Aftertime

🧩 Pixel Dusk – Chillwave & Vaporwave by Nexus

Pixel Dusk captures the fleeting light of a digital sunset — a dreamy blend of chillwave and vaporwave soaked in faded hues and retro emotion. 🌇🕶️ With pixelated textures, shimmering synths, and slow-motion rhythms, Nexus weaves a soundscape that feels like logging off from reality and drifting into nostalgic code.

Each track flickers like an old CRT screen, bringing back the warmth of analog youth and the melancholy of memories stored in static. 🎛️📼 Whether you're watching the sky turn violet or losing time to thought, Pixel Dusk is a vapor-drenched escape for hearts wired to yesterday.

FM Nights

Pixel Dusk

Wavering Stasis

Slow Hunt

Slow drift, soft haze
You gotta find your own pace
All that you can save

Sharp chill, heavy air
The city’s gasping everywhere
Echoes fade away

All things, lost sense
A doom scrolling in suspense
Leaves an empty shell

Long nights, glow on
We gotta find our way home
All that we can take

Head down, rough floor
But I can take it just give me more
Blurred eyes trace the broken roads
No regrets, no undertones

Low gaze, cracked stone
But I keep walking on my own
Faded echoes guide the way
hey hey hey

Whispers after dark
Echoes drifting out
Night dissolves in light
Fading night is done

Slow down

Hologram Plaza

"I wonder if you were dreaming.  If you were, what were you dreaming?"  

There is something so compelling, especially for someone with neurodivergence (like myself), to craft something from bits and bobs...to throw a bunch of ingredients into a stew--ingredients that no one other than you would ever think of blending together...and coming up with something that is both tasty and individual at the same time.  

At the risk of endangering Icarus (more than usual), today's track blends something off of an abbut you may have purchased from the wrecka stow, with some Rolling Rock loving and surprisingly diminuitive post-punkers from the 80s who should have been much bigger (and who I got to interview and hang out with in the VIP section of First Avenue one evening, when we made fun of Gene Loves Jezebel's blouses.)  

Why those two completely unrelated pop cultural connections?  Because both, memorably, were tools for a younger version of me to have attempted to woo the crushworthy off of their feet.  Because both include a similar and distinctive lyric.  Because throwing all of your wet clothes into a dryer and watching the colors spin 'round and round is an apt description of my brain at all times.  

Taking some soulful guitars and glitching them around, adding some dreamy synth pads and some vinyl crackles--not to mention a robot--(whoops, I just mentioned a robot!)--and you get this bizarre but pleasant little slab of pop cheese that might never be anyone's favorite Interbay tracksd, but might be one of the more listenable ones.  

It's pop.  It's indie.  It's...Interbay.    

(...and the thumbnail image is from the very first ever piece of MST3K I ever got to enjoy--thanks to my brother for circulating the tapes so I could become as big of a fan as I remain to this day.  A short film about driver's safety becomes an existential crisis about one robot's worthiness--and it contains so many phrases that made their way into my vocabulary, as well as the vocabulary of people I knew then, people I knew later, and people I know now.  If you haven't watched any MST3K--how did you manage that?--I would strongly recommend starting with the "X Marks The Spot" short...and if you like it, you'll like more.  

Kind of like Interbay.  :)  

For four hundred twenty seven straight days, a brand new and never heard before Interbay track is posted here on SoundCloud.  My plan is to continue to do that as long as I can.  Some will be pop (and mutant pop at that!), some will be post-punk/alt rock, some will be electronic dance music...many will be all sorts of genres and influences all tossed into a blender and turned into an Interbay smoothie.  

Does this sound like something you'd be interested in?  Then follow this page and join the parade!  

Honestly, I'd be happy if you gave today's Interbay track, "X Marks The Spot", a listen.  And a like.  (Perhaps a repost? A share? You could leave a comment or add it to a playlist, too!  All of these things would help.)  And thank you.

"X Marks the Spot" *SoundCloud Exclusive*

Away From Here

silenthly

Music playground. Sketches & rough ideas.
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🎧 Jaded Sounds Records is a boundary-pushing music collective and label, curating deeply textured sounds that live between nostalgia and futurism. We explore the emotional edges of music, blending genres like lofi hip-hop, chillhop, synthwave, dark lofi, vaporwave, jazz hop, darkwave, retro pop, and lounge to create atmospheres that resonate long after the track ends.

Our sound is made for quiet thinkers, night wanderers, creatives at work, and anyone seeking sonic refuge from a noisy world. Every release is crafted to slow time, spark reflection, or score those solitary late-night drives.

At Jaded Sounds, we don’t just release music — we build moods

Just an ordinary dude who likes to (attempt to) make Synthwave

Post-punk, dance, indie, electronic, and mutant pop in various styles (seriously!)--new tracks being posted daily (every day for over a year, so far!)

Interbay is the new project of Peter Greyy (previously of Cremation Dance and DangerScience), based out of Seattle and Phantom Laboratories West.

New tracks tagged #retrowave