Leonard Talks To His Rifle - Disgusting Fatbody (2012)

Yip!

8.8

/Psych-rock, DIY, Goregrind, Psycho-acoustic, Lo-fi, Non-music, Anti-rock, Noise, Avant-garde, Black metal, Blues rock, Experimentalism/

Comment: this album involves an enormous amount of tracks, though, most of them are just short snippets or interludes. However, stylistically it is a heavy shit filled with reverb-heavy or harsh noise attacks, some black metal, drone doom and goregrind forays, blues-tinged bleak explorations and psyched-out punk/rock sounds. Indeed, you should check out for other issues on Yip! Records either. By the way, Dead Ken Frilly aka Llednek Veneris aka LTTHR does cover such artists as Melvins, Led Zeppelin, and Kaagootaabaa on it.

Bring Prudence - Aliens (2012)

Bandcamp
Soundcloud

9.0

/Electronic pop, Poptronica, Baroque pop, Singer-songwriter, Crossover/ 

Comment: these 216 seconds are a pleasing blend of sublime baroque pop and glockenspiel-induced indie pop and synth chords of having no gravity. It is hard to love in the summer it is easy to love in the fall. Behind Bring Prudence is Oleh Zaychenko, an artist of Ukrainian descent from Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Genka - Über Cola

[Teaser of the day] Impulse of Creation - Mutekki

Archive

[Teaser of the day] Benjamin Briggs – Bubble Man's Requiem (Revenge of Zombie Bubble Man)

Isaak - Remember EP (2012)

Prozent

Lastfm

9.2

/Tech-house, Club dance, Afrobeat, House, Electro-house/

Comment: this batch of 3 pieces is issued on Prozent-music which does mean approaching to the kind of club dance music. The first track John is influenced by sunshiny and happy afrobeat vibes, the other ones are more technical, more hypnotic house music-centered propulsions which reveal their more murky shimmer and electro-hued touch. In a nutshell, Isaak`s release is solid and sublime worth to give a try.

Xesùs Valle - Gently Annoying (2012)

Audiotalaia

9.3

/Abstract, Experimental electronica, IDM, Microtonal, Glitchtronica, Glitch ambient, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/

Comment: Xesùs Valle is a knob-twiddler from Galicia, Spain whose current album of 12 compositions consists of glitchy beats, rough bass thudding and more or less microtonal frequencies, abstract digitalized chirps and twitters, some ambient-affected appearances and noiseful progressions within it. Sometimes it is emotionally evocative and even obsessive (full of glowering repetitions and minimal shifts within it). It is a sophisticated and intriguing issue of basing on algorithm-induced analogue and granular synthesis. In a word, it is a consistent result.

[Teaser of the day] Oreaganomics - Happy Plate

CLLCT

[Teaser of the day] D`Kalimbo - Mama Azucar

Embark - Everyone But You

Martiini - Virr-varri ähvardus (2012)

Õunaviks

9.1

/Lo-fi, Home recording, Spoken word, Psychedelic, Experimental folk, Ambient, Organic electronica, Noise, Experimentalism, New Weird Estonia, Avant-garde, DIY, Anti-folk/

Comment: the artist and sound experimentator Martiini hails from my hometown Tartu, Estonia. His 8-track album is a quite unusual issue in the context of Estonia because of containing weird experiments which used to extend from cagy ambient/electro-acoustic textures to more tumultuous folk and organic electronica tinged coils and noisy psychedelic explorations tapped out on a keyboard or guitar and channelized through filters, effect devices and machines. Indeed, his instrumental (with one exception called Psaiko & Martiini lindistamisest) soundscapes are charmingly lopsided and warped filled formally with cellar aesthetics and anti-music business statements. In addition to it I recommend to seek out such Estonian lo-fi/experimental groups as Tuljak, Kago, Kreatiivmootor, EDASI, NE! (by the way, it was a project where Martiini was involved in previously)

Good Natured Threat - Beacons Remixed (2012)

Melodica

Soundcloud

9.2

/Alternative, Shoegazetronica, Chillwave, Trip-hop, Dub, Glo-fi, Electronic pop, Alternative pop, Breaks, Conceptual, Remixes, Poptronica, Downbeat/

Comment: Good Natured Threat is an awesome downbeat/trip-hop collective from Vancouver, Canada, led by the couple, Mark and Lara Hjorthoy, and MC Lewel. This time their single Beacon is remixed by 7 artists all around the world [(Mark Drifter (UK), Xtrngr (SK), Niburu (NL), KeOSz (SK) and Wonderbro (CAN)]. However, GHT`s music in the remake previously involves atmospherical vibes, dynamical rhythms and somewhat sultry indie-tinged touch. Although it might be that some remixes are a little bit weaker in comparison with the original track the result is still solid enough on the absolute scale.

Zerocall - A Struggle Between Right or Wrong Teaser

A Struggle Between Right or Wrong Teaser - ZEROCALL from inputcall on Vimeo.

[Teaser of the day] Curve - Horror Head (Mint Julep Remix)

[Teaser of the day] Embark - Just For You

Joxfield ProjeX - Insult on the Dance Floor (2012)

Tin Can Music

9.7

/Krautrock, Ambient, Trance rock, Progressive rock, Motorik, Avant-rock, Experimental rock, Alternative dance, Industrial rock, Psychedelia/  

Comment: Swedish duo Joxfield ProjeX (Oax, and Yan) arrived after a series of excellent albums issued on Clinical Archives and seminal collaborations with progressive rock luminaries (Pat Mastelotto, Geoff Leigh, Kenji Siratori). This time their brand new one is distinctly related to their personal Tin Can Music. There is plenty of experimental music tendencies out there prompted in part by reconstruction of space rock/ambient rock and krautrock-based elements and in part by dance-appealed propulsions, however, all of that is effectively disseminated and thereafter channelized into a formidable industrial tinged psychedelic groove. More specifically, intense hard rock riffs are seamlessly mixed up with electronic effects and mesmeric rhythm sections below it. Only Floating is the exception due to its blissed-out ambient and concrete sounds blended contemplation. There can be drawn parallels upon the likes of fydhws, Neu!, aboombong, PAS, Faust, Asian Women On The Telephone, Spacemen 3, Vibracathedral Orchestra etc. In conclusion, the whole is on the ball by any means (I got psychedelic vertigo by listening to it twice in a row). Obviously one of the most underrated collectives all around the world.

M!R!M - Enjoy Your Sorrow (2011)

Jamendo

9.0

/No Wave, Avant-rock, Noise rock, Art punk, Post-punk, New Wave, Alternative rock, Shoegaze/

Comment: this handful of tracks is provided by Milan, Italy-based collective M!R!M which is full of the washes of noiseful guitar hooks and hirsute glides, rigid mechanical drum rhythms, and shoegaze-esque whiffs. The last track Dew is the divisive exception entwined on massive guitar noises and undulating thudding, suggestive electronic effects having closer touch with ambient music rather than punk rock aesthetics. Emotionally it seems to be desperate and grim ready to kick in your eyes. By kindred souls it reminds of Joy Division, The Chameleons, Glenn Branca (i.e Dew). Enjoyable.

[Teaser of the day] Joxfield ProjeX - Stir Fry Fish

Archive

[Teaser of the day] Kriva - No Equal

Analogous Doom - Five Cube Compound

Gastòn Arèvalo - Austral (2009)

Thinner
Lastfm

9.7

/Ambient techno, Minimal techno, Club dance, Ambient dub, Deep techno, Dub techno/

Comment: this batch of 4 tracks used to drift between sublime dub frequencies and refined techno tabs. The Uruguayian producer Gastòn Arèvalo used to produce his music in an organic way which is strongly inspired by his love to nature. However, there can be drawn parallels upon the acts of such labels as Basic Channel, and Mille Plateaux. The results are without exception flawless, soothing, sultry, and pleasing, however, incurring the listener`s visceral and intellectual sites in very deep way.

Todosantos - Acid Girlzzz EP (2007)

Poni Republic

Lastfm

9.1

/Electro pop, Electro-hop, Indie dance, Electronic pop, Indie, Alternative, Leftfield, Alternative dance/

Comment: this set of pithy electro pop propulsions is tightly mixed up with hip-hop glimpses and droning neokrautrock-friendly aesthetics and indie dance references. The trio hails from the Caracas, Venezuela, and the issue is released on Poni Republic, an exciting indie and electronic pop label. I guess Hugo Chavez likes it. Fiesta, Fiesta!

Calexico - NoiseTrade Sampler (2012)

NoiseTrade

9.5

/Alt-folk, Americana, Epic, Alt-country, Indie folk, Alternative pop, Art pop, Chamber pop/

Comment: Tucson, Arizona-based legend Calexico have been associated with the alt-country scene, however, embellished with cinematic semi-orchestrations and catchy Americana hooks which in turn are variegated with more or less epic crescendos and sultry vapor. Inspite of being generally US-centered it now and then (Para) reminds of the aesthetics of Radiohead`s OK Computer (1997). All these tracks are dragged out from Calexico`s previous issues. A fabulous instance of contemporary pop music indeed.

Captan, Obvio - La Mala Hierba Nunca Muere (2012)

Bandcamp
Soundcloud

9.1

/Free jazz, Improvised music, Easy listening, Psych-pop, Art punk, Psychedelia, Experimentalism, Freeformfreakout, Avant-pop, Experimental indie, Art pop, Crossover/

Comment: Captan, obvio is a sextet from Caracas, Venezuela whose album of 9 short-running tracks is an amalgamation of cutting edge-y tendencies mixed up with a loads of branches of traditional pop music (country, indie, jazz, a capella, Latin motives) which is full of tricky turns and roundabouts, psyched-out punk occurrences, off-kilter ska bounces which in turn are covered with compelling emotions and sensations. Most pieces are chanted and sung in Spanish. Amor de Mèdico, and A Mi No Me Mean La Cama are killers by any means. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon such frantic groups as Messer Für Frau Müller, and Man...Or Astroman.

[Teaser of the day] Lackluster - Gummy 2

slept. - Everything Is You (2011)

Bandcamp

Lastfm

9.6

/Dark ambient, Drone, Epic, Soundscapes, Post-rock, Ambient drone/

Comment: Lukasz Wegrzyn`s 5-track album falls naturally into more or less brooding ambient explorations which are backdropped with epic resonance and still life-tinged contemplations and gritty borealic scrabbles. Sometimes his mercurial progressions are to get its life within the sensations of post-rock-ish elation. This somehow living organism is to be mundane and solemn at the same time. In regard to the tendencies of heavily droning ambient punch it reminds of Eluder`s Drift (2009). In a word, slept. (2009-2011) was one of the most fabulous ambient acts worldwide then.

Animal Collective - Live at Bonnaroo 2009-06-12 (2009)

Archive

10.0

/Trance rock, Post-psychedelic electronica, Free folk, Avant-rock, Weird folk, Experimental indie, New Weird America/

Comment: undoubtedly the 00`s most important and innovative indie group`s live sets are also worth to be listened to. This session contains compositions taken from within Strawberry Jam (2007), and Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009). It chimes so otherworldly, and so faery in a way I get disintegrated amongst these vibes and frequencies ultimately

[Teaser of the day] Elyon Beats - My Childhood

[Teaser of the day] Rumtum - New Lands

Hästoperan - Imrit Exec (2012)

23 Seconds

Lastfm

9.2

/Big beat, Acid techno, Ambient techno, Psytrance, Experimental techno, Industrial techno/

Comment: this set of handful of tracks consists of psychedelic big beat and trance-tinged frequencies, growling synth and (industrial) techno vibes and more soothing ambient/acid techno panoramas. Indeed, it reminds of such acts as Orbital, The Orb, LFO. However, despite a diverse palette of sounds the outlet is integrated and convincing.

Boxed Wine - EP (2012)

Bandcamp

8.8

/Pop punk, Alternative pop/rock/

Comment: this handful of pieces used to drift between happy punk-esque gears and more impressive alternative rock-ish shadows. It is fun.

Several Symptoms - Stylist

[Teaser of the day] Mojave 3 - Mercy

Archive

[Teaser of the day] Joy - A Golden Fish Among The Sharks

Björn & Gorden - Autumnica (2012)

Headphonica

FMA

Lastfm

9.3

/Experimental indie, Indie dance, Leftfield, Indietronica, Alternative dance, Post-rock, Electronic pop, Poptronica, Alternative/

Comment: Björn & Gorden is a collective from Dortmund, Germany whose 6-track set is filled with glossy electronic pop surfaces, psychedelic dance grooves, and indie blended compositions, however, ideologically harking back to the glorious Ruhr district-centered experimental music/Krautrock tradition of the 70s (CAN, Neu!, Kraftwerk) and the 90s/00s (Pluramon, Mouse On Mars, Microstoria, Kreidler, and To Rococo Rot, Mina, The Notwist, Lali Puna, Contriva, Tarwater elsewhere). Sultry and suggestive by any means.

[Teaser of the day] I Am Your Captain - No Bones Broke

[Teaser of the day] Along Came December - Panic

Off land - Microcosm (2011)

Jerky Oats

Lastfm

8.9

/Ambient, Kosmische Musik, Dark ambient, Soundscapes, Shoegaze/

Comment: Tim Dwyer`s 12-track album is subdued yet passionate to form a rich texture of sounds and emotions. It sticks to the formula of blending (dark) ambient tissue jostled by a bunch of shoegaze-near propulsions and glowering guitar subversions. In regard to microscopic bubbling and synth hooks it resembles the examples of hailing from the Kosmische Musik scene. However, throughout the course the record used to chime and provide lots of soporific moments. By kindred souls this 67-minute long issue seems to hark back to an abstract masterpiece of Slowdive, Pygmalion. On the other side it can be considered a hit of contemporary New Age music.

Forward Music Group - Forward Xmas Remix (2011)

Forward Music

9.0

/Alternative, Conceptual, Remixes, Weird pop/

Comment: There is up a brace of songs related to the Christmas. However, these pieces by The Olympic Symphonium, and Gypsophilia are intentionally strange ones because of involving sneering and protest elements against prevalent excessive consumerism and buffoonish downbeat arrangements-orchestrations and funny squeaks above slightly ordinary song structures.

[Teaser of the day] C. Scott - Enjoyable To Know

[Teaser of the day] Camerata Brasileira - Tumaracà Remix

Royalty-free music for professional licensing

Ross Baker - Photographic Reflection (2012)

No-Source
Lastfm

9.4

/Shoegaze, Experimental folk, Dream folk, Epic, Laptop folk, Ambient folk, Space folk, Ambient, Soundscapes, Noise/

Comment: Ross Baker aka Second Thought`s set is a lofty blend of digital-shaped borealic noises, microscopic shoegaze washes, acoustic folk guitar-based strums, and majestic synth horizons. In a word, it is a pleasing batch of 10 track drifting visually somewhere across the Arctic snowfields in a warm ship. There can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Clark Nova Portable, Tim Hecker, brunk, Alicia Or Simbra, Loscil, Slowdive, Bed..

ACL - The New Myself (2012)

Faturenet

8.8

/Electro-indie, Electronic pop, Breaks, Acid, Trance pop, Electro pop, Chilltronica/

Comment: this bunch of 12 tracks contains hypnotic, trance and indie tinged chilltronica with angular breaks, acidic bubbling synths and somewhat exhausting milieus, however, reminding of Kraftwerk sometimes.

[Teaser of the day] Worship - Arcane

[Teaser of the day] Black Tambourine - What`s Your Game

Julian Percy, Jon Evans, John Murphy - Last Dominion Lost (2012)

Audition

9.5

/Electro-acoustic, Avant-metal, Noise rock, Ambient noise, Avant-garde, Brutal metal, Psycho-acoustic, Sound art, Experimentalism, Noise/

Comment: this bundle of 6 compositions is a sultry blend of chirping noises, signal-based frequencies, and suggestive pitch effects and phase changes below and overhead. Sometimes the soundscape is carved with the assistance of distorted voices and clattery drums and thudding bass vibes, however, changing its situation into a quite clinical case. Even an instance of ambient progressions is represented within it (of course, it is made up in their own mode of expression). In a word, at times the whole used to sound in a mesmeric way, sometimes in a more straightforward way, though, being uncompromisingly idiosyncratic throughout the course. By kindred souls the combo can be compared with the likes of Interlard, and Hella. Truly extreme indeed.

Lowpines - ePop024 (2012)

Eardrums Pop
Bandcamp

9.5

/Alt-folk, Indie folk, Folk indie, Dream folk, Twee pop, Alternative pop, Indie pop/

Comment: there are up 3 songs performed by the cockney band Lowpines (Oli Deakon and Lyla Foy). A pair of tracks are original ones and one is a cover version of a piece by the Vancouver-based To Be Good Tanyas. However, Lowpines is an organic link between slowcore and twee pop and indie pop/folk appearances - those now and then chiming, a little bit wistful guitars are backed up by slow-paced rhythms and male and female mixed dreamy vocals. The favourite of mine is Heavy Hander, though, the rest of songs used to have otherworldly beautiful (or blissful) touch as well. In the first place the combo reminds me of Mojave 3 (especially an early period of Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell-headed combo sometime in the mid 90s). Highly incisive and suggestive in its mellow nature. Top songs.

[Teaser of the day] Bo Moonlight - Rainballs

Catalogue professionnel de musique libre

[Teaser of the day] Ben Woods - Pictures Wade

Monoiz - Multiplied Phoneme (2012)

Crazy Language

9.4

/Avant-techno, Noise, Abstract techno, Experimental techno, Industrial techno/

Comment: yeah, this fabulous set of 9 pieces is filled in with noiseful and a wide array of signal enhanced motorik and industrial-induced rhythms and where any elements of it fired at seem to be thoroughly composed and accomplished. An instance of brain tech.

Красота - Говорящие Гвозди (2012)

Genetic Trance

9.4

/Dada music, Post-punk, Noise, Experimentalism, Non-music, Avant-industrial, Avant-garde/

Comment: this is a loose unit of divergent sounds built mostly on reverb-heavy effects, blinking electronic flickers, hostile resonances, creepy and nihilistic industrial/post-punk afferents. Maybe even tape manipulations are brought forth to make impact on the whole. As you have already figured out it is not an instance of pop music at all. It resembles of an early Cabaret Voltaire, and obscure post-rock groups which had had little to do with punk music.

[Teaser of the day] High Pop - Sunnyside2

CLLCT

[Teaser of the day] Cambriana - Face to Face

LAY BAC - Party Down (2012)

Bandcamp

9.5

/Indie funk, Alternative, Post-pop, Club dance, Alternative dance, Art pop, Experimental indie, Poptronica, Glo-fi/

Comment: LAY BAC is a duo (Josef Calamusa aka tomcruisin & Matthew Shogi aka party girl) which hails from Austin, USA.Their music can be described by using such denominators and tags as glo-fi, chillwave, morning breeze, dreamwave, hypnagogic pop. The first meeting of mine with this group was through a France-based label, called Beko DSL which is promoting divergent yet new kinds of alternative pop. In a word, it is an instance of contemporary indie music composed of glistening slacks and splendent chips. Their quite short-running Party Down (which is a part of the duo`s Shortcuts EP) was issued approximately a year ago involving all these abovementioned firmaments and matters which are propelled by featured Motown tinged funk and club dance blended dance cadences.

Worship - Saturn 4 (2012)

Soundcloud

10.0

/Disco, Alternative dance, Space disco, Mood music, Italo disco, Club dance, Electro disco/  

Comment: Ladies and gentlemen! We are floating in space. This track is a staggering entertainer because of fusing orchestrated golden disco era glides with sultry gay disco (a la Patrick Cowley) and Giorgio Moroder anf Gino Soccio-induced bouncy electro (disco) pop tendencies and spacey panoramas overhead. Indeeed, the soundscape of the track is cinematic and majestic, full of sultry changes at harmonies and rhythms. In a word, it is a timeless propulsion and a sort of ideal pop.

[Teaser of the day] e.p hall - The Voice that Burns is Mine

ep hall

[Teaser of the day] Mice Parade - This River Has A Tide

Fat Cat

Algesis - Mosaic Relics (2012)

Subwise

Lastfm

9.5

/IDM, Experimental techno, Glitch techno, Ambient techno, Noise, Electronic pop, Experimental electronica/

Comment: this 8-track album is a masterful issue made up of gloomy rhythms, noisy glitches and tight glacial ambient-textured motives overhead. Furthermore, Fugue State is an example of mixing up electro-induced torrents with indie aesthetics. It is relaxing and sophisticated, common and strange, cozy and brsitled, local and far-away at the same time. One spectacular track is dedicated to Yuri Gagarin, the first man who had been up there in outer space. In  a word, I will not be wrong by naming this whole as masterpiece.

Evil Robot Ted - Waster (2012)

Flaccid Plastic

8.6

/Noise, Dark ambient, Lobit, DIY, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Crossover/

Comment: by listening to it firstly I had some problems to understand it because it seemed way too obscure, blanched, and buried. However, by listening to it many times in a row I discovered the value of this 10-track release. In  fact, it is an album settled in a bunch of contrasts where the basic brown noise massives are varied with majestic glacial glow-tinged soundscapes and harsh (white) noise glimpses and big beat-induced rhythm sections. However, the aforementioned brown noise structures have diverged in turn, for instance, being subjected to the pitch mode and other effects. Intriguing. The album is issued on a New Orleans-based label, Flaccid Plastic Records.

[Teaser of the day] Blackbird Blackbird - Fly (Feat. Steffaloo)

[Teaser of the day] HK119 - Adailson

Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey Demos & Out-takes (2008)

Deerhunter

9.3

/Psychedelia, Ambient rock, Experimental indie, Space pop, Art pop, Avant-pop, Demos/          
               
Comment: undoubtedly Atlanta-based Deerhunter have been and still is one of those modern cutting edge-oriented indie juggernauts alongside Animal Collective, Black Dice, and Ariel Pink who came up to the ground after the change of millenium. Indeed, their 9-piece album consists of outtakes and sketches afterwards presented on the band`s album Fluorescent Grey (2008, Kranky). However, inspite of involving some microscopic "faults" and predominating roughness at it the miscellany provides a fabulous listening session filled in with mixed frantic psychedelic hooks and sultry space pop-near milieus. And Bradford Cox`s whimsical interpretations of compositions within his free stream of consciousness

Crowcat - Color Bendin (2011)

Psychedelicate

8.6

/Screamo, Technical metal, Brutal metal, Hardcore/

Comment: this set of handful of tracks hits with a concise fist made up of manic vocal delivery and highly moshing guitars and punching drums and programmed beats. Additionally, the band do demonstrate slight flirtation with symphonic metal (at least some parts of the singer`s vocal lines do have hints at it). In conclusion, it is an intense, angry and desperate rush of sounds thought to convey the washes of mental pain  and anxiety. The issue is issued on an US-based underground label, Psychedelicate Records which has released a bunch of peripheral groups and extreme music, though, embracing divergent styles and genres.

[Teaser of the day] Cantaloup - Day By Day

[Teaser of the day] ACL - Where Will You Lead Me To

Archive

Biocultivos - Sacha na horta interpreta

Galeria Disco - Tenue EP (2012)

Monofònicos

9.4

/House, Electro-house, Remix, Deep house, Club dance/

Comment: this set of 6 tracks consists of fabulous house vibes filled in with repetitive rhythms and soothing plateaus. Deep carvings are varied with more uplifting, electro-tinged ones. However, every original track does include remix version either. This issue of contemporary disco music (or the sort of dream pop for disco music) is released on Monofonicos, a decent label from South America. Recommended to all and for any time, pertaining to visceral parts and brain-related parts of the body. Relieving and freeing.

Burn Without Me - Holy Blade Of Death (2009)

Archive

9.4

/Progressive metal, Grindcore, Crossover, Experimental metal, Technical metal/

Comment: Burn Without Me is the trio of Sydney Byron (bass guitar, effects), Kurt Allan (drums, samples, synths), and Seth Tracy (guitars, synths, programming) who are assisted by Dave Lanciani aka Dimaension X (guitars, synths, programming) in creation of this pleasing metal and grindcore and technical metal mixed album. More concretely, the group`s sophomore release is an instrumental one which takes on exactly measured rhythms which are covered with throbbing guitar riffs at times, massive washes of guitars and penetrating drums at times, however, embellished with funny spoken word samples, and crafty electronic glides now and then. The biggest shortage (which may be an advantage as well) is related to short-running tracks. Well-defined. Well accomplished. Great in any cases.

[Teaser of the day] Stacks - Stories To Tell​.​.​.

DeefUltra - Ein sonniger Tag mit dir

Ein sonniger Tag mit dir / DeefUltra from rec72 on Vimeo.

Weinberger - Inconvenience (2012)

Clinical Archives
Soundcloud

9.4

/Drone, Electro-acoustic, Non-music, Avant-industrial, Psycho-acoustic, Experimentalism, Spoken word, Noise/

Comment: Johannes Leo Weinberger says that his album is a collection of electroacoustic noise poems, which are musical translations of mental processes. Indeed, it is an exhausting insight into the human mind, however, wherein the listener can detect lots of irrational tendencies and appearances. If you have grown up by listening to the likes of an early Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA, Throbbing Gristle, and Einstürzende Neubauten then you have experienced similarly anguished feelings before it again and again. This 10-piece issue has been managed in a way to be utterly frantic, deranged, weird, and a little bit frightening. It is a bunch of gray-coloured soundscapes which are pronounced with spoken word arrangements, incisive whistles and intense drones, and more or less amplified backdrops here and there. Inspite of being a multi-faceted one the whole succeeds in to be a well-defined realm with clear-cut vectors and impulses. However, some bellicose states of mind coming out from within it warn us that the future may not be ours.

Goodbye Ivan - The Cherry Wood EP (2011)

Parallax Sounds
Bandcamp

9.2

/Alt-folk, Mood music, Epic, Folk, Alternative/            

Comment: behind Goodbye Ivan is Arnaud Sponar from Geneva, Switzerland whose album takes on a trip across bucolic folk pastures which mostly seem to be cloudless, though sometimes varied with melancholic elements. Sponar exploits guitar only, though, being played in an echogenic mode throughout the course it reminds of the kind of epic ambient (-near) music actually. On occasion his play is embellished with some hanging flamenco motives which are also very appreciated therein. Furthermore, there can be felt the presence of Simon Jeffes and Penguin Cafe Orchestra in place filled in with seamless harmonic bridges and zippy chord transmissions.

[Teaser of the day] Rachelintrees - Wake Up And Smell The Space

[Teaser of the day] Music For Your Plants - Tomb Raider Ray Of Light

FMA

Raszia - Keep Fighting

[Kidnapping Netlabel 001] Raszia - Keep Fighting - video by Poncebro - from Kidnapping Netlabel on Vimeo.

Moongazing Hare - The Sunderland Wreck (2012)

Drowning

9.3

/Avant-folk, Drone folk, Neofolk, Dream folk, Electro-acoustic, Experimental folk, Sound art, Pagan folk/ 

Comment: behind this handful of compositions is David Folkmann Drost from Denmark. His album consists mainly of lengthy electro-acoustic infiltrated folk appearances embellished with angular, resonating droning, obscure vibrations, and uplifting buzzing. Furthermore, the release includes lots of hints at neofolk, faery jangles, and pagan flute whiffs thereby keeping up its otherworldly and genuinely dreamy and mixed aesthetics.

Jeff Morton & Darcy Jean - Western Mourning (2012)

Panospria

8.7

/Post-rock, Art rock, Experimental rock, Experimental, Drone, Ambient pop, Electro-acoustic/

Comment: this set of 3 tracks used to be a peculiar composition of droning synths, guitar fingerpicks. At times these drone elements used to be mild, at times more rough, though, mostly represented in a blended way. More concretely, these bleak and minimal Casio keyboard-based elements are variegated with more lush guitar motives and amplified echo channels. Maybe it sounds surprisingly but it reminds of some albums by Durutti Column. In a nutshell, it is a pleasing outlet.

[Teaser of the day] Argonika - Do You Hear

Royalty-free music for professional licensing

[Teaser of the day] Saito Koji - Sunset

Archive

Twile - Traum a (2008)

Decktonic - Stars (2012)

Bandcamp

9.0

/Acid techno, Primitronica, Electronic pop, Tracker music, DIY, Lo-fi, Electro pop, DIY/

Comment: Decktonic is the nom de plume of Christian Montoya, a New York-based electro music producer. He has said he created it with KORG DS10+ and Nanoloop for iPad. At the time of creating process he was inspired by the work of Henry Homesweet, KODEK, Cheapshot, ???, HarleyLikesMusic, Anthony Seeha and Disasterpeace. However, his 10-track publication involves the elements of rusty, angular electro and more bouncy club-induced propulsions and even infantile-near primitive electronica (though, it is highly amusing and funny) and tracker music/chiptune bits and grains. These sultry synth chunks and acid techno inspired hooks are highly enjoyable. In a nutshell, the more you listen to it the more you like it (as it used to be so usual case in this way). In general, it is as well as his previous, debut album Dark Mode (2011). Actually it is even a tiny bit better.

The Game Owls - So The Heavens Can Hear Us, The Earth Will Be Our Sound (2010)

Argali
Lastfm

9.3

/Post-rock, Ambient rock, Psych-folk, Psychedelic, Avant-blues, Epic, Post-metal, Avant-rock, Doom metal, Experimental rock, Crossover/
     
Comment: the album with an epic name involves lots of slow paced yet noiseful progressions and mesmeric guitar walls and psychedelic flickers. But not only - Punching at the Meteor conjures up ghosts rather like an instance of demented psych-folk/blues music full of repetitive guitar gears and overdriving rasping effects. And additionally cosmic rock sonic effects. Is it krautfolk? Obviously it is. And this handful of tracks is a solid and uplifting one worth to be enjoyed for many times in a row.

[Teaser of the day] ?alos - Profumo 1994

Archive

[Teaser of the day] Droserae - Metropolis

Lola's Bad - Drown With Me

Steve Hilmy & Daniel Barbiero - Live at Bella (2011)

Zeromoon

9.1

/Live session, Electro-acoustic, Noise, Acousmatics, Experimentalism, Avant-garde/

Comment: this live set of approximately 21 minutes consists of double bass squeaks and amplified electronics and effects which used to evolve into a sultry and intriguing session hinting at (dark) ambient hues and noiseful glimpses and acute electronic experimentations. Even subtle orchestrations are represented over there.

Various - Commie Release Compilation #2 (2001)

Commie

9.0

/Acid pop, Psychedelic, Funk rock, Dub, Crossover, Electronic pop, Big Beat, Alternative, Club dance/

Comment: if you like "old" music then you should listen to this 29-piece compilation issued on the Finnish label Commie. It veers away from uplifting funk rock, psychedelic trance and shaggy dub crossovers to acidic tekno, noiseful techno slabs, machine-distorted electro bites and rusty big beat and marred electronica and plain entertaining melodies. However, this enormous area of styles is covered up by the likes of Spiritual Algorithm, Jabsasonic, Kiviluoto Schutt, Matthew Tyas, Ddr Rhythm, Le Modem, Tero, Istari, Analogia, Mixture Model, Lastenfahrer, Artificial Unintelligence, Desertplanet, Fsd, Rabbit-O-matic, Makonnen, Full Scale Deflection, Meme. In a word, you will get convinced in that the Finnish artists are up to the level you actually need from fascinating music. And the machines seem to rule our world.

[Teaser of the day] Gary Wilson - Forgotten Lovers

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[Teaser of the day] R. Stevie Moore - Say Man

Archive

Chopittos Promo

Jaime Munarriz-Susanna Millaruelo-Amanda Rejas - The Basement Tape (1979)

16RPM

9.3

/Tape music, Post-punk, Acid pop, Psych-pop, Electronic music, Avant-garde, Krautrock, Lo-fi, DIY, Experimentalism, Psychedelic/

Comment: this rarity of 8 compositions comes out from the year 1979 made up of psychedelic grooves, noiseful experiments, offbeat sonic effects. However, all these reliefs used to base on analog synths and sonic treatments. Indeed, it sounds like an instance of obscure post-punk, early industrial, krautrock musician or some demented classically trained composer from the 1950s sitting heedlessly in front of a keyboard while permanently changing phases and turning acidic sounds and thereafter taking some parts from the recording away and cutting and pasting them together otherwise. In a word, it chimes refreshingly and punk-y even at the moment.

Chenard Walcker - Heartbreak Pain Cafe (2005)

Free Sample Zone

9.0

/Breaks, DIY, Plunderphonics, Sampledelic, Cut and paste, Psychedelic, Conceptual, Sound collage, Experimentalism/

Comment: firstly, I am being very far from the opinion this case of a handful of tracks is somehow lame or even the lamest thing (as one reviewer suggested at it). For instance, think of DJ Shadow`s compositions (including his critically acclaimed debut album) which are also made up in the same vein - composed of other musicians` samples, though, the result is craftily channelized and accomplished. This time the prolific Frenchman and copyleft activist meets the sounds of Captain Beefheart, a psychedelic/avant-blues legend`s music, however, giving it his own touch and outlook. The release (as the most portion of his other ones) is issued on Free Sample Zone, Walcker`s own label

[Teaser of the day] Inverness - Cloud Liquor

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[Teaser of the day] Sleepmakeswaves - One Day You Will Teach Me To Let Go Of My Fears

Golden Axe - Space Fire

Golden Axe - Space Fire from Simon Ward on Vimeo.

Brasileira Camerata - Noves Fora (2007)

Jamendo

8.8

/World music, Improvised music, Experimentalism, Choro, Mood music, Electronic pop, Crossover/

Comment: there is another album from Brazil to be commented today. This bundle is an exciting appearance of carnival-tinged rhythms and circumspect progressions over the course of 7 tracks. More concretely, choro, a basic style originating from Brazil is more and less moderately mixed up with jazz-y elements, ethnic/World Music elements, brass-y fringes, some New Age-y and bossa nova whiffs and ethereal keyboard chords and programmed beats (in Tumaraca remix), i.e made up in an improvised way. However, contemplative moments are varied with more impulsive and careless times, thereby outbalancing the album as a whole emotionally. In a nutshell, it is an enjoyable listening session for sure.