Macross 82-99

Macross 82-99 (stylized as マクロス MACROSS 82-99 or MACROXX 82-99) is a Mexican electronic music producer and DJ from Mexico City.

Musical style

His music combines elements of plunderphonics, disco, jazz fusion, house, hip hop and city pop, and commonly uses video games, Japanese pop culture, and 80s and 90s anime, most notably Sailor Moon, as aesthetic tropes. Macross 82-99's 2013 albums ネオ東京 (English: Neo Tokyo) and SAILORWAVE, along with musical cohort Saint Pepsi's Hit Vibes, are commonly cited as the origin point for the "future funk" subgenre of vaporwave, which combines the sample-based production approach and visual language of vaporwave with French house and dance music influences.

The "82-99" in the artist's stage name refers to Super Dimension Fortress Macross. The anime, which sonically and visually inspired the project, was broadcast in 1982 while the show's story takes place in the year 1999.

Career

Macross 82-99's music has been described as, "where J-pop and disco samples meet ambient atmospheres and vaporwave aesthetics." He has collaborated with artists such as Yung Bae, Sarah Midori Perry, and Ranma ½ composer Hideharu Mori. Macross 82-99's track "Fun Tonight", a remix of Armenta's 1983 record "I Wanna Be With You", has over 20 million streams on Spotify.

Prior to its deletion from the YouTube channel Artzie Music, "Fun Tonight" had over 10 million views across multiple uploads on the platform. As a member of Sailor Team, a music collective of future funk and French house producers, Macross 82-99 has toured across Asia and North America.

Music Distribution

With the exception of 2013's [夏日], which had a limited run split album cassette release with Architecture in Tokyo's Summer Paradise on the Business Casual label, all early singles and projects were available exclusively to stream and as digital downloads on free and pay-what-you-want music sites like SoundCloud and Bandcamp, along with video uploads on YouTube.

However, since 2017, with the re-release of A Million Miles Away on cassette tape, Hong Kong based music label Neoncity Records has released multiple Macross 82-99 albums physically on limited run cassette, vinyl, and CD, influenced by the vinyl record revival of the 2010s and with a desire to bring vaporwave cassette culture over to the future funk scene. Label founder and owner Davy Law expressed that the success of this release is what convinced him to pursue his label as a legitimate business.

Discography

See also

• Skylar Spence
• Yung Bae
• Vaporwave
• French house
• Remix culture
• City Pop

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