Sun Shining Optimism

Sun Shining Optimism
Information
Artist	™CENTURY
Additional Credits	Cardian松の木 (Cassette Design)
Release Type	Album
Label	Dream Catalogue (Removed) Ailanthus Recordings Shatterfoil Industries
Catalog Number	DREAM_66 (Dream Catalogue) AR139 (Ailanthus Recordings) SHFCS-41 (Shatterfoil Industries)
Formats	Bandcamp Album
Release Date	October 14, 2014 (Dream Catalogue) May 19, 2016 (Ailanthus Recordings) June 10, 2022 (Shatterfoil Industries)
Tracks	16
Length	43:41
Tags	punk; affirmation; cruise; dance; duck and dail; experimental; internet; jam; psychonautics; self actiualization; vaporwave (™CENTURY) duck and dail; pennsylvania; psychonautics; punk; affirmation; cruise; dance; dream music; drone; electronic; internet; jam; noise; self actualization; vaporwave (NYKDLN) affirmation; cruise; dance; drone; duck and dail; electronic; internet; jam; psychonautics; self actualization; dream; dream music; dreampunk; experimental; experimental electronic (Dream Catalogue) dance; jam; punk; vaporwave; drone; duck and dail; eccojam; eccojams; internet; psychedelic; psychonautics; self-actualization (Ailanthus Recordings) electronic; ambient; classic vapor; drone; eccojams; experimental; plunderphonics; vapor; vaporwave; wisconsin (Shatterfoil Industries)
Status	Online
™CENTURY
Previous Release	PENNS WOODS PT. II
Next Release	Aiyasanalatt & everything going on

Sun Shining Optimism is an album by ™CENTURY, published through Dream Catalogue. The album was removed from the label following a purge of mostly sample-based content. The album was re-uploaded in 2016 through Ailanthus Recordings.

In 2022, the album was published on cassette through Shatterfoil Industries.

Tracklist

#	Tape	Track	Length
1	A1	Role Confusion	0:35
2	A2	Forest Therapy	2:34
3	A3	Checking Instagram	2:53
4	A4	New Power	0:59
5	A5	Morning Routine	2:41
6	A6	Squigs	1:16
7	A7	High Function	4:35
8	A8	Behind the Wheel	1:26
9	A9	Periphery	2:02
10	A10	Tradition儀式 Tradition Ceremony	2:10
11	B1	NEW ENLIGHTENMENT	8:26
12	B2	Neon Nights	2:44
13	B3	Microcosms	1:46
14	B4	Breathe	4:22
15	B5	Herbashine	2:24
16	B6	Identity Achievement	2:42

Description

NYKDLN

```~ on "The Synchronization of a Splitting Self-Concept"

Sun Shining Optimism is an actualizing phase in the diary psychonautics project NYKDLN, the persona from which ™CENTURY was created. It should be noted that this is the first time that NYKDLN and ™CENTURY are identified as a cohesive project. ™CENTURY was created as a separate personality from that which is presented through NYKDLN. This 'splitting' of 'self-concept' was first presented in November of 2012 as a means to recapture the innocence and lack of predisposition apparent in the first two NYKDLN full lengths "In My Childhood" and "Scrone Cruise". When listened with a keen ear, one can recognize a similar sample palette present in the aforementioned NYKDLN documents and the first two ™CENTURY documents "Dancing With The Stars" and "Herbashine". These documents occurred during a notable period in the NYKDLN story, when listeners began to hear an overwhelming sense of confusion, self-consciousness and existential crisis. This was certainly the case, as one can feel the apprehension and anxiety present in such releases as "HOT WHEELS RACE TRACK", "NEW MEDITATIONS", "Fox" and "SYNCHRONICITY".

Following these documents, last fall's "PENNS WOODS PT. II" by ™CENTURY and this spring's "Free Gucci Man Cruise 740" by NYKDLN, demonstrate the shift from self-consciousness to self-awareness. "PENNS WOODS" shows the creator slowing down the pace, breathing, relaxing and contemplating, whereas "Cruise 740" archives the final breaths of identity diffusion and the seeds of self-actualization are planted. With this, we step into the realm of dreams with Sun Shining Optimism.

Shatterfoil Industries

Currently having seen its more recent digital re-release on Ailanthus Recordings, Sun Shining Optimism is a part of a much older, much more tightly knit era of vaporwave production. As more people entered the scene and became artists themselves over the years, albums ended up standing out that had the most cohesive mission statements, wanting to express something straight from the artist that could most feasibly be done through sampling.

NYKDLN's albums have always been built to push boundaries within vapor since the beginning, taking inspiration from the earliest sources that were available and using more experimental, rough chopping techniques. Part eccojams, part classic vapor, and part something inextricable from the artist itself, it ends up tough to describe the album in a way that listeners can anticipate without previous experience with the artist.

The listening experience offered by SSO is unique, something that shines light on some of the earliest experimentation within the more clean-cut styles of vaporwave. If the idea of this intrigues you, a listen is more than well to serve your curiosity.

NYKDLN's crowning work that sits alongside many a genre-defining, prose dense selection of albums from Ailanthus Recordings. Both label and album stand indicative of a formative time within vaporwave that showed the staying power of the genre, along with groundbreaking ideas from some of the heaviest hitters we know today.

Gallery

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  Edited cover artwork used in Ailanthus Recordings upload.

External Links

• Bandcamp Album (™CENTURY) (Redirect)
• Bandcamp Album (NYKDLN)
• Bandcamp Album (Dream Catalogue) (Removed)
• Bandcamp Album (Ailanthus Recordings)
• Bandcamp Album (Shatterfoil Industries)
• Discogs Page
• Rate Your Music Page
• Last.fm Page