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Comment: unfortunately I have already forgotten my ability in speech and understanding in German though German was my second foreign language after Russian and before English. No practice kills one's adept to speak a language. This 7-track outing being issued on such an imprint as Digital Kunstrasen is as grossly focused on lyrics as it is craftily stylised on oldie cabaret music driven by vivid piano chords and more generally on permanent chord changes and thematic turns. As we know well in its early days, approximately a century ago, the cabaret in Germany (especially in metropolises like Munich, and Berlin) embraced avant-garde tendencies by providing an outlet for expressionists, for example. Because of that I guess the listener could get an increased impression from these texts of this 7-track outing. As the title already expressively hints at it - paint your elks. By the way, as the most rock music was based on the template of black blues music then such an avant-rock combo as Velvet Underground instead of it have had its roots in the white, even the so-called elite European culture, remarkably it did have an indirect cabaret touch as well (of course, for Hitler and his comrades who were being dismally stylised bastards it was an inferior representation of culture and it would be "cured" through concentration camps). By its touch the release is an old-fashioned yet amusing glimpse like warming up all those old ghosts.

nula.cc – a dream of smoke and birds (2018)

Bandcamp

Drone
Sound art
Ambient
Post-industrial
Soundscape
Dark ambient
Ambient drone
Musique concrète
Organic electronica

Comment: a subsequent release by Prague, the Czech Republic-based nula.cc´s is a credible listening due to its emotive touch which in turn is induced by a crafty composition and suggestive sounds. The scheme as it used to appear if one intends to create a solid issue. Yesterday I saw a trailer about upcoming post-apocalyptic games like Metro Exodus, The Devision 2, Fear the Wolves, Atomic Heart, The Last Of Us 2 which indeed seemed to be quite fancy. All of that stuff used to resonate with the 7-notch outing of which area of activity seems to come out from a remote distance which is the dwelling place for mutants and inferior bastards. In fact, at the moment the heroes are gone and mostly the dickheads are left who have neither sympathy nor empathy (even if they pretend to have it). One can hear fear and oppressive tension oozing from those hazily saturated drones and semi-ambient and industrial progressions. It is empty and full at the same time, as if an embodiment of the schizoid nature of human being`s mind and psyche, the embodiment of a distracted configuration. Undoubtedly one of the strongest issues by the artist.

2/26/2019

[Teaser of the day] Hanetration - Wither

Drone
Avant-garde
Post-industrial
Epic
Experimentalism
Post-classical

Artist: Hanetration

Release: Murmurist EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Valhearst - Drunk of Passion

Electronic music
Outsider house
Singer-songwriter
Bedroom pop
Alternative dance

Artist: Valhearst

Release: Rest Regards

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2019

2/25/2019

[Teaser of the day] Felipe Baradit Stevenson - Rewiro

Epa Sonidos

Synth-pop
Kosmische Musik
Techno pop
Alternative dance
Cosmic synth

Artist: Felipe Baradit Stevenson

Release: Techno Synth Pop

Label: Epa Sonidos

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Dark Frequencer - Hypnotica Part 2

Electronic music
Ambient techno
Musique concrète
Organic electronica
Dreamwave
Hypnagogic pop

Artist: Dark Frequencer

Release: Hypnotica

Label: Petroglyph Music

Year: 2018

Mark Hamn – Function Buttons (2005)

Maetrixsolution

Complementary Distribution

Avant-garde
Folktronica
Alternative
Experimentalism
Ambient
Glitch-folk
Glitchtronica
Post-folk
Organic electronica
Sampledelic

Comment: Mark Hamn is the pseudonym of an Italian musician, Francesco Giannico. It starts off like a music example of having lost its gravitation and as if coming out of a sinking car audio. Later on, it is filled in with succumbed shrieks, intense rattles, microscopic noises, thick bass frequencies, drawn-out sonic effects. And then a guitar comes in sometime to provide more anchored pinpoint for this 6-notch release under Maetrixsolution, Complementary Distribution (and temporally the Canadian Nishi imprint). By the way, by talking about Canadians, especially about these ones coming out from Quebec province I have to mention such artists as Simon Trottier, Nicolas Bernier, and Vincent Fuguere (Muhr) who also like to endeavour at crossroads of glitched-out electronica, folk and modern classical compositions. However, Francesco Giannico likes to play with the format and possible deviations and artificial errors within it. It is like an elegant standing against the form and pressure of a correct conversation and sterile creative process which are the obvious sources of killing our natural sense of (self-)expression. We just used to act in a way because we are teached to act in that way. Regarding what we should or must do, in fact, we do not have a comprehensive, experience-based understanding at all. We are like digitalised creatures with a narrow middle spectrum of frequencies if to be compared to the analogy of the sound. Just be ready to take one detail, then another and start to combine. Yet Francesco Giannico by standing in the middle of scattered sonic chaos will ultimately create blissful monumental spans and flashes. In a word, it is an exquisite listening.

2/24/2019

Art Electronix – Loop Constructor (2012)

Nanoloopsis

Archive.org

Tech-house
Techno
Electronic music
Club dance
Alternative dance

Comment: behind the Ukraine-based combo Art Electronix are a woman, and a man who have evaluated such values as constant search of original sounding, development of art performances and live concerts, experimental quality music production, and many other art forms. Indeed, the duo has been truly prolific over the years by issuing more than 50 outings so far. This 3-notch issue comes out of such an imprint as Nanoloopsis and showcasing the Ukrainians' inclination toward techno and near techno rhythms. The latter category does mean techno cadences are mingled with electro, dub and house oscillations. In a nutshell, these 12 and a half minute constitute a substantial experience.

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2/27/2019

[Teaser of the day] Popkan - Nightman

[Teaser of the day] Leonel Jacquier - Baby Santa

Meik Puppe – Färbe Deine Elche (2007)