Vaperror
Cardinal began releasing in 2014 from Athens, Georgia, later moving to Atlanta. Mana Pool, from that first year, is credited as one of the earliest vaportrap releases — the branch Blank Banshee had stumbled into two years earlier.
He founded Plus100 Records in 2015, with a stated priority on getting physical releases into hands: "My goal has always been to get the albums in people's hands if they want them."
The work pulls in trip-hop, breakcore, acid house, ambient and juke, and leans on original composition rather than sampling: "Original composition was a natural move. I do love the power of a sample, but I've preferred to keep things as original as possible." On the category itself: "Genres are just a descriptor, and they can be very fluid."