LA Screamin Popeyes - Save The Brainforest (1990)

TheLiving Archive of Underground Music 

/Avant-garde, Improvised music, Dada music, Synth pop, DIY, Field recording, Weird pop, Electronic pop, Art punk, Leftfield, Post-punk, Dance rock, Spoken word, Experimental pop/

Comment: thanks to this 9-track issue (the download version is zipped into the two lengthy tracks in total, though) I discovered a new platform for old, rarefied music, called The Living Archive of Underground Music which is curated by Don Campau. Indeed, it is time to discover amazing sonic examples from the past. First of all, I truly like the title of the album which was relevant many decades ago and is still today. By watching what is going to happen every day worldwide it is ridiculous and sad at the same instant. People make this shit happen to. Given that the singularity of human being used to diminish remarkably. Save The Brainforest reflects upon these deranged and oppressed tendencies excellently. In detail, it veers from robot-alike spoken word snippets and roughly processed guitar riff noises to psychedelic and orchestrated synth lines and such sort of improvised situations reminding of radio drama and sultry jungle encircled happenings. There are up some hilarious artsy (post-) punk and fucked-up synth pop/dance rock progressions either. Behind the project were Jeff Olson, and Carl Strong who recorded the issue on the 4-track tape machine set up on a kitchen table. With this fabulous issue the project did continue to uphold the Dadaist and obscure DIY tradition within the US-based music scene (The Residents, Big City Orchestra, Fantomas, Negativland, No-Neck Blues Band, Bob Chaos based imprint etc). 

[Teaser of the day] Guili Guili Goulag - Otmushtenie

Free Music Archive

• Electro-acoustic
• Avant-metal
• Post-metal
• No Wave
• Avant-rock
• Progressive metal
• Sludge metal
• Post-punk
• Crossover
• Math metal
• Experimental rock

Artist: Guili Guili Goulag

Release: Ib.Ex.Ib

Label: Self-released

Year: 2014

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

Libra Makowski – Drum Your Life (2011)

Jamendo

Archive.org

/Drum and bass, Electronic pop, Jungle, Speed garage, Breakcore, Trance, Remix/

Comment: this is the first album by Lublin, Poland based artist Libra Makowski (having been active since the end of the 90s) where he predominantly takes on bold drum and bass and jungle rhythms which are mixed up with some speed garage frequencies. Actually the result reflects upon the artist`s earlier music making experiences because synth/keyboard sounds presented over there used to run on in the vein of trance music and pop ambient/piano pop/classical music (for instance, the albums like Girlfriend Experience, and Cosmologic). For instance, Shaman Dance is a blend of jungle beats, trance-y synth progressions and tabla induced vamp. At times those stark beats are accompanied with sublime female vocal deliveries and growling radioactive grooves and prevailing synth overdrives (for instance, at City Lights). Consequently it can be said the artist search for balance between the sensibility of pop music and bouncy club dance oriented sentiment. 

[Teaser of the day] Pavel Ambiont - Svapna

Segmenter

• Deep dub
• Ambient dub
• Dub-techno
• Minimal dub
• Space music

Artist: Pavel Ambiont

Release: Peace Dub EP

Label: Segmenter

Year: 2008

Melinda Ligeti – Belonging (2015)

Acustronica

/Alternative pop, Singer-songwriter, Jazz. Doo wop, Mood music, Easy listening/

Comment: Melinda Ligeti`s 17-track issue could be considered both a branch of jazz music and mode of contemporary alternative pop. I mean artsy pop music, of course. Sonically it is light-hearted and quite gravitation free due to soaring vowel effects and singing mixing mode and contemplative string plucked chords thereby reminding of the doo wop tradition coming out of the 60s. Furthermore, the sentiment of bossa nova is not being far away from it. At times some keyboard sounds are added to bring forth either a more lively touch or more deeply thoughtful sensations within the blend. In any cases, Ligeti is adept to move the listener`s emotions with her fairly sensual vocal turns and lurking jazz compositions behind it. All the instruments are played by her and dedicated to her sons. In a nutshell, it is a potent retro futurist pop album.  

[Teaser of the day] Josephines - Made of Stars

• Psych-rock
• Blues rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Josephines

Release: Josephines

Label: Self-released

Year: 2015

Pizza Puppy – I Got Sunburned (2015)

Underground Core Collective

/Breakcore, Sampledelic, Electronic pop, Mash up, Breakbeat, Crossover/

Comment: by watching the cover prints of albums issued by US-based Underground Core Collective you can see obviously young musicians yearning toward their childhood and obsessions about certain things. About the Little Pony and pizza and burrito, about the sample-based and mash up culture, about the “cores” related to digital dance cadences and anime. Pizza Puppy`s 10-track issue is an organic blend of heavy bass thumping beneath and more light-hearted singing/rapping/chanting snippets. The artist is not ashamed of himself to merge slightly cheesy and “deep” elements together in a seamless way thereby fulfilling one of the pop formulas properly. Throughout the course you can perceive an incessant torrent of sounds and rhythms arriving and leaving and then returning again. More laid back spans are followed by remarkably more aggressive ones being represented even in particular compositions frequently. Let`s enjoy it. 

[Teaser of the day] Natural Snow Buildings - You'll Become What You Fear the Most

Vulpiano

• Drone folk
• Avant-folk
• Post-folk
• Epic
• Art folk
• Experimental folk
• Psych-folk
• Experimental folk
• New Weird France
• Ambient folk

Artist: Natural Snow Buildings

Release: The Night Country 

Label: Vulpiano 

Year: 2014

Alternative links:

Mediafire

The Stepkids – Wanderers (2014)

Soundcloud

Stones Throw

/Soft rock, Digital funk, Funk rock, Synth fusion, Doo wop, Alternative pop, Electronic pop/

Comment: the shortened Soundcloud version of Wanderers comprises three compositions veering a crossover attitude of soft rock, synthesised fusion and digitalized funk rhythms and robot pop. Although getting partly inspiration from the musical groups of bygone decades the issue`s general impression is very modern – all these production tricks with appearance of stereo effects and overdriven acid keyboard chords, layers of exuberant sonic minutiae atop used to gravitate toward catchy rhythmic structures and subtle singing. At times the singing chimes in the vein of the best doo wop tradition. You can even hear Miles Davis` funk-inclined shuffles through predominant jazz narratives. By listening to The Slap you can discern how it bridges the US-based r`n`b, funk and soul tradition to Italo disco and Kraftwerk-ian electro pop influences par excellence. In a word, it is a fine example of contemporary pop music. It is infinitely better than Lady Gaga, and Miley Cyrus, for instance (in fact, they are more products rather than musical output).

[Teaser of the day] Plastic Whore - Thirteen-Eleven

Lastfm

• Industrial 
• Death metal
• Trash metal
• Electro-metal

Artist: Plastic Whore

Release: Wet Planet

Label: Self-released

Year: 2004

Outer Gods - Ascend Unto The Seventh Throne (2015)

Drowning

/Drone doom, Drone, Ambient, Post-metal, Avant-metal, Experimentalism, Spoken word, Minimalism, Field recording, Crossover/

Comment: this issue consists of two lengthy compositions at which drone music, doom metal, and ambient are three whales the Atlanta, Georgia, US-based combo used to draw on. Although those sounds represented over there are frequently austere and bleak ones with little changes the result is highly emotive and galvanizing. Guitar based drones are densely interwoven with electronic sounds resulting in thought-provoking outputs. For instance, there are up some snippets where gloomy yet picturesque church bells and ambiances create sensations of impending doom. It is intriguing to hear how the layers of the issue are interconnected with one another and used to minimally change throughout these two lengthy courses – at times with immense even squelchy gravitational power, at times decelerated to a more minimal extent. All of that seems to be highly convincing at its uncompromising hustling. Stylistically it is puzzling to discern is it either metal-related music or drone/ambient oriented experimentations. At least, it does not make sense. Consequently it can be said it is one of the best issues in 2015 so far. 

[Teaser of the day] Ranon - To My Life

• Afrobeat
• Disco funk
• Dance music
• Afrofunk
• Ethnic electronica
• World music

Artist: Ranon

Release: Africa Edits

Label: Self-released/Trash Can Dance

Year: 2013/2015

The Death Sound - TDS: Year One (2008)

OFF/BRUMA

Lastfm

/Avant-garde, Noise, Experimentalism, Live recording, Spoken word, Psycho-acoustic, Electronic, Industrial, Leftfield/

Comment: I don`t know does deserve the project of Matt and Alex its name or not but music outstretched at a course of 77 minutes is fairly startling because pushing forward an avant-garde concept. However, the issue embraces some live recordings which are obviously less important and more confusing and quite tedious parts on it (for instance, The Birthday Party coming out of a length of 33 minutes). Otherwise, there are up plenty of incisive and thought-provoking electronic progressions being obviously influenced by the tradition of old school industrial music (Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Big City Orchestra, Clock DVA). It includes off-kilter spoken recitations, ominously throbbing dance rhythms or more insolent and louder clanging, reverb-heavy steely rains, wobbling electronic wisps, squelchy synth progressions being interwoven with some spoken samples from having-no-idea-wherefrom. Those different rhythmic formations used to reflect upon different mental and spiritual states. At times the artist`s appearance can be highly immersive (for instance, Psychic Wave - Crest 2) or weirdly light-hearted while rejecting law of gravitation (For instance, The Zac Cunningham Throwing Up in His Bedsheets Memorial Benediction), a times presenting the lunatic´s lullaby songs (No Waking). The project reaches its goal by providing oppressive milieu to be coated over the listener`s mind. In a word, you must hear it. It rewards close listening for sure.

[Teaser of the day] Indigowave - Sidewalk

Soundcloud

• Alternative dance
• Electro-indie
• Indie pop
• Chillwave
• Alternative pop

Artist: Indigowave

Release: Sidewalk

Label: Self-released 

Year: 2014

Alternative links:
Lastfm

AbJo - The Art Of Dreaming (2010)

Mediafire

/Breaks, Alternative pop, Soul-hop, Electronica, Dream-hop, Trip-hop, Chilltronica, Piano music, Art music, Mood music/

Comment: San Diego-based producer AbJo`s issues can be dug out from Bandcamp – there are represented 16 ones. However, The Art Of Dreaming is an exception being outside the row. In any cases, The Art of Dreaming is an eminent issue where more or less fractured hip-hop and trip-hop breaks are adorned with subtle glockenspiel induced jingle-jangle, captivated synth loops, moderate sonic effects, dizzy harp drenched enchantment and intellectual play of art pop tendencies. Mandatory tones of soul music are also up there. Although the predominant milieu on it is sedative and soothing the signs of a good album cut through during the course of these 22 minutes. It almost sounds like the 00s instrumental equivalent to Radiohead`s OK Computer (1997). In true, some guitars are represented over there now and then. Moreover, AbJo did manipulate with such sonic elements and extended techniques which later would be reflected on the albums of Oneothrix Point Never. Check it out. 

[Teaser of the day] Bing Satellites - Rise

BFW Recordings

• Ambient
• Soundscape
• Abstract
• Experimental electronica
• Ambient drone
• Space music
• Epic
• Minimalism

Artist: Bing Satellites

Release: Rain

Label: BFW Recordings

Year: 2015

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

LuckEnHouse – Panaji (2014)

The Tinopener`s Music

/Psytrance, Ambient trance, Psychill, Mood music, Psybient, Alternative dance, World music, Ethnic electronica/

Comment: exactly one year ago, on the 19^th of July in 2014 LuckEnHouse posted at his Facebook site the announcement about the release of an album, Panaji which used to weave psychedelic hazes, electronic rhythms of trance and chill out music and world music/ethnic music oriented motives to create a set of 57 minute to embed the needle deep into the listener`s hedonistic cerebral centre. Yeah! Indeed, it is a sophisticated outing with regard to have got to set out the plan to balance smoothly between the aforementioned styles. Since the 60s the Indian music has been having a substantial influence on the Western pop culture. Regarding the issue the listener can perceive ethnic motives coming out of the northern regions of India and influences of Goa trance stranded in the midst of bouncy rhythms and breezy synthesised orchestrations atop. This album could readily be a part of the discography of Ektoplazm, the trance oriented label. The issue is dedicated to Richard H Kirk who founded Cabaret Voltaire with Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson thereby being one of the pioneers of industrial music, noise music, post-punk music and later electronic dance music either. In a nutshell, this 8-notch issue is an elysian meal for your body and mood.  

[Teaser of the day] .Khi - Killer Lady

Bump Foot

• Experimental techno
• Post-classical
• Avant-garde
• Leftfield
• Glitch techno
• Crossover
• Experimental electronica

Artist: .Khi

Release: I Had A Dream

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2007

Alternative links:

Lastfm

Sound Awakener - Five Chapters (2014)

Petroplyph

Bandcamp

Soundcloud

/Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Piano music, Field recording, Improvised music/

Comment: Vietnam-based artist Nguyễn Hồng Nhung aka Sound Awakener takes on an upright acoustic piano to create something inspired and beautiful. The issue starts off with Vibrate which differentiates due to a more buried timbre and sonic vamp. Later on, the artist creates tracks by amplifying them to the edge of distortion and dissonance, or using the sounds of field recording, or adding reverb-heavy spaces, some hissy wisps and stereo tricks to the blend. Nguyễn Hồng Nhung is an endued musician because of being classically educated he has not lost his explorative nature to educational formalism. In fact, these two characteristic vectors do have the same direction thereby resulting in the hitting stomp emotively. More concretely, hilarious moments are variegated with more shadowy glimpses into the soul of piano improvisation. Some tracks might sound in a lo-fi way at times yet it is not something of a lo-fi album because all the layers added to the mix are produced in an adept way. You could call it the knavish lo-fi outing if you wish. On this example the Vietnamese musician`s outing resembles the Swede Oskar Hallbert`s slightly introvertive and hazy compositions. Solid issue indeed.

[Teaser of the day] BOOL - Ancient City Emerge

Black Square

• Spoken word
• Dub rock
• Lo-fi
• Psych-rock
• Shoegazetronica
• DIY
• Noise rock

Artist: BOOL

Release: I Eat Phantom

Label: Black Square

Year: 2013

Alternative links:

Lastfm

Kevan Paul – Going Home (2009)

Jamendo

Archive.org

/New age, Electronica, Crossover, Cinematic, Art music, Easy listening, Post-classical, World music, Mood music/

Comment: Kevan Paul is a composer from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA whose album`s concept was motivated by the economic oppression following the breakdown of Lehman Brothers at the end of the 00s. It caused serious loss to many families around the world many of them lost their homes bought on long-term loan. Furthermore, by conceptual side, the artist argues about the concept of home and alienation of human being from his/her roots. Indeed, we once come out of nature and created civilizations which trapped us. The outlook seems to be even worse – there exist an invisible snowball as an inferior result between economic relations and needs of overpopulated Earth which used to roll further thereby destructing the nature around us and the human being`s soul and mental health. We are being set up to compete with one another rather than collaborate with. The future is dark and getting even gloomier. Musically this 7-track issue is an unwinding one by searching for balance between lone chords, melody leads and orchestrated harmonies. The listener might find out some acquainted shapes from previous cultural discourses – from composers of the movie motion (Ennio Morricone), art music/post-classical scene (Penguin Café Orchestra), and world music oriented compartment (at times loaning from or developing Celtic music motives) and New Age-y electronic ticking. Emotionally it is contemplative and slightly doleful though providing some beatific panoramic and cinematic whiffs which are more ennobling ones. It is a cute soundtrack undoubtedly.

[Teaser of the day] 7Vortex - Chromosome

BPM Front

• Industrial electro
• Synth industrial
• Leftfield
• Witch house
• Cosmic synth

Artist: 7Vortex

Release: Lime Liquor EP

Label: BPM Front

Year: 2008

Mechaddoar – Dreist (2012)

Bandcamp

/Krautrock, Psych-rock, Experimental rock, Stoner rock, Trance rock, Noise rock/

Comment: although these 5 pieces were produced by Christian Zinke already at the end of the 90s the groove passing through the whole is still impressive and resilient. In fact, the issue has been managed to appear quite poorly in diverse activities because the main accent is set upon trancelike guitar pulsations saturated with fluctuating noise feedbacks and some singing here and there. Stylistically it crosses different styles and phases of path-breaking rock music in history. Indeed, mentally it is obsessive and glowering. It might be that Zinke hates and loves simultaneously what he is doing on it because an intention of the righteous rock music combo should be to destroy its aesthetical basement and scaffold. On the other side, Dreist could be interpreted as an example of space rock flow being captured and enchained, however, thereafter resulting in frantic spasms and delirious rattles within the cage (more concretely, it is tagged as psych-rock). By kindred souls I recommend listen to such names as Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Jesus & Mary Chain, CAN, Faust, Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3. Hilarious shit for sure.

[Teaser of the day] Dark Souls Day - Lifeless

Afmusic

• Post-punk
• Gothic rock
• Alternative rock
• Angst rock

Artist: Dark Souls Day

Release: X-lives  

Label: Afmusic 

Year: 2010

Alternative links:

Lastfm

Bandcamp

We Are All Slaves - You Must Be Stuck Into Some Complications (2015)

Myhand. Thanx

/Avant-garde, Noise, Psycho-acoustic, Non-music, Experimentalism, Freeformfreakout/

Comment: my previous experiences with the discography of the French imprint Myhand.Thanx Records were being related to post-punk-ish yet vanguard sonic forms. However, it was great surprise of mine to find out something totally different. The Serbian Filip Stojiljkovic`s 6-track issue is a source at listening to it you must be stuck into complications. The outing starts off with an intense torrent of harsh noise which later will have dissolved into less straightforward yet even more provoking sonic experiments. FS channels his noise music into more complicated, signal-like appearances and even providing rhythmic threads. Additionally, you can listen to elliptic gurgling being interwoven with vowel layers thereby conjuring fucked-up sensations and frantic mental states. The aesthetic of coverprint of the EP is blurred in the way of reminding of the one by Keith Bowsza aka Minòy, the cultish US-based noisenik and artist (1951-2010) whose experiments with photography were laid down in a similar way. 

[Teaser of the day] Clowder - Well, I Wonder

• Alternative rock
• Cover
• Coldwave
• Shoegazetronica
• Electronic
• Ambient rock

Artist: Clowder

Release: VA - A Dreaded Sunny Day - A Tribute to The Smiths

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Medo's Little Trap - Per Uomini In Pensione

• Chamber pop
• Art pop
• Indietronica
• Post-pop
• Baroque pop
• Easy listening

Artist: Medo`s Little Trap

Release: La bél pop (fifth anniversary compilation)

Label: La bèl 

Year: 2015

Alternative links:

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

CementO - No Man’s Land (2014)

Wavelike

Lastfm

/Techno, Acid techno, Free tekno, Rave music, Club music/

Comment: CementO`s 4-track issue is based on rave music modifications though providing a more organic, slightly darker approach. On the other side, the listener can discern some hypnotic, even somewhat buried upheavals coming out of the tradition of Detroit techno and electro scene. Moreover, I assume the tension between some cheesy sonic bits and more glowering and gloomy rhythmic structures used to create the welcoming output. In a word, it is a worthy listening.        

Martin Rach - Of Tobakoff (with Lynn Wails) (2015)

Martin Rach

FMA

/Spoken word, Sound art, Storytelling, Minimalism, Post-industrial, Avant-garde, Non-music/

Comment: these 32 minutes are up to tell a story about Tobakoff, the man with some mystical abilities besides his human-alike traits and self-indulgent appearances. At times it seems to me that Tobakoff is the kind of hero/half deity like someone (Heracles) in the mythology of the ancient Greece. Indeed, at least it seems to me in this way because the main hero is equipped with tremendous proficiency and disparate craftsmanship. The track is accompanied by an endlessly repeated abstract, post-industrial loop which has been managed in a way to change the shape minimally throughout the course. Very interesting.

[Teaser of the day] Artem Bemba - Red Shore

Southern City`s Lab

• Mood music
• Art rock
• Easy listening
• Psychedelic pop

Artist: Artem Bemba

Release: Basscoast

Label: Southern City`s Lab 

Year: 2015

Alternative links: 

Bandcamp 

Free Music Archive

Crashing Airplane - Final Approach EP (2010)

Kosmo

/Industrial techno, Avant-techno, Experimental techno/

Comment: I guess to listen to this issue might be hurting to anyone who has lost their relatives and fellowmen in plane crashes. Of course, by doing it without checking out the titles it would be absolutely different case (except the accelerating sounds in the first half of Birds vs Jetengines). Predominantly it is filled with hypnotic techno frequencies though accented with ominous whiffs and alien noises by the Austrian project Crashing Airplane. Given that it is puzzling to say what sonic elements used to be the most essential ones? However, it is not a case in turn. The final track Reaching Planet Earth in Redshift 3-3 is a little bit different case because of relying more on a brooding synth layer rather than on rhythmic progressions. The important thing is the issue is convincing due to slowly developing minutiae and solid sonic pads. The issue is a part of the discogrpahy of a Toulose, France-based record label, Kosmo.     

[Teaser of the day] try2be3 - Tatry

Groovecaffe

• Downbeat
• Post-dubstep
• Post-rock
• Trip-hop
• Minimal
• Glitch-hop

Artist: try2be3

Release: Wave Paintings

Label: Groovecaffe

Year: 2013

Lessons In Time - Lady Wisdom At The Gate (Proverbs) (2014)

4-4-2

/New Weird Australia, Dream folk, Noir folk, Anti-folk, Freak folk, Weird folk, Indie folk, Electronic, Psych-folk, Experimental folk, Folk indie, Avant-folk/

Comment: I can`t stand for those persons` opinion who hyped Animal Collective throughout the 00s but nowadays speaking silly things by accusing the Avey Tare & Panda Bear led combo by introducing naïve and simplistic elements into the pop music. All what has been created by the group throughout the 00s was innovative and spellbinding. Another essential element related to them (basically with them and Devendra Banhart) was to introduce the movement of the so-called New Weird America which had a huge influence on other countries folk musicians either. Eventually we did have a chance to see how much potential could have folk music if to cross it with other genres. Australia is one of those countries wherefrom have come off a loads of groups with tremendous aesthetical ability. For instance, I recommend listen to the compilations of New Weird Australia at Bandcamp to comprehend the phenomenon. The Sydney-based collective Lessons In Time is being active since the second half of 00s and having issued four albums so far (at least more issues I was not personally able to figure out). The combo`s 6-track issue is a relatively short-running one though involving a multitude of twists and undercurrents to undermine a trivial folk music body. From sublime dreamy female vocal led meditations to more noir drenched vocal timbres and guitar experiments to voice machine/vocoder drenched vocal experiments to distorted guitar hook based elevations into noise rock embodiment to compositions let to evolve within open space/nearby the campfire somewhere. All of that described recently it is not a simplistic show-off but an organic shift from one element to another.

[Teaser of the day] Speculativism - Do Androids Dream of Eclectic Bleeps?

Black Square

• Avant-garde
• Experimental electronica
• Glitchtronica
• Leftfield
• Illbient
• DIY
• Experimentalism
• Abstract
• Noise

Artist: Speculativism

Release: Glitchy Bricolage

Label: Black Square

Year: 2010

Feeel - Music for Uneasy Times (2005)

Samsa

/Improvised music, Electronic, Avant-rock, Leftfield, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Improvised noise, Experimental rock/

Comment: there are up three long-running compositions based on improvised sessions full of feedback fuelled and distortion induced debris. Indeed, as the title assumes this time it is without any word games. Only the artist`s name “Feeel” designates something of an extraordinary brand probably related to overwhelming sensations which have surfaced after the listening of these 35 minutes. At times those more or less acute noise torrents will slightly abate to be replaced with quite dismal emotions conjured up by a mix of nervously plucked guitar chords and taps on the acoustic guitar. The final track Everybody's Talking About the End of the World is more rhythmically oriented on account of heavily distorted electronic/big beat cadences which soon will be modulated into more messy shuffles and later will fade away to symbolically unite the ending point with the beginning one. The second part (more concretely, Act Two) involves buried singing/chanting for providing more living images within the composition. Predominantly the issue is a quicksilver drift between the compartments of improvised noise and experimental rock, at times reaching spiritual climaxes inside each of the pigeonhole, at times providing more transmissive parts. Let`s partake in that monster.

The Hermit - Perception

[Teaser of the day] She Bit Her Lip - Eile

• Dream pop
• Shoegaze
• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock

Artist: She Bit Her Lip

Release: Eile

Label: Self-released

Year: 2014 

[Teaser of the day] Ucleden - Summerjam (Juno6 remix)

Broque

• Tech-House
• Club dance
• Minimal 
• Deep house
• Remix

Artist: Ucleden

Release: Summerjam

Label: Broque

Year: 2015

StaueOfDiveo - Spaceman (2014)

Jamendo

/Space pop, Breakcore, Alternative pop, Electro-house, Doo wop, Electronic pop, Mood music, Shibuya-kei, J-pop/

Comment: by exploring the history of popular music you could find out two types of artists related to the space. The first category embraces such artists whose music is being deemed ahead of their time, i.e creating something truly innovative and cutting-edge something as if coming out of the outer space. Another type includes artists who are conceptually being related to the space themes (Sun Ra, Space age pop, Spacemen 3). Usually the artists of the latter type used to relate to the first category either. The Massachusetts, US-based combo StatueOfDiveo`s music is spaced-out as well – as much thematically as sonically. It might be the artist`s sound is more related to different places on Earth rather than with the room outside it. For instance, you could discern the artist`s love for cinematic Japanese pop music which in turn is strongly being influenced by the Western popular music (harmonic shuffles of the 60`s doo wop, easiness of the 80´s indie pop and attention-getting melody and harmony progressions by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai). For instance, the world knows well such artists as Pizzicato Five, Flipper`s Guitar, and Fantastic Plastic Machine. On the other side, there are up other cues as well – for instance, Nobody Wants a Broken Window resembles Soldier Girl, the track by Polyphonic Spree. Brahms` Lullaby resembles some compositions by Nick Currie aka Momus, the expatriate from Scotland who has been living in Japan for many years. In any cases, it is an intriguing and arousing issue thanks to multifaceted dodges and inner dynamics.

[Teaser of the day] Live Savings - Soft Clippers

• Alternative rock
• Hard rock
• Trash rock
• Power pop

Artist: Live Savings

Release: Endings

Label: Narrominded

Year: 2014

Dead Voices White Noise (2011)

Justnotnormal

/Glitchtronica, Noise, Experimental electronica, Drone, Post-industrial, Avant-electronica, Non-music, Musique concréte, Acousmatic music, Leftfield, Microtonal, Illbient/

Comment: this handful of tracks is an issue in a long row of albums hinting at the fact how emotive could electronic music be even if it is made up of incisive material and noisy impulses. Why it seems to be in this way? Maybe it is so because of superimposing these sonic elements upon the mess and chaos of real life. Maybe it is so because of creating more arousing simulacra instead of the more disillusioned aspects in real life. In a word, to provide more hope and redemption to people who are listening to the issue. You can hear the trains arriving at a train station, you might hear unknown creatures being involved in indecipherable activities, you could hear sounds providing a viable platform for your phantasies and fictions. More importantly, you could hear intriguing sounds over there to broaden your universe and open some doors in your perception. Dead Voices White Noise is a compilation by justnotnormal Record label providing a chance to design the aforementioned patterns to such artists as Somnaphon, Controlled Dissonance, Pyne, Miquel Parera Jaques, and Plastic Love Tool.

[Teaser of the day] Shadow Speaker - Dumb & Ugly

Otium

• Kraut-techno
• Kosmische Musik
• Electronic
• Leftfield pop

Artist: Shadow Speaker

Release: Decline

Label: Otium

Year: 2015 

Deprivation – Corona (2013)

Chill

/Breaks, Acid jazz, Chill out, Mood music, Chilltronica, Downbeat, Nu jazz/

Comment: Deprivation`s album Corona is something about to bring forth an untangled touch between rhythms and upper melodic layers. If the electronic music would be an undomesticated animal with untamed nature and apparent wish to bite you then electronic music would be something like Corona after the training by Deprivation. More concretely, frequently rhythmic shuffles are embellished with mellow electronic/acid jazz whiffs as if a gentle breeze coming out of somewhere to caress your ears and tranquilize your hot-headed temper. Although there is represented a bunch of 8 tracks in total all of that results in a seamless flow of music without any substantial turns and forays. In true, piano chords are variegated with some excited breakbeat/jungle rhythms but it is something about to happen incessantly thereby being an essential part of the outing. It might be the title track conjures difference due to creating a feeling as if you`re walking through the streets in Paris. In a word, listen to it and get a part of it.

[Teaser of the day] Alisu - Mono Jaramillo

Tropic

• Deep house
• Club house
• Minimal house
• Tech-house

Artist: Alisu

Release: Un Azar Diseñado Por Mi

Label: Tropic

Year: 2012 

My Own Cubic Stone – Pagan Forest – Part 2 (2014)

Dhatura

/Industrial, Avant-garde, Industrial electro, Musique concrète, Martial industrial, Illbient, Dark electronica, New Age, Experimentalism, Leftfield, Neoclassical/

Comment: first of all I shall have to apologize I have not listened to the first part of Pagan Forest double album yet. It will have done later I promise to you. However, the second part of it consists of 7 long-running compositions drawing on industrial electro and electronic layers. It is saturated with low-slung rhythms which in turn are up to set up the background to ill-omened echoes, crawling synthesizer progressions and green and grey drenched shades as if coming straight out from hell. Gravelly scratchy yet somewhat buried guitars add new colours and patterns to the mix. Additionally you can feel a slight lo-fi/DIY vamp being immersed in the whole in a way. Actually the term “pagan forest” should refer to a place of being quite contrary to the civilization and involves acts being mysterious, sinister and inapprehensible. On the other side, we can perceive such places in our civilization either. Furthermore, any human being`s existence as an example of a small universe embraces also such corners and pigeonholes. However, there are represented examples which used to deviate from the rest – Nantosuelta chimes like a hyper realistic thread being influenced by the New Age music rather than sustained by the tradition of industrial music. Arawn depicts a world where incisive digital droning and infrequent bass drum chords are amplified with concrete music whiffs and even kind of radiophonic experiments (at the end). The issue is a part of the discography of dhatūrā Records, the French label whose 68-notch one seems to be profound and hidden with gems. Actually it is a tremendous source for any music lover who is addicted to neoclassical/martial industrial/neofolk sounds. Let`s explore these slits!

[Teaser of the day] Stephen Briggs - Hash E Ovos

Sucu Music

• Ambient rock
• Soundscape
• Dark ambient
• Avant-rock
• Post-rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: Stephen Briggs

Release: Nebbie Mattutine

Label: Sucu Music

Year: 2014

Skeleton Zoo - [BadPanda118] Skeleton Zoo (2012)

Bad Panda

Bandcamp

/Mood music, Post-pop, Sampledelic, Cinematic, Glo-fi, Electronica, Chilltronica, Dreamwave, Breaks, Epic/

Comment: oh yeah, it is great delight to arrive at the discography of Bad Panda, the label from Italy which is being a platform for many artists worldwide. If to gather all the tracks the imprint has issued over the years you can constitute a fine playlist for yourself. Furthermore, the record label is being truly popular if to check out the download rates at Soundcloud, and Archive.org. This is not the first entry by Skeleton Zoo (the duo of Steve Goodwin and Ezekiel “Zeek” Barnett from Albany, New York, USA) into the cloud of Recent Music Heroes and it is not surprising at all. For instance, this issue consisting of one track (More Various Flavors of Chip) is a truly mesmerizing one to embark on a new day when you can perceive gentle chilliness and humidity on the grass before the sun will reach the zenith to make them disappear. Sonorously, it is the sort of sample music which runs on touching vocal samples, arousing chord progressions and poignant rhythm shuffles. Believe me the result is truly psychedelic though the ingredients within it even might not to hint at that. Or even might do because som reed organ drones are crossed with ascending orchestrations thereby paving the path for something of a truly panoramic, cinematic and hyper realistic one. in In a word, to cut up and splice the chords and cadences in a proper way – it is the hardest work to do. It is superior beauty as if living in a world depicted on a brochure of the Jehovah`s Witnesses. In a word, it is an example of ideal pop/post-pop.  

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[Teaser of the day] fraqsea - Sparrow

Mizukage

• Dream folk
• Indie folk
• New Weird Japan
• Art folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Folktronica
• Glitch folk
• Experimental folk

Artist: fraqsea

Release: Mizukage Records Compilation vol.06 / Various Artists

Label: Mizukage

Year: 2011

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Wellwellsound – From The Heart of The Console (2014)

Natty Droid

Soundcloud

/8-bit, Chiptune, Tracker music, Crossover, DIY, Remixes, Reggae, Lo-fi, Chipbreak, Dub, Primitive music, Nintendocore/

Comment: primitive patterns and expression language in art could be truly appealing. Wellwellsound`s 6-piece issue which is made up of remixes is this sort of. Actually I have no exact idea why this album chimes in this way as it used to enact. Is it either the case of rough chiptune/8-bit rhythm progressions and clumsy melody shifts or lo-fi/DIY tinged essence of reggae and dub music? By virtue of spaced-out echo/delay effects the music is signally more slowed down than a common videogame issue. However, depending on a particular composition there are up different examples of how the tracks are balanced or more inclined toward one or another. Actually there is represented third element either (on this occasion it is deliberately separated from the chiptune part by my perception) – it is a sort of digital debris which used to appear through minor effects and in the embodiment of subdued noises here and there. Consequently it can be admitted both these compartments do manifest free nature of the human being by creating the music.                 

[Teaser of the day] Opium Flirt - Esilaine

Lastfm

• Alternative pop
• Cowbell indie
• Art rock
• Indie rock
• Experimental indie

Artist: Opium Flirt

Release: Õunakuu/Apple Month 

Label: Self-released

Year: 2008