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Day 1 of Rating Submissions with Few Ratings

Ever heard of hauntological music? Music that sounds abstract, in that liminal space between being awake and asleep. Your music reminds me of a lot of hauntological music with those slow shifting ambient pads, how meandering the music sounds and how hard it is to grab.

Sounds remind me of older video games. Divorced from their original context, I feel like I am entering a weird, warped dream world of a video game.

Strangely this escapism is not devoid of friction...? The abstract rhythmic density and busy footwork of fightflightfreeze jolts me awake from my dream. Maybe we can only remove ourselves from this work for so long. 

Not sure how many games this would fit though. Maybe a weird one like LSD dream simulator or cruelty squad? 

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I'd never heard of hauntological music until this comment, but I'll be diving down that rabbithole for sure now, thank you!

Weird and warped dream world is definitely the impression I get of the videogame I picture when I made this. I must admit, the game side of the jam wasn't as well defined in my mind as I've seen other people's submissions be - I think one of my first tracks that I discarded early on was starting to sound very earthbound and I never left that space.

If escapism had no chance of being threatened from the outside, we probably wouldn't need to escape.