Tomas Nordström ‎– Untitled (2004)

Racewillbegin

/Electro pop, Alternative dance, Techno pop, Robot pop, Covers, Chiptune, Autotune/

Comment: The Swede Tomas Nordström`s 2-track issue is based on cover versions (Kylie Minogue, and Kelis). Minogue`s Slow is airy and natural thanks to Chill`s sensual yet self-confident vocal delivery. The robot pop meets soul music. This should have reached a hit status. Kelis` Milkshake is a remarkably more autotuned and chip bomb loaded fresco. I like those primitive yet fairly catchy sonic templates beneath the vocal lines delivering a dynamic touch to the whole. In a word, it is a highly commendable issue from the year 2004.  

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

• Indie pop
• Alternative pop
• Electro-indie 

[Teaser of the day] ISTILLFEELIT - Perfume

Soundcloud

• Vaporwave
• Experimental electronica
• Downtempo
• Mood music

Druggy Pizza - I Wanna Eat Until I'm Dead

Minóy – Devil Music (1988)

Archive.org

Cassette Art Classics

/Noise, Electro-acoustic, Live session, Drone, Improvised music, Non-music, Experimentalism, Freeformfreakout, Avant-garde/

Comment: this live performed on an university campus by two US based noise musicians (Minoy, and PBK) turned into a controversial one because some attending people thought it was an act of diabolic worship presented on the stage. Eventually the live was shut down and the musicians were escorted off the campus. The issue consists of a pair of lengthy compositions which involves different styles and elements – from droning didgeridoo-alike buzzes and crackle-filled improvised guitar noises to Minoy invoked desperate screams and PBK`s played Moog sounds and effects. In a word, by listening to it today this chimes in an enchanting way. Do not give a heck to this legacy. I also recommend read a book, Minòy written by Joseph Nechvatal and dedicated to Stanley Keith Bowsza aka Minòy (1951-2010)         

Darkotic & 6_DEL - Dulce Paranoia EP (2014)

Cicuta

/Deep techno, Tech-house, Electro-house, Club dance, Tekno/

Comment: this 4-track issue by Argentina-residing producers is to encompass techno, tekno, house and electro vibes to interlace them organically with each other. More profoundly, it is at times knee-deep, at times pumped up, at times genuinely catchy full of euphoria drenched propulsions and adrenaline-loaded cadences. In a word, it is a wondrous issue worth to get discovered.      

Carontte – La Tormenta (2008)

Piratita

Archive.org

Bandcamp

Lastfm

/Post-metal, Epic, Post-rock, Crossover/

Comment: this one-track EP starts off with natural/field recording sounds which soon will be traded for heavy-weight guitars and more ominously glowering yet epic panoramas. Indeed, lighter, higher guitar chords are varicoloured with more grinding guitar noises in an impressive way. It would be a good soundtrack for some belligerent fairy tale motion picture. It is a decent work from Catalonia. 

[Teaser of the day] Figures In Motion - Do Not Wake Up

• Experimental rock
• Electronic
• Space rock
• Art rock
• Alternative rock

[Teaser of the day] (((О))) - Night

Oddot

• Witch house
• Epic
• Witch gaze
• Electronic
• Leftfield
• Alternative

Romantic States - Duel

Patrick Hussey – Assimilation (2008)

Rack And Ruin

/Ambient, Soundscapes, Ambient drone, Space music, Modern classical, Minimal/

Comment: Hussey`s 4-track issue chimes truly in a wondrous way balancing somewhere in between static and dynamic. The music`s nature is truly beatific which at times sounds rather in an abstract or hyper-realistic way. Indeed, the main layers of sound are craftily accentuated with microscopic noises and sonic effects. I can remember for that once such sort of music was named as holophonic poetry. Indeed, few yet expressive sonic bits conjure up something which can be classified as vague pictures or fictions. Great by any means. It is a classic one released under an unforgettable label, Rack And Ruin Records.             

Tunnel Of Love - Tunnel Of Love (2013)

Free Music Archive

/Noise rock, Freeformfreakout, Garage rock, Hardcore punk, Avant-garde, Primitronica, DIY/

Comment: there are up 4 tracks within 6 minutes only. The result is a truly noisy and cacophonic oddball accentuated with a naïve and primitive electronic interlude (Bumble Bug). The whole is over there like a mirror reflecting upon flawed personality so common nowadays due to abundance of information and means of manipulation. In a word, it is a honest outburst of the Massachusetts based trio`s feels and susceptibility.  

Voyager - Another Wonder (2012)

Kahvi

/Electronic music, Downtempo, Kosmische Musik, Psybient, Ambient trance/

Comment: Justin Scott Dixon aka Voyager`s music is a drift along with oneiric synth propulsions and moody atmospheres. The pace is determined by trance, big beat and tekno drenched rhythms. At times electronic instruments are accomplished with natural drums and samples thereby broadening the palette of this 11-track release. Indeed, it is a trip with subtle elements waiting to be discovered. And the cover print is mesmerizing to connect with the sonic aesthetics over there. The issue is released by Kahvi Records, a prolific record label. Furthermore, if you like music being issued on Ektoplazm, this album is thought for you.         

Clockwork Keyboard – Da Da EP (2011)

Ethno Indigo

Bandcamp

/Drill and bass, Noise, Experimental electronica, Jungle, Breakcore, Psychedelic electronica/

Comment: actually it is quite problematic to say is it a collection of sounds which is either to constitute a labyrinth or is it a miscellany of sounds to be over there to drift across the maze built up there before it. This 6-track issue can be considered a sort of interactivity which result is a frantic mix resorting to wild, elliptical beats, rattling rhythms and their bewildering drifts and sultry conversions. Furthermore, regarding the last elements in its intensity the release chimes even like sampledelic and sound collage based one. Clockwork Keyboard is the collaboration act between Craig Gillman and Joachim Rontxelius (at least was while producing this EP).          

[Teaser of the day] Ergo Phizmiz - Espionage at Noon

Free Music Archive

• Plunderphonics
• Art music
• Sound collage
• Leftfield
• Experimental pop
• Avant-pop

[Teaser of the day] MC Melodee - Stay the Same feat. Feliciana (prod. Thelonious Martin)

Soundcloud

• Hip-hop
• Rap
• Soul-hop
• Urban music

Nanaki - The Land Surveyor

BLAKKR NIO - When The Light Took Us Away (2014)

Attenuation Circuit

/Doom metal, Black metal, Drone doom, Technical metal, Drone metal, Ambient metal, Post-metal/

Comment: Blakkr Nið or BLAKKR NIO`s 5-piece issue is a reverberating and vibrant black and doom metal issue adorned with heavy, repeated riffs and blacked out (at times stoned out) energy boost. At times the artist`s guitar strangulation resembles Tore Elgaroy`s The Sound Of The Sun. Sometimes the artist shows up more affinity toward atmospheric realms and eternity. Emotionally it sways between neutral, and more overwhelming, ominous facets due to layer surfacing from the bottom stepwise. Ultimately it can say that this one-man-project (Peter M) from Canada gives the listener thrills and tickle. It is fascinating and hypnotic by any means.     

Kaarel Mihk – Vaade (2014)

Trash Can Dance

Bandcamp

/Noise, Experimentalism, Psycho-acoustic, Post-industrial, Non-music, Spoken word, Space rock, Electro-acoustic, Lo-fi, DIY, Musique concrete, Avant-garde/

Comment: Kaarel Mihk is an Estonian noisenik who has issued all his 4 issues in 2014. The recent issue is part of discography of Trash Can Dance, a DIY music label from Tallinn, Estonia. Mihk`s 7-track issue used to extend from dull-coloured electro-acoustic and concrete sound blended sonic examples and restrained spaced-out and industrial drenched landscapes to more power electronic jams, straight up pink noise and piercing brown noise torrents and even hirsute guitar-induced noise rock (actually it is rather space rock) appearances. At times he exploits spoken word pieces and samples or something like that – however, those are heavily distorted and mutilated. The result is thought-provoking and upsetting being a refreshing entry into the sparse Estonian noise music scene.            

►▲◣▲◣ - ◣◣((▲♥▲▲♥ (2012)

Bandcamp

/Glitch-hop, Sampledelic, Clicks and Cuts, Avant-hop, Alternative, Glitchtronica, Experimental electronica, Breaks, Glitchstep/

Comment: It was only some months ago when I reviewed an issue by Love Through Cannibalism, a Barcelona, Catalonia residing artist. It is his side project which is remarkably more glitch-y, filled with chopped rhythms, microscopic or hushed noises, clicks, and pitched bits, however, being highly intense by its nature throughout the course. Indeed, it is a contrasty issue because magic melodies and dreamy harmonies are organically mixed up with the aforementioned sonic mould. In a nutshell, it is music on its own.            

Egokind & Ozean – Sinus (2014)

XLR8R

/Electronic pop, Alternative/

Comment: Egokind & Ozean is a duo from Berlin, Germany whose 304 second track sets out with dolefully naïve synth sounds which quite soon will be abandoned and traded to more consistent sonic progressions which used to be adorned with sonic fragments smashed to smithereens and some shifting bass sounds beneath the other layers. Sinus is an example from their LP Transition (Traum).    

Ty Segall – September 17, 2014 Webster Hall (2014)

Nyctaper

/Garage rock, Fuzz pop, Alternative rock, Live session, Psychedelic rock/

Comment: this is an enormous, 28-track live session by Ty Segall, an American musician being active since the end of 00s. He started make music in various musical groups, however in 2008 he started his own solo career to take his own ideas into practice. As it befits to garage rocker attitude very well the most tracks used to be short-running ones to gravitate around 2 minutes in length. The result is enjoyable thanks to thick yet dynamic sonic backgrounds, tweaked and dizzy guitar riffs and psychedelic keyboard lines which are to spawn synergetic milieu throughout the session. The more you listen to it the more sexy it gets (not only that reason the drummer is a woman). Get it and enjoy this excellent session by four musicians.        

[Teaser of the day] INOE - Hydrogen

• Space music
• Psybient
• Electronic
• Kosmische Musik

[Teaser of the day] Microbit Project - Funk Of My Acid Hurt

Intox Noize

• Alternative dance
• Leftfield
• Experimental techno

THIS HEEL - Selfish Food

Scouts of Uzbekistan ‎– The Scouts of Uzbekistan EP (2011)

Year Zero

Mediafire

/Avant-garde, Leftfield, Experimentalism, Space music, Neofolk, Avant-rock, Spoken word, Psychedelic rock/

Comment: one is very sure – it is not a pop release at all though there can be met some restrained moments juxtaposed to more hirsute and noisy bursts. More profoundly, this 4-track uncanny issue involves stylistically different sections extending from avant-rock and noise rock torrents to dreamy (neo)folk and hypnagogic spoken word centred insights. It might be easily these sounds come out of heads of the personnel of a space lab drifting along millions of miles away from the Earth. It is deep, it is charming, it is spaced-out, it is… . In spite of incisive sonic approach the listener can feel somewhat tongue-in-cheek feeling in these compositions (for instance, using the bluegrass based nexus in one composition). One of the songs used to depict the hell on its own. Eventually Mark Carolan and Nick d’Uzbekistan produced issue proves very expressively it is much more worth than most pop albums available right now around you. In a word, the gem and their record label Year Zero`s discography is fairly precise to be discovered right now. By kindred souls the can be drawn parallels upon the likes of The Hirundu, The Residents, Art Abscon(s), Death In June, for instance.                     

Mihidea - Sites (2013)

Textural

/Experimental, Drone, Microscopic, Electro-acoustic, Ambient drone, Experimental electronica, Dark ambient, Dystopbient/

Comment: if to explore the track titles of the issue you can see the artist is obviously activated by pessimism and failure of human activity. Eroded Homeland, Displaced Technology, and Buried Desires are all lengthy progressions in sound due to microtonal shades and veiled shards. The soundscape used to sway between ominous dark ambient/illbient currents and austere electro-acoustic bits as if communicating impending doom or catastrophe to the listener. Or is it just the wind coming out of uncharted areas into your room loaded with dreary messages and awful murmurs? Anyway, it just one example – there is also up a more lucid, signal-alike droning component with phase shifting and microscopic electronic ornaments and sonic effects on the top. Ultimately the issue offers up a nice listening time with underlying density.     

Foxes In Fiction – Ontario Gothic (2014)

Orchid Tapes

/Dream pop, Alternative pop, Electronic, Avant-pop, Ambient pop, Experimental indie/

Comment: Warren Hildebrand aka Foxes In Fiction is a Canadian musician who have been living in New York for some years. I can remember for my first acquaintance with his music 3-4 years ago. Indeed, my then impression was truly unforgettable. The same can be said about this 7-track album – still it is an organic drift between hyper-realistic ambient music and indie attitude filled with indescribable magic and spellbinding glamour. It is very believable that that pure beauty laid out over here is born through tears and grief due to the death of his young brother and Caitlin Amanda Morris whom the album is dedicated. He is assisted by such musicians as Owen Pallett, Ansel Cohen, Beau Sorensen, Rachel Levy, Caroline White, and Sam Ray. Undoubtedly it was one of the best albums in 2014.  

[Teaser of the day] Swans - A Little God In My Hands

Soundcloud

• No Wave
• Avant-rock
• Noise rock
• Psych-rock
• Experimental rock
• Industrial rock

[Teaser of the day] Simon Ace - Live Your Life

• Hip-hop
• Rap
• Urban music

Canopy - Later On

CKKO40 - Kito Sounds 6 (2014)

Bandcamp

/Electro-indie, Alternative dance, Downtempo, Electro pop, New Wave, Dub, Electronic pop, Techno pop, Synth wave, Minimal wave, Kraut-electro, Alternative pop/

Comment: CHEZ.KITO.KAT Records is a French label which set off in 2006 to promote mind-provoking electronic pop music. The recent compilation involves 17 pieces by such artists as Artabana, Synthesis, Beat For Sale, Jürgen Jogurt, Binary & Dyslexic, Det90, E1000, Mr Bios, Shizuka, Kuston Beater, In Circles, Alexandre Martinez, No Drum No Moog, Dr Geo, Daily Vacation, Arbee, Bochum Ludmila. The compilation is outstanding because of going out on a limb with regard to traditional synth pop and electronic pop music examples springing to mind. Why? There can be drawn parallels upon such movements as minimal wave, post-punk, spaced-out synthesizer rock, dub, and krautrock which definitely would have impact on the abovementioned artists in a more or lesser extent. Although the music presented there is ambitious it does not sacrify its emotional side. Get in those 80 minutes to get a parallel world for yourself.      

It May Never End – Such Is Life (2008)

Bandcamp

Lastfm

/Post-rock, Epic, Experimental rock, Ambient rock, Electronic, Drone/

Comment: Victoria, Australian-based one-man-project by Neil Spicer is a post-rock representative whose 7-track issue is a solid one – it is well produced filled with majestic Epiphone Les Paul guitar chords and dreamy landscapes in the background. Sometimes those elements are stretched out or varicoloured with glitch drenched noises and bewitchingly droning electronic progressions or staticness. By listening to it the listener may experience a sense while driving across the hilly landscape open to picturesque panoramas and breath-taking views. However, at times those landscapes are developed on its own to transcend the borders of post-rock genre to become a sort of ambient music. Neil Spicer follows a common post-rock formula to find out fine balance between muscles/body and soul, between mundane and eternal. However, Spicer used to present their music without dizzy, slamming crescendos – instead of it the listener can enjoy slowly developing chords and sections to get its own packet of beauty. In a word, it is highly recommendable not only for all those post-rock music fans. It is even more precious because of being Spicer`s only long playing album to date. Such is life. 

Naked House – Afterthought EP (2013)

Bandcamp

/Indie pop, Synth rock, Alternative pop, DIY, Electro-indie/

Comment: Naked House is an one-man-band (Damon Guyett) from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada whose 6-track (within a  12 minute set only) issue is amalgamation of chirpy light-hearted melodies and burbly electronic keyboard driven pads, optimal string chords and brass whiffs thereby reminding of such one-man-combos as Magnetic Fields, and His Name Is Alive, for instance. The duo is backed up by highly sonorous and sensual vocal delivery of Ohsowhy (Ylva Krantz) whose female vocal contributes to the catchiest ditty on it, called The Joke We Lived Isn`t Funny Anymore by the way. The lyrics of the album is worth to be discovered (it says something about the zeitgeist of modern youth). In a word, the duo`s musical approach is simple and straight up yet striking your ears. Very good. Dig it.  

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

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• 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!