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Tides Reach (formerly ᴘₒʟʏɢʟᵒᴛ)

@polyglotwave.bsky.social

Tides Reach / ᴘₒʟʏɢʟᵒᴛ / Virtualsoft® Home Known for the Vaporwave Up and Comers Guide (2020-2023) and the album Partners (2019). The very little music I release now is chillsynth.

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Latest posts by polyglotwave.bsky.social on Bluesky

I wasn't involved with this but congrats anyway. 'Polyglot' could just be the name of the show.

15.07.2025 17:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It makes a good point for the human element in music. I like the anonymity of vaporwave but the more public facing artists may be the ones who suffer less from the propagation of AI trash on Spotify

03.07.2025 10:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Flea isn't in any of the images

20.06.2025 15:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I used to be able to eat anything without it affecting my weight but now I'm actively trying to lose weight. Since the spring I took up running and am on course to finish the couch to 5k. Music production has taken a back seat to my interest in fitness but maybe that's not entirely a bad thing.

08.06.2025 20:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Identical to 5+ years ago and hopefully on the way to being the best it's been. I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism three years ago and am now on lifelong medication for it but I haven't encountered any severe symptoms. I didn't escape covid but only had it for four days.

08.06.2025 20:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Preview
Spectrasonics - Distored Reality (Akai) without the noise and errors of the audiop2p version : Spectrasonics : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Spectrasonic - Realidade distorcida (Akai) Esta versão está isenta de ruídos e erros da versão audiop2p

I found some of the titles here. However it's in Akai format so it might not be easy to get usable wav files
archive.org/details/spec...

27.05.2025 20:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Malk

Malk

24.05.2025 09:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In terms of audio effects the slushwave trifecta is (or traditionally was) delay, reverb and phaser

17.05.2025 19:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's calfing season down at the farm

12.05.2025 19:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's when the red meat is travelling away from you

09.05.2025 12:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's a great short game. Glad I picked it up when I was looking for PS4 titles.

08.05.2025 10:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm guessing you mean Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons?

07.05.2025 18:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time

LiveJournal?

02.05.2025 18:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

another step closer - lincoln park

18.04.2025 18:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What is jazz? -ai seems to work too

18.04.2025 18:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That Game Company

15.04.2025 20:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In the case of sample-based vw yes, usually when I'm used to hearing the original sampled tracks

15.04.2025 20:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think I got a virus from a warez site download once in the 90s but nothing from KaZaa, Morpheus or Limewire.

There were a few 'decoy' mp3s which were the first few bars repeated for the normal length of the track. Nobody remembers these but I wonder if they were an inspiration for eccojams

15.04.2025 20:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Partridge I Dont Know GIF Alt: Partridge I Dont Know GIF
05.04.2025 11:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hold out your hand, Frodo

It's really quite sticky

04.04.2025 11:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I figured people aren't online as much or have as much free time to listen to music during the work week but in the end I just did it due to peer pressure

04.04.2025 11:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good old Miraicult. A real underground gem.

26.03.2025 17:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Kirk Van Houten "I sleep in a racing car. Do you?"

Kirk Van Houten "I sleep in a racing car. Do you?"

26.03.2025 17:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The 'formerly' part of my display name might be misleading

ᴘₒʟʏɢʟᵒᴛ is on hiatus and no longer my main project but it isn't finished for good. I see no reason not to keep the username polyglotwave for everything. I just want to have a clearer identity that isn't associated with my early vw music

25.03.2025 22:23 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If it's not reverb then the other effect must be slowing it down?

Seriously though, I'd say PaulStretch or a granular synth to create abstract ambient textures or glitchy quickly repeated percussive sections on the coarser settings.

25.03.2025 20:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Understand
YouTube video by Nmesh - Topic Understand

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7zE...

25.03.2025 19:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it is with a heavy heart that I unfortunately have many more releases planned

23.03.2025 21:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My debut single under the #chillsynth project Tides Reach is now up on Bandcamp!

tidesreach.bandcamp.com/album/the-wa...

21.03.2025 22:11 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

👁️

21.03.2025 14:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's good to know a bit of those extra things besides music production. For the larger projects you can commission pro artists who don't all charge a lot. I've used fiverr.com and artgrab.co (for existing artwork) as well as friends in the scene. Happy to recommend them if you need.

20.03.2025 13:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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