March 14, 2021, 7:38 p.m.

🌱 47. Vanilla song

Dept. of Enthusiasm

47
Felbm - Filatelie
(File under: music, ice cream)

Listen: felbm.bandcamp.com/track/filatelie-2

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Sometimes you don’t need elaborate fiction or fakelore to enjoy the game, the song, the novel etc. Sometimes a song is as sweet and straightforward as vanilla, as satisfying as neatly executed high five.

All I know is that I sent this song to a bunch of people this week, and two of them—unconnected, unprompted—said “this makes me feel hopeful.”

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If you loved Yellow Magic Orchestra’s ‘Rydeen’, you may be delighted as I was to know it was reinterpreted in glorious chiptune for Sega’s 1982 arcade game Super Locomotive.

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Say hello → hello@jezburrows.com

Hopefully,
Jez

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