Kanin Krusete - Like A Thing (2009)

Twilight Luggage

9.4

/Noise, Harsh noise, Psycho-acoustic, Noise rock, Non-music, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/

Comment: an obsessive, freaked out noise (or extreme noise rock) punch by Shea Alterio aka Kanin Krusete. By listening to it you can feel yourself like standing under the waterfall or being stabbed with cathartic noise bursts and "caressing" with crafty phase changes while surrounded by lunatics and zombies.

Craig Chordman - Destiny (2011)

Jamendo

9.4

/Mood music, Glo-fi, Synth rock, Electronic pop, Fusion, Alternative, Progressive synth/

Comment: I reviewed Chordman`s last release (single) Beacon Of Dreams which was an eminent effort. By the way, he has issued the singles only so far. However, his brand new one is certainly bigger and brighter mixing up burbly yet blissed-out synth gears with fusion/jazz rock-alike chords. It reminds a little of the Latvian legend Zodiac. The more you listen to it the better it gets. Huge! Let`s wait for Chordman`s first album. Or is our destiny not to be part of it.

Riga - Escapism (2011)

Chew-Z
Bandcamp

9.1

/Glitch techno, IDM, Experimental techno, Glitch ambient/

Comment: firstly, it is techno music with balls from Italy. These 11 tracks do take on sizzling, smithereens-filled cadences which do pierce behind the gleaming, atmospherical veil of synth layers. Industrial visions at the club stage.

Shan A Shan - Dub Creation Vol. 1 (2011)

Jamendo

8.3

/Dub, Reggae/

Comment: 10 instrumental dub and (less) reggae-inflected episodes which are backed up with simplistic throbbing and being almost remarkably infected with classical music undercurrents/and other cues sometimes. The project comes out not from Jamaica, but from France.

Ram Hoss - PrixQuills (2011)

23 Seconds
Lastfm

8.6

/Lo-fi, Poptronica, Chillwave, Glo-fi, Electronic pop, Hip-hop, Experimental indie/

Comment: first of all, Copx is an eminent pop song reflecting upon essentially nowadays tendencies - angular lo-fi drum loops, blissed-out synth layers and heavenly vocal manner. Furthermore, other 6 tracks do comprise whimsical hip-hop-esque wambling, atmospherical Prince-drenched postures. Ram Hoss is a duo coming out from Calgary, Alberta, Canada being through the line-up closely related with Azeda Booth.

Barthol Lo Mejor - I S2 U - [Vj Kri eye candy]

M1hk3l - Pattern Box (2011)

XLR

8.8

/House, Techno, Tekno, Psytrance, Drum and bass, Tech-house, Club dance, Dub-tech/

Comment: this 11-track album comes out from XLR, an little Estonian label. These long-running notches do merge together brooding techno and tekno. At times it is a sort of suffocating club/dance, sometimes inflected enough to run on dreamy, deep techno rails. Of course, there can be met some exceptions as well. The Pattern Of Chaos functions to bounce through drum and bass and dub-inflected reflections. Or Carpet Chill which is a light-hearted house sequence which onward gets involved in kind of psytrance undulation. Smooth Mod does display joyous bubblegum-ish beats shimmered with cosmic beats and a little pitchbent electronica behind it. An intricate release indeed.

s o u L O f m y S h o E s - EP (2011)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.1

/Alt-folk, Folktronica, Experimental folk, Lo-fi, Organic electronica, Indie folk, Folk indie/

Comment: at first blush simple, lovely folk progressions effortlessly floating out of a bedroom in Torino, Italy are actually not so straightforward ones at all. Feeling-loaded guitar strings are interlaced with organic electronic-filled undercurrents thus some tracks can be considered more alt-folk/indie folk-ish and other ones more folktronic outputs respectively. Moreover, the first track kicks off with blissed-out brass sounds. Elsewhere you can detect for some lo-fi touches and glimpses either. Majority of the ditties are sung in English, a few of them in Italian. You should go into for it. This project can be compared with such (Italian) projects as Ballpen, Nick Rivera, Barbagallo, Artwood, and Elisa Luu.

Gondowanland School of Subcutaneous Noise Infraction - Bobby OddSocks in the land of the NoChiefs (2011)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

8.8

/Thrill`n`bass, Freeformfreakout, Experimentalism, Avant-garde, Noise/

Comment: if you are a cagey person by your nature and you accidentally meet some releases of artists somehow related with Apskraft, then you should watch out. Apskraft is a platform for outsider musicians worldwide releasing diverse yet innovative sound. GSSNI is one of such projects searching for redemption while sloshing in the swamp of gritty noise and thrill`n´bass and more generally freakout music. Here are up 6 episodes which are outsider yet eminent ones.

Fuck Yuo I Am A Robot - Hydraulic