Tunguska Electronic music Society - Tunguska Chillout Grooves vol. 3 (Lilith & Selena)

Jamendo

7.7

/Electronic pop, Psyambient, Chillout, Psytrance, New Age, Downtempo/

Comment: This compilation consists of two albums (Lilith; Selena), having the total length more than 2 hours. I love ARGONIKA`s track Do You Hear, which makes difference with a fine robot pop. Or Alexander V. Mogilco (feat. JAMA)`s soul notch tuned New Age-drenched mix. In the most part, however, it is a kind of middle-tempo swaying on soothing and burbling synths and synthesized flute passages. By the way, the beautiful coverprint as well.

Random Article - Valley Sessions, January-February 2011 (2011)

Archive.org

/Drone folk, Improvised music, Jam session, Live recording, Experimental folk, Psychedelic folk/

8.5

Comment: It has always been a big pleasure to listen to the Exeter-based improvisational folk groups, mainly concentrated on around a band named as Children Of The Drone. Here is a set of 20 songs, relied upon meditative, improvised raga tunes, restrainted drone folk, played upon bass, violin, vocal improvisations and occasional bouzouki and percussion interventions (tablas) plus burning chestnut logs recorded at a cottage in the Broad Oak valley, near Canterbury (UK), January-February 2011.

Digi G'Alessio - The Cinar Session (2010)

Bedroom Research
Free Music Archive
Bandcamp

/Electro, Club dance, Breakbeat, Sound collage, Lo-fi/

7.6

Comment: This is a Cristiano Crisci`s set of 6 tracks having basically drifts between dirty, lo-fi-esque electro paces and brooding breakbeats, being spiced up with speech samples, old school video game music-alike snippets, MC-ing, and even haunting, near-noise reverbs and undercurrents at times.

Plusplus - Tip Toes

The Crayons - The Only Real Place (2010)

Totokoko

8.7

/Electro-indie, Electronic, Lo-fi, Dance rock, Art-rock, DIY, Alternative pop, Remix, Cover/

Comment: The American duo The Crayons made their first appearance with the album Raised by BestFriends (2009) on the Rack & Ruin label. However, now the duo is an artist under the Japanese label Totokoko showcasing their solid abilities to write catchy electro-backed rock tunes, for instance, Finding a Black Hole is a mesmerizing track which should have been stuck by the whole indie pop blogosphere. Through the tracks like Mr Bug, and Summer Camp With The Crayons they made a big bow toward the mister R Stevie Moore. The ending part of the album is reserved for a heavily effect-loaded remix (helped by ADK) and in live made cover (of Sam & Valley`s track) respectively.

Music For Your Plants - Tour Peru (2011)

Yachar - MUSA (2011)

Jamendo

8.8

/Classical, Neoclassical, Instrumental, Chamber music, Baroque music/

Comment: This is a short-running issue of only 21 minutes by Yachar from Valencia, Catalonia, Spain. Lots of changes on timbres, moods and milieus will be conjured up within it, based mainly on classical and at times neoclassical themes, however, at times getting involved in flaring arrangements, yet the other time round being covered with melancholic or even threatening core. Especially captivating outputs are Invierno por venir, and Eres hoi aquí showcasing Yachar`s ability to manage off orchestral music-based setups into hovering film score notches.

Blackbird Blackbird - Halo (2011)

Bandcamp

/Chillwave, Glo-fi, Experimental indie, Shoegazetronica, Dream pop, Lo-fi, Electronic pop/

8.2

Comment: Blackbird Blackbird (previously known as Bye Bye Blackbird - at the time of releasing his music under the Arcade Sound Ltd label yet) is the solo-project of 23-year old vocalist/producer Mike Maramag, being one of the most prominent heroes in the nowadays chillwave/glo-fi scene. Here are 17 tracks compiled of B-sides and previously unreleased songs. Unlike many other chillwave/glo-fi artists he is more keenly used to wade through shoegaze-infected landscapes too. No doubt, by listening to it you can detect for some of the feats with mighty hit potential. For instance, Fly (feat. Steffaloo) which is one of the three most beautiful tracks heard AD 2011.

Lavalsa - Lavalsa (2011)

Sinewave

8.5

/Shoegaze, Indie rock, Alternative rock, Psychedelic, Noise pop, Power pop/

Comment: A simply rocking shoegaze- and power pop influenced 4-track album by a Brazilian quartet under Sinewave, the label which has delivered some great albums (i.e Hangin Freud`s Sunken; This Lonely Crowd`s An Endless Moment Everyday All The Time, and Entangled Chaos; Loomer`s Coward Soul, for instance). Behind Lavalsa`s concept can be apprehended lots of swayings between silentful leadoffs and noiseful, near-epic outbursts, joyous playings on dissonants and consonants, in a more concrete way, you can perceive influences veering from Sonic Youth-hued guitar stumblings and My Bloody Valentine-like chord alchemy to slightly psychedelic Smashing Pumpkins-esque powerful hooks, catchy ascendings and organic calmings.

Sturqen - Pertal