OSCOB's "Beneath the Blue Veil" is 7:28 of ocean-themed vaporwave from the artist who founded Bedlam Tapes

OSCOB released FOREVER BLUE フォーエバーブルー on October 2, 2026: eight tracks, self-released on Bandcamp at name-your-price. 1 Start with the opener, "Beneath the Blue Veil 青いヴェールの下で," which runs 7:28 and carries the tags electronic, vaporwave and Germany. 2

The album tags itself electronic, sea, ocean, vaporwave and Germany. 1 Vaporwave is the term worth unpacking first. It names an internet microgenre, aesthetic and meme that emerged in the early 2010s, and it is defined partly by slowed-down, chopped-and-screwed samples of 1980s and 1990s smooth jazz, elevator music, R&B and lounge. 3 James Ferraro, Daniel Lopatin and Ramona Langley pioneered the sound; Langley's 2011 album Floral Shoppe set its blueprint, and the acts that followed distributed themselves on Bandcamp. 3

After 2012 the genre split into offshoots: mallsoft, signalwave, slushwave, late night lo-fi, and, in the early 2020s, barber beats. 3 OSCOB's catalogue runs through those names. His best-known record, the 2022 album praise the sun god, is filed as barber beats, the style built from slowed-down lounge and smooth-jazz records. 4

FOREVER BLUE points all of that at one subject. Its eight titles are undersea — a blue veil, the quiet between waves, a submerged skyline, the continental shelf, tidal memory, a saltwater monument, an oceanic timekeeper, abyssal echoes — and the Bandcamp page quotes Jacques Cousteau: "The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." 1

OSCOB is one person, based in Germany, and his Bandcamp page introduces him in two lines: "everything is plundered" and "I mildly enjoy vaporwave." 1

In 2015 he founded Bedlam Tapes, a German cassette label for experimental electronic music, and it became one of the scene's more visible imprints. 5 It opened with a compilation and went on to release chris†††'s no lives matter, a republishing of early-genre albums including Hantasi's Vacant Places, and records by bl00dwave, haircuts for men and the Japanese artist Jobanshi, with a digital side-label, Bedlam Digital, alongside it. 56 The label ran to 2018 and briefly returned in 2021. 5 He records under other aliases too, among them Fuji Network Systems, and has released collaborations with Rez and with haircuts for men. 6

His Bandcamp page now lists 41 releases. 1 The one most listeners arrive through is praise the sun god (2022): thirteen tracks, one hour forty minutes, a Dark Souls-themed album that slows and reverbs its way through a single lounge compilation. 4

FOREVER BLUE landed on October 2, inside the past seven days. 1

It is LIGHT-111 on Gorgeous Lights, the cassette label that put out praise the sun god as LIGHT-070 four years ago. 47 That label's edition is a professionally duped transparent blue cassette in a clear case with a double-sided full-colour j-card, priced at €13, shipping from the United States around November 30. 7 The pre-order closes October 31, which sets the deadline for deciding whether you want the record on tape. 7

"Beneath the Blue Veil" is the seven-and-a-half minutes to give it. 2 The remaining seven pieces run from 4:59 to 12:20: "The Quiet Between Waves" (11:52), "Submerged Skyline" (8:32), "Echoes of the Continental Shelf" (7:38), "Tidal Memory" (8:26), "Saltwater Monument" (4:59), "Oceanic Timekeeper" (8:38) and "Abyssal Echoes" (12:20). 1 The whole record sits just under seventy minutes, so one sitting covers it.

The digital album is name-your-price, in 16-bit/44.1 kHz, and the stream is free at oscob.bandcamp.com. 1 The cassette pre-order is €13 through October 31. 7 For a next step, praise the sun god is the other OSCOB record on the same label: thirteen tracks of barber beats, an hour and forty minutes of it. 4