[Teaser of the day] Psychic Enemies Network - Sandfall

• Psychedelic
• Avant-garde
• Crossover
• Experimentalism
• Art music
• World music
• Electronic
• Leftfield
• Improvised music

Artist: Psychic Enemies Network

Release: Valis

Label: Pen & Mallet/Bandcamp

Year: 2000

[Teaser of the day] Kreatiivmootor - Voyageurs

• Dub rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Indie dance
• Avant-rock
• Electronic
• Art rock
• Dance rock
• Psychedelic rock
• Art rock

Artist: Kreatiivmootor

Release: Kaleidoskoop

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

Cortical – Entropy EP (2015)

Yes No Wave

Bandcamp

• Math rock
• Fusion
• RIO
• Technical metal
• Jazz rock
• Art metal
• Space music
• Art rock
• Dark ambient
• Avant-prog
• Sound art
• Crossover
• Math metal
• Progressive rock

Comment: Cortical is the project of David H. Tobing, the resident of Jakarta, Indonesia. His handful of pieces is a preeminent undertaking drawing on mathematically calculated rhythmic patterns, soaring guitar riffs and particular motives covering new grounds and plateaus. Tobing`s aesthetics used to hark back to fusion/prog rock old days, back to the Canterbury scene, for example. On the other side, do not forget the fact, it is an undoubtedly contemporary case imbued with the possibilities of digital sound processing. At times he jettisons angular structures in favour of pure ambient moments. To be exemplified, let`s listen to the rear part of Chain Reaction, and the whole streak of Citadel which is an example of proficient outcome between the superimposed elements of still life, droning industrial music, exquisite sound art, and ominous space and ambient music. Aliens are on the way to kill us, isn`t? In general, the listener can enjoy heavy thudding which is bound to magniloquent key changes and technical, sophisticated interplay between the drums and guitars. Being said that one could hardly believe it is to be entertaining to the highest extent. In a word, the issue could be showed up as a bar of ideal pop. This staggering issue is a notch in the discography of Yes No Wave, the Indonesian imprint.

Coma Cinema – Posthumous Release (2013)

Orchid Tapes

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Americana
• Chamber pop
• Art rock
• Baroque pop

Comment: I guess anyone of us has at least once brooded about which structural and aesthetic aspects of contemporary indie pop/rock and pop music in general would make sense enough to seduce new audience to its compartment. Given that an average modern indie/alternative combo`s album is a little exciting and quite predictable. By listening to Coma Cinema`s brand new one Posthumous Release I got partly answered to the question. More profoundly, orchestrated sounds in flux, exquisite electronic shades and penumbras which in turn used to dynamically magnify and invigorate, there are represented noisy guitar torrents variegated with melodic Americana incantations where the male vocal timbre is supported by female deliveries. However, this would not be enough to get accomplished because motley needs additional factor melted into an organic whole. This could be either catchy lead motive or mesmerizing harmony progression in the right place or a bunch of proper relationships between the elements to conjure up a synergistic sonic fist. Fortunately Mat Cothran caught it. This 11-track issue involves no notches which could somehow fall short. Furthermore, there are up a handful of compositions of being fair earworms (Satan Made a Mansion, White Trash VHS, Bailey Jay, Burn a Church, Lee (Columbine High Harmony). Of course, he has practised music much enough to get the recent result properly. Undoubtedly his former four issues (three albums plus one EP) were also good ones but this issue obliges. 

Nikomunekant – Vibration T (2010)

Aventuèl

Archive.org

• Ambient
• Musique concrète
• Crossover
• New Age
• Electronic music
• Soundtrack
• Ambient pop
• Smooth jazz
•  Mood music

Comment: these 40 minutes will crank the emotions in the listeners significantly because I guess there would be noiseful one among us to refuse to come along that pathway and experience different vibes after a bunch of dodges are emerged to introduce different yet related narratives within the course. At times it is the sort of ambient music with poppy smooth jazz progressions and New Age tinged motives, at times shedding light more upon Kosmische Musik with more profound and soaring threads. At times there are represented endeavours toward such sort of ambient and pop mixed music where gentle guitar chords are accompanied by even more gentle synthetic whiffs and elemental sounds borrowed from the natural sources. At times those synthesizer induced layers and droning mist have been managed in the way to put in more watery and mirky sonic components to the mix. The greatest success of the issue is related to the organic balance between moody and technical counterparts as if you could be a part of this terrific terrain. That`s all, it is ok. It is very ok. The issue is a part of an imprint, Aventuèl. 

Nasienie – Private Loops (2011)

Enoughrecords

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Ambient pop
• Shoegaze
• Post-rock
• Electronic music
• Crossover
• Dream pop
• Alternative

Comment: this 15-track issue is truly inspired from beginning to end because of consisting of elements being ennobling and sublime. Principally it is ambient music which is imbued with dream pop, shoegaze, and post-rock threads. On the other side, all this sort of categorization is indirect and implicit because the aforesaid stylistic determinations say quite little about true nature of the issue – all these parts are just faint flickers without definite borders and angles where one style is superimposed by another or just seamlessly melted into each other. The whole seems to dither surrealistically and phantasmagorically. It reminds a little of more atmospheric endeavours by My Bloody Valentine (The Light, for instance) or Slowdive`s technical and abstract issue Pygmalion. Recently I have listened to another very similar and staggering issue by Brother Saturn which was entitled as Tales Of Space Exploration 35-42 (2016). Last but not least I could remember for a dream where I entered into a music shop to buy a very rare tape recording of My Bloody Valentine which chimed truly fabulously but I eventually lost the gem. It was a truly horrendous experience to me. However, by listening to it this helps partly to restore the former feeling. In a word, the outing is mandatory due to its special nature and effect. Nasienie is a Russian project and the issue was released under legendary Portuguese imprint enoughrecords.

Globoscuro & Roberto Maldoror Manfredini – Ginnungagap (2007)

Dadaist Audio

• Dark ambient
• Acousmatic music
• Illbient
• Experimentalism
• Drone
• Post-industrial
• Dystopbient
• Neoclassical
• Avant-garde
• Electro-acoustic
• Minimalism
• Microtonal
• Psychedelic

Comment: in this collaborative album a couple of long-running compositions are expertly presented. All those microscopic and minimalist changes in timbre and motives, overlapping droning and electro-acoustic elements create something of a drunken mood. At times the changes are remarkable and clean-cut, for instance at Gaping Gap at a 12 minute when cathedral-alike organ layers will be added to the mix. Indeed, the change is formidable as if an example of reversed/black church music. Later on, some concrete sounds/sea waves will be added to the mix thereby the track will end in a tranquil mood. Kaleidonoise deserves its name thoroughly because a shitloads of sonic elements will be added to the track. For instance, the listener could discern wind-up sounds juxtaposed against faint symphonic progressions which thereafter will be changing and rendering into different patterns. The listener could listen to many thought-provoking sonic combinations which frequently sound psychedelically. It is more indie music by its nature than most of those ensembles considered under the tag stylistically. Moreover, it is a vivid drift between conscious and subliminal levels, between the visible and hidden. In a word, the result is a spellbinding glimpse into an universe where no one could feel himself/herself safely. Apparently. The issue is a part of the discography of Dadaist Audio. 

Hello Soviet – Hello Soviet EP (2010)

Quantum Bit

• Electronic music
• Experimental pop
• Leftfield
• Robot pop
• Electro pop
• Alternative

Comment: I would welcome this 8-track issue but it is not understandable at all what does it mean the word Soviet in the recent context. If it is to be thought a former country called The Soviet Union and glorified it – fuck you, honestly. You don´t know what you are talking about you have not dwelled within the borders of this monster. This was a cruel, poor, trifling, anti-nostalgic time span in my life though I had experienced it consciously for five years only. What I could remember for this country of Red Plague that it was stolen by all because all were the poor ones and things were very limited and it was even morally justified to steal it (especially members of those nations who were occupied after WWII). Of course, there were some people who lived well, for instance, top members of the Communist Party who lived like the Olympic gods. Although a comrade called Vladimir Putin said the collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest geopolitical catastrophe during the 20th century but by my opinion I really hope it was something which will not happen never again by a stupid animal called the human being. But I am sure of 100 per cent it will happen and happens at the moment as well (in North Korea in the most perverted way). Of course, there has always been a shitloads of left-wing activists who have justified it while having no real life experience with it. However, Jossif Stalin the most even comrade among the even ones called them as useful idiots. Because of that I really hope the word was thought otherwise and ironically. Music is a half-dadaist collage of exaggerated sounds with inappropriate relations between different genres and currents. Undoubtedly it is electronic and acid fuelled where the synthesizers are wound up to generate sounds somewhere in the periphery between acceptable and deviated. Noise is aesthetically illegal, isn`t? At times the listener can enjoy the whiffs of psyched free jazz and kinky electronic modulations and theme transitions. Robotomy is a contemporary counterpoint to Kraftwerk`s classics. Otherwise the rest rings out like a "normal" issue. Get it and enjoy it.

Blok - Самый Первый Альбом (2013)

Sirona-Records

• Pop punk
• Hip-hop
• Crossover
• Post-grunge
• Rap

Comment: this is unfortunately bothersome album throughout the 3-track issue which chimes like people with a grunge-y background decided to start a new beginning for themselves, this time with hip-hop explorations. All the songs are sung and chanted in Russian, providing plain, even cliché inclined approach to topics. Indeed, lyrically it does have not much appeal by just repeating already known, worn statements. By the promise of the tag it should have been “garage hip-hop” but it is not. No way. At times one could feel it was produced by teenage schoolmates who needed to express their anxiety through music, however, having no killing effect to realize it. Some refrains are truly disturbing because doing it by using pop/faux punk-y noise walls a la Blink 182, and Green Day because of lacking crispy and nihilistic seeds within it being so characteristic to genuine garage and punk music. In this case all is commonly predictable. Let`s hop their next issues will be produced more sophistically.

[Teaser of the day] Izhorian - Serene Stars

Jamendo

• Dark ambient
• Dystopbient
• Avant-garde
• Sound art
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism
• Soundscape

Artist: Izhorian

Release: Deliverance

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2013

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

Tropical Australian Stinger Research Unit – Ex Stinger EP (2008)

Rack And Ruin

• DIY
• Lo-fi
• Alternative pop
• Indie pop
• Electro-indie
• Psychedelic pop
• Bedroom pop
• Acid pop

Comment: this 6-track EP reflects upon naivety and playfulness which was partly prevalent within the lo-fi and DIY compartment in the end of the 00s and the beginning of the 10s. Cheap synths, clumsy rhythmic setups, volatile singing and spacey guitar twangs constitute something magnificent which might not to have born due to the rough predispositions. Those synths atop the rhythms chime almost like the outcomes from an 8-bit/tracker outing. It is both hirsute and unagitated simultaneously thereby reminding a bit the C-86 movement in the mid-80s. I guess it was ironic faith in their doings with regard to the both movements. Of course, at the time the issue was released a few indie, psychedelic and free folk artists were able to surpass the influence and traces of untamed energy of Animal Collective. However, those traces could be harked back even more further to The Russian Futurists (Matthew Adam Hart), and even the Magnetic Fields (Stephin Merritt), and His Name Is Alive (Warren Defever), for instance. Traces of the aforementioned influences are especially up at Simple Things to Live By. The more you listen to the whole the more poppy and catchy it gets and more immersed one gets in it. I guess one of the secrets of it might be related to the fact of being freed from hi-fi hermetic, and quite predictable production. Let`s enjoy this lo-fi greatness having a notch in the discography of Rack And Ruin Records (rrr009). 

[Teaser of the day] Antanas Jasenka - Run Scanner

Clinical Archives

• Glitchtronica
• Experimental electronica
• Noise
• Abstract
• Avant-garde
• Non-music
• Glitch noise
• Avant-electronica

Artist: Antanas Jasenka

Release: exe.rpm

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2009

Paneye - Remote Summer Clouds (2014/2015)

Paneye

Illuminated Paths

• Synthwave
• Alternative dance
• Ambient
• Dream folk
• Free folk
• Electronic music
• New Weird Australia
• Experimental folk
• Synth electro
• Kosmische Musik
• Synth fusion

Comment: Behind the pseudonym Paneye has been doing the Aussie Will Treffry whose music I first met almost 7 years ago while he did issue the album Wilt And Loom under Dog Eared Records. Then he took more on abstract ambient and folk tinged compositions. On the other side, his recent music is remarkbaly more synthesised and sequencer dominated thereby resulting more in dance beats with different angles and threads which in turn are imbued with the flickers of Kosmische musik and ambient music. Indeed, the kick drums used to beat there against your ears and head. In contemporary context, however, this could be considered as an example of synthwave music. However, some compositions at the final part provide stylistic hints at the aforementioned album thereby reminding the end of the 00s. For instance, Corridors chimes like a Japanese flicker with sublime synths and spacey vocals in the background to support the minimalist koto motive in the forepart. Similarly, Grey Eyes could be a solid exponent on possible miscellany of New Weird Australia because of being slightly muddy and enchanting in its folk-ology. In a nutshell, the result is outstanding to be enjoyed in any weather.

[Teaser of the day] The Bordellos - Spinning like Julian Cope

• Acid rock
• Post-punk
• Art punk
• Kraut-punk
• Neo-psychedelia
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Psych-rock

Artist: The Bordellos

Release: The Bordello Underground Tape Vol 4

Label: self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Sigur Ros - June 16, 2008 Grand Ballroom (2008)

Nyctaper

• Post-rock
• Ambient rock
• Art rock
• Epic
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Dream pop
• Live recording

Comment: I switched on my magnetophone and USB device to play this previously highly acclaimed gig and to convey a presumably magnificient ambiance for the evening of today. In fact, the Icelandic juggernaut within indie and post-rock realm who were joined by their friends and compatriots Amiina and a section of horn from Iceland for this time would have made something absolutely otherwise - they occupied the room around me, altered my consciousness to enchanting one to feel myself more relaxed and calmed down. At their heydays I was not the biggest fan of the combo`s music by feeling they were a little bit overrated because of their (faux-)mystical yet quite boring aesthetic. I then rather preferred to listen to such combos as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stereolab, and Tortoise, for instance. By listening to their gig at Grand Ballroom by now all seems to be changing deeply inside me. It starts off with the combo`s classic Svefn-g-Englar which makes out very well  for me. The issue goes on with some other classic tracks thereafter. It might be their music rings out even greater while being performed live. Jònsi`s singing is enchanting in the middle of melting organ drones and pummeling drums cascades and guitar chords over the place. Somthing of this kind needs no words to impose upon you. Get it and enjoy it!

[Teaser of the day] Fasp - Siastre

Nishi

• IDM
• Breakbeat
• Ambient techno
• Experimental techno
• Deep techno
• Avant-techno
• Acid techno

Artist: Fasp

Release: Fasp

Label: Nishi

Year: 2002

Scrubber Fox - Food In The Bins EP (2004)

Hippocamp

Archive.org

• Breakcore
• Electro
• Glitch-hop
• Bhangra
• Crossover
• Experimental electronica
• Illbient
• Tekno
• Urban music

Comment: Behind the nom de plume hides himself Wigan, The United Kingdom-based Gary Naylor who classifies himself as a musician, sound designer, performance artist, A/V artist and DJ. He is also being known as a member in a group called Sadistic Foxician. In a word, he seems to be ein tolles Junge as Germans used to say. It is undoubtedly obvious that Food In The Bins EP is a challenging listening even 12 years later at the point the issue was firstly released. More profoundly, it is all about warped, glitched-out hip-hop aesthetic, frantically mutilated and broken rhythms in the vein of electro and tekno frequencies and there are also up intense bhangra vibes and vowel endeavours. Although it seems to be a highly playful one it is frequnetly imbued with omnious illbient vapor and ill-omened sonic shades as if foresseing impending doom (it is more clearly perceivable at Shit On My Twat). The most important thing about it all is all of that to be the powerful platform for synergistic emergence of a modern urban sound which is not weak, fake or something adverse and inferior. Furthermore, it is much greater than the sum of its parts. In a word, this handful of pieces as a whole should be considered as a classic one. Without hesitation for doing it. Check out for his other issues at Hippocamp, and Bandcamp either.

[Teaser of the day] Saito Koji - Sunset

Resting Bell

• Ambient rock
• Guitar ambient
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Noise rock
• Ambient noise
• Post-rock

Artist: Saito Koji

Release: Again

Label: Resting Bell

Year: 2012

Bebhionn – Rotation EP (2016)

Cicuta
Cicuta

• Deep techno
• Space techno
• Psytrance
• Progressive techno
• Remixes

Comment: firstly, whereas I was listening to this 9-notch issue I liked to think Bebhionn is a character who is an alien-alike creature who admires music as musch as machines around him/her. With regard to arriving at Earth the sort of spaced-out techno music would be the logical consequence of his/her choice. There are laid out wide open three original compositions (Regular, Singular, Angular) by Bebhionn and two of them (Angular, Regular) are remixed by such artists as The Thinker, Alberto Morales, AbizSonko, Substak, Neglëk, and 6DEL (all of them are being related Cicuta Records either). Aesthetically it is delightful to follow the changing relations between the rhythmic parts and upper profound motive leads. Indeed, it is fairly sublime and funny to see how these compartments interact with one another, how those bounds between many inputs and outputs used to move through curved, elaborated orbits. Stylistically the aforementioned spaced-out and deep techno frequencies are complemented by some sole psytrance and progressive techno rhythmic patterns at moments. In a word, it is a wondrous shift between Earth and major Outer Space, between a minor inner and adjacent outer world all of which is arranged by the omnipotent, wise demon called God. Outer Space is our genuine home and the planet Earth is a cosmic gem where to dwell for a lifetime so let`s listen to music, this issue, for instance. 

[Teaser of the day] Jaap Blonk - Darg

Ubuweb

• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Leftfield
• Abstract
• Experimentalism
• Non-music

Artist: Jaap Blonk

Release: Flux de Bouche

Label: Staalplaat

Year: 1992

[Teaser of the day] Kukl - The Spire

Archive.org

• Art punk
• Post-punk
• Noise rock
• Avant-punk
• Experimental rock
• No Wave
• Angst rock

Artist: Kukl

Release: The Eye

Label: Crass Records/One Little Indian 

Year: 1984

[Teaser of the day] Apache Dropout - Sam Phillips Rising

Free Music Archive

• Garage rock
• Neo-psychedelia
• Alternative rock
• Psych-rock
• Fuzz pop
• Indie rock

Artist: Apache Dropout

Release: Half of the Apache Dropout LP  

Label: Family Vineyard

Year: 2011 

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

[Teaser of the day] Boys Age - Limbo of Rainbow

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• J-pop

Artist: Boys Age

Release: Pangea

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2016

Beeches of Madame Ess - While We're Away (2007/2008)

Rack And Ruin

Bandcamp

• New Weird America
• Experimental folk
• Electronic music
• Indie folk
• Musique concrète
• Free folk
• Avant-folk
• DIY
• Improvised music
• Weird folk
• Americana
• Lo-fi
• Found sounds
• Freak folk
• Folk indie
• Primitivism

Comment: Beeches of Madame Ess`s 12-track issue is a thought-provoking issue both by its sounds and concept. It was recorded while the Pennsylvania, US-based quintet was travelling to arrive at Nova Scotia, Canada. They recorded while staying at various campsites in Bangor Maine, Cheticamp, and Blomidon. All the soundscape which consists of freaked-out yet heartfelt lo-fi folk and indie compositions, warped electronic appearances (especially The Gather of Sticks) and some field recordings were created by using acoustic and electric instruments and battery powered synthesizers. The issue was created even as there had been the highlight of the so-called New Weird America movement since the first half of the 00s. These ditties are expertly conceived surfacing the pristine nature of a natural world where is left no place for the temporal categories but pure beauty of nature seems to overwhelm all what used to be inside it and around it. However, at Flora And Fauna slowed-down, slightly murky electric guitar progressions do tingle one`s pure sensations to have emerged previously from elemental sounds. Evening of Bliss might remind of early experiments by Animal Collective though the Beeches of Madame Ess`s experiment is more incisive in its obvious primitivism which reminds of an old-fashioned computer game or something. It cannot be wrong to say the amalgamation of natural sounds and artificial sounds provide invigorated impulses to the whole. The outing was initially released in 2007 and a year later on Rack And Ruin (it is catalogued as rrr096 in the discography of the label) which had been a definitive imprint within the webaudio world from 2008 to 2011.

Sounds and images from Spain (2010)

Top-40

• Musique concrète
• Field recordings
• Found sounds
• Conceptual
• Non-music
• Sound collage

Comment: this is a subsequent virtual journey around the world regarding the imprint top-40`s audio-visual teleportative series Sounds and images from… . The recent issue of three parts is based on the recordings from Malaga, Dilar, San Jose, Tenerife, Lanzarote, and Fuerteventura. The field recordings are recorded by Vadim Ugryumov. In general, the issue does not surprise because the sounds represented over there do coincide virtually with other ones based on the same concept of necessity. For instance, there are up the snippets of street sounds (the sounds of bypassing motorcycles, for instance), the chirping of cicadas, speech snippets. In a word, the mechanical sounds are either set against or interwoven with the organic, natural ones. However, the most striking characteristic are recordings of the covers of some rock and roll classics. In a nutshell, given that it embraces a bunch of different, intriguing sounds the result is captivating.

Shearwater 2016-02-06 Mercury Lounge NYC (2016)

Nyctaper

• Indie rock/pop
• Alternative pop/rock
• Art rock
• Live
• Experimental rock
• Americana
• Psychedelic rock
• Cover

Comment: Shearwater performed this gig on the sixth of February, 2016 at Mercury Lounge NYC which was virtually a promotion act of Jonathan Meiburg-led combo`s brand new one Jet Plane and Oxbow having embraced obvious hints at adverse side effects on nature by the human being`s activity. Indeed, I like the musicians who have been having both responsibility and courage to spit it out despite the so-called political correctness superimposed by some politicians and businessmen with purpose to cover up their own slippery decisions and activities. Musically it is an organic shift between alternative/indie pop/rock, Americana and art rock with some hints toward ambient/drone/electronic music. Of course, Jonathan Meiburg`s sorrowful singing style is a main component within the ensemble`s music and also throughout the gig. The most experimental new song is obviously Stray Light at Clouds Hill where the last mentioned elements are neatly represented for. Additionally, there are represented three compositions from the band`s previous albums and a cover of David Bowie`s Look Back In Anger. Very good. 

Muhr – Lucas Arc (2013)

Laverna

• Post-rock
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Modern classical
• Electronic music
• Epic
• Cinematic

Comment: Vincent Fugère aka Muhr comes out from a place where the guitar-induced music means a lot. More profoundly, he has based out from Montrèal, Quebec, Canada. There is up a wide spectrum of guitar groups who play it in an unconventional way as it is on the recent 4-track issue. Beyond that he had been the head figure of the fascinating experimental music label Camomille Music, an imprint for modern classical, post-rock, ambient and experimental and electronic music.  For sure, Muhr is a talented musician and producer whose outlet involves a bunch of mind-blowing constructed parts, heroic thematic developments and synergic streaks. For instance, he exploits guitars and mandolins juxtaposed against warped electronic undercurrents to conjure up experimental yet highly appealing results at Lucas Arc Part 2. The same could be said about the rest of the pieces where the epic of overdriven guitars, delicate electro-acoustic scintillas, reversed chords will surface a beatific level to dignify one`s soul and mind. Furthermore, something of this sort could be a soundtrack for any motion picture with fairly lofty content. This sonic gem must be heard and gotten.

[Teaser of the day] Beatslaughter - Bliss

Phonocake

• Experimental techno
• IDM
• Ambient techno
• Dark ambient
• Experimental electronica
• Post-classical

Artist: Beatslaughter

Release: Serenity EP

Label: Phonocake

Year: 2012

Unicorn Hole – Some Songs (2014)

Torn Flesh

Kitty On Fire

• Cybergrind
• Electro-metal
• Midicore
• Harsh metal
• Electronic
• Ambient

Comment: this album could be called as a conceptual one as for progressive rock because of surfacing compositions with the same names though differing with regard to have the different parts within the 8-track course. On the other side, the first seven tracks all do have the same length – just one minute to run. Musically it is not progressive rock though rather being mechanically produced metal music being internally tagged as midicore. Indeed, it draws on machine-alike rhythms, anxiety loaded vocals, and electronic harmonic above the rhythms which in total could a little remind of chiptune/8-bit/tracker music. However, the ending composition You Could Have A Leg In One Hand And A Brerb In The Other is the case to turn all upside down – it is a fairly blissful glimpse by conjuring up the pictures from ambient music which could have some similarities with a late period Talk Talk, and some compositions of Durutti Column, for instance. The issue is a solid joint effort under such prolific and established labels as Torn Flesh Records and Kitty On Fire.

[Teaser of the day] Kurushimi - Amanojaku

• Improvised music
• Experimental metal
• Free jazz
• Avant-metal
• Improvised noise
• Psych-metal
• Crossover
• Jazz-metal
• Fusion

Artist: Kurushimi

Release: Kurushimi

Label: Art As Catharsis

Year: 2016

Alyiann - Gravity Escalation (2011)

Sirona-Records

• Chillstep
• Chill out
• Dubstep
• Mood music
• Electro
• Electronica

Comment: there are up a couple of tracks which will clock in at an eight minute created by Warsaw, Poland-based artist Alyiann. In principle, it is a chill-out, moody album in spite of manipulating with dubstep and electro rhythms . The self-titled piece is led by a marvellous motif which feeds back both the bold rhythms and firework around the issue. It reminds of something very strongly but I am not able to remember it at the moment. Another track called How To Obey launches off with more restrained synthesised chords which will evolve into a melancholic, even nostalgic insight of electronic music. The issue is a part of the discography of Sirona-Records which is led by Pollux aka Arnaud Barbe.

[Teaser of the day] Fiocz - Perchloric Acid

• Glitch techno
• Tech-electro
• Experimental electronica
• Micronoise

Artist: Fiocz

Release: Dyssomnias

Label: Elegirl

Year: 2012

Dubsy Asylum ‎– Lo Sono EP (2005)

Hippocamp

Archive.org

• Electro pop
• Electronic pop
• EBM
• Alternative pop
• Ambient pop
• Industrial electro
• Electro-indie
• Acid pop
• Alternative dance
• Dark electro
• Leftfield pop

Comment: it has always been great delight to go back to the discography of the Manchester, UK-based Hippocamp of which list contains a bunch of gems. Indeed, Manchester is being the home city of many crossover groups between electronica, alternative dance and guitar driven music. The only bad habit by the imprint is not to release the coverprints of albums. Dubsy Asylum`s 6-track issue is the sort of. It is an instance of great electro/electronic pop, however, having not forgotten its indie and art pop roots. It could be said it is an example of indie music either. Even more – the artist explores the interface between the aforesaid genres in a more profound way thereby it could be considered as a cutting-edge artist. For instance, Something for The Oldies chimes like a chill-out composition where the light-hearted guitar chords constitute fabulous patterns with overdriven acid synth whiffs and shuffling drum brushing. It is followed by l' infacto which is an astonishing cut-up electro propulsion with acid pop synapses and tumultuous rhythm changes. The issue is finished off by a blissful glimpse called Morte e Sorto which shows up fondness for subtle ambient pop and post-classical music thereby slightly reminding of a mid-period Kraftwerk (Ralf & Florian), for instance. Moreover, these 23 minutes (almost 24 minutes in total) involve many audible dark shards which would be an integral part of a quintessential industrial, EBM, and dark electro combo. In a nutshell, the outing is a pre-eminent shift between the approaches of electro, indie and experimental music. 

[Teaser of the day] ((THORLOCK)) - Grateful Death

Torn Flesh

• Metal
• Trash metal
• Hard rock
• Stoner rock
• Musique concrète

Artist: ((THORLOCK)) 

Release: Louder Than Stupidity

Label: Torn Flesh

Year: 2016

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

Monster Jinx - ORFANATO Quintanilha Rock 2015 (2015)

Monster Jinx

• Hip-hop
• World music
• Breaks
• Rap
• Ethnotronica
• Urban music

Comment: artists under the Portugal-based imprint Monster Jinx have expressed their feelings by using electronically processed rhythms, nu/acid jazz and hip-hop aesthetic. The current 3-track issue is produced by such artists as Taseh, dgtldrmr, NO FUTURE, DarkSunn and Ghost Wavvves and does stylistically adrift across the terrains of hip-hop and world music (the influences of ethnic music coming out from the Middle East and Celtic cultural area). Peregrino is the exception because of being predominant hip-hop outing by its nature in comparison to the rest of the two tracks where coherent hip-hop energy surfaces due to enchanting chanting and looping electronics flitting in around in a captivating way. One is sure the music could be a decent candidate to be added to the list of WOMAD, for instance. All in all, the result is an intriguing listening.                  

[Teaser of the day] Robotic Salmon - 53 Minutes Ahead

Storage Unit

• IDM
• New Age
• Experimental techno
• Crossover
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Robotic Salmon 

Release: Imiquimod

Label: Storage Unit

Year: 2015

Allinn – Lahtise küünlaga püssirohukeldris (2015)

Bandcamp

• Post-rock
• Experimental electronica
• Breakbeat
• Post-industrial
• Remix
• Noise
• Ambient techno
• Avant-garde
• Leftfield
• Psycho-acoustic
• Doom rock
• Alternative rock

Comment: there are up 13 compositions from different Estonian artists who used to remix another Estonian musical group Allinn. However, it is not simple task to at all to set out to catch the mystical nature of the ensemble whose aesthetic used to drift somewhere between gloomy industrial, sublime noises, exquisite electronic music and experimental rock alike buildings. The miscellany is wide-ranging by veering from slowed-down doom tinged post-rock vibes and densely produced guitar led noise walls to tricky electronica and voice sprinkled sonic shamanism to DIY noise explorations to aggressively hanging broken beats with alien-alike echoes and overwhelmingly resounding ambient techno frequencies by having ill-omened seeds within it to sonorous psyched-out declarations. All in all, the result fulfills the expectations what I had before the first listening. There are up such artists as EDASI, Pinktool, Oudeis, Tont, Tamhiis, Izhorian, Poon, Aamen, Wolfredt, Fuluf, Mang Ont, c.o.u.g.h, and Gee. Many of these artists are being coincidentally related to Tallinn, Estonian underground label Trash Can Dance in a more or less extent. The result is solid and winning over. Additionally one should listen to Allinn`s self-titled album from 2013 which was a simply marvellous one.

[Teaser of the day] Forever Grey - Wounds And Scars

• Post-punk
• Gothic rock
• Coldwave
• Art punk
• Alternative rock
• Darkwave

Artist: Forever Grey

Release: September Ice  

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2015

Sun Devoured Earth - The Sunshine Always Fades (2011)

Bandcamp

Mediafire

• Ethereal Wave
• Alternative rock
• Shoegaze
• Dream pop
• Gothic rock
• Post-rock
• Darkwave
• Epic

Comment: firstly, I have no hesitation at all while I am going to start to listen to any of the outings by the Latvian one-man project Sun Devoured Earth. Vadim`s music does have many hints at throughout this 14-notch album. It used to range from powerful, gloomy shoegaze and dream pop tinged guitar-based noise walls to more restrained, dark wave-ish incantations, however, being fulfilled with vital, sustainable energy. All these shifts used to realize in a seamless way where one track or mood is followed by other ones to build up something otherworldly and beatific. Although one could hear some similarities with such combos as Lycia, My Bloody Valentine, Galaxie 500, Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, Autumn`s Grey Solace, Love Spirals Downwards the result is unique due to its pristine fragmentation and idiosyncratic dreamed-out climaxes. Although the main motif of the issue is relatively dark-hued it paradoxically provides a breeze of optimism for you to amend your miserable, hopeless life in the middle of human being`s vanity. In this case let`s tell about it as an appealing, irresistible misanthropic example. For me, Sun Devoured Earth has been the favourite combo of me from Latvia, the southern neighbouring country of Estonia.

[Teaser of the day] Amit Buium - Landscapes

• Alternative pop/rock
• Dream pop
• Shoegazetronica
• Indietronica
• Fusion/Jazz rock
• Singer-songwriter
• Electronic
• Crossover

Artist: Amit Buium

Release: Void

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2016

Hoodie Woody Freaky - Story Of The Early Days (2011)

Acustronica

• Hip-hop
• Indietronica
• Alternative pop
• Indie pop
• DIY
• Electronic pop

Comment: by listening to this short, 4-track issue by an Indonesian trio with a funny name this album could have been produced as one 11-track issue, for instance. Indeed, it could have been just one possibility. More profoundly, the issue draws on light-hearted guitar twangs, blithesome singing and beatbox induced rhythm sections. However, all the aforesaid elements are built up in the way to be angular while being juxtaposed against each other. The result is simple and straightforwardly understandable in its simplicity. Let`s say it is just entertaining. Because of that the outing represents one of the pop clichés with regard to the Far East and South Asia pop music scenes. In the universal sense, the issue is consistent and solid due to developing one sonic topic profoundly and thoroughly. Get it now. 

[Teaser of the day] The Dreams - Power Of Signs

• Indie rock
• No Wave
• Alternative pop
• Post-punk
• Garage rock
• Noise pop
• Art punk
• Acid rock
• Neo-psychedelia
• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: The Dreams

Release: Morbido

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2012

Crew54 & CientifiQ - Slap Rapz (2010)

Bandcamp

• Hip-hop
• Soul-hop
• Rap
• Urban music

Comment: Crew54 is a Texas-based duo consisting of G-christ, and M.O.S who at this time are supported by CientifiQ. The 10-track issue is an impeccable amalgamation of soulful and cinematic samples and an incessant torrent of rhymes and bouncy rhythms. The issue consists of the seamlessly bound details where any element does have a role to fulfil. By the way, they hint at the racial segregation which still exists in the US society in spite of being depicted as a relict problem in some propagandist Hollywood and TV series. Indeed, I push for to read the sociology based studies, for instance Gale Encyclopedia Of Sociology rather than just watching those truth warping motion pictures alone. On the other side, I might be wrong because of having no grasp to understand that there are up possible sketches of ideal world in the future to be depicted. However, For The People ft. CientifiQ, and We Make It Hard are such marvellous tracks over the place where everything is floating cinematically at the highest extent. This is a perfect, ideal sound. Furthermore, there are no slack pieces up at all. Life could be peachy and rewarding thanks to mind-blowing music. 

[Teaser of the day] Fernanda Martinez - Ausencia

Bestiar

• Indie folk
• Alt-folk
• Alternative pop/rock
• Folk indie
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: Fernanda Martinez

Release: Cha Cha Cha

Label: Bestiar

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] H Stewart - Tongues

Clinical Archives

• Abstract
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Darkwave
• Experimentalism

Artist: H Stewart

Release: Fevered And Childless   

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Aseptic Void - Eyes

Free Music Archive

• Dark ambient
• Illbient
• Experimentalism
• Abstract
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Soundscape

Artist: Aseptic Void

Release: Carnal

Label: Vulpiano

Year: 2013

Alternative links:

Archive.org

Bandcamp

[Teaser of the day] Warping Fukuoka - De Las Bolas Al Ombligo

• Noise pop
• Primitive pop
• Leftfield
• No Wave
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: Warping Fukuoka

Release: La Mano

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Lectro Spektral Daze - Rave Drugs

Ektoplazm

• Psychedelic trance
• Rave music
• Electronic music
• Goa trance
• Club dance

Artist: Lectro Spektral Daze

Release: Full Fractal Vision

Label: Neogoa/Ektoplazm

Year: 2016

Satanoise – No Music For The Films (2016)

Malware

• Sound collage
• Hauntology
• Ambient
• Cover
• Vaporwave
• Sampledelic
• Musique concrète
• Soundscape
• Seapunk
• Radiophonic art
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde

Comment: this 7-track issue of 17 minutes only could be tagged as an imaginative soundtrack of a motion picture which is imbued with wondrous and beatific sounds and sonic collages where any sound does mean actually more than one could perceive at the first glimpse. There are up a bunch of eerie symphonies and hiss and microscopic noise drenched passages which used to go by to entertain you in a ghastly way. Moreover, the artist wields the sounds of musique concrete and radiophonic art to create disorder in. At times Satanoise`s aesthetic coul be considered an glimpse of ambient music though it is a distorted one with hints at seapunk and vaporwave and hauntology, for instance. The issue is ended up by a cover of the Suicide`s classic Ghost Rider which is an exclusive choice relative to the context to bring to fruition. The great release is a part of a very exciting Brazilian label, Malware.

Ryan Cohen - Under the Lilac Sky (2010)

Totokoko

Bandcamp

• Ambient pop
• Indie folk
• Modern classical
• Epic
• Post-pop
• Folk indie
• Art pop

Comment: the Japanese imprint Totokoko is a platform for sharing music which could mainly be categorized as “indietronica”, “folktronica”, “toytronica”, “modern classical”. The latter one of the styles is the pre-dominating part of Ryan Cohen`s issue Under the Lilac Sky. Indeed, those 9 compositions are intimate insights based on appealing piano chords and minor yet attention-getting sonic effects around it. At times the elements are more ambient soaked, at times more silence attracted, at times just passing by to visualize their paths in an effortless way. However, the last couple of pieces (I Want You to Know I'm Around, Now I Know For Sure (live ver) ) are the lyric-centred indie folk ones. The favourite of mine is Transmission which is an ambient pop terrain with lofty orchestrations to flit in around now and then. Another favourite of mine is Wintersleep to depict a picturesque landscape while the snow is falling and the faeries are dancing over there. All in all, the result is a solid, fulfilled one with visceral hold.  

Glacier Frost – Cosmic Warfare Annihilation (2015)

Viridian

• Speed metal
• Death metal
• Grindcore
• Psychedelic
• Experimental rock
• Space rock
• Experimental metal

Comment: In fact, the title punctuates poignantly the content of this 12-track issue by Canadian combo Glacier Frost. Indeed, those progressions based on tumultuous and skittering guitar chords and expressive overdrives and intensive and monotonous drumming in the backing will create the feeling of spaced-out music relied on massive, destructive instrumental workout. The listener could experience of how death metal and grindcore and speed metal gears used to interlace with psychedelic echoes. Furthermore, some compositions are imbued with more keyboard sounds and some spoken word samples where the harsher undertakings are abandoned in favour of more unconventional developments. For instance, by considering tracks called To Abduct a Monarch and Underneath Lunar Light sound almost like chill-out compositions with regard to the rest of notches. In a nutshell, the result is impressive due to its powerful approach and striking aesthetics. The issue is a part of the discography of Viridian Records.