Garnering the same lo-fi fashion as Spencer Clark, Dolphins Into The Future, and (early-early) Rraro I’d say is WAY too hard to replicate. Nobody can pull off Xerox’d and potentially boot-legged (but WHY?) material like them fellahs, and two of the three are still doing it! Now, you’ve got hi-fi labels — which 1080p Collective is very hi-fi — that pop out these highly manufacture tapes (vis a-vi j-card printing, cassette dubbing, professional mastering, etc.) blending the esoteric notion of “Why cassettes?” with the modern question of “What software did you use?” Your savior: Temple Volant.
If you want a perfect example of fashionably lo-fi swirling electronics that the early oughts forgot as fast as these tapes were shit out, grip yourself some Daydream Drawings. Even the j-card art could be potentially Xerox’d and made MORE mysterious as a visual; I am obsesses with how the cover art looks almost like anything your imagination can concoct. The same goes for Temple Volant’s sonics: a complete and temporal blend of everything out of nothing is both encompassing and stifling.
1080p Collection was nice enough to let ME choose a single here, and I chose “Delphinity,” boiiiiiiiiiii. First off, it’s a fucking HONOR to have that sort of opportunity, and is exactly what makes writing for TMT my dream-boat-beyond-the-P. Second, I wanted to choose a Temple Volant track that best represents 1080p’s (typically) crisper sound, while also stabilizing the blown-out speaker feel of those early-ought mystery tapes that are now priceless legends. Third, if I fucking had to come back to this earth ONE MORE TIME, it’d be as a dolphin, and “Delphinity” on repeat could make a lifetime of waves.
August 26, Temple Volant will be flying your way via 1080p Collection as Daydream Drawings sonars in the lo/hi-fi vibes, rejuvenating the ancient and artistically respected question, “Wait, what the fuck is that!?” It’s “Delphinity” streaming below, forever:
☯H! And Vanc☯uver: M☯UNT UP! Daydream Drawings is g☯ing t☯ be launching this Saturday with D. Tiffany + Journeymann Trax and Friendly Chemist, as Temple Volant will be pumping up the grip on the grind. INF☯ HERE.
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