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CUMULONIMBUS is a fairly unique release, even for the eclectic Power Lunch label on which is appears. This is a sample curation album of spoken word bits from weather updates and American television advertisements. The overall aesthetic gives it a similar feeling to “weathersoft”, which seeks to evoke the feeling of watching the The Weather Channel. Where other weathersoft albums […]
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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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The phenomenon of “weathersoft” was briefly popular in 2016. “Weathersoft” referred to using mallsoft production techniques except presenting the music as filler or recycled broadcasts from The Weather Channel and similar sources instead of PA systems in malls. Your Local Forecast by Chemical Hypnotist is a new full-length out on DMT Tapes FL that brings back this style of production. […]
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FORECASTS weather channel 1992 is a full-length of weathersoft music from Zadig the Jasp. Released through Seikomart, FORECASTS weather channel 1992 samples smooth jazz and instrumental muzak like that which one would expect to hear if they turned on the Weather Channel in the nineties or early-mid noughties. Choice track is the lo-fi and sexy “FLORAL LOCAL”, which includes some […]
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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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Recommendation: ☀☁☁ t r o p i c a l u p d a t e by ASHITAKAアシタカ1 is an eight-track mini-album released through DMT Tapes FL, a label run out of north Florida by VitoJames (who has, like, fifty thousand aliases) that’s popped out over four hundred albums from November 2014 through July 2017 and shows no signs of […]
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Here’s weathersoft from Dallas Raines titled ☼ Coast to Coast ☼, courtesy of Bogus Collective. In contrast to Dallas Raines’ previous albums in standard weathersoft production format, ☼ Coast to Coast ☼ is produced as a real weather program on the Weather Channel. Individual movements don’t really start or end as much as they suddenly fade out and switch to […]
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