Death's Dynamic Shroud
It started as a joke between high-school friends. Webster wanted to show Tech Honors the Dreamcast game Shenmue, which he considered "basically an interactive vaporwave album"; Honors had been chopping and screwing SNES soundtracks. "It sort of became an outlet for us to make these weird conceptual mixtapes by isolating our favorite chord progressions and melodies from existing video game music and pop songs and looping them." Keith Rankin, of Orange Milk Records and Giant Claw, joined for the first mainline album in 2014.
What distinguishes the trio is volume and division of labour: a release can be the work of three members, two, or one. Honors credits that as the only reason the project stays prolific — "I feel that this would be impossible to do if it was always just one of us, at least while maintaining any level of quality."
Darklife (2022) moved the sampled sound toward synth-pop. The NUWRLD Mixtape Club, a Bandcamp subscription made public in 2020, still requires an original mixtape from each member four times a year, and ran straight into 2026. Rankin on the appeal of handing a track over mid-idea: someone else can "take over who has been watching and is just itching to express their ideas".