[Teaser of the day] Ergo Phizmiz - Daruckatekarte

Wombnet

• Avant-pop
• Experimental pop
• Leftfield pop
• Indie
• Art pop
• Electronic
• Alternative

Artist: Ergo Phizmiz 

Release: Nose Points In Different Directions   

Label: Wombnet/Free Music Archive

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Ann Deveria - Primera Parte

Audiotalaia

• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Electro-acoustic
• Ambient drone
• Sound art
• Microtonal
• Electronic music
• Abstract
• Live recording
• Drone
• Acousmatic music

Artist: Ann Deveria

Release: Domingo Tarde

Label: Audiotalaia

Year: 2009

Trent Hawkins – Ninnananne/t2helaev (2015/2016)

Bandcamp

• Kosmische Musik 
• Krautrock 
• Ambient 
• Synthwave 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Art music 
• Mood music

Comment: indeed, by now I decided to review two issues by an artist within one comment because I am listening to a tape which physically includes both of them being issued by Tallinn, Estonian underground imprint Trash Can Dance (a print-run of 36 tapes; soon in next days it will be officially announced for sale). Trent Hawkins is the pseudonym of a guy from Tartu, Estonia who is also known as the drummer of a local stoner rock group, Smõuk. However, substantial guitar riffs and oppressive psychedelic noodling of desert rock is jettisoned for floating synthesisers and ticking rhythms which are up there to depict something otherworldly and beatific. I like the artist's pure aesthetic of Kosmische Musik where all the elements are enjoyably aligned to constitute a logical whole with enchanting space between and around. It might slightly remind of some works by M. Geddes Gengras under Umor-Rex where one can discern similar perceptions of mathematical relations and measures between the establishing sonic elements. Furthermore, it is as pristine as one counterpart could be against lousy aspects surrounding us in our every day's life. A sort of music for escapists. Similarly to the American musician's soundscapes the recent one is also the grower. At first glance it might seem a little bit lightweight and even superficial but it is the deceptive impression. At first one needs to take some time for warm-up to comprehend this hippy of ambient music (the description by the label boss Gert "Trash" Moser). Or maybe not, though. All in all, both of them are fairly fine ones. After listening to these ones I am sure you will be listening to Trent Hawkins third issue (3) either (also available in tape format on Trash Can Dance).

[Teaser of the day] Endamisi Salamisi - XIK

• Electronic music
• Avant-electro
• Alternative dance
• Experimental electro
• Leftfield
• Kraut-electro
• Minimal electro
• Kosmische Musik

Artist: Endamisi Salamisi

Release: Endamisi Varas (split with Luurel Varas)

Label: Trash Can Dance

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Antonina - Pakike (Laksberg Mix)

• House
• Alternative dance
• Electro-house
• Electronic music
• Remix
• Club dance

Artist: Antonina

Release: Pakike

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

Yonatan Levital – ...and Monkey (2005)

Birdsong

• Lo-fi
• Indie folk 
• DIY 
• New Weird Israel 
• Pychedelic folk/rock 
• Experimental folk/rock 
• Improvised music 
• Yacht rock 
•  Field recording

Comment: it's great pleasure to be back again at the discography of Birdsong, an Israeli imprint which does not release albums anymore as I have understood. Fortunately there are up a lot of albums worth to be discovered. For example, this 12-track issue was released 11 years ago reflecting partly upon tendencies being actual at the time. One of the categorisations of mine was New Weird because the artist uses a DIY and lo-fi/bedroom recording approach to accentuate his naive folk and indie drenched preferences. On the other hand, it is comfortable to generalise something being out of the centre and outsider yet involving many different facets. More profoundly, there are up detuned tinny guitars and low-end synths and a sitting monkey in the sheepskin jacket additionally to Yonatan to provide something tickling and exciting and flesh out your fantasy. From nowadays (free)folk approaches to storytelling and American Primitivism in music, from improvised moments to light-hearted, carnival-alike yacht rock roundabouts, from vivid found sounds to introverted guitar twanging. That's great – all these audible and imaginative elements and contrast between them.

[Teaser of the day] fydhws - Movement 3 (Mountain)

• Doom rock
• Experimental rock
• Post-rock
• Epic
• Post-metal
• Avant-rock

Artist: fydhws

Release: The Sound

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp  

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Kenyon - Charlie The Freak

Hinah

• Indie folk
• Baroque folk
• Alt-folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Chamber folk
• Indie pop
• Folk indie

Artist: Kenyon

Release: Catch A Star

Label: Hinah

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Fake Cats Project - Fake Cats Project Robs Rachmaninoff

• Avant-garde
• Dada music
• Psychedelic rock
• Improvised music
• Experimental music
• Electronic music
• Avant-rock
• Synth-rock
• Experimental rock
• Leftfield

Artist: Fake Cats Project

Release: Music Laundering Mashine

Label: Haze/Free Music Archive/Archive.org

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Item Caligo - Rest In Apathy Part 3

Laverna

• Modern classical
• Ambient
• Alternative
• Piano music
• Epic
• Experimentalism
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde
• Art music

Artist: Item Caligo

Release: Lav63

Label: Laverna

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Elisa Luu - 13 Maggio

La bèl

• Art pop
• Post-rock
• Modern classical
• Electronic
• Ambient pop
• Avant-rock
• Chamber pop
• Mood music
• Crossover
• Epic
• Experimental pop
• Alternative
• Baroque pop
• Indie
• Post-classical

Artist: Elisa Luu

Release: The Time Of Waiting

Label: La bèl

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Ultimate Xperience - Across Thee Universe (Space Time Continuum)

Ektoplazm

• Goa trance
• Trance
• Psytrance
• Tekno
• Electronic music
• Club dance

Artist: Ultimate Xperience

Release: Lazarus Rising

Label: Neogoa/Ektoplazm/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

The Hathaway Family Plot – Having No Alternative (2016)

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

• Art pop 
• Post-pop 
• Noise pop 
• Electronic 
• Avant-pop 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Alternative 
• Leftfield pop 
• Indie 
• Experimental pop 
• Glitch pop 
• Anti-pop 
• Post-industrial

Comment: The Hathaway Family Plot’s previous issue before Having No Alternative was Spare Time and it was one of the most outstanding issues in 2015. The same could be said about Having No Alternative because Kevin McFadden provides something similarly qualitative as he has done before. That’s an obvious killer in terms of harshness and softness, in terms of still life and noise keeping on to drift somewhere between the pop scene and underground undercurrents. Because of that Having No Alternative, and Sparing Time represent the true essence of nowadays indie music. More profoundly, he hijacks obvious, easily understandable elements of the established culture to intermingle them with elements of the counterculture and frequently by its furthermost angles (for instance, at Mountain). At the same time it is simple and sophisticated, lofty and oppressive. Visually it can be transported to a desolate wasteland to accompany a walker who is trudging across the gothic and magic realism mixed terrain. At the artist’s Bandcamp site it is stated that he still has not discovered the meaning of life. It can be assumed it is a state of tension which forces Kevin McFadden to thrive and discover new areas around him. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels with the Estonian musician Mart Avi whose music is to follow the aforementioned aesthetical logic and even chronologically does have a similar path.

Lezet – Aether (2016)

Kermesse

Archive.org

• Post-classical 
• Art music 
• Modern classical 
• Chamber music 
• Avant-garde 
• Drone 
• Experimentalism 
• Minimalism 
• Electro-acoustic

Comment: The Serb Igor Jovanovic aka Lezet has been a musical hero within the webaudio/netaudio world with his 68 albums for almost 10 years. Indeed, the amount of the issues is immense and only such artists as Buben, The Implicit Order, Cousin Silas, Cagey House/Dave Keifer and Wings Of An Angel can compete with him in this regard. Of course, music is not a topic for competition (only some decayed forms of it like the Eurovision Contest are subject of it). Lezet`s music has been a state of art, a sort of it. He has issued music on such great imprints as Dog Eared Records, Clinical Archives, Sirona-Records. SuRRism-Phonoethics, Buddhist On Fire, PICPACK among others. Aether is a short-running, 3-notch issue under Argentinian imprint Kermesse Records consisting of a simplistic structure at first sight. Indeed, I have to accentuate for once more – at first sight. In truth, those cello-alike major and minor chords have been managed in the way to conjure up enough emotions, fantasy depictions from one`s mind, and awe towards something/someone. One cannot deny its overwhelming touch and impression confluencing at a crossroad of electro-acoustic, minimalism, drone, and post-classical music. In spite of the tags it is primary to perceive all the shades and penumbras of the whole. For instance, one can discern attractive loops and iterative patterns as if running due to inertia and then, at a time it will be jettisoned for impulsive chords and structures. It is one of the best issues in the list of the best albums of 2016. The cover art is painted by (another musician) Jared C. Balogh.

Safir Nòu – Groundless (2016)

La bèl

Bandcamp

• Art pop 
• Chamber pop
• Post-pop
• Baroque pop 
• Alternative pop
• Indie pop
• Post-rock 
• Balkan folk 
• Post-classical 
• Epic

Comment: first of all, I have had a successful day behind. After a day's hard work I visited and bought approximately 10 tapes for 30 Euros by Trash who is curating his own amazing Trash Can Dance label. By the way, I got my personal project's four tapes of the latest issue additionally (Autharktos' Warped Irrpulses). And now I am listening to the Italian one-man-project Safir Nòu's 7-track masterpiece on the amazing La bèl imprint, which used to run in the vein of chamber pop-based easiness and high melodic affinity (it might remind you of Penguin Cafe Orchestra at Blue Dance and other tracks as well), and one of the exceptions do happen at Puppets' Waltz filled in with joyful gypsy melodies and positive sensibility. At New Lunacy cinematic post-rock progressions will take over the course for a 7-minute. It will be ending with a hymnal orchestration which could be considered one of the top moments within the album. In overall, it is fairly enjoyable how these instrumental passages used to elegantly roll over your mind again and again. In a word, the result will appear in the list of the best albums of Recent Music Heroes in 2016. If you like such artists as Bark Cat Bark, Beirut, Tortoise, Esmerine, A Silver Mount Zion, Tindersticks, Yann Tiersen then this issue is also your cup of tea. Get it! Support it!

Sunrise Square - Pril

[Teaser of the day] Kangsinu - Waiting For Sci-Fi Metastasis

Jamendo

• Lo-fi
• Shoegaze
• DIY
• Epic
• Dark wave
• Space rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Kangsinu

Release: Planet Of The Rape

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Cidulator - Philomela

Jamendo

• Neokrautrock
• Art rock
• Motorik
• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Psych-rock

Artist: Cidulator

Release: Nightingale EP

Label: Jamendo/Archive.org

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Chris Skinner - CardShark

Jamendo

• Blues
• Alternative rock
• Grunge
• Hard rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Chris Skinner

Release: Moscow Satellites [EP]

Label: Jamendo/Archive.org

Year: 2009

Mmöner – Forest Eruption (2016)

Bandcamp

• Primitive electronica 
• Electronic music 
• Improvised music 
• Alternative
• Leftfield 
• Fantasy music 
• Mood music

Comment: this handful of tracks is an intriguing one due to those artistically resonating elements within a whole. It might sound slightly primitively, however, if you have listened to naive fantasy music soundtracks then your opinion might be contrariwise. Indeed, one can hear one naive chord followed by another in a primitive way, one can hear one naive turn followed by another. On the other side, the issue can be depicted as a soundtrack for showcasing one weird electronic keyboard to be played with gleaming glisters and acidic glares and while sustaining its magical milieu throughout the course. The title Forest Eruption seems to be a little bit disorienting because the wooden mass in front of your ear will not disappear. Rather it will thicken stepwise. I like the tracks of containing the word “moss” (for instance, David Bowie`s Moss Garden which is a track with obvious influences of an early Kraftwerk). Indeed, Moss Hymn is the favourite of mine within it though the rest of it is very similar to it. In a nutshell, the result is fairly amusing and pleasantly entertaining. I also recommend listen to it while you will be enjoying the Christmas. Solid work by the artist who describes himself/herself as one of these creatures… .

Erreome – Mis Ciclos (2011)

Rawmatroid

• Deep house 
• Remixes 
• Electronic pop 
• Chilltronica
• Dubtronica 
• Alternative dance 
• Club dance 
• Funk house 
• Electro-house

Comment: this is the first entry into the discography of Rawmatroid and a successful one. Erreome is an artist from Spain and his 5-track one is classy. It (City Start) starts off with solid deep house vibrations full of nostalgic sensations, hovering magic and soulful sensibility. At Help the artist will change the pace by showcasing more funky seeds though still flowing in deep house vein. Catedral is the last of Erreome's original tracks before remixes start to step in. In truth, it is a different case in comparison to the two first ones because of providing an electro-house with tinny synthesised chords and the poppy gear. Ales Pardo's version of Help is quite similar and slightly inferior to the original one and thereby adding not much charm to the whole. It is more funky than the original track. Kebiin's re-interpretation of Catedral is a good bit because of hooking up dub and chilly electronica-tinged vibes to the mix. All in all, the result is fabulous and overtly a top notch (especially the original compositions).

[Teaser of the day] Bone Conductors - Her Approach to Art

Luvsound

• Art pop
• Avant-pop
• Indie pop
• Neo-psychedelia
• Chamber pop 
• Alternative pop
• Singer-songwriter
• Electronic
• Baroque pop
• Psych-pop
• Experimental pop

Artist: Bone Conductors

Release: Twitches

Label: Luvsound/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Janne Nummela - Inclined Plane II

Tape Safe

• Experimentalism
• Improvised music
• Electro-acoustic
• Post-classical
• Acousmatic music
• Psycho-acoustic
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde
• Art music

Artist: Janne Nummela

Release: Exioëhary

Label: Tape Safe

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Black Wanderer - III

• Dark ambient
• Drone
• Ambient rock
• Blackgaze
• Guitar ambient
• Abstract
• Post-metal
• Experimental rock
• Crossover
• Experimentalism
• Minimalism
• Epic
• Avant-rock
• Avant-garde
• Ambient drone

Artist: Black Wanderer

Release: 67P

Label: earthMANTRA

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Tree No Leaves - Sentience Screwed

• Art pop
• Space pop
• Avant-pop
• Indie pop
• Progressive pop
• Psych-pop
• Alternative pop

Artist: Tree No Leaves

Release: Tree No Leaves 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Jared C. Balogh – A Change Equals A Rest (2016)

Enough

Jamendo

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Post-classical 
• Downbeat 
• Modern classical 
• Mood music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Art music
• Post-jazz

Comment: Jared C. Balogh continues to flesh out his concept of post-classical music which was also clearly discernible on his previous issue Awkward Balance (under the pseudonym Life Like Thunderstorms). As you can see there is up some logic (about strongly searching for balance) between the two titles. Emotionally it is a restrained one as if moving in a multiple stream of configured elements which do have a subdued power and having possibility to appear differently. At times one configuration used to predominate over other ones, and vice versa. Because of that it can be called the artsy sort of mood music. It is mind-provoking and soothing at the same time due to being partly driven by velvety downbeat rhythms and immersive electric piano chords. It might it is a sort of (post-)jazz music. At Let's Spoon To This Mello Storm one can hear some similarities with Tortoise, for instance. It is even more calm if to compare it to Awkward Balance. However, it is somehow lurking otherwise. The issue is a part of the discography of Enough Records (but it is also available at Jamendo, and Free Music Archive). 

Luis Marte – Routier (2016)

Pueblo Nuevo

• Alternative dance 
• Club dance 
• Kraut-techno 
• Techno pop 
• Tech-electro 
• IDM 
• Avant-techno 
• Experimental techno 
• Motorik 
• Micronoise 
• Glitch techno

Comment: one part of the rhythmic sort of music has been related to the depiction of speed and driving across the highway and staring at the dotted line. For instance, it was so by Kraftwerk, and Neu!. Argentinian Luis Marte's Routier is a successor of this glorious motorik rock/krautrock-esque tradition though doing it in a techno-based and IDM format (at Grenade, and Not Find Another Like one can hear very Kraftwerk-esque whistling bleeps wandering throughout the pieces). On the other side, it is hard to estimate do come there influences either directly or not. It might be these ones come through the neo-krautrock and IDM and clicks and cuts and glitch scene, i.e therefore indirectly (being presumably influenced by such artists as Seefeel, Jan Jelinek, Mark Van Hoen's projects, Autechre, Mouse On Mars, Kreidler, To Rococo Rot). More profoundly, the artist is obsessive at lying around beats and humming sounds and elegant noises thereby creating the impact of watching the panorama while driving into the sunset. Furthermore, these rhythms could freely create a soundtrack for road movies (Vanishing Point, for instance; just remember astounding Primal Scream's album of same title being influenced by a cult motion picture). All in all, it is a beautiful (techno) outing by analysing it from different points of a space. It is a bit of the discography of a Chilean imprint, Pueblo Nuevo.

Lazlo Supreme – Evil Made Easy (2010)

Free Music Archive

Urban Home Companion

Bandcamp

• Hip-hop 
• Soul 
• Rap 
• RnB 
• Electronic pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Electro-hop 
• Urban music

Comment: I guess there is no problem to enjoy this 7-track issue from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA made up of vivid chants and hip-hop beats and piano taps, floating soul flickers and eventually all of that resulting in proper pop songs. It provides highly enjoyable moments when the aforementioned elements merge seamlessly together. As we know very well artists have a little to provide with regard to something truly new and innovative for most time but it is always enjoyable to get a part from a well produced issue and this is one of such kind. At times nowadays soul and hip-hop performers forget themselves into technical labyrinths and thereof forgoing emotional and affectionate touch but over there all is balanced all right. Switch it on and get a part of it. The issue is a part of Urban Home Companion.

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.