Pharma is a double album by American vaporwave producer Alex Koenig, also known as Nmesh. It was issued on August 4, 2017 on the imprint Orange Milk Records. It follows the same vaporwave style as other Nmesh albums like Nu.wav Hallucinations (2013) and Dream Sequins (2014) but is more 'off-kilter' (as Koenig put it) than those records and depicts samples from 'collective memory' rather than the media Koenig experienced as a child. The album was critically well received.
OSCAST is back and under new management! Erm..well sorta. The show returns with a new name and a new cohost, 3D BLAST. Today on our 'premiere' episode, OSCOB sits down with long time producer and vapor-dad Nmesh. We discuss his extensive discography of work, and a few speed bumps he has run into over the last year. Enjoy!
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Composition[edit]
Like other Nmesh records such as Nu.wav Hallucinations (2013) and Dream Sequins (2014), Pharma is an album[1] that is, as Bandcamp Daily stated, 'a dazzling confluence of media: pitch-shifted barely-registered cultural phenomena turned into hallucinatory sequences, advertising trash enlivened through eccojam manipulation, audio warping that blurs eras like a pre-set Photoshop filter.'[5] Where Pharma differs from other Nmesh albums is its more 'off-kilter' and 'slap-happy' tone (as described by Koenig)[5] and its source material, which includes samples of media from a 'collective memory' instead of the content Koenig experienced in his childhood.[5]
The media Pharma samples includes the show The Baby-Sitters Club,[5] a Soul II Soul song,[5] the Yello song 'Oh Yeah,'[6] music from the game Pac-Man (1980),[6] the film Army Of Darkness (1992),[6] and VHS tapes the producer's wife recorded as a kid on the songs 'Vault Maintenance 700 CMC' and 'cut scene 5230-4968 albatross 0923-1874.'[5]Pharma also goes through genres such as big beat,[1]swing,[7]UK garage,[7]lounge,[7]exotica,[7]soul,[7]hip-hop,[7]ambient,[7] and drum 'n' bass.[6] Writer A. Noah Harrison labeled Pharma as a psychedelic record rather than a vaporwave album because, despite concerning nostalgic memories common in vaporwave, they're 'indelibly glossed over, redacted, and memed into a higher dimension.'[8]
Reception[edit]
Resident Advisor praised Pharma as 'an album so vast and confusing that, whenever you lose your bearings, you'll usually find something new to enjoy each time.'[9]Fact magazine critic Miles Bowe called it the best record in Nmesh's discography, reasoning that 'There’s too much to keep up with, but overstimulation is Nmesh’s comfort zone and it’ll be yours too once acclimated to Pharma's colorful chaos.'[6] In describing the charm of the LP, Tiny Mix Tapes summarized that it 'begins steeped in mystery, in government secrets, in phantasms, in hard-drives inside vaults immersed inside administrative centers, and ends as a node to the body.'[10] The publication later placed it at number 47 on their list of the best releases of 2017, claiming that it 'went beyond simulation, toward the tangible archaeological rescue of base cultural artifacts, offering a digital rendering of the remnants of human primitivity that felt especially appropriate in this historical moment.'[11]Gorilla vs. Bear ranked the album number 58 on their list of the best albums of 2017,[12] while PopMatters put it at number ten on their year-end list regarding experimental and avant-garde albums.[8]
Track listing[edit]
Derived from the official Orange Milk Records Bandcamp page.[1]
Release history[edit]
Nmesh Dream Sequins Vinyl FabricReferences[edit]
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Comment by Unknown2001
Fantastic
Comment by ???? ??2208344 ✓
Vaporwave at its finest ? found no where else ? but this is the best ?
Comment by Murex
Danm I wish I had some ice cream
Comment by Tungsten
I'm like, having an existential crisis while coding a bird.
Comment by Magnus Perfectus
A manel x font download. @nmesh: Cool
Comment by Nmesh
@richardb-introspect: :)
Comment by Introspective Sounds
Dream Sequins® is actually what introduced me to Vaporwave.
Comment by We Have The Technology™
Yes indeed
Comment by BUG-Z-LUX
nice
Comment by Ben Oliver 15
UNKLE type sampling. Love it. Whole album is A+.
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changed image is changed ;)
Comment by 刀工刀工闩丂丁闩廾
this is magical! Amazing!!!
Comment by mbond1993
OMG<3
Comment by Re:WAVES
Chill music, ambient and breathing. Awesome
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Comment by EDDO2001
Sophie B. Hawkins was my high school soundtrack
Comment by ULTRA ウルトラ
Amazing work!
Comment by Geskleithron
Wings of fire mod minecraft 1.12.2. It's like floating on a very specific type of nostalgia.
Comment by Drowning The Colossus
all of your music puts me in a trance
Comment by Nmesh
@genuine-fraud: THANX!!! -lml (-_-) lml-
Comment by Genuine Fraud 本物の詐欺
call me a fan, i love all your tracks.
Comment by nick forester
b e a u t y
Comment by Nmesh
Featured on ArtzieMusic's channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LcoHth1jDM
Comment by S U R R E A L D R E A M S
<3 so good! ^_^
Comment by Neon Chase
I like! Layers are sweet.
Comment by Nmesh
@anocounty: That was the most fun do. ;) thx
Comment by anothercountyheard
LOVE this esp the last minute
Comment by Mehico
s u r f
Comment by Vlad Yarushin
<3
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