Giant Gutter From Outer Space - Set Adrift (2016)

Sinewave

Bandcamp

• Math metal
• progressive metal
• Technical metal
• Stoner rock
• Crossover
• Experimental metal

Comment: the Curitiba, Brazil-based duo Giant Gutter From Outer Space has been very active during 2016. Some days ago they released their third issue Stumm under Sinewave. Before it they issued Black Bile (Promo), and before that Set Adrift under Sinewave. This handful of tracks contains many elements pulled out from different metal and rock subdivisions. Instrumentally the punch is driven by heavy noodling of the drums and bass guitar, though it is not the noodling in the classical sense of rock and metal music. More profoundly, it does mean relentless key changes to be appeared throughout the course, a shitloads of dodges and plunges between stoner rock/metal, math rock, technical/progressive metal. I am quite provoked about the question – might it be the sort of improvised music or all these elements are previously rehearsed to be played punctually? The energy coming out from these combinations is another case of appeal. More concretely, it is not the energy of pop inflected music, it is quite murky, silent and glowering. Thumbs up!

ANNISAxGAHAR – ANNISAxGAHAR (2011)

Pati Rasa

Pati Rasa

• Trashcore
• Punk rock
• Hardcore

Comment: recently I had listened to an earlier radio show where one part was dedicated to music and especially to earlier live recordings of a famous Estonian punk rock, Psühhoterror. Similarly to the music of Psühhoterror the Indonesian AnnisaxGahar`s 9-track issue consists of short-running tracks being laconic and staggering in its nihilistic brutality and energetic chaos (however, those vectors are not set up against each other which would have cancelled the whole`s influence altogether – vice versa). More concretely, spasmodic guitars, rattling drums, hi-hat rumbling and desperate singing is the very base of the outing which would be the one and only vivid and viable appearance of punk music by my personal opinion. In truth, the sort of classic punk is not about the aesthetical side, it is about raw, destructive energy to come along in the first place (differently from the movement of post-punk, for instance). Indeed, shout your gutter out of your mouth! It to spot upon the titles of these songs then those are at times funny, at times misanthropic and environmentalist-alike (commit a suicide to save the planet; kill people to save the animals etc). And they do not care of the formal outlook of theirs - I have not sure at all what is the proper name of the issue and when it was actually released. In  a word, it is a convincing punkish shit. F.ck off! Sincerely. 

[Teaser of the day] Mojave 3 - Tomorrows Taken

Archive.org

• Indie folk
• Folk indie
• Indie pop
• Alternative pop
• Sadcore
• Live recording

Artist: Mojave 3 

Release: Live at House of Blues on 1996-04-22 

Label: Archive.org

Year; 1996

[Teaser of the day] Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

Archive.org

• Alternative rock
• Alternative dance
• Psychedelic rock
• Electro-rock
• Live recording
• Indie rock
• Indie dance

Artist: Smashing Pumpkins

Release: Live at The Arena on 1996-04-15 

Label: Archive.org

Year: 1996

Ou Où – Ou Ng (2014)

Bandcamp

• Ambient 
• Post-rock
• Electro-acoustic
• Sound art
• Experimental rock
• Soundscapes
• Electronic music
• Musique concrète
• Ambient drone 
• Epic

Comment: I could remember for that I had had only good words about the St Louis, US-based duo Ou Où`s previous issue Geocities. The same could be assumed about Ou Ng which is similarly overwhelming in its aesthetics and epic touch. Similarly to Kinematik VKE`s Placental Drops From A Gestating Sky (2014, Dystimbria) it is often composed of elemental sonic “debris” (hisses, crackles, concrete sounds) which is magnified to get higher sublime reach and provide new colours through its alchemic approach. Of course, all the aforesaid elements are crossed with “ordinary” ambient developments and droning undulations to drift between the known and the unknown to uphold strain within compositions. In a nutshell, it is fabulous to spend a part of your life with these 26 minutes.

Transfer_ERROR – Out_KILLER (2004)

Mekkanikal Industries

• Industrial electro
• Lo-fi
• Ambient
• Abstract
• EBM
• Avant-garde
• Digital Hardcore
• Noise
• Rhythmic noise
• Psychedelic
• Drone
• Non music
• Art music

Comment: this bunch of 11 tracks starts off in my music player with the composition 58286788 which used to run in the vein of digital hardcore in general though yet there one could hear solitary brownish sonic shards and muddy audible glimpses giving the way to many branches elsewhere. Indeed, I am not wrong at all to suggest about the course of the release in that way. It is getting more obscure and getting more stoned being imbued with abrasive noises, glitch-coated atmospheric outputs, abstract noise imbued drones, ill-omened synth swirls and filthy lead motives in the meantime. All of that is amplified by low-end bass rumbles to jump in and out independently. On the other side, such composition as IRL taps into EBM-alike rhythms and ill fortune presaging buried chants, however, it might be the most “poppy” on the whole. Alt_ctrl_DEL is the favourite of mine because of somehow reminding of My Bloody Valentine`s outsider track Touched on Loveless by its dichotomous structure. The more you listen to this whole the more you will get involved in this frenetic buildup. It is very impressive statement by the Frenchman from Marseille, Laurent Mekka.

[Teaser of the day] Volga - Volga-mat`

Zeromoon

• Ethnic music
• World music
• Electronic music
• Woldbeat
• Live recording
• Crossover
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Volga

Release: Kiasma

Label: Zeromoon 

Year: 2004  

[Teaser of the day] Arditi - Unbroken Tradition

• Martial industrial
• Neoclassical
• Post-industrial
• Dark ambient
• Illbient
• Soundscape

Artist: Arditi

Release: Samhainwork II

Label: Heathen Harvest

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Turner Of Wheels - Metropolis Ant

Panospria

• Experimental techno
• Avant-techno
• Ambient techno
• Glitch techno
• Kosmische Musik
• Abstract techno

Artist: Turner Of Wheels

Release: Misses The Cocktail Party

Label: Panospria/NoType

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Manuele Atzeni - The Death With Modugno

Upitup

• Acid jazz
• Nu jazz
• Chilltronica
• Breaks
• Film noir
• Trip-hop
• Crossover

Artist: Manuele Atzeni

Release: Sleepwalkers Walk Alone

Label: Upitup

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Flu - Cidra e Cigarrinho

Bump Foot

• Psychedelic pop
• Hip-hop
• Folktronica
• Alternative pop
• Crossover
• Mood music
• Art pop

Artist: Flu

Release: No Flu do Mundo

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2007

Kinematik VKE – Placental Drops From A Gestating Sky (2014)

Dystimbria

• Illbient
• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Dark ambient
• Sound art
• Ambient drone
• Epic
• Experimentalism

Comment: this issue could be shown off as a nice exemplar of sound art music by considering that the artist exploits very intriguing approaches and a huge swarm of samples to create the craved result. However, Kinematik VKE as an artist has reached far more because these 20 minutes hide buried emotions within the whole. It might be seen quite paradoxical while the composition consists mainly of droning sounds which are at times adorned with accidental noises and metallic strikes. Furthermore, all the soundscape is highly intense and expertly accentuated. To explain the effect of the outing it could be assumed it is not music something of the sort where the sounds merely move on from a point A to a point B. Instead of it this used to develop vertically where many elements either will be progressing simultaneously or will be added at a certain time. It could be described as an example of polyphonic music where the woodwind instruments and violins are jettisoned in favour of abrasive hisses and murky threads which have been managed in the way to trudge at different speeds to alter one`s state of mind. Ultimately it chimes like an example of symphonic music, though an ominous sort of ambient music. It is staggering by any means.

Kyland Holmes – Seattle Session (2011)

Modisti

• Improvised music
• Art music
• Experimentalism
• Modern classical
• Piano music
• Post-classical
• Avant-garde

Comment: indeed, it is piano music and it is a kind of improvised music. It is the sort of piano music which makes sense for me personally. It is piano music where watery tonality and floating chords in permanent change used to become larger and smaller and begin to metamorphose differently. Silence meets intensity, being meets nonexistence. Many states of mind will be cancelled and erased throughout the course to create many new ones instead. It is like an artsy reflection of the human being`s life. It was a cosy session to listen to it in the night.

Kingdom Of The Holy Sun – Thirteen Eyes EP (2014)

Bandcamp

• Indie rock
• Space rock
• Blues rock
• Psychedelic rock
• Trance rock
• Drone rock
• Alternative rock

Comment: with regard to the name of the Seattle-based quintet references emerging out from it used to be quite strong and fantasy-provoking. On the other side, music supports it entirely because of being loud and aesthetically overwhelming. It could be said this 4-track EP is an instance of genuine rock and roll whirlpool. It is rebellious and boisterous. More profoundly, it consists of droning psychedelic frequencies a la Spacemen 3, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Spiritualized, glowering, muddy blues energy and murky, angular, deliberately rough post-punk spores a la Joy Division. Indeed, huge energy is up there from beginning point to final seconds. The guitars are massive, even epic on it, pummelling drums run on mid-tempo and it makes immediately difference. I guess it makes sense with any weather. It is undoubtedly mandatory. Holy Shit of the Holy Sun. 

Rory Storm – Dot Matrix: Red (2014)

Tape Safe

Tape Safe

• Experimental techno
• Avant-techno
• Deep techno
• Abstract
• Dark ambient

Comment: Rory Storm`s handful of tracks wades into the realm of techno music though an abstract one. Indeed, at times those rhythms are minimized to get along with no feeling to simply develop on in an intriguing way. More profoundly, machines are very excited to progress obsessively on microscopic elements of rhythmic music. At times those elements are magnified with dark ambient tinged terrains (containing ominous shades and echoes within it) and even shoegaze and noise rock-alike interventions (for instance, rd_04). In a nutshell, it could be assumed the issue is obsessively enchanting. The outing is a part of the discography of Tape Safe.

Mount Eerie - Live at Drouthy Neebors on 2003-04-27

Archive.org

• Indie folk
• Americana
• Live recording
• Folk indie
• Singer-songwriter

Comment: this 14-track issue was recorded in the year Phil Elverum had jettisoned the name The Microphones in favour of Mount Eerie. His music continued to be artsy though it might be it contained less noise and instinctive outputs and used to be more milled, intimate and lyrically analytical. In the meantime the ditties accompanied only by the acoustic guitar are variegated with hilarious speeches and laughing. Indeed, these 54 minutes are fairly nice and sincere ones where one could perceive the cordial relation between an artist and the audience.  

[Teaser of the day] Take Pills Die - nRnR

Take Pills Die

• Drone folk
• Ambient folk
• Chamber folk
• Epic
• Minimalism
• Avant-folk
• Experimental folk

Artist: Take Pills Die

Release: 07.04.23 Dead Sea Parting

Label: Take Pills Die

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Unspeakable Forces - Pnakotic

Silber Records

• Post-rock
• Drone rock
• Guitar ambient
• Avant-rock
• Noise rock
• Trance rock
• Doomgaze
• Experimental rock
• Minimalism

Artist: Unspeakable Forces 

Release: Butterfly Corpse

Label: Silber 

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Sekotis - Lava Fields

• Musique concrete
• Post-rock
• Art rock
• Epic
• Alternative rock

Artist: Sekotis

Release: For Your Weird Ears

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Uni - Trollid

• Ulmetronica
• Ambient pop
• Indietronica
• Alternative
• Dreamwave
• Electronic music

Artist: Uni

Release: Mahajäetud jaam

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

FET.NAT – Poule Mange Poule (2014)

Bandcamp

• Avant-punk
• Dada music
• Spoken word
• Free jazz
• RIO
• Sampledelic
• Art rock
• Improvised music
• Punk funk
• Psychedelic
• Crossover
• Art punk
• Avant-prog
• Alternative dance
• Experimental rock

Comment: this issue comes out from Hull, Quebec, Canada which is a blend of free jazz and improvised music and punk funk which in turn is sprinkled with dada music drops. It could be said the set of 6 tracks is charmingly angular fulfilled perennially with unexpected turns, slowed-down otherworldly atmospheric glimpses and even some noisy and disturbing outbursts coming out from nothing (I mean to surface rapidly as if from nowhere). At times those punk funk-based and dance-appealed numbers will change into avant-prog/RIO music thanks to free jazz-y inner impulses, at times members of the group are perverted by language, at times they exploit samples and spoken word parts to magnify their mix.  Holy shit. The mission is successfully accomplished. It is an outstandingly refreshing issue from (French) Canada.

Esmectatons – Bene Gesserit Science (2008)

Year Zero

Mediafire

• Lo-fi
• Noise
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Psychedelic
• Non-music
• Dada music
• Freeformfreakout
• Electronic
• Krautrock
• Space rock
• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Psycho-acoustic

Comment: this outing consists of a couple of notches which in turn are divided into a numerous batch of subunits reflecting upon diverse themes most of them are titled funnily and surrealistically. Behind the project is Brazilian musician L. Borgia Rossetti with a little help by other musicians. Rossetti`s concept and therefore sonic endeavours trudge across diverse pathways, from uncanny post-classical music and electro-acoustic whirlpools to lo-fi inflected brown noise and warped psychedelic noise and stark outright sonic experiments to spaced-out rock and improvised krautrock madness which in the end chime mesmerizingly and formidably. Honestly, at times it sounds like the tape were streaked and hurt mechanically. By kindred souls it could be compared with the likes of Hawkwind, Isotope 217, CAN, Faust, Led Zeppelin, Borbetomagus. The issue is a part of an off-kilter imprint, Year Zero Records (business as usual it does not disappoint you).

Die Geister Beschwören – Drawn To The Investigation Of Shadows (2014)

Bandcamp

• Acousmatic music
• Dark ambient
• Indie folk
• Americana
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Drone folk
• Folk indie
• New Weird America
• Post-classical

Comment: this issue comprises a couple of lengthy compositions which in turn used to chime like mind-boggling patchworks where sound snippets from different sources are followed by one another with great subtlety. More profoundly, it is from immersed indie folk/Americana and drone folk numbers and steamboat-alike ghastly epic brass sections (which sort of has always made difference in fact) to dark ambient and concrete music blended endeavours and post-classical sublime orchestrations based on vowel effects. The result is organic and sonically logic which in turn does mean there is up a mesmerizing whole for your pleasure. Very well done indeed.

Firach Enabragem – Walking Fast, Not Running (2015)

Hisstology

• Afrofunk
• Soul
• Urban music
• Afrofuturism
• Psychedelic music
• Dance music
• Hip-hop
• Funk
• Mood music

Comment: although Walking Fast, Not Running is an afro-futurist issue it does not originate from the Black Continent but instead of it coming from Lebanon, Asia by a talented musician, Charif Megarbane who is also being known as the protagonist in Cosmic Analog Ensemble, another fabulous project. With regard to the recent issue he reversed his name to produce analogue based dusty sonic vibes drawn out from light-hearted reed organs and short brass bleeped toots and dynamic rhythmic rattles create an unforgettable, haunting event. The issue is based on two compositions clocking in at a 23-minute each. To differentiate it slightly from the classical tradition of afro-futurism the musician adds some hip-hop scratches and cut-up voice samples to the blend. As much as it used to be an example of dance music it is as much a chill out one as well. In a nutshell, it is a must-hear issue.

[Teaser of the day] Brother Saturn - As Empty as I Seem (Way Out There)

We Are All Ghosts

• Ambient pop
• Art rock
• Post-rock
• Soundscape
• Alternative
• Ambient drone
• Cinematic
• Dream pop
• Experimental rock
• Electronic music
• Ambient
• Epic

Artist: Brother Saturn

Release: Tales Of Space Explorations 9-16 

Label: We Are All Ghosts

Year: 2013

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

Pilot Cloud – In Transition (2008)

Bandcamp

• Post-rock
• Alternative rock
• Epic
• Post-metal
• Shoegaze

Comment: Pilot Cloud is a project from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA which was embarked on in 2008 by Nick Biscardi, and Justin Lerner. Their 10-track debut issue straddles the border between post-rock, post-metal, alternative rock, between silent chord shuffling and highly pummelling instrumental developments and raved-up refrains, ecstatic singing and overwhelming crescendos. At Map, and Sounds of an Era shoegaze takes place to spread out and govern throughout five minutes. All these elements used to melt together seamlessly or being superimposed or followed logically by each other. Because of that the structure of the album is quite predictable, on the other side the duo is all about to act upon the rock music must have been – emotional and loud. Although it is an example of traditional post-rock sound it makes sense, especially in particular tracks like Star Redoubt, Map, Ex Astris Scientia, and Dead Satellite. These are the examples where the emotions and electricity are put into one another in the way to establish more staggering synergistic outputs due to more chord changes and dreaminess of a greater amount. Get it. 

[Teaser of the day] Tarred Brigade - The Accurate Betrayal

Free Music Archive

• Psych-folk
• New Weird America
• Indie folk
• Acid folk
• Free folk
• Folk indie

Artist: Tarred Brigade

Release: HoneyMoon  

Label: FMA/Archive.org/Self-released

Year: 2008

Alternative links:

Archive.org

Obasquiat and Dancing Deadlips in Free Sonic Explorations - The Mindness

Cagey House – Stations Alive (2013)

Elegirl

• Post-classical
• Art music
• Electronic music
• Experimentalism
• Hauntology
• Sampledelic
• Avant-garde
• Experimental electronica
• Sound collage
• Psychedelic

Comment: Baltimore, Maryland, US-based resident Dave Keifer aka Cagey House has produced much music since 2005 under different netlabels of whom many still exist and some of them do not anymore. During his 11-year tenure it seems to me he has influenced many artists through his special experiments. For instance, most notably these threads could be heard on Oneothrix Point Never`s album R Plus Seven (2013, Warp) reminding very strongly of Keifer`s albums like 1902 (Bump Foot, 2009), and B For Breakfast (Bypass, 2010), for instance. The recent 7-notch issue was outed on under Japanese imprint Elegirl in 2013. He continues to strengthen his wondrous metaphysical world through sonic and stylistic permutations where warped yet delicate electronic movements are imbued with film noir dark tinged shades and ghastly seeds as if taking place in a remote, isolated place after the doom. It chimes like a miniaturised eerie motion plot which is expressed sonically. One of the ingredients of the formula are undoubtedly simmering psychedelic flickers which in turn are a consequence of improvised sounds. On the other side, many sounds are orchestrated in a way giving the whole a more dynamic and panoramic flow, of course, done on its own terms. Sometimes the aforementioned sonic motes are coated with gentle, exquisite drones which used to flow and hover atop to mesmerise the listener. It could be said Keifer takes on recognized elements of music yet changing it in his own way which eventually result in something very idiosyncratic and original. It could be assumed he takes on piano and classical music which ultimately comes out not being an ordinary example of the styles. It is something far more stylistically, it is somewhat more emotionally to provide much pleasure to the listener. Afford it for yourselves.                   

[Teaser of the day] Filt - Story Teller

Ektoplazm

• Psytrance
• Progressive trance
• Darkpsy
• Goa trance
• Hi-Tech
• Spoken word
• Psybreaks
• Alternative dance

Artist: Filt 

Release: Black Roots

Label: Ektoplazm/Glitchy.Tonic,Records

Year: 2016 

Alternative links:

Glitchy.Tonic.Records(Bandcamp)

Youtube

[Teaser of the day] Vate - Diablo

SOCSUB

• Robot pop
• Techno pop
• Electronic music
• Alternative dance
• Kraut-techno

Artist: Vate

Release: 1a10

Label: SOCSUB

Year: 2010 

[Teaser of the day] Agulikass - Hullumaja

• Singer-songwriter
• DIY
• Psychedelic pop
• Alternative pop
• Outsider pop

Artist: Agulikass

Release: Agulikass

Label: Õunaviks

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Eucci - Fifteen Miles Downwind

Rive

• Microtonal
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Ambient drone
• Leftfield
• Micronoise
• Non-music
• Abstract
• Glitchtronica
• Minimalism
• Musique concrète
• Acousmatic music
• Field recordings

Artist: Eucci

Release: LGL Winter

Label: Rive

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] EugeneKha - Bells Of Maracoon Underground

Eg0cide Productions

• Abstract
• Experimental electronica
• Field recording
• Electro-acoustic
• Sound collage
• Psychedelic
• Avant-electronica
• Psybient
• Musique concrète
• Art music
• Crossover

Artist: EugeneKha

Release: Maracoon

Label: Eg0cide Productions

Year: 2011

[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