Red Cosmos - Dreaming In Unison (2015)

Bandcamp

• Indie pop 
• Dream pop 
• Indietronica 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Alternative pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Poptronica
• Chillwave 
• Glo-fi 
• Drone pop 
• Post-punk 
• Art pop

Comment: I used to adore and hate the list of the best albums at the end of year. I hate it because many excellent releases issued in a certain year I had had no time to listen to them and add to the list. One of such albums is Red Cosmos` sophomore issue Dreaming In Unison. Indeed, three long years had passed since the Englishman Kim Tortoise released his debut There And Back on Clinical Archives in 2012. The issue starts off with high-spirited Kindred, which is an excellent indie/chillwave pop with ennobling harmonics, blissful noisy sonic shards and post-punk gears chiming like…Red Cosmos meets The Cure. The album will be finished off by Shout Into The Sky, which is similarly highly epic and beautiful. Both of them are real pop gems to be measured up to pop charts. That`s the fact. I am really fascinated by them being not tired after listening to them many times in a row. In the meantime, Kim Tortoise’s account could be considered more sophisticated thereby reminding of his compatriots Nick Currie aka Momus and Alan Driscoll aka The Womb`s doings. More profoundly, he likes to play with the listener`s attitude and aesthetical perceptions in elegant way. Funk Night sounds like being a tribute to Spacemen 3, and Spiritualized mingling together poppy and experimental sides of alternative pop music. Frequently his aesthetic is saturated with humour and sadness, a times being buffoonish, thereof catching hold of the listener even with greater strength. At We Should Have Kissed Kim Tortoise shows again his immense love towards post-punk rhythmic lines. Carnal Vindicator is an amusing blend of music hall, comedy and electro-rockabilly. In fact, what the fuck is that? Taken together, get this album of 12 different chapters full of uncanny artsy phenomena while being up to.                         

[Teaser of the day] Tom Fahy - Garden Dream

Archive.org

• Avant-garde
• Post-classical
• Electronic music
• Art music
• Experimental pop
• Leftfield

Artist: Tom Fahy

Release: The Peony Pavilion

Label: Self-released/Archive.org

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] John Wesley - What You Really Want

Noisetrade

• Pop rock
• Soft rock
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: John Wesley

Release: Under the Red and White Sky

Label: Noisetrade/Bandcamp

Year: 1994

RPTAOman – Dolní oblast Vítkovice (2015)

CS Industrial 1982-2010

• Industrial noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Non-music 
• Rhythmic noise 
• Experimentalism 
• Leftfield

Comment: this issue can partly be considered a found sound issue and partly an industrial/noise one because the base of this 16-notch release is made of recordings from an industrial workplace. Indeed, the creator of this overwhelming release firstly recorded the sounds of machines and the machinery to later mix them to a mind-blowing waterfall of noises. The next question may be of how to convert these abrasive sounds to one’s emotions? Is there any proper interface to endorse it? I can say there is no problems with those anonymous compositions that are done for you in an easy manner. Theoretically and practically the artist follows the binary between noises and silence though in fact the noises are being remarkably more tangible on it. It is even to the extent that the listener can perceive as if there is no longer space for those intense frequencies to be housed. Furthermore, it is life and the work environment for many of us. On the other side, it is a piece of art, though tough art. The issue is a bit of the discography of CS Industrial 1982-2010, of which purpose is to reaffirm industrial tinged music from the aforementioned span of time either from the former Czechoslovakia or separate parts of them at later time.                  

[Teaser of the day] Bing Satellites - Eight Hours, Pt. 2

• Ambient
• Soundscapes
• Post-classical
• Minimalism
• Epic
• Art music

Artist: Bing Satellites

Release: Eight Hours

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Someone Else - Regency Elbow Dance

You Are Not Stealing

• Synth electro
• Electronic pop
• Electro pop
• Alternative

Artist: Someone Else

Release: You Can Name This EP

Label: You Are Not Stealing/Free Music Archive

Year: 2005

Irifune – Loomur (2011)

Totokoko

• Folktronica 
• Indietronica 
• Organic electronica 
• Alternative 
• Drone pop 
• Organcore 
• New Weird 
• Free folk 
• Weird folk 
• Epic 
• Art folk

Comment: this 7-notch is an issue of the discography of Totokoko imprint from Japan, which predominantly is being a platform for indie and folk and mellow electronic mixed songwriting. The same could be admitted about this issue. More profoundly, one can hear drowsy melodica-based drones, lone string plucking, hovering electronic motives, poignant semi-orchestrations making your soul bleeding (at Cinematic Twin Leaf, for instance). In fact, all the other compositions have been made in a similar vein though inner relation between the aforementioned elements might be different. At times the composition is complemented with psychedelic organs and fragile singing and found sounds thereby giving a feeling as if sitting on the bench nearby the picturesque woods of emitting otherworldly energy and power. At times you will fall into sleep, dreaming uncanny stories with sprites and faeries. The outing is quite austere but any chord of it is adeptly drawn and made visible. Any detail makes sense. The release is short-running thereof I would have liked to hear more from the artist.  Ultimately it could be admitted it is a bloody great issue. Get it.

[Teaser of the day] Springtide - The Exit to the Rainbow

Free Music Archive

• Indie pop/rock
• Indie dance
• Alternative pop/rock
• Sunshine pop
• Funk rock
• Dance rock
• Alternative dance

Artist: Springtide

Release: Just Before April

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Spitback - Crossroads

• Hardcore
• Punk rock
• Trash metal

Artist: Spitback

Release: Mind Games 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Wapstan - Prétendre Être Le Vent (2007)

Panospria

• Drone noise 
• Microtonal 
• Ambient drone 
• Experimental electronica 
• Post-industrial 
• Minimalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Minimalism 
• Abstract 
• Micronoise

Comment: it comes out from nowhere to evolve slowly, providing many minimalist and microtonal pictures to be seamlessly followed up by each other throughout 27 minutes. It is a sort of slide show. Indeed, the Canadian Martin Sasseville from the province of Quebec maps out darker and barely audible areas, which are enriched by hazy imaginations in droning and resonating mode. His management of the issue is predominantly based on phase shift and phase difference and operating with pitch bending. At times the listener can be a witness to rhythms coming out of this manipulation. With regard to the set of 27 minutes the review of mine should be as minimal as Sasseville`s music but I am not sure is it in this way accomplished or not. Maybe it is, and thereof you have to listen to this by yourself and pinpoint all the essential points of this magnificent issue. The issue is a part of the discography of the Canadian imprint Panospria.             

[Teaser of the day] Daniele Ciullini - Frozen Abandoned Buildings

Ephedrina

• Post-industrial
• Experimentalism
• Neoclassical
• Ambient
• Leftfield
• Art music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Daniele Ciullini 

Release: Noisy Landscapes 

Label: Ephedrina

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Rômulo Alexis - Vespestrila

Mansarda

• Avant-garde
• Free jazz
• Noise
• Experimentalism
• Improvised music
• Leftfield

Artist: Rômulo Alexis 

Release: Phylum

Label: Mansarda

Year: 2014

Effendorf – Love Peace And Slavoj Zizek (2013)

TACHYON

• Alternative 
• Electronic pop 
• Electro pop 
• Primitive 
• Breakcore 
• Techno pop

Comment: I might be feeling myself a little bit disturbed by listening to this 5-track issue. Firstly, it is an electronic music album in false manner where the listener can be a part of deliberately added interfering elements and naïve synthesized passages and primitive electronic appearances. On the other side, it is a highly catchy one thereby eliciting thoughts about the talented musician behind it. Musically it is a smooth case because those sonic needles are put to the forefront and integrated into the whole at the same time. Although the issue is quite short-running the EP includes a bunch of interesting dodges and threads into different styles and effects. What would I say about the title? Love and peace are both very essential topics in the existence of the humankind but the humour is that glue which is an important ingredient to guarantee inner integrity of the phenomena. It is nice to find hints at Slavoj Zizek, which is obviously an ironic stab toward hipsters who naturally like to cite the hipsters` philosopher. By giving attention to the titles of the EP one gets convinced to be true. And as you have already figured out that the first sentence of mine with regard to be slightly disturbed was just a hypothesis about my inner sensations. Now I am feeling the hypothesis come to be true. I am happy with that. Hands up!          

[Teaser of the day] Smut - High Tide

• Lo-fi
• Garage rock
• DIY
• Psych-rock
• Shitgaze
• Noise rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Smut

Release: Conventiently Broken

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Massimo Ruberti - Pink Cave

Nostress

• Avant-garde
• Electronic music
• Musique concrète
• Improvised music
• Art music
• Crossover
• Jazz
• Post-classical

Artist: Massimo Ruberti

Release: Granchite Yumtruso PT.1

Label: Nostress

Year: 2016

Modek – Acid Before Lunch (2008)

Proc-Records

• Techno 
• Tekno 
• Alternative 
• Acid techno 
• Acid house

Comment: Recent Music Heroes is back again at the discography of Proc-Records, this time listening to Modek`s 4-notch issue (proc054) where the most pre-eminent word is “acid”. Indeed, taking acid before lunch and after lunch in the way it happened to be in the United Kingdom in the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s. The current issue could be considered a tribute to it or a solid follow-up to it. There were such styles as acid techno, and acid house, which strongly influenced the club/dance music scene and alternative rock/indie scene locally and a little bit later worldwide. I like Modek`s way to set up the path and then unleash all his energy and anxiety into it to foster it in a quite maniac way. However, more elaborated and hypnotized rhythms one can enjoy in the final part of the issue (Acid004). Get slammed and stoned by these tectonic vibes.        

[Teaser of the day] Red Cosmos - We Should Have Kissed

• Singer-songwriter
• Alternative pop
• Post-punk
• Art pop
• Indietronica
• Synth rock
• Electro-indie
• Synth punk

Artist: Red Cosmos

Release: Dreaming In Unison 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] K.Ylikulju - at[2]

Milk

• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Experimental electronica
• Ambient pop

Artist: K.Ylikulju 

Release: Memories Of Tomorrow

Label: Milk

Year: 2000

Arín Dodó – Sinfonías espaciales en el Planeta Ynos (2012)

CRLM Office

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Dada music 
• Improvised music 
• World music 
• Free jazz

Comment: Arin Dodò is a collective, which consisted of five members at least at the time of creating and issuing this fabulous 14-piece issue. More profoundly, the release is based on improvised suites being arranged on such instruments as tablas, didgeridoo, clarinet, double bass, piano, and some other ones. At times the voice is exploited in dadaist manner either being elaborated or being presented naturally. In general, the result is frantic and versatile because of conjuring up intriguing and mind-provoking combinations both in sound and stylistic diversity. By kindred souls the combo reminds of Dadala where free jazz meets other styles as electronica, electro-acoustic music and noise in many different manifestations. Furthermore, Arin Dodò adds also a world music dimension to it. It is needless to add that different experimental jazz phases from bebop and post-bop to modal jazz used to surface throughout the course. The issue is a part of the discography of CRLM Office. Fabulous.

[Teaser of the day] Ellis Swan - Arizona

• Free folk
• Weird folk
• Ambient folk
• New Weird America
• Avant-folk
• Dream folk
• Anti-folk

Artist: Ellis Swan

Release: The Best Of The Modern Folk Music Of America

Label: Practice 

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Cousin Silas - For The Moment

Batenim

• Ambient
• Soundscapes
• Epic
• Dreamwave
• Space music

Artist: Cousin Silas

Release: The Beginners Guide To Looping 

Label: Batenim

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Juanitos - Stereophonic Motor Club

Jamendo

• Alternative rock
• Psychedelic rock
• Acid rock
• Garage rock
• Indie rock
• Surf rock

Artist: Juanitos

Release: Best Of Juanitos

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2009

Veem – My Friend The Voice (2005)

Hippocamp

• Electronic music 
• Ambient 
• Synthwave 
• Alternative
• Indietronica 
• Ambient pop

Comment: by depending on a listener this 8-track issue might sound either making a lot to happen or being just minimally built up. For sure, there are up a bunch of sonic elements that enrich the whole palette of the recording, which in general used to base on ambient pop/space pop structure it kind of just cruises throughout the course. With regard to the album’s title one could hear (the human being’s) voice, though, being represented in a small amount. At Wormhole the artist exploits guitar chords to lay down more natural sensations in the recording. The aforementioned sonic elements establish contrast against the slowly moving cloudy ambient undulations. Ultimately at the end of the release after some listening times on loop you could recognize it is a decent issue being issued on Manchester-based imprint Hippocamp 11 years ago.         

Ykymr – Spring Fields Become a Hummingbird (2016)

La bél

Bandcamp

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

• Folktronica 
• Ambient pop 
• Shoegaze 
• Alternative
• Modern classical 
• Art pop 
• Mood music
• Epic 
• Yacht rock

Comment: Ykymr is an artist from Tokyo, Japan whose 7-track issue sounds like a picture extracted from a sunny day when you have no obligations to go somewhere and do something. Given that this soundscape of 7 compositions is mostly unhurried and relaxed where thoughtful acoustic guitar chords are mingled with exquisite electronic progressions where one could discern majesty and soulful depth. Nervous Club Weekender can be tagged as yacht rock because of being outrightly serene. Snow In the Southerly is another highly unagitated moments where lone piano chords are mixed up with found sounds and barely audible electronic developments. The same could almost be said about Spring Birds though being produced in a more minimalist manner. However, there are some moments where laid-back glimpses are jettisoned for more tumultuous ones. For instance, at Sleepy the artist used to experiment with loud shoegaze-y guitars and pummelling drums, however, providing also an epic account though doing it quite otherwise than his more tranquil ones thereinbefore. In a word, the result is worth remembering to the extent of being one of the best issues in 2016. The issue is a part of the discography of the Italian imprint La bèl.            

[Teaser of the day] Tyrantbane - Precipice

• Broken beat
• World music
• Worldbeat
• Spoken word
• Alternative

Artist: Tyrantbane

Release: Flame

Label: Broken Drum

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Elya - Pastoruri

La bèl

• Ambient
• Soundscapes
• Abstract
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism

Artist: Elya

Release: Glaciers

Label: La bèl/Bandcamp/Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

Testicular Seizure – Sinister Gore (2009)

Torn Flesh

• Goregrind 
• Death metal 
• Dark electro 
• Brutal metal

Comment: This 6-track issue makes me feel psyched because the US-based trio entitled as Testicular Seizure bombards us with death metal and goregrind liquids, by executing it in a very intense, obtuse and loud way. By stylistic characteristics, it is slightly slowed down and at times this massive sonic waterfall being conjured up with low bass thudding, frantic drumming and visceral, rotten vocals are jettisoned to replace it with angular dark electro and electronic music (for instance, Middle Intro, and the final part of Fuck Up the Pedophile). Frequently the issue chimes like a couple of tracks would have replayed at the same time. It makes difference undoubtedly even in the goregrind and death metal scene and within the discography of Torn Flesh Records. Of course, given that you are intended not to horrify your kids do not play it for them. It is an uncompromising protest against a part of bad things related to the humankind.

[Teaser of the day] Decktonic - This Love Is Faux Real

• Electro pop
• Post-disco
• Alternative dance
• Electronic pop

Artist: Decktonic

Release: Youth Worship

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Tozzy - Geonosis

• Ambient trance
• Psytrance
• Psybient
• Alternative dance

Artist: Tozzy

Release: Geonosis

Label: Hypnus

Year: 2014

Spacecraft – The Mission Continues (2007)

Proc-records

• Abstract 
• Techno 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Electronic music 
• Experimental techno
• Avant-techno

Comment: this issue is from a decade being released approximately 10 years ago is a mind-provoking one due to those obtuse rhythmic patterns and dull synthesizer-based progressions. As I said already this issue was released roughly 10 years ago thereby foreseeing all those gentle tape label-based issues residing proudly at Bandcamp today. On the other side, it is also about the past and surfaces as a tribute issue to those industrial music combos that emerged four decades ago and later started to focus more on dance-appealed rhythms and less sonic experiments (for instance, Cabaret Voltaire, and Throbbing Gristle). The issue is a part of the immense discography of Proc-records (proc005). Thematically the laconic issue is related to space objects, and space invasions. More profoundly, it is all about asteroids, black holes, laser radiation, and conquests. In a word, it is a solid techno ghost from the past.          

 

[Teaser of the day] Dadala - Cabin Fever

Clinical Archives

• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Film noir
• Experimentalism
• Downbeat
• Sound collage
• Art music
• Electro-acoustic

Artist: Dadala

Release: Recycles

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Roger Plexico - Buffalo State Hospital

• Easy listening
• Chilltronica
• Mood music
• Electronic music

Artist: Roger Plexico

Release: No Man`s Land

Label: Monster Jinx

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Furaesteen - KasioCosmicTone

MiMi 

• Shoegazetronica
• Post-psychedelic
• Indietronica
• Crossover
• Experimental rock
• Electronic
• Krautrock
• Avant-rock
• Space rock

Artist: Furaesteen

Release: New Phase Dawning

Label: MiMi/Archive,org

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Movie Brain - Drown

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

Artist: Movie Brain

Release: Movie Brain

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Spartan Jet-Plex - Doomed Formation

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

Artist: Spartan Jet-Plex 

Release: My Time

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Polar - Malevo

Ephedrina

• Sampledelic
• Breaks
• Leftfield
• Electronic music
• Alternative

Artist: Polar

Release: Aero

Label: Ephedrina

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Hiroshima Dandys - Viaje en el tiempo

• Electronic pop
• Alternative pop
• Electro pop

Artist: Hiroshima Dandys

Release: Brisa Salvaje

Label: Sòlo de Pido a Dior

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Julia Fanning - Love Surrender

Noisetrade

• Singer-songwriter
• Rnb
• Pop

Artist: Julia Fanning

Release: Julia Fanning EP

Label: Noisetrade

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Skey - Me Encanta

Jamendo

• Chill out
• Mood music
• Chilltronica
• Electronica
• Ambient pop

Artist: Skey

Release: Tunguska Chillout Grooves Vol. 13

Label: Tunguska Electronic Music Society/Jamendo/Bandcamp 

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Catalan Coast - Felt 2

• Ambient
• Microtonal
• Avant-rock
• Cosmic synth
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Krautrock
• Kosmische Musik
• Drone
• Experimentalism

Artist: Catalan Coast

Release: Catalan Coast 

Label: Midnight Circles

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] h1p - Blue Moon

• Breaks
• Chilltronica
• Mood music
• Soul
• Hip-hop
• Sampledelic

Artist: h1p

Release: High Expectations

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Swin Deorin - Mordred Tautha

Sirona-Records

• Electronic dance music
• Post-disco
• Alternative
• Acid techno
• Synth

Artist: Swin Deorin

Release: Moonflower EP

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] d'incise - moi et la neige mais qu'un monologue

iNTERDiSCO

• Downtempo
• Experimental electronica
• Alternative
• IDM
• Dub
• Glitchtronica

Artist: d`incise

Release: Introversion

Label: iNTERDiSCO

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Takeshi Nakamura - Voices

Zymogen

• Robotronic
• Glitch techno
• Minimal techno
• Abstract techno
• Avant-techno
• Experimental electronica
• Experimental techno

Artist: Takeshi Nakamura 

Release: Ordinary Days 

Label: Zymogen

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Push Against New Fakes - Circles

Phonocake

• Electronic music
• Synthwave
• Downtempo
• Alternative
• Mood music
• Chilltronica

Artist: Push Against New Fakes

Release: [Im]mor[t]ality 

Label: Phonocake

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Flatulated - Vultuous

Torn Flesh

• Brutal metal
• Death metal
• Goregrind

Artist: Flatulated

Release: Bowel Hymnary

Label: Torn Flesh

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Seasonal Euphoria - Exosphere

GV Sound

• Space music
• Minimalism
• Art music
• Electronic music
• Microtonal
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: Seasonal Euphoria

Release: Atmosphere

Label: GV Sound

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] WITO - Nine point Nights

MNMN

• Witch house
• Drag house
• Electronic music
• Leftfield
• Darkwave
• Alternative

Artist: WITO

Release: Dr. Mortuus 

Label: MNMN/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Crumbsnatchers - Tinfoil Friend

Jamendo

• Punk rock
• Art rock
• Alternative rock
• Slacker rock

Artist: Crumbsnatchers

Release: Big House

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Could Ever - Sadmagic

Noisetrade

• Glo-fi
• Chillwave
• Indie electronic
• Hypnagogic pop
• Poptronica
• Alternative pop
• Post-pop

Artist: Could Ever

Release: Way Out

Label: Noisetrade

Year: -

[Teaser of the day] Steve Everett - Jet Black Heart

Noisetrade

• Singer-songwriter
• Power pop
• Pop rock

Artist: Steve Everett

Release: Central Standards

Label: Noisetrade

Year: - 

[Teaser of the day] Ketsa - Duress

Free Music Archive

• Reggae
• Alternative
• Dub
• Chilltronica
• Mood music
• Electronic music

Artist: Ketsa

Release: Subconscious Communications

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Governador Band - Mountain B

• Sampledelic
• Hip-hop
• Cut and paste
• Alternative
• Afrofunk
• Breaks
• Crossover
• Psychedelic
• Sound collage
• Afrobeat

Artist: Governador Band

Release: Magic Mountain

Label: Hisstology

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Tzii - Un squelette solaire

Earsheltering

• Dark ambient
• Illbient
• Avant-garde
• Soundscapes
• Experimentalism
• Post-industrial
• Dystopbient

Artist: Tzii

Release: Androphallus Implosion

Label: Earsheltering

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Arnooo - Blues Underground

• Avant-blues
• Experimentalism
• Leftfield
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism

Artist: Arnooo

Release: History Repeats Itself

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released 

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] LLLL - I Feel You Fading (feat. fraqsea)

Maltine

• Indie dance
• Alternative pop
• Shibuya-kei
• Poptronica
• Alternative dance
• Electronic pop
• J-pop

Artist: LLLL

Release: Cruel

Label: Maltine

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] HANNAHBAND - Pink & Blue

• Hardcore
• Emo
• Punk rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: HANNAHBAND

Release: Quitting Will Improve Your Health

Label: Bandcamp/Black Wire

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Books on Tape - Raw Raw

No Type

• Punk funk
• Alternative dance
• Electro-indie
• No Wave
• Avant-pop
• Electronic
• Leftfield pop
• Sampledelic
• Art pop

Artist: Books on Tape

Release: The Highly Illogical EP

Label: No Type

Year: 2001

[Teaser of the day] Roto Visage - Small Steps

Kikapu

• Glitchtronica
• Avant-garde
• Micronoise
• Ambient
• Psycho-acoustic
• Experimentalism
• Ambient drone
• Art music
• Minimalism
• Post-industrial
• Electronic music

Artist: Roto Visage

Release: Der Golem 

Label: Kikapu

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Transient - Whck

Free Music Archive

• Hip-hop
• Breaks
• Urban music
• Sampledelic
• Chilltronica
• Mood music
• Alternative

Artist: Transient

Release: Green Butter

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Hexagon Sun - There, In The Oceans Beyond Time

Sirona-Records

• Ambient
• Soundscapes
• Dreamwave
• Alternative
• Microtonal
• Minimalism

Artist: Hexagon Sun

Release: Subtle Growth

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Veto. - A Song About Trees

• Shoegaze
• Alternative rock
• Dream pop
• Ambient rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Veto.

Release: Broadway

Label: Small Bear 

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Abide Serene - Slowd

Take Pills Die

• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik
• DIY
• Space synth
• Lo-fi
• Minimal synth
• Synthwave
• Leftfield pop
• Avant-pop

Artist: Abide Serene

Release: [tpd0113-0142]

Label: Take Pills Die

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Fake Cats Project - A Warm

Southern City`s Lab

• Post-industrial
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Electro-acoustic
• Avant-rock
• Electronic
• Experimental rock
• Leftfield
• Improvised music

Artist: Fake Cats Project

Release: Russian Canon

Label: Southern City`s Lab/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Vytis - Underwater Paintings

• Dub techno
• Deep techno
• Deep dub
• Electronic music

Artist: Vytis

Release: Nature Walk

Label: Silver Field

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Damare - Stardust

Bump Foot

• Breaks
• Sampledelic
• Trip-hop
• Chilltronica
• Nu jazz
• Mood music
• Soul

Artist: Damare

Release: Hologram Summer      

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Ofir Klemperer - Sign Imagination

Free Music Archive

• Singer-songwriter
• Art pop
• Electronic
• Film noir
• Avant-garde
• Experimental pop
• New Weird Israel

Artist: Ofir Klemperer

Release: Hey You, Come Here

Label: Birdsong/Archive.org

Year: 2010  

[Teaser of the day] Ava Zandieh - MOB

Vulpiano

• Urban music
• Design pop
• Electronic pop
• R`n`b
• Alternative pop

Artist: Ava Zandieh

Release: Various Artists - Vulpiano Records Sampler EP: Vol. 6  

Label: Vulpiano/Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Astrolope - Starwash

• Mood music
• Electronic music
• Breaks
• Synth
• Easy listening
• Alternative
• Tracker music
• 8-bit

Artist: Astrolope

Release: Planets & Polygons 

Label: Plutoid Records 

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Jack Plug - Cosmonuts

Modismo

• Synthwave
• Alternative
• Synth noir
• Space synth
• Electronic music

Artist: Jack Plug

Release: VA Modismo 4

Label: Modismo

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] These Branches - The Sequestered Dream

• Hardcore
• Screamo
• Tehnical metal

Artist: These Branches

Release: Beliefs

Label: Don`t Live Like Me/Driftwood/Get Into It

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Burke Jam - 3-3-26-16

ComputerMusicNeix

• Ambient
• Soundscapes
• Organic electronica
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Abstract
• Musique concrète
• Found sound
• Microtonal
• Minimalism
• Ambient drone

Artist: Burke Jam

Release: nx2016-06b

Label: ComputerMusicNeix/Deep White Sound

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Kiyo - Re-flux

• Ambient pop
• Glitchtronica
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-pop
• Electronic music
• Techno pop
• Leftfield pop

Artist: Kiyo

Release: Slept

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Calla Soiled - Stalactite

Bunkai-Kei

• Ambient techno
• Breakbeat
• Electronic music
• Alternative dance
• Deep techno
• Breaks

Artist: Calla Soiled

Release: Lucoq

Label: Bunkai-Kei

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] People Like Us - Green, Green Grass

Free Music Archive

• Sampledelic
• Cut and paste
• Plunderphonics
• Avant-garde
• Leftfield
• Sound collage
• Experimentalism

Artist: People Like Us

Release: All Together Now

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2006/2009

[Teaser of the day] Lemonface - Disk-O-Dub

• Dub
• Alternative dance
• Reggae

Artist: Lemonface

Release: Jah Lion

Label: SuperNiceMusic

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] The Bourgeois - Be Your Own Machine

Jamendo

• Punk rock
• Alternative rock
• Post-punk
• Garage rock

Artist: The Bourgeois

Release: The Bourgeois

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] The Fairweather - I`ld Be A Fool

Noisetrade

• Indie rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Pomp rock
• Emo rock

Artist: The Fairweather

Release: Untie My Tongue

Label: Noisetrade

Year: - 

[Teaser of the day] Band Of Rascals - Giv`her To The River

Noisetrade

• Hard rock
• Blues rock
• Americana

Artist: Band Of Rascals

Release: Held In Thought

Label: Noisetrade

Year: -

[Teaser of the day] Voder - The Peasants In The Area

Test Tube

• Ambient
• Epic
• Ambient noise
• Dark ambient
• Illbient
• Glitchtronic
• Ambient drone
• Avant-garde
• Soundscapes
• Experimentalism

Artist: Voder

Release: Cheepnis

Label: Test Tube

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] slept. - No More Nightingales In Berlin

• Ambient
• Ambient noise
• Microsound
• Illbient
• Drone
• Acousmatic music
• Glitchtronica
• Post-industrial
• Soundscapes
• Minimalism
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-garde

Artist: slept.

Release: Feather EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Equal Stones - Exile

• Ambient
• Soundscapes
• Space music
• Dreamgaze
• Post-rock
• Epic
• Dreamwave
• Electronic music

Artist: Equal Stones

Release: Tomorrow Bears No Fruit

Label: Hidden Vibes

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Desolate Horizons - Like Whispers Lost At Sea, We Soar

• Ambient drone
• Post-rock
• Minimalism
• Epic
• Ambient
• Dreamwave
• Soundscapes

Artist: Desolate Horizons

Release: Deep As The Dark Blue Sea

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Filipo Laresca - Brutismo

Tape Safe

• Experimental electronica
• Avant-electronica
• Noise
• Acousmatic music
• Glitchtronica
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde

Artist: Filipo Laresca

Release: Dedicado a Adolf Wolfli

Label: Tape Safe/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Mario Garcia - Por do sol Em montevideo

Free Music Archive

• Progressive rock
• Avant-rock
• Yacht rock
• Art rock
• Mood music
• Crossover
• Experimental rock
• World music
• Easy listening

Artist: Mario Garcia

Release: Sr. Cisne

Label: Golden Pavilion/Itaipu/Archive.org

Year: 1982/2010 

[Teaser of the day] Lxnnnie - Hold On

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

Artist: Lxnnnie

Release: Sleeping It Off

Label: Weakie Discs

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Twin Peetz - Changes Over Time

• Deep techno
• Electronic music
• Dub techno
• Club dance
• Ambient dub
• Tech-dub

Artist: Twin Peetz

Release: Changes Over Time

Label: ODrex Music

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Animal Collective - FloriDada

Archive.org

• New Weird America
• Psychedelic
• Indie
• Live session
• Alternative
• Leftfield pop
• Avant-pop
• Art pop
• Experimental pop

Artist: Animal Collective

Release: Live at Fox Theater on 2016-03-07

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Ambelion - Rain Of Souls

45 Echoes Sounds

• Ambient 
• Soundscapes
• Electronic music
• Minimalism

Artist: Ambelion

Release: Slow Light Of Ambient Alchemy

Label: 45 Echoes Sounds/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Godafoss - Alku

Audiotalaia

• Dark ambient
• Illbient
• Neoclassical
• Experimentalism
• Dystopbient
• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde

Artist: Godafoss

Release: Trans-Neptunian Objects  

Label: Audiotalaia

Year:  2015

[Teaser of the day] Seki Takashi - Alley And Talking Voice

MiMi

• Electronic music
• Mood music
• Indietronica
• Poptronica
• Alternative pop

Artist: Seki Takashi

Release: Night City   

Label: MiMi

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Dr. Zilog - 8-bit Circle Pit

• Cybermetal
• Psychedelic
• 8-bit
• Crossover
• Chiptune
• Tracker music
• Electro-metal
• Bitpop

Artist: Dr. Zilog

Release: Apothecary

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Visager - Factory Time

Free Music Archive

• Chiptune
• Chipbreak
• Tracker music
• 8-bit
• Electronic music
• Bitpop
• Mood music

Artist: Visager

Release: Songs From An Unmade World 2

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Naked Polly - Save My Soul

No Source

• Singer-songwriter
• Chamber pop
• Baroque pop
• Indie pop
• Art pop
• Epic
• Alternative pop

Artist: Naked Polly 

Release: A Day In A Night

Label: No Source

Year: 2012 

[Teaser of the day] Mono-Poly- Do You Observe?

Clinical Archives

• Synthwave
• New Age
• Electronic music
• Experimental music
• Kosmische Musik
• Avant-garde

Artist: Mono-Poly

Release: Various - The Synthi Group Vol. 1

Label: Clinical Archives

Year; 2009

[Teaser of the day] Floating Mind - IWantU3

MonokraK

• Deep techno
• Minimal techno
• Tech-dub
• Experimental techno
• Dub techno

Artist: Floating Mind

Release: V.I.S

Label: MonokraK

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Art Of Burning Water - To Be Brave

• Stoner rock
• Grindcore
• Sludge metal
• Hardcore
• Screamo

Artist: Art Of Burning Water

Release: Between Life And Nowhere LP

Label: SuperFi Records

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Grievances - The Fade

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Power pop
• Emo rock

Artist: Grievances

Release: Something Was Supposed To Happen 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Ziv Shachar – Nice Day (2016)

Bandcamp

• Post-dubstep 
• Electronic pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Indietronica 
• World music

Comment: by listening to this 10-track issue you could discern it is produced by a talented but young musician. The main proof is that the Israeli producer Ziv Shachar used to run between different styles – from electronic pop to indie-influenced electronic music to Ivrit-sung piano driven pop songs to some funny interludes to enchanting post-dubstep threads. Indeed, the last stylistic element is the one, which used to appear in the most prominent manner within the whole. In truth, the style is also the major preference on it, providing enough conspicuously remarkable moments where he demonstrates his expert songwriting abilities and being adept in surfacing mind-provoking sounds. All in all, I recommend follow the artist`s next steps very carefully because the recent issue is one of the best issues in 2016. If it would have been written by a more well-known artist it were praised all around the world. You can be sure about it – just listen to it.         

Sam Golden Sings – Watch Out For The Quiet Ones (2008)

Rack And Ruin

• Lo-fi 
• Acoustic pop 
• Singer-songwriter 
• DIY

Comment: this is a simplistic yet catchy album of 6 pieces just based on the twangs of acoustic guitar, a few storytelling lines, some melodica whiffs and subtle stereo effects. And the singing with a catchy impetus is placed in the front page. For sure, it fits properly in to the lo-fi aesthetic of Rack And Ruin Records because it is played with great enthusiasm believing in a better future where one could perceive the thrill within it. The issue was produced in a time when all seemed to be possible. More profoundly, the DIY scene had appeared through blogs and independent music sites to get thousands of followers in the end of the 00s. That`s all. The simple things make highly sense on it.  

[Teaser of the day] Mauro Donati - Ratticidio

Ephedrina

• Minimal techno
• Deep techno

Artist: Mauro Donati

Release: Response EP

Label: Ephedrina/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2015