[Teaser of the day] Earthborn Visions - String Theory

Petroglyph

• Drone
• Microsound
• Ambient drone
• Avant-garde
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism

Artist: Earthborn Visions

Release: Nuclear Folklore

Label: Petroglyph Music

Year: 2017

Fuellsand – The Days Are Just Packed (2004)

12rec.

Swift Music

• Indietronica 
• Improvised music 
• Indie pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Musique concrète 
• Cowbell indie 
• Electronic music 
• Hip-hop 
• Krautrock

Comment: if your days are packed then your task is just to unzip them. It does mean that if you are finishing off your any day you can say that you have added (much) more good in comparison to the previous one. For instance, clean up your room, listen to music, make some comments about it and thereof promote other people's music, read the books and think of it, do not pollute the environment, take care of other people, make good job in overall. And of course, take care of yourself. By listening to Fuellsand it can be said the members of it did unzip some new perspectives in indie music. Lo-fi progressions with a guitar and improvisations on a rusty keyboard are accompanied by field recordings, sonic effects, off-kilter orchestrations, hip-hop chants and scratches. At My Algorithmic Arkestra one can hear something that makes difference even in the band's own terms by sounding as if a swarm of digitized bees. The following piece The Approaching Siren (Reprise) reveals their compelling inclination towards krautrock and Miles-esque jazz. The self-titled track pays tribute to Kraftwerk which is backed up by some hip-hop glimpses. The bond between the aforementioned group, and the style is symbolic while it is a well-known fact that early US hip-hop musicians of African descent would find one of their anchors from the music of the legendary Düsseldorf group. This nice playful issue is a part of the discography of 12 rec., and Swift Music

The Sway - Worthy

[Teaser of the day] OldBoy - Jack`s Luck Runs Out

Death Roots Syndicate

• Folk noir
• Country noir
• Folk
• Goth country
• Art folk

Artist: OldBoy

Release: OldBoy Of The Fens

Label: Death Roots Syndicate/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Frank Baker - Return To The Oratory

• Avant-garde
• Post-industrial
• Abstract
• Minimalism
• Drone
• Acousmatic music
• Experimentalism
• Sound art
• Electronic music

Artist: Frank Baker

Release: VOID - Research On Sound Architecture. I: Autumn Echoes

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Nrthrn - Forget

• Post-rock
• Epic
• Chamber rock
• Art rock

Artist: Nrthrn

Release: Forget Everything

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2016

Sarah Rasines – Tommy Hilfiger (2016)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Free Music Archive

• Experimentalism 
• Musique concrète 
• Avant-garde 
• Electronic music 
• Glitchtronica 
• Micronoise 
• Improvised music 
• Abstract 
• Avant-electronica

Comment: there are some characteristics which used to leap to the eye (ear). The issue is a very short tenure of 5 compositions clocking in at a 10 minute. Secondly, some compositions are very disparate ranging from field recording samples and glitched-out minimal electronic gaits and the manipulations of a short wave radio to folksy, homespun accordion glimpses. The issue is created by a visual and sound artist from Bilbao, the Basque Country. Sarah Rasines has been an active woman of performing in different venues and galleries across Spain during the last five years. The Basque accordion trikitixa represented on polka and canción popular is played by Òscar Ortiz Guemez. This mind-provoking outing is recorded in Bilbao, and in Hämeenkyrö, Finland by using a PC, a mixing desk, and a recorder. It is pleasant to follow of how the issue is adeptly equilibrated between natural and synthesised sounds. And what about the short waves of a radio to be manipulated for? The issue is a bit in the discography of Chicago, US-based imprint Pan Y Rosas Discos.

DMH – New Blood For All (2015)

Tape Safe

• Ambient noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Epic 
• Leftfield 
• Shoegaze 
• Post-industrial 
• Ambient rock

Comment: if somebody does know or suspect how I used to choose albums for my blog than it will happen truly randomly. I have no methodology to choose from within the bunch of releases waiting to be commented. Last albums I have reviewed I have used the terms “avant-garde”, “experimentalism”, “leftfield”, “post-industrial” steadfastly for them. It is quite annoying to speak these words from one review to another but in the world of the web albums these seem to be prevalent labels. It is just to mention it for the sake of truth. In fact, the net label-based world is a perfect world having no main drive and intention toward money and revealing a human being`s intention to set himself/herself free and experiment with sounds in his/her free, natural state. This 3-notch issue starts off with bass frequencies to progress into a resonant span of wobbly electronic effects to progress into the main narrative – into a massively resonant noise template which at the time also striving to more higher, even majestic perspectives in format and concept. More masculine elements used to vary with feminine sonic aspects, from more powerful investigations to more light developments. At the beginning at Demo 18 one can hear the inclination toward atmospheric guitar/shoegaze world. It can be concluded it will ultimately establish a decent whole for pleasure of all of us because of not employing oppressive (harsh) noises to kill other aesthetical seeds and twigs around it. The issue is a solid bit in the roster of Tape Safe.

[Teaser of the day] Simper - Meteorfall

• Art pop
• Dream pop
• Avant-pop
• Experimental pop
• Noir pop
• Singer-songwriter
• Slowcore
• Americana
• Alternative

Artist: Simper

Release: REMORIES

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Cialyn - Uncanny Valley

• Synthwave
• Electronic music
• Deep house
• IDM
• Alternative

Artist: Cialyn

Release: Off Season

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Pocka - In Montevideo In 1897

Camomille

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Dark ambient
• Drone
• Leftfield
• Ambient drone
• Acousmatic music

Artist: Pocka

Release: A Heartsick Lovesong

Label: Camomille

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Bouwakanja - Monocosmic

Section 27

• Avant-garde
• Alternative dance
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-electronica
• Breaks
• World fusion
• Ethnotronica

Artist: Bouwakanja

Release: Monocosmic Force

Label: Section 27

Year: 2012

Buben - Glimmer (2007)

Clinical Archives

• Post-industrial 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Illbient 
• Electronic music 
• Ambient drone 
• Noise music 
• Leftfield 
• Drone 
• Abstract 
• Experimental electronica

Comment: a Belarusian, Vladislav Buben, is a person whose main goal has been - at least it seems so - to promote (underground) music to the backbone. He has been a prolific artist of having released more than 100 issues so far, also has run a radio show with intent to shed light upon avant-garde and experimental music. His tenures have been under a bunch of imprints, involving a cult Moscow-based experimental music imprint, Clinical Archives among others. Glimmer was issued approximately 10 years ago and for me, the characteristic of this 4-track issue represents one of the facets of the record label (especially with regard to experimental/electronic/non-rock music). It is a decent outing because those slightly oppressive sonic details are set up in the way to provide air and space between them. Buben likes to play different distances by sampling the chugging of a train at the distance, by sampling and then producing barely distorted conversations of politicians (Mr. Lukashenka?, Mr. Putin?). He employs intriguing drumming and greyish shades and monochromatic delays going on and on. It could be very interesting to convert all these sonic effects and relations between the sounds into a visual kaleidoscope. If I had it this would be a favourite plaything of mine. Great success by any means.  

Oh Well, Goodbye – Aquiescence (2016)

Bleeding Gold
Hail Hail

• Post-punk
• Shoegaze 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Dream pop

Comment: there are up some sounds within the indie music scene that will never go out. One of such sounds is a shimmery, reverberating slightly darkened guitar sound which was introduced by such bands as The Chameleons, Joy Division, Durutti Column, Cocteau Twins which later strongly influenced bands within the shoegaze scene. Oh Well, Goodbye shows us the limits of this sort of music are still up there to get expanded further. Those soothing guitar landscapes are accompanied by sublime synthesised progressions and mellow drumming. A sonic heaven is surrounded by another heaven etc. And so it goes on and on. And finally it will be out to start again and again. Even if the limits would be reached it is about reaching something universal and true. It makes me somehow laugh by thinking of it as a decelerated version of jangle pop. It is about credibility and being trustworthy (about something having always had positive impact). In fact, the rumours about the death of guitar-based indie music are strongly exaggerated. By contemporary kindred souls I recommend listen to Russian combo Motorama. This great set of 6 compositions is a joint release by such imprints as Bleeding Gold, and Hail Hail. Certainly one of the most outstanding moments in 2016.

BVBEL – // (2015)

Sirona-Records

Bandcamp

• Chopped and Screwed 
• Experimental hip-hop 
• Vaporwave 
• Hip-hop 
• Sampledelic 
• Witch house 
• Leftfield 
• Avant-hop

Comment: these 17 minutes are obviously first vaporwave and witch house vibes and moods ever personally heard on Sirona-Records, a French record label with immense catalogue. BVBEL is a producer from Belgium who in turn owns the huge list of outings at Bandcamp (16 releases in total). Lurking, bold-faced rhythms and greyish noir milieus are predominant on it being adorned with sheer samples as if narrating about blackened themes and grime situations. I guess the sun glimpses and friendly laughing are not supposed to be out there. In a word, it is a solid listening span being craftily balanced between the content and format. This is what we suppose to get from an instance of outstanding music. 

TimHeld – EICV7'' No. 98 (2015)

EverythingIsChemical

• Techno 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Experimental techno 
• Abstract techno 
• Experimental electronica

Comment: by analysing this handful of tracks while watching the cover print of this of depicting the lamp of a nightstand it can be said in that situation you can see many minutiae being otherwise hidden for us. Is there anything being hidden to our ears? Indeed, the outing needs more listening times allowing us to understand it to be a bit more than just a techno album. Indeed, it involves iterative rhythms and enchanting loops to introduce more experimental and abstract segments into it. One can even hear corrosive debris and metallic faintness looping atop and beneath. Furthermore, it is a fine example of how machine-induced applications and more organic sonic details are seamlessly mixed up with each other. In fact, the latter element is subjugated to the first one. The result is a part of the discography of EverythingIsChemical.

[Teaser of the day] Bloom - Eighteen Fifteen;

• Screamo
• Post-hardcore
• Emo
• Alternative rock/metal

Artist: Bloom

Release: Seasons of Doubt

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Kamuran Ebeoglu - Dream

Jamendo

• Electronic music
• Mood music
• New Age
• Kitsch pop
• Synth pop
• Easy listening

Artist: Kamuran Ebeoglu

Release: Mosaic Album

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2008

[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. 

[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.

[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.

[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). 

[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.

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.

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