Astrophysics & Hatsune Miku - The First Sound of The Future Past (FULL ALBUM)

Just a fun little tribute combining retrofuturistic synths, computer generated music and our beloved blue haired idol. Thanks to Ms. Hatsune Miku, even though our relationship was harsh we were able to work togheter! May we work again someday soon.
art by @psicochurroz
00:00 - Take On Me
03:39 - Bizarre Love Triangle
09:04 - Head Over Heels
13:20 - Enjoy The Silence
17:35 - A Real Hero
22:01 - Nightcall
26:40 - Instant Crush
32:08 - Save Your Tears
35:42 - The Model
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[@Astrophysicsynth]

You can download it for free or pay anything you want astrophysicsbrazil.bandcamp.com/album/the-first-sound-of-the-future-past

[@CptSquirrel]

[@-Pat]

[@Twoneight]

@@slavchevsky2573 It's likely blocked because of the war. You could try using a proxy or VPN (ProtonVPN is the only free VPN that is somewhat trustable). Edit: Buying is probably not possible since most payments from Russia have been sanctioned/blocked.

[@crazybeatrice4555]

Best $25 purchase of my life

[@TallowTheQuoll]

Imma just download it free for today so can jam to it in the car, I'll just rebuy for a few dollarydoos payday 💙

[@litcherally255]

this made me think about like one guy living in space after earth is destroyed and he has a computer but due to a lack of internet access he cant do much of anything, especially listen to music, which is one of the things he really enjoyed but he has access to various music production programs, including vocaloid and after learning them, he eventually rebuilds all of the music he can remember, but with miku as the lead singer for all of them i don't really dwell on these ideas but i thought id comment it in case anyone else likes it

[@madscientrix]

I love it 💕

[@mamode242]

so bizzare, i love it

[@ross9120]

damn that's sick

[@Ammuniti0n]

wow i love that... makes the album more tragic

[@ozboz5624]

hits different when you think of it like that

[@dantesdiscoinfernolol]

Love the album name. "Hatsune Miku" is supposed to mean something kinda like "future sound", but these are all retro-ish songs, so "future past". Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but it's clever and I like it.

[@kenpe8295]

Close. "Hatsune" translates instead to "First Sound". To me, "Future Past" feels like how early electronic noise and synthesiser sound was, in the words of Giorgio Moroder, "the sound of the future". Put them together, and get the "First Sound" of the "Future Past"!

[@JB52520]

@@kenpe8295 I read that her first name comes from a nanori reading of 未来, or distant future. That makes Hatsune Miku's version of the past a "FirstSound Future" past. (I'm pretty sure her first name comes second in this case, so you're right about Hatsune meaning "first sound".)

[@griffinhunter3206]

this is a very linguistic joke but its future perfect lol

[@horuho245]

i understood "future past" as "thisll be nostalgic in the future, a past youll look back to in the future" but thats just my biased way of looking at it i wanted to share

[@normanclatcher]

"But your kids are gonna love it."

[@poppipo1222]

This album will be huge in 5 years. Mark my words

[@Silencer1337]

I hope you don't mind me forehandedly immortalizing myself under your comment.

[@TomaszRyszkowski]

@@Silencer1337 i hope he doesn't mind me immortalizing too ;D

[@Syvern.]

@@Silencer1337 I wanna be immortalized too

[@FastfoodTruck]

Always has been

[@TallowTheQuoll]

I have a feeling Sony media and Viacom will probably have something to say about that copyright wise, but we can wish at least

[@demonindenim]

this was incredible. thank you for supplying us with all this miku content, another miku album or any other vocaloid would definitely be great to see in the future

[@beefmach1ne]

i'd love to see what he could do with meiko ngl

[@lolpl0000]

would you go as far as calling it... the future past? ba dum tss

[@Zissou42]

Luka's v3 english library is quite good, love to see what they could do!

[@daemondear]

My personal favorite is Gumi

[@Zamurkai]

Back here after more Miku confirmed. Feels good man.

[@davidtollefson8411]

“I feel the past and future collide”, that applies pretty strongly here. I may spend a snow day listening to Astrophysics.

[@Zades145]

So glad Miku still finds time to collab with underground artists. Great job both of you.

[@SuzukiBob]

You're so underrated. I know you've had a few (very good) vids blow up, but your stuff is honestly so good for anyone who appreciates that sort of synthwave music. The fact that the art matches the music so well is the cherry on top; the vibes are unreal.

[@warmag2]

Following this album and its individual songs be born has been an amazing experience for me. After I discovered the first one and looped it for a couple of days, they have been popping in my youtube feed, sometimes merely minutes after they were published, because this devil of a company seems to really know what I want. Every time, I've been enamored by the latest one and discussed it fondly with other old farts with similar tastes. This kind of classic electronic music holds deep inherent nostalgia, and the artificial singing voice of a vocaloid evokes a vivid vision of surreal retro-futurism, describing the future I hoped to see when I was a child, but which was never realized. Even though every small part of the album is magnificent, it still manages to be more than its parts. I haven't felt this about music in a long time.

[@E.h.a.n]

Small question though, what did people in the 80s expect the future to look like? Like, what was the synthwave supposed to represent? Did you expect neon everywhere (I mean, neon signs are everywhere), or like flying cars (and their plethora of infrastructure problems lol)? I mean, I don't really consider synthwave or future-core to be really that futuristic, technically they were synthesized using current technology. But I think I get what you're getting at. However, there is good news as well. With the advances in technology (VR, AR & AI), the 80s future might somewhat become true (pretty sure the neon sun thing is in VR Chat lol). Anyways, What I'm trying to get at is. Did the present live up to your expectations of the future? And what do you think about the present? And what are your thoughts on the future now? [P.S sorry for the long comment]

[@warmag2]

@@E.h.a.n I appreciate that you took your time to reply, especially after seeing that this comment was more than a year old. To honour that, I will answer in the best and most honest way I possible can. I am not yet old, in the true sense of the word, but certainly older than you are, and most likely significantly older than Astrophysics is. I listened to the songs he covers when they were new, and in addition to that, I listened to what is now called scene music - tunes were created on the C64, Amiga and early Intel PCs. Synthwave is simply what I heard and listened to when I watched demos, movies, specific TV shows, or simply played the games of that time. To me, it is characterized by its spirit - a limited amount of memory space for melody data and samples, that those computers constrained as a feature of their very nature, and the conventions concurrent synthesizers and composers adapted to circumvent said restrictions. It simply is the sound of those years in the truest sense of the word - what the composers of the time could CONCEIVE to be possible to express using the hardware, software and cultural limitations of the time, and by the artistic precedents available, all of which would later evolve. None of us believed in flying cars or anything of the sort, but we kind of expected much of the corporate culture that is now seen in films like Alien and The Network and the Cyberpunk roleplaying game to be a realistic threat. Each of those was written by visionaries of the time who saw beyond what was truly apparent - corporations ruling the world, personal insignificance in the face of underlying anarchy in very constricting societies and a lack of control except for that which could be wrested by oneself from the outlying sphere of influence by self-determination, violence and corruption. However bleak, fake and edgy that sounds, it was a slippery, yet shallow slope, which most still recognized as a very real threat. Despite knowing this, I can attest that at least I didn't expect the very worst aspects of corporate culture to become the most dominant. Thirty years ago, no-one I had happened to read, meet or hear about, saw the power of algorithm technology and mathematics as the oppressive tools they ended up being. Nothing prepared us for the future which abuses human volition and attention span in the worst possible way - the all-encompassing monopoly over human interests that something like Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram thrive on. In 1984, Winston places hairs and dust over the hinges of his closets to check for outside interference, but the actual control the aforementioned media hold over the public sphere is beyond anything we thought possible in our most pessimistic, lackadaisical visions of the future. I can assure that absolutely no-one who lived through the rise of the Internet could both conjure up a superhuman AI which had the power and reach those companies now possess over people, and truly believe in it coming to pass. Of my generation, even fewer can comfortably label themselves as progressives concerning these technologies and hope for the best - as all of us have lived through the expanding spheres of societal interaction - first through BBS's, then through internet boards and finally through global instant unfiltered communication - seeing how disastrous the effects it has on the human psyche. Regardless, synthwave, to me, is a representation of the future - the dystopian, yet somehow familiar and mellow cyberpunk worlds, which never came to be, but which still managed to be less dystopian than the ones that actually came to be. There are no words to express my immense regret over how much more I would prefer to live in the Ghost in the Shell universe or the Bubblegum Crisis universe or the World of Noon universe or the RSU universe, than the one I ended up living in. I know that I will leave this world thoroughly unfulfilled, but hopefully your generation can reverse the trend. (edit): I was pretty drunk when I wrote this. Just came back to fix a lot of typos and make it more readable. Sorry about that.

[@tdottosama]

I've really enjoyed every song on the album Astro! As a young person whose parents would normally listen to 80's songs just like this with me, and as someone who has my own personal connection to Drive, Daft Punk, and Vocaloid, I can't understate how much of a nostalgia trip this was for me! I thank you sincerely for this.

[@Memegon_]

Cant wait to see whats in store for past future audio O_O

[@heavenlypathos534]

Yeah, you're really the best at what you do. There's literally no debate, no doubts, you're simply the greatest of all time. Take some time off for yourself and just revel in the glory of all that you create. You deserve it

[@peppermoka1597]

That transition from Save Your Tears to The Model was just *chefs kiss* DELICIOUS...

[@gnoot50]

totally agreed!!! 👍

[@acceltokyo-9856]

Your music is awesome! From Japan with love

[@illaygo]

i have no words. Absolutely stunning sound design and Hatsune Miku voicelines. As a producer for over 7 years, i see how much effort you put into this, and trust me, you have my respect forever. Thanks for making such a masterpiece.

[@Zullfix]

I've been excited for this since the MV release of Miku's Real Hero. Great stuff Astro!

[@robotrockman3423]

Kind of a stupid question (at least in my opinion), but will you be uploading the Miku album to Spotify? I believe at some point you mentioned that you only upload specific things to it (like specific tributes to someone/something, and original music pieces) so I got curious about how the Miku album would play out. Keep up the great work with everything you're doing! Love it all

[@PyocolaAnalogue]

God please put this on spotify.

[@kdreibel]

Yes please put it on Spotify or Amazon music or whatever!

[@crazybeatrice4555]

Don't think they can because of copyright

[@hokii160]

Yeah I really hope it gets into Spotify, I've enjoyed synths because of these songs

[@Pilocene_]

@@crazybeatrice4555 I'm genuinely not certain? I've seen vocaloid covers on Spotify fairly frequently, many by verified artists. Who knows LOL

[@treef00t_]

this the kind of stuff you play for your grandkids to show them what music looked like "back in my day" and end up crying whenever the memories come flooding back.

[@Andrey_Sinyavin]

Спасибо за этот альбом. На данный момент, один из моих любимых среди электронной музыки вообще. Прекрасная работа.

[@slavchevsky2573]

Смог купить на Bandcamp ?

[@Andrey_Sinyavin]

@@slavchevsky2573 с Ютуба слушаю в основном. Я в Крыму живу, у нас карты западные не оформляются, а местные не работают.

[@ru9thas]

@@slavchevsky2573 я вот не смог(

[@user-vv9yj3vu2e]

На бандкамп бесплатно можно скачать, у меня получилось

[@airos1051]

А ты уверен что он владеет Русским языком ?

[@shaycipher1260]

this is amazing, I love it so much!! If you ever do another miku album, a cover of You Spin Me Right Round would make me absolutely die of happiness. Keep up the good work :)))

[@BMXrecords]

I second this motion. SynthV Rikka would probably be a good fit for it, but miku would be fine too.

[@zireael9797]

I was staring at Bandcamp waiting for this to drop. Instant buy.

[@Zissou42]

I've been listening to these tracks, especially Bizarre Love Triangle & Instant Crush (way better than the original!), nonstop for the past few months. This is some of the best english Miku out there! Having a lossless FLAC release is fantastic, easily worth the price of a physical CD.

[@DarioVolaric]

I just realized, this album makes heavy use of the effects from the Yamaha DX7, where Miku's V2 and V3 outfit is based on!!!

[@sleamactire4031]

DUDE! Pure chance is how I found this fantastic album. Started with the Instant Crush video, could not be happier. I wish you well in your future endeavours Astrophysics

[@madscientrix]

Exact same

[@Narixia_]

I *LOVE* your version of The Model! Having Miku also sing it from the perspective of the model is a really nice touch! Wonderful as always, Astro

[@di.nameless]

Твой канал это лучшее, что со мной случалось за последнее время Спасибо

[@morutama]

Полностью соглашаюсь

[@CheesePizzaOSU]

me russia ????

[@rudythoraxx]

Полностью соглашаюсь (2)

[@bikor6270]

Пожалуй,оставлю свой маленький комментарий на этом русском островке) Помните те маленькие анимации с вокалоидами и утолоидами двенадцатилетней давности? Они были полны чего-то глупого и прямолинейного,мотивирующего.Девочки буквально «летели» в своё будущее,в котором они никогда не состарятся.Вокалоиды всё ещё свежо воспринимаются,но всё это было так давно,что я сама по-настоящему начала узнавать поющих ребятишек только недавно.Это всё вызывает довольно странные ощущения.Я как будто смотрю в прошлое,уносясь при этом на чем-то определенно прогрессивном и стремительном.Вот оно было совсем близко,а теперь тебе остаётся лишь наблюдать,как оно превращается в крохотную точку.Смотреть снова вперёд в это время совершенно не хочется,даже если и эта точка исчезла. Я не лучший период переживаю,даже ностальгия берет как-то слишком болезненно.Пишу это сейчас с трудом,ибо голова налита свинцом почти постоянно. Весь этот вечер я несколько часов подряд просто смотрела записи живых выступлений вокалоидов,немолодых анимаций и мемов.Как будто этого вечера и не было по-настоящему.Как сон. Я на самом деле не до конца понимала,почему Мику всё ещё популярней остальных.Но на самом деле однозначного ответа и нет.Её голос заставляет думать,что есть ещё много неочевидных,но удивительных вещей.Японцы удивительней всего мира,что уж. Моя метафора с прогрессивной машиной была не совсем полной: Пока ты смотришь назад,механизм начинает разваливаться,начиная с носа.И обернуться необходимо,но ты не хочешь видеть эту катастрофу,и справляться с ней тоже. Смотреть назад уже нет смысла,ничего не видно давным-давно,но ты смотришь. Бля,так вот что я чувствую Я в жопе пацаны Надеюсь,у вас будет возможность превозмочь и обратить внимание на приближающиеся взрывы.

[@BlyatBear]

It took two videos of yours to convince me to sub. Congratulations. You've earned it.

[@joethundernuts9093]

even remastered a few of the songs, fucking awesome dude. wish more people would experiment with the synthwave + vocaloid stuff

[@BestGuyEver]

Love it, classic shit mang.

[@bigbrainus401]

Это просто великолепно. Прослушивая, можно неожиданно уйти в пустоту, где только ты и этот альбом.

[@pikalink4914]

Im addicted to this channel, i've been looping the miku playlist and im more than ecstatic to see an album. Its so fun! Thanks for taking the time to make these. I also enjoy your other work, just for the record ;).

[@janrol9283]

You're a master. I've just discovered your channel and I'm so surprised artist such as you can exist! Thank you for all your work!!

[@dedinsaid7001]

He draws the art himself?

[@dj_keelvin_os]

No, he gave credits to the artist in the description section. Still a great musician, that requests art that fits well to his remixes

[@joel-zx6iy]

most of it yeah

[@The_Letter_W]

this needs to be an essential Miku album, you've done so well with her English voicebank here!! And Synthwave is an EXCELLENT choice of a genre to boot.

[@aguaschan]

I'm so grateful for finding your channel, thank you Astro for sharing your amazing work, really makes me company when studying or preparing for work, or just to chill :)

[@prince-kun]

The tuning and retro song selection for this whole album is excellent. Really hope you make more!

[@whatifgaming1661]

I'm melting Miku is so adorable with that little paper crown.

[@ALGOChannel]

This is such a refreshing way of listening to some classic songs. I already can't wait for the next one.

[@TararaTera]

If this thing doesn't randomly get picked up by the algorithm in some years, I'd be absolutely shocked. Amazing work like always Astro, really only bangers coming from you

[@nisenobody8273]

The only bad thing about this album is that it ends

[@razz444]

almost 2 years and still bopping my head to it

[@garadak7.]

loving the story with all the miku pics from each of your vids please do are friends electric you know you want to

[@zinkya3110]

Really awesome vibes on that album, all great stuff thanks astro

[@dvdantunes]

nice detail to compile your album in 39 min, as an alternative to miku's name ❤️, also a way in japanese of saying "thank you" ☺️

[@toxiic1568]

i dont understand

[@maribelhalcyon]

@@toxiic1568 in Japanese, 3 is pronounced as "mi" and 9 as "ku". But at the same time, 3 can be pronounced as "san" and 9 as "kyu". Sankyu sounds like "thank you".

[@noaglesa]

thank you, this album is everything I needed right now 💕 vocaloid was my first comfort music at 14 and now at 24 again thanks to you!

[@matt4193]

A friend linked me to the bandcamp, and just now youtub pops this album in my feed. Great times! I really like your music

[@OliviaMeower]

this is so so so amazing!!!! thank you so much for making such a wonderful cover album, you did amazing!! The tuning and the mixing is spot on and gives it your own special touch, i love it ❤

[@Megamon0001]

This album is a certified hood classic

[@lolmenx4]

I ve been so obsessed with this album since it came out...and its just so good, thank you

[@user-jh5dq9vc1v]

Miku will live forever. Hundreds years from now, still young, still singing, still remember you

[@romant1127]

Miku has *aesthetically* descended upon mere mortals to bless this miserable world once more

[@glutenfreebees]

I hadn't heard any astrophysics songs until spotify randomly played bizarre love triangle from this album and now I've been obsessed with all these songs for the past like month

[@Roach-DoggJR]

20:23 "seenkeeng sheep" sounds pretty damn adorable

[@Lo-bp3zn]

Got damn I wasn't prepared for this so soon

[@juder.3986]

Man, I really loved this album. Every single cover featuring Miku you made was an instant like and favourite. Keep up the retro vibes!

[@Just_Miku]

Спасибо за этот прекрасный альбом, твоя музыка восхитительна!

[@morutama]

Поднимаем на ноги русский фан клуб Астрофизикса

[@Just_Miku]

@@morutama да!

[@mobshu0681]

This is exactly what internet creators expected to be done here, love you pal

[@yarayaredaze2927]

Just bought the Album. Always glad to support something I love. Keep up the great work, your music is something I'm always looking forward to/

[@uryanflores4378]

I don't speak English well but... I still want to say how much I love this type of music and how well you use it, many of my favorite songs now made better than ever

[@brano4365]

Listening to this masterpiece on repeat the whole morning. Absolutely love your music not only the Miku covers. My most favourite song is Nothingness in empty space. Just wanted to share my love for your music here. :)

[@YoshiroWendy]

Sheeesh, I was able to listen to the whole playlist without skipping. This is such a gem.

[@degetei5287]

This album breathes new life into these songs. Bizarre Love Triangle, Enjoy the Silence, Nightcall and Save your Tears really got me.

[@sandwichsupernova]

This has been my jam all week. Thank you for making these amazing mixes and keep up the awesome work!!

[@Emiwryy]

Head over heels (e o álbum todo, na verdade) foi tão épico que até me marejou os olhos. Obrigada por isso, eu não sabia que precisava disso até ouvir.

[@oakkomlatte5004]

Loved all your miku stuff and really love this, hope you continue to incorporate vocaloid into your music, great stuff as always.

[@Michya_]

Absolutely in love with instant crush. Thank you so much for your work

[@deathworld5253]

Beatiful work! I enjoyed both the rearrangement on music and Miku's voiceline delivery - they just fit so good together!

[@certified_trashcan]

this video drove the most traffic to my miku album, i am forever grateful

[@bible6]

this is my favorite thing for awhile

[@ShineyCrow]

Thank you so much for all these covers, definitely buying the album.

[@user-sj8ht3xr8m]

this album has been my trust companion through several exams by now

[@meekaboo_]

Absolutely living off of this rendition of bizarre love triangle. This is unreal, thank you for your tunes!

[@toyszz5250]

i found this project some days ago and im in love! i hope great things for ya man, your talent is so apparent :)

[@tomrio9152]

I've been following you since you started Madoka covers and I'm really impressed at how you've progressed. Those covers are all amazing and your use of English Hatsune Miku is very good! Please consider uploading it to spotify, I'd like to listen to Miku's Instant Crush when I leave work

[@M138.]

its nice to know people still like miku^^

[@yokothespacewhale]

So I said thank you for the kraftwerk one but this… it’s basically all my club favorites but Astro versions

[@randomname8037]

you are the goat man, the king even honestly this is so good

[@Sirenensang]

This is the only artist of this entire genre of music that i like enough to follow on KZbin. Consistently amazing stuff that i would not know how to critique - it's not like i know my shit with electronic music. But it completes me.

[@Ovvkoz]

that Head over Heels cover is magical

[@demonade39]

honestly, i want to appreciate not only the work on miku's voice but the covers as well. some of them feel to me better than the originals (i'm not familiar with the most of the original songs in the album but i listened to them for comparison). really love your style

[@EXXTREMEGAMER5600]

I love this omgggg! Also it’s 39 minutes, nice reference….

[@PartyGod]

I love these so much! Glad we got the compilation, didn’t know there were so many

[@spherizir]

The transition to the last song was so smooth holy hecc

[@DakkaSap]

Your joke was an entire miku album????? Freakin legend

[@yagvar]

dude, I almos cry and idk why... this is so cathartic

[@crostinamakina]

it's been months and i still can't get over this album thank you.. really ..

[@TallowTheQuoll]

This straight up slaps

[@incidentdecorate8090]

I loved this trip we took with you. Hope this kind of content will come back soon, Keep it up dude!

[@cangrexX]

simply amazing... miku's voice is so soothing plus your edition is nuts.. enjoy the silence and instant crush are godlike

[@sakamakia852]

She’s growing now sob* sob* im so proud my girl

[@danieldietz8292]

Great work as usual Astro. Keep it up!

[@kaecie_]

this was a great album, and i hope it gets uploaded to spotify at some point. I think you did great with all of these songs and would love to see more like it someday.

[@marywiza]

Amazing, truly incredible. I'm left with my mouth open XD. Amazing and Awesome job, I admired along all the miku's releases, initially it wasn't even planned to be an album XD. Now look where we reached lol. I just have to thank you for this amazing songs man. You should have the entire music community respect. As you earned mine. Cheers

[@marquinhos2000]

É uma honra poder dizer que toda essa obra de arte veio de uma mente brasileira.

[@cady3987]

this album is genuinely beautiful. thank you for making all these covers. a lot of these songs are ones that have a lot of emotional meaning to me and to have them so beautifully sung by miku makes them even more special. her voice is so well suited for this music and the tuning is incredible. excellent work, i will be listening to these on repeat for years to come

[@K74amina]

oh my God this is A M A Z I N G

[@PierryChan]

Everything you do is ORGASMIC. Thank you.

[@majinkz]

congrats on the release! will be listening 😌

[@connorperedo9060]

You are my hero for making this album

[@alyti]

ive been listening to this nonstop since it came out last week, tysm for everything