Morpheus – Alkemiisto (2003/2008/2009)

Aventuèl

Lomeanor

• Dark Wave 
• Dark ambient 
• Art music 
• Interpreted music 
• Neoclassical 
• Avant-garde 
• Post-classical

Comment: Morpheus` 14-track issue Alkemiisto is an intriguing issue because the artist’s original music is variegated with his own versions of such classical composers/musicians as Bach, Corelli, Vangelis, Abeni, Vildsvin, Chopin and additionally some video game numbers. It sounds interesting, isn’t? In stylistic and temporal terms it does mean Stanislav Rubyteno has opened possibilities to either unite or juxtapose old, baroque music with blackened ambient and neoclassical tunes. The general mood is resolutely murky and damp thereby allowing few chances to shed light upon in the middle of shadowplay. More concretely, hammering piano chords and solemn organ droning are unwound with yarning orchestrated passages and ominous, expressive ambient glimpses. Undoubtedly Rubyteno`s melancholy is beautiful and dignifying therefore bolstering the issue with quality. Get it.          

Amit Buium – Void (2016)

Bandcamp

• Shoegazetronica 
• New Wave
• Synth pop 
• Epic 
• Dream pop 
• Electro-rock 
• Ambient rock
• Post-rock 
• Indietronica 
• Fusion 
• Ambient pop 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Synth rock

Comment: Amit Buium is a young and talented artist from Israel who has obviously been loving the 80s for a while with regard to listening to her first proper outing. Those influences come out either directly or circuitously depending on each track. By using a plentiful of more or less hazy synthesiser-based hanky panky and electronic drums and being sacrificed the guitar-based sounds she has produced this 6-notch issue for our pleasure. However, her influences seem to come from the epoch while many (post-) punk musicians changed their sound more toward synthesizer-driven and dance-appealed sound (New Order, Killing Joke, The Cure, A Certain Ratio etc). For instance, at Cheated the listener could perceive her voice to unveil obvious, minor chord similarities and singing manner with Tanita Tikaram while her voice is backed up by intensely whirling synthesizer chords, and New Age-y motives. The young musician surprises me at Landscapes, which conjures up blistery longing on the base of playing in the vein of jazzy/fusion guitar patterns which will turn into a melodic post-rock weave.  On the other side, the title track, Rain, and Homesickness (the favourite of mine!) are expertly soaked in reveries and being relentless in progressing to majestic, almost hymn-alike chords. The album is retrospective in a good sense because of creating something idiosyncratic on the base of the older music. At the moment the debut album by Amit Buium is a definitive candidate to be appeared in the list of the best issues in 2016.                             

[Teaser of the day] x.y.r. - Sunset Dive

• Dreamwave
• Alternative
• Chillwave
• Organic electronica
• Synthwave

Artist: x.y.r

Release: waves t​*​pes vol​.​2

Label: Jeunesse Cosmique

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Staraya Derevnya - Kadita

• New Weird Israel
• Psych-folk
• Free folk
• Acid folk
• Space folk
• World music
• Weird folk
• Improvised music
• Experimental folk

Artist: Staraya Derevnya

Release: Kadita Sessions

Label: Weakie Discs

Year: 2016

Alternative links:

Archive.org

[Teaser of the day] Schemawound - Self-Surgery Manual

• Experimental techno
• Avant-techno
• Industrial techno
• Tech-electro
• Minimal techno

Artist: Schemawound

Release: Heart Removal Kit

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Wochtzchèe - Luodosesostot

• Ambient
• Experimental electronica
• Post-industrial
• Crossover
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Experimental techno

Artist: Wochtzchèe

Release: Diktüoneemakilt

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Aleksi Eeben - Avaruusmiehen toinen matka (Spaceman's Second Expedition)

Monotonik

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

Artist: Aleksi Eeben

Release: Spaceman Far Away From Home

Label: Monotonik

Year: 2006

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

Apache Dropout – Half of the Apache Dropout LP (2011)

Free Music Archive

• Blues 
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock 
• Americana 
• Psychedelic rock

Comment: Firstly, Apache Dropout as a combo could be considered an archetypical American combo because of trudging across the landscapes of twanging guitar driven blues rock, dusty organ drenched psychedelic sweeps and always refreshing blackened rock and roll hubbles. Secondly, the Yankees have always had enough craftsmanship and gustiness to bring their endeavours to the fore in an unmarred way. Apache Dropout`s vibe is charmingly rebellious and exquisitely negligent even if it could be understood retrospectively. For instance, let’s listen to Sam Phillips Rising where one could enjoy ecstatic, sensual screaming in the middle of chorus singing, rough guitar chords and overdriven riffs. Indeed, it is all about a chaotic environment but it is controlled and thereby managed and channelized more effectively than it would be done haphazardly. In fact, thanks to it all the minor elements included are masterfully magnified to surface them in front of the listener. In a nutshell, it is a spellbinding outing where you could draw parallels with such artists as Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Captain Beefheart, Nirvana, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Royal Trux, and Elvis Presley. The recent version involves 6 tracks but the Bandcamp-based one includes five more compositions.         

Les Poissons Autistes – Mal Foutu (2007)

Midinette

• Ambient noise 
• Ambient 
• Epic 
• Shoegazetronica 
• Abstract 
• Post-rock
• Alternative
• Ambient rock 
• Leftfield
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock

Comment: one can use these 7 tracks either to blast off or calm down. For me, it is a sort of ideal pop music where ambient music used to change into majestic symphonic music and even into abstract appearances and post-rock and shoegaze panoramas are propelled by dance-appealed rhythms to enter into next “post” formations. The flanges of the compositions are frayed and the centre of the compositions is permanently movable in and out of focus once in a while. In spite of it, at Les Mains Plates the artist exploits the aesthetic of minimal music in a fairly elegant way. In general, one can feel the sounds that are cranked up yet subjugated to more hypnotic algorithms. The issue contains a bunch of minor details that are expertly refined to make difference either by standing alone or integrated into a track. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels by the likes of Pan American, Slowdive`s Pygmalion, Flying Saucer Attack, Labradford, Ou Où, and many artists related to Silber Records. Top tier.

Project Hypoxia – Disfigured Tales (2015)

Bump Foot

• Downtempo 
• Trip-hop 
• Art pop
• Electronic music 
• Breaks 
• Alternative

Comment: Project Hypoxia comes out from Kaliningrad, Russia and Disfigured Tales is the fourth issue under the Japanese imprint Bump Foot. Unfortunately I have not listened to the first three albums yet but it should be done at least on the base of goodness of the current outing. More profoundly, this 8-notch issue is imbued with bold, crisp tectonic rhythms and velvety-dark synthesisers full of different semitones and tickling sonorous shades, there are up many samples from different eras and places worldwide (hints at bhangra and ancient Slavic music). In principle, it is trip-hop and downtempo music by stylistic definitions that does mean it is lurking in mood and labyrinthine in its compositions though its dream-drenched progressions are the best part of the issue. There are some intriguing dodges additionally – for instance, Mirror Mask that chimes like a more thoughtful Cocteau Twins. In a word, the result is fabulous throughout the course with some very special monumental glimpses.

Mountain Cloth – Instant Peasant/A Cantaloupe Garden (2015)

Giant Manilow

• Pub rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock 
• Noise rock
• DIY

Comment: Giant Manilow is a little imprint based in Birmingham, the UK that is a platform mostly for clamorous alternative pop/indie pop/DIY collectives. Of course, other indie music related genres can be found under the umbrella. Mountain Cloth is one of those groups being represented with a couple of pieces in the matter of the recent issue. It is very delightful to hear the band drifting between exquisite harmonious odds and ends and providing noisy rising in sound. At times a remarkable amount of pub rock roughness emits from within the whole. In a nutshell, the result is simple but salient. If I had a chance to lead the radio show I would play it in the afternoon. 

Superbells – Parallel Lives (2016)

Bandcamp

• Ambient pop
• Synthwave 
• Soundscape 
• Electronic music
• Post-rock
• Chamber rock
• Epic 
• Crossover
• Drone pop

Comment: The Frenchman David Teboul's recent issue comprises fourteen episodes (which are differentiated as tracks, of course). I can remember for that the artist's many previous issues under the name Linear Bells were frequently produced in the way to consist of just one track. However, these compositions mostly clocked in at more than 30 minutes. Musically the recent one is a fabulous melange of ambient pop, pure ambient, synthesizer-based glimpses, post-rock (in truth, David Teboul exploits the guitars and cellos within it). However, stylistically it is even much broader and imbued with more nuances than described above. Furthermore, the aforementioned elements are at times interwoven with each other to synthesise new vivid forms (for instance, at His Last Major Tragedies). Sometimes one might think the artist is a little bit influenced by the French compatriot M83 though producing more evocative music. One is sure - the synthesisers are Teboul's biggest love with regard to the recent outing (let's listen to Meditation On The Nature of Love). The Merchant of Venice is an exception because of involving surprisingly singing. Emotionally the whole is overwhelming due to its epic convolutions and accentuated comprehensiveness (let's listen to The Sonnets, the amazing ambient pillar with solemn cathedral organ drones). In a word, it is an instance of great music that could be pop music in the year of 2116, for example). However, at the moment it has been the most impressive issues in 2016 so far.

Obasquiat and Dancing Deadlips in Free Sonic Explorations – Urban Astronauts (2016)

Bandcamp

• Improvised music
• Space rock 
• Avant-garde
•  Noise 
• Experimentalism 
• Ambient

Comment: The collaborative act between Obasquiat, and Dancing Deadlips has spawned two compositions. Every Time, All the Time is long-running and by its nature it is fairly oneiric based on otherworldly hypnotic vowel effects which in turn are amplified by sublime yet reverberating echoes and occasional sounds of the shakers; thereafter it starts off again, this time with the plucking of strings which in turn are reverb-drenched again which are accompanied by even more hypnotic vowel effects. The composition is besieged by the short spans of silence. Maurice Unraveled (what a quip!) is remarkably shorter and more acute because the piece starts off with more turbulent progressions involving rusty loops and a strident improvised noise snippet. The chaos might be mother of the order to prompt the artists to finish in the roundabout manner (more profoundly, finishing off with the aforementioned corroded loops). The result is bewildering and obviously compelling the listener to come back and enter its threshold once again. All in all, it is a great listening time. 

Martin Rach – Late Autumn Quartets (2016)

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Improvised noise 
• New Weird Lithuania 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Ambient 
• Drone 
• Electronic music

Comment: As the title suggests explicitly the whole consists of 4 compositions. It is a notch in a series of seasonal quartets. It's a peculiar issue where different and intriguing facets and methods in music are juxtaposed against each other. Martin Rach, the artist from Lithuania uses various instruments (metalophone, zither, kalimba, bongos, Korg Volca bass) and at times special treatments for those ones. More profoundly, improvised noise, droning scalloping and ambient hisses are the follow-ups to lone string plucking the outing started with in fact. Furthermore, there are represented a bunch of grey, superimposed areas of sound thereby providing two folded sonic appearances. The issue comprises some definitive turns – from exquisite stringed and glockenspiel-tinged arrangements (at least they used to sound in that way) to rough and strident synthesiser-based shows (at Raving Threads); from new weird-esque folk tunes to pummelling yet variegated noise beams to ear piercing droning (at Root Architecture). In spite of it throughout the course the listener can perceive the determined direction on these diverse elements. Indeed, it is not chaotic it is expertly built up. It is a pre-eminent issue indeed.

Kria Brekkan – 2008-09-16 Lutheran Church (2008)

Nyctaper

• New Weird Iceland 
• Avant-pop 
• Abstract, 
• Dream pop 
• Live session 
• Post-pop
• Singer-songwriter 
• Experimental pop
• Art pop
• Folktronica

Comment: Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir aka Kria Brekkan was previously known as a member of Icelandic combo Mùm of which first albums Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK (2000, Morr Music) and Finally We Are No One (2002, FatCat) are pure gold to listen for sure - it is a hypnotic blend of folk, electronic/glitch music and post-rock. These two ones are the issues showing no sign of aging even today. So get these albums for yourselves immediately if you do not have it yet. Roughly one year before this gig Kria Brekkan and her then-husband Dave Portner aka Avey Tare (Animal Collective) released an issue called Pullhair Rubeye on Paw Tracks for which they composed music to turn it upside down therefore. This time Kria does not get involved in such sort of capers. The result is a fairy-alike one in which one could hear her to chirp as if it were channelized through the mist being conjured up either by glass celesta or watery harmonium. At times one could track down more dynamic and cinematic bridges on the austere chords to create something astonishing and staggering. In a word, this session of a half hour is a truly interesting listening span.

Astma – Moscow / Istanbul (2011)

H.A.K. Lo-Fi

• Live session
• Noise
• Electro-acoustic
• Electronic music
• Freeformfreakout
• Noise rock
• Avant-garde
• Psych-rock
• Improvised music
• No Wave
• Experimentalism
• Non-music
• Crust punk

Comment: The presocratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus said once that there is no possibility to step into the one and the same river twice. All around us and within us used to be in permanent flux, all is changing around and within us consistently. I guess the same can be said about the Russian duo Astma consisting of Alexei Borisov (also known from such groups as Volga, Notshoi Prospekt and many other projects and collaborations), and Olga Nosova (Motherfathers). Indeed, there are up some similar points between the two live gigs in their native Moscow and Istanbul but in general in the form these sessions are built up slightly in different ways. However, both of them involve interesting experiments with noise music, improvised music, rock-oriented music, voices and electro-acoustic chips. There are up some very intriguing sonic effects as if coming out from unknown or at least extraordinary sources. The both gigs used to progress gradually and being directed in the way to unleash catharsis punctually and poignantly. There one could draw parallels with diverse movements such as free jazz, noise rock, No Wave, crust punk, electronic music. In a word, let's listen to these mind-boggling sessions from different places worldwide.

The Day Of Extinction – Mutually Assured Destruction (2010)

Torn Flesh

• Black metal
• Symphonic black metal
• Trash metal
• Funeral metal

Comment: First of all, by seeing the title of this 3-track issue the first thought of mine was it was either a case of blackened metal or goregrind because having hints at misanthropy and destruction. Indeed, the opening track Black Sunrise in the mp3 player of mine is based on the fast churning of instruments supported by massive symphonic synthesisers and hissing feedback. The base used to be appealingly iterative just providing one loop from start to finish. It could be said it transcends its stylistic borders in an elegant way. The following track is In Loving Memory... where the tempo is decelerated and accelerated in different layers at the same time. Furthermore, later on, the composition will be adorned with bold yet slowed-down piano chords and an exquisite orchestrated whiff. The final piece is the self-titled one similarly to the first track being fast running yet demonstrating some tones lowered downward and on the other side there are up massively bumpy riffs and ridges thereby coming into trash metal altogether. In a word, it is a fabulous issue by any metal and conceptual standards.

The Shining Men – Interlude Music EP (2010)

17Sons

Jamendo

Bandcamp

• Techno
• Lo-fi
• Electro
• Tech-house

Comment: Undoubtedly it is a challenging outing because of representing some styles with unconventional sonorous appearances and corroded sonic frequencies. More profoundly, electro, techno and tech-house vibes have been emerged by exploiting low-end bits and rough, bumpy rhythmic patterns. It is fairly impressive to hear obsessive mood in some tracks  (Girl Passion, for instance). At times the artist follows cues of the minimalism though doing it in a small scale (Goodbye Birds). Despite its unconventional appearance the result used to be on the top by its quality. 

Artifact of Skulls - Artifact of Skulls - I (2016)

Torn Flesh

Bandcamp

• Speed metal
• Death metal
• Hardcore
• Crust punk

Comment: Oh yeah, it's great delight to listen to such a sort of metal music wherein exuberant, dark hued energy through the interplay of bumpy guitars and bass and jolting drums will result in pummelling against your bourgeois mentality to get it out of your rotten, decayed head. Stylistically it is an amusing blend of death metal, crust punk, and speed metal. The more you listen to this bunch of five tracks the more you could perceive it like it was thought to be a tribute to deceased Lemmy Kilmister. The more you listen to it the more it seems to be spatially appealing in addition to some groovy elements. With regard to Lemmy the issue chimes like a Hawkwind without synthesisers. On the other side, it is very sympathetic to see the minimal aesthetic of the combo (the track titles are denoted with the Rome numbers only; the cover print is depicted as black-white). The issue is a part of the discography of Torn Flesh Records. Great and purging work for sure.

Chuzausen – Dump Garden (2015)

Enoughrecords

Free Music Archive

Jamendo

• Electro pop
• 8-bit
• Ambient trance
• Breakcore
• Electronic pop
• Mood music
• Tracker music
• Alternative 

Comment: this 11-notch album chimes like a rusty mood music issue where low-end, 8-bit frequency based rhythms do vary with more bold and thudding rhythmic patterns. All these cadences are adorned with catchy melody and harmony threads where one could perceive even the 80s electro disco and house vibes (at Not House, for instance). Not House is followed by Out Smarted which is a fabulous blend of folk, hip-hop and 70s electro pop a la a late Kraftwerk. The next track People is about catchy warped synth lines and heavily stomping electro rhythms which are imbued with exquisite sonic debris and a vowel iteration. The opening tracks Are We Digital, and Duck+Cover remind a little bit of the Orb`s ambient trance opus Orblivion (1997, Island) which makes me immediately psyched. The more you listen to this issue by the Madrid, Spain-based mastermind Chuzausen the more you perceive his poppy yet not self-indulgent potential which could be a case of ideal pop in certain circumstances. The whole is organic and witty – all these elements which are treated over there are the delicate ones and they are expertly mixed up with each other. Fairly great indeed.

[Teaser of the day] Ivan Black - Waves Of Insomnia

Petroglyph

• Ambient
• Soundscape
• Electronic music
• Space music
• Epic
• Ambient drone

Artist: Ivan Black

Release: The Stillness

Label: Petroglyph

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Florian Wahl - Just Like That

• Hip-hop
• Screwed & Chopped
• Conceptual
• Breaks
• Sampledelic
• Urban music
• Rap

Artist: Florian Wahl

Release: Miley Matrix

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

|sistra| - All My Friends Were Dead (2011)

BFW Recordings

BFW Recordings

• Indie pop/rock
• Electronic
• Alternative pop/rock
• Dream pop
• Live
• Art rock

Comment: there are represented three pieces altogether By Russian combo |sistra| which used to reveal the ensemble`s exquisite manner to produce sounds – sparse yet poignant instrumentation is bound to high-pitched singing which emotionally provide a pre-eminent dagger ultimately. Indeed, the singing is a very amusing element within it providing different threads due to exploiting female-male mixed dreamy voices with a slightly elliptic trajectory which used to chime and chirp in an unconventional manner. Because of this it sounds in a familiar and unknown way this creates a welcome tension in the listener. Because of this one could enjoy indie music which does not follow an average indie pop formula. There are the guitars to be represented but they seem somehow to be treated or pulled out of the blend sometimes. It is very ok for this case. One could even say it is an example of dream pop produced and rehearsed in vacuum. By the way, one of those songs Tiny Boat is performed live. In a word, it is a solid indie glimpse under BFW Recordings. 

Shinobu – 10 Thermidor (2015)

Quote Unquote

• Power pop
• Alternative pop/rock
• College rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Art rock

Comment: The Californian, US-based Shinobu is a meritorious quintet whose 11-track issue used to mostly drift between college rock and power pop elements which frequently are superimposed or blended into each other. More profoundly, it does mean their song structures are built up quite straightforwardly and the combo`s lyrics is about anxiety, haunting past, and warped reality. The favourite tracks of mine are those where the band decided to abandon usual verse-chorus form and develop into extraordinary ways. For instance, at Hell Screens the track starts off with hirsute, thrusting guitars being quite similar to an angular, math rock exploration. And it is very sympathetic to listen to the somehow elliptical and swaying chorus at the rear part of the song. Jokes is a great punk song with appropriate, nihilistic energy which always used to make sense. The most favourite of mine is Melbourne Cup which embarks on by reminding of Albarn & Coxon`s (Blur) songwriting but which will finish off being awash with permanent echo and delay effects thereby magnifying the whole effect. In a word, the album as a whole experience is solid and enjoyable.

[Teaser of the day] Decktonic - BGM

• Electronic music
• Robot pop
• Breaks
• Synthwave
• Electro pop
• Alternative

Artist: Decktonic

Release: Marble Life/BGM

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Yo La Tengo – 2015-10-10 Kings Theatre (2015)

Nyctaper

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Slowcore
• Covers
• Americana
• Sadcore
• Live session

Comment: by listening to this 24-track live gig by legendary Hoboken, US-based indie purveyors Yo La Tengo I would like to share some moments which emerge from their conception and music. Firstly, YLT is a thoroughly American combo which used to play principally country music though with a different, introverted posture. They are indie nerds who not dare to present their music loudly. However, it seems to be the protective pose of theirs which eventually contributes to their idiosyncratic image. Of course, these words could only be said about their live sessions which are absent with studio trickery and synthesised and psychedelic sound creation. Secondly, they prove again to be champions of the cover songs. There they convey their own versions of songs by the likes of The Cure, Minutemen, Lovin` Spoonful, Gene Clark, Special Pillow, The Scene Is Now, and Cat Stevens. In a word, their session is highly relaxing and enjoyable.

[Teaser of the day] Big City Orchestra - Moya Drone

Lost Frog Productions

• Micronoise
• Avant-garde
• Acousmatic music
• Sound art
• Glitchtronica
• Ambient
• Experimentalism
• Ambient noise
• Psychoacoustic
• Ambient drone

Artist: Big City Orchestra

Release: Things Fall Down

Label: Lost Frog Productions

Year: 2005

Flying Species – The Second Flight (2015)

Murmure Intemporel

• Tekno
• Psytrance
• Electronic music
• Big beat

Comment: my first impression was not affirmative altogether to this 10-track issue because I did not get it – it seemed to be an average, even lacklustre (psy)trance, tekno and big beat tinged assortment. Later on, however, those groovy synths, darker droning undercurrents and pummelling rhythms started to swirl in my head throughout. It needs to get obsessively focused upon that one could notice all those catchy odds and ends which in fact provide additional points and extra value to the whole. Eventually one could admit he/she feels himself/herself as if either having gathered in the middle of a dance floor or searching for a cosy seat in his/her living room. It could be compared with an obscure textbook which one needs to read many times to finally understand it. The coverprint is truly nice. I guess it might be one of the most poppy issues under the experimental imprint Murmure Intemporel.

[Teaser of the day] Cocteau Twins - Circling Girl

Cocteau Twins

• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Art pop
• Post-punk
• Dream pop

Artist: Cocteau Twins

Release: Circling Girl

Label: Self-released

Year: 1996

Helen Austin – A Few Songs of The Week (2011)

Archive.org

• Indie folk
• Singer-songwriter
• DIY
• Folk indie
• Americana

Comment: Helen Austin decided to produce one song weekly since April 2009. After producing 51 tracks altogether she picked up twice a portion of tracks to release them on a CD, called Song Of The Week, and for new mixes, respectively. Thereafter Lee Rosevere chose 11 compositions for Free Music Archive from the rest of the whole. I have been listening to the issue for the last three hours to have only good words to say about this portion because of being so light-hearted, bucolic and pristine by its nature. All of that is principally created by using only gentle guitar twanging and mild singing where the artist craftily creates enchanting harmonies and chord sequences. Furthermore, one could perceive even cinematic flow within the tracks. Lyrically it is about to surface themes with a positive sense of life. Fairly nice.

[Teaser of the day] Cortical - Chain Reaction

• RIO
• Avant-prog
• Progressive metal
• Progressive rock
• Math rock
• Ambient
• Technical metal
• Art rock

Artist: Cortical

Release: Entropy EP

Label: Yes No Wave

Year: 2015

Dead Gum – Ghost Wise (2011)

Phase! Records Net Junk 

Bandcamp

• Ambient
• Drone 
• Noise rock
• Experimentalism
• Post-rock
• Noise
• Drone rock
• Ambient rock
• Ambient noise
• Avant-garde

Comment: these 20 minutes within just one composition reveal quite different angles and facets throughout the course. It starts off with low-end, buried frequencies to evolve into more masculine and labyrinthine, noise-drenched droning where guitars are being set up to be either static or ready to render its undulations in a minimal manner. I guess it is not the most primary case to puzzle out is it either more about experimental rock or ambient kind of music. I guess the borders between the styles started to blur stepwise after outings by the likes of Labradford, Slowdive, Flying Saucer Attack, Lycia, My Bloody Valentine. Later on, of course, Montrèal, Canadian ambient/drone/micronoise juggernaut Tim Hecker loaned some of the peripheral rock influences from these artists and synthesised them into his own work. Dead Gum`s Ghost Wise is like a clockwork which has been managed in the way to rev up with every minute. Indeed, in the middle part of the whole an abrasive, chord-changing guitar and Oriental-alike vowel effects alongside will begin to build on mind-boggling phantasmagorical threads and noisy terrains which almost chime like a converse, “minus-signed” symphonic work. Indeed, its influence is twofold – it is both aesthetically overwhelming and physically loud to stimulate one`s forehead and brain. In a word, it must be heard and shared being created by the Greek Panagiotis Spoulos. 

[Teaser of the day] Alexei Rafiev & Alexei Borisov - Solntse i luna

Clinical Archives

• Avant-garde
• Dark wave
• Spoken word
• Glitchtronica
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism

Artist: Alexei Rafiev & Alexei Borisov

Release: Znamenie Presvjatoi Bogoroditsy 

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Kevin Bryce - One Day In Spain

Free Music Archive

• Downtempo
• Chilltronica
• Folktronica
• Electronic music
• Mood music

Artist: Kevin Bryce

Release: Strange Mosaics

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

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