The Internet-birthed “vaporwave” aesthetic highly nostalgic, highly reverbed, highly sampled. 2814 is formed by London performer HKE and his fellow enigmatic SoundCloud dweller Telepath. They have captured all the romance and wistfulness through bold, original compositions. “We wanted to show how the whole vaporwave vibe could be made as original music rather than just relying on the same muzak and kitsch-pop samples everyone else had been using for years,” says HKE. “While I thought the whole idea of playing with samples was cool … I’ve always been more enamored by its thematic concepts and its focus on dreaminess and surreal futurism and on painting a narrative through music.” This is an unofficial music video edited by David Dean Burkhart, with footage from the 1986 short film Dream City by Steve Siegel.
