Branching out from his lifelong career with pop sensations Troop Groop, Dave, now going by the name, "Skeeter84" has issued his first EP in the Signalwave genere of Vaporwave.
Wait, what, exactly is Signalwave?
Dear reader, use Google. Must I explain everything?
"Hareyakana omoide", also known as, "晴れやかな思い出", or, "Sunny Memories," is a bizarre journey into sampled sound. Taken almost entirely from 1980's Japanese television commercials and programs, Skeeter's debut is as much jarring as it is intriguing.
"It was an accident that the first several tracks were only 47 seconds long. Sounded like a challenge, so I made the rest of the tracks the same way," said Skeeter, of the oddly specific run times.
The songs range glittery to stuttering, but they definitely transport you to... someplace that only could exist in the corrupt data banks of an 80's era space satelite. While not groundbreaking, it's definitely a trippy landscape of sound and imagination.
"I've wanted to get into Signalwave for a while," Skeeter stated in an exclusive interview with New Beat Hound. "I was the kid who sat up all night listening to the radio, and sometimes the signals were crossed, and a gentle flip of the dial yielded surreal results. I wanted to capture that feeling of being parked in front of Dad's short wave set, just to see what you can hear and discover."
"Hareyakana omoide" is available for download on Skeeter's Bandcamp page.
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