City Lights | Macross 82-99 (feat. Kamei)

Macross 82-99 returns to the future-funk landscape with Sailorwave II, a blistering EP retaining every sensational fragment of what makes Macross so identifiable.

A brilliant fanfare of synthesized trumpets signals that Macross is back. Trumpet lines dance across the track like figure skaters on a brightly-lit disco ice rink. Pounding drums and synth bass-lines push you further and coerce you into walking in step with the beat or bobbing your head or swaying your shoulders and hips

City Lights speaks of today's desire to be constantly connected to the world through the internet, through the feature by Brazilian-Japanese rapper Kamei.

"We all are everywhere thanks to the interweb without it I am sad so please connect."

This speaks to a theme that lies across most of the future-funk and vaporwave scene: discontent with how connected and artificial everything is in today's consumerist society, where every action has social connotations and trends matter so much that the idea of missing out on anything is stressful.

Macross brings up these feelings of disillusionment and uses his music to share a dialog with his audience while also reassuring his listeners that the world is not so upsetting that you can't dance.

The world isn't so scary if you have a fun tune to whistle, Macross seems to say through his music.