DEPTHS OF THE NET is an perpetual work-in-progress project
with the intention of posting obscure music every day from all over the musical
sphere that I encounter on my endless safari through the wide world of web,
for two years and counting!

If you own any of this and want me to change or remove it I gladly will,
and though might take me a while to get to them suggestions are also appreciated.
And now for something completely different!



December 31st, 2021
I was unsure what release to end the year with, so here's a type of
net-based music I very rarely hear discussed. Conventionally, antireleases
are physical releases that subvert the normal media format and are often
completely unplayable. There are many lists of these online. Some artists
have taken this into the digital realm, making releases you have to remove
ASCII art from the data to listen to, encrypted albums no one can listen to,
and gigabyte-sized WAVs that exist only to waste your bandwidth.
I tried compiling as many as I could find here.
If you are aware of any more, please let me know.



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December 30th, 2021 - The Draculas - Lies
Year: ????
Label: None?
Genre: Lofi, synthpop



James Ferraro is well known in his kind of music circles, but this track
somehow slipped through the cracks and languished in undeserved obscurity.
Seemingly dredged up (by a musician formerly posted on here) from a broken
website, it's on par with the best of his work.
Download it here.

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December 29th, 2021 - Various Artists - Spring '03 Sampler
Year: 2003
Label: X Died Enroute Y
Genre: Noise, experimental



Another artifact of mp3.com-era noise netlabels. Distortion, experimentation,
low audio quality, shoved through early 00s modems and almost lost to time.
Can't help but wonder where a lot of these guys are now.
Download it here.

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December 28th, 2021 - Cutie Tooth - My Internet Boyfriend Killed Himself
Year: 2019
Label: Tsundere Violence
Genre: Samplecore, sound collage



The best thing I can compare it to is Japshitfun-esque samplecore stuff,
but far higher production quality. Hundreds of second-long samples crashing,
flickering by, occassionally shifting into a more coherent beat before returning
to the mashed-up mess. Cool stuff.
Download it here.

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December 27th, 2021 - spree - HARD
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Punk



This is probably the highest energy rock album I know. It's not the hardest,
it's not the fastest, but it's the closest audio can get to losing it
and never getting it back. Six bangers to go postal to.
Download it here.

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December 26th, 2021 - Lil Grind$aw - SUICIDE PART X: Gloom
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: HNW, ambient



Lil Grind$aw (this post refers more to the artist than the release itself,)
instead of making hour-long monoliths that sound more or less the same, has
shorter walls just long enough to get the point across, uses a lot more careful
sound designing, and oftentimes works in looping samples on top of the crackles
and rumbles. If you're good with the edgy subject matter, it's as good as an
introduction to the genre as you can get.
Download it here.

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December 25th, 2021 - Ｒｉｃｋ　＇ｎ＇　Ｒｏｌｌ　ゞヅ鋭 - ♡【ΣＳＣΛＰＩＮＧ　❦　ＨΣＡＲＴΛＣＨΣ　❦　君を決してあきらめないよ】♡
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Vaporwave



I am well aware this is a meme album but intentionally or not it came out pretty
interesting. Even with the same sample in every track but one, it manages to stay
diverse in sound, and you can appreciate the edits and production if you know the
song as well as you no doubt know this one. A fun little bit of self-described
broporwave.
Download it here.

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December 24th, 2021 - 光の緒 - Untitled
Year: 2015
Label: Kawaii☆Noizu
Genre: Classical, harsh noise wall



One of my favorite HNW records of all time, eschewing the genre's usual
gore / edginess as well as it's counterculture "happier" side (see Love
Katy and such projects) in favor of beautiful melancholic pianos dueting
with it's static monoliths. I heavily encourage you to read the description,
too. It really does feel like bleakness and repetition and peaceful hopelessness
under anime sakura.
Download it here.

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December 23rd, 2021 - BAROFSOAP - STARS
Year: (Maybe) 2019
Label: deathofbands
Genre: Emo rap



A now-deleted youtube upload from a now-lost album. Indulgent in all
of the genre's cliches (see the Blingee on the cover) but that works
to it's benefit. (Also see the larsht_ remix that I'm partially to blame for.)
Download it here.

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December 22nd, 2021 - Temma - MIDWEST ASSFUCK MIXTAPE
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Midwest emo, noise



A collection of cool midwest emo tunes, distorted into an absolute brick wall
of a waveform and released exclusively via a download link in a Twitch chat music
festival. Maybe it's just me but the idea works way better than it has any right to.
Download it here.

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December 21st, 2021 - ロンリーファゲット - self-cry. You are a lonely piece of shit
Year: 2017
Label: Tsundere Violence
Genre: Lofi rock, ambient



This artist seemingly released a flurry of singles under various aliases on Tsundere Violence then
vanished, as far as I can tell. Most are vocaloid or noise-related, but there's some post-rock,
including this. It feels like a teaser for something that regrettably never came out.
Download it here.

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December 20th, 2021 - sorry mom - .
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Emo, lofi, experimental



Warped ultimate lofi emo music. Some parts are messed with and reversed,
others ascend into noise, and there's some very pretty acoustic melodies
and lyrics. The only context for this I know is that it's a project
of Quinn Glaspey / dissociative youth, who apparently died around a
month after this release, which makes it a bit more haunting than it already was.
Download it here.

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December 19th, 2021 - DJ I Haven't Heard Them But I've Heard of Them - Baby, Baby, Baby
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Most of them



It's just a mix of all the artist you've definitely heard about
but probably never actually listened to too much. Which is cool,
because now you can check these artists off your to-listen list
of whatever, but it also has the hilarious byproduct of showing up
at the top of most popular RYM musician's "features in" page, as it's
RYM page attests. Accidental-spam-core.
Download it here.

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December 18th, 2021 - Unknown Artist - DON'T TOUCH IT!!! IT'S THE HISTORY ERASER BUTTON, YOU FOOL!!!
Year: 2016
Label: None
Genre: Dark ambient



A continuation of the theme of lapfox-turned-noise from the Dagro post.
This one has the added benefit of having no clue who made it. The associated
Archive account has been deleted and some digging got me nowhere. It's
dark ambient digitial debris now.
Download it here.

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December 17th, 2021 - Dying Adolescence - in their feelings
Year: 2015
Label: None
Genre: Lofi



Teen angst, lofi rock, I've been over this a dozen times but it's still
a perfect formula, and Dying Adolescence lends it a pop-ish sound at times
despite the recorded-on-a-toaster quality. The same feelings different ways.
Download it here.

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December 16th, 2021 - c@ - Daring Z​-​Young Nesyel
Year: 2008
Label: none (reissued on Mysterious Friend Label)
Genre: Experimental?



A bit of ambient noise, a bit of heavily panning grindcore, a bit
of nightmarish dance music. Pure outsider music from a side project
of Bubblegum Octopus, the description informs us that it "came about
during a relapse of extreme paranoia, constant derealization, frequent
panic attacks, delusions, and difficulty distinguishing dreams from reality."
I'm lucky enough to have never been there but it sure seems to do a good job
in capturing it.
Download it here.

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December 15th, 2021 - No Death & 아버지 - Frost
Year: 2017
Label: none
Genre: Ambient



One of the greatest ambient tracks of all time in my opinion.
Peace and winter transformed into sound. Feels like freezing to death
and being completely okay with it.
Download it here.

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December 14th, 2021 - chꜵs - the stray
Year: 2018
Label: none
Genre: Acoustic, emo



Possibly the prime example of acoustic emo songs. A bit amateurish and
probably recorded on a phone or computer but crams in more feelings in
essentially a minute than much anything else.
Download it here.

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December 13th, 2021 - 40oz. To Life - The Speedcore Suite (2012 Edition)
Year: 2012
Label: none?
Genre: Speedcore



Too many ambient posts as of late, might as well throw in some high octane speedcore
to keep the energy up. Heavily influenced by TQBF, it balances it's kick rushes with
absurd samples and m1dyish synths into a euphoric energetic experience.
Download it here.

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December 12th, 2021 - scatterzone - demos n duds
Year: 2020
Label: none
Genre: Lofi, ambient



A lovely, almost outsider bedroom pop release, going from acoustic guitar songs
with almost whispered vocals to simple but sweet ambient tunes. The artist went
to pains in the description to explain it as a series of early demos, even saying
they were essentially afraid of their voice when recording it, but despite that
it's an effective time capsule of teenage feelings and bedroom recordings.
Download it here.

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December 11th, 2021 - Crywank - Live 10/06/13
Year: 2013
Label: none
Genre: Folk



Not an "actual" release, but a bootleg I made of a youtube upload for offline listening.
It has alternate versions of some of his best songs, including live mistakes (he complimented
himself by accident in one track and had to correct himself.) All in all, it embodies what
early Crywank was all about.
Download it here.

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December 10th, 2021 - Songs about houses - i'm sorry i was so distracted
Year: 2021
Label: none
Genre: Ambient



This is one of those releases that matches it's art 100%, direct analogue. Frigid
wintery ambient with blurry melodies, scrambled radio signals as recieved through
a snowstorm, signalwave interludes. Paints a picture of an eternally still, snow-covered
world. For fans of CRT麻痺 and ядерная зима, if you can forgive my pretenious namedropping.
Download it here.

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December 9th, 2021 - Various Artists - First Quest - The Music
Year: 1985
Label: Filmtrax PLC
Genre: Soundtrack (modern classical, synth-pop, ambient)



A curious artifact from the earlier days of D&D, this is a record (or cassette) which contained
the soundtrack to and instructions for an adventure in one compact bundle. There's scans where
you can find the maps, character suggestions, and everything else you would need to DM a game
like it's 1985, including the closest thing to an official sound track you can get.
Download it here.

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December 8th, 2021 - Уводна - Лишенный наследства
Year: 2018
Label: Flecktarn Productions
Genre: Dungeon synth



Epic melodies fit for battle songs played on instruments that never reach
that energetic peak, majesty turned weary and sorrowful. Really, I couldn't
describe it better than the reviewer on bandcamp, so just go read that.
Download it here.

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December 7th, 2021 - Divergent Artists - 4'33"
Year: 2020-2021
Label: project 433
Genre: Field recordings, experimental


This is exactly as stupid or amazing as it looks, over 50 covers / interpretations
of the infamous silent song. It's a fair amount of field recordings, many processed
into experimental sounds, all manners of background textures from various locations
and media formats. Hopefully my collage of zoom call silences and glitches will be
on it soon.
Download it here.

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December 6th, 2021 - Various - The Modern Mutant's Handbook 4 - Can't Slop The Rop!
Year: Unknown
Label: None
Genre: Too many to list


I'm not sure what this is exactly, but best as I can tell it's a fanmade compilation spread
on peer-to-peer networks. It's a wild mix of synthpop (like Printed Circuit's Movements,)
synthpunk, weird alternative rock, lofi, and even some noise and kusoikore. Whoever made it
seems to have been selecting for DIY outsiderness and some kind of vague out of control
pseudocyberpunk sound, and seems to have found it.
Download it here.

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December 5th, 2021 - Starman Jones - S​/​T
Year: 2021
Label: Unmapped Zones
Genre: Synthpunk, lofi



Suprisingly catchy DIY casio-powered tunes, like the theme to an absurdist
old sci-fi cartoon that never got made. Not sure what more to say but it's
a fun listen, I would probably call it "bizarro pop" if I got to name the genre.
Download it here.

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December 4th, 2021 - Dagro - TRACKER'S DRAFT [DAGRO'S NOISE REVISION]
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: Chiptune, noise



An old Lapfox album gets attacked and torn to shreds by Dagro here, leaving enough of the original to
almost let you forget what you're listening to at times before throwing it into a mess of harsh
noise (sometimes wall) and twisted ambient sounds. In my mind, noise is best when it has some aspect
of melody / normal music in it and this accomplishes that admirably.
Download it here.

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December 3rd, 2021 - Quick Beatles
Year: 2011
Label: None
Genre: Condensed pop



Another silly bootleg of youtube uploads, this time by driveman00, all credit to them.
Best said by their original descriptions: "Beatles for people in a hurry!" (There were
more, but some got copystriked after almost a decade. Literally 1984.)
Download it here.

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December 2nd, 2021 - Dj Sheize - Noisecore MiX
Year: 2007
Label: Fecal Nazi Shapeshifter Records
Genre: Condensed pop



"Due to non-stop noise grinding the mix goes out of control and at some point you can hear over 10
amplified tracks overlapping each other." That about says it all. It's long, at over an hour, but
there's about everything you could want from noisecore / grindcore / any of the plethora of associated
genres. Also, mhzesent (formerly posted here) left a glowing comment on it.
Download it here.

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December 1st, 2021 - Beautiful Mutants - Rock'n'Roll Mind Control
Year: 1998
Label: None?
Genre: Mutant punk


This is not the actual cover but I couldn't find one and I like this image

I highly encourage you to read more about mutant punk here, but
in short, it was a brief, out of control music / subculture scene in San Diego at the turn of the
millenium that merged (cyber)punk, electronics, and the concept of culture hurtling towards some
collapse that can't come soon enough. It sounds exactly like that, even in this early unpolished demo (sampled and
popularized by Nero's Day at Disneyland, which shared a member with Beautiful Mutants.) They formally
and almost respectfully declared literal war on God and associated deities, accusing Him of terrorism.
Download it here.

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November 30th, 2021 - Various - Strawberry Heaven
Year: 2012
Label: Tsundere Violence
Genre: Experimental, glitch, IDM, etc.



For some context: all of the artists here are the same person, most commonly called Pkthundaga.
From what I've been able to figure out, this was made with the assistance of his own homemade DAW
(seemingly lost now) that assisted with chopping up samples, and chop it sure does. A lot of the time
it sounds like someone's mp3 collection run through a digital shredder, and when it's not it's some
curious IDM / breakcore mashups. It's probably worth mentioning that the artist dealt with serious mental
health issues, which probably played a role in it.
Download it here.

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November 29th, 2021 - Knifehandchop - [unknowshitstorm of hate]
Year: Unknown
Label: None (unofficial)
Genre: Breakcore?



Thanks to Crow for getting this to me. Seemingly an unreleased bootleg found adrift
on peer-to-peer file sharing networks and cleaned up a bit, it's a neat artifact from an earlier era of breakcore. It has that
wonky noisiness you come to expect from early internet music and either love or hate (also has an impressively stupid hiphop
track back to back with genuinely good hardcore songs.)
Download it here.

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November 28th, 2021 - DJ Z OMGROFL - Partyinthechan
Year: 2014
Label: None
Genre: Hardcore, speedcore, breakcore



Lots of mostly old-school -cores in here, plenty of familiar faces if you know 00s / early 10s netlabels in those
scenes and a few new faces too. If that's completely new to you, still give it a shot, it's a cross-section collection
of the hardcore side of internet electronics with plenty of silliness by the side.
Download it here.

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November 27th, 2021 - 65daysofstatic - Unreleased/Unreleasable Volume 2: 'How I Fucked Off All My Friends'
Year: 2005
Label: Dustpunk Records
Genre: Plunderphonics, breakbeat, post-rock



65daysofstatic are famous for their post-rock works, but in their earliest days they did some more out-there stuff.
Part of seemingly a trilogy of Unreleased/Unreleasable albums, it throws together a very '05 collection of movie and music
samples, mangled in all kinds of lovely ways (noise, stretching, drum'n'bass, you name it) with their more standard
(but still excellent) post-rock. How "Natasha Beats The Devil" didn't become a plunderphonics classic is beyond me.
If nothing else, read the back, pretty funny.
Download it here.

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November 26th, 2021 - Летпав



I cannot for the life of me choose a release to post in specific so enjoy the label in it's entirety.
Летпав has less to do with labels the way most people think of it and more to do with net art, ephemera,
in-jokes, and (sometimes literal) poles of musical inaccessibility. Inbetween normal noise / HNW / plunderphonics
albums, you've got Л0429 (the same 6 second track, over and over, for seeming the sole purpose of having
titles,) Л0050 (pictures of an unhinged sounding notebook,)
Л0450 (almost a gigabyte of pictures from a trip,) Л0077 (?????)
and any kind of strange spur of the moment experiment the circle of artists behind this mess decided on.
Moreover, it seems almost completely unknown outside it's participants.
Browse it all here.

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November 25th, 2021 - Henry Bemis is a Superhero - Five Love Songs to Kill Yourself To
Year: 2010
Label: None
Genre: Lofi, emo, folk punk



It doesn't get much more emo than this, acoustic guitar rendered almost noise at points by
the sheer distortion of the lofi recording, sometimes gentle but mostly screaming his
lungs out over it. "Aggressively sad" is the best description I can come up with, more brutal
than any metal or harsh noise I know.
Download it here.

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November 24th, 2021 - DJ RAY-XANS - BLOOD DRIPPING DOWN FROM MY ANGEL WINGS
Year: 2018
Label: Acid Medical (later Nirvana Port)
Genre: Nightcore, drum'n'bass



The titles say it all, emo kid edginess and trance vocals, straight out of an AMV.
I'm not sure what else there is to say besides to watch the video, it's a Deviantart-fueled
trip.
Download it here.

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November 23rd, 2021 - Vihart - Flaming Instrument MP3s
Year: 2009?
Label: None
Genre: [???]



A small collection of songs played on burning paper instruments, excavated from
Wayback Machine snapshots of dead webpages. If full copies of "Paper Instruments"
or "The Sound of Paper" exist, let me know. Some context (as well as alternate downloads
of the files) are available here.
Download it here.

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November 22nd, 2021 - Sun Worship - Sun Worship // Experimenting with Tape Wobbles
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: New age, lofi, tape music



Extreme lofi, distorted keyboardery (something tells me the artist would approve of
inventing new words for it,) warped and rendered alien by a screwed up tape deck,
drenched in pseudoancient word babble and Egyptian imagery. For fan of early James
Ferraro, melted meditation cassettes, and ancient aliens.
Download it here.

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November 21st, 2021 - Emo Kid, MIXEDUPMESS, I Killed Techno! - 3 Way Split
Year: 2009
Label: Trashfuck Net
Genre: Midigrind, experimental, etc.



A forgotten relic from the better (or worse) days of the internet when the e-grind boom
was imploding and netlabels like Trashfuck here prospered. Hara Kara Kitty-ish chiptune-
meets-silly-grind-screamo, with a fair dash of weirdness and experimentation that pits
midigrind's source genres against each other in new, maybe terrible, maybe cool ways. Just
goes to show that the more things change the more they stay the same.
Download it here.

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November 20th, 2021 - Mobotix - Ulm
Year: 2020
Label: Internet Torso
Genre: Ambient, vaporwave



A fitting soundtrack for webcam browsing. Wobble a camera in a Chinese factory here,
spy on some house in New Jersey there, hope you don't get your ISP called on you.
Frigid blurry tired sounds.
Download it here.

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November 19th, 2021 - Various - Twee As Fuck: The Joy Of Kittenhood
Year: 2005
Label: None
Genre: Twee



This album (which, near as I can tell, is an unofficial compilation) is an excellent
little intro to a musical world I didn't know existed but have been looking for for a long time.
Basically the essentials of twee, as shamelessly sentimental and bittersweet as it gets.
(Thank you tiku sens for recommending it to me!)
Download it here.

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November 18th, 2021 - Various - You Have Three Seconds
Year: 2021
Label: Welcome to Clydebank
Genre: Noise, experimental, etc.



This idea has been done again and again but everytime I see a super short
compilation I inevitably love it. A plethora of ideas and shards stuffed into
as much of sensory overload as possible, and the three second duration gives
a little more room for development as opposed to the one-second comps posted
before. Just look at that merch, too.
Download it here.

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November 17th, 2021 - CDR - 101 TRAX
Year: 2015
Label: None(?)
Genre: Kusoikore



Quality may be greater then quantity but there's something to be said
for absurdly massive albums, which is exactly what CDR provides here.
Unlike his ambient and hiphop releases formerly posted here, this delves
more into the breakcore / acid / anisong / kusoikore style all his own,
while varying into other styles all over the place. It's not quite "the
only CDR album you'll ever need" but it's pretty close.
Download it here.

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November 16th, 2021 - Ai Downscaling - Wise Old Wolfhound
Year: 2021
Label: 45-Byō Mijikakute Amai
Genre: Plunderphonics, breakbeat, experimental



A confusing mixture that calls up as much hardvapour, drum'n'bass, lobit,
and sound collage and pummels you with post-everything sounds for 45 seconds
(yes, this is an entry where I'm also showing off a cool label) before leaving
you in absurd feeling silence. Kind of like what the future thinks the past thought
of the future, so on and so forth until the signal is completely lost in the noise.
Download it here.

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November 15th, 2021 - Joshua Donnelly - Utopia Index
Year: 2021
Label: none
Genre: Imaginary BGM



Chiptune meets DnB meets hardcore meets vaporwave (at least in the intro) of the soundtrack
of the best game you'll never play. If this (or it's concept) is up your alley check out
Seifuku Sound and Frogazi Studios, other soundtracks to nonexistent games.
Download it here.

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November 14th, 2021 - DJ 나는 녹차 페이스트와 떡이 들어있는 빵을 먹는 것을 좋아합니다 /
DJ 𦣎𦣏𦣐𦣑𦣒𦣓𦣔𦣕𦣖𦣗𦣘𦣙𦣚𦣛 / 元の音はあまりにも静かでエネルギーがありませんでした / DJ An Yee
& To Youtube From VHS - 나는 때때로 어린 소녀의 분홍색 침대 세트에 발사체 구토를 토한 다음
큰 소리로 자위하고 나쁜 매쉬업을들을 때까지 때로는 원시 하수에 빠져 갈색 물을 마신다
Year: 2020
Label: 회색 태양 혼란 Records
Genre: Plunderphonics, mashup



Whenever I think I've seen it all something like this comes up. A gem of
many from the microscene led by Sofiabot in a stream of short-lived labels,
it's one of the less bizarre releases associated with them. Behind the aliases
and MS Paint cover, it's essentially a strange mashup album. Make of it what you will.
Download it here.

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November 13th, 2021 - Robert W. Baldwin - Wolf Talk
Year: 1991
Label: NorthSounds
Genre: Field recordings



A quick discogs browse suggests that many of this guy's releases are often
meshed with classical and other music, but this one, to it's benefit, leaves
the field recordings largely untampered with. An unusual ambience, if you choose
to listen to it like an album, and quite a cool sample source (I've warped and
recycled my tape of it in a few projects of mine.)
Download it here.

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November 10th, 2021 - Free Weed - Beer On The Drugs
Year: 2012
Label: Beer On The Rug
Genre: Lofi



Stoner rock in the most literal way, Free Weed provides some ultra-lofi
and surprisingly catchy tracks, infused with fuzzy guitar, wonky synths
every now and again, and a comfy warmth. Essentially the audio equivalent
of a worn drug rug sweatshirt.
Download it here.

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November 8th, 2021 - CRT麻痺 - Ｗｉｎｔｅｒ Ｐａｒａｌｙｓｉｓ １​-​５
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Vaporwave, ambient



While not (in my mind) the perfect execution of the idea, CRT麻痺 tribute
to frigid wastelands and desolate snowy landscapes succeeds in capturing
the peace in the cold between fragile piano samples, usual vaporwave
selections, and the omnipresent radio fuzz threatening to bury the signal.
I prefer 暗い自然's 氷床 Earth to soundtrack snowed-in nights but this might
be more up some people's alley.
Download it here.

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November 6th, 2021 - Various Users - HKSC Covers 2009-2016
Year: 2021(ish)
Label: None
Genre: Acoustic midigrind



Forget good music today, time for something stupid. This is a bootleg I compiled of the remains of
a mostly-forgotten old-school youtube trend of covering covers of covers of the infamous Hello
Kitty Suicide Club. In the interest of digital archiving I saved the videos, and decided to compile
this wreck out of them. Enjoy at your own risk.
Download it here.

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November 5th, 2021 - Ogbert the Nerd - EP
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Emo



A bit of a bigger band than I intended to post here but it's seriously good,
a little bundle of punkish tunes, confessional lyrics, merging emo angst and
spikes of optimism. Interesting enough, it seemed to have tied to the earlier
OK Friends posted on here a while back. Ogbert seems to have risen from OK's
ashes, at least that I can make out.
Download it here.

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November 4th, 2021 - Tsubaki Yeah! - Life Is Good
Year: 2012
Label: Tsundere Violence
Genre: Trance, chiptune, DnB



A pair of addictive tracks, packed with chiptunes, virtual guitars, and breakbeats,
waxing nostalgic in the B-side and uplifting (true to it's title) on the main song.
Virtually everything from this artist seems to have been nuked too - even this release
got deleted from it's label. A forgotten bit of net history that deserves to be raved to by someone.
Download it here.

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November 3rd, 2021 - Parasitic Humanoid Volleyball Club - Nowheresville
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Emo, lofi



Instrumental acoustic emo meanderings, tinged with clipping from bad mics and the hum of home recording
but all the more sentimental and solemn for it, like an emo / post-rock hybrid from a cold bedroom in
nowhere, Canada.
Download it here.


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November 2nd, 2021 - cave- Abortion
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Punk



Far edgier than my normal postings but the point is to bring a variety, and here it is. Wild untamed
probably literal garage punk that brings out unintellibable lyrics, some unconventional sounds and structures,
and plenty of angry tunes to browse the web and / or violate traffic laws to.
Download it here.

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October 30th, 2021 - Cory Strand - Wisher
Year: 2021
Label: Infernal Noumena Productions
Genre: Dark ambient



Another release put here mostly to highlight the label / artist, not that there's anything wrong
with this dark ambient behemoth itself, as bleak and blurry as the cover would suggest. What makes
this label's output unique is the flood of releases that reinterpret metal music into drone. I don't
know what the process entails but by Cory Strand's hand everything from Def Leppard to 90s black metal
demos get transuted into ambient monoliths.
Download it here.

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October 30th, 2021 - CDR - Synth Works 17
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: Ambient, BGM



CDR is best know for his breakcore works but he's no stranger to noise, techno, and among many other things, ambient.
Sounds like a perfect soundtrack to a nonexistent video game. Reminds me of Seifuku Sound if you know them, or
or IDM minus the breakbeats and chaos.
Download it here.

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October 26nd, Steve Roden - Winter Couplet
Year: 2002
Label: New Platic Music
Genre: Ambient, lowercase



Almost twenty years ago two tea cups, eight speakers, and a bunch of cardboard tubes were assembled into an instrument
of sorts and it made a sweet medley of twinkling sounds like little windchimes. As simple as it can get but more than enough
Download it here.

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October 26nd, 2021 - 空気系 - 日常系
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Signalwave



Vaporwave seemed about as played out a genre as it can get for a while and I got out of it before I discovered signalwave.
This is the prime example: often massive albums, minimally edited (more of collected or catalogued than anything) of slice
of life transmissions that seem to come from another, simpler universe. The vague VHS covers and abstract titles lend even
more to making it feel transient, otherworldly, but right at home.
Download it here.

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October 22nd, 2021 - Unknown Artist - Untitled
Year: Unknown
Label: None
Genre: Lofi



I was going through a community yard sale and found a bunch of microcassettes. This is the one that was still in the player.
No idea who, no information or writing, and the others has some stuff on them too. It seems to be some teenager practicing guitar,
and I can't imagine this was supposed to be heard by anyone but him, which makes it all the more interesting that it surfaced.
Download it here.

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October 22nd, 2021 - Oyasumi Punpun - Volume 7 : Chapter 76
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Harsh noise wall



The release here is basically arbitrary as I really want to showcase the project as a whole.
In my opinion, HNW is best when it revolves around a monolithic obsession (some projects like this
are shown off here) and the aesthetic of this one is perfect. This is just opinion, but HNW is weak
when it's just random edgy topics but ideal when it's wallishness is not just limited to sound.
Download it here.
Making up for missing October 21st.

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October 20th, 2021 - memory twin - dead flowers for a friend
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: Ambient, lofi



An associated project to the previously posted "hospital flowers," memory twin is a mixture of lofi bedroom pop staples
and weird experimentation. Abstract guitar meandering, short keyboard ambients, and warped tape manipulations mix into
something that works perfectly with the collection of photos that comes with the download, which I encourage you do.
You can almost feel the old tired house around you. Amatuerish but in the best way. I sound like a broken record.
Download it here.

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October 18th, 2021 - pulp finish - i cant get away w/ jinx
Year: 2018 or 2019?
Label: None
Genre: Emo rap



I'm normally less than a fan of this kind of music but if any song does it well it's probably this one. The guitar instrumental is
lovely, it doesn't have any trap snares, and keeps the tempo down while still being rap. There's three vocal parts (although one's
probably from the sample) and the lyrics, while angsty, are put together enought to get away with it. Generally, it nails what's
good about emo rap while avoiding (at least what I think are) it's annoying aspects. Additionally, it seems pulp finish purged just
about his entire online presence in 2019, including this, and it feels odd that I might've been the only one listening to it for that long.
Download it here.

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October 17th, 2021 - girls in the eighties - TEENAGE ROYALTY
Year: 2012
Label: Ailanthus Recordings
Genre: Pop punk?



I'm neglecting this site like crazy, so sorry. I intend to be more on top of things now. Anyway, girls in the eighties!
About time I get something happier on here, and here it is, a weirdly underrated pop punk / garage rock album, nested inexplicably
between vaporwave releases on a vaporwave label, which is oddly fitting, as it belongs to an alternate, idealized world much the same
way vaporwave does. Teenage Royalty is straight out of a pocket universe created exclusively from parties in generic suburbia, MTV,
and 00s teen movies. The cover just about tells it all.
Download it here.

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October 9th, 2021 - Kiki - Scary Spirits & Nice Ghosts
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Folk



Kiki kind of got known for his rock music but his folk tracks are even better. I'm not sure
what to put here because it doesn't really need an introduction but I love it's odd, kind of awkward
but super sweet songwriting, how it's personal and eccentric but still very open, and feels innocent
in a way that really benefits it. There's a song about dying ane becoming a guardian angel for someone you
love, for example, and spooky references throughout. Blasting this all Halloween season.
Stream it here.

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October 9th, 2021 - axtrmnt - old garbage
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Depressive breakcore



For a page with the slogal "Now for something completely different," I seem to love
posting the same stuff again and again. That being said, axtrmnt is seriously underrated,
probably due to his brief online presence. This album is largely in tribute to Waqs, and
further explores the melancholic breakcore sound while pulling no punches with it's subject
matter. Bleak but beautiful.

Download it here.
Making up for missing October 3rd.

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October 8th, 2021 - Nabokov's Super Slumber Party - Carpet Skyscrapers
Year: 2014
Label: None
Genre: Speedcore, breakcore, ambient



Nabokov's Super Slumber Party sold themselves short with this one. Minimal cover, no label,
randomly deleted from Bandcamp, and yet it's probably their best work. From isolated vocals chopping over
speedcore, a Crystal Castles remix, IDMy synth ambient, and an original hardcore chiptune work, it really
shows what they're really capable of, out of basically nowhere, right before they disappeared for years.
Talk about a swan song.

Download it here.

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October 8nd, 2021 - 3 little kittens - Meowing and Purring
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Comfy synth



I know comfy synth has become something of a meme but there's still some gems buried in
the bandwagon, this being one of them in my opinion. It has the genre's cheer and idealism
but leans minimal to the part of being sparse. "found a bag" is even a bit eerie and random
and I wouldn't be surprised if some actual cat-walking-across-a-keyboard made it's way into
the album. I can't really imagine an album being more fitting to being made by kittens.

Download it here.
Making up for missing September 17th.

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October 8th, 2021 - RAINBOW ★ STAR ★ 36 - ☆*: .｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆
Year: 2019
Label: Tsundere Violence
Genre: Lolicore



Last Tsundere Violence release I'll post, I promise, but it's a great example of noisy lolicore and what
you can push with the genre. Here, RS36 puts the genre's shock value aside and replaces it with a part-happy
part-longing (and still ear-blasting) sentimental feeling not unlike Maedasalt. It's a fun release that probably
isn't for everyone but if it's for you it'll be perfect. Feels like a strange kind of love song.

Download it here.
Making up for missing September 15th.

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October 8th - Wounding of the Bright - Mechanical Blooms
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Ambient?



Since I was lucky enough to get a CD of theirs at an art show a few years back, I've been meaning
to write about WotB for a while. They're essentially ambient, but in quite a different way than most
ambient is. I don't know much about the band but their influences seem to be more personalized than the
way Bandcamp ambient tends to copy off of itself, and so it ends up mixing occassional percussion, electronics,
guitar, warm and dark drones, and field recordings (sourced from the mechanical art of the artist on the cover.)
"oubliette shadow" even reminded me a bit of witch house. A reminder why it's good to get involved in your local
art scene.

Download it here.
Making up for missing September 12th.

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October 2nd, 2021 - Skreensabers - 7 Brothers (Outside Steppers Session Vol. 0)
Year: 2004
Label: RDC Records
Genre: Experimental hip hop



Here's one-off at the far back of CDR's huge discography that was luckily recovered a while back.
If you've ever wondered what seven teenagers goofing off and making improvised accapella rap at
2 AM in 2004 sounded like, here you go. I wish I could understand it but it speaks for itself anyway,
random breaks into Star Wars theme music and all. It could be nostalgic if you've done cool stupid
stuff like this with your friends in the past.
Download it here.