When I saw the email update from Bandcamp that there was a new release from Infinity Frequencies, I dropped everything that I was doing. I believe I was actually at work when I saw the email. I had to whip out my personal computer in order to download it before I'd forget, but there wouldn't be a reason why I would forget. Infinity Frequencies would be at the top of my list of vaporwave musicians and artists if I was ever pressured to make a list. I spent a large portion of my first year in college falling asleep to the Computer trilogy: Computer Death, Computer Decay, and Computer Afterlife. So far, this album, fresh off the skillet, is very reminiscent of those three albums that introduced me to "computer-gaze".
"Replica encounter" is exactly what it sounds like. For all we know, it could be based on a repurposed sample from a previous album. What I appreciate about Infinity Frequencies and their music is that they are able to do so very much with so little means and material. They don't need to salvage an extensive range of samples to finger through until they find something so esoteric that there's no possible way that it's been used before. I'm willing to put money on the fact that I strongly believe that a lot of these songs are based on repurposed samples that stem from mainstream and adjacent songs. These origin songs would be otherwise noticeable if Infinity Frequencies didn't take one of the smallest portions of it, distort it, add reverb and fuzz. That isn't to say that their music can be easily replicated.
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The fact that there is an "essence" to be shown and felt for electronic music is something that music analysts and historians would probably rise from the dead and strangle me for saying. However, it's a statement that I firmly stand behind. In the age where even machines are able to grow old, there's something to be said for the souls that are left behind once their physical shells become defunct.
"Deleted space" is a very good example of how I love the utilization of samples by Infinity Frequencies. Where vaporwave has consisted majorly from samples created by black musicians in the 70s and 80s, Infinity Frequencies creates this self-defined genre of "computer-gaze" that stems from white classical musicians and Asian traditional music. I've contemplated before on the fetishizing of Asian cultures and aesthetics in vaporwave before, but I think it is also worth mentioning here that judging from the tracks created by this artist, Infinity Frequencies taps into a variety of music for their use. They commandeer obscure source material that has no set geographic headquarters, and that is what separates them from most vaporwave artists.
Infinity Frequencies occupies a very independent yet sentient part of my soul where listening to their music puts me in the metallic carcasses of these empty beings. When computers and watches and televisions came about, a major component in their core batteries and processors contained something that is a conductor of not only electric charges but spiritual energies.
Quartz.
I am a believer and constant learner of crystal healing. They bear great amounts of strength. As someone who has (and still is) been on antipsychotics, supplements, had many surgeries and ailments in the past, I do not nor ever will condemn medical practices. They are necessary for survival, for healing.
