[Teaser of the day] Matti Paalanen - Morphing

Jamendo

• Post-classical
• Ambient pop
• Darkwave
• Alternative
• Neoclassical
• Mood music

Artist: Matti Paalanen

Release: Darkwave

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Roman Panatela - Are You Randomly Generated

• Minimal techno
• Avant-techno
• Experimental electro
• Tech-electro
• Minimal electro
• Avant-electro
• Experimental techno

Artist: Roman Panatela

Release: March 2006 EP

Label: 17 Sons/Archive.org

Year: 2006

Alexander Strung – Party (2009)

The Gifted Children

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

Comment: although Alexander Strung`s 9-track issue Party was issued lately on the verge of the 00s the influence of some parts of the epoch could be heard throughout these 26 minutes. It seems to me that these slightly restrained indie pop songs are influenced both by the Rhein-area indietronica/neo-krautrock scene by the likes of To Rococo Rot, Pluramon, Kreidler, Tarwater, Lali Puna and the US-based post-rock scene by the likes of Mice Parade, Mercury Program, Sea And The Cake, Jim O`Rourke, The American Analog Set. It is the balanced sway between the guitars and synthesizers, between sensual vocal lines and programmed stomping drums and hovering pastoral orchestrations on a minor scale. On the other side, the artist is searching for relaxed balance between technological luxury, and emotive susceptibility. Given that the technological luggage embraces an innumerable amount of possibilities it is arguably not easy task altogether. In a word, the artist demonstrates adeptly its musical skills being not separated from emotions fortunately. The favourites of mine are Olympic Twin, Black Rabbit, Party (What's The Point), Valley Forge. There are up both Alexander Strung`s issues via The Gifted Children. In a nutshell, it is an astonishing one. 

[Teaser of the day] Florian Wahl - Cyberpunk Atlantis

• Electronic pop
• Soul
• Screwed and chopped
• Urban music
• Autotune
• Avant-pop
• Singer-songwriter
• Alternative

Artist: Florian Wahl

Release: 14

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] The Foxholes - Goldminer Song

Bestiar

• Psych-rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Hard rock
• Angst rock

Artist: The Foxholes

Release: The Foxholes

Label: Bestiar

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] RAKTA - Apenas mais um

• Krautrock
• Space rock
• Acid rock
• Psychedelic rock
• Avant-rock
• Leftfield
• Neo-psychedelia
• Experimental rock

Artist: RAKTA

Release: Rakta em transe

Label: NADA NADA DISCOS/DAMA DA NOITE DISCOS

Year: 2015

Syntech Vedeneev – Tonehammer EP (2013)

DAST Net Recordings

• Tech-house 
• Deep house 
• Remix 
• Minimal techno 
• Club dance

Comment: it starts off with the original mix of Tonehammer, which is tech-house by its style though it is getting even more sympathetic thanks to it the rhythm is syncopated with a funky propulsion. The following notch My House deserves its name because those lofty and hazy sensations coming out of the sound used to mingle and culminate in the deep house frequencies. The style is good enough to use it for yourself to fall asleep instead of eating sleeping pills. Fuck off the drugs! Music is the best remedy against any of kind of mental distress anyway! Its Party Time used to sway between the channels being more minimal and restrained in comparison to the previous ones. However, the first opinion of mine might be the disillusion because one can perceive a slowly winding rhythmic structure to be progressing and coming to fruition with the assistance of kick drums. It like the tension between the primitive and the sophisticated. That’s very catchy it could be said ultimately. The EP, which was issued on DAST Net Recordings three years ago is finished off by a Kratos` hazy remix of the title track. It is elegantly hazy because of exploiting more external sounds and vowel effects which make sweeping movements across the soundscape and adhere to the hypnotic cadence. In a nutshell, it creates the fascinating surrounding around the listener, I guess, in the face of different periods of the day. It is much better and more haunting one could expect before listening to the first chords.

[Teaser of the day] Ghost Radio - e 12 Eleven

Phonocake

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Art music
• Dark ambient
• Leftfield
• Minimalism

Artist: Ghost Radio

Release: Achilles

Label: Phonocake

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Nawito Duo - Ragatòn

Jacobino Discos

• Raga music
• Experimental folk
• Raga folk
• Trance folk
• Avant-folk
• Drone folk
• Psych-folk
• Alternative 

Artist: Nawito Duo

Release: Labores

Label: Jacobino Discos

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Ecosyn - Biocompatibility

• Ambient
• Soundscapes
• Alternative
• Dreamwave
• Electronic music

Artist: Ecosyn

Release: Negative Eugenics

Label: Pyramids

Year: 2016

Ellah a. Thaun – Happy 29 Honey (2016)

Bandcamp

• Alternative
• Electronic music 
• Synthwave 
• Indie 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Minimalism 
• Experimental pop 
• Leftfield 
• Electro-indie 
• Acid rock 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Minimal synth

Comment: maybe I am remembering wrong but the Frenchwoman Nathanaelle Hauguel is setting the pace to be even more experimental and electronic with any following issue. However, with her 28-year old age she has done much enough because it is hard task for someone to enumerate all her issues at Bandcamp. It is the privilege of an artist to be remembered for always and differentiate from the mob with her/his distinctive ideas. It is a striking listening because there are up different elements of contemporary indie music. Indeed, it is really up-to-date because this 8-notch issue could be divided into two sections. There is up the surging acid rock of Adelaide Crescent, there are up Stopthefellow II, and Off The Veins which are tickling minimal synth numbers. Feer is an expansion of the previous pieces coming to fruition with angelic pop chord progressions and a tight yet spherical synthesised layer. The first 7 compositions and the last one Saturn Returning, which comprises almost a half part of these 33 minutes. Of course, it does not mean that there can be no dividing line between the first pieces. Any of them is special with poignant moves and impetus and robs you yet the last one is a step into another world with those analogue-based (or analogue-alike) fabric of dusty keyboards and minimalistic rhythms being more similar to such artists as Oneohtrix Point Never, Emeralds, Steven Hauschildt, M Geddes Gengras, and Tim Hecker. In a word, Saturn Returning is a subtle minimalistic composition based on a cut-up chord progression, which might even remember for Penguin Cafè Orchestra and Daniel Figgis by its feeling and touch. In a nutshell, you shall have to make hard work to find out other such outstanding issues as it is from the year of 2016.

[Teaser of the day] Plaistow - Crash

12rec.

• Free jazz
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde
• Alternative
• Experimentalism
• Improvised music

Artist: Plaistow

Release: Do You Feel Lucky?

Label: 12rec./Bandcamp

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Cinchel - Skip

• Post-rock
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Experimental electronica
• Epic
• Electronic music
• Ambient
• Art rock
• Experimentalism
• Ambient rock

Artist: Cinchel

Release: Diamond In The Rough

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Linn Mori - Free Your Soul

• Jazz funk
• Sampledelic
• Smooth jazz
• Mood music
• Afrofunk
• Funk
• Yacht pop
• Crossover
• Dance music
• Psychedelic pop

Artist: Linn Mori

Release: Ocean Bed

Label: Orikami

Year: 2016 

Taiki Ozawa – Ritmo De Hydra EP (2016)

Cicuta

• Techno 
• Breakcore 
• Electro 
• Crossover 
• Alternative dance 
• Industrial techno 
• Hard electro 
• Deep techno

Comment: honestly it is hard to decide what kind of music is predominant on this 5-track issue clocking in at a 33-minute. At times it is about sleek electro, at times about suave deep techno, at times just about fast-paced electro and techno mingled progenies (for instance, at Dos). A characteristic being common to all this bunch is a lurking milieu hovering and flowing atop the rhythms. At times it used to be not lurking anymore, having metamorphosed into clear industrial-tinged noises, echoes and hisses, and crackles. At Tres the artist makes up a sonic mayhem of hard, obsessive electro beats, smashed crackles, lurid noises which used to gravitate towards the black hole eventually. It is followed by a remix of the track by Czech Spigl, which is more relaxed and laid-back though providing similarly the obsessive outlook though doing it in other key. However, as we know the mixed things are at best frequently conveying aspects coming unexpectedly and emphasizing some weaker aspects in compositions. In a word, it is one of the most bewildering rhythmic issues in 2016 being released through Cicuta Records.

Enkephalin - Scntst (2016)

Abstrakt Reflections
Bandcamp

• Folktronica 
• Dubstep 
• Post-dubstep 
• Electronic music 
• Remixes 
• Electro
• Experimental electronica

Comment: the opening track The Darwinist chimes as a whimsical blend of folk-based guitars and acid-drenched synthesizers and tectonic rhythms yet the piece does not set the pace for the rest of this 9-track issue. Later on, the guitars are abandoned or at least withdrawn to a lesser trajectory and massive dubstep frequencies and exquisite post-dubstep cadences being imbued with some electro flickers are about to going to predominate the first row within it. However, Galileo is another track where the guitars are to come back and zap a composition. The Belgian artist has a proficient touch to wrench these beats and frequencies in the way of finding the ending point in the listener’s brain and heart and coccyx. That is most important. The issue is ended up by a set of three remixes by the likes of c0ma, Andrew Course, and Max Greening aka Flatland Sound Studio. I like a remix of Tesla`s Dream created by Flatland Sound Studio, which used to sample hilariously enthusiastic words with the operatic kind of singing. In formal, it is not mentioned as a studio album but rather as a case of EP plus remixes. However, the result is grand in its rhythmical alchemy and moody meandering. The issue is a part of the discography of the Argentinian Abstrakt Reflections.

[Teaser of the day] Sean Nicholas Savage - Over The Night

• Soul pop
• Art pop
• Alternative pop
• Sophisti-pop
• Soft pop
• Northern soul
• Indie pop
• New Wave
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: Sean Nicholas Savage

Release: Magnificent Fist

Label: Arbutus 

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] The Bordellos - Attack Of The Killer B-Sides

• Post-punk
• Alternative rock
• Art punk
• Indie rock
• Avant-rock
• Dada music
• Experimental rock
• Psychedelic rock

Artist: The Bordellos

Release: Gary Glitter e.p

Label: Small Bear

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Robert G. Rough - 42 Days Part 2

Hortus Conclusus

• Ambient
• Kosmische Musik
• Sound art
• Soundscapes
• Minimalism
• Space music
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: Robert G. Rough

Release: 42 Days

Label: Hortus Conclusus 

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Jhones Junkie - 04

Antena

• Illbient
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism
• Dark ambient
• Acousmatic music
• Sound art
• Dystopbient
• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Ambient drone

Artist: Jhones Junkie

Release: OUTRO

Label: Antena

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Garmisch - Glimmer

blocSonic

• Electro-pop
• Alternative pop
• Electronic pop
• Indie pop
• Dance rock
• Alternative dance
• Alternative pop
• Electro-indie
• Indie dance
• Psychedelic pop
• Poptronica

Artist: Garmisch

Release: Garmisch

Label: blocSonic/Free Music Archive

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Ataque Escampe - Noites de agosto

• Alt-folk
• Indie folk
• Art folk
• World music
• Folk indie
• Psychedelic

Artist: Ataque Escampe 

Release: Noites de agosto con Ataque Escampe

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

Вежа Хмар ‎– Ритуал (1998)

Вежа Хмар

• New Weird Ukraine 
• Avant-garde 
• Illbient 
• Experimentalism 
• Drone 
• Post-folk 
• Ambient drone 
• Minimalism 
• Soundscapes 
• Abstract 
• Post-psychedelic electronica 
• Leftfield

Comment: if you feel yourself a bit dejected then the recent issue’s minimal nature might be suitable for you as a remedy. Not only this aspect is substantial with regard to the roughness of the outing. You could imagine a post apocalyptic vision, for instance, the moments after the mighty outburst of a super volcano wherein the lava is getting to harden slowly and all will be clearing and brightening around the immense epicentre. Undoubtedly it could be a wonderful glimpse. Indeed, there are up some hopes about the situation to be getting improved. The buildup of the issue supports all the aforementioned words because of being adeptly expressive. The first tracks of the debut album Ритуал (Ritual) by the Ukraine-based combo Вежа Хмар (Vezha Khmar/Veja Mar) draw solely on raw drones of low frequency as if it had been recorded with the assistance of a grimy cartridge. Later on, however, the situation is imbued with brighter sounds, for example, with vowel hovering and vibrato-laden droning. Furthermore, the more the issue is coming to its finishing point the more you can perceive exalting emptiness (or is it broadness?) oozing out from everywhere. I does not foretell us a new beginning at that point but the new beginning has already existed out the re for a while. Musically it is a drone album with vague hints at ambient/illbient and succumbed psychedelic music yet there somewhere around you could discern the ghosts of post-rock, post-folk and doom coming closer and then fading away at a time. In a word, the result is striking and impressionistic in its sublime roughness. This great issue was initally released on Mariupol-based imprint Bloodhead Production. 

[Teaser of the day] iX - Diumenge Acaba El Món

Jamendo

• Agit-pop
• Alternative pop
• Art pop
• Folk indie
• Chamber pop
• Indie folk

Artist: iX

Release: Cançons d'amor i activisme milèssim

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] NOW - Creatures

Clinical Archives

• Drone pop
• Indietronica
• Psychedelic pop
• Post-rock
• Electronic
• Experimental pop
• Neokrautrock
• Motorik pop
• Alternative
• Leftfield pop

Artist: NOW

Release: pileofskyhighmiles

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Colours - Mining Engineer in the Mental System

Ephedrina

• Free jazz
• Avant-jazz
• Swing
• Polyrhythmic
• Funk
• Experimental jazz
• Mood music

Artist: Colours

Release: Swing Naif

Label: Ephedrina/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

Hat Goblin – Brandishing My Conch EP (2012)

Eye Machine Recordings

Archive.org

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

Comment: just breath in and be ready to start off listening to this 7-track issue though there is not much happening at all. It is based on shrill guitar twanging and intoning by a slacker musician called Chris Bading from Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. By mentioning his slacker side I meant only his aesthetical, primitive approach. Otherwise Chris Bading is highly prolific I guess you have no time to enumerate all his issues at Bandcamp, for instance. It could be said the recent whole chimes like being played as one homogeneous piece. However, having gotten many listening times behind I would compare it with some kind of acoustic session by an archetypical grunge man wherein the listener can discern more colours rather than just being a monochromatic flicker. At times his attitude is being more relaxed, at times being starkly desperate and emotionally strident. As we know very well the premise of one sort of art is to be spawn across the spiked way with tears, sweat, and pain. As a result of psychosis and the instability of a state of mind. In a word, it is a quintessential home recording example where the guitar and enterprising will are needed to demolish the prototypical blueprint of masculine man with guitar. Yeah, it reminds me of a sweet span of time in the end of the 00s when such artists started to appear to the limelight. The issue is a part of the discography of Eye Machine Recordings.

[Teaser of the day] Pogohm - Strong Weakness

Sirona-Records

• Drum and bass
• Breakcore
• Robot pop
• Electronic music
• Sampledelic
• Electro
• Jungle
• Dream and bass

Artist: Pogohm

Release: Spank

Label: Sirona-Records/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Demetr - Rain Man

MNMN 

• Synthwave
• Alternative dance
• Retrowave
• Synth pop
• Electronic pop

Artist: Demetr

Release: Different View Of The World 

Label: MNMN/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] gloss. - New Destination

Fusion

• Indietronica
• Breaks
• Chillstep
• Electronic music
• Crossover
• Downtempo
• Alternative
• Mood music
• Sampledelic

Artist: gloss.

Release: Trophy

Label: Fusion

Year: 2011

Knowz & Darkside – Starship Troopers EP (2016)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Bandcamp

• Breaks 
• Hip-hop 
• Acid jazz 
• Sampledelic 
• Nu jazz 
• Chilltronica 
• Rap 
• Crossover 
• Mood music 
• Urban music

Comment: undoubtedly electronic revolution in music in the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s did have a huge influence on major genres, including jazz music. Furthermore, it made possible to carry out new flows within a new paradigm with the help of electronic music, club dance, and other styles. It was the time to spit out such styles as acid and nu jazz. Later on, such labels as Ninja Tune, And Rune Grammofon, for instance, directed a part of jazz music across different trajectories. The former of them searched for such impulses being brought out from the human being’s inner space to intermesh them with cinematic panoramas and colourful imaginations and softened rhythmic alchemy. It could be said the Bulgarian-based Dusted Wax Kingdom imprint was obviously strongly influenced by it, however, to establish its own universe to exist on and having influence on others. One planet in this galaxy is this 8-notch outing, which is important enough because it conjures up a moody surrounding around the listener. Otherwise it is a soul-amusing platform for crossing different genres with one another. More profoundly, cool jazz meets with hip-hop and rap meets chilled-out electronic frequencies meet whimsical spoken word slices meet medieval flute sounds now and then. Indeed, you did hear it in right way – medieval sounds interlaced with other ones. One can imagine the spherical sonorous layers to be alight to get fun from some innocent mundane sins. At times the listener’s heart gets shredded by those beatific orchestrations and blissful moves of lead motives. In a nutshell, let’s download it to your music folder to be adjusted with other other releases from the discography of Dusted Wax Kingdom or the ones of being a mere but solid bit of the aforementioned imprints. And there is the great coverprint by any means.   

[Teaser of the day] Azevedo Silva - Inimiga

Free Music Archive

• Free folk
• Folk indie
• Space folk
• Weird folk
• Experimental folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Dream folk
• Folktronica
• New Weird Portugal
• Indie folk
• Art folk
• Ambient folk

Artist: Azevedo Silva

Release: Tartaruga

Label: Làstima/Bandcamp/Archive.org 

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Hunter`s Moon - Astral Awakening

Stillborn Twins

• Black metal
• Darkwave
• Brutal metal
• Blackgaze
• Post-metal
• Atmospheric black metal
• Avant-metal

Artist: Hunter`s Moon

Release: The Death And Rebirth Of The Spirit

Label: Stillborn Twins/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[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!