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.
