Pizza Beast releases “Suite for Aerial Freefall” by Jorge

Ever experienced freefall? I have not, unless you count a couple nervous flights. Suite for Aerial Freefall is a twenty-eight minute single-track album by Jorge, available through Pizza Beast (f.k.a. Pizzabox Society). It’s pure drone and dreampunk, starting slow and steady and gradually building in tempo and intensity of synthesizers. If you enjoy the soft, slightly melancholic drone of Kamokata […]

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AOTW | 24 April – 30 April: t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 – アンタラ通信

アンタラ通信 is a two-disc (or it would be if it were to come out on CD [hint hint]) release by telepath, one of the foremost artists in ambient vaporwave and dreampunk. Starting off with an eighteen-minute hypnagogic jam, アンタラ通信 foreshadows the surreal textures that telepath would heavily explore through the Virtual Dream Plaza (or “仮想夢プラザ”) project. Whereas previous telepath albums […]

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qualchan. – the spectacle.

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ First and foremost: that album artwork is gorgeous. I’m already interested in the world of the spectacle. in which people apparently swim beside oil and industry rigs in the middle of the ocean. The cassette is spectacular, too. Cell Death Tapes sold translucent purple-blue shells that juxtapose well with the album artwork. Those two factors alone make the […]

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Shima33 – Disgraceful.

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ As with most releases by Shima33, Disgraceful. is abject melancholia expressed as music. This eight-track album was originally released as a semi-official addition to TKX Vault (then known as Tokyo Exchange) in November 2015; the Dream Catalogue imprint further facilitated Disgraceful. in artwork design and promotion.1 It’s a somewhat collaborative work: Shima33 credits HKE (as Hong Kong Express), […]

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Evaporated Sounds releases “新しいゲートウェイ” by マ力フシキ

If you were to look at the album artwork and think “Virtual Dream Plaza!”, then you would be pretty close to the truth! 新しいゲートウェイ by マ力フシキ is filled with the swirly, slushy music that characterizes the VDP project, but this release comes from an entirely different artist and is available on Evaporated Sounds. Most of the tracks hover around the […]

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