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In this episode, we’re starting our series covering as many IRL and URL sets as we can get our hands on from Sanctuary 2025. Sanctuary is a charity show put on by Nostalgia Lounge (run by Crystal Eternal) to raise money for the TransOhio Emergency Fund. It was a huge success and featured music from dozens of artists highlighting numerous genres from vaporwave and future funk to industrial and breakcore.

Remember: We will be covering more sets in the future so if we didn’t cover your set in Part One fear not! We’ll get to it.

DJ CENA - Sanctuary Live '25

FrozenBabylon x crispy_doodles @ Sanctuary 2025
Mr. Hoosteen - Live @ Sanctuary '25
KJ VALIUM LIVE AT SANCTUARYFEST COLUMBUS OHIO
Brickmason x crispy_doodles @ Sanctuary URL 2025
V I A @ sanctuary live ‘25 url
Nyoka Shoje - Sanctuary 2025 Live Set
DJ CENA - Sanctuary Live '25
YUNG SHIRO 白 - Nostalgia Lounge Sanctuary Live Event (breakcore DJ set)

Music by: 2Mello
Artwork by: Patsy McDowell
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Hello! We’re starting a new project this month. We have almost 50 bonus episodes on our Patreon. The goal is to get these older bonus episodes out from behind the paywall. So travel back in time with us for poor recording setups, bad editing, out of date opinions, and so much more!

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Well friends, it seems like nothing gets us into a long conversation like the historical and sociopolitical landscape of corporate art, aesthetics, and marketing. We talk about everything from the post-WW2 rise of popular luxury to the current hellscape of flat purple vector people.
Definitely check out the CARI link below and let us know your favorite styles.
As always thank you so much for your support.

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The Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute - CARI
Note: The original “Your Face Here” page on Airbnb Design is gone.
Blame Corporate Memphis
Populuxe on Wikipedia
Why do "Corporate Art Styles" Feel Fake?
Corporate Art Style - Know Your Meme
Will that ‘big tech art style’ become the comic sans of art styles?
Corporate Music - How to Compose with no Soul
We Are Sears 1986.mpg

Music by: 2Mello
Artwork by: Patsy McDowell
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It’s time for our April New Music episode! This time around, we’re breaking the rules a bit by discussing three albums. Your three course meal starts with some classic USPS inspired vaporwave, moving on to an eclectic selection of chill experimental ambient before finishing things off with a moving tribute to the music of Twin Peaks. We hope you join us in checking out these albums and support the artists below!

U.S. Mail by opal東京
Living Rooms (Bonus Tracks Version) by Nobey One
The Big Dream - EP by Faint Waves

Music by: 2Mello
Artwork by: Patsy McDowell
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In this episode, we’re checking out listencorp, a long-running magazine that covers vaporwave and electronic music. Each of their six issues features long-form articles, artist interviews, album reviews, and a whole bunch of great art and graphic design. We read through all of them and sat down to discuss our favorite articles. Grab their digital bundle on Etsy and join us!

P.S. The ‘plosive suppression on this recording is wilding and sometimes “listencorp” sounds like “listencore.” Sorry! However you pronounce it, definitely go and support what they’re doing!

Un futuro posible 2008 from Un futuro posible 2008 by The City Reviewer

listencorp
listencorp on Etsy
listencorp on Utopia District

Music by: 2Mello
Artwork by: Patsy McDowell
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You should know that this episode was divinely ordained. The Discogs article below was posted by a listener on our Patreon Discord at the precise moment Birk was listening to a related album and thinking about this episode topic. As a result, you have to listen to us work our way through the landscape of Japanese Ambient in the 80s and 90s. We talk about the music of the time and how it might have arisen from changing material and technological conditions, the importance of funding cool art, and its resurgence in popularity over the past few years.

Seiko 3 from Music For Commercials by Yasuaki Shimizu

Exploring Japan’s Ambient Music Boom of the ’80s and ’90s
The Sabukaru Guide to Japanese Ambient Music
How Japanese Ambient Music Became a Thing in America
Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990
Kankyo Ongaku: A Brief History of Japanese Ambient Music
A Beginner’s Guide to ’80s Japanese Ambient Music
Space and Certainty: On the Rise of Japanese Ambient Music

Music by: 2Mello
Artwork by: Patsy McDowell
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In this month’s new music episode, we’re exploring the anxiety/comfort duality in vaporwave as it appears across two amazing albums. Join us as we discuss the wonderfully anxiety-inducing Cursed Mall from AWITW and then go on a soothing cosmic voyage with Blueberries on Mars by 猫 シ Corp.

ninja tape by 直子coed
foreign transmission by JPEGSTRIPES
Hands United: Echoes of Equality by Utopia District
CRYSTAL PEPSI Employee Training Video (1992)
"𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙑𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙬𝙖𝙫𝙚?" @ MAGFest 2025
Liminal Ambient: Gen Z's Answer to LoFi

Cursed Mall (The Soundtrack) by AWITW
Blueberries on Mars by 猫 シ Corp.

Music by: 2Mello
Artwork by: Patsy McDowell
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In this episode, we’re discussing the 2024 album Passion by D.J. VLK. This amazing display of plunderphonics is made entirely using samples from the forgotten paranormal soap opera “Passions.” We talk about the show itself, the plight of memory-holed media, and the exploration of others' memories through art. This is a wonderful and weird album that you should definitely check out.

Passion by D.J. VLK

Happy 25 Years to the Most Unhinged Soap Opera of All Time
Remembering Passions | Put it on Peacock!

Music by: 2Mello
Artwork by: Patsy McDowell
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In this episode we’re digging into Solarpunk, a multi-media art movement that aims to build a vision of a more optimistic future, free from the crushing doom of environmental collapse. We talk about the movement, some example media, and our thoughts on movements becoming aesthetics. So, come in from your rooftop garden and join us as we take a more hopeful view of the future.

Light Blending In - Snowy Sunset from Solarpunk: A Possible Future by Various Artists

Solarpunk: A Possible Future by Various Artists
ピアノの独り言 by desert sand feels warm at night
Solarpunk: A Container for More Fertile Futures
Solarpunk Futurism Seems Optimistic and Whimsical. But Not Really.
Solarpunk as an Optimistic Vision of the Future: An Introduction
Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto
Games tagged Solarpunk on itch.io
SOLARPUNK – Life in the Future Beyond the Rusted Chrome of Yestermorrow
Dark Ecology
Man Living in a Sustainable & Innovative Earthship Home - Full Tour
Earthship Underground House Tour- Sustainable and Net Zero Living...

Music by: 2Mello
Artwork by: Patsy McDowell
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It’s time for our first new music episode of 2025! It’s getting cold and snowy where we live so we picked out some albums that fit our wintery mood. We’re covering an amazing slushwave compilation from Mom and Dad’s Computer & 愛 as well as an evocative dark cinematic album from Dhalia’s Tear.

飑 by Mom and Dad's Computer & "愛"
Apeiron by Dahlia's Tear

after everything by luxury noise
VAPORAISE 2024 sets on Utopia District’s YouTube
Consumer Electronics Record Label
Witch Bolt - My Creative Process: Behind the Bolt
Darien Shields @ VAPORAISE 2024 (Visuals by mingkurray)
The Gentrification of Video Game History

Music by: 2Mello
Artwork by: Patsy McDowell
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We’re back! In this episode, we’re easing back into our recording schedule with a discussion of thirteen diverse albums spanning a wide range of Christmastude. From classic vaporwave to modern jazz, dark ambient to goth industrial, we delve into our musical stockings to uncover some new seasonal favorites.

Null Device - Baby, It​’​s No Longer Cold Outside (Because of Climate Change) from GRABYOURCHRISTMASTREE by Elektro Vox

Holiday Countdown by Various Artists
Holidays by Anomalie
Christmas at Crystal Valley Mall by モールFUTURE/PAST
クリスマス Home for the Holidays by Sad Chasey
CHRISTMAS IN THE HYPERMALL by DJ Bloody Sunday
O Come, All Ye Vapeful by Pacific Plaza Records
[ x m a s ❄ 2 千 17 ] // [ x m a s ❄ 2 千 19 ] by Trucks Passing Trucks
ᴡ ᴏ ᴏ ʟ ᴡ ᴏ ʀ ᴛ ʜ ' ꜱ by KENMORE Classic
Christmas Party Living Room ／／ FL​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​-​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​329 by DMT Tapes FL Christmas Party Planner
The Night Before Christmas by The Jazz Hop Café
GRABYOURCHRISTMASTREE by Elektro Vox
12 Days of Christmas Vaporwave by Raediophonic
A Dark Ambient Christmas by Dead Melodies

Music by: 2Mello
Artwork by: Patsy McDowell
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