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Comment: it is said on the site of the Japanese imprint Bump Foot that Clayton Brooks aka EE7A was introduced to the eurorack format of modular synthesis and since then he has preferred recording just in one take rather than just clicking and sticking sonic blocks together on his computer. By keeping listening to it already three times in a row I shall have to assume Clayton Brooks succeeded in his recording politics. Tracers EP is highly ecstatic, even a bit hysterical based on the lame shaped, heavily stomping bass drumming being embellished with faint electro developments, and rusty 8-bit sonic effects. At times the intensity gets a bit attenuated and the pace will be changed into a more monotonous, even a bit hypnotic one. Then I can draw parallels upon the Detroit scene of electro and techno. For me, it embodies the life of an ordinary person within the overwhelming capitalistic machinery. All those doings from one day to another being repeated again and again wherein one can feel pleasure and pain intermittently or simultaneously. It reflects upon the relation between the human being and a machine where exhaustion in one's eyes is mixed up with some hope and look at a next day. However, by creating music, especially by those persons who have built their own studios and create music on their own terms, it is a huge step outside that a bit harrowing system. So one can accelerate the process, be outside the capitalistic system at her/his own disposal. But no one should not forget another truth and be wrongheaded – the communism as a regime is something which cannot be tolerated at all. Otherwise one can see a field of corpses having traversed the countries like it happened in China, the Soviet Union, and Kampuchea during the previous century. There is no need for useful idiots anymore. If someone wishes to behave in that way I guess the North Korea is waiting for you to build up a bright future.

10/06/2018

[Teaser of the day] Strom An/Ein/Aus Fall - Es ist nicht schön allein zu sein

Headphonica

Bitpop
8-bit
Alternative
Electronic music
Electro
Nintendocore
Tracker music
Chiptune

Artist: Strom An/Ein/Aus Fall

Release: st

Label: Headphonica

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Cousin Silas - Flipside

Ambient
Electronic music
Avant-garde
Soundscape
Space music
Experimentalism

Artist: Cousin Silas

Release: Twang 002

Label: We Are All Ghosts

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] ref/inter - Words And Advice

Electron Emitter

Electronic music
Drone
Dystopbient
Art music
Post-classical
Spoken word
Crossover
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Post-industrial
Leftfield
Illbient
Abstract
Glitch techno

Artist: ref/inter

Release: iwbiactnle

Label: Electron Emitter

Year: 2018

Brice Catherin – Best Hits – Recent Works For Percussion Ensembles (2016)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Improvised music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Electro-acoustic
Live
Conceptual

Comment: this bunch of 5 compositions is not a usual way for defining his/her own oeuvre. Indeed, the French composer Brice Catherin's music is being far away from an average pop album, far away from an average pop jazz issue either. It is a tight improvisation by exploiting magnified cello chords, droning melodica spans, storytelling, windbells, intense drumming. The description can be attributed to the chronologically second part of the issue dedicated to Baubo, the mystical goddess of fertility and performed live by the Norwegian Pinquins in Oslo. The first part being inspired by a Russian composer of classical music, (Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya), rotates mentally and physically around one piano being played by three pianists and two percussion players though they use their voices as well (Ensemble Batida). Musically it is an affair between tumultuous progressions and sonic clusters and on the other side by silent, as if still life incantations. This is the fifth issue by Brice Catherin on Chicago, the US-based Pan Y Rosas Discos.

Background Radiation – Moot Point EP (2010)

No Source

Indietronica
Electronic
Dream pop
Alternative
Art pop
Epic
Drone pop
Cowbell indie

Comment: autumnal sadness and lethargy have overwhelmed our senses and sensations, all seems to be stopped or at least strongly decelerated, the long and warm summer is let behind, and there it is, an old issue being released more than 8 years ago by Ludo Maas (Multi-Panel), and Tim Dwyer (Off Land & Full-Source) on the US-based imprint No Source. Those slowly growing drone-y melodica tinged lead motives being interspersed with pastel acoustic guitar chords and exquisite electronic touches used to churn the listener's mind. Double Negative, and Radiate are enchanting pop songs, indeed, truly enchanting ones. The listener can perceive this 6-notch issue as if a minimized glimpse as a transgressive, self-thrusting catapult to get thrown into a bigger, more flourishing sonic world. Lofty fantasies used to surface after having listened to these relatively miniature developments. Yeah! Yes!

Vavabond – No-Brain Improv (2016)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

Improvised music
Avant-garde
Microtonal
Glitchtronica
Experimentalism
Electronic music
Abstract
Drone
Avant-electronica
Experimental electronica

Comment: this issue being released on Pan Y Rosas Discos is played by Li Qing, Liu Xinyu, and Adam Macgregor in an exhausted state of mind with intention to reject the purposeful work of mind and brain being switched off as much as possible behind it. It is a paradoxical case to come out as a somehow conceptual work because the concepts are the brain related only. As I have understood the audience was also absent-minded at the performance so for a distant listener it is a privilege to try the both variants. At the moment while listening to it in clear state of mind it is a quite extreme case as if partaking in a recycling process of noisy debris being cut into a thousands of pieces and thereafter organised into either fluffy or faintly drilling droning process. Does represent such a sort of "faulty", messy thing for inability of the body to exist without the brain? Could you perceive any traces of mental energy? Could you see/hear bare electrified impulses running between the synapses across the brain? At least in the beginning the listener can hear a little span of piano playing to be rejected very soon. However, the piano playing seems to be rational and structured. Maybe it was just added to accentuate the following glitched-out chaos. Yeah, it is intriguing in its conceptual and non-musical sense through the process of creating and abandoning at the same time. By its minimal, even defiantly microscopic/tonal approach it reminds of Kaffe Matthews' some works. What's next? After having listened to such a sort of austere yet mind-provoking format for many times in a row I am tempted to put on The Commodores' United LP.

Visciera – Six Bits Of Black Broken Glass (2012)

Headphonica

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

Archive.org

Industrial rock
EBM
Alternative
Electronic
Synth-pop
Experimental electronica

Comment: as you have already figured out the title of this 6-track issue suggests both irony and desperation, humor and painful experiences, love and hopelessness, aggressiveness and humbleness. By considering the issue's cybernetic, industrial-imbued and machine-bent threads the question could be about the relationship between a human being, and a machine. Is the machine controlled by the human being, or vice versa? As you can see from the question and accents related to it the control is that the most important aspect which regulates our everyday's life between the groups, and how much the machines should be subjugated to the human being as a species? Earlier it was an urgent question about the relationship between the human race and nature. It seems that Florian Cziesla tries to find out a fine balance between the aforementioned compartments, between the touch, and determination. More profoundly, you can hear compositions from exquisite EBM-drenched synth pop and solid industrial rock to a stylistically pure EBM example with the lyrics of pessimistic allusions to downright noisy dead ends shedding no light and hope anymore. The solid issue is a part of the discography of Headphonica.

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10/07/2018

[Teaser of the day] Benfro - Breathe In

[Teaser of the day] Macchiato Funky - MMM

EE7A – Tracers EP (2017)