The Fucked Up Beat – Insomnie (2017)

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Sampledelic
• Avant-garde 
• Experimental electronica 
• Ambient 
• Plunderphonics 
• Modern classical 
• Leftfield 
• Electronic music 
• Hauntology 
• Oldie music 
• Piano music

Comment: it has always been a great event while Brett Zehner and Eddie Palmer aka The Fucked Up Beat have issued a subsequent outing. Their music pretends to be the best one worldwide and I have no arguments against it. Why should I? Furthermore, it is ageless because it used to base partly on ageless facets. The duo has employed the samples of oldie music as a main habit to process the sound. I really hope they will get their merited place in the history of electronic and experimental music. So I hope Simon Reynolds, and Simon Goddard and other popular music journalists could find their way to the artist`s music. In fact, they outdo most of the recent sampledelic artists because of representing their music over the restrictions of decades, and technical possibilities, and ideological outlooks, and human-related stupidity and misanthropy as a logical consequence to it. It is just the music. The duo`s music used to sound in an ancient and modern way at the same time wherein different generations are either present in nearby samples or superimposed on each other. If to compare Insomnie to The Fucked Up Beat`s earlier issues then I have to admit it is a little bit sparser and even more slowed down, however, it does not mean its production is inferior and weak in some way. No, it seems to be the duo`s deliberate choice to add fewer glacially glistening synthesised templates to the mix. Frequently it chimes like a post-classical release being tapped out on a dust-coated piano with intention to fade away (at least a listener can perceive the intention throughout the course with regard to many tracks on it). In fact, the miscellany of 19 tracks (clocking in at a 57 minute) is to have a tight focus on ambient and piano songs being recorded from 2011 to 2016. It is bucolic, and majestic, and yearning, and melancholic in its clear mind. And the duo`s 33^rd outing is a very sad event because this will be their very last one to start off with new project. The king is dead, hail to the new one. Brett Zehner and Eddie Palmer have been a fine exemplar of democratization of musical production because of issuing music at their own disposal whenever and how much they would like to issue annually. I tmakes me glad that more and more people are finding their way to the duo. Insomnie will again be mentioned in the end of the year 2017. At least in the chart of Recent music Heroes it will be done.

Recent Music Heroes Mixtape #16 (27.05.2017)

Mediafire

1) Calla Soiled - Rhincodon Typus (2015, Lucoq)

2) Seuora - 34512 (2014, The OddBeats)

3) Loose Link And Option Command - Karramantha (Jostle Throng's Ratatak Remix) (2011, Karramantha)

4) Ev3nmorn - Until The Sun  (2012, Solar Waves)

5) Bluebridge Quartet - Karp (2007, Adjusted For Low Noise Tape EP)

6) Chravis Phranklin - Drumset (2016, Loosened Cheap)

7) Decktonic - Dancing All Alone (2016, Unbox Me)

8) Florian Wahl - Cherry Fairy (2016, 14)

9) Heyhill Muangle - Inside (2016, Heyhill Muangle)

10) Spooky Cigarette - Oh Well (2016, As Loud As I Can)

11) Sympathy Points - Height Width Depth (2016, Negative Space)

12) Tunnelbirds - Dark Side (2015, Hohner Sessions)

ST★RS – Four Letter Words (2014)

Bayshore

• Electronic music 
• Experimentalism 
• Lo-fi 
• Alternative 
• DIY
• Darkwave 
• Synthwave 
• Drone 
• Avant-garde 
• Minimalism

Comment: behind the nom de plume ST★RS is Jay Stevens from Portland, USA whose 4-track debut outing starts off with Gold which chimes like an old tape broken up and being played on a tape player with smeared cartridge. One can hear faint droning and powerless drumming around it. By using headphones one can hear almost nothing. Because of that the purpose of that track seems to be totally unclear. It might be it is thought to introduce the other tracks to create such a sort of effect before. Indeed, the situation will change with the second track, Frag, which is based on a reverberating, vibrant drone showcasing its very minimal approach in the first place. Haze is also a drone-based issue though abandoning its minimal approach and employing blackened smouldering of somehow glistening synthesisers and intense drumming. The final track Tosh is the most hovering one and opened toward outer space. Indeed, Jay Stevens watches the stars in a magnificent way. The solid outing is a part of the discography of Bayshore Records.

[Teaser of the day] Derek Clegg - Turn Back To Me

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie pop
• Soft rock
• Alternative pop
• Americana

Artist: Derek Clegg

Release: DC4t

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Baradit - Cyber Photo

Pueblo Nuevo

• Techno pop
• Ambient pop
• Alternative
• Kosmische Musik
• Synthwave
• Crossover 
• Electronic pop

Artist: Baradit

Release: Electro Lines

Label: Pueblo Nuevo

Year: 2017

Get- Effect – Trick Ladders (2015)

Vanguardista

• Krautrock 
• Alternative 
• Experimental rock 
• Drone pop 
• Motorik 
• Avant-rock 
• Art rock 
• Electronic

Comment: this handful of tracks is based on contemporary tendencies of krautrock/motorik music which was initially started off by an early Kraftwerk, and Neu!, and later developed by such artists as Stereolab, The Notwist, To Rococo Rot, Mina, Contriva and Fujiya & Miyagi, for instance. Get- effect is a project from Glasgow, Scotland whose the most distinctive track is obviously Giant On The Hill which chimes like a tribute to Simon Jeffes through fable short waves, and white noise frequencies providing the intriguing background for the catchy, iterative melody. Otherwise, droning, glacially glimmering synths with acidic vibrations are represented there which used to hover over obsessively iterative rhythmic structures and pulsating guitar gears and throbbing synthesised basses. This fabulous outing is a part of the discography of Manchester, UK-based imprint Vanguardista Records.

[Teaser of the day] Ruffle - Addicted To Your Mind

• Kosmische Musik
• Krautrock
• Synthwave
• Electronic music
• Alternative

Artist: Ruffle

Release: Uplink To Ruffle

Label: Format Noise

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Dust Mill - Light On

Sirona-Records

• Electro pop
• Post-rave
• Electronic pop
• Alternative
• Post-disco

Artist: Dust Mill

Release: Post-Past EP

Label: Sirona-Records/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

The Harvey Girls – The Harvey Girls (2005)

Imaginary Albums

• Indie pop/rock 
• Art pop 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Jangle pop 
• Experimental pop

Comment: The Harvey Girls` 9-notch outing can be considered a classic indie pop album where jangly guitar-based templates are mixed up with synthesised effects and with some electronic music around it. However, recent understanding of indie music is already changed because the synthesisers have conquered the scene and mostly the result used to be quite cold and making no difference. There is no naivety, there is no belief for better future. Frequently all is changed into a repellent electronic gross. Do you like such combos as Kasabian, and 1975? I do not like them. Do you like Primal Scream in the year of 2016 and 2017? I do not like it. However, Primal Scream`s Vanishing Point (1997, Creation) is one of the best albums throughout the time. The album starts off with Green Light, the first chords of it remind of Pulp`s Do You Remember The First Time. I like if guitars and synths are balanced on a release or the artists trying to avoid lame synthesised sounds (for instance, The Smiths` album Queen Is Dead, and Strangeways Here We Come, and Blur`s Blur, and Mercury Rev`s Light In You, and Animal Collective`s first five albums, and Sufjan Steven`s albums are great ones with regard to it). The point of mine is also related to the belief that sonic effect based approach cannot replace solid songwriting. The Harvey Girls succeeds doing it. The album embraces catchy melodies and experiments due to song structures and sounds. It is filled with hirsute noises and gentle jingle-jangling sounds, with expressive and restrained moods. Furthermore, I could not resist singing in unison by female and male voices. All is craftily balanced on the album being released under Imaginary Albums.

[Teaser of the day] C. Reider - Isinglass

• Dreamwave
• Alternative
• Chamber music
• Epic
• Post-classical
• Conceptual
• Electronic music
• Ambient pop

Artist: C. Reider

Release: The Plangents

Label: Vuzh Music

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Stefano Pasqualin - le dinamiche del fumo nella mia stanza male illuminata

Laverna

• Synthwave
• Drone
• Minimalism
• Darkwave
• Electronic music
• Alternative

Artist: Stefano Pasqualin

Release: Notturni

Label: Laverna

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] PREC - 100 Flowers

Test Tube

• Experimentalism
• Electro-acoustic
• Free jazz
• Crossover
• Post-classical
• Avant-garde
• Improvised music

Artist: PREC

Release: Cultural Revolution  

Label: Test Tube

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Rolling Calf Sinfonetta - Mano Tou

Webbed Hand

• Sampledelic
• Alternative
• Jazz
• Plunderphonics
• Oldie music
• Breaks
• Mood music
• Electronic music

Artist: Rolling Calf Sinfonetta

Release: Earliest Recordings (and Other Curiosities)

Label: Webbed Hand

Year: 2004

NL 2X COMP – A SELECTION OF NANOLOOP 2 TRACKS (2008)

CatchyNameRecords

• Bitpop 
• Chiptune 
• Acid electro 
• Electronic music 
• Nintendocore
• Electro house 
• Electro pop 
• Alternative dance 
• Tracker music 
• Conceptual 
• Electro

Comment: given that the description of chiptune/bitpop/nintendocore/tracker music is based on crashing and crawling rough bits being mostly related to rhythm I guessed I could hear classic chiptune music from the recent 13-notch issue. It is partly so because there are the crashin-crawlin` beats but mostly it chimes differently. More profoundly, the concept of the miscellany is based on Nanoloop 2, the advance gameboy program. It might be the reason can be dug out from there because of being a bit more advanced, developed platform than the previous ones and thereby reminding more of contemporary electronic music. Obviously rbtr`s Yourdogbitme is the only classical one represented over there in its thoroughgoing simplicity and roughness. However, even if I excepted something different to hear I am not disappointed at all because the result is intriguing and intricate full of good, better and even better examples. From minimally designed electro and straightforwardly acid oriented electro pop and sheer electro disco/house grooves (for instance, Tetris Hold`em`s fabulous Behaviour House, and Marcus Rafferty`s The Electron Theory as fabulous as well) and fast-speed galloping to cut-up electro undercurrents and incisive glacial-alike glistening in timbre and sonic effect drenched improvisations. The compilation is released by such label as CatchyNameRecords, and there are up such artists as Rhinostrich, rbtr, Tetris Hold`em, CatchyNameMusic, Marcus Rafferty, Little-Scale, LoBit, and 8bit-Meta. Great compilation. Everlasting.

[Teaser of the day] This Mess Is Mine - I Have An Elephant In My Pocket

Aerotone

• Indietronica
• Alternative pop
• Lo-fi
• Electronic
• Indie pop
• DIY

Artist: This Mess Is Mine

Release: The Weekend EP

Label: Aerotone/Free Music Archive

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Uni - Bassein

• Indietronica
• Poptronica
• Mood music
• Chilltronica
• Electronic music
• Ulmetronica

Artist: Uni

Release: Mahajäetud jaam

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Viktar Siamashka - Lost In New

Foundamental

• Free jazz
• Improvised music
• Modal jazz
• Experimental music
• Avant-jazz

Artist: Viktar Siamashka

Release: Shetar dy Petar

Label: Foundamental

Year: 2013

Noskovsolegs – Urbanspace (2009)

Proc-Records

• Hard techno 
• Leftfield 
• Powerelectronics 
• Digital hardcore 
• Rhythmic noise

Comment: Recent Music Heroes arrives at the discography of Proc-Records. Noskovsolegs` two-notch issue (proc259) is unique in that context because there have been only a couple of releases since involving a video file. As the title says it involves an industrialized landscape of a city, robotically moving plastic statues of comics heroes with frightening angry faces all of that being subjugated to flashing video treatment. Musically it is logically bound because of providing a bond between harsh rhythmic patterns, and white noise drenched mechanic noises. Indeed, by watching the visual scale of my music player I can say all the frequencies are cranked up to the maximum degree. It can be assumed it is the kind of anti-rave music because with such frequencies it may be possible to kill the audience. Very harsh, very peripheral.

[Teaser of the day] Emerson Faria - Assalto (Madame Egocêntrica)

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie rock
• Experimental rock
• Post-punk
• Art rock
• Alternative rock
• Avant-rock

Artist: Emerson Faria

Release: Terminal

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] ps - Slick With Crimson Blood

Enough

• Post-industrial
• Dark ambient
• Glitchtronica
• Experimentalism
• Illbient
• Spoken word
• Avant-garde
• Leftfield

Artist: ps

Release: Volatile

Label: Enough

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Number Eleven - Debris

Electron Emitter

• Industrial electro
• EBM
• Dark electro
• Alternative
• Drone pop
• Neoclassical
• Electronic music

Artist: Number Eleven

Release: Autism

Label: Electron Emitter

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Acrossthevacuum - Stream

Mahorka

• Improvised music
• Guitar ambient
• Electronic music
• Post-industrial
• Leftfield
• Illbient
• Avant-garde
• Post-psychedelic
• Electro-acoustic
• Drone
• Experimentalism
• Minimalism

Artist: Acrossthevacuum

Release: Stream

Label: Mahorka

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Graphic Antics - Giants

blocSonic

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

Artist: Graphic Antics

Release: What Does It Mean?

Label: blocSonic/Archive.org

Year: 2017

Tarred Brigade – HoneyMoon (2008)

Free Music Archive

• Psych-rock 
• Weird folk 
• Americana 
• Free folk 
• DIY 
• Lo-fi 
• New Weird America 
• Psych-folk 
• Drone folk 
• Epic 
• Chamber folk 
• Blues

Comment: it makes no surprise altogether Tarred Brigade comes out from Baltimore, Maryland, USA because of representing either a second or a third wave of the New Weird America movement. For instance, all of us used to recognise the fact Animal Collective came initially out from this city though musically Tarred Brigade is a bit different, a bit more countryfied case. It is recorded on a 4-track recorder being rustic and majestic at the same time, being abrasive and hypnotic at the same time, being bucolic and solemn simultaneously. Its droning earnest halation being frequently mixed up with psychedelic templates may remind more of such combos as Espers, Six Organs Of Admittance, and Children Of The Drone (the last one is an improvisational combo from Exeter, UK). For sure, additionally to the aforementioned folk element there are also up certain indie facets and the downright Americana tradition. On the other side, at I Fear An Eclipse the listener can figure out a combo to be influenced by a British act called Penguin Cafe Orchestra. The only (format-based) problem is about the amount of the tracks represented over there. In my folder there are up 6 tracks in comparison to the amount of 4-tracks at Free Music Heroes (it is devoid of such compositions as Haunting the Majesties!, and My Jewish Blues). It might be these are the hidden ones while one is downloading the release. Outstanding issue in any cases.

Blamstrain – Kavel EP (2002)

Thinner

• Dub-house 
• Electronic music 
• Ambient dub 
• Dubstep 
• Hauntology 
• Abstract 
• Ambient techno

Comment: Blamstrain is a Finnish producer whose 31 minutes being laid out at the legendary German imprint Thinner are something truly divine and mentally overwhelming. Something truly fascinating which must be heard. The words are too weak to transmit the flow of impressions coming out of it. All of that used to happen 15 years ago when Blamstrain was a young, 16 year-old guy. More profoundly, it happened in 2002 when dubstep as a style was not officially recognised and Hyperdub as an imprint was not established yet but there were certainly some artists who were going ahead of its time. For sure, you can hear slowed-down subwoofer frequencies dominating and driving glitched-out and microscopic noise blended vinyl-alike hiss and crackle-tinged terrains which stand there as on its own and on the other side it is also the fine background for fragmented yet bittersweet melodies as if a channel for the listener who would like to go back in time to visit sweet places and beloved periods (especially at Kuluntalahti). Hence the artist does have the similarities with The Caretaker, and on the other side, some ambient moments remind of Mille Plateaux related stuff like being produced by his compatriot Vladislav Delay, and Gas. By listening to it you do not think of people as the kind of clever swines (or some swines are clever than others – by paraphrasing Moz who does have birthday today). All I want to say it just one word – classic. Must own and listen to it.

Momus - I Was a Maoist Intellectual

[Teaser of the day] Blit - Aire_Perplejo

Modismo

• Electro 
• Alternative dance
• Post-dubstep
• Deep house
• Electronic music

Artist: Blit

Release: Fauna Ficciòn

Label: Modismo

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Monkey Warhol - Lunar Orbit

Free Music Archive

• Electro pop
• Alternative dance
• Post-disco
• Acid electro
• Electronic pop

Artist: Monkey Warhol

Release: The Darwin LP

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Amitron_7 - Tonicshifter

Free Music Archive

• Electronic music
• Experimental pop
• IDM
• Techno pop
• Clicks`n`cuts
• Indietronica
• Crossover
• Ambient techno
• Glitch pop
• Alternative
• Avant-pop

Artist: Amitron_7

Release: Karma 10/04 Japanese Summer Edition

Label: Enough

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Dya - Night Visions

• Chipbreak
• Chiptune
• 8-bit
• Avant-electro
• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik
• Electro pop
• Nintendocore
• Bitpop
• Tracker music
• Alternative dance

Artist: Dya

Release: HalloWIN

Label: Chiptunes = WIN

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] The Fucked Up Beat - Across the U.S. In Dream Auto

• Dreamwave
• Drone
• Hauntology
• Avant-garde
• Ambient drone
• Leftfield
• Synthwave
• Experimentalism
• Sampledelic
• Electronic music

Artist: The Fucked Up Beat

Release: Insomnie

Label: Bandcamp/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

Njotoz – Amazing (2012)

Mindblasting

• Indie pop/rock 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Soft rock 
• Pop rock 
• Soul rock

Comment: there is another issue by an Indonesian artist and Indonesian imprint at Recent Music Heroes. The previous ones were The Barsand Mars, and Susu Ultrarock Records. Njotoz`s Amazing is clearly a disparate issue in comparison to The Barsand Mars` Teen Smiths Pizza (The Bars Version) because of playing gentle guitar-based music wherein the lyrics are sung in English and in Indonesian (or in local languages – sorry for my incompetency with regard to it). Hey You, and the self-titled track are gentle ballads with expanding orchestrated sounds and predominant vocal delivery. In fact, Hey You is a beatific soul(rock) ditty. At Selamat Ulang Tahun the ensemble employs more electricity to be pulled through guitars though providing a ballad song in principle. It is a short case – just three tracks and approximately 15 minutes. This fine release is a part of the discography of Mindblasting.

The Barsand Mars – Teen Smiths Pizza (The Bars Version) (2015)

Susu Ultrarock

• Electronic pop 
• Chiptune 
• Tracker music 
• Synth music 
• Chipbreak 
• 8-bit 
• Bitpop 
• Nintendocore 

Comment: Susu Ultrarock Records is a part of an imprint conglomeration called Indonesian Netlabel Union. Of course, there are represented the wide range of miscellaneous audible things within it. The recent issue is a frantic shift between wobbly 8-bit breaks and Nintendo intended rhythms produced on The Commodore 64 and catchy synthesised melodies and arousing harmonies (in fact, obviously being tapped out on The Commodore 64 either). The issue embraces 7 tracks yet being very short-running – just eight minutes and a half minute in total. On the 21^st of May (by the way, the birthday of Kevin Shields, the frontman of MBV) while listening to it in early morning it makes difference for me. I think it will make difference for the upcoming mornings and afternoons and evenings as well. The issue is an example of music which may be considered to be produced on primitive, even infantile hardware by contemporary standards yet the music chimes agelessly. Get it and eat that pizza.

[Teaser of the day] Animal Collective - Applesauce

Archive.org

• Experimental pop 
• Electronic
• Freak folk
• Weird folk
• Neo-psychedelia
• Avant-pop
• Live session
• Indie
• Free folk
• New Weird America 
• Alternative
• Psych-folk
• Leftfield pop

Artist: Animal Collective

Release: Live at Fox Theater on 2012-09-22

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Robert Farrugia - Above The Fog

Petroglyph

• Ambient
• Art music
• Post-classical
• Avant-garde
• Epic

Artist: Robert Farrugia

Release: Mist EP

Label: Petroglyph/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Ergo Phizmiz - Thirst Class

Free Music Archive

• Avant-garde
• Dada music
• Sampledelic
• Glitchtronica
• Experimental pop
• Plunderphonics
• Avant-pop
• Leftfield pop
• Experimentalism
• Electronic music

Artist: Ergo Phizmiz

Release: DIK DOK

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Dream Girl - Belltower

• Alternative rock
• Post-rock
• Crossover
• Post-metal
• Epic
• Electro-rock

Artist: Dream Girl

Release: EP1

Label: Kitty On Fire

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] PS - Stevie Nicks

Enoughrecords

• Ambient
• Drone
• Minimalism 
• Ambient drone
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde

Artist: PS

Release: Self-doubt Mountain

Label: Enoughrecords/Jamendo/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Copy Wrong #1 (2012)

Eye Machine Recordings

• Avant-garde 
• Experimental 
• Plunderphonics 
• Harsh noise 
• Grindcore 
• Sampledelic 
• Non-music 
• Electronic music 
• Sound collage 
• Leftfield 
• Freeformfreakout

Comment: by Wiktionary the term “copywrong” does mean the unethical use of, or disregard for, copyright law. Indeed, this miscellany of 13 tracks by 11 artists (or 12 artists because one of the artists is tagged as unknown and by Luxurious Dagger there are up a couple of tracks) is an example of how popular music can be changed into something peripheral and extreme being heavily mutilated, slowed down and excessively mixed together (for instance, J-pop-based light-hearted harmonies are interlaced with harsh noise torrents, or Luxurious Dagger`s version of The Beatles` Come Together is thoroughly ravaged, or different styles used to play from the both channels at the same time or being switched on and off incessantly. There are also up weird samples, barely audible sonic layers as if being thrown into water. Reality around an average listener is substantially warped and changed into mayhem. There are represented such artists as Ben Presto, Public Domain, noiseoftherose, Luxurious Dagger, MBD, Captain Missouri, Third Organ, Ryder Farms, Hat Goblin, Otto V. Rhino, (o)†hers, and The Implicit Order. This miscellany is represented by Eye Machine Recordings. I guess ideologically a purpose of this issue may be related to capture some basic pop values and employ them ridiculously to derail the mainstream control and intention to manipulate with the people in a certain way.

Arze Kareem – Akstrumentals Vol.2 (2011)

Audiocast Productions

• Nu jazz 
• Breaks 
• Sampledelic 
• Acid jazz 
• Sound collage 
• Hip-hop 
• Synthwave 
• Trip-hop 
• Electronic music

Comment: this bunch of 6 tracks is represented by the Latvian beat maker Arze Kareem whose cocktail is a sultry blend of crunchy hip-hop paces and scratches and trip-hop rhythms, cinematic samples and yearning vowel effects, hovering and boldly laid out synths and synthesised orchestrations, and lonely piano chords and even some rock music bottoms here and there. The short-running 6-notch outing is a part of the discography of Audiocast Productions. Belonging to the top tier of sampledelic/sound collage/nu jazz/trip-hop music. A logical consequence thereafter is to go to the first volume of Akstrumentals. And then to the other issues by the artists and then to the discography of Audiocast Productions.

[Teaser of the day] Erich Schall - Saxblock

Der Kleine Grüne Würfel

• Improvised music
• Dub-techno
• Acid jazz
• Sampledelic
• Crossover
• Sound collage
• Electronic jazz
• Alternative
• Nu jazz

Artist: Erich Schall

Release: Sonde

Label: Der Kleine Grüne Würfel/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] 16 Lovers Lane - Inside Outside

Clinical Archives

• Indie pop
• Alternative pop
• Dream pop
• Slowcore

Artist: 16 Lovers Lane

Release:  Don’t Try To Push Me (EP)

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Channel Surfing - Vietnamese Rainstorm

• Experimental electronica
• Ambient
• Vaporwave
• Acousmatic music
• Field recording
• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Sound collage
• Micronoise
• Electronic music
• Leftfield
• Alternative

Artist: Channel Surfing
Release: Paradox In The Bathroom
Label: La bèl
Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Children Of The Drone - untitled 4

Children Of The Drone

• Improvised music
• New Weird England
• Free folk
• Live session
• Trance folk
• Raga folk
• Psych-folk
• Avant-folk
• Weird folk

Artist: Children Of The Drone

Release: Sherwood Cottage, 14/07/05

Label: Children Of The Drone

Year: 2005 

[Teaser of the day] Enrico Falbo - Trance-Forme

Vulpiano

• Krautrock
• Avant-rock
• Kosmische Musik
• Ambient
• Experimental rock
• Avant-garde
• Electronic music
• Experimentalism

Artist: Enrico Falbo

Release: Tranceformer

Label: Vulpiano/Free Music Archive/Mediafire

Year: 2017

Warchalking – Diplomancy (2013)

Daydream Generation

Bandcamp

• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Blues rock 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Americana

Comment: there are up 13 tracks clocking in at a 40 minute being released under such platform as Daydream Generation being closely related to another platform, Quixodelic Records and now defunct CLLCT (oh yeah, I miss all the music being ever released under CLLCT). The platforms have been existed to bring varicoloured music to the world. From alt-folk/indie-folk to New Weird America and space pop to lo-fi and DIY-tinged experimental pop. Unfortunately I have not yet listened to Warchalking`s two previous albums before it but there is said it embraces the drums and a bass guitar for the first time. Before it the project was just Kris Baranovic, a man with an acoustic guitar. A first thing you can perceive on it this is power (read: electricity) added to the mix though you can clearly perceive acoustic guitar induced stumming on it. At times it is Americana-tinged, at times it is the sort of adult oriented rock, at times it is psychedelic, at times it is blues rock coloured. It is a nice listening.

The Bordellos – The Bordello underground tape vol 5 (2017)

Bandcamp

• Drone rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Garage rock

Comment: for me, any of The Bordellos` subsequent issues is a special event. This is the fifth tape by the St Helens, English-based combo and one has no chance to get disappointed. And having had no chance to get disappointed with regard to The Bordellos` aesthetics so far. At Temperature Drop [wa12 radio session] it starts off with a slowed-down organ droning accompanied by the lyrics chanted by Dan Shea reminding slightly of Mozza`s own. Indeed, we`ll crumble into dust. That`s the fact. All the thing depends on a certain person`s strength is he ready to reach new goals or is he obsessed and be morbidly overwhelmed. In other words, it a man`s fight with his/her own. Take in Prozac, take in Xanax. On the other side, at Sun Storm [Brian vocal] chimes like a version of a decelerated Jason Pierce providing hints at Ian Curtis either. I'm A Man [version 1] is a wild mix of decimating garage rock and Tex-Mex tendencies being obviously the most challenging track within it. I guess there are up not enough tracks in the world being driven by harmonica, and in this case the instrument is very furious. It is followed up a tranquil ballad called Autumn Grey. But you should not be suspicious altogether – it is a ballad of The Borellos` on its own terms. In a nutshell, it is a short yet multi-faceted issue which seems to be a honest outing because of following the human nature. 

More Material ‎– Snow Owls For A Better China (2004)

NORTHAMERICANHARDCORE

• Hardcore 
• Screamo 
• Alternative rock 
• Electro-metal
• Technical metal 
• Alternative metal 
• Harsh noise 
• Trash metal

Comment: it may be a sort of indie rock but it is certainly in the terms of a record label called NORTHAMERICANHARDCORE. More profoundly, it is based on aggressive guitar riffs, anxiety fuelled vocal and screaming mixed lines, incisive electronics and slightly haphazard drumming around it. It is not fake, it is lively true. It starts off with a math rock tinged pattern to progress slowly into something harsher and suffocating. In fact, I cannot resist such sort of thrusting yet somewhat controllable dementia. Indeed, a listener can often perceive mechanical patterns behind this tumultous firework. The final minute is only dedicated to penetrating harsh noise. There are up 5 tracks to be clocked in at a 20 minute. The overwhelming issue is the 26th release in the discography of the imprint.  

F600 – Dos Puertas y un Puente para una Banda Sonora (2016)

Pueblo Nuevo

• Electro-acoustic 
• Avant-garde 
• Improvised music 
• Experimentalism 
• Post-industrial 
• Techno

Comment: if to compare F600`s previous issue At Home Like a Tourist (2015, Pueblo Nuevo) to his recent one the new one is a little bit different case. At At Home Like a Tourist the listener could enjoy dub techno, ambient, electro pop, dubstep, and electro pop patterns but the recent one is wrapped up in electro-acoustic reverberations and incisive digitalized sounds. Indeed, it is also a rhythmic case but it is definitely different. It is a sort of abstract techno if the rhythms start to take shape. At times the sounds are boosted with thick, low frequency-ranged drilling synths. By the way, the album consists of two long tracks with total extent of a 32 minute. Similarly to the artist`s previous issue the recent one is a part of the discography of Pueblo Nuevo. 

Nunun – Inner (2017)

Acustronica

• Post-rock 
• Indietronica 
• Experimental rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Improvised music

Comment: after a span of five years and the album Seven Mirrors the duo Nunun (Cesare Discepoli – guitar, effects, and Massimo Discepoli – drums) are back again with a 32-minute issue called Inner. Partly it is improvised music, partly it seems to be a determined outing wherein one can enjoy spacey landscapes where shaky sounds of the drums and drum kits are mixed up with volatile synthesised strings and over-driven guitar chords. Of course, it is just a main line on the issue but one can discover more templates which used to describe the release. Murky moods are variegated with more silver-tinged lines, slowed-down compositions are to be replaced by more fast-paced numbers. The issue is a part of the discography of Acustronica. A solid issue.

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.