Recent Music Heroes

12/15/2018

Tsantser – Tot Nodig (2018)

Bandcamp

Alternative
Footwork
Deep house
Crossover
Hip-hop
Chopped and screwed
Drone
Electronic music
Cloud rap
Urban music

Comment: this 12-track issue is one of the most playful issues I have heard in the recent year. And along with such releases as End Game by Aigar Vals, Rites by Eoins, bizarre world of non by Day Of The Triangle, OtherWorld by Mart Avi, and Threnody to Smaug by Ratkiller it can be admitted that Eleonora Šljanda aka Tsantser`s issue Tot Nodig (until needed in Flemish) is another outstanding issue by an Estonian artist. She has been studying graphic design in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and partly to playfulness and partly to her rich imagination to be fostered by her studies (obviously the former thread is also implicated by the latter one). She is also being known as DJ I guess her playing subject may have been hip-hop and its bent subgenres like footwork, chopped and screwed, cloud rap, seapunk. Without any doubt she also showcases her DJ abilities over there. In fact, all these styles are boldly represented over there with an uncanny kind of synthesiser music, serpentine deep house interludes, and even spoken word snippets, samples, a bit obsessive, loop-arrested drone music (more remarkably, at Tekk). In truth, beyond all of that much interesting elements one can meet while listening to this 48-minute course. Despite its variegated nature all the elements are adeptly fulfilled and constitute an adhesive whole. It is also sympathetic (and one of the premises of the success of the issue) that she consciously rejected any concepts while had been creating her debut album (it was also published in a very limited tape edition). Honestly, at times I am sick of all of that theoretical crap surrounding a piece of art (however, it is a matter of choice – a visitor/listener can choose the possibility to just avoid the wordy frame of a piece of art). As I have already noticed it will be added to the list of the best albums 2018 at RMH.

[Teaser of the day] A. Vorodeyev - _autumn T

Nocharizma

Art music
Microsound
Electronic music
Glitch-pop
Alternative

Artist: A.Vorodeyev

Release: Nanoday EP

Label: Nocharizma

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Entheogen - Vintage Wine Keg

Dadaist Audio

Breakcore
Alternative
Drill`n`bass
Jungle
Electronic music
Breakbeat

Artist: Entheogen

Release: Amok

Label: Dadaist Audio

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Min-Y-Llan - When Is Summer Coming

Kift Flipper

Ambient
Modern classical
Minimalism
Organic electronica
Post-classical
Epic

Artist: Min-Y-Llan

Release: The Belders Wench

Label: Kift Flipper

Year: 2010

Mushrooms In Our Shoes – Quarter Libeň (1987/2018)

CS Industrial 1982-2010

Industrial
Experimentalism
Improvised noise
Avant-garde
Ambient
Electro-acoustic
Electronic music
Post-psychedelic electronica
Psycho-acoustic
Freeformfreakout

Comment: it is a release by the Mushrooms In Our Shoes, the Czech Republic based duo whose music is improvised on such musical (non)-instruments as guitars, keyboards, metal, sheets, percussion. This bunch of 10 tracks is a part of the discography of an imprint called CS Industrial 1982-2010. It is a Czech and Slovak industrial scene documentation project. Focusing on noise and industrial-related music coming out of the aforementioned years. More profoundly, it is recorded while two musicians called David Urban and Jan Benedict Nosek decided to make music. They did close in an apartment, which was turned into a home studio. Within just a couple of days of playing, recording, mixing, they had spawned ten compositions. Emotively one can hear lethargic incantations and truly rapturous, freaked-out outbursts and snippets. Because of that I guess the duo has spent the interesting time span in the studio. In fact, not only a final result but the creative process of it is as important. At times it chimes like a pedigree of (electro)-acoustic, improvised and electronic music. And the drumming provides mostly tribal connotations. It is fairly cohesive and intrinsically burning. It was initially released in 1987 by Eastmush Records.

Burdeos – S A U D A D E (2014)

Miga

Bandcamp

Techno pop
Electronic pop
Ambient pop
Synth-pop
Post-disco

Comment: Burdeos is an artist from Seville, Spain whose 8-track issue is an exuberant electronic progression through lofty synthesiser developments and a churning rhythmic programming. It used to be a gentle mix between the fluctuating melodic and the bouncy formative side. Some hisses and glitches, sawtooth-shaped shards and rusty synths and robotic voices are set up to add an additional value to the emotionally suggestive threads. As the artist says 'Saudade' is a word difficult to define, which expresses a sense of melancholy, yearning or longing. A beautiful memory for what has been lived and painful because will not come back. All in all, it is for you to decide whether you could feel bittersweet memories or striking rebounds while listening to it or not. The subtle outing is a bit in the discography of Miga.

Krynge - Tuf Kld Spd Rcr (1988)

ZH27

Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Abstract
Noise
Psycho-acoustic
Non-music
Freeformfreakout

Comment: just having read that the French president Emmanuel Macron has a helicopter on standby to evacuate him while France is controlled by a huge part of the nation, by the so-called yellow vests. While listening to this project of Zan Hoffman, and this half-hour issue (he reimagines recordings of his home taping friends like Swinebolt 45, and Minoy). I guess something analogously horrible and terrifying may be happening in the head of the leader now. Especially if there is up a comparison to the situation what happened in Romania exactly 29 years ago or what happened in France 229 years ago. In the latter case, the king did not have a helicopter and his attempt to run away with carriage failed. Musically it is a haphazard yet threateningly ecstatic blend of drumming, chimes and windbells, accidental electronic impulses, steam trumpets, buried shrieks and overamplified speeches, accelerated sounds of engines. Black noises are varied with torrents of howling brown noise attacks, yeah, it seems to be the frank analogue stuff. The issue which was initially released on ZH27 was re-released by the German imprint Attenuation Circuit in 2013 and providing a couple of minutes more music and a bit different content than the original one. The history repeats itself in a bit different manner.