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This Was The Future

by Kizunaut

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Valtteri Hyvärinen
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Valtteri Hyvärinen A fun and varied collection of darkly synthy sounds. I'm glad these tracks ended up getting a proper release. Favorite track: Crisis 2033.
Sapphira Vee
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Sapphira Vee I for one am so glad Kizunaut didn't scrap any of these tracks!! I can hear he love he put into every sound in every song, Sometimes they are dark, perhaps dissonant at times but always compelling, always drawing me in for more. So beautifully done, it would have been a shame if this work had not seen the light of day.
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Futurewave 06:07
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Crisis 2033 04:24
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Rust 04:51
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Supervoid 05:28
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Neuromancer 04:03
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Hanami 03:58
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Kizuna City 04:34
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Erase Data 04:24

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"Kizunaut brings flair and fire from the future with his latest album. This Was the Future fundamentally is bleak and rough soundscape, with influences from retro video games and anime. If you’d take a high-end tape player from the future, time travel it back 50 years, let it sit and rust for 20 more, then try and play music through it, you’ll get the aesthetic of this album. It feels futuristic, yet also very retro, space-like, yet also grounded. Those aspect are polished and feel like there is no real contrast.

Superbly implemented darkwave sounds stand in the frontline of the instrumentation, bringing some tracks closer to darksynth. Industrial-influenced drums play quite an important role in this album’s cohesion, being the glue between the diverse styles, with glitch sounds being the cherry on the top in perfecting the dirty technological vision."
- Neon Index


A compilation of 12 remastered and re-mixed tracks from 2018. Originaly intended for an album I ended up scrapping, some of these tracks were released in the OFFLINE split I did with Ursula's Cartridges, while others went into Soundcloud without a proper release.

This Was The Future presents a diverse selection of uniquely retro-futuristic music ranging from the arctic synthwave of 730 Days of Winter to the mechanical melancholy of Rust and the spacefaring synths of Supervoid.

As October marches towards winter and the veil between the worlds things, it's the perfect opportunity to call forth this ghost of past, a visitor from paralel timeline, and dive into the haunting retro-futurism of This Was The Future.

The download includes bonus art and liner notes.

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released October 18, 2019

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