Compiled by "proto-vape VHS" electro-jazz collectors Mario Martinez and Scott Trausch, better known as YouTube archivists Paradise Is A Frequency, 'The Style of Life' zeroes in on the 1980s most maligned genre, the kind of smoove, cheaply-dubbed jazz that ended up being played in cheap hotel lobbies and wine bars, or used as hold muzak on hotlines. You know there's something fishy when there's an extensive gear list provided but little or nothing about the artists themselves, but trust us when we say the individual composers aren't really important. This music's about the mood that's created, the stifled 'Tim & Eric'-fueled nostalgia for an era that even those of us old enough to remember it have only partially maintained. Featuring tracks from artists like Luigi Piergiovanni, Greg Haage, Bruce Shermon and MENSAH, it's an album to stick on in the background and marvel at its influence on Dan Lopatin and the legion of vaporwave hopefuls that followed him into the abandoned mall.