‘Shopping Soundscapes and Foodcourt Frequencies’: Mallsoft goes IRL
Enzo Van Baelen
One to one with Duett: How sticking to an aesthetic palette (and peril!) drives creativity.
This month, Future Sounds team member, Rob, sat down with a solid stalwart of the retrowave scene, London UK based, Duett. With releases reaching back a decade, and over a dozen long players and EPs in his catalogue, Duett’s place in the annals of synthwave is secured. His (for Duett is a really a singular)…
‘Record sales’, but is there trouble in vinyl paradise?
The recent resurgence in vinyl production has been great news for indie labels and fans, but there are signs that there might be trouble in vinyl paradise… A recent think piece on The Guardian laid bare the issues faced by small labels, as the greed of the majors starts to bite back. Leading in some…
ECCO CHAMBER #08 – 2023 Albums of The Year [ feat. Simple Sauce, BarbWalters, Makeup and Vanity Set, Luxury Elite, desert sand feels warm at night, MidSpring Memories, Runners Club 95, OSC, YOUTH 83 & Eyeliner]
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The FutureSounds staff writers conclude 2023 with their top album picks of the year.
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]
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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)…
One to One with Eyeliner: back this week with a new album ‘brb’
Enzo caught up with Eyeliner during his daily commute, to talk to him about his new album – ‘brb’, his production techniques, and how he coped with lockdown in a new country… But also, to see if he could tempt him to wade into Vaporwave’s perpetual debate about sampling.
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…
Hang on, did Songtradr just kill Bandcamp?
There’s a lot of fear and anger out there following the news of Songtradr’s acquisition of Bandcamp, and what it might mean for independent music. As someone who runs a business that very much relies upon Bandcamp, I can admit that it is causing serious concern – not just for my labels, but for the…
ECCO CHAMBER #07 – [feat. botnit, LukHash, Makeup and Vanity Set, Loraine James and New Arcades]
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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…