Delhotel Records: Club Comfort Remezclado (2009)

Delhotel

Lastfm

• Indietronica
• Alternative pop
• Leftfield
• Remixes
• Electro pop
• Alternative dance
• Robot pop
• Electronic pop
• Chillwave

Comment: this set of 10 tracks involves both original and remixed ones and some reworks, however, all thoroughly rotating around Roberto Polo and Sergio Treviño aka Dj Queco`s collaborative project Club Comfort. Club Comfort`s original sound is based upon gritty indie electronic, volatile chillwave tuning, and electro pop progressions, however, remix makers will make it amenable to more diverse electro pop and stroboscope-lighted and autotuned robot pop touch. The remixers on it are the collective`s label mates like Mersey Hot Springs, DJ Golonsh, Sr. Amable, White Ninja, and Mockingbird. The issue includes enough of highlights to be deemed a top notch. The godfather of the release is an excellent Mexican experimental pop/rock label, Delhotel Records.         

J.-P. CARON – ST (2014)

Sinewave

• Drone
• Dark ambient
• Ambient noise
• Epic
• Ambient drone
• Dystopbient
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism

Comment: J.-P. Caron`s recent composition may chime like a graveyard or junk yard antidote to La Monte Young`s music. Just kidding. However, there are represented a couple of tracks first of them extend a little longer than one hour and another is approximately about 14 minutes. Despite their imbalance in format the nature is similar – taut, bleak drones run ceaselessly over endless landscapes full of ghostly shades and penumbras. Inspite of the minimal or even microtonal concept the emotion flourishes throughout and will be full-fledged at the end. Of course, such kind of minimally produced music is tractable by illusions thereby the listener cannot be very sure where is laid down the border between reality and fiction. The blurred vision is actually its strength and source of vitality.                    

[Teaser of the day] Erissoma - Emotional Landslid

Archive.org

• Glitch ambient
• Glitchtronica
• Soundscapes
• Experimental electronica
• Abstract
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Microtonal

[Teaser of the day] Kuh Lida - Havemercy

• Hip-hop
• Urban music
• Leftfield
• Afrofuturism
• Funk

Social Club x ANIMAL KINGDOM

Cagey House – Second Sight (2014)

pan y rosas

• Free folk
• Weird folk
• Avant-folk
• New Weird America
• Sampledelic
• Sound collage
• Art music

Comment: Baltimore-native Dave Keifer aka Cagey House has been a prolific artist issuing at least 15 albums since 1999. He is one of the main icons regarding netlabel based music. A shitloads of records who had issued his outcomes are already disappeared but he is still here to delight the listener. When he started to produce his sound it was formally electronic but chimed rather like a modern indie rock combo. However, later on his sound veered into a haunting, more experimental approach full of haunting art house-y milieus and uncanny but catchy melodies atop. However, his previous one Pistol Vest (2010, MAV 0kbps) seemed to be a turn forward due to more psychedelic and improvised set-ups and soundscapes. And now Second Sight denotes another dodge in stylistic approach of him. Keifer sound has never been so folk-ish, though, heavily, blended with sonic effects, orchestrated glides, warped ambiences, 60 and 70s-alike female singing manner and vowel experiments and electronic ploys. Moreover, his recent approach is minimalistic relied on a couple of sonic algorithms and repetitive, even a little bit autistic samples regarding most of these 7 compositions represented over here. Fairly amusing and relaxing.

AKA Gelbart – Please Please Me (2013)

Bandcamp

• Conceptual
• Space Age
• Exotica pop
• Alternative rock
• Psychedelic
• Rockabilly
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Electronic
• Art rock
• Psychobilly

DavidKBD - Plastik-The Technosphere (2011)

DavidKBD

Jamendo

• Trance
• Techno-metal
• Electro-metal
• Dance pop
• Crossover

Comment: David KBD is a musician from Pamplona, Basque country. His 7-track issue is a melting pot for poppy techno cadences, bubbly trance rhythms and metal guitar riffs. The result is fizzy and upbeat, though, being superficial, simplistic and cheesy by its nature. Actually the whole chimes like a long-running track, just providing some pauses at different times. The artist tries to find out the middle ground between disparate genres or to amount to them, though, having no plan and enough depth to manage it. On the other side, there are certainly some elements to create finer and more segmented results. Moreover, Tinkling Lights is a banner thanks to an unforgettable motif and subsidiary progressions and relaxing pads around it. 

[Teaser of the day] Astrolabio - Synapsis

Archive.org

• Psychedelic rock
• Progressive rock
• Experimental rock
• Fusion
• Acid rock
• Improvised music

[Teaser of the day] Miami Slice - Step Into Me

Free Music Archive

• Club dance
• Electro-house
• Disco house

Kent State - Hogs Tooth

DJ Torby - Big Bag (2013)

Rumpfunk-Records

• House
• Alternative dance
• Club dance
• New Age
• Downtempo
• Chillout
• Mood music

Comment: DJ Torby provides mostly phlegmatic downtempo-esque and New Age-soaked rhythms accentuated with lonely piano chords, smooth jazz-y whiffs and scant bass drum-based slaps. However, these elements do corkscrew against the upper layers of compositions which used to be shimmering and sheeny ones thereby providing the welcome counterbalance to it. Of course, there are represented some exceptions either. At Sleep In My Arms are catchy but gloomy synth layers mixed up with majestic bells therefore sounding quite close to some borderline post-rock combos. Beach Walker is a house-inspired notch bringing incessantly forth uplifting milieus and dreamy associations throughout. At Let Me Feel Your Fantasy is all about a catchy electro-disco hook. 

Dancing Deadlips + Potworow - Buffalo Bill's Defunct (2014)

Bandcamp

Lastfm

• Spoken word
• Sound poetry
• Dark ambient
• Noir music
• Avant-garde
• No Wave
• Experimentalism
• Microtonal

Comment: the Poland-residing Dancing Deadlips` rationale is based upon gloomy and noir-laden soundscapes and persuasive storytelling getting their inspiration at the fringes No Wave movement and gothic/neoclassical music. This time they issued a composition, Buffalo Bill`s Defunct featuring Potworow. Indeed, it is heavily crawling and horrendously grumbling thereby adding to the air of impending threat and awe. By the way, the lyrics is based upon Buffalo Bill's Defunct by E.E. Cummings, a prominent representative of the 20^th poetry.              

Jazz Friends – Autumn Leaves (2013)

Jamendo

• Nu jazz
• Mood music
• Chillout
• Acid jazz
• Art music
• Easy listening
• Smooth jazz
• Downbeat

Comment: this miscellany of 9 tracks issued approximately 10 ten months ago is relevant at the moment either. In fact, it may behove for any time. The smorgasbord  starts off with a fabulous regatta pop example by Roberto Daglio combining together easy-paced cognition, 70`s ending jazz progressions reminding a little bit of Miles Davis, and Jaan Kuman, for instance. However, in addition to it there are represented also jazz-induced mood music, more art music progressions, smoky downbeat shuffles, and more contemporary electronic/acid/nu jazz grooves and hovers. In a word, it guarantees to the listener good feeling and pleasant state of mind. Beyond Roberto Daglio there are represented Stefano Mocini and Liquid Frame, JAZ, PeerGyntLoboGris, Liquid Frame, DavidKBD, Nujazz Trio, Thorvald Odin, and Lino Del Vecchio.                 

[Teaser of the day] Dimuto Cielo - Diciembre

Archive.org

• Neokrautrock
• Post-rock
• Indietronica
• Electronic pop

[Teaser of the day] Asalto al Parque Zoológico - Sonnen

• Dream pop
• Alternative rock
• Shoegaze
• Psychedelia

Aden Ôhm - It's People

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

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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.