Memoirs of a Fallen Bomb - This Semester Is Going To End (2008)

Rack & Ruin

/Noise rock, Experimental rock, No Wave, Art rock, Space rock/

Comment: it is great pleasure to return to the catalogue of Rack & Ruin Records again and again. Memoirs of a Fallen Bomb`s 5-track issue consists of noisy and hirsute guitar riffs and more restrained noise burning on inferior levels. Maybe it is a contemporary, spacey instance of blues rock. However, on the other side there are also represented arpeggio-laden guitar arrangements which nature is remarkably circumspect yet filled with aesthetic tension. By the way, the release involves a video either. In a nutshell, this issue is worth to be remembered.  

(((О))) - Smoke (2011)

Oddot

/Witch house, Epic, Newbreed, Darkgaze, Drag house, Leftfield, Trianglecore/

Comment: this 6-track issue is a fine example from the pigeonhole of the so-called witch house/drag house music. I am very satisfied with this issue because of providing solemn synth feeling conjured up by tight cathedral organ drones and on the other side it broadens your imagination due to dystopia invoked compositional impulses. Sea incorporates field recording sounds into the mix of hanging synth progressions. The best moment on the album is Night which is profoundly dreamlike, warm and majestic offering the feeling like you are swimming in a pool with the temperature at least 35 C by Celsius.        

Nils Frahm - Screws (2012)

Erased Tapes

Lastfm

/Modern classical, Piano music, Minimal, Post-classical/

Comment: Screws was recorded while Berlin, Germany based musician Nils Frahm was recovering from a thumb injury. The album includes volatile chord progressions and restrained motive developments played on the piano. Indeed, those motives spawned over there used to surface and then meander over lone landscapes and then disappear into nothing. It can say that Frahm´s goal is not to reach some goal in a direct sense but just to move on and provide moody impulses and moments. On the other side, the album`s sense can be considered a successful equilibrium between silence and sound.              

[Teaser of the day] Fatti Frances - You´re Dead

Free Music Archive 

• Avant-pop
• Electronic
• Drag house
• Leftfield
• Crunkgaze
• Noir music
• Psychedelic
• Witch house

[Teaser of the day] The Brackets - Change Of Vibrations

Soundcloud

• Alternative rock
• Blues rock
• Art rock

Bark Bark Disco - Big Love

The Utica Flower Company - The Utica Flower Company (2007)

Quixodelic

Daydream Generation

Lastfm

/New Weird America, Free folk, Space rock, Acid rock, Indie folk, Psychedelic folk, Drone folk, Trance rock, Experimental folk, Folk indie, Psych-folk/

Comment: this 14-track issue is a decorous example of the so-called New Weird (America) movement. The album was released in 2007 which was the heyday of the style. More profoundly, expressive but ecstatic singing is tightly surrounded by burbly guitar twanging, spacey drones, and solfeggio choruses. At times folk tunes are to progress and metabolize into hazy trance rock templates thereby conjuring up psychedelic flashbacks and dilated self-realization. Certainly it is a wondrous experience to stop by and listen and be part of it. Indeed, those times were unforgettable ones because anyone called the shots and believed he/she can provide something precious to the world. The collective was related to such labels/platforms as Quixodelic Records and Daydream Generation which in turn were closely related to such wondrous music platform as it was Indiana-based CLLCT, of which involving hundreds of DIY projects. I really hope it is possible to recover it sometime.                      

Spacegoats – Live at the Rainbow Church '94 (1994)

Archive.org

/Psych-folk, New Weird Britain, Free folk, Live session, Exprimental folk, Improvised music, World fusion, Raga folk/

Comment: I guess everyone who has listened to music produced by Children Of The Drone and its satellite projects can recognise immediately the link between these projects. However, these crews are not being directly related to each other (Spacegoats started off in 1991 and lasted for approximately 10 years). This 10-track issue is a fabulous set of gushing energy and good feeling invoked by powerful singing and chanting and mystical string based progressions and ethnic music/tribal propulsions (there are represented such rarefied instruments as bouzouki, djembe, dulcimer, didgeridoo, mandolin). It sounds like carnival music uniting mundane dimension with divine perspective. It is a very proper issue worthy of historical legacy. Highly recommended (pf course).         

Philip Johnson – 0714 (2015)

Year Zero

/Experimental pop, Primitive music, Industrial, Experimental electronica,  Avant-pop, Art pop, Dada music, Freeformfreakout, Non-music, Improvised music, Weird pop/

Comment: this the second entry of mine into the discography of Year Zero Records, an experimental label frequently promoted by such great blogspot as Die or D.I.Y?. Philip Johnson`s 30-minute long album consists of spastic electronic drifts, overdriven guitar noises and angular drumming reminding an early Cabaret Voltaire, for instance. However, all of it said above conveys almost nothing about the release because if you do not listen to it you cannot perceive this frantic dada-drenched attitude resulting in fairly weird sonic effects, bent words, spinning noises, elongated keys and uncanny classical music developments. Furthermore, it is simultaneously primitive (sometimes also mimicking minimalist music stances) and sophisticated (for instance, conveying feeling of social relevance to the listener at Just Like It Should). Johnson`s experiments with simplistic yet somewhat eerie electronic beeps remind me of such eccentric electronic music pioneers as Bruce Haack, and Raymond Scott. Very solid issue by any avant-garde measures.    

Tunguska Electronic Music Society - Siberian Jungle Vol.5 (2014)

Bandcamp

Jamendo

/Drum and bass, Electronica, Jungle, Mood music, Dream and bass/

Comment: TEMS is a collective of artists and musicians from Siberia, Russia who have issued a barrage of compilation albums during the last 7-8 years. They have got many followers all around the world. This time their key word is jungle, though their approach is without orthodox one because of mixing those pumped rhythms with synthesizer invoked magniloquent panoramas and drowsy new age-y feeling and even indie electronic and jazzy whiffs. It is a moody album rather than having intention to conquer the club venues. However, there are up some exceptions either. Get yourself the headphones and listen to this decent agreement between those spaced-out panoramas, blissful synth touches and spicy rhythms. It used to ignite some memories from my childhood while watching and enjoying the film score of such cartoon as Tayna Tretey Planety (1981, Sojuzmultfilm). Indeed, the compilation embraces a lot of outstanding compositions. There are represented such artists as Susanin, N-Box, Black Dominates, Joint Stock Galaxy, Berkheya, Cj Ools, Parhelia, SND, Van. In a word, TEMS did it again. It is obviously one of the best compilations from the year 2014. The more you listen to it the more it winds up.    

[Teaser of the day] Microvolt - Morta

• Micronoise
• Modern classical
• Organic electronica
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Glitchtronica

[Teaser of the day] Astral & Shit - Despair

GV Sound

• Ambient
• Soundscapes
• Organic electronica
• Ambient drone
• Epic

Oplen - Electronic Music For Disarmament

Chinese Cookie Poets – ■ (2014)

Bandcamp

/No Wave, Experimental rock, Free jazz, Avant-rock, Improvised music, Electro-rock, Alternative dance/

Comment: Chinese Cookie Poets is a Rio De Janeiro, Brazil-based combo who has issued some albums with a spicy touch of No Wave and improvisation based templates. This album hints at black square which was a symbol spawned by the geometric abstract art pioneer Kazimir Malevich. This time CCP`s 13-track issue crosses more evidently than ever before experimental tendencies with dance rock propulsions full of synergic impulses and vivid incantations. Bold bass lines are interlaced with electronically drenched noises and elongated impulses over there. One of the best albums in 2014.       

Deepfunk – Mistakes Are Blue (2014)

Beachcoma

/Krautrock, Electronic pop, Synth pop, Alternative/  

Comment: by listening to this couple of tracks it reminds of the Krautrock legend Kraftwerk because of exploiting those slowly meandering harmony progressions and mid-tempo electronic synth cadences. Furthermore, it can even say it is somehow epic and majestic despite (or thanks to) its mechanical shell. Indeed, there is up a refined relationship between sublime rhythms and beatific melodies which revolve in a spiral way returning and fading away again.             

w.x – Certain Species (2011)

Bandcamp

/Experimental electronica, Ambient, Avant-electronica, Drone, Electronic pop/

Comment: this 3-track album starts off with swaying and beeping synthesised effects, microtonal sonic fabrics, industrial-tinged dizzy echoes and hypnotic ambient-alike hovers atop (quite reminiscent the aesthetics of an early period Kraftwerk). Upon it the release goes on in the same direction filled with majestic droning, oneiric noises and semi tones which are there to win over eventually. It is quite simple but mind-blowing by a producer from Winsconsin, USA.       

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.