#alyzea

welcome home everynyan!! i wanted to do something different today so we're listening to or should i say booting up dream OS by alyzea! this is a purely atmospheric and instrumental record released in 2025 and only lasting 19 minutes.

i think the idea is that it's the music the fictional dream OS would use for certain things, which are the song titles. for example, 'home menu' or 'interface loading'. this album leans REALLY heavily into the frutiger aero side of technology and user interfaces, which is sadly a bygone era. i love love love staring at all kinds of frutiger aesthetics, especially the interior decorations and computer interfaces.

we as a society moved on from this type of maximalist, utopian type of theming for our computers and so on. i gotta say though, the pastiche work that people do of this sort of thing in retrospect really hits the spot. this one especially, a lot of the music hits you really hard right in the nostalgia bone, even though i was born in 2006 so most of the computers i used growing up were on the tail end of the frutiger stuff.

the music itself has a lot of the underwater ambience instruments you hear in Donkey Kong Country or Mario 64. or old-school nintendo music. it's that type of thing, but with a really satisfying drum or synth break thrown in occasionally.

it was especially satisfying trying to pick out all the UI sounds that were sampled, like i distinctly remember hearing a lot of Nintendo Switch sounds.

really i just realized that back in the 2010's people were making vaporwave records romanticizing the 90's (though they still do that). now we're in the 20's romanticizing the 00's. i wonder if in 20 years people will romanticize the type of stuff we've got right now.

at the end of the day guys it's a really really lovely record. so satisfying and chill to listen to. nostalgiabait in the best way possible. i got so much homework done listening to this bad boy. what an absolute blast to listen to. i wonder what it'd be like for a late 90's gen z person would feel listening to this, the nostalgia would probably explode your brain.

FAV TRACKS: home menu, interface loading

LEAST FAV TRACKS: distant ocean