V.A – I Want to Tell You (2017)

Yuzame

• J-pop 
• Electro-pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Shibuya-kei 
• Acid pop 
• Synth-pop 
• Autotune

Comment: it is a joyful listening session in the vein of Japanese pop music with clear hints at childish progressions and exaggeratedly ecstatic pop numbers. It seems to sound to me in that way but it is not derogative comment by my side at all. I like sparkling dynamics with these 8 tracks are surrounded from atop to the very bottom. Even if some of these used to meander in a more silent way. Acidic grooves and bubbling synths come to the forefront to support high-pitched vocals. At times those vocals chime as if doll-alike robots were there to fill singing duties. Nostalgically I can remember for all the times while spending my time watching anime movies. It undoubtedly represents an otherworldly world for a Westerner. The amusing issue is a part of the discography of Yuzame-label. And within it there are up such artists as Rekanan, Mysteka, Mecanika, coralmines, Yunomi,ミスミ, 歩く人, and 市瀬るぽ. 

Stereolab in, Metronomic Underground Versions (2017)

• Art pop 
• Noise pop 
• Avant-pop 
• Experimental pop 
• Post-pop 
• Indie 
• Alternative 
• Covers 
• Drone pop 
• Organcore 
• Space pop 
• Neokrautrock 
• Psych-pop 
• Post-rock

Comment: undoubtedly the first half of the 90s predicted what would be happening at the end of 00s and in the beginning of the 10s. By my opinion by experimental side there were many great experimental pop acts in advance but the most important ones were My Bloody Valentine with its Loveless which can freely be considered the most sultry guitar music ever made. It is the representative of perfect/ideal pop where tenderness was seamlessly intertwined with violet noise the music which is the candidate of your very deep dreams. I personally dreamed of Kevin Shields led combo's music for many years and when getting it finally it was bigger than my dreams used to ever be. Stereolab came from the tradition of C86 and jangle pop (from McCarthy to turning out into something very different. By the way, being partly influenced by MBV, and partly by krautrock-driven motorik beat, particularly by such artists as Neu!, and Faust. Yet the combo's idiosyncrasy come to appear and last for the coming decadences and artists because Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier led distilled something wondrous from a range of diverse styles. From quite straightforward drone pop/organcore in the beginning to more sophisticated incantations through incisive electronic music, psychedelic pop and krautrock and bossa nova and French pop. The future had been presented through the past and present. Like the philosophical proposition that the modes of time cannot be existed without each other. All of that brought the combo forward as a main proponent of the so-called ideal pop. On the other hand, the combo's music justified itself as post-rock essentially rather than the bare stylistic label. If such styles as chillwave came to the terrain it was very understandable for indie people the task of Stereolab as a main linkage and premise to it. The Brazil-based imprint The Blog That Celebrates Itself brings to us a bunch of 15 compositions reflecting upon other possibilities for Stereolab which wouldn't and shouldn't have been realised for. For instance, singing songs with male voices and by employing more rough, lo-fi approach. There are represented such artists as Pia Fraus, Lake Ruth And Listening Center, Nax, Brilliant Beast, The Ludovico Treatment, Sexores, Blue Unit with April Zimont (Glowfriends), A Thousand Hours, The Death of Pop, El Camino de Los Caminos, La Suma de Todos los Tiempos, Waving Blue, Verstarker, Leisure Walks, and Perfectos Extraños. Great miscellany for a great ensemble.

NL 2X COMP – A SELECTION OF NANOLOOP 2 TRACKS (2008)

CatchyNameRecords

• Bitpop 
• Chiptune 
• Acid electro 
• Electronic music 
• Nintendocore
• Electro house 
• Electro pop 
• Alternative dance 
• Tracker music 
• Conceptual 
• Electro

Comment: given that the description of chiptune/bitpop/nintendocore/tracker music is based on crashing and crawling rough bits being mostly related to rhythm I guessed I could hear classic chiptune music from the recent 13-notch issue. It is partly so because there are the crashin-crawlin` beats but mostly it chimes differently. More profoundly, the concept of the miscellany is based on Nanoloop 2, the advance gameboy program. It might be the reason can be dug out from there because of being a bit more advanced, developed platform than the previous ones and thereby reminding more of contemporary electronic music. Obviously rbtr`s Yourdogbitme is the only classical one represented over there in its thoroughgoing simplicity and roughness. However, even if I excepted something different to hear I am not disappointed at all because the result is intriguing and intricate full of good, better and even better examples. From minimally designed electro and straightforwardly acid oriented electro pop and sheer electro disco/house grooves (for instance, Tetris Hold`em`s fabulous Behaviour House, and Marcus Rafferty`s The Electron Theory as fabulous as well) and fast-speed galloping to cut-up electro undercurrents and incisive glacial-alike glistening in timbre and sonic effect drenched improvisations. The compilation is released by such label as CatchyNameRecords, and there are up such artists as Rhinostrich, rbtr, Tetris Hold`em, CatchyNameMusic, Marcus Rafferty, Little-Scale, LoBit, and 8bit-Meta. Great compilation. Everlasting.

Copy Wrong #1 (2012)

Eye Machine Recordings

• Avant-garde 
• Experimental 
• Plunderphonics 
• Harsh noise 
• Grindcore 
• Sampledelic 
• Non-music 
• Electronic music 
• Sound collage 
• Leftfield 
• Freeformfreakout

Comment: by Wiktionary the term “copywrong” does mean the unethical use of, or disregard for, copyright law. Indeed, this miscellany of 13 tracks by 11 artists (or 12 artists because one of the artists is tagged as unknown and by Luxurious Dagger there are up a couple of tracks) is an example of how popular music can be changed into something peripheral and extreme being heavily mutilated, slowed down and excessively mixed together (for instance, J-pop-based light-hearted harmonies are interlaced with harsh noise torrents, or Luxurious Dagger`s version of The Beatles` Come Together is thoroughly ravaged, or different styles used to play from the both channels at the same time or being switched on and off incessantly. There are also up weird samples, barely audible sonic layers as if being thrown into water. Reality around an average listener is substantially warped and changed into mayhem. There are represented such artists as Ben Presto, Public Domain, noiseoftherose, Luxurious Dagger, MBD, Captain Missouri, Third Organ, Ryder Farms, Hat Goblin, Otto V. Rhino, (o)†hers, and The Implicit Order. This miscellany is represented by Eye Machine Recordings. I guess ideologically a purpose of this issue may be related to capture some basic pop values and employ them ridiculously to derail the mainstream control and intention to manipulate with the people in a certain way.

V.A Darker Frequencies (2010)

Kopp

• Post-industrial 
• Noise 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Field recording 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Musique concrète

Comment: this is the first entry by Recent Music Heroes to the discography of Kopp Netlabel, and our focus is directed toward Darker Frequencies, a compilation of 15 compositions and 103 minutes. As the title suggests it is all about or at least most of it is about peripheral sound generation and nihilistic industrial structures and noisy progressions. However, this immense set includes many variations either – for instance, Indo`s Vairupa is based on wobbly, fairly slowed-down trance-alike frequencies which are mixed up with spacey field recording undulations. The compilation embraces such artists as Kid Atari, Perankh, BPMV, Loki Fun Lilith& No Way Out, Topi Reta, AQM, Indo, Murmurists, Dopam, To-Bo, Nosens, Rune, and Adrien Mailler. Given that the miscellany was released seven years ago I guess many artists represented over there are defunct at the moment. Additionally to the intriguing music it is a reason even more to dig it up.

V.A – Codex Internum (2016)

Breathe Compilations

Archive.org

• Dub techno 
• Space music 
• Deep techno 
• Minimal techno 
• Post-industrial 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Ambient 
• Synthwave 
• Electronic music 
• Soundscape 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Post-classical 
• Dreamwave 
• Electro pop 
• Techno pop 
• House 
• Minimalism 
• IDM

Comment: this enormous set of 19 compositions reflects on good taste by Breathe Compilations. Musically it is a fancy patchwork of styles – in the first section one can enjoy more ambient drenched distensions and dilatations, then it will be changing into a dub and house and techno blended miscellany and artsy electro/techno/IDM inflected pop and then post-industrial and avant-garde elements come in to predominate the mix. Of course, the description of mine is somewhat contingent because frequently there are up different elements within one track and within one pigeonhole. That's cool that the picture of it being so varicoloured and diverse. For example, ambient music could be expressed both in terms of changeable synthwave/Kosmische Musik and beatific concrete music and abstract classical music/post-classical and through majestic soundtracks for space rockets and sun-exhausted daydreaming. One of such descriptions can be ascribed to Marco Lucchi and Glenn Sogge's Towards And Within which reaches a 24-minute though it is thoroughly blissful and immersive in its minimal approach from start to finish. Those minimal changes do ameliorate the consistency of the track. Additionally to the aforementioned artists there are represented such artists as Zoran, In Vitro, Elypixa, Esoteric Sob, Capisconne, Ray Garrido, Ohuican, Eckul, Vate, Substak, Solef, Twin Peetz and Moolsaasa, Lezet, Jimmy Watt, Nulix, Lingua Lustra, Ivan Black, and AxBx. Indeed, it is an excellent example of the compilation music from 2016.

Monster Jinx – Payday Vol.01 (2016)

Monster Jinx

• Downtempo 
• Hip-hop 
• Urban music 
• Alternative dance 
• Rnb 
• Mood music 
• Chilltronica 
• Yacht pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Sampledelic

Comment: Monster Jinx is a Portuguese imprint which has been releasing music since 2009. The current one embraces 10 compositions which could loosely be categorised as urban music – from softened hip-hop and moody electro vibes to synthesised yacht pop and chemical rnb and restrained downtempo and careless sampledelic chugging. However, there are up more poignant and incisive and more tense moments as well which used to counterbalance the compilation's caressing nature. In a word, this is a crosscut of the imprint. It's sure anybody can find out something intriguing and relaxing for himself/herself. The more you listen to it the more it expands and the more it gets better. There are up such artists as Stray, J-K, Pulso, Taseh, OSEB, DarkSunn, Ghost Wavvves, NO FUTURE, pretochines, and dgtldrmr. Get it!

Various Artists - Interplanetary Materials (2004)

Comfort Stand Recordings

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• Alternative rock 
• Art pop 
• Experimental pop 
• Leftfield 
• Avant-garde 
• Space age pop 
• Indie 
• Psych-pop
• Parody 
• Space pop 
• Drone pop 
• Electronic 
• Exotica pop 
• Post-classical 
• Indie rock 
• Sampledelic 
• Deep house 
• Spoken world
• Mood music

Comment: Ladies and gentlemen! We are floating in space! Ehh…where exactly is that place we are going to fly and maybe even conquer. There exists inner space additionally to Outer Space, which are seamlessly related to each other – the first one is subjugated to the latter or at least being a minor, intangible part of it. The musicians around the world have explored and tried to chart the inner limits of our more or less subliminal psyche at different times. Furthermore, the term “space” is being frequently related to something, which could be described as “with-it, cutting-edge” because the human being has had not enough power to date to reach more distant cosmic objects and bigger distances in Outer Universe though the desire to do it existed already long ago. However, the legendary imprint Comfort Stand Recordings put it into practice through music, through a set of 2 hours and 35 minutes that it is a blissful blend of diverse styles that works out like a tremendous maelstrom, which in turn involves an innumerable amount of special universes in the nexus of it. And so on until one’s brain will explode. More profoundly, those sonorous seeds within it are witty, clever, arousing, grandeur, at times very funny and even buffoonish, blissful and…otherworldly. Because of that I feel by myself the whole fairly dignifies me and inspires respect against people, beasts and the Almighty Creator. And of course, it is culturally and narratively important because of embracing many hints at essential space-related things. Last but not least there are represented such artists as big celestrial orchestre, Full Load Of King, R Stevie Moore, Ton Rückert, Gulag Picture Radio, Fortyone, Laze, Atton Paul, Lungbutter, Howard Ambient, Archbishop Jason Polland, The Pan-Galactic All Stars, sciflyer, Astrochimp, Weirdomusic, komafuzz, Lee Rosevere, Jan Turkenberg, AP3S, The Apartment, Nova Social, Dana Countryman, Bruce Lenkei, Wild Acoustic Chamber Orchestra, Mr. Fab, Eddie the Rat, LowLiFi, Jack Fetterman and the in Hi-Fi Music Direction, Seksu Roba, The Vivisectors, Lullabelle, Sascha Müller, The Lounge King Meets Monsieur Max, Inzah, and B.C Sterret w/Janae Olson.                                    

Various Artists - Hi-Five! EardrumsPop's 5 Year Anniversary Compilation (2015)

EardrumsPop

• Indie pop/rock
• Jangle pop
• Shoegaze
• Alternative pop/rock
• Twee pop

Comment: if you want to get the overdose of indie/alternative pop music then listen to this magnum opus by EardrumsPop which contains 38 tracks in total. Of course, the term “indie music” says nothing about it because so different genres and styles have been incorporated into it over many years and even decades. By that it might even be tautological to describe musically contemporary pop music as indie/alternative pop. Furthermore, the scheme could be even fuzzier by considering that not only mainstream music did loan from alternative/indie pop but vice versa either. If earlier the term stands for small independent imprints being separated from mainstream labels then later these imprints got sold by the latter ones. Later on, such instances as weblabels, Archive.org, Free Music Archive, lastfm had been a home for indie music and today Bandcamp as a growing platform is getting more and more recognized to represent a genuine idea of independent distribution as to indie/alternative pop. However, EardrumsPop artists` roots mainly come out of the 80s jangle and twee pop (mainly they were the C86 compilation related artists) music which resorted to ironically naïve and thereby elegantly self-confident attitudes within the indie music scene thereby conveying a lot of viable impetuses to the style to get evolved into something powerfully flourishing and beautiful. There are represented such artists as The Marble Man, Tomiji, Lost Tapes, Vukovar, Making Marks, Ralegh Long, Uncle Rico, The Paris Work-In, Monster Bobby, The Just Joans, Are You Feverish Ian?, The Royal Landscaping Society, Marc Elston, Ceremonies, Shekon, The Lost Cavalry, Finnmark!, The Pinefox, Kids On Bikes, Boyish, A Little Orchestra, Sleeping Policemen, Tiny Fireflies, The Color Waves, The Swapsies, Evripidis and his tragedies, L & M Kingsize, Cape Canareval, Laura K, The Very Most, Helena Sundin, Niko Niko!, Antony Harding, Colin & The Clarys, les bicyclettes de Belsize, Onward Chariots, and Little xs for Eyes. Most of those artists are already familiar for those who have enjoyed previous issues under EardrumsPop. Happy birthday, EardrumsPop.

UNDÆ! 2012

Thrmnphone

• Noise
• Experimentalism
• Drone
• Microtonal
• Abstract
• Organic electronica
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-garde
• Electro-acoustic
• Psycho-acoustic

Comment: it is a grandeur miscellany of 14 pieces with a total amount of 107 minutes. The concept´s choice is to explore electronic and acoustic elements in one joint thread. Of course, frequently it goes beyond the aforementioned borders (for instance, providing spot more on drone, ambient and even rhythmic noise music) and this kind of exaggeration is fairly welcome. On the other side, the genre of electro-acoustic music is huge enough to wind quite differently from one brim to another. Some audible examples are abstract and restrained insights, some used to swell and go across exuberant pathways. At times the artists represented over there exploit concrete music samples to convey a more human-close touch to their compositions. There are up such artists as Thom Blum, Donika Rudi, Nicola Monopoli, Josè Luis Maire, Frank Ekeberg, Clèment Parmentier, [zygote], Gordon Delap, Gintas K., Lidia Zielinska, Nichola Scrutton, Christian Banasik, and Vanessa Sorce-Lèvesque. The compilation is a part of Thrmnphone. 

Steinregen Dubsystem – Recycled (2013)

LibreCommeLair

/Alternative dance, Raggamuffin, Remixes, Dancehall, World music, Electronica, Crossover, Dub, Urban music/ 

Comment: there are represented 17 tracks by various artists who tread the compositions of a 6-piece collective, Steinregen Dubsystem from Freiburg, Germany. In general, it could be said Jamaica is an island of fast-running people and shaggy reggae and dub inflected music. With regard to the compilation the listener can enjoy many crossovers and derivations coming out of the aforementioned styles. Emotionally it is a poignant issue because it used to insinuate lots of dodges and turns within the whole. There are represented pieces being made up of echoes which used to last very long thereby bringing forth a thoroughly spaced-out feeling. There are up some curiosities either where Balkan and other ethnic motives are interlaced with the Jamaican music. Despite putting slightly uncanny elements into the melting pot there is good effect about it. There are up remixes by the likes of Goyo Naranja & Damaa, Dava, Ras Amerlock, EQuBE, Bassinfected, Herbstauch, Lüra, Lata, Pellectronica, Hans Gruber, Ras Tilo, Juju, Akarola, and TRVE.

New Weird Australia – Vox (2011)

New Weird Australia

Bandcamp

/Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Noise, Electro-acoustic, Drone, Ambient, Minimalism/

Comment: by listening to this17-track issue on can admit “New Weird” does not mean “folk music” at all in some cases. This time the listener can enjoy vowel based experiments from Australia. You can be sure it is as mystical as crooked folk music used to be. More profoundly, the issue is imbued with minimally designed digital drones, spaced-out echoes, buried noises, metallic reverberations and of course, with looped vocals and few words as instruments. I guess this miscellany would be a sweet cake for those protagonists who like such artists as Iris Garrelfs, Maja Ratkje, Jaap Blonk, Michael Schiefel, Roomet Jakapi. However, there are represented such artists as Juarez, Ronnu Panda, Scissor Lock, Furchick, Rabbit Island, Sky Needle, Mosaic Mosaic, Alice Hui-Cheng, Major Napier, Donna Hewitt, Kucka, Holy Balm, Mimic Bass, Kusum Normoyle, Paul Heslin, Amanda Stewart, The Deadly Nightshades. These compositions are well-crafted ones though I suspect for most of these artists such a sort of concept has not been the most substantial one. In a word, New Weird Compilations used to always surprise with truly cutting-edge approach and touch. It is a great series of music gathered together across the Green Continent. Life is noise is art. Something like that.  

The “New” Utica Compilation (2002)

Cozy Home

/New Weird America, Crossover, Electronic pop, Blues, Psych-folk, Experimental indie, Acid rock, Psychedelic rock, Anti-folk, Punk rock, DIY/

Comment: I guess I firstly stumbled upon the music of Cozy Home Records at the end of the 00s sometime due to discovering some artists through CLLCT who were being related to the label and closely related platforms like Daydream Generation, and Quixodelic Records. However, this 15-bar issue is the first miscellany being issued under the umbrella in 2002. It was the year when Devendra Banhart, Animal Collective, and Ariel Pink as later backbones to the upcoming New Weird America scene and weird pop appearance just started to gain reputation step by step. Musically the whole is diversified providing a shitloads loads of glimpses into many genres, however, the quality of music not to be given a fuck. Furthermore, it is a vivid exemplar of full-fledged DIY culture in the USA. The listener is being kept in the radar due to thought-provoking crosses between indie and electronic and acid pop bits, freaked-out folk compositions, uncompromisingly stalking blues driven punk rock energy, and effect-laden experimental inclined rock examples. The compilation could be considered as a notch of the so-called New Weird America movement with some reservations because folk music represented over there is not a goal on its own but just a bare instrument to bring forth the magic of sounds. There are represented such artists as The Chrome Ghosts, The Real Burnouts, Have You Seen This, Man?, Zapp Chapp, Crookedfoot (early handwithlegs), D. Only, Dead Priest Sphynx, Early Morning Edison, Christian Science Mobsters, Family Talent Show, Eponine, Travel Labyrinth, Maynard and The Molemen, and The Flying Turdballs (Big Mimi Bourgeous with Jenny Penny and Cashew Cook). Additionally to listening to this lofty legacy I recommend to open up the catalogues and links through the aforementioned platforms to discover an universe within the glorious US-based DIY tradition.

Killredrocketrecords - Killredrocketrecords Jesus in Space Compilation (2010)

Killredrocket

/Psych-rock, Acid rock, Alternative rock, Shoegaze, Fuzz pop, Indie rock, Neo-psychedelia, Electro-indie, Drum and bass/

Comment: by remembering the end of the 00s and the beginning of the 10s then you probably perceived fresh air around your head and shoulder due to appearance of many groups and artists who used to come out of home basements and on the other side there were up a shitloads of blogs who were eager to push them up. This kind of collaboration brought many great groups to the limelight, however, most of them ceased to continue their way. For instance, one such a great platform was CLLCT, being a platform for so many mostly US-based DIY singer-songwriters.

People behind the Austin-based Killredrocketrecords have made great efforts to gather together artists to compile some voluminous compilations for representation of then-Zeitgeist tendencies within the DIY underground artists. Jesus in Space? Firstly it reminds of Jason Pierce aka Jason Spaceman`s relation to the God due to some references in a couple of songs by Spiritualized. Indeed, there are represented 40 songs mozst of them are heavily shoegaze-y in the vein of all those pre-eminent British bands appeared in the end of the 80s and in the beginning of the 90s. Some of them are more noisy, some of the, are more fuzzed-up, some of them more spaced-out and adorned with field recording bits. Of course, the listener should not underestimate a burden of post-punk and psychedelic pop elements within these songs harking back to earlier decades rather than mentioned above. Indeed, reverb-heavy vocal lines, thumping drum machines and synthesised sonic vamps above add something special to the melting pot. Furthermore, there are up some ditties which have got inspiration from the club music scene. Actually it is very sad by watching this enormous list of artists because most of them say nothing about today anymore. However, the imprint`s heritage due to these miscellanies makes sense by discovering this enthusiastic chapter in the pop music history. It is still inspiring.  

A Century of Covers - Belle and Sebastian Tribute (2006)

The Breakfast Jumpers

/Cover, Twee pop, Indie pop, Jangle pop, Fuzz pop, Electro-indie, Conceptual, Alternative pop, Indie folk, Punk rock, Alt-folk/

Comment: indeed, it is a 20-track tribute album for Scottish combo Belle & Sebastian after their 10 years of activity and 7 long players. Given that it could be said it would be great honour for every band to have cult following over a relative short span of time. Stuart Murdoch led combo continued the tradition of The Smiths in a more folk inclined mode though the band`s another obvious influence is being legendary Arthur Lee and his combo Love from the 60s/70s. However, there are up such combos to do not give a damn – The Sad Snowman, Perturbazione, Austin Lace, BillieThe Vision &The Dancers, Canadians, Hell On Wheels, Mixtapes & Cellmates, John Wayne Shoot Me, Mr.60, Tokyo Overtones, Prague, Tom Willman, The Niro, Tall Poppies, Le Man Avec Lunettes, Kawaii, Against Lupa feat. The Buzz, Spring Sale!, and Bob Corn. Beyond the predominant light-hearted twee and jangle pop and folk blended layer there are up some exceptions either – for instance, Spring Sale!`s Get Me Away From Here, I`m Dying is a hirsute punk/pub rock version and Perturbazione do cover in Italian; Mixtapes & Cellmates` provides a spellbinding fuzz/noise pop version of Photo Jenny; John Wayne Shoot Me`s version of Waiting For The Moon To Rise makes up a journey due to a beguiling synth vamp, melody dodges and sensual female voice. The cover print also brings forth the dynamics being overwhelming on the miscellany. In a nutshell, it is a solid tribute issue to an eminent combo. Let`s swallow it. 

Far from Moscow – Forest (2011)

Far from Moscow

/Experimental electronica, Abstract electronica, Dream pop, Folk, Glitchtronica, World music, Ambient, Indie rock, Alternative pop/

Comment: the forest is being a holy place for northwestern nations of Slavic and Finnish origin in Europe, being a place wherefrom to get power, food and mind related inspiration to live off to the next day. Furthermore, the forest is being a cathedral in a direct and indirect sense, a source which is necessary to arrive at it again and again. By listening to this issue of 19 pieces you can hear stylistically diverse opuses and approaches, however, being more or less directly related to the woods. Many tracks on it are directly rooted with folk music though representing their music in innovative terms and arrangements. The artists might even be inspired to create the forest on their own terms rather than just providing reflections upon the real forest though this could be a rewarding task either. In any cases, the listener can discern sort of a parochial feeling being characteristic to the aforementioned area. I do not mind it in an insinuating way because the borders are necessary to give the phenomenon the shape and essence, sort of existential premiss. There are up a swarm of artists from Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. More profoundly, Spice Mouse, Antanas Jasenka, DakhaBrakha, Propala Gramota, Viljandi Guitar Trio, Arturas Bumsteinas, Port Mone, Imandra Lake, Andrey Kiritchenko and Ojra, Mari Kalkun, R&R Electronics, Pastacas, Astrowind, Talupoeg, Audio Z (T. Bajarkevičius), Argo Vals, Antanas Kučinskas, Ocheretyanyi Kit, and Iduvigik. 

Milky Way Wishes: A Kirby Super Star Tribute (2013)

Ocremix

/Chiptune, 8-bit, Chipbreak, Brass pop, Crossover, Urban music, Alternative pop, Poptronica, Tracker music, Metal, Conceptual, Nintendocore, Electronic pop/

Comment: Ocremix.org is a site for music activists and artists who are being enthusiastic for searching and creating with regard to the videogame music. This time a bunch of artists who have created 23 compositions are being keen to pay tribute to such men as Dan Miyakawa, and Jun Ishikawa who created a game called “Kirby Super Star”. However, do not make adverse opinions about the issue because that hint does not mean this tremendous mixed bag involves 8-bit/chiptune/chipbreak progressions only. There are also up enthralling guitar driven and orchestrated (with or without brass sections) opuses with obviously different sound quality rates. For instance, Sixto Sounds exploits punchy metal drums, powerful guitar riffs and overwhelming orchestrations with a hint at mariachi music. PrototypeRaptor reveals his preferences in the vein of hip-hop, soul, and R`n`B music, of course, set out in his own terms. By going on, gentle melodies and light-hearted, volatile motives are also represented over there to spawn good sentiments and touching sensations for you. In fact, the release is a tickling quest for the listener to rediscover new undercurrents, sonic plateaus and highlands and densely crossed styles being still possible to be dug out from some compartments of pop music. There are represented such musicians as halc, Insert Rupee, Geoffrey Taucer, Usa; PROTO-DOME, Ergosonic, Sir NutS, Brandon Strader, Hylian Lemon, Mazedude, Benjamin Briggs, OverCoat, Monobrow, OverCoat, Sixto SoundsPrototypeRaptor, The OverClocked Plaid Muffins. Few tracks are composed in collaboration between some of the aforementioned artists. In a nutshell, let`s listen to this smorgasbord of two discs and find out your cup of tea.

Mizukage Records Compilation Vol.06 (2011)

Mizukage

/Folktronica, Modern classical, Glitchtronica, New Age, Piano music, Dream folk, Experimental electronica, IDM, Kosmische Musik, Chamber pop/

Comment: this compilation proves that the Japanese music could stylistically be very varicoloured and eclectic, however, giving no damn regarding the content and verve. Indeed, the listener can discover lots of great compositions from there extending from keen folk and electronica mixed compositions to semi-mechanical loops and incisive digital noise blended torrents to breezy flute fuelled New Age-y motives to Moog induced spaced-out rhythms to quirky modern classical outputs where slowly slung piano chords are accentuated with fragile noises and bracing debris. In fact, the listener can discern how subtle melodies and sublime harmonies are juxtaposed against possible kind of form experiments thereby creating welcoming tension between these compartments. All of that reminds of My Bloody Valentine who was probably the first alternative rock combo being ready to introduce an inferior, noisy concept with fascinating melodies and enthralling gears. The miscellany involves such artists as fraqsea, Atnr, Sane Masayuki, Hajimeinoue, Oxyfog, Fugenn& The White Elephants, Go-Qualia, Shintaro Aoki, Waki, Himuro Yoshiteru, Tsunenori, Morning Dew, Yoshihisa Nagao, and Haniho Kyuden (Tominaga & Aiko). 

The Line Below (2012)

Soundcloud

/Indie rock, Dream pop, Jangle pop, Avant-pop, Electronic pop, Art pop, Alternative pop, Chillwave/

Comment: this compilation of 7 tracks involves outstanding indie music from the very beginning to the late seconds. Stylistically and technically it is mottled as indie music used to be, more concretely, extending from light-hearted yet thoroughly affecting guitar driven sonics to more artsy, keyboard/synthn and programmed beat driven experiments where the touch of human soul is deeply mixed up with machine dominated areas. The miscellany embraces such combos as Spakkiano, Murder, Husband, Welcome Back Sailors, His Clancyness, Karibean feat. North, and Wolther Goes Stranger. Furthermore, all these combos seem to come out of Italy. In a word, the Italian musicians in the compartments of progressive rock, disco music (Italo disco), noise music and motion picture soundtracks have earlier proven to be top notches worldwide. This time they proved they could produce fabulous, assured indie sound either. Get this must have package for yourself.

Dead Voices White Noise (2011)

Justnotnormal

/Glitchtronica, Noise, Experimental electronica, Drone, Post-industrial, Avant-electronica, Non-music, Musique concréte, Acousmatic music, Leftfield, Microtonal, Illbient/

Comment: this handful of tracks is an issue in a long row of albums hinting at the fact how emotive could electronic music be even if it is made up of incisive material and noisy impulses. Why it seems to be in this way? Maybe it is so because of superimposing these sonic elements upon the mess and chaos of real life. Maybe it is so because of creating more arousing simulacra instead of the more disillusioned aspects in real life. In a word, to provide more hope and redemption to people who are listening to the issue. You can hear the trains arriving at a train station, you might hear unknown creatures being involved in indecipherable activities, you could hear sounds providing a viable platform for your phantasies and fictions. More importantly, you could hear intriguing sounds over there to broaden your universe and open some doors in your perception. Dead Voices White Noise is a compilation by justnotnormal Record label providing a chance to design the aforementioned patterns to such artists as Somnaphon, Controlled Dissonance, Pyne, Miquel Parera Jaques, and Plastic Love Tool.