Sleepline is the fifteenth studio album by electronic and vaporwave artist Vektroid under the alias New Dreams Ltd., released on February 14, 2016.[1]
Release
The album was released on Valentine's day simultaneously with Fuji Grid TV EX and Shader Complete, reissues of her extended play Prism Genesis and her album Shader.[2]
Context
The album is part of the vaporwave genre and features samples of Japanese television commercials from the 1980s, particularly those advertising airlines and holiday destinations.[3] The album were produced between February to March of 2013 and it was first envisioned as a sequel to Prism Genesis[4] under the title "Transcontinent".[5] The album can be streamed on her Bandcamp.[6] In 2018, Sleepline was re-released on CD and vinyl.[7]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "All Day / Mindprison" | 3:09 |
| 2. | "Nakano #18" | 4:23 |
| 3. | "Muku Grid" | 3:11 |
| 4. | "Theatré Virtua" | 2:13 |
| 5. | "Avalon Reverse" | 3:21 |
| 6. | "Air" | 4:40 |
| 7. | "Blue Earth" | 5:17 |
| 8. | "Surrounded" | 2:30 |
| 9. | "Sleepline (Sleepfear)" | 6:42 |
| 10. | "Walled City" | 3:57 |
| 11. | "Into the Light (Night)" | 2:55 |
| 12. | "Nimbus Stage Select" | 2:26 |
| 13. | "Rapefear" | 2:51 |
| 14. | "Afterdawn" | 4:00 |
| 15. | "No Stone" | 3:12 |
| 16. | "Seed of Life / New Media" | 5:33 |
| 17. | "Dig Dream" | 6:39 |
| 18. | "Diskloader" | 2:06 |
| 19. | "Oceanus" | 6:05 |
| 20. | "Casino Virtua" | 4:10 |
References
- ^ "New Dreams Ltd. - Sleepline". Discogs.
- ^ Vektroid (a.k.a. Macintosh Plus, New Dreams Ltd., etc.) drops three new releases|Tiny Mix Tapes
- ^ WhoSampled
- ^ "Ramona Langley / Vektroid / Macintosh Plus, etc. on X: "lol fun fact: the reason Sleepline sounds so much like Fuji Grid TV is because it was explicitly started as a Fuji Grid TV sequel" / X". Twitter. February 16, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
- ^ "Ramona Langley / Vektroid / Macintosh Plus, etc. on X: "@waterfallvoyeur the orig album title was "Fuji Grid TV - Transcontinent"" / X". Twitter. February 16, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
- ^ "Sleepline, by New Dreams Ltd". Vektroid.
- ^ New Dreams Ltd. - Sleepline 2xLP / CD - Aguirre Records
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