V/A Alley Of The Sun

Label / Not Not Fun Records
Category / Ambient, Fourth World, Utopian Virtual
Code / NNF400

Although many a vibe has shifted since the days of manually dubbing NNF001 on the floor of a Koreatown apartment in February of 2004, the label’s essential premise has not. Then as now the goal was to elevate and emblazon outsiders, foragers, hidden gems, and hybrid sounds on cheap tapes or affordable records, to be savored and shared in the here and now. 399 catalog titles later, the center still holds. To toast the label’s 20th anniversary and 400th release, a gold roll call of alumni and affiliates joined forces: Alley Of The Sun. Named in homage to the Malibu mystic music fountainhead (skewed through a smoggy sideways lens), the 16-song 90-minute double LP spans the breadth of NNF’s Pacific palette: rainforest ceremony, skyway motorik, Tascam rapture, silhouette shoegaze, basement vapor, astral ascension, jazz shadows, 5th world tropics, lucid dream drone, desert quests, prophecy electronics, ritual wreckage. Equal parts tapestry and time capsule, the compilation reflects the flux of NNF’s two-decade exploration and evolution, from simple soil to a sea of dunes. True undergrounds have no set sound or fixed polarity. Only flashes of transient magic and forking paths, to be cherished and championed for as long as the candle lasts.

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