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10/03/2014

Kukl – The Eye (1984)




/Post-punk, Avant-rock, Art punk, No Wave, Gothic rock, Improvised music, Experimental rock/

Comment: Kukl`s The Eye is undoubtedly one the most outstanding post-punk albums throughout the music history due to balancing excellently between cutting edge-y song-writing, gloomy harmonies and stylistic transitions. It is inspired by various styles and avant-garde groups, at times veering into free jazz, improvised music, and even pagan folk-inspired snippets. The only apparent element represented on the album predicting the birth of the Sugarcubes is singing dialogue between Björk and Einar Örn, More concretely, Björk`s vehement singing and declamation is outstanding and spellbinding, revealing hints at her later glorious solo career. By the way, the first notes of Open the Window and Let the Spirit Fly Free seem to be a base for the British indie rock combo House Of Love`s excellent hit Shine On (1990, Creation). The album was inspired by the French philosopher George Bataille`s The Eye which depicts sexually perverse and uncannily behavioural adventures of a young French couple within a violent context. In a nutshell, this 9-track issue which was issued 30 years ago sounds refreshingly today either - remarkably better than an average combo whose sound could be classified as "post-punk".          

Scott Lawlor - The Absence of Light Contains The Shadow of Loss (2014)




/Dark ambient, Minimal, Drone, Dystopbient, Neoclassical, Microtonal, Ambient drone/

Comment: throughout these 71 minutes will happen quite less due to Scott Lawlor`s keenness to truly minimal aesthetics based on slightly gloomy progressions within ambient and drone music compartment. At times the scape is embellished with some half-orchestrations and buried crescendos. By conceptual side the whole is soaked with heavy matter of darkness and mourning. For instance, very characteristic are all the titles of this 4-track giant - A Gradual Descent Into the Chamber of Darkness, A Dream of Beauty is an Illusion in a Life of Loss, Beauty is Found in Melancholy, Cathedral of Pain and Grief . The compositions laid out in the middle rely on cathedral organ created sequences. Stylistically it used to sway somewhere in between neoclassical, drone and ambient music doing it in a slow mode. In a nutshell, there are only a couple of possibilities for the listener – it is either depressive and psychically teasing or beatific in its stark grief and overwhelmingly striking melancholy.       

ikul-a - Harmony Of Suffer (2012)




/Breaks, Hip-hop, Minimal techno, Deep techno, Electro-hop, Leftfield, Minimal electro/

Comment: behind this project and creation of a handful of instrumental pieces is such legend as Pasquale Maassen whose music consists of gritty and rigid rhythm spliced algorithms drenched with hypnotic motives and austere samples. Although the surface of Maassen`s paces is grainy the core of it includes dimension of barely perceivable, minimal changes thereby amplifying a highly catchy touch on it and adding an experimental edge to it. Maassen`s aesthetics is certainly influenced by glorious Detroit techno and electro scenes due to its repetitive patterns and laconic locution. Finally – let`s repeat the cliché once again – less is more. Nothing is fifth wheel on it. The more you listen to it the more it seduces you. It just must be in your computer!      


9/29/2014

[Teaser of the day] The Pheromoans - Hearts Of Gold


  • Alternative rock
  • Post-punk
  • Indie rock
  • Art rock

[Teaser of the day] Daniel Maze - Treehugger


  • Glitch soul
  • Cinematic
  • Experimental electronica
  • Avant-soul
  • Sampledelic

Dino Felipe - Audio Illusions

Kent State/At The Heart Of The World (2012)




/Psychedelia, Fuzz pop, No Wave, Alternative rock, Avant-rock, Experimental rock, Rhythmic noise, Black metal/

Comment: this album includes 2 issues by two different musical groups, the first of them providing exulting psych-pop and fine fuzz pop numbers. Indeed, it is a way of how one proper rock band should sound being influenced by sweet and tears of black blues guys. Although Kent State`s aesthetics is otherworldly beautiful it seem rather be influenced by gloomy locations worldwide, for instance, Death Valley, which locates quite close to their home city Los Angeles (though I can remember for the band`s frontman Nicholas Vance is/was closely bound to Baltimore either). At The Heart Of The World reveals something fairly gorgonizing because of changing those aforementioned spherical guitar harmonies for truly silly, angular noise structures full of violent screaming and abrasive feeling of angst. To perceive contrast by outpacing the borderline between those groups is inevitable. More profoundly, it is a tight mix of rhythmical noises, No Wave aesthetics and extreme metal facets. By kindred souls it can be compared with Black Dice, for instance. This split release is highly recommended!             



Morceaux d'Ekumen / Pieces of Ekumen (2006)




/Avant-garde, Electro-acoustic, Crossover, Acousmatics, Post-rock, Experimental electronica, Glitchtronica, Folktronica, Organic electronica/

Comment: this exclusive 7-notch issue properly measures up to because of providing a sublime shift between electro-acoustic developments, folk-y dregs, borderline post-rock, glitch-y electronica and concrete music territories. The compilation demonstrates of how predominantly electronically produced music can be gentle, majestic and beatific affecting profoundly the listener`s heart and soul. The impact seems to be romantically soaked, however, following the idea of how could it be possible to bring forth more acuity in sonic details and in interactive relations. Moreover, it might be true that machines and electronic devices breathe and perceive on it. It is obvious that the total sum of it overcomes a sum of its particles and premises. There are represented such Quebec/French-Canadian artists as Milliseconde Topographie, 1 her(t)z, Urban9, Nicolas Bernier, Jacques Poulin-Denis, Jean-Francois Dessureault, and Delphine Measroch. Listen to it!

Cldscp – Menso Freakfolk (2010)




/Lo-fi, Freak folk, New Weird Argentina, Cover, DIY, Primitronica, Toytronica, Weird folk, Trip-hop, Free folk/

Comment: as the title expressively suggests this 8-track issue is about freakiness and folk music, however, these nouns and adjectives are closely related to each other. Additionally, the Argentinian-based duo`s music used to incorporate yet many stylistic elements to create the crunchy outcome. Andy and Leopo used to exploit a wide array of more or less conventional instruments and concepts which extend from the utilisation of accordions, ukuleles, basses, Casio Tonebank-series synths to toys, beat-boxing, abraded electronica and few 8-bit music/video game snippets, and concrete music samples. Very likeable is Leopo`s singing filled with gentle flickers and vulnerable flutters. Beneath layers produced with the aforementioned instruments do throb skiddy trip-hop paces. Unchained Melody is a cover of Presley`s most famous song. By kindred souls the duo`s music can be compared with the sonic aesthetics of the sisters Cassady. The result is childish yet spiritedly conveyed.             

9/27/2014

[Teaser of the day] DJ Quest - Time Off



  • Digital soul
  • Club dance
  • Acid jazz
  • Chill out
  • Sampledelic
  • Mood music
  • Breaks

[Teaser of the day] Chenard Walcker - Ma Wa Nu Dogbe Me


  • Plunderphonics
  • Sampledelic
  • Psychedelic
  • Soul
  • Afrofuturism
  • World music
  • Funk
  • Alternative dance

Frägil - Sonrisa

Simone Schirru / Federico Eterno - Around Three Minutes Long Short-movie Songs (2013)




/Free jazz, Cool jazz, Modal jazz, Film noir, Improvised noise, Experimentalism, Improvised music/

Comment: this collaboration by two musicians of Italian heritage is all about an exquisite experience of sloshing through jazz-y swamps. Indeed, the 30-minute session issued under the wing of Moscow-based experimental records Clinical Archives used to show up Shirru and Eterno`s continuous skilfulness to drift between scant instrumentation and jaunty improvisation-filled snippets, still life-esque cool jazz and more tumultuous modal jazz and  free jazz propulsion forces (especially demonstrated in a series of Videomenata). Furthermore, even curious approach to (improvised) noise music is presented there now and then. Of course, as the title suggest the listener cannot underestimate the importance of recent concept – more concretely, it is film noir-esque and sneaky rather than joyous and superficially diverting by its nature.

Vortex Rex – Live At OCCII (2012)




/Psychedelia, Alternative rock, Post-punk, Live session, Indie rock, Experimental pop/

Comment: this handful of pieces is an episode from the club night at Le Club Suburbia in Amsterdam in 11th of March, 2008. In addition to Vortex Rex the night was filled with the likes of Adolf Butler, and Japanther (at least the event was conveyed on the bill in this way). The Vienna, Austrian trio`s gig was furnished with vast energy-loaded guitars, prominent acid-drenched keyboards and some flickering electronics filling the background role for the singer`s manifesting singing reminiscent a little bit Mark E Smith`s hacking appearance. On the other side, it does not mean that Vortex Rex is a copy of The Fall (Vortex Rex is more spaced-out, more acute through their  convulsive dodges and propulsions). The gig scenario was based on intense chord changes varied with more laid-back extensions in time, however, concretely depending on the tracks. In a word, it was interesting first meeting with this combo.

Wood Spider – Decadence (2014)




/Freak folk, Weird folk, New Weird America, Indie folk, Psych-folk, Balkan folk, World music/

Comment: it is problematic if not impossible to punctually categorise Decadence because of being immersed in providing a shitloads of hints, reflections and tendencies. The NY residing Wood Spider`s music can be classified into the New Weird America pigeonhole, however, the sextet`s music used to be a little bit deviated considering an average example from the movement. The main element to make difference on it is a fervent accordion amongst the other instruments thereby adding Parisian street sounds and Balkan folk facets to their soundscape. Additionally, dizzy gipsy-alike singing keeps another interstice within it. However, the aforementioned elements are channelized in their own context and presented in a twisted, burlesque mood. Although their aesthetics chimes mundanely it seems to be far more than just the capacity of their premises. Indeed, their approach is too artsy just to be a mere pub folk group. Fairly sympathetic are melancholic accordion-based drones meanwhile counterbalancing a carnival-alike ambience. At such moments Wood Spider`s chamber aesthetics come quite close to the likes of Beirut, Bark Cat Bark and The Retuses, for instance. Overall, imagine as if Animal Collective performing at a poppy Balkan music festival. It might be readily the band is laughing at it all. Let`s live up to it!              



9/25/2014

Recent Music Heroes Mixtape #11 (26.09.2014)


Mediafire

Andy`s Airport Of Love - Duquesne Incline (2009, Rack & Ruin; Actually, I Am Sasha Fierce)

Mr.Dean - Il Futurista Annegato (2009, Self-released; Il Grande)

Analogic Captive  - Intronoma (2014, CS Industrial 1982-2010; TYF (1996-1999)

Tan Dollar - Clams (2010, Beko DSL; Beko_cs01 (July 2010)

6SISS - Alaxsxaq (2014, Entity; In Pallid Nights)

Book Of Burrow - Pathless (2011, No-Source; Book Of Burrow)

Dadalù - Internet (Deaf Shout Remix) (2013, Michita Rex; Internet)

Tom Fahy - Cedar Row (1994, Auralnaut; Adytum)

This Lonely Crowd - Disguises 2014, Sinewave; Möbius And The Healing Process)

The Sound Down Cellar -  Leave Your Resume (2014, I Heart Noise; Boston Not LA Vol. 3)

Jenova 7 - Chasing Tomorrow (2013, Dusted Wax Kingdom; The Sounds Of Sector 7)

[Teaser of the day] Anteaters & The Women Who Love Them - Return To The Sea

  • Psych-folk
  • Free folk
  • Weird folk
  • Music hall
  • Psych-rock
  • New Weird America
  • Freak folk

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Nicholas Kirk - The Dread


  • Drone folk
  • Art music
  • Neofolk
  • Soundtrack
  • Film score
  • Neoclassical

Asalto Al Parque Zoológico - Soft Focus

Data Snow – Phases (2014)




/Dark ambient, Abstract, Dystopbient, Sound art, Epic, Illbient, Soundscapes, Minimalism, Microtonal, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Post-industrial/

Comment: although Data Snow`s 8-piece issue is formally starkly bleak and austere its emotional impression renders into something remarkably significant and striking. The project`s thoroughly experimental approach emerges through minimally composed music predominantly providing hints at classical music, ambient soundscapes, and minimal music. Indeed, some sonic details are barely within earshot and the narrative used to meander without blasts or crackles. However, all the aforementioned stylistic firmaments are contaminated with evil-sounding stances and visages. Instead of outer space it is rather music composed for the visualization of abandoned junkyards and nuclear test territories foreboding an impending catastrophe coming out of there. Ironically, it is fairly beatific and arching composition at its core. Less is more...imaginative.          

He Is Watching Over Us - In Defence Of Disgusting Animals (2007)




/Indie folk, Folktronica, Lo-fi, Post-rock, Epic, Art folk, New Weird Sweden/

Comment: He Is Watching Over Us is the Swedish duo of Erik Gröndahl, and Johan Mattson whose 8-track instrumental issue is a calmed down, even picturesque moving with the assistance of predominantly restrained arpeggios and organically successive chords enchanted from acoustic and electric guitars which are varicoloured with droning organs and diffuse electronic explorations, and some anthemic orchestrated panoramas on the top. Stylistically the whole has been managed in a way to meander between post-rock-ish ambition, folktronic crispiness, and lo-fi-esque cosiness. The collective`s melancholic nature is very appropriate for listening to it recently, as the summer has passed by and the autumn just began. Least but not last - there is no disgusting animals, though, animals need to be protected more with strenuous activity.                



Ambient Fabric – Messages (2010)




/Noise, Glitchtronica, Sound art, Ambient, Organic electronica, Experimental techno, Abstract, Industrial electronica, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Avant-electronica/

Comment: Oystein Jorgensen aka Ambient Fabric`s 4-track issue is an intriguing one due to experiments with considered noises, ambient sounds and incisive crackles, hisses and pops and innumerable combinations of them. The Norwegian`s album embarks on with a modest noise attack stepwise rendering into digital raining intensively pouring out from every slots and orifices. The other tracks are similarly sustainable as well, though, providing a little different aesthetics through abrasive manipulation and wide-screen panoramas blended sonic alchemy, glitch-y techno de-construction and exposing into something truly uncanny, and restrained but menacing industrial-tinged electronic insights. At times Jorgensen`s handwriting is fairly minimal dwelling somewhere in between Kaffe Matthews and Pan Sonic. In a nutshell, the whole is overwhelming in its dystopic, machine-centred appearance.                    

9/23/2014

[Teaser of the day] Taras Bul'ba - My Name Is Igor



  • Psych-rock
  • Space rock
  • Math rock
  • Avant-rock
  • Progressive rock
  • Experimental rock

[Teaser of the day] Psilodump - Two (Shallow)


  • Techno pop
  • Alternative dance
  • Sampledelic
  • Psychedelic

Tracer Flare - Sigh Of Relief EP

Rho - Breathing Through the Liquid System (2011)



  • Indietronica
  • Post-pop
  • Alternative pop
  • Post-rock
  • Mood music
Comment: Rho`s issue is stripped down on No Source, an US-based record label for post-rock, electronic indie and  folk music. Indeed, this bundle of 9 instrumental pieces incorporates the sublime guitar chords and strumming, fine-feeling yet majestically produced electronic orchestrations and shuffled, skiddy rhythmic expressions. Sometimes guitar chords will be reversed or dragged through sonic filters to create more otherworldly ambience for the listener sake. On the other side, notwithstanding predominant experimental nature of creating compositions by Steve Setzepfandt and Josh Wittman the album is highly accessible thanks to repetitive motives and attention-getting melodic/harmonic drives throughout. By the way, Breathing Through the Liquid System was the duo`s debut album. Enjoy it.

Dick Richards - Costa Daurada EP (2003



  • Tech-house
  • Minimal techno
  • Microhouse
  • Dub techno
  • Experimental techno
  • Remix

Comment: this 4-piece EP reveals Dick Richards stark affinity for microscopic rhythmic frequencies and suggestive harmonies within the realm of house, techno, and dub (in a lesser extent, though). In spite of it the issue`s characteristics seem often to be way too far away from rhythms of the ordinary club lounge venue. It is rather cerebral music consecrated by Detroit techno tradition and the artists` aesthetics of such labels as Minus, Kompakt and Basic Channel. Indeed, every pop, crackle and slit on it seems to be thorougavaldamahly controlled and managed to constitute such a soothing gem. Indeed, though 11 years has passed, Costa Daurada EP echoes still in a refreshing way. The release was done available by cult dance music label Thinner.                  


Dadalù – Internet (2013)



  • Hip-hop
  • Electro-hop
  • Electro pop
  • Digital soul
  • Alternative dance
  • Reggae-hop
  • Urban music
  • Remixes
Comment: Dadalù is a Santiago, Chilean female hip-hop artist who has issued a handful of albums during the last 3-4 years (all of them can be found from her and Free Music Archive site). This time all the attention is centred upon her single Internet. It might be that her single of cute hip-hop and decent electro pop mixed details is shadowed by other artists in the context. For instance, there are up some outstanding explorations of the composition. For instance, Deaf Shout Remix is a glimpse into a sublime electro pop compartment. Vaskular Remix talks in digital soul-drenched language, and Una Niña Malvada Remix`s flight of thought emerges due to heavily vocodered vocals and subtle sonic effects around it. Get a look on it!

9/20/2014

[Teaser of the day] AKA Gelbart - Please Please Me



  • Psych-rock
  • Cover
  • Alternative rock
  • Psychedelia
  • Rockabilly

[Teaser of the day] Superluminal Arts - Make Me Eternity


  • Shoegaze
  • Space rock
  • Ambient rock
  • Alternative rock

Attic Wolves - Here's to Looking Back

I Heart Noise - Boston Not LA Vol. 3 (2014)



  • No Wave
  • College rock
  • Experimental indie
  • Electro-rock
  • Jazz
  • Leftfield
  • Experimental rock
  • Avant-rock
  • Psych-rock
  • Trip-hop
  • Dada music
  • Crossover
  • Indietronica
  • Hip-hop

Comment: recently I reviewed a Boston residing combo, The Mules`s two-track issue 7`` of combining punk rock with No Wave and experimental rock aesthetics. This compilation of 9 tracks is also about Boston, more profoundly, about Boston-based label I Heart Noise related artists. There are represented such artists as School For Robots, Skyjelly, Mary Casiello, Con-Tex, Andrew Geano, Twink, The Sound Down Cellar, Valentin Price, and Jenova 7. The base of the miscellany is mostly of how to splice rock music with electronic or noise music experiments and electro propulsions. Of course, there are some exceptions either – for instance, Mary Casiello`s I Can't Be Tamed (Songs I Hate) is more jazz and improvised music oriented composition. Jenova`s Heroin For Dilla is an insight into a sublime instrumental hip-hop/trip-hop rhythm world. The most challenging and uncanny track comes out from Con-Tex whose Somehow There You Are is composed of warped electronic and acoustic instruments layering which in turn is laced with crawling dada-near vocal manifestation. In the aggregate, it is a fabulous and varicoloured sum of spellbinding and charismatic compositions worth to be enjoyed and get appreciated.                

Tinyfolk and Wisdom Tooth - Oxbow Woods (2010



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

Comment: I guess everyone who was involved in music provided by such great platform as it was Bloomington, Indiana-based CLLCT knows Tinyfolk very well. Tinyfolk was one of the most beloved artists under the umbrella. He later moved on from Bloomington to Chicago, Illinois where he formed an indie rock collective, Pretty Swans with his fiancée Megan Lamb aka Iron Like Nylon, and Jim L aka James Eric aka Garden On A Trampoline. Oxbow Woods is the artist`s probably the most grown-up issue due well balanced line between suggestive melodies and harmonies and fabulously setup instruments. At times the acoustic chords are underscored with fine-feeling electronic progressions and whiffs. Wisdow Tooth is an artist who was previously totally unknown to me (I suspect it might be Meghan Lamb). However, her singing manner is frequently fairly bewildering corkscrewing against austere ukulele based backgrounds and some sonic effects here and there. In true, there are no shortages in changing moods and tempos. These good old days will be remembered with nostalgia.                                      

Koona - Strakey 7´´ (2012)



  • Club dance
  • Grime
  • Trap
  • Dubstep
  • Breakstep
Comment: Koona is a producer from Corigliano d'Otranto, Italy whose 2-track issue does echo tendencies from contemporary United Kingdom related club scene. Indeed, Koona offers up different pace tissues from dubstep and trap to breakstep and grime which in turn is a far echo of Jamaican rhythms. Nevertheless, these modern labels do not make music by themselves anyway. Fortunately Koona`s music is sophisticated and successful due crispy rhythmic patterns and sublime synth hovers above – the first track Underwater crafts cadences and brooding bubbles meandering along a zig-zag path. The latter piece Starkey seems to be slightly more exuberant thanks to gliding yet darkly glossy synth layers. However, the rhythmic structure is similarly disturbingly intriguing in a good sense. This thought and dance-provoking issue is released on Ephedrina whose discography is vast and worth to get discovered



9/19/2014

[Teaser of the day] Children Of The Drone - The Lucid Dreamer


  • New Weird Britain
  • Free folk
  • Space folk
  • Weird folk
  • Live session
  • Improvised music
  • Noise
  • Experimentalism
  • Avant-folk

[Teaser of the day] Du3normal feat. Sensi T - Steppa Anthem


  • Dub
  • Raggamuffin
  • Dubtronica

Setec - Brittle As Bones

Jon Hans - Natives in a Foreign Land (2011)



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

Comment: Jon Hans is a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California, USA whose 4-track issue was produced in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, the main centre of folk music worldwide. It is an exuberant and up-to-date folk issue where bold string, drumming and singing layers are accentuated with anthemic synthesised whiffs, jew harp chords and interesting stereo effects. In a nutshell, it is simultaneously traditions following and opened for new approaches and touches. And all is balanced very well. There is also represented a ballad, Your Great To Me. Everyone who likes contemporary alt-folk/Americana it is thought for you. Superb release.               

Joxfield ProjeX - Mystery Of The Stoned Pharaoh



  • Psychedelia
  • Kosmische Musik
  • Avant-rock
  • Experimentalism
  • Psych-rock
  • Avant-garde
  • Experimental rock
  • Avant-prog
  • RIO
  • Alternative dance
  • Electronic

Comment: this 7-track issue ending up at 24.16 is the fourth notch in a series of 9 Joxfield ProjeX archives EP. The compositions are edited from the Swedish combo`s three disc album The Pond Intermezzo initially released in 2006. Mystery Of The Stoned Pharaoh proves that every album by the duo of Oax and Yan is a proper event. Brooding compositions based on hirsute and complicated guitar chords or noisy outcomes are varied with more danceable, volatile endeavours and warped modifications of electronic music and vocals and knee-deep psychedelic insights. I recommend listen to their late albums as well, most of them were issued on Clinical Archives and some of them by the duo themselves. By the way, on some publications they collaborated with such luminaries as Kenji Siratori, Geoff Leigh, and Pat Mastoletto. Enjoy this psychedelic carnival of sounds and impulses.

9/18/2014

Girlhood – Remixes (2009)



  • Electronic pop
  • Mashup
  • Remixes
  • Alternative dance

Comment: girlhood is an obscure producer from Arizona, USA who has issued a shitloads of albums by himself (all the releases can be found from Bandcamp) or under now defunct CLLCT. This 8-track issue consists of mash-up mongrels and remixes. The result is shimmering, burbly and dashing. The rhythms are corkscrewed against glitch-y noises, warped vocal samples and sheeny synth layering, at times manipulated with pitches and pace speeds to pump up the trunk with good mood hormones. In a word, it sounds like a dance party presented by a debonair DJ.          

9/17/2014

[Teaser of the day] Submatukana - Entering the Subconscious


  • Experimental techno
  • Glitch techno
  • Avant-electronica
  • Experimentalism

[Teaser of the day] Nachtzug - 180 Fahren


  • Electro pop
  • Kosmische Musik
  • Electronic pop
  • Robot pop
  • Techno pop
  • Alternative dance

Tallinn Daggers - Evol and Rockets

Tallinn Daggers - Evol and Rockets from Tallinn Daggers on Vimeo.

Cybernetika – Solar Nexus (2014)



  • Breakbeat
  • Jungle
  • Psybient
  • Alternative dance
  • Crossover
  • Kosmische Musik
  • Chill out
Comment: in fact, what we could expect from an album which is entitled Solar Nexus? Indeed, it should filled with sci-fi sounds, to be at least a little bit murky and brooding, full of spacey sounds and feeling of alienation as if you have been a space traveller very far from the Earth for years. If we consider another fact the recording platform comes out from Ektoplasm that it should point out psychedelic trance and ambient blended sounds. In reality, all these elements are represented on Cybernetika`s 9-track release, though, it is probably the most stormy issue I have ever heard under Ektoplasm. More profoundly, those glacial-alike reflections and imposing sonar beams and trance-y rhythms and melodic layers are tightly mixed up with breakbeat and jungle-near cadences and corroded robot voices. In a word, Cybernetika`s recent sound emits nearly like an antidote for traditional New Age music. Last but not least – the coverprint is eye-catching. Recommended.

Robel Synthesia – Midnight Polaroids (2012)



  • Downtempo
  • New Age
  • Modern classical
  • Ambient
  • Alternative dance
  • Organic electronica
  • Mood music

Comment: Robel Synthesia says on his Soundcloud site that he is a musician and sketcher loving all things related to the arts. He used to approach music with the intent of creating something visually alluring. More concretely, if to hint at the titles of the album you could get proof for it – Autumn Window, Painting Skies and Stars, Light Echoes, Taxi Colours. Musically his 7-notch issue is a tight blend of melancholic yet pushy piano chords, picturesque synth hovers, repetitive samples and laidback rhythms and some barely audible concrete sound snippets. Stylistically it is problematic to categorize it in a proper way. It might be not wrong to say the album reflects upon contemporary New Age music tendencies, though, the opening track Streetlamp Waves is properly dance rhythms driven and Polaroids extends to ambient music heights. Of course, it is not the predominant issue regarding the release and other albums either. It is essential that it is a fairly stunning and convincing outcome. Artsy touch is everywhere.       

The Mules – s/t 7`` (2014)



  • Avant-punk
  • Experimental rock
  • Art punk
  • Post-punk
  • Alternative rock
  • Electro-punk
  • Psychedelia
  • Garage rock
  • Blues
Comment: The Mules was a combo from Boston, Massachusetts, USA existing in the beginning/mid of the 00s. Unfortunately they had no fortune to become famous, though, they had potential for it. Maybe did not have, though, because of its uncompromising nature. Free Music Archive issued a couple of tracks exposing the collective`s playful and frenetic world. It is music containing elements from the traditions of No Wave movement, experimental rock, blues, Garage rock, psychedelic music, and noise pop. Mandatory for all those people who don`t like dull and exhaustive rock music but love 

9/15/2014

[Teaser of the day] The Pearly Gatecrashers - Happiest Days


  • Indie pop
  • Twee pop
  • Jangle pop
  • Alternative pop

[Teaser of the day] Baaska T - Wax On Wax Off


  • Cinematic
  • Dream-hop
  • Sampledelic
  • Mood music
  • Breaks

Lapsky - Maed & Meva Figures promo routine

Mount Eerie Live at Hurricane Creek Grange on 2011-10-05 (2011)



  • Americana
  • Indie folk
  • Alt-folk
  • Singer-songwriter
  • Folk indie
  • Live recording
  • Psych-folk
  • Dream folk
Comment: by listening to this 10-track live session can admit that Phil Elverum aka The Microphones aka Mount Eerie is one of the most imaginative artists showing up his depth and capability to change every song into an event. The live is performed with another musician, Julia (who is also from Anacortes, DC Washington, USA) who obviously plays keyboards invoking fabulous synthesised panoramas and virtuous whiffs out of them. However, in centre Elverum`s guitar and doleful singing are elliptically shaped, at times being stretched out and sometimes more stripped down in his trajectory. The result is a quite short-running but bewitching Americana/indie folk footmark.

Irrlicht Project – Accident (2007)



  • Acid electronica
  • Speedcore
  • Chiptune
  • Breakcore
  • Digital hardcore
  • Gabber
  • Crossover
  • Chiptune
  • Leftfield

Comment: Irrlicht Project is a producer from Berlin, Germany being active since 2004. He has issued 8 albums so far, the last one Dat Fuzz this year. Accident consists of more or less danceable music because of its very hectic nature veering into different genres and manipulating with diverse stylistic elements and playing with rhythm patterns and at different speeds and pitches. Of course, he recruits mostly electronic sounds though some samples and progressions seem to be acoustic and concrete sounds either. At times the artist`s intention sounds very straightforward, at times more flickering or spaced-out. The mood is changeable throughout these 12 compositions. In a word, the artist does not underestimate the listener thereby we don`t give him a heck as well.            

The Sugarcubes - 20th Anniversary Concert, Laugardalshöll (2006)



  • Alternative rock
  • Indie pop
  • Psychedelic rock
  • Live recording
Comment: this monumental live gig includes 20 tracks within 84 minutes by the legendary Icelandic alternative group The Sugarcubes who was the first Icelandic group reached international acclaim from the island. The collective and Bjork`s solo career might indirectly open the way for other Icelandic groups either – Sigur Ros, mùm, Mugison, Amiina if to name just some combos among others. Although I am being Bjork`s fan for many years my experiences with The Sugarcubes have not been so pleasant and expected because of chiming a little bit monotonous and annoying in longer time spans. On the other side, Kukl was far more sympathetic thanks to their more avant-garde approach in music and concept. In true, in live they used to sound remarkably better mostly due to Bjork and Einar Örn Benediktsson`s erratic and tumultuous singing manner. The best moment is presented in midway – A Day Called Zero is a gravity-lost jazz-y wonder. 

9/13/2014

[Teaser of the day] Flembaz - Bridging Time


  • Progressive trance
  • Organic electronica
  • Psychill
  • Alternative dance
  • Chilltronica
  • Psytrance

[Teaser of the day] Wreck And Reference - Abhorrence


Avant-metal
Experimental metal
Avant-garde
Angst metal
Screamo
Post-metal
Apocalyptic
Noise metal

Eureka Brown - Sketch

Asalto al Parque Zoológico – Sonnen (2014)



  • Shoegaze
  • Dream pop
  • Alternative rock
  • Noise rock

Comment: to listen to this couple of tracks incessantly from one hour to another it is a very ecstatic, even purgative listening experience. If to draw parallels to another South American combo, This Lonely Crowd`s album An Endless Moment Everyday All The Time (2010, Sinewave) sounded blatantly close to Smashing Pumpkins. In parallel, The Buenos Aires-based combo can sound even more into the hard core of My Bloody Valentine than the legendary shoegaze pioneers themselves wanted to do it (you obviously understand what I mean). Indeed, those exuberant layers of dream-drenched noise cascades do not give you a hoot wrapping the subject up into a hazy, velvety sonic Shangri-la where she/he loses a sense of gravity. AAPZ`s concept may be considered partially as a noise rock example either but it is remarkably more dulcet and sexy than most of pop acts to put together.        

Guerrinha - De Rosinha Falsificado Para Feirinhas Cinzentas (Os Pequenos Tijolos Da House Music) (2012)



  • Big beat
  • Club dance
  • Techno
  • Alternative dance

Comment: If you guess 12 minutes might be way too long to produce one dance-tinged track than you go definitely wrong regarding the recent issue. More profoundly, Guerrinha`s 2-track outlet is a beast of corkscrewing techno and viable big beat mixed rhythms varicoloured with some vowel samples and key chords to result in a highly spellbinding and hypnotic grower. These simultaneously brisk and hesychastic cadences penchant for serotonin-releasing key changes remind me a little bit of Italo disco vibes either. Sometimes it is assumed dance music is somewhat superficial and cursory kind of music, however, if it is relaxing and psychedelic does it mean that it is somehow more draffy or rubbish in comparison with Pink Floyd or Spacemen 3, for instance? It sounds almost like a club version of There Is A Light That Never Goes Out. Listen to it and you will adore it.

Ashtray Navigations - Sweet Iron Feet (2009)



  • Drone
  • Sound-art
  • Experimental rock
  • Avant-garde
  • Post-psychedelic electronica
  • Experimentalism
  • No Wave
  • New Weird Britain
Comment: there can be difference between Ashtray Navigations, and Ashtray Navigations regarding Phil Todd headed combo`s releases. There is no wonder because of having issued a shitloads of avant-whatever albums since the beginning of 90s. Todd and his variable collaborators` music can be considered a sort of alchemy of manipulated sounds which may be even more influential than the listener is able to guess. For instance, you could remember for the first two  albums of Animal Collective where they partially carry out similar minimalistic psychedelic experiments and more sophisticated noise-tinged explorations (or so-called post-psychedelic electronica) thereby bringing forth such sort of music to a wider audience. More concretely, this 4-track issue is a positive sonic mayhem filled with whistling feedback noises, arty guitar chord layering, amplified hisses and bubbly synth drones, however, there aforementioned elements are just tools to experiment with them on different intensities and interactions throughout this 31-minute course. It might be considered an improvised music album, though, it seems that every element brought forth on it is thoroughly analysed and elaborated. By the way, the album will be finished off in a majestic manner (The Whirlpool What Was). By kindred souls I recommend listen to such artists as Kemialliset Ystävat, Glenn Branca, Vibracathedral Orchestra, fydhws, Tore Elgaroy. 

9/11/2014

[Teaser of the day] Adamned.age - Seinzeit-Aggregat


  • Industrial techno
  • Avant-techno
  • Rhythmic noise
  • Experimental techno

[Teaser of the day] Postcode - Pound

  • Post-punk
  • Alternative rock
  • Shoegaze
  • Alternative dance

Artist: Postcode
Release: Zebratronic
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2014

Il Culo di Mario - Osvaldo

EDASI – Orphaned Demons Follow Your Destiny (2014)



  • Black noise
  • Avant-garde
  • Psycho-acoustic
  • Crust punk
  • Blackgaze
  • Experimentalism
  • Improvised music
  • Non-music
Comment: when I was a little boy while lying in bed I was a little bit frightened by trying to listen to buzzing frequencies behind the silence and dreaming up ghouls coming out of the wall. This 11-track issue by Mihkel Kleis aka Ratkiller aka EDASI recalls me a little bit these early days in my life. Although his music can be considered an exemplar of black noise the album incorporates elements from disparate genres. Fairly sympathetic are those barely audible but effectively resulting sampled particles, occult speech and burked screams-ritual evocations and pulsating synth repetitions among tight layering. Kleis also used to recruit quite uncommon sounds in the context of such kind of music – for instance, melodica-driven explorations in one composition. An important part of the issue is the relation between insistent, besotted noise walls and elements coming out of it. Moreover, it is all about of how a sonic particle or snippet is contingent on the total amount of these particles, and conversely. The final track Outro and partially Intro are more concretely influenced by My Bloody Valentine`s beatific noise aesthetics. Call it architectural approach to create black noise music. In a word, it will take care of your soul.