Cola Idol – Terminal Zone EP (2011)

17 Sons

• Techno 
• Minimal 
• Alternative 
• Avant-techno 
• Experimental techno 
• Post-industrial

Comment: the French imprint 17 Sons Records provided music which could be denoted as techno but undoubtedly with intriguing experimental twists. I have reviewed such artists as Mobyl (Pact EP), Nihil Limit (Drifting EP), Urmal Vesnat (Musics For Near Future Ceremonies), Formika (Never Change The Way You Walk) among others under the umbrella but this one is probably one of the most splintered ones due to hirsute bits, cut-up pulsations and branched rhythms that at times might sound a little bit as a DIY and lo-fi exercise but it is not that case because of being thrown in front of our feet to reach the other goals. Splitting Motions gets inspiration from Throbbing Gristle rather than having flirtation with the contemporary club culture. The more you listen to it the more you will get immersed in these tight and knavish labyrinthine corridors. At times it seems to be more a mathematical formula and research than music. For instance, listen to Percussive Research, at least formally. However, it embraces something strange and intriguing to intermingle it with more familiar details. Yet it will not be resulted in complications – it is an elegant yet quite alien-alike music form in comparison to those ones you have met earlier. Robots are there to pitch the tent for their party evening. In truth, it is difficult imagine a human being from Paris, France to be hidden behind these vibrations. Fabulous one. 

[Teaser of the day] Gabriel Graves - In Effect

• Alternative
• Singer-songwriter
• World music
• Art pop
• Epic
• Experimental pop

Artist: Gabriel Graves

Release: Key to the Kingdom

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Jared C. Balogh - A Golden Veil Cloaks A New Born Star

Free Music Archive

• Downbeat
• Art music
• Avant-garde
• Film noir
• Jazz
• Mood music

Artist: Jared C. Balogh

Release: A Change Equals A Rest 

Label: Enough/Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Mart Avi - Python

• Avant-pop
• Post-pop
• Art pop
• Eccentric pop
• Experimental pop
• Singer-songwriter
• Leftfield pop
• Electronic

Artist: Mart Avi

Release: Rogue Wave

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released 

Year: 2016

Büromaschinen – Time Capsule Vol. 1 (2014)

Upitup

• Electronic pop 
• Indietronica 
• Space pop 
• Synthwave 
• Alternative 
• Mood music 
• Poptronica 
• Easy listening 
• Yacht pop 
• Chillwave

Comment: in fact, at the Upitup site it is said very nicely about this 6-track issue which will be clocked in at a 16 minute. These short tracks are composed by an unbelievably multi-talented artist whose issue was already finished off in the beginning of the 00s just waiting perseveringly its time to be released to the audience. Because of that the issue deserves its name and on the other side it musically went ahead of its time due to foretelling the birth of strongly electronic inflected indie music, more profoundly, such styles as chillwave, and alternative pop tinged synthwave, and yacht pop. Thirdly, it does include a marked easy listening touch relentlessly going up and down and then sailing effortlessly to the right side and then to left. By the way, some house flickers come forth from the whole occasionally. At times it reminds of some soundtracks produced for the 80s motion pictures being futuristic and serene at the same time, being emotionally loaded and lightly entertaining simultaneously. Get it from the site from a great imprint, Upitup. What else to add to it - oh yeah, let`s stay waiting for the vol. 2.  

Francisco Pinto – Boo Boo (2008)

Pueblo Nuevo

• Indietronica 
• Alternative pop 
• Indie pop 
• Electro pop 
• Shoegazetronica 
• Electronic pop 
• Synth rock 
• Dream pop 
• Electro-indie 
• Synth pop 
• Acid pop

Comment: let’s continue to make acquaintance with the discography of the Chilean imprint Pueblo Nuevo. Recently I commented on a quite brand new one, Guerra & Rammsy`s Torque EP from the year of 2016 of which core was concentrated on a house vibe with hints at electro and techno. Francisco Pinto`s magnum opus, 19-track originates from the year of 2008 and is a different case because of apparently loving poppy electronic music and indie evenly. Indeed, it is a sublime drift between shimmery guitars in the vein of dream pop and shoegaze on occasion, acidic keyboards and drum machine-led rigid yet catchy beats. For instance, listen to Metropolis, one of the most catchy composition within the whole. The same could be said about URL. However, the whole album is filled with ditties arousing your senses and sensations. Maldita Marisol is a bold electro pop example with rollicking yet intense synthesizers. El Arco de las Cosas starts off with sublime Cocteau Twins-esque loops and reverberations. In a word, it is a great issue and could freely be used as a visit card to get acquainted with the Chilean indie music. It is not a surprising fact altogether the southern hemisphere of American continent has also been a prolific terrain for new and intriguing guitar-based crossovers for a while. 

Guerra & Rammsy – Torque EP (2016)

Pueblo Nuevo

• Electro-house 
• Alternative dance 
• Tech-house 
• Club dance

Comment: this 3-track EP clocking in at a 20 minute is a dynamic example coming out from the umbrella of Pueblo Nuevo. Indeed, stylistically it is a carnival of house music with nibbles at techno and electro vibes. The technical sides of it are variegated with more loose flickers and colourful quivers which used to expand and contract effectively thereof freeing its way for more emotional appearances. In a word, the debut issue by the collaboration of the Chilean Álvaro Guerra, and Rodrigo Rammsy is an enjoyable statement.

Marid – Shaam (2014)

Azawad

Azawad

• Dark ambient 
• Musique concrète 
• Illbient  
• Post-industrial 
• Leftfield 
• Spoken word 
• Noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Rhythmic noise 
• Field recording 
• Experimentalism 
• Non-music

Comment: the 10-notch issue of clocking in at a 59 minute is a part of the discography of AZAWAD Records. As usual, it is related to Islam and military aspects though there are some moments hinting at atrocities and violence against the civil population. Indeed, I hope is not a pro for terror and havoc being the platform for the (Islamic) terrorists. At least at Homs some violent acts against the civil population are enumerated and one cannot be wrong about a disapproving attitude with regard to it. I guess it is because of bloodthirsty actions by ISIS. Stepping aside from the political platform it could be admitted musically it is a very intriguing issue because of being an interface for such genres as noise, rhythmic industrial, ambient, spoken word, musique concrète all of them being seamlessly mixed up together. For instance, Yabrud is one of the finest moments on it because a trance-led Islamic chant is merged with a bold rhythm and shrill noisy pulsation. At times it chimes like the synchronized translation in Russian through tight hisses coming to the surface through broken transmissions and warped radio waves. In a word, the outing is highly intense and arousing of which rhythmic phases could freely be compared with Muslimgauze. In fact, it is quite embarrasing to have been downloaded for 10 times so far only.  

T1nn1tuzzzz – N​.​R. [x​]​no [ ]yes (2016)

Malware

• Noise 
• Abstract 
• Avant-garde 
• Non-music 
• Experimentalism 
• Improvised music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Leftfield

Comment: this is an uncanny issue of two long-running compositions, the first of them (Lado A) sounding like a tribute to all those bacterial monsters living in the toilet. Indeed, as if depicting sonically all these microscopic monsters you can see in the advertises of Domestos, for instance. Crazy and frightening, isn`t? Indeed, it is a rough, abrasive and shrill audible matter made up of brown, black and white noises and then all the elements being tightly intermingled with each other. Yes, you can perceive different shades coming in and out of focus. It can be said formally it is an example of pure anti-music though it is more vivid and full of life than most those pop fabrications you can meet in the charts because it predominates both physically and mentally over the listener. However, behind the chaos you will see eventually a sublime structure and order. The second track (Lado B) is more subdued and static, indeed, it could be said it is a fine tribute to the electricity, the movement of its particles, the flow of an invisible yet ravaging. The outing is a bit of the discography of the Brazilian label Malware which started to appear approaximately one year ago.

EX UAJ ZED – III (2013)

Bandcamp

• Punk rock 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Brass pop 
• Post-punk 
• Dub rock 
• Ska

Comment: EX UAJ ZED is a Polish trio who plays eclectic yet rollicking punk with different twists. For instance, the opening Mało brakowało exploits a catchy riff being very close to one of the songs of the Manchester post-punk juggernaut The Fall. The way is enjoyable how they intermingle boisterous guitar, bass, drum-induced impulses to some brass instruments (saxophone, trombone) thereby make difference from many other punk bands because of boasting with hovering feel. For the orthodox punk fans the combo might sound way too merry and self-indulgent but for those who prefer more borderline music/post-punk/ska punk it could be a welcome fare. Zawsze jeszcze możesz is the most experimental track because of wafting into a dub-inflection with exquisite noisy seeds. All the songs are performed in Polish on this solid outing.

[Teaser of the day] Mystified - Secret Tapes 9

Treetrunk

• Conceptual
• Alternative
• Hauntology
• Sampledelic
• Leftfield
• Electronic music

Artist: Mystified

Release: Secret Ops

Label: Treetrunk

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] The Bordellos - Pink Torpedo

• Psych-folk
• Indie folk
• Anti-folk
• Neo-psychedelia
• Alternative
• Trance folk
• Folk indie
• Art folk

Artist: The Bordellos

Release: How To Lose Friends And Influence No-One

Label: Small Bear

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Rowboat Magicians - Strange Invention

Webbed Hand

• Synth industrial
• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Dark electro
• EBM

Artist: Rowboat Magicians

Release: Strange Invention EP

Label: Webbed Hand

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Tribe of Astronauts - Expansive Dome

Egocide Productions

• Ambient
• Drone
• Avant-garde
• Ambient drone
• Illbient
• Abstract
• Dark ambient
• Soundscapes 
• Minimalism
• Post-industrial
• Experimentalism
• Microtonal

Artist: Tribe of Astronauts

Release: Musick For Aerodromes

Label: Eg0cide Productions

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Mox - The Solemnization

mrs.vee.recordings

• Tribal 
• Ethnotronica
• Sampledelic
• Alternative
• Leftfield
• Electronic music
• Post-industrial

Artist: Mox

Release: Early Ganglions

Label: mrs.vee.recordings/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Natural Snow Buildings - Abramelin

Free Music Archive

• Free folk
• Space folk
• Ambient folk
• Avant-folk
• Drone folk
• Post-folk
• Weird folk
• Experimental folk
• Psych-folk
• New Weird France

Artist: Natural Snow Buildings

Release: Aldebaran

Label: Vulpiano/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Seuora – The OddBeats (2014)

Death Roots Syndicate

Bandcamp

• Vaudeville 
• Balkan music 
• Art rock 
• Blues 
• Music hall 
• Avant-folk 
• Cabaret 
• Crossover 
• Comedy 
• Dark folk

Comment: the US-based imprint Death Roots Syndicate keeps having impact upon me because it surprises with its twists in its discography. Recently I commented about an Italian dark folk/neofolk/apocalyptic folk/neoclassical project L'ira dell'Agnello`s Coprofonia (2014). Seuora is a disparate turn because of coming from Finland and making music with a tongue-in-cheek attitude because of incorporating different styles such as vaudeville/music hall, Gypsy music, and cabaret with roots-driven styles as blues, bluegrass, and folk in an amusing way though involving more murky elements as well (at 34512, for instance). Indeed, it is a hellish crossover issue of a musical direction of which the most famous representative is Tom Waits undoubtedly having its roots both in the Beatniks, 20<sup>th</sup> century beginning Dadaist movement and delta blues, Romani culture, and music hall. However, you could not underestimate the influence of contemporary and past Finnish underground music being the most potential and intriguing in the Scandinavian peninsula (for instance, the so-called forest folk/New Weird Finland movement, Erkki Kurenniemi, M.A. Numminen, Pekka Airaksinen, Keuhkot, Pan Sonic, Vladislav Delay etc). Before the quartet was conceived some members played in such group as Northern Antarctican Non-Flying Flying Circus where they played a similar sort of music. Their handwriting implicates to an organic connection between the storytelling, and a musical backup, between saying yes to our withering life from one`s egoistic perspective and then revealing more misanthropic tendencies and appeal towards the darkness and evil. In a word, the result is highly striking embracing 10 compositions within a span of 33 minutes.

[Teaser of the day] Trenton - Found

Noisetrade

• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Pomp rock
• Soft rock
• Chamber pop

Artist: Trenton

Release: Trenton-EP

Label: Noisetrade

Year: - 

[Teaser of the day] Ieva - Insones

Test Tube

• Ambient
• Avant-garde
• Experimental electronica
• Soundscapes
• Acousmatic music
• Experimentalism
• Electro-acoustic
• Epic

Artist: Ieva

Release: Insones

Label: Test Tube

Year: 2009/2012

[Teaser of the day] Lullatone - Wake Up Wake Up

• Toytronica
• Indietronica
• Alternative
• Dream pop
• Art pop
• Post-pop

Artist: Lullatone

Release: We Will Rock You...to Sleep

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Ashbrg - Lotus Flower

Hamsterloco

• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Ambient techno
• Mood music

Artist: Ashbrg

Release: Origami

Label: Hamsterloco/Bandcamp

Year: 1998/2005

[Teaser of the day] Voda-i-Ryba - Skip It

BFW Recordings

• Psychedelic rock
• Alternative rock
• Art rock
• Avant-rock
• Indie rock
• Experimental rock
• Blues rock

Artist: Voda-i-Ryba

Release: America EP

Label: BFW Recordings

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Hydrus - Quartz

• Techno
• Abstract
• Experimental techno
• IDM
• Avant-techno
• Ambient techno

Artist: Hydrus

Release: Interleaves

Label: Narrominded

Year: 2008 

[Teaser of the day] Mikk Rebane - Blind Fox`s Rain

• Mood music
• Ambient pop
• Chilltronica
• Electronic pop
• Alternative pop
• Yacht pop

Artist: Mikk Rebane

Release: Pending

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Orange Crush - Camber Rye

Archaic Horizon

• Dream pop
• Shoegazetronica
• Ambient pop
• Alternative
• Electronic music
• Indietronica

Artist: Orange Crush

Release: The Fields

Label: Archaic Horizon/Bandcamp

Year: 2006

Miquel Parera Jaques – Empty Space (2012)

tecnoNucleo

• Abstract 
• Avant-garde
• Avant-electronica 
• Minimalism 
• Drone 
• Noise drone 
• Micronoise 
• Microtonal 
• Experimentalism 
• Experimental electronica 
• Non-music

Comment: by watching the spongy cover print of this 6-track issue it could be said it describes the outing quite well. Indeed, it is a gaunt collection of signal-alike progressions which used to reach maximum from its minimal premisses. Mostly it is relied on shrill, noisy droning as if coming from the sonic laboratory. On the other side, it is not surprising at all because the Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain-based artist is being active as a producer and interested in the sound in the first place. Because of that his sound can be considered an example of anti-music, the kind of sonic formalism. Furthermore, it is determined partly by music programmes such as SuperCollider, and Puredata, therefore representing the collaboration between artificial intellect, and human being`s flexibility. The big question is – how it is possible to create the most desolate and dejected soundscapes, could it be done by the human being alone or does he/she need some assistance by machines as well? How it is the most proper way to evaluate it? Yeah, it is intriguing by its concept and by its sound being released on tecnoNucleo.

V3 The Remixes – krata.net.oo4 (2012)

Krata

Archive.org

• Tech-house 
• Remixes 
• Club dance
• Techno 
• Electro
• Alternative dance 
• Tekno 
• Bass music

Comment: the German-based Krata imprint presents the remixes of V3 which was initially written by the collaborative act of Taer & Fehder and being the first release of various artists on the record label. The tech-house track is covered by five different projects. More profoundly, there are up examples of bubblegum techno, gritty mid-tempo electronic rhythmic music, gritty electro and tekno threads, thudding bass music, and more “serious” echoes and ill-omened hisses of post-industrial tinged techno music. More profoundly, there are represented such artists Pronom49, Electric Control, and Marco Fagox, Micha, Qatarsis, and Syn:K. And of course, Taer & Fehder with their axial edit to be the reason for all of that. At times it is emotionally highly catchy (by Marco Fagox), at times more restrained thereof reflecting upon everyday life of ours with its hig tides and low tides. All in all, it is a solid issue.

[Teaser of the day] DRLNG - Bizarre Love Triangle

• Cover
• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Electro-indie
• New Wave
• Synthpop
• Post-punk
• Synth rock

Artist: DRLNG

Release: VA - Dreams Never End, A Tribute To New Order

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] MushroomWavved Collar - Awake From Daydreaming

• Vaporgaze
• Psychedelic
• Alternative
• Shoegazetronica
• Electronic
• Crossover
• Sampledelic

Artist: MushroomWavved Collar

Release: Tranquility

Label: Ethereal Talks 

Year; 2016

[Teaser of the day] Le man avec les lunettes - Jonathan David

• Cover
• Indie pop/rock
• Acid pop
• Psych-pop
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Le man avec les lunettes

Release: A Century of Covers (Belle And Sebastian Tribute)

Label: The Breakfast Jumpers

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Featherfin - Radioactivity

• Indietronica
• Cover
• Electronic pop
• Alternative
• Electro-indie
• Krautrock

Artist: Featherfin

Release: Radioactivity (Kraftwerk cover)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: -

[Teaser of the day] My Monthly Date - 21st

Jamendo

• Post-punk
• Dance rock
• Indie dance
• Alternative pop/rock
• Alternative dance

Artist: My Monthly Date

Release: Miles Away EP

Label: Jamendo/Free Music Archive

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Arce - Liquido

SOO.SU

• Electronic music
• Post-punk
• Electro-indie
• Alternative rock
• Big beat
• Indie
• Alternative dance

Artist: Arce

Release: Radar

Label: SOO.SU/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Cinchel - The Sun Rises And The Forest Comes Alive

• Minimalism
• Ambient
• Experimentalism
• Glitchtronica
• Post-rock
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-garde
• Avant-rock

Artist: Cinchel

Release: Recesses of (Nature (part II))

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Jérémie Guerrier - Sunset Session II

Bitchland

• DIY
• Lo-fi
• Art pop
• Improvised music
• Acoustic pop
• Alternative pop

Artist: Jérémie Guerrier

Release: Sunny Sunday Smile

Label: Bitchland

Year: 2016

Isoleren Lawaii – On/OFF EP (2012)

Sirona-Records

Bandcamp

• Dark ambient 
• Post-industrial 
• Neoclassical 
• Musique concrète 
• Illbient 
• Breakbeat 
• Ambient techno 
• Glitchtronica 
• Synthwave 
• Alternative

Comment: Isoleren Lawaii is a one-man-project from Nimes, France who is also known as Syndrôm, Egg Nebula and establisher of the experimental music imprint Pavillon36 Recordings. Similarly his own music is exquisitely experimental operating with rhythms, glitches and sublime drones. The EP clocks in at a 24 minute, however, embracing a bunch of intriguing sonic combinations, ill-omened echoes and rhythmic solutions (from glitched-out techno debris to overwhelming broken beats) which are markedly influenced by more serious, ominous genres such as dark ambient/illbient, and neoclassical music. Turn Off Your TV is a different turn where a spacious synthwave layer and vague techno rhythms are interspersed among tittle-tattle of the children. Emotionally it is depressing and ennobling at the same time. The issue is a part of the discography of Sirona-Records, another label headed by the Frenchman (Arnaud Barbe aka Pollux). In a nutshell, the result is captivating in its menacing ambush.

Team.Radio – Summertime (2011)

Sinewave

Bandcamp

• Dream pop 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Shoegaze 
• Post-rock 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock

Comment: these five pieces do introduce the listener into autumnal sadness, especially the opening, self-titled track of which beauty pours lavishly over one's centres of sensation because of chiming in a cinematic way due to those intermingled male-female voices and bucolic synthesiser-drenched progressions atop. French Doll is something between Lush, and The Sundays, where deliberately dormant emotions are awoken by witty chord changes and an acidic keyboard key. Vegas reminds me of the Russian indie juggernaut Motorama at its most light-coloured moments. However, it is not Motorama it is Team.Radio and it is their special delivery. Come On is a thoroughly dreamy number with regard to elliptical chord developments (especially in the second part) and hazy female vocal delivery. Albatross is the finishing composition and the quartet's aesthetical apotheosis through combining power and chaos, systemization and tenderness, tension and relaxation. Thereof it is not surprising at all this 13-minute piece is the most post-rock-esque moment within the album. Furthermore, regarding the downright experimental final part of it this is the counterpoint to the rest of the issue. All in all, it is a great issue in the discography of the Brazilian Sinewave.  

Sympathy Points – Negative Space (2016)

Bandcamp

• Modern classical 
• Abstract 
• Glitchtronica 
• Ambient 
• Epic 
• Minimalism 
• Clicks`n`cuts 
• Field recording 
• Soundscapes 
• Concrete music 
• Avant-garde

Comment: although this 7-track issue is tagged mostly as hip-hop at Bandcamp it is something different in fact. It might be the tag “future beats” is more appropriate imbued with sublime vibes and refined loops at Lusthog. I guess anyone of us would be very happy if such sort of music would be throning in the charts of (near) future. Nowadays it is not going to happen. However, at Up Close you could hear exquisitely majestic ambient and modern classical progressions with slightly shrill glitched-out chords which caress you instead of hurting. Indeed, it is something very special coming from a veiled world of sounds. Last Scene is an apotheosis of a blend of minimalism and emotive music though incorporating some elements from the post-rock scene either. Pain Rush is the most short-running and experimental piece on it because of operating with elements from electro-acoustic music, clicks`n`cuts, and field recording (chirping of the cicadas). It is simply stunning how the artist is expert at intertwining sublime noises with highly emotional impact at Height Width Depth. It might remind of Tim Hecker`s classics as Radio Amor, and Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again. The Washington, Virginia, US-based artist has been very prolific in 2016 because additionally he(?) has issued such outings as Iterations, Myths and Vacation Songs as well. I have not listened to these issues yet but is should have been done because additionally to this issue it may reveal some highlights from this year.

Ev3nmorn – Solar Waves (2012)

Oddot

• Drag house 
• Witch house 
• Post-whatever 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative

Comment: you could only imagine is it the proper sound of solar waves, the waves which are both deadly and the fountain for life on Earth. This issue of 7 compositions is a part of the so-called witch house/drag house movement which rather is being ominously gothic and glowering yet by listening to the outing it casts lots of shades with bright glimpses and synthesised beams. It might be the artist's sun is thoroughly artificial and unconventionally cold, therefore it could be called the anti-sun, the anti-star. Let's speak some words about the music as well – you could imagine the majesty of Lycia played only on synthesisers though frequently those moments are banged up by poppy tootles and flickering electronic progressions imbued with vocoder drenched and echo filled vocals on the occasion. It was released in 2012 when the witch house/drag house genre was yet very actual. Fairly nice result indeed being a part of the discography of Oddot.

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