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Comment: Open Work Stocking is the Russian producer Anton Tatarinov and this 6-cut issue is his debut release under the Portuguese imprint Enoughrecords. Quite much has changed since the year of 2008 yet it is a very solid result full of gentle melodies and lofty progressions while employing the sharp sounds of noises, glitches, unnerving pulsating electronic rhythms. Intellectually merging together the Detroit-based techno and electro tradition and Cologne and Dusseldorf-based IDM/techno/neokrautrock legacy to pop out somewhere in Russia. Additionally, it is keenly a dance-appealed case and those lightweight orchestrations remind of Arthur Russell. Ultimately I am going to say – it is absolutely stunning being perfectly balanced between the experimentally sophisticated and emotively full-fledged one. It must have towered as an IDM classic.

Lo Five – House Is My House-Vol.2 (2018)

Upitup

Alternative dance
House
Deep house
Electronic music
Outsider house
Lo-fi
DIY

Comment: by listening to this 8-track outing I would like to say house music should be recorded by exploiting the 4-track recorders only. At least I feel myself in that way while listening to an issue being inspired by a tongue-in-cheek attitude, hazy flashbacks, lo-fi aesthetics, broken car stereos and break magazines. Sometimes it chimes like the Chinese version of house music (State Of You). I really like this audibly a bit inferior touch with all those slightly reverberant mid and low-range frequencies churning back and forth. At times it is highly suggestive due to passing through some wobbly sonic filters, and whimsical timbre and chord refractions, at times the artist used to immerse in reckless dreaming as if were forgotten to skip loopy button yet all the time it is emotive, it is catchy. Because of being so playful. The fancy release is a part of the discography of Upitup.

Whalt Thisney – Musica Celestial-Thisconcert (2018)

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Modern classical
Contemporary classical
Art music
Piano music
Mood music

Comment: there has been around a couple of the artists in the last two years in my world who have hijacked and a bit bent famous artist's names and thereafter issued a huge amount of the outings either on their own or on weblabels. One of them is Monkey Warhol, and the other one is Whalt Thisney. This batch of 6 tracks, as the title suggests, tries to tower toward the heaven, toward the celestial spheres, toward someone whom we can reasonably reach and perceive yet having had no possibility to see for. However, as a divine mind called Plato once assumed this world consists of the bare shadows only. The ideas behind it are a part of the aforementioned heaven, the true world. A continuous flow of variegated piano chords being studded with more murky cello chords here and there. At times those mellifluous chords are varied with more high-pitched tinkles and elegantly thudding bass chords. In a word, all is nicely balanced. The general impression is sublimely floating as if consisting of chords having no underpinned intention. A very nice release.

USAISAMONSTER – 5 (2017)

Mass Dist

Avant-rock
Experimental rock
Psych-rock
Freeformfreakout
Electronic
Experimentalism
Avant-garde
Leftfield

Comment: approximately 10-11 years ago the indie scene was partly headed by such radical experimental combos as Black Dice, Terrestrial Tones and The Lightning Bolt who had made noisy, angular rhythms drenched music. Actually USAISAMONSTER chimes in a quite similar way imbued with squalling guitars, psychedelic electronics and slamming drum mazes and angst and artificial angst and dadaism mixed shouts and shrieks. For making sound is it their way to kill pain? However, additionally there are up some off-kilter spans within a considerable part of the whole for showcasing the combo as a part of the music library compartment and reminding of early electronic music explorations within the academic circles. It is the disparate, more abstract case. In turn, those more restrained moments do resemble a little Animal Collective's early post-psychedelic compositions. At that time USAISAMONSTER abandons more or less rock-alike structures by entering into a completely disparate area. For sure, they recognize conventions as much as a mere matter to get subverted and get destroyed just a bit. It is like a perpetrator used to play with his/her victim. Even if it may seem the negative approach it makes sense. Actually it is not an overtly negative statement. Even more, I guess by creating such a sort of din it is a natural part of their vital bloodstream. This overwhelming 17-notch release (clocking in at a 34 minute only) is a bit in the discography of Mass Dist.

9/27/2018

メトロノリ– works 14-18 ペール (2018)

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Indietronica
Electronic
Lo-fi
Art pop
Toytronica
J-pop
Synth-pop
Alternative

Comment: this batch of 11 pieces is a playful yet mostly discontinuous blend of infantile chords, microscopic glitches and shaped noise castles, miniature electronic whiffs and portals opening on to the street view conjuring spooky creatures being very important in the Japanese mythology and perception but at the same time embracing the glimpses from a more erudite world by hinting keenly at J-pop, synth-pop/fusion, Shibuya-kei. As you can see the title is overflowed with the Japanese hieroglyphs but in English the proper name counterpart of the artist is Metoronori.

9/25/2018

[Teaser of the day] Mount Eerie - Wooly Mammoth`s Mighty Absence

Archive.org

Folk indie
Live session
Indie folk
Singer-songwriter

Artist: Mount Eerie

Release: Live at Landmark on 2007-07-28

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Bing Satellites - Sad To Leave, Happy To Get There

Modern classical
Post-classical
Art music
Ambient
Crossover
Mood music

Artist: Bing Satellites

Release: Treasure

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

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9/30/2018

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Open Work Stocking – Intrude into the Grey Slush (2008)