Hypnagogic heat haze

Boomkat compilation
various / 14 tracks
Hypnagogic heat haze


1. Carlos y Gaby : In The Whirl Emote
2. BUGSKULL : Communication
3. POCAHAUNTED : Touch You
4. Banjo Or Freakout : Somone Great (LCD Soundsystem Cover)
5. James Ferraro : Track 01
6. EMERALDS : Candy Shoppe
7. ISAN : 64 Fire Damage
8. MEMORY TAPES : Swimming Field
9. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI : the ballad of bobby pyn
10. SUN ARAW : Deep Cover
11. IIBIIS ROOGE : Yellow Breeze
12. AIR FRANCE : June Evenings
13. REAL ESTATE : Suburban Beverage
14. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER : Stress Waves


In preparation for the four hours of sunshine we're due this summer, this soporific selection gathers a heap of our favourite hypnagogic and chill wave dreamscapes for lazy afternoons in the garden and long evenings in the park. These artists all share a certain yearning for pop and electronic music of the past, but via cloaking devices like over-saturated tape delay and heavy compression techniques they've opened a new portal to an alter-realm of mild MOR hallucinations, decamping from the extremities to find a strangely happy pitch on the edge of the middle. The American underground is responsible for a majority of the music here, filtering the last 30 years of pop, dub and dance into a myriad of bleached and psychedelically sensitive experimentalism. Through James Ferraro's inimitably smudged tropical drones, Bugskull's innately charming songs, Sun Araw's meditative heat haze or Ariel Pink's ferric gilded pop we can taste the collective unconscious from the comfort of a sun lounger, while sipping on a cold one and doing our best to ignore that game where blokes kick a ball for 90 minutes...