The Prince Estate, in collaboration with the global color authority, Pantone Color Institute, announced the creation of a standardized custom color to represent and honor Prince. The suitably purple hue, represented by his “Love Symbol #2” was inspired by a custom-designed Yamaha piano, due to go on tour with Prince before his untimely passing at the age of …
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Make Believe’s vibe is one part winter cool, one part Alphaville’s Forever Young and a whole bunch of that brilliantly weird PC Music thing. It isn’t super Christmas-y, is it? But it’s definitely seasonal. On the track, longtime affiliate of the label Hannah Diamond, bellows an ecstatic chorus through auto-tune over the huge pads, booming percussion …
Neon-lit grids, check. Circuit boards, check. A synthwave theme tune remix, Check. Yep, this Westworld-gone-retro intro is everything we hoped it would be. Ever wondered how HBO’s Westworld may have looked had it been around in the 80s? probably not, well don’t bother because audiovisual artist Messypandas (real name Tom Gosling), has put together a pixel …
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Daft Punk is a French electronic music duo from Paris, formed in 1993 by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. The duo achieved significant popularity in the late 1990s as part of the French House movement and had continuous success in the years following, combining elements of house music with funk, techno, disco, rock and synthpop influences. …
Koka’s beat machines are handmade, programmable electromechanical musical instruments that produce unexpectedly wonderful rhythmic and melodic patterns. Koka’s Beat Machine’s are the work of inventor and creator Koka Nikoladze, a Georgian artist living in Norway. Put together with the bare essentials, springs, coils and exposed wiring, and a tonne of creativity the boxes share a loveable DIY …
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Drakes gloomy, meme-bait ‘Views’ cover, has been mocked, morphed and parodied online since it’s unveiling, so we’ve listed 10 on-point Twitter parodies. On the cover of his fourth full length LP ‘Views’, Toronto rapper Drake sits perched atop the CN tower. Inevitably, ‘the internet’ has taken his distant, solemn-looking silhouette out of context and out …
We scoured the web for free vinyl record PSD mock-ups and found these 5 – available to download in just a couple of clicks, for absolutely nothing. These mockups are fully customizable in Photoshop, making it super easy for you to add your own covers and label by simply editing the smart layer or dropping …
The APM Music catalogue of late 80’s and early 90’s corporate Muzak is a huge vault of Vaporwave-ready samples, waiting to be pitched, chopped and skewed. APM Music are a production music company, offering ‘every type of music perfect for every type of media’. Deep in their vaults of waiting room, news reel and on-hold Muzak are 100’s of albums …
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Swedish Cloud Rapper and Net Art Cult Figure Yung Lean has dropped his sophomore LP ‘Warlord’, available to stream now. The brand new 13-track LP follows up on 2014’s polarizing ‘Unknown Memories’ – Yung Lean’s debut effort that showcased his wavey rap sensibility against a sonic palette of sharp, melodic Cloud Rap productions. warlord out now ????https://t.co/XO0akbYs7a …
Vektroid a.k.a. Macintosh Plus, New Dreams Ltd., Laserdisc Visions etc. has released three new LP’s. The Vaporwave pioneer behind 2011’s Floral Shoppe, has dropped remasters of two deleted albums and a brand new, 20-track LP via Bandcamp. The first two, Fuji Grid TV: Ex and Shader Complete, albums that surfaced and subsequently disappeared several years ago, have been rebuilt …
