Pen Parker – I`m Level Four Ep (2015)

[PICPACK] 

• Glitch-hop 
• Folktronica 
• Dub house 
• Avant-hop 
• Breaks 
• IDM 
• Experimental hip-hop 
• Chillstep

Comment: an artist called Pen Parker provides a lovely set of 4 compositions being based on cut-up breaks and saturated debris. However, the first sentence of mine was apparently moderate with regard to the word “lovely” – in fact, it is a great issue fixing in the memory for long time. For instance, On Raspberry Beetle chimes in a daydreaming way due to vague, blissful synthesised layers and supported by IDM-alike rhythms. She Killed Herself is based on the two-piano valence – the first of them consists of a bold piano motive and another of crushed chords, however, eventually sounding together highly dynamically. Deer Blood embarks on with deep dub house vibes, which will change its course partly by absorbing slight folktronic elements to the mix. Morning in Which we Live embraces an angular rhythmic pattern and lazy singing, which in turn is slimly pitched up. The coverprint of it explains everything – it is minimal yet including enough information to be an informative one. In the aggregate, it is compelling by its fashion and content. The issue is a part of the discography of [PICPACK].                  

Diropel – Yhnpivtr (2015)

Picpack

Archive.org

Bandcamp

/Ambient, Soundscape, Abstract, Space music, Dark ambient/

Comment: Diropel is a producer Santiago Gr from Montevideo, Uruguay also known because of his another project called Donovan Velvet. His 3-track issue is an organic amalgamation of glacial ice-alike reflections and profound sonic glimpses emitting from the outer space. It is thought-provoking and relaxing at the same time. For instance, listen to Wrwlf. However, the opening piece Leporidae is a different case because of being composed of noticeably more ominous sounds and echoes as if its initial sources to have come from the graveyard.  Indeed, the whole used to meander on human being`s fears and hopes. It is a delicate drift between those compartments. 

Gumbel - Huracanado (2013)

Picpack

• Electronic pop
• Electro-indie
• Synth pop
• Synth rock
• Indietronica
• Psychedelic electronica

Outstanding tracks:

Porvenir

Rescàtame

Serotonina (ft. Boer Polar & Stolenmeltdown)

Various Artists - Tasters Vinegar 4 (2013)

Picpack

9.4

/Indietronica, Glitchtronica, Experimental rock, Industrial techno, Jazz, Kosmische Musik, IDM, Dark ambient, Electronic pop, Art pop, Alternative, Experimental electronica/

Comment: this compilation by Picpack label provides a patchwork of styles and genres, however, mostly rotating around the indie-tinged and electronica-induced axis. On the tangent, some tracks remind of krautrock and improvised rock/jazz-y free flow. Much charm and poignant rhythmic magic come forth from this enormous, 28-piece whole. Of course, there are up also some more obscure, abstract oscillations and peripheral progressions worth to embellish experimental electronica-induced miscellanies. Indeed, they shift somewhere in between glitch, Kosmische Musik, noiseful industrial techno, dark ambient, and abstract electronica. In any cases, there are represented such artists as Jimmy Penguin, Astma, Parta Kamyati, Skvirp, Art Electronix, Cotard`s Syndrome, Sotra, Csum, Htrspltn, Purple Eve, The Wandering Tower, Dissolved, Alex Eadg Crunch, X-Ray, Sport&Music, D.G Svon, Weewtam, Fudo Kazuki, Erkin White, Sun-Inside, Empiric Project, Radex, Symptoms of Near End, Grenade Surround Experience & Oleg Sudakov, SashHen, Kakao, Proekt, City Illusions. In a nutshell, despite its lengthiness the compilation is even qualitatively thereby being one of the best ones I have ever heard.