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Vol. 116: Upper Stories

VM Club "Mixtape": April 2025

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Special Features
  • Triple Gatefold jacket
  • Artwork Poster
  • Sky Blue Vinyl (Standard)
  • Stormy Sky Marbled Vinyl (VIP)
  • Original AR digital experience: VIEW HERE
  • Lyrics & art booklet 
  • Intro letter from Brandon 
Tracklist

A1 Thomas Flynn - They Love You
A2 Magana - Half to Death
A3 Made of Shape - Call it (night)
A4 Olivia Reid - Quite Simple
A5 Austin Stahl - Rabbit
A6 Johnny & the Dinosaurs - Concrete Cowgirl

B1 Jaheim Mendoza - Blondie
B2 semiwestern - abasement tapes
B3 Jermango Dreaming - Carefree Solution
B4 Rubber Band Gun - King of the Night
B5 Sam Hudgens - Counting Sheep
B6 Matt Embree - Miscellium

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Visual Artist for Vol. 116: Upper Stories

Mariyan Atanasov

Sofia, Bulgaria

In the work of Mariyan Atanasov, massive urban skyscrapers are deconstructed and reduced to their component parts, rendered as individual units floating in space, then flipped, bisected, and decontextualized against a flat background, highlighting the atomized nature of modern urban living and contemporary life as a whole.

These works offer a vision of reality busting apart at the seams, but the hidden corners revealed are curiously blank, empty flat surfaces that stubbornly refuse to hide or reveal. Nevertheless, these cubical housing units are friendly structures, highlighting the progressive streak in the architecture of Atanasov’s native Bulgaria. Atanasov works as a product designer and photographer in the capital city of Sofia, and his experiences as an urban professional surely inform his keen view of that contemporary landscape. Elsewhere in his body of work, his photography portrays curiously empty urban spaces, including a series of empty New York City basketball courts, which convey a peculiar sense of desolation in the vein of surrealist painter Giorgio De Chirico.