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This will be a sequel to Sustainable Future Village and Sustainable Future Outlook.

I plan on having a really unusual naming/ titling system for the sequels. Here they are laid out:

The Almighty Cloud - Sustainable Future Village (2015)

The Almighty Cloud - Sustainable Future Outlook (2016)

Almighty Cloud - Sustainable Future Village

Almighty Cloud - Sustainable Future Village

Almighty Cloud - Sustainable Future Village 4

I'd like all the tracks to be AI generated in some way. Thanks 🙉

I think it was released on Clear Visions and then taken down. Somebody should find out who used to run it

https://cardboardfuture.bandcamp.com/album/daily-searches

I made this album in high school after my project "Blue Gnome Tree," and my first metrosong project, RICECAKE, which was not a very good album. I had a difficult time editing the samples -- destructive editing did not sound good on modern ukulele tracks. So I decided to experiment with sound collage.

The first track I made was called "June 2, 4009," and it was released on The Eternal Dream System. I wanted to create something that was radically different and innovative, that would stand out in the tracklist. And I think it stood out in some ways, certainly. OSCOB, an artist who had been pretty nasty to me about my vaporwave novel autism, had apparently told HKE that it was his favorite track on the compilation. I had been a fan of his music and was particularly influenced by Virtual High Rise, a very immersive concept album.

The cover was originally just an eye on a green field, and then it became a collage involving a school with the eye next to it. HKE didn't like the cover and suggested that I put the eye in the middle of a phone, so that's what I did. It was not released on Dream Catalogue, because during this time, HKE wanted to move away from samples due to copyright issues and takedowns. It is possible that Sustainable Future Village also would have been released on DC, because HKE made an appearance on the record.

So, the album was self-released on my netlabel, Cardboard Future, and simultaneously released through Ailanthus. However, it appears that the owner of that label took it down, and I suspect that this is because of my political views which are well-known at this point.

The album was inspired by Pink Floyd's Darkside of The Moon -- as well as Far Side Virtual and Lift Your Skinny Fists. I tried to use samples that would be highly unexpected -- for example a repeating walkie-talkie sound that creaks in the left channel, and the ending of Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco. Panning and channels were a key feature of Pink Floyd's record as stereo was quite innovative at the time, and I decided to have a lot of elements going off in both ears -- which explains my fascination with ASMR.

I had a very tough time in high school -- school was a source of trauma and loathing for me, so many of the tracks revolve around school. There is a sample of a bus taking off, and it sounded exactly like the bus at my school, so I decided to include that. It honestly makes me feel really uncomfortable and powerless when I listen to it -- puts me back in that time when I was an autistic kid trapped with people who didn't like me. Similarly, people on r/vaporwave really didn't like me either, and I hated them and hated myself. I just felt really powerless and hungry for attention -- I wanted to act out in some way, as I'd been acting out in school (twice suspended for throwing punches). I didn't know that I have autism until I was like 21, so growing up was a very confusing and humiliating process.

The final track opens with a sample of John Gardner, the American novelist, talking to Stephen Banker about education and democracy. John Gardner was, at the time, a tremendous inspiration to me as an artist, and I always tried to live up to the ideal of a "continuous fictional dream" in my plunderphonics, as limited as my skills were. At the time I was something like a libertarian or classical liberal, but I think the sample instilled some doubts in me about democracy and the trajectory of civilization. The album itself is, like all the old metrosong projects I made, a parody of human progress, techno hype, and futurism. I also used to care a real lot about left-right politics and I wanted to make art that was quintessentially Republican in nature. I thought that there was something very subversive about realizing neoliberal fantasies.

Ultimately, it's an album created by a lonely 17 year-old boy and it's not very good. But it is certainly a fun record and puts the listener in some strange situations. The album apparently influenced HKE's Omnia and 살과 피 by 2047, and I consider that a win.

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