Members: Ryan Hill. Genre: Ambient, Dreampunk. Biography: Shenzhen-based ambient/electronic producer Kagami Smile has been one of the most prolific musicians over the last couple years, dropping nearly a dozen records of swelling, meditative lo-fi soundscapes. A couple highlights includes his 2018 release “Anxiety” and 2020’s Blade Runner-inspired “Dream Residue” album. Lush and mesmerizing, Kagami Smile’s music is a dreamlike mesh of ambient-techno alive with fluid soundscapes,…
Members: David Russo. Genre: Ambient, Downtempo, Dreampunk. Biography: Hong Kong Express was a vaporwave project created in 2014 by experimental electronic artist HKE, founder of music labels Dream Catalogue, TKX, PYRAMIDS, Nirvana Port, Vault EVE, and Vault XYO. Originally used as the main alias for the artist, Hong Kong Express was put to an end after the 2018 release of the album, “Hong Kong Express.”…
Members: David Elsener. Genre: Ambient, Dreampunk, Atmospheric. Biography: Fornax Void is an audiovisual arts project founded by David Elsener in 2012. David’s educational background lies in Visual Communication and Computer Technology. Before other topics, the project’s main source of inspiration is the technology and design language of the late 20th century. Practically, the work of Fornax Void makes extensive use of older technologies: vintage digital…
Members: David Russo. Genre: Ambient, Dreampunk. Biography: DARKPYRAMID is a pseudonym of Dream Catalogue label runner and prominent vaporwave artist HKE (aka Hong Kong Express). With many vaporwave artists taking influences from other genres like trap, pop, dubstep, funk and soul, found sound, and ambient, there’s a multitude of dynamic and fantastic music being made under the vaporwave umbrella, DARKPYRAMID is move stylistically illusive. Using…
Members: Norman Kawasaki-Gucc, Frankie Franksi, Scraps. Genre: Ambient, Dreampunk. Biography: 2814 (stylized in fullwidth characters as ２８１４) is a British-American collaborative ambient and dreampunk project of the electronic musicians Luke Laurilla and David Russo, aka Telepath テレパシー能力者 and HKE (an abbreviation of the earlier moniker “Hong Kong Express”) respectively. The duo is best known for its sophomore album, Birth of a New Day (新しい日の誕生), described…