Virtual Dreams II - Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, Japan 1993-1999Various Artists

• Dub Squad – Blown Fruit
• Akio Yamamoto – Phoenix At Desert
• Palomatic – Flutter
• Virgo – Prelude
• Ambient7 – Escape
• Web – The Cycle Of Seasons
• Yukihiro Fukutomi – 5 Blind Boys
• Katsuya Hironaka – Pause
• Riow Arai – 1969
• Modern Living – Snow Bird
• Missing Project – Poisson D'Avril (Galaxy Dub)
• Drawing Future Life – 1969

• 1. Dub Squad – Blown Fruit
• 2. Akio Yamamoto – Phoenix At Desert
• 3. Palomatic – Flutter
• 4. Virgo – Prelude
• 5. Ambient7 – Escape
• 6. Web – The Cycle Of Seasons
• 7. Yukihiro Fukutomi – 5 Blind Boys
• 8. Katsuya Hironaka – Pause
• 9. Riow Arai – 1969
• 10. Modern Living – Snow Bird
• 11. Missing Project – Poisson D'Avril (Galaxy Dub)
• 12. Drawing Future Life – 1969

As with Part One, released in 2020, 'Virtual Dreams II' shines a light on house and techno-adjacent music that helped redefine the definition of ambient music during the 1990s.

The focus of Part One heavily fell on music from techno and house producers in Europe, eagerly exploring new soundtracks for chill-out rooms and re-imagining the potential future of club culture from new perspectives. For Part Two, the lens focuses on a unique time and place, namely Japan between 1993-1999. Despite missing out on the 'Acid House Fever', club culture was beginning to take shape in Japan during the early '90s. In contrast to the rest of the world, where ambient techno / IDM emerged as a by-product or response to the scene, 'listening techno', as it is known in Japan, was a central pillar of the culture right from the start.