FlowerChan Foundation - Folder of Sources

 Released: May 11

The latest release from FlowerChan Foundation shows up on the ever-groundbreaking Bogus Collective netlabel and is just an absolute wild ride of sonic mashup. It incorporates a lot of different musical stylings, typically in just one single track. The first song on the album opens up with the modern Windows boot up sound and starts off in a direction that sounds light and wavy, only to do a screeching turbo around into heavy industrial beats and stay there for a bit before returning to that light and wavy vibe. It’s certainly a trip for all roughly two minutes it continues for. And this is really the main motif of the album - this jarring combination of slower and lighter compositions crashing headlong into fast-paced rhythms and full basses. 

Some of the tracks keep with the lighter fare the whole time only to careen into noisy goodness on the next track. The fourth and fifth do this spectacularly with the fourth track giving off lounge vibes with a slightly bossa nova beat. It feels airy and fun until the fifth track sends everything into a heavy glitches out rhythm that has the rhythm of a malfunctioning machine gun. It’s a wild break to go from calm and chill to frenetic and haphazard. Following up with a looped ambient track immediately after is further complicating as well.

For the album as a whole, it really is that reckless abandon with which it flows that makes it a fun listen. You think you’ll get one thing as you listen, only to get something that subverts whatever expectation you might have garnered from the previous tracks. It carries a lot of those early-to-mid 2000s vibes, when internet music was just starting to be a thing and borrowed heavily from popular culture that developed before it. Overall, its a fun ride that has a bit of nostalgia but a whole lot of randomness through in as well, further cementing the vibes of that particular time period.