Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt & Jochen Arbeit – Guitar Solos (2017)

Hortus Conclusus

• Drone 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Improvised music 
• Microtonal 
• Guitar ambient 
• Lo-fi 
• Sound art 
• Minimalism 
• Abstract

Comment: as I see Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt likes to create guitar solos in liaison with other musicians. With regard to these split releases he has collaborated with such artists as Hopek Quirin, Martin Neuhold, and Jochen Arbeit. Chronologically Chicago, the US-born musician's collaboration with the latter named musician was the earliest one based on live recorded guitar manipulations. Undoubtedly such sort of music one cannot hear at a gig by Guns'n'Roses in the embodiment of Slash, and Duff McKagan, for example. Rather one might think of it as not being a guitar-based music at all because all the chords are heavily treated and mutilated. It is an absolutely different (parallel) universe with regard to the legends. It conjures up a fantasy loaded world as if the dwelling place for many horrendous supernatural creatures. It chimes like two metallic surfaces were rubbed against each other in a reverberant room (regarding the track by Jochen Arbeit). However, there is a major difference between the two 15-minute compositions. Jochen Arbeit's work is clean and clear-cut with bass loaded delays and echoes and sometimes employing hisses to be switched on and off. Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt's track, the aforementioned one to evoke ghosts in lobit and lo-fi manner. As if a stoned die-hard lo-fi enthusiast were played his own obtuse psychic shards. It reminds me of some of the most rejective moments by Johnny Crewdson, and his combo The Hirundu being created sometime in the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s. It also resembles my own very first music experiments due to have exploited different sort of artifacts and primitive instruments and tape manipulation in a maniac way. In fact, all the course is highly attractive. The spellbinding release is a part of the discography of Hortus Conclusus.

[Teaser of the day] Leemajik - Ne Tvoj

• Electronic music
• New Age
• Breaks
• Downtempo
• Mood music
• Chilltronica
• Trip-hop

Artist: Leemajik

Release: Access Frame: Property (V.A)

Label: Kamizdat

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Nicholas Mackin - The Longest Year

Soisloscerdos

• Chilltronica
• Electronic pop
• Ambient pop
• Mood music
• Crossover
• Psyelectro

Artist: Nicholas Mackin

Release: A Journey 

Label: Soisloscerdos/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp/Jamendo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Ringo Deathstarr - See You

• Alternative pop/rock
• Shoegaze
• Indie pop/rock
• Power pop
• Dream pop
• Trashgaze

Artist: Ringo Deathstarr

Release: God`s Dream  

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Camion - Amiga

• Post-punk
• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock
• New Wave
• Prog-punk

Artist: V.A

Release: Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 2 - Americas´Attack

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2018

Bendja – Primitive Encounters (2018)

4Drops Productions

Ektoplazm

Jamendo

• Psytrance 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Psyelectro 
• Goa

Comment: before I started listening to this 4-track issue I had been listening to John McLaughlin's Molom (1995, Polydor), a very worth CD issue I once got from a second hand shop. Molom is a refreshing blend of world music having its peak particularly spotted on Mongolian music and on the other side by employing fusion textures, generic artsy explorations and New Age-y hovers. In a word, the warm-up was solid enough to continue with music having been produced in the mountains of southern part of France. Primitive Encounters is the artist's sophomore issue of which intention is to illuminate the forgotten tribes of our world. It is a fine example of how music should be produced to convey a wide and yet profoundly cultivating sweep over a listener's perception. All seems to be mind-provoking from scratch over there – from the mystically suggestive cover print to clear yet profound reverberations and clear-cut rhythmic lines and wobbly acidic electro whirlpools. Furthermore, Ben aka Bendja likes to incorporate Indian and Gypsy motives (Flamenco guitars used to shuffle back and forth) into the blend. Because of that the issue reveals some not so usual threads from inside out. The expressive outing is a part of the discography of 4Drops Productions which in turn is set up under the umbrella of Ektoplazm, the main platform for psytrance, darkpsy, Goa trance, and many other psy-affected styles.

[Teaser of the day] Evan Morris - Ghost Fight

Earth Monkey Productions

• IDM
• Glitch electro
• Alternative
• Breakbeat
• Glitch techno
• Crossover
• Electronic music

Artist: Evan Morris

Release: The Doors Of Turmoil

Label: Earth Monkey Productions

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Blisaed - Take Your Time

Aerotone

• Indietronica
• Alternative
• Indie funk
• Alternative pop
• Electronic
• Art pop
• Alternative dance
• Electro-indie

Artist: Blisaed

Release: V/A - Soundtrack For Your Wedding

Label: Aerotone

Year: 2006

KETADRMS – Die helle Seite des Mondes (2015)

Kreislauf

Archive.org

• Hip-hop 
• Rap 
• Urban music 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Experimental electronica 
• Downtempo 
• Crossover 
• Breaks 
• Kosmische Musik

Comment: I have heard by someone that ketamine as a drug used to cause the subject to endlessly laugh. What then about ketadrms? Is it then about an endless session of exuberant drumming/drum programming? This outing of nine compositions is about a tight mix of unnerving and even choked electronic propulsions and on the other hand one used to hear hip-hop chants, decelerated fatty basses, and lighthearted synthesised progressions atop. Is the latter mentioned facet die helle Seite des Mondes (the bright side of the Moon) mentioned in the title? By my personal opinion I am thinking of it as something easy-going due to those volatile yet impressive gears to be moving along the bouncy rhythmic backbone. The strength of this legendary Kreislauf-released issue can be characterised through its unorthodox, free-flowing nature. In fact, it may remind of those tendencies being prevalent at the end of the 60s in Germany which eventually led to establishment of a swarm of crazed groups called Krautrock. One can feel coherent profoundness and a synergistic essence to latch on to those slightly different tendencies and deceptively ramshackle structures. In a word, as you have already figured out it is a bloody top notch.

[Teaser of the day] Cass Nova - Mapocho

Pueblo Nuevo

• Experimental electronica
• Avant-electronica
• Microtechno
• Drone
• Techno
• Microsound
• Experimental techno
• Crossover

Artist: Cass Nova

Release: Microorganisms 

Label: Pueblo Nuevo/Archive.org

Year: 2018