Published
Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 22:14
- The California label will re-release the duo's second album this August.
Not Not Fun Records will reissue 2814's Atarashi Ni~Tsu No Tanjo on August 14th.
As is typical in the Reddit-driven vaporwave scene, little is known about the producers who make up 2814, Hong Kong Express and t e l e p a t h ????????. The former runs the prolific net label Dream Catalogue and has spoken at length about his belief in vaporwave's durability as a genre. The duo, who respectively live in London and the American midwest, have never met in person, but set out to record vaporwave without using samples, often thought of as a touchstone of the '80s obsessed genre.
Hong Kong Express says "we wanted to make one of the first ever sample-free vaporwave albums, as both a retaliation to lazy vaporwave producers who had become overly reliant on sampling with little thought put into the creation of their music, and also as a backlash to the music media who had painted vaporwave as nothing more than a brief curiosity of 20th century music that had been put to bed." Atarashi Ni~Tsu No Tanjo was originally released in 2014 in a CD-R edition of 50. Adam Harper wrote on vaporwave in his 2014 RA feature on the online underground.
Check out the album's opening track "Huifù" below.
Tracklist
01. Huifù
02. Toku No Aiko-Ka
03. Shinjuku Goruden-Gai
04. Fuwatto
05. Hiai
06. Shinjitsu No Koi
07. Terepashi
08. Atarashi Ni~Tsu No Tanjo
09. Yoha
Not Not Fun will release Atarashi Ni~Tsu No Tanjo on August 14th, 2015.