Nac/Hut Report – Wszystko Jeszcze Jest (2019)

Crunchy Human Children

• Avant-garde 
• Shoegaze 
• Experimentalism 
• Guitar ambient 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Dream pop 
• Noise rock 
• Abstract

Comment: Nac/Hut Report is a duo from Poland who are inclined to make up mighty noise experiments with electric guitars and processors and effect blocks. More detailedly, this 8-track whole which was released on the imprint Crunchy Human Children is about crushing guitars and crushing with guitars. Additionally, by crushing one's humble music experience and understanding of music like a bug. As if desperately pushing a set of 20 guitars through a couple of broken cables though on the other side providing more softening patches against it, indeed, one can hear at times lofty, a bit orchestrated progressions and at times arousing female singing. Of course, by describing it in the way it seems like a description of Glenn Branca and My Bloody Valentine's music (especially Loveless, of course). It is like having a violent intercourse with a beautiful lady. Some days ago I watched a documentary about a British female serial killer, Joanna Dennehy who used to cut herself while having it (her first unfortunate victim was a Pole). Blood(y) lust, isn't? In a word, the result is the impressive studding on a border of artsy guitar experimentation, and shoegaze-y and dream pop glimpses. Furthermore, by seeing all these immediate yet deceptively hectic tectonic shifts one can compare it with such a sort of magnificent extraterrestrial moving and formation as if it were conceived by mimoids and symmetriads respectively written in at Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. Yeah, superb by its content, moody touch and format.

[Teaser of the day] Albosel - Sol

• Toytronica
• Art pop
• Bedroom pop
• Folktronica
• DIY

Artist: Albosel

Release: The Earths An Egg, Soon It Will Hatch

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Blakkar Noir - Sweaty Box

No Type

• Breakcore
• Electronic music
• Jungle
• Exprimental electro
• Breakbeat
• Lo-fi

Artist: Blakkar Noir

Release: Tsunami Tendertimes

Label: Panospria/No Type

Year: 2006

Ego Dome – Neurocentric EP (2019)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Bandcamp

Archive.org

• Acid jazz 
• Nu jazz 
• Breaks 
• Trip-hop 
• Hip-hop 
• Sampledelic 
• Urban music
• Chilltronica 
• Folktronica 
• Electronic music 
• Mood music 

Comment: by listening to this 11-track outing by Ego Dome on Dusted Wax Kingdom I started thinking of the effect of postmodernism as a contemporary phenomenon. That everything used to be appearing in one, and vice versa if to express it roughly. On the other side, if to follow a philosophical principle that something to be established first of all must have borders, without the limits there will exist nothing. Its multiple nature is strength and weakness on the same coin. Music may be a phenomenon which is partly above and beyond the aforementioned contradiction and/or obstruction. More profoundly, what are the characteristics of a very solid album today? Given that many contemporary albums provide strong impressions during first listening times, however, later their impact will fade away. By listening to this New Hampshire, US-based artist I can hear piano ballads, folktronic developments, suggestive scratches, velvety ambient plateaus, chilled-out and trip-hop mixed spans, acid/nu jazz-inflected chopped rhythms and calm cool jazz-esque woodwind instrumentals. However, we need another criterion to separate the chaff from the grains of wheat. This can only be synergistic power which is going to sustain a thrill for further listening times as well. I feel the issue is going to realise that goal.

Yris – Histoire Naturelle (2019)

Jamendo

Bandcamp

• Electronic dance music 
• Post-disco 
• Electronic pop 
• Hi-NRG 
• Remixes 
• Club dance
• Dance pop

Comment: this batch of 11 tracks inflicts simultaneously some sort of pleasure and some sort of detestation. The latter used to associate with the nowadays mainstream dance music called EDM. I do not stand for sleazy dullness and rigidity without any humorous sentiments in music and that is all one can find out from the style. It is like dancing on speed although one's body stands on the verge of a collapse. Like moving from a grisly nightmare into a choking hangover. Before it the most horrendous music was related to such an event as Love Parade in Berlin, Germany. Those cheesy techno and trance mixed vibes were even worse. Some braindead did produce aural zombies. On Histoire Naturelle, the French singer-songwriter's sophomoric outing, one can listen to 8 originals and 3 remixes which ultimately constitute a mixed feeling. Usually those rhythmic structures are very similar to one another as if the artist is employing one and the same preset. New Age-y synths do work at times. Singing is arousing, guitar sounds are pristine yet providing no sense and giving no rest as well. It does not take me higher though Greenland is the favourite of mine due to its variety and suggestive atmospheric trumpet progressions in the background. Great track. However, regarding the artist's success at Soundcloud and on the other side the recent mainstream situation within the dance scene I guess the possibility to conquer bigger venues in Europe could be highly possible. Good luck.

[Teaser of the day] Natural Snow Buildings - Tiny Kings of Kadath

Vulpiano

• Drone folk
• Avant-folk
• Epic
• Space folk
• Minimalism
• Psych-folk
• Free folk
• New Weird France
• Experimental folk
• Post-folk
• Dream folk

Artist: Natural Snow Buildings

Release: Aldebaran

Label: Vulpiano/Free Music Archive/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Brevyn - Moonbow

[Teaser of the day] Empty House Cooperative - Fore

Hinah

• Post-classical
• Avant-garde
• Improvised music
• Electro-acoustic
• Experimentalism
• Chamber music

Artist: Empty House Cooperative

Release: Seven

Label: Hinah

Year: 2016

akaUno – [Bad Panda 085] (2011)

Bad Panda

Free Music Archive

• Indietronica 
• Electronic music 
• IDM 
• Alternative 
• Glitchtronica 
• Cowbell indie

Comment: this batch of two compositions chimes like having no existence, as if coming from nowhere, as if reflecting upon objects which did exist somewhere uncountable days ago. In an ordinary sense, this invisible flow of sonic waves does not exist yet this configuration is always over there to be activated for one's pleasure if needed. Indeed, it was issued in 2011 by Bad Panda, it is a year which seems to be a bit within our grasp, and a bit beyond it. Much water has streamed within the river bed since then. The opening track Sunday Market is saturated with glistening rays as if a strong, radiant reflection by such combos as Mouse On Mars, Kreidler, Hood, To Rococo Rot who did like to make up love affairs with intelligent dance music, krautrock, indie and post-rock. The composition is intense and tight, all of its slots are filled in with blissful yet a little bit poisonous magic. The other track called Hidden Leaves can be considered just an accompaniment of Sunday Market yet it is a fine sequence. The guitars are less ambivalent, the tempo is more slowed down and restrained and the intensity of the first track has disappeared. It is a reflection of something which slowly fades away after having experienced the apotheosis. It is called cowbell indie, isn't? Nice.

Obasquiat – #Drops (2019)

Sunyatha

• Drone 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Improvised music 
• World fusion 
• Field recording 
• Musique concrète

Comment: it may be the easiest way to describe this album through the examples of other artists' music, through such examples as Ashtray Navigations, Uton, Kemialliset Ystävät, Six Organs Of Admittance, Charalambides, Tont, Sam Shalabi, Natural Snow Buildings, Children Of The Drone, Vibracathedral Orchestra. More profoundly, the common thread of the aforementioned artists is droning. Droning through different aspects and accents, through ethnic and folk music of Asia (from Middle East to Hindustani peninsula), through modern day folk, through post-industrial and psychedelic angles and patches. Another common thread is improvisation. To put together drone and improvised music it can be summoned as experimental. One can see droning as the hard core of this 15-notch issue yet improvisation can be considered as the intention and thought of the whole. One can hear volatile clouds as experiments with concrete sounds and open spaces, voices and vowels which used to rotate inseparably around the hard core. The marvellous outing (the Brazilian Marco Antonio with his guest musicians) is a part of the discography of Sunyatha.

[Teaser of the day] John Novak - Visitor from the Outer Planets

• Kosmische Musik
• Electronic music
• Ambient trance
• Psybient
• Chilltronica

Artist: John Novak

Release: The Moon is a Strange God 

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] The Easton Ellises - Falcon 69 (Horny Stevens Remix)

Jamendo

• Remix
• Electronic pop
• Italo disco
• Alternative dance
• Electro pop
• Synth-pop

Artist: The Easton Ellises

Release: SexDrugsRocknRoll and The Falcon 69 (The CT Remixes)

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Irish - March

MinusN

• Folktronica
• Post-folk
• Electronic music
• Glitchtronica
• Minimalism
• Experimental folk
• Glitch-folk
• Avant-folk

Artist: Irish

Release: Manufactures

Label: MinusN

Year: 2006 

Atlas Sound – @ 40 Watt Club 2009-12-31 (2009)

Southern Shelter

• Ambient rock 
• Noise pop 
• Avant-rock 
• Live 
• Experimental rock 
• Space pop 
• Art pop/rock 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Indie pop/rock

Comment: Bradford Cox was back in his hometown Athens, Georgia, USA to perform at a club on the last day of the 00s. The set embraces 10 tracks within a 83-minute. It is an impressive, even dreamy live through improvised songwriting based on noisy outbursts, loopy ambient and space pop chords and rough guitar-based tour de forces as if backed up by an adept guitar hero. Mellow and rough segments used to collide with one another yet all of that does not create some sort of incongruousness to minimize the effect of the whole set. He searches for silence after a noisy outburst, and vice versa. However, those noisy appearances are the best part of the live because by immersing in it one can find out some sort of oblivion In fact, it reflects very exactly upon a human being`s life experience with intention to get fulfilled with positive impulses and get satisfied based on rejecting negative memories and forgetting adverse experiences. The first song was dedicated to Vic Chesnutt who had committed suicide 6 days before. The live set is presented via Southern Shelter.

[Teaser of the day] The Fucked Up Beat - Jesus Gonna Bring Me Rain

Free Music Archive

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

Artist: The Fucked Up Beat

Release: A Bomb Shelter In Kansas

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Monkey Warhol - Nuts & Bolts

• Alternative dance
• Electronic pop
• House pop
• Alternative pop
• Post-disco

Artist: Monkey Warhol

Release: EP5

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Massimo Ruberti - Last Bird In The Valley

• Kosmische Musik
• Ambient
• Organic electronica 
• Electronic music
• Krautrock
• Alternative

Artist: Massimo Ruberti

Release: The City Without Sun

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Xqui - Red

• Ambient
• Experimentalism
• Ambient drone
• Micotonal
• Drone
• Avant-garde

Artist: Xqui

Release: Timepieces EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Smashing Pumpkins - Real Love

Archive.org

• Dream pop
• Indie rock
• Art rock
• Shoegaze
• Epic
• Alternative rock

Artist: Smashing Pumpkins

Release: Machina II/The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music

Label: Constantinople/Archive.org  

Year: 2000

[Teaser of the day] Ego Dome - Scatterbrain

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Hip-hop
• Nu jazz
• Sampledelic
• Chilltronica
• Electronic music
• Urban music
• Mood music
• Crossover
• Acid jazz

Artist: Ego Dome

Release: Neurocentric (EP)

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Selffish - Born Digital

Thinner

• Experimental techno
• Electronic music
• Microtechno
• Sampledelic
• Ambient techno

Artist: Selffish

Release: Enas

Label: Thinner

Year: 2002

[Teaser of the day] Mystified - Plunderman_4

Treetrunk

• Plunderphonics
• Avant-pop
• Sampledelic
• Minimalism
• Electronic music

Artist: Mystified

Release: Adventures Of Plunderman Remastered 

Label: Treetrunk

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Sleepdealer - Hang Loose, Sasha

• Hip-hop
• Breaks
• Cinematic
• Folktronica
• Crossover
• Urban music
• Trip-hop

Artist: Sleepdealer

Release: i ching

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Chad Golda – The Mysterious Nine (2018)

Writing

Bandcamp

• Indie folk 
• Alt-folk 
• Americana 
• DIY 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Folk indie 
• Lo-fi 
• Psych-folk

Comment: Chad Golda is a right songwriter from the USA who started in such borderline folk and indie groups as ***, ringostar, and starstarstar in the second half of the 00s. Later on, he launched his solo projects, and his first albums (CHAD GOLDA`S ALBUM (2009), and Dance Session (2010) were knee-deep yet successful experiments with electronic music, psychedelia, post-industrial sounds and idiosyncratic electronic/synth-pop and dance grooves. All these groups`s and his solo albums had been released on Dean Birkett-led Rack And Ruin Records which was being an important platform for DIY and lo-fi music then (by remembering all of that time it makes me smile blissfully). After Dean Birkett decided to finish the deed with the label with a discography of almost 200 items in 2011 Chad Golda started his own Writing Records and in principle decided to develop in the vein of indie folk music. Indeed, to continue developing the path being already experienced and explored by him. Mysterious Nine is a fine Americana album which does mean to explore folk-related music through psychedelic reveries, uncanny dreams, and some noisy and sublime electronic experiments. From rusty Appalachian strings and synthesised effects and beats to piano chord driven rushes and noise pop outbursts with intention to create catchy melodies and overcoming harmonies. It is like a step into the realm of indie folk and on the other side resembling of the coming of a subsequent aroused New Weird wave what did happen in the beginning of the 00s.

[Teaser of the day] Noisesurfer - Solstice Four

Tape Safe

• Drone 
• Illbient
• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Dark ambient
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism

Artist: Noisesurfer

Release: Solstice

Label: Tape Safe

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Blasting Trout Overbite - My Invisible Head Brain

Imaginary Albums

• Indie punk
• Garage rock
• DIY
• Alternative rock

Artist: Blasting Trout Overbite

Release: Yes

Label: Imaginary Albums

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Hukka - Snow Days

Gabumat

• Ambient pop
• Electronic music
• Chilltronica

Artist: Hukka

Release: Strand EP

Label: Gabumat

Year: 2011

Gallo 84 – Shimano (2018)

Colectivo Casa Amarela

• Ambient 
• Soundscape 
• Avant-garde 
• Microtonal 
• Experimentalism 
• Minimalism 
• Microtonal

Comment: by seeing the name Gallo 84 it brought to my mind German krautrock giant Neu!. The Teutonic duo similarly liked to employ numbers and one of their most well-known tracks was being known as Hallogallo. Additionally some Neu!'s endeavours in music are considered as first steps towards ambient music. This 4-notch issue being released on a Portuguese imprint, Colectivo Casa Amarela is also about very broad and frequently bright and serene soundscapes. Furthermore, its gravity point and orbital trace used to be quite similar in comparison with Neu!. However, it is predominantly devoid of rhythms by moving on and making sense by shifting plateaus with different tonality and pulsation frequencies and aligned with different distances. Above all, one is a great rock combo and the other is an outstanding ambient ray. I like the profound intensity and the dynamic interplay between those brighter and darker sonic layers and a new perceivable quality as the synthesis of the layers growing out from within there. It is like a spirited sonic whole by emitting holistic impulses from its very profound core. Superb work by any means.

DR – Herr und Knecht (2018)

Murmure Intemporel

• Dark ambient 
• Illbient 
• Microtonal
• Drone 
• Post-industrial 
• Minimalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Ambient drone 
• Experimentalism 
• Abstract

Comment: this album consists of one long-running composition called Wassilij Andrejewitsch Brechunov & Nikita. Dominic Razlaff aka DR's 15-minute track is inspired by the same-titled novel by Lev Tolstoy and the cover print depicts the great Russian writer being illustrated by another outstanding Russian cultural icon Ilya Repin. This is an overcoming composition by providing different functional aspects and different explanations and interpretations. While having listened to it I was reading Stanislav Lem's Solaris and it resonated with the situation while the protagonist Kelvin was falling down towards the surface of the planet Solaris. All you can hear over there it is sonically very monotonous moving emitting eerie and ghastly sentiments as if foretelling something negative is going to happen soon. It can be interpreted as if moving either through a black hole or one is starving in Outer Space because the human being is not expected to come and start dwelling on another populated planet. As one song by the Estonian punk juggernauts J.M.K.E poignantly stated /there are around a plenty of good planets but we are not welcomed to come over there/. One simple punk song can say much more than a sophisticated yet magniloquent philosophical text or discourse or a misleading vision. And it is not going to happen anyway because the human kind is currently in a profound crisis, the conflict between the left-wing and right-wing politicians and intellectuals has obviously never been so intense and hostile as now. One greedy devil is demonised by another and vice versa. In the current situation it is very purgative and transcendental to experience such a black-hued masterpiece as Herr und knecht by the very prolific German ambient producer DR. The strongest point of this release is to transform all those abstract post-industrial inclined drones into sensations where one can perceive warmth, majesty, horror, repulsion and more or less positive or adverse feelings. In this context less is very much. The issue is a part of the discography of Murmure Intemporel.

[Teaser of the day] Dramón - Gestos Que Salvam

• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik
• Experimentalism
• Improvised music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Dramón

Release: Ansiedade Morte

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Cameron Steele - Robot At Disco

Black Square

• Electro-rock
• Electronic music
• Lo-fi
• Industrial rock
• Synth-rock
• Alternative
• DIY

Artist: Cameron Steele

Release: Vintage

Label: Black Square 

Year: 2010

Go Ask Alice – Ten Little Dreams (2019)

La bèl

• Synth-rock 
• Krautrock 
• Prog-rock 
• Art rock 
• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock

Comment: Go Ask Alice`s previous issue Perfection Is Terrible was added to the list of the best albums of 2017 at RMH. It was a blend of strong melodic lines and guitar and synthesizer mixed intellectual soundscapes. Stylistically something between post-punk, synth-rock, and krautrock. However, the lines between the last named genres used to be almost invisible as you have figured out already. And in fact what does it mean the vague term “synth-rock”? All of that case was embraced within the whole of a 28-minute with 8 tracks only. Ten Little Dreams may be a bit disorienting title because the whole clocks in at a 56 minute with 10 tracks. Less guitars, more electronic washes to be added to the melting pot. More dreamy reveries and elaborated progressions, more sonic distances to provide a sophisticated dialogue between blissful dreams, more steep rhythmic structures and hirsute yet somehow atmospheric electric guitars. I would like to call it a contemporary instance of prog-rock. The only exception is a track called sssun!, a pure disciple of motorik/krautrock music. Similarly to the previous issue it is also issued as a part of the discography of an Italy-based imprint, La bèl.

[Teaser of the day] Ducktails - Live at FoEG

Free Music Archive

• Dreamwave
• Electronic music
• Chillwave
• Live
• Exotica pop
• Art pop

Artist: Ducktails

Release: Live at Festival of Endless Gratitude

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] The Freak Fandango Orchestra - Hit Me

Jamendo

• Balkan folk
• Gypsy punk
• World music
• Ethno punk

Artist: The Freak Fandango Orchestra

Release: Lost Songs of Fake Unicorns

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2018 

[Teaser of the day] Anitek - Dobro Wax

Jamendo

• Hip-hop
• Rap
• Trip-hop
• Urban music

Artist: Anitek

Release: ExtraLocal

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2012 

[Teaser of the day] Helaku - Budub 1

cOmaRecOrdz

• Electronic music
• Electro pop
• Alternative dance
• Post-disco
• Chilltronica
• Robot pop

Artist: Helaku

Release: Indian, Indian What Did You Die For?

Label: cOmaRecOrdz

Year: 2015

AlbinoLamb – Pure Phantasm (2013)

Bandcamp

• Drum and bass 
• Indietronica
• Art pop 
• IDM 
• Electronic music 
• Crossover 
• Neo-psychedelia

Comment: Pure Phantasm (AlbinoLamb is a project from Japan) is a fine example of post-indie music by embracing guitar sounds, drum and bass rhythms, psychedelic flickers, orchestrated beauty, dreamy incantations, IDM-esque electronic vibes and sonic effects in an organic way. This set of 10 compositions is something in a row of such transgressive endeavours as Pygmalion by Slowdive, Quique by Seefeel, Primal Scream`s Vanishing Point, Radiohead`s Kid A and My Bloody Valentine`s m b v. It is all about to rock off one`s socks while having no inclination to immerse in weary and often braindead cliches of indie pop/rock templates. In a word, it makes very sense.

[Teaser of the day] Hypp Fractal - Redux

• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Minimal synth
• Synth-pop

Artist: Hypp Fractal

Release: Cosmonautics Day

Label: MNMN 

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Accasari - Captured By The Light

DNA Production

• Ambient rock
• Art rock
• Experimental rock
• Post-rock
• Improvised music
• Avant-rock

Artist: Accasari

Release: Captured By The Light

Label: DNA Production

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Moonshine Blues - Northern Lights

• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Art rock
• Ambient rock
• Post-classical
• Crossover

Artist: Moonshine Blues

Release: Between Dusk and Dawn

Label: Self-released/Hidden Vibes

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Short Hair Ideals - Winterbird

• Musique concrète
• Field recording
• Ambient pop
• Art pop
• Electronic music

Artist: Short Hair Ideals

Release: Hidden Vibes Vol. 1

Label: Hidden Vibes

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Senna - Hopeless Unseen Sofa

• Ambient
• Epic
• Microtonal
• Drone
• Dreamwave
• Ambient drone

Artist: Senna

Release: Talkie - EPV Whites

Label: elementperspective/Free Music Archive

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] The Inhuman Project - Kocaine

Psicotropicodelia

• Trip-hop
• Electronic music
• Post-industrial
• Mood music
• Cinematic

Artist: The Inhuman Project

Release: The InHuman Project EP

Label: Psicotropicodelia/Jamendo

Year: 2008

Bing Satellites – On The Other Side of the World (2019)

Bandcamp

• Ambient 
• Soundscape 
• Ambient drone 
• Epic 
• Post-classical

Comment: Mancunian Brin Coleman aka Bing Satellites (also known as Theta Wave Orchestra) is being a prolific producer whose music represents openness in direct and an indirect sense. He mixes different concepts and sets up different ways of creating music. Initially he came in touch with (fabulous) shoegaze either though his late works represent the ambient approach. There are up 4 long-running compositions full of panoramic views over wide picturesque plateaus and on the other side one can feel his purpose is to get rid of the time and space category. Because there is no necessity to relate the whole with certain places and on the other side one track starts off to get into another track and so on until the listener's perception gets ultimately all of that as an organic whole, as one organic track. His music is bright and sunny as if an elegy to the Sun.

Binkieman – Strictly Binkie (2015)

Dubbhism

• Dubtronica 
• Dubstep 
• Electronic music

Comment: this set of 3 tracks can just be categorized as binkiecore. With regard to the imprint Dubbhism as a distributor of dub music it is all about quite tumultuous low bass frequencies, some more atmospheric threads, and adeptly treated electronic glimpses in between. Of course, in 2015 much was about dubstep as a genre yet fortunately it is not an orthodox issue. Binkieman comes out from the Netherlands and the music is produced on a custom built modular robosynth. Highly convincing.

[Teaser of the day] Marcel Pequel - October

Headphonica

• Contemporary classical
• Modern classical
• Art music
• Piano music

Artist: Marcel Pequel

Release: The 12 Months

Label: Headphonica

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Swain - Synapsis

Imaginary Albums

• Post-rock
• Experimental rock
• Art rock
• Improvised music
• Avant-rock

Artist: Swain

Release: The Single

Label: Imaginary Albums

Year: 2004

Accasari – Fracture (2018)

Bandcamp

• Epic 
• Shoegaze 
• Alternative rock 
• Doomgaze 
• Ambient rock 
• Avant-rock

Comment: I lately bought MBV's Loveless, the most important shoegaze album to have influenced a thousands of albums and artists thereafter. By listening to it again, I discovered it is quite austere and minimalist by its sound and its method. Just the guitar-based main thread is embellished by electronic effects and transgressive shifts played on a sampling keyboard. At times the effect just seems to be autistic. Just the same method though in a bit different way did Johnny Marr exploit on the two last The Smiths' albums. The Russian duo Accasari have taken something from it though providing a bit different scope and imagination. Adjacent to the case, it might be wrong to consider it nugaze. There are some unusual corners to surface here and there. It is rather a sort of shoegaze played under waterfall of resentment. It is slowed down and stoned in reveries like droning doom rock as if foretelling an impending chaos and annihilation. As if artistically describing the path of Grim Reaper coming closer and closer. It is simultaneously frightening and cozy, simultaneously beatific and morbid, simultaneously ennobling and gruelling. But you cannot deny the fact Grim Reaper is coming closer and closer. At times you may feel yourself to be dead already.

U25 (2018)

smoke

• Electronic music 
• Avant-garde 
• Ambient 
• Electro pop 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• Italo disco 
• Post-disco 
• Synth-pop

Comment: this batch of 7 compositions is a part of the discography of an imprint called Smoke with purpose to advertise Japanese music. What else we know about Japanese music but Japanese noise, space/psychedelic rock combos and Shibuya-kei, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Pizzicato 5? Indeed, the Japanese music scene is highly eclectic and synthetic and the intention to provide a review about it seems to be tautological a priori. Yet in reality there are up tracks by such artists as Gamacid707, Yossshy, Dan Kubo, Taura Yorihisa, Daisuke Kawashima, EZCO, Seaketa. In reality, in a sense, any sort of music review is not very informative and a bit at odds with the nature of a musical composition. In other words, chords cannot be fully covered by the words. Words create their own microsystem. Descriptively, there are up disparate sonic experiments, from airy vowel and picturesque ambient touches to artsy noise/glitch drenched electro developments and catchy Italo disco and Hi-NRG synth-pop/post-disco vibes to littered concrete music mixed appearances. As I have already hinted at my comment does not matter, the compilation does.

[Teaser of the day] N. Fushigi - Conversations with Thanatos

• Industrial rock
• Synth-rock
• Electro-rock
• Electronic

Artist: N. Fushigi

Release: Incantation nº1: A Guide to Necromancy

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Aairria - Reactor II (2019)

• Industrial electro
• Electronic music
• Minimalism
• Alternative
• Post-industrial

Artist: Aairria

Release: Past Attempts At Greatness Vol​.​2

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2019 

[Teaser of the day] Astrowind - Rusty Radar Operator With Piano In His Head

Free Music Archive

• Ambient
• Space music
• Ambient drone
• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik

Artist: Astrowind

Release: Somewhere The Music Had Been Played

Label: Resting Bell/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] The Bordellos - You Better Run

• Psych-rock
• DIY
• Acid rock
• Lo-fi

Artist: The Bordellos

Release: Debt Sounds

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Taseh - Love of a Neon Girl

• Electronic music
• Urban music
• Future funk
• Synth-funk
• Future soul

Artist: Taseh

Release: Dekotora

Label: Monster Jinx

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Pink Room - Chinchillay

• Punk rock
• Garage rock
• Noise rock
• Fuzz rock
• Psych-rock

Artist: Pink Room

Release: Zum Kotzen

Label: Belly Button 

Year: 2019

Go Ask Alice - The Sudden Dream

[Teaser of the day] Santi Touch - Brazilian Girl

• Dub house
• Electronic music
• Deep house
• Club dance

Artist: Santi Touch

Release: Haze - Far From Moscow

Label: Far From Moscow

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Sean Proper - General Honesty

• American Primitivism
• Improvised music
• Cinematic
• Art music
• Americana

Artist: Sean Proper

Release: We are Wounds

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Death By Snoo Snoo - Yksi arvoitus

• Oi!
• Punk rock

Artist: Death By Snoo Snoo

Release: Kasettikerho #1 2012​-​2013

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Maed Meva - Figure 6

• Trip-hop
• Urban music
• Hip-hop
• Acid jazz
• Crossover
• Nu jazz

Artist: Maed Meva 

Release: Figures

Label: Export Label

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] The TeleVibes - Smiling Tide

• Psych-rock
• Space rock
• Art rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: The TeleVibes

Release: Major Drones

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Globoscuro - 3+3+3 pt.1

Hortus Conclusus

• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Electro-acoustic
• Improvised music
• Illbient
• Experimentalism
• Post-psychedelic
• Psycho-acoustic

Artist: Globoscuro

Release: 3+3+3

Label: Hortus Conclusus

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Massimo Ruberti - Sabotage

• Neokrautrock
• Avant-rock
• Electronic music
• Motorik
• Indietronica
• Experimental rock

Artist: Massimo Ruberti

Release: The City Without Sun

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Niku Senpuki - Nadjoch

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Contemporary classical
• Art music
• Post-classical

Artist: Niku Senpuki

Release: Glossolalia Samsara

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Steffi Starshine - Lullaby for Spectral Girls

• Vaporwave
• Avant-garde
• Crossover
• Dark ambient
• Post-classical
• Electronic music
• Experimentalism

Artist: Steffi Starshine

Release: Vapor Witch

Label: Cian Orbe

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Moe Lodin - Hello Snow

Racewillbegin

• Indietronica
• Alternative pop
• Indie pop
• Art pop
• Electronic music

Artist: Moe Lodin

Release: rwb012

Label: Racewillbegin

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Daughters Of A Righteous Riot - 1.a.m.

Redstarcommunity

• Indietronica
• Alternative pop
• Synth-pop
• Dream pop
• Art pop
• Electro-indie

Artist: Daughters Of A Righteous Riot

Release: Breaking My Heart Again And Again

Label: Redstarcommunity

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Children Of The Drone - untitled 4 (23/08/18)

Archive.org

• Improvised music
• New Weird Britain
• Avant-folk
• Trance folk
• Space folk
• Free folk
• Psych-folk
• Live session
• Experimental folk
• Post-folk
• Weird folk

Artist: Children Of The Drone

Release: St. Petrocks, 23/08/18

Label: Self-released/Archive.org

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Anton Mobin - Tout Seul

Classwar Karaoke

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Psycho-acoustic
• Electronic music
• Post-industrial

Artist: Anton Mobin

Release: Classwar Karaoke - 0012 Survey

Label: Classwar Karaoke

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Elvii Marten - Brislemaitre

• Experimental electro
• Breakbeat
• Wonky
• Breaks
• Electronic music

Artist: Elvii Marten

Release: D'ansphurdoux

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Sean Proper - The World Will Let Me Down

• American Primitivism
• Art music
• Gothic Americana
• Americana
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde

Artist: Sean Proper

Release: Design Engine

Label: Dying For Bad Music

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Stanislav Bobrytskyy - Digesting Duck

We Have No Zen!

• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Conceptual
• Post-classical
• Experimentalism
• Art music
• Piano music

Artist: Stanislav Bobrytskyy

Release:  WHNZ​:64​:MFBL

Label: We Have No Zen!/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Electric Hambone - Painted Heron

Kill Mommy

• Rockabilly
• Psych-rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Electric Hambone

Release: Downturn Boogie

Label: Kill Mommy

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Bryyn - 1

Jamendo

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Fuzz pop
• Dream pop
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: Bryyn

Release: Pastpresentfuture EP

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Deicida 69 - k2

• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• No Wave
• Art punk
• Post-punk

Artist: Deicida 69

Release: Fetish in Sight

Label: Plataforma/Bandcamp/Jamendo

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Planivaar - Feeding Birds

Earth Monkey Productions

• Primitive music
• DIY
• Lo-fi
• Drone pop
• Organcore
• Alternative

Artist: Planivaar

Release: The Orange Balloon

Label: Earth Monkey Productions

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Go Ask Alice - ssssun!

• Art pop/rock
• Experimental pop
• Electronic
• Neokrautrock
• Avant-pop
• Indietronica

Artist: Go Ask Alice

Release: Ten Little Dreams

Label: La bèl

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Lightning Echoes - Far Is Not Far

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Art pop/rock
• Ambient pop

Artist: Lightning Echoes

Release: One Tiny Bright Spot

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Compadre Locura – APTO PARA COCINAR (2018)

Cieliro Diystro

• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Electronic music 
• Ambient 
• Post-industrial 
• Ambient noise 
• Experimental electronica 
• Illbient

Comment: this batch of three long-running compositions is a way for intriguing and intricate sonic combinations, innovative experiments, and decent accomplishments we need in the afternoon of incoming end of the human kind as the aggressive cancer on Earth. Indeed, one can see a very clear parallel with the deadly disease because if an organism gets killed the disease also will succumb. If behind it is a reasonable being then it can be called stupidity. No less no more. In another sense, one can imagine, even if the gross cancerous disease gets eradicated there remain yet some bad cells spread out in an organism which later may get activated and the adverse process takes off again. There can be drawn analogous parallels to the existence and history of the race of homo sapiens. How to survive, how to disseminate, how to annihilate real and possible rivals. Through its exaggerated and voluptuous nature it is even more inferior and destructive than the usual behaviour of an average being from the other species. Creating the art and dealing with analytical philosophy is the only indulgence for the biped malady. The best way to get out from it is just to abandon all this civilised crap by escaping to the wildlife until one's very end. This can be the only purgative, redemptive asylum for a human being. These sometimes wobbly and sometimes more aggressive industrial-tinged rhythms and piercing yet atmospheric noises and alongside running corrupted sonic effects and on the other side sleazy and exhaustive ambient glimpses reflect upon the aforementioned perversity in an artsy way. These 39 minutes of a fine sort are a part of the discography of the Chilean imprint Cieliro Diystro.

De Carli/Dias/Zanatta – Defrag (2018)

Mansarda

Archive.org

• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Drone 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Free jazz 
• Field recording 
• Musique concréte

Comment: this bunch of 15 tracks (most of them are just very short snippets) begins with an intense glistening droning (the truly blissful start to an outstanding release as we can get convinced eventually!) which later will be variegated with electro-acoustic improvisations, downright electronic effects, field recording mixed wide plateaus, uncanny dodges towards obscure jazz inclinations and vowel-based experiments beyond distinctive categorization – in a word, there is no borders to be established. By its nature it is an example of simply experimental music wherein the musicians employ all the aforementioned elements in a playful, witty, and incisive way. By its frequently primitive way at will it is coated with broken sounds and crackling currents as if partaking in an oldie simulacrum providing no dates, providing no spatial parametric orientations. It does mean, of course, the outing is filled in with wholesome humour, it is a something truly one's consciousness broadening and inspiring case being an issue coming out from the discography of Mansarda Records.

[Teaser of the day] Gamardah Fungus - Last Train To Save Us

Nocharizma

• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Improvised music
• Post-rock
• Musique concrète
• Ambient rock

Artist: Gamardah Fungus

Release: Nuclear Winter

Label: Nocharizma

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Skye`s Diamond - Constricted

• Ambient rock
• Experimental rock
• Ambient
• Avant-rock

Artist: Skye`s Diamond

Release: Hidden Vibes Vol. 5

Label: Hidden Vibes

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Hox Vox - Elusive

• Electronic pop
• Synth-pop
• Crossover
• Avant-prog
• RIO
• Art pop

Artist: Hox Vox

Release: Impalpable

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Ratkiller - Hail to Black Warriors

• DIY
• Experimental pop
• Lo-fi
• Synth-pop
• Avant-pop

Artist: Ratkiller

Release: Estrange Tactics

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

Ak'chamel, The Giver Of Illness – Fucking With Spirits (2013)

Free Music Archive

Centipede Farm

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Abstract 
• Drone 
• Post-industrial 
• Improvised music

Comment: this set of 7 tracks continues to unveil the madness of the artist whose first outing was Old Norse Mara (2013) being issued some months before. The title is appropriate, of course, I feel myself like being a witness of a live bed show directly coming out from the Brocken/Blocksberg mountain. I first thought the issue to be pigeonholed as lo-fi and DIY among other ones yet obviously lo-fi says very little about it – it might be it is a simulacrum of it yet on the other side, there is no obvious need to create it – it is an original synthesis which might be something between a new coming of Captain Beefheart, and Sun City Girls. Or it might be a five times darker version of Animal Collective's Campfire Songs. More profoundly, blackened dirges are up there to slowly change into abstract sort of slowed-down drones, then again trance-inducing rhythms are set up to create hypnotic loops and serpentine labyrinths in one's soul. Intensities are up there to get variegated – it is the true algorithm of it. From lethargic witch dreaming to exalting bipolar appearances to come in a way you will find eventually yourself in a state of mind where time and space as the parameters of our physical world are completely eradicated. The mind-provoking outing is a bit in the discography of Centipede Farm.

Reckless Kickers – Conquer EP (2013)

Lemari Kota

• Skate punk 
• Pop punk 
• Hardcore punk 
• Skatecore

Comment: Reckless Kickers is not a North American band like Sum 41, The Offspring, Blink-182 and who have not sold millions of albums but instead of it coming from Indonesia yet playing an analogous punk style. More profoundly, high-energized melodic guitar riffs, fast drumming, invigorated and slightly happy singing is something which can be pigeonholed as melodic hardcore, pop punk, skatecore. By following the lyrics of one song regarding repulsive and desperate feelings related to urban life it might be more righteous to consider it eco-punk/agrarian punk. Just the failed joke of mine. In the first place, it is a sort of pop music rather than a bearer of early punk spirit in spite of the fact Sex Pistols was a business project by Malcolm McLaren. Undoubtedly it is produced very masterfully with some suggestive noise pop-inflected walls behind the refrains which can be considered the most arousing facet of the album. The 5-notch outing is a bit of the discography of Lemari Kota, a fine platform within the vast Indonesian music landscape.