newbreed
what it is
Newbreed was a phase of vaporwave in the early 2010s that was radical and experimental in style and form, with projects tagged as it being distributed through Bandcamp labels, Mediafire and 4chan's music board /mu/, as with much of vaporwave at the time. Projects tagged with newbreed included more conventional sounding artists like Blank Banshee and ventla, and more experimental artists like INTERNET CLUB (and her other aliases) and NYKDLN. Labels whose output was tagged with, or who tagged their own output as, newbreed included Beer on the Rug, Ailanthus Recordings, Sunup Recordings, Aural Sects, Vaporbabes and ‡‡welcome_ 美 ₰ou₦ds††, all of which had lesser, obscurer contributions from projects that were collage-based, mysterious and anonymous in nature, often being sporadic one-offs utilizing Unicode in their aliases.
✦ start here: albums
✦ who's making it, level by level
level 3 · one step out
cult favorites and indie darlings
level 4 · further
art pop, hyperpop, and the underground
level 5 · all the way
deep experimental
✦ make newbreed a playlist
turn these 24 artists into something you can press play on.
✦ nearby genres
questions
What is newbreed?
Newbreed was a phase of vaporwave in the early 2010s that was radical and experimental in style and form, with projects tagged as it being distributed through Bandcamp labels, Mediafire and 4chan's music board /mu/, as with much of vaporwave at the time. Projects tagged with newbreed included more conventional sounding artists like Blank Banshee and ventla, and more experimental artists like INTERNET CLUB (and her other aliases) and NYKDLN. Labels whose output was tagged with, or who tagged their own output as, newbreed included Beer on the Rug, Ailanthus Recordings, Sunup Recordings, Aural Sects, Vaporbabes and ‡‡welcome_ 美 ₰ou₦ds††, all of which had lesser, obscurer contributions from projects that were collage-based, mysterious and anonymous in nature, often being sporadic one-offs utilizing Unicode in their aliases.
What are good newbreed albums to start with?
Try God Loves Us by BLACK SUN, Giza by Gatekeeper, Light Dead Sea, Volume One by Various Artists, and Hall of Fame by Hall of Fame.
Who are some women making newbreed?
musicisforgirls.com/genres/newbreed/girls lists women, non-binary artists, and bands with women making newbreed, from mainstream to underground.
genre notes from last.fm listeners · artists and albums from last.fm, updated 2026-10-20