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Back to the Future

By: Johny Pitts

Birth of a New Day, 2814’s newly reissued vaporwave classic, takes place in a dreamed-up Japan where the bubble economy never burst and the good times never ended — it’s made by people who know full well they did.

Shinjuku Golden Gai in 1986, Tokyo, Japan (Photo by Sankei Archive via Getty Images)

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Birth of a New Day, by 2814 (the collaborative name for the vaporwave duo HKE and Telepath), sounds like my earliest memories. I’m a child in Tokyo, 1987, walking with my mum around Kenzo Tange’s Yoyogi National Gymnasium, where my dad is in stage rehearsals for the Namco-sponsored Japanese production of the musical Starlight Express. […]

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Birth of a New Day, by 2814 (the collaborative name for the vaporwave duo HKE and Telepath), sounds like my earliest memories. I’m a child in Tokyo, 1987, walking with my mum around Kenzo Tange’s Yoyogi National Gymnasium, where my dad is in stage rehearsals for the Namco-sponsored Japanese production of the musical Starlight Express. […]

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Birth of a New Day, by 2814 (the collaborative name for the vaporwave duo HKE and Telepath), sounds like my earliest memories. I’m a child in Tokyo, 1987, walking with my mum around Kenzo Tange’s Yoyogi National Gymnasium, where my dad is in stage rehearsals for the Namco-sponsored Japanese production of the musical Starlight Express. […]

Birth of a New Day, by 2814 (the collaborative name for the vaporwave duo HKE and Telepath), sounds like my earliest memories. I’m a child in Tokyo, 1987, walking with my mum around Kenzo Tange’s Yoyogi National Gymnasium, where my dad is in stage rehearsals for the Namco-sponsored Japanese production of the musical Starlight Express. […]

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