Recent Music Heroes

3/15/2017

[Teaser of the day] Cafeina Kid - Ccapitalia

Pueblo Nuevo

Electronic music
Alternative
Downtempo
Microhouse
Chilltronica
Experimental electronica
Sampledelic

Artist: Cafeina Kid

Release: Neko

Label: Pueblo Nuevo

Year: 2016

Tyrone Miller – All These Moments (2005)

Redstarcommunity

Synthwave
Alternative
Kosmische Musik
Indietronica
Electronic music
Dreamwave
Shoegazetronica
Drone pop
Post-psychedelic electronica
Neokrautrock

Comment: before reviewing this handful of tracks I had got in mood while listening to The World Won't Listen by the Smiths, an album I bought recently. Musically it might be a different case yet by attitude one can perceive on it this seems to be quite analogous. First of all, it is music for lonely souls to provide an ennobling boost for them. Tyrone Miller's music continues to trudge the vein created by the Manchester legends to be represented in progressing way. It does mean guitars and the drums are traded to synthesisers to create a moody effect for lonely souls. /You are sleeping you don't want to believe/. If you watch the date of the issue you can parse it was released before such styles as chillwave, dreamwave, and glo-fi started to emerge. By listening to it one could step back in time even more far. I guess one might relive the era when some shoegaze inflicted bands started to deviate from their main hazy guitar driven path while searching for new pastels and rhythms (Slowdive, Seefeel, Moonshake, Mark Van Hoen's solo projects). Thirdly, you cannot ignore influences of Kosmische Musik, and Krautrock either. Yet the aforementioned names are just some vague orientations to understand the artist's beatific world of sounds. The result is great and the process of how these layers are organically intermingled with one another to be the source for angelic higher chords and indirectly for one's blissful memories. The issue is a part of the discography of Redstarcommunity.

3/14/2017

[Teaser of the day] Eureka Brown - Beneath Moonlight

Digitalia

Art pop
Indie pop
Alternative pop
Glo-fi
Psych-pop
DIY
Dream pop
Avant-pop
Post-pop

Artist: Eureka Brown

Release: Future Vision of the Digital Universe

Label: Digitalia

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Momus - Hairstyle of the Devil

Ubuweb

Electronic pop
Post-disco
Singer-songwriter
Dance pop
Art pop
Electro pop
Alternative pop

Artist: Momus

Release: Don`t Stop The Night

Label: Creation/Ubuweb

Year: 1989

Monkey Warhol - Don't Tickle the Pickle

Thuoom - Lento

Cutside – Invisible Lines (2015)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Bandcamp

Trip-hop
Alternative
Breaks
Electronic music
Sampledelic
Smooth jazz
Mood music
Big beat

Comment: Dusted Wax Kingdom is a tough record label from Bulgaria with a number of releases reaching over 300 so far. One of those issues within it is Russian Cutside's Invisible Lines which is a sensual blend of sultry rhythms, smooth jazz-based samples, and airy and fickle layers atop involving a shitload of interesting minutiae within it. On the other side, those sultry rhythmic patterns are represented with different and changeable intensity therefore together making up something dynamically magic and suggestive. You can perceive those slipping patterns or some offbeat vibes showing up a charming appeal now and then. Stylistically it is a drift between trip-hop, and big beat. Truly fascinating by any means.

Crashed By Car – Fictions And Fires (2003)

Monotonik

Indietronica
Modern classical
Alternative
Poptronica
Electronic pop
Ambient pop
IDM
Post-classical

Comment: this set of 6 pieces used to silently chug alongside angular landscapes of beats, volatile piano chords and spacey motives. It is not supposed to be a very interesting issue because of these elements being represented only. However, it is an interesting issue because these elements are designed and depicted in a very intriguing fashion. On the other side, it can be called a solid one. One can perceive coherent tie-ups between the aforementioned elements where one can see inner logic and interior power pouring out of it. Elfin and miniature elements are set up in the way to create something stunning in the macroscopic level. Those rusty noises here and there are up there to be a sturdy and caustic adhesive between the sonic blocks. It reminds me of those times in the beginning of the 00s when such sort of sound was very hype-y in Europe thanks to such label as Morr Music. This outing was released at the same time. The issue is a bit of the discography of another legendary imprint, Monotonik.

3/08/2017

[Teaser of the day] PerlssDj - Cinetica

bypass

Ambient pop
Electronic music
Chilltronica
New Age
Synthwave
Alternative

Artist: PerlssDj

Release: Cinetica

Label: Bypass/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

This Lonely Crowd – This Lonely Crowd (2017)

Sinewave

Alternative rock
Post-metal
Shoegaze
Indie rock
Dream pop
Fuzz pop
Trash metal
Blues
Technical metal

Comment: Curitiba, Brazil-based quintet is back again with their brand new one of being their ninth outing so far. I can remember for their first issue An Endless Moment Everyday All The Time (2010) which was a sublime drift upwards and downwards and left and right on the base of powerful yet druggy guitar haze. Thereafter it can be admitted it would have been always different, always the same. Lots of guitars chords showcased with different penumbras and different power, however, it can be said the combos is searching for new territories to be conquered. For instance, at Go Where People Sleep And See If They Are Safe the combo exploits electronic beats and synthesised bass frequencies to vamp up their mostly dreamy guitar reveries. Otherwise, there are represented cute songs. For instance, Vancian Noise is a fine fuzz pop/dream pop. Yet Florbela Ex-punk, and Cliodinha`s Wave are also fine ones though in other way showing up blackened energy with unexpected explosions with hints to blues and hard rock and trash and technical metal. The lyrics of the album's songs are extractions from well-known classics. This stunning issue is a part of the discography of Brazilian imprint Sinewave.

3/07/2017

[Teaser of the day] Chris Lynn - Silver Spring Evening

Green Field Recordings

Musique concrète
Soundscape
Field recording
Conceptual
Non-music

Artist: Chris Flynn

Release: Summer Storms

Label: Green Field Recordings

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Hello Soviet - Oktopanik

Quantum Bit

Krautrock
Electronic music
Experimental rock
Sampledelic
Storytelling
Alternative
Leftfield pop

Artist: Hello Soviet

Release: Hello Soviet EP

Label: Quantum Bit

Year: 2010

Lương Huệ Trinh – Illusions (2016)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Ambient
Acousmatic music
Electro-acoustic
Ambient noise
Musique concrète
Leftfield
Post-industrial
Soundscape
Avant-garde
Drone
Experimental electronica
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Electronic music

Comment: Lương Huệ Trinh is a composer from Vietnam whose issue Illusions consists of two long-running compositions. If to juxtapose both of the tracks with each other it can be said they start in a similar manner as if being induced by the tone generator. Indeed, it makes sense in the starting part to slowly progress into more evocative and exuberant. Machine sounds are threaded by more and less faint droning of the chants and eerie industrial (ambient) noises full of interior greyish power and volatile undulations. There are some differences as well. At Illusions the main narrative is saturated with the sound of a machine which used to loop and at the same time slamming the soundscape around it. It is majestic and beatific simultaneously. Return II involves a bagpipe-alike progression in the middle of the track which eventually will be replaced with a catchy techno rhythm. You can perceive fine tickling and swaying electronic sounds before it. All of that reminds me a little bit of Rolf Dammers and Holger Czukay`s album Canaxis 5 (1969). There is up a central composition, Boat-Woman-Song by employing Vietnamese singing. All in all, it can be admitted it is a great, highly idiosyncratic issue opening up something ennobling and extraordinary (which cannot be delineated by mind, though). It is an example of transcendental music. The issue is a part of the discography of Pan Y Rosas Discos (from Chicago, Illinois, USA).

3/06/2017

[Teaser of the day] s o u L O f m y S h o E s - Panamericana

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Cowbell indie
Post-rock
Art pop

Artist: s o u L O f m y S h o E s

Release: Inciviltà occidentale

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Joxfield ProjeX - Industry Forever

Archive.org

Industrial rock
Electronic
Synth-rock
Avant-rock
Lo-fi
Experimental rock

Artist: Joxfield ProjeX

Release: Archives EP 2 - Fivekus

Label: Archive.org/Cratediggers

Year: 2013

Limbo Deluxe – Super Disco Pop Beat Punk (2007)

Jamendo

Alternative dance
Psychedelic
Baggy
Indie dance
Rockabilly
Dance rock
Acid rock
Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Surf rock
Boogie
Brass pop

Comment: this set of 10 compositions may seem quite similar to something or one can feel he/she has heard it before sometime. It might he/she has listened to such project as Juanitos which is headed by the Frenchman Juan Naveira. It is not coincidence at all – Limbo Deluxe is also one of his projects. Similarly to Juanitos Limbo Deluxe's music is a bold carnival of thousands of sounds. OK, I exaggerated a little bit but it involves such elements as rockabilly, surf, indie, boogie, world music, brass pop, psychedelic and acid pop. Certainly I forgot something to add. Guitars, vocals, drums and dusty organs are set up to introduce a groovy party. Especially those rolling acidic organ cascades placed side by side to sonic threads of the other instruments are truly catchy and enchanting reminding me of such baggy juggernauts as The Charlatans, The Wordsmiths, The Mock Turtles, and Inspiral Carpets. All is fairly coherent, all is consistent, all is very convincing. The lyrics are in English and in Spanish. Business as usual by him. One should abandon antidepressants to replace them with the downright optimistic, serotonin-supplying one. It is not funny, it makes up much more fun.

3/05/2017

Feminine - Coral Face

[Teaser of the day] Wings Of An Angel - Injured Retardation Cherrystone

Modern classical
Avant-garde
Ambient
Minimalism
Post-classical
Ambient drone
Experimentalism
Alternative

Artist: Wings Of An Angel

Release: The Groping Shadows Of A Parasite God Soaking In Distant Watermarks

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Yrrow - Injured

COTA 303

Glitchtronica
Dubstep
Electronic music
Alternative
Ambient dub
Abstract

Artist: Yrrow

Release: Exclamation Mark

Label: COTA 303

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Gassman - Shut Off

Modismo

Minimal techno
Tech-house
Deep house
Electronic music
Club dance

Artist: Gassman

Release: Violet Taste

Label: Modismo

Year: 2017

Now – Pileofskyhighmiles (2013)

Clinical Archives

Bandcamp

Indietronica
Alternative
Avant-pop
Space pop
Electronic
Post-rock
Drone pop
Organcore
Experimental pop
Art pop
Minimal Wave
Leftfield pop
Avant-rock
DIY
Experimental rock

Comment: first of all, happy birthday (60th jubilee) and best wishes to Mark E. Smith, the core of the Fall and the legendary figure within the post-punk and alternative rock movement during the last four decades. He has been considered a bit misanthropic in his songwriting which is sobering with regard to the visions of futurologists and philosophers to alleviate desperation of the masses. For instance, I am very sceptical about Elon Musk's plan to organise first flights around the Moon in 2018. Of course, I can principally agree with the statement we have entered into the dèbut de siècle of biotechnological human being within the virtual world which arguably allows us to cross the borders of territories we have not reached yet. I think it is not going to happen in the near future of a couple of decades. I think music is the best rocket to make it happen in our fantasies. And postmodernism is still the cultural magnetic field we are not able to abandon because of being a stripe in our DNA. For instance, one way is to step backwards to approach Now, the 9-notch outing by NOW. Being released on a cult imprint, Clinical Archives, it is a fine drift between different styles similarly to the Fall. More profoundly, one can partake by moving from synth-heavy space pop to minimal post-rock numbers to droning avant-pop terrains. With It is something about a crossroad of how to match the motorik impulse of krautrock with downbeat tendencies. It might remind of an early Stereolab at the time of recording and issuing Mars Audiac Quintet (for instance, at I4Me, and A Good Natured Serpent) and a new wave of krautrockers from cities of the Ruhr area in Germany in the 90s and the 00s. Through it one can hear the influences of an early Kraftwerk, and Neu! (it does not surprise at all, isn`t?). On the other hand, at Lonely Chair you can perceive the influences of bedroom and lo-fi and DIY aesthetic as well. All in all, it is a top notch by any means. The trio from the UK must have been an outstanding group because of having collaborated and shared the stage with such underground music juggernauts as Damo Suzuki, Faust, Circle, Tunng, Psapp, Rothko, Plaid, A Hawk And A Hacksaw among others.

3/04/2017

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.

3/03/2017

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.

3/01/2017

[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

2/28/2017

[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.

2/17/2017

[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.

2/16/2017

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.

2/15/2017

[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. .

2/14/2017

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.

2/13/2017

[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.

2/12/2017

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)

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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.

2/09/2017

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

Noisetrade

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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^thDecember. In fact, it would function at any time. At least the experience of mine proved it. And Jesus would like it.

2/08/2017

[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.

2/07/2017

[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

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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.