2 8 1 4 is the collaborative project of t e l e p a t h and HKE, founder of the British vaporwave label Dream Catalogue. The duo describe their sound as "dreampunk", a mix of ambient music, vaporwave, and cyberpunk, that focuses less on the sample-heavy trends of vaporwave and more on actually emmulating the brooding atmospheres of a nightmarishly-chill future sprawl. The first two releases from 2 8 1 4 maintained the hazy, druggy Japanese aesthetic of the genre, inserting neo-nostalgic and hypnagogic sections in between long passages of dark ambience. "Rain Temple" is their most recent release, and one that finds a departure from vaporwave in exchange for a movement towards ambient techno. "Eyes of the Temple" is a notable track that borders on Witch House, sounding like the soundtrack for an induced excursion into a virtual rainforest where things may not be what they seem.
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