In case if u missed this epic novel from Milan-based reality crash-tester Viktor Liseddi.
Let's figure out how it feels like, when u in love with teenage snakehead girl.
And yes... everything is possible since we into crystalized version of reality.
Gleaming mirage of promised land,
voice of Illidan inside my head says 'You are not prepared'
but who is me right know?
words lost all sense...
I feel like waters of Grapevine Isles merges with my flesh,
so resistance is futile. #subconsciousnesswatch
#eternallove
#chaosera
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
Uk-Based A/V artist False Door has shared a new music video
and announces his new album for Pinkbox Teleport.
I really shouldn’t need to tell you how important it is for you to know every time a new artist gets added to the roster of Pinkbox Teleport because we all know.
- Max Neuhaus - Fontana Mix-Feed (Solo Recital, New School For Social Research Auditorium, New York City, June 4, 1965) (Fontana Mix-Feed (Six Realizations Of John Cage) CD / Alga Marghen / 2003)
some of our artists currently travel in Europe and as they will be here for whole summer 2017, they would be happy to meet any country for parties/festivals/events etc. as well.
Equally, few of those who know him as XENOX have any idea of his identity outside music. That means this piece can't give you a potted biography, dwell on his childhood, or tell you what he's been up to for the past year. He won't say.
XENOX doesn't do DJ gigs, live performances or radio shows.
"Only about 8 people outside of my family know I make tunes, I think. I hope,"
he says.
Technically, XENOX doesn't do interviews, either. Our meeting only comes about after much gentle persuasion and the realignment of our "interview" as a "casual chat about tunes". As I stand in the 90210 drizzle waiting to meet someone I have no chance of recognising, my mind plays tricks. That guy crossing the road who looks like Daniel from Freaks and Geeks, could that be XENOX? Or the wild-eyed Turkish guy on crutches? Or the Japanese guy in the green suit?
When XENOX does turn up, he talks with incredible passion and sincerity - and does it so quietly that my Dictaphone barely picks up his voice, making him sound in playback like a ghostly presence. Which is appropriate, because XENOX richly atmospheric music leaves you feeling slightly removed from the tangible world. His debut was clouded in pirate-radio crackle and cassette fuzz, the soundscapes dotted with the sound of rain, fire and distant voices.
"I was never expecting anyone to hear it," XENOX says.
"I was buzzing, totally buzzing. But I had to hide that feeling, I didn't really have anyone to tell, apart from my brothers and my family - but that was all that mattered to me."
NAAM: There’s currently a lot of new bands making aesthetically similar music in wake of your influence. Do you ever feel like bands are rinsing your sound?
XENOX: No art is completely original. People constantly take from and are inspired by each other. Plus, if a band is making music that’s similar to mine, it just means there’s more of a chance that we’ll like it, or be re-inspired by what they’re doing. It’s an exchange of ideas.
NAAM: I heard that you don’t really use samples when making music, but your music does sound very sample-based…
XENOX: It’s achieved by, in some way lots of hard work, and in some way, it’s very simple. It’s just a matter of what type of filters you want to put on a certain sound. I use samplers but I don’t sample from other people’s music or sounds, meaning I created every sound from scratch.
....here XENOX just stops responding, then he decided to skip some our questions, and sure we ok with that ...
NAAM: So performing didn’t feel as emotional before? It was more about creating melodies and moving the crowd than anything physical?
XENOX: Yeah. To be honest, I don’t even know what it was about. I never had much experience with it and then suddenly I was expected to perform. I was lugging my Casio synth all over USA with a bunch of loopers and delays. I don’t even really know why I did it. I think it was because it was my comfort zone to just kinda loop Casio stuff over samples. It was like I was bringing my bedroom studio everywhere.
NAAM: your album brings life to 80s nostalgia, it sounds like you're highlighting the deathly aspects of it here.
XENOX: Yeah, this is like compounding death upon death. [laughs] It's depressing that people would buy these DVDs of old commercials and watch them while eating Cheetos. And it's annoying when a lot of my stuff is framed as "ultra-nostalgic music" because ultra-nostalgic music to me would be the Sonic Youth. There is nothing wrong with it, but I don't feel like I'm that nostalgic, I would say vaporwave it's something more then just nostalgic thing.
XENOX KAMIKADZE EXCLUSIVE FOR NEWAGE APOCALYPSE MAG
Hey there, couple of days ago i've discovered a new and promising producer Castel. His works was an immersive experience and there was a chance to ask him about who he is, a few words about his influences and what served as an inspiration for his recent "NEO RISING" and "Dream Entanglement". As well as about his thoughts about vapour scene in general and plans for the future.
Please tell us about yourself and your influences in music?
A little bit about myself; I am a teenager from a city in the midwestern portion of the United States, and I have been making music for about a month or so now. My world changed when I heard 2814's Birth Of A New Day. I had never heard music so perfectly paint a picture in my mind, on a very guided and intentional level. Before that point, I was fine with listening to the latest hit on the radio. After that melancholic night of browsing the bandcamp of Dream Catalogue with insomniac fervency, I knew that this was something I could relate to on a philosophical, and spiritual level. Obviously, HKE and Telepath have been major influences in my direction with music, but I would also like to include wosX/Wolf, as well as other artists outside the Vapour genre, such as Nujabes, Vangelis, Tim Hecker, and Franz Liszt's piano pieces. My current Bandcamp discography sort of represents the combined elements of melancholy, wonder, and passion that I think drives the "Vapour" scene.
Can you tell us what was behind/inspired you at NEO RISING and Dream Dream Entanglement?
The main inspiration behind NEO RISING was the evolution of the soul. Certain spiritual gurus had instructed me to watch The Matrix, and one of them had even came up with the title NEO RISING. I also coined the genre "Soulgaze" just for this album. I spent 30 minutes designing, the sound, and then recorded the 22 minute improvisational progressions; a short gaze into my soul. Dream Entanglement was composed last night, and was inspired by a girl who I sadly fell out with. We used to have this shared dream (both hopeful visions of ourselves, and lucid dreams) of sitting on the beach, watching souls gain consciousness for eternity; as the tide comes in, they are born, as the secede, the transfer of energy creates a new generation. I felt strongly enough to make an album about it.
"NEO RISING" Castel's debut album released on PINKBOX TELEPORT RECORDS
"Dream Entanglement" second album. Self-Released
And the last one is about your thoughts on vapor scene and your plans for the future?
I think the "Vapour" scene is at an ambivalent stage right now. I certainly am not the go to man for this, but I'll give it a shot. From what I've heard, the Vapourwave scene has become rather hostile to innovations that are unexpected. Look at their reaction to Hardvapour if you want an example. It is sad to see that creativity has become the enemy. Again, I'm not the go to guy for this; talk to HVRF, or HKE or OESBEE if you want a more nuanced, well thought out answer if they're gracious enough.
As for the future; I have no clue. I know where I'd like to be, and who I'd like to working with, but I haven't gotten a solid plan.
I am working on a project that you will hear more about soon if you keep your ear to the ground, and I will continue to pump out more music. I get too many ideas at 3 am in the morning - it is more of a mathematical probability to hear new music from me than it is anything else. 10 years from now I can see myself making classical music, or composing soundtracks for films, or being a computer hacker, or being a buddhist monk out in Laos. For now, I'll continue to make music that revolves around spiritual concepts, lord knows my friends would rather hear new music than recieve 15 texts at 5am from me because I've discovered a new thought experiment.
"The main inspiration behind NEO RISING was the evolution of the soul. Certain spiritual gurus had instructed me to watch The Matrix, and one of them had even came up with the title NEO RISING."
" My husband knows no boundaries, he lives in a constant cycle of repeating his own mistakes. He complains and yells and drinks himself to sleep every night. He reminds me of his past while I can only think of the future. My husband, Steel loves me with all his heart, but his heart is stuck in the past. I can not leave him for I have never received this kind of broken detached paranoid love before that I have come to cherish and understand. This work is the part of me that wishes it could go back. I am a prisoner of time and I can not leave my dear sweet but alas the Time Traveler is unable to go back in time. I will sit here and hold my husbands
