Style: Vangelis inspired ambient music
Primary Emotions/Themes: Rain, city streets, solitude, lucid dreaming, and a half lit cigarette
Thoughts: There was a time in my life when I was very active on a few online forums... or facebook groups as they were. One of those would end up defining my musical tastes for over a year as I explored the depths of a new style dubbed dreampunk.
There weren't many labels putting out dreampunk in vinyl format at the time, and this was one of the few albums that had a pressing. I picked it up without doing too much research into what it was about, or what it sounded like.
I had previously been looking through vaporwave albums to find a style that I liked, and through that I found dreampunk. It didn't matter what the music sounded like, I would buy it. I liked almost everything that came out with the dreampunk moniker at the time, so this was an easy blind buy.
When I did get the album in it was everything I could have possibly hoped for: a deep atmosphere that sounded like it was in between the waking and dreaming worlds. Subtle melodies that drew me in, making me wonder what was hidden in the depths of the music. Rain filled field recordings that echoed a lonely street at night. Deep bass that rattled my brain as it cascaded through my house, and beats that would accentuate the music when needed.
Now that we are some five years removed from that version of myself, does this music hold up? I'd like to think so. I no longer refer to this kind of music as dreampunk, but rather a subset of ambient music. That does not take away from the beauty that is contained within this record however.
The music is a tribute to Vangelis and his wonderful soundtrack to Blade Runner. The fact that the music comes even close to the wonder that is that soundtrack is a feat in and of itself. Even after half a decade this album is among some of the best that the dreampunk micro genre has to offer.
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