Recent Music Heroes Mixtape #14 (03.01.2015)

Mediafire

1) Radikal Satan - Perifèrico (2010, Clochette)

2) plusplus - Plantopia (2014, Psycho)

3) Tom Fahy - Time Traveler's Dilemma (Maude) (1995, 5 Minutes to Midnight)

4) Mooval - Like Life Itself (2012, By Immersion)

5) Wladyslaw Komendarek - Smietnikowy Ptak / Trashy Bird (Futurospekcja remix) (2012, Wladyslaw Komendarek/Trashy Bird)

6) Dean – Feelin You (2012, V.A. - 3 Years Prozent Part One)

7) 3EEM - Slow Motion (2009, Third Segment)

8) Ou Où - Kanya (2013, Geocities)

9) The Hirundu - Timbuktu (2003, Hypnodisq)

10) Vonsuck - Arabella kastekann (1999, Enne und)

11) Oplen - Electronic Music For Disarmament (2014, Besides 06-09)

[Teaser of the day] Elektrocell & Diagram - Solaris I.II

Rain

• Ambient drone
• Space music
• Spoken word
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Dark ambient
• Soundscapes
• Experimentalism

[Teaser of the day] Simon Bird - Stillborn In Autumn

• Alternative
• Electronic
• Exotica pop
• Dreamwave
• Mood music

Plane Ticket - Stalingrad

Hiyohiyoipseniyo – al ARMA (2014)

NYAPSTER

/Sound collage, Avant-garde, Breakcore, Non-music, Experimentalism, Plunderphonics, Drill and bass, Freeformfreakout, Noise, Leftfield/

Comment: just AAA, just BBB. Just nothing more. Indeed, the album includes a pair of long-running compositions which will create a truly oddball impression about the project finally. More concretely, one sample is followed just by another, from spoken word ones and concrete sounds to incisive noise attacks, howling drones and skipped, even demented rhythms. The project used to add even cheesy Eurobeat/trance rhythms into the mix. Different dimensions will meet with each other very casually. Of course, many samples are processed but the result is thoroughly sampledelic indeed. The issue is released on the Barcelona, Catalonia based tape/web label NYAPSTER. Although the result might be exciting or frustrating (depending on the mood of the listener) it does not give a damn to you. For me it is truly fascinating.  

The Wordsmiths – IUMA

Internet Underground Music Archive

/Baggy, Dance rock, Remixes, Indie rock, Big beat, Alternative dance, Acid rock, Indie dance, Psychedelic rock, Alternative rock, Dub/

Comment: The Wordsmiths was a Penicuik, Scottish alternative rock combo whose preferable stylistic approach was to create acid fuelled dance rhythms tightly mixed up with psychedelic guitar textures and highly suggestive organ solos. They formed in 1990 and issued one LP (Penicuik 1990) and an EP, Floral Riot (both under Lone Head Records). Some years ago they returned with a single, called Oliver Cromwell. This 4-track issue consists of 2 original one and a couple of remixes bringing forth the best aspects of the musical group. The remixes are more big beat/dub oriented. Ultimately, you can just listen to it or dance with it. Undoubtedly such kind of dance-appealed music is open to many people and it is a genuine indie style by its touch and approach. Highly recommended.

Jealousy Party - All Yours (2013)

Audition

/Free jazz, Improvised music, Dub, Avant-jazz, Dada music, Leftfield, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Improvised noise/

Comment: Jealousy Party is a challenging Italian combo (Roberta WJM Andreucci, Matt Pogo, Edoardo Ricci plus Kunto Bertiaka on percussion in some tracks) whose 29-minute session comprises extreme jazz or borderline noise explorations filled with choking energy and strangling intensity. It can say the trio is inspired both by glorious Italian noise tradition, French Dadaist scene and leftfield free jazz improvisers. Frenzied attacks of natural instruments (alto and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet, trombone) and frantically chopped vocal tasks are juxtaposed against chameleon-like rhythm torrents and turntable based techniques which in turn do have references either toward experimental electronic directions, dub music or unclassified factor.  The result is betwitching chiming like having the purpose to exorcize the demons from an evil person.                   

Some best albums in 2014

Aden Ohm - La Loi De Morphine (Pavillon36-Recordings)
Panda Eyes - Dream Police (Self-released)
Golden Glow - Beauty/Duty (Bleeding Gold)
Asian Women On The Telephone - You Have Reached Your Destination (Self-released)
Foxes In Fiction - Ontario Gothic (Orchid Tapes)
Cosmen Adelaida - La Foto Fantasma (Self-released)
Ester Poland - Sleipnir (Wooden Sherpa)
Nomsei - Epos of Loneliness (Noiseu)
Faerùn - The Night (Test Tube)
Klaus Marten - Master Tape (Self-released)
Javier Rubio - Cine Roma (Miga)
Ester Poland - Sleipnir (Wooden Sherpa)
Golgotha Communications Ltd. – Wine, Women and Song Pt2 (HAZE)
M.Geddes Gengras - Ishi (Stones Throw / Leaving)
Huey - Ace (Sinewave)
The Mussy Gluves - Pelu Green Puns (Death Roots Syndicate)
EDASI - Orphaned Demon Follow Your Destiny (Dipsomaniac)
EUS – Reviraje (BLWBCK)
Wood Spider - Decadence (Self-released)
Scott Lawlor - The Absence of Light Contains the Shadow of Loss (Buddhist On Fire)
Vaiko Eplik - Nõgesed (Mortimer Snerd)
Data Snow – Phases (2014) (Textural-Records)
6SISS – In Pallid Nights (Entity)
NightWake - Relation (Deadknife)
Dancing Deadlips - Song of the Flight (Self-released)
Centauri - Centauri (Lepers)
The Fucked Up Beat - Investigates Strange Weather Patterns and the UFO Cults of Cold War Nevada (Self-released)
Infirm Individual – Agoraphobia (Self-released)
The Japanese Girl - A Tea With Twiggy Kasumi (Self-released)
Death Grips - Niggas On The Moon (This Worlds/Harvest)
guitarsisyo – Life Is Dictionary (Tanukineiri)
Jim Lace/Alex Nova – Twists (Pan Y Rosas Discos)
TFSL - Tales From The Sleeping Land (Mahorka)
Hans Laguna - Deletrea (Delhotel)
Miami Slice - Brooklyn 2 Brooklyn EP (Midnight Side)
Aairria - Abyss (Rain)
YlangYlang - Am I Being Overdramatic? (Self-released)
Rama The Rad - Rama The Rad (Weakie Discs)
Cement0 - No Man`s Land (Wavelike)
Natural Snow Buildings - The Night Country (Vulpiano)
Iris Garrelfs - Breathing Through Wires (Pan Y Rosas Discos)
Mudlark – Zimdahl (Wood &  Wine)
Twyxu - At Dawn And Dusk You Come (Laverna)
plusplus - Psycho (La bèl)
Cinchel - Reign Water (Subterranean Tide)
Elbee - Visions Of Vactrols (Wood & Wire)
The Stepkids - Wanderers (Stones Throw)
fydhws - The Sound (four movements in the key of D) (NGC 147)
Cybernetika - Solar Nexus (Ektoplazm)
Surfacing - Surfacing (Records On Ribs)
Tracing Arcs – Wasteland (23 Seconds)
The Easton Ellises - NightWavs (Enoughrecords/Jamendo)
Mystified - Cardboard Hotel Revisited (Webbed Hand)
This Lonely Crowd - Möbius And The Healing Process (Sinewave)
mnttaB - 3CR Session July 2014 (Self-released)
Tunguska Electronic Music Society - Siberian Jungle Vol. 5 (Jamendo)

Jonas Kocher/Gaudenz Badrutt - Cinema Rex (Insub.)
Chinese Cookie Poets - ■ (Self-released)

Hassan K. - Talab (Darling Dada)

Infirm Individual - Spiritual Blackout (Self-released)

PA - 14.05.14 Thru (Take Pills Die)

[Teaser of the day] Henrik Kihlberg - Earth

• Cosmic synth
• Acid
• Leftfield
• Space age pop
• Electronic

[Teaser of the day] Mount Eerie - Ancient Questions

Archive.org

• Indie folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Folk indie
• Alt-folk
• Dream folk
• Live recording

Sonologyst & Dariusz Michalak - Forgotten Rituals

Jonas Kocher-Gaudenz Badrutt – Cinema Rex (2014)

Insub.

/Improvised music, Microtonal, Live session, Experimental, Improvised noise, Avant-garde. Glitchtronica, Electro-acoustic, Drone noise/

Comment: there is presented just one long-running 26 minute track. Indeed, it consists of incisive accordion dodges and ominous drones by Jonas Kocher and live electronic hovers and rough glitches and sharp attacks of noises. Theoretically, it does not sound simply like cinema rex its sounds rather like cinema tyrannosaurus rex – because this composition is filled with fear and horror ready to attack the listener. The silence represented on it seems to be balefully towering – at times it evolves very slowly to be ready to burst out sometime and move to the next more noisy level. All in all, it is a fabulous live session issued on an experimental record label, Insub. (formerly known as Insubordinations).       

All The Empires Of The World - CVRSVS (2014)

Record On Ribs

/Black metal, Trash metal, Epic doom, Neoclassical, Doom metal, Post-metal, Sludge metal/

Comment: this issue consists of two quite different parts – the first of them is mostly blackened and trashy doom progressions with the assistance of down-tuned string instruments and slowed down rhythmic patterns although providing some atmospheric glimpses and acute sonic experiments with low bass frequencies, epic doom hovers, and diverging light-hearted guitar strums added to the mix (especially Auckland). The second section is without guitars supported brutality – instead of it there are up exclusively prolonged keyboards based chords and flows and drumming experiments which used to intersect with silence and tranquility tightly surrounding or emitting from within it. Indeed, if to suggest to the first words on the album (more light, more light) then the purpose will be successfully fulfilled. In a word, listen to their version of the Beauty and the Beast.          

Kool Skull – Yum (2014)

Kittenrock

/Breakcore, Electro, Alternative dance, Chiptune/

Comment: this handful of tracks used to bounce and put up a fight indeed. More concretely, there are represented hirsute electro and obsessive chiptune drenched frequencies offering up the boost through dynamic vectors and tremendous key changes. Primitive sonorous sources are allied with contemporary software and technique in a way to be on the ball. However, chiptune based reflection does not have the main purpose on the issue. In a word, it is a good piece created by Juan Larrazabal. 

Galeria Discos – Memorias EP (2014)

Monofónicos

/Tech-house, Club dance, Deep house, Remix/

Comment: this 3-track issue is a decent one thanks to techno and house rhythms mixing and roomy and lush synthesizer based drawings atop. The first track Hervor is a solid example of deep house music – incorporating a soulful touch and velvety vision to it and Memorias on the other side is clearly a tech-house issue. There is also represented M.A.L.A remix of the last one merging predominant tech-house elements with some deep house glimpses. The issue is released on a Medellin, Colombia based label, Monofònicos whose discography includes many superb music issues. It is very recommended for those people who like sapid club dance music.       

[Teaser of the day] Albert Glasser - Into The Sewers

Free Music Archive

• Avant-garde
• Film score
• Film noir
• Conceptual
• Musique concrète
• Electro-acoustic

[Teaser of the day] Frägil - Darfriend

Trastienda

• Indie folk
• Chamber folk
• Folk indie
• DIY
• Lo-fi
• Art folk

Gamardah Fungus - Immortality

The Late Virginia Summers – TLVS (2006)

Redstarcommunity

Lastfm

/Lo-fi, Ambient, Cowbell indie, Drone rock, Post-rock, DIY, Live recording/

Comment: Redstarcommunity is a Swedish record label having been existing since 2001 and having the discography of 22 issues so far. TLVS was 11^th release which consisted of elemental crackled noises, graceful glockenspiel snippets, spaced-out drones, ambient music inspired reverberating soundscapes and improvised noodling here and there. Emotionally are outstanding those moments when epic guitar chords are put into delayed loops while being accompanied by sublime glockenspiel fabric and droning bold cello keys (Almost Asleep, Part One). You Are What Gets Me In Trouble was recorded in live at The Nanci Raygun in Richmond, USA. Grossly, it is a lo-fi sort of post-rock/experimental indie approach produced by Joe Morgan & Nathan McGlothlin.      

Abisales – XDCS (2013)

Bandcamp

/Post-rock, Experimental rock, Power pop, Art rock/

Comment: The Còrdoba, Argentina-based combo`s instrumental 5-track issue is an enchanting listening time because of involving an innumerable amount of key changes and mood shifts throughout the course for the listener`s pleasure. More concretely, restless at times even roaring guitar patterns and riffs are cunningly varicoloured with cinematic keyboard based vignettes and sonic effects. Indeed, power pop meets art rock in a tumultuous yet picturesque way. Imagine yourself walking in the forest in a cold winter day while sun is arising and making the clouds appearing yellowish orange.           

Alarm Pressure – CON (2008)

D.N.A Collective

Mediafire

/Psychedelic rock, Free jazz, Improvised noise, Synth rock, Leftfield, Improvised music, Experimental rock, Drone rock, Acid rock, Electronic/

Comment: Alarm Pressure is a duo (Den Mitchell, and Nick Acorne) from Kharkiv, Ukraine whose 8-track debut issue was an amalgamation of acid drenched sustained noises and synth improvisations abundantly filled with many key changes and moody dodges. At times natural instruments are traded for fully electronic progressions. May be it is not correct to name it a branch of rock music at all because of having obviously inspired by free jazz and improvised noise either. The LP can be compared with the Chicago-based experimental jazz scene (Isotope 217, Chicago Underground Duo). The result is fascinating and suggestive.     

Tom Fahy - 5 Minutes to Midnight (1995)

Auralnaut

Lastfm

/Experimental rock, Dream pop, Electronic, Ambient rock, Shoegazetronica, Big beat, Darkgaze, Ethereal Wave, Post-rock, Alternative/

Comment: Tom Fahy and his satellites` 10-notch issue is stylistically multi-faceted, extending from New Age-y big beat cadences, hovering ambient tinged soundscapes and repetition-heavy guitar shapes to more murky ethereal wave and slowed down progressions. By listening to it the album resembles slightly My Bloody Valentine`s long-awaited third album mbv (2013). For instance, Z Machine is saturated with reverb heavy drums, overdriven guitar effects and signal-alike noises – in spite of it the track sounds exuberantly full of segmented dreams and insights. And listen to Time Traveler's Dilemma (Maude) – pure beauty. Sometimes the listener can feel the time to be stopped by or...just you are stopped for the passing of time. Indeed, the time and being (and Martin Heidegger) is one of their topics on the release. Ultimately it is a great release – so do not miss it out on.              

[Teaser of the day] Afronoise - Deep Raid

Lastfm

• Afrofuturism
• Psychedelic
• Alternative dance
• Breaks

[Teaser of the day] ►▲◣▲◣ - ◣▲​(​(​(​(​▲​(​(​(​(​(​(​(​(​♥▲▲▲♥

• Glitch-hop
• Breaks
• Hip-hop
• Experimentalism
• Sampledelic

Sonologyst - The Waiting

Atlas Sound - 2012-06-22 Athfest Main Stage - Athens, GA (2012)

Southern Shelter

/Indie rock, Indietronica, Americana, Dream pop, Live session, Chamber pop, Folk indie, Singer-songwriter, Indie folk/

Comment: Bradford James Cox is a name which apparently does need no introducing to the indie audience worldwide. Through his participation of being the singer and frontman of spaced-out experimental/psych/shoegaze rock band Deerhunter and creating more electronica and string mixed spacey Americana music under the moniker Atlas Sound he has been a pioneer in a new wave of modern indie combos since the mid of 00s. To a wider audience he is now known as an actor thanks to the film Dallas Buyers Club. This is Cox`s a hour long live set in his domestic Athens, Georgia, USA. The whole is enchantingly dream-filled and hypnotic full of continuous delays, astral singing and vowel effects and daydreamy strumming. There is just one man with the guitar, harmonica, and electronics on the stage. Highly recommended.       

Disgorged Faeces – Contamination II (2012)

Genetic Trance

/Harsh noise, Non-music, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Minimalism/

Comment: I discovered a quite feeling by listening to this 44-minute album just consisting of one long-running track full of static harsh noise propulsions and overwhelming sonorous brutality. However, if my first experience was disgusting because of being without apparent changes then the track would have mellowed throughout the course. By the conceptual side I truly like Yevgeniy Kukharik`s approach to reflect upon shortages related to ecological environmental pollution by malevolent consumption activities of the human being. The point is he/she pollutes himself/herself either. Is that the mind of our life? Of course, by exploiting such kind of threatening (white) noise music to hint at problems related to the human being is not the first time throughout the history of noise music but, however,  the result is impressively yelling into the listener`s ear. Please do not think about them as crazy ones but it is not the point of it.

Ou Où – Geocities (2013)

Bandcamp

/Shoegazetronica, Experimental rock, Epic, Ambient trance, Leftfield, Crossover, Avant-rock, Kosmische Musik, Ambient drone, Alternative dance/

Comment: it is simply awesome…based on druggy rhythms which at times will expand into a panoramic moloch amplified with elemental loops, vivid techno paces, oneiric synth progressions and dreamy, even astral shoegaze-y pads. The listener can enjoy different motives simultaneously and stepwise coming out from the same direction to constitute something unbelievable and cathartic. Although the St Louis, Missouri-based duo (Travis Burski, Patrick Weston) is apparently influenced by such groups/albums as The Orb (Orblivion), Tangerine Dream (Ricochet), My Bloody Valentine (Tremolo EP), and Seefeel (Quique) it is idiosyncratically overwhelming touch presented on this 6-piece issue. If you listen to the finishing composition Maidan it chimes like an eargasmic experience on its own. It might be pop music or not but it is music with the initals. Mandatory in any sense.           

[Teaser of the day] Shibuya Motors - Mimi Tu

Signals from Arkaim

• Free jazz
• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Improvised noise
• Experimentalism
• Avant-jazz

[Teaser of the day] Kosmofon - Footwork Jam

Soundcloud

• Cosmic fusion
• Alternative
• Synth fusion
• Space pop
• Prog fusion
• Electronic pop

Ou Où - Geocities

(((О))) – CHURCHBURN (2011)

Oddot

Archive.org

/Witch house, Avant-electronica, Gothgaze, Drag house, Ghostgaze, Newbreed, Trianglecore, Hip-hop, Epic, Experimental electronica, Remixes, Darktronica, Post-industrial/

Comment: occult-themed dark synth progressions, disturbingly shifting rhythms and obscure vowel experiments are mixed up with each other throughout 15 tracks. Only the finishing †hroVV y▲ se† in d▲ ▲!r (Cypress Hill Zombie Rave RMX) remix is clearly more hip-hop centred - with catchy rapping and signal-fuelled impulses in the background. The issue involves many highlights due to slowed-down epic synth explorations which seem to be similar to some gloomy shoegaze/dark wave related albums like Treasure by Cocteau Twins, or The Burning Circle And Then Dust by Lycia. Great stuff!            

Gift – a EP (2014)

Elementperspective

Bandcamp

/Folktronica, Alternative pop, Jazztronica, Indietronica, Acid pop/

Comment: these 5 pieces represent a blend of instrumental folk and electronic music in its beauty and craftiness. More concretely, it consists of skewed guitar chords, chopped and twisted electronic bits, unexpected dodges and noisy overdrives giving it a refreshing outlook. At times the guitars are jettisoned in favour of enchanting piano chords and moody jazzy samples. Frequently the chords seem to be stop-timed to be continued with a new rush and power. In spite of superficial effects, a sense of melody comes forth from the nexus. This instrumental issue comes out of Japan and is issued on Element Perspective. Ultimately the outlet is amusing and charming.          

Greendjohn – String Element EP (2014)

Jamendo

Bandcamp

/Orchestrated music, Alternative, Soundtrack/

Comment: in fact, it was very problematic to categorize this 9-track album because of having no predominant or obvious element within it. Indeed, it includes panoramic violin progressions and orchestrated heavens behind it, though it is not classical music on its own. Instead of it this may resemble more the movie soundtrack. In addition to exuberant orchestrations and bow instrument based progressions the album involves electric guitar playing and some synthesised bubbling below the upper layers. Indeed, listen to this beatific outlet to enjoy and fathom it. I recommend listen to the Belgian musician`s previous issue (Loophole 2011 - reviewed at Recent Music Heroes) either.     

[Teaser of the day] Hyperreality - Depth Charge

Cold Fiction

• Dub techno
• Tech-dub
• Deep techno
• Deep dub
• Tech-house
• House

[Teaser of the day] Chinese Cookie Poets - 05

• Alternative dance
• No Wave
• Dance rock
• Leftfield

Semper Sessions - Transmissions

Semper Sessions - Transmissions from swing studio on Vimeo.

Mild Bang - One Million EP (2010)

Kreativa

Kreativa

/Tech-house, Electro house, Club dance, Dub house, Remixes, House, Deep house/

Comment: One Million EP consists of 4 tracks, one of which is an original one and the rest ones are the remixes of it. The original track is a catchy, minimally ornamented dub-drenched house progression. By the remixing activity, it stylistically extends from highly suggestive electro bumpy house and obsessive tech-house vibrations to flourishing synth propulsions or wind instrument based motives full of sheeny glamour and dynamic refreshment. There are represented such remixers as Obando, Alberto Santizzo, Low Deep. In a word, shake your hands and thrust your pelvis forward. Very good.

The Vs – The Vs (2013)

2419 Record Label

/Americana, Alt-folk, Indie folk, Folk indie, Alternative rock, Psychedelic rock/

Comment: although all these 10 songs are written and produced by Simon Sixsmith at Black Box Studios, Utrecht, Netherlands the whole chimes like it were created rather by an American musician. It is mainly based on Americana music (having hints at country, folk, blues rock). Maybe the only exceptions are Dynamite where the trio exploits readily acid drenched organs in composing the song; the enchanting Let's Tear It Up Some seems to be proper for some southern gothic TV series. Overall, it is not surprising at all because three guys behind the musical group took a road-trip across the United State before fulfilling the release. The issue is written while staying in motels or driving the car. The result is a bunch of chirpily sounding guitar-strummed ditties.     

Radikal Satan – Clochette (2010/2013)

Los Emes Del Oso

Free Music Archive

/Avant-garde, Crossover, New Weird Argentina, Tango, Sampledelic, Experimentalism, World music, Apocalyptic folk, Industrial, Drone folk, Spoken word, Dark folk, Neoclassical, Improvised music, Neofolk/

Comment: Radikal Satan is a duo from Buenos Aires, Argentina who has issued a bunch of albums since 2003. More profoundly, this 5-track release is unquestionably radical due to the artist`s keenness to lace organically ominous folk progressions with gothic concrete music snippets and brooding industrial panoramas. “Folk music” does mean both “world music”, and “dark folk music” in the recent context. For instance, concertina`s drones are juxtaposed against anguished vocal progressions and emphasized spoken word rows and bold double bass chords to express his feelings and senses. At times Radikal Satan`s sound makes progress into exulting tango grooves which is simultaneously unbelievable and very welcome. All in all, the result is truly impressive igniting for next steps to explore the whole discography by this artist.           

Coeval – Distante (2005)

MinusN

Bandcamp

/Ambient drone, Soundscape, Avant-garde, Dystopbient, Organic electronica, Dark ambient, Improvised music, Musique concrète, Experimental electronica, Noise, Experimentalism, Illbient, Abstract, Glitchtronica/

Comment: this 6-track issue was initially just one long-running track performed at Sonar in Barcelona, Catalonia in 2005. The result is outstanding due to abstract droning, thought-provoking sonic phasing, exploitation of different materials and field recordings to create genuine sonic patterns and innovative sonorous landscapes. Some sounds on it chime like deeply buried ones coming forth from underground mazes and ornamented with glitch-y noises, signal-alike sonic pulsations, and overwhelming vibrating effects. Emotionally Juan Carlos Blancas` compositions used to sway between abstract and evil-sounding, however, giving no fuck to the listener. Is it a soundtrack for the abandoned wastelands and landscapes? All in all, it is a great shit for your pleasure.             

VA & Leah Rosier – Irie Remix EP (2011)

Dubbhism

Soundcloud

/Raggamuffin, Remixes, Robot pop, Dub, Dancehall, Electronic pop/

Comment: Leah Rosier`s track Irie is mixed up or remade by different remixers like Not Easy, Speakah Productions ft. Natty d, Digikal Roots, Caballo & Neki Stranac, Monolow, and Bruno Tanmateos). Some remakes are more elliptically shaped, i.e dub-drenched, some are more dancehall-tinged, though, there are represented also robot/electro pop/trap glimpses and an off-kilter bagpipe based experiment. Indeed, by listening to it over here, temperature is rising and you get have sunshine in the music.       

[Teaser of the day] K4MMERER - Moonlanderlove

• Electronic pop
• Poptronica
• Chilltronica
• Cosmic fusion

[Teaser of the day] Galèria Disco - Hervor

Monofònicos

• Deep house
• Club dance
• House pop
• Electronic pop

The Tinopener's Art & Julien Auroux - The Terrain

Mooval - By Immersion (2014)

Yo! Netlabel

Lastfm

/Dubstep, Experimental electronica, Ambient pop, Downtempo, Indietronica/

Comment: as the titles hint at it this 6-track album is made up of majestic ambient-alike panoramas, superficial electronic flickers and static still life which are backed up either by low bass frequencies (a la dubstep), or more perky downtempo and electronic indie and krautrock styled rhythms. More concretely, there are up such titles as Emanating Warmth, At Night The Salmon Move, Pretend To Faint, Written On Dust. All in all, the outlet is decent and highly worth to be listened to. At Lastm site you can find out such adjectives as “orgasm”, and “highness”.

Moscow Club – Mostrotter on july 22 (2012)

Bandcamp

/Chillwave, Indie pop, Alternative pop, Shibuya-kei, J-pop/

Comment: Moscow Club is a quartet from Japan whose 5-track Mostrotter live session reflects upon their native J-pop and shibuya-kei influences which in turn are strongly acted upon by Western indie pop and alternative rock threads. At times the listener can hear some chillwave/glo-fi whirls within the blend of many sounds and styles. Ultimately this handful of ditties is a decent listening span for your pleasure.        

Ivan Shoukhtin ‎– Shmaw?! Shmow!! (2010)

Edensonic

/Tech-house, Deep house, Dub-house, Minimal techno, Club dance, Remixes/

Comment: this issue consists of a couple of original tracks and two remixes taken on them (the remixes are produced by Strial, and Tioneb). The concept is spotted upon restrained tech-house frequencies with some sublime dodges toward captivating dub music, minimal techno and bewitching deep house vibes. In a word, the music is waxing and waning rhythmically in different sonic phases thereby providing dynamic approach throughout the course.       

[Teaser of the day] Dualline - But Now

Soundcloud

• Downbeat
• Nu jazz
• Electronic jazz

[Teaser of the day] Aurastore - Dew

Lastfm

• Ambient
• Soundscapes
• Epic
• Space music

Plane Ticket - Cover Your Records

Javier Rubio - Cine Roma (2014)

Miga

/Industrial techno, Crossover, Illbient, EBM; Kosmische Musik, Experimental techno, Dark electro, Leftfield/

Comment: Javier Rubio`s issue reflects upon quite different styles and artistic aspirations throughout. Is it obvious to pile up the elements of electronic body music, concrete music, Kosmische Musik, and even some house vibes on the same release, for instance? However, the result is worth enough to get into it – this 7-track issue is a platform for Rubio to hint at vast abandoned wastelands, apparitional landscapes and nervous impulses inside the human being`s body. All in all, the artist does not give a damn about your interest to get involved in music.        

Love Through Cannibalism – Enma AI EP (2011)

Bandcamp

Lastfm

/Chiptune, Chipbreak, Crossover, Tracker music, 8-bit, Breakcore, Jungle/

Comment: do you know in which way could misanthropic beings love you? It might be possible through changing their trophic orientation against you. They love you while you are not alive anymore. Just kidding. This young yet prolific artist comes out of Barcelona, Catalonia whose 4-track issue is an organic amalgamation of angular sawtooth, triangle and square wave patterns and higher frequency resolution providing shimmery electronic dreams and thumping rhythmic universes undertaken mainly within the style of jungle music. I recommend listen to his another, glitched out hip-hop project ►▲◣▲◣ either.        

Wladyslaw Komendarek – Trashy Bird (2012)

SoFarUnknown

/Remixes, Electro pop, Progressive, Conceptual, Synth pop, Electronic pop, Synth funk, Kosmische Musik/

Comment: if to keep talking about Polish progressive music then there are up some representatives who are very worth to be remembered again. Czeslaw Niemen and Exodus ex-keyboardist Wladyslaw Komendarek are those musicians who are obviously well known among the progressive rock music fans. Both of them liked to improvise on synthesizers thereby their sound used to be a little bit more electronic and synthesized than an average progressive rock combo used to have. Trashy Bird contains a handful of tracks which are crafty remixes by such artists as Giro Arana, Futurospekcja, Marcin Cichy, Envee, and Teielte. Apparently Martin Cichy is the most prominent participant on it because of being a member of Ninja Tune related Skalpel collective. Indeed, the artists have hold down the initial element of the track and added something refreshingly new and catchy. Stylistically it extends from spaced-out synthpop and blissful vocoder-driven electro pop to musique concrete-infused downtempo progressions and catchy synth funk cadences. Indeed, there is up just one composition which reveals so many facets behind itself. Greatness.                  

[Teaser of the day] Twos - PMS

Bad Panda

• Chillstep
• Alternative
• Hypnagogic pop
• Mood music
• Chilltronica

[Teaser of the day] Morriachi - Serulean Walkway

• Hip-hop
• Breaks
• Alternative
• Sampledelic
• Trip-hop
• Nu jazz
• Acid jazz

Lenachka - Good Luck

3 Years Prozent Prozent V.A Part I (2012)

Prozent Music

/Tech-house, Deep house, Alternative dance, Club dance, Electronic pop, Chillwave/

Comment: this mini compilation includes 4 pieces ranging from Arthur Russell-alike vowel samples driven weird dance progressions and hyper-realistic, repetition-heavy house vibrations to blissful indietronic/chillwave-ish opening and lo-fi tinged electro house progressions. There are represented such artists as Joel Enzo, Quadrakey featuring Mielle, Dean, and Vage featuring Marcelavie. Ultimately, it is a solid miscellany provided by Prozent Music.   

Chuzausen – Unorthodox Part One (2012)

Wobble Wob Wob Wow

/Chiptune, Experimental electronica, Sampledelic, Electro pop, Mood music, Alternative dance/

Comment: the Spanish project Chuzausen`s 7-track album is partly based on raspy sawtooth wave patterns. On the other side, it is mixed up with expressive vocal samples, sci-fi electronic fringes or rather jettisoned in favour of more conventional yet gripping dance-appealed undulations. In a word, electronic and noisy experiments on it are finely outbalanced with moody melody lines and simplified or even childish progressions in sound building. The whole is relentlessly shifting throughout in chord and rhythm developments. It is a cutting edge inclined pop album infused with spaced-out magic and elemental lulu.  

[Teaser of the day] Bite - Room 4

Basic_Sounds

• Ambient dub
• Ambient techno
• Tech-dub
• Deep techno
• Deep dub

[Teaser of the day] Naked House - The Joke We Lived Isn't Funny Anymore (Feat. Ohsowhy)

• Indie pop
• Alternative rock
• Sunshine pop

Dadalú - Brilla

Dadalú - "Brilla" from El Otro on Vimeo.

Alan Morse Davies - Llais-saL (2011)

Dystimbria

/Dark ambient, Ambient noise, Dytopbient, Microtonal, Ambient drone, Soundscapes, Illbient, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/

Comment:  Alan Morse Davies` one-track composition (the total length of 19.48) consists of droney hisses and ominous ambient plateaus full of restrained frequencies and subtle noise propulsions. Indeed, it is a kind of microtonal music issue because of keeping tightly hold on microscopic changes and barely audible sonic patterns. It chimes like a slow burning surrounded by elemental impulses and divine power. All in all, the result is great and outstanding.

Wixel - Sway With Me, Aimlessly (2009)

Bandcamp

/Indie folk, Cowbell indie, Indietronica, Chamber folk, Lo-fi, Folk indie, Alt-folk, Baroque folk/

Comment: behind Wixel hides himself Wim Maesschalck, a Flemish (Belgian) musician and record label owner (Slaapwel). Wim Maesschalck creates intimate soundscapes with the assistance of some other musicians which are drenched with sublime lo-fi and bedroom esque feeling based on fragile guitar chord progressions, some electronic undercurrents and truly magic orchestrations (for instance, We'll Never Get Out Of This Bed).  The album (Intro) starts off with reversed guitar and vocal spasms reminding of My Bloody Valentine in its warm bathing. Other tracks are minimal by its nature because of operating with  slowly moving guitar chords, some glockenspiel interventions, electronic effects and suggestive vocal chords. The issue is short-running – there are up 7 tracks at a length of 20 minutes only. However, it is enough to fall asleep to.   

SS Robot - Pidurdusjälg taevas EP (2011)

Bandcamp

/Punk rock, Hardcore, Industrial rock/

Comment: this 7-track issue is an example of the Estonian punk scene. The set is a very angry and filthy turbulence “inspired” by economic depression, unemployment, directives imposed on by European Union. Additionally, they use some well-known motives and paraphrases in their compositions. All the songs are presented in Estonian. The album will be finished off by a remix of Margus Pilt, a member of the Estonian industrial rock combo Pedigree. In a word, if you are searching for a refreshing power torrent to be settled around you then get these 14 minutes and 40 seconds for you.            

[Teaser of the day] Steep - Shiver

• Alternative rock
• Pop rock
• Hard rock

[Teaser of the day] Eternity Range - Reincarnation

Netlabel Sweden

• Synth pop
• Synth electro
• EBM
• New Wave
• Alternative dance
• Dark electro

TOMMY CASH - ALiEN TEARS

Melatonin – The Chri'mas EP (2013)

Bandcamp

/Indie pop, Electro-indie, Alternative pop, Conceptual, Acid rock, Lo-fi, Noise rock/

Comment: there is represented just a pair of tracks which used to sound in a very relevant way – like Christmas songs constituted by solemn singing hovering atop acid organ driven and electro beats accentuated rhythm pads (Holly Bears a Berry). I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas does have a little bit different twist because of diving into noise pop magic. However, the compositions by the Newark, US-based collective are enchantingly lo-fi by its melody progression and structure. Indeed, the ditties are a very welcome alternation to traditional Xmas songs. Furthermore, it is time to expect new indie compositions dedicated to the year`s biggest holy.