Sim City

by Susumu Hirasawa

Sim City cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1995-08-02
  • Label: Polydor
  • Country: Japan
  • Community rating: 4.01/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Deeply inspired by the transgender community he encountered during extensive travels in Thailand, the Japanese visionary crafted a remarkably lush, highly conceptual electronic masterpiece. The incredibly dense, futuristic production seamlessly integrates traditional Southeast Asian melodies and soaring vocal choirs with complex, progressive pop synthesizer sequencing. It remains one of his most critically revered, emotionally resonant achievements within his sprawling art-pop discography.

Genres

Descriptors: science fiction, leftfield, atmospheric, transgender, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Recall
  2. Archetype Engine
  3. Lotus
  4. Kingdom
  5. Echoes
  6. Sim City
  7. 月の影
  8. 環太平洋擬装網
  9. Colony
  10. Caravan
  11. Prologue

Credits

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