Vapor History: Teams - DYXS XFF (May 25th, 2011), Contact Lens - Ice In Tha Veins (May 21st, 2012) & Saint Pepsi - Hit Vibes (May 31st, 2013)
We have three important releases for our Late May history segment! Some seapunk, early vaportrap and iconic future funk...
Yes there was three things mentioned on our Vaporwave History segment in Episode 2- stick with me here... We’re gonna start back in 2011 with something that’s vapor adjacent but definitely important to the growth of internet music genres and micro-scenes that eventually ended up trending so hard that mainstream appropriation was all but inevitable.
The seapunk album “Dxys Xff” by Teams released on AMDISCS on May 25th, 2011. Teams was a side project by Sean Bowie who people might better know as Yves Tumor. They had already been around the internet music scene with a release and mixtapes but they would later be featured on the Sewer Greats Compilations, seapunk compilations and they collaborated with Daytime Television under the name TeammJordan. This album might also be the first Vapor Vinyl...
Our second release is from the very next year, 2012. Released on May 21st, 2012 was the iconic “Ice In THA Veins” by Contact Lens was arguably THE first vaportrap album. It starts with a familiar sound of mellow trap beats over slowed and chopped loops, then unfolds into a screwed up codeine haze. Pitched down bass groans and tape hiss coats the entire release like many classic vapor releases in 2011 and 2012. Its clearly indebted to DJ Screw with a few tracks including pitched down verses from the plundered material as well! (You can download a full archive of Contact Lens releases HERE)
And I’m really trying to not do three albums or features for each History segment [Editors Note: LOL, I cut it down to 1 eventually] but quick shout out to Hit Vibes by Saint Pepsi (aka Skylar Spence) which came out May 31st, 2013- an iconic moment in Future Funk history. Fun Fact: there was a SPF420 URL release show for the album!
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