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As an expession of gratitude for looking into what Untoward aims to achieve as a label, I as the label owner would like to give a handful of special shoutouts to some of my favourite albums that served as direct inspiration for Untoward on its behalf.The definition of sentimental experiments to Untoward, 5-29-16 mycosocial serves as a captivating 40+ minute tape of communal melancholy and homesick expeditions through synth-heavy hip-hop beats with densely atmospheric pads and corrupted field recordings. Essential listening for afternoons with bright sunshine rays beaming through cracks between thick, dark clouds and light scatterings of raindrops across the suburbs.
Listen: https://sylvanidyllics.bandcamp.com/album/5-29-16-mycosocial
The debut album by one of electronic and plunderphonics music’s most visionary up-and-coming creatives is a half-hour of emotional & sonic turbulence through the roaring fires of rotted technology and the sharp metallic pains of loss and heartbroken nostalgia. ENDLESS STAIRCASE is a mind-melting first impression of an album, with a wild variety of styles & influences that pack together some of the heaviest punches to the gut while leaving its listeners eviscerated.
Listen: https://netbookswrld.bandcamp.com/album/endless-staircase
One of the most outstanding musical collaborations this far in the 2020s, eleven online friends banded together to create an absurdly short, varied, genre-less, chaotic, euphoric and provocatively resonant collection of mini-songs, and each listen makes the short-lived experience that much greater!
Listen: https://retracrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-rock-band-stem-fragmentation-and-syncopation-exercises-1-7-w-supplemental-materials
A bizarre collage of snapshots that sprawl all across the forgotten corners of 2000s culture during the decade’s most aesthetically distinct soar of modern technology, this anonymous creation on one of vaporwave’s most highly respected labels captures a sickly corrupted nostalgia for post-Y2K racing games, portable consoles and pixellated flash games during one of the last times the internet could be considered an obscure world beyond this planet. One of the most abstract and experimental vaporwave albums of recent years with a bittersweet conclusion.
Listen: https://businesscasual87.bandcamp.com/album/clear-vision
In a year where vaporwave was at its most daring & experimental, future funk artist Dante managed to push through with one of vaporwave’s most complex albums. An exorbitantly creative trek through futuristic aspirations and retrospective, corrupted technology, the album presents itself with abundantly eerie interludes, transcendental vaporwave passages and some of the most thoroughly banging electronic dance tracks in all of sample-based music, slowly letting its glitches dissolve the foundation surrounding its music until the very end.
Listen: https://bedlamtapes.bandcamp.com/album/celebrating-digital-artifacts
One of the deeper inspirations for the content of this label is a fulcrum point in vapor history on how vaporwave & plunderphonics music can convey the most potent of concepts with minimal sample editing and, in the case of this album, come through with some of the most creative, daring, and emotionally torn-down sample flips of the entire online movement. A trek through hell, a barrage of mourning, loss, desolation and deep regret, all with passive flames persistently surrounding you throughout the experience, it remains a touchstone in modern sample-based music.
Listen: https://christtt.bandcamp.com/album/no-lives-matter
The entirety of the Signalwave genre and its respective community is a wonderous home for some of the most beautifully haunting and hauntingly beautiful vaporwave to exist, and the beginning of the trilogy that started it all by twisting the formula of Broken Transmission records is brimming with atmospheric loops worth gazing into your computer or looking up at the stars to in the dead of night.
Listen: https://computer-gaze.bandcamp.com/album/computer-death