Recent Music Heroes

Comment: this 11-track issue conjures up off-kilter associations within me. One could imagine he/she is dreaming a nightmarish dream where he/she is thrown by an omnipotent creature to slide across a perfectly slick floor having no possibility to stop and then escape from there. The surrounding around you is dejected, rigid and horrendous until you will wake up. It is the kind of ambient music of signal-based noises and amplified electro-acoustic debris. Furthermore, at times it provides somewhat of such kind of twists one have no conviction of whether it was real or just a fruition of his/her imagination. Given that, quite ironically I could tag it as mood music because it does have much more power than most of the so-called mood music albums though doing it on totally disparate principles. Maybe those vibrant sounds which used to emerge here and there might even be considered as psychedelic ones? It is getting even more ironic by considering the fact the issue was generated by the Dronedario software. It could also bea admitted the relation between the particles and the total sum of the issue is not fixed at all which even more does befog the borders. The issue is a part of the discography of the Italian Triceratupuz Lab.

Olah Istvan – Signals to the North Horizon (2009)

Lomeanor

Avant-garde
Glitchtronica
Experimental electronica
Soundscapes
Ambient

Comment: the Serbian composer Olah Istvan`s one track issue consists of 872 seconds which is inspired by the North Pole by its coldness, beatific radiance, and clear heaven atop those massive icebergs and polar bears. Undoubtedly it is something which stays beyond borders of our every day life. It is a totally disparate world. By starting listening to it I was not aware of his influences for this issue. Instead it aroused me to think of it as a situation of remote future which is imbued with mechanical insects, enthralling rhythmic ticking, and abstract chirping. One could experience strange warmness oozing out of those hypnotic layers and glitched-out noises. One might have experienced similar sensations with Tim Hecker`s early recordings like Radio Amor, and Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do It Again. You could hear the ambience around you to breath and swell while adding new knacks to the blend. Coming in and then flutter around your ear. It is a hyper-realist glimpse you are get caught in. Fairly astonishing effort for sure. The issue was a part of the discography of the Russian-based Lomeanor which had been active from 2008 to 2010.

9/04/2016

[Teaser of the day] brunk - Takamine

Post-rock
Duyster
Experimental rock
Cowbell indie
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Avant-rock
Art rock

Artist: Brunk

Release: Koolmees

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Juan Antonio Nieto - Spell Away

Audiotalaia

Avant-garde
Sound art
Abstract
Experimentalism
Experimental electronica
Micronoise
Acousmatic music
Non-music

Artist: Juan Antonio Nieto

Release: Litium

Label: Audiotalaia

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Fake Cats Project - Sad Songs Pt.I: Bells

SuRRism-Phonoethics

Psychedelic rock
Avant-rock
Experimental rock
Krautrock

Artist: Fake Cats Project

Release: `Sad Songs`

Label: SuRRism-Phonoethics/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Kirill Kara-Banchuk - Moon

Mixgalaxy

Avant-garde
Field recordings
Experimentalism
Leftfield
Abstract
Alternative
Noise
Ambient techno

Artist: Kirill Kara-Banchuk

Release: Star T

Label: Mixgalaxy

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Otto Halmèn - Sylvan Waltz

Soundtrack
Art music
Mood music
Pagan music
Fantasy

Artist: Otto Halmèn

Release: Otto`s Creative Commons Tracks

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

t e l e p a t h テレパシ – 能力者 – 向かい合って (2014)

Bandcamp

Chillwave
Seapunk
Glo-fi
Alternative
Indie
Mood music
Future soul
Soul
Screwed and chopped
Dreamwave
Vaporwave

Comment: I guess such sort of music could be considered an example of contemporary slowcore even if the contemporary people would denote it with the following tags like chillwave, chopped and screwed, seapunk, vaporwave etc. The artist takes much time to present his state of mind through those drowsy and languid meanderings; the length of the pieces ranges from 8 minute to 56 minute (sic!). He is like a spider who likes to seduce the victim and then eat him/her. However, I couldn't resist it because boredom is conjured up in such a way as if converted into the fluid of cerebral chemistry. It is sticky and tight by its consistency being haunting due to those slowed down vocal deliveries and drum pads and guitar chords. In comparison to the aforementioned slowcore genre it is slowed down for twice at least, chiming more like a freaked out soul delegate from the future. Indeed, it sounds like a harbinger of future soul drifting across the one and the same thread. I guess Ariel Pink's first issues could have been sounded it that fascinating way if being slowed down. But it is not an important point in that case. Once again, I am enthralled by the branching of the physical boredom of austere chords and somehow haunting sensuality coming out of it. It is a sort of minimal music, isn't it. The minimal sort of music of the zombies with regard to the penultimate track, for instance. What will be the next big thing with regard to the production side? Maybe intense states of madness and fury to be stretched out and then converted into the sonic files? I guess it could be a reasonable way to give music another spin in a contemporary key. In truth, there are up some more overtly chilled-out compositions either where the twisted point is more repressed. In a nutshell, it is a wondrous issue, which obviously does have its own disciples as well. For example, listen to Florian Wahl's brand new one 14.

Tutan Come On – Tutan Come On (2013)

Bandcamp

Hard rock
Doom rock
Trash metal
Hair metal
Hair rock

Comment: it might be problematic to say much words and columns about this 9-track issue because it seems to be rolling upwards and then downwards, then upwards, and then upwards the mountain's slope in a powerful key. On the other hand, it is an intriguing listening because one is thrown in the middle of a burbling whirlpool of lively vocals done in Basque, those heavily pummelling drums and sometimes doom-ish guitar induced colours and thumping basses. Indeed, it is quite unusual to listen to this campy hair metal tinged falsetto with those sooty drenched guitars at the same time. You know, there are up some topics like love, women, cars and sleek clothes represented excessively, i.e. resulting in kitsch. Indeed, it induces an amusing and thereof positive resonance within me. Fortunately the virtuosity by the band members did not kill fun within it. It chimes like a group of hair rockers from the 80s having accidentally found themselves in the time machine and landed in the 10s.

Tunnelbirds – The Horner Sessions (2015)

2419 Record Label
Bandcamp

Psych-rock
Raga rock
Alternative rock
Garage rock
Indie rock
Acid rock
Blues rock
Lo-fi

Comment: first of all, it seems to me that Beer Bottle Blues is the most rocking issue throughout this 10-notch issue. It reveals the combo to be at their most acidic and dynamic. The other tracks might be more restrained, at times veering into the intonation of sordid blear-eyed blues/boozy rock (at Today I Lost My Job), at times making up more raga tinged incantations, at times just jolting and rattling through fluttering wah-wah guitar effects and linear chord manipulations being at times stretched out, being at times pitched-up therefore creating a psychedelic effect. At times it does not reach a magical effect, especially at the time of more acoustic moments, but mostly it succeeds and acts upon the listener. Especially in such tracks as I Don`t See It In You, and Dark Side. Minute Songs exploits some grunge-y riffs but fortunately it evades the borders of grunge music by straddling on a blackened layer of blues rock. Given that you shall have to listen to it to decide whether is it your cup of tea or not. For me it is a cup of coffee. Tunnelbirds is a combo from Utrecht, The Netherlands and the issue is a part of the discography of 2419 Record Label.

9/02/2016

[Teaser of the day] Nangdo - Spinning

Planet Terror

Sampledelic
Cinematic
Alternative dance
Urban music
Breaks
Disco
Soul
Mood music
Funk
Hip-hop
Rap

Artist: Nangdo

Release: Chrome

Label: Planet Terror

Year: 2010

9/01/2016

[Teaser of the day] Theodor Zox - B.Script

Thinner

Microhouse
Minimal
Dub house
Funk house
Clickhouse
Tech-house
House
Alternative dance

Artist: Theodor Zox

Release: Pastels 1-4

Label: Thinner

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Jeff Bennett - Displaced

Epsilonlab

House
Club dance
Dub house
Dub
Alternative dance

Artist: Jeff Bennett

Release: Doubting Faces EP

Label: Epsilonlab

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Charles Tone - Das Haus im Wald

Pentagonik

Electronic music
Alternative
Field recording
Alternative
Tech-dub
Crossover
Found sounds
Dub house
Dub techno
Minimal dub

Artist: Charles Tone

Release: Eine Wolke Stand In Den Weiten Noch Lange

Label: Pentagonik

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Mataharibisu - At That Time We Faded

Inmyroom

Electronic
Ambient pop
Indietronica
Post-rock
Art pop
Alternative pop
Indie pop

Artist: Mataharibisu

Release: Chorion Apolysis

Label: Inmyroom

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] The Jakesperiment - Scwarz

Bad Panda

Psychedelic
Post-classical
Modern classical
Lo-fi
Experimental pop
Electronic music
Alternative
DIY

Artist: The Jakesperiment

Release: Scwarz

Label: Bad Panda

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Moses Luster and the Hollywood Lights - I Got You

Singer-songwriter
Americana
Folk indie
Alt-folk
Indie folk

Artist: Moses Luster and the Hollywood Lights

Release: The Hangman`s Door

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

(Null_) – (Null_)EP (2013)

Hand Craft

IDM
Organic electronica
Alternative
Indietronica
Primitive music
Glitchtronica
Art music
Post-classical

Comment: before listening to the recent issue I got caught up in listening to the Russian Messer Für Frau Müller`s Happy End Dead (1992), and the English post-punk legend The Fall`s Sinister Waltz (1985) on tapes, both of these issues could be considered cynical and misanthropic ones. In any cases, it influenced me enough to look at Null`s 5-track from a perspective of cynicism. More profoundly, the release is being without any words, and there are represented soothing piano chords, some blissful orchestrations and dreamy harmonies and lead motives. However, it is “ruined” with rugged glitched-out rhythms, clockwork and movie camera-alike pastoral sounds and almost tangible interactions between the stereo channels. At the moment I am representing the view from a perspective of a mainstream critic though I would rather prefer the recent issue coming out the mainstream scene. The only cynicism and laziness I cannot stand for with regard to the outing is that the guys behind this issue have not been able to manage the rest of the catalogue of Hand Craft. What the heck, is it really hard for you guys to upload it at Archive.org, for instance? It is a crime against the music, you know.

8/31/2016

[Teaser of the day] Robert Avellanet - The One And Only

Jamendo

Soul
Rhythms and blues
Funk
Singer-songwriter
Balladry
Pop
Crossover

Artist: Robert Avellanet

Release: Heart & Soul

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2014

[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.

8/30/2016

[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.

8/29/2016

[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.

8/27/2016

[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.

8/26/2016

[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.

8/25/2016

[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.

8/24/2016

[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.

8/23/2016

[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.

8/22/2016

[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!

8/21/2016

[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. .

8/20/2016

[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.