# smooth jazz fusion weather channel nightmares such beautifully awful stale audio horse-biscuits they even twist already warped local hyper-mediated realty in which researchers for whatever reason remotely imagine themselves living in a gated beach condo with a balcony overlooking the misty morning ocean wearing a flowing robe one quiet saturday morning sipping a tasty cappuccino after a power shower one takes the ferry across the puget sound into downtown seattle with such middling tunes blasting in ir headphones oh such a feeling - the glossy high rises and twinkling lights rising above the wharf in chilly sea breeze; so much hope and excitement for one's next super-fresh and exciting life chapter whenever in the proximity of such tracks fellow researcher henry swanson usually starts guffawing with bombastic excess like comic book character jonah jameson as played by actor jk simmons - that is before suddenly realising these mothers are totally serious grammy nominated contemporary jazz with laid back tropical cuts - also commonly referred to in-scene as saccharine aural lobotomies raw antiseptic anodyne whitebread gruel - like though marinating in supermarket-aisle niceness; generic no-brand anaesthetic aesthetics **+** spyro gyra - morning dance **+** dave koz - love is on the way **+** headhunters - pp head **+** yellowjackets - mile high & ballad of the whale **+** fattburger - 59th street & work to do **+** david sanborn - hideaway **+** chuck mangione - maui waui **+** herb alpert - angelina **+** shakatak - late night flight **+** gato barbieri - europa **+** bob james - angela theme from taxi **+** brecker brothers - common grounds **+** dave weckl - in the pocket **+** stanley jordan - the lady in my life **+** kim waters - love like this **+** joyce cooling - mildred's attraction **+** four80east - viaduct **+** peaces of a dream - ocean view **+** jeanne ricks - simple pleasure **+** najee - sidewayz & nsajee's theme **+** george howard - september rain **+** russ freeman - easter island **+** the wave - journey **+** frank gambale - song for family **+** carlos reyes - the beauty of it all **+** emil palame - ocean breeze **+** choice - looking up **+** max groove - center of gravity **+** vital information - sunday afternoon **+** reel to real - samurai **+** richard smith - the station **+** tom grant - angel's crossing **+** max groove - airborne **+** jeff lorber - pacific coast highway **+** richard elliot - twilight delight **+** kenny g - japan **+** eric bikales - seascape **+** david benoit - sunset island **+** george howard - it can't be forever **+** hiram bullock - window shoppin **+** ostinato - on a cold summer day **+** ostinato - at the old mill **+** the keiser twins - magic feelings **+** emily remler - around the bend **+** michael harrison - 3rd avenue **+** ben tankard - sunday drive **+** barry coates & the hats - time & change **+** budi siebert - dance of blessed spirits **+** ray obiedo - boomerang **+** christopher boscole the journey **+** the rippingtons - aspen / tourist in paradise / katrina's dance / dreams / curves ahead / weekend in monaco / angelena researcher henry swanson: yo what - 'spyro gyra' even ir name exudes audio heck and 'the rippingtons' wow - so freakishly 'lite' and derivative one is instantly transported to another realty; an undead vaporwave tv series called 'the weather channel' (specifically a late night lofi segment on channel zero called 'local on the 9s') induces bouts of extreme hauntological baseless plastic nostalgia in paranoid insomniac viewers desperately nostalgic for an alternative scientific 80s that can never exist - nor should not that this ever stopped 'the 80s' that is a return to good ultra new strange daze naturally in the process of trying to open extra dimensional teleportals to the near-future predictably sinister heavy analogue signals leak out the colour of opaque melting biocosmic bubblegum neon pink turns out there's predictably darkstrange entities behind it all the pseudo mystery one such entity calls itself 'leonard jerico rubric' - a mischievous hip furry cat with a freakish grin who loves to play sjf 'smooth jazz fusion' in doing do annoy the living whizz out of anyone in earshot with ir tasteless taste in muzak indeed to consider the mere notion that 'smooth jazz' and 'sweet bossa nova melodies' create a classy musical space to enjoy during work study or relaxation time that (say) while one is busy certain online playlists will become one's trusted neural companion helping concentration improving performance while its melodies bring peace and comfort thereby helping reduce stress and creating the best conditions for life and learning in interesting and creative ways when one needs alone time to relax and recharge these playlists will also be the perfect choice as being immersed in such delicate sounds one can relax beat stress and create a healing creative space in daily scientific existence dr. orloff: they sound like songs played at a graduation for nerds - that overall 'sad and happy at the same time' feel like 'the passing of one accomplishment and on to the next challenge with a positive outlook' tripe researcher henry swanson: ha exactly what a schmaltzy autumn pumpkin-themed hipster coffee shop tote bag of leaking audio shit // republic of bob