Lokom – Nyctalope Ponies (2016)

Abstrakt Reflections

• Post-dubstep 
• Electronic music 
• Experimental electronica 
• Alternative 
• Rhythmic noise 
• Techno 
• Drill and bass

Comment: this bunch of tracks is an intriguing combinations of refined rhythms and airy layers atop as if a whiff coming out from outer space to remedy our existential pain and physical finiteness. Despite its rhythmical complexity and bass frequencies it can be said it is beautiful and even beatific. Even rhythmical noise impulses and extended sway between the stereo channels at Symbiose Anatomique are appealing features. Its harshness is not repulsive at all. Tiny glitches, drilling drones, signal-alike physical perceptions, microscopic noises, electronic effects are up there to add an extra colour to the melting pot. And it is an intriguing melting pot by any means. By rhythmical side it is mostly an interface to fuse together post-dubstep and drill and bass tendencies. Emotionally those yearning echoes do impose a hefty impact upon the listener. The issue is a part of the discography of Abstrakt Reflections.

[Teaser of the day] Bisamråtta - Manetar

• Post-rock
• Ambient rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: Bisamråtta

Release: Försiktigt

Label: Vulpiano/Free Music Archive

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Caracoa - Stolen Deity

• Minimal techno
• Outsider techno
• Deep techno
• Experimental techno
• Avant-techno
• Electronic music

Artist: Caracoa

Release: New Middle Passage

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Ryan Huber - Mouros

• Ambient
• Abstract
• Micronoise
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Ambient noise
• Microsound
• Microtonal

Artist: Ryan Huber

Release: Mouros

Label: Inam 

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Palladium - Alienation

• Progressive rock
• Art rock
• Glam rock
• Pomp rock
• Hard rock

Artist: Palladium

Release: Beyond The Red Curtain

Label: Self-releasd/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Scouts Of Uzbekistan – Hate Is Our Religion (2016)

Year Zero

• Post-punk 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Space rock 
• Improvised music 
• Doom rock 
• Ambient

Comment: my choices regarding music commented at Recent Music Heroes are sporadic and with no specific intention. so I can admit the fact I am back again at the discography of Year Zero Records of which aim is to provide cutting edge sonic appearances of different predilections. And when it happens to you you can consider yourself a lucky you because it usually happens to be a mind-provoking experience. This time Scouts Of Uzbekistan provides guitar-based experiments through the glimpses in post-punk, space rock, improvised music/rock though it used to embrace elements of more styles in overall. Minor, glowering bass frequencies are intertwined with loose sounds of kit drums and other parts of the drums. At times one can perceive ill-omened, diabolical energy pouring quite invisibly from the restrained yet effect providing slots. In many cases the tracks are embellished with mutant vocals and eerie echoes wherein you can track down dormant anger and lurking flashbacks behind it. It is a sort of reversed psychedelic thing, it is blackened psychedelia. It is fairly sympathetic to enjoy rough yet honest sounds of the rehearsal room. Yet I Am The Alter-Destiny is a beatific ambient impression demonstrating the artist's ability to move in disparate directions. All in all get it into your soul. Get overwhelmed. Do not hesitate for asking it. That's the thing.

[Teaser of the day] Cédric Elisabeth - Sans Titre

DNA Production

• Ambient
• Orchestrated music
• Soundscape
• Epic
• Chamber music
• Minimalism

Artist: Cèdric Elisabeth

Release: Parallel

Label: DNA Production

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Alex Mason - Cast Away

HAZE

• Soundtrack
• Orchestrated music
• Epic
• Chamber music
• Mood music

Artist: Alex Mason

Release: Return

Label: HAZE

Year: 2017

C-sium – Daze Loft EP (2006)

Midinette
Midinette

• Electronic pop 
• Breakbeat 
• Alternative dance 
• Electro pop 
• Acid electro 
• Breaks

Comment: I guess this handful of tracks could live up to one's expectations. Given that one likes music based on electro and lysergic based electronic formulas. It starts off with two catchy electro-based propulsions as if it were stemmed from drone music being disturbed by the discontinuity and shortness of the signal beneath it. Indeed, it starts off to last for a second and then fade away. And then embarks on the process again. In fact, the two ending compositions follow the same route though Lazy M is based on the gentle breakbeat rhythm. The only exception is a track called Kyzza chiming a bit in Arthur Russell-alike way. New Age-y flute whiffs are intertwined with naturalistic drum shuffles and vague electronic touches atop. This solid issue is a part of the discography of Midinette Records.

Bouwakanja – Hajiba (2013)

Section 27

Free Music Archive

• Alternative dance 
• Electronic music 
• Electro pop 
• Breaks 
• Acid electro 
• Breakbeat

Comment: an artist called Bouwakanja can be considered an interesting artist since I listened to his album Incantation. Hajiba is a massive event due to a huge range of different sounds, intense rhythms and sophisticated patterns in both sounds and rhythms, basic sounds and counterparts to it and the synergy between the compartments. It embraces as much pieces as 16. That's challenging. Similarly to C-sium's Daze Loft EP it involves droning electro intensity and strained needle-shaped and smithereens-alike rhythms being backed up by dynamics providing it a coherent adhesive matter between the more or less rugged parts. Frequently those rough elements are saturated with gloomy synthesised progressions atop giving it a more spaced-out yet eerie approach. Furthermore, the artist employs more subdued and tranquil moments to provide shifts in mood and structure. For sure, although it might be not very apparent throughout the course at times there are up some Middle Eastern motives to have surfaced here and there. Indeed, the charming clash keeps going to appear from the very beginning to the very end. He also uses human voices to warp them into something new into something more mechanical and robotic. This intriguing outing is a part of the discography of Section 27.

Golgotha Communications Ltd – Music That Doesn`t Exist (2013)

Sirona-Records

• Electro-acoustic 
• Abstract 
• Electronic music 
• Post-industrial 
• Noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Minimalism 
• Acousmatic music 
• Microtonal 
• Non-music

Comment: Golgotha Communications Ltd is a collective from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA whose 14-track issue continues the artist's peripheral and uncompromising tendencies within the post-industrial scene. And the imprint is very proper fro that – Arnaud Barbe aka Pollux led Sirona-Records. More profoundly, it is filled in with repeated sounds, with a minimized approach to make the listener to be subjugated to certain sounds and certain sonic combinations. Indeed, the listener can discern shifts between harsh yet easy-going shapes and remarkably more strained noise drenched sounds and rough sonic effects as if coming out from a very tiny slot. Mind-provoking and challenging. By following and analysing the title it can be interpreted in different ways – it is indeed a sort of music which does not exist anymore after it is performed (the sort of acousmatic music). If the repeat button is switched off it will not be heard through earphones and speakers. And if it will be repeated again the listener`s perception will perceive it differently because of being alien and involving way too many elements to be remembered in the same way. Secondly, it can be interpreted as a sort of anti-music in terms of pop music. It is way too radical for the bourgeois` scene. It may even involve some “comfort” sounds but they are subjugated to algorithms having nothing in common with the pop scene. It is protestant and it is painful. And it is very impressive.

[Teaser of the day] Arcane Waves - Dust From Lucens (1969)

Murmure Intemporel

• Field recording
• Avant-garde
• Dark ambient
• Electronic music
• Conceptual
• Drone
• Psycho-acoustic
• Soundscapes
• Illbient
• Micronoise
• Ambient drone
• Post-industrial
• Musique concrète
• Abstract
• Experimentalism

Artist: Arcane Waves

Release: Atom Dust

Label: Murmure Intemporel

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Gale Anne Hurd - Community Garden For Kids

• Electronic music
• Leftfield pop
• Kosmische Musik
• Avant-pop
• Alternative
• Synthwave
• Goth synth

Artist: Gale Anne Hurd

Release: Crawling Garden

Label: Diabetic Koala

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] 900piesek - Goat's gate - op. for a dead pianino pts I & II

Signals From Arkaim

• Electro-acoustic
• Post-classical
• Art music
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: 900piesek

Release: Dead Sea

Label: Signals From Arkaim

Year: 2017

Dildo – Febbre (2005)

Laverna

• Alternative 
• Art pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Breaks 
• Indie 
• Jungle 
• Breakbeat

Comment: this is an offbeat dance pop and breaks mixed outing. There are represented three tracks with slightly different intentions and approaches but in overall it is all about rhythmic alchemy. So take your listening time very carefully to find out all the subtle shades and faint borders from within it. Loose rhythms are variegated with more determined and compelling torrents – from artsy indie and subdued yet lurking electro pop to noisy jungle and blasting breakbeat appearances. Female and male voices are cutely intertwined with each other to create the counterpoint to those violent rhythmic progressions (especially at Industria). Dildo is the trio of Elena Pongoli, Gabriele Mendi, and Fabio Macor and these tracks were recorded in 1999. This solid impression is a bit in the discography of Laverna.

Gogo Yubari – The Yes Yes Sound Of Gogo Yubari (2017)

Small Bear

Bandcamp

• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Noise 
• Post-hardcore 
• Blues 
• Noise rock 
• Avant-garde 
• Doom rock 
• Hard rock 
• Electronic music 
• Glitch
• Crossover 
• Leftfield

Comment: approximately 15 years ago one Estonian music reviewer stated that music is impressive only if it hurts. Unfortunately he did not elaborate on in which way it should have appeared. I hope Gogo Yubari's 14-notch outing is a slot to provide answers to it though the final answer cannot be declared anyway. Gogo Yubari's music is a sway between deliberated madness and technical possibilities, between blues and hardcore influenced developments into noise and noise rock. And the combo's noise rock is obviously influenced by Sonic Youth, and The Pixies but the influences are magnified and deranged by solar storm. All the radars are running out of power only the power button is switched on. Oh mother I can feel the soil is falling over my head. The Lepidotrepist is a disparate case because of being subdued by its moody approach but by its nature it is a vanguard case with extended and reversed guitar chords. It is a convincing warped world. To The Ends Of Unearth is another exception wherein guitars and vocal part are slowed-down into an example of alien doom rock. Fairly impressive. It might be The Exodus Of The New Work is the most conventional work on it though these energetic steam guitars are loaded with Motörhead-alike dynamics. On the other side, there are also up more electronic and glitched-out experiments full of tension, electricity and galvanised abstractions. The miscellaneous outing is a part of the discography of Small Bear Records.

[Teaser of the day] Astral Harmonies - Forgiveness

• Synthwave
• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Kosmische Musik
• Cosmic synth

Artist: Astral Harmonies

Release: Metta (EP)

Label: MoonSwing

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Meije - Summer Lover

• Ambient pop
• Alternative
• Glo-fi
• Electronic music
• Dreamwave

Artist: Meije

Release: Longing For Summer

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] rr.gross - Still 3

Suspicious Sound

• Drone
• Experimentalism
• Ambient drone
• Abstract
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism

Artist: rr.gross

Release: Stills

Label: Suspicious Sound

Year: 2016

Karl Frank – Fragments of Decay (2015)

Redstarcommunity

Bandcamp

• Indie pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Glo-fi 
• Post-pop
• Electronic
• Art pop 
• Chillwave 
• Hypnagogic pop

Comment: first of all, the album is quite peculiar due to embracing 9 tracks and clocking in at a 13 minute. Formally it is the album but by its nature it is a long-running (but not bothersome) track in fact. Yeah, it is an example of contemporary indie music because of ranging from guitar-based progressions to drum machine and synthesiser based build-ups. It starts off with Voices in the Dark with some stomping guitar riffs and skidding drums at mid-tempo. Shadows is a similar case though adding a spaced-out vocal template and joyous brass whiffs to the mix. Red Eyes is a step further in comparison to Shadows because of employing a mutant electro vocal within the usual vocal employment. A part of the rest of the tracks are formulated by using the aforementioned elements in different combinations but the favourites of mine are such tracks as Disappearance Delay, Recycling Dreams where the listener can enjoy blissful memories and synthesised space mixed bittersweet beauty which has been demonstrated at a large scale somewhere 5-10 years ago when chillwave and glo-fi and hypnagogic pop were a cut above within the indie scene. By the way, Karl Frank started his career more than 10 years ago so I like his statement to create such sort of art he himself wishes to create. That`s honest and ennobling. The issue is a part of the Swedish imprint Redstarcommunity. Outstanding pop music.

[Teaser of the day] Orange Crush - Zero Degrees

Archaic Horizon

• Shoegazetronica
• Alternative
• Glo-fi
• Electronic
• Dream pop
• Lo-fi
• Indietronica

Artist: Orange Crush

Release: Autumn Reflections

Label: Archaic Horizon/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Monokle & Galun - Justalite

• Post-rock
• Indietronica
• Glo-fi
• Indie pop
• Dream pop
• Alternative pop
• Post-pop

Artist: Monokle/Galun

Release: In Frame

Label: 12rec

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Sun Devoured Earth - Fountain Square

• Shoegazetronica
• Indietronica
• Alternative pop
• Electronic pop
• Nugaze

Artist: Sun Devoured Earth

Release: Ellilian

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] A Finnish Contact - Cloud Eyes, Blue Days

• Experimentalism
• Post-industrial
• Avant-pop
• Crossover
• Experimental electronica
• Dreamwave
• Post-rock
• Electronic music
• Drone pop
• Leftfield

Artist: A Finnish Contact

Release: In Case We'll Meet

Label: Kohlhaas

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Kuh-Lida - Angles/Orbits

• Post-dubstep
• Electronic pop
• Experimental pop
• Urban music
• Alternative dance

Artist: Kuh-Lida

Release: Savage Casual

Label: Stereocure

Year: 2012

Fm-Ra ‎– Some Kind Of Forest (2011)

Rejected

Rejected

• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde
• Art music 
• World music 
• Ethnic music

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.

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.

[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 

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.

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

[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.

[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).

[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.

[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

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

[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.

Nuno Maltez – Improvised Acoustic Guitar (2011)

Rejected

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.

[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

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.

[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.