Category: Reviews

  • 40 Years Later – A Timely!! Retrospective

    40 Years Later – A Timely!! Retrospective

    On the 40th anniversary of Anri’s 6th Studio album, Timely!! Patrick Fakeman takes a look (and fresh listen) at what is considered one of the most iconic city pop albums of Japan’s 1980s.  1983 – It’s only when you look back at what was now 40 years ago that you can see just how much…

  • 👁‍🗨📲 – 👁​点​击​と​👁 Review [Kats Kill Records]

    👁‍🗨📲 – 👁​点​击​と​👁 Review [Kats Kill Records]

    It’s Spotify Wrapped season and Eyeclick have delivered an album that sounds like an entire streaming service’s catalogue playing at the same time.  Just as artists like Blank Banshee and Internet Club captured the spirit of web browsing a decade or so ago, the duo of Will Wade (Cucks) & Nathan Raile (Enraile, Millennium Edition)…

  • VNN’s Vaporwave Best of 2023… So Far!

    VNN’s Vaporwave Best of 2023… So Far!

    Hello readers out there in FutureSounds Land! I’m Alyx (aka TrucksPassingTrucks) and I run a podcast called Vaporwave News Network: a bi-weekly podcast about the contemporary Vaporwave Scene. We feature News, Reviews, History, and Current Trends as well as reporting on upcoming releases and events in the vaporwave, future funk and adjacent communities. I’m so…

  • ECCO CHAMBER #07 – [feat. botnit, LukHash, Makeup and Vanity Set, Loraine James and New Arcades]

    ECCO CHAMBER #07 – [feat. botnit, LukHash, Makeup and Vanity Set, Loraine James and New Arcades]

    The FutureSounds staff writers have recovered from FutureSounds IV and are back to share their top tracks, including a guest recommendation from Occams Laser! ***** botnit – ‘pulse connection’ [Self Released] Botnit’s new single merges Synthwave with 4AM breaks. If Mitch Murder spent a lusty weekend away with Future Sound of London this is what…

  • George Clanton – Ooh Rap I Ya [100% Electronica]

    George Clanton – Ooh Rap I Ya [100% Electronica]

    George Clanton’s long awaited follow-up to Slide is finally landing on turntables everywhere. Rob Dyson soaks up the warm nostalgia, as Vaporwave’s King (of Baggy) serves up a stoner Shoegaze treat… Sonically, Clanton’s new, oddly titled, album pays unashamed homage to late 80s shoegaze and early 90s rave beats. In this vein, Clanton stays monogamous…

  • West Coast Rollin’ with Augnos & Enraile [Track Review]

    West Coast Rollin’ with Augnos & Enraile [Track Review]

    As the video game jungle revival continues at pace, Enraile puts a rough & tough jump-up spin on Augnos’s ‘Chroma Trails’ from the upcoming Gilded Sentience EP (out on Pacific Plaza Records, 23rd June) Enraile uses the arpeggios, atmospherics and PS1-era percussion from the luscious original , then adds extra heft with his signature, contemporary…

  • ECCO CHAMBER #06 – [feat. Zayaz, Phil Gerus, Never Dull, Overcrest & Crozet]

    ECCO CHAMBER #06 – [feat. Zayaz, Phil Gerus, Never Dull, Overcrest & Crozet]

    The FutureSounds staff writers are back to share their top tracks of the moment ***** ZAYAZ – ‘Far Away Feeling’ [self released] Sometime My Pet Flamingo stable artist, Zayaz, returns to his nostalgic roots with ‘Far Away Feeling’, which sounds like his classic 2017/18 output with a ’23 update. The track gives me all the…

  • ‘WEEKEND RUSH’ – A Love Letter to the Underground Sound of ’90s London

    ‘WEEKEND RUSH’ – A Love Letter to the Underground Sound of ’90s London

    The ‘3PeaceSweetz’ project returns on MPF this Friday, with a love letter to ‘90s London and the Pirate Radio stations that broadcasted the sound of London’s Underground dance music scene… Anyone with a car stereo in London in the early 90s would be familiar with the sudden bursts of crackle and static, as mainstream FM…

  • FutureSounds vol.4 – Everything you need to know about the biggest Synthwave compilation out there!

    FutureSounds vol.4 – Everything you need to know about the biggest Synthwave compilation out there!

    TimeSlave Recordings are back for a 4th edition of one of the biggest and longest standing compilations in Synthwave.  FutureSounds Vol.4 reunites some of the most talented and recognisable names in the scene, with 21 tracks and – once again – all of the profits go to charity. It features exclusives from the likes of…