( ｗｉｒｅｔａｐ )

( ｗｉｒｅｔａｐ )
Information
Artist	Chinese Hackers
Release Type	Album
Label	Bedlam Tapes Needlejuice Records
Catalog Number	BEDLAM_04 NJR-029
Formats	Bandcamp Album Cassette MiniDisc Vinyl
Release Date	December 7, 2015 December 8, 2015 April 30, 2019 (SoundCloud) February 14, 2020 (Redux) April 21, 2020 (Needlejuice Records)
Singles	2015-08-12: Source Code 2015-08-20: Smokestack 2015-08-26: Town Square 2015-09-24: Projects 2015-11-19: Ｕｎｄｅｒｇｒｏｕｎｄ 2015-12-07: 雾
Tracks	13
Length	34:28 35:21 (Redux)
Tags	electronic; experimental; dark ambient; oceangrunge; post-vaporwave; vaporwave (Chinese Hackers) electronic; ambient; dark ambient; eccojams; electronic; industrial; plunderphonics; vaporgoth; vaporwave (Bedlam Tapes) electronic; experimental ambient; dark ambient; industrial; oceangrunge; post-vaporwave; vaporwave (Needlejuice Records)
Status	Online
Chinese Hackers
Previous Release	░▒▓死▓▒░
Next Release	クローザー

( ｗｉｒｅｔａｐ ) (Also formatted as (Wiretap)) is an album released by Chinese Hackers and published for cassette through Bedlam Tapes. In February of 2020, a redux version of the album was released by Chinese Hackers. In April of the same year, the album was published for physicals through Needlejuice Records.

Tracklist

Current

#	Tape	Track	Length
1	A1	Ｔｏｗｎ Ｓｑｕａｒｅ	0:56
2	A2	Ｐｒｏｊｅｃｔｓ	1:41
3	A3	Ｆｏｒｗａｒｄ	2:04
4	A4	Ｕｎｄｅｒｇｒｏｕｎｄ	3:06
5	A5	Ｓｏｕｒｃｅ Ｃｏｄｅ	1:28
6	A6	Ｌｅａｄｅｒ	2:11
7	A7	Ｓｍｏｋｅｓｔａｃｋ	1:46
8	A8	雾 ( ｆｔ． チェスマスター ) (MV) Fog	2:12
9	A9	Ｖｉｌｌａｇｅ	2:56
10	B1	Ｔｉｂｅｔ	3:14
11	B2	Ｏｐｉｕｍ	3:48
12	B3	( ｗｉｒｅｔａｐ )	5:50
13	B4	Ｆａｄｅ Ｏｕｔ ( ｆｔ． Ｃｈｕｎｇｋｉｎｇ Ｍａｎｓｉｏｎｓ )	3:16

Redux

#	Tape	Track	Length
1	A1	T o w n S q u a r e	1:11
2	A2	P r o j e c t s	2:44
3	A3	F o r w a r d	2:13
4	A4	U n d e r g r o u n d	3:07
5	A5	S o u r c e C o d e	1:29
6	A6	L e a d e r	2:10
7	A7	S m o k e s t a c k	1:49
8	A8	雾 ( ｆｔ． チェスマスター ) (MV) Fog	2:12
9	B1	V i l l a g e	2:18
10	B2	T i b e t	3:14
11	B3	O p i u m	3:48
12	B4	(w i r e t a p)	5:50
13	B5	F a d e O u t ( f t . C h u n g k i n g M a n s i o n s )	3:16

Description

SoundCloud

in ur software hackin yo shit

Chinese Hackers (Redux)

Fed up with the boring sounds of average vaporwave, Chinese Hackers decided to reinvent the genre by creating a new style: vaporgoth. Before making vaporwave music, Chinese Hackers had recorded industrial music under several different aliases. Using those dark and noisy inspirations, the 17 year old decided to meld industrial grind with vaporwave to birth a new sound and put a bleak spin on the anti-capitalist genre. Chinese Hackers also drew on his own time in Hong Kong by imagining his songs playing in various landscapes throughout China. These were the songs that he imagined hearing in an empty village square, circa 1966, where the loudspeaker would blare distorted music and propaganda, and the PLA would be doing their exercises in the cold break of the dawn.

Drawing from a number of traditional as well as new sample sources, Chinese Hackers sought to create a sound that obscured itself even from veterans of the genre. Games such as Half Life 2 and Turok were heavily sampled, and combined with Chinese Hacker's own nightmare MIDI instruments. The album should be listened to after dusk when one has the time to ponder the meaning of words/concepts such as "foreign", "machine", and "authoritarianism".

Needlejuice Records

Chinese Hackers’ (w i r e t a p) reinvent the vaporwave genre by creating a new style: vaporgoth. Before making vaporwave music, Chinese Hackers had recorded industrial music under several different aliases. Using those dark and noisy inspirations, the sounds of industrial grind and vaporwave birthed a new sound with a bleak spin.

Gallery

TODO: Add physical media images.

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  Alternative cover art

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  Redux cover art

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  Ｓｏｕｒｃｅ Ｃｏｄｅ cover

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  Front J-Card

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  Back J-Card

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  Cassette A-Side

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  Cassette B-Side

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  Minidisc Front J-Card

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  Minidisc Back J-Card

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  Minidisc A-Side

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  Minidisc B-Side

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  Back vinyl jacket

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  Front vinyl sleeve

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  Back vinyl sleeve

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  Vinyl A-Side

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  Vinyl B-Side

External Links

• Bandcamp Album (Bedlam Tapes)
• Bandcamp Album (Chinese Hackers) (Redirect)
• Bandcamp Album (Chinese Hackers) (Redux)
• Bandcamp Album (Needlejuice Records)
• SoundCloud Set
• Spotify Album
• Discogs Page
• Rate Your Music Page
• last.fm Page