Terracota Blue – One Million Sunrises (2016)

Bandcamp

• Electronic pop 
• Chilltronica 
• Alternative 
• Post-pop 
• Trip-hop 
• Breaks 
• Cinematic

Comment: I guess the title of this 5-track outing is inspired by Bhagavadgita, however, a listener can perceive the stars and very intense glimpses bursting out of it with a highly luminous effect. Ultimately the experience of the listener may be like flying toward a supernova discerning something unbelievable and magic. It may be a new beginning, it may be the end of something. I shall have to say that the US-based producer Terracotta Blue's ability to establish magic moments is getting even more exquisite and more adept with every subsequent release. It might be there is no room anymore to keep growing bigger and bigger. For instance, the opening composition Rapture is not only about producing and splicing the beats with one another, it is an instance of fine songwriting as well. I guess it is pop music example of a sort and it will be searched for and showed off after the pop music is officially declared to be dead. In a word, it is a favourite issue from the year of 2016. Great man. 

Bøzo – Which Way EP (2016)

Unfoundsound

Unfoundsound

• Electronic music 
• Acid techno 
• Alternative dance 
• IDM 
• Acid house 
• Deep techno 
• Tech-house

Comment: this bunch of compositions is something soothing...and soothing though sometimes the kick drums beat heavily with high frequencies from the bottom. This sort of music I would like to call post-IDM. Indeed, it is a rhythm-driven issue getting power from different patterns of the rhythm and some sonic effects. Additionally, it is something like getting into a subdued rave music party. Is it an example of post-rave and acid house and acid techno music? I guess the answer is right. However, the favourite of mine is Patches due to employing more deep synth-based developments in the background and fairly crispy beats hovering in the middle layer. Very deep and suggestive. The following piece Altalena is a platform where a catchy tech-house vibe is tightly mixed up with concrete sounds, more detailedly with children-induced noises and free space (which is also a sonic element). Indeed, the second part is really great because Respawn is a hypnotic, profound glimpse being imbued with suppressed noises and tiny grating frequencies. Adorable. The outing will be finished off by Going Places which is suitable due to its gentle volatile harmonies and downtempo-alike sensitivity. The issue is a bit in the catalogue of Unfoundsound. Solid rhythmic work.

Mabik & Xamax – Treibholzeffekt EP (2007)

Pentagonik

• Techno 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Club dance 
• Electro 
• Tech-electro

Comment: this set of 4 pieces is a collaborative act by Mabik & Xamax at a half extent. The rest of a couple of compositions is accomplished by Mabik alone. In general, I guess there is no need to make difference between the two aforementioned compartments because the tracks will make up an organic, consistent whole. It is a tonic drift between jagged rhythms of techno and spasmodic vibrations of electro music (the latter element is obviously represented at Im Holze). The opening track D-Meter is a collaborative act and one of the interesting issues as if conjured up by a coiled spring mechanism and then these sonic shards seem to be inserted into the sampling unit. It used to wobble and sway in a peculiar yet amusing manner. The same tendencies seem to come out from the next composition Der Maulwurf either though in a lesser extent. This is an example of low-end techno with stumbling bits and deliberately awkward sonic effects. Der Flossenmann is the most "proper" bird within it due to stepwise progressing and acquiring new (watery) frontiers and dimensions. The issue is a proper one being a part in the catalogue of Pentagonik. On the February 19^th the issue will celebrate its 10 year birthday.

Marow – Inter (2012)

Bandcamp

• Ambient 
• Soundscapes 
• Avant-garde 
• Microtonal 
• Minimalism 
• Electronic music 
• Abstract

Comment: this set of 6 compositions is excellent and highly enjoyable due to minimalist progressions and expansive space around it. It is especially worthwhile today while an average human being is surrounded by lies and selective truth, perversions, quasi-values and a massive bunch of everyday's shit defying frequently description or expression. Thereof Marow's Inter is not the solution, it is a remedy. However, the average human being is as a similar stupid primate as his/her rulers whose free will gifted by the God is to succumb in a state of chaos created by himself/herself. By listening to the issue saturated with beatific stillness and wondrous sonic bits it would be a soundtrack for a post apocalyptic world without awful shrieks, overwhelming pollution, suffocating garbage, annoying noises, rotten horizons of the so-called civilization which in fact is the deviation from nature. It is time to restart it now to erase the reason for this valley of distress. The only reason to live on it is the art in music including the recent issue. The philosophy or the art of thought is dead because it is a source of demagogue and lies. And it is very naive and hypocritical to say that the term "post-truth" is proper to describe the latest elections of the US presidency only. The substance of it did born much time ago. There is no hope and rescue, there is the beast standing on two feet.

The Cream Canteens – Moderate Peril (2016)

Djummi

• Indie pop/rock 
• Electro indie 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Indietronica 
• Dance rock 
• Indie dance 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Twee pop 
• Synth rock

Comment: this 3-track issue is a fabulous torrent being made up of lofty, energetic synthesised boosts, splendid guitar twanging, and stunning singing thereof resulting in something cinematic and lively and brisk. It is such a sort of outing for whom it is quite hard to find out analogues worldwide. At times those guitars may remind of a period in the beginning of the 80s when some post-punk bands turned into a sound which would later be tagged as alternative rock. With hints at The Chameleons at Roman Fortress, for example. It creates contrasts because the album did start off with rusty tonalities which soon would develop into something playfully majestic and impressively lofty. Although it is filled with magniloquent poses and boasting showcases the result goes right, the result is fairly plausible All in all, it is the success expressed in sounds. The outing is a bit in the discography of Djummi.

[Teaser of the day] Contron - Happy Song

• Lo-fi
• Americana
• Indie folk
• Singer-songwriter
• New Weird America
• DIY
• Folk indie

Artist: Contron

Release: Where The Flowers Grow (Contron Is Dead)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Roman Panatela – March 2006 EP (2006)

17 Sons

Archive.org

• Techno pop 
• Electronic music 
• Kraut-techno 
• Motorik 
• Alternative
• Electro pop
• Kraut-electro 
• Minimalism 
• Krautrock

Comment: it is the pleasure of mine to loot the catalogue of a French imprint, 17 Sons Records. And those 22 minutes by Roman Panatela are something truly special to be enjoyed for. More profoundly, one can enjoy minimalist rhythms of electronic music as if a train chugging in one rhythm with some barely discernible shades. The more I keep listening to it the more I perceive it to be a contemporary counterpoint or progression of krautrock. Indeed, seminal influences of Kraftwerk, and Neu! come out of it in a refreshing way. This 4-track outing is a good accompanist for one`s drawn-out journey in the car while enjoying monotonous landscapes around and the stripes in the middle of a route going by. It is called motorik. It is a motorik experience by contemporary standards because you are driving with the electric car. Top fare.