6SISS – In Pallid Nights (2014)

Entity

• Ambient techno
• Experimental electronica
• Ambient dub
• Post-industrial
• Glitchtronica
• Breakbeat
• Ambient noise
• Crossover
• Experimental techno
• Dubstep

Comment: 6SISS is the nom de plume of Peter Adriaenssens, a Belgian artist whose 6-track issue is the follow-up to his Untitled release under Ledebronx in 2014. More profoundly, it is an example of wondrous sonic alchemy where topmost lush ambient-drenched layers are tightly blended with dub-induced, slightly `lazy` rhythmic patterns and reverb-heavy semi-paces beneath. However, Adriaenssens is not an orthodox musician who would like to confine himself into the borders of a definitive genre. He is a nature who prefers to go across different sonic territories – from immersive noise-soaked compositions and horrifying industrial visions to gritty techno and breakbeat-tinged background realms, from quasi-minimalism to glitch-y electronic experiments. In a word, this 6-notch issue can be considered a part of cerebral dance music full of challenging patterns and varicoloured webs whose relatives are Joel Tammik, and Tim Hecker. Keep tab on the artist.                 

Duesterheit - f3style (2000)

Duesterheit

• Funk
• House pop
• Alternative rock
• Trance
• Rave
• Electro pop
• Crossover

Comment: f3style was one of the first albums in the discography of  Duesterheit issued in 2000. Inspite of being highly eclectic one this 9-track whole includes lots of contrasts and interesting outcomes. At the beginning Duesterheit provides superficial house and funk-y frequencies, though, which seem to be influenced by post-punk mentality; later all of that will be traded for more gloomy electro explorations and even abstract rhythmic combinations (Bass, Damage). The most contrasty stylistic element on it are elliptically extended guitar chords which subsequently constitute the suggestive alternative rock example at Seven In Concert. The final track Confused is a crossover instance of guitar riff-driven layers and choppy cadences below it. Worth album by any means.      

Huron – Social Engines (2006)

Crazy-Language

Lastfm

• IDM
• Space techno
• Downtempo
• Avant-techno
• Experimental techno
• Deep techno

Comment: this 12-track issue was the starting point for the Berlin-based records Crazy- Language. Indeed, the choice was very successful due to hovering sublime atmosphere and mesmerized rhythm shuffles on the whole. Huron provides glacial ice-alike relaxing backgrounds variegated with more sophisticated rhythmic patterns, brooding panoramas, angular electronic overthrows and even robot pop-induced samples. In artist`s soundscape there can be perceived influences amounting to Autechre, Kraftwerk, Detroit techno scene, and then actual-IDM artists rather than the European club music scene. In a word, it is a fairly profound listening experience which is worth to be remembered and honoured with new listening times once again.           

[Teaser of the day] Magnétophonique - Lush Islands

• Alternative
• Avant-garde
• Exotica pop
• Seapunk

[Teaser of the day] Lluvia Acida - La Faena

Pueblo Nuevo

• Industrial
• Techno
• Organic electronica
• Electronic pop
• Electro pop

Emerald Four - Love Labyrinth

Opusvertigo – Cosmic Dream (2011)

Jamendo

• Psytrance
• Kosmische Musik
• Space music
• Alternative
• Lo-fi

Comment: by listening to the Yvrench, France-based musical project Opusvertigo`s one-track-issue Cosmic Dream the listener can perceive a similar experience she/he felt while listening to Tangerine Dream`s albums from the mid-70s to the beginning of 80s. More concretely, it is filled with sci-fi spaced-out seeds with the assistance of majestic and a little sinister synth layers which are paced with (psy)/ambient/trance-alike rhythmic sequences and grooves. Of course, unlike Tangerine Dream`s opuses Opusvertigo`s sound is more loose and skiddy throughout. By the way, there is an innumerable amount of one-track compositions by Opusvertigo at Jamendo you could enjoy and download

Bencina Disturbio - Goodbye Monday (en vivo) (2011)

Bandcamp

• Psych-rock
• Space rock
• Alternative rock

Comment: if to play rock and roll music it should be done very loud and aggressive. Buenos Aires-based collective Bencina Disturbio does it in an excessive way to ooze out energy and power from any slot and crack. Indeed, the collective`s 7-track issue is a blasting appearance filled with tinny, Sonic Youth-alike guitars and supersonic jet engine-reminding overdrives here and there. At times they used to vary their sound with spaced-out indications and more panoramic sonic layers. In fact, it is fairly sexy and appealing to dive into trance-inducing guitar noise whirlpools and enchanting black holes. In true, there was Velvet Underground in the 60s, there was Sonic Youth in the 80s, and now is Bencina Disturbio in the 10s. But why they are not famous yet? Why? It is genuine rock and roll, believe me.

Hyperreality - Submarine Techno (2014)

Cold Fiction Music

• Deep techno
• Club dance
• Dub techno

Comment: This couple of tracks (Bravo Zulu, Depth Charge) are thought to be listened to at midnight to get a better vibe perception and depth reflection. Indeed, Hyperreality`s sound chimes like a blend of tightly mixed techno vibes and spaced-out, a little bit grim soundscapes and hiss clusters and vowel samples around it. The whole is dynamic and straightforward, however, sometimes providing dub-alike reverberations and some outlined sonic stripes accelerated through the tracks. In a nutshell, it is an instance of cerebral and body music simultaneously. Yeah!!!       

[Teaser of the day] Tinyfolk - Hello, This Is Tech Support

Free Music Archive

• Indietronica
• Electronic pop
• Lo-fi
• Dream pop
• Bedroom pop
• Singer-songwriter

[Teaser of the day] Skala - Powiedzim wszystkim nie, krzyknij argh!

• Post-rock
• Alternative rock
• Epic

shamane -- ohhhhhahhhhahahhh

EUS – Reviraje (2014)

BLWBCK

• Dark ambient
• Drone
• Ambient drone
• Electro-acoustic
• Abstract
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Organic electronica
• Neoclassical

Comment: EUS is a prolific artist from such a small country as Costa Rica from Mesoamerica. Jose Acuña has issued approximately a dozen of releases during the last 4 years. Reviraje encompasses 7 compositions where long-running mellow drone chords generated by machines are tightly accompanied by dolorous cello chords played by Oliver Barrett. At times the soundscape results in majestic orchestrations or just adding some seeds from electro-acoustic and concrete music to get a more profound and magnetising outcome. In general, the whole is a dainty sway between known and abstract, between visible and occult, between mundane and blissful, between epic and…epic. Furthermore, it could not be described as beautiful because of being way too gloomy and glowering by its nature. Some decades ago such kind of music was just described as deep.       

The Movin´ Circles – Chaotic Process (2012)

EPG Records

Bandcamp

• Chamber pop
• Indie pop
• Folk indie
• Alternative pop
• Indie folk

Comment: actually there is quite little to say about this 3-track issue coming out of Buenos Aires, Argentine. It is obviously inspired by sunshine and shangri-la, cute melodies and chords. At Sonia`s Letter (Sunset) are guitars, ukulele, and banjo seamlessly blended with suggestive keyboard whiffs in the background thereby resulting in to be the favourite track of mine. The other tracks provide more lo-fi and songwriter-alike approach adding more soulful facets and exemplary, a little bit cheesy singing manner to the soundscape, however, on the other side, losing its catchy dynamics and moving in circles gradually. Last but not least - the ditties are sung in English. 

Himmelkommando – Cerebromatika (2006)

Clinical Archives

• Abstract
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Drone
• Non-music
• Glitchtronica
• Post-industrial
• Noise
• Avant-electronica
• Sampledelic
• Illbient
• Dark ambient

Comment: these 7 tracks spread out over 35 minutes are positioned to be very far from the centres of pop music. More profoundly, it embraces straightforward, brutal and improvised noise dashes or more restrained but even more bleaks and malignant (post)industrial and experimental electronic/glitchtronic compositions. At times Himmelkommando´s music chimes like a blend of disparate sonic elements where one layer is managed to be more rhythmic, laidback or even beatific and another used to be clearly abrasive or ominous (for instance, Teletaxia, Alterego, Fantoplication, Water_Hemlock). At this point of view the album can be considered a classical example of noise music where obsessive but successfully accentuated interaction between silence and noise embrace the central point on it. In a word, it is an austere but compensatory experience.            

[Teaser of the day] Kamikaze Deadboy - Ghost Child

Archive.org

• Dark ambient
• Soundscape
• Epic
• Glitch ambient
• Minimal

[Teaser of the day] Mandate Of Heaven - Ten O`clock

• Alternative pop
• Indie rock

Radikal Satan # La Centrifugeuse # Pau # 19/02/2014

A&C Download Sampler (2014)

Arts & Crafts

• Funk
• Electro-indie
• Alternative rock
• Poptronica
• Baroque pop
• Neokrautrock
• Indie pop

Comment: Arts & Crafts is an indie label based on Toronto, Canada whose well-known artists are or has been Bell Orchestre, The American Analogue Set, Moby, Röyksopp, Stars, The Hidden Cameras, Tricky, Los Campesinos!. The recent sampler includes such artists as NO, Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering, Kevin Drew, Lowell, Reuben and the Dark, Timber Timbre, Trust, and Zeus. Stylistically the compilation used to veer into lush indie electronic and electro pop, circumspect baroque pop, funk-inclined rock, straightforward but viable rock and roll, and even an up-to-date version of krautrock. However, the catchiest and most volatile track on it is Kevin Drew`s You In Your Were, and more pretentious and distant one is Timber Timbre`s Curtains!?. In a word, the Arts & Crafts`s sampler is compelling and worth to be enjoyed again and again. Subscribe to the label`s mailing list.      

Hox Vox – Suffer (2013)

Bandcamp

Lastfm

Jamendo

Hox Vox

• Avant-prog
• RIO
• Alternative dance
• Crossover
• Synth-rock
• Leftfield
• Electro-rock
• Art rock

Comment: talented avant-garde/prog-man, conceptualist, multimedia functionary, lonely wolf Gianluca Missero has been cheering up the listener during the last 5-6 years with a numerous of albums. Missero`s music is an amalgamation of different aspects, though, it seems his soundscape has changed in a way to afford more dodges and dashes toward the future on. Suffer is a sufficient instance of it – mandatory rock in opposition`s elements used to intersect with Latin sounds, electronic and dance music facets, concrete music and…a pure sexual intercourse (Desire). Mostly all of that used to be performed offhand and laid down in some seconds. Moreover, Missero has positioned himself very close and very far to the epicentre of pop music at the same time. Call it compelling impulsiveness.                   

Erissoma – Textures (2011)

Miga

Archive.org

Bandcamp

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Microtonal
• Post-rock
• Microsound
• Experimental electronica
• Glitchtronica
• Modern classical

Comment: this handful of tracks is a mesmerized presentation of picturesque piano and guitar-based chords which are wrapped up by signal-alike electronic progressions, choppy droning hums and hazy vowel samples which constantly whir and whirl. The whole results in creating of thick, sublime layers, however, stylistically veering at the crossroads of post-rock, modern classical, and experimental/glitch electronica. It is a thorough experimental pursuit, though, not to be separated from emotions. Spain-based magician Erissoma proves that actually it is needed few elements to create something overwhelming – the essential point of the issue is about how to evoke subtle changes in texture. The outcome will eat your mind.          

[Teaser of the day] Krestovsky - Long Division

FMA

• Singer-songwriter
• Americana
• Folk indie
• Balkan folk
• Indie folk

[Teaser of the day] Tont - King Willie Dub

• Dub doom
• Musique concrète
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Sampledelic

Möscow Club - Daisy Miller pt.2

möscow çlub - daisy miller pt.2 from moscow club on Vimeo.

Miami Slice – Brooklyn 2 Brooklyn EP (2014)

FMA

Hairdu

Archive.org

• Electro house
• Italo disco
• House pop
• Disco house
• Mood music
• Alternative dance
• Club dance

Comment: one thing is truly sure at the moment - New Yorker Christian Montoya aka Decktonic aka Miami Slice came off in full. Undoubtedly Brooklyn 2 Brooklyn EP is his best release ever issued. It is fairly catchy and spellbinding sharing its place somewhere in between the territories of club dance and mood music. There are many ghosts in-flight. From Giorgio Moroder and Gino Soccio inspired Italo disco-based grooves and propulsions and more contemporary filter-heavy house dregs to volatile electro gears and cinematically orchestrated or briny pop house/disco oscillation frequencies. It is pure gold by any means. It might be even the best issue in 2014 so far.             

Children of the Drone – Falling Together (Compilation no.5) (2006)

FMA

Archive.org

• Psych-folk
• Improvised music
• Space folk
• Musique concrète
• Electro-acoustic
• Dream folk
• Avant-folk
• World music
• Experimental folk
• Free folk
• New Weird Britain

Comment: Children of the Drone is a coterie from Exeter, England whose music presentation way is to deliver it for free download - previously improvised in live. Their 14-track set is a sublime soundscape based on natural (ethnic) instruments-based arsenal and some electronics (synthesizer) full of solemn space-y reverberations and dreamy glimpses here and there. In principle the collective`s music can contingently be considered a part of the so-called New Weird movement, though, the set involves also their propensity to experiment within the confines of electro-acoustic, concrete music, jazz, world music and improvised music. By listening to them the listener can perceive unhurriedness to drift along. The favourite track of mine is The Lucid Dreamer because of having serious flirtation with noise music. In a word, the whole results in delivering of suggestive synergy. I recommend visit to COTD`s site and read about their way of looking at things (mostly at music and music industry, of course). 

postmeshische - накося выкуси (v30 km ot goroda mix) (2011)

Genetic Trance

• Lobit
• Noise
• Funk
• Non-music
• Primitive music
• Glitch

Comment: this 3-track issue is a weird shit composed of lobit sonic frequencies, glitches, and demented noises. The Russian experimental music project/duo postmeshische demonstrates how could sound funk music or techno music in a mutilated way (live at 30 km far from a city (v30 km ot goroda), and accidazm, respectively). In fact, there is no much imagination let above of how the music issue could sound in a more primitive way than this one.   

Daleth – On Board With The Ark Ruffians (2013)

For Documentation Only 

• Psych-metal
• Post-metal
• Sludge metal
• Trash metal

Comment: My love against Daleth began while listening to their double album Lusitania for many years ago. Their ability to represent metal music in an enormous way of oozing out overwhelming energy and deranged black power is endearing and irresistible. This handful of tracks is a seamless blend of sludge-y and trash-y tools as if these elements were dubbed and boosted twice. It may sound in a strange way but despite its growling nature this ruffian is soothing and nervous simultaneously and, of course, being very far from epicentre of the pop music. Additionally, I recommend listen to such group as Wreck And Reference.        

[Teaser of the day] Travelling Wave - Desprazer

• Psych-rock
• Stonergaze
• Alternative rock
• Psychedelia
• Space rock
• Alternative dance

[Teaser of the day] Motorama - Normandy

Lastfm

• Post-punk
• New Wave
• Alternative pop
• Gothic rock

Pequeña Fiera! - Gha(e)ur

Amitron_7 - Come Ye Sinners to the Gospel (2014)

Enough Records

Jamendo

Free Music Archive

Lastfm

• Electronic pop
• Easy listening
• Indietronica
• Downtempo
• Sampledelic
• Chilltronica
• Nu jazz

Comment: I can remember for the English musician Amitron 7`s issue The Anton Phase Electro Clockwork Menagerie released in 2009 under Enough Records. It truly ate into my mind. However, the recent issue is a vast, 19-track one involving lots of musical and stylistic elements – from brooding electronic and indie mixed hums, entertaining spoken word and concrete music samples to sinuous nu jazz/fusion-alike jitters, blissful easy listening moments, some haunting and spaced-out blended flickers and a little disconcerted downbeat-induced decelerations. Some improvised moments from the ending part can be found from there. Indeed, the album expands and flourishes providing many moments worth to be arrived at. At times Amitron_7`s music does somewhat reminisce the early 80s in Estonia due to such fusion/jazz rock group as Kaseke. The result is a remarkable chill-out/fusion/electro-jazz release – actually it is far more than just the sum of its ingredients.   In conclusion, music is the music fans` gospel and Come Ye Sinners to the Gospel is an array within it.      

Terracota Blue – Last Night (2014)

Bandcamp

• Chilltronica
• Alternative
• Electronic pop
• Mood music

Comment: Maryland-based musician Terracota Blue says at his Bandcamp site that music on his mind and his mind on music. During the last three years he has been active issuing more than a dozen of releases. More concretely, the soundscape of Last Night is thoroughly integrated full of laidback rhythms and mellow synth layers hovering atop. The motif based on synths reminds a little bit of Kraftwerk-esque progressions. In a word, the single is thought for the listener`s heart and body. By the way, he recently issued the brand new one Depth Charge.         

Tracing Arcs – Wasteland (2014)

23 Seconds

Lastfm

• Trip-hop
• Jungle
• Downtempo
• Mood music
• Alternative pop
• Remixes
• Nu jazz
• Soul
• Alternative dance
• Cinematic

Comment: Fran Kapelle, and Paul H Addie provide a subtle trip-hop album, of 10 tracks presented there are 7 original ones and 3 are remixes. The favourite (and fortunately overwhelming) element within the duo`s soundscape is a sustaining synergy between Fran`s soothing (sometimes sinister, though) vocal submission and Paul`s haunting yet somehow blissful instrumentation – which is a blend of either relatively rough or caressingly hovering guitar chords, cinematic synths and bold yet suggestive rhythm sequencing. In other words, it can be compared with the situation when you drift along in your dream and all what you can see there seems to be so hyper-realistic and bewitching. The listener`s feels will be overshadowed by such a kind of magic. At times you might feel it is not an exemplar of trip-hop at all but an example coming out of the witch house genre. One of the best music issues in 2014.         

[Teaser of the day] The Japanese Girl - Tape Burial

Soundcloud

• Kosmische Musik
• Avant-pop
• Hypnagogic pop
• Dream pop
• Electronic pop
• Experimentalism
• Leftfield

[Teaser of the day] Mount Eerie - 2 Blonde Braids

Archive.org

• Singer-songwriter
• Live session
• Free folk
• Folk indie
• Psych-folk
• New Weird America
• America
• Indie folk

Centauri - Two Sun

Centauri - TWO SUN from tab_ularasa on Vimeo.

Yan – Super Pig (2014)

Fwonk

Bandcamp

• Breakcore
• Hi-NRG!
• Electro
• Club dance

Comment: this issue by Yan includes a couple of tracks. The first of them, the title track, is a catchy, a little bit infantile (in a good sense, of course) bumper embellished with shimmery synthetic layers and glitch- y noises. Furthermore, the metrics of the pace will be changing throughout this long-running track. DJ GO COME ON! is thought to be presented at the dance floors characterized by electro-driven vibes and chopped vowel samples. Indeed, it can be considered a genuine exemplar of Hi-NRG! In a word, the result is suggestive and amusing.          

Bongley Dead – Demo "3" (2014)

Soundcloud

Mediafire

• Alternative pop
• Indie rock
• Dance rock

Comment: undoubtedly this 9-track issue is a nice listening session because of providing catchy hooks in guitar playing, dashing paces and joyous melodies on the top. Actually it is the first aspect regarding the Italian quartet`s music which seems to be influenced by the so-called easycore (pop punk) groups. The other aspect is remarkably gloomier and spectacularly nervous, however, reminiscent of Sonic Youth`s anguished guitar chords and Thurston Moore`s singing manner loaded with pre-millennium tension. In conclusion, despite the polarity of the aforementioned phenomena in a theoretical plan Bongley Dead is able to melt them seamlessly into each other. Last but not least- the favourite notch of mine is Razor which shows up a suggestive, dance-appealed gear in the middle of bruising guitars.      

[Teaser of the day] Chad Golda - In My Bones

Soundcloud

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie folk
• New Weird America
• Free folk
• Lo-fi
• Dream folk
• Folk indie

[Teaser of the day] Sports Guy - Red Planes

• Alternative pop
• Indie rock

Dussky - Baphomet

Csillagköd – Elements of The World (2014)

Batenim

Csillagköd

Bandcamp

• Ambient
• Neoclassical
• Ambient techno
• Mood music
• Soundscapes

Comment: Transylvania-born 32-year old Olivér Dombi`s 4-track issue is a wondrous glimpse into the wonderful world of ambient and spherical music. More profoundly, his music consists of shimmering, glockenspiel-alike sampled chords hovering atop and is boosted by some techno vibes underneath. Because of being so volatile and fragile Dombi`s sound could be considered a sort of mood music either. Only Neutroncsillag demonstrates a more glowering, neoclassical-tinged approach. In a nutshell, despite following narrow stylistic borders the result is striking and unforgettable.   

Asalto Al Parque Zoològico/Sugar Candy - Noise Sweet Noise EP (2010)

EPG Records

• Shoegaze
• Dream pop
• Fuzz pop
• Alternative pop
• Post-punk
• Psych-rock
• Space rock

Comment: indeed, noise rock can sound truly sweet and mellow as proved The Jesus And Mary Chain, and especially My Bloody Valentine for some decades ago. A couple of Argentinian groups Sugar Candy and Asalto Al Parque Zoològico are obviously inspired by those aforementioned noise juggernauts, respectively. More profoundly, this split of 4 tracks reveals some astonishing moments regarding trippy shoegaze explorations (where noise meets sex meets space meets dreams) and heavily hiss-loaded yet exorcized post/punk/fuzz pop/psych-rock. The EP is issued under an Argentinian label, EPG Records. However, regarding South America-based shoegaze-related combos I recommend to listen to Inverness, and This Lonely Crowd either (both from Brazil).    

Defuntos Putridos - O Cadáver está Vivo! (2008)

Putrefa

• Hardcore punk
• Brutal punk
• Live session
• Horror punk
• Horror surf
• Death punk
• Anti-punk

Comment: this 10-notch issue is recorded at Carnificina Cinema Clube, Brazil showing up Defuntos Putridos is an angry and anguished combo mixing mercilessly together hardcore and horror. It is filled with brain-penetrating yet somehow soul-amusing groans and heartsick half-screams, and rotten feedbacks (there are presented some glimpses of horror surf music, and some “sophisticated” rhythms either). Regarding the concept there are up only two possibilities – is it either just faked yet highly spectacular energy delivery or is it coming from the very bottom of their hearts and souls laid out in front of our foots. Never mind. Pertaining of the music history it might be better not to know the whole truth. However, the more you listen to it the better it gets. Last but not least – the cover print is charming as usual regarding such kind of groups. Assassino!!!  

The Nutries – The Nutries (2013)

Sirona-Records

Archive.org

Bandcamp

• Hardcore punk
• Death punk
• Brutal punk
• Trash punk
• Screamo

Comment: The Nutries is a quintet from Italy who used to play punk in a hard-core-ish and trash-y way. Their 7-track gift is highly intense due to a great frequency of thudding drum banging, strident screaming in Italian in your ear, and raggedly rushing guitars in between. At times the quintet used to slow down to mosh for seconds to accelerate their pace once again. Stylistically they melt both diverse elements of metal and punk into a mix. Particularly prominent tracks seem to be Raptus Infernale, Tre Parole, and Libero+B.B.B. In addition to such labels as Makadam Circus, and Sputo Records the issue is released by a prolific label, Sirona-Records headed up by the French electronic experimentalist Arnaud Barbe. In a word, discover the Nutries` discography and varicoloured discography of Sirona-Records.             

[Teaser of the day] The Fucked Up Beat - Sleep Onset Room 22/ Mrs. Denton on Doomsday

• Avant-garde
• Hypnagogic pop
• Exotica pop
• Hauntology
• Sampledelic
• Cinematic

Death By Snoo Snoo - Pentutehdas

1-BIT WIZARDS - The Journey Begins (2013)

Kittenrock

• 1-bit
• Chiptune
• Chipbreak
• Bitpop
• Psychedelic electronica
• Primitive electronica

Comment: this compilation of 13 tracks is a short-running one (ending at 34.12) involving such artists as Fluidvolt, Factor6, Irrlicht Project, Warlord, Mind Body, Shiru, Mister Beep, and TDM. More profoundly, the formula seems to be quite simple – the artists provide 1 bit based sonic figures – the fine-grained interaction between brisk rhythms and catchy melodies thus constituting a decent whole. Furthermore, the listener can detect for various audible cognitions and experiences being acquainted with already and new ones at the same time.      

Gain – Entropia (2014)

La Gramola

Bandcamp

• Hard rock
• Alternative rock
• Post-grunge

Comment: the Catalan-based Gain`s third album Entropia is a clear-cut hard rock album in principle. Indeed, the group gushes out powerful energy, shows large muscles and reflects upon hidrotic skin. Beside obvious hard rock influences the listener may perceive some buried (post-) grunge draughts. Maybe Testigos del Abismo is managed in a way to get ornamented with some more obscure aspects (reminding a little of Sonic Youth-alike guitar alchemy here and there). There is also up Escapismo which incorporates some quadrangular patterns of math rock. A title, Kaksipäinen Varis is in Finnish. Is it about the former langlaufer Kaisa Varis and her affairs with the blacklisted medicaments? However, they used to sing in Catalan.     

Beastplague – Beastplague (2014)

Torn Flesh

• Brutal metal
• Grindcore
• Extreme metal
• Powerviolence
• Hardcore punk

Comment: one of the most significant and prolific extreme metal platforms worldwide Torn Flesh Records provides an extremely short-running issue of 10 tracks produced by Beastplague. The longest track exceeds a little bit at 1 minute, the shortest one finishes off at 29 seconds. Nevertheless these total 8 minutes are highly intense imbued with heavily bashing drum series and cascades, outstretched bare-faced angriness in vocal layers and boosting guitar noodling. Stylistically Beastplague`s album has its place somewhere between hardcore punk, powerviolence, and grindcore. Moreover, the titles are pointing and meaningful – Ruined, Castration, No Future, No Past, An Evolution Of Violence, Glorified Rottendom. The coverprint is also great - is it Robert Smith with the mummy?      

God Hates Sunday - Go To The Pure Land (2013)

Tachyon

Tachyon

• Neoclassical
• Darkwave
• Neofolk
• Ambient
• Ambient folk

Comment: this 8-track outing is predominantly melancholic and restrained providing hyper-realistic atmosphere and slowly ascending and descending guitar arpeggios or hypnotically repeated chords here and there; there are presented some lyrics from ancient writings (Bodhidharma, for instance) and an exclusive remake of Tim Buckley´s Song To The Siren. Despite there is no action over there the result is suggestive and striking. In the first place, the album is meant to be submitted to the fans of neofolk/neoclassical, and ambient music

[Teaser of the day] The Easton Ellises - Artificial Joy

• Dance rock
• Alternative dance
• New Rave
• Electro-indie

[Teaser of the day] Pumajaw - Horseshoe Nail

Lastfm

• Noir folk
• Avant-folk
• New Weird Britain
• Neofolk
• Art folk

Endless Melancholy - November

Damaged Tapes – Entoptic Visions (2013)

Bandcamp

• Alternative pop
• Electro pop
• Seapunk
• Electronic pop
• Synth pop
• Chilltronica

Comment:  Matt Comegy`s 8-track output is basically inspired by the wild mountains of Japan where he had been residing in 2006 and 2007. Formally, his music is electronic and pop-influenced obviously getting inspiration from the 80s TV serial soundtracks and a bit warped, sultry new wave and New Age music. Indeed, behind those clear-cut and apparently soothing synth lines (ok, there are presented some dreamy guitar patterns too). The listener can detect for some disquieted seeds and boisterous spots thereby having an intersection point with the representatives of the so-called seapunk either. The album can be compared with the likes of Ducktails, and x.y.r, for instance.  

Stoned On Gold – Get-Got Hot-Head (2009)

Deep White Sound

• Experimentalism
• Drone
• Improvised music
• Avant-electronica
• Minimalism

Comment: this 11-track issue is an uncanny mix of warped sounds haunting and hovering atop throughout. It is described as a collection of spatial experimentations using minimal drone and vocal re-renderings. Maybe it is way too minimal because of sloshing through monochrome sonic experiments, digital echoes and very similarly repeated patterns without affording compromises and efficacious dodges. Nevertheless, there are out some exceptions where reversed vowel effects used to more flourish and do not give a hoot to the listener.         

Ujjaya – Master Of Crossroads (2011)

Clinical Archives

• Ambient
• Ambient drone
• Post-industrial
• Soundscape
• Abstract
• Epic
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Ambient techno
• World music
• Crossover
• Ethnotronica
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Tribal ambient

Comment: this 6-track issue is a mighty, highly fluttering ambient issue produced by Madagascar-rooted French musician Randriambololona Hery. More concretely, Ujjaya`s very broad yet subtle ambient and drone-blended soundscapes are mixed up with ethnic segments – Orient-singing and vowel echoes, didgeridoo-induced hypnosis and ethnic drum and gamelan-based incantations, and on the other side providing some mild techno vibes, bubbling electronic fabrics, spoken word snippets and adding some concrete music elements to the mix. Sometimes his music sounds more amusingly, sometimes more in an abstract way, the milieu is at times brighter, at times starkly desolate. It can be said, the artist has gathered the best elements from the aforementioned genres to create his own idiosyncratic result. By the way, the album  was played for a ballet made by Vanessa Villain, called Subliminal, telling how the man exploit the Earth and how in return nature take her revenge. Mandatory.  

Hassan K. – Birds (2012)

Darling Dada

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• Alternative
• Surf pop
• Electronic pop
• Big beat
• World music
• Sampledelic
• Crossover

Comment: typified by abrupt changes of mood from track to track this 13-track pastiche constitutes an uncanny combination of surf guitars riffs, mid-tempo glowering electronica, more accelerated electro and big beat loaded breaks, and Orient-inspired sampledelic progressions (tanpura drones and singing). However, some tracks are way too short therefore to be considered as snippets or outtakes rather than full-fledged compositions. Quite frequently Hassan K`s electronic explorations come quite close to Dave Keifer aka Cagey House`s haunting, otherworldly chiming chamber electronica. Once again, those surf guitars and oriental chants used to undulate in a great way.           

Kodak To Graph – Viso`l EP (2011)

Bad Panda

FMA

• Post-dubstep
• Sampledelic
• Downtempo
• Art pop
• Electronic pop
• Cinematic
• Crossover

Comment: this handful of pieces demonstrate different tendencies within modern club music and pop electronica inspired sonic world. The rhythms are induced at times by post-dubstep frequencies, at times offering up more downtempo-alike feeling. Kodak To Graph likes to scatter diverse elements to mix them into one whole thereafter. For instance, the listener can enjoy samples coming out of the soundtracks of the Bollywood scene and orchestrated beauties or taken from concrete/organic music and sacral music. Very amusing.

Figures In Motion – Confusion Will Pass (2014)

Figures In Motion

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Jamendo

• Art pop
• Baroque pop
• Alternative pop
• Synth pop
• Electronic pop
• Indie rock
• Modern classical

Comment: this 10-track issue is an eclectic issue reflecting mostly upon contemporary pop music tendencies. Actually the artist provides at first sight lots of extremities segued seamlessly into each other or presented nearby. For instance, the project shows up propensity for Japan or early Talk Talk-alike synth/electro pop glamour, lush orchestrated pop brooding, minimal piano-led intuitions and Athletes and Radiohead-alike experimental/glitch rock developments (getting inspiration apparently from Kid A). Indeed, all those sonic effects used to make difference.          

Makhno – Silo Thinking (2012)

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• Post-punk
• Psych-rock
• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Art punk
• Electro-punk
• No Wave
• Krautrock

Comment: prolific Paolo Cantu aka Makhno`s Silo Thinking is a mysterious whole which seems to be inspired by Faust-inspired avant-garde rock, and CAN`s danceable improvisations – full of unexpected dodges and paranoid yet hypnotic jamming, and hyper minimalist grooves. On the other side, it can be considered a volatile post-punk group which in turn is inspired by…Krautrock. More concretely, the listener gets drowned into the pool of rhythmic repetitions, rigid synth tentacles, abrasive guitar hooks, superficial noises, and incisive, a little neurotic grooves. The outstanding edge of this entity is its laconic and ornamented facets represented entangledly (could you remember for the Fall`s Perverted By Language?). This is also reason why music may be the highest form of art.