&TIME - Discography (2017 - 2018)

 
Artist: ANDTIME / 2017 / &TIME / Next Year's Snow
Album: (entire discography)
Location: Earth
Genres: Experimental Electronic, Vaporwave, Sound Collage, Noise
Year Released: 2017 - 2018
Date Refound / Posted: 2023-08-11
Format(s) Released: Bandcamp

Explanation: &TIME / ANDTIME / 2017 was a 'vaporwave' label and collective artists from all around the world. I use vaporwave in the loosest possible terms. That might have been what it started as but it quickly devolved into outright weird electronic albums, strange releases and a meme/joke EPs that I can't quite compare to any other groups. The only person who knew the true identities was Octavia Sheffner, the mastermind behind the group.
They really were in a league of their own. I've heard a bunch of their releases and they were always very weird. Micheal545onYouTube's releases were recordings of some child talking about his fanfiction while soothing ambient played. မိန်းမတပိုင်းငါးတပိုင်းအံသွား was vaporwave but sounded really deadpan. 

I remember 7's album being a really relaxing drone album that perfectly matched its cover. There were very little 'conventional' releases. Echo's C-Sides was one such record that was a bunch of eccojams. Nearly all the artists involved were anonymous, often taking aliases for one-off releases.
After ANDTIME went down (further explained below) they reformed as Next Year's Snow. NYS's work is much more conventional, and their releases are way more structured. Another group, formed by some of the original members was 7Form. In a way 7Form continues the tradition of strange releases, weird artist names, lots of drone, jokes and such. I haven't dug deep into 7Form but what I've seen fits perfectly into the canon.

Reasons for Disappearance: Based on the way the ANDTIME clique operated, everyone had access to the Bandcamp. In a combination of someone going rogue and deleting it, Bandcamp themselves took the whole page down. This was the principal reason the group went down and reformed as NYS. It's also a good reason as to why NYS' releases are more structured (though again, 7Form is a good successor for that random stuff).

Dream Demos's Drone 1 / Casio is probably my favourite release from the group. It's this small ambient EP that fits with its cover. Listening to its nice tones I imagine it the soundtrack of a swamp during daytime, long off some highway.

I wasn't really looking for a lot of the releases though now that I have the discography in my hands, I think it's time to do another dive. There are a few releases I want to listen to. Mainly Paul Hayes - DJ 80mg + ELECTROLYTEs (2003 MEGAMIX part 1 /icy hip hop/ club/ crunk NEW MUSIC® DJ) (2017), hantasi - ha nt as i (2107), and এটা দুঃখের -  the age of technology. Those look interesting.

For some reason even though the page was taken down if you had purchased them, you could still see them on the Bandcamp app. No downloads but you could stream them. I had actually purchased all of their albums before the deletion but never found the time to actually rip and catalogue it. Fortunately someone else did and compiled those into archives below.

This discography was found by a combination of Bruhmask and No Recess. Both have been uploaded to archive.org and also have stuff the other doesn't.

Download (No Recess): https://archive.org/details/andtime
Download (Bruhmask): https://archive.org/details/Andtimearchive