Recent Music Heroes

Comment: Wings Of An Angel is a hyper-prolific Israeli composer, poet, magician, and philosopher who has issued a swarm of innumerable outings over the years. The recent one consists of one long, 46-minute composition based on spacey, reverberation-driven chords which used to hover across the aether and time. Yeah, it is intriguing to follow all those chords more carefully to verify the changes to be appeared within it at all. It might be the listener is fooled by one and the same combination of chords. Even if it could be the case, however, it would not be the case altogether, because his music seems to have a purgative sway on the listener. Musically it might remind of the aesthetic of the German kling-klang music of which some compilations from the 80s I am honoured to have on tapes. In a word, the result is overwhelming in spite of its minimal approach. Less is more. At least in this case for sure.

Paolo Veneziani – 204 (2012)

Test Tube

Experimental electronica
Avant-pop
Mood music
Ambient pop
Alternative
Kraut-techno
Minimal synth
Avant-electronica
Glitchtronica
Techno
Ambient
Electronic pop

Comment: it is great to be back again at the catalogue of Test Tube, a fine imprint within the web-audio world. Paolo Veneziani is an experienced musician who has been producing music for approximately twenty years. His 8-track outing 204 is something which used to flicker between rhythms and textures, between more comforting moods and more edgy electronic vibes, between buried sonic elements and quite startling effects, though these elements are aligned densely or placed on top of each other on occasion. It is especially characteristic at the ending track (next life) where the silent pause is followed by an erratic, spasmodic electronic torrent. Paolo Veneziani is poignant by describing his children with proper names. For instance, the opening track Frenetic Indecision is about cut-up breaks and hirsute glitches allowing no permission to land within the first minute of the track. However, the composition will be channelized into a fabulous psychedelic kraut-techno flicker. Indeed, it does have an elegant indecisive intention to thrive through different dots and loops. The same could be said about the rest of the issue as well. Fortunately the inner configuration of the compositions is set up in a way to hold their integrity due to frantic dynamics and also being united by similar spirituality and deconstructed parts of having similarity across the tracks. Slender is a contemporary counterpart of minimal synth with exquisite (even tongue-in-cheek) shades of lo-fi, and DIY aesthetic. At Orange Drops the influence comes out from the German kling-klang and Kraftwerk-esque aesthetic, however, as a wise artist, Veneziani does it in seminal way. It is what we could call retro(futuristic) musicvon its own. By the way, there is a track, From The Past wherein atmospheric layers are rounded out by intense feedback effects and shrill signals. It is painful and ennobling at the same moment. All of that represented over there is about loading and thereafter it is let out. Ejaculated staggeringly. Eargasmic one. The same could be said about the issue in general. The frantic loop indeed.

11/13/2016

[Teaser of the day] The Gifted Children - ...And So It Ended.

Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Neo-psychedelia
Art rock
Epic
Avant-pop/rock
Experimental pop/rock
Electronic

Artist: The Gifted Children

Release: My Museum Pieces

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Seuora - Starlight Nausea

Neofolk
Pagan folk
Noir folk
Experimental rock
Avant-garde
Art rock
Psych-folk
No Wave
Industrial music
Dark folk

Artist: Seuora

Release: The Death Hymns

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Scarm - La Fabrique du Silence

Free Music Archive

Avant-rock
Experimental rock
Psych-rock
Doom rock
Improvised music
Noise rock
Post-rock

Artist: Scarm

Release: Several Minutes of the Man

Label: Happy Puppy/Bandcamp/Gorriòn de Miga/Free Range Beats

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Tytia Mina Teremina - Bialobrzeski

Synth pop
Electronic pop
Lo-fi
Comedy
Singer-songwriter
Electro pop
Alternative pop

Artist: Tytia Mina Teremina

Release: Bananas Bankomate

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] St Cheatersburg - I Hate Movements

Alternative rock
Rockabilly
Punk rock
Psychedelic rock
Post-punk
Indie rock

Artist: St Cheatersburg

Release: Art Is The Last Refuge of The Untalented

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Cousin Silas – Urge (2016)

CerebralRift

Dark ambient
Dystopbient
Epic
Microsound
Ambient drone
Minimalism
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Soundscape
Psycho-acoustic
Drone
Sound art
Microtonal
Abstract
Post-industrial

Comment: meritorious Cousin Silas from the UK (born in 1959) continues his tenure on CerebralRift with the second issue Urge. These three immense compositions which eventually clock in at a 74 minute are the follow-up to Observations From Earth And Beyond (2015) though the touch of the brand new one is markedly more pessimistic and sombre due to austere, dystopic seeds within slowly undulating drones which used to change in a manner as if impending doom and apocalypse. Cousin Silas dispenses with New Age-y and classical music-related sounds as he did on the previous one. On the other side, it sustains readily majesty and epic which on occasion take over to appear in a more lighter and shiny mode. Undoubtedly it is essential to focus on minutiae because the main course just got described above. There are some echoes and hisses here and there, some bubbly electronic sounds, some microscopic noises and focal effects here and there. The title track is somehow more heavy-weighted than the rest of the outing as if gravitating towards the core of Earth. In a more indirect sense, it rotates and moves towards the black hole, towards death as if depicting the life of a human being metaphorically, depicting one`s urge to get passed away positively through the development and contribution. Of course you need either good earphones or a qualitative stereo system to enjoy all of that. And of course, you shall have to crank up the volume of your stereo system to get involved in that ill-omened magic. I guess it is formally music, basically it is the result of a sound processing, ideologically its purpose is to provide evidence about a tight relation between the development of science and music. Our sensations are controlled by the machines ultimately. That`s OK if the result is so exquisite and refined as the issue between my ears right now. it is the urge of mine as well.

11/12/2016

Mart Avi – Rogue Wave (2016)

Bandcamp

Post-pop
Avant-pop
Chamber pop
Electronic music
Baroque pop
Alternative pop
Leftfield pop
Art pop
Singer-songwriter
Electro-acoustic
Experimental pop

Comment: Mart Avi is a 25-year old musician from Estonia who firstly gained fame in underground circles by being the singer in post-Madchester/indie dance/dance rock collectives, Badass Yuki, and Stones & Holes. However, since then or in parallel with it he has been doing his solo albums and being a requested guest artist. After Hours, the first of them came out in 2013 in the LP format under the Estonian imprint Porridge Bullet. Humanista followed approximately three years later being one of the best issues in 2015. By the way, it was heralded as the best album of the year in 2015 by one of the most important Estonian music sites, at Eesti Ekspress being simultaneously the first issue to have won with a Creative Commons licence. In general, it is a new uptake on the legacy of such artists as Scott Walker, David Sylvian, Neil Hannon, David Bowie, and Billy Mackenzie. And those cool whiffs of trumpet here and there convey courtesy visits to Miles Davis and other trumpet players. As I just said it a new uptake on the artists but exploiting their postures adeptly in the way to create a brand new state of art. It was sassy in its eccentricity and dizzy in its elegantly jumpy madness though thoroughly set out and accomplished. Avi`s 10-notch brand new one, as the title hints at it, continues to trudge the same way (it is not surprising at all, isn`t). However, the first listening round did not convince me it might be because it is deceitfully more restrained and layers are more buried. By paraphrasing one of the title of his songs (Seasons Have Changed), times have changed. The next rounds proved the issue is a grower and stepwise opener and Mart Avi is still great to compose outstanding music. In comparison to Humanista there is more melancholy and languidness to be added to the melting pot. Furthermore, even if dreamy seeds within the mix seem to be somehow veiled ultimately the result is even more daydreamy and soulfully wondrous than ever before. The effect is managed in a deliberate way. But not only in this regard. Let`s skip on and listen to Moses which chimes as a glitched-out chamber and shoegaze blended composition. Secondly it could freely be denoted as Rogue Wave. It is followed by Rogue State and in fact proves the accuracy of the previous sense. More profoundly, it is about an enchanting state of mind being surfaced as a static flow to be disturbed and cut-up. Additionally, some details within it are magnified and extended. In a nutshell, it is one of the most outstanding issues in 2016 so far. It is an example of pre-eminent (pop) art.

[Teaser of the day] KiloWatts - Fettuccini Funk

Kahvi Collective

Tech-funk
Robot pop
Digital funk
Alternative dance
Mood music
Electronic music

Artist: KiloWatts

Release: Pasta EP

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Trent Hawkins - Dotar Sojat

Kosmische Musik
Krautrock
Alternative
Experimental pop
Psychedelic music
Electronic music

Artist: Trent Hawkins

Release: 3

Label: Trash Can Dance

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Gunwale - Hondo

Experimental pop
Indie rock
Guitar ambient
Avant-rock
Ambient rock
Alternative rock

Artist: Gunwale

Release: PSSV.8

Label: Patient Sounds

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] LoOmis - DEFuse

Urban music
Soul
Indie soul
Rnb
Electronic pop
Alternative pop

Artist: LoOmis

Release: A Beautiful Coincidence

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

Auxcide – of Atoms and Stardust (2012)

Pxl-Bot

Bandcamp

Chiptune
Alternative dance
8-bit
Tracker music
Nintendocore
Chipbreak
Electro pop
Bitpop
Electronic music

Comment: US-based Auxcide takes journey across chiptune terrains which despite being spiked with hirsute rhythms and melodic roughness and subtle noise levels beneath and aside reveal brighter side coming out from inside. Catchy melodies being spiced up by bittersweet melancholy take the listener over. By listening to some chiptune issue it sounds like a very welcome guest from the past maybe due to nostalgic feels related to game consoles from the 90s though all we are aware of the fact it all started one decade earlier with such programmes as Commodore 64, and with computers like Amiga, and Atari. Although it was the childhood of the computer music it still sounds refreshingly today. It might be because the matrix of it is accustomed to the standards of a nowadays pop song. It might be vice versa as well. It is a nice output by Pxl-Bot.

11/11/2016

Damn Robot! – Derp (2016)

Hawk Moon

Post-rock
Indie rock
Art rock
Alternative rock
Epic
Ambient rock
Electronic

Comment: behind the project Damn Robot! are Rob Honey, Tom Honey, and Jamie Brett from the UK and their 3-track outing is driven by massive guitar threads, ennobling synthesised penumbras with upper bright chords, and vocal based variations of sublime female vox and her turns and mechanical syllables as if coming out from the throat of a robotic amazon. I do not know what does it mean derp but I would like to think of it to be the unknown analogue to this music being electronically tickling and providing enough impulses to the listener's nervous system. Musically it includes basically hints at a classical indie compartment and piano driven and massive guitar outbursts on post-rock. For instance, at There's That Word Again the listener can perceive a dignifying crescendo which can be a good accompaniment for an epic motion piture, especially at the fadeout phase of the movie. Indeed, the issue is a solid one and recommended for all those who fancy post-rock. Consecrate it! The issue is apart of the discography of Winchester, UK-based Hawk Moon Records.

11/10/2016

[Teaser of the day] Entertainment For The Braindead - An Answer

Singer-songwriter
Indie folk
DIY
Dream folk
New Weird Germany
Art folk
Cowbell indie
Folk indie

Artist: Entertainment For The Braindead

Release: Trivialities

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Alex Burey - Family Stone

NoiseTrade

Epic
Alternative
Singer-songwriter
Art pop
Chamber pop
Psychedelic pop

Artist: Alex Burey

Release: Family Stone EP Sampler

Label: NoiseTrade

Year:

[Teaser of the day] Demas - Drau?en

Wondermachine

Microtechno
Techno pop
Click and cuts
Avant-techno
Experimental techno

Artist: Demas

Release: Wally Vallee

Label: Wondermachine

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Bryyn - Sounds Of Love

Jamendo

Indie folk
DIY
Folktronica
Alt-folk
Singer-songwriter
Folk indie
Lo-fi

Artist: Bryyn

Release: Quiet Songs

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Dmyra - In Loam

Clinical Archives

Improvised music
Ambient folk
Folk indie
Art folk
Indie folk
Experimental folk

Artist: Dmyra

Release: Starry Cove

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Trachea - Hateburg

Doom metal
Sludge
Post-metal
Spoken word

Artist: Trachea

Release: DP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Bluebridge Quartet – Adjusted For Low Noise Tape EP (2007)

Aerotone

Post-rock
Downbeat
Experimental rock
Jazz
Alternative rock
Indie rock

Comment: these 19 minutes are truly sympathetic because this 4-track issue is a vivid drift between indie, jazz, and post-rock. With regard to the title I was already prepared to hear something remarkably more obscure, electronic and even abstract but the first chords of the opening track Spektrum dissipated my doubts. Mellow vibraphone chords and epic brass chords and saxophone solos used to seamlessly get into meticulous drum patterns and gentle guitar chords full of organic magic and wondrous mid-points and end-points. Although Bluebridge Quartet was formed in Jönköping, Sweden approximately 12 years ago their handwriting come close to the Chicago-based post-rock school of which more well-known figureheads have been Tortoise, and Sea And The Cake and in fact having most similarities with Bluebridge Quartet either. In a word, it is a fabulous issue being issued on the German imprint Aerotone of which fare had been to issue artists who were immersed in indie electronica and post-rock.

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.

11/08/2016

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.

11/07/2016

Cage Cabarrett – Covil Radiophonic Workshop (2010)

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.

11/03/2016

[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.

11/02/2016

[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).

11/01/2016

[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.

10/31/2016

[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.

10/30/2016

[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.

10/29/2016

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

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.

10/19/2016

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.

10/18/2016

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.

10/17/2016

[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^th 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.

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