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2/15/2016

KFC Murder Chicks – Golden Age Of Cross Mystery (2014)




  • Ambient
  • Breakcore
  • Avant-electro
  • Industrial hip-hop
  • Noise-electro
  • Avant-hop
  • Experimental hip-hop
  • Bhangra
  • Electro-clash

Comment: As the artist`s name suggests music oozing out from this 5-track release must be frenzied and noisy. It might be even thoroughly frenzied and noisy. Indeed, it is true, it is downrightly true because all of that used to rely on squelching yet exquisitely craved bass thumping which works out like the black hole by those three chicks named as Stella, Beatrice, and Stephanie. Stylistically it is hopelessly puzzling to categorize it because of loaning influences from different places and slots. Furthermore, as a result it is an example of sophisticated and elaborated synthesis where one could discern to be somehow familiar with and on the other side all of that seems to be fairly new to refresh and inspire your mind and soul, respectively. As a result, it is both exploratory and entertaining, being at times funny and amusing, being at times elegantly aggressive and violent. Maybe it is a sort of hip-hop, maybe it is a stoned version of bhangra. Is it a glowering version of electro-clash at the time the electro-clash as a style is already dead? It might be. Those bold and rough clusters of electro-hop rhythms, some high-pitched vignettes and fast lyrics reciting constitute the quintessence of the outing. However, the only exception is Making Up For That where the artist enters into the sinister realm of dark ambient music which is a plateau for elusive ghosts and ominous apparitions. Indeed, by listening to the track it makes me to startle about how the trio in liaison with their producer DJ Rozwell could be so versatile to be able to drift between different genres in such organic way. All in all, it could be admitted to be an outstanding poltergeist induced issue. Thank you, KFC Murder Chicks, thank you, cOmaRecOrdz!           

2/13/2016

[Teaser of the day] Wepwawet - Annual Osiris Feast At Abydos



  • Dark ambient
  • Avant-garde
  • Industrial illbient
  • Dytopbient
  • Musique concrète
  • Epic
  • Post-industrial
  • Experimentalism
  • Black noise
  • Martial industrial
  • Organic electronica
  • Industrial techno
  • Avant-techno

Artist: Wepwawet
Year: 2014

JTPE - Segment II EP (2014)




  • Drum and bass
  • Breakcore
  • Experimental hip-hop
  • Jungle
  • Spoken word
  • Urban music
  • Avant-hop
  • Remix

Comment: this handful of tracks by the Nijmegen, Netherlands-based artist embarks on with a track called Blacklisted which consists of precisely measured monochromic industrial hisses and jungle-hued cadences and some syllables and vowel effects atop here and there. The course will be continuing in a softer mode with a little bit faster yet bouncy rhythms (Koffie Door Een Rietje). However, the following three pieces are rendered similarly like the first track had been managed to run. Indeed, those machine and technology induced signs reappear to stimulate your subconsciousness and alter your state of mind. For instance, at Bedroom Junglist the artist unites aggressively surfacing rhythms, ill-omened exhoes and hisses with spoken word snippets in a sophisticated manner therefore giving it the elusive touch to grasp it one must listen to it many times in a row. Indeed, representatives of artificial intelligence have ultimately won here, however, having discovered delight and happiness coming out from dancing and dealing with music. All in all, it is a top notch for sure regarding the rhythms oriented music scene because of overwhelming power and exquisite artistic creativity. Of course, it is highly recommendable to get the artist`s Segment II-B issue which contains all of those B-sides, outtakes which did not get placed on the relevant release.      

[Teaser of the day] Satanoise TV - Koko



  • Sampledelic
  • Avant-garde
  • Epic
  • Soundtrack
  • Micronoise
  • Cinematic
  • Experimentalism

Artist: Satanoise TV
Year: 2016 

Various Artists - Hi-Five! EardrumsPop's 5 Year Anniversary Compilation (2015)




  • Indie pop/rock
  • Jangle pop
  • Shoegaze
  • Alternative pop/rock
  • Twee pop

Comment: if you want to get the overdose of indie/alternative pop music then listen to this magnum opus by EardrumsPop which contains 38 tracks in total. Of course, the term “indie music” says nothing about it because so different genres and styles have been incorporated into it over many years and even decades. By that it might even be tautological to describe musically contemporary pop music as indie/alternative pop. Furthermore, the scheme could be even fuzzier by considering that not only mainstream music did loan from alternative/indie pop but vice versa either. If earlier the term stands for small independent imprints being separated from mainstream labels then later these imprints got sold by the latter ones. Later on, such instances as weblabels, Archive.org, Free Music Archive, lastfm had been a home for indie music and today Bandcamp as a growing platform is getting more and more recognized to represent a genuine idea of independent distribution as to indie/alternative pop. However, EardrumsPop artists` roots mainly come out of the 80s jangle and twee pop (mainly they were the C86 compilation related artists) music which resorted to ironically naïve and thereby elegantly self-confident attitudes within the indie music scene thereby conveying a lot of viable impetuses to the style to get evolved into something powerfully flourishing and beautiful. There are represented such artists as The Marble Man, Tomiji, Lost Tapes, Vukovar, Making Marks, Ralegh Long, Uncle Rico, The Paris Work-In, Monster Bobby, The Just Joans, Are You Feverish Ian?, The Royal Landscaping Society, Marc Elston, Ceremonies, Shekon, The Lost Cavalry, Finnmark!, The Pinefox, Kids On Bikes, Boyish, A Little Orchestra, Sleeping Policemen, Tiny Fireflies, The Color Waves, The Swapsies, Evripidis and his tragedies, L & M Kingsize, Cape Canareval, Laura K, The Very Most, Helena Sundin, Niko Niko!, Antony Harding, Colin & The Clarys, les bicyclettes de Belsize, Onward Chariots, and Little xs for Eyes. Most of those artists are already familiar for those who have enjoyed previous issues under EardrumsPop. Happy birthday, EardrumsPop.

2/12/2016

[Teaser of the day] Smõuk - Maailma lõpp ja algus



  • Hard rock
  • Stoner rock
  • Heavy metal
  • Psych-rock

Artist: Smõuk
Release: EP_2013
Label: Bandcamp/Self-released
Year: 2013

Cuarto / Indiosingracia - Krilin Split (2016)




  • Folktronica
  • Folk indie
  • Experimental pop
  • Art folk
  • Indie folk
  • New Weird Italy
  • World music
  • Post-folk
  • Ethnotronica

Comment: I am very glad that the Italy-based imprint La bèl is back with their brand new one which is a split album for Cuarto, and Indiosingracia. Indeed, both artists provide a handful of tracks the former is more world music/ethnic music centred and the latter`s concept used to rotate around the more orthodox folk and electronica tinged concept. On the other side, this differentiation is indirect and contingent just based on some diverse chords and tendencies between the two artists. The most important thing is that the result is consistent and accomplished from start to finish having no signs about weak and accidental compositions. A common thread is that both artists provide instrumental music despite there are represented some vowel effects now and then. Of course, all those tiny fragments and bits which used to appear over there have significant weight and impact. At times those suits can ring loosely yet consistently and elegantly as if it were produced near the campfire (I mean it indirectly). Cuarto´s Harco´s e-mail is an example of blissful crossover which consists of world rhythms, free jazz/improvised sonic mist and folktronic undercurrents. As I said previously I am very glad that La bèl is back with their brand new one…which used to reflect upon such sort of music they are the masters of pertaining to (with regard to the likes of Plusplus, Nick Rivera, Elisa Luu, for instance). Get this and the previous ones under La bèl. 

2/11/2016

[Teaser of the day] The Hirundu - Let Me Go (Here It Comes Again)



  • Anti-pop
  • Avant-pop
  • Post-punk
  • DIY
  • Experimental rock
  • Dada pop
  • Electro-rock
  • Industrial pop

Artist: The Hirundu
Release: Weird
Label: Pitch And Putt/self-released
Year: 1990

Deaf In Italy – A Series of Simple Gestures (2012)




  • Synth pop
  • Electronic pop
  • Indietronica
  • Post-punk
  • Minimal synth
  • Ambient pop
  • Neoclassical
  • Synthwave
  • Shoegazetronica
  • Alternative dance
  • Darkwave
  • Art pop

Comment: this bunch of 13 tracks used to be quite rare because of being one of two issues being ever released on Lumi Netlabel. In general, it might be an example of synthwave issue because all those sounds seem to be produced by electronic keyboards only though stylistically the release will vary throughout the course. For instance, one of my most favourite pieces within it Fragments Behind Colour has been managed to trudge at an interface between shoegaze, darkwave and concrete music. Indeed, the ill-omened tendencies in sonic creation could be traced in other compositions either, for instance, at Matter In Motion (there are up even some ambient and post-punk progressions thereby reminding of Durutti Column`s aesthetic, for example). In other tracks the music is virtually dominated by minimally designed synth progressions with subtle ambient flavours. Furthermore, not only synthesizer- induced sounds do arouse one`s minds and feels because there is a flock of rhythms of diverse kind which used to draw mind-boggling patterns and all of the at will be amalgamated into the synergic whole. The listener could feel himself/herself to be subjected to intriguing audible manipulations and compounds where no one could feel himself/herself lonely. Even if he/she feels himself/herself lonely then it is a quite different sort of loneliness because of being caused by a crafty aesthetic burden which necessarily comes over you. It could finally be said Deaf In Italy`s A Series of Simple Gestures is the solid streamlined drift between poppy indie electronica and elegantly rejecting dark-hued art pop. 

2/10/2016

[Teaser of the day] Cyberdread - Mescalito


  • Chill out
  • Chilltronica
  • Progressive house
  • Club dance
  • Mood music
  • Electronic pop

Artist: Cyberdread
Release: Mouse Music
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2010

Hanetration – Coiled Fire EP (2016)




  • Post-industrial
  • Micronoise
  • Drone
  • Avant-garde
  • Dystopbient
  • Ambient drone
  • Experimentalism
  • Electro-acoustic
  • Abstract
  • Electronic music


Comment: Hanetration`s two previous works Acid Reflux EP, and Waldsterben were added to the list of best albums in 2015 by the Recent Music Heroes blog. Indeed, I made it with no least hesitation. Undoubtedly it stirred up great interest regarding the UK-based artist`s next issues to surface in the future. Here it is, the brand new one, 9-track Coiled Fire EP which is the one and same Hanetration by the idea yet providing new, astonishing compositions into spaced-out drone reliefs which sound like the lunatic`s downshifted dreams being beset with electro-acoustic scars and crackling microscopic strains. All of that used to result in an uncanny, even frightening world which seems to be both real and beyond the borders of our cognitive world. On the other side, one could clearly discern the artist`s dexterity to manipulate with loosely bound compositions of being composed of different counterparts yet injecting a decidedly refreshing and propulsive verve into it. It would be proper to be tagged as "post-music". If it were an outing by Kanye West or Justin Timberlake it would be recognized and famous worldwide. It could be said this issue is one of the best issues in 2016 so far.           

2/09/2016

[Teaser of the day] David Evans - Microsoundwave


  • Drone
  • Microtonal
  • Abstract
  • Mircrosound
  • Experimental electronica
  • Avant-garde
  • Acousmatic music
  • Experimentalism
  • Micronoise
  • Electro-acoustic

Artist: David Evans
Release: Domestic Cinema
Label: Wood & Wire
Year: 2013

Alternative links:
Bandcamp

[Teaser of the day] Eureka Brown - Crystal Clear


  • Dream pop
  • Alternative pop
  • Art pop
  • Cinematic pop
  • Post-pop
  • Indie pop
  • Glo-fi

Artist: Eureka Brown 
Release: ¡Digitalia!
Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Kobi - Or Out West To The Narrow Opening


  • Ambient pop
  • Organic electronica
  • Art music
  • Space pop
  • Musique concrète
  • Drone pop
  • Improvised music
  • Alternative

Artist: Kobi
Label: Silber
Year: 2005 

[Teaser of the day] .zigo - Asokal



  • Dark ambient
  • Art music
  • Post-classical
  • Post-industrial
  • Acousmatic music
  • Avant-garde
  • Sound art
  • Experimentalism

Artist: .zigo
Release: Rumiterio
Label: Plus Timbre
Year: 2016

2/08/2016

Tortoise - 1992-04-13 - Lounge Ax (1992)




  • Post-rock
  • Progressive rock
  • Electronic music
  • Improvised music
  • Live session
  • Experimental rock

Comment: firstly, I did not like Tortoise`s last issue The Catastrophist (Thrill Jockey) because I felt as if the legendary Chicago, Illinois, US-based combo had tried to reinvent a new formula of pop music while having no enough faith in it. The result was quite sleazy and superficial. On the other side, I have no hesitation to show up their legacy to be one of the greatest among the indie and post-rock scene during the last three decades. Furthermore, John McEntire, the vibraphone player, keyboardist and drummer and producer of the combo has contributed at many fascinating albums with regard to Stereolab, Yo La Tengo, Bright Eyes, Radian, Jaga Jazzist if to name some of those ones. This 9-track gig at Lounge Ax was obviously one of their first performances whereas having issued no albums so far. Many compositions which appeared here were added to their first eponymous issue. Although Tortoise`s music is being generally tagged as “post-rock” if to dissect it this consists mainly of progressive rock, electronica, dub, krautrock, minimalism, and concrete sounds. Indeed, the combo has exploited elements of the aforesaid styles in different combinations throughout 24 years. It could be said this 41-minute issue is one of such sort of although it might sound a little bit clumsy because obviously having had no enough experience yet to interplay with each other in a more fast and cohesive manner. By regarding the Tortoise`s narrative to prefer instrumental compositions it is surprising enough to discover a track with vocal delivery called Lonesome Sound. It is disturbing that one could hear chitchatting while the combo is playing. The set is ended up by Ry Cooder, one of the most well-known compositions by Tortoise.

Morgan Sadler - Go On (2011)




  • Singer-songwriter
  • Indie folk
  • Canadiana
  • Folk indie
  • Folk

Comment: Morgan Sadler is a singer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada whose single Go On won a Toronto Independent Music Award for Best Song 2009-2010. Indeed, the ditty is great due to fine fragmentation of properly dosed and dreamy singing and somniferous instrumental parts beneath it. Been Known To, and Going Nowhere are certainly more ceremonial and conventional ones where Morgan Sadler`s vocal is unveiled and the chords are more bold and naked-tailed to be set out for poppy boasting and mainstream appeal though making sense enough to accomplish the whole.

Josef Blo - The Studious EP (2011)




  • Hip-hop
  • Sampledelic
  • Cut and paste
  • Soul-hop
  • Cinematic
  • Breaks
  • Urban music
  • Sound collage

Comment: although this issue of 11 fragments is a short-running one clocking in at a 14 minute the result is at times exceedingly amusing. For instance, the opening piece Tradition starts off with a funny music hall vignette and cut-up beats and somewhat buried yet funny vowel expressions. However, later on, the music by the Canadian producer Josef Blo used to evolve into soulful progressions and even cinematic flickers which are reached by exploiting heavily sampling and cut and splice technique. It embraces a bunch of scratches, broken beats and hovering synthetic sounds and orchestrated parts all of them being fondly spliced and reiterated thereby representing the cut and paste/sound collage music rather than the pop-oriented product. On the other side, it does not mean it is nothing to do with poppy music – for instance, listen to Get Stoned and indeed, you get stoned due to those beatific harmonic movements and synergy between different elements. In a word, grab this album from a pre-eminent jazz/soul/hip-hop/broken beats/sampledelic music imprint, called Dusted Wax Kingdom.


SAD - Crystal Faces (2011)




  • Breakcore
  • Electro pop
  • Alternative dance
  • Deep house
  • Synth pop
Comment: by analysing the coverprint of this 3-notch issue you might presume of this music to be something fairly infantile and done with toys, for instance. However, the result is an example of great electro propulsions with chopped vocals and hovering atmospheric synth lines. By considering the coverprint once more one might assume something playfulness within it and he/she is not wrong altogether. As we know very well the puerility and playfulness often used to stick together. The second track Hipnolist involves synth pop frequencies to be added to crunchy electro cadences. Marvin is even more one step farther because of recruiting sublimely bouncing house-y vibes and softened vocals to the mix. Who could expect that after listening to the first a couple of compositions? In fact, the kind of versatility is the privilege of accomplished artists. Indeed, the result clocking in at a 21 minute is fascinatingly filled with pleasant surprises and sustainable threads. The issue is a par tof the discography of Ruzzinet. 

2/07/2016

[Teaser of the day] Umculo Isipho - Phulaphula


  • House
  • World music
  • Lo-fi
  • DIY

Artist: Umculo Isipho
Release: Mwowethu
Label: Bushmen
Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Tont - Bassid langevad lovesse



  • Experimentalism
  • Organic electronica
  • New Age
  • Musique concrète
  • Dub
  • Abstract
  • Avant-garde

Artist: Tont
Release: Rändurvaim
Year: 2015

Volfoniq – Ernest (2011)




  • Dub
  • Reggae
  • Tango
  • Raggamuffin
  • Crossover
  • World music
  • Electronica

Comment: Volfoniq is the Frenchman Nicolas Sorbier who has issued a bunch of albums over Internet in recent years. Ernest consists of 11 tracks which used to rely on Jamaican styles of special kind – dub, reggae, raggamuffin. However, all these styles are sprinkled with some European sounds – accordion chords coming out from the streets of Paris, there are also represented the vibes of tango music with electronic frequencies which was widely popularized by Gotan Project. On the other side, the Jamaican styles are interlaced with ethnic drum sounds of Asian origin. In a word, musically it is an iridescent release providing enough delight and some overwhelming turns for your pleasure.

2/06/2016

Of Montreal 2008-10-10 Roseland NYC (2008)




  • Indie pop
  • Alternative dance
  • Psychedelic rock
  • Live session
  • Alternative pop
  • Funk
  • Folk indie
  • Soul
  • Indie folk

Comment: Of Montreal is one of the most well-known artists coming out from the so-called The Elephant 6 Recording Company. The Denver, Colorado, US-established company involves such artists as Neutral Milk Hotel, Beulah, Olivia Tremor Control, The Ladybug Transistor, and M Coast, Apples In Stereo among many others. Musically these combos make difference against each other though sharing exquisite playfulness, aesthetical curiosity, artistic freedom and fondness for music of going beyond genres and styles. Furthermore, it was not unusual that the projects altogether used to share one and the same members (for instance, Jeff Mangum was or has been a member of such combos as Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power, Major Organ and The Adding Machine, Circulatory System, The Apples In Stereo, Synthetic Flying Machine). Of Montreal is the project of one of the collective`s founders, Jeff Mangum and this gargantuan set of 26 songs with a total length of 107 minutes is an example of the quintessence of the Elephant 6. There are up fine examples of energetic indie pop songs with strong hints at psychedelic and acid pop undertaking which might even remind of the New Weird America movement at the time, funk and dance-appealed frequencies, and more programmed synthetic and design pop. There was presented a cover version of Nirvana`s Smells Like Teen Spirit in the set. Moreover, one could perceive more or less humorous moments seeping out from those numerous sonic layers. By the way, one of the ditties was performed while Jeff Mangum was riding almost naked atop of a white horse. You could see the magnificent horse and a contemporary Dionysios riding on the picture above. In a nutshell, it could be said all the people who attended the gig got satisfied. 

2/04/2016

[Teaser of the day] Futurebandit - F ᴬ ᴸ ᴸ ᴵ ᴺ ᴳ



  • Vaporwave
  • Chopped & Screwed
  • Leftfield
  • Soul
  • Downtempo
  • Experimentalism
  • Abstract hop
  • Chillstep
  • Avant-hop
  • Glo-fi

Artist: Futurebandit
Label: Aloe City
Year: 2015

2/03/2016

Plastik Kettle – New Horizons EP (2011)




  • Alternative pop
  • Electro pop
  • Robot pop
  • Electronic pop
  • Synth pop

Comment: The Sardinia, Italy-residing musicians Alessandro Pintus & Corrado Caocci have said they are inspired by the universe of robots and their profound passion for the synthesizers. By watching the title of their first issue Our Toys Are Better Than Yours (2007, Elpa) the duo`s statement gets cemented further. Their sophomore issue New Horizons EP proves also that the music of Italian combo is a highly subtle undertake on robots and electronic keyboards. The flow is iridescent due to warped yet graceful vocals and elegantly bouncing electronic rhythms full of (artificial) solar rays and organic synth templates. In a word, if this issue were a part of the discography of a well-known artist it would be widely recognized. The issue is a solid notch in the discography of the Latvian imprint Elpa music.

Verãopop – Nouveau Shamanic LP (2015)




  • Drone
  • Avant-garde
  • Experimentalism
  • Electronic music
  • Improvised music
  • Psychedelia

Comment: Verãopop consists of a couple of musicians – Nelson P. Ferreira operates behind the drums and theremin and Vitor Bruno Pereira plays the keyboards and sings (in true, he does not do it on this 3-track issue). The issue embarks on with heavy pounding which soon will be accompanied by psychedelic electronic sounds, noisy cymbals, static loaded synths and stalking drones. Furthermore, one could perceive how the duo presents all these elements with different loudness and aesthetical intensity. At times the listener could perceive quite ill-tempered and even threatening moods which, in true, do not last for long. Frequently the lsitener coul discern sounds being played simulatenously (polyphonically). Indeed, all these elements will constitute the row of thought-provoking sonorous combinations throughout the issue clocking in at a 24-minute. The issue is a part of a Portland, Oregon, US-based imprint An Out Recordings.

2/02/2016

[Teaser of the day] La Confraternita Del Purgatorio - Paura & delirio dal Barbiere



  • Avant-prog
  • Experimental rock
  • Avant-fusion
  • RIO
  • Dada music
  • Psych-rock
  • Avant-rock

Release: Le Palle
Label: Tandori
Year: 2015 

Petitoto – Le Petit Circus (2015)




  • Primitive pop
  • Toytronica
  • Electronica
  • Alternative

Comment: oh yeah, the babies are singing, or at least the adult persons mimicking their babbling and vowels. However, musically it is the extraordinary experience because of providing such infantile threads and cunning hypocorism throughout the course. Furthermore, the idea is good and it is expertly accomplished. The vowel layers are backed up by dreamy toy chords and low-end synth semi-orchestrations which are at times saturated with somniferous crunching and different kind of sonic effects. The issue is a part of the discography of the Japanese imprint Totokoko. 

2/01/2016

[Teaser of the day] Ashtray Navigations - Brick Boutique


  • Post-industrial
  • Drone
  • Experimentalism
  • Non-music
  • Micronoise
  • Post-psychedelic electronica
  • Improvised music
  • Minimalism
  • Leftfield
  • Avant-garde
  • Ambient noise

Release: Sweet Iron Feet
Year:  2006/2009/2014


Alternative links:

Abel – Through EP (2007)




  • Dub techno
  • Techno
  • Club dance
  • Tech-house

Comment: Abel`s Through EP is the first issue under the now defunct imprint Schall-Netlabel. The record label had spread music which used to operate at margins of techno, house, and dub vibes with less hints at other genres. Indeed, the 3-track issue used to meet each other in different combinations and thence disparate moody varieties and colours to be sprinkled around. Indeed, one could perceive lots of changes in the architecture of the rhythms and varieties regarding the beats per second. Finally it could be said all the aforesaid elements create together pretty much synergy and intention to visit a local club dance.

1/31/2016

[Teaser of the day] Lemur - 1755


  • Post-rock
  • Epic
  • Experimental rock
  • Alternative rock
  • Indie rock

Artist: Lemur
Release: Lemur
Year: 2013

Fun Fusion - no name mix (2012)




  • Ambient
  • Soundscapes
  • Microtonal
  • Experimental electronica
  • New Age
  • Musique concrète
  • Minimalism
  • Glitchtronica
  • Sound art
  • Avant-garde
  • Microsound
  • Organic electronica

Comment: I have no chance but to shamelessly praise this issue of 2 lengthy compositions (both of them clock in at a 27 minute). Indeed, it is a magical experience to listen to this masterpiece where every sound seems to be determined yet all those sounds used to flow in an organic, effortless way. One could hear the swaths of panoramic sounds which used to constitute the main line however the elements are streamlined by efferent and afferent sounds which are birthed from nothing and ready to go back there. One could enjoy subtle glitched-out chords atop and flute flickers and indecipherable yet epic human voices and accelerated sonic effects and the crackles of wondrous concrete sounds which truly make difference and it might be due to their minimal nature. Given that it is not a disjointed aural example of involving staccato sounds and jerky parts at least by deciding emotionally. Even if it used to be in the opposite position de facto it does mean sense at all. Indeed, it is quite surprising of how such sort of minimal music could arouse emotions and sensuous enjoyment through sparse and austere progressions and structures. Given that might it be related to the essential functioning of the human brain? Might it be the representation of circuitry of the ganglions and synapses below the cerebral cortex? Furthermore, it is an extraordinary issue because all those dreamily chugging, at times even hyper-realistic aspects used to develop in a slow manner and eventually result in the silent crescendos. The project comes out of Syktyvkar, Udmurtia, Russia and their issue is a part of the formidable discography of Top-40.  


1/29/2016

[Teaser of the day] John Frusciante - Hew Brenderson



  • Synth rock
  • Progressive rock
  • Synth fusion
  • Electronica
  • Electro-rock
  • Electronic dance music

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Gorowski - Skipping to Hazana


  • Mood music
  • Acid jazz
  • Psychedelic pop
  • Big beat
  • Breakcore
  • Nu jazz
  • Alternative dance

Artist: Gorowski
Year: 2015

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Goldaline, My Dear – How We Say Goodbye and Leave (2011)




  • Alt-folk
  • Indie folk
  • Folk indie
  • Acoustic pop

Comment: as the main title might suggest the lyrics on this 5-track issue are about love, about relation problems, about quarrels and subsequent longing and waiting desperately arrival at home of the second part of the relation. Even if the people used to be involved romantically then they are not able to leave their past behind. Indeed, it seems to me the lyrics are the kind of top notch because of representing life and relations faithfully. It could be said it is a romantic folk issue where the lyrics are supported by the twangs of outright acoustic guitars and some sparse vamps additionally. Goldaline, My Dear is the duo of Davide, and Tommaso from Rimini, Italy. How We Say Goodbye And Leave was the duo`s first notch which was followed by Pretend the World is Funny and Forever in 2014. Both of these issues are issued under Stop Records where the releases are up for free download.  

Kadasarva – Steamagination (2011)




  • Psytrance
  • Rave music
  • Alternative dance
  • Dance music
  • Electronica


Comment: thanks to this 9-track issue I discovered there had been existed an imprint called Sun Station for some years which was an umbrella for trance-related music. Today we know Ektoplazm has an analogue purpose to put into practice. More profoundly, Kadasarva`s Steamagination is a skewed instance of trance music where frequently quite obtuse rave-up rhythmic vibes are variegated with electro noises, and some sonic effects to broaden the soundscape and search for new combinations in sound and stylistic aspect. Let`s be honest to say trance music as a genre is relatively bumptious and simplistic because the genre`s aesthetical nature is anchored to higher levels of rhythmic burning only and at times the artists operating within it go beyond good taste, however, psychedelic tendencies within it help to alleviate and balance it (In the mid-90s there was a thread of mainstream and club acts which were tagged as “German trance” by underground people). For instance, listen to North Pole, a track with a more breezy insight into the style and album. Indeed, the album embraces a bunch of chord and pace changes to be a solid shape-shifter inside the borders. By the way, one track called The Krypt was originally created by another Ukraine-based project called Submatukana but there is Kadasarva`s remake. On the other side, regarding the cover print of the current issue and the ones under Ektoplazm it could be said this and those are fascinating ones either. On the whole, the result is masterfully produced and channelized because the thin line of “bad music” has been avoided throughout the course.

1/28/2016

Dia del Mercado - Troubled Roads, Battering Rain

[Teaser of the day] Pretochines - And I Mean That Shit



  • Vaporwave
  • Hip-hop
  • Sampledelic
  • Dreamwave
  • Experimental hip-hop
  • Seapunk
  • Breaks
  • Avant-hop

Artist: Pretochines
Release: Lovv Key
Label: Monster Jinx
Year: 2015

Etiket Zero – Planet (2011)




  • Hip-hop
  • Rap
  • Ethnotronica
  • Urban music
  • Avant-hop
  • Sampledelic
  • Industrial-hop
  • World music

Comment: this 4-track issue by the French-based hip-hop artist Etiket Zero is a fascinating one because of providing a coherent bound of rhythms, ill-omened gauze and overdriving effects. Those rhythms are craftily produced to vary in their appearance from slightly sprawling noise-fuelled synth basses to smithereens exploded thumps. Furthermore, the artist used to sample ethnic instruments (tabla, tanpura) and flutes, down-beaten paces and the African people`s singing at _Planet_N_YAK.412. Indeed, this quite long-running composition is very interesting because of involving a shitloads of unexpected turns and dodges. The track is the exception within the whole issue. All these lyrics are chanted in English having no penchant toward such simplistic topics as women, money and cars in a vulgar way. For instance, at _Planet_N_AYK.599_Feat._Guttahface the artist ushers the listener in a more lone and lovelorn way. Musically with the excursion of the first mentioned track there can be drawn parallels with the elegantly squelching and cracked aesthetic of Death Grips who had been making first steps to conquer the world at the time of the release of this issue. However, it was not Etiket Zero`s first album where the artist experimented with such experimental narratives. Additionally I recommend listen to an album called Album La Paix (2008) where the artist had glided along abstract soundscapes, however, noises and ethnic motives were represented either. All in all, it is a bewildering stuff where tension and intensity in sound and on the other side those mind-boggling sonorous crumbs and harnessed to conjure up outstanding incantations for our pleasure. It is an ideal template of hip-hop music. 


[Teaser of the day] Sun Devoured Earth - Reminiscence ~A Long Journey~



  • Chillwave
  • Electronica
  • Glo-fi
  • Ambient pop
  • Alternative pop

Release: Ellilan
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2013

Scozbor - Holons All the Way (2015)




  • Glitchtronica
  • Avant-techno
  • Experimental techno
  • Dubtronica
  • IDM
  • Breakcore
  • Experimental electronica
  • Ambient techno

Comment: I did have had no idea about the word “holon” before listening to this 3-track issue but now I guess it might mean something related to very broken rhythms involving glitches, dub and techno vibes the course glides along at. On the other side, those cut-up and sliced sequences are wrapped up in atmospheric clouds thereby relieving the harsh side of the first mentioned mishmash. If to analyse the self-titled track one could perceive subtle techno pebbles, IDM infused melodies and Kraftwerk-esque robot/techno pop flickers which used to extract from the middle of a blanket of the aforesaid elements. One could perceive different facets of electronic and (cerebral) dance music tendencies which eventually will result in a playful, brain-teasing outing. It is one of the best issues having produced in the previous year. The only shortage of the issue is this is way too short. The issue is a part of the discography of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US-based imprint Bleepsequence.

1/27/2016

[Teaser of the day] Cal-Set Quintet - Side A - Track 6



  • Psychedelic rock
  • Alternative rock
  • Live session
  • Experimental rock
  • Space rock
  • Krautrock

Artist: Cal-Set Quintet
Label: Hisstology
Year: 2012

The Psychedelic Underground Generation - # 33 (2016)




  • Psychedelic rock
  • Acid rock
  • Alternative rock
  • Indie rock
  • Drone rock
  • Space rock

Comment: indeed, as the title suggests this bunch of 12 compositions is all about whistling, fuzzy guitar progressions, acidic keyboard/organ sounds and intense drumming thereby resulting in a frantic outlook within the pop music scene. Of course, these pieces are certainly a sort of pop music though having a certain edge by pouring out the energy coming out from any slot being possible and thinkable around. Furthermore, any artist on it is about to provide their/his/her own idiosyncratic twinkling of sound and approach. There are represented such artists as Meteo, John Canoe, Coo Coo Birds, Mother Island, Sir Robin & The Longbowmen, Goth Babe, Fogbound, The Hacienda,Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Supercherruy, Static Daydream, and The Demon Parade. In a word, it is a lovely compilation to be the 33rd in a row.   

1/26/2016

[Teaser of the day] litmus0001 - CrossEyed


  • Improvised music
  • Art rock
  • Post-rock
  • Avant-rock
  • Psychedelic rock
  • Space rock
  • Experimental rock

Artist: litmus0001
Release: Richland
Label: AnubisMusic
Year: 2007

Sub Noir – Reflex (2010)




  • Experimental electronica
  • Indietronica
  • Ambient pop
  • Electronic pop
  • Dream pop
  • IDM
  • Organic electronica

Comment: Inglorious Ocean is a Rome, Italy-based imprint whose purpose is to promote post-rock, electronica and IDM infused music for your pleasure. For instance, Sub Noir`s Reflex proves that electronic music on its own could be fairly melodic, pensive and sonically multifarious. The point of the issue is also about to craftily balance different sonic bits to each other, to be floating and emotionally compelling in nature at the same time. This handful of tracks is a good source to find out many outstanding compositions. For instance, Fireworks has been managed to explore concrete music with elegantly sprawling rhythms and slowly evolving synths atop and in the middle of. Garden chimes as if the still life on Sunday had been recorded back of the house in the countryside somewhere. Puddle is a lullaby for the advanced ones. Indeed, Sub Noir`s tracks here are highly spirited as if having no imposed borders and calculated intentions. Top notch. 



1/25/2016

[Teaser of the day] Nöno - Tarde


  • Post-classical
  • Chamber music
  • Art music
  • Modern classical

Artist: Nöno
Release: Juguetes
Year: 2011

Jimmy Penguin – The Wrong Idea (2011)




  • Darkwave
  • Neoclassical
  • Electronic music
  • Piano music
  • Post-classical
  • Art music
  • Epic

Comment: Jimmy Penguin is a musician and imprint owner (Alkalinear Recordings) from Ireland who was one of the activists who got caught up in such a movement as Galway`s Community Scratch. His recent issue The Wrong Idea is not about scratches and hip-hop music at all but instead of taking on bold, lone piano chord patterns which used to resonate through empty space to draw austere landscapes which are sometimes adorned with some electronic ding-dongs, sparse rhythmic mazes and cold synth hovers. More profoundly, those slowly meandering beats arouse ominous feel around the aforementioned sonorous elements. It frequently does result in majestic patterns where tiny shadows used to evolve into bigger flickers, then sustain for a while and thereafter disappear in an elegant way. Given that it is not wrong to assume the air is a consistent component between the aforementioned sonorous elements. It sounds like an average life which tends to rise up to heaven and fall down to hell with regard to different periods of life. Of course, music as a tool of expression allows it to bring forth smoothly in comparison to other skills in everyday life. The album will be finished off by Dubh Trian`s Clinical Myopic Refix about a piece called Andrew Time. In a word, it is actually a good idea to contravene his recent doings with the opposite intentions. In fact, this game seems to be far more exciting than an average life could be.


1/24/2016

[Teaser of the day] Keroscene - Submerge



  • Synth fusion
  • Space pop
  • Synthwave
  • Electronic music

Artist: Keroscene
Label: Morning Hour 
Year: 2015

Cosmic Analogue Ensemble – Souffle Continu (2015)




  • Art pop
  • Post-pop
  • Baroque pop
  • Avant-pop
  • Alternative pop
  • Chamber pop

Comment: it happened some months ago when I discovered such label as Lebanon-based Hisstology and Cosmic Analogue Ensembele as a pre-eminent combo in the roster. Indeed, both of them are sources worth to be discovered. Souffle Continu is a fairly marvellous flicker of consisting of 13 notches. Stylistically it could be considered “art pop”, “chamber pop”, “baroque pop”, however, these styles could say much less if one lacks experience of having listened to the issue. Furthermore,I feel myself a little bit guilty by trying to tag such beauty. Cosmic Analogue Ensemble does not use synths here to extract predictable spacey sounds to hover over landscapes and penetrate through atmospheric spheres. You could hear sounds being similar because of coming out of the streets of Paris and searching for magnificent moments by tapping the keys of harmonium thereby reminding of Penguin Café Orchestra, for instance (Suite 3). The artist exploits orchestrations with very sublime turns and wide cinematic progressions which chime otherworldly in a way one could get stunned for sure. I was listening to it while it was snowing heavily. I felt myself to be sad and in pensive mood. Later on, while there was darkened outside the mood still continued to last. Although the artist exploits orchestrated sounds over there which are just bare instruments to bring forth something ulterior which might be unseen at first sight. Indeed, it is a sort of space pop due to the overwhelming beauty and bewildering, even holy aesthetical touch. It was one of the best albums in 2015. Thank you, Charif Megarbane,

1/22/2016

Aires - Fantasma I


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[Teaser of the day] Nice Breeze - I Am Not Yr Map



  • Garage rock
  • Punk rock
  • Alternative rock
  • Lo-fi
  • Noise rock

Artist: Nice Breeze
Label: DZ Tapes
Year: 2015

Ickymack - Duck Fucking Blunted EP (2015)




  • Hip-hop
  • Vaporwave
  • Avant-hop
  • Leftfield
  • Experimental hip-hop
  • Noise-hop
  • Rap

Comment: oh yeah, such sort of hip-hop music represented by Ickymack cannot be without but to be adored. It is deployed to be far away from sleazy gangsta rap and design rap instances and instead of it running partly in the vein of Sacramento-based combo the Death Grips` aesthetic which has not influenced hip-hop artists only (many famous pop artists have noticed it as quality and an influence – David Bowie, Björk, for instance). In fact, to chant about your shitty life while frequently earning a million of bucks and exploiting mind-numbing backdrops is not a proper case, isn`t? Indeed, these at times obsessive lyrics are chanted in a deranged way being backed up the rhythms at a hectic pace and mind-blowing templates which consist of poignant alarm-alike signals and affecting synth layers. By listening to it one could perceive tendencies of impending doom because those apocalyptic, religious elements performed madly and prophetically used to surface especially in such tracks as All It Is (Ft. DBoy Da Villian), and Sorban. The first mentioned composition, and Duck Hunting do exploit slowed-down vocal accents being so characteristic to witch house/vaporwave/drag house music. On the whole, the issue is impressive and spellbinding due to the masterful sway between mundane and celestial aspects, between straightforward and sophisticated expressions. The issue is a part of the discography of cOmaRecOrdz which seems to be a sumptuous source for the agitated music. 

[Teaser of the day] An Elephant Never Forgets - Expl


  • Post-rock
  • Experimental electronica
  • Experimental rock
  • Glitch
  • Avant-rock

Label: UpitUp
Year: 2003