Florian Wahl – 14 (2016)

Bandcamp

• Soul 
• Alternative pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Design pop 
• Indie 
• Urban music 
• Hip-hop 
• Psychedelic pop 
• Ghost pop 
• Rap 
• Art pop 
• Avant-pop

Comment: by listening to this set of 14 tracks by a talented Estonian musician and music reviewer Florian Wahl aka Anton-Babinski who has issued some issues before that but the recent one is his top tier undoubtedly. It could be denoted contemporary soul music being littered with nowadays technical possibilities and effects yet the soulful core of it will not get lost among it. However, it is partly true because the extent of the styles is wide in a more or less way. Furthermore, it is soul searching of the artist where hovering longing passages are either adorned with autotuned vocals or exquisite beats or wondrous synthesised ghosts or suggestive sighs or chopped and screwed flickers. On the other side, it could be said at times the cinematic side of Anton-Babinski comes in and that`s very appreciated. By the way, his sound is frequently tagged as ghost pop though it might say way too little and be misleading about Wahl`s intentions. One of the most pre-eminent points is Cherry Fairy which obviously is based on Animal Collective's wondrous Loch Raven with all those ghastly yet enchanting higher frequencies and capturing fadeouts. All in all, it is a great issue from 2016. 

The Fucked Up Beat – Mammoth (2016)

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism 
• Sampledelic 
• Leftfield 
• Hauntology 
• Electronic music 
• Minimalism

Comment: Mammoth is an extinct animal but The Fucked Up Beat has its mission to continue. The duo of Eddie Palmer & Brett Zehner continues to convey sample-based music which consists of very old samples being intermingled with modern electronic music (which also might be sampled). Mammoth is their second issue in 2016 (a follow-up to Researches Ghostwaves and the Midnight Mysteries of Rhode Island) consisting of one immense, 48-minute composition. The favourite element of the duo’s music is related to iterative, minimal phrases which are wrapped up by haunting ambience. The aforementioned elements do vary throughout the course by changing its shape and timbre, its colour and rhythm and thereof resulting in a multitude of subversions. Thanks to the Caretaker the hauntology used to rule in the underground music and The Fucked Up Beat is one of the most pre-eminent examples of the style worldwide. Undoubtedly it deserves a place in charts of the best albums in 2016.

Cage Cabarrett – Covil Radiophonic Workshop (2010)

XS

• Radiophonic art
• Post-industrial 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Microtonal 
• Spoken word 
• Micronoise 
• Avant-garde 
• Leftfield 
• Experimental electronica 
• Experimentalism 
• Abstract

Comment: this is a weird issue of a sort of distorted music. Indeed, this kind involves previously created music and snippets of speeches to be destructed and warped due to fine glitches, scratchy radio waves, microscopic noises, something which could frequently be denoted as domestic noise. For instance, Holger Czukay by CAN was one of the pioneers by using radio waves as a music component. In comparison to the krautrock legend Cage Cabarrett`s work is sonically more incisive and shrill being remarkably more close to noise and (post-)industrial music. However, the title of this 4-track issue hints more closely at BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and in fact, having aesthetically very close similarities with this one. It used to undulate from silent, dormant forms to more elemental outbursts thereof providing some emotional impact. In a nutshell, it is a very intriguing one while preserving its consistency. The issue is a part of the discography of the Portuguese imprint XS Records. 

[Teaser of the day] 7parsec - Gon Wa

Hortus Conclusus

• Post-rock
• Alternative rock
• Epic
• Art rock

Artist: 7parsec

Release: Red Comet

Label: Hortus Conclusus

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Black Knights - Techniques & Shockwaves Inst

• Hip-hop
• Rap
• Pop
• Urban music

Artist: Black Knights

Release: The Almighty Instrumental Mixes 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Nick R 61 - Nibiru

[Picpack]

• Ambient
• Leftfield
• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Rhythmic noise
• Ambient noise
• Breaks

Artist: Nick R 61

Release: Mizantrip

Label: [Picpack]

Year: 2016

Oshi Kito – EP 2 (2010)

Fusion

• Dubstep 
• Alternative 
• Electronic music 
• Breaks 
• Dub 
• Drum and bass 
• Leftfield 
• Breakbeat 
• Art music 
• Breakcore

Comment: Oshi Kito is a musician of Japanese heritage though he is not making music with the influences of J-pop, anime or Japanoise, at least on this 4-track issue which gets clocked in at a 17-minute. I guess the aforementioned styles are the most represented ones from the arrogant westerner`s view though depending on a viewer`s personal preferences undoubtedly. Oshi Kito`s music is inflected by dub, and exquisite broken rhythms which used to wobble and change its pace due those bold synthesised frequencies and rattling drums invoking the sense of drum and bass, and breakbeat (especially at Fauld). At Fauld those synthesizers used to chime like being conjured up by ghastly cats of whom you have no wish to meet otherwise altogether. Indeed, the more you listen to it the more one`s understanding and categorization of the issue is getting blurred, especially if you do listen to such tracks as Kuishi Katika. and Drop Moon. The former of them chimes like an art house journey where the metallic beats used to twist and swing thereof somehow reminiscent of such artists as Cagey House, and Oneothrix Point Never`s R Plus Seven (2013). The latter one exploits uncanny high tones which used to sound like being produced on a keytar atop downright rough bass sequences to create a new intriguing universe. The marvellous issue is a part of the discography of Fusion Netlabel. 

[Teaser of the day] Vägskäl - Rain 2

Enough

• Dark ambient
• Minimal techno
• Leftfield
• Post-industrial
• Illbient
• Avant-techno
• Industrial techno
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Vägskäl

Release: Last Summer

Label: Enough

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Jeremy Lee Given - Lorraine

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Americana

Artist: Jeremy Lee Given

Release: Old Flames

Label: Dracula Horse

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Narcoleptica - Unbreather, The Path

• Alternative
• Dream pop
• Singer-songwriter
• Art pop
• Ambient rock
• Experimental pop
• Avant-pop
• Indie

Artist: Narcoleptica

Release: The Modular Explanation

Label: Sonic Reverie/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

My First Trumpet – Frerk (2007)

Aerotone

Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Alternative pop 
• Post-rock 
• Indie 
• Glitch pop 
• Electronic

Comment: Kevin Hamann aka My First Trumpet released a brand new album, Oke on Anette Records in 2016. However, he has been in the field for approximately 10 years representing the tendencies of indie and post-rock music through sublime electronic possibilities. With regard to the netlabel world there were many netlabels of which purpose was to promote artists with the aforementioned intent (Aerotone, 12rec, error! Lo-Fi Recordings, Poni Republic, 23 Seconds). Kevin Hamann`s 11-notch issue could best be understood in terms of balancing between minimal and rough, between simplistic and profound, between incisive and dulcet, between pastel tones and corroded ones. These characteristics could not be without each other to create something to be (nearly) perfect. By the first listening it might sound a bit simplistic but listening to it for more times an extraordinary indie world used to open up in front of your ears. Indeed, Hamann`s chemistry is profound and obsessive because without that there could not be mad professors of teaching us that pop music must be witty, organic, multi-faceted and being made with great dedication. It is well-groomed and lunatic at the same time. Recently I listened to a crosscut vinyl issue by Donovan (Golden Hour Of Donovan) and in comparison to this it could be said it is a reversed version of the legendary British singer-songwriter because Hamann`s approach is instrumental only though being laconic in a similar way. More profoundly, it might sound laconically yet all these elements are craftily fleshed out. The only shortage is it is devoid of trumpets, though. It is an unsuccessful joke of mine, isn’t. The favourite of mine is Muerz because of being sombre by its nature and intention while the rest of the album is rather neutral by its mood. Great classic to be recalled for(ever). 

[Teaser of the day] Vonsuck - Saki krõbinad

• Electro-house
• Ulmetronica
• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Alternative dance
• Robot pop

Artist: Vonsuck

Release: Enne und

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 1999

[Teaser of the day] Day of the Triangle - Complex Trees Near Physics Building

• Kosmische Musik
• Alternative
• Field recording
• Electronic music
• Krautrock
• Space music
• Avant-pop
• Musique concrète

Artist: Day of the Triangle

Release: Salvia Sundays

Label: Trash Can Dance

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] The Bilinda Butchers - Little Leaf

• Shoegaze
• Dream pop
• Epic
• Alternative pop
• Indie pop

Artist: The Bilinda Butchers 

Release: Goodbyes EP 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

Robert Avellanet – Heart & Soul (2014)

Jamendo

Bandcamp

• Soul 
• Funk 
• Pop 
• Soft pop 
• Disco

Comment: Robert Avellanet`s 11-track outing gets a place in my listening world because of providing sonic elements which might be sugary and sleazy by some other artists with credibility and powerful inner impetus. More profoundly, it is a quite straightforward pop music with the elements of funk and soul. However, the central track on it is certainly The One And Only, one could feel its axial position while listening to these 42 minutes for many times in a row and while getting to it again. It does have enough strength to hover and tower and find out a slot in one`s heart. Lyrically the outing is predominantly about love, the fact which is obviously not surprising at all due to those softened pads and hopeful audible seeds /Love is a journey I would everywhere with you/My love I found you/My life is yours I was born for you/I dream about you/One day we will stand side by side/. In a word, it is an issue where Latin inflected balladry meets Motown inspired soulful music. Lovely stuff.

[Teaser of the day] A Beautiful Machine - Meet You There

• Shoegaze
• Dream pop
• Alternative rock
• Ethereal pop
• Space rock
• Indie rock
• Ambient rock

Artist: A Beautiful Machine

Release: Another Time

Label: Embryo

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Ellah a. Thaun - Labyrinth Girl

• Indie pop
• Singer-songwriter
• DIY
• Drone rock
• Alternative pop
• Psych-pop
• Lo-fi

Artist: Ellah a. Thaun

Release: The Oracle III

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Nabux - Closer

Faturenet

• Downtempo
• Electronic music
• Chilltronica
• Alternative
• Mood music

Artist: Nabux

Release: Introspect

Label: Faturenet

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Roadside Sketches - Western Exposure

No Source

• Americana
• Folk indie
• Folktronica
• Tejano
• Indie folk
• Epic
• Art folk
• Psychedelic folk

Artist: Art Sonic

Release: Roadside Sketches

Label: No Source/Acustronica

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Abducted - As Humanity Falls

Torn Flesh

• Progressive metal
• Death metal
• Art metal
• Technical metal

Artist: Abducted

Release: I See The World 

Label: Torn Flesh/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Egoprisme - I Am The Sun

• Alternative dance
• Post-punk
• Coldwave
• Electro-indie
• Synth rock
• Indie rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: Egoprisme

Release: beko_egoprisme#EP2 

Label: Beko DSL

Year: 2016

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.