Joxfield ProjeX – Archives EP 1 - Pling Plang (2013)

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• Pychedelic 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Synth-rock
• Electronic 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Art rock 
• Krautrock

Comment: Joxfield ProjeX as a project of a couple of lost musicians reappeared approximately 10 years ago under a Moscow-based cult imprint, Clinical Archives. Indeed, Janne Yan Andersson and Stefan Oax Ek started making music together approximately a half century ago until going to hiatus for decades. It sounds like once upon a time in Sweden… chiming like a fairy tale of the heroes of living much longer than the average human being. For sure, their music will do it. After releasing a bunch of albums under the Russian imprint they went on by issuing a couple of EPs on their own (Tin Can Music) and then they changed “commercial” by signing a deal with the French cult imprint Bam Balam and making collaboration with Cotton Casino, being known from a Japanese space rock juggernaut, Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. This set of 6 compositions comes out of their post-Clinical Archives period (also known as Archives (sic!)) although reflecting upon the same tendencies represented before. Their issues are always the same, always different. More detailedly, krautrock intensity on hirsute guitars and New Age-y and Kosmische Musik on spaced-out electronics with different threads within these 28 minutes set up a dynamic and colourful and vivid carnival-alike milieu. Emotionally it is a coherently ecstatic experience providing a stark remedy to get out of a hard day`s rubbish. However, there are up some more eclipsed compositions as well, Brana Funk Sun Ra, for instance. In a word, it is a top release analogically to the previous releases.

Oberster Wurstesser vs Sigmund Stella Artois – Schlaue Füchse Und Frömmler (2009)

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• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Neoclassical 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Leftfield 
• Post-industrial 
• Primitive music

Comment: music must be fun and ironic, ear provoking and intense, primitive and accomplished. It should unleash beast from within its nature while being ridiculous and serious at the same time. Vaatican Records has been a good platform for artists with the aforementioned description. Minimal and primitive yet intensely compelling sonic progressions are something up there to prove its power and perseverance through an uncanny point of view which does not calculate for nothing because it takes all possibilities for granted. Absolutely democratic and egalitarian yet at the same time being vanguard and innovative. In truth, pop music as an instance is not represented over there. There are represented a couple of artists with dadaist name whose music can be described as experimental electronic music and there is no need to desperately draw the line between the artists because the purpose of this 5-notch outing is to complement each other with audible minutiae. Furthermore, two tracks are up there as collaborative ones. Even as you hear as different sonic aspects as murky neoclassical progressions and glowering synth droning and quite primitive smouldering within the realm of electronic music as parts of the whole. As if getting information from a broken black box or from other dimension. That's fabulous and horrendous at the same time. In a word, get immersed in it to partake in this glass bead game.

Tante Jules dan Pemuda Inisiatif – For Peace and Togetherness (2010)

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• Indie pop 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Alternative pop 
• Noise pop

Comment: as the title says this set of 7 compositions is dedicated to peace, solidarity, and love. And the lyrics will affirm it. Behind the project are Singapore artist Juliana Yasin and Majalengka, Indonesia-based Jatiwangi Art Factory. Coincidentally I am reading at the moment William Somerset Maugham`s Far Eastern Tales so the idyllic outing used to resonate with it. Indeed, some lyrics are represented in English, and some in a local language (I shall have to apologize for my stupidity). However, music is an universal language so it is my pleasure to understand a subtle stringed accompaniment for a light-hearted singing at times being accompanied by male voices as well. At times gentle flute whiffs and magically sounding melodica based droning are embedded in the gentle singing and calm guitar strums. Only the final track Damaikan Bumi used to employ panoramic noisy guitar dodges, making up the fine resonance for the whole. In a nutshell, it is a lovely issue being part of the discography of Cratediggers.