バーチャルボーイA t s u – Nocturnal Walk

Recommendation: ☀☁☁


Nocturnal Walk was released on Velvet Bazaar, and intermittently-active label that once released an album each month from September 2015 through January 2016. Nocturnal Walk is the label’s penultimate (for now?) release, but it’s only one of the first for バーチャルボーイA t s u,1 who went on to release a couple more albums in 2016 and at least three full-lengths in 2017 through Adhesive Sounds and Sleepless Tapes.

Nocturnal Walk is totally drunk-off-its-ass vaporwave, full of slurred samples with highly varied production choices. “…Is You” features a slushy aftertaste and significant phaser. The opening and title track starts off with a bit of glitched-out nonsense that transitions into a straightforward classic-style track with continued glitch effects. “☆ SATURDAY NIGHT ☆” performs stereo-screw only during the break, which avoids the dizzying pan that accompanies some INFINITY CLUB or Goldbox tracks. It also has a strong breakbeat with sidechain reminiscent of future funk, giving it a vaporhop feel. “Quiet” utilizes heavy reverb and focuses on higher frequencies, giving it the PA-system effect commonly found in mallsoft.

Check out Nocturnal Walk for some off-kilter classic-style vaporwave. Recommended for fans of a lot of chopped-and-screwed production.

 

Tracklist


1. Nocturnal Walk – (3:07)
2. broken dreams – (1:18)
3. Happy.exe – (0:44)
4. …Is You – (2:32)
5. ☆ SATURDAY NIGHT ☆ – (1:23)
6. Interlude – (0:15)
7. Quiet – (2:26)
8. 雨 – (2:16)2
9. 心 – (1:06)3
10. 水°MIND – (3:50)4
11. virtual-loop – (1:21)
12. NeuroLab 3042 「RETRODREAM EXPERIMENT」 – (1:37)
13. CoffeExpresso’94 – (1:53)
14. weather – (1:52)


 

1Japanese translation: “Virtual Boy (Atsu)”
2Japanese translation: “Rain”
3Japanese translation: “Heart”
4Japanese translation: “Water (Mind)”

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