Recent Music Heroes

Comment: as the title says this set of 7 compositions is dedicated to peace, solidarity, and love. And the lyrics will affirm it. Behind the project are Singapore artist Juliana Yasin and Majalengka, Indonesia-based Jatiwangi Art Factory. Coincidentally I am reading at the moment William Somerset Maugham`s Far Eastern Tales so the idyllic outing used to resonate with it. Indeed, some lyrics are represented in English, and some in a local language (I shall have to apologize for my stupidity). However, music is an universal language so it is my pleasure to understand a subtle stringed accompaniment for a light-hearted singing at times being accompanied by male voices as well. At times gentle flute whiffs and magically sounding melodica based droning are embedded in the gentle singing and calm guitar strums. Only the final track Damaikan Bumi used to employ panoramic noisy guitar dodges, making up the fine resonance for the whole. In a nutshell, it is a lovely issue being part of the discography of Cratediggers.

5/31/2017

[Teaser of the day] Debate Club - Elephant Shoe

Indie rock
Alternative rock

Artist: Debate Club

Release: Fish Fry EP

Label: Beko DSL

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] The Dreams - Mein Schatz

Post-punk
Shitgaze
Lo-fi
DIY
Alternative rock
Indie rock

Artist: The Dreams

Release: Morbido

Label: Kill Shaman

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Daniel Maze - Foodcourt

Standard Music

Deep techno
Alternative
Ambient techno
Ambient dub
Deep dub
Electronic music

Artist: Daniel Maze

Release: SKUBA

Label: Standard Music

Year: 2006

Schizoid Ops – Gerbil Feed (2012)

Eye Machine

Dada music
Experimentalism
Avant-garde
Non-music
Freeformfreakout
Plunderphonics
Sound collage

Comment: I can remember for a time when I decided to reverse the tape of The Fall`s dadaist post-punk issue Perverted By Language (1983, Rough Trade) and then listened to it from the beginning to the end. In fact, the result was not more frantic and weird with regard to the original one (being the favourite of mine by them). Schizoid Ops` 7-notch issue is a bit different case though obviously there is something which may remind of it. More profoundly, this issue is based on more and less known pop song structures which are heavily and thoroughly chopped up and warped. And they have done it with great pleasure. Furthermore, the volume level is very unstable, at times it is barely audible and at times it shouts into your ear. I guess the intention of it is to demonstrate its hostile antipathy against the music industry, towards the RIAA, against the established norms in producing mainstream music and representation of it. By its ideological context it is remarkably more enjoyable than by its nihilistic musical approach. The issue is a part of the discography of Eye Machine Recordings.

5/30/2017

[Teaser of the day] Muhr - De La Gouache Dans Le Ciel

Zymogen

Post-classical
Modern classical
Ambient
Art music
Electronic music

Artist: Muhr

Release: Drames Et Precipices

Label: Zymogen

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Oldboy Melody - Different But Equivalent

Mindblasting

Indie pop
Dance rock
Alternative dance
Electro-indie
Alternative pop
New Wave
Indie dance

Artist: Oldboy Melody

Release: Metronome EP

Label: Mindblasting/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] rin la - In The Name Of Dub

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

Artist: rin la

Release: Normality Brings Out The Hardcore In Me

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Sabrina Siegel / Bryan Day / Tom Djll / Bob Marsh – Ocean Of Lakes (2015)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Improvised music
Electro-acoustic
Avant-garde
Psycho-acoustic
Sound poetry
Avant-jazz
Experimentalism
Free jazz

Comment: in fact, there is much to say about this set of 6 compositions because it is musically and emotionally complex, intense, and mind-provoking. All the music is conjured up by such instruments as kalimba, modular synth, cello, bass guitar, trumpet, voice, and invented instruments (so listen to the issue to figure out the instruments more concretely). It can be said the issue is an fine example of interesting sounds yet all of that will constitute a perceivable whole subsequently. For instance, Sabrina Siegel`s vowel effects and other kinds of sound poetry (additionally I remmond listen to such artists as Maja Ratkje, Jaap Blonk, Roomet Jakapi) used to range from soothing to hirsute, the same could be said about Tom Djll`s synthesiser effects which used to lay over the whole spectre atop, at times changing into something being close to emergency signals. At times it is free jazz with modifications, at times it is more electro-acoustic music with creepy variations, at times the combo enjoys its more silent yet idiosyncratic soundscape being obviously winded from intense sections. Yet its architectural buildup is somewhere between the aforementioned styles. More profoundly, the tempo is slowed down, in fact it is the main approach of determining the pace which is accelerated by spasmodic trumpet whiffs, zigzag acoustic noises and Siegel`s incisive vocal acrobatics now and then. The lower tones are conjured up by a cello, and a bass guitar. The issue is a part of the discography of Pan Y Rosas Discos. As Heraclitus said many thousand years ago that no man ever steps in the same river twice the same could said about the recent one with regard to the perception of it.

5/29/2017

[Teaser of the day] Massimo Ruberti - Antipol Propol

Nostress

Live recording
Post-disco
EDM
Robot pop
Acid electro
Kraut-electro
Electronic pop
Electro pop

Artist: Massimo Ruberti

Release: Live in Palermo 2017

Label: Nostress

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Oudeis - Virulent

Experimental electronica
Glitchtronica
Kosmische Musik
Abstract
Synthwave
Microtonal

Artist: Oudeis

Release: Incision

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Chancius - Time and Space Died Yesterday

Jamendo

Alternative pop/rock
Experimental pop
Singer-songwriter
Space pop
Indie pop/rock
Art pop
Electronic

Artist: Chancius

Release: Bando

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

Sleeping Policemen – ePop028 (2012)

Eardrums Pop

Bandcamp

Indie pop
Alternative pop
Folk indie
Twee pop
Alt-folk
Indie folk

Comment: Sleeping Policemen is a 4-member ensemble from Hamburg, Germany who represent the main line of a record, Eardrums Pop of which choice is based on cute indie/twee pop. I would prefer the term “meadow pop” as if music being produced somewhere in the countryside if people (especially human persons coming out from a city, “civilization”) after running around in the middle of a herd of cattle, and across the meadow and picking flowers and then arrive at a barn in the evening to produce an upbeat music. A contemporary approach to be the hippy. Even if the combo sing about visiting friends in Italy and French philosophy. Such sort of music has been popularised in the Scandinavian peninsula (mostly in Sweden during the 90s, and 00s). So if you are keen to hear such sunshiny, cloudless and careless music then do not hesitate to come close to the discography of the imprint. Yet it does not mean the release is somehow aesthetically second class even if they do not produce hell out of this 4-track outing. Bucolic guitar twangs and female and male mixed singing are wrapped up by cute synthesised strings and reverberant chords. The tempo is up and upbeat. Business as usual with regard to the outings on Eardrums Pop, one of the tracks is a cover version of the combo`s comradeship group Big Ideas` composition Jack Of All Trades. Get it for sure.

5/28/2017

[Teaser of the day] Majka Is Board - TinyBrightStatic

No-Source

IDM
Electro pop
Electronic pop
Synth-pop
Acid
Alternative dance

Artist: Majka Is Board

Release: TinyBrightStatic

Label: No-Source

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Someone Else - Alis Heart Shaped Cushion

Free Music Archive

Electronic pop
Chiptune
Post-disco
Noise
Electroclash
Tracker music
Electro pop
Hi-NRG
8-bit
Acid dance

Artist: Someone Else

Release: You Can Name This EP

Label: You Are Not Stealing Records/Archive.org

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Antoine Trauma - Laika, the Sputnik dog

Plataforma

Illbient
Post-industrial
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Leftfield

Artist: Antoine Trauma

Release: Temple Of 3 Horses

Label: Plataforma/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

Wes Leslie, the Bedroom Player – Bedroom Soul (2017)

Bandcamp

Soul
Alternative pop
Singer-songwriter
Indie pop
Americana
Soft rock

Comment: as the title says it is about closeness to bedroom and soul music. Indeed, the San Francisco, California, US-based artist Wes Leslie does not lie at all though there is a gap to interpret the term “bedroom” in different ways. Is it his approach to record music in a bedroom or is it his intention to seduce girls. His soundscape is clear, all parts are segmented and having no specific lo-fi/DIY approach which can be related to. Wes Leslie`s vocal is full of mellow touch and gentle murmurs though lyrically it is a painful yearning for broken relations, ex-girls, and passed memories created together once. So if you have had the similar experience (and of course, you do as a contemporary person, isn`t?) then is painful or at least bittersweet for you as well. At Oh My Golly Gosh especially arouses me due to Leslie is singing with Mae Powell in unison. That`s very sexy. The most important – Wes Leslie is very convincing in all aspects of his music. Calm fingering on the guitar are backed up with sporadic horn sections and orchestrated flavour and hazy electronics adding an appealing Americana touch to the soulful blend. Last but not least – it is an outing for a contemporary listener – it embraces 18 minutes during the course of a handful of ditties. Fairly accomplished.

5/27/2017

Drehkommando - Die Toten haben Strassen

[Teaser of the day] Momus - Rhetoric

Ubuweb

Singer-songwriter
Alternative pop
Synth-pop
Art pop
Indie pop
Electro-indie

Artist: Momus

Release: Timelord

Label: Ubuweb/Creation

Year: 1993

[Teaser of the day] Ajna - The Coldest February

Treetrunk

Ambient
Avant-garde
Drone
Post-classical
Microtonal
Soundscape
Minimalism
Epic
Ambient drone
Experimentalism

Artist: Ajna

Release: Elusive Spaces

Label: Treetrunk

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Talkative - Dub Jag

New Weird America
Neo-psychedelia
Psych-rock
Alternative rock
Acid rock

Artist: Talkative

Release: F Sharp Voice

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

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.

5/25/2017

[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.

5/24/2017

[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.

5/22/2017

[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.

5/20/2017

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.

5/18/2017

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.

5/10/2017

[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

5/09/2017

[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

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.

5/08/2017

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.

5/07/2017

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.

5/06/2017

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.

5/05/2017

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.

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