Daniel Maze – Red After Image (2008)

Serein

• Ambient 
• Experimental electronica 
• Dub techno
• Epic  
• Electronic music 
• Glitchtronica 
• Ambient dub 
• Dreamwave
• Micronoise

Comment: as we know ambient as a musical style or as a part of a conglomeration of styles may be very beautiful and epic and profound even if being distracted by microscopic noises and glitches. In fact, such Canadian artists as Tim Hecker, and Scott Morgan aka Loscil have demonstrated that eloquently. The same can be said about a third representative from within the country, Daniel Maze. Red After Image which was released in 2008 takes on ambient music in a very alchemistic way with intention to produce emotive music. However, it is a main premise to produce a nice ambient outing. His family name Maze does denote the word labyrinth otherwise, and this bunch of 10 compositions is complex and highly enjoyable simultaneously. The tracks used to veer away from introverted electro-acoustic minutiae and faint microscopic squalls to serene dreamwave-esque insights to thick ambient and dub infused outlets. Those epic moments galore chime almost like symphonic vignettes. In spite of the different appearances the listener cannot perceive the feeling of different styles to square off with each other. All is either seamlessly intertwined with one another or followed by one another. There is up the definitive whole. In fact, ten years ago there was nobody talking about the label dreamwave but there it hovers around on the issue. Indeed, tracks like The Chiefs Are Folding used to be played on the indie shows now. As I said before it contains a bunch of 10 tracks but there is no need to differentiate one track from another. All is sticked together organically and seamlessly. The stunning one is a part of the discography of Serein.

[Teaser of the day] Cinchel - Time with Dinosaurs, the Flying Ones

• Free folk
• Post-concrète
• Epic
• Psych-folk
• New Weird America
• Avant-folk
• Drone folk
• Minimalism
• Post-folk
• Weird folk
• Organic electronica
• Experimental folk

Artist: Cinchel

Release: A Sad Study in Temporal Dissonance

Label: Patient Sounds/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Bryyn - Into the Ark

Jamendo

• Indie folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Alt-folk
• Americana
• Folk indie
• Art folk
• Folktronica

Artist: Bryyn 

Release: Pink Noise

Label: Self-released/Jamendo

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] K4MMERER - Dream Train

Jamendo

• Electronic pop
• Electro pop
• Alternative dance
• Synth-pop
• Electro-funk

Artist: K4MMERER

Release: Mind Train

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2018

EE7A - Immunity

Atomic Butterfly – Atomic Butterfly (1985)

Bob Chaos

• Hard rock 
• Heavy metal 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Live session
• Crossover
• Krautrock 
• Improvised music 
• Math rock 
• Space rock

Comment: there has been a coon`s age since I last reviewed something from an obscure imprint called Bob Chaos Recordings. It can be said most of the compositions from within come out of the 80s. Outside the imprint there has been slight traces of it. I can remember for a release of WM Recordings called Extremely mild and pleasant tasting The best of Bob Chaos Recordings 1984-1986 (one of the artists appeared on it was Atomic Butterfly). And four more issues by Phil Reavis. By the way, Phil Reavis was a member of Atomic Butterfly, a name which used to have resemblance with Iron Butterfly, a combo which did contribute strongly to the development of heavy rock, and heavy metal. In fact, by listening to the albums and watching the pictures of the so-called heavy metal and hard rock combos from the end-60s and the beginning-70s the case used to be frequently thoroughly psychedelic and hippy by its nature although some violent threads started already to appear within the combos` sound. It is the case because Atomic Butterfly`s 12-track issue - unfortunately I was allowed to download 10 tracks only because a couple of them had problems with the downloading links - is as rough and hirsute as a piece of corroded iron. In truth, Atomic Butterfly is a live session record filled in with stomping drums, abrasive guitar noodling and acidic organ playing. I like that shitty sound quality. In any cases, if are searching for a robust, refreshing experience then you should come over to this legacy. It is a frantic instance of improvised music being far away from a neat, commerically oriented, often contemporary hard rock example (nuff said). You can hear even some motorik/krautrock, and math rock patterns although officially the latter term was not invented yet. In any cases, for once again, crank up the volume knob and get your rocks off on listening to it with your neighbours.

[Teaser of the day] Tony Diana - Blood Portal Breechers

Jamendo

• Drone 
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Illbient
• Post-concrète
• Sound art
• Abstract
• Dytopbient
• Post-industrial
• Dark ambient
• Electronic music
• Art music

Artist: Tony Diana

Release: Orbis Alius

Label: enoughrecords/Jamendo/Free Music Archive/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Background Radiation - Radiate

No Source

• Indietronica
• Lo-fi
• Dream pop
• Plinkerpop
• Indie pop
• DIY
• Drone pop
• Alternative pop
• Electronic music

Artist: Background Radiation

Release: Moot Point EP

Label: No Source

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Alinoe - Everyday Routine

Bump Foot

• Electronic music
• Alternative dance
• Art house
• Minimal house
• Deep house

Artist: Alinoe

Release: Almost 22 P.M.

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2017

MacroNoise – Various Species (2018)

Crime League

• Electronic music 
• Breakcore
• Post-kraut 
• Cosmic synth 
• Electro 
• Crossover 
• Breakbeat
• Kosmische Musik 
• Alternative dance 
• EBM

Comment: MacroNoise is the one-man-project of Tomas Sebelka, an artist from Prague, the Czech Republic. I can remember for he issued an album called My Steps Lead Backwards on Kahvi Collective at the end of the previous year. His 5-track issue Various Species which is issued on Toronto, Canada-based Crime League is a frantic patchwork of different styles and intentions as hinted at by the title of the issue as well. More profoundly, angular electro grooves and agressively trudging (almost industrial) broken rhythms are balanced by spatial synthesisers and wrought sonic effects of voices and electronic keyboards and additionally plucking of natural strings in the vein of folktronic music. Eventually it is getting to gravitate toward the dance locale (especially at Still Alive). At times one can feel that all of that described above used to shift in different directions at the same time. It is called tectonic, isn't? In fact, it is an outing with the complex configuration which needs to have more listening times to convey proper touch. All in all, it is a solid post-kraut/Kosmische Musik release by assimilating old formats and changing them into a new one. As an overcoming and coherent release it should be remembered at the end of the year of 2018.