Recent Music Heroes

Comment: SISTERS is a project from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA whose 4-track issue is dedicated to Christy Canyon, a retired famous porn actress who had been involved in more than 100 adult motion pictures. I like the phrase "Heaven is Christy Canyon falling in love with me" from the song Heaven Is by English synth pop/art pop/post-punk collective Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. I hoped maybe the outing does have a thematic sequel but there is no issues dedicated to Monica Roccaforte, Simona Valli, Erika Bella, for instance. Love seems to be dead in classical sense and all is virtually stimulated and filled in with simulacra. And it is propagated by the mainstream TV. Musically it is a thick, and lo-fi experiment full of stomping witch house and mutant hip-hop and ominous trap rhythms. I will give it the positive valuation especially in those tracks wrapped up in lethargic, vaporous noises as if coming out from different media and thereof providing a shamanic effect on a listener. In truth, this issue strengthens the tradition of industrial music with regard to such famous cases as Cosey Fanny Tutti as being a porn actress and porn as a part of her performance art, Genesis P-Orridge (another member from Throbbing Gristle) as a transgender human being and artist, and Jhonn Balance, and Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (the core members of Coil) propagating a voluptuous (gay) sex through their music. The issue is a bit in the discography of Diabetic Koala.

[Teaser of the day] Accent Aigu - Mymindisviralismymindismad

Tape Safe

Drone
Drone pop
Organcore
Electronic music
Indietronica
Alternative

Artist: Accent Aigu

Release: Casse-tête Tricolore

Label: Tape Safe/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mirth Naarc - Geometry of Strings

Free Music Archive

Alternative
Avant-house
Breaks
Avant-garde
Crossover
Post-dubstep
Electronic music

Artist: Mirth Naarc

Release: FX

Label: Free Music Archive/Folksoundomy

Year: 2016

4/03/2017

C.J. Pizarro – Snow Crabs (2004)

Imaginary Albums

Electronic pop
Comedy
Urban music
Hip-hop
Rap
Indie pop

Comment: it happened quite recently when I discovered such a label as Imaginary Albums which in fact had been in action in the first half of the 00s. The roster of the imprint involves such artists as Corpus Callosum, The History and Civilization of the Great Black Swamp, Laura Palmer, Hubre, Procrustes, Blasting Trout Overbite, Cookie Jar, Santa Inferno, The Harvey Girls, Swain, Tiny Creatures (the artist also being known from the roster of the Israeli imprint Birdsong. Thanks to it I discovered Imaginary Albums), and C.J Pizarro. The two first tracks (Dark Black Semen, Going To Die) apparently mock the violent gangsta rap philosophy and culture gravitating towards sex, guns, and dope. Of course, the rest of the tracks (or at least the most of them) have been managed to focus on these themes but they abandon the apparent stereotypical approach though carrying on a tongue-in-cheek advance and involving black humour (for instance, at Look! I'm an Angel!). Frequently comedy aspects are intermingled with experimental pop elements. For instance, at Alpacas R Us the artist exploits repulsively desperate vowel effects and chants and a battle of sonic effects being counterpointed by sublime a cappella and soulful singing here and there, However, there are up some tracks which used to distance from rap/hip-hop music. For instance, the final track Heaven and Milk running in the vein of artsy indie pop by employing sliding sonic effects and twanging guitars and exuberant singing.

[Teaser of the day] The Vaselines - Slushy

Free Music Archive

Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Live session
Fuzz pop

Artist: The Vaselines

Release: Live at Primavera Sound Festival 5/28/2009

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Aairria - Between Then And Now (for Edgar Froese)

Kosmische Musik
Space music
Electronic music
Ambient
Avant-garde
Soundscape

Artist: Aairria

Release: Music For Xenology

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

4/02/2017

Ollie Cram – Firm (2016)

Bump Foot

Electronic pop
Alternative pop
Synth pop
Electro-indie
Poptronica
Indietronica
Mood music
Chilltronica

Comment: this instrumental set of 3 tracks while clocking in at a 10 minute used to provide a considerable appeal where one can hear sweet-natured synthesised developments being backed up by stomping mid-tempo cadences. The favourite of mine are Lena`s Flag, and Rust where the listener can partake in catchy indie-influenced harmonic gears, glaring timbres, and ebullient rhythmic shuffles (alternatively, one could call it kraut-electro). At Rust those synthesised improvisations are impressive enough to be denoted separately. However, Huh is a solid track by any means as well though paving its way with a more laid-back attitude and a tranquil mood because of being subjugated to a controlled rhythmic algorithm. All the elements are seamlessly linked with one another and thereof consisting of a welcome whole. However, the aforementioned moody difference between the tracks is slight. This positive issue by the experienced Bristol, UK-based artist (being active since the first half of the 00s) is a bit in the discography of Bump Foot.

[Teaser of the day] H Stewart - Track 2 Mister July

Folksoundomy: Music and Music Albums

Singer-songwriter
Avant-pop
Ambient
Electro-acoustic
Art pop
Post-classical
Electronic
Americana
Experimental pop

Artist: H Stewart

Release: Parker Square

Label: Folksoundomy: Music and Music Albums

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Take Pills Die - Shirts Off Dudes On 3

Take Pills Die

Electro
Alternative dance
Electronic music
Post-disco
Electro pop
Robot pop

Artist: Take Pills Die

Release: 07.07.07 JESUS SLAVES

Label: Take Pills Die

Year: 2007

The Woozy Speakers – Nonlinearities (2011)

Bandcamp

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Garage rock
Noise pop

Comment: The Woozy Speakers is a combo from Massachusetts, USA and they play mostly booming guitar music though apologizing that some tracks from with n the 10-track issue are out of tune and may not be in-time. Maybe it is so, maybe it is not exactly that way but the most important aspect is that the result makes very sense because the flow of fair noise rock is constant and coherent pouring out of much energy and power from the loudspeakers. Additionally, one of the strengths of the issue is related to emotive side as well. For instance, Medicine is a fine love song with sublime profound echoes and an emotive blanket. At Walt The Hound Dog they (ironically) sing that “country music is in my blood” but one can hear certain influences coming from the East coast indie scene (The Pixies, and Dinosaur Jr.), and Scottish indie popsters such as The Vaselines, The Primitives, and The Pastels, and even some vibes of an early My Bloody Valentine (especially at If You Were You). Musically it is a quite linear alternative pop example but it is focused on a certain style and exploiting different penumbras to amplify the final result. And it fulfils a listener.

4/01/2017

[Teaser of the day] Syndrome WPW - Heartwork

Electronic music
Alternative dance
Post-dub
Electro pop
Post-reggae
Digital hardcore
Alternative

Artist: Syndrome WPW

Release: 1970 American Gospel: 5 songs

Label: Midinette

Year. 2017

[Teaser of the day] Pulso - Caneta Sem Tinta

Hip-hop
Rap
Sampledelic
Urban music

Artist: Pulso

Release: Gillettes, Papéis e Outros Objectos Cortantes

Label: Monster Jinx

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] The Bordellos - Autumn Grey

Alternative pop/rock
Indie pop/rock
Sadcore
Dream pop

Artist: The Bordellos

Release: The Bordello underground tape vol 5

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Linear Bells - To The Moon

Glitchtronica
Epic
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Post-classical
Ambient
Leftfield

Artist: Linear Bells

Release: The Stars Will Shine

Label: Soft

Year: 2014

Mjatnaya Lovushka – Mjatnaya Lovushka (2015)

101.io

Space pop
Lo-fi
DIY
Alternative
Indie
Electronic
Post-punk
Psychedelic
Avant-pop
Minimal synth

Comment: by listening to this 11-notch outing it reminds me of those times when I was listening to Devendra Banhart (it probably happened in the second half of 2003), and Ariel Pink (it was probably up in the beginning of 2005). It does not mean that Mjatnaya Lovushka, and Ariel Pink are stylistically very similar but it is all about do-it-yourself attitude, about home recording, about self-esteem to create something special and distinguishing (even if it is partly rehashed and borrowed from obscure, forgotten traditions of the underground music scene. In fact, we have no chance to exceed previously established cultural layers beneath and around us). The whole starts off at Melting Light Among Leaves with a soaring riff-o-rama being accompanied by clumsy stomping beats at the bottom and dreamy synthesisers and singing atop. While I was producing the sound of Autharktos I sometimes liked to exploit one of such a prepared rhythm on my synthesiser Casio Tonebank Sa-1 with intent to slightly modulate and change its initial pace. Later tracks, however, will reveal the artist`s more introverted nature even he likes to use hirsute guitar sounds and employ minimal and monotonous yet predominant post-punk/and minimal synth tinged drumming. It is because the Kosmische Musik/cosmic synth induced aspect is strongly presented within it. His soundscape is sometimes wrapped up in enchanting hisses to provide an additional value to the soundscape. You can find out many gems from within it (Komari, Melting Light Among Leaves, Drawings, Pink Flakes, Poison In Your Bag) but the whole is devoid of fillers and weak compositions. This spellbinding issue is a bit in the discography of Cologne, Germany-based imprint 101.io.

Nieva Sobre Dioses – Ecos de Otros Mundos Sospechad (2008)

Gorriòn de Miga

Electronic music
Kosmische Musik
Alternative
Synthwave
Darkwave
Industrial electro

Comment: these 46 minutes are up there to disclose a stunning issue based on masterful synth-based works filled in with poignant rhythmic turns, sublime harmonic progressions while being saturated with murky timbres. As the result it seems to be enduring and majestic because all these 6 compositions seem to be seamlessly followed by one another. However, it does not mean at all it lacks enough elements to be intriguing and thought-provoking. Musically it could be tagged as an instance of synthwave and Kosmische Musik while being baptized by a dark ambient/darkwave priest. It chimes like a living, autarkic universe of whom breathing can be perceived in all directions of the universe. Emotionally one can discern slightly repulsive loneliness/nothingness being subordinated by immanent mastery. This universe is embraced by another universe called Gorriòn de Miga Records.

3/30/2017

J. Oskura Nájera – Phil Spectrum (2016)

NYAPSTER

Dada pop
Electronic pop
Leftfield
Dance pop
New Wave
Synth pop
Art pop
Neoclassical
Avant-pop
Alternative dance
Surf pop

Comment: this 12-notch issue clocking in at a 27-minute only is a witty comment on electronic pop music. It involves a loads of “obligatory” styles as synth pop, (electronic) dance pop yet there are represented more post-punk/rock/New Wave-tinged numbers as well. In truth, the styles are not represented in pure format. Furthermore, the artist is inclined to find out supportive points from darkened/neoclassical electronic music, uncanny cabaret and art pop styles. In such a track as La niebla acecha BSO one can draw parallels upon the likes of Messer Chups/and Messer Für Frau Müller, and Man or Astro-man? because those ghostly synthesised high frequencies and sheer electronic effects and surf pop-based elements (especially at torbellino de ostias 02) are intermingled with a tongue-in-cheek attitude. The latter fact of the last mentioned sentence can be admitted about The Facts In The Case Of The Hypnocoin BSO because the frantic first half of the track on synthesisers is merely followed by austere bleeps in the second part. Indeed, music is united with the manifestation of nothingness though all the impression comes into a mind-provoking substance. Indeed, it could be said some seeds of dada pop are represented over there. The issue is a part of the discography of Barcelona, Catalonia-based imprint NYAPSTER. Fairly fine.

3/29/2017

[Teaser of the day] Aitänna 77 - September`s Coming

MoonSwing

Folktronica
Lo-fi
Alternative
DIY
Glo-fi
Chillwave
Electronic

Artist: Aitänna 77

Release: L`avventura EP

Label: MoonSwing/Cratediggers

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Wes Leslie - May Day (Union Song)

Soul
Indie pop
Alternative pop
Americana
Singer-songwriter
Indie soul

Artist: Wes Leslie

Release: Bedroom Soul

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Miseryslims – EP.1 (2017)

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Fuzz pop
Jangle pop

Comment: Miseryslims is a trio from Manitoba, Canada who plays a simple yet sensitive sort of rock music on their debut outing. It is based on fairly chiming guitars and expressive male vocal to express sublime longing and slightly changing moods throughout the tracks. One may find out an additional value from the fact that this 4-track outing was recorded in a cabin somewhere nearby a shallow swamp lake. Indeed, the guitars still have power to be a predominant bottom within the indie music scene. The favourite track of mine is Cloth Deity. Very nice success indeed.

3/28/2017

[Teaser of the day] Sobaki Kachalova - Cvety do Utra

Clinical Archives

Post-punk
Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Jangle pop

Artist: Sobaki Kachalova

Release: Gryazniye Botinki

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Heezen - Fractura

12rec.

Glitchtronica
Post-rock
Avant-rock
Electronic music
Folktronica
Avant-folk
Crossover
Post-folk
Experimental rock
Electro-acoustic
Alternative

Artist: Heezen

Release: Secret Speech

Label: 12rec.

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Nonima - Schesis

Experimental electronica
Electronic music
Ambient
Musique concrète
Micronoise
Abstract

Artist: Nonima

Release: Recur

Label: Section 27

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Antoni Robert - Train Piece #4 (Fab Four Piece)

Hazard

Abstract
Field recording
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Musique concrète
Conceptual
Minimalism
Glitchtronica
Experimental electronica

Artist: Antoni Robert

Release: Train Pieces (Final Mix)

Label: Hazard

Year: 2016

Wings Of An Angel – Eccentric Addictions (2017)

Bandcamp

Drone
Avant-garde
Minimalism
Electronic music
Epic
Modern classical
Experimentalism
Post-classical
Dreamwave

Comment: I can only agree with the statement that Wings Of An Angel`s 80-minute long issue is something very eccentric and addictive. You shall have to take time to get into this endless, tremendous drone of being provided with slightly varied tones and lysergic penumbras which eventually progress into truly epic and fascinating. I cannot be without the aforementioned adjectives because other words may sound way too faint to express the impact of a subsequent album by the Israeli musician. It sounds as if a tremendous current getting by and a the same time seducing a listener with its soothing vibes and silky timbres. Oh yeah, it is a great success by a very prolific artist who knows how to maintain the quality regardless. I am going to add it to the list of the best albums in 2017.

3/27/2017

[Teaser of the day] Cannaya - Raumfaltung

Post-industrial
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Industrial electro
Leftfield
Experimental electronica

Artist: Cannaya

Release: Klangwerk

Label: Format Noise

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Tom Fahy - Maude

Cratediggers

Post-classical
Art music
Avant-garde
Film noir
Alternative
Chamber music

Artist: Tom Fahy

Release: Montauk

Label: Cratediggers

Year: 2001

The Gifted Children – Open Windows (2009)

The Gifted Children
Bandcamp

Indie pop
Alternative pop
Art pop
Noise pop
Chamber pop
Epic
Electronic
Jangle pop
Americana
Baroque pop

Comment: it seems the only shortage of this 7-track outing is related to its shortness. It chimes as if there were represented one track only though the track with different facets and magnetic fields. From lofty chamber pop glimpses and luminous Americana induced developments to catchy jangle pop instances to a more tumultuous noise pop explosion (Here Comes The Flood) and dreamy piano driven numbers to a sublime, restrained electronic instance (Niblick). But it is not an instance of indie by numbers. It is a dynamic drift between the different genres and because of that many the so-called indie groups do have much to learn from it. It might be by using the word "indie" for that it is a pejorative case. It is highly sympathetic of how the soundscape of these songs used to soar and reach fairly blissful points eventually (for instance, at A Forest). Top notch by any means by the Rochester, NY, US-based combo. Give your valuable time to listen to it.

3/26/2017

[Teaser of the day] The Freak Fandango Orchestra - Boogich Bulgar

Free Music Archive

Ethno punk
Balkan music
Brass pop
Punk rock
World music
Gypsy music

Artist: The Freak Fandango Orchestra

Release: Wild Goats and Useless Heroes

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp/Jamendo

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Death Grips - Runway H

Third Worlds

Electronic music
Alternative
Leftfield
Industrial-hop
Avant-hop
Experimental hip-hop
Urban music
Instrumental hip-hop

Artist: Death Grips

Release: Fashion Week

Label: Third Worlds

Year: 2015

Noise Machine – Disturbing Sensitive Ears (2013)

DreamNoise

Noise
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Non-music
Leftfield
Psychoacoustic

Comment: undoubtedly the relations between music and noise is a topic on its own. Firstly, how it should be categorised, is it a part of music or a deviation from it? One of the first noiseniks were Italians and they created their soundscapes to protest against the war and atrocities which ravaged Europe despite the lofty ideas and profound thought being predominant in science and philosophy in the first two decades. Noise music as a composed art of powerful, devastating sounds was an incisive sign reflecting on decayed and collapsed ideas regarding humanity. The Brazilian Noise Machine as a project started off in the mid-90s to create overwhelming soundscapes providing no mercy and grace. This 4-track outing is a mind-blowing ravage based on brownish noises, "erroneous" frequencies being thrown over the four soundscapes. Indeed, a listener is the subject to partake from these "errors" as a musical component. At times one can suspect is it alright with his/her stereo system or headphones. Is it a terrible mess for you? I really hope you will not perceive it in that way because of not being that shit altogether. Although it is not easy ride at all one can figure out many intriguing sounds, hisses, effects and eventually a whole behind it. It plays tricks on your sacred mind. The outing is a part of the discography of DreamNoise imprint.

3/25/2017

[Teaser of the day] The Shining Men - The Cretan Way of Life

Jamendo

Alternative
Electro pop
Minimal electro
Tech-electro
Alternative dance

Artist: The Shining Men

Release: Mediterrean Explorations EP

Label: 17Sons/Bandcamp

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Norton - Pleased To Get Home (And Me Remix)

Aerotone

Indietronica
Acid pop
Electro-indie
Remix
Electronic
Alternative
Indie pop

Artist: Norton

Release: Kersche Remixed

Label: Aerotone/Free Music Archive

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] S'ur - Paradise

Clinical Archives

Art rock
Alternative rock
Musique concrète

Artist: S`ur

Release: Quadro EP

Label: Clinical Archives/afmusic

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Djokovic - Caligula

Alternative pop
Indie pop
Nugaze
Glo-fi
Dream pop

Artist: Djokovic

Release: Pady/Caligula EP

Label: Beko DSL

Year: 2017

3/24/2017

Junya Nishimura – Vitality In The Blank (2016)

Totokoko

Modern classical
Minimalism
Avant-garde
Post-classical
Piano music
Improvised music
Mood music

Comment: I am glad to be back by choosing out from the discography of a Japanese imprint, Totokoko. This set of 16 tracks is a simplistic one by its format and accomplishment because of consisting of sparse and silent piano chords. It chimes like it would have been played by a lone piano player in the corner being depressed for a while but yet ready to come out from that mentally deranged hole. Indeed, you can hear silver lines and waking mood on the album especially when the artist employs faster chords in his playing. Furthermore, despite being simplistic by its format and outer shape its inner qualities are superiorly arousing and suggestive full of invisible touch and intangible magic. It reminds of the simplicity of the music of Steve Reich, and Philip Glass but it is in that way at the first glance. Less is more in that context because Junya Nishimura can handle the lonely chords in an improvisational manner. By kindred souls I recommend listen to such artists as Lubomyr Melnyk, Oskar Hallbert, Nils Frahm, Bosque De Mi Mente, Ólafur Arnalds, Jacaszek, Max Richter.

Monkey Warhol – EP3 (2016)

Bandcamp

Electro pop
Alternative dance
Electronic pop
Alternative pop

Comment: Monkey Warhol is an artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA who have released 4 EPs so far. If to cite the electro-catchy ditty Desperate Measures “the rhythm is your mysteries” and it says all in fact. All these 5 tracks clocking in at a 12 minute is a lush rhythmic Moloch full of propulsive electro beats and iterative phrases of word. I guess Andy Warhol would like that because of music and because of the history (in fact, the legend behind it) of Monkey Warhol used to deface other historical facts either. For instance, the artist was inspired by Bob Dylan’s loud and abrasive Metal Machine Music. Additionally the artist must be quite old because he (or she) was born in late-1800s. And of course, Monkey Warhol partly hijacked the identity of Andy Warhol which has been a practice by the counterculture for a while to employ the symbols of the mainstream economic-driven culture and then deface and ridicule them. Yet it is a new level because Andy Warhol was a prominent figure within the counterculture. Never mind, the outing is a top tier.

Infraaudio - Prana (2016)

Sinewave

Bigorna Discos

Alternative rock
Screamo
Epic
Emo

Comment: in fact, it is hard to describe this couple of tracks being a part of the discography of Sinewave, a Brazilian imprint. It might be it is the firm sound of the label because it used to drift somewhere between some styles of metal, straightforward alternative rock and massive post-rock. Its content is elegantly slamming and flowing at the same time being accentuated with Portuguese singing. By listening to Antena it can be said it is overflowed with emotions yet not being cheesy and annoying. It is massive yet not being lame. It is like a fine spectacle of rolling guitar torrents and desperate manhood. That's is a way to depict the world around us. And a listener can perceive warmth pouring out of it. Additionally to Sinewave, it is also a bit in the discography of another Brazilian imprint, Bigorna Discos.

3/22/2017

[Teaser of the day] Soul Bliss Productions - If Only We Tried

Tachyon

Electronic pop
Chilltronica
Easy listening
Synthpop
Alternative pop
Mood music

Artist: Soul Bliss Productions

Release: The Sun In A Vial (EP)

Label: Tachyon

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Dubrajah - Chitwan

Dub
Reggae
Alternative
Crossover

Artist: Dubrajah

Release: Reprise

Label: Dub-O-Phonic/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Servant Girl Annihilator - Cemetery Sojourn

Torn Flesh

Death metal
Deathgrind
Grindcore
Brutal metal

Artist: Servant Girl Annihilator

Release: Enemies Ov God

Label: Torn Flesh/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Slo-Blo - UtAL02

Crna Zemlja

Experimentalism
Avant-garde
Noise
Electro-acoustic
Abstract
Leftfield
Post-industrial

Artist: Slo-Blo

Release: Unknown Time And Locations :

Label: Crna Zemlja/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

The Hathaway Family Plot – Mechanics In The Age Of Artistic Reproduction (2017)

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

Avant-garde
No Wave
Art pop
Noise
Experimentalism
Experimental pop
Freeformfreakout
Post-industrial
Drone pop
Improvised music
Avant-pop

Comment: it is not surprise at all I have been fascinated with the aesthetics of The Hathaway Family Plot for a while because every step by a Buffalo, US-based artist called Kevin McFadden is worth to be parsed and thought off. It is interesting and intriguing. In comparison to his previous albums he used to incorporate new elements and axial aspects to the mix and making it in the way to change the paradigm being set out by him previously. The current 14-notch issue is overwhelmed by stomping noises, designed deranged noise sculptures (Dymaxion; Not Gonna Leave), gentle yet uncanny improvisations of having neither time nor space and some mutilated vocal lines and if to compare it to the artist previous issue Having No Alternative it is more inclined to be a successor of No Wave music and the aesthetic of beatniks. Its purpose is to to be set free from oppressive conventions and annoying traditions being an effect of a society of having no future and certain plan to transcend recent economic and survival understanding. At least it seems so while Kevin McFadden likes to manipulate with it and finally destroy it by deconstructing it into something new and challenging. Indeed, one part of the whole it is made up of thought-provoking sounds but the rest of it reveals a huge emotional impact on one's weary sensations and resigned soul. It can be concluded it is ultimately a positive plan to be set out for the sake of all of us. Indeed, by listening to the whole I can imagine it as if a sonic counterpoint of a beatnik text being converted into. But it does not mean the artist dislikes silent moments. For instance, Elegy for Thomas Kincaid The Younger (1661-1726) is a sublime number of a droning organ and a dense harmonica (?). However, The Locks reminds of the art of Robert Wyatt. In general, Mechanics In The Age Of Artistic Reproduction is a fine outing which is a chapter along the path paved by Kevin McFadden. Alarms are up there everywhere but we need more and more surprises to cope with them. Digital simulacra and the simulacra of real life are just nugatory objects to deceive himself/herself thoroughly. It is not the solution at all.

3/21/2017

Vincent Casanova – Cosmic Bikini EP (2005)

Epsilonlab

House
Tech-house
Club dance
Electronic music
Electro house

Comment: first of all, it is quite annoying to review house and club music related issues because those ones are quite orthodox by its nature except if a style is still in the beginning of its formation. For example, Vincent Casanova's 4-notch outing is a strong statement through electro house and tech-house pathways. All the mandatory elements which make music loveable are nicely represented over there - catchy rhythms, iterative rhythmic patterns, hovering synthesisers atop. At times you will forget yourself in the midst of those trance-inducing gaits. What else to add? I like the title. Even more I would like to know who is supposed to wear the cloth? The outing is a bit in the discography of Montrèal-based imprint Epsilonlab. Solid work.

3/20/2017

[Teaser of the day] Franq - Modern Rites

Zimmer-Records

Electronic pop
Italo disco
Electro pop
Electro-disco
Alternative dance

Artist: Franq

Release: Anxious States EP

Label: Zimmer-Records

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] M-Pex - Varmiton

Enoughrecords

Post-rock
Post-classical
Experimental rock
Chamber music
Crossover
Avant-rock
Electro-acoustic

Artist: M-Pex

Release: Carinae

Label: Enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] HS - $HELL

Tape Safe

Kosmische Musik
Electronic music
Cosmic synth
Synthwave
Cosmic fusion
Ambient pop
Alternative

Artist: HS

Release: DARKSHINIZER (Sylphides/HS)

Label: Tape Safe

Year: 2016

[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

3/19/2017

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.

3/18/2017

[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.

3/17/2017

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.

3/15/2017

[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

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