Recent Music Heroes

Comment: it is way too problematic to tag this album of 4 compositions because of involving way too a little and on the other side much unusual and not quite daily sounds. It was recorded at home employing Audacity and the instruments were a kalimba, one rain stick, and a storm imitator with some delay effects. Given that kalimba can be categorized as an instrument in the ethnic music world and its use in the popular music is quite limited the recent outing can be pigeonholed both in the compartments of experimental/avant-garde, and ethnic music. Moreover, one can discern very closeness to the nature as if being played under the sunny (or cloudy – it does not make difference though) sky somewhere nearby the forest. In fact, the title suggests it. The elemental touch can always be welcomed. The result is simple, pure, and even divine. The nature has been a topic for the artist because some days after the release of this issue he issued another similar album Oceans & Waves. The issue is a part of the discography of Rejected Netlabel.

4/25/2017

Dadala – It So Happens (2016)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Free Music Archive

Dadala

Free jazz
Electro-acoustic
Improvised music
Avant-garde
Ambient
Electronic music
Experimentalism

Comment: I guess it happened sometime in the end of the 00s when I first made acquaintance with the music of Dadala it happened probably via lastfm. The last years and last albums by Dadala are related to Pan y Rosas Discos, an imprint from Chicago, Illinois, USA whose intention is to promote improvised and jazz-related music. Because of that description it can be said the virtual combo (or long-distance combo or not in real time recording combo) has found a proper output for their issues. Richard Dunlap has been the propulsive force behind it who has been involved in recording music since the mid-80s. However, it is not absolutely correct to describe the combo as jazz because its music involves so many facets and styles – more profoundly, at It So Happens from electro-acoustic minimal approach, anti-gravitational and spaced-out improvisation snippets and tickling electronic effects to more tumultuous appearances and compelling progressions; it is an album wherein the compartments are not distinctly separated from each other but incessantly searching for having joint points between them. Very right issue indeed. By the way, one month ago the artist issued another album called The Executive Suite under the record label.

4/23/2017

[Teaser of the day] Masaya Sasaki - Motion8

MinusN

Poptronica
Electronic pop
Post-disco
Ambient pop
Electro-acoustic
Alternative

Artist: Masaya Sasaki

Release: Picnic Plan EP

Label: MinusN

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Sunshower Orphans - Jolly Reapers

Nugaze
Shoegaze
Alternative pop/rock
Fuzz pop
Dream pop
Indie pop/rock

Artist: Sunshower Orphans

Release: Zephyr [EP]

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Tardiss - Smoothie`s Loop

Free Music Archive

IDM
Ambient pop
Indietronica
Ambient techno
Alternative
Electronic

Artist: Tardiss

Release: Mold and Moisture

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2014

4/22/2017

I/DEX – Vapour (2015)

Bandcamp

Experimental electronica
Glitchtronica
Ambient techno
Kosmische Musik
Space music
Ambient

Comment: this is not the first entry by the Belarusian artist Vitali Harmash aka I/DEX at Recent Music Heroes because a little bit more than 5 years ago I did comments on his great issue Tetrapolar being reissued by Foundamental in 2009. Additionally, I have reviewed an album called Golem (2013, Foundamental) under his own name but it is a little bit different case. Similarly to Tetrapolar Vitali Harmash likes to straddle on borders of volatile ambient, dreamy electronic progressions, silent techno drumming and otherworldly still life. But is does not mean it is only a tamed flow – at Glacier the artist employs outstretched guitar riffs within a glitched-out galaxy as if an alien flying unhurriedly through it. It contains just three compositions (Coral, Glacier, Aurora) clocking in at a 12 minute. It is a pleasant instance of spiritualised experimental electronic music full of imaginable and real creatures who are exploring blissful spherical terrains and the fading of time. Just go out with headphones at a nocturnal hour to glare at the stars and it might be you will see a lonely spaceship over there.

girlsNames – Energy For Genocide (2014)

Torn Flesh

Bandcamp

Cybergrind
Grindcore
DIY
Lo-fi
Death metal
Trash metal
Brutal metal

Comment: The Toronto, Ontario,Canada-based girlsNames` 11-track issue is a proper issue of grindcore-related music because of having the end at a 11-minute. Indeed, it is an example of grindcore and involving also death metal and trash metal elements though flirting with rusty electronic sounds and rigid programmed drums shamelessly. And those spoken word samples are to provide more creepy atmosphere to the mix and female voices to add unconventionally angriness to the melting pot. At times those samples are to predominate over slightly deformed song structures and broken volume stability as if the artist does give a heck. However, if either this point is the case or not it is not important though because such a sort of attitude is somehow appealing with regard to this style and approach. Let`s call it lo-fi/DIY grindcore. Bedroom grind? Party Up A Red Cup is an example of deranged madness and that makes really sense. At Bandcamp there represented about 40 albums by the artist. The issue is a part of the discography of Torn Flesh Records.

[Teaser of the day] Amitron_7 - Everything Is Orange Now

Free Music Archive

Indietronica
Chilltronica
Avant-pop
Ambient pop
Sampledelic
Art pop
Experimental pop
Alternative
Mood music
Post-pop

Artist: Amitron_7

Release: Try For Next Stage Free

Label: Enoughrecords/Jamendo/Archive.org

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Leonard J. Paul - Monster Funk

Kikapu

Sampledelic
Hauntology
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Leftfield
Film noir
Breaks
Alternative
Oldie music

Artist: Leonard J. Paul

Release: The Corporation Soundtrack

Label: Kikapu

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Robot Speaker - Honymoon Life

Breaks
Trip-hop
Alternative
Cinematic
Sampledelic
Easy listening
Electronic pop
Mood music

Artist: Robot Speaker

Release: EICV7" No. 109

Label: EverythingIsChemical

Year: 2015

Drehkommando – Namenlose Welt (2016)

Der Kleine Grüne Würfel

Techno
Kraut-techno
Minimal techno
Alternative dance
Motorik
Funk
Electronic

Comment: give in to lust, give up to lust, oh heaven knows we`ll soon be dust. It is an excellent phrase of an excellent song of the best musical group to have ever existed and very probably which come to exist in this way in the future either because of a very sublime interaction between music and lyrics. The song is about a voluptuous woman and the firmness of mind of a man though the same words and the intention of it can be transmitted to this set of 5 compositions by Drehkommando whose music used to balance between body and mind, between sexual desires and spiritual strength. More profoundly, it is a delicate vibe between minimal techno rhythms and fine female vocals (by Doris Mücke who sings in German) as if being a part of the laboratories of such labels as Perlon, Kompakt, and of course the Detroit techno scene. In a more indirect way one can hear krautrock influences. For instance, at somehow resigned Die verzauberte Maschine wherein Doris Stücke repeats: /diese verfluchte Maschinen/these damned(cursed) machines in English/. It chimes like a version of the robots about CAN`s album Soon Over Babaluma (1974, United Artists). Indeed, it is a mechanical, synthetic, motorik funk. The same can be said about the opening track Die Toten haben Strassen. If you are felling yourself depressed and being suppressed by Xanax and you are glaring at a greyish, pointless point in a remote distance while having no mind in your fucked-up brain. The great issue is a part of the discography of Der Kleine Grüne Würfel.

4/20/2017

V.A Darker Frequencies (2010)

Kopp

Post-industrial
Noise
Electro-acoustic
Field recording
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Musique concrète

Comment: this is the first entry by Recent Music Heroes to the discography of Kopp Netlabel, and our focus is directed toward Darker Frequencies, a compilation of 15 compositions and 103 minutes. As the title suggests it is all about or at least most of it is about peripheral sound generation and nihilistic industrial structures and noisy progressions. However, this immense set includes many variations either – for instance, Indo`s Vairupa is based on wobbly, fairly slowed-down trance-alike frequencies which are mixed up with spacey field recording undulations. The compilation embraces such artists as Kid Atari, Perankh, BPMV, Loki Fun Lilith& No Way Out, Topi Reta, AQM, Indo, Murmurists, Dopam, To-Bo, Nosens, Rune, and Adrien Mailler. Given that the miscellany was released seven years ago I guess many artists represented over there are defunct at the moment. Additionally to the intriguing music it is a reason even more to dig it up.

[Teaser of the day] Modern Rituals - White Bug

Shoegaze
Alternative rock
Power pop
Indie rock

Artist: Modern Rituals

Release: Stranger Culture

Label: Hail Hail

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Baker Island - Meet Me In John Lewis

Fuzz pop
Alternative pop/rock
Indie pop/rock
Electronic
Lo-fi
Psych-pop

Artist: Baker Island

Release: Demolishing The Fourth Wall

Label: Edils Recordings

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Albosel - Komorebi

Indie folk
Chamber folk
Alt-folk
Post-folk
Baroque folk
Art folk
Folk indie

Artist: Albosel

Release: Container

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Mountain Range - Haze

Indietronica
Electronic music
Crossover
Alternative
IDM
Ambient rock
Post-rock

Artist: Mountain Range

Release: Adjustments EP

Label: Bad Panda

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Cutside - Riddler

Breaks
Ambient
Crossover
Nu jazz
Electronic music
Sampledelic
Trip-hop
Alternative

Artist: Cutside

Release: Invisible Lines

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

4/18/2017

[Teaser of the day] Planet Namek - KEVIN SPAC/DC

Crust punk
Hardcore
Freeformfreakout
Deathcore
Electronic music
Progressive
Easy listening
Electro-metal
Avant-metal
Brutal metal
Grindcore
Math rock

Artist: Planet Namek

Release: Planet Namek

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Kroma - Movements

Synthwave
Synth pop
Synth fusion
Electronic music
Art rock
Synth-rock
Ambient pop

Artist: Kroma

Release: Alpentor

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Cafeina Kid – Neko (2016)

Pueblo Nuevo

Breaks
Electronica
Remixes
Click And Cuts
Minimal techno
Mood music
Alternative
Sampledelic
Techno
Deep house
Chilltronica
Glitch techno

Comment: similarly to Frenic`s Monomyth: Separation (2015, Dusted Wax Kingdom) the album I commented yesterday Pablo Cornejo aka Cafeina Kid`s 12-notch Neko seems to be a quite similar case. More concretely, it is based on tiny samples, rhythmic iterations and loops and relevant sonic effects which are merged into a moody whole. In comparison to the Frenic`s issue it might be less influenced by the trip-hop and hip-hop art though those influences might just be more buried. Cafeina Kid provides more techno inflected rhythms and at times even more bouncing rhythms in the background. The favourite of mine are related to more gleaming reflections in rhythm and timbre (for instance, at Qubeat). At times the listener can discern click and cut/glitch induced clippings and rubbish bits within the compositions (Amèrica Latina). For me it is much more interesting rather than listening to the kind of hi-fi yet annoying composition. At Conclusión parcial: cascada in the pathway is paved by jazz and deep house littered rhythms and motives to call forth bittersweet memories and painful yet tickling yearning in a listener. Furthermore, Cafeina Kid likes to add wobbly ethnic samples to make it change into a more offbeat result. The outing will have been finished off by another deep house track (BioBio (Hernvn remix)]. This very outstanding outing is a part of the discography of the Chilean imprint Pueblo Nuevo.

4/17/2017

[Teaser of the day] Mirko Andreoli - TracciaZeroUno

Quantum Bit

Techno
Tech-electro
Minimal techno
Alternative
Electro
Minimal electro
Electronic music

Artist: Mirko Andreoli

Release: Freeq-001

Label: Quantum Bit

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] The New Geometry - The Inner Conflict

Enoughrecords

Post-rock
Alternative rock
Art rock
Ambient rock
Epic

Artist: The New Geometry

Release: The New Geometry

Label: Enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Frenic – Monomyth: Separation (2015)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Bandcamp

Sampledelic
Nu jazz
Hip-hop
Psychedelic
Crossover
Mood music
Ambient pop
Chilltronica
Alternative
Urban music
Big beat
Acid jazz

Comment: Bristol, UK-based DJ and producer Sam Fergusson aka Frenic has been active in releasing albums since the beginning of the 10s by excelling at the tradition of rhythmic music of his home city. In general, this mammoth issue of 22 pieces is a fine blend of hip-hop and trip-hop and big beat rhythms and on the other side by using cinematic orchestrated samples, glistening synthesised sounds and suggestive spoken samples. However, it involves a bunch of other turns and penumbras additionally. For instance, at Rhodes Home (feat.Alfie Grieve) Sam Fergusson used to exploit the softened electric piano based pattern (Rhodes-based chords?) being accompanied by a smooth jazz-inflected improvisation. At God Moves he employs flamenco guitar chords and tango vibes in a certain, effective way to result in a solid crossover mix of hip-hop. A following composition Refusal to Call (Skit) is a quite disparate case because Fergusson does introduce a thoroughly immersive spaced-out universe. At times the mood of the album used to change into a little bit murky and glowering. To create the issue was inspired by the artist`s first big and cordial tour in Greece thereafter decided to narrate the tale of a great journey in a musical language. As I said before it is an unique universe, it is immense enough to discover more elements with any subsequent listening time. And of course /Listen! listen to my heartbeat! Listen! Listen to me!/ Monomyth: Separations is a bit in the discography of a Bulgarian imprint, Dusted Wax Kingdom (as most of his earlier outings as well).

4/16/2017

[Teaser of the day] Golgotha Communications Limited - The Other Thing

Abstract
Post-industrial
Avant-garde
Microsound
Electronic music
Experimentalism
Micronoise
Acousmatic music

Artist: Golgotha Communications Limited

Release: Recydywysta

Label: HAZE

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Taj Kajal Dwellers - Ghibli

Psychedelic
Acid pop
Art rock
Electro-rock
Post-punk
Progressive
Synth rock
New Age
World music
Alternative

Artist: Taj Kajal Dwellers

Release: Pamir Cloud Seeding EP

Label: Selva elettrica

Year: 2017

Antique Phonograph Music Program 06/02/2009 (2009)

WFMU

Big band
Jazz
Oldies
Spoken word
Dixieland

Comment: these 35 minutes introduce you to the beginning of the 20^th century music to spend time with such artists as orchestras as Black Face Eddie Ross, Cal Stewart, Bill Murray, Arhtur Collins and Byron G. Harlan, Clyde Doerr and His Orchestra, Gene Green, Golden and Heins, James I. Lent, Joe Hayman, Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds, M.J. OConnell, Six Brown Brothers, and The Columbia Orchestra. It is entertaining, lively and funny where jazz/and dixieland and big band-based compositions and orchestrations are variegated with more spoken word numbers. These tracks come from a time span between 1901 to 1922. Some of them are truly funny in their vehement oratory – for instance, listen to Joe Hayman`s Cohen at the Real Estate Office. It is a welcome interlude to enjoy such sort of music while you are intended to rest from contemporary sophisticated (experimental) music. Furthermore, today it is popular to take samples from historic and oldie music to either compose something truly offbeat or create a haunting atmosphere something like being created by Leyland Kirby aka The Caretaker. It is just a little notch in the series of Antique Phonograph Music Program by WFMU at Free Music Archive.

4/15/2017

[Teaser of the day] The Peach Tree - Xi An, The Western Capital

Electronic rock
Alternative
Singer-songwriter
Dark pop
Industrial rock

Artist: The Peach Tree

Release: The Taint Of Saidin

Label: Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Terrible Terrible - Between A Breath

Art pop
Indie pop
Electronic
Alternative pop
Indie soul

Artist: Terrible Terrible

Release: Get The New Computer

Label: Bandcamp/Jamendo

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Spaghetti Blacc - Buss my Chop

Hip-hop
Rap
Avant-hop
Urban music
Experimental hip-hop

Artist: Spaghetti Blacc

Release: Commissary Restriction

Label: Gods On Safari

Year: 2016

4/14/2017

Alan Rèvolte! – Libre y Salvaje (2016)

Naciòn Libre

Singer-songwriter
Folk punk
Punk folk
Alt-folk
Mexicana

Comment: Alan Vargas aka Alan Rèvolte is a musician from Mexico whose 10-track issue is an attention-getting blend of Spanish-sung lyrics, intense acoustic guitar strums all of that predominantly being managed in a straightforward approach. The straightforward approach over there does mean it is played with great fervour and infectious Latin temperament though wherein one can discern many changes in chords and timbres and rhythms. Sometimes his guitar play involves more spacey patches with the slowed-down rhythm (at Réquiem para un Poeta). Here and there he used to employ female voices to add extra tones and moods to the mix. The final track La Marcha de los Árboles makes also difference because of exploiting immersive, and minor tones to accentuate his ability to embrace a more wide spectre (thereby reminding of such experimental folk acts as Ben Chasny`s Six Organs Of Admittance, Espers, and Akron/Family, and through aesthetic predecessor lineage the artists of the so-called American Primitivism, for instance). The cover print is cute and nice because of resonating with the substance of the music. There is no need to added the animal-based drawings in minimal mode used to make sense at any time. These solid 24 minutes are a part of the discography of Naciòn Libre, the Mexican imprint of which stylistic range is quite broad (from hardcore/punk to stoner and doom to cyberpunk and crust).

[Teaser of the day] Pablo Ribot - Post-Hitchcock

Acousmatic music
Avant-garde
Post-classical
Film noir
Sampledelic
Experimentalism
Alternative
Electro-acoustic

Artist: Pablo Ribot

Release: Invasive Tones

Label: Plus Timbre

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mogadiscio Ensemble - The Italian Secret of the Spider Silk Violin

DIY
Electronic music
Leftfield
Crossover
Outsider house
Lo-fi
Electro
Alternative

Artist: Mogadiscio Ensemble

Release: Rejected Ambient Works 2009-2016

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Non Dolet - Varya

Post-classical
Alternative
Electronic music
New Age
Art music
Experimental pop
Toytronica
Ambient pop

Artist: Non Dolet

Release: Nameless Lake

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Cuubik. - French Girls

Lo-fi
DIY
Fuzz pop
Alternative pop/rock
Dream pop
Indie pop/rock

Artist: Cuubik.

Release: to James

Label: Trash Can Dance/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Yes Chef! - _Huffing

Magyar

Avant-garde
Experimental electronica
Ambient
IDM
Noise

Artist: Yes Chef!

Release: The Ropes, The Ropes

Label: Magyar

Year: 2009

4/12/2017

[Teaser of the day] Aporia - Celestial Castles

Alternative
Indietronica
Electronic
Ambient pop
Shoegazetronica
Dream pop

Artist: Aporia

Release: Almost Tropical

Label: Cosmic Compositions

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Coyote Clean Up - Dream Slapp

Outsider house
Electronic music
Deep house
Hypnagogic pop
DIY
Club dance
Alternative dance

Artist: Coyote Clean Up

Release: Hormones And Horoscopes Volume Three

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Syndrome WPW – American Gospel: 5 Songs (2017)

Midinette

Electro pop
Alternative dance
Indietronica
Electronic pop
Acid pop
Robot pop
Dub
Comedy

Comment: this notch issue is a fair killer due to a sultry blend of electronic styles and an incisive touch of acidic beats and spaced-out debris and poignant humour. Could it be ever the best American gospel? I guess it could be though it is not the kind of American gospel in the usual sense of this word. It is not related to churches, black Americans, and high-spirited music. Stop! Wait! Yet it is high-spirited, it also involves some dub(step) and suggestive reggae vibes all of that tightly revolving around the slightly veiled melodic progression. In fact, it is all about Heartwork, the central track within the album. It is a great success and deserves to have a chart place in an ideal world. Aces High, and I'm Alive are obviously more humour riveted progressions chiming as if reflections from the head of a creative schizophrenic being previously exposed to cheesy balladry, cloying gay pop, mawkish eurobeat. All the aforementioned facets are absorbed in his deranged, acidic, and a bit aggressive mind. Where is a fifth song, in truth? The issue is a part of the discography of Lausanne, Swiss imprinte Midinette Records.

4/11/2017

Nuno Maltez – Improvised Acoustic Guitar (2011)

Rejected

Improvised music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Art music

Comment: in fact, the title says everything - it is all about the acoustic guitar and improvised kind of music throughout the course of a 17-minute. It is based on canorous guitar twangs, spacey guitar's resonance in the surrounding room and the counterpoint of it are reversed, ellipse-tinged guitar loops to establish the raspy rhythmic point to it at a time. Despite its experimental approach the outing is gentle by its nature and even revealing exuberant facets within its mood. For me, it is a sort of moody music either. And the actual course of it seems to be even a bit shorter than it actually is. I guess it is an implication of qualitative music. The outing is a mote in the discography of Rejected Netlabel.

4/10/2017

[Teaser of the day] Worhs - Rat

Black metal
Neofolk
Epic
Dark folk
Brutal metal

Artist: Worhs

Release: Partir / Détruire

Label: Dipsomaniac Distilleries

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Skism - Stodj

12rec.

Easy listening
Sampledelic
Trip-hop
Chilltronica
Alternative
Mood music
Hip-hop
Breaks
Electronic music

Artist: Skism

Release: Skism EP

Label: 12rec.

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Global Goon & Captain Johnson - Hyper Sleep

Upitup

Electronic music
Trance
Tekno
Alternative dance
Crossover
Electro

Artist: Global Goon/Captain Johnson

Release: Kepler Odyssey

Label: Upitup

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Carmelo Amenta - Grandine

Barbie Noja

Alternative rock
Indie rock
Folk rock
Singer-songwriter
Avant-rock
Art rock

Artist: Carmelo Amenta

Release: La Gioia Ostentata Di Una Notte Che Recita

Label: Barbie Noja

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Green Gerry - Pupil Patterns Are Crazy

Indie pop/rock
Slowcore
Avant-rock
Dream pop
Experimental pop
Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Green Gerry

Release: Egg Nog

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

4/09/2017

Mato Grosso – Tea Party EP (2010)

Bandcamp

Hardcore
Alternative rock
Power pop
Post-hardcore
Psych-rock

Comment: this set of 6 pieces is an amalgamation of a hardcore punk bottom and a blackened power pop vector. Indeed, it is not the music for puritans of those styles only. It is not hardcore by numbers. It is playful, cheeky and loving to go beyond. Those slamming drums and some irregular journeys on it, dynamic joint vocals and galvanised hirsute guitars are to constitute a formidable whole. Undoubtedly Tea Party EP is a disparate form of hardcore because it does not associate with certain tight predictable borders, it is not only about anxiety and rage, it is not a big fish in the creek, it is a big fish at the sea. Say yeah to the outing by the Spanish-based quartet..

Niko Niko! – ePop029 (2012)

EardrumsPop

Bandcamp

Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Twee pop

Comment: the first remark of mine about this 4-notch outing is related to its tamed and silent nature. The listener should remarkably crank up volume to partake. Musically its roots seem to come out from the cute, twee pop-tinged Swedish indie pop scene (Acid House Kings, The Concretes, Billie the Vision and the Dancers, The Mary Onettes) which was particularly popular in the 00s. Earlier influences used to hark back to the 60s folk music. Cute male vocal lead, retrodelic keyboard sounds and droning, chiming guitars and bubblegum-ish bass patterns which purpose was to entertain the listener. On the other side it is unpretentious to develop indie music as a phenomenon. It is not the sort of Stereolab and Tortoise-alike ambition to cross its borders with every subsequent outing. However, those ditties are solid ones, for example A Lifetime in the Sun is a blissful shimmer dedicated to the spring. The outing is a bit in the discography of the Norwegian-based EardrumsPop. Niko Niko! Is the solo project of Bergen, Norway-based Nickolai Nilsen.

4/06/2017

[Teaser of the day] First Dress - The Melancholy Of Brittle Stability

Dark ambient
Illbient
Ambient drone
Neoclassical
Dystopbient
Power electronics
Ambient noise
Drone
Avant-garde
Experimentalism

Artist: First Dress

Release: A Forest Beneath The Waves

Label: Big Pharma

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Kirk Cosby - Stimuli Unconsciously

Vaatican

Sampledelic
Plunderphonics
Avant-garde
Sound collage
Spoken word
Minimalism
Experimentalism
Leftfield
Electronic music

Artist: Kirk Cosby

Release: Dreams In The Absence Of Oxygen

Label: Vaatican /Cratediggers

Year: 2011

Macaco Bong – Macaco Bong (2016)

Sinewave

Post-rock
Alternative rock
Dance rock
Funk
Math rock
Psych-rock
Stoner rock

Comment: just before I started to listen to this Brazil-based combo's music I had listened to the Smiths' second issue Meat Is Murder in f..king vinyl format (joke!), by many considered as the band's most funky issue (the central composition undoubtedly is Barbarism Begins at Home). The change was not the discontinuation, it was a natural succession from one album to another though formally they are different but you can find much common due to these dance-appealed appearances here and there. At least it happened in my head. Formally it is an instance of post-rock with the danceable bubblegum guitar and the tricky bass guitar and the sustaining drums to showcase something different in the post-rock scene. Of course, I should not be misunderstood - it is not a dance pop in the definition of eurobeat and even post-disco. It may be the trio`s roots come out from the No Wave scene, Funkadelic/Parliament, Jimi Hendrix, Sly And The Family Stone instead. The scaffolding of the album is bold, slightly rough but it builds up slowly to reach its impressive climax. For me it is an unusual case because those sophisticated math rock developments are imbued with enchanting grooves and cheerful twists (for instance, listen to Distraiidos Venceremos). At Baiaro De Stoner one can be a part of a high-spirited audible universe through those frantic and exuberant overdrives on guitars. Yet there are up enough numbers where one can perceive more oppressive elliptical patterns moving from one side to another from the bottom to the top as an ominous vapour. Undoubtedly such a clever and crafty combo must be consecrated because of the structure of the tracks and intriguing and profound guitar timbres and sounds. Let's just call it guitar-induced alchemy for all our well-being. This outstanding issue is a part of the discography of the great Brazilian imprint Sinewave.

[Teaser of the day] Gogo Yubari - On The Subject Of Humans

Hardcore
Post-hardcore
Alternative rock
Avant-rock
Experimental rock

Artist: Gogo Yubari

Release: The Yes Yes Sound Of Gogo Yubari

Label: Small Bear

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Frägil - Lost My Soul

Trastienda

Indietronica
Alternative pop
DIY
Bedroom pop
Lo-fi
Electronic pop

Artist: Frägil

Release: Premiers Symptômes

Label: Trastienda

Year: 2005

4/05/2017

[Teaser of the day] Low - Fye - Symptoms

Singer-songwriter
Lo-fi
Alt-folk
Folk indie
DIY
Indie folk

Artist: Low - Fye

Release: You Keep Them

Label: Dying For Bad Music

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Vansire - Pale Blue

Indie pop/rock
Jangle pop
Alternative pop/rock
Dream pop

Artist: Vansire

Release: The Rolling, Driftless North

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - Everything Is Transendent

Happy Puppy

Indie
Alternative
Art pop
Electronic
Experimental pop

Artist: Cagey House

Release: Five Times Through

Label: Happy Puppy/Archive.org

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Deftechnixks - How to Leave Your Scales Home?

Experimental rock
Art rock
Indie rock
Avant-rock

Artist: Deftechnixks

Release: Reliefless

Label: Underpolen/Archive.org

Year: 2015

4/04/2017

SISTERS – Christy Canyon EP (2014)

Diabetic Koala

Bandcamp

Avant-garde
Lo-fi
Post-industrial
Goth-trap
DIY
Witch house
Drag house
Experimental music
Leftfield

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.

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