fuyuru0 – Anemone (2012)

Bandcamp

/Modern classical, IDM, Glitchtronica, Noise, Experimental electronica, Remix/

Comment: fuyuru0`s 9-track issue is a mix of glitch noises and electronic progressions which are frequently accompanied with classical music glimpses and mildly intense sonic effects. More concretely, there are up lots of weird pitched sonic bits, microtonal rhythms, delicate noise scattering and uncanny vowel undertakings swaying through high and low frequency filters here and there. It does not mean at all these elements are somehow raspy and painful to the ear. These compositions used to be emotive and sensitive due to its contrasty sides at its core. Icicle is an outstanding track due to sublime microscopic rhythms and atmospheric explorations which also does have Daphis remix for its own sake. Nice listening by any means.      

Period Three – Morose Beach (2014)

No Type

/Noise, Experimental electronica, Abstract, Glitchtronica, Experimentalism, Avant-garde/

Comment: the Canadian David Turgeon`s 9-track issue moves along the pathway of freely improvised music which is spiced up with more or less brutal (brown) noise incisions, microscopic glitch-y sonic spots, muffled incantations, orchestrated tendencies and…actually much more. At times his soundscape turns into fairly austere, even abstract minimalism, at times he stands up to go walking across wide-ranging plateaus and gliding over dimensional plateaus. The album hides many layers of depth which can be discovered after many listening times. The issue is released under a legendary Canadian label, No Type. In a word, all the aforementioned elements do hint at it this is a fine instance of Quebec province based experimental music scene (GYBE!, Martin Tetreault, Simon Trottier, Nicholas Bernier, Fly Pan Am, Tim Hecker, Muhr etc).      

[Teaser of the day] Kreatiivmootor - Irratsionaalne

• Alternative rock
• Dada music
• Leftfield
• Experimental rock
• Improvised music

[Teaser of the day] Decktonic - Born Again (w/ @radionarcotix)

Soundcloud

• House
• Club dance
• Dance music
• Electronic pop

One S.P. - Poetikal Refugee feat. Dyems

Elisa Luu – Shebeen (2014)

Soundcloud

Bandcamp

La bèl

/Folktronica, Acid folk, Electronic, New Weird Italia/

Comment: Shebeen is the first single from Rome residing Elisabetta Luciani`s brand new album Enchanting Gaze. The single consists of manipulated sonic effects, catchy repeated folk chords, exuberant electronic hovers and ambient loaded panoramas. Undoubtedly she is an outstanding artist. For instance, I can remember for her album The time of waiting (2010, La bèl) which was a tumultuous but organic mix of spherical electronic music, spectral sound art, experimental rock influences and (modern) classical music. In a word, get her new album and enjoy it!    

A Tiny Window - First Jams With Phil Self (2011)

Archive.org

/Alt-folk, New Weird Britain, Psych-folk, Improvised music, Live session/

Comment: this is a nice bundle of 4 tracks coming out from England. A Tiny Window is Matthew Watkins who is being known from Exeter-based experimental/free/space folk crew Children of The Drone. This time he collaborates with Kent-based Phil Self (from the folk and roots music combo Cocos Lovers). The duo improvises on such instruments as mandolin, baglama, and saz resulting in a bit melancholic but spellbinding, transcendent progressions of string conjured chords. It makes the listener feel a little bit dizzy and hazy. Of course, all those who have enjoyed vast discography by Children Of The Drone and its offshoots may have a hunch what to expect from it.           

DasKapital - Ruído Negro (2011)

Bandcamp

/Experimental pop, Alternative, Electronic pop, Electro-acoustic, Mood music, Leftfield, Indietronica/

Comment: DasKapital is a leftfield Spain residing combo whose 8-track issue is filled with different dodges and insights into an electronic and rock music related world. The project`s music is deliberately cutting-edge filled with spoken word snippets, uncanny sounds/noises and sonic effects (especially the finishing track Black Noise, and the starting O Anxo Do Desespero). Of course, it is not predominating throughout the course but present frequently, though. Mostly the album is a crossover of electronic sounds and programmed rhythms and rock music tendencies, however, bringing forth catchy melodies and suggestive harmonies. The singer`s approach reminds a little bit of Blixa Bargeld`s murmuring singing manner. In a word, the result is intriguing.          

Sun Sunych – Hybris (2014)

LibreCommeLair

Sun Sunych

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

/Hip-hop, Rap, Pop/

Comment: Sun Sunych is a Russian hip-hop group whose 15-track issue is based on male chanting and mainstream/pop influenced rhythms. The songs are in Russian (with some phrases in English, though) concentrating on bringing forth attitudes and statements being at times straightforward at times more ironic. The favourite ditties are sublime Pegasus (with charming female intervention and more soul-soaked background), Intro (ft. Alex East Block) which contains intriguing interaction between two singers and ear-catching, pitched sonic effects. Life (ft. Marina Zakharchenko) is a simply beautiful pop song, I'd better (ft. Sunniq and Alex East Block) involves a catchy sample and more funky ambiance around the centre. 

Aan -Kultainen Kupoli (2011)

OM HA SVA HA KSHA MA LA VA RA YAM

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

/Drone, Avant-garde, Space music, Experimentalism, Electro-acoustic, Improvised music, Forest folk/

Comment: Aan is a Finnish combo whose sound could be classified as forest folk in a general manner, though, the combo´s aesthetics does have embrace enough other experimental elements either. More concretely, Aan`s soundscape is constituted by bristled improvised electro-acoustic progressions, throat singing, vowel experiments and heavy spaced-out drones thereby reminding a little bit of Vibracathedral Orchestra, Uton, and Kemialliset Ystävät, for instance. All of that results in convincing shaman-alike insights and outer space explorations. The album starts off with Aurinkotanssi, and finishes off with Aurinkotranssi.     

Bird Paradigma – Abject Fields (2011)

Do Androids Dream Ov Electric Sheep

Bandcamp

/Noise, Experimentalism, Rhythmic noise, Improvised music/

Comment: Sara Santos aka Bird Paradigma is an artist from Lisboa, Portugal whose album is made up of a couple of long-running tracks (the total time exceeds over an hour) is saturated with heavy bass loaded noises and drones. More concretely, Bird Paradigma does take on wobbling bass sounds, bent higher frequencies, and resounding rhythmic noise brushes. Frequently these sounds will get infiltrated constituting a gormandizing assembly of different impulses. This album can be deemed a noise music example being equivalent to jazz/improvised music.     

Il Nostro Tempo Violento - Fuori La Tempesta (2014)

ViVeriVive

Bandcamp

/Singer-songwriter, Folk indie, Alt-folk, Americana, Indie folk/

Comment: behind this pseudonym hides himself Matteo Micheletti from Siena, Italy. He is also being known as Emme issuing the album Eravamo Come Non Saremo Piu' under ViVeriVeve in 2012. However, the recent issue is a decent example of how to write catchy songs with obvious Americana influences (though the lyrics are presented in Italian). Micheletti exploits different templates of song-writing extending from ballad makers to more psychedelic insights and even slightly spaced-out glimpses. Especially great used to be those harmonica snippets which are mixed up with predominating guitar patterns.     

[Teaser of the day] DoF - 2x2 Makes 5 Is A Most Charming

8bitrecs

• Indietronica
• Alternative pop
• Electronic pop
• IDM
• Glitch-folk
• Folktronica

[Teaser of the day] Mudlark - Proud Nubian Princess

Soundcloud

• Post-rock
• Math rock
• Experimental rock

Tommy Cash - Euroz Dollaz Yeniz

Kamutao – Mondo Voyage (2013)

PIR▲.MD

Bandcamp

/Nu jazz, Sampledelic, Hip-hop, Mood music, Exotica pop, Trip-hop, Cuban music, Downtempo, Cinematic/

Comment: similarly to a recently reviewed album, Morriachi`s The Outer Sphere EP (2011, Dusted Wax Kingdom) the Barcelona-based artist Kamutao affords for the listener to say similar adjectives to describe the sound. The artist himself describes his music as an example of travelling music (watch the title either!). Indeed, his soothing, mostly jazz samples and loosely skidding rhythms based print provides a good, sublime feeling for the melomans (and the travellers as well). Of course, such kind of music is all about details and whitebaits and it can be described as a permanent experiment to `pile up` different sonic bits to figure out what will be happening with the listener`s sense and perception. Undoubtedly this 18-track album is fairly emotive because of coquetting with yearning whiffs and past loaded beauty. In a word, the album seems to be full-fledged and convincing. The album is issued on a Mexico-based label, PIR▲.MD Records.                  

23RedAnts – We Are Not Dead Yet (2014)

Etched Traumas

/Improvised music, Experimental electronica, Drone, Glitch, Experimentalism, Live session, Avant-garde, Electro-acoustic/

Comment: 23RedAnts is a duo from Vigo, Spain whose 2-track whole consists of setaceous cello based drones and laptop supported electronic effects. In general, Macarena Montesinos and Niet F-n`s music is a drift between silence and glitched-out noise, between electronic wobbles and acoustic configurations, between grey penumbras and clear-cut occurrences in sound, between superimposed torpor and unexpected stings into the listener`s brain. Because of it these 14 minutes seem to be composed of real and invisible, fictional patterns and perceptions.               

Golgotha Communications Ltd. – Wine, Women and Song Pt2 (2014)

Haze

/Avant-garde, Avant-industrial, Microtonal, Experimentalism, Non-music, Musique concrète, Minimalism, Drone, Micronoise, Acousmatics, Psycho-acoustic/

Comment: Golgotha Communications Ltd. is a Philadelphia, US-based collective, having been active since the mid-90s. Wine, Women and Song Pt2 is the second compartment of the Wine, Women and Song trilogy. There are up three long-running compositions, the first of them, One, is made up of sizzling noises, microtonal parallel worlds, demented vocal samples and dialogues etc. Despite its intensity it results in a charmingly lethargic output due to the use of calming loop. However, by its provocative and challenging manner and taking on some similar shifts in form the combo´s result can be compared with another US-based legend Big City Orchestra`s some works, for instance. Unarguably it is a “heavy” track due to its schizoid nature. The following The Erin Fraud represents remarkably more clear and sheeny sound sheets, though the droning of it resounds signally louder and jarring but also in a majestic, spaced-out and epic way. The notch represents decorously the storeyed tradition of American drone and minimal music since La Monte Young. The result of the finishing track Three is relatively similar to the first one because of keep exploring obsessively on those glitch-filled noises, though adding some concrete music morsels, chamber/neoclassical music elements and ethnic singing to the melting pot. The development is open as if would invite you to step into it. However, the last third of the track is decidedly turned aside with the assistance of unison related singing and rhythms which in turn would be mashed up and subjected to offset, elliptic loops. All in all, Golgotha Communications Ltd`s score is wondrous and fascinating.               

[Teaser of the day] Bite - Room 4

Basic_Sounds

• Ambient dub
• Tech-dub
• Minimal dub
• Ambient techno
• Minimal techno

[Teaser of the day] G-Do & Xception - The Revolutionist

• Afrofuturism
• Conceptual
• Hip-hop
• Afrofunk
• Psychedelic pop

The Hirundu - Telemachus

Morriachi – The Outer Sphere EP (2011)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Bandcamp

/Nu jazz, Micro jazz, Mood music, Hip-hop, Downtempo, Trip-hop, Cinematic, Sampledelic/

Comment: Morriachi`s 10-track issue seduces by stealth rather than by grand gestures. Indeed, it used to move on across a pathway in a silent way made up of miniature but smoky jazz samples, some hip-hop wobbles and wonky downtempo induced rhythms. Furthermore, the artist shows up repetition as a musical instrument. The issue seems to be creepy and contrasty filled with half-majestic, half-horrendous progressions thereby affording another meaning to the whole. Very good.                

HIJ▲ – No (2012)

Bandcamp

/Alternative rock, Baroque pop, Avant-garde, Shoegaze, Experimental pop, Indietronica/

Comment: Mayra Yasmin Harazatey aka HIJ▲is a frenetic chic from Argentina whose 5-track issue is a hectic amalgamation of hirsute guitar progressions, psychedelic synthesizers, warped and uncanny electronics, mutant vocals and sonic/stereo effects and bristled baroque-alike dodges and panoramas. Stylistically her spectre extends from shoegaze and blues-induced slaps to more dada influenced cabaret music. However, at times her soundscape will be calmed down speaking in the language of murmurs and through the interaction of lone chords (the first half at No Te Creas). By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of PJ Harvey, Laurie Anderson, Maja Ratkje, and Juana Molina, for instance. It is cutting edge for sure.       

Black Gold 360, DJ Fontana ‎– Roasted & Filtered - DJ Fontana Remixes (2009)

2419 Record Label

/Glitchtronica, Big beat, Alternative dance, Remix, Improvised music, Cinematic, Downtempo, Free jazz, Nu Jazz/

Comment: 2419 Record is an intriguing label because of providing very diverse musical examples and alternatives in its vast discography. For instance, this 8-track issue stretches out sonorous tentacles in various directions – from exuberant orchestrated and chopped funky rhythms and suggestive ethnic instrument-based undercurrents and laidback jazzy soothers to clearly cinematic nu/acid jazz propulsions and glitched-out rhythm structures and tumultuous free jazz explorations. Furthermore, the album frequently chimes like a mash-up experiment saturated from energy coming out of quite different slots and peripheries. Indeed, it is a refreshing and punching one for your pleasure.     

George R. Powell - Legend of Zelda_Majora's Mask: Then the Healing Came OC ReMix (2014)

Ocremix

/Neoclassical, Soundtrack, Epic, Remix, Alternative, Game music/

Comment: these 200 seconds are fabulous ones – full of epic, film score-alike ascensions, sublime expansions and delicately murky glides. The remix comes out of such site as OcreMix which main topic is dedicated to chiptune/tracker music though this time the progressions used to be very far away from the style. The tracks` style reminds me of another American Nicholas Kirk`s handwriting who has been closely related to Whitestone Motion Pictures.  The Ninendo game`s original music was created by Koji Kondo, and Toru Minegishi.  

[Teaser of the day] Luncil - Brisa

Petroglyph

• Ambient rock
• Dream pop
• Ethereal wave
• Dark wave
• Art rock
• Experimental rock

[Teaser of the day] The War on Drugs - Baby Missiles

Lastfm

• Psychedelic rock
• Alternative pop
• Indie rock

The Vévé Seashore - A Cup of Coffee for Your Fears

Chenard Walcker – The Pusher (2006)

Free Sample Zone

/Funk, World fusion, Soul, Afrofuturism, Psychedelic, Cut and paste, Art rock, Delta blues, Plunderphonics, Sound collage, Sampledelic, Experimentalism/

Comment: the French surrealist Chenard Walcker started off his music career in the beginning of the 00s additionally his visual collage projects. He had been very prolific during the next 4-5 years in producing music before he fell in diabetic coma. Most of his sound is produced under his own Free Sample Zone though some of them are being parts of the discography of WM Recordings, Comfort Stand, and Laboratoire Moderne. Musically he continued to solidify the tradition of plunderphonics and sample-based music (John Oswald, People Like Us, Pogo, Cagey House, Christian Marclay, Cassetteboy, The Evolution Music Committee, Ergo Phizmiz etc). The Pusher is built up on the black music tradition (mostly US-based but also suggestive of some Africa centred futuristic progressions) but also adding some volatile art/prog music whiffs and ecclesiastic Catholic singing into his melting pot. The result is seamlessly mesmeric, persuasive and may be introducing to discover the rest legacy of the French juggernaut.

mnttaB - 3CR Session July 2014 (2014)

Bandcamp

/No Wave, Leftfield, Electronic, Noise rock, Sampledelic, Alternative dance, Art punk, Post-punk, Space rock, Dance rock, Alternative rock/

Comment: it is not the first appearance of the Australia-based collective mnttaB at Recent Music Heroes. I can remember for their cutting-edge guitar progressions with danceable electronic undercurrents. However, this 4-track session is an amazing outlet of much more elements being added to the mix in comparison to previous times. The issue embarks on with distressfully morose spacey guitar progressions which will be traded for a sampledelic content at Men Resisting Change: Second Wave Feminism And Western Films From 1960-1979. WhiteNoise is a hypnotic, spaced-out dance notch and Welcome To The Planet, Dear is saturated with heavy electro chips and noise flinders. In a nutshell, the result is refreshing and kick-ass. Mandatory for all those guys and gals who think punk is not dead yet.      

Infirm Individual – Agoraphobia (2014)

Infirm Individual

/Black metal, Technical metal, Goregrind, Hardcore, Sludge metal, Synthpop, Cybergrind, Electronic pop, Crossover, Organic electronica, Mood music/

Comment: it is obviously the most challenging work by Infirm Individual who is an one-man-artist from Germany. Nevertheless how the album title suggests at the time freedom and unlimited magnitude for playing readily with disparate facets are obviously the most important premises for him. In general, different branches of metal music are interlaced with more volatile and glamorous musical strands and appearances. For instance, the opening track Draugr (The Living Dead) is an absolute teaser – I cannot remember for a metal/hardcore exemplar never before of involving sheeny synthpop and (deep) house vibes. Unebelievable indeed. However, all these abrupt shifts in mood and paces are managed in a way to hit effect unflaggingly. This 7-track album just must be heard to get the evidence of it. One is unarguably sure – I am going to add it the best albums list of mine in 2014.                  

[Teaser of the day] God Hates Sunday - All Comes Out In Perfection

Tachyon

• Neoclassical
• Ethereal wave
• Ambient drone

[Teaser of the day] Dahga Bloom - Space Is The Place

• Space rock
• Experimental rock
• Avant-prog
• Psych-rock

Zoran - A Dream Within A Dream

Huyk – Vacu Sessions 32 (2013)

Vacu

/Experimental electronica, Glitchtronica, Noise, Avant-garde/

Comment: Huyk`s 16-minute long session is fairly intense due to closely adjacent or superimposed elements consisting mostly of insistent digital progressions, glitch-y bits and noisy semi-panoramic backgrounds. At times these noise elements are slightly more buried and coloured in brown, however, resulting in pulsating impulses and surrounded by glitch-drenched ruffles. The session is composed of 4 compartments (all of them are titled as Man Of Brass). Is it either a black quadrangle or just a box?       

Killorgiveup – Winehoused EP (2011)

Bandcamp

/Electronic pop, Witch house, Alternative pop, Drag house, Poptronica/

Comment: although this EP contains 3 tracks all these ones will be channelized into one theme and form. Laura Vunk aka Spice Mouse`s vocal used to loom over slightly ominous progressions of tight synth mist and some adjacent sonic effects. Sometimes her singing is supported by the duo`s other part Felix Bondarev (also known from such groups as Red Samara Automobile Club, and Stones & Holes). Indeed, the release was issued in 2011 which was the heyday of drag house/witch house appearance and some (gentler) influences of it can be perceived on this issue either.    

Kommando Zurueck - …From Outta Space (2011)

Jamendo

Archive.org

/Electro-punk, Alternative pop, Electro pop, Robot pop, Electroclash, Camp pop/

Comment: Kommando Zurueck (or Kommando Zurück) is a collective which does not feel ashamed at all by exploiting cheesy, even deliberately campy elements to mix them into their electro-influenced punk/electro-clash embodiment. More concretely, it is a quite contrasty feel to hear Kraftwerk-esque robotic vocal embellishments along with gimcrack yet often ironical singing in German and infrequently in English. Furthermore, the whole seems to be produced tongue-in-cheek. The favourite tracks of mine are Realitaet, and Mega-Bite.   

Jared Lee Longer – We Don`t Know What We`re Doing (2011)

Mediafire

/Improvised music, Experimentalism, Garage rock, Primitivism, Avant-garde, Psych-rock/

Comment:  it is hinted at the ISHITNOISE site Jared Lee Longer is a noise-punk band based out of Southern Maine, USA. Their 8-track issue breaks out in different directions – from piano-driven improvised numbers and psychotic garage rock-driven undercurrents to deranged developments built up on intense rustles and rattles of hi-hats and cymbals.  However, the joint part of compositions is based on a loosely structured, even primitive approach and design letting doors very open for the listener to experience new challenging sonorous perceptions.

[Teaser of the day] Balogh - Magnitude

Sirona-Records

• Experimental electronica
• Acid 
• Psychedelic electronica
• Alternative

[Teaser of the day] Amitron_7 - Glory End What Grace Begun

• Chilltronica
• Mood music
• Organic electronica
• Sampledelic
• Noir music
• Ambient

Katatsumuri - BATRAH

Bell Monks – Lullabies (2011)

Mine All Mine

Bandcamp

Lastfm

/Alternative pop, Americana, Dream pop, Avant-pop, Experimental indie, Post-pop/

Comment: the Wisconsin-based collective Bell Monks` 12-track issue is a contemplative, beatific insight through indie/dream pop alternative pop pathways. The album deserves its name – it sways between oneiric and hyper-realistic, between fictive and ideal world. It can readily represent the time after the pop charts are lost their mind. In a word, it is an example of the so-called ideal pop where experimental tendencies are craftily adopted into pop structures. The album is filled with outstanding examples and presenting no weak tracks meanwhile.        

Bear Coat – Black Hills (2014)

Bandcamp

/Indie pop, Electronic pop, Alternative pop, Baroque pop/

Comment: Dublin, Ireland-based collective Bear Coat`s single Black Hills sounds in an intriguing way – its main template is based on the so-called renaissance indie pop (Real Estate, for instance) filled with gentle and mellow harmonies, however, being variegated with partly vocodered vocal lines and exuberant orchestrations. It is a contemporary sonorous counterpoint to fairy tales. The result is fairly marvellous.      

Nomsei - Epos of Loneliness (2014)

Noiseu

Bandcamp

Lastfm

/Post-rock, Post-metal, Crossover, Baroque pop, Epic, Alternative pop, New Age, Art pop/

Comment: by listening to this 8-track album it can insist that loneliness is a beautiful quality on its own. In spite of some presumptively depressive titles the whole is an exemplar of wide-range beauty whose focus is spotted upon different even disparate directions or using multi-coloured canvas – from majestic post-rock tumult and suggestive post-metal progressions and mind-blowing baroque pop whiffs to more contemplative arpeggio-centred guitar compositions and wide-screen panoramas revelatory of ambient/New Age music and hinting at intriguing electronic fringes. Furthermore, there are even up some references to flamenco music which is not surprising at all because of the artist comes out of Spain. However, frequently the aforementioned elements are seamlessly mixed up. All in all, it is one of the albums in 2014.         

[Teaser of the day] Digi G'Alessio - P2 Around The Twist

Free Music Archive

• Breakcore
• Dubstep
• Experimental electronica
• Wonky

[Teaser of the day] Kylie + Garibay - Chasing Ghosts

Soundcloud

• Pop
• Bhangra
• Electronic pop
• Post-disco

The Gumbo Ya-Ya's - On My Mind

Björk - Live @ Great Hall Of Science, Queens, New York, USA, NY (02-12-2012)

Nyctaper

Björk

/Electronic pop, Art pop, Singer-songwriter, Avant-folk, Live session, Art folk/

Comment: Icelandic diva Björk`s gig includes 19 tracks, most of them are taken from the album Biophilia (2011) which was produced by exploiting more or less conventional instruments (tablet computer, using a system of applications, Tesla coil, harp, sharpsicord). Although there were performed some of her most known compositions (Hyperballad, You`ve Been Flirting Again) most ones were related to her late period issues. The stylistic range was wide – extending from grandiose electronic pop to more harp-driven, Borealis-sheeny folk progressions. As we already have figured out Björk is an event irrespective of how she is involved in. Listen to it and let it to overwhelm you.  

Rickolus – Coyote and Mule (2010)

Noise Horror

/College rock, Indie rock, Americana, Shoegaze, Alternative rock, Chiptune, Electronic pop, Primitronica/

Comment: Richard Colado aka Rickolus` 6-track issue embraces contrasty facets by stylistic consideration. It starts off with a spaced-out, shoegaze-y tumult which will be softened into organ-driven college rock and gentle Americana glimpses in next compositions. However, the last tracks are already measured in electronic terms. The finishing one Fantasy and Lips is fairly startling because of taking on a primitive, doleful progression by revealing the artist`s love against chiptune/tracker music. The issue is released on Noise Horror, an American tape label providing shelter for such combos as Chappaquiddick, Felipe Casey Cardona, Dairy, DOTH, no one, Dream Love, Critter, and Scram Brothers.              

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

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/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.            

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