Mirth Mara – Sprit Juis (2017)

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Dubstep 
• Experimental electronica 
• Wonky 
• Alternative

Comment: Sprit Juis is the 3-notch outing by Mirth Mara which is one of the aliases of Martinas Rakshtinas, the Lithuanian electronic music producer who has produced very disparate music so far. The recent one is clearly driven by heavily stepping bass rhythms and a bit skewed rhythmic patterns as if losing its balance and falling either downwards or toward left or right side. On the other side, the listener can feel incisive electro and whirring drone tinged gravity which used to elliptically drive and eventually go upward. For sure, it is pure alchemy in terms of chords and rhythmic kicks full of intensity, arithmetical calculations and reversed passion. In a word, get reversed and passionate. The outing is a part of the music collection of Bandcamp and Free Music Archive (support this excellent site by making a donation. They need it right now).

[Teaser of the day] Across the Atlantic - Real Friends

• Hardcore
• Pop punk
• Easycore

Artist: Across the Atlantic

Release: First Things First

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Chris Lynn - 60734

Justnotnormal

• Non-music
• Field recordings
• Musique concrète
• Ambient
• Organic electronica
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Electronic music

Artist: Chris Lynn

Release: The Clouds Have Settled In

Label: Justnotnormal

Year: 2010 

[Teaser of the day] wk[es] - Abyss

• Avant-techno
• Experimental techno
• Minimal techno
• Electronic music

Artist: wk[es]

Release: Hz-A001

Label: Hz-records

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Boutros Bubba - Green Green Bread of Home

• Math rock
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Art rock

Artist: Boutros Bubba

Release: Ridiculous Wrists

Label: Narrominded

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Marcel Pequel - Four

Heaphonica

• Modern classical
• Post-classical
• Mood music
• Ambient pop
• Piano music
• Contemporary classical

Artist: Marcel Pequel

Release: From One To Nine

Label: Headphonica/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Offthesky - Memories Feign

Zymogen

• Glitchtronica
• Experimental electronica
• Ambient
• Organic electronica
• Electronic music

Artist: Offthesky

Release: Dwelling Spells

Label: Zymogen/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

The Last March of the Ents – Rotting Forevermore (2017)

Torn Flesh

Bandcamp

• Screamo 
• Brutal metal 
• Hardcore 
• Stoner rock 
• Crossover 
• Doom

Comment: The Last March of the Ents, a trio from Phoenix, Arizona, US provides a couple of tracks which can be considered very suitable for an intense mosh worship. Screamo, stoner, doom, and hardcore will get channelized into a powerful whole. In fact, Hollowed Out has been managed to add more atmospheric guitars to the mix thereby chiming like a stoned blackgaze combo. The issue is a pat of the discography of Torn Flesh Records. 

[Teaser of the day] brunk - Violence On TV

• Freeformfreakout
• Avant-garde
• Plunderphonics
• Crossover
• Cyber-metal
• Sampledelic
• Leftfield
• Experimentalism
• Psychedelic
• Acid

Artist: brunk

Release: Insert Coins To Continue

Label: WM Recordings

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Martin Dot - White Roses III

Rain Netlabel

• Piano music
• Ambient
• Modern classical
• Post-classical
• Mood music

Artist: Martin Dot

Release: For You 

Label: Rain Netlabel

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Outrun - Over The Edge

Free Music Archive

• Italo disco
• Dance pop
• Electronic pop

Artist: Outrun

Release: Knife Sports

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

Roger Haddad – 27 White Miles (2008)

Rack And Ruin

• Noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Microtonal 
• Drone 
• Leftfield 
• Non-music 
• Minimalism 
• Ambient noise

Comment: noise as a genre is considered as the counterpoint to the music. Undoubtedly there has been a set of strategies. One of the purposes of the noiseniks is to undermine the role of pop music through conquering the area by taking it over. Given that there must be attributes belonging also to the (pop) music. For instance, melodies and harmonies. By talking about such artists as Glenn Branca, and My Bloody Valentine you can agree about the fact their inner power and verve was adeptly bound to something larger-than-life. Truly melodic, truly epic something which used to be bigger than life. At some point even better than dreams in fact. Because it used to be witty as well. The same strategy seems to be the base for this 3-notch outing by Roger Haddad whose music is very loud and resonant yet involving majestic climaxes even if it is minimally running through microscopic changes and colours in timbre. Noise can be negative and noise can be positive. The first of them is clearly pointed to destroy the structure of something, the other pigeonhole is to represent something on its own. On the issue there are represented both of the categorisations. The release is a part of the discography of Rack And Ruin for this 3-notch outing by Roger Haddad whose music is very loud and resonant yet involving majestic climaxes even if it is minimally running through microscopic changes and colours in timbre. Noise can be negative and noise can be positive. The first of them is clearly pointed to destroy the structure of something, the other pigeonhole is to represent something on its own. On the issue there are represented both of the categorisations. The release is a part of the discography of Rack And Ruin (rr023).

[Teaser of the day] Sa - Varmaera Aerostato

Foundamental

• Ambient
• Experimental electronica
• Electro-acoustic
• Leftfield
• Electronic music
• Drone

Artist: Sa

Release: Luna Luista

Label: Foundamental

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Maartez - Vulgar_Vomit

fant00m

• Downbeat
• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Breaks
• Dubstep

Artist: Maartez

Release: Beukennootjes

Label: fant00m

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Porzellan - Fifth Cycle

Abyssa

• Glitchtronica
• IDM
• Minimalism
• Minimal techno
• Electronic music
• Alternative

Artist: Porzellan

Release: Porzellan Mountains Cycles

Label: Abyssa

Year: 2006

Zhele – Starcardigan (2017)

Mizou

Mizou

• Alternative pop 
• Indie pop 
• Synth pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Art pop 
• Electro-indie

Comment: I guess it supposed to be an example of contemporary indie/alternative pop. First time I could not concentrate but I had to focus on weird singing mode. I tried to figure out is it sung in Russian while strongly buffoonish or is it sung in Ukrainian or Belarusian. As much as I understand Russian I did figure out the lyrics is strongly lovelorn and the lyrics is frequently conveyed in a simplistic and naive way. However, musically it is craftily produced while being imbued with peaky synths and suggestive cadences. At times the elements will change their paths steeply by allowing lofty and bombastic dodges into the mix. Although my first impression was the release is the sort of lacklustre and mediocre. Given that I have to admit the release is a grower. But I feel I would like to get more emotions from the music it is somehow calculated and restrained. The grower is a bit in the discography of Mizou. This is a way of how electro pop, indie and synth pop used to mingle into one. Even if I am being an old school indie man preferring listen to Lambchop's Nixxon to fall asleep (sic!) I will appreciate it ultimately.

[Teaser of the day] Velvet Sky - Les Pas Dans La Nuit

Sologroove

• Downbeat
• Dance pop
• Alternative dance
• Jazz
• Crossover

Artist: Velvet Sky

Release: We Never Close

Label: Sologroove/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] PANGEA - Tombstone

• Hardcore
• Extreme metal
• Crust punk

Artist: PANGEA

Release: Dead Generation

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Tortoise - In Sarah, Mencken, Christ, And Beethoven There Where Women And Men

Nyctaper

• Jazz rock
• Alternative rock
• Art rock
• Live session
• Post-rock
• Yacht rock

Artist: Tortoise

Release: Live at Hall at MP on 2017-03-16

Label: Nyctaper

Year: 2017

Antena – Signos En El Viento (2008)

Gorriòn De Miga

Bandcamp

• Post-rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Art rock 
• Electronic music 
• Indietronica 
• Epic 
• Drone pop 
• Organcore 
• Acid rock

Comment: it is a quite peculiar feel to go back in time with purpose to review an issue you have not listened to it before. For instance, this 8-track composition was initially released in 2008 and though you have not experienced it before it somehow brings forth painful memories from the past. In fact, it reminds me of those lucky times you had been experiencing then which are ceased to exist today. In a word, it reminds me of the fragility of life and that all used to change permanently around us. The nature of the album is doleful and longing and it is the obvious reason of my complaint. The effect and consequence of it is one has to go on with his/her life to be able to reflect upon the recent time as a lucky span of time. It is always very glad to watch back in time when grass was more green and sky was cloudless. The artist comes out of Argentina and this album is a fabulous shift between epic post-rock, lysergic indie electronic and enchanting drone pop/organcore. Because of providing picturesque, slightly orchestrated and emotionally evocative chords it is a fairly proper issue to depict and convey the nature of autumn. Behind that one man project is Julio Yicarean, the talented man whose (obviously debut) album was released under such a great yet still underrated imprint, Gorriòn De Miga. Gem by any standards.

[mikra] – Sonic Selection Vol. 1 (2017)

PZ104ORBIT

Bandcamp

• Ambient noise 
• Micronoise 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Electronic music 
• Leftfield 
• Synth fusion 
• Ambient

Comment: how to evaluate the effects of variation in music? How many features are properly enough you are able to discern and analyse without getting suffocated under an avalanche of excessive information? And information you are getting from music could it be paralleled with information you are getting from TV, for example? [mikra]'s 11-notch outing is about avoiding pure information or to say that otherwise it is about pure bits to be channelized through filters of excessive information. The result is schizophrenically perturbed. Like dividing a beatific phenomenon into many parts by immersing it with quite irrelevant and agitated information which nevertheless makes sense ultimately. One great example of it, the track called oUTottuoO is a blend of piano chords which are heavily disturbed by more and less sharp noises coming from everywhere around it. S7 shows its beatific potential because perturbations are more switched off. Submind 1976 reminds me of a witty synthesised progression from the end 70s or beginning of the 80s as if a moody background music for a glittering TV series. Like Miami Vice, for instance. DooOwwNoW, however, it is a quite intact ambient beauty. In fact, I have nothing to add to this bunch of inordinateness and excess. It is a crafty harbinger of decay. The outing is a part of the discography of PZ104ORBIT.

[Teaser of the day] Sun Devoured Earth - Make Me Disappear

• Post-rock
• Alternative rock
• Ethereal Wave
• Indie rock
• Screamo
• Blackgaze
• Shoegaze

Artist: Sun Devoured Earth

Release: I Wish I Would Never Wake Up

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Protogroup - Astral

Autoplate

• New Age
• Electronic music
• Cinematic
• Space music
• Ambient pop
• Mood music

Artist: Protogroup

Release: Love Gives Strength To My Soul

Label: Autoplate

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Robert Irish - Alexander

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie folk
• Alt-folk
• Folk indie 
• Americana

Artist: Robert Irish

Release: The Heart Is Strange

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Menkenkes - Erinnerungsstaub

djummi-records

• Post-rock
• Alternative rock
• Epic
• Indie rock
• Mood music

Artist: Menkenkes

Release: anfang august ende september

Label: djummi-records/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Nurgul Jones - Death Garden Jive

Free Music Archive

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Electronic music
• Leftfield
• Illbient
• Drone

Artist: Nurgul Jones

Release: El Vacìo

Label: Spettro Rec/Bandcamp/Free Music Archive 

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Psychic Enemies Network - Sandfall

• Experimental rock
• Raga music
• Avant-rock
• Drone rock
• Psych-rock
• Trance rock

Artist: Psychic Enemies Network

Release: Valis

Label: Pen & Mallet

Year: 2000 

[Teaser of the day] aboombong - Daymare

• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• No Wave
• Avant-garde
• Polyrhythmic music
• Psych-rock
• Art music
• Experimentalism
• Leftfield

Artist: aboombong

Release: asynchronic

Label: Pen & Mallet

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Grid Resistor - 08_5172017

Jamendo

• Micronoise
• Minimalism
• Post-industrial
• Drone
• Acousmatic music
• Microtonal
• Electronic music
• Leftfield
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: Grid Resistor

Release: Alpha

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Craque - Entangled

Stadtgruen

• Clicks And Cuts
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-garde
• Avant-techno
• Electronic music

Artist: Craque

Release: Density Operator

Label: Stadtgruen

Year: 2008

Gabriel Vitel – New New World (2017)

Broque

• House 
• Orchestrated music 
• Remix
• Alternative dance 
• Electronic music 
• Crossover

Comment: Gabriel Vitel and Alec Troniq are back again after releasing The Aviating in 2015. The story is partly old – the duo`s music is still house paced and even one composition is old taken from The Aviating (Old Tortures) though it is newly produced by using the help by Dortmunder Philarmoniker. There is also up a video of the recording session. On the other side, the new outing seems to be more airy and full-fledged due to sampling instruments from an orchestra or orchestrated music. For instance, at the beginning at the title track you can hear the orchestrations of volatile violins which give the track a dynamic touch which may remind of the music by Arthur Russell at times. Some tracks used to be repeated due to being subjugated to remix process and other edit versions. Electronic meets acoustic in a flawless way while avoiding to be mawkishly bombastic. It is a very good listening session. The 6-track outing is a part of the discography of Broque.

MigloJe – Perception (2017)

Kahvi

Bandcamp

• Ambient drone 
• Microtonal 
• Microsound 
• Minimalism 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Abstract 
• Dark ambient 
• Leftfield 
• Micronoise

Comment: it is said very exactly at the site of Kahvi Collective that the Lithuanian artist MigloJe is the master of drone in the discography of the imprint. Indeed, Perception is certainly a disparate case if to compare it to other issues I have heard so far. It avoids merry beats, easier synthesised progressions and picturesque compositions, it is being deliberately reserved and sealed in minimal droning and dark ambient aesthetic while arousing the listener's perceptions nevertheless. The structure of compositions used to grow slowly and stepwise. At times the aesthetic of droning is painted with loaded electricity and a wisp of more white coloured (orchestrated) overflows and some electronic effects, glitches, vague clicks and beeps and barely audible rhythms. Less is more and it will be approved eventually. As Malcolm Mooney of CAN once chirped in the beginning of the 70s that silence is an invisible conversation. It is a sublime drift between almost silence and sub-noise/microscopic noise. Of course, you shall have to add your perceptible appearances tightly correlating with them to the whole as well. It is an essential part of the perception. It may be a soundtrack for your nightmares. Highly appreciated in the perception of mine. Take enough time and silence to perceive it accurately. I guess in Lithuanian the title is as Suvokimas. 

[Teaser of the day] Matti T - Thoughts Are Like Waves

Phonocake

• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Breaks
• Mood music
• Ambient techno

Artist: Matti T

Release: I Did It For Me

Label: Phonocake/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Nyhos - It Is So Omnipresent

Limit Cycle

• Electronic music
• Breaks
• Crossover
• Glitchtronica
• DIY
• Sound collage
• Indietronica
• Lo-fi
• Alternative

Artist: Nyhos

Release: #3

Label: Limit Cycle

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Svarte Fjell - Skog

Treetrunk

• Ambient
• Organic electronica
• Soundscape
• Microtonal
• Epic
• Dark ambient
• Ambient drone
• Minimalism
• Musique concrète
• Drone
• Avant-garde
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Svarte Fjell

Release: Taakeheimen

Label: Treetrunk

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Kayswag - Scared O` The Throne

Bushmen

• Hip-hop
• Urban music
• Avant-hop
• Sampledelic
• Electronic music

Artist: Kayswag

Release: Hard To Define

Label: Bushmen

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Silent Strangers - Retinal

• Industrial techno
• Alternative
• Leftfield
• Neoclassical 
• Electronic music

Artist: Silent Strangers

Release: Anagram 4: Lume

Label: Section 27/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

Alex Elgier and Cecilia Quinteros - Hiken! (2017)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Free jazz
• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Electro-acoustic

Comment: first of all, these 27 minutes and some seconds additionally are sexy and puckish. It is played by a man and a woman thereby creating a sultry synergy between each other. Furthermore, the finishing part of the composition is quite eargasmic and ending with a powerful culmination. In fact, it starts off in the same manner. On the other side, it is prankish because of consisting of an improvisational set which in turn consists of an innumerable amount of chords and abrasive key appearances on the piano and the cello respectively as if played on a prepared instrument with an extended technique. I would prefer to call it modal jazz because both instruments used to progress in different directions to eventually meet each other in mutual areas in a quite agitated and frantic way. Like demonstrating the clash between the sexes. And thereafter getting together again. Like the human life supposedly used to be. That's cool, I mean highly ear-provoking even if it is quite austere and abrasive by its instrumental park. Musically it used to be a play with angularity and deformations where the chords will get partly broken and then repaired again. Intensity is a third component within the formula. And it is the basic cycle of the cooperation. The intriguing  outing is a bit in the discography of Pan Y Rosas Discos, a dwelling place for experimental music worldwide.

Neil Scrivin – Twenty Years On Ben Nevis (2008)

Rack And Ruin

Fonolith

• Ambient 
• Drone 
• DIY 
• Electronic music 
• Lo-fi 
• Dreamwave 
• Drone pop 
• Organcore 
• Mood music

Comment: just discovered that Blackpool musician Neil Scrivin`s both albums Twenty Years On Ben Nevis, and Tomorrow`s World are uploaded at Bandcamp, both of them are remastered and are available in tape format being now closely related to such Blackpudlian imprint as Fonolith. However, my intention is to review it as a bit in the discography of Rack &Ruin Records, a record label reflecting upon an interesting microscopic sonic space at the end of the 00s, and the beginning of the 10s. Rack & Ruin Records had been heading by the Englishman Dean Birkett from 2008 to 2011 whose taste was DIY friendly while experiment orienting. There was up enough noisy indie, peculiar folk-based issues, clumsy lo-fi and bedroom masterminds, warped electronic and deranged ambient-alike stuff. If to name only some artists I would like to denote such artists as Gnomefoam, starstarstar, Tropical Australian Stinger Research Unit, Zgress, Chad Golda, Patrick Hussey, If The People Were Paper, Tyson Brinacombe, Hipster Youth, Dog Bite, Cody England, Gnouli Monsters, Vincent Lillis, The Macadamia Brothers, Lean Horse Marathon, Frost Faire, dessktop, Andy`s Airport Of Love, Chimney Fish. This album of 14 compositions which will clock in at a 35 minute is a sublime drift within droning ambient coated electronic music where the listener can perceive dreamwave-tinged seeds to appear. It is almost (indie) pop music but I have to emphasise the word almost. It is being always admirable if electronic music is produced in dreamy mode (to do it one hs to surpass the mechanical, machine-drenched nature of it). In fact, such sort of sound would mostly get popularized some years ago after the recent release thanks to such artists as Oneothrix Point Never, M Gedded Gengras, Steven Hauschildt. All of that is the contemporary counterpart of Kosmische Musik where adorable vibrations and otherworldly beatific drones are followed by one another or superimposed on eath other. While listening to it you do not need nothing else for your fortune. It sounds like going backwards the past you could find the future from it waiting for you. Originally it was released in 2007 yet at Rack & Ruin it was released one year later.  

[Teaser of the day] Erich Schall - Night Prism

Phonocake

• Minimal techno
• Deep techno
• Alternative dance
• Electronic music

Artist: Erich Schall

Release: No. 7

Label: Phonocake

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] _bew_ - Glock Dub

Acroplane

• Electronic music
• Dub
• Glitch dub
• Breaks
• Alternative
• Dub electro
• Broken beat
• Urban music
• Glitch-hop
• Crossver
• Dubtronica

Artist: _bew_

Release: _dubs_EP

Label: Acroplane

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Klaus Marten - September Reprise Pt 1

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Drone
• Abstract
• Microsound
• Leftfield
• Ambient drone
• Experimental electronica
• Microtonal
• Ambient

Artist: Klaus Marten

Release: September

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

Good Shade – Lunch (2017)

Quote Unquote

Bandcamp

• Punk rock 
• Pop rock 
• Alternative rock 
• College rock 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Power pop 
• Agit-pop 
• Pomp rock

Comment: this 15-notch album is the second in a trilogy by considering such topics as access to quality meal (as the title hints at), possibilities to moving upward the societal ladder and disparities in power and privilege. And it is largely influenced by the election of Donald Trump as president. For Shane Natalie who is behind the project it is adverse event. I have no intention to consider the last mentioned aspect but the first mentioned aspects should be more balanced within a society. Of course, total equality as an idea is a sort of utopia because people are different by their abilities, intelligence and wishes and fortitude. We must have no intention to repeat the practice of Red Khmers through a million of corpses. Given that the state as an institution should be as thin as possible and as much be presented as it is needful for a citizen. In a word, the human being needs that basic needs as vitamin enriched food, shelter and solid education could be fulfilled. And for a talented and hard-working individual there should be possibilities to move forward both educationally and therefore socially. Yet do not forget a most important thing – a human being can still be classified as animal and his/her life is a tremendous fight. The societies are still in a latent state of war, i.e all human beings are fighting against each other even if there are the appearances of collaboration. Musically the whole relies on power pop/punk rock/college rock numbers while at times adding psychedelic spices with fingertip. I wish the artist would have added more madness and hystery and exaggerated energy to the music to add more credibility to support his message. At times it chimes in a way too sabbatical mode. The sensitive outing is a bit in the discography of Quote Unquote Records.

Hu Creix – Gorgeous Sins (2012)

Sirona-Records

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Electronic pop 
• Art pop 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Alternative 
• Dark ambient 
• Techno pop 
• Electro-indie 
• Synth-pop 
• Electro pop 
• Krautrock 
• Dub 
• Ambient pop 
• Psychedelic

Comment: Hu Creix is an interesting artist at least it can be assumed while listening to this 10-notch outing. Unfortunately I have not had enough time to put spots on other releases by him. As the title says it is about sins as much or less as he used to sing and recite here and there. These are small things and habits on its own but important to him. Or giving a fuck to more murky themes like death and having no future. Indeed, most of the compositions presented over there are instrumental ones. It must be said it is an album of balance both emotionally and musically and even stylistically. From chugging electronic and indie tinged music to some gloomy ambient glimpses. For instance, the title track reminds me of Kraftwerk when the legends were to move forward from early motorik to tranquil electro and techno pop. Hydro Key continues with the same path while adding dub inflected electronic effects and spaced-out psychedelic music and cool jazz whiffs to the mix. Astonishing stuff. Great dub. It talks about smoking as well. The release is a part of the discography of Sirona-Records, the prolific French imprint. Oedine is a beatific, atmospheric progression based on a pitched-up, lengthy droning of a Southeast female voice and being backed up by calm rhythms and swirling electronic effects. The most blissful composition on it without any doubt. That reminds me of Holger Czukay's Canaxis 5 and a composition called Boat Woman Song. RIP Holger we miss you! At Shoot Me Hu Creix sings I look out of the window I hear the birds are singing but I don't care. Oh yeah, it sounds so elegantly arrogant and lofty and even absurd yet the result is all but absurdity yet it makes my face smiling. In a nutshell call it excellent yet deformational (pop) music.

Panchasila - Cumbia Hindu

[Teaser of the day] Keijo - Already Here

We Have No Zen!

• New Weird Finland
• Forest folk
• Free folk
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism
• Ambient
• Weird folk
• Psych-folk
• Drone
• Leftfield

Artist: Keijo

Release: ATEASE 

Label: We Have No Zen!/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] K.M. Krebs - Between The Firmament And Our

Webbed Hand

• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Electronic music
• Dark ambient
• Drone
• Illbient
• Leftfield

Artist: K.M. Krebs

Release: Oneiromancy

Label: Webbed Hand

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Tribe Of Astronauts - Grain Again

Eg0cide Productions

• Industrial
• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Industrial techno
• Minimal synth
• Synthwave
• Minimalism

Artist: Tribe Of Astronauts

Release: Musick For Aerodromes

Label: Eg0cide Productions

Year: 2010

Multiple Personality 3 - ...donner I am...

[Teaser of the day] Panchasila - Psicogamelan

Test Tube

• Art music
• Post-industrial
• Experimentalism
• Crossover
• Avant-garde
• World music
• Electro-acoustic
• World fusion

Artist: Panchasila

Release: Pallqa EP   

Label: Test Tube/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Anitek - Paudex

Jamendo

• Breaks
• Trip-hop
• Alternative dance
• Electronic music
• Crossover
• Dub
• Hip-hop
• Folktronica

Artist: Anitek

Release: ExtraLocal

Label: Jamendo

Year: 201

[Teaser of the day] Your Grace - Falado

• Art rock
• Alternative rock
• Folk rock
• Post-rock
• Ethnic music

Artist: Your Grace

Release: That Holy Mountain

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Chenard Walcker - Tchetoula Klebo

Free Sample Zone

• Afrofuturism
• Afrofunk
• Psychedelic
• Plunderphonics
• Sampledelic
• Dance music
• World music
• Alternative dance

Artist: Chenard Walcker

Release: Vodoun

Label: Free Sample Zone

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Sunny June - Hindustani

45RPM-Records

• World music
• Ethnotronica
• Raga music
• Drone
• Electronic music
• Mood music

Artist: Sunny June

Release: Babylon Musicque

Label: 45RPM-Records

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Forest Kingdom - As I Walk Along The Forest Path

Devil Noise

• Drone
• Ambient drone
• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Dark ambient
• Neoclassical
• Soundscape
• Dark wave
• Epic

Artist: Forest Kingdom

Release: As I Walk Along The Forest Path

Label: Devil Noise

Year: 2012  

Gnomefoam – Tendrils (2017)

Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Art pop 
• Gospel 
• Experimental pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Alternative pop 
• Spoken word 
• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Synth-pop

Comment: I can remember for a conversation with Steve Bromley aka Gnomefoam through lastfm sometime in the beginning of 2011 when he told me about his brand new one coming soon on Rack And Ruin Records. Unfortunately sometime soon it would be announced about the ending of Dean Birkett led imprint. I can't remember anymore what happened to the forthcoming Gnomefoam's outing but it was very sad to know about the end of this imprint with idiosyncratic roster whom lo-fi and DIY aesthetic was the thing of honour. Good old times worth to be remembered at any time. Apparently Gnomefoam and Chad Golda are the only artists who are being active from the roster today. For sure, Steve Bromley's uncanny approach was something remarkable. However, much seems to be changed since then. I say immediately it is a great album wherein Steve Bromley's sound and intention is remarkably more grown-up yet at the same time still holding up playfulness. Furthermore, there are up an innumerable bunch of different faces to have appeared throughout the 13-notch outing. From more classical indie pop and synth-pop/electro-indie/indietronica and convulsive sampledelic pop to noisy rock and gospel and even spoken word induced spiritual, illuminated music. Regardless of the style the compositions are uncompromising and full-fledged. The gospel track called Uppers is one of the highlights of the issue. Lyrically it is frequently pessimistic and murky yet it seems to be Bromley's posture as an artist recently. At times it reminds me of Joy Division though indirectly. A sublime flirtation with the Grim Reaper, isn't? For instance, listen to such a track as Things Will Be Better (When I'm Dead) to understand what I meant. I'm very glad to be back enjoying his fascinating music.

Fortadelis – Stimulus (2017)

Jamendo

• Ambient pop 
• House pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Ambient trance 
• Kosmische Musik 
• New Age 
• Electro pop 
• Italo disco 
• Crossover 
• Mood music 
• Psytrance 
• Deep house 
• Breakbeat

Comment: Fortadelis is one of those electronic musicians/producers who is adept to drift seamlessly between different styles while avoiding to result in either a cheap or a magniloquent result. In truth, it is positively magniloquent because of being partly a firework of gurgling electro, lofty chill out, acidic Italo disco, dusty New Age and atmospheric/psytrance inflected music. On the other side, Tomislav Ocvirek, the musician and synthesiser enthusiast from Zagreb, Croatia likes to convey more contemporary elements to the audible interface such as hypnagogic deep house, peaky breakbeat attacks, profound delay effects (dub) and solid ambient pop. So it can be admitted the artist is an old school musician by his choice on the music instruments while being contemporaneous with the kind of artists whose premise is to match the past with the present and make thicker the cultural layer this way. In fact, any of the aforementioned elements used to reflect the other ones on its own and vice versa. Moody meets cerebral. Yeah, I guess I am going to search for the synthesiser enthusiasts from the Balkan peninsula due to having full of potential because he is the second one I have discovered recently. The first was Abul Mogard, the drone/ambient wizard from Serbia who himself builds up the synthesisers. In a word, the result is a top tier and being issued on Jamendo.

[Teaser of the day] Microcobra - Egoist

• Tracker music
• 8bit
• Chiptune
• Sampledelic
• Bitpop
• Nintendocore
• Electronic music
• Acid electro

Artist: Microcobra

Release: Barbara Brylska likes rave chiptuNES

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Novelty Daughter - Still Warm

• Doo-wop
• Soul
• Electronic pop
• Mood music
• Urban music
• Rnb

Artist: Novelty Daughter

Release: Impatients

Label: Stereocure

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Tozo - Pollakiuria

Free Music Archive

• Tech-electro
• Alternative dance
• Electronic music
• Experimental electro

Artist: Tozo

Release: Albatross

Label: loveandtonicrecords/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

Cuubik. – to James (2016)

Bandcamp

Trash Can Dance

• Indie pop/rock 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Dream pop 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Psychedelic rock

Comment: in the 90s there had been the vital indie guitar pop/rock scene in Estonia full of urge and naivety. Probably the most well-known ensemble was Röövel Ööbik, the first combo coming out behind the Iron Curtain to had appeared in John Peel show and had their own session. However, there had been existed such combos as ÖÄK, 1983, Dallas, Dreamphish, Bizarre, The Chance, Afternooning Plague Family, Bimini, Borax, FM Violet, The Choice, Jim Arrow And The Anachrones. In the 00s most of the collectives ended their tenure and new combos were more professional and unfortunately boring and lacklustre. Cuubik. is a contemporary group yet their soundscape sounds very authentic in comparison with the aforementioned era. The members of the combo call their sound fake indie yet it disorienting description. It is an instance of indie/alternative pop/rock at its finest and genuine meaning. It is more than a little bit lo-fi and DIY, it is a little bit dreamy, it is a little bit psychedelic and even employing electronic and dance-appealed sounds at times. I feel myself truly fascinated while listening to these slightly drowsy yet highly enchanting compositions. Highly nostalgic and refreshing at the same time. I do not miss the 90s but I am always ready to rememebr it with a positive word. One can find out a couple of great tracks from within it (Philosophers, Mindgame Mastermind, You and You). You can get a shortened version of the album on tape as well being released on Trash Can Dance.

[Teaser of the day] Ghost Wavvves - Decisions [Teaser of the day]

• Ambient
• Soundscape
• Epic
• Electronic music
• Ambient drone
• Minimalism

Artist: Ghost Wavvves

Release: Human Instrumentality Ambient Music

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mank - Bwyd Ellyllon

• Ambient
• Glitch techno
• IDM
• Alternative
• Experimental techno 
• Electronic music
• Ambient techno

Artist: Mank

Release: Solipsism

Label: Mankymusic

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Azevedo Silva - Charlie

Free Music Archive

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie folk
• Alt-folk
• Folk indie

Artist: Azevedo Silva

Release: Clarabóia

Label: Free Music Archive/Làstima 

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] JM - The Overlook Hotel

• Electronic music
• Techno pop
• Ambient pop
• Electro pop

Artist: JM

Release: Situation Awareness

Label: Artico

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] El Teban - Canto d ele mesmo

Electro Rucini

• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik
• Alternative
• Dark wave
• Spoken word
• Avant-garde
• Post-industrial
• Synthwave

Artist: El Teban 

Release: Mesolimbico

Label: Electro Rucini

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Pasqualino Ubaldini - No Zone

Jamendo

• Fusion 
• Yacht rock
• Funk rock
• Alternative rock
• Mood music

Artist: Pasqualino Ubaldini

Release: Next Area

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] TARRMAC - Laux

• Drone
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Electronic music
• Abstract
• Non-music
• Experimentalism
• Micronoise

Artist: TARRMAC

Release: 44 Degrees

Label: Dog Park

Year: 2017

Red Kite – Sunburst 2006-2012 (2017)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

• Experimental electronica 
• Avant-electronica 
• Experimentalism 
• Micronoise 
• Avant-garde 
• Ambient 
• Leftfield 
• Ambient drone 
• Musique concrète 
• Organic electronica 
• Space music 
• IDM

Comment: this bunch of 13 tracks within the span of 63 minutes establishes a sonic universe filled in with disparate corners, ear-catching progressions and exuberant soundscapes where the listener can enjoy mellow timbres, elemental noises, natural sounds from our world, peaky glitches, creepy drones and elliptically iterative rhythms. At times you can perceive it as if vamped up of debris. As if a soundscape being collected from the bits of sonic junkyard. Ultimately it can be said there is a sort of bold line which unites all the details and minutiae with one another in a gentle way. Of course, the palette is even richer including such elements as hypnotic dream pop (Saloize iii), sublime IDM and glitch-tinged pop (Cetus) and profound ambient/space music (Sureste (Ciudad Inacabada)) which is a positive surprise in any cases. Behind the project is the Spanish musician Sergio Sánchez. This astounding outing is a part of the discography of Pan Y Rosas Discos from Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Art School Jocks – Art School Jocks (2017)

Quote Unquote

Father/Daughter

• Fuzz pop 
• Indie punk 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Indie pop/rock

Comment: Art School Jocks is a female quartet from Atlanta, Georgia, USA whose music seems to be punk grounded at the first glance yet by going on you get realised it is platform for the chicks to move further to the indie scene. Ali, Deborah, Dianna, and Camille define themselves as existential basement pop band. It might be their most direct relation to punk music is bound through their critical attitude towards some racial and sex relation based concerns and even the footy sense of living pours out from the lyrics. It is sometimes said that the way to hell is pathed with good intentions. You can perceive that feel within it as well. Fortunately the pessimism is supported by solid guitar music coated with fuzzed-out vamps and dreamy glimpses. Given that this short 12-minute outing has been managed to set up a vivid and invigorating whole. The release is a part of the discographies of such labels as Quote Unquote Records, and Father/Daughter Records.

[Teaser of the day] Sacré Nom! - La Mort des Amants

Soviet Net Label

• Synth rock
• Alternative rock
• Electro-rock
• Goth rock
• Dark wave
• Industrial rock
• Art rock

Artist: Sacrè Nom!

Release: Dimisit Spiritus

Label: Soviet Net Label

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Ifang - Delusion (ft. Dominique Vermoet)

Free Music Archive

• Electronic music
• Dubstep
• Experimental electronica
• Post-rock
• Crossover
• Alternative
• Ambient

Artist: Ifang

Release: Delusion 

Label: esc.rec./Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Nuclear Nation - Anticlericalism

Folksoundomy: Music And Music Albums

• Industrial
• Electronic music
• EBM
• Synthwave
• Alternative

Artist: Nuclear Nation

Release: Roads To Anarchy

Label: Folksoundomy: Music And Music Albums

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Tomáš Hrubiš - part 3 / pochop

• Improvised music
• Piano music
• Contemporary classical
• Avant-garde
• Art music
• Post-classical
• Modern classical
• Experimentalism

Artist: Tomáš Hrubiš  

Release: Raport

Label: Poli5

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Modální mystérium - Jeden z duvodu

Signals from Arkaim

• Avant-garde
• Improvised music
• Drone
• Electro-acoustic
• Live recording
• Spoken word
• Electronic music
• Experimentalism

Artist: Modální mystérium

Release: Modální mystérium

Label: Signals from Arkaim

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] MiDiLe - Phone Arrival

Sucu Music

• Ambient
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-garde
• Experimental
• Drone
• Electronic music
• Art music

Artist: MiDiLe

Release: Take Off And Learning

Label: Sucu Music

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Spacegoat - Sacred Mountain

• Psychedelic rock
• Heavy metal
• Metal
• Speed metal
• Rock
• Hard rock

Artist: Spacegoat

Release: Superstition

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Sea Trials - Symphony For A Breach (Part 1)

• Ambient
• Experimentalism
• Ambient noise
• Avant-garde
• Dreamwave
• Soundscape
• Micronoise
• Electronic music

Artist: Sea Trials

Release: The Weight Of Surfacing

Label: Audio Gourmet

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Nicolas Sicardi - Nos volveremos enemigos

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie folk
• Alt-folk
• Folk indie

Artist: Nicolas Sicardi

Release: La palmada real

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Clown Connecktion - Gor

Miasmah

• Glitchtronica
• Glitch electro
• Electronic music
• Experimental electro
• Sampledelic
• IDM
• Avant-electro
• Alternative

Artist: Clown Connecktion

Release: I Scribble Out Music With My Left Hand EP

Label: Miasmah

Year: 2003

Stereolab in, Metronomic Underground Versions (2017)

• Art pop 
• Noise pop 
• Avant-pop 
• Experimental pop 
• Post-pop 
• Indie 
• Alternative 
• Covers 
• Drone pop 
• Organcore 
• Space pop 
• Neokrautrock 
• Psych-pop 
• Post-rock

Comment: undoubtedly the first half of the 90s predicted what would be happening at the end of 00s and in the beginning of the 10s. By my opinion by experimental side there were many great experimental pop acts in advance but the most important ones were My Bloody Valentine with its Loveless which can freely be considered the most sultry guitar music ever made. It is the representative of perfect/ideal pop where tenderness was seamlessly intertwined with violet noise the music which is the candidate of your very deep dreams. I personally dreamed of Kevin Shields led combo's music for many years and when getting it finally it was bigger than my dreams used to ever be. Stereolab came from the tradition of C86 and jangle pop (from McCarthy to turning out into something very different. By the way, being partly influenced by MBV, and partly by krautrock-driven motorik beat, particularly by such artists as Neu!, and Faust. Yet the combo's idiosyncrasy come to appear and last for the coming decadences and artists because Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier led distilled something wondrous from a range of diverse styles. From quite straightforward drone pop/organcore in the beginning to more sophisticated incantations through incisive electronic music, psychedelic pop and krautrock and bossa nova and French pop. The future had been presented through the past and present. Like the philosophical proposition that the modes of time cannot be existed without each other. All of that brought the combo forward as a main proponent of the so-called ideal pop. On the other hand, the combo's music justified itself as post-rock essentially rather than the bare stylistic label. If such styles as chillwave came to the terrain it was very understandable for indie people the task of Stereolab as a main linkage and premise to it. The Brazil-based imprint The Blog That Celebrates Itself brings to us a bunch of 15 compositions reflecting upon other possibilities for Stereolab which wouldn't and shouldn't have been realised for. For instance, singing songs with male voices and by employing more rough, lo-fi approach. There are represented such artists as Pia Fraus, Lake Ruth And Listening Center, Nax, Brilliant Beast, The Ludovico Treatment, Sexores, Blue Unit with April Zimont (Glowfriends), A Thousand Hours, The Death of Pop, El Camino de Los Caminos, La Suma de Todos los Tiempos, Waving Blue, Verstarker, Leisure Walks, and Perfectos Extraños. Great miscellany for a great ensemble.