T.E.A.M.S – Sierra City Center (Diamond Club) (2013)

Bandcamp

• Lo-fi 
• Alternative pop 
• DIY 
• Psychedelic pop 
• Post-pop 
• Hypnagogic pop 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Avant-pop 
• Art pop 
• Noise pop 
• Synth-pop

Comment: by the middle of October of 2018 there is a sufficient time span left behind to consider the most important, seminal musicians during the last decades. By my opinion the importance of Ariel Pink is impossible to overestimate. As one Estonian musician and DJ said about it when he first heard him that God started creating music. I can only agree with him. By listening to his first albums from the end of the 90s to the middle of the 00s it is something extraterrestrial even today for my ears. Many projects got inspired by him and Sean Bowie`s T.E.A.M.S is an amazing churning issue being obviously inspired by Ariel Pink. All those glitterball and stroboscope reflected synths used to bump up in syncopated way as if a faint remembrance from one`s subconscious mind regarding personal pop experience. One would wake up either being horrified and coated with frowsty sweat and exhausted with tremors or being elevated to heaven via gentle surreal and hyperrealistic sounds. From serene disco reverberations and cloudless artificial ambiances to ragged noise pop explosions and frantic drumming and bold yet artsy guitar lines as if an unstoppable liner at the sea. A true gem from the 10s, much better than Ariel Pink`s last issues (unfortunately).

[Teaser of the day] YlangYlang - Earth Heart (He's Trying To Figure Some Shit Out)

• Dream pop
• Avant-pop
• Ambient pop
• Art pop
• Post-pop
• Alternative

Artist: YlangYlang

Release: No Exist (Feel Special)

Label: Carpi 

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Red Cosmos - Monsters Of Pop

• Indie pop
• Art pop
• Singer-songwriter
• Electronic
• Drone pop
• Organcore
• Alternative pop

Artist: Red Cosmos

Release: Dreaming In Unison

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Prophecy Sun - Give Me

Panospria

• Drone
• Experimentalism
• Minimalism
• Leftfield
• Abstract
• Microtonal
• Avant-garde

Artist: Prophecy Sun

Release: Sleep Fever

Label: Panospria/No Type  

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Maina - Ola Calma

Alg-a

• Glitchtronica
• IDM
• Electronic music
• Ambient
• Downtempo
• Crossover

Artist: Maina

Release: Ola Calma EP

Label: Alg-a

Year: 2005

Nanaki - Astray

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

• Shoegaze
• Alternative rock
• Dream pop
• Post-rock
• Crossover
• Indie rock
• Epic

Artist: This Lonely Crowd

Release: Meraki

Label: Sinewave 

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Databoy78 - Brain

• Minimalism
• Deep techno
• Electronic music
• Techno
• Alternative dance

Artist: Databoy78

Release: Piano Works EP

Label: Tropic

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Alex Cortex - Cuatrofourvier

Sweet Smelling Surfaces

• Electronic music
• Microtechno
• Art music
• Avant-techno
• Experimental techno

Artist: Alex Cortex

Release: Away Mode EP

Label: Sweet Smelling Surfaces

Year: 2006

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

• Ambient pop
• Cosmic fusion
• Electronic music
• Space music
• Cosmic synth
• Ambient techno
• Crossover
• Kosmische Musik

Artist: Audio Cephlon

Release: Oumuamua

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2018

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

Ear Alert

Archive.org

• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Psych-rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Noise pop 
• Hardcore 
• Indie punk 
• Speed metal 
• Reggae 
• Ska 
• Acid rock 
• Space rock

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

Archive.org

• 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.

Windy Hill Mill – Spring Carousel (2010)

Bandcamp

• Folktronica 
• Folk indie 
• Art folk 
• New Weird France 
• Electronic 
• Dream folk 
• Indie folk 
• Post-folk 
• Plinkerpop 
• Indietronica

Comment: are these ditties dreamy incantations for folksy people? What about the members of royal palace? I think the latter ones are listening to dull established music where the etiquette is more important than the essence of a sonic example. This 8-notch outing is as fancy as the dreams could be. Electronic synthesised layers and swirling effects are counterpointed by bubblegum-ish guitar handling and a sensual female voice. Indeed, the electronics and the woman's vox dictate the pace of the issue. A cute virgin goes to a well, meets a handsome bride and some months later will have a profound, long-lasting sexual intercourse with the overcoming orgasm at the end with galvanized, amplified guitars and spasmodic yet stepwise relieving electronic bubbling (at Four Woods). And the following and altogether final track Sesame Chime is just caressing after that. This is mundane and divine at the same time.

No NITZ – Smutek Hmoty (2018)

CS Industrial 1982-2010

• Industrial 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Leftfield 
• Plunderphonics 
• Noise music 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Non-music 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Black noise

Comment: as much as I have understood this issue was originally released as a two-track tape in 1998 by Oblast Records but now being released on CS Industrial 1982-2010 it is divided into 12 parts. Musically it is as frantic as one decent industrial record should be. Lots of cacophonous and disrupted sounds having a deranged, probably misanthropic mind behind it. Stoned drumming and whistling noises and some well-known snippets taken from the cultural heritage to merge all of that into a loopy machinery. Some fucked-up beasts released from the cage to carve the aforementioned patterns with growls, groans, howls, moans. At times it chimes like a very shitty lo-fi black metal composition. Or... . In fact, you can himself define where begins black metal, and where it is an essential part of the noise music. You can partake in all of that magniloquent madness which reflects upon the rational and the irrational side of the human being, it reflects upon the tension and fruitful gap between the two sides. In the case, it is moulded into a bit frightening yet arousing sonic world.

[Teaser of the day] Monokit - v3

Nishi

• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Psybient
• Ethnotronica
• Crossover
• World fusion

Artist: Monokit

Release: Monolyth

Label: Nishi/No Type

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Miche - Triangular Aggregate

Clinical Archives

• Post-classical
• Avant-garde
• Epic
• Electronic music
• Modern classical
• Glitchtronica
• Crossover
• Experimentalism

Artist: Miche

Release: Along Yurikamome

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Globoscuro - Nanomachine Messiah

Far From Showbiz

• Post-industrial
• Dystopbient
• Illbient
• Psycho-acoustic
• Experimentalism
• Leftfield
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Globoscuro

Release: Research

Label: Far From Showbiz

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Crows in the Rain - Cosmic Dawn

Hortus Conclusus

• Post-rock
• Epic
• Ambient rock
• Art rock

Artist: Crows in the Rain

Release: Ashes of the Past

Label: Hortus Conclusus/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Tatira – Fire Everlasting (2018)

Inam

• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Synth-pop 
• Drone 
• Dark ambient

Comment: undoubtedly Tatira's 12-track issue is a solid resistance against the established pop music even if borrowing elements from within it. It is kind of playful resilience full of different abysses and jolly tricks. To get out of this established circle, a sort of determined machine, the only way is to subvert the well-known, paved clichès. Of course, the other way is to produce the sort of music consisting of unusual, uncommon sounds and strange structures yet such sort of music would be standing alone. The better way could be just partly hijacking the acknowledged elements to build up a new structure. In fact, such artists as People Like Us, Ergo Phizmiz, and Cassetteboy have proved that quirky manner used to work. More profoundly, at Fire Everlasting you can hear exaggerated rhythmic structures and overgrown synthesised aesthetics and a lot of monkey-shines in overall and additionally there are up some noise built dodges and drone-y glimpses to even doom rock/metal and flourishing murky ambient appearances. It is a frantic drift between rational, and irrational tendencies due to which the history of human race would have been progressing. The mind-provoking outing is a part of the discography of Inam Records.

[Teaser of the day] Jan LF Strach - Niewiarygordon!

• Noise rock
• Avant-rock
• Acid rock
• Experimental rock
• Indie rock
• Garage rock
• Psych-rock
• No Wave
• DIY

Artist: Jan LF Strach

Release: Balearen Kanaren E.P

Label: Underpolen/Bandcamp 

Year: 2017/2018

[Teaser of the day] OKAM - From The Darkness, Into Darkness

Enoughrecords

• Dark ambient
• Breakcore
• Darkwave
• Alternative
• Electronic music
• Darkstep

Artist: OKAM

Release: Alpha - The Confliction

Label: enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Jamendo/Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2018

Celesta en la cesta – Celesta en la cuesta (2013)

Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Folktronica 
• Art pop 
• Cover 
• Electronic 
• Alternative pop 
• Synth-pop 
• Crossover 
• Dream folk 
• New Weird Mexico 
• Cowbell indie 
• Mexicana

Comment: it is a fine 6-track drift from Monterrey, Mexico based on dreamy vocal incantations accompanied by the varied backgrounds – at times it is backed up by sublime guitar strums and natural sounds like water ringing in the middle of artificial sounds, at times by more electronic beats and faint crackling and different blocks of synthesised chords and lofty brass waves coming to tower over the rest layers. However, to get a perfect album it should more have been saturated with torrents of intriguing noises, arousing glitches and a more cinematic feeling in overall. A more spiced soup a la Mexico should be allowed to the listener. More eruptions to have injected more dust and epic chaos into the mix. There is no other way. OK, Bon Voyage is a groovy, top tier one with those massive basses, distant voices and noises, glimmering, ellipse-shaped synths, suggestive singing and explosive brasses. But nevertheless, it is a solid release with intention to unite different folk forms from the traditional ones to the more experimental ones with one another or just representing them in a sequence.

[Teaser of the day] Benfro - Breathe In

Kift Flipper

• Downtempo
• Acid jazz
• Crossover
• Cinematic
• Electronic music
• Trip-hop
• Mood music
• Alternative
• Nu jazz

Artist: Benfro

Release: Observable Universe EP 

Label: Kift Flipper

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Macchiato Funky - MMM

• Art rock
• Experimental rock
• Indie rock
• Psych-rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: Macchiato Funky

Release: Bugella 20-50

Label: La bèl

Year: 2018

EE7A – Tracers EP (2017)

Bump Foot

Archive.org

• Alternative dance 
• Electronic music 
• Tech-electro

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.

[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.

Bye Bye Pride, A Tribute To The Go-Betweens (2018)

The Blog That Celebrates Itself

• Indie pop/rock 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Chamber pop 
• Art pop/rock 
• Post-punk 
• Conceptual 
• Shoegaze 
• Jangle pop 
• Psych-pop 
• Noise pop

Comment: this bunch of 15 tracks is dedicated to a Brisbane, Australian indie juggernauts The Go-Betweens, a conditional Australian counterpart to The Smiths which probably foretold such groups as Belle and Sebastian, The Concretes. From artsy, keyboards-driven progressions and chamber pop alike expressions to jangly guitar pop to serene indie pop to powerful reverberations by obsessively exploring noise and shoegaze numbers. There are represented such artists as Sinking, Corrections, Leisure Walks, Undone, Waving Blue, Poëtka, Vida Eterna, Soft Layers, Teething Veils, The Vividels, All Sparks Burn Out, Echodrone, Electric LO FI Seresta, Flowers Must Die, and Mevius. This great tribute is issued by The Blog That Celebrates Itself Records. And the compilation is dedicated to Grant McLennan (1958-2006), a founder member of the combo.

[Teaser of the day] The Bordellos - Velvet Tuesday

• Psych-rock
• Americana
• DIY
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: The Bordellos

Release: The Bordellos Underground Tape 16

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] J-K - Quimera

• Hip-hop
• Rap
• Urban music
• Industrial hip-hop
• Underground hip-hop

Artist: J-K

Release: Contos de Espadas

Label: Monster Jinx

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Projekt Luty - Będzie Skok

Underpolen

• Lo-fi
• Noise pop
• Psychedelic
• Improvised music
• No Wave
• DIY
• Avant-pop

Artist: Projekt Luty

Release: Grzybnia

Label: Underpolen

Year: 2018

Twin Muses – French Afrocentric EP (2010)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Archive.org

• Trip-hop 
• Electronic music
• Hip-hop
• Art pop 
• Urban music

Comment: I can remember for those days approximately 20 years ago when I had been listening to Britpop. I would like to prefer to buy the tapes and actually these mediums used to be more dear than the compact discs today as well. Inside the bunch of guitar music there were represented a couple of albums of trip-hop to create a special feeling for certain moments. I did have Portishead's Dummy (1994), and Tricks Pre-Millenium Tension (1996). Actually something like that I experienced by listening to this 4-track record under Dusted Wax Kingdom. At least I could rehash the aforementioned memories. More detailedly, oneiric female singing by Marquee Gibb, smoky scratches, orchestrated panning, dusty reed organs. And all of that is adeptly backed up by fatty, almost tectonic beats. And the most important aspect to be added – the artist (Mr. Moods, and Marquee Gibb) obviously succeeded to get synergistic essence from it. I think today it could be tagged as art/sophisti-pop. Yeah, I love it.

[Teaser of the day] Mark Hamn - Les Structures

Maetrixsolution

• Glitchtronica
• Modern classical
• Microtechno
• Experimental electronica
• Post-classical
• Minimalism
• IDM
• Clicks and cuts
• Crossover

Artist: Mark Hamn

Release: Function Buttons

Label: Maetrixsound

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Miami Vice - Mile Zlego Poczatki

Far From Showbiz

• Neofolk
• Chamber folk
• Neoclassical
• Apocalyptic folk
• Ambient folk
• Dark folk
• Baroque folk
• Art folk

Artist: Miami Vice

Release: Lew, Czarownica i Nowa Huta

Label: Far From Showbiz

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] bad loop - Nth

Soft Phase

• Electronic music
• Psytechno
• Alternative dance
• IDM
• Crossover

Artist: bad loop

Release: Fragments

Label: Soft Phase/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Gaetano Fontanazza - Cave Of Crystals

Sucu Music

• Post-rock
• Guitar ambient
• Avant-rock
• Art rock
• Ambient rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: Gaetano Fontanazza 

Release: The Grandpa Lullabies

Label: Sucu Music/Jamendo

Year: 2018

Various Artists - Extremely Mild And Pleasant Tasting - The Best Of Bob Chaos Recordings 1984-1986 (2004)

WM Recordings

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

• Lo-fi 
• Psych-rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Dada music 
• DIY 
• Free jazz
• Experimental rock 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Noise pop
• Acid rock

Comment: this bunch of 22 tracks provides a good overview about the intention and music of such a cutting-edge imprint as cassette-only Bob Chaos (based on Muncie, Indiana, USA) due to a music label from the Netherlands, WM Recordings. Actually it was released in 2004, at the time home recording activities and the New Weird movement started appear in a dizzy way. Actually by such artists as Latent Chaos, Modern Exteriors, The Suadetones, Atomic Butterfly, MCRB, Disposable Air Sickness Band, Sonic Clams, Band-O-Fun, and Soul Celtics the listener can find out many those characteristics which started appear two decades later. Knee-deep psychedelia, at times being deliberately buffoonish and provoking by subverting the so-called established pop narratives. For instance, there is up a slippery version of Goldfinger by The Suadestones, there is also a song being obviously aroused by the Broadway aesthetics as a main sign of Western Capitalism and decadence. At times there are up themes being obsessive in their absurdity and madness being imbued with faint odours coming from the glistening aesthetic of Joe Meek, kitchen sink, space age music, radiophonic art, exploitation genres, and free jazz. I have always adored such sort of bands who dared to provide absurdity as a refreshing colour to the embodiment of music. And the most important thing is that we all are the apes in spite of bearing clothes and by using smart talk. By the way, our closer relatives used to do it as well. In a word, it is fun to partake in that decorous, spiky madness. Would you cut off your dick for art?

[Teaser of the day] Thuoom - Notmi

Textural Healing

• Avant-techno
• Rhythmic noise
• Power electronics
• Avant-garde
• Experimental techno
• Minimalism
• Abstract techno
• Experimental electronica
• Electronic music

Artist: Thuoom

Release: reCycle 2

Label: Textural Healing

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Starcardigan - Signal

Mizou

• Indie pop
• Electro-indie
• Electronic pop
• Synth-rock
• Indie dance
• Alternative dance
• Alternative pop

Artist: Starcardigan

Release: Men EP

Label: Mizou

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Ellah a. Thaun - Adore, Adore

• Psychedelic pop
• Avant-pop
• Alternative
• Drone pop
• Neo-psychedelia
• Indie
• Experimental pop
• DIY

Artist: Ellah a. Thaun

Release: a retrospective (expanded)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2017

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

Enoughrecords

Jamendo

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• IDM 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Epic 
• Experimental electro 
• Ambient noise 
• Experimental techno 
• Kraut-electro 
• Kraut-techno 
• Alternative dance 
• Art music

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)

Bandcamp

• 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.

メトロノリ– works 14​-​18 ペール (2018)

Bandcamp

• 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.

[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

[Teaser of the day] Tsabeat - Raving Lunatic Mind

Postunder

• Psytrance
• Electronic music
• Rave music
• Alternative dance
• Club dance

Artist: Tsabeat

Release: Attractive Synthesis

Label: Postunder/Ektoplazm

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Jared C. Balogh - Searching For Fractures

45RPM-Records

• Improvised music
• Jazz rock
• Contemprary classical
• Fusion
• Art rock
• Crossover
• Yacht rock

Artist: Jared C. Balogh

Release: Drifting Soul 

Label: 45RPM-Records

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Lezet - Horizontal (Variation)

Bivouac

• Modern classical
• Piano music
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Contemporary classical
• Art music
• Experimentalism

Artist: Lezet

Release: Not Of The Loins

Label: Bivouac

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Joe Cat & The Guidestones - Safety Net

Southern Shelter

• Alternative rock
• Blues rock
• Live 
• Southern rock
• Americana

Artist: Joe Cat & The Guidestones

Release: Joe Cat & The Guidestones @ Caledonia Lounge 2018-08-28

Label: Southern Shelter

Year: 2018

Timothy Gilbert – Come And See (1987/2016)

The Living Archive of Underground Music

Archive.org

• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Psych-rock 
• Improvised music 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Acid folk 
• Psych-folk

Comment: at the first glance, this issue embraces a couple of lengthy compositions, one of them is 27-minute and the other side is 31-minute long. A windy and rainy Sunday for nice listening, isn't. In fact, the two blocks are divided into many tracks. The US-born artist's 58 minutes is a vivid excursion based on a galvanised, needle studded electric guitar full of lasting riffs and heavy twangs to be resulted in psychedelic maelstroms and lysergic incantations. By its timbre, reverberant echoes and spiritual touch it chimes like an underground artist or combo out of the beginning of the 70s by loaning something from Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and acid folk artists. Indeed, it is an obvious virtue to reach such sort of sound. And of course, the artist's gritty timbre and expressive singing manner is worth on their own by conjuring up a bit spooky ambience. The aforementioned main course is interwoven with spoken word snippets, "accidental" sounds and something singular else. There is one ditty about an uncanny snowman. It is an unusual and solid songwriter outing. Thanks to Don Campau and his headed The Living Archive of Underground Music it was recently made available for a wider audience (initially in 1987). In a word, come and see.

Zanstones 80 – T T T T T T T T (2000)

ZH27

• Improvised noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Leftfield 
• Electronic 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Drone 
• Acousmatic music

Comment: you are not wrong – indeed, you see 8 Ts in front of your sight. It is obviously the most laconic and uninformative title ever I have encountered since one album and artist's name of just consisting of one very long hyphen only (he or she was probably Japanese by having released a couple of issues on Rack And Ruin Records). Unlike as laconic as the title of it used to be this 31-minute album is speckled with different dots and spans, disparate intentions and blackish and grayish mixed shades. More profoundly, the main line is based on noisy improvisations and around it used to gravitate string-tinged plucks, gathered small noise smithereens, acrimonious autotune-alike vocal threads, bold drones and rough and acute electronic dodges towards. One can hear the pulsations at different frequencies like some kind of electricity permeating the main course. Most sonic blocks are deliberately discolourized and eroded to get stand into a classical noise music feel. Regarding this classic sense you can partake in the intermittent case of continuation and disruption. The mind-provoking and freeing outing is an authorised work in the discography of ZH27 (these are the initials of Zan Hoffman who has issued a noise and experimental music legacy under his own imprint since 1984). This is a bullshit collector of your thoughts. What does it mean? It does mean nothing.

[Teaser of the day] Mushrooms In Our Shoes - Wir Lieben Unsere Heimat

• Lobit
• Improvised music
• Non-music
• Acousmatic music
• Noise
• Experimentalism
• Freeformfreakout
• Avant-garde

Artist: Mushrooms In Our Shoes

Release: Quarter Libeň

Label: CS Industrial 1982-2010

Year: 1987/2018

[Teaser of the day] The Konnissurz - Bionic Camel

• Breakcore
• Tracker music
• Sampledelic
• Breakbeat
• Alternative dance
• 8-bit
• Chiptune
• Electronic music

Artist: The Konnissurz

Release: The Konnissurz

Label: Sociopath Recordings

Year: 2016

SubknoT – Moment EP (2015)

On Sunday Recordings

• Ambient 
• Ambient techno 
• Electronic music 
• Chilltronica 
• Chillstep

Comment: by listening to this 6-notch release and given that the title of the issue it can be assumed the music is about crystallisation of the time and space. Indeed, you cannot separate one from another. Yeah, at the first glance, you can perceive it as an example of easy listening, chilled-out electronic progressions with iterative elements and shuffling sublime techno beats within it. As a listener, it makes me feel comfortable by dreaming of blissful blue lagoons or going back to innocent topics and pleasant personal memories. To those times when the soil was not fallen over your head yet. Of course, the boundaries between such styles as techno, chill out, and some sort of step tagged music can be considered hazy in this case. Maybe the most delineated composition is Breathe with the predominant magic chillstep pace. Another exception is the finishing notch Another with those fine breakbeat cadences and nigh (electronic) shoegaze-y walls. The beatific issue is a part of the discography of a Japanese imprint, On Sunday Recordings.

Narayana – Vacu Sessions 34 (2013)

Vacu Sessions

• Avant-garde 
• Black noise 
• Illbient 
• Dark ambient 
• Experimentalism 
• Power electronics 
• Leftfield 
• Neoclassical 
• Dystopbient

Comment: heavy or light, new and old, predictable or totally unknown: the important here is the dynamic of the music. A continuous exploration of sound. This is a description of the imprint Vacu Sessions of which description is literally relevant to Narayana's whole as well. I could add one more sentence to it – this is blackened and even more blackened, occult and spiritual. Similarly to most of the releases on Vacu Sessions Narayana's one consists formally of one composition of different merged sonic facets. The listener can hear acute noisy outbursts and malicious fadeouts, horrendous reverberations and stealthy serpentine monsters to leap to your backyard. And heartbreakingly wailing women. Tectonic basses with low frequencies are varied with high-pitched sounds as if being vamped up by the debris from an abandoned junkyard. As if a soundtrack for a story of H.P. Lovecraft, a tribute to Ctulhu. I mentioned the word soundtrack and I did suggest it with proper intention because the main course is somehow cinematic, spookily cinematic. Masterfully horrible, skillfully epic.

[Teaser of the day] Insanity13 - Pablo (feat. Oxy13)

Mixgalaxy

• Trip-hop
• Psychedelic
• Alternative pop
• Electronic pop

Artist: Insanity13

Release: Get Your Clothes Off

Label: Mixgalaxy/Jamendo

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Cheese - Pre-Taped Call In

blocSonic

• Hip-hop
• Urban music
• Rap
• Sampledelic
• Underground hip-hop

Artist: Cheese

Release: Barnaby Comes Alive!!!

Label: blocSonic

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Oculoss - Scene 0107

MiMi

• Organic electronica
• Ambient
• Minimalism
• Post-classical
• Electronic music
• Soundscape

Artist: Oculoss

Release: Parallel Path

Label: MiMi/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Phasic - Radiobubble

Hippocamp

• Ambient pop
• Chilltronica
• Synth-pop
• Mood music
• Indietronica
• Electronic music

Artist: Phasic

Release: Many Simple Systems

Label: Hippocamp

Year: 2004

Shea Bilè – Tzimtzum (2016)

Torn Flesh

Bandcamp

• Neoclassical 
• Spoken word 
• Hip-hop 
• Rap 
• Darkwave 
• Crossover 
• Neofolk 
• Apocalyptic folk

Comment: undoubtedly this 7-track issue is one of the most peculiar ones I have encountered within recent months. Given that the issue comes out of the imprint Torn Flesh Records hip-hop as a partial way to create music was a quite huge surprise. In truth, Shea Bilè represents his cryptic, diabolical yet somehow lofty lyrics by rapping and chanting intermittently. At times his side is accompanied by operatic female singing. The rest part of the formula is more conventional if it could be possible to say in this way – neoclassical ornaments and darkwave-esque carvings are up there to veil the whole with the more murky curtain. By listening to it one should admit that a human being is the biggest enemy to herself/himself. One searches for redemption to get rid of nothing. Yeah, it is our obligation to create values and comply our duties but there is a danger to get overstretched for the sake of Nothing.