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[Teaser of the day] The Cousins - Toniosong

Jamendo

• Blues
• Experimental rock
• Neo-psychedelia
• Psych-rock
• Americana
• Alternative rock
• Trance rock

Artist: The Cousins

Release: Tapes Sounds

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2009

DIYE - Cemetery Lane (2014)

Bandcamp

/Psychedelic rock, Noise rock, Experimental rock, Ethereal wave, Space rock, Alternative rock, Indie rock/

Comment: DIYE is the duo of Albert Dean, and Maria Soromenho from London, UK. The album starts off with a track, called Paris which is very relevant with regard to recently happened horrendous events in the capital of France. Furthermore, the album`s title has references to the event either. Paris reminds quite of the mystical milieu of being dominating on Cocteau Twins` album Treasure. In fact, the track seems to be more serious-minded due to airy yet lone guitar chords and some sublime arpeggios coming through the air being supported by Maria Soromenho´s floaty voice. And vice versa. However, the rest of a couple of tracks are decent one either – Bad Girl In A Fur Rug is a more indie oriented one reminding slightly of some of the pieces of the Estonian indie classic Dreamphish though the Londoner`s music is more spaced-out and noisy. No Time is fraught with elegant anxiety and guitars are getting almost lost in dense vapour of noisy sounds. Additionally I recommend listen to music being issued on Little Ying Records.

[Teaser of the day] The Search - Bizmylla Jive

afmusic

• Indie rock
• Soft rock
• Pomp rock
• Alternative pop

Artist: The Search

Release: The Silverslut

Label: afmusic

Year: 2011

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Steinregen Dubsystem – Recycled (2013)

LibreCommeLair

/Alternative dance, Raggamuffin, Remixes, Dancehall, World music, Electronica, Crossover, Dub, Urban music/ 

Comment: there are represented 17 tracks by various artists who tread the compositions of a 6-piece collective, Steinregen Dubsystem from Freiburg, Germany. In general, it could be said Jamaica is an island of fast-running people and shaggy reggae and dub inflected music. With regard to the compilation the listener can enjoy many crossovers and derivations coming out of the aforementioned styles. Emotionally it is a poignant issue because it used to insinuate lots of dodges and turns within the whole. There are represented pieces being made up of echoes which used to last very long thereby bringing forth a thoroughly spaced-out feeling. There are up some curiosities either where Balkan and other ethnic motives are interlaced with the Jamaican music. Despite putting slightly uncanny elements into the melting pot there is good effect about it. There are up remixes by the likes of Goyo Naranja & Damaa, Dava, Ras Amerlock, EQuBE, Bassinfected, Herbstauch, Lüra, Lata, Pellectronica, Hans Gruber, Ras Tilo, Juju, Akarola, and TRVE.

[Teaser of the day] Vlor - Heart Shaped

Silber

• Shoegaze
• Space rock
• Alternative rock
• Lo-fi
• Ambient rock
• Indie rock
• DIY

Artist: Vlor

Release: Sacred Placed In The City 

Label: Silber

Year: 1999

Enkil – Evolution (2014)

Teque-Nique

/Psytechno, EBM, Tekno, Alternative dance, Psybient, Psytrance/

Comment: Franco Barletta aka Enkil is a musician with the rock music background, however, who discovered the world of electronic music/analogic synth for approximately 13 years ago. He has issued 4 outings under Teque-Nique so far. Evolution consists of three compositions (Kimika, Hypnotic State, Evolution). Roughly it is a blend of psychedelic techno and tekno and trance propulsions, alarm-alike synth wobbling and bold synth threads and some glistening ambient textures. By historical influences in music one could hear electronic body aesthetic and pathos coming out of those exuberant, solid synth developments. Eventually it could be admitted it is a solid exertion reflecting upon the solid genre.

[Teaser of the day] Balkar Wachholz - Scene Nu. 2

Hortus Conclusus

• Electro-acoustic
• Improvised music
• Abstract
• Organic electronica
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: Balkar Wachholz

Release: Deleted Scenes

Label: Hortus Conclusus

Year: 2015

Speculativism - kilo mega giga tera peta exa zetta yotta (2010)

Speculativism

/Art rock, Leftfield, Avant-prog, RIO, Singer-songwriter, Electronic, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/

Comment: it is being always interesting to discover Exeter, UK-based musician Peter-David Smith aka Speculativism`s progressions in different directions on his many, approximately 15 albums. One is sure clearly conventionality is not on his menu. His issues are being quite lengthy, for instance, the recent issue extends beyond 80 minutes. Roughly it could be said he likes to experiment with lyrics and sounds, at times those lyrics and pun are truly funny and surreal, the sounds light up tremendous swaying in Smith`s soundscape. Indeed, mostly it is avant-rock/progressive rock oriented madness which is filled with many changes in structure and soundscape (all those paradiddling keyboard sounds coming in and then leaving out of focus) at times it is more restrained (yet uncanny and even ghastly) thereby being more closely related to singer-songwriter-like approach though it is contingent. Emotionally the whole is amusing, of course, because all will be changing and winding throughout the course. In a nutshell, it could be concluded it is a solid interface between comedy and dada art, art/progressive rock, electronic music, and something else additionally which is elusive enough to subject it to my words and sentences.

[Teaser of the day] Jan Jelinek - Synthsil2

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• Experimental electronica
• Conceptual
• Clicks and cuts
• Ambient
• Avant-electronica
• Experimentalism

Artist: Jan Jelinek

Release: Intelligent Toys: We Make Music

Label: Sutemos

Year: 2010

Sledding With Tigers/KIDS. – Split (2011)

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Bandcamp

/Acid rock, Folk punk, Blues rock, Drone rock, Psychedelic rock, Bluegrass, Alternative rock, Indie pop/

Comment: I feel myself very satisfied thanks to this 8-track split album by KIDS., and Sledding With Tigers (both musical groups from san Diego, USA). Sledding With Tigers´ music used to rely on Appalachian music tradition because the combo mixes up bluegrass and country music and its instruments with some punk attitude. Their message is related to worldly wisdom of talking about odds and ends which ultimately constitute the important whole. One can be sure they don`t like the situation they live within. You shall have to go to work because you need to pay the rent. I can agree with them it would be great to be a slacker. KIDS.´ music is remarkably more indie oriented, dance-appealed and psychedelic one because they exploit a buzzing electric organ which used to drone and vibrate through their four tracks. On the other side, the term “indie” used to be a weary one today because this word is used way too extensively and thereby saying nothing actually. It is very sympathetic that their sound is sustained with some sonic easiness of doo wop and yo-yo girl pop movement the styles which were prevalent in the 60s and 70s. The favourite of mine is Float because reflecting its power through the wall of droning organs, beautiful yet hefty female singing and catchy melodic gears here and there. On the other side, Monkeys is a bouncy blend of blues and rockabilly music. Get it. 

[Teaser of the day] Polaroid Notes - Return To Nowhere

• Modern classical
• Ambient
• Epic
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Polaroid Notes

Release: The Long Bright Dark

Label: Audio Gourmet

Year: 2015

Lezet – Accumulation (2014)

Buddhist On Fire

Lezet

/Experimental electronica, Ambient, Ethnotronica, Glitchtronica, Rocktronica, Modern classical, Musique concrète, Crossover, Abstract, Avant-garde/

Comment: Lezet is a very prolific artist from Serbia who has issued approximately 70 albums so far. Accumulation is a short-running issue (ending at the length of 20.56) but it justifies its name because many elements used to surface throughout the course. One could hear mandatory experimental electronic developments, glitched-out noises, and even world music infected motives and sultry rhythms of rock music are represented over there. At times his progressions used to turn into an abstract one – for instance, Bezoar is one of such sort of tracks where vocal loops are slightly shifted against each other to create an indecipherable message and culminate into noisy torrents at the end of the composition. Rain is a fragile modern classical piece saturated with a heavy raining sample. The result is dreamy and giving one a cozy corner to freshen /himself/herself up in his/her haste. Indeed, Lezet exploits samples now and then to saturate his soundscape. In a word, it is a thoroughgoing exertion with many interesting moments. The issue is a notch in the discography of Buddhist On Fire.

[Teaser of the day] Litmus - Keep Your Smile

Enough

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

Artist: Litmus

Release: Perception Of Light

Label: Enough

Year: 2011

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Sobre A Máquina – Anomia (2011)

Sinewave

Bandcamp

/Post-metal, Progressive metal, Experimentalism, RIO, Avant-garde, Improvised music, Avant-prog/

Comment: the concept “Anomie” is a sociological term invented by the well-known French sociologist and thinker Èmile Durkheim in his work Suicide (1897). The term does refer to the breakdown of social ties between a person and the community. More profoundly, it is a state of derangement and unrest when moral norms are placed in doubt. Sobre A Maquina´s 2-piece issue is a follow-up to such issues as Decompor, and Areia which were the outings of problematic kind to be classified into very certain pigeonhole. Indeed, The Brazil trio`s music is something which rebels permanently against the stylistic borders though the ones are important because of conveying premises for further crossing. In a word, you need borders to cross them and thereby get somewhere else. Mostly the outing sounds like something of metal music being subjugated to the algorithms of krautrock and avant-prog/RIO aesthetic. It involves a shitloads of unexpected changes in style and instrumentation, in mood and in structure. At times it is calmed down at times it is thoroughly demented and stoned ready to annihilate its very core. It is not background music, it crashes into the listener. In a nutshell, the Rio De Janeiro based combo`s plan was ambitious, however, they were apt to fulfil it. 

[Teaser of the day] Bacanal Intruder - To Take My Way

• Lo-fi
• DIY
• Electro-folk
• Folk indie
• Art folk
• Folktronica
• Glitch-folk
• New Weird Spain
• Epic
• Indie folk
• Post-folk

Artist: Bacanal Intruder

Release: To Take My Way EP

Label: Bandcamp/self-released

Year: 2004 

[Teaser of the day] Doombox – ___Lysergberserk___

Torn Flesh

• Industrial metal 
• Power electronics
• Rhythmic noise
• Post-metal
• Noise
• Avant-garde
• Doom industrial
• Non-music
• Glitchtronica
• Experimentalism

Artist: Doombox

Release: ___Deliveries of DOOM___

Label: Torn Flesh 

Year: 2015

Hanetration – Waldsterben (2015)

Bandcamp

/Electronic, Experimentalism, Drone rock, Krautrock, Alternative dance, Acid rock, Illbient, Leftfield pop, Minimalism/

Comment: Hanetration, the London-based combo is back again with brand new issue Waldsterben (as much as I have learned German and already forgot much of it this probably does mean “death (process) of the forest” which has been a very serious problem in Germanic countries while the civilization has been established for long ago. Indeed, where is the right for human being to annihilate something which is being highly blissful enough to elevate our souls? Indeed, as Elias Canetti has wrote once the forest is a cathedral replete with trees like pillars towering and constituting something very special. By my opinion, the forest is an environment where the human being can feel himself/herself to be a part of the Divine plan. By listening to Waldsterben one might say the project is dead aesthetically. Indeed, the suicide is being committed to get a chance to resurrect again. Their previous album Acid Reflux EP was a gorgeous drift between post-industrial tendencies, drone music and chamber music touch. This time Hanetration`s brand new one chimes like a poppy yet alternative music bound one saturated with catchy rhythms and having a more superficial appeal. Only the ending piece Aurora is something about the project`s previous tradition taking on buried rhythms and ominous drones while providing incessantly minimal changes throughout the course. Friction is an example of how Hanetration has bent its course into a fabulous droning acid rock template while ringing truly majestic due to cathedral organ sounds above. Impulse is something which obviously gets inspiration from motorik/krautrock tradition because of coming together at a junction of an iterative bass chord and slightly buried drum sounds thereby most notably reminding of NEU!`s trademark. In a word, it might be it is the transmissive/opposite issue by the project, however, trying to understand the artist`s intention one should perceive the artist`s discography similarly to a meandering pathway of being comprised of bigger and smaller curves and dodges and incorporations. In the absolute scale of sonic creation, however, it is an outstanding issue for sure. 

Massimo Ruberti – Armstrong (2015)

Nostress

/Space music, Electronic music, Conceptual, Ambient, Kosmische Musik, Experimental electronica/

Comment: it is nice that musicians are still up to get inspired by benchmarks with regard to conquering of the outer space by the human race. Unfortunately there have been way too little space flights into the space after Yuri Gagarin and US astronauts did it. More profoundly, there is no qualitative progression to have been since then (it might be the reason why there are arising conspiracy theories about expressing doubts regarding the flight to the Moon in 1969 and thereafter, for instance). The flight to Mars seems to be very far away if not impossible altogether. Of course, it needs a huge amount of money to prepare it. On the other side, countries are rivalling with each other to spend their money to get economic, resource-related, and military advantages and the most worst one is that wasting resources and annihilating environment around us. As the human race we have no sole fist to realize our goals. By personal aspect I have no faith into it anymore. It might be the only aspect what we could realistically do for the cosmos is to protect our beautiful home planet Earth, the only genuine pearl that we have been having. The human being is way too stupid to reach it if he/she is not able to change the overwhelming economic order around him/her based on excessive, destroying consumption. The human being is still as clumsy as he/she was many deacdes ago in connection with curing such diseases as high-grade astrocytomas, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer and myeloma, for instance. This is a notch of our Mars which needs to be conquered. However, Armstrong by Livorno, Italy-based experienced electronic musician Massimo Ruberti is a pearl as well, though a sonic pearl. The titles of it reflect upon Armstrong`s stages to get into and to be in the outer space and landing on the surface of the Moon. By listening to it one could experience hyper-realistic emotions wherein dreamy,glacial-alike synth threads and glimpses used to intersect with the sounds of digital bug filled radio transmitters where the message of an astronaut coming out of it rings in a fabulous way. It is quite weird and funny that at the ending part of Moon Ruberti uses a mandolin induced motive that reminds of a Russian folklore ditty as if depicting Russians landed on the Moon instead of US-Americans. On the other side, maybe it is a try to consolidate two nations to have at least one goal to conquer the nearest planets. By regarding the example the Italian composer extends its scope beyond usual understanding of electronic music by using exuberant orchestrations and motives and rhythms in addition to ordinary package of electronic sounds. In a word, get this album, listen to it. Even if your optimism about space expansion will not be aroused those sounds and constructions respectively entering into your ear and brain give you a candidate for the list of the best albums in 2015. 

[Teaser of the day] Dan Brasco - Trouble With Dad

Astor Bell

• Alternative dance
• Tech-electro
• Electronic pop
• Acid 
• Synth-electro

Artist: Dan Brasco

Release: Sick Family

Label: Astor Bell

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Airless Project - Morning Of Remission

• Experimental electronica
• Ambient techno
• Experimental techno
• IDM

Artist: Airless Project

Release: Dopamine Entities

Label: Bandcamp/self-released

Year: 2010

Entartete Musik – Modern Bolero (2014)

Bandcamp

/Sampledelic, Plunderphonics, Sound collage, Field recording, Freeformfreakout, Experimentalism/

Comment: this project could readily be named Retardede Musik, for instance, because it chimes like it would have been produced by a stoned producer. In fact, it was German expression to depict the fight Hitler and his silly company exerted against the so-called degenerate music. It is sample-based, it is inconsistent, it is mad, it is cut-up into a thousands of pieces. More concretely, these samples come out of very different sources ranging from tumultuous metal riff oriented torrents and smooth classical compositions to spoken word samples, organic street noises and fragile flamenco guitar chords to electronic sonic effects. It sounds like a reflection of human people`s world where things used to change permanently in the direction to the future or having no physical and temporal entry toward the past (read: chance to go back to his/her youngster days). On the other side, the title track Modern Bolero reflects upon the contrary tendency – it consists of permanent ringing of the table phone being open to minimal changes and iterative sonic samples. In a word, it provides intriguing listening thrills for sure. This was the artist`s first issue to release four further albums later during four years. The album comes out of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Sébastien Biset – Openfield (2009)

PERKūNowA

/Noise, Freeformfreakout, Anti-folk, Drone folk, Weird folk, Musique concrète, Crossover, Indietronica, Folktronica, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/

Comment: it was some days ago when I discovered that I had stored two issues by such artist as Sébastien Biset, Openfield and The Time I Was Spending, Running And Shouting In The Wind. More concretely, his 11-bar issue is a psyched-out outing based on short-running compositions segmented into harsh noise torrents (indeed, it is thoroughly intense!), sublime indie and folk-tinged compositions and mellow indie electronic insights or just exploiting field recording-based samples to build up disparate dimensions. However, it is interesting that the melting pot consisting of different elements works very well, having no distractions and conjuring up no inferior feels. The issue is a part of the discography of PERKūNowA.

[Teaser of the day] Miroslav Wilde - Ocean

• Dub-techno
• Tech-dub
• Club dance
• Chill-out
• Mood music

Artist: Miroslav Wilde

Release: Ocean EP

Label: Kopoc 

Year: 2015

Jamie Stephan – Challenger (2015)

Intox Noize
Intox Noize

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

Comment: Jamie Stephan`s 3-track issue used to wind across techno and house blended paths, however creating sublime mood and vibes in your brain and body, respectively. However, Ohrenschmalz is the track which changes the pace taking more on wobbling, tekno and electro-oriented rhythms. Indeed, the result is credible and blossoming. Challenger is his second issue, the follow-up to Vogelscharm (2014), and Flötentanz (in collaboration with Chris Kaoz) (2015). All these issues have been released on Russian imprint Intox Noize.

[Teaser of the day] Kaazim Zareb - Zahaab wa Eeyab

Webbed Hand

• World music
• Drone
• Ethnic music
• New Age
• Improvised music

Artist: Kaazim Zareb

Release: Miraaya

Label: Webbed Hand

Year: 2005

Cagey House – Sometimes Always Never (2015)

pan y rosas discos

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/Ambient, Post-rock, Post-folk, Experimental pop, Art pop, Mood music, Alternative pop/

Comment: I have frequently wondered about how much time has passed and how much things around us and within the artist`s aesthetic has changed during the course between some artist`s first and most recent albums. Baltimore, Maryland, US-based artist Dave Keifer aka Cagey House started off sometime in the mid of the 00´s with electro-vamped tracks while revealing rock music impulses inside it. Later on, his sound had changed toward more artificial yet wondrous world of deliberately chosen rhythms and sounds somehow similar to Oneohtrix Point Never had unveiled on his album R Plus Seven to a more wide audience (2013). Indeed, Keifer showcased this spellbinding, hyper-realistic world a little bit earlier than Daniel Lopatin did. However, Keifer`s aesthetic has changed throughout this awesome course, it is like moving across fragile yet rewarding path to amend and discover himself, to add new sonic notches into the bar thereby magnifying the legacy of honest music. His brand new one Sometimes Always Never is quite trance-y and restrained saturated with iterative jazz-y drum relied rhythms and guitar sounds being a new aspect in his sonic palette. Indeed, this time Keifer`s music could sometimes be described with the term “post-rock” because those guitar patterns with more or less delayed glockenspiel chords represented within it used to conjure up intriguing dynamics and emotive associations which may resemble of such combos as Mice Parade, Mercury Program, and The Dylan Group, for instance. Cagey House`s last albums have been issued on pan y rosas discos, the label dedicated to release innovative, improvisation-based music. I have no explicit overview about Keifer`s methods of how he creates compositions in the sense of how much it is determined (I mean to be previously set out and then exactly programmed) and how much there has been space for improvised aspects. In fact, the improvised music could also be determined getting its inner impulse from the planned goal. Then the chaos is more organized and may even be more impressive rather than just aimlessly slamming and rattling around. Indeed, I am being quite curious for technical aspects but by listening to Sometimes Always Never my drive to know it just dissolved. Simply I am enjoying of how these sounds move, meander, and come across to the other side. In a word, it is an outstanding issue.

[Teaser of the day] Vapour Night - Snow Fled

• Indie rock
• Ethereal Wave
• Post-punk
• Alternative dance
• Dream pop
• Electronic
• Alternative pop

Artist: Vapour Night

Release: Snow Fled

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2015

Dave Fuglewicz - Orange Mist Sunrise and Sunset (1996)

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Dave Fuglewicz

/Avant-garde, Minimal synth, Kosmische Musik, Drone, Krautrock, Experimentalism, Electronic music/

Comment: this is Georgia, US-based musician Dave Fuglewicz`s tenth issue which originally has been issued on two tapes in 1996. It consists of 12 compositions, however many of them are being longer than 10 minute thereby reaching a total time of 1 hour and 55 minutes. Musically it harks back to those golden Kosmische Music/krautrock/minimal synth days when the artists like Konrad Schnitzler, Symboter, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Cluster, Harmonia, Monoton and many other ones started to experiment on synthesisers and sequencer machines to create slightly psychedelic and dreamy electronic landscapes and acid fringed items to broaden the listener`s (sub)consciousness. More profoundly, it was frequently a fertile shift between calmed harmonic progressions and more intense rhythmic patterns and resonant swelling in chord progressions to conjure up different perceptions at the same time. Because of his dreamy approach the album chimes in a hyper-realistic manner now and then. Fuglewicz`s sound is replete with quite intense droning and tranquil wobbling of such electronic keyboards as ARP 2600, and ARP Odyssey and one Casio keyboard and all that sound has been recorded on Vesta-Fire MR-10B four track recorder. The listener could perceive the tracks with flourishing analogue quality. In a word, the result is an outstanding issue which is worth to be kept alive for future days. Of course, let`s discover other issues by Dave Fuglewicz either. 

[Teaser of the day] The Hirundu - Hot Pies!

• Lo-fi
• Outsider art
• Dada music
• Hip-hop
• Plunderphonics
• Freeformfreakout
• Electronic
• Experimentalism
• Sound collage
• Avant-garde
• Primitive music
• Electro pop
• Sampledelic
• DIY

Artist: The Hirundu

Release: Cortex Bycicle

Label: Pitch And Putt/Hirundu

Year: 1989

Covered Faces - Lobiep EP (2011)

Zorch Factory

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/Electroclash, Art punk, Mood music, Alternative pop, Krautrock, Electro-indie, Synth-punk, Indie dance/

Comment: this handful of ebulliently energetic compositions comes out of Basque Country/Euskadi, by Covered Faces whose music is a seamless blend of electroclash and synth punk compartments led by the female voice. Indeed, it is thoroughly puzzling to draw the line between those stylistic elements. However, it does make sense in theoretical mind-set only. Emotionally it is overwhelming due to those overdriving synth gears at different paces depending on certain pieces. Mostly it is intense and fast-stepping, though Abandoned Dogma has been managed in the way to chime like a majestic, epic one which could be compared with the aesthetics of Siouxsie & The Banshees, for instance. In contrast to it, Stroppy, the following piece is an example of lovely, childish melodies ringing almost like an instance of lounge music, however, hiding a spellbinding motorik groove beneath it. It is a pre-eminent piece either. I like their lead citation loaned by Oscar Wilde - give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Indeed, it is truly relevant today as well regarding the so-called democracy around us. You are not allowed to talk about certain themes unless you want to get fired and get stigmatized or even go to prison. The more you steal the taxpayer`s money the more righteous person you are appears to have been frequently a formula for acting. In a nutshell, it is a solid electro-punk issue. 

[Teaser of the day] Terrible Terrible - Pulling Teeth

Jamendo

• Indie rock
• Alternative pop
• Dream pop
• Psychedelic pop
• Doo wop
• Crossover
• Glo-fi
• Art pop 
• Soul pop
• Electronic
• Experimental pop

Artist: Terrible Terrible

Release: Fail Better

Label: Jamendo/Self-released

Year: 2014/2015


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Terracotta Blue - Arcade b-w Healer (2011)

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Soundcloud

/Chillwave, Trip-hop, Breaks, Electronic pop, Chilltronica, Poptronica, Mood music, Glo-fi/

Comment: I can remember for that one music reviewer suggested once while such phenomenon as chillwave lasted 6 months only the influence of it would have endured much longer, principally to date. Maybe he was right if to consider Baltimore, US-based artist Terracotta Blue`s career and doings. He started issuing outings at the second half of 2011 when the movement started to become less in extent and die-hard intensity. However, it does not mean that Terracotta Blue has not changed during these four years. Arcade b-w Healer was one of his first issues with regard to Bandcamp. The issue consists of a couple of compositions which are replete with crispy rhythms and dreamy meanders and majestic synthesiser induced chord progressions. In fact, given that those rhythms reveal their partly lo-fi tinged touch (at Healer) the issue can be considered an organic cross between indie electronic/chillwave tendencies and Ninja Tune related artists composed jazz-based music and Flying Lotus inflected hip-hop/trip-hop alchemy. On the other side, Arcade has been built upon catchy electro bass propulsions and enchanting synthesised progressions atop. In a word, the release can be exploited both to conjure up decent mood around you and for a more sophisticated listening time.

[Teaser of the day] Jan Grünfeld - The Nightshade

• Leftfield pop
• Experimental pop
• Robot pop
• Autotune
• Downtempo
• Krautrock
• Electronic music

Artist: Jan Grünfeld

Release: Music for Plants

Label: La bél

Label: Headphonica

Year: 2015

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Table Music Meeting - Wild Flower Way/Echo Holiday (2009)

MiMi

/Indie folk, Folktronica, Art folk, Folk indie, Post-folk, Mood music, Drone folk/

Comment: Recent Music Heroes is back again at a notch of the roster of Mimi Records. This time the Japanese collective Table Music Meeting`s 2-track/single issue provides many associations and creates a fine frame of mind. Although the release is described as “electronica” at the Portuguese imprint`s site it is half true at least only. Mostly it is guitar driven folk-tinged music which frequently draws upon droning, however, being saturated with minute yet delicate electronic and free and easy glockenspiel-based fringes. Between these two components you could perceive much air to be flitting around in thereby furnishing the exertion with the organic slide. By its intention the outing could be tagged as “chill out (chill folk?)” music because it calms down the listener providing him/her a virtuous buffer against daily problems he/she encounters. Additionally I recommend to listen to the likes of Oto, Nick Rivera, Plusplus, Possimiste, 2muchachos, Junya Nishimura, Koji Maruyama.

[Teaser of the day] Possimiste - Clockworkbird

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• Art pop
• Chamber pop
• New Weird Estonia
• Baroque pop
• Post-folk
• Crossover
• Singer-songwriter
• Folktronica
• Leftfield pop
• Post pop

Artist: Possimiste

Release: Clockworkbird (single)

Label: Free Music Archive/Self-released

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Bloatsucher - Landcrabs

Candymind

• Drum and bass
• Breakcore
• IDM
• Techno
• Crossover

Artist: Bloatsucher

Release: The Discipline Of Fibers

Label: Candymind

Year: 2006

Land Of Grim – Welcome (2011)

Torn Flesh

Bandcamp

/Rhythmic noise, Experimentalism, Art music, Electronic music, Post-industrial, Avant-garde, Noise, Drone/

Comment: Torn Flesh Records is mostly known as an imprint for extreme metal/hardcore punk music though there are up some exceptions in the label`s discography. For instance, take on this 5-track issue of 34 minutes. The central track is Select The Victim which embraces 13 minutes to bring forth truly peculiar rhythmic sounds and pulsating electronics in the background as if being influenced partly by art music/Klang music. In fact, the experience is amplified by the following piece Pave The Path. Embrace The Grim chimes like an instance of deep house music produced by the noise musician. It does mean he does not give a fuck to his own principles. However, the other compositions are remarkably more brown noise fuelled, providing obscure synthesised drones with pervasive ominous glimmer and more angular rhythmic frequencies because at times there is no chance to describe it as the rhythmic ones. One could discern them barely as pulsations coming out from the nexus. In a word, Nikolai Gawin`s issue is an impressive insight into a world of uncompromised sounds and attitude. 

Mccandless – Surprisingly Coherent (2013)

Higher Living

/Post-rock, Indie rock, Alternative rock, Soft rock, Duyster/

Comment: although this handful of pieces starts off like a colourless, mediocre guitar issue the Brussels-based duo embarks on to develop slowly by adding new layers and motives into iterative guitar gears. At times it chimes like a daydreaming combo who has no hurry and obligation to move on somewhere. They just enjoy recent moments and being in creation. One could hear glockenspiel chords to accompany guitars and at Twirls synths will take a lead to conjure up more soft rock-alike milieu, however being intersected with soaring post-rock guitar keys. Ultimately it could be said it is a solid output which deserves its title. The issue is a part of the discography of Higher Living Records. 

[Teaser of the day] Keijo & Uton - Pyörivät Pilvet

OM HA SVA HA KSHA MA LA VA RA YAM

• Forest folk
• New Weird Finland
• Improvised music
• Free folk
• Psych-folk
• Avant-blues
• Experimental folk
• Weird folk
• Avant-folk
• Space folk

Artist: Keijo

Artist: Uton

Release: Alun Ääniä

Label: OM HA SVA HA KSHA MA LA VA RA YAM/Free Music Archive

Year: 2009

LFC – Vento Quente (2010)

pCloud

/Space rock, Experimental rock, Improvised music, Weird, Blues rock, Experimentalism, Avant-rock, Post-rock, Guitar ambient, Dada music/

Comment: it was approximately one moth ago when I commented on The Chopittos Arkestra`s album Zavanardi Rising. Vento Quente is another album by Brazilian experimentalist Lucas Pastina whose 6-track issue is ploughed with guitar riffs, heavy moaning and heavy, sustainable reverberations within somewhere of ambient soup. On the other side, it is not pure sort of spaced-out rock/ambient because one could perceive Dadaist approach in Pastina`s concept. At times the music is accentuated with concrete sounds and powerful slams. More profoundly, it sounds like an example of noticeably skewed blues and hard rock tinged music to have appeared in the 10s. Because of that the Brazilian`s album can be compared with the likes of Frank Zappa, Johnny Crewdson (the constant member behind such crazy combo as The Hirundu) and Captain Beefheart additionally to Tore Elgaroy, fydhws, Glenn Brown, Dolores and other contemporary guitar fuelled ambient musicians. By the way, LFC does mean Lucas Fucking Crazy. Indeed, he deserves his name utterly. It is a stunning issue.

Noisesurfer – ADSL (2012)

Ethno Indigo

Jamendo

Bandcamp

Noisesurfer

/Krautrock, Techno pop, Musique concrète, Experimental electronica, Dark ambient, Electronic music, Ambient techno, Space music, Tekno, Downtempo, Breakcore, Techno, Ambient pop/

Comment: Noisesurfer is the nom de plume of the Spaniard Joaquin Ronco aka Joachim Rontxelius who has issued a shitloads of releases so far, mostly on Ethno Indigo (established by him) and Jamendo. ADSL is a stunning miscellany of 15 tracks which used to fluctuate from picturesque downtempo vibes and alien emitted techno rhythms to more poppy techno threads to austere krautrock-alike modern rock structures to noise infused electronic propulsions. At times those techno rhythms are accelerated to reach the tekno level (for example, Timepaste). He exploits elements which may be fairly extremist ones in some circumstances (the use of digital noises, and glitched-out debris, and ghastly reverberations) but Joachim Rontxelius does exploit those ones in the way to create something recognizable and sublime yet poignant. In a word, those elements are subjected to formulas of bearable alternative pop/krautrock/electronic music. By kindred souls it could be compared with some Andrew Cauthen aka Take Pills Die`s releases and an early and mid-period Kraftwerk (the period when the legendary German combo started to drift from krautrock-fuelled vamps toward more electro and techno pop tunes, for instance, Ralf and Florian (1973); Autobahn (1974) ). In a nutshell, it is a solid issue which at times may sound like a retro one yet providing sustainable glimpses into the future. In a word, it is an instance of proper electronic music with and without cadences.

[Teaser of the day] ±±Ding±± - Breeeze

• Sampledelic
• Hip-hop
• Soul-hop
• Trip-hop
• Seapunk
• Avant-hop
• Mood music
• Cinematic
• Breaks

Artist: ±±Ding±±

Release: Voodoo

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] medkit - Step Up To The End

Nenormalizm

• IDM
• Alternative
• Epic
• Electronic pop
• Mood music

Artist: medkit

Release: More Cold Than Warm

Label: Nenormalizm

Year: 2015

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

Nojoined - A Good Day For Gravity (2014)

aReW

Archive.org

/Ambient, Drone, Minimalism, Organic electronica, Kosmische Musik, Musique concrète/

Comment: behind these 39 minutes is David Priestley whose issue draws upon a minimal approach which consists of droning electronics, and undulating spaced-out synths on the top. At the first sight it might ring a little bit matted, however, the more one listens to it the more it will be opening up for you. Indeed, the core of these 6 pieces is dark-mattered and obscure though one can find out glimpses coming out of it and coming into it. For instance, you can discern the sounds of concrete music and Moog splattered rhythms. In general, it is the solid drift between dark ambient and Kosmische Musik.

Silverstone – Time Will Heal (2006)

Poni Republic

/Indietronica, Glitch pop, IDM, Ambient pop, Alternative, Techno pop/

Comment: Leon, Mexico-based artist and local indie music activist Edgar Medina (also known from such projects as The Rigor Mortis Experience, Transistor, Alejandro Morse) whose 4-bar issue is a cute example of glitched-out pop music. More profoundly, it is a shift between ambient pop and indie electronica and glitch-y techno rhythms though the artist exploits concrete sounds to moisten the melting pot. In general, the harmonies used to build up slowly and the rhythms do break off in a seamless way. It is a fine example of how a nice notch of pop music can be drawn on more sophisticated sonic structures. The issue is a part of the discography of an excellent Venezuela-based lo-fi/DIY music label, The Poni Republic (a dwelling place for the likes of Nuuro, Bi-log, Anton, Bright Star Regulus, American Chamber Music, Anois, Elaine, joiejoiejoie, Sappho, Sunday Parlours, Tropitek, Todosantos etc).