Terrible Terrible – Fail Better (2015)

Jamendo

• Art rock 
• Americana 
• Experimental pop 
• Indie rock 
• Slowcore 
• Soul 
• Electronic

Comment: by listening to this 4-track issue by the American combo Terrible Terrible I am tempted by the hypothesis – if Terrible Terrible`s issue Fail Better or the follow-up Get The New Computer were produced by Tame Impala and in turn Tame Impala`s Currents were issued by Terrible Terrible then which album of them were more popular ultimately? In fact, my intention to ask in that way is all about outright subjectivity with regard to the popularity within the music business. I guess Terrible Terrible would have been an amazing pop act if they had a solid promotional team behind them. However, let’s enjoy this fabulous, effortlessly moving soul/Americana/art pop/dream pop/slowcore outing where sophisticated rhythms and poignant electronic threads are mingled seamlessly into a harmonious whole. It is not muzak, there is no possibility to consider it in that way altogether. Any second on it seems to be thoroughly reasoned yet the flow is wondrous without any pockmarks. It is a perfect congruence between thousands of sonic bits, which in turn is a platform to new mental configurations to be cropped up. Additionally, let’s listen to Currents, and Get The New Computer either.              

Vukovar - The Blood Garden

[Teaser of the day] Oldark - Anhedonia

Laverna

• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik
• Glitchtronica
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Oldark

Release: Behind My Eyes I See Myself Seeing

Label: Laverna

Year: 2016

Egal 3 – Ruzzi EP (2010)

Ruzzinet

• House 
• Tech-house 
• Dub house 
• Remixes 
• Club dance

Comment: In general, the formula of house music is quite understandable. Catchy, endlessly repeated rhythms (at least it seems to sound that way!) will slightly be changed throughout the course. Secondly, the style provides a game between the obvious and the remote (or the hidden). More concretely, I mean how those sleek, fragile cadences are related to indirect sonic aspects, which come through the sonic filters to us. Coming from a distance to nearby us. It does mean house music shifts one’s perception about room with you and around you. For instance, by listening to this 3-notch outing one could hear intriguing melodica samples and loops to be developing in one (mainly in the right channel). Furthermore, those vocal samples startle you because of chiming as if coming out from a nearby apartment. So be warned – before you start to listen to it you should be convinced about good relationships between you and the neighbours. Indeed, it is all about house music even if there are up hints at dub. It is a house carnival in the first place. Please take steps to be a part of it. The issue is a part of the Italian imprint Ruzzinet.         

[Teaser of the day] Abjective - Øaceloth

Nenormalizm

• Dark ambient
• Industrial illbient
• Avant-garde
• Experimental electronica
• Noise
• Electro-acoustic
• Abstract

Artist: Abjective

Release: Medulla Core

Label: Nenormalizm

Year: 2016

Ilya I Alisa – I Entered The Dark Forest (2011/2015)

Trash Can Dance

Self-released

• Post-punk 
• Alternative rock 
• Drone 
• Electronic music 
• Art rock 
• New Weird 
• Avant-rock
• Progressive rock 
• Dream folk 
• Spoken word 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Ambient

Comment: Firstly, it is an unusual case; it does mean one has little chance to find out such sort of music daily because there is little such kind of music around. If I’m saying it is either a case of art rock or progressive rock then I have described it partly only. Secondly, it is an idiosyncratic case getting its boost and apparent inspiration from the Russian culture, from its glorious part, which is antagonistic to its inferior, the so-called blatnoi (thug) culture, which cropped up in prison camps in the Soviet Union during the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. More profoundly, the issue is highly dreamy as if a reverie stuck between reality and a hypnagogic state. At times it is imbued with naivety yet fortunately it will not turn to be pathetic because the nature of the issue is candid and properly emotive. If to trying to date it this would probably have happened in pre-historic times when reality and dreams and fears come into one, when imagination and real things had had a common part. And one had to come along with it. Of course, the forest was the uppermost ambience and catalyst for such sensations to Slavic and Finno-Ugrian tribes. In a word, it was a realistic place, it was a hyper-realistic, and it was a surrealistic place at the same time. Furthermore, it seems to be filled with a religious content though being laid down implicitly, not in a raucous manner. For me, Ilya I Alisa embodies a modern touch by sketching it quite similarly to Animal Collective in the USA who had principally done it on their two first albums. Of course, by saying it I admitted a little coefficient to the proposition. Last but not least – by listening to this 12-track issue on the tape, which is a part of the catalogue of Tallinn, Estonian imprint Trash Can Dance, it was something of a ritualistic act to change the sides of it. In a nutshell, it is a staggering outing by Ilya Bogatyryov, which was firstly issued digitally in the beginning of the 10s.                           

[Teaser of the day] Anton-Babinski - Bisensual

Soundcloud

• Dreamwave
• Alternative
• Post-pop
• Electronic music
• Rnb
• Chamber pop
• Soul

Artist: Anton-Babinski

Release: Bisensual

Label: self-released/Soundcloud

Year: 2015

Wild Man Riddim – Wild Man Riddim (2015)

MarsMelons

• Reggae 
• Afrofuturism 
• Ska 
• Afrobeat 
• Alternative dance 
• Afrofunk 
• Mood music 
• World fusion 
• Covers 
• Psychedelic 
• Funk

Comment: Wild Man Riddim`s self-titled issue is the first entry of mine at Oslo, Norway-based site MarsMelons and by listening to Wild Man Riddim`s nine compositions I am convinced to come back to the imprint’s catalogue for more times in the near future. Of course, today is Sunday (indeed, I began to love this day stepwise) and the weather in the morning is idyllic and the air is refreshing being imbued with spring tastes and rainy breezes. Brage Rognlien-headed combo, involving a couple of black musicians to deliver vocals in some tracks, improvises with Jamaican reggae rhythms and ska thrusts, however, frequently searching for more funky and psychedelic sound (I adore those dusty reed organ and brass chords moving in and out of the mix!) thereby coming close to Afrobeat/funk/futurism, which roots come from Nigeria, and Ghana. Additionally, the group elaborates music of such jazz and improvised music juggernauts as Herbie Hancock (Cantaloupe Island), and Dizzy Gillespie (A Night in Tunisia). Mostly it chimes as an accompanying music instance while one is doing something else rather than concentratedly listening to music though there are up moments to provide more depth, work out more complex structures and show up more vivid ambition to make difference (for instance, Big Difference). I guess the ensemble`s live may even be more amusing than just having a listen with the headphones.                  

[Teaser of the day] Garaz - Smoke Rings

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Breaks
• Alternative dance
• Trip-hop
• Electronic music
• Nu jazz
• Chilltronica
• Mood music

Artist: Garaz

Release: Smoke Rings EP

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2016

Flady – Leave (2015)

Bunkai-Kei

• Deep house 
• Alternative dance 
• Tech-house 
• Club dance

Comment: I guess anyone who adores music in general and especially music of different sorts does have his/her own personal imagination of certain styles. For instance, how could you imagine house music for yourself? Is it something of music to be imagined to those people in the middle of a dance floor or could it have cerebral dimension either? Flady`s 5-track outing emits both tendencies very clearly. Furthermore, the thing I truly like is the artist’s eagerness to push it forward effortlessly, for now and then the beats are elegantly unkempt with regard to the frequencies of the album (at Fake Crawl) therefore adding a refreshing, even transgressive dimension to the whole. Mostly it is deep house music, I can think of Chrinonex Fleckeri as being a perfect accompaniment to fall asleep eventually while you are reading a book. On the other hand, the artist exploits frequently uncanny vocal samples and other kind of outtakes to disorient the listener. Most remarkably it has been drawn out at Counter Old Sky, and because of that it is a decent foray of the course. Another exception is Feel or Pig or Pigs, which contains a mind-blowing brass hook though in the beginning of the composition the observant listener could perceive krautrock and post-punk influences either (all is logical, isn’t?). In a nutshell, it is a charming dance and listening session in the night zone. Especially I recommend a listening today while you are boycotting the inferior Eurovision “song” contest. The issue is a part of the discography of the Japanese imprint Bunkai-Kei.                  

[Teaser of the day] Seahorses - Tharsis

• Post-rock
• Epic
• Kosmische Musik
• Experimental rock
• Ambient rock
• Art rock

Artist: Seahorses

Release: Zero Meridian

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Pen Parker – I`m Level Four Ep (2015)

[PICPACK] 

• Glitch-hop 
• Folktronica 
• Dub house 
• Avant-hop 
• Breaks 
• IDM 
• Experimental hip-hop 
• Chillstep

Comment: an artist called Pen Parker provides a lovely set of 4 compositions being based on cut-up breaks and saturated debris. However, the first sentence of mine was apparently moderate with regard to the word “lovely” – in fact, it is a great issue fixing in the memory for long time. For instance, On Raspberry Beetle chimes in a daydreaming way due to vague, blissful synthesised layers and supported by IDM-alike rhythms. She Killed Herself is based on the two-piano valence – the first of them consists of a bold piano motive and another of crushed chords, however, eventually sounding together highly dynamically. Deer Blood embarks on with deep dub house vibes, which will change its course partly by absorbing slight folktronic elements to the mix. Morning in Which we Live embraces an angular rhythmic pattern and lazy singing, which in turn is slimly pitched up. The coverprint of it explains everything – it is minimal yet including enough information to be an informative one. In the aggregate, it is compelling by its fashion and content. The issue is a part of the discography of [PICPACK].                  

[Teaser of the day] Haley Greene - Showed In

NoiseTrade

• Americana
• Indie pop
• Art pop
• Chamber pop
• Alternative pop
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: Haley Greene

Release: Revisiting Doors EP

Label: Noisetrade

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Ottilie - Il Pleut Comme Chien Et Chatte

Acoustic Firework

• Alternative pop
• Chanson pop
• Singer-songwriter
• Acoustic pop

Artist: Ottilie

Release: Histoires d`O

Label: Acoustic Firework

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Craneuhm. - _Sour-Apple-

• Acid jazz
• Ambient pop
• Sampledelic
• Urban music
• Glitch-hop
• Breaks
• Chilltronic
• Mood music

Artist: Craneuhm.

Release: Four

Label: Blvnt

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Not Ensemble - Rush for Snack

Triceratupuz

• Experimental electronica
• Avant-electronica
• Minimalism
• Kosmische Musik

Artist: Not Ensemble

Release: Waiting for Cookies

Label: Triceratupuz

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Kyurox - Gammaflash

Zimmer-Records

• Psytrance
• Goa trance
• Alternative dance

Artist: Kyurox

Release: Multiverse

Label: Zimmer-Records

Year: 2016

Sekotis – For Your Weird Ears (2016)

Bump Foot

Bandcamp

• Post-rock 
• Dub rock 
• Krautrock 
• Alternative dance 
• Indietronica 
• Psychedelic
• Shoegazetronica 
• Alternative rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Blues 
• Art rock 
• Space rock

Comment: behind the project Sekotis hides himself an Englishman called Tom Stokes from Brighton I can firstly remember him to have augmented the legacy of such label as No-Source with the album People In Grass Houses (2010). The No-Source imprint, which is defunct at the moment unfortunately, was a platform mostly for indie electronic music. For Your Weird Ears has been managed in a similar way though adding new shades and colours to the blend. On the other hand, by listening to this fabulous 9-piece engine to be moving on in a graceful way it reminds of the era in the beginning of the 00s when an amount of continental Europe based artists decided to enrich their quite austere IDM-based structures with more guitar-centred progressions. For instance, the doings of To Rococo Rot, Styrofoam, Lail Puna, The Notwist, Tarwater, Pluramon were impressive. Tom Stokes used to experiment similarly by mixing up different styles in an effortless way. One can feel this touch in his music. Although he exploits much studio trickery and it is very fine on its own he never loses his crafted ability to create compositions with epic and catchy affect. More profoundly, the issue starts off with Drones, which is a powerfully growing krautrock jam. The motive of Faces In The Rocks resembles compatriots Blur`s epic Tender a little bit. Ravens is something that may resemble altogether the beginning of the 90s in Manchester but Stokes` created beats are slightly different because of being represented offset. Ship of Fools is an exquisite blues-rock example with vague hints at dub and glitched-out electronica. All in all, the issue is pretentious and a very candidate to be one of the pre-eminent issues in the list of the best albums in 2016.                   

Dire Calamity – EP (2009)

Torn Flesh

• EBM 
• Cybermetal 
• Darkwave 
• Industrial electro
• Synth industrial

 

Comment: there are represented 6 compositions with the total length of 9 minutes only. The issue is a part of the catalogue of Torn Flesh, which could mean something sombre and ill-omened. Indeed, all the formal appearances of it hint at it and dredge pessimism and misanthropy in one’s decayed soul. Musically it drifts between electronic metal, industrial electro/synth industrial and electronic body music. Those rhythms being appeared within it are not aggressive directly but ominous due to darkened atmospheric electronic keyboards and synthesised orchestrations. Behind Dire Calamity hides himself Joshua Ramirez from a death metal/grindcore band called Testicular Seizure.               

Goodmorning Breakfast – Hello Monday (2010)

StoneAge

• Psychedelic rock 
• Jangle pop 
• Alternative dance 
• Britpop 
• Northern soul 
• Baggy 
• Indie dance

Comment: Goodmorning Breakfast is a project from West Java, Indonesia being influenced by such acts like Oasis, and Suede by their own words. However, by listening to their 3-track issue it chirps even more interesting and reminding more of an epoch in the end of the 80s and in the beginning of the 90s where indie music did have many appearing forms while searching for more reliable manifestations. More profoundly, Goodmorning Breakfast`s Hello Monday chimes like a jangle act being organically imbued with psychedelic pop, northern soul and baggy/indie dance influences (in general, by post-punk influences). It reminds of an era after the C86 compilation when many light-hearted jangle acts changed into more dance-appealed and artsy ones (for instance, Soup Dragons, The Pastels, McCarthy). However, despite these parallels the artist is not a simulacrum to rehash the glorious past, it is worthy on its own. The issue is a part of StoneAge Records.              

Anderlink – Spuren verwischt EP (2009)

Acoustic Firework

Archive.org

• Folk indie 
• Indie folk 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Acoustic pop 
• Alternative pop

 

Comment: by listening to this handful of German sung ditties by Peter Schuhmacher it could be said it is needed no much trickery and more harmonic and melodic intersections to make up a solid folk album. The issue thrusts with slow combustion and natural rolling to gather more energy throughout the course. For instance, listen to Ich Kann Jetzt Nicht Nach Hause Gehen, which is coated with sublime guitar twangs and velvety harmonics. Sturm, and Kleine Kleine Welt is supported by more other instruments than guitars in a slight manner. In fact, at Sturm one could hear a great, slightly abrasive noise effect in fact. In a nutshell, let’s get this issue and enjoy it. 

Adrián Juárez – Carbonilla y Lápices de Cera (2009)

Perkunowa

• Improvised music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde

Comment: Adriàn Juarez is an Argentinian musician whose 19-track issue consists of short, 1-2 minute long sketches or miniatures, which could be considered improvised pieces in the vein of stoned folk music with Latin music ingredients. Vice versa, it could be considered a Latin-alike electro-acoustic music. More profoundly, the outing is based on the play of a prepared piano, however, which chimes like being spawned by a clockwork-alike mechanism. It is quite surprising to know because the music represented over there chirps like plucking of the strings of a guitar or something like that. Thirdly, it could be considered an example of acoustic industrial music tongue-in-cheek. Although the timbre of the tracks is monochromatic it suits perfectly with the nature of the issue. The issue is a part of the discography of Perkunowa.                  

[Teaser of the day] Tabula Rasa - India Ink

• Jazz rock
• Fusion
• Art rock
• Progressive rock
• Epic

Artist: Tabula Rasa

Release: Tabula Rasa

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Radiohead - Spectre

Soundcloud

• Art rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Epic
• Conceptual
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Radiohead

Release: Spectre

Label: Self-released/Soundcloud 

Year: 2015

Abortionist – Abortionist. (2008)

Proc-records

• Noise 
• Digicore 
• Rhythmic noise 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Digital hardcore 
• Gabber 
• Non-music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism

Comment: I can remember for some guys who tried to boast their knowledge about dance music by talking of gabber as the most intense and fast-paced one. Ok, it happened approximately 18 years ago it does mean 10 years before the current issue was created. Indeed, Abortionist’s experiments are about gabber music but with an obviously different angle than a common exemplar of it – this is the devastating deconstruction of the style. More profoundly, it might remind of it but it is studded with noisy, rhythmical piercing drones. Because of that the main point of the issue is diffused and divided. It does not use sequencers to create the rhythms but used to extract certain harsh frequencies from the periphery of sonic scale. In any cases, the result is staggering, poignant and overwhelming. This very short-running issue is a part of the discography of proc-records (proc062).            

Laura Jorgensen – Love in the Time of Catastrophe (2016)

Bandcamp

• New Weird America 
• Free folk 
• Weird folk 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Dream folk

Comment: this issue contains a couple of songs only (Fire, Flood). The nature of it is austere yet haunting where the US-based singer-songwriter Laura Jorgensen plays a creaky old piano in a creaky old apartment in Zagreb, Croatia. I could imagine it is a place where deceased persons and history is haunting coated with dust and cobwebs. However, less is more and of course, Laura Jorgensen’s powerful yet expressive vocal is imbued with profound longing and suggestive dreams though lyrically it involves obvious hints at violence and masochism (reminding of the Russian proverb – if a man beats her woman then he loves her (sic!)). Ultimately it makes sense at least as much as her debut album Feathered Arms 6 years ago, which featured remarkably more instruments.     

[Teaser of the day] Seastock - Lively Commercial Indie

Jamendo

• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Garage rock
• Psych-rock

Artist: Seastock

Release: Indie Alternative Rock

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2015

Berthelot – Halieutique de la griotte (2015)

Archive.org

Bandcamp

• Field recording 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Glitchtronica 
• Experimental electronica 
• Abstract 
• Acousmatic music 
• Avant-garde 
• Sound art 
• Experimentalism 
• Dark ambient

Comment: Berthelot`s 12-track issue is a quite peculiar one because each composition on it has been a part of compilations worldwide. Now when it is gathered together it demonstrates different appearances across one pathway. For sure, musically it is an intriguing listening because the form-based composition of glitched-out music, bleak field recording, acousmatic music is variegated with more moody though ill-omened ones running in the form of dark ambient. However, the emotions are predominantly subdued to free place for sheer sonic experiments and effects. In a word, the mission is successfully completed. The issue is a part of the imprint Murmure Intemporel.                                    

[Teaser of the day] Geometrie Variabili - Coastline

La bèl

• Improvised music
• Art music
• Experimental music
• Avant-garde

Artist; Geometrie Variabili

Release: The Breath

Label: La bèl

Year. 2013

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

The Dreams – Morbido (2012)

Bandcamp

• Art punk 
• Lo-fi 
• Post-punk 
• Experimental rock 
• No Wave 
• Alternative rock 
• Psych-rock 
• Neo-psychedelia 
• Avant-rock 
• Acid rock

Comment: My first impression about the Strasbourg, French duo The Dreams was spawned approximately 6-7 years ago when they released an EP or was it a single under the French imprint Beko DSL. By hearing the first chords by them I knew it would be a favourite one within the discography of the imprint. Armelle Oberle, and Emmanuel Satti`s long-running issue is something very special because of getting power from different sources, however, nonetheless staying a stark rock and roll instance. For example, the issue starts off like a shamanic whirlpool with darkened rhythms, spacey organs and stoned guitars, which later will be shuffled and ordered otherwise. Their power emerges from a psychedelic music tradition though this might say nothing because the psychedelic pigeonhole is truly voluminous embracing an enormous number of movements and tendencies. However, they are not an usual exemplar because their organs are frequently amplified to a maximum and the Armelle Oberle`s voice and singing manner is exalted and ecstatic accompanied by low-end yet challenging cadences and always loud and resounding guitars. Furthermore, the duo used to chime obsessively similarly to Suicide, for instance. In general, one could discern similarity with other No Wave artists either. The Dreams shows us clearly it hides very future for rock music to get on with being not lame and cliché-filled. In a word, it is a swarm of excellent leftfield compositions.                      

[Teaser of the day] Sa Zobud - Krajinou Leta

Tachyon

• Chilltronic
• Alternative
• Indietronica
• Crossover
• Epic
• Big beat
• Ambient pop
• Electronic
• Mood music

Artist: Sa Zobud

Release: Sa Zobud

Label: Tachyon

Year: 2010

Ryanosaurus – Kaleidosaur (2011)

Ektoplazm

Bandcamp

• Psytance 
• Breakcore 
• Tekno 
• Electro 
• Alternative dance

Comment: Ryanosaurus is a musician from Sydney, Australia whose 5-tracks outing is based on crisp rhythmic patterns that relentlessly used to change within each track and throughout the course. On the other side, those variegating paces are spiced up with sustaining delays and agile synthesizer threads thereby constituting the dense psychedelic trance, electro and tekno-tinged issue. However, the last composition Plibt (featuring Poseidon & Forrest) involves firstly intriguing adjacent motives flicking in and out of the centre and then it is followed by a piano-driven part.  Added Additional Extra includes a catchy (neo-) krautrock-alike synthesised motive in the first half, which makes me fairly aroused. It could be said Ryanosaurus knows very well what he is doing – a carnival of colour saturated rhythms and rhythms.                  

[Teaser of the day] Hanging Freud - The South

• Alternative pop
• Art pop
• Shoegaze
• Chamber pop
• Indie pop
• Ethereal Wave
• Drone pop

Artist: Hanging Freud

Release: Motherland

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Various Artists - Interplanetary Materials (2004)

Comfort Stand Recordings

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• Alternative rock 
• Art pop 
• Experimental pop 
• Leftfield 
• Avant-garde 
• Space age pop 
• Indie 
• Psych-pop
• Parody 
• Space pop 
• Drone pop 
• Electronic 
• Exotica pop 
• Post-classical 
• Indie rock 
• Sampledelic 
• Deep house 
• Spoken world
• Mood music

Comment: Ladies and gentlemen! We are floating in space! Ehh…where exactly is that place we are going to fly and maybe even conquer. There exists inner space additionally to Outer Space, which are seamlessly related to each other – the first one is subjugated to the latter or at least being a minor, intangible part of it. The musicians around the world have explored and tried to chart the inner limits of our more or less subliminal psyche at different times. Furthermore, the term “space” is being frequently related to something, which could be described as “with-it, cutting-edge” because the human being has had not enough power to date to reach more distant cosmic objects and bigger distances in Outer Universe though the desire to do it existed already long ago. However, the legendary imprint Comfort Stand Recordings put it into practice through music, through a set of 2 hours and 35 minutes that it is a blissful blend of diverse styles that works out like a tremendous maelstrom, which in turn involves an innumerable amount of special universes in the nexus of it. And so on until one’s brain will explode. More profoundly, those sonorous seeds within it are witty, clever, arousing, grandeur, at times very funny and even buffoonish, blissful and…otherworldly. Because of that I feel by myself the whole fairly dignifies me and inspires respect against people, beasts and the Almighty Creator. And of course, it is culturally and narratively important because of embracing many hints at essential space-related things. Last but not least there are represented such artists as big celestrial orchestre, Full Load Of King, R Stevie Moore, Ton Rückert, Gulag Picture Radio, Fortyone, Laze, Atton Paul, Lungbutter, Howard Ambient, Archbishop Jason Polland, The Pan-Galactic All Stars, sciflyer, Astrochimp, Weirdomusic, komafuzz, Lee Rosevere, Jan Turkenberg, AP3S, The Apartment, Nova Social, Dana Countryman, Bruce Lenkei, Wild Acoustic Chamber Orchestra, Mr. Fab, Eddie the Rat, LowLiFi, Jack Fetterman and the in Hi-Fi Music Direction, Seksu Roba, The Vivisectors, Lullabelle, Sascha Müller, The Lounge King Meets Monsieur Max, Inzah, and B.C Sterret w/Janae Olson.                                    

[Teaser of the day] Santosh - Quasar

Peppermill

• Electronic
• Art pop
• Indietronica
• Space pop
• Avant-pop
• Leftfield pop
• Alternative

Artist: Santosh

Release: The Book Of Moron  

Label: Peppermill

Year: 2007

Alternative links:

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Mircanto – Esercizi di Statica (2011)

Bandcamp

• Alt-folk 
• Indie folk 
• Slowcore 
• Folk indie 
• Sadcore

Comment: for me, to listening to Bergamo, Italy-based trio Mircanto`s 9-track issue obligates me to draw parallels with cooking. Thereafter you have figured out the idea of a food and you have gathered relevant ingredients to accomplish it then you will prepare it stepwise by adding one ingredient followed by another. By doing it you have to be patient and concentrated. Their music is slowly meandering between the walls of doleful, melancholic singing obviously imbued with singing (unfortunately I have no idea they are singing about because of doing it in Italian) and softened guitar and piano playing. Yet throughout the course the result is getting growing and growing by either adding some odds and ends to the mix or slightly changing the course of the compositions (for instance, by adding some melodica and harmonica sounds and found sounds to the blend). I guess if I would not have the idea that behind the album is a trio I would have been thinking it is a singer-songwriter case. Today is Sunday and vividly shiny weather and Mircanto`s music together arouse idyllic sensations inside me. In a word, the result is a solid and delightful one and can be added to a list of other succeeded Italian artists like Nick Rivera, Il nostro Tempo Violenta, Nick Rivera; Goldaline, My Dear, Barbagallo. On the other side, the result can be compared with certain Americana artists like Bon Iver, and Okkervil River.       

Slimm - Marvelous Silence of Brokilon

[Teaser of the day] AP3S - God Morgon

Comfort Stand Recordings

• Space pop
• Electronic
• Alternative
• Robot pop
• Indietronica
• Mood music
• Art pop
• Exotica pop
• Space age music
• Glitch pop
• Post-pop
• Leftfield pop

Artist: AP3S

Release: Interplanetary Materials

Label: Comfort Stand Recordings

Year: 2004

Alternative links:

Free Music Archive 

[Teaser of the day] Someday and Shine - Sendiri Padam

No Source

• New Weird Indonesia
• Free folk
• DIY
• Psych-folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Dream folk
• Lo-fi
• Weird folk
• Art folk

Artist: Someday and Shine

Release: Random

Label: No Source

Year: 2011 

[Teaser of the day] Ziv Shachar - Shoot For the Stars

• Avant-hop
• Industrial-hop
• Experimental hip-hop
• Urban music
• Leftfield
• Noise-hop
• Hip-hop
• Post-dubstep
• Sampledelic

Artist: Ziv Shachar

Release: Nice Day 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Barometric - Kynokephalos, Live!

• Freak folk
• Weird folk
• Art folk
• DIY
• New Weird America
• Experimental folk
• Free folk
• Electronic
• Avant-folk
• Acid folk

Artist: Barometric

Release: Kynokephalos

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2016 

Sawi Lieu – Fluorescence (2012)

Experia

• Noise 
• Post-rock 
• Crust punk 
• Rhythmic noise 
• Experimental rock 
• Dreamwave 
• Avant-rock 
• Ambient 

Comment: the Indonesian music scene continues to surprise me. My earlier experiences were hooked up with the Indonesian indie scene, and an one-man-project called Cortical whose issue Entropy EP (2015, Yes No Wave) was a fabulous insight into the cutting-edge progressive rock/RIO world. However, Sawi Lieu`s issue Fluorescence deserves its name because of radiating vivid rays of light on different frequencies and in different directions. At times the issue is calmed down drifting somewhere between ambient and blissful chillwave/dreamwave landscapes (Crystal Vibration). Indeed, the piece chimes like an ambient music composition being produced and subjugated to exotica pop/tiki music ideology. However, the track is in stark contrast to the next piece I-ON, which is a downright attack through the torrents of blasting drum rhythms, zombie vocals and signal-alike electronic sounds and synthesised overdrives and flickering bold bass waves. However, the ending synthesiser passage unites these two compositions together. In a word, it is the atmospheric crust punk. It is followed by Lifetime Imaging, the short-running track wherein atmospheric layers are propelled by tectonic, noisy blasts. The same could be admitted about a track named Absorpsi though the latter involves ill-omened hisses and loops nearby. Resonansi will end this 7-notch issue with ovoid-shaped guitar echoes cranking up loudness until it becomes resonate. All in all, the whole is a tumultuous journey, which makes the listener to get aroused. It is a very fine issue being a part of the discography of Experia Net Label.                            

Mais Valia – Mais Valia (2015)

Sinewave

• Stoner rock 
• Hard rock 
• Post-rock 
• Math rock 
• Post-metal

Comment: the Brazilian trio of Ricardo Cezario, Alexandre Palàcio, and Vitor Martins used to play quite straightforward yet impressive rock music which purpose is to conjure up powerful chords from their basses, drums and guitars, cross them deliberately and then lay off something special from the mix. There is also another possibility to understand the Brazilian trio’s music. Their 7-track (clocking in at a 37 minute) album might be limited with a certain amount of chord combinations for to get shuffled with each other endlessly until the issue will be over. In that sense their aesthetic could loosely be considered a part of minimalism though played with the usual combination of the instruments in rock music. However, the listener could discover new shades and penumbras to be added with each new track. I like the idea that spawned in my head while listening to their longest track called Metropolis that the trio started off from a muddy, bedimmed soil to rave up their inner engines and then raise to heaven with a monumental trajectory. Last not least – how many cows are depicted on the cover print? The issue is a part of the discography of the Brazilian imprint Sinewave whose grateful purpose over the years has been to release new abrasive rock, noise and metal music from their country. NB! Today will come in Walpurgis Night so it is highly suitable to listen to this issue either. Hail to all witches

[Teaser of the day] Anadel - The Well

Noisetrade

• Americana
• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Chamber pop
• Art rock
• Baroque pop

Artist: Anadel

Release: Noisetrade Sampler

Label: Noisetrade

Year: - 

[Teaser of the day] Years of Rice and Salt - (Rearranging) Deckchairs

Jamendo

• Post-rock
• Chamber rock
• Experimental rock
• Alt-country
• Post-folk
• Epic
• Crossover

Artist: Years of Rice and Salt 

Release: Service Bell EP

Label: Jamendo 

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Bruno Susio - Here We Are

Jamendo

• Reggae
• Mood music
• Soul
• Ska
• Brass pop
• Pop

Artist: Bruno Susio

Release: Time For Swinging

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Tostador - 04

Truco

• Noise
• Abstract
• Drone
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Space noise
• Ambient noise
• Experimentalism
• Psycho-acoustic

Artist: Tostador

Release: Moon

Label: Truco

Year: 2016

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

[Teaser of the day] OUDEIS - Harm

Murmure Intemporel

• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Abstract
• Electro-acoustic
• Neoclassical
• Dystopbient
• Experimentalism
• Dark ambient
• Industrial illbient

Artist: OUDEIS

Release: Abused

Label: Murmure Intemporel 

Year: 2016

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

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.