Welcome to the Plant Shoppe! + October/November Happenings
After a very long construction period, the Plant Shoppe is now open for business! This side of the website will be mostly for documenting my own projects and releases, as well as the occasional essay or review when I feel inspired.
While I haven't had a proper release since Time Slip: Solid Gold in July, I have been very busy. First of all was a major undertaking, the first Children of Vapor URL Festival You Wouldn't Download That's What I Call Vaporwave Alive Ultimate URL Hits Vol. 1. Nightleek タマネギ, Robin Circle, and I brought together most of the CoV crew along with other friends and some great acts that we connected with for the first time. All along we were able to raise around $800 for The Trevor Project and really strengthen our friendships and connections in the vaporwave scene. Definitely looking forward to doing other versions of fests and shows in the future!
For the festival I made two different music sets looking back to early musical inspirations, both of which can be listened to here. Subaqueous Transmissions was really the genesis of the whole festival, a collaboration between myself and ishiiburidai after connecting over a love for early dubstep during a summer url festival. I dug back into my archives to find the deepest, dubbiest dubstep that first caught my attention in the mid-2000s. You can see that video here. But after I finished that I wanted to keep going so I returned to a project first conceived in the spring, taking the classic cuts from early-2010s vaporwave and giving them the phonk treatment. I enjoyed it so much I ended up mashing up a bunch of '90s Memphis rap over the top. I tapped Robin Circle to do the visuals and you can find that video here.