrap/Vaporwave/Oceangrunge/etc.




Recently I've spent some time reevaluating meme-music, basically anything that is primarily disseminated and consumed through the internet. This includes recent phenomenon like cloudrap, vaporwave, witchhouse, seapunk, oceangrunge, etc.

I originally put off this music as being either atonal oddities or boring attempts at anti-capitalist lampooning, but recently I've realized that it's fully capable of standing on its  own, a kind of dayglow, millennial cousin to 80s dark ambient.

 Below are some album recommendations. They might be completely obvious, but any music you haven't heard of is new music to you, I guess.

 $uicideboy$- I No Longer Fear the Razor Guarding My Heal 

One of the few cloud-rap albums that doesn't ape Yung Lean. There's real southern menace here. If these guys weren't totally crossfaded they'd slit your fucking throat.

 Oscob/Digital Sex- Overgrowth

Overgrowth is achingly brilliant, a naturalist, sample heavy work that's composition echoes Shoji Yamashiro's work on the Akira soundtrack.

Future Girlfriend- Pink Dance EP

Reverb soaked future funk, complete with anime samples.


DEIPHIX- The Pulser

The Pulser sits closer to noise than anything else on the list. Befitting of its title, its mostly made up of washes of sampled sound treated and coaxed into heavy, sludge metal rythms. I think this is what the kids call "oceangrunge."

Xavier Wulf- Project X


A little more aggressive and poppy than anything off of this list. Punk-inflected aggro hip hop with downtempo beats.


Valerian Springs- God Isn't Dead

Gorgeous, new-age influenced synths buried under thick ocean samples. Also ocean grunge.

Yung Fern- Offering

Picture Yung Lean inspired by a health dose of  Kierkegaard.

HENTAIBOYS- I AM ALONE

Bassy, catchy cloudtrap.

Do. Not. Sleep. On. Hentaiboys.



















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