Valovoima - Amundsen's Journey (2014)

Kovaydin

• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Conceptual 
• Hi-NRG 
• Downtempo 
• Trance

Comment: I guess this is not the first issue being inspired by the legendary traveller and geographer of Norwegian heritage whose moves in the periphery of Northern hemisphere made him immortal due to his superhuman stretch. Valovoima's three track issue though embracing lengthy compositions reflects tightly upon possible appearances and situations with convincing power through propellent, galvanised energy yet being at times segmented into more murky, at times more cheerfully ennobling progressions. Musically and stylistically it is a quite extraordinary outing because of incorporating such styles as laid back downtempo, reverberating shamanistic trance and shrill Hi-NRG into each other. The issue which simultaneously provokes one's mind and soothes it due to majestic synthesised progressions is a part of the discography to Kovaydin.

The Hirundu – The Savage Crimes E.P (1990)

Bandcamp

• DIY
• Lo-fi
• Alternative rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Psych-rock
• Indie rock
• Outsider  
• Jangle pop

Comment: Mark E. Smith and The Fall are being considered as true representatives of the underground rock movement. Although The Blackpool, UK-based John Crewdson-led project The Hirundu could be considered a doppelgänger of the Manchester legends yet they have represented something even more through since the end of the 80s. Stylistically they are more diverse and musically more hoarse and firsthand. This was their one of the first issues at all while they were being more guitar driven sounding as a demented, fucked-up blues influenced rock and roll act, the formula which was two decades earlier invented by Captain Beefheart. Strumming (indeed, reflecting upon then strong jangle pop influence – for instance, at I'll See You you could draw comparisons with McCarthy) and at times light-hearted propulsive guitars are set atop in the middle of buried singing and reversed sonic effects and inferior yet somehow stimulating tape hisses. The Blackpool-based combo's music consisting of four pieces is very elegant and irresistible in its lo-fi tinged approach. It is a very solid notch within their great legacy being issued under their own Pitch And Putt Records.

Stereoshape – New Vintage (2012)

Bandcamp

• Nu jazz 
• Breaks 
• Funk soul 
• Alternative dance 
• Brass pop 
• Synth rock 
• Soft rock 
• House

Comment: this is a magnificent dance pop interface made up of catchy funk, soul, nu jazz, house and brass pop threads. It is highly dance appealed, sexy, sweaty and rhythmic. In a word, I am saying the words being tautological with regard to the extraverted rhythmic music. Nonetheless there are represented some deviations from the main formula where the artist is immersed in silky dreams and velvety longing. Furthermore, the issue proves that a scope within the dance music by a contemporary artist could be very wide having no doubts and spoiling considerations. Just take them off to get full sway over one's body language and mood. Just listen to it to get convinced of the quality of this 9-piece issue. It is not a disposable issue, because it will not be an issue in ages. It is an exalting cocktail for all ages from Mainz, Germany. The project`s newest issue Laser Lori awaits to be listened.

Spooky Cigarette – As Loud As I Can (2016)

Bleeding Gold

• Alternative pop/rock 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Psych-pop 
• Glo-fi 
• Post-punk
• Art rock

Comment: just having abandoned all the pretenses to reach objectivity I think of it as one of the best issues in 2016. More profoundly, it is a fabulous chain made up by a catchy song-writing and a vivid rhythmic chugging and tickling contemporary sonic possibilities, all of which are adeptly accomplished. It emits audible and emotional depth and splendour mixed up tightly and exuberantly. In bold, post-punk meets with psychedelic music via Ariel Pink-esque and chillwave impacts and David Lynch-ian touch. I guess The Cure might have sounded in that way if they started today. However, what we have to admit Spooky Cigarette is not a new The Cure. I like the singer's incessant change into different roles from a careless dandy to a more brooding, zombie-alike undercurrents imbued with a velvety timbre and suggestive intonation. Frequently these are epic, hymn drenched notches. However, it is hard to convey the magic and bewildering touch of this 4 track issue. One of the most staggering (pop) issues I have heard in 2016 so far. It is great pleasure to live in the 10s and enjoying the sonorous fare of it. It is much better than the mostly horrific 90s (stupid eurobeat and spineless Britpop acts). As loud as you can. At least after listening to it you can do it for sure. The issue is a part of the discography of Bleeding Gold.

[Teaser of the day] Elvira - Runnaway

Error! Lo-Fi Recordings

• Art folk
• Folk indie
• Experimental folk
• Post-folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Epic
• Indie folk
• Cowbell folk

Artist: Elvira

Release: Pequeños Apuntes... EP

Label: Error! Lo-Fi Recordings

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Wings Of An Angel - God, Tusk, and The Sun

• Kosmische Musik
• Space music
• Psybient
• Chill out
• Alternative
• Psychedelic
• Electronic music
• New Age
• Mood music

Artist: Wings Of An Angel

Release: The Master Thief Who Stole Your Lucid Dreams (A Retrospective Anthology Of My Early Sample​-​Based Creative Work)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Très Aimé - Ardor

• Avant-pop
• Post-pop
• Dub
• Art pop
• Chillwave
• Indie
• Alternative

Artist: Très Aimé

Release: Beko_très aimè

Label: Beko DSL

Year: 2016

Strobcore – Funky Music EP (2009)

Chase

Jamendo

• Hi-NRG 
• Gabber
• Hellektro 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Harsh trance 
• Breakcore

Comment: this set of three pieces is managed to an extreme of electro music being overloaded by raspy, cut-up rhythms, iterative noise-near rhythmic blasts and galvanised glitches of digital madness. At times one can perceive how the energy behind those propulsions used to submerge all the whole and it will result in a weird picture of being partly eaten by itself. It is fun(k)(n)y music. Undoubtedly it is not a decent fare fro all those who have fancied dance music of different kinds because it is the kind of dance music which likes to destroy itself. On the other hand, it used to deal with the mighty stroboscopes because you could vividly imagine how the light is going to dance in a broken and fragmented way. There is up a paradox in such sort of music. The cheesiness and some sort of cheapness of the music is superseded by the immense frequency in rhythmic patterns and mind-blowing harshness in textures and fancy experiments with accelerated and decelerated implications in the middle of the mix at times turned to a ridiculous extent. In a word, it could be considered somehow the negation of electro music. Get involved in that stuttering madness. The issue is a notch in the discography of the French label Chase (Chase033).

[Teaser of the day] Simulacro: - Demodulador De Espectativas

Registro Latente

• Drone
• Minimalism
• Abstract
• Experimental electronica
• Sound art
• Experimentalism
• Microtonal
• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Leftfield

Artist: Simulacro:

Release: Profecía Fallida/Bandcamp 

Label: Registro Latente 

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Once Were Ghosts - Ethereal

Sirona-Records

• Post-rock
• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Art rock
• Ambient rock

Artist: Once Were Ghosts

Release: Transient Silence

Label: Sirona-Records/Bandcamp 

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Auxomaux - Na dushe skrebutsya koshki

Jamendo

• Alternative rock
• Noise rock
• Electronic
• Improvised music
• Post-punk

Artist: Auxomaux

Release: Clouds Of Hell EP

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2012

Hermelin – Hermelin (2008)

12rec.

Bandcamp

• Post-rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Power pop 
• Epic
• Experimental rock 
• Art rock

Comment: once one previous indie man and later house music and jungle promoter called the post-rock musicians as representatives of the so-called normcore. His statement was made with the purpose to hint at the normality and conventionality of the aforementioned style. By listening to this 9-notch issue by Hannover-based combo Hermelin one could perceive opposite sensations. At times it could sound as a post-rock example in ages, at times it is full of interesting sounds and tumultuous dodges. However, to understand its full value it should be taken back to 2008 when post-rock was still a full-fledged style with inspiring idealism and immense inner burning. The more I am listening to it the more I have to admit to disagreement with the aforementioned indie man about the normality of the style even if it is a little bit worn by time and changes in our understanding. Honestly, the problem is hidden within us but not in music. What is the goal of music in overall? To provide a solid rhythmic accompaniment aligned with the sturdy melody line. That is accomplished over there. In a nutshell, get involved in this forceful tour de force with exquisite pastel hues. It says more than the guys with low self-esteem. The fascinating issue is a part of the discography of 12rec. .  

[Teaser of the day] Pigeons & The Insane Porridgemakers - Craftmanship

Clinical Archives

• Psychedelic rock
• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Avant-rock
• Art rock
• Trance rock
• Spoken word

Artist: Pigeons & The Insane Porridgemakers

Release: Le Voyage

Label: Clinical Archives/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Slimey Things - They Have Agents Everywhere

• Avant-prog
• RIO
• Zeuhl
• Acid rock
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Psychedelic rock
• Art rock

Artist: Slimey Things

Release: Goodbye Earth

Label: Art As Catharsis

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Ghost Wavvves - Candy Paint

• Cloud rap
• Vapourwave
• Avant-hop
• Rap
• Experimental hip-hop
• Chillwave
• Seapunk
• Chopped and screwed
• Alternative

Artist: Ghost Wavvves

Release: クリスタルCrystals
Label: Monster Jinx

Year: 2015

MPHM – Stunted Time (2006)

Abyssa

• Industrial music 
• Avant-garde 
• Post-industrial
• Alternative 
• Experimentalism 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Dark ambient 
• Illbient

Comment: in other words, “stunted” does mean inferior inferior in size and quality. However, it is quite puzzling to imagine temporal moments to be somehow inferior in size. In fact, I guess it does not mean nothing at all. On the other hand, temporal spans could be inferior in quality it is thoroughly viable. I guess one of the artist`s purposes was to have possibility to step back on the occasion. On the other side, maybe the artist`s goal was inclined to have a spot on sounds of lower quality and therefore the title could reflect inferior impulses upon your precise listening times. In fact, it is a span of quality time as it used to be with many industrial issues before it. Just everyone is aware of the fact the embodiment of industrial music embraces topics being provoking, irritating, and even disgusting to a “normal”, average human being. Its cultural heritage is a collection of murky and desolate shards being mixed up into something ennobling even if it might be horrendous, cheerless, morbid and perverted. By listening to this set of compositions it is rounded out by ill-omened orchestrations and sombre droning, morbid drumming being either based on lone gongs or programmed smouldering rhythms, outright desperate vocals and cut-up sonification, challenging electro-acoustic meddling and zombie-alike shit in general. At times one could perceive an interface to be set up between blackened ambient, Teutonic Klingklang approach and sultry rhythmic alchemy. Do not afraid of it while being the subject to such approaches and sounds because it is especially intriguing to listen to it after a day’s hard work. Furthermore, if you are looking at such composition as Slumber Machinery your soul is going to bleed presumably because of being touched so poignantly and painfully. Of course, the situation is getting worse if it evokes adverse flashbacks from your memory. Undoubtedly it does have potential to do it. In a word, the result is outstanding both by scratching one`s strings in deep of his/her soul because of being outstanding by the formal and substantial side. The outing is a bit in the discography of excellent French imprint Abyssa (its active years had passed during the 00s).

[Teaser of the day] Anitek - Cedar Tops

Free Music Archive

• Breaks
• Hip-hop
• Mood music
• Chilltronica
• Trip-hop
• Sampledelic
• Urban music
• Rap

Artist: Anitek

Release: Calm & Collect Vol.2

Label: Self-released/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Patkus - Tamam Shud

• Ambient rock
• Post-rock
• Cinematic
• Sampledelic
• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Art rock
• Psychedelic
• Chamber rock

Artist: Patkus

Release: These Are But Dreaming Men, Breathe and They Fade 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Children Of The Drone - 31/05/04 ->14/01/04

Archive.org

• Improvised music
• Psych-folk
• Ambient folk
• Drone folk
• Trance folk
• Electro-acoustic
• New Weird Britain
• Free folk
• Space folk
• Live session
• Avant-folk
• Experimental folk
• Weird folk

Artist: Children Of The Drone

Release: Compilation no. 3  

Label: Children Of The Drone

Year: 2005

Grozny 93 – Dysproporcja (2014)

Azawad

• Harsh noise 
• Brown noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Non-music 
• Abstract 
• Psychoacoustic

Comment: I am aware of the fact that a very great part of people are terrified possibility that they have to listen to noise music. Let’s imagine such a dystopic universe or planet where they have to deal with it. However, noise music was probably one of the first protest music genres stepping against war and decay in general within the Western culture area. It was very clever to attack the adverse phenomena of the Western civilization in a provoking manner and frequently with their own attributes in a slightly bent way. Furthermore, it is a kind of music because of being articulated and composed. For instance, let’s listen to this handful of pieces to make out of how much elements is going to happen throughout the course. This is a play on different levels, playing with intensity, playing with stereo effects and timbres, playing with terror and silence. More profoundly, it starts off with a brown-hued flow as if having no equilibrium between the two channels therefore by searching for it the soundscape begins to swing. In the third composition those brownish bits are all of a sudden saturated by more shrill and higher frequencies and subsequently timbres changing its course from muddy field to abandoned junk yard full of metallic garbage. I guess to be submerged by these sounds might have been very inspiring for such geniuses like Edgar Allan Poe, and HP Lovecraft if they had lived nowadays. At first glimpse one may see the austere formalism behind the sounds but by listening to it more carefully one can perceive fleshed out emotions and sensations behind those menacing developments. And there is also enough place for full-fledged fantasies. For instance, at times it chimes like an audible representation to depict a monstrous octopus moving on a the bottom of the ocean to find out the slot to surface and then devastatingly attack. The last piece is an intense chugging due to spasmodic bass frequencies, however, being buried and veiled appealingly. The mind-provoking issue is a notch in the discography of Azawad.

[Teaser of the day] Bruno Susio - Due Passi Per Roma

Jamendo

• Brass pop
• Mood music
• Yacht pop
• Easy listening

Artist: Bruno Susio

Release: Cartoline dall Italia (Postcards from Italy)

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Oskar Hallbert - Moving

Resting Bell

• Organic electronica
• Folktronica
• DIY
• Drone
• Modern classical
• Found sound
• Lo-fi
• Organcore
• Improvised music
• Field recording

Artist: Oskar Hallbert

Release: Doodling 

Label: Resting Bell

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] This Heel - Hoag`s Object

• Indie folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Alternative pop
• Anti-folk
• DIY
• Lo-fi
• Folk indie

Artist: This Heel

Release: This Heel III

Label: Small Bear

Year: 2015

So I'm An Islander – Stelheij (2016)

Bandcamp

• Modern classical
• Ambient 
• Post-classical 
• Alternative 
• Soundscapes 
• Art music 
• Mood music 
• Piano music

Comment: the Danish producer Søren Nissen Jørgensen has been on the field since the May of 2011 being truly prolific since then. Similarly to his previous issues at Stelheij Søren Nissen Jørgensen is meddling the components of silence and still life, dealing with picturesque glimpses and unhurried progressions in texture and timbre. Piano chords get fleshed out with echoes and minimal chord changes for that are added exquisite orchestrations to be tightly around it going to live their own lives across the pathway to nowhere. But the nowhere is beatific and wondrous something which is strange yet enticing, somehow warm yet immensely superior. The chords are subtle at times getting dilated to the point just changing into water vapour and then merging semalessly into the Sun. The artist is panning the chords over and over to make the shifts within it look like a natural fare for your cerebral lobes. And it fosters well. Even if you would like to get more into the 5-track issue just stare at the cover print which probably will make you dizzy and eventually drugged-out. The world is a little bit better place after listening to this sparse set of 16 minutes. Indeed, the issue makes sense in the year of 2016.

[Teaser of the day] Kol9remesez - Jodeisfiskeyz

Interplanetary Floral Star

• Noise pop
• Alternative
• Leftfield
• Experimental pop
• Lo-fi
• Drone rock
• Psychedelic
• DIY
• Psych-pop

Artist: Kol9remesez 

Release: Thasuyi

Label: Interplanetary Floral Star

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Superbells - River Thames

• Chamber rock
• Post-rock
• Indietronica
• Art rock
• Epic
• Ambient rock
• Alternative

Artist: Superbells

Release: Parallel Lives

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] EvilMrSod - Atom Bomb

Death Roots Syndicate

• Rockabilly
• Singer-songwriter
• Americana
• Alternative rock

Artist: EvilMrSod 

Release: Atom Bomb

Label: Death Roots Syndicate/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Samurau – Things Left Unsaid (2015)

La bèl

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

• Fusion 
• Jazz 
• Improvised music 
• Experimental rock 
• Mood music 
• Post-rock

Comment: three friends decided to embark on with a band in 2014 and the year thereafter their first issue was released. Indeed, Michele Sanna (guitars), Matteo Muntoni (electric bass), and Alessandro Garau (drums) play sensitive music on their debut album where the listener can perceive diverse moments from a tickling jazz spectrum. Although it is mostly predominated by jazz music (indeed, the term “jazz” could denote very different things from bebop and hard bop to fusion to acid jazz/nu jazz) it is truly moody, picturesque as if conducted by the maestro Ennio Morricone himself. At times it is exalting, at times lethargic thereby calming down and stirring up the listener. At times one could discern the trio’s fondness to Chicagoan jazz-drenched post-rock scene, however, it happens in some tracks only. Maybe a counterpoint to it from real life is driving in cabriolet across the highway in an unhurried pace, at times stopping and making pauses to check surroundings and sights. The 8-notch issue is a part of the discography of La bèl.   

[Teaser of the day] Fitzroy North - Sunset Flux

• Electronic music
• Skweee
• Wonky
• Alternative
• Crunk
• Electro
• Urban music
• Hip-hop

Artist: Fitzroy North

Release: Cronopic EP

Label: Ancient Robot 

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Albrecht - The Third Eye

Tachyon

• New Age
• Alternative
• Space music
• Indietronica
• Electronic music
• Synthwave
• Crossover

Artist: Albrecht

Release: Deepspace LP

Label: Tachyon

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Porzellan - Source

Abyssa

• Experimental electronica
• Avant-garde
• Microtonal
• Abstract
• Drone
• Minimalism
• Leftfield

Artist: Porzellan

Release: Mountains

Label: Abyssa

Year: 2008

The Bumblebee Bats – Leaving It Broken (2009)

Totokoko

• Lo-fi 
• Singer-songwriter 
• DIY
• Art folk 
• Indie folk 
• Folk indie

Comment: at times I guess it is much harder to speak something reasonable and appealing about the so-called simple musical issues in comparison to the more sophisticated ones. It is not surprising at all because those simple ones have been produced without pretense to embark on a new beginning (being the illusion and thereof eventually disappointment in most cases) and because of that these issues are frequently more direct and honest as well. Let’s have a focus upon this swarm of five compositions. It is composed of strumming guitars and affectionate singing which in turn are spruced up with lovely keyboard whiffs and synthesised orchestrations converted into catchy melodies and harmonies for opening the way for little joys and tickling delights. Yet having listened to these gentle moments many times in a row these ones got magnified inconspicuously into something elemental and immanent. The songs` intimate touch and awkward buildup used to make difference which as a result are immensely more worthy than many issues being produced throughout innumerable hours within the walls of professional studios. Catch the touch! It is easy to do thanks to a humble, home recording feel. For instance, listen to Better When You`re Dead. That`s mesmerizing. In a nutshell, as you could see by now I have found out many words and sentencesto describe his fabulous issue. Leaving It Broken just is. Just for me, just for you, just for the world, just for all the universe. And leave it broken. The issue is a bit in the discography of the Japanese imprint Totokoko Records. 

[Teaser of the day] The Sway - Silk

Jamendo

• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Epic
• Noise pop
• Power pop

Artist: The Sway

Release: Silk EP

Label: Jamendo/Archive.org

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Deception Cost - Elysium

Dark System

• Hellectro
• EBM
• Alternative
• Electronic music
• Industrial dance

Artist: Deception Cost

Release: Pandorum

Label: Dark System/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Chenard Walcker - Let`s Bang Bang

Free Sample Zone

• Plunderphonics
• Psychedelic
• Sampledelic
• Mood music
• Sound collage
• Covers
• Mashup
• Alternative

Artist: Chenard Walcker

Release: X Rays 

Label: Free Sample Zone

Year: 2004

Adam Spent Time – Capitalism & Schizophrenia (2014)

Tachyon

Tachyon

• Downtempo 
• Modern classical 
• Chilltronica 
• Post-rock 
• Indietronica 
• Electronic music 
• Post-classical 
• Ambient pop

Comment: I have no doubts of the fact the artist gets it right musically. On the other side, your aptitude to connect the music with schizophrenia and capitalism might be much harder. I guess if you are listening to this 10-notch issue without earlier having seen the titles of the songs then you probably used to have no associations towards the aforementioned direction. Because it is a veritable instance of chilled-out music drifting somewhere between tranquil electronica, hovering beauty of ambient and more mundane indie and post-rock sound. It just picks you up and rolls you along with those serene orchestrations, serene piano music and smoothly knocked rhythms which used to pan within the aforesaid stylistic implications at a different degree. On the other side, you could never underestimate the role of forced propagandist value to hint at some problems even if the influences are no so direct. Thirdly it does have the reference of the title of a publication of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari. The release is a part of the discography of Tachyon. In a word, it is a bewildering issue which chats successfully invisible era between indie, ambient and emotive electronica coming in and leaving it in different combinations. It could be said each musical element contributes to a whole that is obviously more than the sum of its parts. The reception of the 41-minute issue by my side is very positive and filled with contentment in mu soul. I hope that our souls are not yet rotten and being in a schizophrenic stage due to some ravaging implications of capitalism. However, the communism is remarkably more destructive. If you are feeling yourself sullen by now and have no believe in that then have an immersive effort into investigation of the bygone century.

[Teaser of the day] Roy "Chicky" Arad - Queen of voodoo

WM Recordings

• Alternative rock
• Lo-fi
• DIY
• Psychedelic
• Singer-songwriter
• Outsider pop
• Anti-folk

Artist: Roy "Chicky" Arad

Release: Sputnik in Love  

Label: WM Recordings

Year: 2005 

[Teaser of the day] Luarvik Luarvik - Walpurgi burlesk

• Progressive rock
• Avant-rock
• Dada pop
• Art rock
• Fusion
• Experimental rock
• RIO
• Yacht rock

Artist: Luarvik Luarvik

Release: Enigma Variatsioonid

Label: Bande/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Hox Vox - Lunesta

Jamendo

• Progressive rock
• Art rock
• Funk rock
• Alternative
• RIO
• Electro-rock
• Dance rock

Artist: Hox Vox

Release: Talofen, Xanax, and Other Stories 

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Worthy Eardrum Party – Lost Property (2010)

Vulpiano

Vulpiano

• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Folk indie 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Noise pop 
• Indie folk 
• Blues rock 
• Shoegaze

Comment: all these 11 songs are composed by Angus Rudd, and it is done adeptly and refreshingly for sure. However, this my understanding after listening to a couple of first songs. Even if it might be he did not succeed in vamping up the rock and roll tradition he did follow his own heart and soul to make up a good song-writing at his most earnestness. Moreover, it is an interesting creation through folk-littered guitar music which is spruced up with reverse effects, and psychedelic twists and feedback noises here and there. If one thinks of it as a retrospective one it is much more than just a bare copy of the rock and roll legacy. Angus Rudd is a contemporary man with the influences and visions and that is what makes possible to bridge different eras with one another. You could not find a chink in his armour. If you are listening to his more blaring, cellophane-alike compositions you could hear how it used to decompose and then elevate through the abrasion between those layers. At Watching the Spiral the listener can enjoy the electrification of blues rock which step by step is progressing into a psychedelic exaltation. It is not a case where you could see clinging to sidelong styles and charmless emulation. The self-ironic I Just Can't Write is a churning row of noisy bars and meshes within the auteur is immersed in the idea of a lopsided psychedelic shoegaze progression where beauty and pain are the different sides of the same coin. It is warranted by the churning power and in fact that is enough to get the indulgence for the track. Eventually I have to confess it is an outstanding issue and while would having had a proper place and time it could have had a ground-breaking influence. Listen to it and you will get understand the ennobling point of it. The gem is a part of the discography of Vulpiano Records.

[Teaser of the day] The Star Pillow vs Tacet Tacet Tacet - Encounter

Laverna

• Post-rock
• Ambient rock
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Guitar ambient
• Soundscapes
• Electronic music
• Improvised music

Artist: The Star Pillow vs Tacet Tacet Tacet

Release: Concurrence

Label: Laverna

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Empty House Cooperative - Fore

Hinah

• Post-folk
• Art folk
• Avant-folk
• Experimentalism
• Improvised music
• Electro-acoustic
• Experimental folk
• Avant-garde
• Post-psychedelic electronica

Artist: Empty House Cooperative

Release: Seven

Label: Hinah

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Iñaki - Merpeople

Khannonmusic Studios

• Electronic pop
• New Age
• Ambient pop
• Electronic music
• Mood music
• Chilltronica

Artist: Iñaki 

Release: Merpeople

Label: Khannonmusic Studios/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

Polygon – Dreamfishing (2010)

Zardonic

• Drum and bass 
• Psychedelic 
• Jungle 
• Breakcore 
• Ambient trance 
• Electronic music 
• Breakbeat 
• Ambient dub

Comment: behind these 16 compositions is Glen Burrows who is being known due to his dubstep explorations under the pseudonym Gravity and before that under the pen name Polygon, the recent issue is more about. Glen Burrows exploits disparate measures and patterns to shed light on some rhythmic combinations in contemporary club dance-related and chilled-out electronic music. It is fairly sympathetic to get part of his sultry aesthetic where he goes beyond bare formalism by saturating it with glitch-coated bits, microscopic noises and unstable, tectonic rhythmic patterns. Indeed, mostly those sulphurous and frantic jungle and drum and bass rattles lose the ground in front of their foots being immersed in a heady panning thereby resulting in a psychedelic outfit. For me it somewhat reminds of a period from the year of 1998 when I bought a tape copy of The Orb`s Oblivion (1997, Island), and that was a very frequent listening object then. Indeed, at times Glen Burrows likes to add a restrained and spacey and vocal sample-based relish to the mixture while containing the previous intensity and profundity in cadence and propulsion. At times being overloaded by those meaningful swaths of psychedelic impulses running on invisible border of your mind and body you can perceive like dwelling in a collapsing house. You will get lost completely and thereafter you feel yourself unwounded in the face of daily trash around your mind and soul. And you cannot be wrong as a mob of 21,466 music lovers who have downloaded it at Archive.org (under the leadership of Zardonic Recordings).

[Teaser of the day] Curious Inversions - Local Transportation

• Ambient pop
• New Age
• Chilltronica
• Psybient
• Space music
• Electronic music
• Mood music

Artist: Curious Inversions

Release: Stone on Stone

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Safir Nòu - New Lunacy

• Post-rock
• Experimental rock
• Indie
• Yacht rock
• Cinematic
• Chamber pop
• Epic
• Avant-rock
• Crossover
• Electro-acoustic
• Art rock
• Baroque pop
• Alternative
• Fusion

Artist: Safir Nòu 

Release: Groundless

Label: La bèl

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Norja - Vuono #7

WM Recordings

• Alternative
• Improvised
• Chiptune
• Synth-prog
• Tracker music
• Avant-prog
• Experimental
• 8-bit
• Art music
• Progressive
• RIO 
• Electronic music

Artist: Norja

Release: Vuonoja

Label: WM Recordings/Archive.org

Year: 2007

Gemini Lounge Orchestra – Two Years on the Rock (2007)

Proc-Records

• Sampledelic 
• Avant-garde 
• Alternative 
• Film noir 
• Electronic music 
• Sound collage 
• Leftfield 
• Exploitation music

Comment: I am back again to another 17-minute track (day before yesterday I reviewed Pollux`s Naked Lights) though the recent issue under a resident artist within the Proc-Records` discography (proc003) is more based on spoken word samples accompanied by slowly slinging rhythms. The former element is based around the snippets from gangster motion pictures. //”Where is my fucking money?/I don`t know!/Where is my money?/It is in the box/I am talking here not you/Fuck you! If you could open up your mouth then you could shut up/Fuck it yourself!”/Your fucking phony/You get me out of here//. Indeed, it is a dialogue between a young layer and an experienced mob who is arrested and insists to get out of jail. And there is up shooting in the ending part as well though those sordid speech moments and ill-omened sonic themes and nervous broken beat and retro-futurist haunting electronica and orchestration blended appearances are at times jettisoned for more flamboyant, just very lite orchestrated moments which chime thereby in a fake, excessively emotional way. In a final part one can hear affectionate shouting and imploring mercy which is followed by shooting and ultimately by execution. In a word, it is all about very inferior aspects of human kind. However, as a sonic statement and formal sound collage it must be astounding because it compels the listener to think of these adverse situations and choices in life. Get it as a preventive act against the criminal career.

[Teaser of the day] Eli Las - Mivta Lo Mukar

Birdsong

• Singer-songwriter
• New Weird Israel
• Indie folk
• DIY
• Folk indie
• Lo-fi
• Shoegaze
• Alternative rock

Artist: Eli Las

Release: A Planet Full Of Motels 

Label: Birdsong/Archive.org

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Procedure Club - Indigineous

Free Music Archive

• Shitgaze
• Garage rock
• Psychedelic rock
• Electronic
• Alternative rock
• Acid rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Procedure Club

Release: The Salmon of Doubt 

Label: Beko DSL/Free Music Archive

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Coolrunnings - Better Things

Free Music Archive

• Psychedelic pop
• Acid pop
• Neo-psychedelia
• Electro-indie
• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock

Artist: Coolrunnings

Release: Babes Forever

Label: Free Music Archive/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Body Cheetah - Charm Serum, Crush

• Psychedelic
• Art pop
• Avant-pop
• Dream pop
• Post-pop
• Neo-psychedelia
• Indie
• New Weird America
• Alternative
• Electronic

Artist: Body Cheetah

Release: Blush Locker

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures Of Matchstick Men

Archive.org

• Americana
• Folk indie
• Alt-folk
• Crossover
• Folk rock
• Live recording
• Indie folk
• Bluegrass

Artist: Camper Van Beethoven

Release: Live At 40 Watt Club

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2016 

[Teaser of the day] I Am Esper - Ghost Passenger

• Post-folk
• Improvised music
• Dream folk
• Epic
• Indie folk
• Lo-fi
• Dream folk
• DIY
• Folk indie

Artist: i AM esper

Release: Ghost Passenger (Single)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Choke - Sheltering

Pen & Mallet

• Dream pop
• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Art rock

Artist: Choke

Release: Choke (eponymous)

Label: Pen & Mallet

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Brother Saturn - Otherworldly Expedition

• Ambient
• Dreamwave
• Alternative
• Avant-rock
• Post-rock
• Ambient rock
• Epic
• Art rock
• Cinematic
• Soundscapes
• Experimental rock

Artist: Brother Saturn

Release: Unstable Lands

Label: We Are All Ghosts/Archive.org

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Chancius - Hologram King

Jamendo

• Art pop
• Chamber pop
• Indie pop
• Experimental pop
• Baroque pop
• Post-pop
• Electronic

Artist: Chancius

Release: Bando

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] In A Sleeping Mode - Draft 4

• Minimalism
• Art rock
• Avant-rock
• Electronic music
• Post-rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: In A Sleeping Mode

Release: Draft

Label: Yo! Netlabel  

Year: 2011

Gloss. - Trophy (2011)

Fusion

Archive.org

• Chillstep 
• Trip-hop 
• Crossover 
• Art pop
• Folktronica 
• Psychedelic 
• Alternative 
• Urban music
• Electronic music 
• Mood music 
• Chilltronica

Comment: so after being finished of listening to Experim3ntus` Korruptio I opened the window of my living room again to get more air for the Mexican producer Gloss.`s issue Trophy. If to join these words together it could almost be pronounced as “catastrophe”. Luckily this 6-track issue is not catastrophic. It is the quite contrary. It is also an example of urban sound though being more synthetic, beat-oriented, acidic and psychedelic in comparison to the aforementioned issue. Mostly because of that these sounds do not have common part with those ones which do come from the street and natural surroundings. So you could open your window. Musically it provides pure joy from start to end – it is tight enough due to chilled-out and trip-hop-alike beats which used to vary in heaviness and at frequencies, acidic synthesizer undercurrents and flickers and a folktronic fabric. For one it might remind of the Beta Band due those sultry folk and electronica mixed developments, for an other person it might be similar to Portishead, and Massive Attack. For a third person Jimi Hendrix is going to haunt him/her. It is not surprising at all because the trip-hop combos leaned frequently and strongly on the tradition of rock music and even directly took samples from there. Otherwise you could hear those heart bleeding melodic progressions which induce the listener longing for something which inevitably is passed by and it might be even passed away (more evidently brought to the fore at New Destination, and Dry Land). This enchanting 6-notch issue is a chapter within the discography of Fusion Netlabel. Additionally to great music it is supported by the witty outer sleeve.

Experim3ntus – Korruptio (2011)

Gabumat

• Ambient 
• Electronic music
• Darkwave 
• Soundscapes 
• Crossover 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Glitchtronica

Comment: Experim3ntus had released three Eps before he changed his nom de plume to another one, Vuohe. Under the new name, though, he was just revamping old compositions. The Finnish producer`s 5-track issue Korruptio is remarkable due to unifying the visual side of the cover print wherein one can feel sensations of late autumnal uneasiness due to representation of higher concentration of fog and clamminess than usual annually. Musically the listener can perceive vivid drifts between majestic ambient panoramas and eerie darkwave sweeping being immersed in heavy pessimism and impending tough and morbid times. That’s chilling. At times those suggestively epic templates are slightly “corroded” by samples, “accidental” noises, glitches, and other treated sounds. By the way, it is an especially right moment to listen to in the early morning when the Sun is still being eclipsed and greyish darkness and tangible humidity are in full sway. It must be said surprisingly I had to close the window of my small living room because all those outer noises merged seamlessly into the soundscapes. Maybe sometime in the future I will review it in the described manner. It might be a composition called Ajan rakenne on MUUTTUNUT (in fact, the title of the track is even longer) carves out from the rest because of coming very close to the classic tradition of Kosmische Musik though excelling at Tangerine Dream-alike templates in the first half only. The latter part of it will slowly be changing into a dormant yet rocky glitched-out soup. This is an astonishing bunch of elaborately accentuated compositions. Get it and additionally I recommend listen to his other issues (Experim3ntus EP, and Autius EP) and Vuohe`s Yksinäiset Vuohet, and Bleat Runner (which involves a new version of Ajan rakenne on MUUTTUNUT) either. The issue is a part of the short discography of Gabumat Records, which involves the Finnish music only.

Captains Of Sea And War – Captains Of Sea And War (2016)

2419 Record Label

Bandcamp

• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Power pop 
• Art rock 
• Post-rock

Comment: it is always great pleasure to arrive at the discography of the Nethelands-based imprint 2419 Record Label due to the quality and diversity of aesthetics. In fact, you will never know what is the next turn in sound you while picking up on the discography nonetheless the issues are described with some hinting tags. For instance, the last outings being reviewed at Recent Music Heroes Basnie`s Les Pays-Bas (2008) was a haunting yet stupefying blend of spoken words, electronic music, post-classical progressions, tango, found sounds, drone pop, which in turn was imbued with a retro-futurist sensation. Tunnelbird`s Hohner Sessions (2015) takes up on blues influenced psychedelic garage rock with hints at raga and acid rock. However, with regard to the first named issue the recent issue is a starkly disparate case because of getting a booty by riding on the guitars and drums which at times are complemented by by hoarse, tortured, and softened vocals by the occasions and recherché keyboard stumbles. More profoundly, those eight alternative rock and post-rock and art rock drenched numbers from Barcelona, Catalonia used to swing between loud and lofty riffs and more restrained strums being at times converted into a blissful still life. By the way, the release will be finished off by a mellow acoustic ballad. In a word, the collaboration by Gerard Gual, Jose Martinez, David Montón and Àlex Garcia places it into a column of other solid releases of 2419 Record Label.  

Pollux – Naked Lights (2016)

Sirona-Records

Sirona-Records

• Electronic music 
• Dark electro 
• Illbient 
• Neoclassical
• Dark ambient 
• Lo-fi 
• Experimentalism
• Crossover 
• Avant-garde
• Synthwave

Comment: I guess these 17 minutes are as interesting as the life of the Frenchman Arnaud Barbe being known as the prolific musician Pollux, and heading the popular experimental music imprint Sirona-Records. Indeed, these 1036 seconds are the truly intriguing which in turn can be compared with a cross-section of the records. It could be said he is here a little bit more self-indulgent in comparison to his other ones, or at least most of his issues, because it consists of disparate musical styles frequently. For instance, ominous ambient progressions are followed by free form synthesizer or MIDI-led emulation-based improvised snippets. Even some lo-fi and primitive music cuts are represented over there. Let’s add some electro-acoustic experiments with buried piano chords (or are they the prepared strings rather?) By their own point these are very interesting sounds but they create an additional value due to those mind-blowing transitions and then relations between the aforesaid styles. Last but not least - if the lights are naked then all is naked beneath and within it. Thereof the fun is guaranteed, life is beautiful and give it a proper place.  

[Teaser of the day] Major Major - Microwave

Jamendo

• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Epic
• Pomp rock
• Art rock
• Symphonic rock

Artist: Major Major

Release: Major Major

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Paulette Wooten - Outside My Window

NoiseTrade

• Post-classical
• Post-rock
• Mood music
• Modern classical
• Art music
• Alternative
• Electronic music

Artist: Paulette Wooten

Release: Promise

Label: NoiseTrade

Year: -

[Teaser of the day] Alan Rèvolte - Quiero Ver Arder el Mundo

Naciòn Libre

• Hardcore
• Punk rock
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: Alan Rèvolte

Release: Yo No Soy Igual Que Tú

Label: Naciòn Libre

Year: 2016 

[Teaser of the day] School Of Crystal Healing - Parallax Oasis

Troll N` Roll/Ektoplazm

• Psybient
• Ambient trance
• Electronic music
• Mood music

Artist: School Of Crystal Healing

Release: Lightworkers Delight

Label: Troll N` Roll/Ektoplazm

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Noidboy - Boludo

Upitup

• Art folk
• Folk indie
• Avant-folk
• Acid folk
• New Weird Italy
• Folktronica
• Indie folk
• Psych-folk
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: Noidboy

Release: Elp

Label: Upitup

Year: 2016

Peter Nester & Brian Ruskin – The Abscraps EP (2008)

Believe in Billy

• Art rock 
• Post-punk 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Electronic  
• Dance rock

Comment: I have to admit that before listening to this set of 6 tracks I have heard nothing of these artists. The first impression of mine was visual and it was very funny – by watching this blurred cover print it was something like collaborating men behind the mixing desk, one of them looking like Chuck Norris, and another like Johnny Marr (a young Johnny Marr, in fact). Why not – both of them are outstanding persons. Just the most intriguing question is – who will knock down and win? However, the collaborative act does not remind of the doing of The Smiths (the best combo having ever been existed under God’s sight) but is related to a style of which The Smiths is being associated. Indeed, it is post-punk, one of the most seminal styles for all times, which in turn was a godchild of Krautrock. At Ten Four, and Eight Two Oh Eight the influences of atmospheric guitar by Vini Reilly (Durutti Column) can be discerned. The latter one is more rhythm-oriented either, though. And the result rhythmically is very catchy. Ring Finger is another astonishing glimpse into enchanting world of flickering guitars and mechanical rhythms. Be Home At Dark might be the most expressive track due to its thudding programmed beats but on the other way it reconstructs a pathway of post-punk music because of embracing elements which did have evolve from the embodiment of post-punk. The mother meets her derivatives. In a word, this is grreeeaaaat! Being a part of a platform with a funny (again!) name, Believe in Billy Records.  

[Teaser of the day] The Wades - Forlorn

Comfort Stand Recordings

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: The Wades

Release: Greatest Hits

Label: Comfort Stand Recordings

Year; 2005

[Teaser of the day] Nobodisoundz - Marfa Light Machines

• Ambient drone
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Drone
• Ambient noise
• Epic
• Sound art
• Micronoise
• Experimentalism

Artist: Nobodusoundz 

Release: Tracks To Nowhere
Label: Format Noise
Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Norman Bambi - Ouah Ouah

• Synth pop
• Electronic pop
• Electro pop
• Comedy
• Alternative dance
• Electro disco

Artist: Norman Bambi

Release: Please Step On My Shoe

Label: NYAPSTER

Year: 2015