FailedSitcom – Her Blameless Mystery (2010)

Daydream Generation

• Lo-fi 
• New Weird 
• Free folk 
• Freak folk 
• Weird folk 
• DIY 
• Electronic music 
• Folktronica 
• Toytronica 
• 8-bit 
• Chiptune

Comment: similarly to the project's another release Of Life's Declivity the recent case is a blend of cut-up electronic snippets and lighthearted folksy plucks. Furthermore, the 12-track issue is imbued with lo-fi and DIY aesthetic. However, it is the general description of the album. More profoundly, you can hear different minutiae from 8-bit rhythmic patterns to street music from Paris, from psychedelic electro bugs to harp driven lofty imaginations and even old-fashioned harpsichord chords stumbling over the course. Its methodological thread reminds me of the fancy Super Furry Animals though musically it is a disparate case. That's funny. At times the approach goes into a childish direction as if a stylised play for remembering all that naive and intact from your very childhood. This decent release is a part of the discography of The Daydream Generation.

Baltazàr – After Kanzai (2018)

Pueblo Nuevo

• Noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Post-industrial 
• Leftfield 
• Electronic music 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Improvised music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Psycho-acoustic

Comment: in truth, this is obviously the first issue coming out from Cuba being appeared at RMH. Indeed, Fidel Castro is dead and Cuba, Island of Freedom is not the same anymore as it has been for decades beforehand. One of the new signs is this 10-notch whole due to its highly provoking and unnerving nature. Honestly, I didn't expect to find it from Cuba. By immersing in noise torrents and frantic electronic appearances (for instance, spasmodic electronic flickers and saturated improvisations and abstract signal-alike beeps). On the other side, the frenetic side is a bit balanced by string instruments though the nature of it is also harsh rather than gentle. At times the listener can hear silently flowing sampledelic undercurrents as if bearing a hidden message. This highly galvanized release is a part of the discography of a Chilean release, Pueblo Nuevo.

Tinyfolk – Incredible Snow (2011)

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• Drone pop 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Electronic music 
• DIY 
• Electro-indie 
• Synth-pop

Comment: soon 10 years will be passed by from the moment when I did discover the incredible world of netlabels, platforms like Archive.org, Free Music Archive, Jamendo, CLLCT, The Daydream Generation and many outings within them. There was then the initial, true user-friendly version of Lastfm through which I did contact with Tinyfolk and discovered his releases. Indeed, all his issues were released through Bloomington, Indiana-based CLLCT which was a bottomless source for the contemporary DIY and lo-fi scene of the USA. It is redundant to speak out I truly miss those times. However, Incredible Snow is a 4-track issue and crafted after Ross Woods (now he is she under the name Sara June Woods) moved from Bloomington to the Windy City. Before that he had created a loads of issues of mixed quality but the recent one reflects on his maturity in coherent songwriting and because of it I would like to partly avoid the tag lo-fi although it is a stylistic lo-fi example. It is a great release with melodically catchy teasers although the release is more minimal than Ross/Sara's previous issues. I guess similarly to his previous issues it is created on Apple Garageband but without any guitars and ukuleles. It is fully electronic with synthesised drones and orchestrations. You can hear the female singing occasionally probably belonging to Meghan Lamb from Iron Like Nylon. This is her one of the latest issues before the project came to the end and she started a new project, Pretty Swans with Meghan, and Jim Laczkowski (Garden On A Trampoline).

Tripnectar – The World Is Yours (2017)

MNMN

Archive.org

• Electronic music 
• Chillstep 
• Alternative  
• Chilltronica 
• Sampledelic 
• Trap 
• Dubstep

Comment: Tripnectar is a producer from a small town from Siberia, Russia and The World Is Yours gets a third place chronologically in the list of four releases so far. The 9-notch outing consists of relaxing beats even if some more acute frequencies and angular patterns are incorporated into it, and truly atmospheric layers filled in with synthesised orchestrations, tectonic dubstep inflected bass thudding and slowly rotating phrases and reverberant effects toward the rhythmic backbone. At Left-Right the listener can hear more outlined trap cadences injecting more life to the whole. One of the favourite pieces of mine is South thanks to the murky, scurrilous monologue from a movie and a wonky rhythm to keep shuffling thereafter. All in all, Tripnectar is on the right track. The solid release is a part of the discography of MNMN Records, a Russian imprint.

[Teaser of the day] Mountain Cloth - The Wasps of Summer

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• DIY
• Twee pop

Artist: Mountain Cloth

Release: Haircutter

Label: Giant Manilow

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Gamardah Fungus - Two Hemispheres, Two Worlds

Turbinicarpus

• Post-rock
• Post-metal
• Art rock
• Crossover
• Ambient rock
• Doom rock
• Improvised music

Artist: Gamardah Fungus

Release: Two Hemispheres, Two Worlds

Label: Turbinicarpus

Year: 2010

elconEstharoe – Imenginations (2018)

Murmure Intemporel

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Experimental electronica 
• Avant-electronica 
• Drone
• Experimentalism 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde

Comment: it is said that these 42 minutes come out from a pyramidic-machine, which converts electromagnetic signals and cosmic background into an audible spectrum. Subtlety and roughness are represented simultaneously through the compositions. At times it reminds me of a possible post-apocalyptic vision when all is destroyed but there is a new, powerful impulse to come out as soon as possible to embark on a new life. It contains a lot of metallic hisses and rusty noises as if a sign of the subsequences of a defunct civilization set in ruins due to the corrupted initial premises. Indeed, through all this technical debris as a sign of decay you can hear more mellow sounds like slight orchestrations, spatial ambient hovers as a sign of memories of a once existed full-fledged society. It is like a marred interface or circuit bending which does not function correctly. The bent title Imenginations provides an impulse about the tension and artificial wrongdoing between the abovementioned ones. By perceiving this in that way it is quite painful. The 10-notch issue is a part of the discography of Murmure Intemporel.

[Teaser of the day] Sotra - SpaceBorn

U-Torn

• Synth fusion
• Kosmische Musik
• Space music
• Krautrock
• Cosmic fusion
• Electronic music

Artist: Sotra

Release: Wayfarer

Label: U-Torn

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Skala Collective - Waiting For Something

Clinical Archives

• Dub rock
• Psychedelic
• Electronic
• Art rock
• Avant-rock
• Krautrock
• Experimental rock

Artist: Skala Collective

Release: Black Constellation

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2011

Lately Kind of Yeah – Galaxie Depression (2017)

Vulpiano

Bandcamp

• Ambient rock 
• Art rock 
• Alternative 
• Minimalism 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Post-rock

Comment: first of all, this 7-track issue comes out from the US-based imprint Vulpiano Records and contains a couple of long-running compositions (for instance, Resonanz, and Erinnerung reach the mark of 20-minute, Adaptieren even more, clocking in at a 31-minute). Secondly, Vulpiano Records is a home record for some albums by the France-based Natural Snow Buildings, one of the most outstanding artists within the experimental folk/post-folk/New Weird movement. Galaxie Depression does have some common threads with Aldebaran, The Night Country, and The Alpha Centauri due to its minimally changing approach through long progressions while being imbued with spatial instrumental incantations. In true, Lately Kind Of Yeah`s music runs in the vein of (post-)rock music, that`s the main difference. Although it says something there are up many additional elements either. The artist likes to improvise on the guitar by cranking up the volume and crafting intriguing zig-zag-alike patterns and crackling effects as if playing it through a broken amplifier on the instrument. The instrumental incantations are interspersed with enchantingly iterative cycles, wide guitar bows and even ear-deafening outbursts. By listening to Resonanz it is an example of eargasmic music. All the titles are in German and referencing to the nature of a certain track. In a word, there are up fabulous 95 minutes.