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Comment: I have mentioned a couple of articles about flourishing Indonesian music scenes recently. However, the information about the prolific Indonesian indie scene was earlier to be well known. Here it is one of those spicy examples. By considering the title of this 9-notch issue there are only two possibilities to come into fruition – if it is seriously thought then this may obviously be a dead born, dull crap. Or secondly it may be vamped up with tongue-in-cheek attitude where the aesthetic of an issue is turned over the top, into a frantic rush. Fortunately the latter description is the case. Straight blatant bashes with speed metal, hardcore punk, and noise pop bottoms are subverted by acidic, freely manipulated keyboards and a melodica (or melodica-alike instrument). In true, when the melodica takes the lead then the ragged psychedelia will change into a gentle reggae or ska number. The singing manner is truly groovy, from loud shouting and screaming to anxiety laden reciting and desperation tinged singing. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Motörhead, Hawkwind, Acid Mothers Temple, Atomic Butterfly, The Damned, The Fall. Ear Alert is the imprint behind this fascinating nuke.

Thuoom – reCycle 2 (2017)

Textural Healing

Electronic music
Electro-acoustic
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Abstract
Minimal techno
Drone
Live
Post-industrial
Psycho-acoustic
Abstract techno
Experimental electronica
Avant-electronica
Avant-techno

Comment: as the Finnish artist Thuoom did close his second grand cycle in order to begin a studio hiatus, there are up a couple of compilation issues released simultaneously (10 years In Noise, and reCycle 2). These ones gather together a bunch of unreleased tunes having no particular fit with the albums he composed during the second cycle. Indeed, there is represented a bunch of 13 tracks full of different sort of sonic experiments with uncanny rhythms, heavily boreal infused soundscapes, throbbing techno cadences of recent Finnish witches, amplified electricity and elliptically trudging noises, interrupted yet still loopy circuits, extended guitar chords and bold drones from the tundra. All is changing permanently around the listener yet fulfilling it through slowly changing cycles the ultimate effect will grow even bigger. At a time one can discover he/she has stepped unremarkably into another forest or landscape. Without any doubt, there can be drawn parallels upon his outstanding compatriots Ilpo Väisänen, and deceased Mika Vainio aka Pan Sonic, obviously one of the best artists having ever existed within the history of electronic music. Furthermore, I can personally say I am very proud of my mighty paternal grandmother who is Finnish. But such sort of music adds an extra charge to it (of course, I know such sort of feelings are not very supported in the contemporary highly tolerant Western Europe). A must-have listening for any experimental music fan by a man who has established himself as a symbol within the weblabel world. And as usual, this mighty and cathartic miscellany is released on his own imprint called Textural Healing.

Gaetano Fontanazza – The Grandpa Lullabies (2018)

Sucu Music

Archive.org

Ambient
Post-rock
Ambient rock
Art music
Experimental rock
Drone
Space music
Improvised music
Minimalism
Electronic

Comment: Gaetano Fontanazza can be pigeonholed with such artists as Brother Saturn, I Am Esper, Glenn Brown, Saito Koji who used to create guitar-based ambient music which, I guess, may be quite obsessive by its method base yet truly relieving for a listener. You can hear extended chord licks which used to move across an artificial space (in fact, by creating and dilating it) and on the other side hover over the listener's mind. Additionally to the electric guitars he employs electronic keyboards and delay and reverb tools to sustain the vibrant ambiances (later the artist contacted me by saying all the sounds are created by using the guitars only). Due to those vibrant drones and faint wobbling which create a pleasant variety based on intermittent pressure and under pressure I would like to call it a dance album for the angels. Furthermore, is it an improvised music example or a designed music issue? Undoubtedly it is one of the best albums in 2018, and the 8-track composition is a part of the discography of Sucu Music.

Windy Hill Mill – Spring Carousel (2010)

Bandcamp

Folktronica
Folk indie
Art folk
New Weird France
Electronic
Dream folk
Indie folk
Post-folk
Plinkerpop
Indietronica

Comment: are these ditties dreamy incantations for folksy people? What about the members of royal palace? I think the latter ones are listening to dull established music where the etiquette is more important than the essence of a sonic example. This 8-notch outing is as fancy as the dreams could be. Electronic synthesised layers and swirling effects are counterpointed by bubblegum-ish guitar handling and a sensual female voice. Indeed, the electronics and the woman's vox dictate the pace of the issue. A cute virgin goes to a well, meets a handsome bride and some months later will have a profound, long-lasting sexual intercourse with the overcoming orgasm at the end with galvanized, amplified guitars and spasmodic yet stepwise relieving electronic bubbling (at Four Woods). And the following and altogether final track Sesame Chime is just caressing after that. This is mundane and divine at the same time.

No NITZ – Smutek Hmoty (2018)

CS Industrial 1982-2010

Industrial
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Leftfield
Plunderphonics
Noise music
Freeformfreakout
Non-music
Psycho-acoustic
Black noise

Comment: as much as I have understood this issue was originally released as a two-track tape in 1998 by Oblast Records but now being released on CS Industrial 1982-2010 it is divided into 12 parts. Musically it is as frantic as one decent industrial record should be. Lots of cacophonous and disrupted sounds having a deranged, probably misanthropic mind behind it. Stoned drumming and whistling noises and some well-known snippets taken from the cultural heritage to merge all of that into a loopy machinery. Some fucked-up beasts released from the cage to carve the aforementioned patterns with growls, groans, howls, moans. At times it chimes like a very shitty lo-fi black metal composition. Or... . In fact, you can himself define where begins black metal, and where it is an essential part of the noise music. You can partake in all of that magniloquent madness which reflects upon the rational and the irrational side of the human being, it reflects upon the tension and fruitful gap between the two sides. In the case, it is moulded into a bit frightening yet arousing sonic world.

10/10/2018

[Teaser of the day] Monokit - v3

Nishi

Electronic music
Alternative
Psybient
Ethnotronica
Crossover
World fusion

Artist: Monokit

Release: Monolyth

Label: Nishi/No Type

Year: 2005

10/09/2018

[Teaser of the day] Miche - Triangular Aggregate

Clinical Archives

Post-classical
Avant-garde
Epic
Electronic music
Modern classical
Glitchtronica
Crossover
Experimentalism

Artist: Miche

Release: Along Yurikamome

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Globoscuro - Nanomachine Messiah

Far From Showbiz

Post-industrial
Dystopbient
Illbient
Psycho-acoustic
Experimentalism
Leftfield
Electronic music
Avant-garde

Artist: Globoscuro

Release: Research

Label: Far From Showbiz

Year: 2008

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