Ecovillage – Sacred World (2018)

Constellation Tatsu

Bandcamp

• Art pop 
• Baroque pop 
• Musique concrète 
• Chamber pop 
• Sophisti-pop 
• New Age 
• Ambient pop 
• Experimental pop

The Swedish duo of Emil Holmström and Peter Wikström provides a picturesque glimpse into an intimate life of indie music. More profoundly, what happens behind the veiled walls of advanced indie pop, being comparable with the path at the point of the second half of the 80s regarding Talk Talk and also more restrained moments of Simon Jeffes' led Penguin Cafe Orchestra come to mind. And if you implement imagination of how could sound Pygmalion (by Slowdive) in the middle of nature then it is for you. Bamboo flutes, bird chirping, gusts of wind, the flood of water, and exquisite swathes of sea waves are intertwined with lone guitar chords, sparse drumming and slowed-down strings. It is said by the Chinese if you want to learn to play the bamboo flute the best teacher for it is the wind. I guess the album may be a case of that learning process (particularly at Garden Of Bliss). All in all, superb revelation through sound and nature. It is an example of perfect New Age. The fabulous one is a notch in the discography of Constellation Tatsu.

[Teaser of the day] Nine Inch Nails - Clap Trap Crack Slap

Archive.org

• Electronic
• Industrial rock
• Electro-rock
• Synth-rock

Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Release: Strobe Light
Label: Archive.org
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Old Solar - Guard Our Minds As We Sleep

• Ambient rock
• Post-rock
• Art rock
• Progressive
• Alternative rock

Artist: Old Solar
Release: Quiet Prayers
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 
Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Origami Repetika - Red Zamboni

sub65 media

• Indie pop/rock
• Lo-fi
• Chamber pop
• DIY
• Alternative pop/rock
• Baroque pop

Artist: Origami Repetika
Release: Red Zamboni
Label: sub65 media
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Heifervescent - Destination Altair

Jamendo

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Psychedelic

Artist: Heifervescent
Release: Excuses For The Common Man Instrumental Versions
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2018

Mutate – No One In The Mirror (2012)

Black Square

• Post-rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Drone 
• Post-industrial 
• Ambient 
• Abstract 
• Micronoise 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Ambient drone
• Microtonal

First of all, I would like to thank the players of Montréal Canadiens for their brave fight against Philadelphia Flyers. By following the series from the second game on one could see how the players from Philly had truly frightened looks due to Habs' energetic avalanche over them. Such a pity in twofold, firstly, if to express in terms of the logic of another language the success of Flyers in the beginning of the game 6 was just based on bounces through the arses of Habs' players and secondly, how many wasted moments on very unfortunate stick handling in front of Flyers' goalie Hart. However, the overall picture was very good even without Brendan Gallagher, true fighter who had made a spectacular performance in the game 5. It was just a bit more than sport and hockey. Good recovery, Brendan, the rest bunch of players and Claude Julien. Habs' fan since the end of the 80s.
Before starting listening to Mutate's 5-notch issue I was listening to another Montréal pride GYBE's 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (2012) which tuned me in due galvanized noisy guitar walls and stepwise dynamic gears hovering up to sublime orchestrated music. However, Mutate's issue is a bit different based either on the abstract hisses of post-industrial and otherwise on sustained guitar chords, similarly to GY!BE's album embellished with concrete sounds and accidental stream of (sub)consciousness/hypnosis. This profound comes out of the discography of Black Square.

Oculoss – Parallel Path (2018)

MiMi
Bandcamp

• Post-rock
• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Ambient
• Minimalism
• Ambient drone
• Cowbell indie
• Ambient rock

There have been talks about the goodness and badness of recent musicianship in comparison to previous decades. In some sense, it is nonsensical because like the historical events the releases should be evaluated after decades to get a hint at their goodness. I am now very convinced that Slowdive's Pygmalion, Stereolab's Dots And Loops and Broadcast's Noise Made By People are superb issues, for instance. On the other side, this can be said only about few albums within Britpop. Of course, good music can be found today as well, though in underground circles only. Most mainstream acts most of them have who have loaned from the underground scenes have seriously failed because they are settled down in a huge distance from ideal pop (given that it must be the ultimate goal within the pop scene). Because of that, paradoxically, many old experimental albums used to sound more poppy than nowadays acts due to have put more catchiness in a song. MiMi Records represents something very special in the embodiment of Oculoss' 5-notch outing. It starts off with a loopy, minimalism-driven ambient track, scene 1221 to go on with more guitar-based sounds. It is silent and immersive and iterative yet enough mind-provoking on the other side to think of it supposedly a weird guitar technique must have been behind. As if modern classically presumed floating watery chords instead of the piano ones. Someone may call it post-rock, maybe cowbell indie. As if Lubomir Melnyk was sat down in front of electric guitar to implement his subtle touch instead of the keyboard. In a word, minimalism/rock/ambient come together to provide an amazing crossover album with a vibration. Pure bliss.

Bottlesmoker – Parakosmos (2017)

Yes No Wave
Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Electronic 
• Alternative dance 
• Psychedelic 
• Synth-pop 
• Glo-fi 
• Ethnotronica 
• World fusion 
• Electro pop

Bottlesmoker is an Indonesian duo whose 10-notch whole is a sultry blend of psychedelic electronic vibes on the fringe of indie music, with some new appearances of it like glo-fi. Massive synthesised orchestrations with meandering acidic vessels in the middle used to hover atop bold beats. I guess they are a part of the powerful indie scene in Indonesia within it one can find out lots of bands with a remarkably huge part of custom-built instruments as I have read at Cyclic Defrost. Beyond similarities with Western combos there are seamlessly represented World/ethnic music influences. The bouncy gem is a part of the discography of Yes No Wave Records. Two tracks within are absolutely superb with regard to their catchy nature – Batara Pandita (the rear part of it), and East Indies feat. Kronutz.

[Teaser of the day] The Fall - Going to Spain

• Post-punk
• Live
• Prog-punk
• Art punk
• Alternative rock

Artist: The Fall
Release: Live 1993 at Hallam University, Sheffield
Label: Sheffield Tape Archive
Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Curve - Dirty High - Moles Master

• Electronic
• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative dance
• Electro-indie
• Big beat
• Indie dance
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Curve
Release: Chinese Burn E P - Bootleg Series 2
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Mogadiscio Ensemble - Rosae Crucis

• Electronic
• Breaks
• Indietronica
• Synth-pop
• Altrnative dance

Artist: Mogadiscio Ensemble
Release: Rejected Ambient Works 2009​-​2016
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Skies Of Ember - Headlights

• Dream pop
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Shoegaze

Artist: Skies Of Ember
Release: VA - Alunig: A Shoegaze Pilipinas Compilation Volume 1
Label: Shoegaze Filipinas/Bandcamp
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] D-Echo Project - 7 Cocktail

Cyan Music

• Chill out
• Easy listening
• Mood music
• Chilltronica
• Ambient pop

Artist: D-Echo Project
Release: Flavours
Label: Cyan Music/Bandcamp
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Studebaker´s Blacksmith Shop - Elimination Of Danger

Clinical Archives

• Art rock
• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Psychedelic

Artist: Studebaker´s Blacksmith Shop
Release: Excuse me, are you sick?!
Label: Clinical Archives
Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Asato Maa - Changes Are Coming

Enoughrecords

• Electronic music
• Ambient pop
• Synth-pop

Artist: Asato Maa
Release: ... Is Coming
Label: Enoughrecords
Year: 2020

CLOUDWARMER – monolith II (2020)

Bandcamp

• Experimental pop 
• Avant-pop 
• Electronic
• Breaks 
• Sampledelic
• Post-pop 
• Sound collage 
• Plunderphonics

Some days ago I got an idea Lana.. had issued a book of poetry… . I guess she needs some more millions of bucks to cope with. At the moment many Americans shit their pants off to pay their colossal Corona treatment bills and then comes out a local pocket-Dickinson to treat them with an additional bill (don't tell me the buying is a voluntary, non-brainwashed act regarding especially children). It would have been a nice act by her to release it for free as a thanksgiving to her fans in these dim times. At least I got inspired by the idea to go back to Cocteau Twins, and Slowdive as seminal acts and musical heroes. By thinking of Slowdive I thinking of Oasis at the same time as the dark shadow of the shoegaze legend who were dropped from the roster of Creation Records allegedly because of the Mancunians. In last years of the 90s the third album of Oasis (I could not remember the title of this hype anymore, sic!) was a main article in British second hand shops. So you can draw parallels and create a possible scenario between L and O. Could you find out Slowdive's Pygmalion in a second hand shop? Indeed, history showcases frantic paradoxes within to bring forth the truth/objective meaning. In fact, could we know the truth at the time of post-post-post-post-tttrrruuuttthhh?
There have been around a couple of guys for years who has been releasing music from a possible sonic trash (I have no exact idea of their initial sonic material and its goodness and ugliness). They started as The Fucked Up Beat and had been producing as CLOUDWARMER. The duo of Eddie Palmer and Brett Zehner have again activated during the recent year by issuing at least four releases full of sampledelic charm, haunting glimpses from the past (we are living in the past anyway), smoky jazz whiffs, skiddy trip-hop and Latin mixed rhythms. In comparison to their previous act the sound has been managed to be more pop-appealing and catchy with more accessible harmonies and compelling gears and doing away with ghastly samples related to dark events or obscure accidents during the 20th century. Beautiful shit in any cases.

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - Crypto II (Dude Lord Draco)

HAZE

• Spoken word
• Sound collage
• Sampledelic
• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Ambient rock
• Post-rock
• Art pop

Artist: Cagey House
Release: Queen of Spins
Label: HAZE
Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Massimo Discepoli​-​Daniel Barbiero - The Occulted Measure

• Experimental rock
• Post-rock
• Avant-rock
• Chamber rock
• Post-classical
• Art rock
• Progressive

Artist: Massimo Discepoli​-​Daniel Barbiero
Release: An Eclipse Of Images
Label: Acustronica
Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Pilesar - No Regard for Time

Zeromoon

• Electronic
• DIY
• Drone
• Outsider music
• Conceptual
• Ambient drone
• Lo-fi
• Dark ambient

Artist: Pilesar
Release: Underscores
Label: Zeromoon
Year: 2013

(029) – Black Files (2019)

Soisloscerdos
Bandcamp

• Techno 
• Tech-house 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Minimal techno

Some may say is there any point at all to produce further albums given that the most important albums within a genre have been already produced. Regarding techno music such artists as Autechre, Plaid, Plone, Aphex Twin and the Detroit-based techno scene have made up solid ground which seems to be impossible to break. Some could say like Anthony Braxton that the second wave of a genre is obviously the most fruitful and eager to fulfil daring ideas. There is just a problem how to date back to the second or first movement? Regarding synth-punk for instance, is the starting point embarked on with Suicide at a time or should we go back more in time to such a combo as Silver Apples? I would prefer the latter version.
(029) is an artist from Toledo, Spain who has issued a handful of issues under an imprint, Soisloscerdos. Black Files is a determined case like it used to be characteristic to techno albums with determined drifts within the genre and some little slides outside the genre. The artist's techno is austere and dystopian as if living in a miserable, hopeless world like...the recent one. Maybe it is time to withdraw in corpore and let our closest relatives chimpanzees and bonobos take our place. But maybe it is not a great idea because of having similar developmental thread in their genes and subsequent activities. Bonobos (a subspecies of the chimps) solve their conflicts by having sex with one another. Although the hippies tried to mimick them in the 60s the world would have changed in a worse direction. Noises and dissonances are nice subjects as far as it makes sense within a context as new and groundbreaking, otherwise it is just an example of agony. Where are new Angus Maclises, early Einstürzende Neubautens, Glenn Brancas and young John Cales? Where are new crazy masterminds like once were Joe Meek, Raymond Scott, Mort Garson, the Barrons, Bruce Haack, Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire? How to change this inferior inferno? Get involved more in absurdity as a pioneering counterpoint to contemporaneous common sense as the damned premise of nothingness. In a word, give me some money, bitch. Pay less, get more!

[Teaser of the day] Neoplan Project - Hyphen

Far From Showbiz

• Electronic rock
• Progressive
• Art rock
• Synth-rock

Artist: Neoplan Project
Release: Neoplan Project
Label: Far From Showbiz/Jamendo
Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Postmoderna - Game

Kermesse

• Electronic music
• Easy listening
• Cinematic
• Chilltronica
• Mood music
• Art pop

Artist: Postmoderna
Release: Atari EP
Label: Kermesse
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Y-nISo - Track 30

Rain

• Electronic
• Post-industrial
• Illbient
• Avant-garde
• Noise
• Experimentalism

Artist: Y-nISo
Release: Movie 2005
Label: Rain
Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Cloudwarmer - Elizabeth Woolridge Grant Lived Among The Fascists

• Electronic
• Jazz noir
• Experimental pop
• Sampledelic
• Art pop
• Sound collage
• Avant-pop
• Hauntology

Artist: Cloudwarmer
Release: Hushers
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Pigmalião - Drums of Poison

• Electronic music
• World fusion
• Ethnotronica
• Breaks 
• World music

Artist: Pigmalião
Release: V​/​A - Quintessence
Label: Tropical Twista
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Bing Satellites - Sail Away to Heaven (Sheffield soundcheck)

• Ambient
• Post-rock
• Experimentalism
• Live
• Microtonal
• Space music
• Soundscape
• Ambient rock
• Avant-garde
• Epic
• Ambient drone
• Minimalism

Artist: Bing Satellites
Release: The ambient archives - July 2019 - live
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] E.A.R.L. - 505

• Electronic
• Easy listening
• Electro-funk
• Post-disco
• Alternative pop

Artist: E.A.R.L.
Release: Monster Jinx Crib Season
Label: Monster Jinx
Year: 2020

Pablo Gómez Bate – Conflicto Bélico (2020)

Pueblo Nuevo

• Electronic music 
• Avant-jazz 
• Drone 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Ambient drone 
• Experimental techno 
• Ambient techno

The Chilean imprint Pueblo Nuevo used to release intriguing crossover issues of different genres and Pablo Gómez Bate's 6-notch one has been managed to run across disparate landscapes like IDM, jazz (in-between cool-Miles, and fusion-Miles), electro-acoustic morasses, (ambient) droning, elaborated vowels amplified into abstract noises, simplistic toytronic fantasies, and every kind of sonic trash can dance which used to loop alone and constitute colourful kaleidoscopic patterns with one another. Something comes in, something goes out, something staying in place, something disappears, something goes wrong, something transforms into a chimera, something...never mind. All is truly possible in a dreamy state of mind, all will then be cancelled in the non-existent state of mind. The highlight of the issue is dynamically progressing Pachita, the aforementioned state between differently played trumpets of Miles Davis.