회사AUTO – -Q-

Recommendation: ✂ (“tropic [memories in coral]”, “phantom”, “palm [cruise with me]”, “hyperdrive [lift thine eyes to eternity]”)


회사AUTO1 is a chillwave, vaporwave, and future funk producer, and -Q- is a 2015 album self-released and put out on the Illuminated Paths label. -Q- is tropical chillwave; all of these tracks – but especially “tropic [memories in coral]” absolutely beg to played with videos of sand, oceans, palm trees, and smiling visitors frolicking along the beach. It’s quite melodic; “phantom” has a minor key synthesized steel-guitar lead that rolls over a semi-jazzy bass groove. “palm [cruise with me]” is the most straight-vaporwave track, featuring vocals with extreme tempo/pitch-shifting juxtaposed alongside more slick 회사AUTO grooves. “hyperdrive [lift thine eyes to eternity]” travels a bit into psychedelic/spacey territory like Vektroid on Starcalc.

-Q- also features original vocals – something relatively unheard of in vaporwave, which chiefly sticks to sampled lyrics or instrumentals. Kyle Michael Porter appears on several tracks, singing a croon that elicits British new wave music of the eighties. If that’s your kind of thing, then you should check those tracks out first; those who aren’t as into new wave will likely find the vocals to be too stuffy or nasally for their taste. The mixing is loud but avoids dynamic compression; it’s one of the few times in which the world “immaculate” may be used overstatement, as each sound is crisp and clear, and only buried if 회사AUTO wanted it to be so.

Some copies of -Q- include five bonus tracks appended to the end. Of note: “tropic” appears again, except with a vocal track by Kyle Michael Porter – and really, this could’ve been a single – and the songs “ikura maki” and “emoji island” have video game soundtrack and chiptune influences.

 

Tracklist


1. ~ anno 1986 ~ – (1:57)
2. tropic [memories in coral] – (3:25)
3. phantom – (3:12)
4. orca child [will U b there?] – (3:50)
5. milk way (feat. Kyle Michael Porter) – (3:50)
6. hot spring (feat. Donovan Hikaru) – (2:44)
7. sleep – (4:16)
8. air chrysalis – (2:49)
9. zelkova (feat. Kyle Michael Porter) – (3:50)
10. palm [cruise with me] – (2:46)
11. shōji & tatami – (2:53)
12. bonsai [craft a world] – (3:45)
13. hyperdrive [life thine eyes to eternity] – (3:27)
14. tropic (feat. Kyle Michael Porter) [Bonus Track] – (3:25)
15. zen & oolong [5 teas] [Bonus Track] – (2:14)
16. ikura maki [Bonus Track] – (1:44)
17. emoji island [Bonus Track] – (1:54)
18. virus [feat. aftertaste of the sushi parasite] – (3:01)


 

1Korean translation: “Auto Company”

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