Lyndsie Alguire - Suspended In Light (2011)

Camomille

Bandcamp

8.8

/Modern classical, Organic electronica, Experimental electronica, Chamber music, Musique concrète, Crossover, IDM/

Comment: lone piano-driven (modern) classical/chamber music chords (with arpeggiated arrays sometimes) are varied with IDM-cadences and turbulent, lopsided electronics. Moreover, Montrèal, Quebec-based composer Lyndsie Alguire`s 15-piece debut issue is nicely balanced between concrete and composed sounds, between synthetic and organic segments, shifting between "closed" and "opened" environments. First of all, it is recommended for the fans of Max Richter, Muhr, Non Dolet, Bosques de mi Mente, adamned.age. Of course, for those people either who just intend to listen to beautiful yet slightly melancholic music.

Bing Satellites - Twilight Sessions Volume Eight (2011)

Free Floating Music
Bandcamp

9.4

/Ambient, Shoegazetronica, Crossover, Modern classical, Soundscape, Minimal, Ambient drone/

Comment: wow, once again, you are not allowed to get disappointed of Brin Coleman aka Bing Satellites`s music, by a musician and label header (BFW Recordings) from Manchester, UK. It is related to spherical music, i.e from wavy, very large-scaled ambient-relied progressions to sublime shoegaze-ish infiltrations and rare modern classical-drenched instants. It pretends to be an instance of imperative beauty to be laid out everyhwere setting you free. It used to happen in this way when indie guys and gals are involved in experimental enterprises.

Cankun + Holy Strays - Beko_91 (2011)

Beko DSL
Lastfm

9.0

/Psychedelic, Post-psychedelic electronica, DIY, Hypnagogic, Lo-fi, Experimental indie, Avant-pop, Glo-fi, Bedroom pop, Electronic pop, Chillwave/

Comment: two Gallian artists-bedroom musicians do appear herein who have previously recorded on the legendary Not Not Fun label. The keywords are obviously zeitgeist and stylistic borderlessness in the bubble of lo-fi/DIY music.

Vladee Divacc - Technical Foul EP (2010)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.4

/Experimentalism, Noise, Psychedelia, Avant-garde, DIY, Freeformfreakout, Post-psychedelic electronica/

Comment: this EP is frenetic and great...by its concept and sounds, respectively. Being entitled after the legendary Yugoslavian/Serbian centre Vlade Divac, and all the song titles named after the NBA basketball heroes, it is not a rap/hip-hop issue at all (of course, you may have supposed it). However, undulating psychedelic noise makes there highly sense being fringed with spoken word samples and vowel experiments meanwhile. Burning feedbacks - it is just mesmerizing. It sounds like Animal Collective on glue. Yet, Christian Filardo (formerly known as Panda steps in chocolate; Orioles) used to call it as dunkwave. Why not? Definitely yes.

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FuturNari - Another Unlikely Hero II (2011)

Pxl-Bot
Bandcamp

8.9

/Psychedelic electronica, Nintendocore, Chiptune, Acid, Chipbreak, Tracker, Bitpop, Experimental electronica/

Comment: this 5-track issue is a sequel to the New Zealand-relied FuturNari`s Another Unlikely Hero. It provides an acidic fuel for the hearts of robots, permanently gritty, and at times killingly catchy. It might be a sort of dance club in future, yet, having no idea where the future is supposed to be. In reality the console-drenched sounds are conquering the world. That`s all. Just enjoy it.

Takeshi Nakamura - Ordinary Days (2006)

Zymogen
Lastfm

8.7

/Experimental techno, Experimental electronica, Dystopbient, Glitchtronica, Abstract techno, Avant-electronica/

Comment: lots of murky glimmer, lots of devouring beats, lots of dystopic, industrial-inflected landscapes, lots of vibrant floatation and on the contrary filled in with chopped electronica, all of that established by Takeshi Nakamura, a Japanese electronic musician on the legendary Zymogen label. Thereby, more concretely, it seems to be part of the experimental techno scene, on the other side, it leaves itself to be quite remote of all, of any scenes. If to regard Nakamura`s dissipation into restraint moaning effects it can be considered a sort of zombie techno either. It is a quite depressive yet interesting album.

The Falling Floors - The Falling Floors (2008)

Daydream Generation/Quixodelic
CLLCT

8.8

/Psychedelia, Psychedelic folk, Folk rock, Indie folk, Folk indie/

Comment: The Falling Floors comes out from the Daydream Generation/Quixodelic Records block. Similarly to the Bloomington-based CLLCT, and the Exeter-based Children Of The Drone-related groups this foundation embodies the most free-spirited moments in pop music. However, Falling Floors plays nice psychedelia-infused pop folk where are presented sublime motives and harmonies, at times it takes on oriental (including drone folk instruments), at times conjuring 60`s hippie stuff. The last track rings out like a tribute to Procol Harum.

Daniel Maze + Dave Zeal – Blueprints For Insect Architecture (2011)

Test Tube

9.2

/Ambient, Experimental electronica, Hauntology, Dubstep, Noise, Crossover, Sampledelic/

Comment: it is quite hard to have a clear-cut definition pertaining of these 6 tracks, which are merely essential parts of Maze-Zeal`s second issue created in liaison with each other on Test Tube (a continuation to Small Airports EP). More profoundly, it is full of trash and hisses, delicate noiseful swerves, dubstep-like ghostly urban undulation, haunting jazz samples, penetrating electronic signals, all of that replaced sometimes with very floaty atmospheric layers to get the whole to be more variegated within its borders. In fact, all of that could be called as experimental ambient in corpore. Masterful!

Wonder Bear - Reverend

Wonder Bear - "Reverend" from Library Voices on Vimeo.