Tomonori Tanaka’s otherworldly soundtrack for the 1999 cult classic video game gets the deluxe, hand-numbered treatment from Stumpy Frog Records, including an exclusive slipmat with every order.
For nearly two decades, Garage: Bad Dream Adventure was lost media. The kind of exotic rumored game whispered about on internet forums, accompanied by bitcrushed .jpg’s sort-of kind-of depicting something unworldly. A game that defies description. Any attempt would be written off as a fever dream. You play a creature, stuck on rails in a strange steel world of machinery, navigating bizarre social politics while sustaining itself on ‘Milky Fuel’ and… a whole lot of sewer fishing.
But now, the game has been made readily available. A unique vision by Tomomi Sakuba, evoking the likes of Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man and David Lynch’s Eraserhead, and yet an experience wholly its own. In no small part due to composer Tomonori Tanaka’s world-edifying soundscapes.
An alien world demands otherworldly music, infused with the melancholic, the childlike, the desolate, the industrial, the nostalgic; the sense that whatever this world ended up as is irrevocable and filled with echoes of the past. A soundtrack like that deserves a packaging to match.
In collaboration with Tomomi Sakuba, Stumpy Frog Records has utilized die-cuts, spot gloss, double-sided printing, custom designed merch, and hand-numbering to design a packaging that is complete, no matter which piece is extracted from the whole. A puzzle, full of surprises. No matter which turn on the tracks you take, you’re still in the world of Garage: Bad Dream Adventure.
⚪ 🟣 Two variants are available:
- Milky Fuel (ltd. to 200 copies)
- Purple Waste (ltd. to 300 copies) [Lost In Cult Exclusive]
📦 This release is in hand and ships immediately.
💵 $40 + $16 shipping worldwide