i've been sitting on this for over a year. i wrote the first post meaning to continue and then just. didn't. classic me.
so the music i mentioned. i'm still listening to it. probably more than i should admit. there's something about it that i keep trying to put my finger on and the closest i can get is that it sounds like the 90s but wrong. not retro wrong, not nostalgic wrong. wrong like a memory you can't verify. like you're remembering something that happened somewhere you've never been.
i grew up with that era. i know what it actually sounded like. this isn't that. but it's also not not that, if that makes any sense. it's using the same materials to build something that couldn't have existed then.
the degradation is what gets me. it sounds damaged in a specific way. like it traveled to get here and lost something in transit. i keep thinking about shortwave radio signals and how sometimes you'd pick up something from very far away and it would be almost intelligible. almost.
i looked into who made it and there's basically nothing. a name. some releases. no interviews, no social media presence i can find, no explanation of what it is. which is either very cool or very something else and i haven't decided which.
anyway i don't really know what i'm trying to say. i just wanted to write it down somewhere.
- t