Virtual Dreams II - Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, Japan 1993-1999
Various Artists
Virtual Dreams II - Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, Japan 1993-1999
Boomkat Product Review:
Music From Memory chase their cherished survey of 90s ambient techno with a sparkling set of its Japanese echoes little known beyond its domestic market compiled by Jamie Tiller (RIP) and Eiji Taniguchi - consider it a guided tour to a parallel dimension, primed for the gouch out and lucid dreaming.
Flush with fluttering arps and sanguine grooves, ’Virtual Dreams II - Ambient Explorations 1993-1999’ scans a familiar yet oddly distant sound adjacent to the formative sounds of Warp’s AI series and a whole cohort of ‘90s Western producers. Harvested from Music From Memory’s vast shelves, they introduce the lay ambient fan to a raft of names hardly known beyond their homeland, who still float the imagination to the horizontal and sublime with their contribution to a double refractive dialogue of electronic music influence mutated in translation between East and West since the ‘70s.
Smooth around the edges and clear-eyed in their quest for lushness, all 13 artists share a blissed pathos and effortlessness of execution that will see this set travel to collections across the world. In sequence from the nine minutes of near beat-less burble to ‘Blown Fruit’ by Dub Squad, and thru the twelve minute evocation of Eno or Vangelis’ Bladerunner score in Buddhastick Transparent’s ‘Eras (666)’, they limn a emotive and gently arc taking in Red Planet synth whistles and tactful acid squirm of Akio / Okihide’s ‘Phoenix At Desert’, the chiming carillon of Ambient 7’s ‘Escape’ recalling early Bedouin Ascent and Orbital,
Yukihiro Fukutomi’s centrepiece ‘5 Blind Boys’ can be heard to bridge the prevailing influence of Japanese environmental ambient with its new green shoots in the ’90s, whilst the likes of Web with a slinky ‘The Cycle of Seasons’ remind to analogs in early Dave Mousing and The Black Dog, along with the air-stepping bliss out ‘Pause’ by Katsuya Hironaka. Fans of Susumu Yokota’s early ‘90s gliders will be in their element with Riow Arai’s shine-eyed ’1969’, and likewise fall for the string laden sashay of ‘Sbow Bird’ by Modern Living, and the oh so demure Carl Craig-via-Paddy McAloon sentiment of ‘Poisson D’Avril (Galaxy Dub)’ by Missing Project. Trust it would take years and wads of dosh to source all this stuff yourself, let MFM do the hard work for ya.
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Estimated Release Date: 18 October 2024
Please note that shipping dates for pre-orders are estimated and are subject to change
Boomkat Product Review:
Music From Memory chase their cherished survey of 90s ambient techno with a sparkling set of its Japanese echoes little known beyond its domestic market compiled by Jamie Tiller (RIP) and Eiji Taniguchi - consider it a guided tour to a parallel dimension, primed for the gouch out and lucid dreaming.
Flush with fluttering arps and sanguine grooves, ’Virtual Dreams II - Ambient Explorations 1993-1999’ scans a familiar yet oddly distant sound adjacent to the formative sounds of Warp’s AI series and a whole cohort of ‘90s Western producers. Harvested from Music From Memory’s vast shelves, they introduce the lay ambient fan to a raft of names hardly known beyond their homeland, who still float the imagination to the horizontal and sublime with their contribution to a double refractive dialogue of electronic music influence mutated in translation between East and West since the ‘70s.
Smooth around the edges and clear-eyed in their quest for lushness, all 13 artists share a blissed pathos and effortlessness of execution that will see this set travel to collections across the world. In sequence from the nine minutes of near beat-less burble to ‘Blown Fruit’ by Dub Squad, and thru the twelve minute evocation of Eno or Vangelis’ Bladerunner score in Buddhastick Transparent’s ‘Eras (666)’, they limn a emotive and gently arc taking in Red Planet synth whistles and tactful acid squirm of Akio / Okihide’s ‘Phoenix At Desert’, the chiming carillon of Ambient 7’s ‘Escape’ recalling early Bedouin Ascent and Orbital,
Yukihiro Fukutomi’s centrepiece ‘5 Blind Boys’ can be heard to bridge the prevailing influence of Japanese environmental ambient with its new green shoots in the ’90s, whilst the likes of Web with a slinky ‘The Cycle of Seasons’ remind to analogs in early Dave Mousing and The Black Dog, along with the air-stepping bliss out ‘Pause’ by Katsuya Hironaka. Fans of Susumu Yokota’s early ‘90s gliders will be in their element with Riow Arai’s shine-eyed ’1969’, and likewise fall for the string laden sashay of ‘Sbow Bird’ by Modern Living, and the oh so demure Carl Craig-via-Paddy McAloon sentiment of ‘Poisson D’Avril (Galaxy Dub)’ by Missing Project. Trust it would take years and wads of dosh to source all this stuff yourself, let MFM do the hard work for ya.
Estimated Release Date: 18 October 2024
Please note that shipping dates for pre-orders are estimated and are subject to change
Boomkat Product Review:
Music From Memory chase their cherished survey of 90s ambient techno with a sparkling set of its Japanese echoes little known beyond its domestic market compiled by Jamie Tiller (RIP) and Eiji Taniguchi - consider it a guided tour to a parallel dimension, primed for the gouch out and lucid dreaming.
Flush with fluttering arps and sanguine grooves, ’Virtual Dreams II - Ambient Explorations 1993-1999’ scans a familiar yet oddly distant sound adjacent to the formative sounds of Warp’s AI series and a whole cohort of ‘90s Western producers. Harvested from Music From Memory’s vast shelves, they introduce the lay ambient fan to a raft of names hardly known beyond their homeland, who still float the imagination to the horizontal and sublime with their contribution to a double refractive dialogue of electronic music influence mutated in translation between East and West since the ‘70s.
Smooth around the edges and clear-eyed in their quest for lushness, all 13 artists share a blissed pathos and effortlessness of execution that will see this set travel to collections across the world. In sequence from the nine minutes of near beat-less burble to ‘Blown Fruit’ by Dub Squad, and thru the twelve minute evocation of Eno or Vangelis’ Bladerunner score in Buddhastick Transparent’s ‘Eras (666)’, they limn a emotive and gently arc taking in Red Planet synth whistles and tactful acid squirm of Akio / Okihide’s ‘Phoenix At Desert’, the chiming carillon of Ambient 7’s ‘Escape’ recalling early Bedouin Ascent and Orbital,
Yukihiro Fukutomi’s centrepiece ‘5 Blind Boys’ can be heard to bridge the prevailing influence of Japanese environmental ambient with its new green shoots in the ’90s, whilst the likes of Web with a slinky ‘The Cycle of Seasons’ remind to analogs in early Dave Mousing and The Black Dog, along with the air-stepping bliss out ‘Pause’ by Katsuya Hironaka. Fans of Susumu Yokota’s early ‘90s gliders will be in their element with Riow Arai’s shine-eyed ’1969’, and likewise fall for the string laden sashay of ‘Sbow Bird’ by Modern Living, and the oh so demure Carl Craig-via-Paddy McAloon sentiment of ‘Poisson D’Avril (Galaxy Dub)’ by Missing Project. Trust it would take years and wads of dosh to source all this stuff yourself, let MFM do the hard work for ya.
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