Recent Music Heroes

Comment: this bunch of 4 compositions comes out from such label as Soisloscerdos Netlabel, being the first entry of the imprint into the blog. Trillion Catz is the duo of Michael Nordhagen, and Günter Neumann from Berlin, Germany. Since the start in 2015 they have been especially active in 2017 while releasing three outings, including this 16-minute issue. Musically the duo`s music is a logical sequel to the Düsseldorf-Cologne-Berlin IDM/plinkerpop/indietronica/neokrautrock/post-rock scene of the 90s, to the bands like Tarwater, Mina, To Rococo Rot, Barbara Morgenstern, Contriva, Mouse On Mars, Kreidler, Pluramon. By listening to an instance of kraut-related music it is being an arousing experience to me in almost of cases. Keep is Real EP is the case for sure because it surprises with coherent structural buildup and mind-blowing sounds. Those bass driving dynamic lower parts are embellished with spacious, majestic, at times elliptic synthesised upper templates though at times the beauty is interrupted by glitched-out electronics and sonic effects here and there. I am sure it will be added to the top list of music releases in 2017.

Nilaesh – Gladio (2014/2016)

Bump Foot

Bandcamp

Techno
Tekno
Acid techno
Psytrance
Psytekno
Electro
Crossover
Psytechno

Comment: Wolverhampton, UK-based Nilaesh Patel aka Patel`s 5-track issue and 35 minutes are a fatty blend of tekno, electronica, acid techno/house, electro, and on the other side there are clearly represented psy-related elements as psytrance, psytechno, and psytekno. It is a crossover issue being influenced by wild and lysergic warehouse parties of the beginning of the 1990s. It is not surprising at all because Nilaesh Patel started DJing since the mid-1990s. However, his influences seem to be remarkably more wide, for instance, at the opening Mess Around he employs a sample from a shoegaze/indie dance duo Curve`s ditty called Horrohead. It can be said the whole successfully revitalises old traditions both within the rave and psy-related scene because one can hear sublime inner burning and sultry atmosphere throughout the tracks. The great issue is a part of the discography of a legendary Japanese imprint, Bump Foot.

6/07/2017

Number Eleven – Autism (2017)

Electron Emitter

Techno
Experimental techno
Avant-techno
Abstract techno
Avant-techno
Electronic music
Industrial techno
Post-industrial

Comment: Autism is the Lithuanian artist's fourth outing on Electron Emitter. Autism as a condition (though it is disputable) is considered on a wide spectrum. By its nature it is related to enormous potential and on the other hand it is related to tremendous disability. However, on one peripheral side of the condition is a state called savant. It pertains to human beings who can lead their lives normally yet excelling at languages, and applied sciences with pure mind and also enormous premiss and will to work off. The only shortage related to them is their low capability to be empathetic. In a word, the emotions are something they are not able to understand. Although human beings by the aforementioned characteristics they seem to be quite similar to the definition "robot" in a way. Our society is highly specialised and it will be even more and more. It needs more and more people who are autistic to excelling at doing one operation/action/thing. We do not need the so-called humanists anymore, we need less feelings, at the lowest degree actually; we need more processors, more microscopic chips, more artificial extremities to result in elegantly shaking sleek machines while being productive at the highest degree. The influence of The Smiths`s lyrics will be succumbed. I am not Human and I do not need to be loved (anymore). No, it is not a hate speech, it is the sober calculation. Number Eleven's 11-track outing is robotic in its monotonous routine based on spacious offbeat rhythmic structures and at the same time having the state of mind of getting signals from outer space. One can hear hirsute cadences and elemental electro progressions and noisy sonic chips and eerie shadows and halcyon synthesised upper layers which used to result in an ominous atmosphere. At times some layers are clearly accelerated with regard to the pace of others, at times they are decelerated, at times they produce a sense as if being subjugated to an incisive abrasion. Could it be considered the enhanced disorder as one of the titles suggests? It correlates very well with getting signals from an abyss of outer space. The signals are falling over one's head. Does it mean something good for the human kind or not? Does it mean something altogether? In fact, the story is old and it can be considered a notch from the sequel of Autechre created cerebral techno tradition. However, Number Eleven's approach is to add more neoclassical and post-industrial frequencies to the melting pot in comparison to the legendary Manchester duo. Top notch by any means. Your life is here to be... .

6/06/2017

[Teaser of the day] Humberto Luis Schenone - Rio de Plata

Clinical Archives

Musique concrète
Ethnotronica
Art music
Alternative
Crossover
World fusion
Modern classical
Field recordings
World music

Artist: Humberto Luis Schenone

Release: Soltar… Saltar

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Albert Glasser - Opium

Free Music Archive

Soundtrack
Experimentalism
Spoken word
Electronic music
Exotica pop
Hauntology
Art music
Psychoacoustic
Avant-garde
Storytelling

Artist: Albert Glasser

Release: Confessions of an Opium Eater

Label: Chinstrap

Year: 1962/2010

[Teaser of the day] Ataque Escampe - 3

Electronic music
Alternative
Experimental pop
Synthwave
Art music
Big beat

Artist: Ataque Escampe

Release: B.S.O. Relatos americanos

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Pete Da Clinker - What Were You Thinking Of?

Garage rock
Psych-rock
Fuzz rock
Noise pop
Alternative rock
Indie rock

Artist: Pete Da Clinker

Release: Who Hell He?

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] The Hirundu - Yner

Avant-rock
Electronic music
Art music
Post-rock
Crossover
Experimental rock

Artist: The Hirundu

Release: Telemachus

Label: Pitch And Putt/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Quietest - chime05

Noisy Vagabond

Ambient pop
Electronic music
Chilltronica
Organic electronica
Meditative
Chill out
Mood music

Artist: Quietest

Release: Chime

Label: Noisy Vagabond

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Pojkroom - Fjäsk för överheten

Ecology Attack

Art music
Field recording
Avant-garde
Leftfield
Musique concrète
Experimentalism
Guitar ambient

Artist: Pojkroom

Release: Vanlig EP

Label: Ecology Attack/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] H Stewart - To Kill the Dying

Clinical Archives

Avant-garde
Leftfield
Hauntology
Micronoise
Minimalism
Alternative
Experimentalism
Sound poetry

Artist: H Stewart

Release: Fevered and Childless

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] exm - ineSix

Electronic music
IDM
Mood music
Synthwave
Downtempo
Chilltronica
Kosmische Musik

Artist: exm

Release: ineSix/Cider

Label: Section 27

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mechanical Stress Ensemble - Jan Swaammerdaan

Eye Machine Recordings

Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Improvised music
Noise
Leftfield
Electronic music
Post-industrial
Psychoacoustic
Dada music
Avant-electronica
Acousmatic music
Freeformfreakout

Artist: Mechanical Stress Ensemble

Release: Eminent Ataxia

Label: Eye Machine Recordings

Year: 2013

6/05/2017

Graphic Antics – What Does It Mean? (2017)

blocSonic

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

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

Comment: hip-hop music can be represented in different forms and with disparate intentions. Fortunately we are living today while even mainstream hip-hop is truly intriguing, the recent situation within the urban music is obviously much better than it was 10 years and 20 years ago. Boring gangsta rap is deceased and Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar are producing music which could have been considered a representative of underground hip-hop many years ago. Of course, there have been existed artists whose intention to produce avant-garde music is to use hip-hop music as an instrument for it. For instance, Death Grips, and Dälek are such a sort of artists. Or Flying Lotus whose purpose has been to produce a moody sound. The conglomeration of Ant The Symbol, and Graphic Melee aka Graphic Antics' 14-track outing is a fabulous whole, a fabulous platform to cross the aforementioned tendencies and facets into a coherent whole. It is a truly convincing rapping with dynamic sampling sets where spicy and arrogant attitudes are variegated with more shadowy and cinematic glimpses where one can discern yearning and even pain. Let's call it dream-hop as a style and as a result. The issue is a bit in the discography of blocSonic. A best issue in 2017 so far.

Dolby – Dub:Expo EP (2002)

Thinner

Dub house
Dub techno
Alternative
Electronic music
Deep house

Comment: this set of 4 compositions used to excel at dub house (and dub techno in lesser extent) frequencies which happened many years before dubstep appeared to please our mind. However, all those low yet predominantly flowing basses did predict the birth of the style. It is a nice listening experience in a rainy evening while being wrapped up by the deep and charming and warm oscillations. At times the main layer of the basses is embellished with tickling electronic effects and iterative reverberations being so characteristic to dub music. Or a flow of crackling hisses breaks into a layer of the basses to wobble together charmingly. Behind the project is a producer from Leipzig, Germany, Marko Fürstenberg, who is being widely known within the webaudio/netaudio world and the outing is a part of the discography of a cult imprint, Thinner. Glorious vibe.

6/04/2017

Kirk Cosby – Dreams In The Absence Of Oxygen (2011)

Vaatican

Experimentalism
Sound collage
Sampledelic
Avant-garde
Plunderphonics

Comment: these 6 pieces within a 45 minute are up there to unhinge and irritate a listener. Of course, it is a glorious whole made up of original samples though these samples used to come out from very disparate sources. From spoken word ones to more tranquil electronic sounds, moody jazz samples and earnest singing and on the other side you can perceive monotonous drumming and short wave frequencies and austere hiss extractions to be added to this informative melting pot. Of course, mention must be given to other minutiae as well you can hear in the mix. Recently I reviewed The Fucked Up Beat`s brand new one Insomnie which may be similar to it. Especially at Stimuli Unconsciously, and asdf Space you can perceive parallels with it. Otherwise the whole chimes in a more haphazard, in a more convulsive way. It can be described as an instance of disruptive and insubordinate music. From earlier times with regard to the artists it bears a resemblance with the likes of People Like Us, and Ergo Phizmiz. In the absence of oxygene I guess dreams come first for some minutes and then to be ready to die thereafter. But you should relax (by citing one of the phrases from the issue). The tricky outing is a part of the discography of mind-provoking imprint Vaatican Records.

6/01/2017

[Teaser of the day] Bradley The Buyer - Epileptic Playground

Sirona-Records

Alternative rock
Blues rock
Indie rock
Psych-rock

Artist: Bradley The Buyer

Release: ARTWAR: Installment 1

Label: Sirona-Records/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Fabio Anile - When Nothing Happens

Laverna

Modern classical
Soundscape
Post-classical
Ambient
Electronic music
Mood music

Artist: Fabio Anile

Release: Weigthless

Label: Laverna

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Mikr Tonalwsky - Passing And Mutating

Triceratupuz

Avant-garde
Electronic music
Sound art
Experimentalism

Artist: Mikr Tonalwsky

Release: End of the Rat

Label: Triceratupuz

Year: 2013

Tante Jules dan Pemuda Inisiatif – For Peace and Togetherness (2010)

Cratediggers

Indie pop
Singer-songwriter
Alternative pop
Noise pop

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.

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