Dany Angelelli – Black Flower (2016)

Ephedrina

Jamendo

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Minimalism 
• Leftfield
• Alternative dance  
• Post-dubstep 
• Drone 
• Electro-pop
• Illbient 
• Ambient drone

Comment: this is an exquisite example of how rhythmic (dance) music and electronic music elements meet each other given that both of them being clearly separated beforehand (in some circumstances they might be identical) especially these elements are represented in the second track White Flower, a sturdy blend of electro and more veiled post-dubstep frequencies. It is the contemporary version of Italo disco. Indeed, it represents the lighter side of the artist on it while the title composition is more murky and lurking. An ominous ambient and drone tinged pattern just keep hovering over there without remarkable changes while being accompanied by an almost unchangeable rhythmic pattern. Nevertheless, the artist is a true master to deliberately uphold a sultry milieu through the said elements and combinations between them. Although the tracks differentiate remarkably yet both make up these 11 minutes as an enchanting whole. The issue comes out from the Apennine Peninsula under the Ephedrina imprint.

Gabrielle Agah – Elètrica (2016)

Malware

• Electro-acoustic 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Microtonal 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• Sound art 
• Sound poetry 
• Micronoise 
• Non-music 
• Abstract 
• DIY 
• Lo-fi 
• Leftfield 
• Experimental electronica 
• Primitive music

Comment: undoubtedly it is a mind-boggling issue though while listening to it for the first time it might take some minutes to align yourself to the austere and somehow buried level of this 10-track issue. It is partly music and partly not in many appearances. Firstly, the artist from Sào Paolo, Brazil exploits recorded field sounds and recites and chants her poetry in an awkward yet suggestive way. Indeed, it could be tagged as lo-fi music but the tag for figuring out the artist's intention and goal does make a little sense. Given that there are represented infantile melody snippets being mixed up into hiss laden soundscapes which would pop out and then lay out from unknown sources then the tag primitive music might even be a more proper definition. For a music listener, to listen to this issue is like being a part of everyday life where the ups and downs come in succession and more brighter moments are varied with more depressing ones. The Brazil artist's music is a subject to an intersection of sound poetry, warped electronic effects, microscopic noises and hazy flickers. In a nutshell, this intriguing issue is a part of an intriguing Brazil imprint, Malware.

Sunset Wrecks – Salvaged (2016)

Bandcamp

• Doom rock
• Doomgaze 
• Epic 
• Shoegaze 
• Alternative rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Post-rock 
• Space rock 
• Post-metal

Comment: soon it is the end of a year and it is time to count the best albums of the year of 2016. I do not hesitate to denote Sunset Wrecks' 7-track issue Salvaged as one of the best among the best ones. It is an overwhelming one by its form and substance, by its appearance and emotional burden. More profoundly, shoegazing meets doom rock meets ambient meets art rock meets post-metal. It is full of static magic or at least restricted within the aforementioned borders to progress slowly and rise to the full-fledged status. It is a fine example of how beautification and benediction in music can be reached through more gloomy and glowering ways. It might be it is the best pad to reach it. For instance, listen to the mind-provoking start and a spaced-out yet tenaciously stomping bold rack at Homeless where contrary elements are spliced with one another in a seamless mode. The next notch Salvaged And Reclaimed wakes itself up sweeping partly spacey dust and exploiting more (post-) metal inflected verve and even a krautrock-drenched motorik impetus. If trying to describe it in the so-called juggernaut terms, the issue is aesthetically a mediate appearance between My Bloody Valentine, and Lycia, between Labradford, and Bark Psychosis yet excelling frequently at better qualities and more climactic moments than the aforesaid indie and experimental rock legends. Bewildering and magnificent. The project is led by Jarek Leskiewicz (Naked On My Own, and Martin Anderson (Dopedrone).

[Teaser of the day] aboombong - Areoapagitica

• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Art music
• Epic
• Ambient drone
• Improvised music
• Modern classical
• Post-classical
• Drone

Artist: aboombong

Release: Aphronesis

Label: Pen & Mallet/Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Felix Kubin - The Rhythm Modulator

Chinstrap Music

• Avant-garde
• Experimental music
• Electronic music
• Interpretations
• Dada music
• Experimental electronica
• Leftfield

Artist: Felix Kubin

Release: Cyclic Bits: The Raymond Scott Variations

Label: Chinstrap Music/Free Music Archive

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Kimiko Ishizaka - Variatio 13 a 2 Clav.

Archive.org

• Piano music
• Interpretations
• Classical music

Artist: Kimiko Ishizaka

Release: The Open Goldberg Variations

Label: Archive.org/Free Music Archive

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Buben - Empire Builders

Clinical Archives

• Avant-garde
• Post-industrial
• Minimalism
• Leftfield
• Sampledelic
• Art music
• Experimentalism

Artist: Buben

Release: Glimmer

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2007

DaRKRam – Stone and Death (2016)

Kermesse

• Darkwave 
• Art music 
• Neoclassical 
• Improvised music 
• Drone
• Dark ambient 
• Space rock 
• Blackgaze 
• Avant-garde 
• Post-industrial 
• Ambient rock 
• Abstract 
• Experimentalism

Comment: this 9-track monster by Argentinian musician and trumpet player Ramon Moro could be imagined in different ways. Firstly, it is a neoclassical and dark ambient composition with dodges into something remarkably madder and ominous which frequently reject classification and simple logic output. Secondly, it is a mourning post-industrial record with hints at spaced-out rock and orchestrated music. The layers is getting incessantly piled on throughout the course ranging from dull yet arousing droning and emotive blackened ambient to menacing forms of shoegazing and reverberating ambient rock. DaRKRam is both adept in creating climactic moments and manipulating on feelings of the suspenseful listener while the premisses set up by Moro used to progress stepwise to its unforeseeable consequences. The soundscape of him used to bulge and thump, used to dilate and soothe. In a word, it is filled with many putative contradictions though all these ones are merged into an organic, mesmerizing whole. Given that the issue could be considered a general issue to gather together the artist’s ideas. From within on I guess DaRKRam does have many ways to develop on more in a specific manner. One of such ways could be heard at XVI wherein the artist resorts to a motorik rhythmic pattern to round out the improvised buildup. A sort of psychedelic music is also embedded in that. It is just a possibility for an accomplished musician to bring fort his/her ingenious side. And the cover print of it seems to be as if extracted from a horror movie – it is captivating in its awe. At the moment, however, it is one of the most striking and brilliant issues in 2016 so far. Like ancient Americans used to say for such a fine-grained appearance: holy shit. The issue is a part of the discography of Kermesse Records.

Dr Perceptron – Pan Opticon (2016)

2419 Record Label

• Electronic music 
• Ambient trance
• Chillout 
• Psybient 
• Psychedelic music 
• Alternative 
• Art music 
• Chilltronica 
• Ambient pop 
• Mood music

Comment: the 8-track Pan Opticon by Edmonton, Canada-based producer Dr Perceptron provides a pleasant journey across softened pads of contemporary electronic music being allegedly influenced by such electronic music/Krautrock juggernauts as Kraftwerk, and Tangerine Dream. It used to meander and wind in such a way to cause vertigo and heady mood slipping between arcade-shaped constructions and towering racks. Just watch the cover print of it by assuming right much about the soundscape – it involves a spectrum of dayglo colours being slightly blurred and dispersed. Emotionally it used to flutter incessantly coming in and going out from the epicentre because of being highly volatile and ethereal. Additionally to psybient/psytrance vibes one could perceive Balearic house vibes. Although this great issue is a part of the discography of 2419 Records this could readily be a notch in the list of Ektoplazm, an important platform for psytrance/psybient music.

[Teaser of the day] Shirubi Ikazuchi - Jack San

• Electro-indie
• Alternative pop
• Indie
• Coldwave
• Electronic pop
• Art pop

Artist: Shirubi Ikazuchi

Release: Welteren EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Silver Rocket - Bunny Ears

• Post-punk
• Garage rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Silver Rocket

Release: Old Fashioned

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Jared Sagar - Fter

Petroglyph

• Avant-garde
• Drone
• Minimalism
• Dark ambient
• Electro-acoustic
• Field recording
• Ambient drone
• Experimentalism
• Musique concrète

Artist: Jared Sagar

Release: Soundworks

Label: Petroglyph Music/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Thuoom – Contact (2016)

Textural Healing

• Rhythmic music 
• Ambient 
• Avant-garde 
• Alternative
• Experimentalism 
• Post-rock 
• Art music
• Post-classical

Comment: Tuomo aka Thuoom aka Thuuooom (he reminds of such avant-garde/experimental music legend as Big City Orchestra in the name regarded case) has issued four albums in 2016 so far, and this 7-notch one is such a sort I cleaved to it more closely. Thereof it could be admitted the title is not at odds with the content. The Finnish producer two previous issues Kaiut, and Aste EP I had commented at Recent Music Heroes as well were remarkably more abstract and austere and I have had some problems to get into them because they did not connect with my soul though did it with my intellect. At the opening Sinking Lift it takes off with catchy rhythmic propulsions to be evolved into a tight labyrinthine poly-rhythmic outfit. Later on, the organic touch will be kept going due to merging together acoustic instruments such as acoustic guitars, toy pianos, and non-instruments as kettles, tables with the sounds of contact microphones which eventually will result in such appearances as smouldering post-rock chugging, and panning ambient insights, and artsy interactions between throbbing cadences and faux-classical/post-classical music (at Coined) where the artist teethed on. For instance, Solarius is a fabulous incantation based on a longing panorama imbued with poignant emotions and beatific melancholy thereby ennobling the listener eventually. Its intellectual approach does not turn you down emotionally. In a nutshell, it is one of the best issues in 2016 so far.

[Teaser of the day] The Fucked Up Beat - The Horror from Winnapaug Lagoon/ The Slow Violence of Rising Waters

• Sound collage
• Avant-garde
• Hauntology
• Sampledelic
• Leftfield
• Latin music
• Ghostwave
• Alternative
• Oldie music
• Electronic music

Artist: The Fucked Up Beat

Release: Researches Ghostwaves and the Midnight Mysteries of Rhode Island

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Azotic Compounds Laboratory - Towns Of Eternal Town

Faturenet

• Synth-pop
• Electro pop
• Electronic pop
• Psychedelic
• Alternative dance
• Acid pop

Artist: Azotic Compounds Laboratory

Release: Bits, Pieces, And All The Kit And Caboodle 

Label: Faturenet

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Cosmic Funeral - Lucifer Excelsius

Torn Flesh

• Black metal
• Funeral 
• Death metal
• Art metal

Artist: Cosmic Funeral

Release: Lucifer Excelsius

Label: Torn Flesh

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Realm - Cosmologer

• Space music
• Kosmische Musik
• New Age
• Epic
• Electronic music
• Ambient
• Soundscapes

Artist: Realm

Release: Empyrean

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Anob - Candle

Archive.org

• Ambient folk
• DIY
• Indie folk
• Minimalism
• Lo-fi
• Post-folk
• Free folk
• Leftfield
• Avant-folk

Artist: Anob

Release: Anob: Part I 

Label: Southern City`s Lab/Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Emil Klotzsch - Fanfarel

• IDM
• Experimental electronica
• Jazz
• Alternative
• Downtempo
• Art music
• Sound collage
• Avant-garde
• Leftfield

Artist: Emil Klotzsch

Release: Sandkorn

Label: One/Archive.org

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Kali Briis - Idiot

• Electronic pop
• Alternative pop
• Electro-soul
• Alternative dance

Artist: Kali Briis

Release: 2motion single

Label: Eesti Pops

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Kago - Mustlane Taavi

• New Weird Estonia
• Free folk
• DIY
• Freak folk
• Indie folk
• Lo-fi
• Avant-folk
• Weird folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Folk indie

Artist: Kago

Release: Mopskassi maja

Label: Õunaviks

Year: 2008

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