Three Radikal Rekerds #26: Prancing Planetar Plum-blossom's

Genre: Drum n' Bass/Vaporwave

Standout track: さびしい 

Self-avowed "wave n' bass" project hailing from my own country, as well as being the project of a fellow Spacehey user (please give her a follow in the provided profile link below, if it so pleases you :3) Try to envision all the breathy quality of hi-fi liquid funk and the endorphin highs of "stadium DnB" - those distinctly 00's musical moods - shone through an older, wiser, more emotionally complex lens of 2010's nostalgiawave. Each of the five tracks herein could be an opening song for their own deceptively pretty dystopian sci-fi series. My personal favourite is the sad yet sublime neotrance breakbeater さびしい (Lonely), but there isn't a single dud track on this.

Genre: Electronic/Sound Collage

Standout track: Thinkin' Things

How do I describe this peculiar yet pretty album? Animal Crossing meets Aphex Twin? Its like the soundtrack of an early 00's British children's television show inhabited by friendly living sculptures created by Goshka Macuga and Steven Claydon. Neither they nor the viewers at home understand why they were made or what it all means, but they still feel pretty fantastic! :3

Genre: Electronic/Avant Garde

Standout track: The Temple

A difficult to describe dance project from Taiwan. This stuff is reminiscent of both dark Teutonic techno and continental Asian-themed ritual industrial music, but possesses a uniquely haunting metropolitan flair that I suspect only a young frustrated person growing up in a rapidly expanding city could conjure up. Eerie and colourful in equal measure.