RES 2: LIFE OF A NPC PT.1
Composed as the internal monologue of a NPC glitching into consciousness, these pieces map the moment a background character realizes they were never meant to feel anything at all.
OFF-REALITY™ debuts with LIFE OF A NPC PT.1, a scorched-earth debut that drags ambient through rusted industrial corridors and leaves it to echo in algorithmic ruins. These are not “cinematic” moments in the Hans Zimmer sense—this is a long tracking shot of a dying city block rendered in 360p. No drums, no drop. Just dread, decay, and digital tension stretching across cracked concrete. Hailing from the underbelly of Sanya, Taito-ku (Tokyo’s most quietly decommissioned zone) OFF-REALITY™ transmits from a decaying signal tower no longer listed on the map.
What begins as rumble and hiss becomes bass pressure and bad static. You’ll sense it before you hear it—like a brute-force crawl through corrupted mainframe storage. Imagine if Brian Eno came from an incredibly dysfunctional family and was raised by malware. Or a doom-soaked synthesizer sludge monster grafted to the back of a giant mutant turtle, slowly dragging itself toward you one dreadful plodding step at a time.
This isn’t the soundtrack to the apocalypse. This is what plays after the cutscene, when the interface is gone and nothing loads. Not even you. Welcome to OFF-REALITY™.
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released December 18, 2025
Written, produced, mixed and mastered by OFF-REALITY™ at the Shindenbori Internet Cafe, Sanya, Taito-ku Tokyo.
Available digitally, streaming everywhere, and as a limited 12” ocean wave splatter vinyl (edition of 100).
