Reomini – Whitetrash Weekend (2006)

Midinette

• Breakcore 
• Digital hardcore 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Jungle 
• Primitive music

Comment: this batch of 6 short-running compositions is an intensified blend of rough, lo-fi tinged rhythmic patterns and tight electronic oscillations and overloaded effects and neurotic syncopations within the pace. Yet it does not seem to be a lo-fi release eventually because the lo-fi approach is not here by natural causes but rather as an instrumental mean to bring deliberately forth something unconventional to the brink. At times those cadences are truly primitive kind of (at Geniokabchihoca, for example). You can imagine it as a universe which consists of incoming sounds from parallel universes at the same time, at times one of them is alternately being switched off and on. The joyful issue is a part of the discography of Midinette Records.

Alpen Dynamo – Je m`ennuie EP (2005)

Midinette

• Electroclash 
• Electronic pop 
• Alternative dance 
• Post-disco 
• Electro pop 
• Synth-pop 
• Space disco 
• Italo disco 
• Crossover

Comment: what else I could say but this 4-track issue is today as relevant as it was 12 years ago while being released on Midinette Records. Catchy punk inflected electro pop propulsions and atmospheric upper layers entering into outer space are densely mixed up vowel effects and phrase repeating and singing in French. There can be drawn parallels upon the contemporary likes of Fischerspooner, Felix da Housecat, and Miss Kittin but the influences seem to hark back to 70s pop electronic examples like Space, Ganymed, and Giorgio Moroder as well. Because of that it can be said the set is ageless.

C-sium – Daze Loft EP (2006)

Midinette
Midinette

• Electronic pop 
• Breakbeat 
• Alternative dance 
• Electro pop 
• Acid electro 
• Breaks

Comment: I guess this handful of tracks could live up to one's expectations. Given that one likes music based on electro and lysergic based electronic formulas. It starts off with two catchy electro-based propulsions as if it were stemmed from drone music being disturbed by the discontinuity and shortness of the signal beneath it. Indeed, it starts off to last for a second and then fade away. And then embarks on the process again. In fact, the two ending compositions follow the same route though Lazy M is based on the gentle breakbeat rhythm. The only exception is a track called Kyzza chiming a bit in Arthur Russell-alike way. New Age-y flute whiffs are intertwined with naturalistic drum shuffles and vague electronic touches atop. This solid issue is a part of the discography of Midinette Records.

Syndrome WPW – American Gospel: 5 Songs (2017)

Midinette

• Electro pop 
• Alternative dance 
• Indietronica 
• Electronic pop 
• Acid pop 
• Robot pop 
• Dub 
• Comedy

Comment: this notch issue is a fair killer due to a sultry blend of electronic styles and an incisive touch of acidic beats and spaced-out debris and poignant humour. Could it be ever the best American gospel? I guess it could be though it is not the kind of American gospel in the usual sense of this word. It is not related to churches, black Americans, and high-spirited music. Stop! Wait! Yet it is high-spirited, it also involves some dub(step) and suggestive reggae vibes all of that tightly revolving around the slightly veiled melodic progression. In fact, it is all about Heartwork, the central track within the album. It is a great success and deserves to have a chart place in an ideal world. Aces High, and I'm Alive are obviously more humour riveted progressions chiming as if reflections from the head of a creative schizophrenic being previously exposed to cheesy balladry, cloying gay pop, mawkish eurobeat. All the aforementioned facets are absorbed in his deranged, acidic, and a bit aggressive mind. Where is a fifth song, in truth? The issue is a part of the discography of Lausanne, Swiss imprinte Midinette Records.

Les Poissons Autistes – Mal Foutu (2007)

Midinette

• Ambient noise 
• Ambient 
• Epic 
• Shoegazetronica 
• Abstract 
• Post-rock
• Alternative
• Ambient rock 
• Leftfield
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock

Comment: one can use these 7 tracks either to blast off or calm down. For me, it is a sort of ideal pop music where ambient music used to change into majestic symphonic music and even into abstract appearances and post-rock and shoegaze panoramas are propelled by dance-appealed rhythms to enter into next “post” formations. The flanges of the compositions are frayed and the centre of the compositions is permanently movable in and out of focus once in a while. In spite of it, at Les Mains Plates the artist exploits the aesthetic of minimal music in a fairly elegant way. In general, one can feel the sounds that are cranked up yet subjugated to more hypnotic algorithms. The issue contains a bunch of minor details that are expertly refined to make difference either by standing alone or integrated into a track. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels by the likes of Pan American, Slowdive`s Pygmalion, Flying Saucer Attack, Labradford, Ou Où, and many artists related to Silber Records. Top tier.

Trois-Collines – Trois-Collines (2011)

Midinette

• Avant-pop
• Electro pop
• Experimental pop
• Americana
• Electro-funk
• Art pop
• Electro-clash
• Leftfield

Comment: this is a lovely yet challenging leftfield pop example of involving disparate sonic shards and tendencies either ready to ignore each other or ready to clash with one another to be synthesised seamlessly into the one composition. It launches with eerie, slightly outstretched sounds which used to wobble and flicker around by adding stepwise some chords of glockenspiel and reversed sounds to the mix. One of the central pieces is frolicky electro-funk/electro-clash issue Bananes saturèes which is extraordinary because of embracing an uncharacteristically high-pitched singing/chanting mode in the mix. Another one is wondrous You Have The Cool which chimes like a drunken Lambchop where Americana chops are intermixed with some improvised music chips. Later on, those woolly-headed ideas will continue through muffled yet warped arrangements and stylistic mutations which are truly mind-boggling altogether. It is an excellent sort of wonky pop for sure. The issue is a part of an intriguing French imprint Midinette Records.