#encartacore

[glascade]

GLOBALESCENCE 🌐👁☁

Made for Newgrounds' Low Poly Day 2026 Alternate color palette, Crayon-16 by Vsigos.

[lucillewalterblack]

neverending nineties 22/?: Skywatching: A Nature Company Guide + Utopian Scholastic

[shareware-awareness]

Delphi (1995)

[soapdispensersalesman]

[skinks]

2. The Story of E.C.

3. Sugar Sand Saturday

4. Welcome to the Library

5. Dark Academia

6. Ouvroir

7. Turn the Page

New release from Daniel White who has previously released “utopian scholastic”, “encartacore” music (I’ve posted about his work here) that evokes a turn-of-the-millenium nostalgia for interactive CD-ROMs in computer labs, public access science TV shows, and theme music piped into a dinosaur exhibit.

This new album, in collaboration with the artist Snorch, is slightly different in that it adds a postmodern spin on that same nostalgia. My favourite track is “Sugar Sand Saturday” for its eerie sense of lost optimism. There’s no real way to make that type of art for children any more, without acknowledging as an adult the countless ways that changes in culture and technology have soured the joy we used to find at the library, on the computer. Plus the arrangements and production are so sublime and hypnotic. Great album!

[pleasant-canadians-music]

I found Microsoft Dinosaurs in the internet archive, and while I couldn’t run it on my computer, I was at least able to admire all these old gallery pics again.

[soapdispensersalesman]

This album sounds like an old school encyclopedia

[soapdispensersalesman]