#vaervaf

christtt is a plunderphonics & vaporwave producer who at the time had just gotten out of his first big break in the vapor scene with the release of his fourth album no lives matter on March 2016. To put it lightly, the title of that album has aged, but the album itself had a lot less to do about politics and way more to do about death and the afterlife in Hell, especially as this was made surrounding the ten year anniversary of his father's passing.

It's one of my favourite vaporwave albums of all time and it completely pushes the boundaries of what minimal can be done with its sample editing in order to effectively recontextualise & communicate strong & potent feelings of dread, despair & suffering that carry this entire concept album forward. It's incredible on that front, with its earliest highlight judas inside being remixed & featured as the closer of this mix, prefaced particularly by snippits of the songs directly sampled in that and its prior intro offline: HEALTH's New Coke and Genesis's Please Don't Ask.

Before you get to that incredibly explosive finale of that mix, you are first introduced to hauntingly elegant art pop from the likes of d'Eon & Nils Bech with some brilliant loops thrown into them, followed by even more breathtaking abstract electronica produced by Vaervaf, HELLCOM & Oneohtrix Point Never. After their crescendos, you're treated to a pair of frantic, eccentric & playful IDM beats provided by VHS Head & Extreme Animals before christtt uses all that came before this moment as a taste of what appeals & inspires his latest work at the time before happily guiding you in through the gates of Hell and taking you through the plunge.

This is an absolutely stellar mix, only 26 minutes in length and he spends that entire runtime showcasing his unique palette, his great ear for song editing, his seamless transitions and what marks one of the first true landmarks of his entire career as an artist & creative. Please give it a listen!

chris​†​†​† – untitled loop [0:39]

Nils Bech – Waiting [1:56]

d'Eon – Thousand Mile Trench [3:34]

Vaervaf – Mong [1:03]

Oneohtrix Point Never – Freaky Eyes [3:31]

HELLCOM – ACCELERATOR [2:43]

Extreme Animals – A Better Way [3:46]

VHS Head – Decapitron [2:47]

HEALTH – New Coke [1:19]

chris​†​†​† – offline / judas inside (live mix) [4:37]