MTHU Outstanding Design Award #1
Lonely Star by Origami Girl Lonely Star by Origami Girl Released on May 8, 2020, Origami Girls latest bedroom dream pop album made it onto CD via Virtual Dream Plaza. The album cover was...
Category: Episodes
Waifu Radio 2 by Fujifire Review (Cassette)
FujiFire‘s Waifu Radio 2 is one of the first albums I think of when someone says “Future Funk” or “Anime Wave”. It has everything you’re looking for in a future funk album such as...
HATENA – Parader (cassette review)
Hatena’s album Parader is one of my favorite albums from this genre without question. I first heard it on Hatena’s personal Bandcamp page and later picked up the cassette (a few copies left as...
![[video] Aquablanca Unboxing - 潜在的な雪 by 天気予報 Cassettes 6](http://musicsthehangup.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/天气-Project.png "[video] Aquablanca Unboxing - 潜在的な雪 by 天気予報 Cassettes 7")
[video] Aquablanca Unboxing – 潜在的な雪 by 天気予報 Cassettes
I finally caved and bought a 天気予報 cassette. I’ve been a huge fan of their work since my early introduction to the Signalwave genre. When I heard these cassettes would be the last cassettes...
27th Floor by Passive Refraction (Album Review)
Hiraeth Records released 27th Floor by Passive Refraction on a physical format (Vinyl and Cassette – minidisk was released on minidisk day) and you just know I couldn’t pass this up. I really enjoyed...
Signal Bells: Vol 1 (Now out!)
Signal Bells: Vol 1 by various artists Earlier in December, I reached out to the vaporwave community to see who would be interested in submitting tracks for the first official MTHU. The theme was...
Accepting holiday signalwave comp submissions (closed)
Musics the Hang Up is officially announcing a Holiday edition compilation for the the vaporwave sub-genre – Signalwave! Quick 30 second signal like commercial tracks to mallsoft to weather reports and more; we are...
‘book of aesthetics’ now for purchase
As some of you might know, I’ve been working on an art piece book that brings the ideas of vaporware and the commercials of signalwave into one fully colored book. Purchase Now The books...
Patreon X-mas physical release gift + daily news
Meta news (patron gift) Winter has been hitting me kind of hard for some reason this year. It’s not even that cold but the lack of sunlight has been putting a weight on my...
Ultimate Guide to Vaporwave Clothing / Shops
Outside of music and the deep faux message about capitalism there’s a truly unique aesthetic behind Vaporwave. A lot of artists, labels and brands cater to this design so here’s a list of Vaporwave...
24 Hour Forecast by Alternate Skies (Album Review) – vinyl Pre-order
Our beloved climatewave artist Alternate Skies has released his album 24 Hour Forecast on vinyl for pre-order this week. I thought it would be a perfect time to finally review one of their albums,...
VA:10 – A Vaporwave Anniversary Cassette box announced!
Today we had our first look at the cassette box set for the VA:10’s Vaporwave Anniversary project. They’ve teamed up with My Pet Flamingo to release this super high quality looking box which will...