satellite cult 62.62

officewave, oceangrunge, 80s misogyny

Sep 11, 2024

welcome to this week’s satellite cult dispatch. i’m so glad you’re here. i hope the artifacts i present you with will slurp you into the core of a toner cartridge destined for installation in the divine copy machine hibernating behind the walls of an abandoned office park’s most soulless suite, waiting for the day someone will turn the machine on and finally purify your heart by branding your reflection into a immortal copy of the universe’s quarterly sales report.

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6AE

summer might be ending, but you can see it out with a bang thanks to the latest from YUNG BAE. just some perfectly hot n cool poolside future funk to get you in the mood to dance.

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i’ve been really fixated on officewave lately. it started because i wrote a few poems about remembering what i used to imagine my dad’s work day was like when i was just a lil one in the mid-90s, and then i watched 1997’s Clockwatchers, a movie in which Muzak fill office air, prompting Parker Posey to quip that “some dodo bird” said it increases worker efficiency, to which Toni Collette replies, “Scary, isn’t it?” anyway, this split release by Kratzwerk and Florida Rains satisfies the part of me that yearns for a water cooler, a pager, and the mundanity of an in-person nine to five.

Ice Age

maybe two years ago i went on the record stating that it was only a matter of time before seapunk came back, and while this album by dystopian exoplanet isn’t seapunk1 proper, it sits at the intersection of oceangrunge (seapunk’s darker sibling, witch house’s more fluid cousin) and classic eccojams, producing something hazy and floating, with the impending doom of climate crisis looming in the distance.

www.anguillelisse.neocities.org

as the title suggests, the tracks on this release by 100anguillelisse® not only capture the spirit of the indie net, but satirize the surface net and corporate tech. titles like “How to scam on linkedin (2019)” and classic rap album skits give the album a tongue in cheek edge, and the blend of nightcore revival, dubstep, and hexd mark this release as something both aggressively of its time and deeply connected to a recent past.

reconnect

is it slushwave? is it eccojams? whatever it is, computers for sale has gifted us with some classic vapor.

cybergrunge.net

honestly, shocking that i have yet to profile cybergrunge.net. those of you who came to the cult via your love of internet music are likely familiar, but for everyone else, cybergrunge is an old-web style site where internet musicians can upload their work, chat, and seek out resources courtesy of founder Ellie and second webmistress Vicki. the site’s ethos is diy and leftist, and music is presented to users at random from the homepage. you should check out their infoshop and (obviously) the tunes.