Erzs-bet – Y2062 (2014)

Radio Stalingrad

• Dark ambient 
• Illbient 
• Ambient noise
• Post-industrial 
• Leftfield
• Electronic music 
• Dystopbient 
• Ambient drone 
• Avant-garde 
• Drone 
• Experimentalism 
• Sound art

Comment: either to understand is this issue decoded or encoded it depends on the viewer`s perspective and keen ability to imagine. For instance, the compositions on it are titled in the following way: Y2022, Y2042, [-1-], [-2-], [–Tran-Sition–], and Y2062. This issue of 13 minutes is produced by the Aussie Reuben Petrovski and being released on an experimental music-oriented imprint called Radio Stalingrad which face to face with the aforementioned titles would freely be denoted as the Battle (of) Stalingrad. At least it could be imagined as a battle between the ghosts of the soldiers who succumbed during it. Indeed, emotionally these six wiggly compositions chime in a morbid and ghastly way because desolate spatial droning of empty fields and fluffy anti-gravitational sensations are followed up by clattery dissonant noises wherein one can make difference between black and brownish noise, between the soil and air. Later on, the artist exploits ghastly sounds as if being lead through the aether to convey a secret message. Is it from one dead ones to other dead ones or is from the dead ones to the living ones? Or vice versa? Emotionally it is remarkably more overwhelming than an average pop song. Aesthetically it is a case where one could see a sort of beauty through gruesome progressions and fascinating ugliness. 

[Teaser of the day] Broken Moods For House Kites - The Shout

Kift Flipper

• Indietronica
• Post-rock
• Avant-pop
• Alternative 
• Art pop
• Indie
• Post-pop

Artist: Broken Moods For House Kites

Release: There There, Their Not

Label: Kift Flipper/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] SiJ - Birth of Life

• Ambient
• IDM
• Chilltronica
• Kosmische Musik
• Electronic music
• Ambient pop
• Mood music
• Alternative

Artist: SiJ

Release: Way To Dream

Label: Hidden Vibes

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Chebov - Story About How Two Farmers Fights Against The UFO

Subwise

• Electronic music
• Broken beats
• Nu jazz
• Sampledelic
• Cinematic
• Leftfield
• Downtempo
• Hip-hop
• Breaks
• Alternative

Artist: Chebov

Release: Noise For Summer

Label: Subwise

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Derek Clegg - Cause They See Us

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

Artist: Derek Clegg

Release: Left Side From My Right

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Marco Cella - :seven:

Phonocake

• Post-classical
• Soundscape
• Ambient
• Modern classical
• Epic
• Alternative

Artist: Marco Cella

Release: You`re here

Label: Phonocake

Year: 2016

Distopia – Enter Change EP (2014)

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Mood music 
• Chilltronica 
• Alternative 
• Live 
• Ambient pop 
• Ambient trance 
• Psybient

Comment: by following the thread at Bandcamp about the Atlanta, Georgia, US-based project this might be the debut issue of the artist. More profoundly, stylistically it is an exquisite mix of chill out, moody electronica, dub-inflected sprawling and trance-y psychedelic softness. One composition is recorded live. At times it might remind of The Orb (especially Orblivion, 1997) because the artist constitutes a broad space to create a trance-y psychedelic metaphysics within it. The result is elegantly resonant being saturated with different colours and dynamic penumbras. Jokingly, it is such a sort of universe where the lovers of trance music will go afterlife. Seriously, I hope it is true because the result is rich of fabulous images and bucolic spellbound.

Comptroller – 1̠̙̟͓̯͉͈͘0͏̹͍͇͕̼y̟̤̟̱̙̦͠r͕͔̖̩̱̯͡ͅs_͙̯̥͖̫͉͡十年_̜̘̥̫̥̮̘1̣̟͕0̯̗̭̦̣́y̠͕͈̹r͇s͚͡ (2016)

Bandcamp

• Chiptune 
• 8-bit 
• Tracker music 
• Electro 
• Bitpop 
• Electronic music 
• Chipbreak 
• Alternative

Comment: it is said this 8-notch track is a collection of unreleased/lost/weird stuff, marking 10 years of Comptroller since 2006 to 2016. So yes by watching the row of released albums by Edinburgh, Scotland-based artist it could be said he has reached aesthetically much during this span of time. Musically he has revitalised a Commodore 64 and Amiga and game console-based tradition, called chiptune/8-bit/tracker music. With regards to most nowadays electronica traditions it could be said that the tracker music legacy is more about to create an electrically loaded field around the listener. In other words, one can perceive thick, loaded electric flows coming out from the both stereo channels. So yes, you can perceive those awkward, rough tiny muscles being constrained behind those electro chords (at times being quite close to the electro-punk/indie attitude). In a word, it is a nice retrospection of the artist.

[Teaser of the day] Nasienie - Insomnia

Webbed Hand

• Soundscape
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism
• Glitchtronica
• Epic
• Ambient
• Avant-garde

Artist: Nasienie

Release: Blackwood EP

Label: Webbed Hand

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Photophob - Find Him, Kill Him

Laridae

• Breakbeat
• Electronic music
• Breakcore
• Jungle
• Spoken word
• Electro

Artist: Photophob

Release: Wasteland Vibes  

Label: Laridae

Year: 2012

Azevedo Silva – Autista (2008)

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• Indie folk 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Alt-folk 
• Folk indie
• Art rock 
• Fado

Comment: Azevedo Silva is a 34-year old troubadour from Lisboa, Portugal and it is his third issue being issued 8 years ago. At Bandcamp one can find out 8 albums in total. All these songs are in Portuguese and because of having no knowledge in this language I have the only chance to concentrate on sounds and harmonic and melodic aspects. All the concept used to focus on smouldering guitar play (even if it contains more acute and incisive dodges) with soulful singing being accompanied by some becalmed rhythms, affecting glockenspiel chords, spatial sonic and reversed effects, and some compelling arpeggios here and there. Although it does not contain much effects while being embedded within a calm cast those effects makes more difference because of it. For me, it is a quite genuine listening session because this Portuguese version of indie folk music does mean poignant guitar chords being intermingled with some fado undercurrents. Let`s call it a Portuguese version of Americana to draw parallels with bands over the Atlantic Ocean. In a word, it is a very fine listening time. 

Kalix Necralia – Crionecròpolis (2009)

Gorrion de Miga

Gorrion de Miga

• Ambient 
• Experimentalism 
• Sound art 
• Illbient 
• Avant-garde
• Soundscape 
• Leftfield 
• Dark ambient

Comment: this handful of compositions is a fine listening session because it chimes like a soundtrack for the wind blowing over the empty fields. Indeed, it is precise because it feeds one`s imagination about a cold winter, secondly it is crafted in the manner to masterfully accentuate a certain range of sonic odds and ends and thereof exquisitely arouse one`s emotive centres in heart and mind. By the way, at Archive.org it is tagged as dark ambient, and polar ambient in a poignant way. On the other side, it searches for connection either with the deceased world or the world of the deaths or for connection with both of them. It could deliberately be imagined as an accompaniment to documentary motion pictures depicting catacombs and graveyards. Yet, In a word, listen to it and be ready to participate in a lonely and desolate world. Additionally, by listening to these long compositions one can imagine the abduction of Persephone by Hades and the follow-up to it – when Persephone leaves the Earth to go down to the underworld to her husband and then a great part of the nature either will be deceased or freezed for a long time. However, sometime all will be born again. There is up hope, there is the expectation for a better life. Undoubtedly it is a purging experience. The issue is a mote in the discography of Gorrion de Miga. 

Static Masks - Goosebumps

[Teaser of the day] Will Bangs - Stealing Beauty

No Source

• Singer-songwriter
• Lo-fi
• Folk
• Americana
• DIY

Artist: Will Bangs

Release: I Want To Grow Old With You

Label: No Source

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Summer Homes - Dismantled String Quartet

• Post-rock
• Experimental rock
• Epic
• Art rock
• Chamber rock
• Avant-rock

Artist: Summer Homes

Release: Found

Label: Futurerecordings

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Erik Mowinckel - Fire

• Post-rock
• Indietronica
• Art rock
• Alternative
• Electronic

Artist: Erik Mowinckel

Release: Erik Mowinckel 

Label: Giant Manilow

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] il Russo - 2.2

MAV (0 KBPS)

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

Artist: il Russo

Release: 2

Label: MAV (0KBPS)

Year: 2016 

ion ghOST – And The Sky Fell (2012)

Swishcotheque

• Electronic music 
• Breakcore 
• Breakbeat 
• Alternative 
• Drum and bass 
• Breaks 
• Alternative dance 
• Nu jazz 
• Synthwave

Comment: this 11-track issue is a part of the discography of Swishcotheque. It is as colourful and arousing and involves as much penumbras and shades as the cover print of the outing. In fact, it is quite puzzling to grasp the main flow of it because it includes the beats with different frequencies and disparate timbral suits and gleaming synthetic progressions on top of it. Because of that I would like to exploit such general stylistic tags as breakcore, and synthwave, respectively. The sensitivity of nu jazz, and nitid cadences. It might be that my question is posited in a wrong way because music needs no borders in any cases possible. Thereof it is almost impossible to say what it is but being a staggering release anyway. Additionally, one can enjoy more generic aspects on it – the clarity of sounds and subtlety with regard to the production. And that makes sense in the first place.

[Teaser of the day] Alex Schaaf - Idioteque

• Conceptual
• Modern classical
• Cover
• Post-classical
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: Alex Schaaf

Release: Radiohead's Kid A : Re​-​imagined

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Edgeist - Subterranea

Jamendo

• Rhythmic noise
• Post-industrial
• Leftfield
• Powerelectronics
• Avant-garde
• Electronic music

Artist: Edgeist

Release: Septentrion 

Label: Enough/Jamendo/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Agnès Pe – Rob Herwig (2013)

MAV [0kbps]

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Electronic music 
• DIY 
• Lo-fi 
• Improvised music 
• Lobit

Comment: this 9-notch issue will be finished off before it could embark on basically. Indeed, it consists of short snippets though full of different colours and stylistic dodges though the common line between the tracks is its inferior quality. For sure, it is a mind-provoking issue as if produced by a deranged madam who has gotten some sound panels of electronic music at her disposal to depict her seriously disturbed state of mind. She is freaked-out, she is psyched-out, she is maniac, she is angry and she tries to get the better of it by playing free jazz and improvised music on her own terms. At least she tries to do that because the result is remarkably more unsound and crazy. Thereafter I guess she feels herself a bit exalted and high-minded and calm. As the issue proves he does have success while representing something single and refreshing. Agnès Pe is an artist from Spain and the issue is a bit of the discography of the MAV [0kbps].

[Teaser of the day] Martin Rach - Slaughterhouse 00.13

• Post-classical
• Avant-garde
• Electronic music
• Chamber music
• Experimentalism
• Leftfield

Artist: Martin Rach

Release: Works For Imaginary Orchestra

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Bleep Bloop - Deadman

Soundcloud

• Industrial-hop
• Avant-hop
• Glitch-hop
• Noise-hop
• Experimental hip-hop
• Leftfield
• Urban music

Artist: Bleep Bloop

Release: The EP With Five Eyes

Label: Self-released/Soundcloud

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Luis Marte - Tell Me

Pueblo Nuevo

• Kraut-techno
• Alternative dance
• Electro pop
• Minimalism
• Electronic music
• Post-industrial

Artist: Luis Marte

Release: Routier

Label: Pueblo Nuevo/Archive.org

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Erick Upheaval - Mind Rot

MNMN

• Experimental electronica
• Glitchtronica
• IDM
• Epic
• Alternative
• Dubstep
• Downtempo

Artist: Erick Upheaval

Release: Devouring Lugubre

Label: MNMN/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Neurotic Wreck - The Rain

Vulpiano

• Electro-indie
• Alternative pop/rock
• Electronic
• Acid rock
• Indie pop/rock

Artist: Neurotic Wreck

Release: Various Artists - Vulpiano Records Sampler EP: Vol. 7

Label: Vulpiano

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Shaun Blezard - Bedroom

Earth Monkey Productions

• Synthwave
• Drone
• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Soundtrack
• Conceptual

Artist: Shaun Blezard

Release: Commissions

Label: Earth Monkey Productions

Year: 2008

Andy Kirk – I Used To Dance, Now I Romance (2006)

Earth Monkey Productions

• IDM 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Toytronica 
• Glitchtronica 
• Experimental electronica 
• Downtempo 
• Epic

Comment: undoubtedly it is a fabulous 8-notch ghost from the past from the mid-00s when electronic underground music was still set up in the way to stand against the mainstream pop. There were up axial record labels like Mille Plateaux and Morr Music of which purpose was to disseminate IDM and glitched-out music and they succeeded in that. This album can be considered the magnum opus by Andy Kirk, because one could not find out other issues by the artist. The result is mind-blowing, catchy and just beautiful and thereof it used to evoke those cute memories which had existed 10-15 years ago while I was listening to artists who used to dwell between electronica, indie and glitchy beats. Furthermore, it reminds of advertising flashes at night while blinking and casting the light and neon shadows around and upon you. At times Andy Kirk's music sounds a bit infantile though it is obviously an affirmative moment by showing up the artist's ability to laugh at himself and drift more loosely in disparate ways. The issue contains a bunch of tracks which would throne the pop charts in an ideal world. Indeed, I like the kind of idealism which is presented in the artist's music. In fact, it is quite weird to experience such sort of a feeling as if you are foretold the future while you are listening to an issue from the past. The more you listen to it the more it opens up new angles and dimensions, at times one can feel it quite unfathomable. In a word, it is a mandatory listening for anyone who considers himself/herself to be a music fan. The issue is a part of the discography of Earth Monkey Productions.

Asher – Perpetuals (2015)

Conv

• Piano music 
• Modern classical 
• Avant-garde 
• Minimalism 
• Ambient 
• Art music 
• Crossover

Comment: there is a little bit to talk about this 12-track issue because the basins of these compositions are the same – it is made up of the chords of a worn piano being wrapped up by tight hiss. Emotionally it chimes like the listener has stepped into a time travel ship, or listening to an example of vintage piano music on vinyl. Secondly, it is fairly sympathetic to listen to those gently floating chords, which might seem almost like the swimming ones. Today is the last day of a year and it is a chilled-out experience to listen to this flickering and smouldering piano music of veering away between ambient and modern classical. Its slightly formal imperfection changes this short-running issue into a perfect appearance because of avoiding to be a hermetic and lifeless product. The issue is a part of the discography of the Conv. By kindred souls I recommend listen to such artists as Lubomyr Melnyk, Nils Frahm, Bosque de mi Mente, Oskar Hallbert and Hauschka, for example.

Eli Las – A Planet Full Of Motels (2004)

Birdsong

Birdsong

• Indie folk 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Improvised music
• Folk indie 
• New Weird Israel 
• Psychedelic 
• Alternative rock

Comment: I guess Eli Las' planet could be a nice place with good weather, intense sunshine and nice and naked women to meet with and populate the planet. As in the Bible it is said your duty is to multiply and to exist in masses. Eli Las' duty was to increase the discography of the Israeli imprint Birdsong. It is an interesting issue mirroring on the movement of the New Weird and DIY in the 00s. As much as my cerebral focus could remember for it was a very enthusiastic time with great hopes and an immense amount of solid music from artists' bedrooms. Then such great artists of a new generation as Animal Collective, and Ariel Pink started to appear through the underground music to build up a new narrative in the indie/alternative pop scene. By the way, the latter of them is Jewish. Eli Las sings in (new) Hebrew and in English and manipulates with different styles (including grunge, coldwave and shoegaze elements) and exploits more and less electr(on)ic instruments to create something psychedelically tickling and inferiorly abrasive. In a word, it is an enjoyable legacy for the passed time.

Eloi Brunelle – Psychotonic EP (2005)

Epsilonlab

• House 
• Electro-house 
• Electro 
• Alternative dance 
• Club dance 
• Robot pop 
• Italo disco

Comment: that's cool that there are up some issues under Montrèal-based imprint Epsilonlab waiting to be listened in my mp3 player. One of them, Eloi Brunelle's 4-track outing is already here to be enjoyed and analyzed. If you are enjoying club dance in the vein of house and electro then the recent issue and the imprint are thought to you. It is fairly tickling to listen to these slightly nervous electro propulsions being dynamic and mind-blowing at the same time. Secondly, this is a plateau to cross poppy vibrations with robotic, technical dance. More profoundly, one can hear almost unremarkably slippy developments to come from one phase for to splice with the next one. Indeed, these are up magic moments to say us we are just human beings who are searching for a medium to connect one's inner space to God's power. For instance, listen to Perfect, the Italo disco killer. It is thoroughly transcendental due to the shamanic iteration on tinny bass rhythms. It involves transaction, it involves transmission, it involves love, it involves even more love. That's perfect. With regard to each case, with regard to it as a whole.

Anitek -ShiHo (2016)

Free Music Archive

Jamendo

Bandcamp

• Nu jazz 
• Chill out 
• Hip-hop 
• Mood music 
• Sampledelic 
• Breaks 
• Poptronica 
• Trip-hop 
• Electronic pop 
• Dub 
• Acid jazz

Comment: this is not the first appearance of Morristown, New Jersey, US-based artist Anitek at Recent Music Heroes. More profoundly, I have commented such issues as Sae Yeon, and Calm & Collect Vol. 1 though the artist has been truly prolific over the years. ShiHo is a massive delivery of 41 compositions where the artist demonstrates his ability to create for a listener's soul and body. Despite this tremendous load of tracks it makes you feel not tired and bored at all. It is an event on its own because Anitek can adeptly play with different genres being very close to such genres as jazz, hip-hop, chill out, and electronica. Electronica in that case does mean both club dance inflected rhythms and progressions in timbre and effects. In fact, Anitek showcases and develops and crosses subgenres of the aforementioned styles in a profound and crafty way. Ultimately it can be admitted the issue is worthy enough to be added to the rack of the best albums of 2016.

Black Wanderer – 67P (2016)

earthMANTRA

• Drone 
• Ambient 
• Avant-garde 
• Epic 
• Minimalism 
• Experimentalism 
• Ambient drone 
• Post-rock 
• Dark ambient

Comment: I have found for myself that there is up two directions in music which used to move me emotionally thoroughly. One of them is old (indie) music which frequently is associated with certain events and memories. The Smiths, My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Kraftwerk, CAN. Indeed, back to an old house. On the other side, since I met with the music of Mark Nelson aka Pan American (Quiet City, 2004, Kranky), and early works of Tim Hecker I have been getting eargasmic experiences by such sort of music which might seem way too serious and solemn at the first sight. More profoundly, Black Wanderer is Daniil Kazantsev, an artist from Russia, previously being known to his other project _Algol_ and Stuzha. Undoubtedly it is one of the most impressive issues I have heard from the ending year. The first time I was listening to it was today's morning while I was walking down the frozen street surrounded by half-darkness and trees without the leaves. There were up some cars and human beings only to create a proper visual backdrop for Daniil's music. It was ghastly and exalting at the same time. One can imagine lonely chords of the bass guitar, and a Korg synth vamped up by the high-spirited space of surrounding it tightly. The way how an initial impulse get dissolved throughout the course carries on a mesmerising effect for your brain and soul. In spite of it, it is the sort of ambient music with muscles. It is partly dark ambient/dystopbient. Some tracks used to reach the longitude of more than 20 minutes yet these meandering courses seem to be much shorter. The issue is a part of the discography of Earth Mantra, headed up by another excellent musician Scott Lawlor. In a word, these four ones are spiritualised fantasies and descriptions of them thereafter per excellence.

Joseph Young – In A Shetland Landscape (2016)

Green Field Recordings

• Field recording 
• Musique concrète 
• Conceptual 
• Non-music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism

Comment: there exist different views on field recording. Some people say it's purpose is to conjure up exactly the same feeling one could get from a natural environment while listening to an issue. For me, it is not true because our perception of the nature could not consist of one perceptive kind only. Of course, the hearing simulation is important but not the only sort of. On the other side, such sort of albums are something very special which arouse the listener to go out from his/her stressful and inferior civilised environment and step into something to be genuine and pure and authentic. Indeed, we once came from it which deserves to be protected and unharmed. Our Earth is gifted to us with purpose that we could demonstrate our thankfulness, moderateness and wisdom. Do we deserve the name of God's animals or are we just jerks who are there to fuck up everything laying around us? In fact, there is no choice in a longer perspective. Thirdly, Joseph Young as a sonic documentalist's purpose is to seek and showcase consistency and harmony between the human being and nature, to reflect on the living of a certain rural area being traditional and modern through permanent changes within a community. The fourth point is something very specific, to depict and record some sounds in the way that they could chime as (minimal) music (at Barbara's Music). There is up music, it is set up in rhythm, it is the author's presence a little bit more than just as a sound designer. Furthermore, in general, he as an artist takes all these authentic pieces to manipulate with them, to serialise and align them in different sequences. It is a sense of such a sort of work. Let's think of all of that while listening to this 14-track issue which reflects upon the ennobling beauty. The issue is a bit of the discography of Green Field Recordings. 

Art Sonic – Roadside Sketches (2012)

Acustronica

Jamendo

No-Source

Bandcamp

• Folktronica 
• Folk indie 
• Americana 
• Alt-folk 
• Indie folk 
• Ambient 
• Art folk 
• Musique concrète 
• Tex-Mex

Comment: this 13-notch issue is created by a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, Richard Lisaj whose music sounds like a palette of sketches recorded by driving across highways in southern part of the USA. Indeed, it was recorded while he was travelling from Canada to the US states (Utah, Colorado, New Mexico). By listening to it one can discern Tex-Mex details within it. Musically it is based on pastel guitar jangling, some harmonica whiffs and exquisite electronic progressions and roundabouts which together are grandiloquent and rustic at the same time. Frequently these moods are imbued with the chirping of birds and some other concrete sounds, at times it might even remind of some tracks of David Bowie's albums from his Berlin period (for instance, at Garden of the Gods). However, the music is Americana and it is very welcome to meet it with unexpected dodges within the mix. In a word, it is a fabulous listening experience being released under Acustronica, Bandcamp, and Jamendo. 

Aunt Sis – BG082/9 Tracks (2014)

Bleeding Gold

• Americana 
• Indie rock 
• Art rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Krautrock 
• Noise rock 
• Experimental pop 
• Lo-fi 
• Drone pop 
• Electronic

Comment: Aunt Sis is a collective from Asheville, USA and their music can be categorised as Americana on its very core. On the other hand, the collective provides many dodges and twists throughout the 9-notch outing being released on Bleeding Gold. I would like to say Aunt Sis does have a similar relationship to Americana as Wilco used to have been having. Maybe it would be more righteous to admit Americana is just the most suitable term to generalise Justin Morris and his companies` songs. From thoughtful lo-fi guitar twangs to expansive and majestic (indie) pop mannerism, from emotional singing and sensual chants to the explosive temper of chemical hippies. The combo surprises at Dr. Dahl which is a bow to Neu! through Stereolab and The High Llamas. In any cases, it is fairly freeing for a listener to drift between the aforementioned shifts. Dortch is the final piece of the issue where a modern version of Krautrock meets doo wop and acidic harmonica chords. It is truly elegant to finish off an album in such a way.

V.A – Codex Internum (2016)

Breathe Compilations

Archive.org

• Dub techno 
• Space music 
• Deep techno 
• Minimal techno 
• Post-industrial 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Ambient 
• Synthwave 
• Electronic music 
• Soundscape 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Post-classical 
• Dreamwave 
• Electro pop 
• Techno pop 
• House 
• Minimalism 
• IDM

Comment: this enormous set of 19 compositions reflects on good taste by Breathe Compilations. Musically it is a fancy patchwork of styles – in the first section one can enjoy more ambient drenched distensions and dilatations, then it will be changing into a dub and house and techno blended miscellany and artsy electro/techno/IDM inflected pop and then post-industrial and avant-garde elements come in to predominate the mix. Of course, the description of mine is somewhat contingent because frequently there are up different elements within one track and within one pigeonhole. That's cool that the picture of it being so varicoloured and diverse. For example, ambient music could be expressed both in terms of changeable synthwave/Kosmische Musik and beatific concrete music and abstract classical music/post-classical and through majestic soundtracks for space rockets and sun-exhausted daydreaming. One of such descriptions can be ascribed to Marco Lucchi and Glenn Sogge's Towards And Within which reaches a 24-minute though it is thoroughly blissful and immersive in its minimal approach from start to finish. Those minimal changes do ameliorate the consistency of the track. Additionally to the aforementioned artists there are represented such artists as Zoran, In Vitro, Elypixa, Esoteric Sob, Capisconne, Ray Garrido, Ohuican, Eckul, Vate, Substak, Solef, Twin Peetz and Moolsaasa, Lezet, Jimmy Watt, Nulix, Lingua Lustra, Ivan Black, and AxBx. Indeed, it is an excellent example of the compilation music from 2016.

Jackpoote – Jackpoote LP (2008)

XS

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

Comment: I guess it had happened approximately 6-7 years ago when I was listening to Xarope's sound quite frequently. Later on, the artist would be lost on my radar unfortunately. It is even more surprising because the artist's free range aesthetic and artsy approach is fairly appealing. For example, listen to this 13-notch of psychedelic music, melodica based improvisations, uncanny and rough chants which are studded with some concrete music slots and frantic drumming here and there to afford you an entry into a purgatorial DIY world. Recently the most of pop music is lead by totally controlled beats of digital kind and vocoder-drenched vocals so I do not have any idea is the result of this sort of music actually good or a little inferior on its own. At least it is obviously common and mostly derivative and unoriginal. So yeah, listen to Xarope's music as a counterpoint to it. It redeems you for sure. It is something being produced by a forest Jesus. By listening to the first composition Ethanol it is something truly stoned and jackass, it broadens one's perception and diminishes his/her burden of stress. It is absolutely free and freeing through his shouts and shrieking. He is accompanied by 11 musicians and a bunch of more and less conventional instruments (horns, flutes, didgeridoos, darbuka, djambe, low fi untuned crappy sounding viola, double bass, tuba). In a nutshell, take care of you through this issue (a part of the discography XS Records). 

Monster Jinx – Payday Vol.01 (2016)

Monster Jinx

• Downtempo 
• Hip-hop 
• Urban music 
• Alternative dance 
• Rnb 
• Mood music 
• Chilltronica 
• Yacht pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Sampledelic

Comment: Monster Jinx is a Portuguese imprint which has been releasing music since 2009. The current one embraces 10 compositions which could loosely be categorised as urban music – from softened hip-hop and moody electro vibes to synthesised yacht pop and chemical rnb and restrained downtempo and careless sampledelic chugging. However, there are up more poignant and incisive and more tense moments as well which used to counterbalance the compilation's caressing nature. In a word, this is a crosscut of the imprint. It's sure anybody can find out something intriguing and relaxing for himself/herself. The more you listen to it the more it expands and the more it gets better. There are up such artists as Stray, J-K, Pulso, Taseh, OSEB, DarkSunn, Ghost Wavvves, NO FUTURE, pretochines, and dgtldrmr. Get it!

Moses Luster and the Hollywood Lights – The Hangman`s Door (2015)

Bandcamp

• Americana 
• Goth pop 
• Art rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock

Comment: the Hollywood, California, US-based artist Moses Luster continues to create something stunning both lyrically and musically on his third issue. Of course, he is well-known due to his powerful baritone singing though it always has been adeptly supported by a solid musical accompaniment of murky and bombastic orchestrations, roots and Americana music, sublime electronic breezes and organ-based drones. At Dirt his voice is accompanied by a seductive female vox. It is arousing. Thematically he continues to roll along the themes of the previous two albums, more profoundly, about drunks, losers, love, trouble and death. And hopefully Bob Dylan will have not sell cars during Super Bowl anymore after getting the Nobel Prize (Sold Out). In a word, it is a great album by any standards. Fuck you/but I am not fuckable (The Distance From Me To You).

Bouwakanja – Incantation (2016)

Pavillion36 Recordings

Free Music Archive

• Dub 
• Electronic music 
• Experimental electronica 
• Electro 
• Breakcore 
• Alternative dance 
• Wonky 
• Ambient techno 
• Hip-hop 
• Urban music

Comment: in the first track there are up occult, wonky Jamaican dub rhythms which later will be complemented by more Western elements though it is still disputable by its nature. However, it is a bit of voodoo/witch man stuff anyway where the witches prepare their audio systems in the way to have an addictive impact on the listener. It involves many different vibes and cadences and thereby this 15-notch outing can be considered the sort of breakcore issue. More profoundly, from dub and electro to post-dubstep and skidding synthesised frequencies and uncanny electronic propulsions to noisy interludes and undulating wonky vibrations. At Rhino one can experience being sustained by a deep/ambient plateau being backed up by crunching, needle-shaped rhythms. That's very epic and dynamical and narcotic simultaneously. It is followed up by Potemkin, the spacey electro hip-hop per excellence. Indeed, the listener undergoes many metamorphoses though some of them are microscopic ones and used to succeed in a logical order to one another. So yeah, there are represented both change and homogeneity/consistency. The issue is a part of the discography of Pavillion36 Recordings. It is the French artist under the French imprint. In a word, it is a solid French case.

Nick Yulman – Warsaw Machines & Songs (2012)

Bandcamp

• Indie folk 
• Alt-folk 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Art pop 
• Electronic 
• Folk indie 
• Avant-pop 
• Post-pop 
• Music Hall 
• Vaudeville music 
• Americana

Comment: I can remember for an excellent album, Twitches issued by Nick Yulman aka Bone Conductors in 2008 being one notch in the compartment of Outstanding Music at Recent Music Heroes. That's was great. That's was great to listen to this new sort of American Dream in sounds. In fact, Warsaw Machines & Songs used to continue in a similar manner though the accents are slightly different throughout these compositions. You can hear a contemporary music hall and vaudeville music metamorphosis within it. It is especially staggering at Things Are Other Things. It is so. It is so.... . It is so damned beatific and beautiful. Similarly as Sufjan Stevens used to do. Ten for Ten is an abstract clockwork composition yet arousing some warm sensations inside you. It is artsy and affectionate at the same time where a field recording and goofy laughing chord are set up to loop and then they are traded for a gentle machine-like flicker to interplay with hazy guitar chords. True craftsmanship. The same could be said about Island Is Gone. It is a top tier in the contemporary Americana. The point of it is not related to these formal elements only it is also about the relationship between them. At Head Strings Yulman sings in the silent zone we stand alone and spend the afternoon on their own. Usually it might be a quite simple phrase but how it is ached for it makes blatantly sense. Bloody loneliness yet which is highly needed to conjure up great aesthetics. That's organic synergy and because of that it is so appealing either. Killer in a soft way.

The Gifted Children – Autumn Ghosts (2010)

The Gifted Children

• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Jangle pop

Comment: this handful of compositions is a very short case by an American group who has issued enough beautiful indie/alternative pop issues since the previous decade. Indeed, it can be considered as such one though because of short span of it this chimes like one track only. Jangly guitars are accompanied by beatific synthesised progressions and wondrous orchestrations and compelling piano taps and cozy male vocals thereby ultimately reminding of the Christmas coming soon. Indeed, it is ennobling and solemn. At the moment it is the Advent to still go further for one week. So cast off autumnal ghosts from yourself and be ready for the beginning of the winter on the 22nd of December. In a word, it is very pro by any means.

[Teaser of the day] Our Subatomic Earth - Sublimity

• Post-metal
• Screamo
• Ambient rock
• Crossover
• Experimental metal
• Post-hardcore

Artist: Our Subatomic Earth

Release: Aesthetics

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Chenard Walcker - Polpetta

Free Sample Zone

• Plunderphonics
• Sound collage
• Afrobeat
• Avant-pop
• Funk
• Afrofuturism
• Sampledelic
• Alternative dance
• Psychedelic
• Afrofunk
• World music

Artist: Chenard Walcker

Release: Echolalie

Label: Free Sample Zone

Year: 2004

The Bourgeois – The Bourgeois (2015)

Jamendo

• Punk rock 
• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Garage rock 
• Noise rock 
• Ska

Comment: this handful of tracks is a strong appearance of energy of blues and rock and roll heritage which in turn is converted into a contemporary garage and alternative rock slam. The name of the musical group used to ironically refer to our our every day's life I suppose. I reminds me of McCarthy's ditty We Are All Bourgeois Now which was covered by Manic Street Preachers, the faux-communist/leftfield group a kind of whom Joseph Stalin called for useful idiots. Of course, the punks are cool but untrustworthy by their nature who used to demonstrate their stubbornness in principles yet who are ready to betray their principles for money or a bottle of alcohol. And the effect and scope of their aesthetic is way too flimsy to could have had a long-running intriguing impact. On the other side, for instance, the stances of the post-punks are more sustainable and intriguing because of having the impulse of changeability within it thereby reflecting upon the life in a more trustworthy way. Of course, the energy of punk rock within other styles is frequently something really enjoyable and staggering. For instance, the US-based duo The Bourgeois (Zach Mobley, and Ty Clark) dissolves it in different directions from Sonic Youth-esque psyched-up noise rock (Be Your Own Machine) to skidding ska numbers (Electric Shock Value). It is really pleasant to follow the singer's timbral formations from one tone to another, from mind-blowing madness to more sedative moments. For example, at Perverting The American Dream one can hear him singing almost in Tim Burgess-like style and tonality at the beginning but later it will be fleshed out due to more powerful appearance with variegated shades within it. All in all, get it and will be the dog of it.

[Teaser of the day] Juanjo Palacios - Pantalàn

Audiotalaia

• Dark ambient
• Soundscape
• Neoclassical
• Avant-garde
• Musique concrète
• Post-classical
• Sound art
• Experimentalism
• Field recording

Artist: Juanjo Palacios

Release: Portuario

Label: Audiotalaia

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Slutever - So Prone

• Punk rock
• Riot Grrrl
• Fuzz rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Shitgaze
• Garage rock

Artist: Slutever

Release: Pretend To Be Nice

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

The Star Pillow vs Tacet Tacet Tacet – Concurrence (2016)

Laverna

• Ambient 
• Space rock 
• Doom rock
• Avant-rock 
• Improvised music 
• Trance rock
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-garde 
• Ambient rock 
• Krautrock

Comment: in truth, the talented musicians need no rehearsal time to cake a delicious food. There is up such a case where three musicians met each other for the first time and decided to improvise a set at the studio. More profoundly, Paolo Monti (The Star Pillow), Francesco Zedde (Tacet Tacet Tacet), and Angelo Rondine (The Swan) provide a set of three compositions which is saturated with clouded synthesisers, murky guitars and stomping yet infrequent drums to drift somewhere between doom-laden rock, krautrock, and ambient (rock). At times it is just a state of mind as if the soundscape used to stand still and hover at one point. Indeed, it is a blissful daydreaming on its own. In general, these magic moments used to move in and out or just changing places with more moving progressions. The listener can discern aesthetically evoked tensions within the trio`s soundscape of being both aesthetical/mental and physical kind. It is also a battle field for an impulsive power and the inertia. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Slowdive`s Pygmalion, Labradford, Silber Records-related artists, Flying Saucer Attack, Saito Koji, Glenn Branca, for instance. It is one of the issues in 2016 and being a part of the roster of Laverna.

[Teaser of the day] Monster Rally - Moondog

• Exotica pop
• Alternative
• Breaks
• Cinematic
• Mood music
• Post-pop
• Electronic music
• Hip-hop
• Chilltronica
• Sampledelic

Artist: Monster Rally

Release: Mystery Cove LP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Airless Project - The Ghosts In Your Mind Are Not Afraid (Of You)

• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Electronic
• Krautrock
• Space rock
• Noise rock

Artist: Airless Project

Release: Drowning In Mist

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2013

Decktonic – Unbox Me (2016)

Bandcamp

• Electronic pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Poptronica 
• Alternative dance 
• Electro pop 
• Acid electro 
• Synth pop

Comment: New Yorker, US-native Christian Montoya is a tough guy with regard to his previous doings within the electronic and dance pop world. Although he has not reached to be known worldwide the quality of his music deserves it already. For instance, listen to his pseudonymous Miami Slice's Brooklyn 2 Brooklyn (2014, Hairdu), and Disco Cuts EP (2013, self-released/Soundcloud). The recent 5-track issue is an amalgamation of acidic electro pop propulsions, blinking synthesised pop gears and light-hearted electronica and danceable vibrations. Maybe it is not obviously visible but the aforementioned elements are profoundly imbued with club dance (house, techno) elements. You can catch a glimpse of it but there are not represented any of these elements in the pure stylistic way. Start Up is retrodelic by its nature because of reminding of Pet Shop Boys due to those bombastic hooks and majestic blasts therefore inducing charm and an inner chugging to the composition. Montoya exploits female vocals which is an always functional way to such sort of music. The favourite of mine is Out Of Space where the light yet mind-blowing rhythm is accompanied by spacious synthesised hovers and flickers. In fact, the same could be said about the subsequent (and final) piece as well. At times he is helped with vocals by Daniel Davis, and someone denoted as kitty. And that's enough for to constitute something very stunning. In a nutshell, the result is a top gear.

[Teaser of the day] 2muchachos - Fruity Journey

• Chillwave
• Dreamwave
• Hypnagogic pop
• Indie pop
• Glo-fi
• Dream pop
• Alternative

Artist: 2muchachos

Release: Summer Vacation EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] H Stewart - Dear Empty Ears

Clinical Archives

• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Sound poetry
• Experimental electronica
• Sound art
• Electronic music
• Noise music
• Leftfield

Artist: H Stewart

Release: De La Souffrance

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2007

Chravis Phranklin – Loosened Cheap (2016)

Bandcamp

• Synth-rock 
• Electro-rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Post-punk
• Crossover 
• Dance rock 
• Screamo 
• Post-hardcore 
• Alternative dance 
• Indie dance

Comment: I like this bunch of 7 compositions by a US-based artist, called Chravis Phranklin. By the way, this is not a first appearance by Travis Franklin at RMH but under this nom de plume it is the first appearance here indeed. Although those earlier appearances (as a part of YALL, and gummy) were also good enough to be praised this album hits you at a greater extent with catchy hooks, resigned and scarred vocals and noisy feedbacks where an electro (and even chiptune-ish flickers), grunge, post-hardcore, screamo and post-punk blended cast is set up to catch a bigger fish into the net. His ability to set out great songs is obviously showcased here. For example, listen to Drumset, a stunningly hedonistic indie dance/pop song with post-punkish roots. It is like a tiny wave which used to progress rapidly into an overwhelming avalanche of involving many disparate elements to fling them to the shore with one intention within it, though. What's next? I guess the artist is going to elaborate the recent concept though at Error the first chords may foretell his further plans to abandon a rock-based template and enter into the dance and electronic music scene like many post-punk musicians did once or more recently Kevin Parker of Tame Impala did it (Tame Impala's Currents is a stunning bastard from the previous year though at first I did not get into it). At least he seems to be talented in this regard as well. All in all, the result is fairly good and deserves a notch in the list of the best albums of the year of 2016 at RMH.

[Teaser of the day] Blues For Spacegirl - Glacier Spins

Jamendo

• Ambient
• Kosmische Musik
• Alternative
• Soundscape
• Epic
• Crossover
• Electronic music
• Post-rock

Artist: Blues For Spacegirl

Release: Alice Springs

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Amitron_7 - Atonal Blues and the Brain Factory

Free Music Archive

• Electronic music
• Sampledelic
• Art pop
• Chilltronica
• Spoken word
• Indietronica
• Ambient pop
• Post-pop
• Mood music
• Alternative
• Experimental pop

Artist: Amitron_7

Release: Come Ye Sinners to the Gospel Feast  

Label: Enoughrecords/Jamendo/Archive.org

Year: 2014