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7/01/2015

Hassan K. - Talab (2014)




/World fusion, Conceptual, Electronic, Alternative, Jazz, Crossover, Surf music, Electro-metal/

Comment: Keyvane Alinaghi aka Hassan K is a French musician of Iranian/Persian heritage whose oeuvre is being influenced by glorious cultural traditions of his native-land and on the other side it involves many the Western/European music elements. In a word, it is a poignant melting pot for arousing your sensations and feels. This time his music is being inspired by Mantiq at-Tayr, a Sufist poem from middle-age Persia. More concretely, the album starts off with To The Raksh Mobile! drawing on moving metal riffs and electronic Middle Eastern melody progressions to be interwoven with one another. 110 Sédâ Kardan is an attention-getting surf attack with spiky brass sections and electronic pins atop. Chrini is a calmed down downbeat progression to provide you a somehow otherworldly feeling. Iran has unfortunately been demonized by the Western media with regard to an alleged nuclear program in recent years. Haji Firuz is something about Persian ethnic music varicoloured with free jazz induced threads and grooves. By listening to this bunch more carefully you can discern even more sublime vamps and effects. Technically the issue is set up with uncommon solutions to create sonorously something refreshing and superior. This set of 13 notches and additionally Alinaghi`s previous albums could be a good promotion to perceive the Persian people`s dimensional inner life.  

6/30/2015

[Teaser of the day] Maps And Diagrams - Jupiter Incidental


  • Electronica
  • Kosmische Musik
  • Psybient
  • Chilltronica
  • Space music

Release: Snowglobe EP
Label: Sutemos
Year: 2011

Gotikplage - We Are Synonymous With Sin (2008)




/Experimental metal, Ambient, Screamo, Progressive metal, Psychedelic/

Comment: Gotikplage was the first nom de plume of Nic Ross, an artist from Whitehouse, Ohio, USA who headed a fine netlabel called Modicum Of Silence which was an outlet for different artists from Whitehouse-environing/Ohio area. Mostly there were up artists who played innovative electronica, folk and rock fuelled music (Telemetrics, Chad Foltz, Kevin McCraney, Tree No Leaves, Abstressionist etc). Maybe the most well-known artist was Brothertiger, who gained enough success at the pinnacle of chillwave/glo-fi/hypnagogic hype. However, this 8-track issue was released when Nic Ross was only 16-year old. We Are Synonymous With Sin is the tight blend of progressive metal, screamo and ambient music elements being accentuated with boldly psychedelic organ sounds and concrete music whiffs at times. Of course, those slowly progressing spaced-out soundscapes are spellbinding ones. At times the listener can feel as if there is raucous screaming balanced with airy sonic pads. All these tendencies would forebode the forthcoming aesthetics of Our Subatomic Earth, Ross` next one-man-project. Yet, Gotikplage`s oeuvre was remarkably more concise because the compositions are particularly short-running, for instance, reaching the mark of 2 minute only on one occasion at here. In a nutshell, these 10 minutes and 40 seconds are thoroughly striking.

6/29/2015

[Teaser of the day] x.y.r. - Dreamwave


  • Chillwave
  • Tropical pop
  • Soundscape
  • Mood music
  • Exotica pop 
  • Dreamwave
  • Organic electronica

Artist: x.y.r
Label: Handstitched 
Year: 2015

Lights & Motion - The Spectacular Quiet

6/27/2015

[Teaser of the day] Edge of October - ghost signals i . transmissions from a ruined city


  • Industrial illbient
  • Leftfield
  • Post-industrial
  • Sound-art
  • Dark ambient
  • Soundscape
  • Dystopbient
  • Avant-garde
  • Experimentalism

Label: Torn Flesh
Year: 2010


Hanetration – Acid Reflux EP (2015)




/Avant-garde, Neoclassical, Illbient, Drone, Experimentalism, Film noir, Microtonal, Post-industrial, Chamber music/

Comment: Acid Reflux EP is not the first notch by the London, UK-based project Hanetration at Recent Music Heroes because of being prolific on the average and providing cues how to produce restrained yet evocative music. Indeed, it is music, though, being very far away from possible centres of the pop music (in case if they exist). More profoundly, it is tight flirtation with eerie shadows and abandoned landscapes and metal-filled wastelands and warehouses. Hanetration`s music is an asylum for your dreadful dreams and fantasies, however, being partly unknown and recognisable at the same time. As if one having knowledge about something intimidating one once met and having no wish to fall in with anymore. Sonically, of course, it is wondrous and enthralling – in addition to densely droning landscapes it involves chamber music threads to add something new and thoroughly captivating to the mix. Maybe it is a sort of pop music though. Maybe we should differentiate infantile (pop)/AOR music from essential music? However, both of them need each other to set into opposition and thus preserving the meaning and core of their intention and appearance. Technically, it is permeated with phase changes, pitched-up effects, bits and drones to come slowly to the surface. In a word, get in touch with these spellbinding post-industrial landscapes. Maybe it depicts the era when the human being is extinct due to its obtuseness or more clever and perfect robots will be up there to hold sway over the Earth and preserving other species and Earth in overall. I am quite convinced they will be listening to Acid Reflux EP at the robot oriented radio stations (ROR music) the same time.

6/26/2015

[Teaser of the day] Tzeshi - Fossil of Flame



  • Minimal dub
  • Dubstep
  • Experimental electronica
  • Industrial illbient

Artist: Tzeshi
Year: 2014

Philippe Faujas – Deriva Sonora (2011)




/Musique concrète, Field recording, Experimentalism, Non-music/

Comment: it was many years ago when I ardently argued about outside recorded sounds with my friend. The point was about valuableness of those sounds while you have chance to go out to the nature otherwise. More concretely, how valuable could be the simulacrum in fact? However, my then hostile stance has softened over the years. Furthermore, the field recording compositions are frequently processed and/or blended with artificial sounds and/or conceptually confined to have disparate goal other than just providing an anaemic template from the nature. The Spanish artist of French heritage Philippe Faujas` 19-minute composition involves windy “beats”, crackles, clicks, hits, speech snippets, motorcycle accelerations and bypasses, street noises, the paces of human beings, train induced metronomic “cadences” and so forth. Tongue in cheek, at times the soundscape can be considered the natural kind of glitched-out music because of being tightly wrapped up by a high consistency of hisses and crackles. In a nutshell, it is an interesting alternation to your common listening habits. 

6/25/2015

[Teaser of the day] Elbee - PortaSound


  • Techno pop
  • Glitch pop
  • Electronic pop
  • Ambient
  • Alternative dance
  • Experimental pop
  • Leftfield pop

Artist: Elbee
Label: Wood & Wire
Year: 2014


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Mila Severtseva – Lony EP (2015)




/Experimental electronica, IDM, Experimental techno, Abstract techno/

Comment: I feel many associations are truly sympathetic considering this 4-track issue. I like the way the electronic sound is being produced nowadays. Just take some samples and rhythmic cadences and process them heavily through the sonic filters and looping machines. For instance, at Eir Eelin` the artist exploits a sample of the doorbell to develop and build up the whole track on it. Secondly, I like the role the women enact in the electronic music today. Vampire Weekend, Julia Holter, Maria Minerva, Laurel Halo etc.  Mila Severtseva, however, can particularly be discriminated in one compartment with such IDM/experimental techno/glitched-out techno artists as Zavoloka, adamned.age, AGF. Thirdly, she comes out of Saint Petersburg, the northern capital of Russia which is a beautiful city. In overall, the electronic music is up there to provide endless possibilities for real and potential musicians nowadays. The other tracks by Severtseva within the EP are embellished with clockwork-alike sounds and lethargic rhythms in abstract terms or running quite balmy though often wound up with machine gun near frequencies and glitched-out threads which are emphatically twisted from its original bits. Dig out this nascent EP for yourself and your neighbours. 

6/24/2015

[Teaser of the day] Primitive Noyes - EarthLike Planets



  • Ambient rock
  • Post-rock
  • Noise rock
  • Experimental rock
  • Alternative rock
  • Space rock
  • Angst pop

Label: Self-released 
Year: 2013

Nienvox - My Hand Makes Circle In The Sunset Air (2010)




/Nu jazz, Alternative pop, Chill out, Cinematic, Electronic jazz, Breaks, Acid jazz, Mood music/

Comment: Nienvox is an one-man producer from Yekaterinburg, Russia whose sound is very symptomatic to characterize a tendency in the music world during the last ten years. The Russian musician`s sound is composed of a pile of elements of jazz, electronica, indie pop, and and chill out sound. It is pre-dominantly instrumental though involving some samples from the motion pictures. Frequently there are up two layers of sounds with purpose to accentuate the contrast between them and then bridge them. More profoundly, lo-fi tinged rhythms are counterpointed with cinematic synth progressions or orchestrated clouds atop. His technical aesthetics comes out of heavy sample processing and mixtape presence and on the other side there have relentlessly been turning up viable impulses from the past by inspiring musicians to create something truly breath-taking and wondrous. In fact, it does not make difference to analyse is his 4-track composition either more artsy inflicted or mood music induced. It is a natural part of development of things the artist is being related to such music records (Bump Foot, Pop Errors Gallery and Dusted Wax Kingdom) who have contributed to popularize such sort of sound described above. In a word, it is a great outing to accompany your late nights and early mornings. 

6/23/2015

[Teaser of the day] Project Divinity - Relax



  • Ambient
  • Chill out
  • New Age
  • Space music
  • Minimal
  • Mood music
  • Soundscapes

Release: Ambient  
Label: Jamendo  
Year: 2009

Mystified - Cardboard Hotel Revisited (2014)




/Drone, Soundscape, Musique concrete, Minimalism, Ambient drone, Dark ambient, Avant-garde, Sound-art, Conceptual, Experimentalism/

Comment: undoubtedly Thomas Park aka Mystified (also known as Autocad, Mister Vapor) is being one of the most known web/net audio veterans who has been creating music since the first half of the 00s. His tenure might only be comparable with Dave Keifer aka Cagey House in this compartment. There is up one long-running composition, having a length of 20 minutes and 54 seconds. By listening to it the listener can perceive that such a kind of ambient drone and dark ambient music could be truly emotive. Maybe even the most arousing music produced around him/her. It does not particularly speak about love between people which might frequently turn into a buzz word only. It does not particularly speak love for God which might frequently be subliminal. It is all about warm sounds to surface and conjoin with one another step by step. More concretely, it is about hisses and microscopic noises, it is all about restrainedly progressing whistling impulses here and there which are to get in touch with the concrete music sounds (some buried rhythms resemble the locomotive`s wheel-induced frequencies) in the second part. At times these sounds are counterpointed with magically haunting orchestrated clouds coming from nowhere, then sustaining and fading out. Emotionally these 1254 seconds are positive ones although the objects speculatively denoted over there might be ominous and venomous (of course, I don`t concretely focus upon such majestic creatures as the snakes). I mean mystified creatures spawned in the human being`s mind and soul with purpose to broaden our inner and outer space and then conquer it. Don`t forget – the human being needs actually wilderness and space (without being changed it into places totally) around him/her. Space is actually not equal to place. The former is tremendously more high-powered and divine. As she/he needs it she/he needs Mystified-kind sound either (although he/she might not be aware of it in fact). In a nutshell, get this gem to fulfil one of your most essential needs. By the way, conceptually the issue is related to Park`s first outing Cardboard Hotel EP on the Webbed Hand imprint in 2004.    

6/22/2015

[Teaser of the day] Kalvik - LNTE


  • Tech-house
  • Club dance
  • Hi-NRG
  • Electronic dance music

Artist: Kalvik
Album: Kalvikkaanid
Label: Lejal Genes
Year: 2006

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Joxfield ProjeX – Archives EP 7 – Dark Castle (2013)




/Space rock, Improvised music, Psych-rock, Avant-rock, Electronic, Art rock, Fusion, Experimental rock, Jazz rock, Avant-prog, Kosmische Musik/

Comment: any time I feel tempted to repeat what I have already said in earlier reviews and add something new to more recent issues with regard to Joxfield ProjeX, the Swedish magical duo of Janne Yan Andersson, and Stefan Oax Ek. I recommend search for my interview with Stefan at Recent Music Heroes taken approximately four years ago where he cast light upon their activity, influences, history and something else. More concretely, they are two gentlemen from the two biggest cities In Sweden who started their collaboration exactly 50 years ago while doing it for 10 years. However, their new activity in the embodiment of Joxfield ProjeX was born in 2005 in a small village (Kolpebo) somewhere in between Gothenburg and Stockholm. They just decided to gather over there to create and produce music for its own sake. Indeed, what dedication! Most albums produced so far are being released on their own imprint Tin Can Music, and Moscow-based Clinical Archives. This year, however, they issued a vinyl release, called Casino Royal in collaboration with Acid Mother Temple`s ex-singer and synth player Cotton Casino. The pre-eminent outing was released on Bam Balam, the legendary French imprint for innovative rock music since 1982. Hurry up, it is the limited edition only! Besides, they have collaborated with such progressive rock luminaries as Geoff Leigh, and Pat Mastoletto, and digital culture sociopath Kenji Siratori during this quite short span of time. By the way, Acid Mother Temple`s frontman Makoto Kawabata featured at Submarine Trees on Casino Royal.

At Archives EP – Dark Castle all the sound is produced by themselves only which does not surprise because the EP is a part of the Archives EP series, a bunch if issues which used to reflect upon their early doings in the 00s. It consists of two compositions (Dark Castle; Heavy Oax Missing) replete with more hidden or unveiled sonic layers. The sound is mostly improvised, yet, it chimes in the way the process to be properly managed. And it is actually very fine because allowing to get more focused and bring forth more ingredients and flavours from within. Despite it the more you listen to it the more you will experience vertigo and feel how your foot lose touch with the ground. By regarding the psychedelic music it is the very goal on its own. Musically there are represented incisive guitar strokes and deliberately dysfunctional guitar riffs (reminding of Jimi Hendrix at times) which are permeated with haunting fusion-alike chord progressions and eerie woodwind whiffs somewhere in the middle of it. The other counterpoints come out from rhythm fuelled levels – those obsessively monotonous punches only accentuate the glowering nature of the issue even more. Highly recommended.  

6/21/2015

[Teaser of the day] LuckEnHouse - Mangalore


  • Mood music
  • Ambient trance
  • Psyambient
  • Space music
  • Chilltronica
  • Crossover
  • World music
  • Exotic

ArtistLuckEnHouse
Release: Panaji
Year: 2014   

Golgotha Communications Ltd - Those Who Can Do, Those Who Can't, Dj (2014)




/Glitchtronica, Experimentalism, Sampledelic, Post-industrial, Minimal, Abstract, Noise, Psycho-acoustics, Avant-garde/

Comment: it is time to get back to Golgotha Communications Ltd., the Philadelphia, US-based combo whose 12-track issue on SP Net might spawn different feelings in your rotten soul. There are up some intriguing moments within the mix. For instance, the issue can be considered an example of industrial music which is predominantly coated with the black/white vamp, however, there are up samples which used to iterate quite funny to counterbalance the issue. More concretely, the slightly aggressive female vocal-based repetition at I Saw Him Putting Mascara On is permeated with “errors” at the volume level and the upper layers are effectively accentuated with gay rhythms (by the noun side, however, the LGBT people`s role has been important in the history of industrial music – of course, it does not mean that the sexual disposition is somehow superior in creative doings). In truth, you can exploit speech samples in a way to change the context and creating something differently new. Secondly, there are up some occupying production tricks as if conjuring up horrifying flashbacks in your mindset. It can be considered in conjunction with those “errors” being mentioned above. In fact, there is up one “chill out” track called A Huge Bra, Lying In The Middle Of The Dancefloor. It is calmed down in the sense as if you have profoundly cried for a while before and then being got rid of feels you just listening to it with an unimpressed gaze. In a nutshell, it is a configuration of vanguard shit and diverting roundabouts yet setting its place in a distance being very remote from imaginable centres of pop music.                     

6/20/2015

[Teaser of the day] Bottlesmoker - Frozen Scratch Cerulean


  • IDM
  • Alternative pop
  • Acid pop
  • Mood music
  • Indietronica
  • Electronic pop

Artist: Bottlesmoker
Release: Hypnagogic
Label: Dystopiaq
Year: 2013

Doomettes - Song About A Noun

PA - 14.05.04 Thru (2014)




/Neo-krautrock, Kosmische Musik, New Age, Psychedelic, Drone pop, Electronic, Mood music, Motorik, Ambient pop, Experimental rock/

Comment: regarding the stylistic perception quite much has changed in heads of the listeners since the times of 10 years or more ago. For instance, music which was considered as “noise” (for instance, My Bloody Valentine, or Sonic Youth) sounds quite poppy and common nowadays. Furthermore,  for “krautrock” which was to denote something very vanguard on its own, however, one branch of it coalesced into a more poppy and soothing approach (more concretely, by handling such bands from a new wave of the axis of Cologne-Dusseldorf as Tarwater, Kreidler, To Rococo Rot) and Stereolab, Lali Puna, and Ladytron from elsewhere. Of course, it didn`t mean these bands were somehow betrayers of the genre but it might be it was the only way to create something new being influenced by the zeitgeist. However, today the term “krautrock” and “noise” are so ambivalent because the seeds of the genres are spread out to everywhere and can be found from almost any track regarding indie music (taken up more or less consciously). The case of decadence, isn`t? Andrew Cauthen is an artist from Richmond, Virginia, USA who has been producing music for more than a decade and being loved by many listeners (just watch the downloading rates of his albums at Archive.org). His sonic palette is being quite broad, though, gravitated towards electronic music. The recent issue consists of 3 long-running compositions which is tagged as "ambient", "IDM", "chillwave", "indie pop" among others. Indeed, all these stylistic elements are represented on the issue though the main point focuses on minimalist motorik krautrock rhythms, sublime psychedelic droning and spaced-out phasing and progressions reminding of Kosmische Musik-tinged synthesised whiffs and blows and lingering chill out contortions. By its approach the music reminds of such old artists as Neu!, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream. Although the album lacks guitars the issue rocks off in an indirect sense anyway. Get a glimpse upon it!

[Teaser of the day] Comptroller - Heartbeat Nites



  • Acid jazz
  • Wonky
  • Glitch-hop
  • Nu jazz
  • Breaks
  • Chill out
  • Mood music

Artist: Comptroller
Year: 2015

Manakal - Goodbye My Life (2014)




/Lobit, Lo-fi, DIY, Non-music, Leftfield, Psycho-acoustic/

Comment: it is said at the Popsakal Records` site this is the goodbye album by Manakal. Having had no knowledge of that I would think it is a soundtrack for to commit suicide. Yet, there is the hint to his life thus thinking in this direction is quite reasonable. More profoundly, what kind of suicide then with regard to a length of 3.33? Hanging by the neck? Cutting the veins? Jumping down from the board of a plane? Rolling down from the mountain? Inhale the CO in the garage while the engine of a car is switched on? In comparison with the sparse seconds the issue`s content is even more austere. It sounds like a reversed soundscape of the moaning viscera where peristalsis is severely dysfunctional and painful conjuring up dull and indecipherable sounds. Or is it the sound coming from an outer space of asshole-shaped? In a word, the result is same in any cases. I like these absurd albums issued on the politically highly incorrect Popsakal Records. At least these artists got used to be without hypocrisy in their expression if compared to the rest of this arse felt world. Let´s smack that ass-to-mouth misanthropic thing. 

6/18/2015

Kingdom Of The Holy Sun - Getting Higher



[Teaser of the day] Deprivation - Freyr


  • Mood music
  • Nu jazz
  • Breaks
  • Jungle
  • Club jazz
  • Chill out
  • Crossover
  • Acid jazz
  • Breakbeat

Artist: Deprivation
Release: Corona
Label: Chill-label
Year: 2013



Alexico – Acosador de Media Noche (Episodio No. 2) (2011)




/Synth punk, Electronic, Lo-fi, Alternative dance, Singer-songwriter, Synth funk/

Comment: Alexico sounds literally nearly as close as Calexico, the Southern US-based Americana band with some Mexican music influences (the so-called Tex Mex genre). Although Alexico comes out of Monterrey, Mexico the artist`s soundscape is completely different exploring remarkably more chaotic and noisy sonic soundscapes. This bunch of 6 tracks is saturated with restless attitude where cheap synths are severely twisted and the general vibe of the EP is deliberately discontinuous and rhythms and moods are frequently skipped. Granted the guy behind the project is young at age the compositions are replete with angst, incisive shouts and spicy vocal choruses. The production is mainly blaring thereby coming quite close to the aesthetic of digital hardcore (though stylistically this notch makes difference) and being quite contrary to such nowadays analogue-based indie artists as Lee Noble, Ducktails, M Geddes Gengras, for instance. The artist`s apparent purpose is not to provide possibilities about coalescence at it because of ranging from infantile synth progressions to frantic punk outbursts to thought-provoking electronic experiments (based mainly on the vocal modulations) to more calmed down synth funk cadences. By the way, as it is mentioned afore the artist originates from Monterrey where dwells an interesting indie coterie gravitating towards Delhotel Records. In short, it is an interesting issue indeed. 

6/17/2015

[Teaser of the day] Sol - Ceremonial Rot


  • Art metal
  • Funeral doom
  • Post-metal
  • Chamber music
  • Experimental metal
  • Avant-metal

Artist: Sol
Label: Drowning.cc
Year: 2013


Luarvik Luarvik – Tabamata Ime (2002)




/Synth rock, Progressive rock, Fusion, Improvised music, RIO, Avant-rock, Psychedelic, Art rock/

Comment: because of having no intentional pop pretensions (or having it in other, more inferior and hidden terms) Mihkel Kleis headed combo`s sophomoric issue is not a subject about the second and problematic album topic being so popular in discussions about pop albums throughout last decades. Although the line-up is a little bit changed with regard to the breath-taking debut album Baltic Station Sessions (2000) the musicians continue to solidify their fusion and prog-rock based metaphysics in terms of sounds. If to compare it to the debut album the issue involves more spiky, high-pitched synths and noisy, chunky guitar chord infused undercurrents here and there (making nods toward Canterbury-based prog/fusion groups of the 60s and 70s and dizzy electrically groovy albums by Miles Davis in the first half of the 70s and even to the Soviet period regatta pop and yacht rock groups). On the other side, emotively the result is similar due to an uncountable quantum of key changes, simultaneously surfacing theme explorations and chords from different channels and watery synth vamps interwoven with light-hearted drumming by Andres Lõo. Probably the most poppy notch is Ak due to careless shift and full-fledged easiness at its core. The first four tracks are recorded in the studio and the rest of three ones are takings from one musical event in 2001. By not much time passed after that Mihkel Kleis started off his more experimental and conceptually more ambiguous project EDASI and later made some solo albums (his recent music project is called Ratkiller). In any cases, Tabamata Ime constitutes a dynamic and organic chapter in the Estonian progressive and jazz rock history.              

6/16/2015

[Teaser of the day] Aydio - Track


  • Trip-hop
  • Chilltronica
  • Downtempo
  • Cinematic
  • Indie-hop
  • Dub
  • Mood music
  • Chill out

Artist: Aydio
Release: Deltitnu EP
Year: 2009

Alternative links:
Lastfm
Bandcamp
Archive.org

A Sol Mechanic - Just Pick Me Up EP (2014)




/RnB, Soul, Urban music, Cinematic, Sampledelic, Mood music, Chill out/

Comment: A Sol Mechanic is a producer from Los Angeles, California, USA who issued his 5-track issue on New York-based imprint Stereocure. Actually it is highly symbolic to build bridge between the two biggest cities in the USA because the artist`s album is thoroughly urban, modern and related to urbanity. More concretely, the album is a representative of the so-called modern rhythm and blues and soul music. It does mean it runs on a shitloads of samples and the knacks represented on it are the workout of intense production. The mood touch is truly relaxing due to low-slung paces, wonky LFO filtered piano taps, cinematic vibes and slightly drunk-pitched vocal deliveries. At times those soothing yet hazy bass lines remind of more subdued moments from Air`s classical album Moon Safari (particularly in the beginning at Feels Like Us). However, this release`s essentiality couldn`t be brought forth without the influence of Flying Lotus´ importance on the aforementioned genres (you can distinctly hear sampledelic and chunky lo-fi approach in creating the sequence of rhythms). As the artist sings /just take your time, just take your time for me/crosslife for me/. Just pick it up!      

6/15/2015

[Teaser of the day] Hanetration - Tthwiel



  • Abstract
  • Illbient
  • Art music
  • Post-classical
  • Avant-garde
  • Minimalism
  • Experimentalism
  • Post-industrial

ある一日。 – 文月だいご (2015)




/Toytronica, Baroque pop, Organic electronica, Chamber pop, Indietronica, Post-pop, Art folk, Folktronica, Post-folk, Crossover, Cowbell indie/

Comment: although I have listened to this handful of tracks for many times I do not know how the artist`s name and the title of the album should be pronounced being signified for the MS Mincho font. However, it might even be useful of having no hints at it because of getting free hands to interpret it on more emotional level. By classification it is a menarche of styles which core is loaded emotionally for your sad days (divorce from your lover, enjoying late autumn days). Indeed, it veers away from infantile indie electronic progressions and arpeggio-shaped guitar shaping to full-fledged orchestrated manoeuvres and picturesque cowbell indie tinkling. Sonically it is an interesting listening because much debris used to flit around to get entered into the mix of stringed instruments and electronic shuffles. Furtermore, the artist exploits concrete sounds to progress into it or getting out of it. In any cases, doing it in an organic way. Although there is passed by many decades from the onset of indietronic/folktronic music to be appeared the genre still does have enough potential and credibility to compete with nascent genres and survive many of them (for instance, chillwave, witch house). Similar artists might be candidates for the future mainstream charts sometime (for instance, in 2055). One of the most pre-eminent issues in 2015 is here to get immersed in. Utmost coalescence.        

6/14/2015

[Teaser of the day] DavidKBD - El Cuervo Asustado Se Escapa



  • Heavy metal
  • Chiptune
  • 8-bit
  • Electro-metal
  • Tracker music
  • Crossover
  • Acid metal
  • Synth fusion

[Teaser of the day] Borstal Boy - Jerichos Burning


  • Space music
  • Leftfield
  • Post-pop
  • Experimental pop
  • Kosmische Musik
  • Ambient pop

[Teaser of the day] BLAKKR NIO - Harvest King`s Revenge



  • Stoner metal
  • Drone doom metal
  • Post-metal
  • Experimental metal
  • Avant-metal

Bongley Dead - Where Are You

FatCat + Õunaviks present: TMW 2015 (2015)




/Indie folk, Dream folk, New Weird, Folk indie, World music, Post-classical, Experimental electronica, Art music, Folktronica, Lo-fi/

Comment: the title of this 35-minute long issue hints at different subjects. Before anything else, it is related to such a musical event as Tallinn Music Week which main goal is to promote Estonian independent artists to invited foreign music promoters and other music business related people. However, the event consists of different compartments and sections where is a place for the artists outside Estonia either (mainly for the artists of Lihuania, and Latvia). FatCat is a well-known record label from UK and Õunaviks is an imprint for home recording artists in Estonia. This sampler will constitute a cohesive whole of folk tinged compositions. Some tracks are infused with more electronic fabrics, some are more traditional or world music oriented. Cirkl`s piece Malmö is a doo wop fuelled electronic masterpiece, Mirjam Tally`s composition Intro - Main Theme From Ülo Pikkov's Film Body Memory binds together post-classical compositional rationales with folksy whiffs. The most pre-eminent artist on it is Vashti Bunyan whose Across The Water is a wondrous trip through the eras and across the mystical plateaus. Additionally, there are represented such artists as Kago, C Duncan, Maarja Nuut, Mari Kalkun, and Spice Mouse.

Zaivx - Extruder Vol.1 (2014)




/Chiptune, Chipbreak, Primitive music, 8-bit, Tracker music, Bitpop/

Comment: it is dance music with vintage attitude and format and on the other side it is a sort of moody music because drawing on catchy melody cascades. Actually I have no idea why such sort of music is sympathetic to me – actually it is childish and primitive; it represents the era when the PC music yet started to develop. It might be there is up the contrasts between the aforementioned aspects – between the format and bouncy melodies which will seamlessly fuse into each other. On the other side, another reason is obviously related to our childhood and our fondnedd for Nintendo and cartridge games. Furthermore, this album can be a soundtrack to a superficial yet ideal world of low-resolution bits and pixels. The album is issued on Lowtoy, the Barcelona, Catalonia-based imprint. 

Tallinn Daggers - Fresco LOVER012 (2011)




/Electronic pop, Alternative dance, Breaks, Chill out, Remix, Electro-indie, Mood music/

Comment: Tallinn Daggers is a combo from Tallinn, Estonia headed up by Ardo Kivi. Fresco comes out from a time when TD´s music was to be less rock/post-punk and more electronic, beat and synth-oriented. The single is saturated with interesting sonic effects, and indie dance/baggy rhythms with vocoder-induced vocal lines (sung in English and Estonian). However, Paul Oja`s Nightmare Before Christmas Remix draws on more low-slung rhythms and providing a more tranquil, actually chill out sensibility. Several Symptoms Antidote Mix is set up in the way to have impact upon the listener with respect to the elegant shuffle of beats. By the way, recently they issued a new album, called Suburban Decay (available at Bandcamp, for instance).      

6/12/2015

[Teaser of the day] K4MMERER - Take A Risk, Get In

  • Post-disco
  • Electronic dance music
  • Electronic pop

[Teaser of the day] Sir Deja Doog - The Kamikaze Crucifix

  • Singer-songwriter
  • Indie folk
  • DIY
  • Folk indie
  • Americana

[Teaser of the day] The Pheromoans - Young Black Eyes


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

Tainnos – Versoa (2014)




/Ambient, Space music, Minimalism, Soundscape/

Comment: Henkka Kyllönen aka Tainnos` handful of tracks is a refined listening time because of providing sublime shifting within the space music compartment which is embellished with birdsong chirps, phantasmagorical flickers and hisses, majestic transitions from one phase to another. The result is craftily designed, however, offering up emotive impact on the listener. At times these peaks reach maximum heights being obviously outside the Earth and human consciousness. In correlation with the sonic side the cover print is mesmerizing as well. Beautiful and beatific in any cases.       

6/11/2015

Soy Robot - Sensibles y Binarios (2011)




/Electro-indie, Alternative pop, Krautrock, Big beat, Indie pop, Garage rock/

Comment: Soy Robot is a one-man project from Monterrey, Mexico and it is a proper time to remember again this overtly underrated and obviously forgotten issue. More profoundly, it is a blend of shimmering synths, atmospheric guitars, dynamic rhythms, elegantly shuffled noises and Spanish sung vocals. Stylistically this 8-track but short-running issue ending at 15.26) does have its place somewhere within the electro-indie pigeonhole yet having some hints to elsewhere either (big beat propulsions at Me, garage rock infused guitars at El, neokrautrock induced motorik beats at Asi, and Hecho, hazy yet relaxing sonic vectors at Han). Additionally to stylistic diversity the listener can perceive much air oozing out of those sonic configurations thereby conveying the sense of freedom. Let´s dig it out. 

The Tinopener's Art - Pure Elektronik Part 1 (2012)




/Robot pop, Remix, Experimental electronica, Tekno, Trance, Alternative dance, Electro pop, Leftfield, Mood music/

Comment: Tinopener`s Art is a musical project from Munich, Bavaria, Germany whose issue is a sort where electronic sonic art meets emotive odds and ends. It embarks on with a habit-forming electro pop song where robot dance and sing at the same time. Later on, Nanomaster evolves into a more trance-y territory with catchy rhythms and slightly dreamy synth crust atop. Actually the expression “German trance” was a pejorative one for 15-20 years ago but the recent one clearly deviates from it. LuckeEnHouse`s trance mix is a more straightforward yet self-ironic composition due to bouncy cadences and diverting cheers with regard to the previous track. Later tracks represented on the 6-notch issue are quite similar though variegating in mood and rhythmic nuances, however, conveying a plentiful back-up of spacey sounds throughout the course. Grab it!

6/09/2015

[Teaser of the day] Beak - Teach Texas Manners


  • Indietronica
  • Art pop
  • Experimental pop
  • Trip-hop
  • Alternative pop

[Teaser of the day] Keshco - The Count


  • Avant-pop
  • Psychedelic
  • Leftfield
  • Art pop
  • DIY
  • Experimental pop

[Teaser of the day] The Bordellos - Bomb Psychedelia



  • Psychedelic rock
  • Experimental rock
  • Space rock
  • Dark Wave
  • Art rock

Aires & Rui. P. Andrade - Pânico-Ambiente (2015)




/Noise, Ambient, Experimentalism, Drone, Improvised noise, Leftfield, Avant-garde, Ambient noise, Power electronics, Minimalism/

Comment: there is an evergreen question with regard to noise music – which kind of noise music is a good one? I guess this 2-notch issue is a decent one because these intense impulses are counterbalanced with more sublime textures. More concretely, harsh noise chords are interwoven with ambient templates and sonic effects/undulations though the former one is the predominant one. However, those sonic effects are configured in the way to conjure up tectonic outbursts and overthrows both in your mind and in the real soundscape. The Portugal-dwelling artists used to exploit the concepts of the wall of sound created by Phil Spector and full-spectrum-wide sonic coverage by Glenn Branca. Top notch. 

Asian Women On The Telephone - You Have Reached Your Destination (2014)




/Avant-rock, Improvised music, Leftfield, No Wave, Experimental rock, Free jazz, Electronic, Krautrock, Acid rock, Dada music, Spoken word, Psychedelic/

Comment: by listening to this overwhelming and deranged Russian avant-garde combo´s album you can perceive disparate impact areas – from psychedelic acid rock propulsions, free jazz induced solos to more destructive Dadaist aesthetics. Indeed, the whole chimes organically, as if the sonic whirlpool with many twists and threads. The listener can partake in obsessive yet amusing chants (in Russian) declared in front of the washes of incessantly flooding sonic torrents. Similarly to Faust, it involves an innumerable amount of unexpected turns in styles and moody excursions. I don´t know is it induced by knee-deep despair or is it just a fit of sarcastic laugh or cold-blooded manipulation with your mental health. Never mind. Astonishing work by any means. If you like the music by Ne Zhdali, Zvuki Mu, CAN`s Tago Mago, The Fall (especially the album Perverted By Language), Faust, Suicide, Borbetomagus, Maja Ratkje it is thought for you.     

Vaatican Records - "Sampler N°30" (2014)




/Experimental electronica, Leftfield, Psyambient, Sampledelic, Glitchtronica, Breakcore/

Comment: it is highly likeable to listen to this menarche of 20 tracks by different artists on Vaatican Records. By listening to these pieces of art you can perceive something fairly special coming through these compositions on the imprint. It does not matter when rough breaks and glitch loaded frequencies and freaked-out sound collages and sample infused noisy electro pop appearances are variegated with more moody psychedelic ambient and emotive electronica propulsions and cinematic break explorations. It might be the ideas based beneath these forms are set up in the way to keep close to each other, i.e having no big gap between each other. There are represented such artists as Chors Blor, Pagale, Timon Simplar, Muimuitikiti, Crackzilla, Bradley The Buyer, Rappeur Qualitè Prix, Vlooper, Age2.1, A Ghost In The Way, Steradd, Haruki Tamesue, Paq, Steve E. Denver,Delzoid, Cobra (avec Logo Panthère), Blue Cat Cinema. There are the masters at work indeed.       

6/07/2015

[Teaser of the day] Erich Schall - Neither Asleep Nor Awake


  • Deep techno
  • Ambient techno
  • Minimal techno

[Teaser of the day] Sophie Rimheden - Hold Me


  • Post-disco
  • Alternative dance
  • Electronic pop
  • Glitch pop

[Teaser of the day] Los Subwoofus - Turnwinkithpetr-z1


  • Indietronica
  • Leftfield
  • Experimental
  • Avant-pop
  • Shoegazetronica
  • Psychedelic

[Teaser of the day] Lowercase Noises - The First Wink of Dawn



  • Post-rock
  • Epic
  • Chamber rock

Nachtzug – Compression (2011)




/Electro pop, Alternative dance, Robot pop, Downtempo/

Comment: this 7-track issue is something truly special which even might need some listening times to become apparent. Gritty analogue synth basses and rhythmic structures flicker and dither beneath synthesizers-induced explorations of creating great harmonic and melodic synapses at times (at Attic, more apparently). Nachtzug does mean the nightly train in German but the music laid down in front of our ears is also very suitable for listening in daytime (the duo comes out of Berlin, indeed). By ideological standpoint the release might chime like a modern update of Kraftwerk. By the way, Compression is only one part of the trilogy (the other parts are Tension, and Fatigue). Top classic notch.