Each album is accompanied by similarly surreal artwork, meant to convey the sights and sounds of a vague, unfamiliar future world with its many moods and atmospheres. As one of the best new emerging electronic music labels, UK-based Dream Catalogue has helped push this move forward, coining terms like “dream music” and “dreampunk” in order to describe the surreal, dream-like quality of the music they release. The last 3 years have seen an explosion of obscure, underground artists who, under the guise of mysterious corporate conglomerates or ghostly apparitions from an improbable future, are heralding a new era of long-form ambient music inspired by cyberpunk novels, Blade Runner and night-time-driving-in-Tokyo dashcam videos.
Cyberpunk dystopias and ambient music have long had a symbiotic relationship, feeding off of each other’s themes, sounds, concepts and imagery and becoming fused together into one single, hazy, nocturnal, neon-drenched, futuristic entity.
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