Loose Link And Option Command + Various – Karramantha (2011)

Sirona-Records

• Breakcore 
• Remixes 
• Alternative 
• Electronic music 
• Rhythmic music 
• Ambient 
• Bass music 
• Avant-garde

Comment: this is an immense issue because of containing two original tracks and 17 remixes of them and involving a loads of facets which could be perceived differently. Undoubtedly it is a sort of rhythmic music the question is is it the sort of dance music? I guess it is not because there is up a bunch of counterpoints to it – from rattling noises, dejected hisses and labile yet profound bass thudding to more undermining sequences and spaced-out yet ill-omened frequencies. Indeed, the artist makes no compromises to adhere more listeners to the concept. With regard to the dance music the artist exploits its algorithms but the code of it is deliberately hurt to produce an unsteady monster ultimately. You are thrown into a maze being inhabited with lurking beasts. He is here right now to do it for the sake of the art. Even if it might sound in a clichè way it is so right. The issue is a bit of the discography of the Sirona-records.

The Wades – Greatest Hits (2005)

Comfort Stand Recordings
Free Music Archive

• Punk rock 
• Post-punk 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Americana 
• DIY

Comment: similarly to other genres there is difference between punk and punk. Between tedious and interesting punk. The Wades' 13-notch issue (which is obviously the oeuvre of the group) is the latter case because of providing at times humorous interludes, stubborn DIY aesthetic and frequently borderline punk/indie numbers where one can discern the influences of roots music thereof being unmistakably American. The accomplishment of these ideas is a cut above as well. At times being loosely noisy and anarchistic like Sonic Youth, at times being politically poignant, however, revealing its thick cultural layers being set up on one another. The only exception is New Direction, a song being written by Gorilla Biscuits. Last but not least – the issue was released on such label as Comfort Stand Recordings which had been a platform for innovative and uncompromising sound in the first half of the 00s. In a word, get the legacy of this great combo of Alicia Wade, and Chris Wade.

Heyhill Muangle – Way Out (2016)

Giant Manilow

• Chillwave 
• Alternative pop 
• Indietronica 
• Drone pop 
• Organcore 
• Glo-fi
• Indie 
• Hypnagogic pop 
• Post-psychedelic electronica 
• Post-pop

Comment: this is an ace issue drifting somewhere between sultry droning pop, spacey chillwave, gritty glitch pop and chill space pop. It would be named as post-Stereolab, and Beach House music where the psychedelic tendencies are eradicated for the sake of artsy facets, where the stoned state of minds are jettisoned for beatific moments, where the guitars are abandoned and replaced by reverberating organs and gleaming synthesisers. For sure it is a cut above in comparison to an average alternative/indie pop combo because the artist has taken risks on this 11-notch issue and ultimately accomplished the goal. Its premisses were not safe and could not take for granted. This striking issue is a part of the discography of the Birmingham (England)-based Giant Manilow.

Cousin Silas – Observations From Earth And Beyond (2015)

The Cerebral Rift

• Ambient 
• Space music 
• Modern classical 
• Post-classical 
• Kosmische Musik
• Soundscapes 
• Abstract 
• Art music

Comment: Cousin Silas is an experienced artist from the UK who has issued a bunch of innumerable albums over many decades. This is his appearance at The CerebralRift, an exciting imprint and free music platform. As usual as it used to be the artist excels at creating soothing soundscapes with intent to have an exquisite impact on the listener. This swarm of 10 compositions proves that the artist slightly deviates due to a more emotive approach because he is interested in conjuring up more restrained, more interrupted compositions where the tranquil and flickering progressions on guitars used to slowly move over gentle pads of a synthesiser. You can perceive a gentle New age-ish touch within his sound which slowly swells and then contracts and in the meantime ginning up eloquent orchestrated beauty while preserving a compelling static touch within it. At times his soundscapes are based on more bold bass frequencies and vague piano chords which nevertheless used to sustain and then almost unnoticeably spread far away. Cousin Silas does not pile on excessively he adeptly develops all these layers into an impressive whole. Fairly magnificent stuff. By kindred souls the issue could be compared with the likes of Brother Saturn, Eluvium, Bosques de mi Mente, Max Richter.

Alpinismo – ALPNSMO (2015)

42 Records

• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Jangle pop

Comment: it is always pleasant to listen to a full-fledged indie/alternative rock instance. Alpinismo's 5-notch is one of such sort teetering somewhere between downbeat yet highly ringing jangly guitars reminding of the first years of careless Rickenbacker guitar drenched indie pop and more powerful and mercurial progressions wherein the emotions will appear with immense dash. Maybe it happened in this way because of being an Italian (Rome) quartet under an Italian imprint, 42 Records. The lyrics are performed in Italian.

[Teaser of the day] Erothyme - Ghost Notes

• Psychedelic pop
• Electronic pop
• Mood music
• Alternative pop
• Indie
• Digital soul

Artist: Erothyme

Release: Feel Recording

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016 

[Teaser of the day] Datolar - Brainaether

• Electronic music
• Glitch
• Glitchstep
• Indietronica
• Alternative
• Post-rock
• Art pop

Artist: Datolar

Release: Auftakt

Label: Abstrakt Reflektions/Archive.org

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Tim Kays - Forbearance

The CerebralRift

• Ambient pop
• Kosmische Musik
• Alternative 
• Progressive
• Electronic music

Artist: Tim Kays

Release: The Way Home

Label: The CrebralRift

Year: 2016

Sister Soleil – Haunted EP (2012)

Sirona-Records

Bandcamp

• Alternative pop 
• Indie rock 
• Electronic pop 
• Remix 
• Trip-hop 
• Power pop

Comment: it is an intriguing issue by Sirona-Records firstly because of twofold appearances in sound – because trip-hop beats meet indie rock and Russian language is intertwined with English. And indeed, it is frequently about Soleil (Sun), and obvious escapism from the world of the human race. Mostly it is power pop inflected sound, at times it is immersed in heavy echoes and stomping beats and ominous hip-hop chants. That's all – the words do not have enough power to convey the essential impression of it. It is quite simple and sophisticated at the same time – thereof being mind-provoking). At times it is conveyed by a female vocal, at times by a male vocal, and it is captivating thanks to those sultry labyrinthine meanderings and spaced-out electronic hovers which open up a free entry into a mystical world. It is a freeing experience where it is also represented the touch of famous Trent Reznor (at Illum Tangendo). Get it and listen to the project of the Greece born Stella Katsoudas.

[Teaser of the day] Evan Valentine - Orange

Kikapu

• IDM
• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Mood music
• Lo-fi

Artist: Evan Valentine

Release: Sinister Device

Label: Kikapu

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Poldoore - Dream On

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Chilltronica
• Breaks
• Cinematic
• Nu jazz
• Sampledelic
• Mood music
• Chill out

Artist: Poldoore

Release: Lush Life

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Trillion Catz - Fioletovaya Tape

Soisloscerdos

• Minimal synth
• Alternative
• Krautrock
• Minimalism
• Synthwave
• Electronic music

Artist: Trillion Catz

Release: The Big Numbers

Label: Soisloscerdos/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - They´ll Have Apple Juice On The Submarine

Nishi

• Alternative
• Synthwave
• Electronic music
• Mood music
• Chilltronica

Artist: Cagey House

Release: Steel Tantrum

Label: Nishi

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Mystified - Dialogue

Tape Safe

• Minimalism
• Electronic music
• Radiophonic art
• Spoken word
• Rhythmic
• Avant-garde
• Leftfield
• Experimentalism

Artist: Mystified

Release: Sub Dialogue

Label: Tape Safe

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Kris Keyser - Batsly Labs

Free Music Archive

• Nintendocore
• Chiptune
• 8-bit
• Alternative dance
• Tracker music
• Bitpop
• Acid
• Chipbreak

Artist: Kris Keyser

Release: Kris Keyser

Label: 8bitpeoples/Bandcamp/

Year: 2013

These Guy – Human Language (2014)

Wood And Wire

• Dubstep 
• Folk indie 
• Experimental pop 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Free folk 
• Avant-garde 
• Folk indie 
• New Weird Australia 
• Weird folk 
• Indie folk 
• Chilltronica 
• Indietronica 
• Dream pop 
• Epic

Comment: this Brisbane, Australia-based sophisticated issue is an instance of contemporary indie music though 10 years ago it would have been named either as experimental electronica or avant-whatever. However, it does not mean that such categorizations would be wrong. The point is all around us has changed remarkably due to such artists as Tortoise, Radiohead, Stereolab, Animal Collective, Beirut, Ariel Pink, and Panda Bear who have brought many vanguard ideas to the surface to poison the mainstream indie music. Indeed, it must have been a human language because otherwise there would have been no hope at all. In other cases, we would have been drowned in highly decayed music being denoted with the meaningless alternative pop/rock definition. More profoundly, at I Wanna Understand the artist mixes up dubstep frequencies with chill-out jazz jitters. Weird Weather is more about an exalting indie folk/rock number. This bundle of 5 tracks starts off with a broken-down, shrill, warped melody in the self-titled track and in this way coming to the next track Street Noise which is an exquisite, dreamy folk and indie pop mixed appearance with epic peaks. The following composition You Know Who also proves the fact the artist is very expert at composing sublime progressions which used to overwhelm your senses and heart. The result is a self-assured, accomplished issue with beatific climactic points in melodies, harmonies and compositions in overall. The outing is a part of the discography ofan excellent Australian label Wood And Wire.

L'ira dell'Agnello – Coprofonia (2016)

Death Roots Syndicate

Bandcamp

• Neofolk 
• Dark folk 
• Epic 
• Apocalyptic folk 
• Neoclassical 
• Avant-garde

Comment: by listening to dark folk/neofolk music one could mostly assume – always different, always the same. Indeed, the bottom of these 50 minutes are made up of arcade guitar strums and ill-omened chants and murky yet majestic storytelling which are at times variegated by ringing electronic hovers, suggestive orchestrations, gritty electro-acoustic sounds and gently stomping rhythmic backups. The artist comes out of Italy and all the lyrics is represented in Italian. On the cover print you see a donkey who obviously will make or has already made...shit because the title is denoted as Coprofonia. Does it mean the music on it is arranged for shit? It reminds me of Coil because one of the duo`s earliest issues was titled as Scatology. It is not surprising at all that for such kind of artists it is important to accentuate contradictory elements with their concept. In a word, it is a very beautiful issue under the imprint Death Roots Syndicate.

[Teaser of the day] Chravis Phranklin - Want At All

• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Indie dance
• Electro-rock
• Post-punk
• Dance rock
• Alterantive dance
• Electro-indie

Artist: Chravis Phranklin 

Release: Loosened Cheap

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Mmöner - Mirkwood

• Experimental electronica
• Alternative
• Psychedelic
• Synthwave
• Improvised music
• Leftfield

Artist: Mmöner

Release: Forest Eruption

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Nulleins - Wave

Thinner

• Dub-house
• Club dance
• Electro-house
• Deep house 
• Alternative dance

Artist: Nulleins

Release: Cyclism EP 

Label: Thinner

Year: 2001

Ghost Arcade – 1997 EP (2013)

Diabetic Koala

Archive.org

• Post-witch house 
• Leftfield 
• Experimental electronica 
• Avant-garde
• Avant-garde
• Post-drag house 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Post-psychedelic electronica 
• Avant-rock 
• Post-industrial

Comment: this is my first entry into the discography of an immensely prolific US-based imprint,  Diabetic Koala and after listening to this 6-track 1997 [EP] by Ghost Arcade it could be said it was a fair success to deal with it. In front of your face and legs a wondrous sonic world is laid out. By the way, it might seem a little bit haphazard and chaotic stylistically, for instance, it embarks on with static noises and improvised guitar chords and later more overwhelming noise panning at Wake Up In The Dreams Of Another Dream. It is a quite outstanding issue with regard to the exploitation of the guitar rather than electronics being prevalent in the following pieces. It does have very much in common with the aesthetic of Glenn Branca. It is followed up by Unemployed Dub, which could be denoted as dub music though being saturated with ill-omened synthesized flickers and reverberant drum stomping. The next tracks will continue in a similar vein where the sound is amplified through heavy use of echoes, and stereophonic effects. At time it might seem quite cynical and sniggering due to drawing on austere yet shrill electronic jitters, for instance at Wht`s Tht Smll?. I would call it post-witch house/drag house music. It is a weird yet mind-blowing shit. The issue was followed by another EP called After Burner on the same record label. 

[Teaser of the day] Frances Lerouge - Estar en Casa

Rawmatroid

• Electro-indie
• Electro pop
• Minimal synth
• Electroclash
• Electronic pop
• Alternative
• Acid pop
• Drone pop

Artist: Frances Lerouge

Release: Estar en Casa

Label: Rawmatroid

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Boy Swung Tunnel - Strung For Autumn

• Folktronica
• Folk indie
• Avant-rock
• Art rock
• Avant-folk
• Post-folk
• Crossover
• Minimalism
• Post-rock
• Art folk
• Experimental rock
• Noise rock
• Indie folk

Artist: Boy Swung Tunnel

Release: Partial End Remarse

Label: Format Noise

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Vejopatis - Sviro Lingo

Cold Tear

• Dub techno
• Deep techno
• Deep dub
• Ambient dub
• Ethnotronica
• Alternative
• Ambient techno 
• Electronic music

Artist: Vejopatis

Release: Versmes

Label: Cold Tear/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Scrapple - Spitfire

• Shoegaze
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Epic
• Ambient rock
• Dream pop

Artist: Scrapple

Release: Apple From The Scrapple

Label: Southern City`s Lab/Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

Endos – Pure Sound (2005)

Panospria/No Type

• Glitch 
• Sound art 
• Ambient noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Minimal techno
• Ambient 
• Musique concréte 
• Experimental electronica 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Micronoise 
• Experimentalism 
• Acousmatic music 
• Psycho-acoustic

Comment: by listening to this 5-track issue by the Montrèal, Quebec, Canada-based duo Endos which consists of such experimenters as John Brennan aka Johnny Naughty, and Shane Turner aka Turner Of Wheels it did evoke many thoughts and dormant sensations to surface. Of course, it comes out from Montrèal, which is a fertile soil for every kind of art, including the music, including the experimental sort of music. Tim Hecker, Martin Tètreault, Muhr, Simon Trottier, Nicolas Bernier, Akufen, a loads of GYBE-related projects. Let`s add to it a bunch of other artists who have been involved both with the city and in such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Constellation, Where Are My Records, Camomille, Epsilonlab, Panospria/No Type. Indeed, the recent issue which initially was issued in February of 2005 is a part of the discography of the latter labels. For me, it is an outstanding issue due to its fluctuating nature being somewhere between a ghastly noise fractal, glitched-out incantations and concrete sound-based hazy reality, however, one could never forget the issue is produced somewhere in the northern hemisphere somewhere quite close to the subarctic latitudes. Furthermore, it sets up my brain to think of it as an emotional one though it does have nothing in common with superfluous and wasted emotionality of the pop artists. The final track White Dots, Red Bubbles is a little poppy in its sentimentality though having nothing in common with brainless pop artists. As I have already said its is a truly praiseworthy outing. It is the pure sound.

Sioum – Yet Further (2016)

Bandcamp

• Post-rock 
• Post-metal 
• Math rock 
• Crossover 
• Progressive rock 
• Ambient 
• Art rock 
• Fusion

Comment: Sioum is a trio from Chicago, the post-rock capital of the United States. I guess a two-third of the ensemble is a couple of the brothers Zdrinc who do play guitars, E-bow and drums, and Kevin Clark who plays keyboards. By listening to their fourth issue Yet Further (they took off 6 years earlier with the issue I Am Mortal, But Was Fiend) it makes me fairly invigorating and liven because the consistence of it is tight and permanently in motion due to straddling on a border of post-rock, ambient, fusion, math rock, artsy metal music and progressive rock. The trio`s compositions are long-running yet not lengthy and languid, for instance, the shortest of them, Welcome to New Beginnings will clock in at a 6 minute. Okay, there are up some moments where the combo is going to hover across the chilly landscape, for instance, at Tribulation, their opening composition but doing it very intriguingly in places veiled with traps and hidden holes to fail especially for rock musicians. It chimes like a travel along the mountain pathway with high steep precipices and slopes. Just keep us thrusting with enormous energy and galvanic impulses it is the most important aspect of the rock music forever. That`s enough to conquer your mind with power and skills and ideas. It is a great issue which is also available as a vinyl copy and one can purchase a Yet Further T-Shirt.    

[Teaser of the day] Seetyca - der glaube alleyn versetzet nichts

Treetrunk

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

Artist: Seetyca

Release: die comoedia von der zeit  

Label: Treetrunk

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Nonima - Ludic

Section 27

• Rhythmic noise
• Industrial techno
• Glitch techno
• Ambient
• Avant-techno
• Experimental techno
• Electronic music

Artist: Nonima

Release: Karmadebt

Label: Section 27/Bandcamp/Free Music Archive

Year: 2010 

[Teaser of the day] Asher - IV

Con-v

• Post-classical
• Modern classical
• Avant-garde
• Experimental music
• Piano music

Artist: Asher

Release: Perpetuals

Label: Con-v

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] RAUPPWAR - DAS TEK (Noisesculptor remix)

Plataforma

• Remix
• Alternative
• EBM
• Industrial electro
• Leftfield
• Electronic music

Artist: Rauppwar/Noisesculptor 

Release: Plataforma 184: Noisesculpor in Rauppwar world stories

Label: Plataforma

Year: 2016

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