Dubsalon - Durban Chamber LP (2011)

Id.eology

9.1

/Dub, Psychedelic/

Comment: this album contains 8 tracks and one huge, 30-minute remix/mixtape by DJ Saetchmo, of course, made up of the notches of Dubsalon. The concept and obsession of the album rotates around dub, dub, and dub. Sometimes it is more traditional, sometimes more psychedelic or electronically hemmed or intensely mixed with each other. However, all of that might not make difference if all this synergy coming forth from the slots and terrains of it wasn`t so mesmerizing and formidable.

P.Laoss - Triplandenia EP (2009)

Load And Clear

9.3

/Dub-tech, Tech-dub, Deep dub, Club dance, Deep techno, Minimal techno/

Comment:Andrè Müller aka P.Laoss aka Vakuum Sounds is a producer from Schwerin, Germany who is inclined to create deep, hypnotic dub and techno-centered compositions which in turn constitute both a cozy private room for the listener and providing catchy dance-appealed sequences for fine club visitors. Sometimes it is more flourishing, at times more restraint and minimal, though. However, to listen to it in late hours it would be acting as the same way as being alone accompanied by the lullabies. Otherwise, excluding the abovementioned situation, it pumps you up. In a word, it is refined and even someway optimal deserving to be a classic.

[Teaser of the day] The Womb - I Disown My Country

Sea Things - Ferns

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Spuntic - Out Of Step (2011)

Enough
Bandcamp
Lastfm

8.9

/Dubstep, Ambient dub, Experimental electronica, Glitchtronica, Dark ambient, Dystopbient, Illbient, Crossover/

Comment: this project originates from Tehran, the Islamic Republic of Iran providing a 6-piece issue which will be finished off at the length of almost 23 minutes. However, it is a remarkable effort taking on dystopic, formidable compositions which used to appear like the margins of a black hole only infrequently emitting the rays of light and more lighter tonalities bailing out from within the centre of the abyss. In conclusion, there can be said that the ideological point of the release is determined at the crossroads of ominous dubstep sequences, threatening ambient/illbient panoramas, and ghastly silence-near appearences, and glitch-fringed shimmer passim. Yet, a track called Emerging Space seems to have been managed in a way to get into a more spacey, kosmische inquiry as if it were the sonic description of a trajectory of a space shuttle.

Istari Lasterfahrer - That's the Story (2001)

Commie

9.0

/Industrial techno, Avant-techno, Experimental techno, Robot pop, Avant-industrial/

Comment: just one track spreaded out over 5 and a half minutes. It takes on brooding techno progressions being embellished with spoken word snippets (obviously snatched from an old movie), burning out possible air inbetween the layers within it. Indeed, it is essentially artificial and synthetic, more profoundly, it may be deemed a bow toward machine/robot-deflected, Kraftwerk-esque emotionless aesthetics, and on the other side, it celebrates the tradition of nihilistic old school industrial music particularly running in the vein of Cabaret Voltaire, and Throbbing Gristle. Istari Lasterfahrer is an artist from Hamburg, Germany and the single was released on Commie, a Finland-based blueprint.

Abc100 - Exit Site (2012)

Headphonica
Lastfm

8.8

/Electronic pop, Noise, Experimentalism, Avant-electronica, Experimental electronica/

Comment: there are up 13 notches recorded by Alexandr Sinyagin, a literature student from Moscow, Russia. It is assumed his music used to be directly influenced by literature. His sound used to extend from the structures of quelled but chopped electronica to more bubblegum bouncing ones which sometimes run along more poppier pathways. For instance, Sous Cari does have such marks being highly suggestive through its exulting hooks and sequences. Or on the other side, it exploits the templates of more experimental and even pranky details (different kind of noises, pitchbent effects, somehow weird sounds and disrupted developments, radiophonic samples etc). Thus the spirituality of the album used to superimpose with the main slogan of the Headphonica Records. In a nutshell, the whole is brisk, disquieted and lively.

[Teaser of the day] Re-Lab - Nereidas

Binärpilot - Bend

Various Artists - Äriasjad EP & PDF (2012)

Bandcamp

9.1

/Alternative, Lo-fi, Garage pop, DIY, Blues rock, Bedroom music, Post-psychedelic electronica, Electronic pop, Experimental indie/

Comment: this is the first compilation issue by an Estonian virtual label, called Lita. It contains 4 tracks, 2 of them are recorded by more well-known artists (Zahir - an Estonian noise and blues-rooted underground legend who has been active since the first half of 90`s, and today`s Estonian golden pop girl Maria Minerva who has issued her releases on the Not Not Fun, a Californian-relied panacea for DIY/lo-fi/experimental artists all around the world. In any cases, both of them demonstrate their power at the highest level). However, the hysterical garage propulsion Ma Pesen Oma Hambaid Verega (I wash my teeths with blood) by Kooma, and bouncing rhythm sequences and catchy pop-laden hooks by Endel are suggestive in their somewhat sneering attitude either. In addition to the music the publication involves a PDF-based document of how promote your music (though it is written in Estonian it includes a shitloads of links for important places and domains). In a nuthsell, it is a great miscellany which proves that the things are getting improved with every next issue within the Estonian alternative scene.