Various Artists - Numero 95 (Numero Group)

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WHAT WE SAY:

Another fine retromaniacal look back at barely ever known, let alone forgotten music from Numero Group as they excavate a 90's world where early synths met software music's first wave & where the New Age flirted with the Miami Vice soundtrack. Made in dark bedrooms but more Balearic than espadrilles.

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WHAT THE RELEASE NOTES SAY:

As escapism from corporate banality turned the corner in the ‘90s, a new generation of vibrant, software generated soundscapes emerged. Communal access to the internet propagated the new hive mind of ideas online, giving way to smoother, stress-free textures. The PC revolution opened the gateway to ray-traced playgrounds of color and light, allowing for visions of utopic proportions to manifest themselves on screensavers far and wide. Boot up your machine, load the software on this floppy diskette, and drop out of a reality bounded by the physical laws of the universe.

Numero 95 is the soundtrack to the screen saver fever dream we’re all trying to climb back into. Eight droplets of proto-vaporwave, synthesized in vinyl (or digital) form, fresh from Numero’s archive of forgotten sounds. Are you looking for that half way point between smooth jazz and new age? Mac and PC? Quantum Leap and the X-Files? This software is for you.

Housed in a replica floppy diskette, Numero 95 explores an early computer music unbound by scene or region. Eight solo pioneers vibing out at home in their headphones, traveling as far as the sound card would allow. This is music that barely escaped the hard drive and yet percolates at the edges of the algorithm 30 years later.

Welcome to Numero 95.

Credits
Produced by Ali Najdi, Ken Shipley & Rob Sevier.
Compiled by Ali Najdi, Douglas McGowan, Adam Luksetich, Stephen Arndt, Ken Shipley & Rob Sevier.
Mastered by Carl Saff at Carl Saff Mastering.
Production Coordination by Riley Manion.
Design by Field of Grass.
Special thanks to Izzy Fradin, Mario Martinez & Paradise Is A Frequency.