Great news: Nashville-based label Contemporary Tapes is hosting a Christmas party, and you’ve landed a spot on the guest list! Leave your Rick Owens in the foyer and make yourself at home! Maybe pull a beanbag chair up to the potted Christmas ficus fern and pour yourself a styrofoam cup of iced eggnog, dyed purple for aesthetic effect: you’re in for an unforgettable night.
22 vaporwave artists from across the netscape have dropped off re-gifted takes on holiday classics for this celebration of all things mass-produced and wintry: Vaporwave Christmas Story chops and screws your nostalgia, featuring choice cuts like nano神社 (✪㉨✪)’s high-pass-filtered flip of “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Trucks Passing Trucks’ wonky lo-fi hip-hop remix of “White Christmas,” and a sinister chillwave soundscape turned in by haircuts for men, who made an appearance on our list of third-quarter favorites.
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psst: Rumor has it that Contemporary Tapes is also sending thirty choice attendees home with a “hand dubbed” cassette edition of the album: it might be worth slipping the host a few bucks’ worth of Mighty Max Pogs to secure a copy.
Take it home. Pop a VHS pressing of Christmas Comes to Pac-Land in the ‘ol VCR while the tape spins. Get cozy. Get aesthetically aligned with the world around you. It’s Cyber Monday everyday around these parts, and you might as well get yourself good and assimilated.
Vaporwave Christmas Story tracklisting:
01. Sangam - Below Zero
02. [SONICON] - Jack Frost
03. NEKOSHOGUN - Mistletoe
04. nano神社 (✪㉨✪) - All I Want For Christmas Is You
05. Aristotle’s Hard Drive - Snowy Night in Tokyo
06. NMESH - The Scut Farkus Affair
07. Ｓｐｏｒｔ３０００ - Ｓｐｅｚｉａｌ
08. First Kings & Vinyl Dial - A Krampus Karol
09. ookiiani - happy holi-waves to you
10. ミスト M Y S T - M Y S T L E T O E ジャム
11. ECHO BEACH - XMAS EVE BEAT
12. Trucks Passing Trucks - a l l wh i t e ch r i s t m a s
13. haircuts for men - epheblebium
14. AZENXIO - いくつかの夜は長すぎます
15. OMI5 - Snow Land 2003
16. V ▲ P Y D - ラストクリスマス
17. OSCOB - 去年のクリスマス
18. Strange Aeons - Im outa here
19. b a k m a h n - white boomer
20. PATHS - LED Ornaments
21. TVVIN_PINEZ_M4LL - HoHoHo (2) ホーホーホー j t thomas
22. サンドペーパー手 - Ｌｕｖ Ｂｙ Ｔｈｅ 災
23. Ursulan kasetit - Ｔｏｎｔｔｕ
