[Teaser of the day] Ilya I Alisa - On The Shores Of Eufrat

Ilya I Alisa

• Art rock
• Alternative
• Avant-rock
• Leftfield
• Progressive rock

Artist: Ilya I Alisa

Release: How I Entered The Black Forest

Label: Self-released/Trash Can Dance

Year: 2010/2015

Rob Bridgett – Vorticist (2008)

Rack And Ruin

• Rnb 
• Alternative dance
• Alternative pop 
• Hip-hop 
• Illbient
• Avant-pop 
• Dark ambient 
• Leftfield pop
• Electronic music 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Experimental pop

Comment: Rob Bridgett`s music on this 8-track issue chimes extraordinarily without being superficial and thin at its centre and its extremes. For sure, this is an avant-garde issue providing different mental corners and alternative visions due to creating idiosyncratic soundscapes. For example, Boneless Chicken is screwed and chopped rnb madness yet this madness is expertly channelized not prevailing over the course and not hurting the backbone of the track but instead amplifying strengths of the composition. Indonesian Donuts has been managed to continue the pathway, however, Rob doing it tongue-in-cheek with some hip-hop flavour. More deeply, Indonesian Donuts/yum-yum donuts/so fruity. What else more reasonable could you add to this advertise-alike statement? Later on, one could perceive twisted ambient progressions where hyper-realistic revelations are spiced up with strange word puzzles, uncanny samples and some blissful overdrives. At Black City Interlude ominous illbient swathes are tightly yet embracing enough air interwoven with a glitched-out undulation. Charcoal is a composition of mechanical folktronic guitar arrangements and baggy hip-hop cadences. Vogg is an ill-omened breakbeat strike with lots of changes in upstairs and downstairs therefore conveying enough dynamics throughout the track. It could be said sometime 8 years ago Rob Bridgett made up hugely as an artist to contribute with the recent one (RRR056) and Pacific (2008), and Arkhives (2008), and Londra (2008) to the legacy and image of Rack And Ruin Records.  In a nutshell, it is one of the most pre-eminent issues under the excellent lo-fi/DIY imprint.                      

[Teaser of the day] Woodworkings - This Is Where

• Post-rock
• Post-classical
• Ambient rock
• Electronic music
• Epic
• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Art rock

Artist: Woodworkings

Release: I`m Sorry I Cannot Sing

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2010

Qoreader – Seventhouses (2014)

Mediafire

• Electronic dance music 
• Electro pop 
• Techno pop 
• Rave music 
• House pop 
• Post-disco 
• Folktronica

Comment: undoubtedly The Indonesian Qoreader`s 10-notch is an amusing one to listen to. However, by listening to it this arises some questions in me – how should it be tagged? Is it either rave pop or electronic dance music; is it either electro pop or post-disco? Of course, the latest definition and electronic dance music are ambivalent ones by their nature – as much as I have understood the term ”electronic dance music” is related to certain artists all over the world. “Post-disco” is a kind of electronic music being emerged after the explosion of disco music, which does say a little concrete about the real status of things. I guess Qoreader does have dug up some elements from the aforementioned styles, of which borders are so hazy and will be blurred with any next month going by. More in detail, it involves catchy rhythms, superficial yet frequently mind-blowing melodic patterns (for instance, at UptoHigh) and sampled vocal interference (aggressive female sayings surprisingly). There are up even some mocking elements interwoven into the sonic text in one track – “are you ready?” What the fuck does it mean? The Red Veil can be considered the exception of the whole because of being built up on a folk and electronic music mingled pace. The artist himself says that techno music is his root and dark ambient is his influence. To proof this statement or not you must spend some time with these 28 minutes. The issue was self-released through Mediafire two years ago. I like it. I like it very much.  

[Teaser of the day] Maicamia - Sowed Up

• Alternative rock
• Angst pop
• Indie rock
• Lo-fi
• Post-grunge

Artist: MAICAMIA

Release: Crazy Moon

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Modern Peasant – Silk Rope (2005)

Mediafire

• New Weird America 
• American Primitivism
• Anti-folk 
• Drone folk
• Experimental folk
• Psych-folk 
• Art folk 
• Avant-folk
• Free folk 
• Improvised music

Comment: by listening to the album Silk Rope by the artist Modern Peasant I guess it evokes many thoughts within the listener’s head. First of all, it chimes as a modern equivalent of the so-called American Primitivism movement, being established and popularised foremost by such artists as John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Leo Kottke. Musically it does mean it is filled with warped and extended guitar chords as if they were played on the prepared, vibrant instrument. As I already denoted the album to be a modern equivalent of the style the first part of it hints at intriguing electronic sounds, arousing sonic effects and some suggestive noises within it. However, the artist must be praised due to having the inner measure line in itself to balance these compartments in a moderate way. Because of the aforementioned contemporary part within the artist`s music Silk Rope could be pigeonholed as an exemplary of the New Weird (America) movement, for instance, having much in common with Ben Chasny’s Six Organs Of Admittance, and the French experimental folk duo Natural Snow Buildings` droning landscapes full of beatific magic. In a word, the result is enchanting providing fare to your soul and heart. Initially this 8-track issue was released on an Asheville, NC-based netlabel, Epicaricacy, what at the moment is very hard if not impossible to dig up. The issue truly deserves to be disseminated through thousands of headphones and loudspeakers over the world and universe. It is very rare and precise. 

[Teaser of the day] BVBEL - VELOCIRVPTOR 2.0

Sirona-records

• Experimental hip-hop
• Trap music
• Sampledelic
• Rap
• Mood music
• Urban music

Artist: BVBEL

Release: //

Label: Sirona-records

Year: 2016

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

Years of Rice & Salt – Service Bell (2009)

Futurerecordings

• Alternative rock 
• Post-rock 
• Folk indie 
• Americana 
• Ambient rock 
• Epic 
• Mood music 
• Alt-country 
• Indie folk

Comment: I guess if you were alleged about a band called Years of Rice & Salt you would have arisen some doubts about the combo unless you are a fan of MasterChef or something like that. In fact, I had some of them before listening to this 4-track issue. However, this is a downrightly trustful one where pastel guitar chords are emotionally loaded to drive down and up the slope of a picturesque hill. By listening to (Rearranging)Deckchairs one could perceive fabulous violin-driven arrangements, which are soothing and spicy at the same time. Ultimately you can perceive the album as a moody and ambient – though in an unusual sense – one played in the vein of acoustic post-rock and Americana style. At Plankton those soaring guitar riffs are complemented by mind-boggling singing. At Splendid Isolation the track embarks on with a blissful insight, and then stepwise will progress into Americana music, which beauty is hard to describe. You just shall have to hear it! The talk of mine has been about the idyllic outing, in fact, the ensemble’s announce is about describing a shipwreck. Consequently there must have been intriguing tension within the whole. The more you listen to it the more you get aware of its greatness. This pre-eminent issue is a part of the discography of Californian, US-based imprint Futurerecordings (great one for sure – it provides shelter for such great artists as Sunlight Ascending, Woodworkings, The Tumbled Sea, Darger and many other ones).              

[Teaser of the day] Royalt - I`m Feeling Worse

MiMi

• Techno pop
• Alternative dance
• Electronic music
• Synth funk

Artist: Royalt

Release: Just Because

Label: MiMi

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] AllunderAge - I Don`t Really Care

• Punk rock
• Hard rock
• Hair rock

Artist: AllunderAge

Release: No Jokes...No Funny Stuff

Label: White Russian Records

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Nasty Milk - Te Jodes

• Hardcore punk
• Trash punk
• Punk rock

Artist: Nasty Milk

Release: Nasty Milk

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

Hanging Freud – Motherland (2016)

Myhand.Thanx

Bandcamp

• Shoegaze 
• Indie folk
• Indie dance
• Post-punk 
• Alternative dance 
• Art rock
• Darkwave 
• Electronic 
• Experimental rock 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Space rock

Comment: My first impression with the music of Hanging Freud was in connection with their album Sunken on the Brazilian record label Sinewave and French imprint Myhand.Thanx Records The duo of Paula Borges, and Jonathan Perez made me immediately excited because of craftily merging an exciting feel of songwriting in the vein of experimental rock, shoegaze and space rock. Later on I had listened to the Sao Paulo, Brazil-based duo`s two first issues Hanging Freud (2005), and Continental EP (2007) as well, which maybe were slightly more straightforward yet excellent releases without any doubt. In November 2015 Borges/Perez issued the fourth issue No Body Allowed. This time their 6-notch issue chimes somewhere between paganism and medieval music influenced indie folk/rock and on the other side it is spacey indie, post-punk, poignant electronic music and shoegaze tinged alternative rock. In comparison to the duo’s first albums the issue is partly more dance-appealed, and remarkably more electronic. The outing involves great mind-blowing tracks like Lost Children, Centuries, and The South. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels with such artists as Espers, My Bloody Valentine (in some tracks the influence of Loveless is perceivable though being interpreted indirectly, in the duo’s own way), Anahita, Lycia, and Siouxsie and the Banshees. However, despite hinting at more recognised artists it does not mean Hanging Freud does lack its own idiosyncratic touch. The instrumentation of the album and the singing of Paula Borges are masterfully balanced and do complement each other thereby resulting in as an excellent issue. The duo's touch is flowing freely being saturated with otherworldly reveries and insights from a psychotic abyss. The harmonies and sonic effects fall seamlessly together. I cannot be wrong by stating that Hanging Freud is one of the most underrated artists worldwide during the last ten years. But I really hope the things will be changed and the current issue will find its place in lists of the best releases in 2016. At least at Recent Music Heroes the notch is guaranteed.  

Tostador – Moon (2016)

Truco

Bandcamp

• Ambient 
• Soundscapes 
• Avant-garde 
• Space music 
• Illbient 
• Ambient noise 
• Experimentalism

Comment: As the main title alleges this issue is about Moon, the dear satellite of Earth. All the titles of tracks are just numbered, which in turn could freely be a matter of imagination as if describing a detailed preparation to fly and land on there. In connection with the topic I recommend listen to Massimo Ruberti's astounding release Armstrong (2015, Nostress). Given that it is not surprising at all that the issue consists of spacey sounds. However, those sounds are not lame ones but instead of it convey exquisite impulses coming out of those undulating frequencies. Soothing soundscapes are variegated with more abrasive, even white noise-y layers and steely snippets. It could be said the issue arouses the listener to feel some sort of interplanetary alienation. The issue is a part of the discography of Lima, Peru-based imprint Truco Records.

Micron – Architecture (2007)

Proc-records

• Minimal techno 
• DIY 
• Lo-fi

Comment: the US-based Micron's 5-track issue chimes like it had been produced on the Android-based Walk Band application being elegantly primitive and appealingly rough. However, timely it was not possible because the issue was disclosed in 2007 before the era of smartphones started off. Furthermore, the artist exploits a quite linear way to produce rhythms. Otherwise it could be said it is a case of minimal techno music. It is saturated with slight changes regarding the beat rate and the relation and combination between thumping bass kicks and hi-hat and other drums with higher timbres. A distinctive thread of the issue is a DIY feel throughout the course. Last but not least - the issue was recorded mono. What else could I add to the item – indeed, the lo-fi men began produce techno music. The issue is the 15th in the discography of Proc-records.  

[Teaser of the day] ykymr - Sleepy

• Experimental rock
• Electronic
• Leftfield
• Avant-rock
• Post-rock
• Shoegaze
• Indietronica
• Art rock

Artist: ykymr

Release: Spring Fields Become A Hummingbird

Label: La bèl

Year: 2016

Alternative links:

Archive.org

Schemawound – Heart Removal Kit (2016)

Bandcamp

• Experimental electro 
• Post-industrial 
• Electronic music 
• Industrial techno 
• Ambient

Comment: Ghosts are appearing…ghosts are…ghosts… . The ghosts are powerful phenomena who might exist, or maybe not. Jonathan Siemasko aka Schemawound`s 10-track issue does contain enough surge to do it. First of all, all those electronic build-ups may resemble dance-appealed music but the impression is feint. I can feel it is an instance of post-industrial music by its nature because the core of it consists of darker edges, which emit appealing black matter and ominous vibes and other exquisite relationships between the elaborated sonic parts. Of course, the release consists of diverse rhythms but the intention of those cadences is not to arouse one’s bodily/sexual sensations. The rhythms are profound enough to be somewhat obscure while hiding other layers inside themselves. Even if it happens to be the imagination of mine it is imbued with multivalent shades, which do need many listening times before to get deciphered. For instance, The Wasps In The Walls might remind of an early Einstürzende Neubauten where the mechanical aesthetic intention is united to physiochemical cerebral vibes. On the other hand, at A Resurrection Letter one could hear electro-house patterns, which purpose, with regard to the context, is obviously to confuse one’s opinion about the issue. All in all, the outing makes sense enough because of being sophisticated and thoroughly set out.          

[Teaser of the day] Elemental Noise - Anubis And Thoth

Free Music Archive

• Avant-garde
• Ambient noise
• Experimentalism
• Abstract
• Acousmatic music
• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik

Artist: Elemental Noise

Release: The Book Of The Dead

Label: Murmure Intemporel

Year: 2002

Alternative links:

Archive.org

Bandcamp

B-Complex – Acid Trip/Squelch (2008)

Zardonic

• Drum and bass 
• Jungle 
• Drill and bass 
• Breakcore 

Comment: B-Complex is a producer from Venezuela whose two-track issue is thought to be a non-dance music example though exploiting thoroughly dance music elements with gusto. Given that one of the criteria of dance music could be high intensity of beats, however, B-Complex`s endeavours in this field used to exceed these numbers. Moreover, the logic of the issue is quite different from an average drum and bass/jungle album because its nature is more disrupted and fragmental due to female voice-led samples and relentless changes in the rhythmic patterns. Therefore it could be said it is a breakcore issue, which outfit is remarkably more experimental and staggering than an average dance music issue. Ultimately it makes highly difference. The issue is a part of the catalogue of Zardonic Recordings.            

[Teaser of the day] Blue Check Republic - Valyrian Feels

• Ambient rock
• Improvised music
• Dream pop
• Experimental rock
• Alternative rock
• Art rock

Artist: Blue Check Republic

Release: Blue Check Republic

Label: Komplex Studio

Year: 2015

Warmer Climbs – Warmer Climbs (2015)

Giant Manilow

• Shoegazetronica 
• Dream pop 
• Alternative dance 
• Epic 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Space pop 
• Indie rock

Comment: I am back again to dig up the gems within the swathes of Birmingham, UK-based imprint Giant Manilow. This time there is a very special event spotted on. James Davis, and Thomas Whitfield aka Warmer Climbs` 4-track self-released issue could be a daydreaming experience while listening to it and staying outside at 25 degrees per Celsius. You can feel yourself a little bit exhausted by the sun shining at zenith while you are psyched by the sublimely exuberant guitar build-up and hovering vocals accompanied by epically programmed dance beats beneath it. At least it is one possibility to approach it. It is fun to experience of how the structure of songs used to distend and flicker thereby neglecting its borders in a delicate way. Stylistically, it is an exquisite drift between space pop, dream pop, electronic music and shoegaze. It is simultaneously powerful and blissful in its beauty and sensuality therefore following the genuine nature of shoegaze music. The world would be a little bit better place when such sort of music with a special, thrusting surge could be throning in the radio stations instead of bloody design pop.

[Teaser of the day] Thuoom - Coined

Textural Healing

• Experimental electronica
• Electronic music
• Improvised music
• Krautrock
• Avant-rock
• Post-rock

Artist: Thuoom

Release: Contact

Label: Textural Healing

Year: 2016

Santosh – The Book Of Moron (2007)

Peppermill

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• Art pop 
• Comedy 
• Indie pop 
• Alternative 
• Lo-fi 
• Psychedelic 
• Electronic music 
• Funk 
• No Wave 
• Funk 
• Hip-hop 
• Crossover 
• Avant-garde 
• Leftfield

Comment: Santosh is a Canadian Santosh Lalonde whose 18-notch outing reveals many facets with his own idiosyncratic touch. First of all, it is subjugated to playful, frenzy aesthetic algorithms where the definition of a genre is dismissed. Indeed, all one could hear from there is somehow transgressive and keen to destroy and extend beyond the stylistic boundaries. Although the issue is excessive it is not redundant. Maybe the title of the release loans you an additional hint. Let’s take some tracks to be analysed. Don’t Send Me To Hell chimes like a macabre, desperate country song as if one being totally drawn out of the context to a degree you cannot take it seriously anymore. Fantastic is a downbeat punk funk composition, which is exaggeratedly cheerful as if mocking about a contemporary human type, who is enslaved by political correctness, loans and idiotic TV shows. On the other side, these monkeys are enslaved by other monkeys having no different quality in fact. Morally they are even more inferior. That’s the moral of the case. By listening to the next song Funny People and all of that ultimately reminds of Lalonde`s compatriot Bruce Haack whose electronic pioneering many decades ago was similarly frantic and staggering and frequently transcended stylistic borders. At times it seems to sound like funk or hip-hop or indie rock or music hall or comedy yet blurring remarkably the borders of the aforementioned compartments that one startles to say something definitive about it. In a word, the result is overwhelming and needs to be listened many times before to get spotted on the artist`s precise core. Highly recommended. The issue is a part of the catalogue of Vancouver-based Peppermill Records.                   

[Teaser of the day] Asian Women on the Telephone - Obliply

• Alternative dance
• Psych-rock
• Punk funk
• Krautrock
• Motorik
• Art punk
• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• No Wave
• Post-punk
• Electronic rock

Artist: Asian Women on the Telephone

Release: Bolshoi

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2016

Geysers - Makemake (2016)

2419 Record Label

• Indietronica 
• Alternative dance 
• Synth pop 
• Dream pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Indie dance 
• Indie pop 
• Art pop 
• Ambient pop 
• Indie-soul

Comment: Geysers is the one-man-project of Alexander van der Linden whose 8-track issue is a dreamy indie and electronic blended issue, which probably 15 years ago could have been labelled as a new sort of dance music to be emerged. However, electronic music embraces an important part within the nowadays indie artist's aesthetic therefore understanding of the genre borders has been changed in the middle of music reviewers. The recent issue involves synthesisers only with intriguing yet moody undercurrents (catchy orchestrated swathes and rainbow-coloured carcasses). Furthermore, one track is followed by the other ones without disruptions between them. In a way, one does listen to one very long track as a party set. It is very likeable to enjoy those soulful vocal hovers at top of all of that (for instance, at Borders, and Kaleido Star). Let's dance because of having such a classy issue and because Morrissey is having birthday today (Kevin Shields did have it yesterday). Happy birthday! The issue is a mote of the excellent Netherlands-based imprint 2419 Records. At the moment it's one of the most important issues being released in 2016.

[Teaser of the day] Seazo - Day Drumming

Enoughrecords

• Breakcore
• Ambient techno
• Breakbeat
• IDM

Artist: Seazo

Release: Deterministic Chaos

Label: Enoughrecords

Year: 2016

Ottilie – Histoires d`O (2009)

Acoustic Firework 

Jamendo

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

Comment: this is a cute issue, a sublime drift between dreamy insights and a more buffoonish singing manner and some vocal trickery. In a word, the French singer Ottilie used to rehash the chanson music tradition in a modern appearance being accompanied by acoustic string instruments and Parisian street accordions. As you can see I have had only a few words to describe this beautiful issue. However, it is very nice by any means. The issue is a part of the catalogue of Acoustic Firework, and Jamendo.          

[Teaser of the day] Red Clouds - Instructions For Time Travel

Petroglyph

• Drone
• Minimalism
• Dark ambient
• Electronic music
• Ambient drone
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Kosmische Musik

Artist: Red Clouds

Release: Mythology 

Label: Petroglyph

Year: 2012 

Slimm - Bobo (2016)

Jamendo

• New Age 
• Alternative 
• Post-rock 
• Ambient pop 
• Electronic music 
• Mood music
• Organic electronica 
• Musique concrete 
• Crossover 

Comment: Slimm and his debut album Bobo is related neither physically nor aesthetically to the Swiss producer DJ BoBo who got headlines and was billed as a top tier within the Eurobeat/Eurodance scene in the 90 and 00s. In fact, Slimm is Jacob Skogursson, an Icelandic musician whose 8-track issue has been managed in the way to mingle found sounds, ambient pop, New Age-y synthesizers and artsy indie vibes and static post-rock frequencies with one another. First of all, it is fairly delightful to enjoy the prevalent elemental, even idyllic touch within the blend. On the other hand, all the sonic aspects are precisely surfaced as if following an exact scheme in front of them. However, the scheme is sophisticated enough the listener has no chance to get bored. That's all - now it is your turn to listen to this relaxing outing.  

[Teaser of the day] Sister Soleil - Illum Tangedo

Sirona-Records

• Alternative rock
• Art rock
• Electronic
• Indie rock

Artist: Sister Soleil

Release: Haunted EP

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2012

JCAB - Underground EP (2010)

Alma-Electronica

• Minimal techno 
• Experimental techno 
• Remixes 
• Avant-techno

Comment: minimally layered techno…minimal aspects of rhythms are solidly magnified…minimally laid down echoes and whiffs of industrial kind of music are represented nearby crunchy rhythms…bass frequencies of rhythms are variegated to make up a highly enjoyable assortment. All these excerpts reflect upon underground-like techno music, which is obsessive in its iterativeness and principal in uncompromisingness. There is the original track and a couple of remixes of it. Because of that the whole chimes like a signifier of infiniteness. Breaks. Great. Find it out. This is a shaker of cerebral life. Almost invisibly. Sorry – almost inaudibly.                

[Teaser of the day] Blue Dot Sessions - Sand Reverie

Free Music Archive

• Experimental rock
• Art rock
• Post-rock
• Avant-rock
• Electronic music

Artist: Blue Dot Sessions

Release: Desert Orchard 

Label: Free Music Archive 

Year: 2016 

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