Brideburger – A Beautiful Mind (2011)

Amnion

• Shoegaze 
• Post-rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Guitar ambient 
• Epic 
• Soundscapes 
• Experimental rock 
• Noise 
• Minimalism

Comment: the UK-based Matt Catling aka Brideburger`s handful of tracks plays with the consciousness of listener both through volume loudness and an exquisite aesthetic standing on an interface of noise, shoegaze, post-rock, and guitar-based ambient. And of course, it shows how patient is your neighbour actually if you play it through the loudspeakers. Mostly it is quite silenced, however, you have to be warned, before the start of A Beautiful Mind 2, where the sound is strongly cranked up. Otherwise Brideburger`s aesthetic is quite silenced though the sound is intense and even glowering by its nature. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of My Bloody Valentine, fydhws, Glenn Branca and A Beautiful Machine. Eventually it could be said it is a fascinating issue because it changes and ennobles your state of mind. This issue is a notch in the catalogue of Amnion Records.                  

[Teaser of the day] Manifold - Voinamirov

Ektoplazm

• Psytrance
• Alternative
• Tekno
• Electronic music
• Psyelectro

Artist: Manifold

Release: Digital Sun

Label: Ektoplazm/Mystic Sound

Year: 2016

Dead Black Arms – Slow Burning Ocean (2010)

Drowning

• Drone doom metal 
• Doom metal 
• Post-metal 
• Experimental metal 
• Minimalism 
• Avant-metal

Comment: this issue consists of one, long-running composition, which slightly embarks on from nothing, then stepwise evolves being cranked up in volume and added up with slamming drumming and distorted, warped hi-hats. Indeed, the result is craftily composed therefore it might be considered a mystified issue. However, it is feint. With regard to the title of the track it reminds me of horrendous sea catastrophes being caused by the human race and oil tankers. For example, the one what happened in the Gulf of Mexico 6 years ago. Because of this it is not fun at all. Fuck off, those droning doom chords resemble hundreds of thousands dying sea birds and fishes and mammals who are killed by the human being's brain as allegedly the most sophisticated object all around the Universe. The bad thing is this is just a little part of all the atrocities perpetrated by us against nature. No respect, no humbleness, just arrogance and exaggerated self-confidence mixed up with stupidity. It is both against the own species and other species as well. Just watch daily TV events to get proof against. All is being set up in flames directly and indirectly. There is no future. The only positive thing in relation to the human race is to create art in different appearances, which provides hope and some salvation. These 32 minutes created by Danish Claus Haxholm over there are thought for it. This is a great issue under the experimental metal imprint Drowning. 

[Teaser of the day] Lemur - Widmannstätten

Enoughrecords

• Post-rock
• Experimental rock
• Art rock
• Motorik
• Acid rock
• Stoner rock
• Psychedelic rock
• Epic
• Krautrock

Artist: Lemur

Release: Lemur

Label: Enoughrecords/FMA

Year: 2013

banvox & Nor – Flux (2015)

Maltine

• Post-dubstep 
• Breaks 
• Anime 
• Electronic dance music 
• Electro 
• Alternative

Comment: this is another issue by Maltine Records from Japan and there are up tracks Resonance, and Flux, by such popular artists as banvox, and Nor (with regard to Soundcloud). Their sound is influenced by electronic dance music, post-dubstep, and electro. Those rhythmic parts are at times intertwined with moody, high-pitched electronic hovers, at times those rhythmic parts do demonstrate proclivity to change seriously and go across a hell-ish path. More profoundly, massive synthesizer squelches and intense electronic vibes are mixed up with bold rhythmic chords in the way to make sense and attract one’s attention. With regard to their Japanese background one could perceive child-ish, Anime pop-related elements with these pieces. Conclusively it could be said the pieces involve enough vivid contrasts to remember them and dash to dig up new issues under Maltine Records. Catchy-patchy.              

[Teaser of the day] Entertainment for the Braindead - The Air

• Dream folk
• Indie folk
• Post-folk
• Singer-songwriter
• New Weird Germany
• Art folk
• Folk indie

Artist: Entertainment for the Braindead

Release: Postcard #7: Songs from the Dust

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

LLLL – Cruel (2015)

Maltine

• J-pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Alternative dance 
• Hip-hop 
• Breakcore 
• Alternative pop 
• Chillwave 
• Breakbeat 
• Electro pop

Comment: firstly, behind this seemingly very arbitrary, nonchalant artist name is hidden a span of 22 minutes of good and very good music, which in turn is classified as “cruel”. The only thing, which is truly cruel on it this is the frequency, which is set to change chords and rhythms incessantly and in a fast manner. The adjacent effect of it is to merge different styles with each other. At times quite disparate styles are juxtaposed against each other – dream pop, chillwave, indietronica meet breakbeat-ish and electro pop vibes. The artist exploits J-pop templates moderately not using them in an exaggerated, banal way. That`s the wisdom of an artist. I would call it “Hi-NRG” music but because the style is brought down by some European artists I am not going to do it. By listening to this handful of compositions there one should not wonder about the popularity of netlabel scene in Japan (as in one article at Pitchfork was written about it – thank you, the staff of Pitchfork but we need more reviews and articles about the topic worldwide because it involves a huge part of indie music nowadays). At times it is English, at times in Japanese. The album features the likes of Yeule, and fraqsea. At excellent Spider Web there are up such urban juggernauts as 50Cent, and 2 Pac being added to the mix to create a new feeling in the context of the issue. Given that it is an example of contemporary, catchy (electronic) pop music I do definitely say “yes”, “very ok”, “great”, “thumbs up”, “it makes my filthy soul to fly”. The audible side is as sexy as the cover print of the outing. The issue is a part of the discography of Maltine Records.                          

[Teaser of the day] Shambles - Létající Čestmír Part II

• Sound art
• Sound collage
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Conceptual
• Acousmatic music
• Plunderphonics
• Lobit
• Freeformfreakout
• Non-music
• Post-industrial

Artist: Shambles

Release: Replay

Label: CS Industrial 1982-2010

Year: 2015

nccptr – Antipodes (2013)

Drowning

• Post-metal 
• Drone metal 
• Doom metal 
• Drone doom metal 
• Avant-metal 
• Post-rock
• Electronic music 
• Epic
• Experimental metal

Comment: nccptr is an one-man-project with former metal music background from Portugal whose 27-minute opus is an instance of slowly droning metal and daringly loping post-rock interludes with unexpected interruptions and “errors”. By listening to it for the first time I checked out my music player to except erroneous bugs within it. However, this is still a case of faith. Given that I believe that the music playing system is ok and all is related to the album. Those “errors” are downrightly electronic and incisively sharp thereby remembering those that come from the tracker music scene and digital hardcore landscape. The purpose of the artist is to investigate disquietude and hopelessness with higher level of abstraction. Despite those tickling overthrows one could experience ennobling guitar progressions in a span of a couple of minutes, between the 19th and 21st minute, which is followed up by the climax of the final part through warped noises, crippled electronics and stereo effects and a powerful guitar noise outburst. At times one could perceive synaesthetic sensations as if listening to an colourful picture. All in all, the result is overwhelming and making highly sense. The issue is a part of the discography of Danny Kreutzfeldt-led imprint Drowning.      

[Teaser of the day] Mercury & The Architects - Poets And The Beast

Jamendo

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

Artist: Mercury & The Architects

Release: Poets And The Beast E.P

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2016

Backyard – The Backyard EP (2013)

Mindblasting

Archive.org

• DIY 
• New Weird Indonesia 
• Free folk 
• Indie folk 
• Lo-fi 
• Drone folk 
• Folk indie 
• Weird folk 
• Art folk

Comment: First of all, I am wondering about the discrepancy between the heard gentle sonic progressions and the size of the Indonesian combo Backyard, which consists of five members who play different instruments. Otherwise I would have thought of it as an one-man project. The combo’s 4-notch issue chimes truly enchantingly at its cute interface of lo-fi, melodica-driven droning, and folk-ish evolvements. Additionally to those dropping glockenspiel chords and guitar keys and the aforementioned drones one could enjoy the singer’s singing in English being coated with the strong accent of one of those native languages. At times he is being accompanied by a female coo. That`s charming. Charming naivety. Just cast a glance at the cover print. One could readily imagine a group of people sitting a back of a house in the garden just drinking a kind of quality tea and chatting and in overall spending time effortlessly on a Sunday. On a sunshiny, happy Sunday. And listening to this handful of DIY inspired tracks, which conveys the precise, mind-provoking impetus to the world. It is not outsider art anymore. Stylistically it might be tagged in that way but substantially it is quite mainstream being hyped up by hipsters. That`s ok. The issue is out from the discography of such prolific label as Indonesian Mindblasting (from noise and post-metal to indie pop and alternative folk). To boost your mind.              

[Teaser of the day] Ak`chamel - Potzlom

Free Music Archive

• New Weird America
• Free folk
• Dream folk
• Anti-folk
• Avant-folk
• Experimental folk
• Art folk

Artist: Ak`chamel

Release: Fucking With Spirits

Label: The Centipede Farm/FMA/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Stabilo – Sleep Deeply (2015)

MiMi

• Ambient 
• Soundscape 
• Drone 
• Minimalism 
• Ambient drone 
• Epic 
• Sound art 
• Organic electronica

Comment: Yesterday in the evening I started to listen to this 4-track issue. I guess the title justifies and celebrates itself though it was too early then to fall asleep. Today I started to listen to it early in the morning and it sounded like a revelation. At Clematis one could hear organic and undulating electronic sounds to be mixed up together being especially suitable for an idyllic morning time. Despite it one could hear a pleasant tension between those multiple layers and effects. Maybe it is not even tension; maybe it is a burden of real layers and imaginative pictures, which follow to each other unceasingly. For instance, at Fossil all those sounds embark on from nowhere and then it slowly build up to culminate in the silence-drenched orchestration of microscopic drones and ambient hovers. One can imagine a (ghost) ship nearing to the bay and then suddenly disappear without any traces. Mysticism meets mundane. There is also one sonic element, which comes across all four compositions - frequently the layers seemed to be played at different speeds, you can enjoy enchanting phase shifts coming in and running out of the focus. In general, music is poignantly majestic and touchingly ennobling. The swathes of ambient music are saturated with droning glitches, electro-acoustic crackles, digitalized hums all those elements are perfectly, I mean seamlessly spliced and forged into the dignifying whole. What else would you like to get from within it? I guess you will feel fairly relaxed after you have listened to it. It might act upon like a simulacrum to hide a world being much up in flames in reality. It is a simply perfect experience, which could also be tagged as holophonic poetry, and subtle soundfields. Behind the project is the Japanese Yasutica Horibe. The issue is a part of the discography of MiMi Records.     

[Teaser of the day] Folk9 - Memory

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Dream pop
• Shoegaze

Artist: Folk9

Release: My Pop Dog

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2016

Asian Women on the Telephone – Bolshoi (2016)

Bandcamp

• Krautrock 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Art rock 
• Electronic music 
• Psychedelic 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Avant-prog 
• RIO 
• Leftfield 
• Free jazz 
• Synth-rock

Comment: the Russian AWOTT`s album Bolshoi does mean literally “big”/”huge” in Russian. I am trying to figure out which sort of references it could have more concretely. Firstly, Bolshoi is big by its manners though its manners are not bombastic at all in the way it were provided by Queen, and Meat Loaf, for instance. AWOTT`s pursuit is to undermine cultural and musical conventions and therefore go to an other side. With regard to the other side, which was primarily set out in the 60s and 70s by such juggernauts as Miles Davis, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, and an array of krautrock combos. From there come the main attributes of this enchanting 6-notch issue – motorik repeating and spacey jamming and incessant formation of new audible shapes as if having dwelling place inside the tube of a kaleidoscope. At times the compositions sound as if being buzzed and heavily out of balance or those minutiae are heavily exaggerated. That’s very cool. They take peripheral sonic elements to cook something more tangible and enjoyable. Given that it could be admitted Oblipy to be the most poppy song on the album though being far away from conventional understanding of pop music. All of that is wrapped up in a psychedelic curtain, which in turn is spiked with the smithereens of jazz, electronic music, krautrock, subconscious irrationality and stoned logic. The favourite of mine is Raman Abkhishek of which latter part chimes exactly as a tribute to Damo Suzuki, and CAN`s Tago Mago. More profoundly, neurotic singing of females with distinctive Japanese recitation, intensely iterative rhythms and occult synths used to make sense. In one track the members of the combo either abandon human being related headstalls or being diagnosed with a lycanthropic disease to repeat in Russian with great joy they are animals, you are an animal. Ultimately it could be said this is one of the best issues I have heard in the year of 2016. You have to be warned – be ready to get freaked out. Obviously it is a game over your head even experiencing it after a couple of listening times.                    

[Teaser of the day] The Womb - Skateboarder Hit By A Train

The Womb

• Alternative pop/rock
• Art pop
• Indie pop/rock
• Electro-indie
• Angst pop

Artist: The Womb

Release: Local Explosions

Label: The Womb/Danielle Records 

Year: 2016

Edmahnd – Henosis (2014)

Radio Stalingrad

• Dark ambient 
• Illbient 
• Ambient 
• Soundscapes 
• Avant-garde 
• Minimalism 
• Experimentalism 
• Sound art

Comment: I can remember for Brian Eno once set out to visualise ambient music as furniture music. I guess he had not yet the idea of dark ambient and illbient music, which does have a sonic similarity but of which ideological standpoints hold many millions of miles far from the ones of ambient music. You get convinced in that any time by listening to another dark ambient/illbient issue, for instance Edmahnd`s Henosis on Radio Stalingrad. The 3-track issue’s sources are profound and ominous despite consisting of a monochromatic fabric and endless echoes and incessant iterations. By its nature it is a sort of minimal music though loaded with adversarial emotions and frightening sensations. It sounds as if foreseeing an impending doom of unknown nature and heritage. The direction of the danger is also unknown but it is perceivable being somewhere around there. From day to day such type of music is being produced and we are the only subjects from whom the message is being addressed. I hope we are not stupid enough to ignore it blatantly. Get it, love it or…love it.       

[Teaser of the day] Erik Brood - Share Your Love

• Shoegaze
• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Dream pop
• Psychedelic rock 

Artist: Erik Brood

Release: Touch Screens

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Bruks Production - Danger Zone

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Sampledelic
• Hip-hop
• Cinematic
• Urban music
• Trip-hop
• Breaks
• Mood music

Artist: Bruks Production

Release: Bruks Production 

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Ether - Desperation Row

Sirona-records

• Chiptune
• 8-bit
• Alternative
• Chipbreak
• Experimental electronica
• Primitronica
• Psychedelic 
• Tracker music
• Electrobilly

Artist: Ether

Release: Muridae+Other Tracks

Label: Sirona-records

Year: 2016

Seazo - Deterministic Chaos (2016)

Enoughrecords

Free Music Archive

• Drum and bass 
• Chillstep 
• Experimental electronica
• Modern classical
• Ambient techno
• Dubstep 
• Leftfield
• Breakbeat 
• Experimental electro
• Ambient noise
• Illbient

Comment: the Norwegian Seazo's album Deterministic Chaos consisting of 12 tracks is based on an intriguing idea to mix up electronic rhythms and wide ambient plateaus with noises, electronic effects, and hisses. I guess such a perspective might frighten an average listener because the word "noise" is mostly associated with harsh sounds, inarticulate compositions and disoriented feelings. Since My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and later Tim Hecker showed up that noise elements in music could highly be sensual/sexual and even majestic, respectively. In fact, the same facts are repeated by Seazo either though doing it in his own way. Indeed, as I alleged earlier the artist's interface of the aforementioned stylistic elements makes difference. One could enjoy enchantingly spacey electronic progressions at Bipolaris; the same could be said about Red Cumulonimbus – it is hardly believable that ambient music and adjacent elements of it can sound so freshly and full of life. Day Drumming is as fabulous as the previously mentioned piece though drawing on the atmospheric breakbeat/drum and bass sequence. In truth, it is an instance of dream and bass rather than drum and bass. Crying Forest Spirits deserves its name because all those noises and rhythmic elements seem to be animated to puncture one's soul and heart. The rest of the album provides no fillers preserving its exquisite quality and playful expression. For instance, Drunk Clown could freely be a characterization of Krusty The Clown in respect to those twisted, highly playful electro vibes. All in all, this outing must be heard. This is bigger than life. Your life. One of the best albums in 2016. 

Lemur – Lemur (2013)

Enoughrecords

Free Music Archive

• Stoner rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Post-metal 
• Post-rock 
• Math rock 
• Technical metal 
• Experimental rock 
• Psychedelic rock

Comment: Lisbon, Portugal-based Lemur's 15-track record is long enough to provide many enchanting moments regardless of a quite confined stylistic array. Or maybe I misunderstood the extent of it. In general, it is post-rock though the artist is very keen to go beyond its borders as frequently as it is needed. It in turn depends on how to avoid being an average, even possibly boring post-rock artist. Lemur is successful in doing of it. For instance, monumental guitar, bass and drums interplay is frequently variegated with poignant violin arrangements, sensible glockenspiel chords, psychedelic keyboard interpolation (most remarkably at Widmannstätten). Once in a while the prevalent soundscape consisting of soaring guitars, bold bass lines and thumping drums is jettisoned in favour of rhythmically more high-strung math rock/technical metal/stoner rock/progression rock matrixes (at Cell's Cleavage, for example). One of the most favourite songs is Razor Lung wherein one could trace post-rock-ish instrumentation (at times one could discern even post-punk-ish glimpses) complemented with lofty violin gears reminding of easiness of Penguin Cafe Orchestra, for instance. Spikes and Nails on the other side is the demonstration of power through fast-changing guitar chords, massive overwhelming energy having its source somewhere between blackened and white matter. It is an unsteady madness, and it would be a crime to hold it steady. In a word, this 15-track issue is decorously and expertly played out enough to remind it for a long span of time. The release is a part of the catalogue of Portuguese record label Enough Records.

Animal Collective – Live at Irving Plaza (2016)

Nyctaper

• Freak folk 
• New Weird America 
• Free folk 
• Post-psychedelic electronica 
• Live recording 
• Experimental pop 
• Art pop 
• Weird folk 

Comment: Animal Collective's gigs used to be energetic and burbly ones, which are available at Archive.org and the same words could as said about the recent, 15-track issue. The Baltimore, US-based quartet issued brand new album Painting With in the beginning of the year on Domino, which seems to sound polyrhythmically and being galvanised with vowel effects to conjure up psychedelic sensations as much as I was able to hear from this gig. Something very special could not be found from except FloriDada. Business as usual I would dear to say because AC seems to have reached its aesthetical limits. Of course, since Merriweather Post Pavilion AC changed its direction to be more electronic and dance appealed rather than New Weird-oriented as their previous albums used to be. So one could admit AC did not invent something new and I do not feel myself psyched at all to get the new one. Indeed, much has changed around them and us and it is hardly exciting to expect truly refreshing breezes from there, as it was actually reasonable 7-16 years ago. However, the recent gig consists of old and new compositions and fortunately the combo has found a proper balance between them. By the way, the live started off with Alvin Row, and Bees and the session involves the favourite track of mine by Animal Collective, Loch Raven. Insofar as AC is not planning to revisit Estonia I shall have to regret that I did not attend their live at Lillepaviljon 10 years ago.

[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:

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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