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Comment: I have mentioned a couple of articles about flourishing Indonesian music scenes recently. However, the information about the prolific Indonesian indie scene was earlier to be well known. Here it is one of those spicy examples. By considering the title of this 9-notch issue there are only two possibilities to come into fruition – if it is seriously thought then this may obviously be a dead born, dull crap. Or secondly it may be vamped up with tongue-in-cheek attitude where the aesthetic of an issue is turned over the top, into a frantic rush. Fortunately the latter description is the case. Straight blatant bashes with speed metal, hardcore punk, and noise pop bottoms are subverted by acidic, freely manipulated keyboards and a melodica (or melodica-alike instrument). In true, when the melodica takes the lead then the ragged psychedelia will change into a gentle reggae or ska number. The singing manner is truly groovy, from loud shouting and screaming to anxiety laden reciting and desperation tinged singing. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Motörhead, Hawkwind, Acid Mothers Temple, Atomic Butterfly, The Damned, The Fall. Ear Alert is the imprint behind this fascinating nuke.

Thuoom – reCycle 2 (2017)

Textural Healing

Electronic music
Electro-acoustic
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Abstract
Minimal techno
Drone
Live
Post-industrial
Psycho-acoustic
Abstract techno
Experimental electronica
Avant-electronica
Avant-techno

Comment: as the Finnish artist Thuoom did close his second grand cycle in order to begin a studio hiatus, there are up a couple of compilation issues released simultaneously (10 years In Noise, and reCycle 2). These ones gather together a bunch of unreleased tunes having no particular fit with the albums he composed during the second cycle. Indeed, there is represented a bunch of 13 tracks full of different sort of sonic experiments with uncanny rhythms, heavily boreal infused soundscapes, throbbing techno cadences of recent Finnish witches, amplified electricity and elliptically trudging noises, interrupted yet still loopy circuits, extended guitar chords and bold drones from the tundra. All is changing permanently around the listener yet fulfilling it through slowly changing cycles the ultimate effect will grow even bigger. At a time one can discover he/she has stepped unremarkably into another forest or landscape. Without any doubt, there can be drawn parallels upon his outstanding compatriots Ilpo Väisänen, and deceased Mika Vainio aka Pan Sonic, obviously one of the best artists having ever existed within the history of electronic music. Furthermore, I can personally say I am very proud of my mighty paternal grandmother who is Finnish. But such sort of music adds an extra charge to it (of course, I know such sort of feelings are not very supported in the contemporary highly tolerant Western Europe). A must-have listening for any experimental music fan by a man who has established himself as a symbol within the weblabel world. And as usual, this mighty and cathartic miscellany is released on his own imprint called Textural Healing.

Gaetano Fontanazza – The Grandpa Lullabies (2018)

Sucu Music

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Ambient
Post-rock
Ambient rock
Art music
Experimental rock
Drone
Space music
Improvised music
Minimalism
Electronic

Comment: Gaetano Fontanazza can be pigeonholed with such artists as Brother Saturn, I Am Esper, Glenn Brown, Saito Koji who used to create guitar-based ambient music which, I guess, may be quite obsessive by its method base yet truly relieving for a listener. You can hear extended chord licks which used to move across an artificial space (in fact, by creating and dilating it) and on the other side hover over the listener's mind. Additionally to the electric guitars he employs electronic keyboards and delay and reverb tools to sustain the vibrant ambiances (later the artist contacted me by saying all the sounds are created by using the guitars only). Due to those vibrant drones and faint wobbling which create a pleasant variety based on intermittent pressure and under pressure I would like to call it a dance album for the angels. Furthermore, is it an improvised music example or a designed music issue? Undoubtedly it is one of the best albums in 2018, and the 8-track composition is a part of the discography of Sucu Music.

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10/15/2018

[Teaser of the day] Prophecy Sun - Give Me

[Teaser of the day] Maina - Ola Calma

Nanaki - Astray

[Teaser of the day] This Lonely Crowd - Gheegle-Gheegle

[Teaser of the day] Databoy78 - Brain

[Teaser of the day] Alex Cortex - Cuatrofourvier

[Teaser of the day] Audio Cephlon - Dweller On The Threshold

10/14/2018

PSK – Greatest Hits-Anarchy In The Indie (2016)

Thuoom – reCycle 2 (2017)

Gaetano Fontanazza – The Grandpa Lullabies (2018)

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