- Toytronica
- Electronic music
- DIY
- Alternative
- Indietronica
- Lo-fi
- Electro pop
- Glitchtronica
- Singer-songwriter
- Breakbeat
Comment: one of
the first netlabels I was honoured to meet was Test Tube. It might be
the first impression of mine was highly piebald about the
netlabel/webaudio scene and because of that I could not evaluate any
single netlabel properly. However, by listening to the discography of
Test Tube back now it is being a highly pleasant quality time.
Brisbane, Australia-based Tidy Kid`s
One
Week With My Casio can be considered rather an unusual
example within the discography due to providing no spot upon lush
experimental/ambient music but instead of it experimenting with
sounds and creating poppy songs on his own cheap Casio synthesizer.
By the way, I have also a fancy Casio synth, a small monophonic Casio
SA-1, my cordial relation with it has been lasting since 2000.
Musically this 6-track issue is a great one by sharing expressive
touch between sonic experiments, poppy song structures, and moody
feeling hovering above it. From obscure lo-fi flickers and dreamy
indie electronic patches to convulsive, glitched-out broken beat
madness, littered electro pop and interrupted yet somehow catchy songwriting. By the way,
the 6-track outing was also released as a tape release on the German
imprint Froggi Records. Astounding lo-fi electronica.
