Some personal favourites that help relax my mind, and hopefully yours as well.

Many of these are sourced from the brilliant Electronic Gems channel on YouTube, so much credit to them.

https://www.youtube.com/@ElectronicGems

Chilled Synthwave/Vaporware/Future-Funk

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Baths - Aminals (Celadon City Remix)

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When talking about the music of Com Truise (one of the many pseudonyms of New Jersey designer/musician Seth Haley), the nostalgia bit inevitably comes up, so let’s get that out of the way. Yes, his songs tap classic sci-fi and proto-electro in a way that is distinctly early eighties in scope. But they’re also remarkably weird—stutter-step proggy and intoxicatingly psychedelic, like those classic touchstones got drunk on lava lamp juice inside a pinball machine. After his well-received Cyanide Sisters EP, a grip of remixes for artists like Twin Shadow, Neon Indian, and, uh, Daft Punk, and a few floating MP3s, Truise’s first LP, Galactic Melt, will finally enter brainspaces this summer.

And what an appropriate title it bears. For a brief moment, opener “Terminal” subsumes you in warm, starry-eyed synth arpeggios, and then down the rabbit hole you go—from the keyed up, skyscraping machine love of “VHS Sex” and “Cathode Girls” to opuses like “Air Cal” and “Ether Drift” that sound like Doogie Howser’s idea of the perfect prom song—mathy, forlorn, funky, and mighty in technical ambition. That they’re all noticeably cinematic is, of course, by design—Haley envisioned Galactic Melt as a “sort of film score…from the mind,” chronicling the lift and death of Com Truise, the world’s first synthetic/robotic astronaut, from his creation and life on earth to his subsequent mission to a newly discovered galaxy called “Wave 1.” Eventually, Truise becomes one with his newfound cosmos, like Pinocchio becoming a real boy, but in the nether regions of imaginary space.

Haley says knowing when and how to complete such an opus was the hardest part of making the record, nevermind all the carefully synth programmed patches on his Sequential Circuits Split-8 or the three years of real life that transpired during its genesis. It’s a world unto itself, a sci-fi bildungsroman of sorts, and most importantly, an awesome escape from the corporeal.



Galactic Melt

Com Truise - Com Truise - Brokendate

ringpop

A melancholic electronic track built around a pulsing synth bass, atmospheric pads conjuring wide open roads, and soft, driving beats, Subtle electric piano layers evoke a sense of movement, while sparse guitar lines echo like memories of distant houses

Dark Road - Projeto Naves

Limits of Desire

Only a Shadow

Ultima II Massage

Father Sister Berzerker

Hours

Cascade (Live Version)

In Decay

84' Dreamin

Wave 1

Iteration

Usurper

Syrthio

Futureworld

Spotify:
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Beyond

The boys of Sweet Valley are back with more tripped out beat action on Eternal Champ, their follow-up to Stay Calm. Grab it now, nod yer head, and take a spiritual journey deep into the 16bit astral vortex of your choosing...

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Sweet Valley - Bros Beyond

Beach Walk

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Slow

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