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11/25/2011
11/10/2011
11/07/2011
Windom Earle All Stars - A Series of Minor Personal Tragedies (2006)
/Electro-punk, Chip punk, Prog-indie, Avant-punk, Synth pop, Experimental rock, Art rock, Dance rock, Electronic pop/
Comment: what the heck, this is an experienced, frenetic combo of 6 musicians from Halifax, Canada offering up 14 electro, primitive electro/8-bit/chiptune and prog-drenched punk ditties (even hardcore and shoutcore-loaded songs are up here). Clever lyrics, huge feeze, intricate compositions - in a word, all what shall have to be presumed to create a gritty pop album on its own. For instance, you must listen to Potato Potato, a breathtaking notch with gleaming, blissed-out electro groove. More profoundly, if you are searching for some kindred souls, I recommend listen to Xiu Xiu, Ooberman, Deerhof, A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Clinic, and Hipster Youth.
10/19/2011
Ocaixi - Jove Carn Japonesa (2006)
Comment: breaks, breakx, breakx... . Off-kilter and blurred visions. Lo-fi experimentalism and noisy forays. Catalonia, Japan... . Karaoke folk? A naivistic yet desperate disco dancer. Distorted yet witty techno. Hamsterloco. For more quotations you shall have to listen to this 16-track album.
9/30/2011
9/17/2011
Kyoto Connection - The First Voyage (2006/2010)
/Chilltronica, Art pop, Downtempo, World music, Electronic pop, Synth pop, Alternative pop, New Age/
Comment: Kyoto Connection is a quartet from Argentina, interweaving synthesized harmonies with bracing melodies running incessantly over the listener`s head. Natural instruments are finely balanced with electronic devices and small machines. The band obviously gets huge inspiration and signs from the 80`s synth pop, world fusion, new age, and electronic pop a la Pet Shop Boys. At times it does enter into more contemporary, dream pop-like milieus. On the other side, as you already know there is a big difference between new age and new age, chill out and chill out music. And KC makes difference for their own advantage for sure. Furthermore, KC`s sound used to appeal everywhere - to bigger crowds and more requiring circuits. By any means, Kyoto Connection is one of the best combos settled down at Jamendo.
9/09/2011
Takeshi Nakamura - Ordinary Days (2006)
/Experimental techno, Experimental electronica, Dystopbient, Glitchtronica, Abstract techno, Avant-electronica/
Comment: lots of murky glimmer, lots of devouring beats, lots of dystopic, industrial-inflected landscapes, lots of vibrant floatation and on the contrary filled in with chopped electronica, all of that established by Takeshi Nakamura, a Japanese electronic musician on the legendary Zymogen label. Thereby, more concretely, it seems to be part of the experimental techno scene, on the other side, it leaves itself to be quite remote of all, of any scenes. If to regard Nakamura`s dissipation into restraint moaning effects it can be considered a sort of zombie techno either. It is a quite depressive yet interesting album.
8/24/2011
Daniel Maze - The Art Of Sleeping In (2006)
/Glitchtronica, Avant-garde, Ambient noise, Minimal, Sound art, Avant-electronica, Microtonal, Experimentalism, Abstract, Experimental electronica, Noise, Crossover, Ambient/
Comment: While I have deplorably not written any comments/reviews about Daniel Maze`s oeuvre, I have been a fan of him for a while. (Funny, if I think about the Canadian music I used to relate him to Loscil, Tim Hecker, Muhr, GY!BE). The musician from Vancouver has been a profilic composer searching for innovatively striking fields in the realms of ambient, minimal music, sound art, noise, and experimental electronica. Similarly to this 3-pieced album, which consists of 3 long developments. In fact, Maze deserves his surname, propelling from tense, glitch-fried soundscapes and microtonal progressions (digital stridulation of grasshoppers!!!) to slightly soaring, throbbing plateaus and austere abstractness (at times made up of the crackles only), from pulsating electronic music to laid-back noise outbursts/and metallic orchestrations laid out sometimes. I am sure La Monte Young, Luigi Archetti, and Glenn Branca would like this record. In conclusion, it is a classic album of the electronic/and ambient music indeed.
6/21/2011
Alexandre Bilodeau - Veins-tu (2006)
/Deep house, Dub house, Tech-house, Club dance, Electro/
Comment: This release is a truly classic one even if it is not unsung to it yet. Coming out from Montrèal, Quebec, Canada, it shows up the chunky beats and drilling-ness of electro, bubblegum-ism, hypnotic repetition-relied house rhythm patterns - veering from dubbed house to deep house, and over to tech-house. The value of the issue is universal, i.e being hidden in its ambivalence - it is thought for the stages of the music clubs and for listening in the cozy ambience in the late night hour somewhere. In any cases, it coils your very mood up.
6/19/2011
5/21/2011
Blood Ruby - Recent Songs (2011)
9.4
/Shoegaze, Dream pop, Art-rock, Alternative rock, Dark pop, Ethereal, Epic/
Comment: Honestly, I could not resist to this album coming from New Haven, USA evoking so much pleasant memories in my mind. Initially being released in 2006/and 2007 the Recent Songs comes over to keep refreshing different traditions, more concretely, living up to the mellow dream pop and shoegaze scenes, and ethereal pop and symphonic metal tradition (in true, the last named one used to be allowed mainly through mezzo-drenched or operatic style-ish vocal lines at times). The band started off in 2001, and having been line-upped by Cynthia Conrad, Margaret Browning, and Thomas Wall. Indeed, all the set of 7 tracks by the trio is filled in with monumental sounds resembling of Cocteau Twins, Love Spirals Downwards, Autumn`s Grey Solace, even Beth Gibbons & Portishead at Remains of the Day, Jane Siberry, and many other artists. Yet, in total sum it is essentially idiosyncratic phenomenon on its own, thereby finding a compartment in my heart.
5/14/2011
4/02/2011
Chenard Walcker - Haut Le Coeur (2002/2006)
/Mash-up, Plunderphonics, Avant-garde, Crossover, Sound collage, Samplecore, Sampledelic, Cut and paste/
Comment: Chenard Walcker was a French artist, thinker, visionary and fervent protagonist for the copyleft movement. He had basically been active in the first half of 00`s before he was diagnosed with the serious health condition. More detailly, he created a blog named Free Sample Zone and having had approximately 30-40 albums on his own account. In fact, a true legend in any cases and one heroes of mine.
This album contains of 18 tracks within 71 minutes, lifting its core from the Gregorian chants, old school soul music, rumbling pace shufflings, film score samples, easy listening, hip-hop, psychedelia, near-ethnic/ethno-pop and much more to be chopped up and re-conceptualized into a new form. Actually any of his tracks would freely be a subject for the quizzes with the purpose to figure out all of those hints coming forth from the concrete track.
3/28/2011
WMRI - Voices Of Space (2006/2009)
/Electronic pop, Kosmische musik, Cosmic pop, Synth pop, Robopop, Progressive/
Comment: This 15-track notch comes from Moscow, Russia, reflecting upon fine configurations of spacious synth tunes, electronic pop, robopop (Kraftwerk`s Radioactivity), more concretely, blasting out torrents of unleashed high-chord synths a la Tangerine Dream and krautrock-esque developments (Can`s Tape Kebab).
3/27/2011
Sosos - Abigail (2006)
/Indie folk, Alt-folk, Psychedelic folk, Folk indie, Chamber folk/
Comment: This is a fine set of calm-sensed and impetus-driven tracks respectively based on folk tunes yet because of its adjacent elements it is not quite ordinary songwriting though. Sosos is a 5-pieced US-group which uses variable elements to enrich their soundscape, more detailly, using psychedelic keyboard passages, gospel-tuned backdrops, and orchestrated, baroque-esque progressions. Thereby the album can be considered as an instance of roots music adapted over to the borders of nowadays situation. Quite similar to Wilco indeed.
3/25/2011
Pablo Akaros - Unis par les cliks (2006)
/Tekno, Techno, Club dance, Remix, Minimal, Progressive, Minimal/
Comment: A 4-track brainchild of this profilic Spanish-based club music gearhead reflects upon those dodges and beat manipulations so characteristic to the middle period of 00`s. However, it is an example of bouncing yet minimally fluttering, repeated shapes-relied techno-tekno blended sets, which is intersected by progressing, acid-filled synth brooding at times (Mikro Punto). On the other side, though, it is an insertion into more elemental and warped, spaciously blasting avant-techno realms, for instance through the Catkin Bay Remix of the track Mikro Punto by Jesse Somfay.
3/19/2011
The Womb - Britpop (2006)
9.0
/Britpop, Alternative pop/rock, Experimental indie, Psychedelic pop, Folk noir, Singer-songwriter, Electronic pop, Trip-hop, Big-beat, Alt-folk/
Comment: This album was publicized in 2006, in an era, when britpop has already been dead approximately 6-7 years, yet, the issue reflects exactly upon those tendencies being dominant throughout the 1993-2000 period while London and Manchester were swinging crazily. In fact, in the ending of 90`s Alan Driscoll aka the Womb leaded off with his musical ambitions. Once to get arrived at the title-based reference, indeed, the britpop was not only a movement of guitar-based groups it incorporates the acts of electronica, trip-hop, club dance/pop dance, big beat, atmospheric pop and (acidious) folk music too. So besides Suede, Pulp, Verve, Lightning Seeds, Blur, Primal Scream, Radiohead and other great indie rock acts else there were also Leftfield, Space, Massive Attack, Chemical Brothers, Björk, Tricky, Asian Dub Foundation, Portishead, Super Furry Animals, Gorky`s Zygotic Mynci, Cornershop etc. Though it was a vast bunch of styles and groups, yet, there was a somehow close connection between all those occurrences and signs. This way I felt then and thinking now by the way. The Britpop is made in liasion with Chloë Reeves, who was singing alone of painfully personal songs here. Lots of hitting appearances can be found from within those 10 tracks (My Lover`s Blood; I Disown My Country; Other Lovers; The Dusty Groove, Nostalgia Town). A beautiful and heavily nostalgic appearance.
Comment: This album was publicized in 2006, in an era, when britpop has already been dead approximately 6-7 years, yet, the issue reflects exactly upon those tendencies being dominant throughout the 1993-2000 period while London and Manchester were swinging crazily. In fact, in the ending of 90`s Alan Driscoll aka the Womb leaded off with his musical ambitions. Once to get arrived at the title-based reference, indeed, the britpop was not only a movement of guitar-based groups it incorporates the acts of electronica, trip-hop, club dance/pop dance, big beat, atmospheric pop and (acidious) folk music too. So besides Suede, Pulp, Verve, Lightning Seeds, Blur, Primal Scream, Radiohead and other great indie rock acts else there were also Leftfield, Space, Massive Attack, Chemical Brothers, Björk, Tricky, Asian Dub Foundation, Portishead, Super Furry Animals, Gorky`s Zygotic Mynci, Cornershop etc. Though it was a vast bunch of styles and groups, yet, there was a somehow close connection between all those occurrences and signs. This way I felt then and thinking now by the way. The Britpop is made in liasion with Chloë Reeves, who was singing alone of painfully personal songs here. Lots of hitting appearances can be found from within those 10 tracks (My Lover`s Blood; I Disown My Country; Other Lovers; The Dusty Groove, Nostalgia Town). A beautiful and heavily nostalgic appearance.
3/04/2011
The Late Virginia Summers - TLVS EP (2006)
Redstarcommunity
Lastfm
8.4
Lastfm
8.4
/Post-rock, Experimental rock, Cowbell indie, Lo-fi, Epic, Live recording, Ambient rock/
Comment: Indeed, TLVS is a duo from Lynchburg, Virginia, USA playing up an experimental mix of ambient (rock), lo-fi, and indie. The best moment at those 6 tracks is related to that Joe Morgan and Nathan McGlothlin are inclined to exploit un-plugged musical instruments or record their concept in the live recording mode respectively. Thereby their aspiration to avoid hermetical soundscapes so usual to the most of ambient music will be resulted in natural results and strong confidence.
Comment: Indeed, TLVS is a duo from Lynchburg, Virginia, USA playing up an experimental mix of ambient (rock), lo-fi, and indie. The best moment at those 6 tracks is related to that Joe Morgan and Nathan McGlothlin are inclined to exploit un-plugged musical instruments or record their concept in the live recording mode respectively. Thereby their aspiration to avoid hermetical soundscapes so usual to the most of ambient music will be resulted in natural results and strong confidence.
2/24/2011
2/13/2011
Kiselnye Berega - Chernotrop (2006)
10/8
/Post-punk, Alternative rock, Shoegaze, Shitgaze, Gothic rock/
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