Last few days we see some confusing but fascinating drama in vapour world.
We don't know if this beginning of chaos era or something else.
So we just publish here official statement from influential label Pinkbox Teleport.
For sure this more then just question 'who is who'.
We think this is wind of changes, so here the link to original discussion and everyone is invited to take part: https://redd.it/71cxe2
After yesterday's provocation on OESB, and 'ogritch vs ross khmil' drama, we received a lot emails with questions about music on Pinkbox Teleport which was stolen from musician known as James Ferraro. It started with this tweet:
and was mentioned later in the reddit post [which has already been deleted].
What we can say about it?
PBT Records, since the foundation of the label, has worked only with original music, and mostly with unknown artists (this fits the initial idea behind the label).
We never received copyright strikes from bandcamp, and never had any troubles with our roster. Even if we haven’t reached many people until now, Pinkbox Teleport has always been and still is a label about art, not about getting hype and cheap dramas.
For sure some of our albums have classic hypnagogic vibe, and we really love it. But this is not a good reason to say 'Stolen Ferraro's music', we find this accusation ridiculous. Talking about Ross Khmil we ensure that he never uses samples, all his music is original live recorded jams, and we saw him live several times. Ross Khmil's sound vision and approach is unique, and we are proud to work with him. People who believe in Ogritch's rumors are mistaking. The same can be said about those who believe in the yesterday's reddit post about HVRF.
Honestly we have known all those people for long time, but we never received any unreleased Ferraro's music. PBT records would like to be excluded from this narrative, but being a part of great community we concerned about our reputation and reputation of our friends. These days someone is trying to assure us that OESB/ROSSKHMIL/HVRF/OGRITCH/ICESNAKE/ - are the same person.
But truth it is about Ogritch and someone who wrote yesterday’s post who are only the same person in fact.
Here’s the original sequence: 'ogritch vs zomby' -> ‘ogritch vs oscob’ -> 'ogritch vs hype williams' -> 'ogritch vs bandcamp' -> 'hvrf callout'. If you pay enough attention, it is not hard to see all of that is just an theater of one actor — Ogritch, who tries to get some black hype. - Pinkbox Teleport
We all know about word 'OFFICIAL', that turned into simulacra long time ago. But in this case we have brand new mix from wosX, creator of the most fascinating genre of our time, Hardvapour. So, yeah this is MASSIVE, GREAT, BEAUTIFUL AND LEGITIMATELY OFFICIAL HARDVAPOUR MIX. ENJOY!
wosX - A New Cycle | 0:00
Pinkertons - Call of the Bog | 3:26
pscu - تشتبك السيوف I 5:55
wosX - Hump | 7:02
Diamondstein - Whorf | 11:35
wosX - Kokaine | 15:42
Balents - ха-ха это один болен | 18:42
Flash Kostivich - Track 1 | 19:52
Somnus - Cosmic Heat | 22:02
Subaeris - Awake (ft. Kagami Smile) | 25:02
Paul Menska - Bydyn | 29:22
Broken HKE - Reality 2 | 31:11
Digital Anger - Found Footage | 34:23
Henry Wong - Test X1004 | 38:28
Animalman - Hypervisor | 43:04
Blu Angl - ID | 45:24
Subhumanizer - Modem Demon | 47:37
NSR - North Sea Residue | 49:45
Alom - Culture Backlog | 52:31
Halo Acid - Incubator | 54:28
LeonLS - Haven | 59:45
Felix Nguyen-Wu - Fire | 1:02:14
Yoshimi - Violation | 1:06:06
Elegance of the Damned - SUBJ3 | 1:08:43
ATC - All Around the World | 1:12:22
HKE - Zoku | 1:15:11
Head;Ache - Dance, Dance, Die | 1:18:15
TRENDS - Red Diamond | 1:19:45
Mod-Comm 81 - Autonomy | 1:23:00
Putaliscious - Find God | 1:25:48
HKE x Sour Gout - Apex Predator | 1:27:58
Jude Frankum - Head Down | 1:31:25
AUT2M - Солнечная тусовка | 1:34:05
Sour Gout - IRON//03 | 1:35:48
Pippo - Diavolo | 1:38:25
DJ Gianluca - Veloce | 1:42:03
wosX - Spiral | 1:44:58
El Migue Obrero - La Calor | 1:48:33
Sandtimer - Hardvapour is Alive | 1:50:34
DJ Alina - доля | 1:53:26
Flash Kostivich - Sacrifice | 1:56:26
Tyler Mathoyi - μάντις | 2:00:00
Blank Body - Soft Guilt | 2:01:55
Werewolf Hair - Go for the Throat | 2:04:05
2814 - Impact | 2:07:58
Flash Kostivich - Coding @ Dawn (ft. t e l e p a t h) | 2:12:46
Reshinarax - The Abyss | 2:17:09
AUT2M - The Abrupt Termination | 2:21:08
DJ Alina - Collapse (w/ Nikita V.) | 2:23:51
Darksleep - ANDRAS | 2:27:48
S0ViET NiTEKLUB - 9. 9 | 2:31:46
Chungking Mansions - Rare Earth Elements | 2:33:51
TRENDS - Spiked | 2:36:25
Crimson Kaishaku - Glare | 2:38:07
DJ Alina - Afterglow | 2:39:56
Khrist - Track 1 | 2:41:50
Earth Sounds - Field of Vision | 2:43:19
Mike Tenay - Hard Sex | 2:45:24
Thug Widow - Dead Colony | 2:46:44
School Shooter - Cry 4 Help | 2:49:38
Ivan Killer - Track 1 | 2:51:18
Flash Kostivich - C.S. 1.6 Break (ft. VIT) | 2:53:00
Argiflex - Sludgehammer (Windows 98の remix) | 2:55:24
Rosewood Queen - Camel | 2:59:00
C Money Burns - Flesh Castle | 3:00:12
Shinatama - Human Failure | 3:02:58
wosX - Sacrificial | 3:06:06
wosX - Chuva | 3:10:55
KPACOTA - одиночество | 3:14:24
Kagami Smile - Thumb Enhancer | 3:17:02
Windows 98の - Hypnogogia | 3:20:23
wosX - Armageddon | 3:22:44
HVRF SAMPLER #5 - this is great opportunity for everyone who would like to dive into most fascinating and forward thinking genre of our time Hardvapour itself.
Originally appearing in the late 2000s as the collaborative project of Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland, Hype Williams seemed to end once the pair moved into solo work. In recent years, however, the project has returned with new releases and suggested the moniker can be passed to new artists.
Rainbow Edition is credited to Hype Williams, but comes with a new press photo featuring new members Slaughter & Silvermane( that probably fake personalities).
On some music forums people talk that Ogritch (who helped Dean, with his last USA tour and released mysterious album from Zomby) now a part of updated Hype Williams.
Yeah, this is always hard to get 'what is real?' if we talking about Hype Williams and S Ogritch.
But lets bring some light...
Hype Williams live in MIGZ2011 (Russia).
Everyone expected for Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland on the stage,
but here we see only one white guy in mask.
Bunch of people wandering who it was,
so later Inga Copland said that it was some Dean's neighbor (Hyperdub interview).
This is hard to build some connection between Dean Blunt and S Ogritch
based only on that video,
but we will use this as a start point for story with 'Russian Neighbor'.
Because later we see like different people around the world discuss new interesting facts about this mystery.
"he organized the us babyfather tour" - mentioned topic starter Bluntthrowawaydeanon reddit.
We found another mentions of this at supforums.com (some elite forum, closed for registration).
Later Ogritch himself said that he will organize next Babyfather usa tour too.
On the picture with Ogritch here Tolik Methkow, with whom Ogritch started their unfamous World First Vapour Digest (according to the official soundcloud page)
and MR. ENIGMUS - who probably new person in Ogritch crew,
to be honest this guy reminds us young Jimmy Hendrix, and this is really hard to find any information about MR.ENIGMUS in web.
His VAPED MILK radioshow fka World Famous Vapour Digest became a cult in vaporwave community,
"The main idea is build connection between classic vaporwave and new sub-genres like hardvapour, and bring the light on unknown but amazing" - Ogritch says for TMT interview.
Yeah, we can see Ogritch is pioneer of the vapour movement,
probably one person who doesn't writes music him self, but does a bunch of things creating most interesting internet music enigma this time.
But stop, maybe he write music too??
how about this announcement about collaboration with James Ferraro?
#madness.........
* On the latest Hype Williams track we really can feel 'this guys goes hardvapour',
not only about sound, but: narrative, aesthetic, broken english and fake russians.ukrainians,
all this games with new members of band (who doesn't exist)...
And first ever Hardvapour Resistance Front cassette release!!!!
"The music across all 7 releases were selected in a draft process between the 7 labels, and as such reflect the curation and tastes of each label as much as they reflect myself as an artist." - HKE