[Teaser of the day] Damn Robot - There`s That Word Again

• Post-rock
• Electronic music
• Indietronica
• Ambient rock
• Experimental rock
• Epic

Artist: Damn Robot

Release: Derp

Label: Hawk Moon

Year: 2016

Furiosa – ¿Quién Mató al Mundo? (2016)

Naciòn Libre

• Stoner rock
• Hard rock 
• Crossover
• Speed metal 
• Hardcore 
• Doom rock

Comment: Furiosa is the duo of Aracely Sánchez (voice), and Alan Vargas (he plays guitars, and he obviously exploits a drum machine) from Chihuahua, México whose debut album ¿Quién Mató al Mundo? is as abrasive as the sand-paper. Indeed, it is a full-on experience where galvanized yet deliberately dejected stoner and doom riffs are intermeshed with Aracely`s herculean voice delivery (at times she is accompanied by Alan Vargas` own voice). Indeed, it is quite surprising of how a couple of people have made up a proper moshpit party based on stoner, doom, speed metal and hardcore punk mixed guitars, which used to wind and meander across one’s cerebral terrains and spinal cord. It could be said it is a quite simple, straightforward issue with powerful twists and the rock and roll attitude in some forms of metal music. However, at the second glance it is not simplistic at all. The issue is a part of the roster of Chihuahua-based imprint Nación Libre Records. The records is certainly worth to be focused upon it in the future because it embraces a very interesting scene.

[Teaser of the day] Magnetic Wind - La Mort Vient

Rain

• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Noise
• Illbient
• Sound art
• Neoclassical
• Abstract
• Leftfield

Artist: Magnetic Wind

Release: La Petite Morte

Label: Rain Netlabel

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Monkey Warhol - Everything Starts with an E

• Alternative dance
• Electro pop
• Synth pop
• Avant-pop
• Electronic music
• Dada pop
• Leftfield pop

Artist: Monkey Warhol

Release: EP3

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] vÄäristymä - Elektronivakooja

• Powerlelectronics
• Rhythmic noise
• Leftfield
• Minimalism 
• Experimentalism
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde

Artist: vÄäristymä  

Release: Melko hyvä

Label: Ilse

Year: 2013

Camper Van Beethoven – 2016-01-29 - 40 Watt Club (2016)

Archive.org

• Americana 
• Alt-country 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Blues rock 
• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Ska 
• Live recording 
• Southern rock 
• World music

Comment: this is not the first live recording and hopefully not the last one at 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia, USA by Camper Van Beethoven you could find out at Archive.org. It can be assumed it is one of the combo’s favourite places to disseminate their legacy. The legendary quartet is there to convey a frantic session of 19 pieces with a grand total time of 64 minutes drawing upon southern rock, Americana, ska, blues, bluegrass, psychedelia, and alternative country. All these stylistic elements are seamlessly intertwined with one another and at the same time one element is traded for another to be appeared as if an effect of hocus-pocus or a hidden sort of music of the Romani and Jewish people. David Lowery`s vocal appearance is simply mesmerizing and that could be said about Jonathan Segel`s virtuosity to straddle on a keyboard and violin almost simultaneously. Just shut up and let the music take over. This is a bewildering hour by seminal masters. Absolutely brilliant!  

[Teaser of the day] Yàocavé - Sun Gliding

• Sampledelic
• Electronic music
• Easy listening
• Yacht pop
• Dreamwave
• Mood music
• Chilltronica
• DIY
• Alternative

Artist: Yàocavé 

Release: Fanta-C Plus

Label: Jeunesse Cosmique

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Galaktlan - Imer

Archaic Horizon

• Kosmische Musik
• Indietronica
• Neokrautrock
• Alternative
• Post-rock
• Electronic music
• Ulmetronica
• Alternative dance

Artist: Galaktlan

Release: Second Memory

Label: Archaic Horizon/Seksound

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Mondo Flockard - Tranquility in a Cup

• Electro-acoustic
• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Illbient
• Acousmatic music
• Leftfield
• Experimentalism
• Ambient noise
• Art music

Artist: Mondo Flockard

Release: Spirals

Label: Terranean Recordings

Year: 2016

Egrojj – Gambling EP (2014)

DAST Net Recordings

• Minimal techno 
• Tekno 
• Remixes 
• Dub house 
• Club dance
• Alternative dance 
• Tech-electro

Comment: fur sure, this 9-track outing is an intriguing one, where Egrojj`s compositions are interestingly remixed. The content of these tracks is emptied by emotions thereof allowing more space for rhythmic permutations through minimal approach. Indeed, the listener can follow the rigid, austere rhythmic patterns with quite static electronic and stereo effects, however, providing a dynamic and vivid background for the rhythms. Mostly the release runs in the vein of techno music, though there are up dub house frequencies and slight tekno and electro inflections either. Catchy basses are represented in the way to arouse one’s legs to shake up and down and one’s jaw to shift in a similar way. After having listened to this issue many times in a row it induced the philosophical question: what is the emotion by definition and ontologically? Is it a phenomenon, which either exists separately on its own or is it quite something that is either a relation or en effect between the subject and the object? The more you listen to it the more you can trace down of how sublimely it is panned with perceptual experiences. It is a great issue indeed, being a notch in the discography of DAST Net Recordings. Egrojj is assisted and remixed by his (imprint) buddies the likes of Eduard Colin, Flatch, THE WEB, Serious Cut, and Strehm, Mortus Inc. .

[Teaser of the day] Fescal - Perfect Wave

Test Tube

• Avant-garde
• Ambient
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism
• Micronoise
• Ambient noise
• Sound art

Artist: Fescal

Release: Into The Atmosphere

Label: Test Tube

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Zzogg - Downshifters

Bump Foot

• Ambient dub
• Electronic music
• Dub techno
• Ambient techno
• Alternative dance

Artist: Zzogg

Release: Downshifters EP

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Bark Bark Disco - Love Never Made You A Loser

• Lo-fi
• Singer-songwriter
• DIY
• Indie pop
• Alternative pop

Artist: Bark Bark Disco

Release: The EP from the Sea

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Voyageurs - Komfort

• Space rock
• New Weird America
• Drone rock
• Psych-rock
• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Art rock

Artist: Voyageurs

Release: Trigrams

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Adrian Carter - Troubled Sleep Lasts Longer

Earth Monkey Productions

• Synthwave
• Electonic music
• Alternative
• Minimal synth
• Kosmische Musik

Artist: Adrian Carter

Release: Gangs

Label: Earth Monkey Productions

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] St Nathan`s Holiday - Feet to the Earth

• Alt-country
• Folk indie
• Bluegrass
• Americana
• World music
• Indie folk

Artist: St Nathan`s Holiday

Release: The Jefferson Sessions

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Vincent Casanova - Moondrops

Epsilonlab

• House
• Deep house
• Club dance

Artist: Vincent Casanova

Release: Midnight Fire EP

Label: Epsilonlab

Year: 2005

Martin Rach – Piano Attic (2016)

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Modern classical 
• Post-classical
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Piano music 
• Experimental electronica 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Improvised music

Comment: Piano Attic is Martinas Rakshtinas aka Martin Rach`s another issue from the year of 2016 (Late Autumn Quartets, Winter Quartets, Fall Quartets were issued before it). The Lithuanian musician’s 2-piece composition, especially the title track used to draw upon piano-driven experiments where are represented a pile of broken, ragged chords being subjugated to the force of electronic algorithms. The soundscape is a slow-motion one where any of the chords used to have enough free space around to be amplified and progress into another second of time. Of course, because of that the issue is slightly lethargic and even dreamy. It is built on a simple base, where the keys are disguised by electronic effects at a part extent. In a word, the title track is a case of the transmission and modification though sounds. The second track The Portrait of a Lame Man starts off differently with faint glaring droning being saturated with skipping “errors, which later will be complemented by lone piano chords. By listening to it one can see ghosts coming from the attic, from the slots of an old piano. The more you listening to it the more you can hear the music sounding like a dropping piano, which in turn is transposed and as if moving further and back spasmodically. In a word, the result is intriguing and playful. 

[Teaser of the day] Sound Spread - Spacy Spot

Free Music Archive

• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Electronic music
• Weird
• Leftfield
• Dada music
• Big beat

Artist: Sound Spread

Release: The Message from Inside

Label: suRRism-Phonoethics

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] My First Trumpet - d_kitt

Aerotone

• Indietronica
• Indie pop
• Alternative pop
• Electronic
• Mood music
• Art pop

Artist: My First Trumpet

Release: Frerk

Label: Aerotone/12rec

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Klam - Black Labia Minora

• Shoegaze
• Indie rock
• Psychedelic rock
• Alternative rock
• Ambient rock
• Ethereal Wave

Artist: Klam

Release: The Concrete Vagina

Label: Land Animal Tapes

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Globoscuro - IG Farben

Enoughrecords

• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Electronic music
• Illbient
• Acousmatic music
• Ambient noise
• Leftfield
• Psychoacoustic
• Micronoise

Artist: Globoscuro

Release: Hated By Butterflies

Label: Nomen Omen

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Tleilaxu - Solarium

Unfoundsound

• Minimal techno
• Abstract techno
• Electro-acoustic
• Deep techno
• Avant-techno

Artist: Tleilaxu

Release: Sleepercel

Label: Unfoundsound

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Noisesurfer - Clean Cache

Tape Safe

• Post-industrial
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde
• Experimental electronica
• Powerelectronics
• Leftfield

Artist: Noisesurfer

Release: In Motion

Label: Tape Safe

Year: 2016

In A Sleeping Mode – Draft (2011)

Yo! Netlabel

Bandcamp

• Avant-garde 
• Post-rock 
• Post-classical 
• Experimental techno 
• Modern classical 
• Art music 
• Avant-rock 
• Crossover 
• Experimental rock 
• Abstract techno

Comment: behind IASM are two Italian guys who were living in the United Kingdom at the time of the release of this 7-notch issue. More profoundly, it happened already 5 years ago in London. Musically it is an intriguing smorgasbord of sounds and styles, more profoundly, meeting at an interface of modern classical, arty rock and intellectual techno vibes spiced up by elemental noises and hisses. However, the aforementioned styles used to stand to be mixed together or just standing alone. Both versions are equally worth to be enjoyed. Another fairly intriguing stance for me is how and by whom these sounds are made up and performed. Of course, mostly one can discern the human touch but there are up some very mechanical moments where the process seems to be induced and usurped by rigid machines. In a word, there is up a thriving clash between the human soul and austere robotic configurations. By kindred souls one can discern pathways coming from Mice Parade, Tortoise, and The Dylan Group to Autechre, AFX, and Venetian Snares to Lubomir Melnyk, and Nils Frahm. However, these ones are just mere comparisons because the artist used to stand on its own. The issue is a part of the discography of Yo [U-Turn] netlabel. In a nutshell, get this mesmerizing issue.

Thuuooom – Kaiut (2016)

Textural Healing

• Ambient drone 
• Minimalism 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Microtonal 
• Drone 
• Microsound 
• Abstract 

Comment: behind the project Thuuoom is a sonic experimentalist Tuomo from Finland who has been issuing music since 2008 under his own imprint Textural Healing. In the meantime I was quite worried because of having had no releases by the artist for a while. However, in the recent year he has issued four outings so date. I did recently review his three-track issue Aste EP, which was the chaser of the album Kaiut because the music for both albums had been conjured up in one and the same session. Aste EP was a highly microtonal, even abstract case, which contains a very few information you could have dealt with it. It was rather a state of mind. Kaiut is a longer issue physically containing 6 pieces and clocking in at a 65 minute. Its soundscape is more bright and more evocative. For instance, the opening composition Electride starts off with tanpura-alike drones, which later will convert into more restrained yet somehow burning drones. Indeed, one could perceive some lurid frequencies coming out of it. The same will be represented in the next tracks yet with slightly different modifications in tonality and intensity (I guess Tuomo uses some sounds of found sound origin). At times it sounds as if coming from a remote wasteland to ghost you with uncommon sounds and a conception. One could imagine that the artist exploits the tape head for recording music being made up of coal and lignite. From the album`s sleeve you can see he has used an acoustic guitar though you could not hear clear-cut guitar sounds on it. Thereof it can be admitted these instruments he has exploited on it are not things on their own but just the bare matter for further sonic processings. Indeed, those brownish sounds predominate on the issue with some brighter slots and slight turns and subtle changes. In a word, get it. It is a specific yet intriguing issue for all drone and sound art inflected devotees. 

[Teaser of the day] Fortyone - Rapunzel Rapunzel

Comfort Stand

• Comedy
• Sampledelic
• Plunderphonics
• Dada music
• Freeformfreakout
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Fortyone

Release: Music That`s Better Than It Sounds

Label: Comfort Stand Recordings

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] The Reptilians - To Break Is Divine And Inspirational

• Hard rock
• Progressive metal
• Art metal
• Screamo
• Technical metal

Artist: The Reptilians

Release: The Breakers

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Ogre Melodies - Butterfly

• DIY
• Folk rock
• Folk punk
• Acoustic pop

Artist: Ogre Melodies

Release: Ogre Melodies

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year; 2013

Ataque Escampe - Papá borracho/Alan Lomax (2016)

Bandcamp

• Indie pop 
• folk indie 
• Alternative rock 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Indie folk

Comment: I guess my first meeting with Ataque Escampe happened about 6-7 years ago through A Regueifa Plataforma, an imprint of which purpose was to issue disparate kind of music coming out of from the autonomous region of Galicia, Spain. Unfortunately the site has been down for a while. I dislike such sort of reckless attitude because you are being responsible for so many artists and it could be understood in the case you are having your own site but if a site is based on blogger than I can see no excuses. Furthermore, you could upload a roster’s music at Archive.org as well. It could be said about many imprints as well. All of that is fairly regrettable to see the past to have ruined in front of us. Fortunately many artists on the imprint have moved to Bandcamp, including Ataque Escampe. Ataque Escampe is a quintet from Santiago De Compostela, who has been together since 2001 and been releasing a swarm of issues throughout the last ten years. In the recent issue there are up a couple of new compositions. It is sympathetic of how they used to create the buildup of their music by doing it though lite indie folk numbers, which usually in the ending parts is chased by Roi Vidal played acid synthesizers and electronics. For instance, Papá borracho does end with a game boy-alike chip. Alan Lomax is set up in the way to meet at an interface of folk, psychedelia, rap, and alternative pop. However, blending of the styles (the formal side of songwriting) is not a goal on its own but the combo is adept in executing it seamlessly and convincingly to boost the main narrative. In a nutshell, the result is highly hilarious. 

[Teaser of the day] Younnat - Interaction

Bump Foot

• Experimental electronica
• Leftfield
• Breakcore
• Abstract
• Electronic music
• Electroclash
• Electro pop
• Alternative dance

Artist: Younnat

Release: Bioelectronica

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Froze - Light Of Life

• Dubstep
• Experimental electronica
• Space music
• Dub
• Alternative

Artist: Froze

Release: Invisible People 

Label: ABCD

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] il Russo - il Russo-1

MAV (0kbps)

• Electronic music
• Psychedelic
• Synthwave
• Drone
• Minimalism
• Alternative
• Krautrock
• Kosmische Musik

Artist: il Russo

Release: il Russo

Label: MAV (0kbps)  

Year: 2016

Chancius - Bando (2015)

Jamendo

Bandcamp

• Art rock 
• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock
• Chamber pop
• Singer-songwriter 
• Experimental pop

Comment: While this issue was plotted out to be an alternative rock opera to depict it does mean the artist must have been some aesthetic restrictions and prescriptions for writing process. In any cases, Chancius comes out of Brooklyn, New York, USA and the listener could readily perceive an exquisite, intelligent touch being so characteristic to many artists from the metropolis. By the recent case, Chancius' sophomore release enthralls the listener by straddling on the border between the restrained and unleashed. All of that turns on expectations in the listener to wait on what will be happening next. On the other hand, the artist controls the process totally allowing no indiscretions and turnoffs. Though he is slightly aloof with regard to the listener his posture suits finely with the music and overall conception. Musically it is an example of how quite austere artsy guitar playing is adeptly imbued with electro-acoustic sonic effects and electronic knacks. At times, at most dreamy glimpses the course is led by affectionate carillon playing and loopy orchestrations (at Big Wave). Obviously the artist is inspired by the local No Wave scene (and by its forefathers the Velvet Underground) and representatives of contemporary art rock/indie scene like The Antlers, Owen Pallett, Terrible Terrible, Foxes In Fiction, Panda Bear. However, those possible influences come in indirectly and rather on the base of similarity thereby allowing to create relatable possibilities between cultural layers and traditions in general. I am pleased he is not trying to spoil the concept with magniloquent details and bloated stances. He has set out a plot to operate within certain borders, however, having enough territory to move forward and then back, by right to left, from bottom to top. As an ancient Greek philosopher once said due to the borders it is possible to exist at all and only this allows you to go beyond, to go to the other side. Psychedelic, isn't? He will not crush himself in the playing out of his genuine role. Listen to Hologram King and you will get convinced this match was made in heaven to save unfortunate souls. In a nutshell, I fairly recommend listen to this 11-notch gentle bright.

[Teaser of the day] Büromaschinen - Firebird

Upitup

• Synthwave
• Kosmische Musik
• Deep house
• Electro-house
• Alternative
• Electronic music

Artist: Büromaschinen

Release: Time Capsule Vol. 1

Label: Upitup

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Sympathy Points - Lusthog

• Darkwave
• Electronic music
• Illbient
• Drag house
• Epic
• Post-industrial
• Vaporstep
• Newbreed
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-garde
• Witch house

Artist: Sympathy Points

Release: Negative Space

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Sunset Wrecks - Long Overdue

• Ambient rock
• Post-metal
• Shoegaze
• Alternative
• Darkwave
• Electronic
• Post-rock
• Blackgaze
• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Doomgaze

Artist: Sunset Wrecks

Release: Salvaged

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

T1nn1tuzzzz – Metalli(ɔ)a (2016)

Malware

• Noise 
• Harsh noise 
• Brutal metal 
• Avant-garde 
• Non-music 
• Avant-metal 
• Black noise 
• Leftfield 
• Trash noise

Comment: firstly, after the first chords of listening to this one-track issue (clocking in at an almost 10 minute) I realized it would be better to turn the volume down for the sake of my ears (indeed, the trajectory of the oscillator in my music player is as active as an indicator in the block of nuclear wastes). Additionally, I don not recommend for bourgeois people to listen to it because it brings out a mental illness in you. You`re admonished! The project comes out from Brazil demonstrating itself as an indicator for the country. More profoundly, the annihilation of forests (greetings to Western companies over there), environmental problems (pollution), the Zika virus, outstanding crime activity, an economic recession, the corruption scandal of their president. On the other side, Brazil is being and has been one of the most outstanding music scenes worldwide, including in the underground scene by now. Although the art is much higher than the mundane live, the point of mine is that good music needs controversies and a filthy environment and polluted soil to bring forth sharpness to express an artist’s mind with great(er) fervour and ardour. There is up one of such sort. As you have already pinpointed the ending embarks on with a torrent of vibrant harsh noises though almost implicitly revealing what will be happening in the final part. More concretely, it progresses slowly into the hammering, blackened metal and noise-tinged span where Metallica could sound as an easy listening act. The US-based heavy metal/trash metal juggernaut was mentioned by me because the title is called a somehow reversed Metallica`s title form, Metalli(ɔ)a. In fact, in the final part the music of the legends is represented briefly coming out of overwhelming trash noise to move atop. Otherwise it has much more in common with Japanese harsh noise and metal combos, with the likes of Boris, Gerogerigegege, Fushitsusha, Boredoms. Get this metal/noise gem for you being issued under the newborn Malware Records (it is a great imprint in addition to many Brazil-based ones). In fact, it says more than a thousands of words in total. At least during this brief span of time.

[Teaser of the day] Kai Whiston - Drag Hunt

• Avant-hop
• Experimental hip-hop
• Noise-hop
• Industrial-hop
• Screwed and chopped
• Wonky
• Post-hop
• Vaporwave 
• Rap
• Urban music

Artist: Kai Whiston

Release: Houndstooth 

Label: TAR

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Sander Haugas - Tabasalu

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

Artist: Sander Haugas

Release: Kummitarsan EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Uton - Magica Humana I

Free Music Archive

• Free folk
• Space folk
• Weird folk
• Psych-folk
• New Weird Finland
• Avant-folk
• Forest folk
• Micronoise
• Freak folk
• Improvised music
• Experimental folk

Artist: Uton

Release: Solar Spells

Label: Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Va Ra Yam/Archive.org

Year: 2008

JJ Kills Chopped And Screwed By Joel Rampage (2011)

Sincerely Yours

• Hip-hop 
• Avant-hop 
• Screwed and chopped 
• Seapunk
• Cloud rap 
• Wonky
• Vaporwave 
• Experimental hip-hop 
• Rap 
• Urban music

Comment: I could remember very clearly for those times when in the 90s there were being huge problems to deal with dragging and broken tapes, which did not play properly and did bend the normal appearance of issues. Another problem was related to to the tapes being as long as 120 minutes and some of them even longer. For example, before listening to the recent issue I had listened to Britpop juggernaut Pulp’s retrospective issue Countdown 1992-1983 lasting longer than 120 minutes and I sacrificed some hours of mine to save the tape altogether. However, it was a nice warm-up to the recent one because all had been changed since the 90s with regard to the formats, styles and approach in music. Musically it is not surprising at all that sort sort of technical failures are “legitimized” by hip-hop music. The second biggest change is that no one could not predict the fact that the mixtapes would be presented as issues in the discography of imprints. For instance, the recent tape was issued on Sincerely Yours. Because of the aforementioned reasons it chimes in a thrilling way yet all those “failures” are integrated seamlessly and represented in an elaborate way. Mostly those vocal lines are slowed down (at times also being pitched up) and elegantly stretched out to teeter in between stereo channels, however, at the same time being spiced up with electronic effects and bumpy yet enthrallingly lurking cadences. Frequently those layers are imbued with spaced-out, dreamwave-alike vibes to give the whole a more hyper-panoramic and still slightly eerie outlook. I was listening to it in an early morning but I am convinced it could readily be your supper before falling asleep. Indeed, the times have changed around us and inside us but music is still being very attractive in its various mutations thereby the musicians could be considered as contemporary philosophers undoubtedly. Get this issue!

[Teaser of the day] Dinelka - Brain Licker

• Glitchtronica
• Minimal techno
• Avant-garde
• Ambient techno
• Experimentalism
• Microhouse 
• Avant-techno
• Glitch techno
• Abstract techno
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Dinelka

Release: Freeze EP

Label: Microrama

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Computer Magic - Victory Gin

Archive.org

• Riot grrrl
• Electro-indie
• Acid pop
• Indie pop
• Synth pop
• Indie electronic
• Alternative pop
• Psychedelic pop
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: Computer Magic 

Release: Hiding More of Our Time  

Label: Free Music Archive/Archive.org

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Patroux - Golden Sunset

Jamendo

• Easy listening 
• Electronic music
• New Age
• Ambient pop
• Space pop
• Mood music
• Chilltronica

Artist: Patroux

Release: Music Is Magic

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2008

The Shy Trafficker – Hard Fought, Found Thought (2008)

Lost Children

• Post-rock 
• Math rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Indie rock 
• Art rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Fusion 
• Yacht rock 
• Mood music 
• Field recording

Comment: by listening to this 11-track issue one can concentrate on different aspects within the soundscape, which is conjured up by a guitarist, a bassist, and a drummer. Given that this sparse collective must be expert at conjuring up interesting sonic combinations and extracting picturesque colours from within their instruments. Indeed, they did it perfectly because one could discern all these sublime nuances to run throughout in a moody vein. It might sound oddly enough but this set of 51 minutes could be considered an easy listening session additionally. It is mostly due to a bet of jazz rock/fusion and yacht rock-inflected colourful keys. The Shy Trafficker`s album reminds by its tones and approach of Sea And The Cake, of which music is also easy (superficial?) and complicated at the same time. Indeed, music is a platform for talented people to surmount contradictions. The only stylistic exception is Santa Margarita, which is an arousing interlude of the recording of choral singing. In a word, it is the trio’s field recording case. In a nutshell, you can readily listen to this outstanding issue at work and while you are reading or eating or just having a pinpointed focus on it. There are no contraindications at all. This music is highly logic maybe even beyond logic at times. The issue is a part of the discography of Lost Children.

[Teaser of the day] Blessed Feathers - Stinging Nettle, Honeysuckle

• Alt-folk
• Indie folk
• Americana
• Folk indie
• New Weird America
• Dream folk

Artist: Blessed Feathers

Release: From the Mouths of the Middle Class

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] ART ABSCONs - Somnium 3

Paralucid

• Experimental pop
• Art pop
• Easy listening 
• Sampledelic
• Post-pop
• Neofolk
• Dreamwave
• Leftfield pop
• Lounge pop
• Crossover
• Avant-pop

Artist: ART ABSCONs

Release: Spektral Magik

Label: Paralucid

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Dustycri - Silence

Stato Elettrico

• Neofolk
• Dark folk
• Electronic music
• Industrial
• Leftfield
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: Dustycri

Release: Dusty Lost Tracks

Label: Stato Elettrico/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

Choke – Eponymous EP (2009)

Pen & Mallet 

• Art pop 
• Post-grunge 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Hardcore 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Experimental pop

Comment: Pen & Mallet involves an universe of bands and behind the musical groups is an universe of styles and genres of less and more experimental sort. With all those bands is involved a man called J. C Thorne. It is quite startling to read that J. C Thorne thinks of Choke as the most experimental band he is being involved in despite it is a relatively poppy group in comparison to others (for instance, I recommend listen to aboombong, Psychic Enemies, Dustdevil & Crow etc). The musician’s explanation is based on the approach of creating music to the band where music for the guitar-based soundscape is written by him who in fact cannot play the instrument at all (J. C Thorn is the drummer in the project). Furthermore, the other musicians have changed their roles with one another either. More concretely, I think of Alexander Orchid to be the most blatantly poppy issue on it due to those bombastic guitar riffs and David Liso`s flamboyant singing that fills the air unarguably. In fact, it is managed to the extent of chiming as an example of kitsch pop. Indeed, it is also an experimental approach. Another aspect related to the pop music scene is singing about romantic relationships and (ex)girlfriends in a doleful and even accusing manner. On the other side, the musicians like to demonstrate their teeth frequently to counterpoint mellow and softened approach. A nice example is Barcelona where the exuberant guitar line progresses into cacophonous noise. The favourite of mine is the final track Sheltering, an instance of light-hearted art pop. Browse is something of a very wicked one because in the beginning using an obscure, highly buried exploitation-alike storytelling being pointed against homosexuality and flabby behaviour (or at least something similar like that), which in the final part will be jettisoned in favour of a pummelling hardcore and technical metal blended torrent. In a nutshell, it is a mind-provoking issue.  

[Teaser of the day] Jan Strach - Zegar, ku

Underpolen

• Lo-fi
• DIY
• Avant-rock
• Comedy rock
• Noise pop
• Psych-pop
• Outsider pop
• Synth-rock
• Space pop
• Experimental pop
• Leftfield pop
• Weird

Artist: Jan Strach

Release: Trawiaste Miasto 

Label: Underpolen/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Tamara Laurel - Dying

Jamendo

• Singer-songwriter
• Baroque pop
• Art pop
• Americana
• Chamber pop

Artist: Tamara Laurel

Release: Lightning 

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] daRKRam - VI

Kermesse

• Blackgaze
• Space rock
• Illbient
• Experimental rock
• Dark ambient
• Ambient rock
• Doomgaze
• Avant-rock
• Epic
• Leftfield
• Improvised music

Artist: daRKRam

Release: Stone and Death

Label: Kermesse 

Year: 2016

Royalt – Just Because (2015)

MiMi

• Electronic music 
• Electro pop 
• Tech-electro 
• Alternative dance 
• Techno pop 
• Poptronica 
• Chilltronica 
• Mood music 
• Breaks 
• Tech-house

Comment: behind this project is Paulo Brito, the Coimbra, Portugal-based musician being active since 2008. Although his 6-notch issue is only as long as a 16-minute he provides enough much for one to get satisfied. I would like to tag his music as an example of post-disco though it is certainly a contemporary one. However, this could be the easiest and most superficial way to approach it. Indeed, it is about broken beats and suggestive melodic lines and catchy harmonies with the intention to entertain you in different ways. On the other side, in some pieces one could discern darker and specifically club oriented rhythms (at Care), which is a little bit more than the term “post-disco” is intended to embrace. Thirdly, some influences in his music come from an era of electronic music harking back earlier than the 1980s used to be (more profoundly, hints at Kraftwerk`s legacy). So here it is your turn to decide either he is on the way or manages to deviate this way partly. In general, one can perceive that Brito tries to manage a fine balance between the moody and entertaining side and the more technical approach in music. Ultimately it can be said he succeeded fairly in doing that.

[Teaser of the day] Gaze is Ghost - Revolvere

• Singer-songwriter
• Art pop
• Avant-pop
• Space pop
• Chamber pop
• Dream pop
• Electronic
• Baroque pop
• Drone pop
• Post-pop
• Epic
• Leftfield pop
• Experimental pop

Artist: Gaze is Ghost

Release: Revolvere/Murmuration

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Ellah a. Thaun - Adelaide Crescent

• Avant-pop
• Indie pop
• Acid pop
• Psych-pop
• Alternative
• Electronic
• Singer-songwriter
• Leftfield pop
• Experimental pop

Artist: Ellah a. Thaun

Release: Happy 29 Honey

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Steve Nash - Wishing My Life Away

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Psychedelic pop

Artist: Steve Nash

Release: World Outside My Window

Label: Small Bear

Year: 2016

Üwan - 4 (2015)

Year Zero

• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Hard rock 
• Noise rock 
• Post-rock 
• Stoner rock 
• Improvised music 
• Doom rock

Comment: Üwan`s tracks are named in the following way: For, Fort, Fore, Four. All these compositions are lengthy ones, extending from 10 minutes to 16 minutes ultimately clocking in at a 52-minute. At the metadata of the album the case is tagged as free rock. I can admit it though it might say nothing of an issue. In general, it could be said the issue starts off and finish off in a similar way. In the meantime, the artist changes its path through quite minimal dodges though the listener can clearly perceive of how all the soundscape conjured up with a guitar, a bass guitar, and the drums used to cumulate slowly in an expressive way. If you like blood, sweat, and mud all these elements do appear prominently over there. By the way, one can hear no words and singing throughout the course. Stylistically the issue has elegantly usurped an interface between improvised music, doom-laden rock, hard rock, stoner rock, noise rock, and psychedelia. It includes a shitloads of guitar riffs but is not embedded in clichès but providing them with refreshing tones. In a nutshell, it could be an ideal issue for the tough rock man who is interested in more playfulness and colours in the classic rock-oriented scene. Get the gem. Get it by now. The issue is a part of the discography of the avant-garde music imprint Year Zero Records.

[Teaser of the day] Illusory Scapes - Wait For My Shadow

• Ambient pop
• Chilltronica
• Downtempo
• Indietronica
• Mood music
• Alternative pop

Artist: Illusory Scapes

Release: Figments Of My Wishes

Label: AFA Sound Machine/Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Djerro - Heavenlies

• Avant-garde
• Ambient noise
• Experimentalism
• Abstract
• Electronic music
• Ambient
• Post-industrial

Artist: Djerro

Release: Djerro plays musick

Label: Eesti Pops

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Nordgroove - Horizons

MNMN

• Indietronica
• Downtempo
• Alternative pop
• Mood music
• Art pop
• Chilltronica

Artist: Nordgroove

Release: Kepper of the Samples

Label: MNMN

Year: 2016

Massimo Ruberti - Granchite Yumtruso PT. 1 (2016)

Nostress

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• Ambient pop 
• Post-classical 
• Avant-pop 
• Indietronica 
• Art pop 
• Free jazz 
• Electronic music
• Post-pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Space pop 
• Drone pop

Comment: Massimo Ruberti`s previous issue Armstrong (which was also a Nostress` issue) made me fairly psyched and excited because it was a beatific instance of spaced-out electronica. It was dedicated to Neil Armstrong and was an exemplary of how the music must be accomplished. The Italian musician continues to plough through the same field though there are up some differences too. For instance, the opening track Snorri/Hollow Earth chimes as an instance of indie electronica/drone pop/post-classical, having similarities with such artists as Spacemen 3, Tortoise, Penguin Café Orchestra, Efterklang. Welcome, to the indie music world, Massimo! The following track is as exhilarating as the previous one because gentle field recording templates, dribbly piano keys and a minor key motif are mixed up with majestic singing of alien-alike children, all of which later turns into the saxophone-led progression. Believe me, that’s very astounding. Once again, there can be drawn comparisons with another Jason Pierce-related project, Spiritualized. At Metal Talking Artifact Box Ruberti demonstrates again that he has entered into the indie music field because contemporary indie artists have jettisoned the guitars to replace them with other instruments, notably with the electronic keyboards. It could be admitted about the more mainstream-related artists and underground artists. More profoundly, the track is a tight mix of free jazz, and dub and electro-inflected electronic music (one could perceive more and less implicit nods toward Kraftwerk in the latter branch). This excellent issue will be finished off with Spider Guardian Machine in a space pop/ hypnotic electronic/shoegaze vein being provided with high intensity and dynamic impulses. It is one of the best issues in 2016. 

[Teaser of the day] The Agrarians - Piercing, Reckless Eyes

Free Music Archives

• Psych-folk
• Folk indie
• Singer-songwriter
• DIY
• Indie rock
• New Weird America
• Indie folk
• Psych-rock
• Lo-fi
• Alternative rock
• Alt-folk

Artist: The Agrarians

Release: The Jovial Shepherd

Label: Self-released 

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Kingdom of the Holy Sun - Sihanouk Trail

• Psychedelic rock
• Alternative rock
• Drone rock
• Neo-psychedelia
• Indie rock

Artist: Kingdom of the Holy Sun

Release: Thirteen Eyes E.P

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Dot.AY - Dayglodocus

• Bitpop
• Tracker music
• Chipbreak
• 8-bit
• Acid electro
• Nintendocore
• Chiptune
• Electronic music
• Primitronica

Artist: Dot.AY

Release: Ceratopian Society

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2011

Mutawwa`in + Noise Jihad – Split (2015)

Azawad

• Noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Leftfield 
• Non-music 
• Spiritual music 
• Post-industrial 
• Ethnic music
• World music

Comment: I am honoured to review a first issue (AZWD-156) from the discography of Azawad for Recent Music Heroes. This net-label started off in spring of 2013 to would have released more than 150 issues thereafter. However, it is surprising in 2016 there are no issues therefrom. In a word, do much, die fast. I really hope I am wrong in this case. One of the most prolific artists from the imprint is Noise Jihad and the project is also represented there in liaison with Mutawwa`in. Both artists provide just one composition – Noise Jihad`s one is a very fierce and incisive noise attack chiming like an industrial opus for dead men and unhappy ends. Mutawwa`in`s one is a quite different case because it is an organic bond between uplifting islamic singing, mid-range rhythms and the buried noise wall. In a nutshell, the experience is really captivating and staggering. Indeed, one can trace down the label’s and the artists` close relation with the Islam culture and some very reluctant aspects from the underground music thereby being obviously culturally influenced by such leftfield artist as Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze who lived too short but reached much to convey some problems to us related to Middle East and Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

[Teaser of the day] Semiosis - One For The Road

Asiluum

• Alternative rock
• Art rock
• Epic
• Experimental rock
• Post-rock

Artist: Semiosis

Release: Pictural

Label: Asiluum

Year: 2009 

[Teaser of the day] OSB - Bigger Things Rolling Over Us

• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Post-rock
• Post-classical
• Avant-rock
• Ambient
• Spoken word
• Improvised music
• Art music

Artist: OSB (formerly 1-Speed Bike) 

Release: Robbery EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Felipe Baradit Stevenson - Copacabana

Epa Sonidos

• Electro pop
• Alternative dance
• Electronic pop
• Synth electro

Artist: Felipe Baradit Stevenson

Release: Fiscalização Eletrônica

Label: Epa Sonidos

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Hua†a - Operation Mistletoe

• Stoner
• Sludge
• Post-metal
• Doom
• Experimental metal
• Avant-metal

Artist: Hua†a

Release: Atavist of Mann

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released/MUSICFEARSATAN/Cosmic Tomb  

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Isoleren Lawaai - Invasion=Evasion

Sirona-Records

• Dark ambient
• Illbient
• Avant-garde
• Techno
• Breakbeat
• Post-industrial
• Leftfield

Artist: Isoleren Lawaai

Release: On/Off EP

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Crayon Mortel - Away

Soundcloud

• IDM
• Alternative dance 
• Techno pop
• Crossover
• Ambient pop
• Electro pop

Artist: Crayon Mortel

Release: Piel

Label: 51beats

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Gartner - snk 8

Monofònicos

• IDM
• Experimental electronica
• Micronoise
• Post-industrial
• Leftfield

Artist: Gartner

Release: snk

Label: Monofònicos

Year: 2016

Mega – Scanner (2008)

Proc-records

• Alternative dance 
• Dub 
• Electronic music 
• Deep tekno

Comment: I am pleased to be back at the discography of Proc-records (proc041), and the recent issue is a two-track issue by Mega, called Scanner. There are represented lots of rhythms, spaced-out synthesizers and shades of dub-inflected and electronic origin. These rhythms are set up at a mid-tempo range. The dub influences are prominently put forth at Autumnscanner though later it will be intermingled with catchy tekno rhythms. The second track Abstinent Freakno is more about deep tekno shuffling with microscopic noises as if a track coming silently through the hours between the night and early morning. Because of that the outing can be considered as the sort of music, which used to be played late at a party. In a word, the result is a solid drift between arousing rhythms and laid-back milieus. Get it to insert it into your home system.