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🪐LISTENCORP 008 IS HERE! 👩‍🚀 In this edition, we dive into slushwave, exploring the genre with @desertsand.bsky.social, @daysofblueskies.bsky.social, and others from the burgeoning community. And we float out deeper, into the depths of dreamtone... listencorp.bandcamp.com

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⭐️ FEATURE INTERVIEW ⭐️ Late-stage carnivalism with Nero's Day at Disneyland We spoke to @laurenbousfield.bsky.social about the return of the project, her musical mech suit and a surprising Victorian influence... www.listencorp.co.uk/post/neros-d...

⭐️ FEATURE REVIEW ⭐️ The 'new internet' has many sounds – Zest Fest brought them all together listencorp.co.uk/post/new-int...

Dive into a world of learning... Virtua by @trndytrndy.com takes us inside the immersive world of early digital educational programs... 📀🌎🗿📚

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ Vibrant geometric renders are stacked atop shiny toy tunes on this beautiful, maximalist post-Internet mess Glide By – Andy Loebs released via @orangemilkrecords.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/andy-lo...

"Other than it's kind of quiet around the country..." @catsystemcorp.bsky.social's News at 11 shows us a world in which the events of 9/11 never took place, and in their place, an eerily banal morning plays out. @mypetflamingo.bsky.social

It has been really great to see how many traditional ambient music circles are listening to slushwave, some without being aware of the community around it. It's strange how siloed some things can be by algorithms. Happy to see slushwave being listened to in any case! 💫

Cool swords are cool. And so is @enraile.bsky.social's new album, Cool Swords.

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ Berserkified net-nerds emerge through glitchy internet collage, wielding the ultimate weapon Cool Swords – @enraile.bsky.social released via @retracrecordings.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/enraile...

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Why are animal videos so popular?

marcy firelife's sonic garden...

⭐️ NEW REVIEW ⭐️ Black femininity blooms in a sonic garden – with a sadness too beautiful to be irredeemable sade's garden – marcy firelife www.listencorp.co.uk/post/marcy-f...

🎙️ FEATURE INTERVIEW 👽 We speak to Spencer Clark about his new release, standing on hills in Greece and what he hid in an organ theatre in Balboa Park... www.listencorp.co.uk/post/spencer...

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ Funk Carioca, Imogen Heap and Undertale tunes are smashed together on what sounds like the desktop files of a Brazilian laptop Marcelinho MeteBala – Quebraidera Pura www.listencorp.co.uk/post/marceli...

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ Following up the hazy beauty of a previous release, a second gives listeners electronic gems to protect them in a harsh place IOWA – OHYUNG (@ohyunglia.bsky.social) www.listencorp.co.uk/post/ohyung-...

Post-internet trance balances big blasts with thoughtful digital sentimentality, a haven to celebrate the dizzying weightlessness of non-physical connectivity End Sky Atlas – Parasol (@drumlesstrance.bsky.social) released via @orangemilkrecords.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/parasol...

⭐ NEW REVIEW ⭐ underscores arranges her hyperpoppy home and invites us in to bounce about – a Britney sound for the slick production era underscores – U www.listencorp.co.uk/post/undersc...

The wait for vaporwave fans is over, as @mypetflamingo.bsky.social release their documentary: 'Nobody Here'. A genre resistant to permanence and that began drenched in mystery – can this be the definitive insight that so many have hoped for? www.listencorp.co.uk/post/vaporwa...

📡 NEW FEATURE 🌐 A secret VHS, satellites and Tape 05: Boards of Canada's return Fans had almost given up taking signs for wonders when the duo's signals began to fully emerge this week listencorp.co.uk/post/boards-... @boardsofcanada.bsky.social @warprecords.bsky.social

Had a good time speaking to these two, have a read!

⭐ NEW REVIEW ⭐ Oda – Vic Bang released via @mondoj.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/vic-ban...

⭐️ NEW FEATURE ⭐️ Tutored in the Octagon: A look inside Oneohtrix Point Never’s School of Song www.listencorp.co.uk/post/oneohtr...

Sunshine, like you're sprayed with mace... We take a poetic deep dive into James Ferraro's Skid Row, 10 years after its release... www.listencorp.co.uk/post/james-f...

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ A collection of dreamtone vignettes, the strangely peaceful sound of a distant alien planet Moontide – Light Blending In released via @geometriclullaby.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/light-b...

⭐️TRACK-BY-TRACK REVIEW ⭐️ The infamous Brazilian DJ uses the listener's head to spin his decks in another wonderfully chaotic release Sexta dos Crias 2.0 – DJ Ramon Sucesso Released via Lugar Alto www.listencorp.co.uk/post/dj-ramo...

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ Futurist harmonies that fit in your pocket in this ambient gamer-adjacent experience InteractSTYLE – DV-i (@dvi-socialmode.bsky.social) released via @musicwebsite.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/dv-i-in...

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ Sludgy VHS rock wanders into a range of styles in this ode to imagined memories Release the Beast – CV Vision Released via Bureau B www.listencorp.co.uk/post/cv-visi...

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ Ambient composer finds her true identity deep in the bowels of the club, off-kilter strings on strobe-y beats You Are Always On My Mind – OHYUNG www.listencorp.co.uk/post/ohyung-...

⭐️EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ The voice chat duo rhyme ‘FL Studio’ with ‘bootyhole’ over clashing instrumentals and broken samples on this 20-hit combo darklight – heavensouls x stickerbush www.listencorp.co.uk/post/heavens...

A video about some tapes I found next to a bin…

🎉 THE UNFORGETTABLE RELEASES OF 2025 🎉 We asked @daysofblueskies.bsky.social, @ramonpang.bsky.social, @giantclaw.bsky.social, and other artists and tastemakers what the one release from this year they'd recommend is... read their answers here: www.listencorp.co.uk/post/2025-be...

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ The act of archiving and the ever-corrupting hand of time do battle in this return to a classic Oneohtrix sound Oneohtrix Point Never – Tranquilizer released via @warprecords.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/oneohtr...

⭐️ FEATURE INTERVIEW ⭐️ There’s strange albums that have grown a cult following online… then there is Shadowdog, the glitch-pop 2015 release by tirestires. We interviewed the person behind it to celebrate its anniversary vinyl release! www.listencorp.co.uk/post/shadowd...

⭐️📼 EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️📼 Life's fragile radiance seen in the melancholic rearview, captured in crumpled, precious folktronica tape loops goodbye, world! – Miffle www.listencorp.co.uk/post/miffle-...

"Windows 10 was not about eco-futurist dreams but about augmented reality. Rather, the colors all strike me as coming from fashion or from interior design..." Really interesting piece on a now-dead operating system's look and feel, by @sofixian.bsky.social networkcultures.org/longform/202...

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🤠 LIVE REVIEW 🤠 Los Thuthanaka at ICA London A Pitchfork Festival patron's bad trip is made worse by the brilliant mayhem of the Bolivian-American duo... with support from Nazar and Pollyfromthedirt listencorp.co.uk/post/los-thu... @pitchfork.com, @jcc-pf.bsky.social

Los Thuthanaka @ ICA

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ Even with friends, this Scottish-Filipino artist channels a beautiful loneliness Time Beyond The Edges – The Lonely Bell released via @shadyridgerecords.bsky.social feat @karenvogtmusic.bsky.social, @clairedeak.bsky.social and more www.listencorp.co.uk/post/the-lon...

🎙️ FEATURE INTERVIEW 🎹 Sometimes, Kelly Moran's piano plays itself... We speak to the musician about her latest album on @warprecords.bsky.social, adventures in disklavier land and playing in Oneohtrix Point Never's MYRIAD tour www.listencorp.co.uk/post/kelly-m...

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ Immersive, silky and drifting dream pop telling a relatable tale of longing for companionship Friend – james K released via @ad93rec.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/james-k...