Recent Music Heroes

10/16/2014

[Teaser of the day] Professor Ojo - Icecream Peaks

Lastfm

Glitch-hop
Alternative dance
Leftfield
Breaks
Sampledelic
Cinematic

10/15/2014

Shamane – Hypercamp (2013)

Ailanthus

Swan City Sounds

/Ambient techno, Vaporwave, Seapunk, Industrial techno, Experimental techno/

Comment: Shamane`s 10-track issue provides a dense mix of experimental and industrial-tinged techno rhyhms harking back to the legacy of Autechre and Throbbing Gristle and on the other side providing more contemporary oneiric progressions in the style of vaporwave and seapunk, though, at a more buried level. In true, at times these synth layers used to evolve into remarkably gloomy atmospheric outputs or using a less emotional language. Although the album is rhythm-based it is not a sort of dance music by its nature at all – it is insistently experimental and explorative and emphatically bit oriented and on the other side it used to talk to us a little tongue-in-cheek (for instance, involving some “ironic” sounds being slightly disjointed out of the context). All in all, the result is thought-provoking and challenging.

Mikaere - Ending To Beginning (2014)

Basic_sounds

Archive.org

/Tech-house, House, Club dance, Deep house, Modern classical, Downtempo/

Comment: in Germany residing Canadian Michael Petit aka Mikaere is a talented guy to produce catchy and hypnotic house-inflected tracks with soulful vocal sampling and fabulous laidback feeling. It creates a cosy, homelike atmosphere with regard to exploiting vinyl-alike crackles and hypnotically bouncing beats beneath. However, Mikaere`s issue is not an instance of true-bred house grooves because of adding heavier downtempo-alike frequencies into the mix. Me and You is the exception due to delving into another world where a piano chord driven motive and progressions within it are superimposed to subtle hums and subdued hisses thereby reminding something coming out of the modern classical pigeonhole. In a nutshell, the outing is to the nines.

Jankenpopp - Zombie Media (2013)

Darling Dada

/Chiptune, Nintendocore, Hip-hop, 8-bit, Breakcore, Tracker music, Noise, Chipbreak, Robot pop, Bitpop, Electro pop/

Comment: although tracker music/8-bit/chiptune was one of the first genres in music conjured with computers it is still actual and up-to-date after 25-30 years either. Jankenpopp`s 4-track issue is a protuberant exemplar of it – the result is a droid-alike one where machines have been set up in a way to rap and perform their angular dancing movements in a hectic way. However, they will be evolving into autarkic state stepwise revealing their cutting-edge tendencies to bestow noise impulses and disintegrated electro debris to the pot. Of course, the extra point comes with adding some humorous aspects to the whole. In a nutshell, the outlet is amusing, still human-friendly (or not yet misanthropic) and challenging to get infatuated and switch on the repeat button. Timeless stuff.

10/14/2014

Recent Music Heroes Mixtape #12 (15.10.2014)

Mediafire

1) Bessemerr – Errore di Coincidenza (2009, Happy Puppy)

http://members.shaw.ca/happypuppyrecords/hpr032_bessemerr.html

2) Delphine Measroch – Quand Le Crapaud Somnole, Les Limaces Dansent...(2006, Ekumen)

https://archive.org/details/ekumen2006

3) Ada Rave Cuarteto – Tomatelo con Soda (2011, Pan y Rosas Discos, Free Music Archive)

http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/pyr042-ada-rave-cuarteto-la-continuidad/
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ada_Rave_Cuarteto/La_Continuidad/

4) Kuh Lida - Eversinceu (2013, Self-released)

http://kuh-lida.bandcamp.com/album/ball-it-out-back-it-up

5) Momus – Flame Into Being (1987, Ubuweb)

http://www.ubu.com/sound/momus_poison.html

6) No Zu – (Coburg) (Mystical (2011, New Weird Australia, Free Music Archive)

http://newweirdaustralia.bandcamp.com/album/new-age-ep
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/No_Zu/New_Age_EP/

7) Oskar Hallbert - 5 (Look Its Kama Aina In My Garden) (2009, Zymogen)