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This week’s AOTW is gonna get a little obscure. Partly cloudy, if you will. 日本の天気と気候 was the first album ever released through the Prevue Guide label, which ran through 2016 and primarily released music tagged as “weathersoft”. Weathersoft sought to create music that was reminiscent of the Weather Channel in the USA, which (before it became ostensibly reality television) was/is […]
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Recommendation: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 日本の天気と気候1 belongs to the microgenre of “weathersoft”, which seeks to evoke the feeling of watching weather services on public television. Despite etymologically deriving from “mallsoft”, weathersoft has little in common with that subgenre since weathersoft lacks the empty production and PA-system effects associated with mallsoft. Instead, weathersoft is closely related to classic-style vaporwave in production – and if […]
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Prevue Guide released a rather curious album this weekend. It’s the mouthful of a title Experiences™ Class M Archipelago (31-cdc7b) Settlement Group A by CD-ROM. The album imparts an adventure into outer space, utilizing a variety of musical tropes from non-Western music sources, Western classical music, Caribbean music, and even a bit of ECCOJAMS. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital […]
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New music from Prevue Guide: it’s MCMT Goes to the Jersey Shore by Morris County Meteorological Team. For those unfamiliar with their music, MCMT play “weathersoft,” which seeks to evoke the milieu of the Weather Channel and meteorological forecasts, much like mallsoft seeks to evoke wandering around in a commercial mall. The release is available as a free digital download. […]
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Chungking Mansions’ fourth full-length album of the year is Teletransmissions, which fuses vaporwave and hip-hop beats. There’s a bit of classic-style vaporwave and ECCOJAMS thrown in as well (e.g. “Harmony”) which even feature some VHS pop aesthetic. According to the press release, it was “made using samples from [F]rench commercials and tv theme songs from 1985 to 1992 and its[sic] […]
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The thoroughly-retro label Prevue Guide is featuring new music by ΣPSON, titled heart & soul. This hypnagogic pop album utilizes class-style vaporwave samples of muzak and easy listening with extreme artifacts and muffled production to create a hybrid release between late night lo-fi and hypnagogic pop. It’s available as a free digital download. Check it out below: heart & […]
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