Music recommendations
What follows are various music recommendations. This is not an exhaustive list of my favorite albums, just a bunch of shoutouts to Bandcamp artists since they deserve the attention.
Pangeapedia Plus by Daniel White
Say it with me: make 👏 history 👏 end 👏 again 👏.
Available on Bandcamp.
Money Can Buy Happiness by New Century
It's only a single, but it's great. They've got some other EPs and singles as well. I hope they eventually amass an entire album.
Available on Bandcamp.
Disco Hits Radio by Gold Casio
An underrated disco and synth-pop band. I really like the songs Thieves in the Temple and $$.
Available on Bandcamp.
Scrapmetal by Garrett Beelow & Francisco J. Pérez
The soundtrack to the tragically cancelled Masks of Power fangame, but a great album in its own right.
Available on Bandcamp.
Mineral Hall by Lookfar
Lookfar is a project by Louie Zong. And that dude's massively talented, and I could probably fill this entire page with his albums. But this is the one that got me into him. To me, this kinda feels like the intersection between dungeonsynth and “encartacore”: it's a trek through a museum of natural history.
Available on Bandcamp.
Enter the Dream Castle by Dreamcastle
These vaporwave and plunderphonics tracks evoke 90s and early 2000s LEGO and Sega. I believe Dreamcastle first came to my attention because of the elaborate custom cassette packaging they sent out to my favorite LEGO YouTuber R.R. Slugger.
Available on Bandcamp.
Tiki for the Atomic Age by Kava Kon
Written as an escape from a crumbling city, hopefully, this album can also be a brief respite from a crumbling world.
Available on Bandcamp.
Wanderlore by Deep Gnome
A Dungeon Synth album. The opening quote sampled from the 1977 Hobbit movie sets the right cozy vibe immediately.
Available on Bandcamp.
Samphonique, Vol. 1 by Sam Vlas
A soundtrack to a theme park or movie that doesn't exist.
Available on Bandcamp.