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7/28/2015

The Line Below (2012)




/Indie rock, Dream pop, Jangle pop, Avant-pop, Electronic pop, Art pop, Alternative pop, Chillwave/

Comment: this compilation of 7 tracks involves outstanding indie music from the very beginning to the late seconds. Stylistically and technically it is mottled as indie music used to be, more concretely, extending from light-hearted yet thoroughly affecting guitar driven sonics to more artsy, keyboard/synthn and programmed beat driven experiments where the touch of human soul is deeply mixed up with machine dominated areas. The miscellany embraces such combos as Spakkiano, Murder, Husband, Welcome Back Sailors, His Clancyness, Karibean feat. North, and Wolther Goes Stranger. Furthermore, all these combos seem to come out of Italy. In a word, the Italian musicians in the compartments of progressive rock, disco music (Italo disco), noise music and motion picture soundtracks have earlier proven to be top notches worldwide. This time they proved they could produce fabulous, assured indie sound either. Get this must have package for yourself.

7/27/2015

[Teaser of the day] Ail Fionn - Saz/Mandolin Jam 1


  • Free folk
  • New Weird England
  • Improvised music
  • Pych-folk
  • Drone folk

Artist: Ail Fionn
Year: 2005

LA Screamin Popeyes - Save The Brainforest (1990)




/Avant-garde, Improvised music, Dada music, Synth pop, DIY, Field recording, Weird pop, Electronic pop, Art punk, Leftfield, Post-punk, Dance rock, Spoken word, Experimental pop/

Comment: thanks to this 9-track issue (the download version is zipped into the two lengthy tracks in total, though) I discovered a new platform for old, rarefied music, called The Living Archive of Underground Music which is curated by Don Campau. Indeed, it is time to discover amazing sonic examples from the past. First of all, I truly like the title of the album which was relevant many decades ago and is still today. By watching what is going to happen every day worldwide it is ridiculous and sad at the same instant. People make this shit happen to. Given that the singularity of human being used to diminish remarkably. Save The Brainforest reflects upon these deranged and oppressed tendencies excellently. In detail, it veers from robot-alike spoken word snippets and roughly processed guitar riff noises to psychedelic and orchestrated synth lines and such sort of improvised situations reminding of radio drama and sultry jungle encircled happenings. There are up some hilarious artsy (post-) punk and fucked-up synth pop/dance rock progressions either. Behind the project were Jeff Olson, and Carl Strong who recorded the issue on the 4-track tape machine set up on a kitchen table. With this fabulous issue the project did continue to uphold the Dadaist and obscure DIY tradition within the US-based music scene (The Residents, Big City Orchestra, Fantomas, Negativland, No-Neck Blues Band, Bob Chaos based imprint etc). 

7/25/2015

[Teaser of the day] Guili Guili Goulag - Otmushtenie


  • Electro-acoustic
  • Avant-metal
  • Post-metal
  • No Wave
  • Avant-rock
  • Progressive metal
  • Sludge metal
  • Post-punk
  • Crossover
  • Math metal
  • Experimental rock

Release: Ib.Ex.Ib
Year: 2014

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Libra Makowski – Drum Your Life (2011)




/Drum and bass, Electronic pop, Jungle, Speed garage, Breakcore, Trance, Remix/

Comment: this is the first album by Lublin, Poland based artist Libra Makowski (having been active since the end of the 90s) where he predominantly takes on bold drum and bass and jungle rhythms which are mixed up with some speed garage frequencies. Actually the result reflects upon the artist`s earlier music making experiences because synth/keyboard sounds presented over there used to run on in the vein of trance music and pop ambient/piano pop/classical music (for instance, the albums like Girlfriend Experience, and Cosmologic). For instance, Shaman Dance is a blend of jungle beats, trance-y synth progressions and tabla induced vamp. At times those stark beats are accompanied with sublime female vocal deliveries and growling radioactive grooves and prevailing synth overdrives (for instance, at City Lights). Consequently it can be said the artist search for balance between the sensibility of pop music and bouncy club dance oriented sentiment. 

[Teaser of the day] Pavel Ambiont - Svapna


  • Deep dub
  • Ambient dub
  • Dub-techno
  • Minimal dub
  • Space music

Artist: Pavel Ambiont
Release: Peace Dub EP
Label: Segmenter
Year: 2008

Melinda Ligeti – Belonging (2015)




/Alternative pop, Singer-songwriter, Jazz. Doo wop, Mood music, Easy listening/

Comment: Melinda Ligeti`s 17-track issue could be considered both a branch of jazz music and mode of contemporary alternative pop. I mean artsy pop music, of course. Sonically it is light-hearted and quite gravitation free due to soaring vowel effects and singing mixing mode and contemplative string plucked chords thereby reminding of the doo wop tradition coming out of the 60s. Furthermore, the sentiment of bossa nova is not being far away from it. At times some keyboard sounds are added to bring forth either a more lively touch or more deeply thoughtful sensations within the blend. In any cases, Ligeti is adept to move the listener`s emotions with her fairly sensual vocal turns and lurking jazz compositions behind it. All the instruments are played by her and dedicated to her sons. In a nutshell, it is a potent retro futurist pop album.