One hour of music that you won't have to think about

On Twitter yesterday, someone shared this Soundcloud mix of Japanese ambient music called "Music Interiors." The description says it all: "mostly emanating from the corporate infrastructure of the 1980s asset bubble. FM synthesis, prefab 'lifestyle' soundscapes and the illusion of nature in a hyper-urban environment." In other words, highly relevant to the post-industrial ruins we're living in, the facade of civilization.

What's nice about this mix is that it has the classic names — Hiroshi Yoshimura, Haruomi Hosono — but selections that are so minimal as to be almost non-existent, flowing into and out of each other without a gap. It's truly background music, nothing dissonant or hectic, just the lulling whine of smoothly operating elevators with no one in them.