On this week’s first ever sequel episode the boys are joined by Shan Beaste, best known by her stage name Zombelle, who was one of the co-creators of the Seapunk movement and aesthetic. As detailed in episode 12, Seapunk (2011-2014) was a ‘90s inspired aquatic subculture that Nathan participated in during high school. Zombelle recently re-released her seminal seapunk album Tropicult (remastered by Myrrhkaba) which fortuitously led to her and Nathan connecting over Instagram and spurred this week’s episode. In this reexploration of seapunk, Shan and the boys discuss Shan’s early musical history and life story, confirm that she coined the term slimepunk, reiterate the place of mermaids in seapunk culture, attribute the idea of the “internet subculture formula” to Zombelle, and speculate what second wave seapunk (or “seapunk 2”) could look like.

Any former (or current) seapunk listeners are encouraged by Shan to send testimonials, photographs, or other ephemera from Seapunk’s existence to seapunkpreservationsociety@gmail.com for an impending book she is writing on seapunk’s history!

Links:

Zombelle’s SoundCloud

Zombelle’s Instagram

Zombelle’s Seapunk Spotify playlist

The Mainframe.im Instagram page

The seapunk Wikipedia article

Don't Call It #Tumblrwave

The Complete CORAL RECORDS INTERNAZIONALE catalog from archive.org

Random Aesthetic Generator

New miracle weight loss drug! by Praefoco21

Artwork:

Provided by Zombelle

Intro song:

Bad Creation by Zombelle

Recorded on 4/28/2024