Matthew Collings – EICV7" No.104 (2015)

EverythingIsChemical

• Experimental electronica
• Electro-acoustic 
• Post-classical 
• Chamber music 
• Improvised music 
• Alternative 
• Glitchtronica 
• Avant-garde 
• Art music 
• Experimentalism

Comment: this handful of compositions is a consistent blend of rough electro-acoustic, rugged chamber music, and more sublime ambient and volatile electronic progressions. Musically it is intriguing to listen to it because electronic music is seamlessly mixed up with sounds of natural instruments. For charlatans I guess it would be a good fare to describe their view of outer space through the aforementioned elements, of how masculine and feminine genuine/primal matter will meet each other, of how energy will have been lead in a proper way. They might be right, by the way. You can not wave off odds and ends within it because it is the main ingredient to lift the whole up to the next level. A Smashed Up World is the final issue on it and being the right choice for it. The composition will expand epically due to fine-grained glitches and the dense orchestrated drone which is going upwards again and again. The outing is a mote in the discography of EverythingIsChemical.

Liz Chidester – Otter Hill (2015)

Noisetrade

Bandcamp

• Singer-songwriter 
• Americana 
• Indie folk 
• Alt-folk 
• Folk indie

Comment: Liz Chidester is a new singer-songwriter from, Chicago, Illinois, USA who is adept at storytelling to bring forth oldie traditions through music, lyrics and memories told once and now by one generation to next ones. It seems the tradition is something extraordinary seminal which enables new galaxies of indie folk/alt-folk and also mainstream folk and country artists to be cropped out. In a word, it is the seminal soil for singer-songwriters today and in the future. The outing of Liz is austere but poignantly accentuated to fill one's soul with emotional coverage and suggestive touch. She says these five songs are the most intimate she has ever written. It had been created during the worst winter storm in Chicago in 2014. All in all, let it be a boosting engine for your world of imaginations.

Jeff Bennett – Doubting Faces EP (2004)

Epsilonlab

• Tech-house 
• Club dance 
• Alternative dance 
• Deep house

Comment: I am sure it was a happy period of time in the beginning of the 00s when such labels as Epsilonlab, Thinner, Kahvi Collective, Autoplate, and Monotonik started off to develop a new, net label-based platform for the club oriented scene. For example, there is up Jeff Bennett with three compositions full of trance-y magic being conjured up by monotonous yet enchanting techno influenced beats in the vein of house music. Frequently the techno influenced vibe will be jettisoned for more deeper and nocturnal vibrations. It is far more than just a collection of tracks - it is the feeling, it is the mood. It is the superimposed quality of variegated beats and sublime softened synthesised chords and synergy pouring out of it. For me, it reminds of those times approximately 20 years ago when club music, especially deep house, and drum and bass were those styles which would influence me profoundly. Top tier, for sure. The issue was the first release in the discography of Montrèal-based imprint Epsilonlab.

[Teaser of the day] The Antlers - Kettering

Archive.org

• Indie pop/rock
• Art rock
• Space pop
• Glam pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Live recording
• Psychedelic pop

Artist: The Antlers

Release: Live at Bowery Ballroom on 2011-05-20 

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Godspeed You Black Emperor! - improvisation

Archive.org

• Post-rock
• Improvised music
• Avant-rock
• Post-classical
• Drone
• Chamber rock
• Experimental rock
• Live recording
• Minimalism
• Leftfield

Artist: Godspeed You Black Emperor!

Release: Live at L'Échangeur (chaviré) on 2002-01-22 

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2002

Daniel Barbiero / Ken Moore – Frequency Drift (2016)

pan y rosas discos

• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Electro-acoustic
• Live session 
• Experimentalism

Comment: a first thought of mine was it is music for cello, and live electronics. However, I was totally wrong because instead of a cello Daniel Barbiero plays a bowed double bass, and Ken Moore employs a tam-tam (it is a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a soft-headed drumstick). It embraces seven improvised compositions full of space, and time, full of different frequencies and changes within it. Even if one used to think of it to as an austere one because of a minimal amount of instruments it is in fact a far more than a sum of its initial parts. It is saturated with grayish delay effects, achromatic reverberations, some gong-induced slams and mournful drones beneath it. In the terms of metal as an element, it is filled with different sort of clattery, rusty grinding and reddish-tinged rattles. It must be called synaesthesia, if you hear colours or at least the spectra of them. This could be a good soundtrack for a contemporary gothic motion picture, at least to depict some (horrendous) scenes within it. As I understood the tracks are not recorded in one and the same place, not during the one tenure. The issue is a part of the discography of Chicago, US-based experimental imprint pan y rosas discos. Very intriguing outing indeed.

[Teaser of the day] Skyjelly - The 6 Is Silent

• Noise rock
• No Wave
• Experimental rock
• Trance rock
• Psychedelic rock
• Alternative rock
• Live session
• Avant-rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Skyjelly

Release: Boston Hassle Listening Party - May 22, 2015

Label: I Heart Noise

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Pollux - Funky Drunk

Dustin Must Die

• Funk house
• House
• Electronic pop
• Acid house
• Electro pop
• Alternative dance
• Electro-house

Artist: Pollux

Release: Sound Collage

Label: Dustin Must Die

Year: 2008

Brother Saturn – Unstable Lands (2016)

We Are All Ghosts

Bandcamp

• Dreamwave 
• Abstract 
• Ambient drone 
• Space music 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Indietronica 
• Alternative 
• Synthwave 
• Ambient 
• Electronic music 
• Post-rock 
• Ambient rock

Comment: sometime in the first half of the 90s when Sun Ra left Earth for Saturn forever, to arrive at his birth place he also left vacant his place on the blue planet. By listening to spatial music by Colorado, US-based artist Drew Miller aka Brother Saturn, and enjoying the quality and quantity of his sound he could be an excellent candidate to replace the legend. Unstable Land is a beatific progression through extended and stretched chords and drones being saturated with vibrations. He exploits both guitars and apparently modular synthesisers to fortify the soundscape. At times there can be drawn parallels upon Slowdive's abstract development Pygmalion, at times upon M Geddes Gengras, at times upon the most hazy moments by Ducktails, at times upon epic still life by Pan American at Quiet City, however, the artist does have his own subtle touch and sublime approach among the other ones. I guess Miller's proficiency used to come forth through a dense creative act while drifting between the formalism and sensual (emotive) music. Indeed, one element does not exclude another one in his theoretical setup. Maybe there is also up invisible magic needed to unify the both elements into an enchanting whole. The finishing track Nature`s Reckoning is more mundane in comparison to the other compositions due the stomping mid-tempo rhythm which is accompanied by a distinct guitar pattern. All in all, the result is worth to be added to a list of the best albums in 2016. It was announced Unstable Lands to be his last issue on We Are All Ghosts. By the way, in recent times the artist issued a couple of brand new ones called Descent Into Madness, and Light! Joy! Ascent! I See The Stars In Your Heart.

[Teaser of the day] Glenn Sogge - Part 2

• Avant-garde
• Musique concrète
• New Age
• Electronic music
• Crossover
• Acousmatic music
• Field recording
• Experimentalism
• Post-classical
• Art music

Artist: Glenn Sogge

Release: The Once And Future Dystopian

Label: Studio 4632

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Thuoom - Liike

Textural Healing

• Abstract
• Illbient
• Soundscape
• Microtonal
• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Sound art
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism

Artist: Thuoom

Release: Reuna EP

Label: Textural Healing

Year: 2016

Sean Nicholas Savage – Magnificent Fist (2016)

Arbutus

• Blue-eyed soul 
• Alternative pop 
• Indie pop 
• Soft rock
• Singer-songwriter
• Psychedelic pop

Comment: I can remember for it happened approximately 4-5 years ago at a small indie festival at Killingi-Nõmme, Estonia called Schilling nearby the natural environment when I was enjoying a performance by the Canadian troubadour Sean Nicholas Savage. It was fascinating because of seeing barefooted Savage walking and at times sitting down while singing at the stage in late night being predominant and staggering with his voice which used to expand everywhere being just accompanied by one guitar. It was one of the most impressive gigs I had ever seen. And it is true to recent days. The Montrèal-based artist is being sonically active to have released CDs, LPs, tapes and digital items under Arbutus Records. Yeah, SNS does have his own idiosyncratic style to have expanded and developed over the years. His ascetic and spartan blue-eyed soul is full of emotions and enchanting soulful resonances and one can perceive his flickering longing while singing about love and his love towards music /Music saved my life that's why I wanna spend all my time doing music/music gets me high that's why I wanna spend the rest of my time doing music/music saved my life so many times/. Indeed, I guess Music is one of the finest direct dedications to a most exquisite branch of art. In truth, your own thoughts and experiences get transmitted back to you in a spirited way. It touches very closely all those of us being addicted to music and sonic design. However, this is just one great ditty among others within the outing. Maybe it is even more honest to conclude about the albums of him as wholesome fists of compositions which used to hit the listener (by the way, Montrèal-based artists like to employ the fists in their music, even if those are the skinny ones with regard to GYBE!). It will live up to your expectations even given that you could expect from it before to start listening. It could be said he is one of those contemporary indie stalwarts with Connan Mockasin and Soft Hair and partly Kevin Parker from Tame Impala and in recent days even Kurt Wagner from Lambchop who have developed soul mannerism and added new threads and twists to it within the indie music scene. In a word, it is a subsequent great listening session by him and support him by buying his vinyls, tapes and CDs and digital files.

[Teaser of the day] Kevin Lyons - The Tractate Middoth

We Are All Ghosts

• Ambient
• Avant-garde
• Soundscape
• Sound art
• Abstract
• Experimentalism
• Space music
• Electronic music
• Electro-acoustic

Artist: Kevin Lyons

Release: Curious Warnings

Label: We Are All Ghosts

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Wacky Southern Current - Trains Are Cool

• Art pop
• Indietronica
• Easy listening
• Alternative
• Electronic
• Mood music
• Post-pop

Artist: Wacky Southern Current

Release: Today`s Embrace

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Calla Soiled – Lucoq (2015)

Bunkai-Kei

Bandcamp

• Chilltronica 
• Alternative dance 
• Yacht pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Electro-house
• Deep house 
• Crossover
• Mood music 
• Nu jazz 
• Balearic house 
• Design pop

Comment: it have always felt myself delighted while coming to a Japanese imprint, this time to Bunkai-Kei. This issue of 11 compositions by Calla Soiled is a true beast due to fairly exquisite modes on chill out, electronica, design pop, jazz, and (Balearic) and electro and deep house and even drowsy yacht pop elements are also represented over there. On the other side, all these elements are not represented in pure way and even not in a sectional way but instead of it with intention to think off something which could be considered an example of universal contemporary music. An example of electronic music without the borders. And the artist reaches the goal in doing it. I have been listening to it since early morning today but the result is getting even more woozy and hazy. It is not because the structure and configuration of these songs is filled with microscopic flaws one could find out after an intense listening session but rather it is zipped in a sophisticated way full of alchemically sticky elements which used to react with one another after a while. On the other hand, it might be I caught the level of nocturnal and deep house-inflected hours within it (for instance, at Rainfall; at Pellucid). By considering the blanket of the issue and the music pouring out from within it you could imagine eine Lichtung /a clearing/lighting to be seen within the ragged top of a volcano in Heideggerian way. Top standing indeed. For your soul, for your body, for your dream, for your reality, for your transcendental mind.

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).