Cankun + Holy Strays - Beko_91 (2011)

Beko DSL

• Lo-fi
• Hypnagogic pop
• Dreamwave
• DIY
• Experimental pop
• Avant-pop
• Chillwave
• Poptronica
• Post-psychedelic electronica
• Glo-fi

Comment: Beko DSL is a French contemporary music imprint who started to issue singles and compilations at the beginning of the 10s when such styles as chillwave, glo-fi, hypnagogic pop, dreamwave started to appear. Undoubtedly it was one of the best sources to get proper overview about new music. Unfortunately they decided to finish off their doings at the end of 2011, though all the releases are still up there. Beko_91 involves three compositions (one track is provided by Cankun, and two by Holy Strays both artists coming from France). Cankun who is now highly acclaimed artist within indie music circles provides a track called Coconuts which used to circle around due to fairly sultry synth loops and dusty ambience as if providing an interface for ambient and lo-fi pop. Indeed, I like that the sounds are subdued as if buried in. Holy Strays`s tracks are also immersed in mildly glistening echoes and DIY aesthetic driven synthesiser`s soup. In a word, listen to it and let`s remember those good old times replete with hope and desire. 

[Teaser of the day] Vanquish - Retribution

Ekleipsi

• Progressive metal
• Art metal
• Symphonic metal
• Speed metal

Artist: Vanquish

Release: Nine Deadly Sins

Label: Ekleipsi

Year: 2007  

Laika`s Child – The Great Sacramento Fire

Rack And Ruin

• Lo-fi
• Ambient pop
• Primitive pop
• Experimental pop
• Electronic
• Bedroom music
• Post-psychedelic
• Avant-pop
• DIY

Comment: if you think Google is omnipotent to find out easily any sort of information from any edge worldwide then you`re obviously wrong. Indeed, I have had Laika`s Child`s album The Great Sacramento Fire in my mp3 player for a while but I could not connect to any record label anymore. Finally I found it thanks to a vague hint. Indeed, Laika Child has issued its albums through Rack And Ruin catalogue fitting nicely with its accentuated lo-fi/DIY/primitive music aesthetic. More profoundly, Laika`s Child`s 5-track issue is composed of clumsy piano chords in progression, rough rhythmic bits and serene synthesiser induced layers thereby constituting the balanced whole for the listener`s joy. At times those sounds are vamped with concrete sounds (for instance, one can hear wintry gusts moving from one channel to another and burning logs in the stove and exploiting the sounds of a driving car). Such sort of music reveals more honesty and chimes more organically than many profoundly produced issues around us at the time. Furthermore, you need more listening times rather than just having one to discover all the nuances hidden adeptly to the whole. The artist says that the oeuvre is the product of boredom, dental work, and pure ambition. That`s OK.

Nota Bene! I was quite disappointed having no success while trying to download Dylan Ettinger`s issue One Rude Dude (2008). Indeed, his album is still up on the site of the imprint. As we know very well Ettinger moved on to publish releases under well-known underground labels like Not Not Fun, and NNA Tapes but that fact should not exclude his earlier sonic footsteps within the netlabel area.

[Teaser of the day] slept . - P. II

Test Tube

• Ambient
• Soundscape
• Experimentalism
• Glitchtronica
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde

Artist: slept.

Release: slept. EP   

Label: Test Tube

Year:  2009 

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

[Teaser of the day] Vyadha - Thief

• Witch-hop
• Vaporwave
• Drag-hop
• Avant-hop
• Seapunk
• Experimental hop
• Dream-hop

Artist: Vyadha

Release: Halo EP

Label: Aural Sects

Year: 2015

Orrorin Daydream - A Distant Veil (2015)

Laverna
Archive.org

Bandcamp

/Dark ambient, Soundscape, Experimentalism, Minimalism, Abstract, Ambient dub, Epic/

Comment: Orroin Daydream`s 10-track issue A Distant Veil is a case of exuberant layers within catchy noises and fluctuating pulsating ambience coated with hisses and microscopic sounds (of course, all of that it is made in a deliberate way). Emotionally it is at times restrained and neutral, at times ready to turn into more ominous compartments saturated with echoes, specters and monochromic gothic fictions. In any cases, the whole stimulates the listener`s brain to fantasy and create pictures in her/his head. To understand the purpose it is quite trivial but it is the very goal ascribed to music. The Belgium-residing artist`s music could be compared with the likes of Tim Hecker (especially the Canadian musician`s first albums where boreal-related fictions were more depicted than on his later issues) and Vladislav Delay (also the artist coming from the northern hemisphere, more concretely from Finland) because of depicting a trudge across the pathway of (sub) dub-inflected wobbles and electro-acoustic bangles. In a word, the result is an outstanding notch within the realm of holophonic poetry getting a place in the list of the best albums of 2015. Being related to the Halloween date by the way.  

[t]ghost – Terminal Damage EP (2008)

BPM Front

/Industrial techno, Big beat, Leftfield, Illbient, Neoclassical, EBM/

Comment: [t]ghost is an artist from Russia whose 2-track issue is an amalgamation of tectonic-alike crushing rhythms which seem to break up thereafter they are fallen down to the soil and malignant synth progressions with some hints at neoclassical orchestrated music, martial music and electronic body music. By using speech samples to bring forth the very core of this it is thoroughly viable and reasonable. More profoundly, there are up such tracks as March of The GPA Mechanics, and Terminal Damage. These ones say quite much about the whole. I guess by speaking about such kind of genres it is very important to figure out adequate milieu of them – indeed, all of that is represented over that – it is aggressive, it is powerful, it is rhythmical, it is obscure, it is mystical. In a word, all is properly balanced, all is properly (re)presented. The issue is a part of the roster of the Argentinian label BPM Front.