Karras – Fernen (2006)

EKO

• Electronic music 
• Experimental electronica  
• Organic electronica
• Post-rock 
• Glitchtronica 
• Ambient 
• Art music

Comment: Manrico Montero aka Karras aka Linga has issued a bunch of issues under such imprints as Mandorla, Rain, and EKO. Although the 7-notch outing came out from the latter French one and it had happened already 13 years ago while it is still actual due to its atmospheric beauty and fragile yet enchanting rhythmic structures and an adept synthesised touch between an organic feel and artsy succulent progressions. If you analyse it even more thoroughly you can see very austere sounds like glitches and hisses and distant echoes and fading reverberations coming out from the very bottom to be added to the whole mix. Furthermore, the Mexican artist is also not indifferent due to the dichotomy of noise and silence by providing immersive, sustainable pauses. If you wish it could be called a minor brother of Slowdive's Pygmalion (1995) or an alter ego of Tim Hecker's Haunt Me Haunt Me Do It Again (2001). Of course, it contains more electronics and less guitars than Pygmalion but its production and ideological level is analogous. Another branch of the thought is to recognise Pygmalion as one of the most seminal albums out of the 90s (which later on obviously influenced the music of such transgressive post-rock/ambient artists as Labradford, Transient Waves). The aforementioned excellent albums constitute a different approach to post-rock as it usually used to be – their crescendos are build upon on subdued, even obtuse progressions by shedding stepwise more light and adding scintillating elements with the intention to call forth epic impressions and stretch the dimensions of the soundscape in different directions. The apparent emotive apotheosis and majestic highlight of the issue is Dawn Chords (I) where a magniloquent ambient layer with the pointed motif is pushed through a backdrop of slightly fluttering crackling and swirling static. In temporal terms – approximately ten years ago such a kind of album were not tagged as post-rock or somehow related to it yet but now it seems to have clear-cut connotations with an experimental rock scene (one can draw parallels upon a historical event which also can be considered adequately from the distance). Such a sort of description and intention and thrive could be attributed to the music of Fernando Corona aka Murcof, allegedly the most well-known Mexican artist. In a word, an impressionistic top tier as if it were aurally painted somewhere in a remote Pacific island in the past.

[Teaser of the day] Dustdevil & Crow - November

Free Music Archive

• Improvised music
• Avant-folk
• Experimental folk
• Free folk
• Psych-folk

Artist: Dustdevil & Crow

Release: ... And Chiang Tzu Dreamed That He Was Me

Label: Pen & Mallet/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] The Sway - Feasting On My Friends

Jamendo

• Alternative rock
• Psych-rock
• Indie rock

Artist: The Sway

Release: Silk EP

Label: Jamendo/Archive.org

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Chenard Walcker - Touch Of Light

Free Sample Zone

• Sampledelic
• Acid jazz
• Plunderphonics
• Crossover
• Sound collage
• Nu jazz
• Electronic music

Artist: Chenard Walcker

Release: Rock'n Roll Boy

Label: Free Sample Zone

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Inverness - Quema Las Naves

Archive.org

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

Artist: Inverness

Release: Illuminaciones

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2009

Hamlet His Highness – For All & None (2016)

Foundamental

Archive.org

Bandcamp

• Space rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Psych-rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Post-rock 
• Chamber rock

Comment: recently I have unfortunately met a human being for whom I have done a huge favour to make headway in her professional life and general welfare but later I have discovered she is an emotionally stupid one (though intellectually she is rather smart) because she can not recognise positive and friendly (and just sexually neutral) attitude for her. Just talking with her is something you are stalked by searching possible "faults", it is something truly exhaustive by being attacked unexpectedly and by reason. Does she get satisfaction from it by saying negatively? Are she searching for a place under the Sun? A drama queen with inferiority complexes. The only way is to reject her as much as possible by having no word with her even while sitting nearby her. An unlucky girl though for whom I cannot feel no compassion. What could help against and for these people? It might be such sort of music represented by a Belarusian combo called Hamlet His Highness whose music played truly loud will introduce oblivion in one's soul. I would call it an example of improvised post-rock, at times it is an example of elliptically rotating space rock played by a couple of musicians. Lots of chord changes on electric guitars and all of that being amplified and panned by violin bows. Both spatially and emotively it is an exquisite instance. One's contracted soul will be expanded, healed again. As the title hints at it – for all and none (other possibilities/remedies are to listen to the Smiths or The Fall – I just bought 6-CD box The Fontana Years where MES provides poignant descriptions to us of how ridiculous we are. It gives always a heck).

Càtodo Dùo – Al Tiro (2012)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Live 
• Experimentalism 
• Electro-acoustic

Comment: Amanda Irraràzabal (double bass), Ramiro Molina (electric guitar) aka Càtodo Dùo´s music first appeared at RMH some months ago when I wrote about their sophomoric issue Sizigias. Let's have the conversation introspectively. The debut album was different due the scope of instrumentation, the debut one was without analogue synths (played later by Amanda Irrarràzabal) by resulting in more dry timbres, suppressed noises and clanging and fewer electronic effects. However, it is an intriguing 36-minute improvised collaboration between Chile, and Argentina. If they meet once in a while it will result in music. Given that one does have enough attention in music and inclined to jazz and improvised glass bead game. The 2-track composition was recorded live on June 3rd, 2012 at Piso 3, Santiago De Chile. Similarly to the second issue the debut album was also recorded on Pan Y Rosas Discos, an imprint from Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Numbersix – Secret Journey (2005)

Camomille

• Synthwave 
• Indie rock 
• Art pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Sophisti-pop 
• Ambient pop 
• World fusion 
• Crossover 
• Synth-pop

Comment: in the last two weeks we have gotten sad news about Keith Flint, and Mark Hollis. The last of them was a legendary cult musician who did start with a synth-pop outfit but later progressed into an artsy outfit. The Rome, Italy-based Numbersix's 10-notch whole is something as if a crossover between the starting and finishing Talk Talk. At times the ghost of Ian Curtis appears to haunt us in a monotonous and laconic yet appealing way. Electronic elements are closely intertwined with ambient, even pristine space and sophisticated pop progressions which in turn are mixed up with concrete sounds and at times with the singing of indigenous people. At times the issue is getting into a lethargic dream based on buried improvisations and veiled lo-fi noodling. In a word, although it can be considered eclectic it is not a bad content at all. There is also up one track for reminding of Dark Side Of The Moon. Furthermore, it is inevitable and in the first place it is a decent crisscrossing. The release is an example within the discography of Camomille Records.

[Teaser of the day] SEC - La Galère

• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Math rock
• Live
• No Wave
• Art rock

Artist: SEC

Release: Si j'avais un marteau j'aimerais pas être une enclume.

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Alexei Biryukoff - chase #016

Black Square

• Musique concrète
• Experimentalism
• Field recording
• Avant-garde
• Non-music

Artist: Alexei Biryukoff/Muhmood

Release: Train Chase

Label: Black Square

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Recue - Orchard Rd

One

• Mood music
• Electronic music
• Chilltronica
• Dubtronica
• Ambient pop

Artist: Recue

Release: Between Stations

Label: One

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] J. Surak - Skull Cloud

Zeromoon

• Drone
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Micronoise
• Ambient noise
• Microtonal
• Ambient
• Ambient drone

Artist: J. Surak

Release: Skull Cloud

Label: Zeromoon

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Taura Yorihisa - plt

• Shoegaze
• Space rock
• Experimental rock
• Epic
• Noise rock
• Avant-rock
• Crossover

Artist: Taura Yorihisa

Release: Nightfall

Label: Tanukineiri

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Alain Boulugre - Potiteu Fenew

• Punk rock
• Art punk
• Post-punk
• Electronic
• Sampledelic

Artist: Alain Boulugre

Release: Le Retour De Boulugre

Label: Linge

Year: 2019

Riccardo Cirani – Intonazioni Serafiche - Rimembranze d'un estatico oblio (2018)

Laverna

• Art rock 
• Progressive rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Epic 
• Improvised music

Comment: this batch of 4 tracks (Seraphic Intonations with the subtitle Memories Of An Ecstatic Oblivion) is an enchanting progression through dynamic yet slightly easy-running picturesque guitars and loopy patterns as the creative algorithm of it beneath the strings. The term "seraphic" does mean "angelic", "sainty", "cherubic" by English Thesaurus. Of course, by following the aforementioned description we cannot reject the name of a genius called Robert Fripp (King Crimson) and his approach entitled flippertronics. Looped elliptical patterns to go on while vivid guitar chords and also full-fledged riffs used to be improvised atop thereby constituting a magnificent quintessence. On the other side, the moody impression of the album resembles Penguin Cafe Orchestra which was led by another outstanding guitar player Simon Jeffes (1949-1997). Additionally to it during a year I have discovered many great experimental guitar-based issues from Italy, for example, Gaetano Fontanazza's The Grandpa Lullabies (Sucu Music), and OOAME's Milanese-Nwas (Acustronica). And in general, thanks to Italian records like Nostress, Ephedrina, Sucu Music, and Laverna for purveyance of such intellectual sort of music. Indeed, the 56-minute gem is a part of the discography of Laverna. In many senses, it is an example of perfect album because while listening to it the time as a parameter gets set aside and the finishing and starting point come together as a symbol of the circle, a geometrical symbol representing perfection and completeness. Furthermore, it is an instance of ideal music because of uniting seamlessly easy listening and artsy intellectual/progressive rock tendencies. Spirit meets mind. Undoubtedly one of the best (cohesive, cinematic, expressive, pristine, epic, dynamic, enchanting) outings in 2018. I would like to imagine myself while listening to it after a hard day's work in the middle of wildlife somewhere in the middle of a vast forest and in a hut nearby a vast lake (Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake, Athabasca). It is not surprising because the wildlife is a face of Divine. Are you able to put this mind(set) down?

[Teaser of the day] Unconceptual - Bush Dub

• Dubtronica
• Electronic music
• Ambient dub
• Alternative
• Dubstep
• Crossover

Artist: Unconceptual

Release: Unconceptual LP

Label: Section 27

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Moki McFly - Seemless

blocSonic

• Sampledelic
• Hip-hop
• Breaks
• Psych-hop
• Cinematic
• Lo-fi
• Acid-hop

Artist: Moki McFly

Release: Silom

Label: blocSonic/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Peter Um – Merz (2017)

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Experimentalism 
• DIY 
• Lo-fi 
• Comedy music 
• Hip-hop 
• Noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Alternative 
• Abstract

Comment: this batch of 17 tracks, most of them are short snippets, is joyous and playful being tinged with an amusing dadaist touch and poignant electronic effects everywhere. Furthermore, his attitude is reflected through a domestic imprint, Chinstrap Music (an album called LOOK SHARP! and hear the difference was released on it), which is headed by Ergo Phizmiz, who can be considered to have been one of the most well-known sound collage/plunderphonic artists with People Like Us during the last two decades. I like the attitude of the plunderphonic style because all we as humans and consumers are closely related to public domain. On the other side, we have no chance to surpass our mortality so our would be to live in a way God would have fun by watching us. At the moment if we will watch around us we can see something which can be considered divine comedy but in an inferior sense. However, Merz is a superior case making us feel more upbeat and hopeful. To feel himself/herself alright while pretending to be a freak. Musically it is a wide spectrum ranging from electronic effects obsessed noise and abstract sonic experiments and acoustic anti-folk to obsessive yet somehow sparkling outsider synth-pop to some haphazard rap exercises. I would like to paraphrase the lyrics of a song by Suede – obsession in his head does not connect to the (customary) intellect (of one or another style). By producing his music the artist employs old school reel-to-reel tapes and producing threads. In a word, his touch and thinking manner used to make difference. The artist represents and undermines the establishment at the same time. Overwhelming outing in any case given that the future will not be owned by you and me, it will not be owned by nobody else because one`s words are magniloquent and thoughts are shoddy. Just the absolute void everywhere which may be filled with this sound. At least as a thought it is fancy. Let`s have an um-business!

[Teaser of the day] Bledi Boraku - koha.4

• Post-classical
• Drone
• Experimentalism
• Crossover
• Avant-garde
• Trance music

Artist: Bledi Boraku

Release: Tha

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Globular - Dasein

• Electronic music
• Psybient
• Mood music
• Ethnotronica
• New Age
• World fusion
• Alternative
• Chilltronica

Artist: Globular

Release: Entangled Everything

Label: Ektoplazm/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Death Grips - Y

Third Worlds

• Hip-hop
• Industrial-hop
• Urban music
• Electronic music
• Experimental-hop
• Avant-hop

Artist: Death Grips

Release: Fashion Week

Label: Third Worlds

Year: 2015

Bean Machine – Scrap Brain Material (2018)

Abstrakt Reflections 

Bandcamp

• Breakbeat 
• Ambient 
• Breakcore 
• Psybient 
•  Electronic music 
• Post-industrial 
• Crossover

Comment: this set of 11 tracks chimes like a workout and accomplishment on dance music by a hyperactive producer. Indeed, it is a permanent shooting of broken beats, high-pitched signals and glitched-out noises to be mixed up into a frantic killing example of dance music. Indeed, as the title suggests it is thought for stimulation of one's brain in the first place by employing a recycling method, however, it is provided with such an intensity and vigour one is compelled to showcase dance movements voluntarily. Given that the aforementioned description some of you may think of it as a rigid, rough one. In fact, it is adeptly intertwined with soft timbres and atmospheric undercurrents. At some extent it can be considered even psychedelic because of a reminding psybient touch and drive. Due to the fact the issue is quite unique because of merging together post-industrial and psy-related genres. One is not expected to find out a skeletal glass bead game with all its different and intricate combinations only. By the way, there is up one clear-cut ambient exception called Metastasis. The release is the case of hidden merits and attributes. In a nutshell, it is a great issue being released on such a great imprint as Abstrakt Reflections.

[Teaser of the day] The Tinopener`s Art - Angstmacher

The Tinopener`s Art

• Dark electro
• Alternative
• Gothictronica
• Synth-pop
• Electronic music

Artist: The Tinopener`s Art

Release: A Mode Of Reward

Label: Self-released

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Kayve - On The Shore Of Uncertainty

Free Music Archive

• Electronic music
• Dubstep
• Ambient pop
• Alternative

Artist: Kayve

Release: Upgraded

Label: Humanworkshop

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Neuronphase - Pure

• Electro-house
• Club dance
• Minimal house
• Electronic music
• Deep house
• Alternative dance

Artist: Neuronphase

Release: 212

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Lullabelle - Legend

Comfort Stand Recordings

• Hauntology
• Avant-garde
• Sampledelic
• Electronic music
• Experimentalism

Artist: Lullabelle

Release: The Trial of Florasador Gehrboyzel 

Label: Comfort Stand Recordings

Year: 2004

Pseudomantis – Fall (2012)

Drill

• Electronic music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimental electronica 
• Dark wave 
• Minimalism 
• Dark ambient 
• Post-industrial

Comment: this issue of just consisting of one extended, 32-minute composition starts off with halting effects and rusty echoes in the vein of rough and a little bit lobit electronic music which later on keeps steadily its pace formally minimal by employing a bit changes in the middle of ascending darkened ambient/dark wave flames. Since at a point the listener can hear twofold progressions, respectively. The course could get ever better (read: sinister) since then. Many ominous shades creeping from one's possible horrendous past and searching for a chance to overcome him. Time to live, time to die. And time to haunt thereafter. The impressively expressive issue is a part of the discography of Drill Records.

Uriko – Away From My Aim (2007)

Digital Kunstrasen

• Indie folk 
• Alt-folk 
• Americana 
• Folk indie 
• DIY

Comment: at the first glance this case of 6 compositions may seem a bit tedious and weary. Yet by listening to the release many times in a row there can be drawn analogous parallels upon Wilco's issues which also start to blossom after a while by unveiling different aspects and suggestive moments. Regarding the kind of indie folk one should not try to create a new form of it at any cost because it could be a Sisyphean effort. The virtue of a folk album is related to its coherence between the melodies and harmonies and the lyrics. Between some exquisite minutiae to create something truly spellbinding and impeccable. One can find out many enchanting moments from within it - from acoustic guitar-based rants to more bombastic synthesised orchestrations. The decent outing is a part of the discography of a German imprint, Digital Kunstrasen.

[Teaser of the day] Accasari - Tigres

• Ambient
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism
• Soundscape
• Ambient drone
• Minimalism
• Drone
• Abstract
• Avant-garde

Artist: Accasari

Release: Sables

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Humberto Luis Schenone - Sudestada Paredón y Después

Clinical Archives

• Tango
• Avant-garde
• Experimental pop
• Musique concrète
• Art music

Artist: Humberto Luis Schenone

Release: Human Fights = Human Rights I

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Deicida 69 - Requiem

• Psychedelic rock
• Alternative dance
• Acid rock
• Spoken word
• Krautrock
• Avant-prog
• RIO
• Dance rock
• Synth-rock
• No Wave

Artist: Deicida 69

Release: Mirando Costras

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] D3Zs - We Know Kung-Fu (Featuring Pot-C & T-Pick)

blocSonic

• Hip-hop
• Urban music
• Rap

Artist: D3Zs

Release: U Got It Bad

Label: blocSonic

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Doctor Sandy Masters - Aqua Bling

• Ambient
• Minimalism
• Soundscape
• Dreamwave
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Electronic music

Artist: Doctor Sandy Masters

Release: In Sea

Label: Sanzimat International

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Gnomefoam - Yorkshire Trousers

Jamendo

• Electronic music
• Synth-pop
• Electro-rock
• Acid house
• Synth-rock
• Crossover
• Acid techno
• Alternative dance

Artist: Gnomefoam

Release: Meet My Beassst

Label: Rack & Ruin/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

OOAME – Milanese-Nwas (2018)

Acustronica

• Folktronica 
• Glitch-folk 
• Post-folk 
• Epic 
• Electronic 
• Avant-folk

Comment: by listening to this 11-notch release of having come out from an imprint, Acustronica this is something of which hard core is centred on heavy sampling of an acoustic guitar and its soft core is based on permanent and at the same volatile chord and format variations. More profoundly, it can be assumed all the samples are manipulated through an effect control panel by pitching and lowering, accelerating and decelerating, saturating and amplifying glitched-out minutiae. At the same time it is not a fusty technological adventure because of preserving an easy emotional impact within it. The general impression of it is atmospheric and spiritually ennobling despite convulsive and warped shapeshifting downwards. It reminds of psychedelic folk troubadours on a guitar only without any electronic interference. Indeed, it is an enchanting listening experience provided by Giorgio Sancristoforo.

Wasones – Rabia (2018)

Naciòn Libre

Archive.org

Bandcamp

• Hardcore punk 
• Punk rock

Comment: this batch of five tracks is a galvanized attack in the key of aggressiveness of hardcore punk. Any track represented over there does not extend more than a 2-minute span. Undoubtedly it is the best approach to channelize effectively one's rage and contempt. Fortunately we are living in a time being surrounded by greed, stupidity, moral decay, hypocrisy, hate speech, cruelty, artificial tendencies and intimidating based on political correctness, accusative labelling and a general lack of sense of humour and all of that is a good reference point for rebels to state himself/herself against the aforementioned threads. The point of mine is that in this way the rulers could get have a better platform to implement the divide and rule principle within a society. The more I follow recent intentions and tendencies going on in Western societies the more I can see very similar tendencies going on in the Soviet Union. And it is not elegantly natural at all. By listening to this Mexican quartet with the lead by their amazing frontwoman Julieta Ronquillo is a refreshing restart in the middle of the frowsty pound. Anarchism as a tool for punks is usually related to the left wing though the rejection of a deep state by them is clearly opposite to the leftists. In that case they may even be more related to the so-called economic right theorists whose purpose is to minimize the role of the government and the state as much as possible. Additionally, I did not forget that approximately a century ago in the Soviet Russia bolsheviks/communists killed anarchists. It was not a taboo for them altogether. Of course not because thereafter at a time they started to annihilate each other. Rabid, blind ones whose purpose was not to get a divine rather a rat-alike one. The courageous issue is a part of the discography of a Mexican imprint, Naciòn Libre.

SkeAmo – erA (2011)

Miga

• Indietronica 
• Electronic music 
• Experimental electronica 
• Glitchtronica 
• IDM 
• Post-rock

Comment: this handful of tracks is a dexterous release by Jorge Sierra also being known as the lead figure of Eclectik Recording, and a visual artist. Musically it is a diverse whole within certain borders only – more profoundly, one can drift between lone yet suggestive piano chords, high-pitched yet gentle drones, velvety electronic churning, modulated odds and ends. Jorge Sierra is supported by female vocals by such artists as Chenene, Yoka, Worenagia. At Chrysalis the apotheosis of the track comes due to a sublime post-rock climax. It is the most beautiful moment on the release. The outing is a bit in the discography of Miga Records. Follow the universe.

Circadian Eyes – A Future Nostalgic (2018)

Hawk Moon

• Post-rock 
• Electronic shoegaze 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Epic 
• Ambient rock 
• Art pop/rock

Comment: do you like M83? I do not like. On the other side, I like it. It is like listening to an average example of punk music when three or four tracks from the beginning seem to be great but thereafter all would change into a quite boring, annoying case. The same can be said about the French project's sound sometimes. It might be the reason comes out from there the issue starts off with the most ecstatic moments yet later on nothing new cannot be added to a mix. At the same time the patheticness of electronic shoegaze/nugaze sound is sustained which at times may make impression upon, at times not. It depends on. It depends on different subjective and objective reasons. Circadian Eye's 10-notch whole being released on Hawk Moon Records is an analogue case – before having consumed the beer at the amount of a couple of litre I can feel the result is fine by the sounds and production, by its touch and temperance. And a quintessential mix eventually would come to fruition. Bryan Collins aka Circadian Eye's purpose is just to create an outing with hovering progressions and majestic synthesised chords and propulsive drumming beneath. It might be it is not an analogue case with M83 because by listening to this release three times in a row (as I used to behave while writing a comment) I did not feel any sort of embarrassment for a while. In a word, the result is completely accomplished and absolutely worth to be added to the list of the best albums in 2018 at RMH. And the beer would have been let outside the discussion it did not make any difference at all. Great by any means.

[Teaser of the day] Martin Rach - Loop9

Enoughrecords

• Electronic music
• Experimental electronica
• Krautrock
• Ambient
• Minimalism

Artist: Martin Rach

Release: Unfinished Loops

Label: Enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Yoko Absorbing - Lo-Fo Theory

Clinical Archives

• Avant-garde
• Experimental electronica
• Electronic music
• Improvised music
• Experimentalism
• Avant-electronica

Artist: Yoko Absorbing

Release: Vinyl

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] The Borderline Bunnys - Regea

Sirona-Records

• Breakcore
• Electronic music
• Rhythmic noise
• Digital hardcore
• Power electronics

Artist: The Borderline Bunnys

Release: Too Punk 4 Long Ears 

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Lys - Naunuee

Sutemos

• IDM
• Deep techno
• Electronic music
• Ambient techno

Artist: Lys

Release: Naunuee

Label: Sutemos

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Turvia - Irse

Etched Traumas

• Indietronica
• Avant-pop
• DIY
• Post-rock
• Experimental pop
• Electronic music

Artist: Turvia

Release: Entropia

Label: Etched Traumas

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Popkan - Nightman

Textone

• Electronic music
• Micro-electro
• Alternative dance
• Tech-electro
• Minimal electro

Artist: Popkan

Release: First Step EP

Label: Textone

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Leonel Jacquier - Baby Santa

MonokraK

• Avant-techno
• Electronic music
• Experimental techno
• Alternative
• Micro-techno

Artist: Leonel Jacquier

Release: Naomi

Label: MonokraK

Year: 2012

Meik Puppe – Färbe Deine Elche (2007)

Digital Kunstrasen

Bandcamp

• Art music 
• Cabaret music 
• Oldie music

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.

[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

[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.

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.

Andrew Weathers Trio – Guitar Man Whirligig (2018)

Futurerecordings

Bandcamp

• Post-rock 
• Art rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Americana 
• Epic

Comment: Andrew Weathers is a musician from Littlefield, Texas, USA whose trio embraces four persons in fact. In truth, I do not know how the trio should be considered – should the lead figure be included or not? Weathers plays guitars, an organ, a pianet; Aaron Oppenheim plays a bass, Scott Siler plays the drums, and Tom Djll operates with a trumpet, and electronic effects. On this 6-notch release they play post-rock with an experimental angle where they pay attention to the structure and sparkling timbres. At times the quartet may associate with Tortoise but just a bit. Similarly to the legend from Chicago it is a post-rock case yet they also do not follow the classic crescendo-bursting buildups of the style. However, those semi-crescendos make highly sense. It is very fine to partake in a whole filled in with internal power and profound impulses coming permanently to the surface. Because of that their intention to create a cohesive, well integrated release does not water down at all. The guitar used to repeat the main motive in an enchanting way by exuding ennobling warmth at Short Denim Demon Shirt. The guitar as the main instrument on the album recedes at Eastern Island Palm Dub by admitting the lead to a suggestive, dreamy trumpet play. The finishing track Creosote Band (Trio) is a different case by playing some sort of darker cinematic Americana with smouldering eyes. That's great again. The beguiling post-rock release is a part of the discography of a cult post-rock imprint, futurerecordings. Obviously one of the best (post-rock) albums in 2018.

[Teaser of the day] Airplanemusic - Astral Hologram Disappear

Tranzmitter

• Hardstep
• Electronic music
• Ambient techno
• Crossover
• Alternative

Artist: Airplanemusic

Release: Elements

Label: Tranzmitter/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] G.G. Allin's Dick - Hiki, the Scaly Man

You Are Not Stealing

• Comedy music
• Music hall
• Freak pop
• Vaudeville
• Electronic music
• Alternative

Artist: G.G. Allin`s Dick

Release: King of the Road

Label: You Are Not Stealing

Year: 2005

We Hate All These Liberals – Lost Tapes (2018)

Anti-Demos-Cracia

• Nu jazz 
• Deep house 
• Club dance 
• Electronic music 
• Drum and bass

Comment: as we know very well Portugal is being a well fare to foster great imprints like Test Tube, You Are Not Stealing Records, Enoughrecords, Green Field Recordings, XS Records, MiMi Records. Anti-Demos-Cracia as a music label was founded more than 30 years ago with purpose to release music of a combo called Varples Pravles. Since then the discography of the imprint has grown remarkably and music one could find out from there used to range from dark ambient and (post-)industrial incantations and rough psychedelic outbursts and just artsy experimental/unclassifiable glass bead game to more contemporary club driven beats. By the way, under ADC one can find out older, analogue-processed yet now digitalised releases (originally released on tapes or just waiting its time to be issued) and just brand new stuff as well. We Hate All These Liberals is a domestic, rolific, at the moment 13-album project under the label by producing music which can be labelled as rhythmic, profound and catchy. It veers away from deep house vibes, sultry nu/acid jazz oscillations to sublime drum and bass and stylistically more transgressive instances. It is a true quality stuff worth to be played both in sapid night clubs and evening radio shows of a good quality. It is nice to see again that people with conservative world perception love house music. Indeed, who could love all those artificially behaving liberals just by thinking of themselves as kind of better people and as if by knowing what other people also must do and because of that sweeping on a very slippery slope. Hitler knew, Stalin knew, Pol Poth, and Mao Zedong also knew exactly what is the best under their rule. The less the country and lobbist groups come into the life of a single person the better it is. We can all see what is going on in France for more than a couple of months. Another unfortunate example is socialist Venezuela. Grass roots democracy/sub-anarchy would be also an alternative. We want to be set free. However, music is something which provides an asylum against inferior, oppressive tendencies within the human race.

[Teaser of the day] KOSIK - Center In, Center Out

Please Do Something

• Alternative
• Art pop
• Ambient pop
• Electronic music
• Indietronica

Artist: KOSIK 

Release: Fastas

Label: Please Do Something

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Frank Biedermann - Endor Forest

Stadtgruen

• Electronic music
• Club dance
• Dub house
• Ambient house

Artist: Frank Biedermann

Release: Wookiee Woods

Label: Stadtgruen

Year: 2004

VA – Soundtrack For Your Wedding (2006)

Aerotone

• Electronic music 
• Indietronica 
• Post-rock 
• Alternative 
• Ambient pop 
• Art pop 
• Post-rock 
• Plinkerpop 
• Chamber pop

Comment: these 60 minutes are something special from the past when indie music was tightly mingled with electronic music. Aerotone was a German imprint which had complemented the tradition being launched by such imprints as Monika Enterprise, Morr Music, and City Slang. There are up 14 songs by such artists as The Royal Horse Gala, 7oi, Leader, Mint, Gras, Renniac, Turnus, Cignol, Cloinc, Blisaed, Muhr, Planet Boelex, Ecoplan, and Aligning Minds. In a word, back then in 2006 such sort of music was a borderline indie example but today it is not anymore. Such sort of music can be considered a mainstream indie case. However, old cases like this one are more pleasant for me than new ones because most new ones could be evaluated in the future while having a decent time span behind. One should get a chance to separate out between a hype and a lasting virtue. By the recent miscellany it can be admitted this borderline case is truly transgressive (it is the tautological assumption, though!) by providing many intriguing yet full-fledged dodges within the whole. All in all, admit a solid present for this special day.

Young Jeezy – The Real Is Back (2011)

RapRadar

• Hip-hop 
• Rap 
• Urban music 
• Gangsta rap

Comment: this is the tenth mixtape by Jeezy being compiled by DJ Drama. The mixtape features guest appearances from 211, Slick Pulla, Scrilla, Fabolous, Yo Gotti, Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Boo, Freddie Gibbs, and Alley Boy. Throughout the 20 tracks he employs trivial gangsta themes like tough personal every day's experience, "niggas", women, money and hypocrisy (and the topic of credibility). Musically it is mostly driven by compelling, a bit foreboding bass drives which make a strong contrast to the recent, soul-soaked hip-hop. Arriving at the lyrics it wasn't about the politics though nowadays it would have been at least partly about Donald Trump, and Kanye West (allegedly to be a “token negro” endorsed by a couple of the so-called opinion leaders) as a supporter of him. By following the news about Donald Trump it must be admitted it is some sort of religious nightmare within the heads of left-wing intellectuals and journalists. Middle Ages seem to be back again what was frequently about feverish suspicions and beliefs and wishful thinking. If you have real facts to enact impeachment then ultimately do it. Do not waste your and other people's precious time while practising verbal self-stimulation. Additionally I do not believe in the fact that 90 per cent of black Americans support Democratic Party. Why I should do it while at the reigning period of Barack Obama there were tumultuous riots by black people against police violence but the demonstrators also demanded vacant jobs at the same time. For instance, in Baltimore, Maryland. Given that the recent economic climate is remarkably more stable and the country is more wealthy than some years ago why they should behave in an irrational way? And before someone called Ayanna Pressley denotes someone as "the occupant of the White House..." she should be aware of the presumption of innocence. Last but not least - it is a fine listening experience.

[Teaser of the day] Karmacoda - Motion Picture

Miasmah

• Trip-hop
• Electronic music
• Downtempo
• Cinematic
• Alternative pop

Artist: Karmacoda

Release: Display EP 

Label: Miasmah

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Kris Keyser - Cutting Ties

8bitpeoples

• Chiptune
• 8-bit
• Tracker music
• Chipbreak
• Nintendocore
• Electro pop
• Primitive eletronica

Artist: Kris Keyser

Release: Reviver

Label: 8bitpeoples

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] elephantknuckle - Cladogenesis

Torn Flesh

• Electronic music
• Cybergrind
• Cybergore
• Brutal metal
• Cybermetal

Artist: elephantknuckle

Release: Once the Infernal Device

Label: Torn Flesh

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Space Dimension Controller - Title Sequence

Acroplane

• Synth-pop
• Electronic music
• Cosmic synth
• Synth-funk
• Alternative dance

Artist: Space Dimension Controller

Release: Unidentified Flying Oscillator

Label: Acroplane

Year: 2009

Bing Satellites – Soothing Images 48-59 (2018)

Bandcamp

• Modern classical 
• Post-classical 
• Piano music 
• Ambient 
• Soundscape 
• Art music

Comment: this 12-notch outing constitutes volume 4 of the Soothing Images series. Mancunian Bryn Coleman who is behind the project employs a virtual double tape loop system to create airy but pensive soundscapes on a piano, a synthesiser and a guitar. He has shifted styles a number of times yet such sort of music is being a main fare for him recently. At times those sounds evolve into epic semi-orchestrations, of course, in slowed-down terms of Brin Coleman. The echoing guitar chords and gentle strumming create an additional, hued space by reminding of other guitar geniuses like Drew Miller, Stephen Briggs, and Gaetano Fontanazza. I guess the music could be depicted as if a travelling on the unstable ground of gigantic gas planets like Jupiter, and Saturn. One will ultimately feel a desperate pain of loneliness and having no chance to reach some populated points in the middle of the vast ground of the planets. In a word, it is a fine example of the music of the spheres where bittersweet sensations are embedded in rather than parted. Great work by any means.

Cory Allen – Satory In Atlantis (2007)

Test Tube

Archive.org

• Ambient 
• Electronic music 
• Minimalism 
• Epic 
• Ambient drone 
• Microtonal 
• Field recording 
• Organic electronica 
• Dreamwave 
• Musique concrète

Comment: Austin, Texas, US-based musician, producer and a music label co-owner Cory Allen's 5-notch outing is a tense blend of dreamy droning incantations and beatific ambient plateaus. Despite his deliberately austere concept he has much to deliver to us. "Satori" is the Buddhist term for "awakening, comprehension, understanding". Less is more which could be the slogan of this issue under the marvellous Portuguese imprint Test Tube. To get awoken a human being needs silence, as a part of the rest; given that there is almost no places around where one could do it the artificial silence is suitable for this purpose. It may be there exists no absolute silence at all - it might be silence is an invisible conversation as once sung Malcolm Mooney from CAN. These 30 minutes create an organized calming padding for both an unnerving person and adventurous music lover. Journey to Bodhi can be considered an example of contemporary New Age/Reiki music. As it is said his work focuses on the manipulation of human perception with the intent of altering the listener's state of consciousness. I am very convinced this outing can be considered as a step for a person to move toward his/her personal enlightenment.

Voyageurs – Nude Vegas (2010)

White Moon Recordings

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Space rock 
• Psych-rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Acid rock 
• Drone rock

Comment: this batch of 7 tracks is a sublime mix of undulating stoned guitar rants and overcoming drumming and desperate yet suppressed shouting by the vocalist, and heavily pushing psychedelic organs everywhere around it. And of course, the littered, rehearsal room-alike sound is a positive sign. In a word, all these seven loose structured tracks can freely be considered as an one lengthy track where any track reflects upon the whole and vice versa. The main intention of this issue is to create a hypnosis inside the musicians and their followers. A hypnosis through languid timbre and elliptical, iterative rhythmic patterns. Voyageurs is a combo from Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA who have issued a bunch of issues over different platforms, Free Music Archive, and Bandcamp. I am just wondering has Bill Clinton – who had spent many years in Fayetteville in the 70s – ever listened to the combo? It would be a fancy idea that the former president would heavily be get involved in that and reflecting his opinion publicly. I guess an almost unknown combo would get their ranking remarkably higher. The outing is a part of the discography of White Moon Recordings.

[Teaser of the day] Mrs Dink - G*Boi

Bump Foot

• Hardstep
• Tracker music
• Electronic music
• 8-bit
• Crossover
• Minimal electro
• Breakcore
• Chiptune
• Hard electro

Artist: Mrs Dink

Release: How Up R U? EP

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] abelest+Takeshi Fuwa - 睡眠

Maltine

• J-pop
• Electronic pop
• Autotune
• Urban music
• Mumble rap
• Digital soul

Artist: abelest

Release: 健康

Label: Maltine

Year: 2019