[Teaser of the day] Darren Harper - The Eternal Search for the Elusive Now, Part 1

Earth Mantra

• Dark ambient
• Drone
• Experimentalism
• Abstract
• Post-classical
• Microtonal
• Dystopbient
• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde

Artist: Darren Harper

Release: Time Forgotten

Label: Earth Mantra

Year: 2009

Nick R 61 – .tochka (2017)

Fusion

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• Big beat 
• Avant-hop 
• Experimentalism 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Industrial hip-hop 
• Leftfield

Comment: Nick R 61 is a prolific artist from Russia who has been heading an imprint, Fusion Records for years as well (a huge part of the discography is covered by his own releases). As similar as the title of the records suggests his music is also a platform to mingle different impulses with one another. For better or worse, it might be .tochka (Dot in English) is the most challenging issue of him by widening his legacy with the tectonic squalls of bouncing rhythms, industrial-inspired sonic effects, swirling currents of microscopic noises and scruffy ambiances. Yet it may freely be my illusion because Nick R 61 has been criss-crossing from dub and raggamuffin to glitched-out electronica and techno and hip-hop to drill and bass and breakbeat cadences. Furthermore, it needs a tremendous effort and an immense amount of time to get a solid overview about his oeuvre. All of that embodied in a set of four tracks results in an exciting crossover experience. Without a doubt there cannot be denied an influence of The Death Grips and Dälek on it but on the other side the artist adds his previous spiritual undercurrents to the 12-minute blend. At times one can feel as if shifting between the jungle, and an urban area, between the blossoming freedom and an oppressive, artificial system which is called the civilization. Superb.

Roel Goovaerts – we zullen wel zien e (2015)

BWAA

• Newbreed 
• Electronic music 
• Leftfield 
• Experimentalism 
• Free folk 
• Avant-garde 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Minimalism 
• DIY 
• Witch house 
• Crossover 
• American Primitivism 
• New Weird Belgium 
• Avant-folk 
• Weird folk

Comment: yesterday late night I had been listening to Ak'chamel aka The Giver Of Illness´ issue The Man Who Drank God (2015) which was sent to me by generous Field Hymns imprint. It chimed like an extreme fringe of the New Weird movement as if coming out from a cave of the Neanderthals. It was sung in low and wobbly chords while emitting an almost festive milieu from those heathen arrangements. Thanks to being so wobbly and rough it was an utterly organic experience. In fact, by listening to the recent issue of six compositions I felt partly the same feeling. In spite of being compositionally a bit different by employing guitar chords subverting filters and effect blocks and stark, intoxicated electronics the ultimate experience says it is almost about the sort of epic music (especially at Francy, which is a 13-minute iterative climax). I would not dare to call it lo-fi music because similarly to the aforementioned issue by Ak'chamel it is against the premises of lo-fi as a genre and attitude either. You can intuit this on the defiant nature of the issue. For instance, the issue starts off like a lost form of witch/drag house/newbreed. Later on, it will be mutating into guitar primitivism, gravitates toward uncanny electronic locations and the aforementioned minimalistic, slightly spaghetti western-alike majesty of Francy. Indeed, it will be the music of a new breed, more profoundly, for neo(n) zombies. This truly overcoming outing is a part of the discography of BWAA. All is moving, changing and disappearing. Heaven knows we will be dust.

[Teaser of the day] Leon der Rote - Nordic Jam

Ephedrina

• Improvised music
• Neoclassical
• Experimental rock
• Ambient
• Dub rock
• Crossover
• Neofolk
• Avant-rock

Artist: Leon der Rote

Release: Von Aussen Sehen

Label: Ephedrina/Spettro

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Quine Ghost - Nasca Texture

Bunkai-Kei

• Psychedelic pop 
• Electronic pop
• Art pop
• Breaks
• Urban music
• Digital soul
• Post-pop

Artist: Quine Ghost

Release: Dragoon

Label: Bunkai-Kei

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] R. Lobster - Inlet

Sirona-Records

• Drum and bass
• Electronic music
• Alternative dance
• Dream and bass
• Crossover
• Progressive house
• Jungle
• Breakbeat

Artist: R. Lobster

Release: Particles

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Glintsik - Red Bush

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Sampledelic
• Trip-hop
• Lo-fi
• Mood music
• Hip-hop
• Psychedelic
• Nu jazz

Artist: Glintsik

Release: Butter Dream LP   

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Toupe Mapeto – Unreleased Work Collection 1 (2018)

MiMi

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• Breakcore 
• Electronic music 
• Rhythmic noise 
• Digital hardcore 
• Breakbeat 
• Power electronics 
• Avant-garde 
• Post-industrial 
• Industrial techno 
• IDM 
• Sampedelic

Comment: THAGKIA aka Toupe Mapeto cannot be considered a classical representative of the so-called Japanese noise movement because those harsh peaky sounds are just a mere element in the artist`s sound. It may be more clearly said Toupe Mapeto is just (a bit) influenced by it. Of course, it is intense and mind-provoking yet it is more based on more clear-cut yet powerful rhythms full of bass frequencies, cut-up rhythmic patterns and occult noises. Yeah, the description may be a main theme though it is surrounded by a thousands of dodges, electronic effects, collisions and “erroneous” sounds. Unreleased Work Collection 1 as one part of the digital hardcore and breakcore movement is certainly a propulsive power within the so-called acceleration philosophy, having the anti-capitalist intention. As you can hear from this set of 14 tracks many of them involve magnified poppy inclinations (mostly towards IDM shuffling) yet being surrounded by nihilistic sonic trash, slightly out-of-context samples, destructive impulses and broken orbit below them. All the “beautiful” is contradicted by some “ugly” simultaneously. For instance, 00253 is even highly psychedelic due to the main catchy repetition. At 00260 you it can be heard broken and then pushed together tectonic rhythmic debris being embellished by the atmospheric upper layer. These fabulous 61 minutes are released on MiMi Records. Let's wait for a sequel to it.

Co-Op – Neighbours (2015)

basic_sounds

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• Soft rock 
• Yacht rock 
• Electronic 
• Jazz rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Crossover 
• Art pop 
• Mood music 
• Improvised music

Comment: this bunch of three tracks by Toronto, Ontario, Canada-based Oreste Camarra and his guest and neighbour Marcus Wong (who plays guitars) is a fine amalgamation of poppy electronic music, yacht and jazz rock shreds. The motives represented over there used to run in repetition thereof creating somehow compelling yet enchanting mood (Oak and Eli). Yet the other two tracks have been set out to run in a more variegated feel. I would like to praise the guitar play by Marcus Wong because it is the main propulsion in different penumbrae and shades and flickers in different strength and atmosphere. I would like to call it a contemporary version of soft rock because its intention apparently is not to overwhelm the listener with crushing riffs and volume but creating a subtle mood around his/her head (at the same time you have no chance to reject the technical adeptness of the release). By the way, the tracks are long (the shortest one clocks in at a 6-minute) so you nevertheless discern the impulse of an improvised format. The issue is a part of the discography of basic_sounds. Great stuff.

la corporación – rerum novarum (2017)

pan y rosas discos

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• Improvised music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Electronic music 
• Experimentalism 
• Live

Comment: this set of 5 compositions is the demonstration of female power by Amanda Irarrazabal, Cecilia López, and Cecilia Quinteros who play a synthesizer, a double bass, and a cello, respectively. In fact, this handful of tracks could be considered one lengthy track as well because the theme and formal appearances are the same. Formally throughout a 31-minute it chimes like the big shriek of a rusty door moving from one side to the other one. At times those short atonal splashes and shrieks will progress into drones. It does have a bit ivory tower effect upon me due to having drawn-out encapsulated and buried moves while providing a few progressions and a monochromatic timbre only. I could imagine if it was heard by the bourgeoisie most of them would consider it as weird, and irrational yet having been performed in a buttoned-up place they would think of it as put up for them and thereafter forget it by going home. It was recorded live on August 24, 2017 at Cuatro Tres, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The issue is a bit in the discography of pan y rosas discos.