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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仮想夢プラザ self-releases “共生”

The last album from telepath’s long-running 仮想夢プラザ (Virtual Dream Plaza) project was released on the Pyramids label in December 2016, nearly three months ago. 共生 breaks that hiatus with another addition to the third installment in this series of ambient music, which began with Dream Catalogue’s dual-release of 破片 / 仮初 last fall. 共生 is exactly sixty-four minutes long, double […]

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仮想夢プラザ – 仮想夢プラザ

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 仮想夢プラザ1 is the eponymous release of the enormous 仮想夢プラザ project by telepath. It’s also the title of and first song on a massive thirty-one track compilation that comprises the project’s first installment; this article will focus on just the song.2 This album is listed first in the 仮想夢プラザ chronology, implying that it is to be interpreted as the […]

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虚拟梦想广场 – 爱的吸收

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Once in a while, an installment of telepath’s Virtual Dream Plaza project (written in script as 仮想夢プラザ) will receive a label release. For example: あなたを待って1 was released on TKX Vault, and 破片2 was released on Dream Catalogue. 爱的吸收1 is the only VDP album to be released on Nirvana Port, and unlike most of the VDP albums, it is […]

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仮想夢プラザ self-releases “一夜をともにする”

Here’s another release in the Virtual Dreams Plaza project by telepath: 一夜をともにする. Contrary to the previous three releases in this installment – which were mostly synth drone pieces – 一夜をともにする revisits reverbed pop music that’s, dare I say, pretty vaporwave. This will definitely please fans of telepath’s early works; it’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below: […]

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仮想夢プラザ self-releases “囲む”

The seventy-fifth release under telepath’s long-running 仮想夢プラザ (Virtual Dreams Plaza) project is now available. This release comes after the double feature of 仮初 and 破片 out on Dream Catalogue from mid-August, and it’s the second release under 仮想夢プラザ’s third installment. For those unaware of the project, each release in 仮想夢プラザ is a roughly half-hour long ambient, synth, and drone to […]

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