Ieva – Insones (2012)

Test Tube

• Post-rock 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Avant-rock 
• Sampledelic 
• Ambient 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Field recording 
• Musique concrète 
• Drone 
• Art music 
• Acousmatic music 
• Ambient rock 
• Experimental electronica

Comment: Samuel Andrè aka Ieva's 10-track issue is a beast. It is like a dragon with many heads which are to shake and burst flames from their unfathomable throttles. It starts off in a ghastly droning way by using poignant concrete music samples, microscopic noises, vocal samples of unknown origin and hissing electro-acoustic shards to design something truly stunning and memorable. On the other side, it is a sort of ambient music and clearly chatting up with anonymity. It might remind you the first three albums by Tim Hecker. Later on, the (dis)course of Ieva's music turns into something surprising because it will be the sort of post-rock though a weird and staggering one. More profoundly, it chimes like being played by hippies from the 22nd century full of magic, elemental touch and power of nature. Being obviously more educated and sophisticated than nowadays rabid feminist and neo-Marxist crap imbued with useless exaggerations, warped political correctness and artificial restrictions. It is the philosophy of escapism being something natural and organic and fairly appealing. It can be considered a sort of rock music though with some reservations because other stylistic elements are there around ready to intervene. Let's listen to Implants, it is a spacey jangle pop with glitches and mystical singing of unknown language. It showcases a perfect balance between experimental and affectionate approach. Musically it slightly reminds me of Paavoharju's Laulu Laakson Kukista (2008, Fonal). Later on, it turns towards the emotionally more buried and hushed approach the album started with. In a nutshell, the result is an excellent issue not only in the world of post-rock and ambient world but in overall. The issue is a part of the discography of a finest one, Test Tube.

[Teaser of the day] Tyron Miller - Sweet Cancer

Redstarcommunity

• Psych-pop
• Indie
• Glo-fi
• Avant-pop
• Dreamwave
• Electronic music
• Neo-psychedelia
• Alternative pop

Artist: Tyrone Miller 

Release: All These Moments 

Label: Redstarcommunity 

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] My Bubba - Oh Kiss No

• Alt-folk
• Free folk
• New Weird
• Indie folk
• Dream folk
• Folk indie

Artist: My Bubba

Release: Wild & You

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Weird Ribs - Thevithick

• Kosmische Musik
• Alternative
• Synthwave
• Electronic music
• Cosmic synth

Artist: Weird Ribs

Release: 803 Days

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Wild Honey - The House By The Sea

• Indie folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Dream pop
• Art pop
• Baroque pop
• Alternative pop
• Folk indie
• Chamber pop
• Indie pop

Artist: Wild Honey

Release: Wild Honey EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Dustmotes - Noise_Machine

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Breaks
• Alternative dance
• Sampledelic
• Dubstep

Artist: Dustmotes

Release: Plainsongs   

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom/Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] beat.dowsing - Elo.Hymn

Phonocake

• Indietronica
• Alternative pop
• Chilltronica
• Downtempo
• Mood music

Artist: beat.dowsing

Release: trigger.melodies

Label: Phonocake/Free Music Archive

Year: 2012

Wings Of An Angel – Pause Play (Memoirs Of Russian Spiritual Landscapes, Aug 2016) (2016)

Bandcamp

• Dark ambient 
• Post-classical 
• Space music
• Experimentalism 
• Piano music 
• Avant-garde 
• Soundscapes 
• Modern classical

Comment: there we are to continue with an immense collection of the Jewish musician Wings of An Angel´s sequent issue Pause Play (Memoirs Of Russian Spiritual Landscapes, Aug 2016) from this year. I guess he might be the most prolific artist worldwide in 2016. In spite of the fact there is no decline in quality with regard to his music. His 9-notch issue might be disturbing ideologically to Russians because there are some disdainful, critical hints at it (Bawdy Songs About Shopping With The Wives Of Russian Oligarchs; Repeat My Mistakes (Why Does Russian History Repeat Itself Flawlessly And So Do I?; The Spiritual Horrors Of Our Imaginary Superiority)). Musically, however, it is a mellow drift between piano music and (dark) ambient music though the main elements are represented in tracks separately. Of course, the artist`s piano music is something unusual because those chords are either hammered or played on a prepared piano (Repeat My Mistakes (Why Does Russian History Repeat Itself Flawlessly And So Do I?; Without Permanent Identity (I Remain The ID-Free Cosmopolitan Vagabond Even As Years Pass On By; Innocent Blonde Girls Play Hopscotch In The Backrooms Of Post-Soviet Hotels)). The latter of them is the favourite of mine because of chiming like the play on an old, dusty piano. The artist’s ambient compositions are played with a pathos as if channelized through angelic filters, being solemn and compelling simultaneously. I guess there are up cathedral organ-alike drones to be added to inject something divine and wondrous to a body of work. At times it is a spacey and abstract riding, rather than a solemn insight into a mystical universe. In a word, it is an outstanding forge in 2016.

The Bordellos – How To Lose Friends And Influence No-One (2016)

Small Bear

• Post-punk 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Americana 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Trance rock 
• Acid folk

Comment: The English combo The Bordellos started their issue with the statement we don't believe in motherfuckers anymore, which rather used to foretell a pessimistic approach to come. Indeed, it is fastened by the title, being a paraphrase of a Dale Carnegie's writing. Lyrically it hints at many cultural subjects and artists, at times cynically and ironically, at times on nostalgic feels though musically the album is foremost an enjoyable entry into psychedelic and lo-fi littered music. However, the combo provides some dodges into American roots music (involving much harmonica interplay with the rest of a composition) and trance rock, however, the latter having a common part with psychedelia anyway. For me, the musical group associates with contemporary British DIY culture, having joint parts with the likes of The Hirundu, and Clinker, for example. Of course, by listening to this 13-track outing one can suppose about many artists of being obvious influences under it (The Fall, Captain Beefheart, Spaceman 3, 60s acid folk from the UK, Jesus And The Mary Chain, Jandek, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bob Dylan among others) I like their critical disposition and anti-pop stance against some cultural appearances and institutions with regard to the song titles (Piss On Spotify, Did The Bastards At The BBC Kill John Peel?, Vinyl Record Stamp Collector) which in turn fortunately is backed up by stark psychedelic touch and ability to create strong, often jam-alike compositions. Listen to this issue and read more about their thoughts in an interview for Yeah I Know It Sucks. The issue is a part of the discography of Small Bear Records.

[Teaser of the day] Hypermagic - Ferris Reel

• Alternative
• Shoegazetronica
• Indie
• Nu-gaze
• Hypnagogic pop
• Electronic
• Indietronica

Artist: Hypermagic

Release: Of Marsh and Mallow 

Label: Self-released/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Alphaxone - Beyond Borders

Otium

• Dark ambient
• Experimentalism
• Illbient
• Epic
• Soundscapes
• Minimalism
• Ambient drone
• Avant-garde

Artist: Alphaxone

Release: Explorations

Label: Otium

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] El Negro Ricardo - Macumba

• Dance rock
• Art punk
• Indie dance
• Punk funk
• Post-punk
• Alternative dance

Artist: El Negro Ricardo

Release: La ermita de los negros

Label: Socsub

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] David Schombert - Astro

Jamendo

• Electronic pop
• Chilltronica
• Mood music
• Techno pop

Artist: David Schombert

Release: Electron

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2005

Crayon Mortel – Piel (2015)

51 Beats

• House pop 
• Indietronica 
• IDM 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Psychedelic pop 
• Electro-indie 
• Shoegazetronica 
• Ambient pop 
• Drone pop 
• Post-rock 
• Crossover 
• Epic 
• Avant-pop 
• Art pop 
• Glitch pop

Comment: this album is a sequent example of seminal soil in Italy to create music with grandeur and style. As we know very well Italians are the godfathers of noise and electro (house/disco) music, but also having contributed immensely to industrial and progressive and music and soundtracks. Alessio Bressan`s 7-notch release used to touch the tradition of the latter with regard to exploiting (deep) house music to mix it seamlessly to indie and post-rock-tinged music which in turn does have occasional dodges towards dream pop, shoegaze, baroque pop (for example, at Away). Twowt is a way between droning and microscopic orchestrated arrangements which eventually results in something overwhelmingly epic and majestic. However, the final part of it seems to depict something more bucolic and rustic. As a contrast, it makes fairly sense. At times one can find out parallels with artists being released on Morr Music, at times with the likes of Seefeel, Autocreation and Locust, at times with the likes of Atlas Sound and Tangerine Dream yet Bressan has his own proper handwriting. All the aforementioned elements of experimentation are very poignantly counterpointed by sublime harmonies and lofty progressions. That`s all what we need actually for, isn`t. For me, it is a formula for ideal pop music. This staggering ghost is a part of the discography of 51 Beats.  

[Teaser of the day] Osterii - Blind in the Headlights

• Post-hardcore
• Experimental rock
• Noise rock
• Screamo
• Alternative rock

Artist: Osterii

Release: Leftovers 

Label: Deplorable Sounds

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] S.W. Campbell - Someones Walking On My Grave Tonight

Prosity

• Singer-songwriter
• Folk rock
• Americana

Artist: S.W. Campbell   

Release: SWCampbellEPPR13

Label: Prosity

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Xarhope - O mascarilha

XS

• Psychedelic
• DIY
• Improvised music
• Lo-fi
• Avant-garde

Artist: Xarhope

Release: XS 35 Jackpooote - Jackpooote LP

Label: XS

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] The Echelon Effect - First Fall Refrain

• Post-rock
• Alternative rock
• Epic
• Electronic
• Experimental rock

Artist: The Echelon Effect

Release: Sierra

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Frenklah - Tokyotape (2016)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Sampledelic 
• Sound collage 
• Chilltronica 
• Mood music 
• Psychedelic 
• Soul 
• Breaks 
• Funk 
• Urban music 
• Cinematic 
• Afrofuturism 

Comment: if there is playing an issue from the roster of Bulgarian imprint Dusted Wax Kingdom one can be absolutely sure it is something for his/her soul. Dusted Wax Kingdom is an imprint for refined sample-based music being built on inspiration from (nu) jazz, soul, funk, chill out and plunderphonics which on occasion results in cinematic glimpses. Let`s call it just urban music though depending on an album it could be mixed up differently of course. And all of that used to inspire the listener either. At least I feel myself inspired every time I am listening to it. Frenklah`s 11-track issue which clocks in at a 22-minute only is the case without any doubt. It is an in-between case of enchanting iterations in rhythms and suggestive harmonies of psychedelic music which at times is coated with wondrous, filmic vamps (Shinkansen, for instance). At No Dress there is up an indicative hint at the title of the album (by exploiting Japanese-based samples) though musically it does have a little common with the Japanese culture. By listening to the first issue Godzilla Intro it is an example of pure funk rock, and its is followed by The Theme which is also funk though relying more on cut-and-paste technique and more laid-back and afrofunk combined elements. In a nutshell, the result is stunning.

[Teaser of the day] Antena - Flores

Gorriòn De Miga

• Ambient
• Drone
• Modern classical
• Epic
• Experimentalism
• Post-rock
• Post-classical
• Minimalism
• Ambient drone
• Avant-garde

Artist: Antena

Release: Sincronismos

Label: Gorriòn De Miga/Bandcamp 

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Leksha - Defective Televator

Subwise

• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Downtempo
• Alternative
• Soundscapes

Artist: Leksha

Release: Reverbath

Label: Subwise

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Lycia - Down There

• Post-punk
• Ethereal wave
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Gothic rock
• Dark wave
• Cold wave

Artist: Lycia

Release: Wake

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 1989

Suss Cunts – Suss Cunts (2016)

Beko DSL

Bandcamp

• Post-punk 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Punk rock 
• Riot Grrrl 
• Psychedelic rock

Comment: Suss Cunts is the Melburnian, Australian trio of Nina Renee, Tahlia Eastman/Cordeux, and Helena Holmes. This 5-track outing is their debut being issued on France-based indie imprint Beko DSL. Beko DSL has been a very important platform for new and talented bands to be appeared since the beginning of the 10s. Many of them thereafter have gained remarkable following in underground circuits. For instance, Memoryhouse, Raw Thrills, Death And Vanilla, Lee Noble, Cankun, The Procedure Club, The KVB. I can remember for the imprint to be appeared when the chillwave movement kept gaining popularity around the world and thereafter also contributing to the movement by its side. However, Suss Cunt`s issue is obviously the most punk-driven one I have ever heard on it though it is played with loose wrist attitude and some indie and psychedelic sensitivity. Of course, there is difference between male and female punk combos, and one is clearly represented on it as well. It is filled with arousing female shrieks and shouts though the feminists might dislike it because of being approached with a focused attention by men. On the other side, Mark E Smith by The Fall is well known due to shouted and shrieked recitation of his texts. I like the trio`s inner burning and enthusiastic performance by keeping their pace to be coherent and dynamic. Get it. Support them.

[Teaser of the day] Chad Golda - Lose Sight

Writing

• Singer-songwriting
• Indie folk
• DIY
• Free folk
• New Weird America
• Psychedelic folk
• Weird folk 
• Folk indie

Artist: Chad Golda

Release: Inside

Label: Writing

Year: 2016

 

[Teaser of the day] Dgiorg - Anywhere We Go We´ll Get Bored

Dissonant Recordings

• Singer-songwriter
• Noir rock
• Angst rock
• Americana

Artist: Dgiorg

Release: Giorgeology

Label: Dissonant Recordings

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Pray for Triangle Zero - Full of Holes

• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Art rock
• Avant-blues
• Alternative rock
• Psych-rock
• Americana

Artist: Pray for Triangle Zero 

Release: New Romance

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Wings Of An Angel – If You Really Want To Know Somebody, Become That Somebody (2016)

Bandcamp

• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Ambient 
• Post-classical 
• Minimalism 
• Art music 
• Electronic music

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.

[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.

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.

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.

[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. 

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