Oblivian Substanshall – Finnish...But Don't Wait Till You Stop (2010)

Chinstrap Music

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• Comedy 
• Parody 
• Dada music 
• Avant-garde 
• Art music 
• Storytelling 
• No Wave

Comment: this set of 15 compositions is something much more than one could expect from an ordinary, smooth issue after first chords. Of course, given that these 41 minutes are released by Chinstrap Music, the imprint led by Ergo Phizmiz (the cover design is also made up by him) then one should not have been surprised at all. All those surrealistic texts and impressively shifted storytelling reflecting upon the madness and tension being prevalent around us to be resulted in something totally different through our unnerving dreams and serpentine subconsciousness. It is a fertile sole for a genuine art. Undoubtedly the cognitive dissonance used to surface more distinctly being juxtaposed to an ordinary pop assemblage at the first glimpse (a part of the whole is an obvious No Wave din, though). You know an ordinary pop issue embodies something to be hold back and there is a twisted doctor to make experiments with it. Furthermore, to employ an ordinary approach it even more provides possibilities to undermine everyday's life and its dullness. Is it either a diagnosis or an effective result it does not make sense in fact. Let's say 2 in 1. Very pro to add it to a best list of surreal/dada music.

Pete Um ‎– Look Sharp! And Hear The Difference (2011)

Chinstrap

Free Music Archive

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Electronic music 
• Dada music 
• Freeformfreakout 
• DIY

Comment: this 10-notch issue was released exactly 7 years ago at Chinstrap Music, Ergo Phizmiz-led imprint but in fact there is no difference by listening to it 7 years before the year of 2011 or 7 years after that because this kind of music is ageless. By the way, it is the same date when the Chernobyl`s reactors exploded. Peter Um`s music is recorded by using analogue-based, reel-to-reel recorder and stylistically it is a wealthy, further pushing mess of dadaist sounds and dizzy effects. I have also had a similar experience in producing music by manipulating with the tapes only. This is a world with restricted possibilities which in fact is a good premiss to cut off innumerable possibilities and get a spot on certain, tangible things. Indeed, there are up 10 slices of uncompromising pop music with droning electronics and marching rhythms and pitched-up vocals (for instance, Slice 1, and Slice 10) though I guess for the most of people it is not pop music at all. They may right because I guess Peter Um`s purpose is not positive, I mean to produce pop music on its own. It may be more just embracing elements from it and infect them with a frenetic, dadaist fever. In fact, he hijacks primitive melodies and harmonies and change them even more into a simplistic one which is one of the practices to ridicule this pulpy mass culture. On the other side, Um adds experimental, even a bit aggressive facets to emphasize the ridiculousness and unsustainability of it. In general, however, the result is positive because there are up 10 tracks which could not be forgotten and will have surfaced many decades later in the blogs of obscure music unless the servers would not blow up due to insignificant information to be contained within them in the most part.

NB! I do not know was the album presented at yamanotedreams or not but I am very glad that rajsank is back again after a two and a half year hiatus to promote releases from the webaudio world (and especially Japanese issues). The reason of the blogger`s hiatus was he could not be remembering his password. Very dadaist indeed.      

Dwoogie - Babble Off (2012)

Chinstrap

Lastfm

/Breakcore, Electro pop, Robot pop, Sampledelic, Dub, Psytrance, Alternative/

Comment: behind the nom de plume Dwoogie produces music Robin Gill who has made it for more than two decades so far. Babble Off consists of a row of breaks combined with hovering (or brooding conversely) synth sounds and production effects (less or more twisted vocal samples and scratches). More concretely, there are represented psychedelic trance beats and electro flickers, some of them used to sound quite laid back, some of them are full of vivid energy and unexpected bursts. There are also represented some hints at dub and robot pop music. In general, the album could be considered a part of sampledelic music being so popular today. The album is issued under Ergo Phizmiz`s record label Chinstrap. Eventually it can be said the result is balanced and varicoloured.     

Echo Chamber Rope Tick – Oktober Sound Lab (2013)

Chinstrap

Free Music Archive

/Psych-rock, Avant-rock, Drone rock, Psychedelia, Dream folk, Post-punk, Raga music, Experimental rock, Experimental electronica, Krautfolk, Space folk, Experimentalism, Krautrock, Psych-folk, Electro-acoustic, Indie rock, Trance rock, Art rock, Improvised music/

Comment: Andy Nation, Seamo Teare, and Simon Mathewson come from Southwest England to present a smorgasbord of 12 tracks extending over 70 minutes in total. More concretely, they have extracted some thought-provoking elements from different and mostly peripheral musical genres to result in a mellow outlet. The listener can perceive 60s acid folk inspired spaced-out trips, transcendent raga motives, dada-alike vocal pastiches, knee-deep psychedelic music conjured aesthetic freedom, 70s krautrock induced repetitiveness and high-pitched electronic effects, and 80s post-punk-esque insolence and arrogance in full flight. By method, however, the trio`s music can be considered rather jazz music because their soundscape used to be in permanent motion and affording an innumerable amount of disparate changes throughout. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of The Fall, Kemialliset Ystävät, Gong, New Mystikal Troubadours, The Japanese Girl, early Kraftwerk (especially the albums Kraftwerk 1, and Kraftwerk 2), Ashtray Navigations, Children Of The Drone, for instance. By the way, the issue was released under Chinstrap, which is curated by a famous plunderphonics/sound collage musician, Ergo Phizmiz. All in all, although the result is truly off-kilter, it sustains the level throughout the course.

Pitmans Gramophone Course of Typewriter Keyboard Instruction - Volume 2 (2012)

Chinstrap

FMA

• Big band music
• Oldie
• Jazz
• Mood music

Cyclic Bits - The Raymond Scott Variations (2010)

Chinstrap

9.5

/Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Experimental electronica, Avant-electronica, Exotica pop, Conceptual/

Comment: I guess Raymond Scott (1908-1994), a legendary visionaire, seminal composer/electronic music pioneer, and instrument builder would have been proud of this 16-track issue because the artists represented
there have poignantly revealed the attitude and nature of the legend. Stylistically the whole folds into a divergent array of styles - from off-beat, whimsical jazz-y grooves and lopsided swing to demented metal outbursts and exotica pop tinged explorations. And of course, there are up a lot of experimental electronica tracks mimicking the acid and beeping sounds of his synthesizers or the gliding motives of his compositions which later would have adapted to famous cartoons. There participate such artists as Tracky Birthday, Bebe Del Banco, 4,000,000 Telephones, Orionza, Listen With Sarah, David Fenech, Fireworks Ensemble, Ego Plum, Vernon Lenoir, DJPE, Satanicpornocultshop, Automated Acoustics, and Felix Kubin. The miscellany is issued on wondrous Chinstrap Music.

Various Artists [Chinstrap Music] - Sounds to Come (2011)

Chinstrap
Free Music Archive

9.4

/Soundtrack, Avant-garde, Hauntology, Sound collage, Film noir, Experimentalism, Cut and paste, Conceptual/

Comment: Sounds to Come is the second installment of a series on Chinstrap of music and sound-design cut from public-domain horror and science-fiction films from 1940-1970 offering up an amusing 6-track blend of haunting and joyful sounds. Lots of ghastly monologues which are supplemented with glass shattering explosions, mechanical sonic effects and otherworldly displayed big band orchestrations. Ergo Phizmiz-approved compilation is very thrilling indeed. The excerpts are taken from such films as The Man Who Changed His Mind, Svengali, The Phantom Ship, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Horrors of Spider Island, Teenagers Battle The Thing (all under the CC licence at Archive.org).

Cyclic Bits: The Raymond Scott Variations (2010)

Chinstrap
Free Music Archive

9.3

/Experimental electronica, Remixes, Avant-electronica, Exotica pop, Space age pop, Sampledelic/

Comment: a host of nowadays innovative electronic musicians are remixing the tracks of a legendary cutting edge electronic musician (who can be compared with Desmond Leslie, Bebe & Loius Barron, Mort Garson, Bruce Haack, and Delia Derbyshire). Here are represented Satanicpornocultshop, Tracky Birthday, Fireworks Ensemble, Ego Plum, DJPE, Orionza, Vernon Lenoir, Felix Kubin and other ones. All in all, the remixes of the musicians ring out really exotic and intricate, having an irresistible smell of the first decades after World War II. More detailly, all those proto-synths, tape manipulations, pitch bending, rough bits and analogue sound make highly sense.

Talulah Lotus - Robot Sun (2010)

Free Music Archive
Chinstrap

7.0

/Free improvisation, Conceptual, Cover, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Children music, Chinstrap, Free Music Archive/