Virtual Dream Plaza releases “Cubed Blocks” by Light Blending In

One of the cool things about vaporwave, synthwave, and other retro-themed electronic music genres is their ability to elicit very specific memories of things artists might have experienced growing up, whether they be in reference to the early digital age or not. Here’s a good example with Cubed Blocks by Light Blending In, which has an album artwork that features […]

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Virtual Dream Plaza releases “This Is Where I Am Right Now” by Golden Living Room

Virtual Dream Plaza is the name of a long-running ambient vaporwave project from the artist telepath. At the beginning of 2018, telepath founded a label and music shop that also uses the VDP name. It mostly featured self-released works and collaborations, but has since expanded into releases from other artists. One of these – featured at the end of September […]

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仮想夢プラザ – TKX Vault series

Recommendation: ☀☀☁ With the exception of the self-titled release (which is better viewed as a proof-of-concept album), the 仮想夢プラザ (Virtual Dream Plaza) series by telepath received its proper start with a series of three releases on TKX Vault over a span of ten days in May 2015. Dropped quietly and somewhat out of nowhere, these three albums were the inauspicious […]

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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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Telepath releases the “仮想夢女の子” compilation of Virtual Dream Plaza tracks

Virtual Dream Plaza (published as “仮想夢プラザ”) is one of the largest, most prolific projects within ambient vaporwave, if not within the entire vaporwave scene. It’s one of the monikers through which t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 releases his music, and is consists entirely of half-hour-long releases of ethereal soundscapes with imagery of Japanese women in dreamy, […]

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