Ailanthus Recordings releases “always on my mind 夏の夜” by 「サンセット Network❾❶」

If I’m reading the note “I think it’s time to move on” correctly, then always on my mind 夏の夜 will be the final album by 「サンセット Network❾❶」. It’s a twenty-seven track release (as per this artist’s norm!) of hypnagogic pop with a serious eighties/early nineties feel. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below:   always on […]

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RKM Records releases “ミッドナイトファンタジー” by 未来: Ergo & 脳力: ΞLΞVΛTΞ

UK album RKM Records released a collaboration album between 未来: Ergo and 脳力: ΞLΞVΛTΞ, titled ミッドナイトファンタジー. This album utilizes VHS pop and hypnagogic pop to create a smooth, trance-ish flow in its sixteen-track length. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below:   ミッドナイトファンタジー by 未来: Ergo & 脳力: ΞLΞVΛTΞ +1

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猫 シ Corp. & Stereo Component – Ocean Beach

Recommendation: ✂ (“離散 Sunsuit Girls,” “Malibu Beach,” “Shanghai,” “初デート”) Ocean Beach is a collaboration/split album between 猫 シ Corp.1 and Stereo Component, originally released in January 2014 on the defunct Fortune 500 label – and re-released several times since on other labels. This album is one of the earlier albums in 猫 シ Corp.’s impressive discography, who – at the […]

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рмнчитто – Tears

Recommendation: ☹ рмнчитто’s1 Tears represents how far the vaporwave genre has come in the past several years since its unlikely beginnings in the depths of the Internet. This nine-track, twenty-one minute album is another addition to the score of hypnagogic pop albums released in the last six years: simple, non-committal samples of smooth jazz and easy listening with little additional […]

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Lost Angles releases “Midnight Drive” by Trademarks and Copyrights

The newest album out on Lost Angles label is Midnight Drive by the prolific Trademarks and Copyrights. This album is a hypnagogic pop album of mostly-unedited funk, smooth jazz, and easy listening jams with a serious retro vibe. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download and for $8 on white cassette. Check it out below:   Midnight Drive by Trademarks […]

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computer slime – ミスト

Recommendation: ☀☀☁ ミスト1 is best viewed as a spiritual successor to 骨架的: just look, there are pyramids in the album art! The antiseptic microsamples feature the same crystal-clear production of Holograms, occasional effects screw notwithstanding, and even the track titles are all lowercase in the original download. But the similarities are more than just topical: computer slime (an alias of […]

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