Artist: Vito Genovese
Album: The Island
Location: Port Richey, United States
Genres (Primary, Seconday, Influence): Slowcore, Post-Rock, Hypnagogic Pop, Blogspot Scene
Year Released: 2010
Date Refound / Posted: 2023-05-28
Format(s) Released: Mp3-via-RYM
Explanation: Vito Genovese is a legendary electronic artist. With a cavalcade of albums across different aliases, the founder one of the largest vaporwave labels in history (DMT Tapes FL with over 1K releases out) to becoming one of the most accomplished and in my opinion one of the greatest vaporwave artists of all time.
Before he had an epiphany and entered the vaporwave movement he was an electronic musician who blended slowcore, hypnagogic pop, the blogspot scene and more into these emotive and depressive releases. From about 2008 to 2012 he relased a bucnh of these records. The Island is one of them.
It was a fusion of different styles with some tracks featuring Vito playing guitar and singing with reverb and stuff, some indie rock, just a little post-rock influence, plenty of slowcore and most importantly inspiration from that whole Blogspot Scene / Sound. It's a relaxed, short-ish album that isn't in your face. It's got a laid-back sound with occasional collages and a relaxed tone. The album matches perfectly with the cover.
It was a fusion of different styles with some tracks featuring Vito playing guitar and singing with reverb and stuff, some indie rock, just a little post-rock influence, plenty of slowcore and most importantly inspiration from that whole Blogspot Scene / Sound. It's a relaxed, short-ish album that isn't in your face. It's got a laid-back sound with occasional collages and a relaxed tone. The album matches perfectly with the cover.
It's alright. I like the electronic beat he has going on the track Under fire.
Reasons for Disappearance: Back in the what-I-call Indie Age of RateYourMusic, artists could upload music directly to the site and then allow users to directly download thoes albums from RYM's servers. On each page with this there would be a download button beside each track. I have no idea when this feature was introduced into RYM. I can write though that it was already removed when I joined in 2015. The buttons were still present until the site re-design (circa 2020 i think).
Vito is not an unknown artist and while this release was lost someone was bound to have it on certain networks. It did take a few days of searching but I eventually found someone with a copy. To this day Vito continues to make music and run DMT Tapes FL though this sound he was doing 2008-2012 remains in its era as a footnote in his expansive discography.
Download: aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZpbGUvTEJKRkhSTEQjV3BMUmRudEYtekhISFlWYkpBT2dTaXhvdlhmZlNqV2FPM0o5N0pucU9NMA==
Password: theisland
Also for the like 5 readers I am officially back. Gonna aim for a post a week....? At least until September. We'll probably go on hold again.
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