Mona Lisa Acelerada – Neuro-Revoluciòn (2016)

Naciòn Libre

• Cyberpunk 
• Electro-rock 
• Digital hardcore 
• Alternative dance 
• Electro-punk 
• Electroclash 
• Rhythmic noise

Comment: this handful of short compositions would have been very relevant approximately 15 years ago when a new wave of post punk artists made revival and a stripe within it was oriented by punk attitude and electronic arrangements. The stripe was tagged electroclash. The recent artist comes out from Chihuahua, Mexico and in truth it is very relevant nowadays either. In comparison to the aforementioned styles it could be admitted this involves more shrill digitized noises and more heavy vibes and stomping rhythms providing it certainly another twist. The issue is a bit of the discography of Naciòn Libre, the Mexican imprint. Stunning attack on one`s weary brains.

Diversion Voice - Feeling Of Snow

[Teaser of the day] Koji Maruyama - Aoi Hasu

MiMi

• Modern classical
• Avant-garde
• Post-classical
• Ambient 
• Minimalism
• Piano music
• Epic

Artist: Koji Maruyama

Release: Comune EP 

Label: MiMi

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Skeleton Zoo - Sleep In, Upward, Circle II

• Avant-garde
• Leftfield
• Dream pop
• Ambient rock
• Electro-acoustic
• Shoegaze
• Electronic music
• Improvised music
• Crossover
• Experimentalism

Artist: Skeleton Zoo

Release: Sleep In Upward Circle

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] The Sway - Evolution

Jamendo

• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Art rock

Artist: The Sway

Release: When Worlds Collide

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] YALL - Blastocyst

• Math rock
• Post-hardcore
• Art rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: YALL

Release: They`ll Say We`re Only Dreaming

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

Pigeons & The Insane Porridgemakers – Le Voyage (2009)

Clinical Archives

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Psychedelic rock 
• Noise rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Free jazz 
• Experimental rock 
• Dada music 
• Freeformfreakout

Comment: by watching the narcotic and dreamy mixed cover print of this 12-track issue it can be admitted it is a fine introduction to the outing. Indeed, it is full of psychedelic plateaus, the snippets of free jazz and airy lounge boogie jamming and other insane approaches both by lyrical and sonic side. All the lyrics are sung in very Russian and the content of it it mostly phantasmagorical and surrealistic. I guess if such an album were produced approximately 80 years ago the author of it would be Salvador Dali, or Joan Mirò or somebody from the Russian Futurism movement. However, the aforementioned celebrities are indirect authors as are the forefathers of the Dada art movement and Italian noise artists like the brothers Russolo because the influences of them are clearly discernible within it. More profoundly, it is a discourse between madness, and order, between correlated elements, indeterminacy and incontinence (in many ways it can be thought). The issue is a part of the discography of a legendary Moscow-based imprint, Clinical Archives. The favourite track of mine is the final piece St. Abbas because it is predominant by the shrill and slamming bass plateau being introduced by spoken words and surrounded by loose sonic effects. Fabulous outing. 

MOLNAR⎮TAKACS⎮kettenegy (2016)

Bandcamp

• Improvised music 
• Experimental 
• Avant-garde
• Noise rock 
• Experimentalism
• Avant-rock 
• Art rock

Comment: Zola Molnar (guitar), and Rajmund Takacs (bass) from Hungary do explore something stunningly noisy being at the same time also exhilarating. It is an artsy splash between calm arpeggios on a bass and a guitar to cross over the borders of sublime noise music. Fine improvised snippets and varicoloured timbres are up there to be merged into three accomplished compositions. It can be said the result as a whole is certainly much bigger than the sum of its initial parts. In other words, it is surprising to get a fine outing made up of a bass and a guitar only. Very cool by any means. It is probably one of the most weird title of an album being ever represented at RMH. 

[Teaser of the day] Joe Meek - The Beat of my Heart

Free Music Archive

• Experimental pop
• Space pop
• Proto-indie
• Avant-pop
• Art pop

Artist: Joe Meek

Release: Joe Meek Demos

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] The Womb - I Haunt This House

The Womb

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie pop
• Art pop
• Alternative pop

Artist: The Womb

Release: Heavy Ghosts

Label: The Womb/Danielle Records

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Daniel Maze - Acid Test [On Stage]

Rest.

• Micronoise
• Experimental electronica
• Electronic music
• Glitchtronica
• Live recording
• IDM
• Avant-electronica
• Leftfield

Artist: Daniel Maze

Release: Avatar

Label: Rest.

Year: 2006

Emicaeli – PoPs (2016)

Sinewave

Bandcamp

• No Wave 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Math rock 
• Avant-prog 
• Hardcore 
• Art rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Post-metal

Comment: in principle, it is a sort of punk rock. Something which does have similarities with it. In a refracted and deformed way, though. One can perceive the energy of it, madness of it, compulsion of it though all of that is magnified through powerful lenses of more artsy approaches. More profoundly, hardcore meets math rock meets progressive fragments meets post-metal meets whatever. It chimes like a perfect mirror or ironic comment to reflect the decay and shortsightedness of human kind. It is a final glimpse of a deranged mind. Indeed, it is your pop music, do not hesitate it. It is the group`s fifth issue. In a word, the result is a staggering mind fuck being issued on the Brazilian imprint Sinewave.

Feminine – Lorelei (2016)

La bèl

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• Indie 
• Alternative pop 
• Indietronica 
• Art pop 
• Experimental pop 
• Electronic

Comment: I am very pleased to be back at the discography of La bèl because the Italy-based imprint has always been inclined to surprise with something having never been within its discography. Feminine's Lorelei, the 10-notch issue, is a stunning listening experience due to crystal clear sonic plateaus on one side being saturated with electronic glitches and sublime noises and some oppressed droning on the other hand. A Ghost Too, the composition featuring Laura Loriga, includes the shrieks of seagulls. If you are going across an empty field being surrounded by cold wind and dust you are feeling the impact of the song more remarkably. It is somehow eerie and appealing at the same time. All the whole is epic and artsy at the same time. Make indie great again.

[Teaser of the day] Emicaeli - Luigy

• No Wave
• Alternative rock
• Avant-rock
• Indie rock
• Math rock
• Noise rock
• Screamo

Artist: Emicaeli

Release: Pops

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Tatari Gami - Tshake

Psicotropicodelia

• Electro pop
• Synth pop
• Industrial electro
• EBM
• Electro pop
• Electronic pop

Artist: Tatari Gami

Release: EFI Gear EP/Jamendo

Label: Psicotropicodelia

Year: 2016

Elbio Barilari and Andy Cohn – Fluid Timescape (2016)

pan y rosas discos

Free Music Archive

• Kosmische Musik 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Synthwave 
• Electronic music 
• Live session 
• Ambient 
• Improvised music

Comment: the last tenure of mine with regard to Chicago-based pan y rosas discos imprint was dedicated to Dioxadol Borges' outing Siconauta Tourist Class. It was an issue of being heavily keyboard-driven and riveted with different kind of rhythms. The result was quite poppy while flying in the face of some incisive experimental elements. There is another synth-based issue though providing a little bit different tendencies in comparison to it. Andy Cohn is a man of having more than 3000 instruments worldwide in his mythical warehouse. It is his 37-minute session with Elbio Barilari. Elbio was playing a vintage JP-8000 Roland synthesiser, and Andy was playing a Steinway piano, a Roland Juno-D synth, and a Yamaha CP-70M electric piano. The outing is something peculiar and strange and ennobling at the same time and stylistically a drift between Kosmische Musik, wonky improvised music and analogue keyboard-driven synthetic landscapes. Yet the process is punctually controlled – at least it seems to be so. One can hear Tangerine Dream, and Sun Ra to appear sporadically in some snippets, though some more abstract flows may suggest early electronic music pioneers to be sitting on their rough machines. What about the time to be described in conjunction with the music? Does it exist as an entity or is it just an illusion or at least an effect of our perception? By listening to these 2260 seconds all these hypotheses are set up on air to last on. It needs no answers to be answered for. Tension coming out of it it is up there as an instrument. All in all, it is certainly an outstanding outing from the previous year.

Cherushii – Manic EP (2016)

Bandcamp

• Jazz house 
• House 
• Club dance 
• Remix 
• Electro-house 
• Deep house 
• Electronic music 
• Tech-house

Comment: Chelsea Faith Dolan aka Cherushii was a producer and an electronic musician whose life abruptly ended in the fire of a warehouse in December, 2016. Manic EP is a fine legacy to her doings, more profoundly, consisting of a couple of tracks only though both tracks (Rudy's Party, Manic) involve different kind of mixes thereby resulting in five compositions ultimately. Especially good of these mixes it is the Magic Touch Instrumental version of Manic where smooth jazz vibes on the base of a blaring saxophone by Marcia Miget are represented over there. However, the best tracks are the original ones with truly mind-blowing gears and enchanting transmissions and stunning progressions. It is a top tier to pay tribute to Chelsea Faith's outstanding musicianship. RIP.

[Teaser of the day] Les Dix-Huit Secondes - DSM IV

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

Artist: Les Dix-Huit Secondes

Release: Troisième Volume

Label: Barbie Noja/Archive.org

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Adamned/Age - Chromosphaere

• Ambient techno
• IDM
• Glitchtronica
• Experimental techno
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Adamned/Age

Release: Streets Made Of Grey

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Max Cavalerra - Devastate The Break

Broque

• Techno
• Alternative dance
• Deep techno
• Tech-house
• Experimental techno

Artist: Max Cavalerra

Release: Techno Mode

Label: Broque

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] The Dingees - Still On the Move

Jamendo

• Reggae
• Ska
• Brass pop
• Crossover
• World music
• Alternative pop
• Dub

Artist: The Dingees

Release: the Rebel Soul Sound System

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Magical Unicellular Music - Grin`ko Nomer Dva

Clinical Archives

• Motorik
• Avant-rock
• Trance rock
• Psychedelic rock
• Krautrock
• Experimental rock

Artist: Magical Unicellular Music

Release: Aurora

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2010

Che? Project – Vlack Kid Bagina (2009)

Gorrión de Miga

• Avant-garde 
• Noise 
• Spoken word
• Electronic music 
• Post-industrial 
• Experimentalism
• Sampledelic 
• Freeformfreakout

Comment: Che? Project`s 15-track issue is something acute, extreme, and predominant, at the same time it provides many funny segments and highly amusing snippets. In fact, it consists only of 1-minute long fragments on average. Mostly the tracks are build on the linear progressions of enchanting loops providing shrill noises and glitches or matt emergences and brownish sonic growths. At times it rings like a cutout from a frenetic video game. For instance, if you like the music of Big City Orchestra, and Zoviet France then you know very well what you could expect from it. That is a weird yet entertaining shit being released on Gorrión de Miga Records.

Rob Steady – Ask No Lies (2005)

12rec.

Free Music Archive

• Glitchtronica 
• Folktronica 
• Alternative pop 
• Indie-hop 
• Art pop 
• Electro pop 
• Primitronica 
• Sampledelic 
• Hip-hop 
• Crossover 
• Urban music 
• Acid 
• Chiptune 
• Glitch electro

Comment: I guess the first listening time of this outing may be quite confusing because it is problematic to embrace the nature of the issue. It starts off from nothing as if arduously popping out from glitched-out chords and shrill frequencies and electronic clockwork mechanisms. All is pitched up, all is compressed to a higher sonic range. All seems to be destructed and messed up to create a new foundation for something quite off-kilter and special. At times one can recognise it to be a hectic mix of folk and hip-hop and electronic effects and at a time it will be traded for chiptune-ish bleeps and rusty electro appearances or crawling old school industrial-tinged nihilistic rhythms or unexpected samples to come in and then leave the place as quickly, for example. However, by starting the second round of its listening all seems to be clearly otherwise - the initial words of mine seems to be ridiculous and false (at least partly) because the consciousness of mine has changed throughout the course. Describe no lies. I do not know is it either about a primitive approach or very incisive sophisticated platform. Or these statements are adeptly intermingled with one another. By listening to the issue one will walk the puzzle off. However, you are lifted up from a micro level to the macro level. One is sure – it is an accomplished outing. Get it into your cerebral spheres. The issue is a part of the discography of 12rec. . 

Broken Moods For House Kites – There There, Their Not (2012)

Kift Flipper

Bandcamp

• Indie 
• Alternative pop 
• Indietronica 
• Electronic music
• Chamber pop 
• Post-rock 
• Experimental pop 
• Ambient pop 
• Baroque pop 
• Ambient rock

Comment: Wales is a great soil for outstanding personae and musical groups like John Cale, Super Furry Animals, and Gorky`s Zygotic Mynci. John Cale as a producer and musician was an influential innovator within the rock scene, the latter ones were beatific glimpses at the time of Britpop. By the way, the groups sang in their native Cymric language as well while exploring experimental tendencies within the indie and indie folk scenes. Broken Moods For House Kites is the solo project of Cardiffian Marc Davies and There There, Their Not is the debut album by him. Musically it merges airy synthesised progressions with light guitar/string chords and volatile orchestrations and gentle rhythmic flickers with one another while sustaining a recognizable experimental touch. It might be you can find out some similarities with the likes of Durutti Column, and Seefeel. The fabulous issue is a part of the discography of Kift Flipper, an imprint from Wales. 

[Teaser of the day] starstarstar - Reciprocity

Jamendo

• Indie pop
• Alternative pop
• Soul-indie
• Art pop
• New Weird America
• Electronic pop

Artist: starstarstar

Release: Electric Goose And The Nylon Moose 

Label: Rack And Ruin/Jamendo

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Lackluster - Tumbling Along (ll080702)

Monotonik

• IDM
• Electronic music
• Mood music
• Chilltronica
• Alternative pop

Artist: Lackluster

Release: You Are On My Mind EP 

Label: Monotonik

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Hubre - No Dirt in the Ashtray

Imaginary Albums

• Indie rock
• DIY
• Alternative rock
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: Hubre

Release: January Have Others

Label: Imaginary Albums/Trastienda

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Bats in the Belfry - Beg For It

• Indie folk
• Art pop
• Alternative pop
• Alternative folk

Artist: Bats in the Belfry

Release: Hounded

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Bogsey - Brain Ball

• Folk indie
• Psych-pop
• Acid pop
• Indie folk
• Americana
• Alternative pop

Artist: Bogsey

Release: Lazy Bones

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Telluric – Telluric EP (2014)

Swishcotheque

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Synthwave 
• Psybient 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Mood music 
• Chilltronica

Comment: the first contact of mine with an imprint called Swishcotheque happened to a release (Analog Gentleman) by Marko Sula aka Out-Or who was an idiosyncratic underground artist in Estonia during the 90s. Similarly to the compatriot of mine it is quite problematic to describe the nature of Telluric's self-titled issue. Because it is a mind-blowing issue the role of mine as music reviewer seems to be quite impotent. However, let's trying at least. First of all, it is the kind of electronic music for our pleasure. I guess it is based on certain patches of synthesisers. It is saturated with digital noises and incisive sonic effects sometimes to provoke one's thought and mood. Certainly it is inspired by trance music though in a psychedelic key. On the other side, the aesthetic of synthesiser induced music in its acidic and spacious format is apparently a predominant element within it. It is fairly emotive to enjoy how synthesised chords used to turn upward and then downward in an acidic sauce. Imagine an early Talk Talk or Heaven 17 to starkly be influenced by Tangerine Dream. The issue is a platform to seamlessly merge all these elements with one another. And there is artistic elegance up in the air because the final track Trill Cue is an irresistible earworm. Get afflicted with it. Stunning stuff by any means.

Theodor Zox – Pastels 1-4 (2004)

Thinner

• Techno 
• Minimal techno 
• Tech-house 
• Deep house 
• Electro-house

Comment: this is so good...this is so good how these minimal techno, tech-house and electronic propulsions are up to change incessantly places with one another. Ultimately the whole chimes like a seamless mix for late hours on a Friday. You can see a formula behind it but the formula is set out to be susceptible to changes and abandon the presumed hard core. One can perceive exquisite vibrations which constitute the glue to hold all that stuff gently together. The issue is a bit of the discography of Thinner, the legendary imprint from Germany.

Maicamia – Crazy Moon (2016)

Bandcamp

• Slowcore 
• Alternative rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Post-rock 
• Indie rock 
• Angst rock

Comment: it has always been great fun to arrive at musical groups from Montrèal, Quebec, Canada. Maicamia is an anglophone group led by female voice. Do you remember such artists as Hrsta, Thalia Zedek? Do you remember such a group as Low? Do you remember such a group as Dream City Film Club? Do you know what will happen if to merge all these elements with each other? The result is a band called Maicamia. This is an irresistible blend of angst, angst, and once again angst. Angst is over there to get materialised and to cover a listener with a heavy and suffocating shell. With the very purpose to seal all the shit surrounding a human being. It consists of rough, slowed-down drumming as if being transmitted from a wicked rehearsal room and there are up shrill soul-stabbing guitars and enchanting chants of a female voice (by the way, the opening track is titled ironically Lambourghini Diablo). All of that is reflected on the cover either. It is possible that depression as a state of mind could be truly beautiful in art and it is a case. Holy shit. I have nothing to add to it.

The Walla Recovery – A Star, a Star (2015)

Noisetrade

Bandcamp

• Indie pop/rock 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Conceptual 
• Chamber pop 
• Xmas songs 
• Baroque pop

Comment: they say they (as a quartet) are cello folk combo from Texas, USA. By listening to this 13-track Christmas song miscellany the statement is a partial-truth because they exploit additionally keyboards and guitars as well. Of course, the expression “cello folk” may frighten an indie music lover. It might be he/she starts to think about some rigid classical music oppressed artists or sombre Apocalyptica, or something like that. However, by listening to these fabulous new arrangements of Christmas songs and smooth permutations in chords and volatile solemn easiness it reminds starkly of Sufjan Stevens (and his set of Christmas songs being released some years ago at Noisetrade). In a word, beef up your mood with these 51 minutes on 25^th December. In fact, it would function at any time. At least the experience of mine proved it. And Jesus would like it.

[Teaser of the day] Jan Strach - Skok ze Skarpy

• Lo-fi
• Acid pop
• Space pop
• Experimental pop
• Indie pop
• Improvised music
• Bedroom pop
• Alternative pop

Artist: Jan Strach

Release: Rosknrolmusis E​.​P.

Label: Underpolen

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Bardo Pond - Tommygun Angel

Free Music Archive

• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Live recording
• Psychedelic rock
• Live session

Artist: Bardo Pond

Release: Live at ATP-NY 2010

Label: All Tomorrow`s Parties NY on WFMU

Year: 2010

Jorge Grela – Expande (2016)

Pueblo Nuevo

• Ambient 
• Musique concrète 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Field recordings 
• Glitchtronica 
• Avant-garde 
• Soundscapes 
• Experimentalism

Comment: it is nice to be back again at the discography of the Chilean imprint Pueblo Nuevo. The artist comes out from the capital of a neighbouring country, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Jorge Grela (born in 1970) provides a set of 19 minutes where one can perceive emotions filled noises, wobbly soundscapes, catchy glitches, and bouncy sound effects. In a word, let's call it emotive ambient music. The result may not have been so appealing without exploiting recorded sounds from the streets and from nature. Thanks to it the soundscape seems to be fairly expansive and broad and made open. Here it is being sophisticated and exuberant. One is the effect of another. Stunning stuff.

[Teaser of the day] Barcos - Radara

Free Music Archive

• Leftfield
• Dark Wave
• Post-industrial
• Electronic music
• Drone
• Illbient
• Experimentalism
• Glitch
• Avant-garde

Artist: Barcos

Release: Falèsia (by Various Artists)

Label: Enoughrecords/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] MPHM - Pulse

Abyssa

• Post-industrial
• Rhythmic noise
• Illbient
• Experimentalism
• Leftfield
• Dark ambient
• Avant-garde

Artist: MPHM

Release: Stunted Time

Label: Abyssa

Year: 2006

Neurotic Wreck – Glow Ghosts (2016)

Vulpiano

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

• Synth-pop 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Krautrock 
• Punk funk 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• New wave 
• Post-punk 
• Art rock 
• Electro-indie

Comment: Neurotic Wreck is the Englishman Daniel Shea with some of his friends. St Helens, Merseyside resident has been active since 2011 though the most prolific year for him seems obviously to be the previous year. He is an artist who is having ability to compel a listener with a bunch of great songs within 13 tracks and a 53 minute. Dan Shea is a contemporary artist who has exploited the past to reconstruct catchy melodies and enchanting harmonies in the vein of new wave, post-punk, noise pop, synth-pop, and krautrock. However, the aforementioned list of the styles is not restricting and suffocating at all, it is just a notice you can follow while driving through these 53 minutes. By contemporary artists he can be compared with Alan Driscoll aka The Womb though there can be drawn parallels to the likes of a murky Pulp (at Speak In My Voice), The Jesus & Mary Chain (at I´ll Always Care), The Cure (Never Enough), XTC, Human League, Talk Talk, Joy Division (it is another list of remarks). The issue is a part of the discography of Vulpiano Records. 

[Teaser of the day] vÄäristymä - Ossitaisvirhe

• Avant-techno
• Minimalism
• Experimental electronica
• Improvised music
• Minimal techno
• Alternative

Artist: vÄäristymä 

Release: Melko hyvä

Label: Ilse

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Evan Morris - Camp Chaos

Earth Monkey Productions

• Breakbeat 
• Breakcore
• Electroclash
• Digital hardcore
• Alternative

Artist: Evan Morris

Release: The Doors Of Turmoil

Label: Earth Monkey Productions

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Hox Vox - Werkzeug

Jamendo

• Avant-prog
• Electro-rock
• Synth-rock
• RIO
• Art rock
• Alternative
• Progressive
• Electronic music

Artist: Hox Vox

Release: Tortoise Attempts Escape Because Fuck You, That's Why

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Speculativism - Noise Off

Archive.org

• Avant-garde
• Leftfield
• Avant-pop
• Art music
• Sampledelic
• Experimental pop

Artist: Speculativism

Release: Experiments in Sound Art

Label: Self-released/Archive.org

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Feminine - Coral Face

• Electro-indie
• Indietronica
• Art pop
• Acid pop
• Alternative pop
• Indie pop

Artist: Feminine

Release: Lorelei

Label: La bèl

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Julien Demoulin - The Illusion Of Asymmetric Insight

Resting Bell

• Ambient
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism
• Soundscapes

Artist: Julien Demoulin

Release: Tough Love EP

Label: Resting Bell

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Martin Dot - White Roses Part II

Rain Netlabel

• Modern classical
• Ambient
• Piano music
• Post-classical
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: Martin Dot

Release: For You

Label: Rain Netlabel

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Jaime Munarriz - Faces

• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Ambient
• Improvised music
• Experimental electronica
• Acousmatic music
• Leftfield

Artist: Jaime Munarriz

Release: Subdued

Label: Studio 4632

Year: 2017

Terracota Blue – One Million Sunrises (2016)

Bandcamp

• Electronic pop 
• Chilltronica 
• Alternative 
• Post-pop 
• Trip-hop 
• Breaks 
• Cinematic

Comment: I guess the title of this 5-track outing is inspired by Bhagavadgita, however, a listener can perceive the stars and very intense glimpses bursting out of it with a highly luminous effect. Ultimately the experience of the listener may be like flying toward a supernova discerning something unbelievable and magic. It may be a new beginning, it may be the end of something. I shall have to say that the US-based producer Terracotta Blue's ability to establish magic moments is getting even more exquisite and more adept with every subsequent release. It might be there is no room anymore to keep growing bigger and bigger. For instance, the opening composition Rapture is not only about producing and splicing the beats with one another, it is an instance of fine songwriting as well. I guess it is pop music example of a sort and it will be searched for and showed off after the pop music is officially declared to be dead. In a word, it is a favourite issue from the year of 2016. Great man. 

Bøzo – Which Way EP (2016)

Unfoundsound

Unfoundsound

• Electronic music 
• Acid techno 
• Alternative dance 
• IDM 
• Acid house 
• Deep techno 
• Tech-house

Comment: this bunch of compositions is something soothing...and soothing though sometimes the kick drums beat heavily with high frequencies from the bottom. This sort of music I would like to call post-IDM. Indeed, it is a rhythm-driven issue getting power from different patterns of the rhythm and some sonic effects. Additionally, it is something like getting into a subdued rave music party. Is it an example of post-rave and acid house and acid techno music? I guess the answer is right. However, the favourite of mine is Patches due to employing more deep synth-based developments in the background and fairly crispy beats hovering in the middle layer. Very deep and suggestive. The following piece Altalena is a platform where a catchy tech-house vibe is tightly mixed up with concrete sounds, more detailedly with children-induced noises and free space (which is also a sonic element). Indeed, the second part is really great because Respawn is a hypnotic, profound glimpse being imbued with suppressed noises and tiny grating frequencies. Adorable. The outing will be finished off by Going Places which is suitable due to its gentle volatile harmonies and downtempo-alike sensitivity. The issue is a bit in the catalogue of Unfoundsound. Solid rhythmic work.

Mabik & Xamax – Treibholzeffekt EP (2007)

Pentagonik

• Techno 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Club dance 
• Electro 
• Tech-electro

Comment: this set of 4 pieces is a collaborative act by Mabik & Xamax at a half extent. The rest of a couple of compositions is accomplished by Mabik alone. In general, I guess there is no need to make difference between the two aforementioned compartments because the tracks will make up an organic, consistent whole. It is a tonic drift between jagged rhythms of techno and spasmodic vibrations of electro music (the latter element is obviously represented at Im Holze). The opening track D-Meter is a collaborative act and one of the interesting issues as if conjured up by a coiled spring mechanism and then these sonic shards seem to be inserted into the sampling unit. It used to wobble and sway in a peculiar yet amusing manner. The same tendencies seem to come out from the next composition Der Maulwurf either though in a lesser extent. This is an example of low-end techno with stumbling bits and deliberately awkward sonic effects. Der Flossenmann is the most "proper" bird within it due to stepwise progressing and acquiring new (watery) frontiers and dimensions. The issue is a proper one being a part in the catalogue of Pentagonik. On the February 19^th the issue will celebrate its 10 year birthday.

Marow – Inter (2012)

Bandcamp

• Ambient 
• Soundscapes 
• Avant-garde 
• Microtonal 
• Minimalism 
• Electronic music 
• Abstract

Comment: this set of 6 compositions is excellent and highly enjoyable due to minimalist progressions and expansive space around it. It is especially worthwhile today while an average human being is surrounded by lies and selective truth, perversions, quasi-values and a massive bunch of everyday's shit defying frequently description or expression. Thereof Marow's Inter is not the solution, it is a remedy. However, the average human being is as a similar stupid primate as his/her rulers whose free will gifted by the God is to succumb in a state of chaos created by himself/herself. By listening to the issue saturated with beatific stillness and wondrous sonic bits it would be a soundtrack for a post apocalyptic world without awful shrieks, overwhelming pollution, suffocating garbage, annoying noises, rotten horizons of the so-called civilization which in fact is the deviation from nature. It is time to restart it now to erase the reason for this valley of distress. The only reason to live on it is the art in music including the recent issue. The philosophy or the art of thought is dead because it is a source of demagogue and lies. And it is very naive and hypocritical to say that the term "post-truth" is proper to describe the latest elections of the US presidency only. The substance of it did born much time ago. There is no hope and rescue, there is the beast standing on two feet.

The Cream Canteens – Moderate Peril (2016)

Djummi

• Indie pop/rock 
• Electro indie 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Indietronica 
• Dance rock 
• Indie dance 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Twee pop 
• Synth rock

Comment: this 3-track issue is a fabulous torrent being made up of lofty, energetic synthesised boosts, splendid guitar twanging, and stunning singing thereof resulting in something cinematic and lively and brisk. It is such a sort of outing for whom it is quite hard to find out analogues worldwide. At times those guitars may remind of a period in the beginning of the 80s when some post-punk bands turned into a sound which would later be tagged as alternative rock. With hints at The Chameleons at Roman Fortress, for example. It creates contrasts because the album did start off with rusty tonalities which soon would develop into something playfully majestic and impressively lofty. Although it is filled with magniloquent poses and boasting showcases the result goes right, the result is fairly plausible All in all, it is the success expressed in sounds. The outing is a bit in the discography of Djummi.

[Teaser of the day] Contron - Happy Song

• Lo-fi
• Americana
• Indie folk
• Singer-songwriter
• New Weird America
• DIY
• Folk indie

Artist: Contron

Release: Where The Flowers Grow (Contron Is Dead)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Roman Panatela – March 2006 EP (2006)

17 Sons

Archive.org

• Techno pop 
• Electronic music 
• Kraut-techno 
• Motorik 
• Alternative
• Electro pop
• Kraut-electro 
• Minimalism 
• Krautrock

Comment: it is the pleasure of mine to loot the catalogue of a French imprint, 17 Sons Records. And those 22 minutes by Roman Panatela are something truly special to be enjoyed for. More profoundly, one can enjoy minimalist rhythms of electronic music as if a train chugging in one rhythm with some barely discernible shades. The more I keep listening to it the more I perceive it to be a contemporary counterpoint or progression of krautrock. Indeed, seminal influences of Kraftwerk, and Neu! come out of it in a refreshing way. This 4-track outing is a good accompanist for one`s drawn-out journey in the car while enjoying monotonous landscapes around and the stripes in the middle of a route going by. It is called motorik. It is a motorik experience by contemporary standards because you are driving with the electric car. Top fare. 

[Teaser of the day] Night Haze - Where Hope Is Just A Poem

Sirona-Records

• Electronic music
• Ambient pop
• Synthwave
• Alternative pop
• Poptronica
• Synth pop

Artist: Night Haze 

Release: Integrity Within Change

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Los Volks - Dedico a Você

• Indie pop
• Alternative pop
• Bossa nova
• Tropicàlia pop
• Soft rock

Artist: Los Volks

Release: Luna

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] The Hathaway Family Plot - Big Machine

• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Art music
• Post-classical
• Leftfield
• Post-industrial
• Freeformfreakout
• Post-pop
• Experimental pop
• Musique concrète
• Avant-pop

Artist: The Hathaway Family Plot

Release: Mechanics in the Age of Artistic Reproduction

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Bing Satellites - Sun Moon Star

• Ambient
• Experimentalism
• Microtonal
• Minimalism
• Epic
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde
• Soundscapes

Artist: Bing Satellites

Release: Twilight Sessions volume 20 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mikk Rebane - Xylonite Stereotypy

• Synthwave
• Electronic music
• Nu jazz
• Alternative

Artist: Mikk Rebane

Release: Fragment

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Black Pus - Juggernaut

Free Music Archive

• Avant-rock
• No Wave
• Noise rock
• Psych-rock
• Experimental rock
• Post-hardcore

Artist: Black Pus

Release: 4: All Aboard the Magic Pus

Label: diareahRama

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Elemental Noise - Richat Structure - Part I

Murmure Intemporel

• Electronic music
• Synthwave
• Kosmische Musik
• Alternative
• Space music

Artist: Elemental Noise

Release: Eroded

Label: Murmure Intemporel/Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

Skism – Skism EP (2005)

12rec.

• IDM 
• Experimental electronica 
• Alternative 
• Nu jazz 
• Avant-electronica 
• Glitch-hop 
• Crossover
• Experimental hip-hop

Comment: this set of 10 tracks is the only work by David Grogan aka Skism who at once had lost all of his tracks while his PC crashed. Fortunately some of them could have been rescued from the digital pit. This must have been an extremely pitiful incident because the aesthetics unfolding in front of our ears is something truly consistent and bewildering. While listening to it for first times you get information about the album of being very technical and at times massive and even provocative or nihilistic by its nature (jungle-y Shell (Swift Mix)). The more you get immersed in that the more layers will be opened up around you. For me, the issue is a good example or fact to prove the hypothesis that glitch-hop was remarkably influenced by IDM (intelligent dance music) being very prominent throughout the 90s and in the first half of the 00s. Indeed, it is an exuberant lab where David Grogan creates something ahead of its time because in 2005 there was not glitch-hop presented in the underground scene (I guess he was one of the first mavericks within it). There are also up a couple of visions of (nu) jazz music by him, one of them, Stodj is a favourite track on the outing due to cinematic progressions and a lush, sunshiny panorama revolving around the merry axis of rhythms. In truth, the issue does not involve any weak tracks at all. In a word, the album must be considered a classic one and David Grogan is genius. The issue is a part of the discography of 12rec. .

[Teaser of the day] Bouwakanja - Cable

Section 27

• Experimental electronica 
• Alternative 
• Glitchstep 
• Noise electro 
• Glitchtronica 
• Avant-garde 
• Leftfield 
• Post-industrial

Artist: Bouwakanja

Release: Hajiba

Label: Section 27

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Diversion Voice - Aqua

Clinical Archives

• Fusion
• Jazz rock
• Art rock
• Progressive rock
• Alternative rock
• Brass pop
• Mood music
• Smooth jazz

Artist: Diversion Voice

Release: Underwater

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Limbo Deluxe - Texas

Jamendo

• Psychedelic pop
• Surf pop
• Alternative dance
• Dance rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Post-punk
• Indie dance
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Limbo Deluxe

Release: Rodeo

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Karl Frank - World Collide

Redstarcommunity

• Hypnagogic pop
• Alternative
• Indie
• Chillwave
• Glo-fi
• DIY
• Bedroom pop
• Post-pop
• Synthwave

Artist: Karl Frank

Release: Fragments Of Decay

Label: Redstarcommunity/Bandcamp

Year: 2015