Vendor: Windows 96
Type: LP
Price:
25.00
In stock + shipping now
Album Tracklist:
1. I Swear
2. Underwater
3. Glass Prism
4. Laugh Away
5. En Route
6. Inicio
7. Fondamentalement
8. All The While
9. Unakite
10. See You
Vendor: Windows 96
Type: LP
Price:
25.00
In stock + shipping now. Limited to 800 qty.
Tracklist
1. Deep Swim 04:16
2. Hazy Trip 03:19
3. Exordium 02:33
4. Venus Aire 04:48
5. Hello Earth 02:55
6. Hypnosis 04:15
7. Cathode Rays 02:53
8. Illyuziya 02:46
9. Wasting Time 03:58
10. Golden Triangle 02:39
11. Bonita Camisa 03:18
12. Lead 02:32
Vendor: ESPRIT 空想
Type: LP
Price:
25.00
In stock + shipping now!
Pressing of 500
ESPRIT began in 2012 as the sample-based side-project of electronic pop artist “George Clanton.” ESPRIT’s first two EP’s “Girls Only” and “Summer Night” are still considered essential listening for any newcomers to the vaporwave genre. In 2014, when vaporwave was still defined by its use of found music and manipulated samples, ESPRIT released his ‘Virtua.zip’ LP composed entirely of original material. In the 3 years since its release, the vaporwave scene at large has followed this trend.
After ‘Virtua.zip,’ the ESPRIT series was put on hold while George Clanton’s eponymous project’s ‘howtocopewithgrief’ LP released in late 2015. In 2017, ESPRIT returned with both the successor to ‘Virtua.zip’ and the sister album to ‘howtocopewithgrief’.
‘200% Electronica’ combines fully original compositions in ESPRIT’s classic vaporwave style with chopped & screwed samples pulled from George Clanton’s own songs, inspired by two years of touring with nothing but a Roland SP 404-SX.
Album Tracklist
Vendor: FM Skyline
Type: CD
Price:
15.00
Introducing 'Images', an album of poems in sound by FM Skyline out April 19th via howtocopewithgrief. In stock and shipping now!
Exclusive Enhanced CD Bonus: Can you solve the Fresnel mystery?? Be sure to load this Enhanced CD into your Mac or PC to play the Fresnel Game created by George Clanton and FM Skyline!!
Tracklisting:
1. In the Clouds
2. Fresnel
3. Illuso
4. Motion Pictures
5. Museum
6. Wardiso
7. In the Hills
8. Aprés-midi
9. Procession
10. Silence
All music by FM Skyline 2024 (BMI)
Vendor: FM Skyline
Type: Accessories
Price:
30.00
Enjoy your favorite beverage in style with this legit FM Skyline coffee mug! Fun and functional, this mug is great for using around the house, at the office, or fueling your winning streak while playing the secret video game on the 'Images' enhanced CD! Produced by howtocopewithgrief.
11 oz. ceramic mug
Vendor: Software
Type: LP
Price:
25.00
From the creators of the howtocopewithgrief classic "Digital-Dance" and "Electronic-Universe" comes "Beam-Scape" the debut album from SOFTWARE, originally released under the artists' names Peter Mergener and Michael Weisser.
Featuring the original artwork and Direct Metal Mastering (DMM) just like the original first edition from 1984.
Includes all 4 of the original lengthy sci-fi synthesizer journeys
1. Rainbow 09:42
2. Sunbeam 10:40
3. Shooting Star 15:50
4. Small Spark 05:27
Vendor: Windows 96
Type: LP
Price:
25.00
Windows 96's iconic synth/vaporwave album, "One Hundred Mornings" now in a new deluxe edition with an alternative version of the artwork and all tracks retouched plus new bonus tracks.
Tracklisting:
1. Caligula
2. Visage
3. Abstract
4. Visions I
5. Visions II
6. Bliss
7. Tomorrow (Bonus Track)
8. Languages
9. Rituals
10. Mind Mirage
11. Who Are You (Bonus Track)
12. Hard (Bonus Track)
13. Mist (Bonus Track)
14. Plylight (Vinyl Only Bonus Track)
Vendor: FM Skyline
Type: Cassette
Price:
15.00
In stock and shipping now. Comes with digital download.
Liteware is now available on cassette! Professionally dubbed and shrinkwrapped, as always!
Tracklisting:
1. paradise neon
2. glass beaches
3. crystal river
4. polygon park
5. acrylic jungle
6. marble madness
7. kallisto
8. mirror gallery
9. quartz gallery
10. shadows
11. endless sky
Mastered by: t e l e p a t h
Vendor: death's dynamic shroud
Type: CD
Price:
15.00
Glass replicated CD.
"it fucking bangs — hard and consistently — for a dizzyingly complex and immensely pleasurable hour" - FACT
"super, super sick... I want every sample to play for infinity." - Tiny Mix Tapes
#1 Top 10 Electronic albums of the 2010s - The Sentry
Tracklist:
1. 너 땜에 맘이 맘이 맘이 맘이 괴로워요 04:20
2. Loving Is Easy 05:43
3. Somebody Home 04:24
4. 혼자 남은 지금 꼴이 06:33
5. 이보다 좋을 수는 없겠어 04:31
6. CD Factory / 드라마 05:43
7. 시원한 파도소리 좋아요 05:44
8. 내 마음은 떨고 05:35
9. 그대 기억에 지쳐 잠들죠 01:54
10. 혼자 남은 지금 꼴이 (Reprise) 02:50
11. CD Player pt III 05:13
12. 난 괜찮다고 또 웃으며 Good Bye 07:00
Vendor: death's dynamic shroud
Type: LP
Price:
25.00
In Stock and shipping now
Part of a suite of 3 albums all releasing simultaneously November 10th 2023
Midnight Tangerine is a venture into somewhat more conventional songwriting for death’s dynamic shroud, as heard on singles “Who I Say I Am” and “The Bleeding Of The Sun,” which became live staples over the course of the recent tour. It is a melodramatic, synth-driven album with many of the epic, explosive moments DDS has become known for over the years.
The artwork is a digital collage by band member Tech Honors featuring early 1800s watercolor abstractions originally painted by Mary Gartside, and fruits and flowers by Kaspar Hauser.
Midnight Tangerine is available for streaming everywhere now here: https://howtocopewithgrief.com/Midnighttangerine
500 copies available
Vendor: George Clanton Fan Club
Type: Cassette
Price:
15.00
In stock and shipping now!
This performance was recorded on a Zoom H4N at the 200% Electronica ALbum Release Party at Brooklyn Night Bazaar in Greenpoint, NY on November 18th 2017.
A George Clanton Fan Club + Tour Exclusive online for a limited time!
Album Tracklist:
Vendor: death's dynamic shroud
Type: LP
Price:
18.00
Like Neon Memories, Messe De E-102 is a suite of all-new material and stands on its own as a mini-album as well as a single. The record also includes an instrumental version of Messe De E-102 and a 2012 demo recording. Messe De E-102 7-track EP is out now on LTD Edition vinyl via howtocopewithgrief. Limited to 500qty.
CRITICAL RECEPTION
"“Messe de E-102” is a spooky electro-pop thriller brimming with tension and triumph." -What's Good
“Stunningly beautiful” -The Needle Drop
Tracklist
A1. Messe De E-102 (5:32)
A2. Sorry Pt. 2 (4:07) [Vinyl Exclusive]
A3. Wish House (3:29) [Vinyl Exclusive]
A4. Dark Channel (5:49) [Vinyl Exclusive]
A5. Rose Confession (4:06) [Vinyl Exclusive]
B1. Messe De E-102 [2012 Demo] (4:39) [Vinyl Exclusive]
B2. Messe De E-102 [Instrumental] (5:32) [Vinyl Exclusive]
About
death's dynamic shroud have always been curious about what we can't see. Tech Honors, James Webster, and Keith Rankin make music that explores that sense of wonderment—emotional, experimental electronic work that fills gaps between the known and unknown. Full of richly textured layers of sound, songs like new single “Judgment Bolt” draw unsuspecting listeners into a place that’s simultaneously murky and neon, somber and playful. You feel a sense of new adventure, with a curious pang of déjà vu. The group was initially drawn to the vaporwave world, producing records like 2015’s I'll Try Living Like This and 2017’s Heavy Black Heart, which took familiar sounds—like K-pop, among others—to their maximalist limits. Since then they’ve experimented with making music in different formations of the group and collected the results in a project called NUWRLD Mixtape Club, which included the acclaimed 2021 release Faith In Persona. Their upcoming album—their first in years to include all three members—finds them further exploring unknown realms, focusing on original composition, songwriting, and vocals. And, of course, they’ve utilized some well-placed samples to help drive the album’s concept: an exploration of “love as a social construct, or as the fabric of the universe, or as not existing.” Once again, death's dynamic shroud work to chart what we can’t see but—more than ever—can feel. To Webster, this era boils down to one salient fact: “There’s more of us in this than ever before.”
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Bandcamp
Vendor: Neggy Gemmy
Type: Cassette
Price:
15.00
The highly anticipated third LP on cassette from Neggy Gemmy out April 28th, 2023 via howtocopewithgrief. Her recent string of singles 'California', 'Beep Beep', 'Daydream', 'Gemmy Juice', 'Twisted', and 'Black Ferrari' have been a glimpse into a new cartoonified Neggy Gemmy-verse. The vision coalesces in "CBD Reiki Moonbeam" - 15 bonafide pop songs that bounce from California to outer space as quickly as they descend from glamor into chaos.
In stock and shipping now!
Album Tracklist:
1. california
2. black ferrari
3. daydream
4. take a picture
5. beep beep
6. cbd
7. reiki
8. twisted
9. spinning
10. seeing stars (feat. frost children)
11. euphoria
12. moonbeam
13. playing on my phone
14. gemmy juice (feat. sarah bonito)
15. on the floor
Credits:
all songs written, recorded + produced by lindsey french (neggy gemmy). seeing stars co-written by neggy gemmy, frost children, + jorge elbrecht. gemmy juice performed by neggy gemmy and sarah bonito. mixed by neggy gemmy, jorge elbrecht, abe seiferth, oren ratowsky, nate donmoyer, + zach fogarty. mastered by mike marsh. art by uou___cute. layout by neggy gemmy.
Vendor: Neggy Gemmy
Type: CD
Price:
15.00
The highly anticipated third LP on CD from Neggy Gemmy out April 28th, 2023 via howtocopewithgrief. Her recent string of singles 'California', 'Beep Beep', 'Daydream', 'Gemmy Juice', 'Twisted', and 'Black Ferrari' have been a glimpse into a new cartoonified Neggy Gemmy-verse. The vision coalesces in "CBD Reiki Moonbeam" - 15 bonafide pop songs that bounce from California to outer space as quickly as they descend from glamor into chaos.
In stock and shipping now!
Album Tracklist:
1. california
2. black ferrari
3. daydream
4. take a picture
5. beep beep
6. cbd
7. reiki
8. twisted
9. spinning
10. seeing stars (feat. frost children)
11. euphoria
12. moonbeam
13. playing on my phone
14. gemmy juice (feat. sarah bonito)
15. on the floor
Credits:
all songs written, recorded + produced by lindsey french (neggy gemmy). seeing stars co-written by neggy gemmy, frost children, + jorge elbrecht. gemmy juice performed by neggy gemmy and sarah bonito. mixed by neggy gemmy, jorge elbrecht, abe seiferth, oren ratowsky, nate donmoyer, + zach fogarty. mastered by mike marsh. art by uou___cute. layout by neggy gemmy.
Vendor: Neggy Gemmy
Type: LP
Price:
25.00
The highly anticipated third LP from Neggy Gemmy released April 28th, 2023 via howtocopewithgrief. Her recent string of singles 'California', 'Beep Beep', 'Daydream', 'Gemmy Juice', 'Twisted', and 'Black Ferrari' have been a glimpse into a new cartoonified Neggy Gemmy-verse. The vision coalesces in "CBD Reiki Moonbeam" - 15 bonafide pop songs that bounce from California to outer space as quickly as they descend from glamor into chaos.
In stock and shipping now!
This first edition Interdimensional Star Rift Yellow vinyl is limited to only 500 copies.
Album Tracklist:
1. california
2. black ferrari
3. daydream
4. take a picture
5. beep beep
6. cbd
7. reiki
8. twisted
9. spinning
10. seeing stars (feat. frost children)
11. euphoria
12. moonbeam
13. playing on my phone
14. gemmy juice (feat. sarah bonito)
15. on the floor
Credits:
all songs written, recorded + produced by lindsey french (neggy gemmy). seeing stars co-written by neggy gemmy, frost children, + jorge elbrecht. gemmy juice performed by neggy gemmy and sarah bonito. mixed by neggy gemmy, jorge elbrecht, abe seiferth, oren ratowsky, nate donmoyer, + zach fogarty. mastered by mike marsh. art by uou___cute. layout by neggy gemmy.
Vendor: FM Skyline
Type: LP
Price:
25.00
In stock + shipping now
For the first time on vinyl - FM Skyline's legendary debut album "Deluxe Memory Suite" is finally here. Exclusively available at howtocopewithgrief, this album is limited to only 500 copies in one single variant: this amazing blue and pink splatter over metallic silver vinyl.
A message from the artist:
"When I released a cassette of Deluxe Memory Suite five years ago I wasn’t expecting much, I had just discovered the huge mysterious world of early vaporwave and was still doing some songwriting and playing instruments in bands around town. My picture of vaporwave was still pretty fuzzy, I was a big fan of everything going on with 100% which was just Esprit, George & Lindsey’s first solo albums, and Deep Fantasy at that point, I had also discovered Eyeliner and Luxury Elite, and a sea of other projects with Kanji in their name, and I was also listening to some neo electro-boogie, Sasac and Shiro Schwartz. I was aware of future funk but it seemed like a looser thing to me at the time than it actually is, so i thought in my mind that I was touching on that a little bit."
Album Tracklist:
Vendor: death's dynamic shroud
Type: LP
Price:
18.00
The Neon Memories EP features the single from the Darklife LP, paired with 6 vinyl exclusive tracks you can't get anywhere else. These are our last remaining copies, and it will not be reprinted. Beautiful artwork by James Webster and Keith Rankin.
- Limited to 200qty.
The Needle Drop: Best Tracks of the Week in Weekly Track Roundup: 4/17/22
Tracklist
A1. Neon Memories (4:36)
A2. CD Player V (2:57) [Vinyl Exclusive]
A3. It's Only Pain (4:28) [Vinyl Exclusive]
A4. Cover My Eyes (2:33) [Vinyl Exclusive]
A5. You Don't Care (5:36) [Vinyl Exclusive]
B1. Neon Memories [2012 Demo] (5:11) [Vinyl Exclusive]
B2. Neon Memories [Instrumental] (4:35) [Vinyl Exclusive]
About
death's dynamic shroud have always been curious about what we can't see. Tech Honors, James Webster, and Keith Rankin make music that explores that sense of wonderment—emotional, experimental electronic work that fills gaps between the known and unknown. Full of richly textured layers of sound, songs like new single “Judgment Bolt” draw unsuspecting listeners into a place that’s simultaneously murky and neon, somber and playful. You feel a sense of new adventure, with a curious pang of déjà vu. The group was initially drawn to the vaporwave world, producing records like 2015’s I'll Try Living Like This and 2017’s Heavy Black Heart, which took familiar sounds—like K-pop, among others—to their maximalist limits. Since then they’ve experimented with making music in different formations of the group and collected the results in a project called NUWRLD Mixtape Club, which included the acclaimed 2021 release Faith In Persona. Their upcoming album—their first in years to include all three members—finds them further exploring unknown realms, focusing on original composition, songwriting, and vocals. And, of course, they’ve utilized some well-placed samples to help drive the album’s concept: an exploration of “love as a social construct, or as the fabric of the universe, or as not existing.” Once again, death's dynamic shroud work to chart what we can’t see but—more than ever—can feel. To Webster, this era boils down to one salient fact: “There’s more of us in this than ever before.”
death's dynamic shroud Online
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Twitter
YouTube
Bandcamp
Vendor: PICTUREPLANE
Type: LP
Price:
95.00
In stock + shipping now. 10 Year Edition of Thee Physical Limited to 1000 copies. Blue Splatter Variant.
10 Year Anniversary Edition of Thee Physical includes:
Holographic Rainbow Foil Gatefold LP
Blue Splatter Vinyl
12x12 20-page photo booklet
12x12 insert
Digital download
★★★★ -All Music
With help from HEALTH's Jupiter Keyes, Denver producer Travis Egedy refines the blasted-electro approach of 2009's Dark Rift. -Pitchfork
Featured in Stereogum's top 50 albums of 2011 list.
"genre-splicing sensual dance" -Stereogum
"THEE PHYSICAL is packed with giddy tangents and unexpected bursts of utopian anthemia, pianos and keyboards so feverishly happy they sound like they could spontaneously catch fire at any moment." -Resident Advisor
"It will leave you buzzin’ ‘n’ breathless with a warm glow and a satisfied smile" -Pop Matters
"Thee Physical is music ready for a dance floor (just as much as past Pictureplane releases have been), but it's also a disc that shows growth towards a better ability to blend the synthetic and the organic." -Consequence of Sound
"Though the music often suggests a frozen remove, Egedy's voice conveys a need to connect, which smartly reinforces the album's lyrical themes of feeling isolated and disconnected from the physical self." -AV Club
About
Pictureplane has made his name circling the outer limits of pop culture in several mediums. The Brooklyn-based artist's gallery works, shown both in the U.S. and abroad, collide familiar with fringe and hard lines with visceral spatter. His Alien Body clothing line serves up a stylized study of symbology, the occult, and societal decay. And his music—beautiful yet heavy, swirling wild strains of industrial dance, gothic hip-hop, and emotive New Age—treats electronics not as artificial, but as extensions of our analog selves. After a decade thrashing the status quo, Egedy is not only kin to makers of lovely dark music everywhere, but a vital player in the global DIY community. He is a proud outsider, yes, but his tribe is legion and ever-growing.
In 2011, Pictureplane's Thee Physical arrived, marking a major leap forward. Egedy's voice was suddenly dripping sex at the forefront of a lush synthscape, while cuts like "Trancegender" and "Breath Work" explored the human body with gender-dissolving aplomb. He moved to Brooklyn in 2012 in order to stoke alt-rave culture from a more powerful vantage before teaming up with fabled indie-rap imprint Anticon for Technomancer (2015), an LP about the blurring line between ourselves and our machines. Along the way, Egedy's toured with everyone from Crystal Castles and Major Lazer to the Faint and Gang of Four. He has remixed Lil B; been remixed by Grimes; collaborated with bands (Prayers) and SoundCloud stars (Goth Boi Clique)
Track List:
1. Body Mod 03:58
2. Black Nails 04:03
3. Sex Mechanism 03:08
4. Touching Transform 04:43
5. Post Physical 04:16
6. Techno Fetish 04:00
7. Real Is a Feeling 04:34
8. Trancegender 04:16
9. Negative Slave 03:22
10. Breath Work 04:09
11. Thee Power Hand 05:01
Vendor: Windows 96
Type: CD
Price:
15.00
In stock + shipping now. Limited to 300 qty.
Windows 96's iconic synth/vaporwave album, originally released through Business Casual. "One Hundred Mornings" now in a new deluxe edition with an alternative version of the artwork and all tracks retouched plus new bonus tracks.
Tracklist:
1. Caligula
2. Visage
3. Abstract
4. Visions I
5. Visions II
6. Bliss
7. Tomorrow (Bonus Track)
8. Languages
9. Rituals
10. Mind Mirage
11. Who Are You (Bonus Track)
12. Hard (Bonus Track)
13. Mist (Bonus Track)
14. Plylight (CD Only Bonus Track)
Vendor: Equip
Type: Cassette
Price:
15.00
Live in LA on clear cassette. Featuring a 3-panel wrap around insert, and limited to only 100 copies.
Exclusive to this cassette release: Equip & George Clanton's version of "Facing Worlds," as performed at Virtual Utopia 3 and ElectroniCON 3!
"Complacency is death." A slogan by which Chicago-based composer Equip has defined himself by. "Crystal Matrix" represents another sonic evolution for Equip- If "Cursebreaker X" was "knightrock," "Crystal Matrix" is "knightrave." "It's boring making the same stuff over and over. Things start to stagnate if I get comfortable with the same formula. I'm a music fiend- I love the challenge of working outside of the "vaporwave" genre i've been pigeonholed into." "Crystal Matrix" answers the tired "Is it vaporwave?" question with a resounding "who gives a shit." The "Live In LA" album was born out of Equip's monthly mixtape club and specifically crafted for the 2021 "Pudinapalooza" 2-day event curated by howtocopewithgrief's co-owner, Neggy Gemmy. It was Equip's first show post-pandemic, and the pent-up energy was palpable. Equip has spent the last two years transforming, both physically and musically. Further pushing the sound of his signature dream-like 16-bit inspired vapor-jams and sharpening it into a serrated dagger. "Crystal Matrix" is a dance banger and it lets you know right away. Metallic chord blasts erupt from a machine-line bassline, riding a 4-on-the-floor kick with a catchy 90's trance piano lead. Things are different now. A new era of Equip has begun. "Live in LA" is out in December on howtocopewithgrief.
1. I Dreamed Of A Palace In The Sky (Mode Select Mix)
2. Ascending Skyward (Stratosphere Mix)
3. Cemetery Moonglow (Skeleton Rave Mix)
4. Druids (Mage House Mix) view
5. Cursebreaker X Theme (Soul Loss Trance Mix)
6. Legendary Equipment (Halcyonic Mix)
7. Crystal Matrix
8. Equip x George Clanton - Facing Worlds (Bonus Track)
Vendor: death's dynamic shroud
Type: CD
Price:
15.00
In stock + shipping now. Stream it here.
Limited to 300qty.
All three members of death’s dynamic shroud (James Webster, Keith Rankin & Tech Honors) reunited for the first time since 2017’s Heavy Black Heart for their recent suite of material - ‘Judgment Bolt’ (Single), 'Fall For Me' (Single), ‘Neon Memories EP’, ‘Messe de E-102 EP’, all parts leading to their most ambitious work to date – ‘Darklife’ out September 23, 2022 via howtocopewithgrief. You can pre-save and pre-order ‘Darklife’ on LTD Edition 2x 12” vinyl, CD & Cassette here.
“Since 2014 we have been releasing albums under the death’s dynamic shroud name in pairs or as individuals, but Darklife is the strongest representation of our combined sensibilities, shifting from heavy electronic dance music to bubblegum pop, from gentle ballads to harsh digital abstractions; it is an outpouring of ideas and acts as a new beginning for the group. Much of the album is about the nature of love as a metaphor for our individual philosophies sparking and melding in the music, examining love as a social construct, or as the fabric of the universe, or as not existing at all. As our debut for howtocopewithgrief, Darklife can also be seen as a bridge between the underground tape and electronic scene of the 2010s into the dance and pop world the label has been shepherding.” -death’s dynamic shroud
CRITICAL RECEPTION
“On a new double album, the experimental collective continues its journey from vaporwave toward fractured, maximalist pop music… Darklife documents DDS’s humanity emerging from their once purely digital world. While it still features the internet-damaged sample manipulation that has become their trademark, it also incorporates more original production, instrumentation, and vocals than previous releases.” -Pitchfork
"A dizzying, idea-packed journey into fractured maximalist pop from Death's Dynamic Shroud." -Bandcamp
"...Tech Honors, James Webster, and Keith Rankin of Orange Milk Records are in fine form with the new project, which demonstrates a poppier development since their niche beginnings on tracks like "Fall For Me," "Neon Memories," and "Judgement Bolt." -FADER
“Stunningly beautiful” -The Needle Drop on ‘Messe de E-102 during NMF The Needle Drop: Best Tracks of the Week in Weekly Track Roundup: 4/17/22"
“Messe de E-102” is a spooky electro-pop thriller brimming with tension and triumph." -What's Good on ‘Messe de E-102’
"It’s a bear that death’s dynamic shroud have wrestled with for years and consistently come out on top with adventurous triumphs like 'Neon Memories.'" -FADER on Neon Memories 10 songs you need in your life this week: 4/18/22
"...indie-pop track that evolves into a massive electronic behemoth... there’s never been a better time to be a fan of Death’s Dynamic Shroud." -Lyrical Lemonade on Neon Memories
“...Fucking awesome…” -The Needle Drop on ‘Judgment Bolt’ during NMF
“‘Judgment Bolt’ continues the search for untraditional dancefloor bangers, channeling Skrillex and the digital miasma of classic vaporwave.” -THE FADER on ‘Judgment Bolt’
“…a pixelated, dancefloor-shaking blur of digitized beats, trippy orchestral passages and mutated vocals that stoke excitement for the full-length to come.” -Columbus Alive on ‘Judgment Bolt’
Track List
Credits:
Written, Recorded & Produced:
James Webster, Tech Honors & Keith Rankin
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Vendor: Windows 96
Type: CD
Price:
15.00
In stock + shipping now. Limited to 300 qty.
Tracklist
1. Deep Swim 04:16
2. Hazy Trip 03:19
3. Exordium 02:33
4. Venus Aire 04:48
5. Hello Earth 02:55
6. Hypnosis 04:15
7. Cathode Rays 02:53
8. Illyuziya 02:46
9. Wasting Time 03:58
10. Golden Triangle 02:39
11. Bonita Camisa 03:18
12. Lead 02:32
Vendor: Vitesse X
Type: LP
Price:
25.00
In stock + shipping now!
"Detached from the influences of the outside world, I began to reunite with feelings that I forgot I had the capacity to feel. I started to recognize how, in this modern society fueled by greed and excess, we have reached a collective state of deep desensitization. Us Ephemeral is a call to return back to ourselves, to feel without judgment or resistance; self-actualization as an act of selflessness." -Vitesse X
Critical Reception:
7 Female Electronic Producers and Singers to Watch -NUMERO Magazine
“…transportive…”, “Engineered with precision” and “.. channels bits of techo, trance, 2-step, and jungle into contemporary rave hybrids tempered with a hint of vaporwave’s self-awareness... The title track kicks things off with dust clouds of reverb, little scraps of what might be radio transmissions, a big widescreen beat, and Stern’s floaty vocals. A sped-up voice riding shotgun chants, Go go go go go. It’s a winning start to an album that continues down similar paths, passing landmarks of the last 40-odd years of dance music." -Pitchfork
"...euphoric, rave-ready..." -Gorilla vs. Bear
"A shapeshifting, retro-futuristic effort from the nyc vapor-house debutante." -IMPOSE MAGAZINE
"An ode to the perpetual passing of time, “Us Ephemeral” embraces the impermanence and absurdity of life itself." -C-Heads
"Vitesse X's affinity for blending elements of dream-pop, drum & bass percussion, and vaporwave is made immediately apparent with her newest track's hypnotic yet energetic feel." -Ones To Watch on 'Us Ephemeral'
"The retrofuturist project is what we can safely call a crossover as it transcends jungle beats, vaporware, hypnagogic pop and chillwave to form something new, a cyborg dream pop that would fit so well in the howtocopewithgrief landscape." - Highclouds
Album Tracklist:
1. Us Ephemeral
2. Spaces
3. Potential Energy stream
4. Rash Devices
5. Activation
6. Centrifuge Me
7. Therma Maxima stream
8. Gated Bloom
9. Repress Reprise stream
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Vitesse X is an electronic music mystic. After years playing in bands and DJing around her native New York, she launched her solo career to get in touch with herself and with the euphoric spirit of the dancefloor—the limitless possibilities that present themselves when you’ve spent hours at the club, or in a sweaty basement, moving your body until the sun rises. Rightly, her songs recognize the history of rave music as a vehicle for surreal, otherworldly, and most of all, emotional pop songs. Swirling together technicolor synth programming from that tradition, with a technical approach she honed in her years as an esteemed sound engineer, her work feels nostalgic and futurist at once. It’s pop music out of time and place that celebrates the ecstatic potential of the club—a fitting soundtrack for the nights that you want to last forever.
When the pandemic struck in 2020, Vitesse X began writing songs without expectation and found the process intensely cathartic. Though she’d made music of her own before, she soon emerged with her most honest output to date—what eventually took shape into Us Ephemeral, her debut solo album for howtocopewithgrief. Inspired heavily by Kraftwerk’s Tour de France, she made electronic music that felt intensely human, using her songs as a conduit for connection. Ambient techno, ’90s rave, and coldwave beats pulsate across the record’s nine tracks as she sings about what weighs heavy on her heart. The sonic diversity and vivid emotion allowed her to reconnect to what inspired her to become an artist in the first place.
Vitesse X fell in love with the expansive possibilities of music when she was a teenager listening to acts like Radiohead, Aphex Twin, and Four Tet, who wrung powerful feelings out of intricate, genre-blurring productions. She started to take ownership of it herself when she went to college in Virginia, where she began playing guitar and bass in punk, shoegaze, and chillwave outfits. It was in that scene that she first met and played shows with howtocopewithgrief’s eventual founder George Clanton, who was then performing as Mirror Kisses. Even then, they were kindred spirits, forging the connection that ultimately led to her having a place on the label.
One of her bands gained ground in the early 2010s blog scene and began to get offers to tour around the country, inspiring Vitesse X to drop out of college and move to New York. Soon after she relocated, though, that project dissolved, and after a stint in another established group in the city, she decided it was time for a change. Burned out on road life and other people’s bands, she zeroed in on her craft and the music that meant the most to her. “I needed the confidence to approach music with a much stronger sense of myself,” she says, now a master of her craft.
Working as an engineer and producer, Vitesse X became an in-demand name in the New York scene and developed her technical abilities. At the same time, she was DJing more and more around the city, further clarifying her affection for the blissful rush of dance music. When the pandemic hit and live music stopped, it provided an opportunity to think about how to translate that love into a sound that felt honest—a true reflection of how she saw the world.
“The music that speaks to me most is always the music I was listening to during a time when I was desperately trying to escape my reality,” she says. Us Ephemeral is designed with that in mind. Whether it’s “Therma Maxima” exposing the toll greed takes on the planet over ethereal breakbeats and vaporwave synths, or the lyrically vulnerable IDM-inflected “Gated Bloom,” the record acknowledges tough times—but ultimately offers a portal to a better world.
That sentiment has powered this project since its inception. Launching Vitesse X when club nights and live gigs were on hold meant getting creative about sonically communing. She found a way through howtocopewithgrief’s weekly virtual reality streams—a thriving community where thousands gather to hang out and listen to new music. She started throwing her own digital parties and forging bonds despite the distance—fitting, since her music was made with the idea of community in mind. With Us Ephemeral’s otherworldly sounds and evocative lyrics, Vitesse X is set to help people connect, and then transcend. “Music is an escapist thing for me,” she says. “I’m always trying to evoke that in other people—to help them reach another realm.”
Vendor: George Clanton & Nick Hexum
Type: CD
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Album Tracklist:
"deeply satisfying," George's "most accessible—and fun—music to date" - Pitchfork
"It’s got a woozy, hard-slapping beat that makes me think an aurora summer must be similar to a deadbeat summer...It’s a vibe for sure." - Stereogum on "Aurora Summer"
"..Wavy... psychedelic and immersive as f**k. Sweet To the ears...surreal..." - The Needle Drop on "Aurora Summer"
"...Fusing elements of wonky electronica, ambient, shoegaze and acid house, Clanton’s production has seen him become an underground darling on the internet, but it’s this unlikely new collaborative tape with 311 singer Nick Hexum that might just prove to be his mainstream breakout moment." - MIXDOWN
“A breezy shot of aural sunshine.” - Stereogum on "Topanga State of Mind”
"Hexum’s signature staccato and fuzzy guitar melts into Clanton’s ethereal electronic backdrop to create the ultimate musical getaway." - Billboard on “Crash Pad”
“It’s a surprising collaboration, but it also makes sense.” - The FADER on “King For A Day”
"Way more awesome than anyone could’ve predicted." - Stereogum on “Out Of The Blue”
"Beautiful vaporwave number, featuring Hexum’s reverb-soaked vocals." - Uproxx on “Crash Pad”
“Sounds like the product of a totally mutual bond, Clanton finding inspiration in his muse and Hexum sounding reinvigorated by dipping his toes into an entirely new genre.” - Flood on “Under Your Window”
"Quality songwriting" - The Needle Drop on "Crash Pad" & "King For A Day"
"This album is a collab no one asked for or predicted. There isn't a big overlap in fan bases here, but I think Nick and I share the same musical ethos. Nick has never pandered to a mainstream audience with his work in 311, they've always done their own thing and built their own culture around the music they wanted to make. I believe in that, and I've been doing my own thing for 10 years now. Nick certainly doesn't NEED to do this collab, and I've never done one of those buzzy collabs with a hot artist in my own sphere just to get more plays. I think its unique that we came together purely based on the music (after Nick heard I was a big fan) and now we have this whole record full of absolute bangers that we made while having fun. This project has been a dream come true for me. Working with Nick's vocals, guitars, and melodic ideas has forced me to evolve my production style in a way I find incredibly interesting and can't wait to share the rest of it with the world. There should be more records like this." -George Clanton
"It’s been a lot of fun to work in a new genre. George has a masterful way of twisting and bending sounds to make them sound vintage. He manages to create soundscapes that are both retro and futuristic. I added guitar and vocals to George’s lush soundscape for this stoney side project. Enjoy!” -Nick Hexum
Vendor: Software
Type: LP
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Software's classic fifth 2xLP 'Electronica-Universe' is now available on vinyl for the first time since 1985 with two vinyl-only tracks 'Cosmic-Calimba' and 'Love-Potion-Of-Artificial-Life'. howtocopewithgrief HQ painstakingly digitally restored the art and tracked down two of the lost tracks for this very special 2xLP reissue.
Since 1983 Peter Mergener and Michael Weisser experiment with electronic sounds, visuals and environments. Their special interest is the area of how computers can be used to help express creative art of a wide variety. The LP's and CD's are just one part of Multi-Media-Events, combining music, computer-graphics and high-technology-poetry. SOFTWARE combines these elements beautifully, showing that technology as the sign of the time is emotion, stylish design and a new dimension of high-tech-beauty.
Side A
A1) Fluting-Electronic-Universe (19:57)
Side B
B1) Cosmic-Calimba (2:21) *
B2) Add-Space-To-Time (5:33)
B3) Psychomellow-Planet (6:12)
B4) Love-Potion-Of-Artificial-Life (3:32) *
B5) Cosmic-Marimba (3:28)
Side C
C1) Surfing-Saturn (20:32)
Side D
D1) Dancing-Venus (19:37)
* = vinyl only