Ep. 22: Seapunk 2 w/ Zombelle

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 [email protected] 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