Eureka Brown – O Utopia (2015)

Digitalia

Archive.org

• Indie pop
• Alternative pop
• Singer-songwriter
• Art pop
• Americana
• DIY
• Psychedelic pop
• Lounge

Comment: the US-based one-man-artist Kris Bauer aka Eureka Brown is back with his third proper album O Utopia after a long time span. I can remember for his first two albums Future Visions of the Digital Universe (2007), and iDigitalia! (2009) provide amazing listening experiences where catchy DIY aesthetics in approach met sci-fi production in sound. These issues involved shitloads of moments replete with psychedelic gears, electronic pop undercurrents, clockwork sounds and semi-orchestrated whiffs and abstract folk touch being one of the most mysteriously fascinating pop acts in the end of the 00s. O Utopia includes 7 pieces at a length of 16 minutes. It is not surprising because Bauer`s previous tracks were not lengthier on average while concentrating on spellbinding melodic and harmonic sparks. It is a solid issue though providing less glistening moments than did his previous outings. One could hear more rustic country/bluegrass and Americana related moments in his sound while some hip-hop centred scratches are also presented over there. The soundscape seems to be less synthetic and produced more in a downright way. It makes sense either. The final track Knute`s Tune is something very new and special in his oeuvre – it is a sort of easy listening music in the style of Tiki lounge. Indeed, it is very special. In absolute scale, it is a solid issue. 

Leksha – Mark EP (2006)

Nishi

• Glitch-hop
• Experimental techno
• Glitch-techno
• Glitch-electro
• Abstract
• Avant-electro

Comment: Leksha`s 4-track issue is a nervous yet sublime issue on its own. First of all, it is a convulsive trudge through heavy glitched-out rhythms and minimally designed noise laden frequencies thereby making up an idiosyncratic experience eventually. At times buzzing synth induced drones used to get magnified and amplified in a spastic yet charming way (nmttm). The backbones of the pieces are not steady at all as if a substance represented over there having no restful, relaxing aspect on its own. By the way, by listening to the issue I recommend to watch the cover print of the issue which is a movable GIF file of creating psychedelic, dizzy feeling. . In a nutshell, the more I listen to it the more I think it is a classic one. Fascinating shit indeed.

[Teaser of the day] Imandra Lake - Küll süda teab

• Shoegaze
• Indie rock
• Alternative pop
• Dream pop
• Space pop
• Cover

Artist: Imandra Lake

Release: Küll süda teab

Label: Seksound/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

Misdea – Acetilene (2013)

Acustronica

• Post-rock
• Ambient pop
• Experimental rock
• Electronic
• Soundscape
• Conceptual
• Leftfield
• Crossover

Comment: Acetilene is an intriguing journey across thought-awakening landscapes where one could perceive disparate tendencies within less pop oriented music. At times it chimes like ambient pop, at times like experimental/post-rock, at times like a picturesque or abstract sonic ornament for something. At times it rings like a polyphonic composition with different layers being showcased at the same time. At times the soundscape is saturated with noisy debris thereby making up enough contrast to unite different elements with one another. The purpose of it is to create a hyper-realist experience. This "something" is thought to be a dedication to the Italian mercury mine Abbadia San Salvatore. Despite its cutting-edge approach in technology of creating the sound the result is enchantingly dreamlike. Acetilene is produced by the Berlin residing artist Emiliano Baiocchi.

[Teaser of the day] Day of the Triangle - 90⁰ CCW

• Space music
• Ambient
• Electro-acoustic
• New Age
• Electronica

Artist: Day of the Triangle
Release: Chair Conspiracy
Label: Trash Can Dance/Bandcamp
Year. 2015

[Teaser of the day] Nameless Dancers - Freestyle

Free Music Archive

• Latin music
• Crossover
• Electronic pop
• Lounge music
• Salsa
• Rumba
• Funk

Artist: Nameless Dancers

Release: Morning Touches

Label: Bump Foot

Year. 2010

Alternative links:

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Jonathon Roberts & Scott Hawlay – Prayer (2004)

Luv Sound

• Avant-garde
• Drone
• Abstract
• Noise
• Conceptual
• Remix
• Post-classical 
• Experimentalism

Comment: there is not much to know about this 3-track composition but it was the first issue in the discography of Luv Sound. One cannot find out even the release date of the album because it lacks this kind of information at the file/release information and at Discogs. Furthermore, I still do know nothing about Scott Hawlay and what he has produced so far. However, I guess the issue had been released sometime in 2004 while the imprint started to work. Jonathon Roberts is a contemporary composer of having obviously classical music background. The title track deserves its name where prayer-alike singing with extended chords and glistening points is accompanied by droning cello and cathedral organ-alike reflections eventually resulting in the epic peak. The next piece is Prayer: Mom and Pop (remix by the Eviscerator Reanimator) is a stoned deconstruction of the first one. It is filled with crackling noises and wobbling sonic waves to be the ambiance for a bleak sonic glimpse coming out of it. The last piece is the instrumental version of Prayer. In a word, the result is enchanting in its dark and white shadow play.

Akashic Crow's Nest - Torment of the Metals (2009)

Webbed Hand

• Post-rock
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Drone
• Electronic music
• Experimentalism
• Ambient

Comment: Akashic Crow`s Nest is one of the aliases by Chris P. McDill also known as Drone Wallah, Rolling Calf Sinfonette, Rowboat Magicians, Saluki Regicide, and Tree Helicopter. He is obviously one of the most prolific solo artists being around today. Most albums have been released under the likes of Webbed Hand Records, and Treetrunk Records. The composition consists of three compositions of a total time of 67 minutes. Two of them are very extended compositions though the nature of these tracks is quite minimal. More profoundly, it used to wobble in a restrained mode conveying feeble changes in structure and pace. At times it seems like the artist is searching for the resonance with the listener`s perception because it might be you are perceiving some sounds which might not exist at all. It is a sort of psychoacoustic phenomenon being deliberately created. Stylistically it could be considered an example of minimal music in general though it provides branches into electronic, ambient, drone and even post-rock music indirectly.

[Teaser of the day] Keme - Iquique

Musica Docil

• IDM
• Downtempo
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Keme

Release: Wax

Label: Musica Docil

Year. 2014

Jukka-Pekka Kervinen – Expected Values (2011)

Altered State Reflections

Free Music Archive

• Experimentalism
• Conceptual
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-garde
• Contemporary classical
• Abstract music

Comment: it is time to arrive at Altered State Reflections which is led by Jared C. Balogh who is experimental musician as well. The Finnish artist Jukka-Pekka Kervinen`s 3-track issue is technically conceptual because all the tracks represented over there are subjected to algorithmic patterns though played in different instrument-based modes. More profoundly, Kurtosis is for celesta and toy piano, Monotone is for clarinet, and Population Of Size N is for flute, oboe, and viola. However, one could perceive a shitloads of turns and rapid chord changes to elevate the concept to the next, robot-alike abstract level. Despite it, paradoxically, the whole involves many progressions which seem to be somehow warm and temperate ones. Maybe it is not abstract kind of music at all? However, it could be tagged as an example of such sort of classical music being related to academic, educated music circles. In a word, it is a thought-provoking glass bead game through the sonic frequencies.

[Teaser of the day] The Fucked Up Beat - Defy!

• Avant-garde
• Psychedelic
• Leftfield pop
• Alternative dance
• World fusion
• Experimental electronica
• Experimental pop

Artist: The Fucked Up Beat

Release: (hope! Our Drones Sent From Heaven)

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year:  2015

Meow Meow vs. Jefflocks - Hard Gaan (2014)

Sociopath Recordings

Bandcamp

• Bhangra
• Alternative dance
• Drum and bass
• Jungle
• Wolrd fusion
• Crossover
• Breakbeat

Comment: this 7-piece issue by the Netherlands-based artists is a fabulous example of catchy broken rhythms and vocal delivery. More profoundly, it is relied on highly energized drum and bass and bold jungle paces to provide the background to bhangra stylized singing. At times the whole is saturated with relaxing synth progressions being so characteristic to deep house progressions thereby adding some complexity in structure (infrrrrma fe Dead). However, one can perceive some sublime noises and scattered sub bass frequencies coming out of the maze of the blend of those intensive rhythms and vocal deliveries. In a word, it is a fascinating punch getting your soul and body. Last but not least - it reminds me of cool late teenage listening sessions with music by Asian Dub Foundation, and Fun-Da-Mental in the 90s, The issue is a part of the discogrpahy of a meritorious label, Sociopath Recordings being active since 2006.  

[Teaser of the day] Blues For Spacegirl - Quiet Fire In The Sun

Jamendo

• Soundscape
• Ambient
• Minimalism
• Dystopbient
• Avant-garde
• Micronoise

Artist: Blues For Spacegirl

Release: Theme For August

Label: Jamendo

Year. 2009

Basicnoise – More Agravic EP (2009)

Schall

• Ambient dub
• Dub techno
• Crossover
• Deep dub
• Experimental electronica
• Dub house
• Techno dub

Comment: it is a haunting beauty from the past – it is both dance-appealed for your brain and the very overwhelming object to be depicted through your legs, hands and body in general. It could have been an example of perfect ambient music if these compositions would have spared from “smearing” with house, techno, and dub elements. However, the Peter Fanai`s result seems to be even better thanks to the aforementioned smorgasbord of sounds and styles. All these branches will be reflected in one another thereby constituting the circle which is a perfect figure since the ancient Greeks. By listening to it you can perceive that the sentence “I can travel to the future” seems to be downrightly true.

[Teaser of the day] Lux Raptor - Ayrton

• Lo-fi
• Alternative pop
• Synthwave
• DIY
• Dreamwave
• Electronic

Artist: Lux Raptor

Release: Sobrenatural

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2015

Cankun + Holy Strays - Beko_91 (2011)

Beko DSL

• Lo-fi
• Hypnagogic pop
• Dreamwave
• DIY
• Experimental pop
• Avant-pop
• Chillwave
• Poptronica
• Post-psychedelic electronica
• Glo-fi

Comment: Beko DSL is a French contemporary music imprint who started to issue singles and compilations at the beginning of the 10s when such styles as chillwave, glo-fi, hypnagogic pop, dreamwave started to appear. Undoubtedly it was one of the best sources to get proper overview about new music. Unfortunately they decided to finish off their doings at the end of 2011, though all the releases are still up there. Beko_91 involves three compositions (one track is provided by Cankun, and two by Holy Strays both artists coming from France). Cankun who is now highly acclaimed artist within indie music circles provides a track called Coconuts which used to circle around due to fairly sultry synth loops and dusty ambience as if providing an interface for ambient and lo-fi pop. Indeed, I like that the sounds are subdued as if buried in. Holy Strays`s tracks are also immersed in mildly glistening echoes and DIY aesthetic driven synthesiser`s soup. In a word, listen to it and let`s remember those good old times replete with hope and desire. 

[Teaser of the day] Vanquish - Retribution

Ekleipsi

• Progressive metal
• Art metal
• Symphonic metal
• Speed metal

Artist: Vanquish

Release: Nine Deadly Sins

Label: Ekleipsi

Year: 2007  

Laika`s Child – The Great Sacramento Fire

Rack And Ruin

• Lo-fi
• Ambient pop
• Primitive pop
• Experimental pop
• Electronic
• Bedroom music
• Post-psychedelic
• Avant-pop
• DIY

Comment: if you think Google is omnipotent to find out easily any sort of information from any edge worldwide then you`re obviously wrong. Indeed, I have had Laika`s Child`s album The Great Sacramento Fire in my mp3 player for a while but I could not connect to any record label anymore. Finally I found it thanks to a vague hint. Indeed, Laika Child has issued its albums through Rack And Ruin catalogue fitting nicely with its accentuated lo-fi/DIY/primitive music aesthetic. More profoundly, Laika`s Child`s 5-track issue is composed of clumsy piano chords in progression, rough rhythmic bits and serene synthesiser induced layers thereby constituting the balanced whole for the listener`s joy. At times those sounds are vamped with concrete sounds (for instance, one can hear wintry gusts moving from one channel to another and burning logs in the stove and exploiting the sounds of a driving car). Such sort of music reveals more honesty and chimes more organically than many profoundly produced issues around us at the time. Furthermore, you need more listening times rather than just having one to discover all the nuances hidden adeptly to the whole. The artist says that the oeuvre is the product of boredom, dental work, and pure ambition. That`s OK.

Nota Bene! I was quite disappointed having no success while trying to download Dylan Ettinger`s issue One Rude Dude (2008). Indeed, his album is still up on the site of the imprint. As we know very well Ettinger moved on to publish releases under well-known underground labels like Not Not Fun, and NNA Tapes but that fact should not exclude his earlier sonic footsteps within the netlabel area.

[Teaser of the day] slept . - P. II

Test Tube

• Ambient
• Soundscape
• Experimentalism
• Glitchtronica
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde

Artist: slept.

Release: slept. EP   

Label: Test Tube

Year:  2009 

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

[Teaser of the day] Vyadha - Thief

• Witch-hop
• Vaporwave
• Drag-hop
• Avant-hop
• Seapunk
• Experimental hop
• Dream-hop

Artist: Vyadha

Release: Halo EP

Label: Aural Sects

Year: 2015

Orrorin Daydream - A Distant Veil (2015)

Laverna
Archive.org

Bandcamp

/Dark ambient, Soundscape, Experimentalism, Minimalism, Abstract, Ambient dub, Epic/

Comment: Orroin Daydream`s 10-track issue A Distant Veil is a case of exuberant layers within catchy noises and fluctuating pulsating ambience coated with hisses and microscopic sounds (of course, all of that it is made in a deliberate way). Emotionally it is at times restrained and neutral, at times ready to turn into more ominous compartments saturated with echoes, specters and monochromic gothic fictions. In any cases, the whole stimulates the listener`s brain to fantasy and create pictures in her/his head. To understand the purpose it is quite trivial but it is the very goal ascribed to music. The Belgium-residing artist`s music could be compared with the likes of Tim Hecker (especially the Canadian musician`s first albums where boreal-related fictions were more depicted than on his later issues) and Vladislav Delay (also the artist coming from the northern hemisphere, more concretely from Finland) because of depicting a trudge across the pathway of (sub) dub-inflected wobbles and electro-acoustic bangles. In a word, the result is an outstanding notch within the realm of holophonic poetry getting a place in the list of the best albums of 2015. Being related to the Halloween date by the way.  

[t]ghost – Terminal Damage EP (2008)

BPM Front

/Industrial techno, Big beat, Leftfield, Illbient, Neoclassical, EBM/

Comment: [t]ghost is an artist from Russia whose 2-track issue is an amalgamation of tectonic-alike crushing rhythms which seem to break up thereafter they are fallen down to the soil and malignant synth progressions with some hints at neoclassical orchestrated music, martial music and electronic body music. By using speech samples to bring forth the very core of this it is thoroughly viable and reasonable. More profoundly, there are up such tracks as March of The GPA Mechanics, and Terminal Damage. These ones say quite much about the whole. I guess by speaking about such kind of genres it is very important to figure out adequate milieu of them – indeed, all of that is represented over that – it is aggressive, it is powerful, it is rhythmical, it is obscure, it is mystical. In a word, all is properly balanced, all is properly (re)presented. The issue is a part of the roster of the Argentinian label BPM Front.

Jeesh - Space Ranger (Toy Story Remix)

[Teaser of the day] Bopapocalypse - III

• Wonky
• Hip-hop
• Cloud rap
• Rap
• Seapunk
• Chopped And Screwed
• Avant-hop
• Experimental hop
• Vaporwave

Artist: Bopapocalypse

Release: Lamp of the South.

Label: Peradam Tapes

Year: 2014

Owl Brain Atlas – AM/FM/UFO (2011)

SuRRism-Phonoethics

Free Music Archive

Owl Brain Atlas

• Dada music
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Acousmatic music
• Drone
• Sound collage
• Non-music
• Improvised noise
• Leftfield
• Avant-electronica
• Psycho-acoustic
• Electro-acoustic

Comment: frequently unusual and weird sort of music is called “UFO music” by superficial music listeners. Indeed, J. D. Nelson`s produced album is one of that because of consisting of 23 tracks with a total duration of 26 minutes only (the only exception is XI which last beyond 9 minutes). It does mean an average structure of musical compositions one cannot find from there because all is thoroughly warped and destroyed/deconstructed or subjected to uncompromising algorithms of cutting-edge noises, repeated loops of very short samples and incisive droning here and there. At times it rings like an example of sound collage by using speech samples and electro-acoustic snippets. Those speech samples are being exploited in different ways with different purposes to conjure up different associations in the listener`s head. For instance, at times it chimes like an instance of dada madness, at times it chimes like a time span filled with groans and moans as if reflecting zombies to come nearby to attack a new target. Indeed, every element within it is thoroughly elaborated and channelized despite its overtly fragmented appearance. In fact, J. D. Nelson has produced it for four yeards (2007-2011). In a word, it is a thought-provoking, frantically manipulated electronica/noise mayhem. 

[Teaser of the day] Fabio Keiner - Whispering

Petroglyph

• Soundscape
• Dark ambient
• Illbient
• Abstract
• Post-industrial
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde

Artist: Fabio Keiner

Release: Songs From Tehom

Label: Petroglyph

Year: 2015

Stakka – Alone EP (2004)

Camomille

• IDM
• Glitchtronica
• Experimental electronica
• Minimal techno
• Glitch-hop
• Experimental techno

Comment: this 6-track package is a fabulous mix of crunchy rhythms, synthesised wobbles and glitched-out noises flitting in around by the Polish producer Stakka. Given that the outing had been issued in 2004 this might be a quite ordinary practice to take on minimal techno/IDM rhythms, catchy melody lines and beautiful harmonies by following the influence of such labels as Mille Plateaux, and Morr Music then. However, the best time to test the quality of music is to do it many years after the release date of an issue (it is similar to be done with regard to historical events). Here we come in approximately 11 years later. I have no complains, I have no hints at something which could have done in a better way. All is equilibrated all is measured in a proper way. Furthermore, the Polish producer deviates from the aforementioned formula because of providing a couple of nervous hip-hop/glitch-hop compositions which truly make difference (Mosaik, Lucky People). In a word, get this gem which is a part of the discography of the Montrèal, Quebec, Canada based imprint Camomille which had been led by Vincent Fugère aka Muhr.   

[Teaser of the day] Adouk Boucan - L'Indiscrete

ComaRecOrdz

• Experimental hop
• Hip-hop
• Rap
• Trip-hop
• Avant-hop
• Electronica
• Breaks

Artist: Adouk Boucan

Release: Poudre Noire Sampler EP

Label: cOmaRecOrdz

Year: 2015

Feast of Violet – Botany Charm EP (2010)

Bandcamp

• Avant-rock
• Electronic
• Post-rock
• Abstract
• Experimental rock
• Ambient techno
• Shoegazetronica

Comment: Feast of Violet is the nom de plume of Allen Taylor, the resident from Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This is his first issue which might sound like an ultramodern rock album though it could be considered “rock” in an indirect sense due to some examples coming out from the past. For instance, some shoegaze movement related groups in the beginning of the 90s decided to go beyond the genre-related borders. For instance, Slowdive`s Pygmalion (1995, Creation) was an abstract issue drifting somewhere in between experimental rock and ambient. Seefeel was being a combo whose sounds were channelized into eerie echoes, techno rhythms and abstract noises to kill their predecessors in a softly yet convincing way. Indeed, Botany Charm EP could be considered a child of it. More profoundly, it is replete with spaced-out sounds, multiple layered echoes, noisy yet epic blossoming, concrete and electro-acoustic sounds running out of focus and from one channel to another. Indeed, Taylor`s result is uncompromising because all these sounds are elaborated and spliced masterfully to bring forth the powerful effect ultimately. In a nutshell, the result is mesmerizing.

[Teaser of the day] BUG - cuhr

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Improvised noise
• Drone
• Leftfield
• Krautrock
• Organcore

Artist: BUG

Release: Sediment

Label: Attenuation Circuit

Year: 2015

Terrible Terrible - Get The New Computer (2015)

Jamendo

Bandcamp

• Alternative pop
• Indie soul
• Hypnagogic pop
• Art pop
• Chillwave
• Experimental pop
• Chamber pop
• Glo-fi
• Electronic
• Dream pop
• Doo wop
• Indie rock
• Baroque pop

Comment: I am very convinced to assume that New Jersey, USA based combo Terrible Terrible is one of the best acts I have ever found at Jamendo, the France-based free music platform. Jack Browning, Mike Tarnofsky, Steve Kelly, and Mark Bucci have issued a couple of releases (Fail Better, and Get The New Computer) under the French imprint though their very first issues Hteet Gnillup, and Pulling Teeth can be found out at Bandcamp. Get The New Computer is not about machines unless they are talking about very sensitive machines because their music is thoroughly soulful, poignantly dreamy and replete with lush arrangements wherein crafty electronic undercurrents are inseparably mixed with Tarnofsky`s daydreamy vocal delivery, shuffled rhythms and artsy guitar handling.  All of that is saturated with something of a hyper-realist feel as if an interface to amalgamate baroque pop with glo-fi/chillwave touch, to mix up slowcore with hypnagogic attitude. If one wants to go back in time then she/he could hear doo wop drenched easiness and effortlessness in harmony structures. If you are searching some more known artists to draw parallel within it then you could find out some similarities with such projects as Atlas Sound, Gravenhurst, Grizzly Bear, Beat Detectives. In a word, it is an absolutely flawless effort.

[Teaser of the day] Kayaka - Feline Stilts

Zeromoon

• Krautrock
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Art music
• Post-rock
• Leftfield
• Electronic music

Artist: Kayaka

Release: Silence Walk

Label: Zeromoon

Year: 2013

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde – Stained Glass (2013)

Sirona-Records

• Post-punk
• Neo-progressive rock
• Alternative rock
• Synth rock
• Electro-rock
• Crossover
• Dance rock

Comment: this notch takes on a borderline of such styles as post-punk, progressive rock, symphonic rock, electro-rock/synth/dance rock. To add all these elements into one melting pot at a time it is not very ordinary even today at the time of postmodernist approaches and practices wherein different styles are crossed and recontextualized into something familiar yet different. All the compositions are instrumental and could be quite contemplative (Let It Burn!). Many patterns of synths, many patterns of guitars, many patterns of rhythms are interlaced with each other into the organic whole. It is the one-man-project of Maxim Khorsun from Simferopol, Crimea peninsula, Ukraine which is occupied by the Russian Federation at the moment.

{Teaser of the day] KIDS. - Waterfall

• Indie pop
• Alternative rock
• Psychedelic pop
• Garage rock

Artist: KIDS.

Release: Growing Up

Label: (10:39 Records)/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

Math - Nature EP (2006)

Poni Republic

Bandcamp

/Indietronica, Lo-fi, DIY, Electronic pop, Singer-songwriter, Folktronica, Alternative/

Comment: Math is the project of Kevin Steinhauser whose 7-track issue is an amusing travel through a spectre of diverse sounds, naïve aesthetic and a huge amount of fantasy. It is filled with the laugh both in a direct and indirect sense. The issue had been produced in the mid of the 00s when such sort of music was quite ubiquitous to be issued for the listeners. More profoundly, electronic propulsions and digital hisses and concrete music noises are mixed up with the twangs of folkloric instruments (mandolin) and glockenspiel chords, however, all of that it subjected to the DIY/lo-fi aesthetic. You can be sure many bands worldwide were then greatly influenced by the positive energy of Animal Collective. It is nice music from the Providence, Rhode Island, USA being issued under the then-Hugo Chavez ruled Venezuela based label Poni Republic. The point is that a cultural bridge is much easier to create for than doing it though political/diplomatic channels.

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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

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

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)

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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

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/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