Greetings, this is vapor.RAINBOW, a flash tour of some of the brightest new releases
from the past month in the vaporwave 
and vapor-adjacent genres.
With so much amazing internet music being made every day, I hope to share some of my favorites
and point out things that you may have missed,
or start you on your own journey to discover 
your new favorite album or producer.
Now, let's begin.
APHELION DRIFT: QUARANTINE is the third 
sci-fi concept album to appear
on the Seikomart label by producer 
CREME RINSE (rinse and repeat).
It uses a vaporwave-style sampling to tell a story of a space station under quarantine
from the threat of a deadly contamination. 
This is a truly cinematic experience and perfect
example of how vaporwave can really craft 
a story that's unique to this genre.
Commercial TV delves into ambient synth 
territory with Tense Serenity I,
the first part of a planned trilogy exploring alienation 
in a world saturated with commercial noise.
Something this producer explored in their previous broken signal-style
release called 'Don't Change the Channel'.
This album reverberates with massive
synth melodies and ominous pads,
all presented at a plodding funeral pace as 
the listener journeys from cold isolation
to transcendent celestial travel.
Producer Leucrocuta says this about her
album "exercises in loneliness" -
"Making electronic music freed me from a lot of the restrictions and hierarchies of
classical music ...  I have started to wonder can music throw light onto your soul,
when it leads you down darkened and lonely paths?"
You'll have to listen to this album to find the answer for yourself,
but along the way you'll meet strange and unsettling characters,
travel unexplored lands, in this modern-classical inspired experimental peace.
Carrington Institute by at night, outside
was released on the tape label Lost Angles,
and is inspired by the N64 classic FPS game Perfect Dark, and other similar stories of the supernatural.
It's a long, meandering journey that slowly builds in intensity through synthwave,
vaporwave, and it even has a few vocal-based dreamy pop tracks thrown in there.
M y s t e r y is one of a growing band of
producers who are forging new territory
in the micro genre known as slushwave -
a style almost synonymous with the legendary producer telepath,
which employs maximum levels of reverb and a unique application of phaser effects
to create an experience of floating in a bed of sound.
Love nightmare definitely wears its influence on its sleeve, while leaning even harder into
the ambient dream weirdness and out-of-body experience that other predecessors have in the past.
Don't miss the 30-minute highlight in
the distance, a track I feel could have
gone on for another 30 minutes and I'd still be hooked.
Finally, my pick for the must-listen new
release of the month is Bubble Universe!
by Nonlocal forecast, a new alias of
Angel Marcloid, also known as
Fire-Toolz, also known as MindSpring Memories,
among many other established aka's.
While MindSpring Memories is this more of a
classic vaporwave style alias,
and Fire-Toolz ... well, it sounds something like
black metal from 800 years in the future,
Nonlocal forecast forges something
of a new direction, channeling a lot of
the same creativity and just complete
disrespect for any sort of boundaries
from Fire-Toolz into a very accessible
yet deep and rewarding project that
heavily draws from jazz fusion,
instrumental prog rock, incorporating prog keyboard
and guitar with vaporwave characteristics like MIDI/sequencer electronic compositions.
This album really showcases Angel's immense skill as a composer
and producer in a new light,
so definitely don't miss this, and go check it out.
