テレビ体験 – Y.2089

Recommendation: ☀☀☁ Leading off with a blast of feedback and vocal blip is Y.2089, the debut album by ニューシティ1 and the very first album from the TKX-Vault label.2 This is a constructively chaotic album of vapornoise, broken transmission, or what-have-you; being twenty tracks of stressed-out television commercials, radio adverts, long-lost soundtracks, and other sources that strain describability.3 Y.2089 isn’t pure […]

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C A S I N O ☆★☆★☆ M A S T E R – 勝 者 ! ! ! !★W I N N E R★

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ 勝 者 ! ! ! !★W I N N E R★1 is a clusterfuck of casino noise. The second and final album from C A S I N O ☆★☆★☆ M A S T E R is a twenty-minute sound collage of Japanese pop music, sound effects, and bit phrases. Previous album ☆★☆ ボーナススピン幸運 !!! almost entirely relied […]

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Areas – Exhibition

Recommendation: ☀☀☁ The future is and always has been vague, and the tag “futuristic” is more so. What the hell is implied by “futuristic”? Whose future – or what’s? Are we going five minutes into the future to a post-2016 election cycle,1 a thousand years forward where Nixon’s head is president of the world, or farther still to some ethereal […]

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ULTRACOMPUTER – INFINITE 新しい生命システムの音

Recommendation: ☀☀☁ The first of the ULTRACOMPUTER albums is only the seventh album on the TKX Vault/Tokyo Exchange label of avant-garde electronic and vaporwave music, and it’s one of the best. INFINITE 新しい生命システムの音1 utilizes repeated fragments of sound to elicit a glitched state of mind. It’s a concept that’s been done many a time – it even has its own […]

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AOTW | 3 October – 9 October: Penthouse Apartment – Y2K Millenium Nightclub

Here’s an interesting concept: an album that revolves around burgeoning communication technology at the turn of the millennium utilizing phone connectors, remixed modem sounds, and some of the bleakest-sounding techno this side of Berlin. Penthouse Apartment with Y2K Millenium Nightclub (sic) does exactly that. This release is the Sunbleach AOTW for its status as a precursor to the “ghost tech” […]

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Vision Girl – デッドデッドデッドデッド

Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ デッドデッドデッドデッド1 is a nine-track extended-play and the second release from the broken transmission project Vision Girl. In contrast to the chaotic Y.2089-esque film score sampling of Film Noir and the classical music screw of Amare sanguinem, this album is entirely ambient music , signalwave piano samples, and tape-degrade overlays. It’s the most reserved album of the Vision Girl […]

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ULTRACOMPUTER – SUPERCARTRIDGE

Recommendation: ☀☁☁ Listening to SUPERCARTRIDGE? You’re on the game grid now, that’s for sure: except this one’s a backalley find of a B-list console with several pins missing rather than a state-of-the-art arcade cabinet. This is the second album from ULTRACOMPUTER, one of the many anonymous and pseudo-anonymous projects on TKX Vault,1 and it is certainly one of the label’s […]

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