Recent Music Heroes: Aerotone

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2/23/2019

VA – Soundtrack For Your Wedding (2006)

Aerotone

Electronic music
Indietronica
Post-rock
Alternative
Ambient pop
Art pop
Post-rock
Plinkerpop
Chamber pop

Comment: these 60 minutes are something special from the past when indie music was tightly mingled with electronic music. Aerotone was a German imprint which had complemented the tradition being launched by such imprints as Monika Enterprise, Morr Music, and City Slang. There are up 14 songs by such artists as The Royal Horse Gala, 7oi, Leader, Mint, Gras, Renniac, Turnus, Cignol, Cloinc, Blisaed, Muhr, Planet Boelex, Ecoplan, and Aligning Minds. In a word, back then in 2006 such sort of music was a borderline indie example but today it is not anymore. Such sort of music can be considered a mainstream indie case. However, old cases like this one are more pleasant for me than new ones because most new ones could be evaluated in the future while having a decent time span behind. One should get a chance to separate out between a hype and a lasting virtue. By the recent miscellany it can be admitted this borderline case is truly transgressive (it is the tautological assumption, though!) by providing many intriguing yet full-fledged dodges within the whole. All in all, admit a solid present for this special day.

11/10/2016

Bluebridge Quartet – Adjusted For Low Noise Tape EP (2007)

Aerotone

Post-rock
Downbeat
Experimental rock
Jazz
Alternative rock
Indie rock

Comment: these 19 minutes are truly sympathetic because this 4-track issue is a vivid drift between indie, jazz, and post-rock. With regard to the title I was already prepared to hear something remarkably more obscure, electronic and even abstract but the first chords of the opening track Spektrum dissipated my doubts. Mellow vibraphone chords and epic brass chords and saxophone solos used to seamlessly get into meticulous drum patterns and gentle guitar chords full of organic magic and wondrous mid-points and end-points. Although Bluebridge Quartet was formed in Jönköping, Sweden approximately 12 years ago their handwriting come close to the Chicago-based post-rock school of which more well-known figureheads have been Tortoise, and Sea And The Cake and in fact having most similarities with Bluebridge Quartet either. In a word, it is a fabulous issue being issued on the German imprint Aerotone of which fare had been to issue artists who were immersed in indie electronica and post-rock.

11/02/2016

My First Trumpet – Frerk (2007)

Aerotone

Bandcamp

Indietronica
Alternative pop
Post-rock
Indie
Glitch pop
Electronic

Comment: Kevin Hamann aka My First Trumpet released a brand new album, Oke on Anette Records in 2016. However, he has been in the field for approximately 10 years representing the tendencies of indie and post-rock music through sublime electronic possibilities. With regard to the netlabel world there were many netlabels of which purpose was to promote artists with the aforementioned intent (Aerotone, 12rec, error! Lo-Fi Recordings, Poni Republic, 23 Seconds). Kevin Hamann`s 11-notch issue could best be understood in terms of balancing between minimal and rough, between simplistic and profound, between incisive and dulcet, between pastel tones and corroded ones. These characteristics could not be without each other to create something to be (nearly) perfect. By the first listening it might sound a bit simplistic but listening to it for more times an extraordinary indie world used to open up in front of your ears. Indeed, Hamann`s chemistry is profound and obsessive because without that there could not be mad professors of teaching us that pop music must be witty, organic, multi-faceted and being made with great dedication. It is well-groomed and lunatic at the same time. Recently I listened to a crosscut vinyl issue by Donovan (Golden Hour Of Donovan) and in comparison to this it could be said it is a reversed version of the legendary British singer-songwriter because Hamann`s approach is instrumental only though being laconic in a similar way. More profoundly, it might sound laconically yet all these elements are craftily fleshed out. The only shortage is it is devoid of trumpets, though. It is an unsuccessful joke of mine, isn’t. The favourite of mine is Muerz because of being sombre by its nature and intention while the rest of the album is rather neutral by its mood. Great classic to be recalled for(ever).

9/11/2012

Cantaloup - On A Hill Not Far Away (2008)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.8

/Indietronica, Dream pop, Cowbell indie, Alternative, Epic, Post-rock, Electronic pop, Art pop, Remix, Experimental indie, Baroque pop/

Comment: it is the sophomore album by Thomas Peters firstly issued in 2008 on an unforgottable indie and electronica label, called Aerotone (which is a defunct one at the moment). There are presented 8 tracks, one of them is a gritty remix at Wakeup Call by Hoodwink, and Crooked Rain is a collaborative composition by Cantaloup, and Hoodwink). And of course, much beauty and artful power is added by Eva Paul`s dreamy and ethereal singing. However, the other notches used to shift between subtle indietronica, intimate art pop, contemplative baroque appearances, and epically compelling cowbell indie and post-rock apparitions. In a word, it is a legacy worth to be remembered and listened to at any time.