Defective Units - Sequences (2013)

Broque

9.3

/Deep house, Electro house, Club dance, Alternative dance/

Comment: this batch of a handful of tracks delivers bloated rhythms because there are up some sublime drifts somewhere in between electro disco/Italy disco and more profound, even contemplative house propulsions. More concretely, it involves lots of suggestive rhythms, detours and turns within an array of different styles. Those analogue-driven beats are a little loose, however, thereby allowing the whole to get immersed in a more dynamic approach. Great by any means.             

Lonesome Panda Society - Ending And Beginning (2013)

Mimi

9.3

/Indie pop, Alternative pop, Indietronica, Soul/

Comment: these 4 pieces convey dreamy, longing guitar music following the best traditions of emotional guitar strumming and fingerpicking and the singer`s stately voice and articulation  spiced up with slight soul vibes and electronics-tinged rhythms. Some critics call such sort of sound as "indie renaissance".   

[Teaser of the day] Kelpe - Rolly Devore

• Electronic pop
• Psychedelic
• Glo-fi
• Downtempo
• Leftfield

[Teaser of the day] Allen Stone - Is This Love

Archive

• Alternative
• Soul
• Fusion
• Psychedelic
• Live recording

Item Caligo ‎– Go away, I Want To Sleep (2012)

Pocket Fields

9.3

/Dark ambient, Modern classical, Ambient, Experimentalism, Minimal, Soundscapes/  

Comment: there can be said only good words about this set of 6 tracks which is an amalgamation of acoustic and synthetic sounds. More concretely, the issue pushes to the limit the technique of sole, echo-centric chords and a little gloomy spaces creepily pulsating around it. The release sounds a little bit fragmented sometimes embellished with the bouts of insistent, bass-driven drones, and vocal interferences. Despite the prevalence of these form elements there are up suggestive melody motives and harmonic dizziness. This can be considered an interplay between slowed down modern classical and considerable murky, even glowering dark ambient immersions.         

Harmash - Der Golem (2013)

Foundamental

9.5

/Sound art, Experimentalism, Ambient, Hauntology, Mirotonal, Avant-garde, Conceptual/ 

Comment: this batch of 7 tracks is a good example of how an ideal sort of ambient music should be produced for. Indeed, the Belarus-based artist Harmash fuses highly lush soundscapes with haunting moods, and mini symphony near progressions seamlessly stepped up and slowed down, respectively. More concretely, there are up clear-cut, treated sounds and remarkably rough hisses and microtonal noises thereby allowing the listener to enjoy a multidimensional perception of experimental music. Even if these compositions are made up just by following the minimal mode the resonances coming out from restrained turns and effects use do form a formidable approach. In a word, this whole sounds like a holistic approach of tasty sounds and the conceptual burden. The album is issued on a solid outfit, Foundamental Network.           

[Teaser of the day] Kubbi - Cronos

• Chiptune
• Chipbreak
• Funk chip
• Tracker music
• Psychedelic
• Bitpop
• Alternative
• Experimental electronica
• Acid

[Teaser of the day] Valotihkuu - Smooth Black

• Experimental indie
• Alternative
• Avant-pop
• Leftfield
• Acid pop
• Mood music
• Post-psychedelic electronica

The Colleagues - The Colleagues (2013)

Sea Indie

9.4

/Indie pop, Alternative pop, Jangle pop, Chamber pop, Sunshine pop, Baroque pop/

Comment: Sea Indie is a label from Asia whose purpose is to promote a section of great indie music from the Southeast Asia. For instance, this pair of tracks by an Indonesian musical group is an excellent example for it. Chiming, sub-orchestrated guitars, moderate keyboard currents and hypnotizing female singing are full of emotions, charm and dizzying moods coming out of any slots over there. At times it sounds more like the kind of retrodelic soundtrack music rather than some kind of chart related sound. It rings somewhere in between Minnie Riperton, early Cardigans, and Sundays. Yet, the worthiness of the collective is hidden on its own. Do not forget it.    

Nick Blessing - Pandora's Box (2013)

Bandcamp

Lastfm

8.6

/DIY, Lo-fi, Alternative pop/rock, Singer-songwriter/ 

Comment: this album made up of a handful of tracks (in total of 19 minutes) does represent the sort of lo-fi/DIY aesthetics created with the assistance of (sometimes longing) vocal endeavors, a chiming guitar and slightly psychedelic keyboard. Though he is closely related to such a way out grouping as Apskaft his music rather reminds of those artists issued on CLLCT, and Great Manilow. Simple but worth to be listened to. He comes out from Lawrence, Kansas, USA.  

[Teaser of the day] EugeneKha - A Scanner Darkly

Treetrunk/Archive

• Ambient
• Dark ambient
• Minimal
• Abstract
• Soundscapes
• Dystopbient
• Illbient

[Teaser of the day] Anna Ambient - Contradiction

Haze/Archive

• Ambient
• Soundscapes
• Minimal 
• Experimental

Totally Pissed Off - Anarchist Brutality (2013)

Sirona-records

9.2

/Avant-garde, Noise, Non-music, Experimentalism, Anti-rock, Grindcore/

Comment: this album of 6 short-running tracks starts off with off-kilter, slowly bucking chord progressions which soon will be traded to desperate, shrill noisy shouts. Later on, grindcore-driven excruciating bouts, demented vocal outbursts, and inexhaustible drumming will be spiced up with humorous spoken word samples. In a word, the project deserves its name. And the coverprint is amusing. 

Heavy Metal Vampires on Nuclear Waste - Tales From The Crypt Vol.III - Transotomy (2011)

Rodent Tapes

Lastfm

9.6

/Krautrock, Motorik rock, Psychedelia, Space rock, Experimental rock, Avant-rock/ 

Comment: this musical group with peculiar name has nothing to do with metal music, though. However, the particular album emits cosmic vibes made up of the propulsions of mesmeric motorik rock, exaggerated spaced-out fusion and fine improvised guitar hooks and outbursts. Indeed, the result is impressive on the strength of the tension between iterative patterns and a free minded approach to the music. Simply great.  

[Teaser of the day] Chad Golda - 01 Abroad

Writing

• Indie folk
• Folk indie
• Experimental folk
• Avant-folk
• Americana
• New Weird America
• Free folk
• Weird folk

[Teaser of the day] Thuoom - 43cave

• Forest folk
• New Weird Finland
• Free folk
• Weird folk
• Experimentalism
• Drone folk
• Psych-folk
• Avant-folk
• Dream folk

Shirubi Ikazuchi - Wandrian (2012)

 

Shirubi Ikazuchi

9.2

/Dark pop, Ethereal pop, Electronic pop, Art pop, Psychedelic/

Comment: Shirubi Ikazuchi is a musical collective from Tallinn, Estonia whose last album sounds much better than any of their previous albums created ever before. More concretely, all these 8 tracks do show up different facets - there are represented New Weird/urban shamanism-alike developments a la Prince Rama which in turn are varied with hirsute, EMB-esque rattles and brooding undercurrents or with more ethereal, art pop oriented songcraft. Indeed, the latter element is being closely related to the singer`s impressionistic contemplations against those deliberately peaky instrumentation. In a word, the result is a decent art pop album.

Parallel Gaze - Waves (2011)

Bandcamp

9.5

/Kosmische Musik, Ambient, Soundscapes, Space rock, Ambient drone/  

Comment: this pair of tracks is a highly fascinating listening - full of haze terrains made up of the undulation of ethereal synthesizer sounds, some resonating drones, spaced-out arpeggios and more loud, even doom guitar-ridden developments. It is a little bit miracle of how such bleak kind of soundscape can be filled with emotions and moods.     

[Teaser of the day] No Monster Club - Evil Loves Your Room

Free Music Archive

• Shitgaze
• Alternative rock
• Lo-fi
• Garage rock  
  

[Teaser of the day] Starmetis - Early Rust

Raadio 2

• Alternative rock
• Post-punk
• Gothic
• Darkwave
• Ethereal wave

[Teaser of the day] Work Drugs - West Coast Slide

• Alternative pop
• Indie pop
• Poptronica
• Alternative dance
• Indie funk 

[Teaser of the day] Paolo Pavan-Pasquale Ubaldini - A Man On The Clock

Royalty-free music for professional licensing

• Vintage music
• Classic pop
• Swing
• Mood music

Floating Mind ‎– ++ EP (2007)

Monokrak

9.2

/Experimental techno, Abstract techno, Avant-techno, Glitch techno, Deep techno, Tech-house/

Comment: Roberto Vitali aka Floating Mind`s 4-track issue takes on divergent tendencies by the side of techno music. More profoundly, it takes on spaced-out, hauntingly hiss-loaded glides where are represented both warm and abstract facets, sprawling techno and house mixed vibes, or showcasing some more glitch-y and effect-laden bounces flickering intensely here and there. Every element on the whole seems to be profoundly measured and poignantly accentuated. The tracks are repetition-heavy, mesmeric progressions where many layers are channelized through the sonic filters. The result is intricate and interesting.     

[Compilation] Deep Elm Records - Postrockology (2012)

 

Bandcamp

8.6

/Post-rock, Experimental rock, Alternative rock, Emo/

Comment: in the first place, this 12-piece issue is dedicated to post-rock music full of wide sonic expanses, epic even bombastic crescendos, though, providing some hints at other genres either - art pop, emo/alternative rock/glam pop. There are up the tracks of such artists as Lights & Motions, I Am Sonic Rain, Coma Recovery, Our Lost Infantry, Goonies Never Say Die, The Cast Before The Break, The Dandelion War, The Appleseed Cast, Athletics, Dorena, Last Lungs, Moonlit Sailor.  

Radlib - 2 Le Chip 2 Quit (2013)

8bit peoples

8.5

/Chiptune, Alternative dance, Chipbreak, 8 bit, Tracker music, Crososver, Bitpop, Acid, Hip-hop/

Comment: these 4 pieces spreaded out over 18 minutes do represent a subtle blend of chiptune-ish electronic templates and dynamic dance-appealed propulsions and even few hip-hop endeavors. The outlet is as grainy and gritty as a common, acid-immersed, sawtooth-shaped chipbreak album used to be. In a word, it is in the middle of the genre and place, however, no hurting your backbone. 

Thierry Massard - Permen Karet (2013)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Experimentalism, Minimalism, Avant-garde, Experimental electronica, Noise, Microtonal, Musique concrète/ 

Comment: the Frenchman Thierry Massard (born in 1959)is a legend within the netmusic/audio circles duet to his musicianship, reviews, and blogs. His first album was issued in 1979 which depicts his enter into primordial, noise-soaked, feedback-ridden universe. However, later on, his music was progressed  more into electronics and microtonal soundscapes. However, this handful of compositions is filled with restrained, hum-alike droning with some yet shaking phase changes barely discernible on its own. Frequently these shapes and patterns are represented along with short circuits and overvoltage bits and refreshing concrete sounds. Of course, there are represented his love against noise music, though, these are brought forth in a more abstract way.      

Xian - Foundry (2013)

Edqclu

Soundcloud

9.0

/Deep house, Dubstep, Downtempo, Club dance/  

Comment: this pair of tracks have been managed in a way to halve the producer`s fascination toward haunting, dubstep-alike modern nature on the first side (Foundry) and club rhythm ridden progressions on the other side (Follow Suit). However, it does not result in clash by the side of the listener. More concretely, every element and bit within it seems to be very exactly measured and fixed.    

M. Aesma Autopidu - M. Aesma Autopidu (2012)

Bandcamp

7.0

/Alternative pop/rock/  

Comment: Madis Aesma is being known as the leader of the Estonian quasi indie combo ans. Andur whose name is the synonym for the decay of the Estonian indie music in the 00s. This 8-track album consists of hardly digestive songs because most of them are neither properly refined into pop format nor expanded toward a section which could be called "experimental" or "art pop". Some MA`s ditties have been managed in a way to recruit some motorik vibes or demonstrating even his keenness to chillwave-ish  sounds, though, ultimately resulting in numb, tentative songcraft. Despite there are up some auspicious premisses - for instance, the acid-soaked rockabilly Jõgeva drifts somewhere in between the influences of The Silver Apples, and The Fall, though having no ability to preserve its growth-oriented impulse. The only exception is Öö, Päev, Nädal due to its serene nature through retrodelic fusion-alike guitar chords and clear-cut melody hooks and refrain involvement. All in all, as I hinted earlier, this whole solidifies his mediocre songwriting. Unfortunately.                

DSBRDR - Blite

[Teaser of the day] Iaiko - 11III11

Treetrunk/Archive

• Ambient 
• Dark ambient
• Experimentalism
• Ambient noise
• Epic
• Soundscapes
• Abstract

[Teaser of the day] Kontora Kooka - Orange Colour

Clinical Archives

• Art rock
• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Angst rock
• No Wave

Trollhead - Trolls In Dub (2011)

Enough

Bandcamp 

9.1

/Breakcore, Industrial electronica, Experimental electronica, Dubstep, Big beat, Downtempo/

Comment: this issue of 4 pieces comprises bold rhythms, sub bass oscillations, spoken word snippets and intense yet whimsical electro overdrives atop it. However, the result is a seamless whole, though, involving many anguish, Zeitgeist-induced moods and ambiance. Stylistically, it shifts somewhere in between noisy industrial, punching big beat, crawling downtempo therefore resulting in highly hyperactive breakcore-esque madness. Furthermore, such a combination of sound was entitled as "dubstep" then. In conclusion, this issue has been managed in a way to provide enough charm, emotional bond and thought-provoking content.   

Yo Matè A Tu Perro - EP (2012)

Bandcamp

9.1

/Alternative rock, Psychedelic, Shoegaze, Indie rock/

Comment: this is a combo from Santa Catarina, Mexico. This 4-track issue consists of shoegaze-ish guitar hooks and tight hum with regard to more heavy, metal-alike punch and bold undercurrents. Beyond that the singer`s buried vocal is immersed in tickling longing and sturdy expressions and counterbalanced with femal singing thereby allowing some epic moments to rise. The ditties are sung in Spanish and it sounds very appealing in this way. 

Delaykliniken - Fortune

Mixtape 18.04.2013

Mixtape

• Electro pop
• Acid pop
• Electronic pop
• Ambient
• Leftfield
• Krautrock
• Avant-prog
• Psych-rock
• Weird folk
• Indie folk

Text document contains the list of tracks and download links.

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - The Misc. Building

Nishi/Archive

• Psychedelic
• Leftfield
• Cyber-indie
• Electronic pop
• Alternative
• Weird pop
• Acid pop

[Teaser of the day] Mai Agan - Hilton Dance

• Cool jazz
• Improvised music
• Chill out
• Fusion
• Mood music

Hardman Bros - Pleasure Crimes (2007)

Umor Rex

Lastfm

9.3

/Blues rock, Electronic pop, Experimental, Psychedelic, Avant-blues/

Comment: this batch of 15 tracks showcases a sort of disintegrated blues rock wherein some parts of it are detuned and cut up to get involved in the electronic approach. It does mean that some sections of rough guitar explorations are diluted in the mold of glitch-y effects, atmospheric endeavors. Moreover, there are some tracks being devoid of blues-y spirit and format, however, just preferring to create instances of mellow electronic-induced psychedelic pop. Despite these divergent elements floating around the result reveals its coherence and integral heterogeneity. In a word, the album can be tagged as "bluestronic" or "deconstructed blues".       

The Easton Ellises - Dance it, Dance All (2013)

Enough

Jamendo

Free Music Archive 

8.8

/Alternative dance, Electronic pop, Remixes, Conceptual, Electronic pop, Robot pop/

Comment: The Easton Ellises is a dance rock combo from Montrèal, Quebec, Canada whose track Dance It, Dance All is the subject for remixing at this time. More concretely, there is up the original song and 7 remixes of it. Mostly these remixes are shot through with more or less thudding bass propulsions, acidic rhythm cut-ups, abridged sequences, shimmering synth guitar rubs, flickering autotuned vocal mutations, however, all of them used to exude joyous energy and viable undulation. Yet, there is one, outstanding remix having different point of view - Motel Costel`s mix is made up of diaphanous, Latin guitar strumming, effortless vocal lines and slight funky rhythms.          

[Teaser of the day] FortyOne - Beware The Mailman

Comfort Stand/Archive

• Sound collage
• Plunderphonics
• Cut and paste
• Sampledelic
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Weird pop

[Teaser of the day] Skala - Barber

Royalty-free music for professional licensing

• Alternative rock
• Indie pop 
• Experimental rock
• Krautrock
• Psychedelic
• Motorik
• Post-rock

Airform - Parallel (2012)

 

Qulture Production

9.0

/Psybient, Psytrance, Psychedelic electronica, Chilltronica, Alternative/

Comment: this project hails from Togliatti, Russia chiming like a typical album under Ektoplazm, a qualitative record label, for instance. More concretely, by stylistic side this set of 3 pieces embraces either spherical or more psychedelic trance progressions and glacial-alike synth flickers on right and left side, below and atop, however, all wound up in a blissed-out way. The issue is released on a Russian eclectic experimental imprint, called Qulture Production.   

Volcano Radar - Refutation Of Time (2013)

pan y rosas

9.1

/Improvised music, Avant-rock, Experimental rock, Electro-acoustic, Fusion/

Comment: Volcano Radar is a quartet (Julia Miler, Elbio Basilari, Harrison Bankhead, Avreeaye Ra) whose work Refutation Of Time comprises one lengthy, 29-minute composition which is made up with the assistance of a bunch of strings and the aesthetics of improvised music. More concretely, the whole segues from rough electro-acoustic improvisation and bristled slightly rolling (steam) blues to free jazz near fluttering and free jazz/fusion-alike tendencies. 

The Sulkies - As Is

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[Teaser of the day] Liam Stewart - This Letter

BlocSonic/FMA

• Indie rock
• Alternative pop
• Art rock
• Singer-songwriter
• Epic

[Teaser of the day] Toddi Wellman - Comet

• Avant-rock
• Psych-rock
• Garage rock
• Alternative rock
• Drone rock
• Math rock

Air Protection Office - Techno KryptA (2013)

Ekar 

Soundcloud

9.8

/Industrial techno, Experimental techno, Avant-techno, Abstract techno, Alternative dance, Noise, Ambient techno/

Comment: as the title hints at there might be an obscure kind of techno propulsions. More profoundly, there are up 4 excellent rhythmic molochs full of inner impulses and vectors. However, the outer coat of the album is embellished with concrete sounds (indeed, the cicadas are chirping intensely), shamanic ethnic bacchanals, abrasive yet irresistible litter, rarefied yet ecstatic sonic explorations which chimes like an instance of the reconstruction of Afrofuturism. Beyond that there are up drilling synth drones backed up by thick sub bass-relied thudding and more abstract, spherical rhythm impulses which also make difference. In a word, this album pretends to be a highlight of urban shamanism. And it succeeds in. One of the best albums in 2013 so far.

The Hirundu - Páv a Krab (Peacock and Crab) (2013)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Modern classical, Piano music, Alternative, Experimentalism, Minimalism/

Comment: every album by the Hirundu is a kind of mystery because you never could foresee what can be found within from it. The Hirundu is the project of the Englishman Johnny Crewdson. Although being influenced by post-punk and dance rock bands his music is frequently more radical than the biggest part of musical groups under the aforementioned styles. This time Crewdson`s sound is restrained, principally piano-driven where the chords are incessantly followed by each other. However, at times these slightly bleak, minimal keys are variegated with the sounds of orchestrations resembling the whistles of hoys somewhere in the midst of a big river. Indeed, Crewdson`s still life is really worth to be enjoyed, despite the fact that his previous whimsical tricks and acute knacks might be more impressionistic and expressive.       

[Teaser of the day] Violeta Päivänkakkara - Neilikka

La Gramola/FMA

• Dream folk
• Forest folk
• New Weird Finland
• Free folk
• Weird folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Freak folk

[Teaser of the day] Sus Dungo - Rasa Pedas

Raadio 2

• New Weird Latvia
• Indie folk
• Weird folk
• Drone folk
• Free folk
• Dream folk
• Psychedelic
• Freak folk

Listening Mirror - Nets Of Wonder (2013)

Bandcamp

9.3

/Modern classical, Microtonal, Ambient, Soundscapes, Dark ambient, Experimentalism, Minimal/

Comment: indeed, these 8 tracks do constitute a net of some kind of wonder, however, each of them will reveal its own intimate space. The result is spiritual and profound, filled with spherical contemplations and restrained glacial-alike burning at low temperature. Emotionally it varies due to incessant yet subdued changes in texture and envelope. You can say there again - less is more. Although being relatively restrained throughout the course the whole reveals its menacing, somehow threatening nature through every key and chords. Only the ending part showcases more major nature on the strength of running in the vein of modern classical-based approach. This album resembles a little bit the masterwork Rise Of Ldaovh by Cold Womb Descend. Great.      

Hypermagic - EICV7" No. 39 (2013)

EverythingIsChemical

Mediafire 

9.3

/Chillwave, Shoegazetronica, Post-pop, Alternative pop, Glo-fi, Dream pop, Experimental indie/ 
  
Comment: in fact, this musical project deserves its name with regard to highly blessed-out soundscapes, more concretely, having relevance on angelic vocal lines and delay-sustained guitar chords and steady rhythmic sequences, however resulting in magic stardust. Stylistically it drifts somewhere in between electronic shoegaze, and chillwave-y tunes. You can call it "post-pop" provided that I can`t see what would be the next thing after that. Great listening by any means. This 2-piece issue is released on Everything Is Chemical, an singles delivering imprint.

[Teaser of the day] Harmash - Der Golem 03

Foundamental

• Hauntology
• Microtonal
• Conceptual
• Ambient
• Avant-garde
• Sound art
• Abstract

[Teaser of the day] OKKOTTO - N▲G▲S▲KI♥♡♥♡

• Witch house
• Drag house
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-electronica
• Neoclassical
• Repetitronica
• Industrial electronica

Mamut - Mamut EP (2012)

Bestiar

Bandcamp

9.4

/Psych-rock, Alternative rock, Acid rock, Post-punk, Surf rock, Avant-blues, Psychedelia/ 

Comment: arrghhh, this set is a tremendous punch comprised of the overdrives of brisk surf guitars, post-punk esque intense pummeling, muddy blues overthrows, and slight shades of math rock frames brought forth somewhere in between or backwards the abovementioned elements. More detailedly, some vocal appearances surfaced now and then are buried under wheezing keyboard progressions, angular reverb-heavy guitar tweaking. Inspite of those hirsute elements the issue sounds almost like a representative of "odd chill out" music. By kindred souls Indeed, by going down to the clichè - the Barcelona, Catalan quartet rocks your holey sock off. By an ineluctable side to be described for, there can be drawn parallels upon such influences as The John Spencer Blues Explosion, Sonic Youth, Man...Or Astroman. The release is publicized on a Catalonia-based records, Bestiar whose roster of artists and catalogue is really worth to be divided into. The Catalans have always had much to say regarding poignant outlets in art and culture.           

Jose Konda - Bolingo Na Nzambe (2009)

Jamendo

Free Music Archive

7.4

/Ethnic music, World music, Electronic pop, Gospel, Singer-songwriter/  

Comment: it is said at Jamendo, and Free Music Archive that Jose Konda is a Christian gospel singer and Afrobeat musician from Harrow, the United Kingdom. In fact, it is an instance of Afrobeat because it is devoid of those slightly rustic though ambitiously extraterrestrial, highly psychedelic funky grooves so essential to the style. His 9-track issue is driven by Konda`s soulful singing which in turn is backdropped by electronic frills and autotuned algorithms. The song structures are quite predictable and simplistic and way too much spiced up with the aforementioned effects thereby diminishing Konda`s singing result and spiritual touch (conversely, having no particular idea of how to get advantage from it). Furthermore, at times he crosses the borders of bad taste. Unfortunately.       

[Teaser of the day] Airform - Parallel

• Ambient techno
• Psybient
• Alternative dance

[Teaser of the day] Lonesome Panda Society - The Photograph of Last Summer

MiMi/Archive

• Indie pop
• Indietronica
• Alternative pop
• Dream pop

Skala Collective - Skalkulator (2005)

Jamendo

Skala Collective

10.0

/Post-rock, Krautrock, Psychedelic, Alternative, Leftfield, Avant-rock, Jazz, Improvised music/

Comment: Skala Collective is a trio from Poland whose music is filled with experiments in electronics, improvised music and peripheral rock concepts. Recently they issued their brand new album called Sleepy Dancing under Clinical Archives, a legendary Russian experimental label. Skalkulator was publicized as the debut album in 2005 which is a blend of indie music and more experimental angles and facets of rock sound. For instance, it includes the elements of krautrock, and humming jazz-y feeling. On the strength of this there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Tortoise, Maserati, Sea And Cake, The Dylan Group, Six Parts Seven, Mercury Program. These 7 compositions are an instance of impelling force, more concretely, conveying enthralling tension between improvised elements and sonic determination. It is an absolutely astonishing, must be monumentum.      

Dustevil & Crow - Accidental Music (2012)

Bandcamp

9.8

/Avant-folk, Psych-folk, Improvised music, Avant-rock, Drone rock, Drone folk, Experimental rock, Free folk, Psychedelia/ 

Comment: in the first place, "accidental music" can be tagged as "aleatoric". This 11-piece issue consists of droning guitar shuffles, dubbed hazy vocal endeavors and psych-rock plodding, and improvised music thereby resulting in a sonic mayhem full of dredging charm and being enough playful to drive the listener nuts in its silent, even cunning way. One reason is that all these layers are set to shift permanently against each other. Absolutely stunning. I discovered this combo thanks to the fact aboombong, one of the most wondrous (though, yet very underrated) musicians, has collaborated with them. This is music rather than the Eurovison-alike bad humor, for instance (boycott it if you can).       

Lower Spectrum - Then Unfold

[Teaser of the day] Glissade - Flares

Archive/Silber

• Ambient
• Drone rock
• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Space rock
• Epic
• Ambient rock
• Psychedelia

[Teaser of the day] Miami Slice - A1 Feel The Beat

• Disco house
• House
• Dance music
• Alternative

Tiiu Kiik - Oled Ilus (2012)

 

Bandcamp

 

8.8

/Electronic pop, Poptronica, Ethereal pop, Alternative, Downtempo/

Comment: Tiiu Kiik is an Estonian singer-songwriter whose 13-track content is imbued with dreamy vocal lines, fluttering synth progressions, and danceable rhythms below it, though, which are barely intended for dancing. These 13 songs are performed in Estonian and in English. She exploits the texts of the Estonian poets like Doris Kareva, and Mathura. Her closest kin by the musicians of Estonian heritage are Possimiste, and Jayne Lakissova.

D´r Sjaak - Speees KojBoj (2009)

WM Recordings

Free Music Archive

Lastfm 

8.8

/Industrial rock, Alternative, EBM, Leftfield, Dark pop, Synth pop, Big beat, Crossover/

Comment: undoubtedly this 12-track release is a little freaky due to its unsettled and bent nature which, of course, is welcome. It extends from brooding industrial synth rock and EBM sequences to more spaced-out electronic compositions involving the shards of hip-hop, big beat, cut and paste aesthetics. Or just conflating acoustic chords with electronically designed layers. However, despite a vast array of styles and experiments the album is judicious and accomplished. Emotionally there are some upgrading, expansive moments where D´r Sjaak extols the fun of music due to campy dodges and undulation, though, the greater part of the content is elegantly murky and glowering. And the coverprint is impressive. F.ck off!        

[Teaser of the day] Professor Kliq - Superiority Complex

Royalty-free music for professional licensing

• Big beat
• Alternative
• Leftfield
• Psychedelic dance
• Sampledelic
• Musique concrète
• Acid

[Teaser of the day] Galaktlan - Gamdron

Archive/Archaic Horizon

• Post-rock
• Psychedelic
• Ulmetronica
• Poptronica
• Ambient pop

Real Estate - December 11, 2012 Maxwell’s (2012)

Nyctaper

9.7

/Indie rock, Dream pop, Art rock, Alternative pop, Jangle pop, Live session/

Comment: this set of 8 tracks performed live provides an emotionally overwhelming touch of softness, and easiness. These are simplistic songs at the first sight, however knocking at the listener`s heart. Conversely, on the strength of the aforementioned words these songs might not be simplistic at all - Martin Courtney`s heartfelt, wistful crooning, and Matt Mondaline`s discursive guitar chords chime and elegantly drift along (of course, reminding a little bit his solo project Ducktails´ soundscapes). There are represented the elements of jangle pop, dream pop, maybe even ambient pop, though, not being the orthodox representative of the abovementioned styles. Maybe their cliff-hanging shift from these styles can be embraced under the term "art rock". Of course, there can be drawn parallels upon the C86 scene, Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Lotus Plaza. Because of its effortless, heavily easy (even bucolic) nature this miscellany makes difference. Superb. Thanks to Nyctaper for delivering so many excellent live shows (it is not the one and only issue by Real Estate over there).             

Felix Building - Sans Nostalgie (2006)

Umor Rex

Lastfm 

9.4

/Indietronica, Post-rock, Experimentalism, Leftfield, Alternative, Electro-acoustic, Electronic pop/

Comment: this set of 6 tracks is a multi-faceted one comprising the angles of indie electronica, poppy yet whimsical electronic compositions, and more rushing, even abrasive endeavors and devouring propulsions (something like chiptune-alike stuff), however, all of that is seamlessly imbued with layers which can be described as "experimental" (containing the elements of electro-acoustic, restrained noise, mechanical post-rock each of them either stands alone or are interlaced with each other).  

[Teaser of the day] D`r Sjaak - Dr Super Knuppel

WM Recordings

• Kraut techno
• Leftfield
• Electronic pop
• Hip-hop
• Crossover
• Alternative dance
• EBM

[Teaser of the day] Kansas Beach Patrol - Girls From Mars

Archive

• Electronic pop
• Alternative
• Poptronica
• Mood music
• Bitpop
• Chiptune
• Glo-fi

Kaagootaabaa - From The Highest Of The High To The Lowest Of The Low (2013)

Yip 

8.4

/DIY, Lo-fi, Bedroom pop, Primitronica, Psychedelic/

Comment: this batch of 7 tracks is very tightly and obviously deliberately related to the aesthetics of DIY and lo-fi composition. More profoundly, it comprises mumbling singing, clumsy keyboard shuffles and stumbling, inexact rhythms below it. However, those ethereal synthesizer passages and frequent changes in pace patterns create some impact on the listener. Behind this project hides himself John Kaggot, and his electronic keyboard.   

Kanukanakina - Triplo-67 (2013)

Editora do Porto  

9.4

/Electro-acoustic, Acousmatics, Experimentalism, Avant-electronica, Noise, Sound art, Microtonal/ 

Comment: Miguel Pipa`s circuit bend relied compositions are undoubtedly highly suggestive on the strength of elemental signal and noise blended electro-acoustic terrains and crispy microtonal electronic experiments emerging from nowhere and ending up there as well. Indeed, the traces retaining after this lofty, 7-minute journey are though-evoking worth to be experienced it again and again.   

Nick Z.Gibarian - Mule Cartoon (2012)

Nostress

9.1

/Experimental electronica, Psychedelic, Alternative, Leftfield, No Wave, Avant-pop, Noisetronica, Repetitronica/

Comment: Gibarian`s 9-piece issue bases on a sonic blueprint wherein hard-edged, abrasive electronica is suffused with faint psychedelic vibes and repetition-heavy progressions thereby reminding of some krautrock-esque approaches entirely based on electronic devices and machines. Or the No Wave concept with regard to Suicide. On the other side, the chiptune/tracker music/bitpop concept dwells quite nearby. Indeed, any track coming out from within the set chimes like an enormous loop of signals, blips-bleeps and high frequencies. Maybe the tracks like Flying Valve Mule, and The Molecule Walking Machine (Left Part) are the exceptions on the strength of more danceable vibes, though, again, wrapped up in the steely swathes of sound. the rest of the material is a tiny bit more abstract. However, one of the strengths of the release is tension between peripheral noises and an overt pop feel (obviously thanks to the aforementioned psychedelic shades). Figuratively it appears like a dance of molecules coming out through the metallic blood vessels of robots. In a nutshell, the more you listen to it the more charm and magic come out of it.

[Teaser of the day] The Oxy_Gens - The Fortune Of The Sun

Sirona/Archive

• Post-punk
• Alternative rock
• Electro-rock
• Industrial rock

[Teaser of the day] The Dandelion War - Drifters

• Post-rock
• Experimental rock
• Epic

[Teaser of the day] JAWS - Toucan Surf

• Glo-fi
• Alternative
• Electronic pop
• Chillwave
• Hypnagogic pop

Horse Head - Love Theme (2013)

Bandcamp
Soundcloud 

8.5

/Sampledelic, Dance music, Disco music, Conceptual/ 

Comment: it is quite problematic to approach this 4-track release properly. I don´t know is it a love issue or just a love issue of falling love with particular evergreen love  and disco music signatures. Yet, it seems to be a sampledelic album just involving some experiments with quite ineffective exploitations of pitch effects, and phase changes. Mostly you can just feel to replay the tracks of the original albums. However, the choice is praiseworthy.            

J.Rojas - Hool-e-un (2013)

 4-4-2

9.5

/Glo-fi, Chillwave, Alternative, Dream pop, Electronic pop, Poptronica/

Comment: this set of 4 pieces used to extend from chillwave-esque indie electronica and autotuned hypnagogic magic to blossoming, dream-soaked rhythm alchemistry. Very expressive and therefore impressive by any senses. Julian Rojas comes out from Sydney, Australia and being a good example of the flourishing underground scene on the Green Continent at the moment.  

Great Lake Swimmers - The Legion Sessions (2013)

 Noisetrade

9.3

/Indie folk, Alt-folk, Folk indie/

Comment: these ditties by an established Canadian alt-folk/indie folk group, Tony Dekker-led Great Lake Swimmers, provide mostly doleful introspections and longing contemplations. Their approach to the music is tiht, intimate, emotional, and overwhelming by the side of melodies and harmonies. More concretely, the pronounced guitars and vocal lines are counterbalanced by violin-based orchestrations and the upright bass. On the other side, at times there are up more dashing guitar strums and straightforward, one-dimensional singing. In a word, these 9 tracks do constitute the intimating bound to the listener.  

[Teaser of the day] Catherine Corelli - See My Price In My Eyes [prt 2]

Royalty-free music for professional licensing

• Synth metal
• Progressive
• Art metal
• Psychedelic metal
• Experimental metal

[Teaser of the day] Jalikebba Kuyateh and the Toubabs - Jaliya

Free Music Archive

• Ethnic music
• World music
• Afrobeat
• Gambian music

[Teaser of the day] Quadrilles - A Point Is That Which Has No Part

• Experimental rock
• Post-rock
• Epic

Spangl /Weinberger - Memorial (2013)

Petroglyph

9.3

/Experimentalism, Modern classical, Acousmatics, Electro-acoustic, Musique concrète, Avant-garde, Noise/

Comment: this batch of 7 compositions do constitute an outstanding experimental approach due to be interlaced together slihtly opposite elements in the same tracks and frequently simultaneously. More concretely, Spangl behind the piano, and Weinberger behind knobs collaborate in a way to offer up solemn cathedral sounds, though, produced in a filthy way, or lofty piano music backed up by deliberate, inexact electro-acoustic clumps, chamber chords, and concrete music-induced heelers somewhere in the remote background. As a result, the listener can perceive a viable tension emerging at confluent points across these sonic terrains. Furthermore, there are even up some longing-induced monumentum emerging inviolably from piano and noiseful progressions.            

Miami Slice - Disco Cuts EP (2013)

Soundcloud

9.4

/Disco, Dance music, House, Disco house, Funk, Alternative/

Comment: NY-based producer Christian Montoya (aka Decktonic) represents sunshiny disco music filled with the genuine touch of old school disco music mixed up with some contemporary (house) elements. More concretely, there are up 4 funky, danceable rhythms imbued with fluorescent arrangements and filter-heavy snippets. It is thought for your body and soul. In a word, though the new embodiment by Montoya is more lush and dynamic it does not mean it is somehow weaker than his more angular, and divergent rhythm-heavy main project.  

Rewalia - Demo (2013)

Bandcamp

9.0

/Doom rock, Space rock, Hardcore, Experimental rock, DIY/

Comment: these tracks were recorded back in 2006. It is sympathetic and though-provoking on the strength of spaced-out doom and hardcore mixed rock punch which does have distinctive rehearsal room feeling. In a word, this peripheral project from Estonia is worth to be remembered because such sound is to be very actual at the moment.   

[Teaser of the day] Drill Folly - Bittersweet Escape

• Avant-electronica
• Leftfield
• Post-psychedelic electronica
• DIY
• Repetitronica
• Witch house
• Drag house

[Teaser of the day] Nomadic Firs - Lavish Hush

• Alternative pop
• Indie rock
• Psychedelic pop

Jääkaappi - Sähköliha (2013)

Trash Can Dance

9.2

/Hard rock, Psychedelic rock, Alternative rock/

Comment: these 14 pieces hark back to the tradition of good old hard rock times, more concretely, which could be described as a intense firework of boosting guitar riffs and overdrives, pronounced Finnish singing and heavy psychedelic Hammond organ sound conveying dusty magic and incessant key changes. However, by straddling the borders between a little bit grotesque, self-irony and serious thereby providing viable energy, joyous climaxes and pure fun. It might be seem strange but there are up some moments resembling Happy Mondays  (at least for Happy Mondays without those loose, baggy rhythms). The collective comes out from Finland, and the album is issued on an Estonian underground label, Trash Can Dance.       

Dusthoney - Cathedrals (2013)

Jamendo

8.6

/Modern classical, Classical music, Minimal, Piano music/

Comment: the frames of these 11 tracks are mostly tapped on the piano. It involves soothing, thoughtful chords just following to each other in a steady row. Sometimes this album can be perceived just as one lengthy track. However, there are up some exceptions either - for intance, some progression based on electronic manipulations, and using dim singing. The best moment emerges from The Librarian Of Your Dreams using electronically treated chords, sublime semi-orchestrations, and shuffled piano keys. I recommend to listen to other issues by this Philly-based project as well.

[Teaser of the day] Bitbasic - Alpha Dromayo

rec72

• Electro-house
• Micro house
• Alternative
• Acid

[Teaser of the day] Youth Lagoon - Dropla

• Alternative rock
• Experimental indie
• Psychedelic pop
• Post-rock
• Epic
• Chamber pop