Flady – Leave (2015)

Bunkai-Kei

• Electronic music 
• Breaks 
• Experimental electronica 
• Alternative 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism

Comment: I am back again by digging up in the discography of the Japanese imprint Bunkai-Kei. Some days ago I had listened to an album of being an amalgamation of J-pop, and Western disparate influences resulting in a truly aesthetic entertainment, however, this case of handful of tracks seems to be analogous though revealing its virtue on a bit other premises. It may be a bit less moody and more complicated through its strongly accentuated slamming rhythmic patterns, uncanny samples, glitched-out debris. It is a sort of dance music though standing discreetly apart from well-known styles like house, techno, electro, dubstep. I especially like those string-based samples as if suggestive snatches taken from a cello and woodwind instruments and thereafter magnified and modulated. And of course, it reminds of unforgettable Arthur Russell. All in all, it is a superb selection again. It injects much serotonin into the listener's brain. That's all what we need to get. And the cover print is suggestive for sure.

NAMM – L'Arte dei Rumori (2018)

Ephedrina

Bandcamp

Archive.org

• Electronic music 
• Indietronica 
• Ambient pop 
• Post-classical 
• Modern classical 
• Synth-pop 
• Electro pop 
• IDM 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Drone pop

Comment: just before listening to this set of 10 tracks I had listened to GYBE!'s Luciferian Towers (2017, Constellation) which paradoxically introduced L'Arte dei Rumori because the album also involves some orchestrated semi-symphonic post-rock/chamber rock/post-classical opuses yet it is just an angle within the whole (especially a track called La mar). Conversely, predominantly it is driven by adeptly carved synth threads, acidic drones and exuberant rhythmic progressions indicative of lo-fi aesthetics due to those shaggy beats a bit. I guess such a sort of alloy will have been producing for centuries (because it does have a potential on its own) but it is right now and here to be enjoyed. It is a vibrant crossroad for synth-pop, indie electronic and IDM. Saltamontes provides a renewed insight into Kosmische Musik/Krautrock. The issue is a bit in the discography of Ephedrina Records. Very good.

[Teaser of the day] Dark Frequencer - Hypnotica Part 1

• Ambient techno
• Organic electronica
• Experimental techno
• Electronic music
• Dreamwave
• Kraut-techno
• Avant-techno
• Minimal techno

Artist: Dark Frequencer

Release: Hypnotica

Label: Petroglyph

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Flowers And Fire - Hanging Garden

• Gothic rock
• Post-punk
• Cold wave
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Cover

Artist: Flowers And Fire

Release: THE CURE Pornography: The CVLT Nation Sessions

Label: The CVLT Nation Sessions

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] BOLGA - Microscopio

• Alternative rock
• Post-rock
• Epic
• Power pop
• Art rock

Artist: BOLGA

Release: From Such a Cloud of Fire Came Earth / 2

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Soma - Soma Nubes Rojas

MonoKraK

• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Deep house
• Ambient house
• Club dance

Artist: Soma

Release: Uno

Label: MonoKraK

Year: 2015

Kanabun – Open The World EP (2011)

Bunkai-Kei

• Electronic pop 
• J-pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Cinematic 
• Hip-hop
• Art pop 
• Shibuya-Kei 
• Ambient pop 
• Rap

Comment: it is not surprising to have a talk about the Japanese webscene as one of the mightiest if not the most mighty worldwide. Even there was once up an article by Pitchfork by describing those massively populated parties in Nippon. One of the groundsills is an imprint called Bunkai-Kei wherefrom you can discover a loads of great electronic music and Japanese heritage mixed albums. Yeah, Kanabun`s 4-track Open The World EP is one of them. Of course, one could not underestimate the influence of a style called Shibuya-Kei which strongly flourished in the 90s by its cut and paste method and on the other side by adding cutting-edge easy listening, jazz, and bossa nova and exotica pop styles from the Western cultural sphere to create something truly cinematic and floating. For instance, Link is obviously the most cinematic notch within these 23 minutes, Decillion is a joyous Japanese rap backed up by a sultry beat and enchanting carillon. From experimental, glitched-out noises, vowel effects and sound manipulations to full-fledged artsy pop examples and semi-ochestrated moody hedonism in the self-titled track. In a word, the result is superb, enter the party!

[Teaser of the day] Pablo Pavlo - Eléctrico balneario

E.P.A Sonidos

• Electronic pop
• Alternative pop
• Indietronica
• Mood music

Artist: Pablo Pavlo

Release: Open Plaza

Label: E.P.A Sonidos

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel - The Jack Of Hands

• Cabaret
• Avant-garde
• Music hall
• Art music
• Leftifeld
• Experimental pop

Artist: Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel

Release: I Can Spin A Rainbow

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

getdizzzy – Long Normal Dream (2017)

Etched Traumas

Etched Traumas

• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Electronic music 
• Experimentalism 
• Crossover 
• Downbeat 

Comment: undoubtedly it is very problematic to categorize this issue. Furthermore, after the first round of listening I did have problems to identify it somehow because of having so many stylistic references within it, and because of changing permanently throughout the course. I guess the most proper tags to pigeonhole it might be such generic tags as electronic music, and experimental music, improvised music. By listening to such a track as Unfortunate the case will be even more complicated because the beat represented over there can ideologically be considered a thread from hip-hop music but in reality it is more a downbeat case. Walkwalk is an example of psyched-out electro-free jazz. It is not surprising at all with regard to the fact he comes out of Chicago, Illinois, USA which has been a fertile platform for amalgamation and flourishing of different styles, from improvised music, post-rock, to free jazz. The issue is a bit in the discography of Etched Traumas.