Giorgos Stefanou - Internal Sonic Pathway (2008)

Petcord

Lastfm

/Microtonal, Abstract, Experimental electronica, Musique concrete, Electro-acoustic, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Acousmatics, Glitchtronica/

Comment: Greek composer Giorgos Stefanou`s album consists formally of two blocks – the first of them is called HrznHue, and the latter Abstract Concrete. However, musically the whole chimes in a restraint way, based on subtle acoustic and electronic explorations which are spiced up with diverse sounds (digitally harsh sonic shards, majorly austerely presented glitch-y bits, more fathomable concrete sounds). Frequently this 8-track issue seems to be barely holding on within earshot or just providing mere, blurredly marked soundscapes. The release is issued on Petcord, a record label for a more sophisticated kind of electronic music.            

[Teaser of the day] LeapFrog - Work Song

• Psychedelic rock
• Experimental rock
• Alternative rock
• Dance rock
• No Wave

[Teaser of the day] Violeta Päivänkakkara - Arktinen Yötä

• New Weird Finland
• Free folk
• Dream folk
• Forest folk
• Weird folk
• Psych-folk
• Experimental folk

Propaganda - Excellent

Mel - Unguarded (2010)

Bypass

Archive.org

Lastfm

/Ambient, Experimental electronica, IDM, Folktronica, Post-rock/

Comment: Mel is the Japanese musician Aogu Yoshida (also known as On_14, and Ao) who is being part of the discography of such labels as Test Tube, Bypass, MiMi, On-Li, Rain Music, Complementary Distribution. Unguarded was issued in 2010 under the Chinese label Bypass. The album consists of a couple of lengthy compositions, however, being truly eclectic and mixed. More concretely, borderline post-rock meets downhome folktronic meets circulatory IDM meets panoramic ambient. The issue is based on an edited live recording with purpose to preserve the previous warmth inside it. The listener can perceive both acoustic and electronic feel, both freedom and titillatingly aesthetical pressure on her/his nerves. Furthermore, some of these acoustic chords seem to be loaned from the Japanese traditional music. Despite of being heavily segmented in form the whole sounds in an organic way. In a nutshell, it is truly appealing.      

Beast, Please Be Still - Beast, Please Be Still (2007)

Lastfm

Bandcamp

/Dark folk, Medieval, Americana, Post-folk, New Weird America, Indie folk, Drone folk, Folk indie, Art folk/

Comment: beast does not behave quite in a way how the title would like to see. More profoundly, this 7-track issue is an artsy interplay between silence and ascending and expanding (indie) folk numbers having hints at different folk music periods and locations – from hysterical, Arcade Fire-esque indie outbursts and joyous burlesque interludes to more restraint, even medieval/pagan folk-induced alike shards, beguiling Americana elegies and going to Appalachian at times. Even some post-rock alike scraps are presented in the periphery. The ordinary instrumentation is laced with compelling glockenspiels, overdriven synths and sublime accordions. Their soundscape is filled with emotive charge to the very last seconds of the issue. Beast, Please Be Still is a 7-head collective from Seattle, Washington whose music can be compared with the likes of Arcade Fire, Anahita, Espers, and Darkwood, for instance. In a word, it is an outstanding effort by any means.                      

Bruno Susio – Blues Espresso (2014)

Jamendo

Smart Note

/Mood music, Easy listening, Jazz, Chill out, Regatta pop, Yacht pop/

Comment: Bruno Susio`s Blue Espresso is properly up-to-date because of chiming like a breeze in the midst of depressing autumnal darkness. It is a moody blend of light-weighted yet picturesque jazz progressions, easy-going chill music and cloudless yacht pop chords filled with slightly psychedelic and artsy brass facets here and there. However, by harmonic side it winds up stepwise hence revealing the essence of the album`s core. It reminds me of the years throughout the 80s in the Soviet Union when such kind of music was played in the radio sometime between 2-5 PM. By the way, Bruno Susio is a man behind Smart Note Records, a label with the intent to distribute Italian-based soul, funk, and jazz groove all around the world. All in all, though this 19-minute issue is seemingly unpretentious the result is flawless. Love it.                   

[Teaser of the day] Gumbel - Bit War (ft. Perturbator)

• Indietronica
• Electro-indie
• Alternative pop
• Mood music

[Teaser of the day] Bob Meanza - Il Funambolo

suRRism-Phonoethics

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Art music
• Organ music
• Academic music 

Glaze of Cathexis - Spinning Top

ANALOGIC CAPTIVE - TYF (1996-1999)

CS Industrial 1982-2010

/Noise, Rhythmic noise, Dark ambient, Non-music, Power electronics, Illbient, Industrial, Experimental electronica, Psycho-acoustic, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/

Comment: I find any album dig out from the past is worth to be re-issued and analysed and further to put it into the adequate historical context. And those people and labels and bloggers who have revised old music are worth to be honoured. More concretely, this 13-track issue is re-released under CS Industrial 1982-2010 (firstly issued in 1999 under OLEUM product) whose purpose is to bring forth noise and industrial music in Czech and Slovakian Republic (as Czechoslovakia until 1993) from the above mentioned period of time. Roman Černý spawned result is wondrous – it sounds like an oeuvre by an industrial worker who has disillusioned regarding the future and perceives indescribable anxiety and psychic distress. By aesthetical aspect the outlet is mesmeric due to organic merge between harsh industrial music and brown/and black noise, between and pulsatory drone snippets and circumspectly fluttering damaged ambient music (read: illbient, dark ambient) and pounding power electronic appearances and incisive experimental electronic explorations and ghostly spoken word snippets filled with shrieks and gloomy murmurs. However, those warm analogue sounds do balance harsh nature of the album. In a word, the effect is overwhelmingly mind-provoking and magnetizing.                     

EPV NAVIES – VOLTAGE CIRCLE (2014)

Elementperspective

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

/Glitchtronica, Experimental pop, Glitch techno, IDM, Experimental electronica, Indietronica, Art pop, Ambient, Ambient techno, Abstract, Glitch ambient, Glitch dub, Modern classical, Post-industrial, Electro-acoustic, Clicks`n`bleeps, Organic electronica, Dream folk, Crossover, Soundscapes, musique concrete, Ambient drone, Avant-electronica, Noise, Art pop/

Comment: by watching this list of a huge amount of tags wrote down above it implies a vary-coloured nature of this 16-track issue. Indeed, the main spots are `electronic` – ranging from refreshing alternative pop expressions and stereophonic fireworks to remarkably harsher, even abstract synthesised glimpses, with more or less bellying, protuberant rhythms; `ambient` - with or without drones, at times knee-deep and spacey, at times more morose, glitch-draped and noise-soaked; `classical` - at the time it does mean mutant classical music where the axial term is buried under other, electronic-induced elements. The only exception is a Finnish singer-songwriter, Violeta Päivänkakkara, though, make that this time her track (Sya; the compilation also includes the video version of it) chimes significantly more electronically than she commonly used to do. Additionally, there are represented such artists as sanmi, AUCHRE, Gallery Six, Rawpass, Senna, Makoto Masui, Nankotsuteacher, N-qia, --memor2, Yoshitaka Hikawa, SHOMOMOSE, Y:E:T, and gift. All in all, it is an excellent introduction to the Japanese label elementperspective. Great.               

Eluna - Trädgårdsmästarinnans Tillförlitliga Tillflykt (2014)

Zeon Light

/Indietronica, Chamber pop, Alternative pop, Electronic pop, Cowbell indie, Modern classical, Organic electronica, Post-rock, Mood music/

Comment: Zeon Light is a decent tape music label from Sweden whose vast discography (65 articles in total) embraces lots of outstanding releases. However, Eluna`s 4-track issue is an organic blend of fine indie electronic reveries, restrained post-rock styled panoramas and echoey piano chords fuelled chamber pop/classical music insights extended by concrete music fragments here and there. Every element on it is produced in a way to be out of razzmatazz every detail on it is thoroughly bound and fixed into the entirety. Those gradual progressions constitute a sublime feel getting into the listener`s soul thereof. It goes along effortlessly, without applying any power to reach its goal (reminding of Laozi`s main postulate). Furthermore, by watching the cover of the album it will insinuate pleasant rustic perceptions inside. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Oskar Hallbert (Sweden), and So I`m An Islander (Denmark), for instance. In a nutshell, it can be said the result is fascinating and wondrous at any point of its course.            

[Teaser of the day] The Wordsmiths - Nowhere To Be Found

Internet Underground Music Archive

• Indie dance
• Madchester
• Alternative pop
• Baggy
• Acid rock
• Indie rock
• Dance rock
• Alternative dance
• Psychedelic rock

[Teaser of the day] shoueno - Miyama Blonde

• Shibuya-kei
• Alternative pop
• Electro-indie
• Indie pop
• J-pop
• Indietronica

The Dirty Guv'nahs - Morning Light

Ginnels - Mountbatten Class (2011)

Long Lost

/Power pop, Electronic, Jangle pop, Alternative rock, Psychedelic rock, Shitgaze, Indie pop/

Comment: given that The Smiths and My Bloody Valentine are being the juggernauts within the modern/alternative pop/indie rock scene it can say the Irishmen can trash and are able to rock our socks off. Ginnels, a Dublin-based project is a nice exemplar of it – it oozes out much refreshing power and hortative energy to give the listener a galvanized feel. More profoundly, the collective used to shift in a modern rock landscape moving from power pop esque muscle presentation and exuberant indie walkabouts with uplifting harmonic solutions to more electronic drenched noisy templates (Kuwait) and gritty low-key shoegaze (or just shitgaze) beams (Cold Legs) and even some Celtic ethnic music chips (Same Same, Cold Legs). There are up 8 tracks, though, all of them are relatively short-running (the total time of 18.11). In a nutshell, the result is straightforward yet convincing. Top notch.                   

Echo Chamber Rope Tick – Oktober Sound Lab (2013)

Chinstrap

Free Music Archive

/Psych-rock, Avant-rock, Drone rock, Psychedelia, Dream folk, Post-punk, Raga music, Experimental rock, Experimental electronica, Krautfolk, Space folk, Experimentalism, Krautrock, Psych-folk, Electro-acoustic, Indie rock, Trance rock, Art rock, Improvised music/

Comment: Andy Nation, Seamo Teare, and Simon Mathewson come from Southwest England to present a smorgasbord of 12 tracks extending over 70 minutes in total. More concretely, they have extracted some thought-provoking elements from different and mostly peripheral musical genres to result in a mellow outlet. The listener can perceive 60s acid folk inspired spaced-out trips, transcendent raga motives, dada-alike vocal pastiches, knee-deep psychedelic music conjured aesthetic freedom, 70s krautrock induced repetitiveness and high-pitched electronic effects, and 80s post-punk-esque insolence and arrogance in full flight. By method, however, the trio`s music can be considered rather jazz music because their soundscape used to be in permanent motion and affording an innumerable amount of disparate changes throughout. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of The Fall, Kemialliset Ystävät, Gong, New Mystikal Troubadours, The Japanese Girl, early Kraftwerk (especially the albums Kraftwerk 1, and Kraftwerk 2), Ashtray Navigations, Children Of The Drone, for instance. By the way, the issue was released under Chinstrap, which is curated by a famous plunderphonics/sound collage musician, Ergo Phizmiz. All in all, although the result is truly off-kilter, it sustains the level throughout the course.

DannielRadall – To Make You Mine (Feat. Steffaloo) (2011)

Bandcamp

/Poptronica, Chillwave, Glo-fi, Funk disco, Remix, Alternative dance, Electronic pop/

Comment: Guadalajara, Mexico born DannielRadall`s 2-track issue comprises the original track To Make You Mine and Sun Glitter`s remix of it. However, the ditty embraces the feature by Steffaloo whose sensitive female singing corkscrews against high-charm synth glides and funky beats. DannielRandall does obviously draw inspiration from the 70s disco and 80s electro funk, however, merging it tightly with contemporary cloudless chillwave-ish facets and wondrous glo-fi washes. Sun Glitter`s remix is a low-charm version of it – it is more decelerated and subdued. In a word, it does make difference!    

[Teaser of the day] Wladyslaw Komendarek - Smietnikowy Ptak / Trashy Bird (Futurospekcja remix)

Soundcloud

• Space music
• Ambient techno
• Experimental techno
• Deep techno
• Kosmische Musik

[Teaser of the day] Professor Ojo - Icecream Peaks

Lastfm

• Glitch-hop
• Alternative dance
• Leftfield
• Breaks
• Sampledelic
• Cinematic

Beatdrop - Phase 1

Shamane – Hypercamp (2013)

Ailanthus

Swan City Sounds

/Ambient techno, Vaporwave, Seapunk, Industrial techno, Experimental techno/

Comment: Shamane`s 10-track issue provides a dense mix of experimental and industrial-tinged techno rhyhms harking back to the legacy of Autechre and Throbbing Gristle and on the other side providing more contemporary oneiric progressions in the style of vaporwave and seapunk, though, at a more buried level. In true, at times these synth layers used to evolve into remarkably gloomy atmospheric outputs or using a less emotional language. Although the album is rhythm-based it is not a sort of dance music by its nature at all – it is insistently experimental and explorative and emphatically bit oriented and on the other side it used to talk to us a little tongue-in-cheek (for instance, involving some “ironic” sounds being slightly disjointed out of the context). All in all, the result is thought-provoking and challenging.              

Mikaere - Ending To Beginning (2014)

Basic_sounds 

Archive.org

/Tech-house, House, Club dance, Deep house, Modern classical, Downtempo/

Comment: in Germany residing Canadian Michael Petit aka Mikaere is a talented guy to produce catchy and hypnotic house-inflected tracks with soulful vocal sampling and fabulous laidback feeling. It creates a cosy, homelike atmosphere with regard to exploiting vinyl-alike crackles and hypnotically bouncing beats beneath. However, Mikaere`s issue is not an instance of true-bred house grooves because of adding heavier downtempo-alike frequencies into the mix. Me and You is the exception due to delving into another world where a piano chord driven motive and progressions within it are superimposed to subtle hums and subdued hisses thereby reminding something coming out of the modern classical pigeonhole. In a nutshell, the outing is to the nines.                  

Jankenpopp - Zombie Media (2013)

Darling Dada

/Chiptune, Nintendocore, Hip-hop, 8-bit, Breakcore, Tracker music, Noise, Chipbreak, Robot pop, Bitpop, Electro pop/

Comment: although tracker music/8-bit/chiptune was one of the first genres in music conjured with computers it is still actual and up-to-date after 25-30 years either. Jankenpopp`s 4-track issue is a protuberant exemplar of it – the result is a droid-alike one where machines have been set up in a way to rap and perform their angular dancing movements in a hectic way. However, they will be evolving into autarkic state stepwise revealing their cutting-edge tendencies to bestow noise impulses and disintegrated electro debris to the pot. Of course, the extra point comes with adding some humorous aspects to the whole. In a nutshell, the outlet is amusing, still human-friendly (or not yet misanthropic) and challenging to get infatuated and switch on the repeat button. Timeless stuff.              

Recent Music Heroes Mixtape #12 (15.10.2014)

       

 Mediafire

1) Bessemerr – Errore di Coincidenza (2009, Happy Puppy)

http://members.shaw.ca/happypuppyrecords/hpr032_bessemerr.html


2) Delphine Measroch – Quand Le Crapaud Somnole, Les Limaces Dansent...(2006, Ekumen)

https://archive.org/details/ekumen2006

3) Ada Rave Cuarteto – Tomatelo con Soda (2011, Pan y Rosas Discos, Free Music Archive)

http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/pyr042-ada-rave-cuarteto-la-continuidad/
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ada_Rave_Cuarteto/La_Continuidad/

4) Kuh Lida - Eversinceu (2013, Self-released)

http://kuh-lida.bandcamp.com/album/ball-it-out-back-it-up

5) Momus – Flame Into Being (1987, Ubuweb)

http://www.ubu.com/sound/momus_poison.html

6) No Zu – (Coburg) (Mystical (2011, New Weird Australia, Free Music Archive)

http://newweirdaustralia.bandcamp.com/album/new-age-ep
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/No_Zu/New_Age_EP/

7) Oskar Hallbert - 5 (Look Its Kama Aina In My Garden) (2009, Zymogen)

http://www.zymogen.net/releases/zym023/
http://www.last.fm/music/Oskar+Hallbert/1123581321345589


8) Inverness – Room In Twilight (2010, Psicotropicodelia/Jamendo, Bandcamp)

http://www.psicotropicodelia.com/
https://www.jamendo.com/en/list/a78130/somewhere-i-can-hear-my-heart-beating
http://inverness.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-i-can-hear-my-heart-beating

9) Lynlee – The Taste Of Rainy Dawn (2013, Haze)

http://h-a-z-e.org/archives/1612#.VD2uJvl_sxE

10) The Vèvè Seashore – The Cherry Dream (10 Tage Hasch) (2011, Dying For Bad Music)

http://dyingforbadmusic.com/dfbm11-the-veve-seashore-a-cup-of-coffee-for-your-fears.phtml

11) Дин Блант -6.шесть (2013, Afisha)

http://volna.afisha.ru/archive/dean_blunt_stone_island/

[Teaser of the day] The Mules - Shock Ya

Free Music Archive

• Post-punk
• Art rock
• Acid rock
• Alternative rock
• Experimental indie
• Dance rock
• Electro-rock

[Teaser of the day] Event Horizon - The Last Sunset

• Post-rock
• Art rock
• Alternative rock
• Progressive rock
• Acid rock

eisenlager - Himmelholzsteg #featuring (Philippe Gerber John 316) (Wings of an Angel)

Lycia – Fifth Sun (2010)

Lycium

Bandcamp

/Ethereal Wave, Shoegaze, Epic, Darkgaze, Alternative pop, Goth, Dark Wave, Dream pop/

Comment: My first impact with Lycia`s sound happened in 2004 and it was love at the first sight. I had listened to somehow similar music before it (for instance, Slowdive) but Tempe, Arizona-based collective`s sound was more special and spellbinding because of being so organically draped in gloomy veils and velvety curtains. Indeed, Lycia represents disturbed dreams and hyper realistic beings who have nothing to do the human being`s produced idiocy and evilness. Stylistically Mike Van Portfleet-headed combo was a link between ethereal wave and shoegazer`s enterprise. This 8-track album continues the same pathway and being as impressive as their previous albums – it is called the experience. In true, it might be it is a little bit more straightforward than their previous albums but it is not the case. Mike Van Portfleet is not singing on it anymore – all the singing duties are commissioned to her husband Tara Vanflower.            

Jan Helsing – Sünnipäev (2014)

Seksound

/Shoegaze, Alternative pop, Indie rock, Dream pop/

Comment: Undoubtedly Jan Helsing`s debut album Kajalood is one of my favourite albums in 2014 (issued on the Estonian main indie label Seksound). Sünnipäev (Birthday) is a main hit track from it. There are represented two versions of it, one of them is the instrumental one and another is with singing. I shall have to confess, I am deeply felt in love with Kärt Ojavee`s beautiful voice and Jan Kaus` wise lyrics about love, hope and openness for the world. By the way, behind Jan Helsing hide themselves five middle aged gentlemen who did constitute such musical group as Dreamphish in the 90s, an outstanding indie combo. They recruit guest vocalists for different songs, most of them are female ones.     

Super Besse - Musique Pour Les Filles* (2014)

Bandcamp

/Post-punk, Dance rock, Coldwave, Alternative dance, Electro-indie, New Wave, Krautrock/

Comment: By seeing firstly Super Besse at the great Latvian Positivus festival this year I was astonished by the singer hyperactivity of being involved in dancing activity and frenzy singing. And the audience in the pavilion did dance along with them. They come from Minsk, Belarus, sing in Russian and being obviously influenced by Joy Division, Krautrock, and indie dance aesthetics. They are not the first band of Slavic heritage who likes to exploit such kind of combination. Obviously the most well-known ensemble is Motorama from Russia. However, authenticity is not the most important thing worldwide at the moment – still catchy melodies and wondrous melodies are around to warm the soul of listeners.

[Teaser of the day] Stray Dogg - Time (feat. Devendra Banhart)

• Indie folk
• Dream folk
• Folk indie
• Americana
• Alt-folk

[Teaser of the day] Vortex Rex - 04.Vortex Rex Live at OCCII

Free Music Archive

• Alternative rock
• Psychedelia
• Experimental indie
• Acid rock
• Live session

Joan of Arse - Joan of Arse

Ada Rave Cuarteto – La Continuidad (2011)

pan y rosas discos

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

Bandcamp

/Jazz, Improvised music, Bebop, Downbeat, Free jazz, Experimentalism/

Comment: the Argentinian Ada Rave Cuarteto`s 10-track issue does have predisposition to drift between mild downbeat chord progressions and smoothly produced bebop numbers and on the other side toward more tumultuous, thudding free jazz torrents. Having shift between silence and noise. The tumultuous element can be divided into two parts – it can be depicted as a dynamic enterprise of manipulating with only acoustic instruments in a frenzied way or having more static and quiet, even an obsessive viewpoint upon it. Although following their own impulses and aesthetic convictions the quartet`s playing technique is obviously a designation toward such cutting edge jazz musicians as Theolonius Monk, Anthony Braxton, Eric Dolphy, John Zorn and Ornette Coleman. All in all, the result is thought-provoking and moody.               

Juan MP - Sabado En Polvo (2013)

Miniatura

/Techno, House, Tech-house, Downstep/

Comment: Juan López aka Juan MP is an artist from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico who is the co-owner of the label Melodic Art Records and being related to Kreativa Records. Sabado En Polvo includes 4 tracks of techno and house spliced rhythms. The nature of the issue varies from brisk and sparkly paces to some rather laidback and soothing undertakings. However, the opening track Sabado De Domingo deviates stylistically from the whole of representing rather downstep music. Calzada de Armonia is the protuberant frequency on it – profoundly hypnotic and suggestive at the same time. In a word, the issue provides a decent listening experience.         

Kuh Lida – Ball It Out Back It Up (2013)

Stereocure

/Hip-hop, Breakcore, Sampledelic, Experimental-hop, House pop, Electro-pop, Electro-hop, Breaks, Mood music/

Comment: the only shortage related to this 6-track issue is its shortness. Musically the Chicagoan Myles Emmons` issue is fabulous blend of experimental hip-hop sounds, sampledelic craftsmanship and sunshiny samples. The artist gets obviously inspiration from different places and eras harking back to Parliament/Funkadelic-alike effortless progressions regarding the groove and on the other side paying attention to Flying Lotus ability to create microscopic but otherworldly catchy sonic models, and of course the issue includes some Detroit electro and Chicago house influences and even neurotic Death Grips-alike hip-hop spasms throughout. It is similar to another American producer Christian Montoya aka Miami Slice`s latest issue Brooklyn 2 Brooklyn relative to his highly dance-appealed and cheerful pop blended progressions. All in all, in the first place it is a soundtrack for the listener who has been devoid of a strike of serotonin for a while. It is an efficacious cure indeed.             

[Teaser of the day] Bunai Carus - Utsah Park

Soundcloud

• Breakcore
• Jungle
• Ambient techno
• Glitch ambient
• Experimental electronica

[Teaser of the day] Kukl - Open the Window and Let the Spirit Fly Free

Archive.org

• Post-punk
• Alternative rock
• Art punk
• Psych-rock

Karibean - Down Before Xmas

Karibean - Down Before Xmas from Rockit on Vimeo.

Jowell Ghanter – Phu Jowells (2012)

Kittenrock

/Experimental electronica, World fusion, Avant-electronica, Glitchtronica, Minimalism, Primitivism/

Comment: in spite of providing a vast amount of minutes (120) to convey the concept Richmond, UK-based Jowell Ghanter`s approach is quite easy to delineate. It sounds like sonic experiments by some electronic pioneers approximately 5-6 decades ago. More profoundly, the artist`s sound seems to be quite obsessive because of focusing upon the explorations of particular sonic motes and broadening the concept step by step in a linear and minimal way. There are no rhythms in the usual sense of the word – the rhythm-alike facets used to rely on underlying repetitions and ragged structure differences. All of that used to result in angular, noise-soaked primitive electronic outputs, filled with frank enthusiasm and protuberant desire to create something truly idiosyncratic and different, however, undermining our ideas with regard to a beautiful electronic music approach. It can say the artist`s aspiration will be fulfilled in that sense. The only exception is the track Elephant Camel where the artist expands its borders by incorporating the fringes of world music into the mix. In a nutshell, this 12-notch issue is suggestive in mimicking a particular nostalgic period in the history of electronic music.                

Milliseconde Topographie - Paperasses Èparses (2006)

No Type

No Type

/Glitch electronica, Musique concrète, Avant-folk, New Weird Canada, Drone folk, Modern classical, Glitch folk, Sound art, Experimental folk, Epic, Post-folk, Chamber folk, Folktronica, Electro-acoustic/

Comment: Milliseconde Topographie is the collaboration act between Montrèal residing musicians Nicolas Bernier and Delphine Measroch whose 2-track issue is a sublime instance of borderline folk music due profound dodges into glitch-y electronic explorations, and cello drones, providing chamber music inspired beauty and offering many flirtatious moments with concrete sound washes and electro-acoustic effects. Despite the duo`s musical complexity and segmentation in a formal sense the whole is adeptly structured and organically spliced. Furthermore, natural segmentation and ramification does not hinder them to wind up truly picturesque, even sublime moments. On the other side, the Bernier-Measroch`s clockwork can be seen by a more “ugly” aspect as a folk exemplar with some irksome “errors” and “disruptions”. The issue will be ended up by a barrel organ based soothing melody. All in all, the result is challenging and drenched with solace at the same time.                      

Ghost Orbs – Magie Noire (2010)

Bandcamp

/New Weird America, Psych-folk, Garage rock, Psychedelic rock, Crossover, Alternative rock, DIY, Free folk/ 

Comment: Ghost Orbs is a collective from Brooklyn, New York, USA and Magie Noire seems to be their only glimpse so far. Although their 10-track release has a 13-minute length only the release is remarkable due to its unusual blend of ecstatic free folk twangs and dizzy garage rock elements. Undoubtedly the group draws inspiration from blues music, especially being as a template to add more power into the sonic pot. Indeed, it oozes out vast power at any key and provides an innumerable bunch of chord changes in addition to it. Howling singing as a main component on it does change into nervous and spastic expression sometimes thereby assuring a dynamic impulse throughout the whole. Another main facet on it is an enjoyable interaction between tinny, cellophane-alike guitar sounds and highly rampant drumming. The result is enjoyable and worth to be repeated.                             

[Teaser of the day] Wood Spider - Cross-Contamination

Free Music Archive

• Balkan folk
• New Weird America
• Folk punk
• Burlesque music
• World music
• Free folk

[Teaser of the day] Golden Glow - The Scene

• Alternative pop
• Indie rock
• Post-punk
• Shoegaze

G-DO & Xception - I Wish

Aairria - The Abyss (2014)

Rain

/Dark ambient, Abstract, Minimalism, Experimentalism, Ambient drone, Avant-garde, Soundscapes, Microtonal/

Comment: approximately 2 weeks ago Aairria released a brand new one, Phonography Archive 02 under his own Rain Netlabel. However, Abyss was his previous release consisting of sole, 55-minute composition (the subtitle of it is Wrenching Nostalgia). The concept embarks on with some silence which soon will be interrupted by ghostly echoes and bleak reverberations which later will be slightly accelerated or sustained with vibrant frequencies here and there. Indeed, the soundscape of it is truly profound and imaginative. In spite of its temporary intense nature the result has been managed in a way to afford for the listener to get relaxed and find out the way into its very core. Because of being highly imaginative the issue can be considered interactive either. More concretely, the listener can imagine the ghosts and witches dwelling somewhere in between Earth and Hell, ghouls residing in caves and other threatening underground voids contents. Otherwise the listener can perceive painful feels by remembering good old days passed by and never supposed to be come back.                 

ki††y c▲t – Hold On (2011)

Mediafire

Lastfm

/Witch house, Witch wave, Trianglecore, Remix, Sampledelic, Drag house, Experimental electronica, Leftfield/

Comment: actually there is up quite little information about this artist but it is a one-man-project from Russia. Musically he is a proud representative of the so-called witch house/drag house movement. More profoundly, the style does mean crosses and triangles represented in artists` names, song and album titles. At times all of that is indecipherable or problematically discernible. Musically it is infiltrated with gloomy synth sounds similar to dark ambient profiles and semi-slamming, mid-tempo rhythms. Hold On is an outstanding issue thanks to catchy solutions in harmonies and in conveying majestic progressions over permanently changeable cadences. The album contains many “hit songs” (at least, having potential for it) – One Day Teapression, Take Me Away, Midnight Car, March of Not Very Dead, Try▲ngel. By the way, the album will be ended up by a remix of Try▲ngel. In a word, the result is a classy album worth to be remembered and listened.        

fydhws - The Sound (four movements in the key of D) (2014)

NGC 147

Lastfm

/Space rock, Post-metal, Doom metal, Avant-rock, Post-rock, Epic, Experimental rock, Psych-rock, Epic, Conceptual/

Comment: fydhws is a fine example of the flourishing Macedonian underground scene during the last five years. He is an experimentalist who has issued a lot of albums by himself or in collaboration with other musicians. His soundscape used to be guitar-centered, however, at times it might be more abstract and minimal, at times more blossoming depending on a release. The recent issue of containing 4-long-track compositions is about to provide spaced-out, even dreamy guitar sounds and stunningly majestic crescendos within it. His sonic patterns are intriguing varying from repetitive, obsessive sonic tumult to more panoramic undulations. It is an up-to-date issue of nowadays progressive rock music because of incessantly drifting between the compartments of space rock, post-metal, post-rock and psych-rock. This time all the sound is presented in the key of D. All in all, fydhws` recent and foregoing oeuvre is an example of music being simultaneously heavy and wondrous, however, affording to splice suggestive explorations and outbursts with underlying technical proficiency. One of the albums in 2014. 

[Teaser of the day] N0 C0p5 C0rp0r4+10n - Loops de Ódio

• Cyber punk
• Alternative 
• Industrial rock
• Electro-punk
• Leftfield

[Teaser of the day] DasKapital - Manifesto Dos Enfermos

• Leftfield
• Art rock
• Psychedelic rock
• Experimental pop
• Electronic pop
• Synth rock

Alisu - Un día contigo

guitarsisyo – Life Is Dictionary (2014)

Tanukineiri

/Folktronica, Indietronica, Crossover, Electro funk, Cowbell indie, Glitch folk, Alternative pop, Poptronica, Electronic pop, Mood music, Synth pop/

Comment: the Japanese project`s musical groundwork is based on acoustic guitar-based chord progressions and grainy electronic rhythms mixed results therefore creating a sense of refreshing aura and picturesque slides moving in front of your eyes. At times the general grid is acoustic though predominantly it used to provide an electronic shift and have a synthetic pitch (i.e containing more synth-based hooks and gears – for instance, at kh_y guitars are totally jettisoned in favour of electronics/keyboards thereby resulting in a crafty funk and synth pop merged exemplar). Furthermore, it is not an ordinary folktronic album with regard to another uncanny inclination toward fusion/jazz rock grooves here and there. Another unusual example is a track, kl_gp_, revealing the project`s buried love for house music and electro funk. In a nutshell, it is a fabulous outlet in any cases.                

Klaten – Klaten (2011)

Darling Dada

/Electro pop, Breakcore, Modern classical, Hi-NRG, Trap, Kitsch, Glitch electro, Alternative dance, Sampledelic, Experimental electro/

Comment: Klaten`s self-titled issue is about searching for balance between suggestive harmonies and rhythmic structures keen to experiments and new outputs. Repetitive, even slightly obsessive broken beats, galvanized cadence tops, glitch-y noise washes and acidic harmonies on the top used to get propulsive impulses from Detroit and Cologne. However, Klaten likes to experiment with disparate kind of sounds at the first sight. For instance, Le Globo is embellished with classical music samples thus providing a more baroque edge to the whole. It is produced in an adept way, however, revealing also a humorous aspect within it. The opening track Connes Sequences is an example of infantile kitsch-y-glitch-y splice. Mirlifore does expose a catchy disco hook, and The Bends is a dizzy micro-sample based jazz and big band oldie`s crossover. And so forth and so forth. Especially the second half of this 12-track issue is a frantic cerebral party. The Paris-based author himself classifies the sound as choupi-core. Anyway, by watching the listening times at Lastfm it can say Klaten`s music waits to be discovered and properly estimated. Having a little more than 1,000 times afforded by the listeners over there is a bare fact of being underrated shamefully. By the way, the album was the first notch in the discography of Darling Dada, a French experimental but eclectic record label.          

Jack Hertz- Night Songs (2013)

Treetrunk

Jack Hertz

/Ambient, Space music, Soundscapes, Kosmische Musik/

Comment: the title of this 7-notch album is vivid in one sense – it is certainly about night, though, these compositions are far more than just bare ditties on the other side. More concretely, Hertz has created profound insights and visions with the assistance of sublime sonic perceptions and lingering frequencies of accelerating them into semi-culminations to depict unlimited outer space or at least higher layers within the atmosphere of Earth. However, at times Hertz sounds in a serene way as if all are being performed somehow in a hyper realistic environment. Of course, his spherical manner could be considered a contemporary counterpart to the 70`s Kosmische Musik and a bit later New Age-y concepts. The album can be compared with Scott Lawlor`s The Absence of Light Contains The Shadow of Loss (2004) recently reviewed at Recent Music Heroes which was produced in a similar way, though, being more drenched with human-centred psychic motes and feels. It is supposed to be listened while the day changes into midnight and the ghosts will appear and have full sway. Actually it is not true because this sound is beyond time and having no references to certain hours and minutes.       

[Teaser of the day] Liviana Mauretti - Tercera Ley De Newton

Bestiar

• Singer-songwriter
• Art pop
• Baroque pop
• Vaudeville
• Music hall

[Teaser of the day] Iduvigik - Unenäoaeg

• New Weird Estonia
• Free folk
• DIY
• Ambient folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Avant-folk
• Lo-fi
• Weird folk
• Experimental folk
• Musique concrète
• Dream folk

[Teaser of the day] Sun Sunych - Toys (ft. DanBrown)

Free Music Archive

• Hip-hop
• Rap
• Urban music
• Sampledelic

[Teaser of the day] Computer at Sea - Spiders in the Moat

• Avant-pop
• Leftfield
• Electronic pop
• 8-bit
• Chiptune

Postcode - Yggdrasil

Kiorda Däkin - 3 (2008)

1Bit Wonder

/Electronic pop, New Age, Ambient pop, Mood music/

Comment: Kiorda Däkin`s New Age/ambient pop issue is a sum of restrained chord spotted progressions and more glide-induced insights. They are either integrated into each other or just following to each other. The release could be considered a contemporary instance of New Age music adorned with overdriving sonic effects, quasi-organic electronica flickers and subtle programmed rhythms below. Last but not least - do not forget visit the site of 1Bit Wonder, a now sadly defunct netlabel having a huge impact in the 00s.       

Tramuc And Darius - Rebirth Of Time (2014)

pan y rosas discos

/Improvised music. Piano music, Downbeat, Experimentalism, Free jazz, Cool jazz, Electro-acoustic/

Comment: this album coming in at the length of 33 minutes is a nervous, convulsive one due to its contrasty facets brought forth relentlessly in series. More profoundly, quiet cool jazz caress and downbeat-alike stasis for humble souls are varied with boisterous piano, trombone and cello induced interactions which sometimes are spiced up with expressive glockenspiel-based adornments, electro-acoustic snaps and murky electronic fabric (for instance, dark ambient hovers are presented at Black Hole Mystery). It can be concluded it is a fine exemplar of experimental jazz adeptly depicting the time`s two sides – stasis and change. The album is part of the discography of Pan Y Rosas Discos, a record label dedicated to improvisations/jazz and art/experimental music.            

Enbilulugugal - The TAURO Sessions '09 (2013)

Dipsomaniac

/Harsh noise, Black metal, Avant-garde, Brutal metal, Black noise, Non-music, Technical metal, Noisecore, Psycho-acoustic/

Comment: the listener can be very sure this miscellany is not about pop musicat all, more concretely, being located somewhere in the periphery of metal and powerviolent music. If you have made acquaintance with the so-called Japanese noise music then this band might resemble the likes of Hanatarashi and Gerogerigegege, for instance. Similarly to the combo`s sonorous impact the 4-track issue is also impressive graphically – all bars indicating frequencies are at the height and the oscillation line is permanently quadrangularly shaped. Indeed, all is starkly amplified over here – some hardcore rock/punk roots are channelized into demented psyched-out outbursts, math rock premises are overthrown to get wrapped up in blackened metal rabidity and noise music straitjacket. In a word, it must be heard before to believe (in) it – overwhelming by any means.