It’s come to a point in music where maturation of the sound sculptor might not be essential for how their art is portrayed. Not that I have a time-line of how long Windows 98の has been making music (although, the first album under this moniker was published on Bandcamp August 27, 2014), yet I can predict this producer is much more a listener than an audible editor. It’s something that’s clearer in the subtleties of the newest — and self-proclaimed LAST — Windows 98の release, FEVER DREAM (DE:AD). Like, I can only predict here, but I’m willing to suggest Windows 98の took more than a thousand samples to make FEVER DREAM (DE:AD). And sounding like it’s drawing from an array of influences, including vaporwave production, Boards Of Canada, and (even) Explosions in the Sky, FEVER DREAM (DE:AD) further maps out Windows 98の as a careful listener, as the production not only takes flight in terms of the color and tenacity of the samples being used, but the way the productionist creates presents a finely-tuned ear in how others before him did it just right. Thus, the Age of Information has come full circle. Windows 98の will forever be anachronistic, but constantly stitched within a the nostalgia of Internet. Breath in the FEVER DREAM (DE:AD), below:
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