https://karakreativ.com/collections/all.atom karakreativ 2023-09-11T15:02:15-07:00 karakreativ https://www.karakreativ.com/products/7159660216402 2023-09-11T15:02:15-07:00 2023-09-11T15:02:15-07:00 Live at BK Night Bazaar Music George Clanton Fan Club

Vendor: George Clanton Fan Club
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

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This performance was recorded on a Zoom H4N at the 200% Electronica ALbum Release Party at Brooklyn Night Bazaar in Greenpoint, NY on November 18th 2017. 

A George Clanton Fan Club + Tour Exclusive online for a limited time! 

 

Album Tracklist:

  1. Want 2 Fly
  2. Flounder 707
  3. Slow 2018 (Sky's The Limit Remix)
  4. Secret
  5. daydream
  6. Starboy
  7. bonus.wav
  8. Play That Thing Again



 

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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/4941955137618 2023-08-15T18:05:49-07:00 2023-08-15T18:05:49-07:00 virtua.zip Cassette Music ESPRIT 空想

Vendor: ESPRIT 空想
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

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ESPRIT 空想 is an alias for George Clanton that has been running concurrently with the George Clanton & Mirror Kisses projects since 2012. Broadly speaking ESPRIT is the more vaporwave-leaning side of George Clanton. Over time, the lines have become more blurred between George Clanton and ESPRIT, and now the projects are more separated by the way they can be performed live more than anything else.

virtua.zip is the album that started to blur those lines. Released in 2014, one year before karakreativ, virtua.zip is significant in being one of the first "vaporwave" albums to be comprised of original compositions.

The information from the original release page is pasted below:
"This album is distinct in that it is comprised of all original compositions. Samples are utilized as a brushstroke rather than a canvas. Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 16 are entirely free of sampling.

Album Tracklist

  1. Whispers.Wav
  2. Iwillbe.Wav
  3. Slow2014.Wav
  4. Mindless.Wav
  5. Warmjet.wav
  6. Esprit.Wav
  7. Select.Wav
  8. Love.Wav
  9. Peter.Wav
  10. Withyou.Wav
  11. Gameover.Wav
  12. Bonus.Wav
  13. Bonus2.Wav
  14. Saku.Wav
  15. Saku.Wav[CHINA Re-Mix]
  16. Starboy[Extended Re-Mix]



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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/6882360688722 2023-08-11T12:52:33-07:00 2023-08-11T12:52:33-07:00 St. Francis Cassette Music Satin Sheets

Vendor: Satin Sheets
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

Originally released in 2017 under the moniker "Sprite1999," Satin Sheets was discovered by karakreativ via an unsolicited package of cassette demos mailed from New Zealand. After receiving a vinyl release in 2018, St Francis's warm infectious sound went on to become influential in the vaporwave community, and is regularly cited as a touchstone of the "karakreativ sound."

Now available on vinyl paired with the long-lost St Francis II album, as well as a standalone on this pink cassette. Limited to 100 copies.

Tracklist
1. Ashley
2. Montevideo
3. Castaway
4. Fashion
5. Can’t You See?
6. Can’t You See? 2
7. Superstar
8. Camp Night
9. Headline
10. Hot Hits
11. Safari
12. Circuit
13. Collect Them All
14. Mauimall
15. Tanline
16. Fashion (ESPRIT Remix)

 

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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/6646587850834 2023-08-11T12:52:06-07:00 2023-08-11T12:52:06-07:00 FM Skyline - Illuminations Cassette Music FM Skyline

Vendor: FM Skyline
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

“Illuminations is a homage to 20th century French Impressionism/surrealism as well as a homage to the way art from that era inspired some of early digital art in the 80s & 90s, and is intended to invoke a classical, theatrical atmosphere. It became a very personal and emotionally heavy album for me - besides the obvious backdrop of a world frozen in pandemic, it was written between the loss of a best friend and then later on the dissolution of a long romantic relationship. I was exploring loss through the way seemingly familiar things can feel haunted by being dislodged from their original context or being obvious facsimiles of more natural things.”

-Pete Curry (FM Skyline)

Album Tracklist:

  1.  Prelude
  2. Overture
  3. Veranda
  4. Harlequin
  5. Shadow
  6. Spectre
  7. Intermezzo
  8. Veil stream
  9. Simulacrum
  10.  Classique
  11.  Luminaire
  12.  Orb
  13.  Rêve

FM Skyline Online 
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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/4507923120210 2023-08-11T12:51:47-07:00 2023-08-11T12:51:47-07:00 CURSEBREAKER GAIDEN Cassette Music Equip

Vendor: Equip
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

Special cassette containing CURSEBREAKER GAIDEN- the psychedelic accompaniment to CURSEBREAKER X. Pro dubbed on a transparent blue cassette tape with matching norelco case, 6 panel J-card featuring art from Bani-chan. Each side contains the album at a different speed- 33RPM and 45RPM repectively. CURSEBREAKER GAIDEN is a tribute to the vaporwave pioneers. Contained within are hypnotic eccojams made by sampling CURSEBREAKER X- 100% original vaporwave.

 

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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/4705539031122 2023-08-11T12:51:07-07:00 2023-08-11T12:51:07-07:00 One Hundred Mornings Cassette [Deluxe Edition] Music Windows 96

Vendor: Windows 96
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

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Windows 96's iconic synth/vaporwave album, originally released through Business Casual. "One Hundred Mornings" now in a new deluxe edition with an alternative version of the artwork and all tracks retouched plus new bonus tracks. 

Tracklisting:

1. Caligula
2. Visage
3. Abstract
4. Visions I
5. Visions II
6. Bliss
7. Tomorrow (Bonus Track)
8. Languages
9. Rituals 
10. Mind Mirage
11. Who Are You (Bonus Track)
12. Hard (Bonus Track)
13. Mist (Bonus Track)
14. Plylight (Physical Only Bonus Track)


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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/6789639209042 2023-08-11T12:50:39-07:00 2023-08-11T12:50:39-07:00 Vitesse X - Us Ephemeral Cassette Music Vitesse X

Vendor: Vitesse X
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

In stock + shipping now!

Critical Reception:
“…transportive…”, “Engineered with precision” and “.. channels bits of techo, trance, 2-step, and jungle into contemporary rave hybrids tempered with a hint of vaporwave’s self-awareness.” -Pitchfork

"...euphoric, rave-ready..." -Gorilla vs. Bear

"A SHAPESHIFTING, RETRO-FUTURISTIC EFFORT FROM THE NYC VAPOR-HOUSE DEBUTANTE." -IMPOSE MAGAZINE

"An ode to the perpetual passing of time, “Us Ephemeral” embraces the impermanence and absurdity of life itself." -C-Heads

"Vitesse X's affinity for blending elements of dream-pop, drum & bass percussion, and vaporwave is made immediately apparent with her newest track's hypnotic yet energetic feel." -Ones To Watch on 'Us Ephemeral'

"The retrofuturist project is what we can safely call a crossover as it transcends jungle beats, vaporware, hypnagogic pop and chillwave to form something new, a cyborg dream pop that would fit so well in the karakreativ landscape." - Highclouds 

 

Album Tracklist:
1. Us Ephemeral
2. Spaces
3. Potential Energy stream
4. Rash Devices
5. Activation
6. Centrifuge Me
7. Therma Maxima stream
8. Gated Bloom
9. Repress Reprise stream

About
Vitesse X is an electronic music mystic. After years playing in bands and DJing around her native New York, she launched her solo career to get in touch with herself and with the euphoric spirit of the dancefloor—the limitless possibilities that present themselves when you’ve spent hours at the club, or in a sweaty basement, moving your body until the sun rises. Rightly, her songs recognize the history of rave music as a vehicle for surreal, otherworldly, and most of all, emotional pop songs. Swirling together technicolor synth programming from that tradition, with a technical approach she honed in her years as an esteemed sound engineer, her work feels nostalgic and futurist at once. It’s pop music out of time and place that celebrates the ecstatic potential of the club—a fitting soundtrack for the nights that you want to last forever.

When the pandemic struck in 2020, Vitesse X began writing songs without expectation and found the process intensely cathartic. Though she’d made music of her own before, she soon emerged with her most honest output to date—what eventually took shape into Us Ephemeral, her debut solo album for karakreativ. Inspired heavily by Kraftwerk’s Tour de France, she made electronic music that felt intensely human, using her songs as a conduit for connection. Ambient techno, ’90s rave, and coldwave beats pulsate across the record’s nine tracks as she sings about what weighs heavy on her heart. The sonic diversity and vivid emotion allowed her to reconnect to what inspired her to become an artist in the first place.

Vitesse X fell in love with the expansive possibilities of music when she was a teenager listening to acts like Radiohead, Aphex Twin, and Four Tet, who wrung powerful feelings out of intricate, genre-blurring productions. She started to take ownership of it herself when she went to college in Virginia, where she began playing guitar and bass in punk, shoegaze, and chillwave outfits. It was in that scene that she first met and played shows with karakreativ’s eventual founder George Clanton, who was then performing as Mirror Kisses. Even then, they were kindred spirits, forging the connection that ultimately led to her having a place on the label. 

One of her bands gained ground in the early 2010s blog scene and began to get offers to tour around the country, inspiring Vitesse X to drop out of college and move to New York. Soon after she relocated, though, that project dissolved, and after a stint in another established group in the city, she decided it was time for a change. Burned out on road life and other people’s bands, she zeroed in on her craft and the music that meant the most to her. “I needed the confidence to approach music with a much stronger sense of myself,” she says, now a master of her craft.

Working as an engineer and producer, Vitesse X became an in-demand name in the New York scene and developed her technical abilities. At the same time, she was DJing more and more around the city, further clarifying her affection for the blissful rush of dance music. When the pandemic hit and live music stopped, it provided an opportunity to think about how to translate that love into a sound that felt honest—a true reflection of how she saw the world. 

 “The music that speaks to me most is always the music I was listening to during a time when I was desperately trying to escape my reality,” she says. Us Ephemeral is designed with that in mind. Whether it’s “Therma Maxima” exposing the toll greed takes on the planet over ethereal breakbeats and vaporwave synths, or the lyrically vulnerable IDM-inflected “Gated Bloom,” the record acknowledges tough times—but ultimately offers a portal to a better world.

That sentiment has powered this project since its inception. Launching Vitesse X when club nights and live gigs were on hold meant getting creative about sonically communing. She found a way through karakreativ’s weekly virtual reality streams—a thriving community where thousands gather to hang out and listen to new music. She started throwing her own digital parties and forging bonds despite the distance—fitting, since her music was made with the idea of community in mind. With Us Ephemeral’s otherworldly sounds and evocative lyrics, Vitesse X is set to help people connect, and then transcend. “Music is an escapist thing for me,” she says. “I’m always trying to evoke that in other people—to help them reach another realm.”

Vitesse X Online
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Website

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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/4877612580946 2023-08-11T12:49:59-07:00 2023-08-11T12:49:59-07:00 BLOODbath64 (TV Girl) - AESTHETICADELICA Cassette Music BLOODbath64

Vendor: BLOODbath64
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

BLOODbath64 is a non-canon release from the minds that brought you beloved Indie-Pop Combo TV Girl. A "side-project" done in the "vaporwave" style. Don't worry if you don't know what vaporwave is, for this is the first, the last, the only vaporwave album you will ever need.
Limited copies available. Listen below
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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/6715564490834 2023-08-11T12:49:20-07:00 2023-08-11T12:49:20-07:00 Auragraph - Metamerism Cassette Music AURAGRAPH

Vendor: AURAGRAPH
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

IN STOCK + SHIPPING NOW!

1. CVI 
2. Metamerism 
3. Bad Vibes 
4. Semitropic 2000 
5. Opaque
6. Similar Pattern 
7. 767 
8. Compuphonic 
9. Sans Everything
10. Spirals



 

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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/6942075387986 2023-08-11T12:48:49-07:00 2023-08-11T12:48:49-07:00 Darklife Cassette Cassette death's dynamic shroud

Vendor: death's dynamic shroud
Type: Cassette
Price: 15.00

death's dynamic shroud's highly anticipated double-album 'Darklife' is out now, via karakreativ. Stream it here

Limited to 500qty.

 All three members of death’s dynamic shroud (James Webster, Keith Rankin & Tech Honors) reunited for the first time since 2017’s Heavy Black Heart for their recent suite of material - ‘Judgment Bolt’ (Single), 'Fall For Me' (Single), ‘Neon Memories EP’, ‘Messe de E-102 EP’, all parts leading to their most ambitious work to date – ‘Darklife’ out September 23, 2022 via karakreativ. You can pre-save and pre-order ‘Darklife’ on LTD Edition 2x 12” vinyl, CD & Cassette here.

“Since 2014 we have been releasing albums under the death’s dynamic shroud name in pairs or as individuals, but Darklife is the strongest representation of our combined sensibilities, shifting from heavy electronic dance music to bubblegum pop, from gentle ballads to harsh digital abstractions; it is an outpouring of ideas and acts as a new beginning for the group. Much of the album is about the nature of love as a metaphor for our individual philosophies sparking and melding in the music, examining love as a social construct, or as the fabric of the universe, or as not existing at all. As our debut for karakreativ, Darklife can also be seen as a bridge between the underground tape and electronic scene of the 2010s into the dance and pop world the label has been shepherding.” -death’s dynamic shroud

CRITICAL RECEPTION
“On a new double album, the experimental collective continues its journey from vaporwave toward fractured, maximalist pop music… Darklife documents DDS’s humanity emerging from their once purely digital world. While it still features the internet-damaged sample manipulation that has become their trademark, it also incorporates more original production, instrumentation, and vocals than previous releases.”  -Pitchfork 

"A dizzying, idea-packed journey into fractured maximalist pop from Death's Dynamic Shroud." -Bandcamp

"...Tech Honors, James Webster, and Keith Rankin of Orange Milk Records are in fine form with the new project, which demonstrates a poppier development since their niche beginnings on tracks like "Fall For Me," "Neon Memories," and "Judgement Bolt." -FADER

“Stunningly beautiful” -The Needle Drop on ‘Messe de E-102 during NMF The Needle Drop: Best Tracks of the Week in Weekly Track Roundup: 4/17/22"

“Messe de E-102” is a spooky electro-pop thriller brimming with tension and triumph." -What's Good on ‘Messe de E-102’

"It’s a bear that death’s dynamic shroud have wrestled with for years and consistently come out on top with adventurous triumphs like 'Neon Memories.'" -FADER on Neon Memories 10 songs you need in your life this week: 4/18/22

"...indie-pop track that evolves into a massive electronic behemoth... there’s never been a better time to be a fan of Death’s Dynamic Shroud." -Lyrical Lemonade on Neon Memories

“...Fucking awesome…” -The Needle Drop on ‘Judgment Bolt’ during NMF

“‘Judgment Bolt’ continues the search for untraditional dancefloor bangers, channeling Skrillex and the digital miasma of classic vaporwave.” -THE FADER on ‘Judgment Bolt’

“…a pixelated, dancefloor-shaking blur of digitized beats, trippy orchestral passages and mutated vocals that stoke excitement for the full-length to come.” -Columbus Alive on ‘Judgment Bolt’


Track List

  1. Stay 05:12
  2. Judgment Bolt 04:32
  3. Neon Memories 04:39
  4. Light Left The Garden 05:33
  5. Missing Person 02:25
  6. Messe de E-102 05:50
  7. After Third Heaven 05:13
  8. Before I Cool Off 03:59
  9. I Just Wanted To Know Love 03:26
  10. Fade Persona 04:15
  11. Fall For Me 03:52
  12. Where Does It Come From? 03:52
  13. Rare Angel 06:16
  14. Perfect Angel 02:49
  15. Dark Matter 03:41

Credits: 
Written, Recorded & Produced: 
James Webster, Tech Honors & Keith Rankin

Follow death's dynamic shroud
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Website


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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/7119401386066 2023-05-25T17:30:00-07:00 2023-05-25T17:30:00-07:00 Ooh Rap I Ya Cassette Music George Clanton

Vendor: George Clanton
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

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Announcing "Ooh Rap I Ya" - the first solo album from George Clanton in nearly 5 years. Coming this July 28th, Ooh Rap I Ya expands on the sonic universe established by 2018's "Slide," this time delving deeper into self-reflection and psychedelia.

Tracklist: 
1. Everything I Want
2. Justify Your Life
3. Punching Down
4. I Been Young
5. You Hold the Key and I Found It
6. Vapor King
7. SubReal
8. F.U.M.L. (feat. Neggy Gemmy)
9. Ooh Rap I Ya
10. For You, I Will (feat. Hatchie)

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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/4942725972050 2023-05-25T13:00:02-07:00 2023-05-25T13:00:02-07:00 karakreativ Cassette Music George Clanton

Vendor: George Clanton
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

In stock and shipping now!

karakreativ is now available on cassette! Includes the original tracklisting, featuring the 10 original songs from the karakreativ album. Professionally dubbed and shrinkwrapped, as always! 

Album Tracklist:

1. Never Late Again 
2. Keep A Secret
3. Did I Flounder? 
4. Purity
5. Wonder Gently 
6. Bleed 
7. Warmspot 
8. It Makes The Babies Want To Cry 
9. Innocence 
10. Kill You In Bed 

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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/4546319941714 2023-04-13T19:29:37-07:00 2023-04-13T19:29:37-07:00 200% Electronica Cassette Music ESPRIT 空想

Vendor: ESPRIT 空想
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

In stock and shipping now!

200% Electronica is back again on cassette. 

ESPRIT began in 2012 as the sample-based side-project of electronic pop artist “George Clanton.” ESPRIT’s first two EP’s “Girls Only” and “Summer Night” are still considered essential listening for any newcomers to the vaporwave genre. In 2014, when vaporwave was still defined by its use of found music and manipulated samples, ESPRIT released his ‘Virtua.zip’ LP composed entirely of original material. In the 3 years since its release, the vaporwave scene at large has followed this trend.

After ‘Virtua.zip,’ the ESPRIT series was put on hold while George Clanton’s eponymous project’s ‘karakreativ’ LP released in late 2015. In 2017, ESPRIT returned with both the successor to ‘Virtua.zip’ and the sister album to ‘karakreativ’.

‘200% Electronica’ combines fully original compositions in ESPRIT’s classic vaporwave style with chopped & screwed samples pulled from George Clanton’s own songs, inspired by two years of touring with nothing but a Roland SP 404-SX.

Album Tracklist:

  1. Secret
  2. Warmpop
  3. Seal
  4. So Heavy You Can't Float
  5. You're in Love
  6. It's a Fast Driving Rave Up With Esprit
  7. Flounder 202
  8. Purity 202
  9. Trip II the OC
  10. Slow 2018
  11. Play That Again



 

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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/7057655955538 2023-02-01T12:18:58-08:00 2023-02-01T12:18:58-08:00 CBD Reiki Moonbeam Cassette Music Neggy Gemmy

Vendor: Neggy Gemmy
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

The highly anticipated third LP on cassette from Neggy Gemmy out April 28th, 2023 via karakreativ. Her recent string of singles 'California', 'Beep Beep', 'Daydream', 'Gemmy Juice', 'Twisted', and 'Black Ferrari' have been a glimpse into a new cartoonified Neggy Gemmy-verse. The vision coalesces in "CBD Reiki Moonbeam" - 15 bonafide pop songs that bounce from California to outer space as quickly as they descend from glamor into chaos. 

In stock and shipping now!

Album Tracklist:


1. california
2. black ferrari
3. daydream 
4. take a picture
5. beep beep
6. cbd
7. reiki
8. twisted
9. spinning
10. seeing stars (feat. frost children)
11. euphoria
12. moonbeam 
13. playing on my phone 
14. gemmy juice (feat. sarah bonito)
15. on the floor


 

Credits:

all songs written, recorded + produced by lindsey french (neggy gemmy). seeing stars co-written by neggy gemmy, frost children, + jorge elbrecht. gemmy juice performed by neggy gemmy and sarah bonito. mixed by neggy gemmy, jorge elbrecht, abe seiferth, oren ratowsky, nate donmoyer, + zach fogarty. mastered by mike marsh. art by uou___cute. layout by neggy gemmy.

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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/7044876075090 2023-01-04T12:37:28-08:00 2023-01-04T12:37:28-08:00 Sleep Tapes Volume 1 Cassette George Clanton Fan Club

Vendor: George Clanton Fan Club
Type: Cassette
Price: 15.00

Fan Club + Tour Exclusive. Includes digital download.

As mentioned within the Fan Club, Sleep Tapes are a recurring series of vaporwave mixtapes based around the idea of relaxation and sleeping. Essentially 1 hour long versions of "Busted Tapes" with a focus on slow music. It started after had an incredible napping experience to "Busted Tape #8". This is the first in the series. Potentially others will be made available on cassette if there is any interest.

Limited to 100 copies.

For the rest of the digital releases see: https://georgeclanton.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-tapes

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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/6980882104402 2022-10-03T18:47:58-07:00 2022-10-03T18:47:58-07:00 Live In LA Cassette Cassette Equip

Vendor: Equip
Type: Cassette
Price: 15.00

Live in LA on clear cassette. Featuring a 3-panel wrap around insert, and limited to only 100 copies. 

Exclusive to this cassette release: Equip & George Clanton's version of "Facing Worlds," as performed at Virtual Utopia 3 and ElectroniCON 3!

 

"Complacency is death." A slogan by which Chicago-based composer Equip has defined himself by. "Crystal Matrix" represents another sonic evolution for Equip- If "Cursebreaker X" was "knightrock," "Crystal Matrix" is "knightrave." "It's boring making the same stuff over and over. Things start to stagnate if I get comfortable with the same formula. I'm a music fiend- I love the challenge of working outside of the "vaporwave" genre i've been pigeonholed into." "Crystal Matrix" answers the tired "Is it vaporwave?" question with a resounding "who gives a shit." The "Live In LA" album was born out of Equip's monthly mixtape club and specifically crafted for the 2021 "Pudinapalooza" 2-day event curated by karakreativ's co-owner, Neggy Gemmy. It was Equip's first show post-pandemic, and the pent-up energy was palpable. Equip has spent the last two years transforming, both physically and musically. Further pushing the sound of his signature dream-like 16-bit inspired vapor-jams and sharpening it into a serrated dagger. "Crystal Matrix" is a dance banger and it lets you know right away. Metallic chord blasts erupt from a machine-line bassline, riding a 4-on-the-floor kick with a catchy 90's trance piano lead. Things are different now. A new era of Equip has begun. "Live in LA" is out in December on karakreativ.     

 

1. I Dreamed Of A Palace In The Sky (Mode Select Mix)
2. Ascending Skyward (Stratosphere Mix)
3. Cemetery Moonglow (Skeleton Rave Mix)
4. Druids (Mage House Mix) view
5. Cursebreaker X Theme (Soul Loss Trance Mix)
6. Legendary Equipment (Halcyonic Mix)
7. Crystal Matrix
8. Equip x George Clanton - Facing Worlds (Bonus Track)


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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/6975271796818 2022-09-26T15:14:19-07:00 2022-09-26T15:14:19-07:00 Unreleased + Rare Vol. 1 Cassette Cassette George Clanton Fan Club

Vendor: George Clanton Fan Club
Type: Cassette
Price: 15.00

Fan Club + Tour Exclusive. Includes digital download. In stock + shipping now! 

 

1. Daydream (Dub Mix) 08:33
2. Purity3 04:44
3. Peter.wav alternate version 01:59
4. Believe 03:05
5. Flounder 707 07:13
6. Want 2 Fly (Live Intro Version) 03:17
7. I Will Be With You (PHASE5 version) 04:22
8. I Will Be With You (PHASE6 version) 06:40
9. daydream (spf420 mix) 03:56
10. Purity1 08:35
11. Purity4 03:51
12. Colours Fading 01:58
13. Warmpop (Live Version) 03:33

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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/6774548693074 2021-11-29T11:59:14-08:00 2021-11-29T11:59:14-08:00 Slide Cassette Music George Clanton

Vendor: George Clanton
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

Slide is back on cassette! For the first time ever in Vapor Blue®. Professionally printed cassette with a 16-panel full-color J-card that unfolds to reveal photos and all lyrics. Limited to 300 copies! 

Pulling from a much larger cache of influences, "Slide" effortlessly slips between genres throughout, even multiple times per track, while still sounding grounded.
"Slide" is proof that George Clanton cannot make an experimental album. This is a new form of pop music - simple and nostalgic, and at the same time fresh and exciting.
Album Tracklist:
1. Livin' Loose
2. Make It Forever
3. Tie Me Down
4. Dumb
5. Blast Off
6. Slide
7. Monster
8. You Lost Me There
9. Encore



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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/4512197574738 2021-11-07T13:49:23-08:00 2021-11-07T13:49:23-08:00 Cursebreaker X Cassette Music Equip

Vendor: Equip
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

In stock and shipping now!

Cassette version of CURSEBREAKER X, Equip’s latest compact action packed adventure. Pro dubbed on a transparent red cassette tape with matching norelco case, 4 panel J-card featuring art from Keith Rankin. Contains the full 32 minute album on both sides for endless flipping. 

TRACKLISTING

1. CURSEBREAKER X Theme

2. SHOP (New Inventory!)

3. CEMETERY MOONGLOW (in the cold air of the night)

4. GATECRASHING (Illusionary Angel)

5. NOCTURNE CATACOMBS ( d e s c e n d i n g )

6. MIDNIGHT (t i m e i s r u n n i n g  o u t)

7. SHADOW DANCER

8. LIGHTBRINGER OBTAINED (Countdown)

9. PERFECT HARMONIC CURSEBREAKER (Final Boss)

10. LEGENDARY EQUIPMENT

11. PURIFIED

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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/4697298010194 2021-09-22T17:09:15-07:00 2021-09-22T17:09:15-07:00 Liteware Cassette Music FM Skyline

Vendor: FM Skyline
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

In stock and shipping now. Comes with digital download. 

Liteware is now available on cassette! Professionally dubbed and shrinkwrapped, as always! 

Tracklisting:
1. paradise neon
2. glass beaches
3. crystal river
4. polygon park
5. acrylic jungle
6. marble madness
7. kallisto
8. mirror gallery
9. quartz gallery
10. shadows
11. endless sky

Mastered by: t e l e p a t h 


Follow FM Skyline:
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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/6691767517266 2021-08-19T17:30:00-07:00 2021-08-19T17:30:00-07:00 Heartbeats Cassette Music Mirror Kisses

Vendor: Mirror Kisses
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

In stock + shipping now!

Before George Clanton, before karakreativ, there was "Mirror Kisses." Mirror Kisses was a name I held onto for many years because I was afraid if I started going by my real name, I would lose all of my fan base. Imagine that!

This album was originally released in 2013, and has been available at mirrorkisses.bandcamp.com since that date. But, I've been surprised at how many people had never heard this music. When I play something from one of the older albums live, there is always someone who asks "what song was that?"

So, if you are looking for "more music like George Clanton," this is pretty darn close.

Tracklist
1. runaways 03:08
2. Kameron 03:31
3. Heart Beats Black 03:24
4. Genius 04:18 video
5. Can't Believe 03:09
6. Shut Me Down 03:09
7. Ulterior Motives 02:20
8. clownface 04:45







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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/6579311018066 2021-04-19T20:59:43-07:00 2021-04-19T20:59:43-07:00 Dopamine Cassette Music PICTUREPLANE

Vendor: PICTUREPLANE
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

In stock + shipping now.

PICTUREPLANE's highly anticipated album 'Dopamine' is out July 9, 2021, via karakreativ. Listen to the singles and + pre-save here.


"I’m really proud of this record. 2020 was such an intense year for everyone, my entire music studio got robbed in Brooklyn, the global anxiety and uncertainty, and on top of that the extended isolation from friends and family... I think a lot of that went into some of the songwriting. I felt very free while writing this music. I am extremely excited for people to hear this new music and to be working with karakreativ for this record! They are a label run by artists like me, so it feels like we understand each other a lot."  -Travis Egedy

I’ve been a big fan of Pictureplane since his album Dark Rift in 2009 and his music inspired me to start producing electronic music and create “Negative Gemini”. He’s been such a positive force in the DIY and electronic music scenes for so long, and to have the opportunity to host his new album on our label is incredible. We think we’ve got a lot in common with his DIY approach and admire his ability to create an entire universe of art, fashion, and lore to surround his music. We’re also excited to see what kind of collaborative work we can achieve together! -Negative Gemini

“From his music to the Alien Body clothing line, Travis's commitment to the DIY ethos makes him a perfect fit for the karakreativ team. I'm personally excited for us to grow together.” -George Clanton

About
Pictureplane has made his name circling the outer limits of pop culture in several mediums. The Brooklyn-based artist's gallery works, shown both in the U.S. and abroad, collide familiar with fringe and hard lines with visceral spatter. His Alien Body clothing line serves up a stylized study of symbology, the occult, and societal decay. And his music—beautiful yet heavy, swirling wild strains of industrial dance, gothic hip-hop, and emotive New Age—treats electronics not as artificial, but as extensions of our analog selves. After a decade thrashing the status quo, Egedy is not only kin to makers of lovely dark music everywhere, but a vital player in the global DIY community. He is a proud outsider, yes, but his tribe is legion and ever-growing. 

In 2011, Pictureplane's Thee Physical arrived, marking a major leap forward. Egedy's voice was suddenly dripping sex at the forefront of a lush synthscape, while cuts like "Trancegender" and "Breath Work" explored the human body with gender-dissolving aplomb. He moved to Brooklyn in 2012 in order to stoke alt-rave culture from a more powerful vantage before teaming up with fabled indie-rap imprint Anticon for Technomancer (2015), an LP about the blurring line between ourselves and our machines. Along the way, Egedy's toured with everyone from Crystal Castles and Major Lazer to the Faint and Gang of Four. He has remixed Lil B; been remixed by Grimes; collaborated with bands (Prayers) and SoundCloud stars (Goth Boi Clique)

Track List:

1.Avalanche 3:34 stream
2.Aerial Black 4:03
3.Blade Addict (Crimson Mist) 3:14
4.Mass Belief 3:21
5.Black Chardonnay 3:56
6.Hand of Glory / Turbulent Mirror 5:05
7.Sungazer 3:42
8.Underwater Panther 3:02 stream
9.Isolation (The Illest) 3:36
10.Dopamine 3:28
11.The Magician 5:02


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https://www.karakreativ.com/products/6546045141074 2021-03-11T16:42:37-08:00 2021-03-11T16:42:37-08:00 Digital-Dance Cassette Music Software

Vendor: Software
Type: Music
Price: 15.00

Since 1983 Peter Mergener and Michael Weisser experiment with electronic sounds, visuals and environments. Their special interest is the area of how computers can be used to help express creative art of a wide variety. The LP's and CD's are just one part of Multi-Media-Events, combining music, computer-graphics and high-technology-poetry. SOFTWARE combines these elements beautifully, showing that technology as the sign of the time is emotion, stylish design and a new dimension of high-tech-beauty.

 

Cassette Tracklist

    1. Oceans Breath 09:21
    2. Magnificent Shore 07:46
    3. Waving Voices 06:06
    4. Island Sunrise 06:32
    5. Magic Beach 05:24
    6. Sea Gulls Audience 06:30
    7. Digital Dance 05:51
    8. Magicians Song* 06:46
    9. Percussion Island* 05:52

    * = Cassette & CD only bonus tracks

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    https://www.karakreativ.com/products/3831919116370 2019-06-15T11:27:31-07:00 2019-06-15T11:27:31-07:00 Bad Baby EP Cassette Music Neggy Gemmy

    Vendor: Neggy Gemmy
    Type: Music
    Price: 15.00

    In stock and shipping now!

    EP Tracklist

    1. Infin Path 05:16
    2. Bad Baby 03:44
    3. You Weren't There Anymore 04:56
    4. Skydiver 04:36
    5. Bad Baby (Club Mix) 04:51
    6. My Innocence 02:13
    7. Bad Baby (Satin Sheets Remix) 04:57


    "Very groovy very spacious. If you love your dance music dark, a little moody, a little spacey, if you love some crystal castles, you love some vaporwave give it a try, give it a shot. " - Anthony Fantano 

    "She’s got a wonderful sensibility of this new age 90s scene. Like music that my parents were into, there was this compilation called pure moods and I feel like a lot of her songs would fit very well on there. …a very joyful ambient listen." - Vinyl Rewind

    "French finds beauty in total confusion."- Pitchfork 

    "it’s a stunner." - Bandcamp 

    "Ethereal new age jungle with a vocal flex that nods to Enya and Björk." - Resident Advisor 

    "something jarring and sublime in crystalline brilliance." - SPIN magazine 

    "like Britney Spears singing The Prodigy through the fog at a dim karaoke bar" - Interview Magazine 

    "dreamy." - GvB 

    "feverish."- i-D 

    "continuing down the path of a singer-songwriter, crafting stories rather than just songs" - EARMILK 

    "a euphoric, blissed-out crescendo" - FACT mag 

    "grimy bliss" - Tiny Mix Tapes


    released January 19, 2018

    all rights reserved

     

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    artist:Negative Gemini Cassette gemmy music Negative Gemini negativegemini neggy neggy gemmy neggygemmy https://www.karakreativ.com/products/3831919116370 Default Title 15.00 NG/BB/112C 113
    https://www.karakreativ.com/products/3831913873490 2019-06-15T11:22:53-07:00 2019-06-15T11:22:53-07:00 Body Work Deluxe Cassette Music Neggy Gemmy

    Vendor: Neggy Gemmy
    Type: Music
    Price: 15.00

    In stock and shipping now!
    Professionally dubbed, printed and sealed. Solid purple cassette with black ink . Full color art inside and out on six-panel J card, with all twelve tracks from the Body Work LP plus four previously unreleased bonus tracks! Edition of 250, comes with digital download. 

      Album Tracklist:

       

       

      1. No Rum 
      2. Rollercoaster 
      3. Break 
      4. Body Work 
      5. You Never Knew 
      6. Don't Worry Bout the Fuck I'm Doing
      7. Nu Hope 
      8. Real Virtual Unison (Fake edit) 
      9. Infinity 
      10. Ego Death 
      11. Hold U (Break Your Face edit) 
      12. You Only Hate the Ones You Love
      13. Tilly Chena (Infinity Remix) (bonus)
      14. 420bro (bonus) 
      15. 420bro ascension (bonus) 
      16. Don't Worry Bout the Fuck I'm Doing (demo)(bonus) 
      "simultaneously hypnotizing and grounding"- MTV news  

      "like a CVS that turns into a dance club after lockup" - Bandcamp Daily 

      "'Don't Worry Bout The Fuck I'm Doing' is sonically consistent with her futuristic take on electronic pop. Her voice rides the hypnotic beat, but her charged lyrics take front stage" - The FADER 

      "When French lets loose emotionally, as on ‘You Never Knew’ or last year’s stunning ‘Forget Your Future’, it’s crushing. The shitheads here though only warrant the calm instruction of the title and with it French shows off another facet to her increasingly exciting work." - FACT 

      "one of our favorite tracks from the record, an emphatic middle finger to the disgusting catcallers she encounters on a daily basis in NYC .. ethereal electronic pop anthem." - Gorilla vs Bear 

      "A gorgeous, space-y spin on NG's signature, forward-thinking electropop, it's definitely a headbobber." - PAPER Mag 

      "You Never Knew' is an addictive piece of electronic pop that will make you reach for that play button time and time again." - The 405   

      "Negative Gemini, makes a genre-spanning blend of ’90s techno and heady modern electronica: a little Chicago, a little Detroit, and a whole lot of Brooklyn. But unlike many of her contemporaries, French conveys her personality and experiences through vocals and lyrics, not just tight production" - NYLON 

      "As if Kylie Minogue was commissioned to soundtrack a movie that falls somewhere between ’90s teen romance and a grindhouse movie, the track is capable of establishing Lindsey as the internet’s next big pop star." - Pigeons and Planes 

      "Your summer anthem is here, courtesy of Negative Gemini. One of our favorite up-and-coming singer/producers ... this synthy indie track induces long summer joyride yearning alongside unforgiving bad bitch vibes." - Nasty Gal 

      "Body Work peers out with a new delight in manic exploration" - Tiny Mix Tapes
       
      released September 23, 2016 
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