Cedric Elisabeth – Parallel (2017)

Petroglyph Music

Bandcamp

• Drone 
• Epic 
• Experimentalism 
• Ambient drone 
• Minimalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Dark ambient 
• Post-classical 
• Crossover

Comment: slow down and go further. Slow down and show up your inclination for new conquers within the sonic art. Your very inclination for developing an area wherein minimalism meets dark hued and deeply immersed ambient and majestic post-classical buildups full of less and more remarkable shades and distinctive borders. Of course, additional elements are also represented to be added to the mix (some field recording and glitchy compartments). Moreover, you can follow classical drift between noise and silence, between an existing and Nothing. Aside the metaphysical point of view it might seem like an endless iteration within a set of determined particles yet I have to admit the impression of the whole exceeds the set of its particles due to existence of synergy between the different parts of the whole. The word "between" does mean a gentle following one part or section by another because it is focused on horizontally parallel moving. The gentle outing is a part of the discography of an imprint, Petroglyph Music.

FailedSitcom – Of Life's Declivity (2010)

Daydream Generation

• Lo-fi 
• New Weird America 
• Free folk 
• Freak folk 
• Weird folk 
• DIY 
• Electronic 
• Singer-songwriter

Comment: this bunch of 11 short-running tracks represents a modern folk scene called New Weird America being seminal throughout the 00s. At the end of the decade one of the juggernauts of this style Animal Collective went into clear-cut poppy electronic music so you can see influences coming from the previous years before it. Audibly there are up plucked strings mixed up with sublime male singing, mellifluous glockenspiel chords and sweet electronic progressions. Its rustic and simplistic approach reminds of music under such DIY-based platforms as CLLCT, Daydream Generation, Quixodelic Records and Rack And Ruin Records. By famous kindred souls this Sam Durkin's outing can be compared with CocoRosie, and Vashti Bunyan. Much has changed since then but we can remember for it with bittersweet nostalgia. Its lyrical message can be pessimistic but musically it is a pleasing experience. Get his another issue, called Her Blameless Mystery as well on the same link.

Headsnack – Alternative Facts EP (2017)

blocSonic

Archive.org

• Hip-hop 
• Remixes 
• Rap 
• Urban music 
• Electronic music

Comment: Alternative facts are something related to the term "post-truth" being emerged out after the last presidential run in the USA. Of course, it is primarily being used against Donald Trump though its practice could have harked back to the beginning of political practice I guess. In other words, some governors tend to be authoritarians, many of them are governed by bureaucracy and financial power though faking out as if the representatives of their nation. I have no exact idea is it either inspired by Donald Trump or about making politics or democracy they pretend for in general but it is said in a very critical way anyway. By my side, the media is totally fucked up and the best way to handle this is just to ignore it. It is filled in with propaganda and half-truths, the so-called alternative facts. Some of the visionaries like Stephen Hawking, and Elon Musk are talking either of rubbish things or annoying trivialities of which you did know before or topics which are clearly unreachable or hypotheses which cannot be verified. You are sleeping you do not want to believe. This 11-notch consists mainly of remakes and remixes of Alternative Facts, the first two of them are instrumental ones (at least in my music player) and some tracks do have a little in common with hip-hop and rap (that`s OK in the face of monotonousness). For example, Google Knows (both versions). The outing is a part of the discography of blocSonic. Behind the project is New York-based Regenerated Headpiece.

[Teaser of the day] Tleilaxu - Aphturours

Unfoundsound

• IDM
• Indietronica
• Clicks`n`cuts
• Alternative
• Folktronica
• Electronic music

Artist: Tleilaxu

Release: Sleepercel

Label: Unfoundsound

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Llyn Y Cwn - XXVI

• Ambient
• Epic
• Field recording
• Ambient drone
• Post-classical
• Electronic music
• Crossover
• Organic electronica

Artist: Llyn Y Cwn

Release: IV

Label: Mankymusic

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Futurguerra - Radioactivity mix

MAV [0kbps]

• Electro pop
• Remix
• Alternative
• Electronic music
• Kraut-electro

Artist: Futurguerra

Release: Kraftwerk 2017 Trans Human Express (Clone Music)

Label: MAV [0kbps]

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Iapga - Going Places

Miasmah

• Downtempo
• Chillstep
• Alternative
• Breaks
• Electronic music

Artist: Iapga

Release: Shelter EP

Label: Miasmah

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] THE DARK - K nohe!

• Industrial rock
• Alternative
• EBM
• Crossover
• Electronic 

Artist: THE DARK

Release: Lies For The Best Family

Label: CS Industrial 1982-2010

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] King Imagine - GM 45

COTA 303

• Electronic music
• Breaks
• Ambient techno
• Alternative

Artist: King Imagine

Release: AXID

Label: COTA 303/Bandcamp/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Wings Of An Angel - Alter The Patterns Which Certainly Modify The Creation Of Unintentional Species

• Post-classical
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Epic
• Art music
• Drone
• Modern classical

Artist: Wings Of An Angel

Release: Disgusted By The Monotonic Shortsighted Grayness Of Civilian Life

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Conveyor - Foreword

• Indie pop/rock
• Art pop
• Noise pop
• Neo-psychedelia
• Alternative pop/rock
• Dream pop
• Electronic

Artist: Conveyor

Release: Sun Ray EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] DannielRadall - 7:08 AM Rejection

• Indie pop
• Alternative pop
• Synth-rock
• Crossover
• Outsider house
• Alternative dance
• Electronic pop
• Poptronica

Artist: DannielRadall

Release: Pardo EP

Label: AMDISCS/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] The Antti Jädertpolm Quartet - Square Liberation

Jamendo

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

Artist: The Antti Jädertpolm Quartet

Release: Anime EP

Label: Enough/Archive.org/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Hometaping - Pinkeye

Earth Monkey Productions

• IDM
• Electronic pop
• Ambient pop
• Alternative
• Glitch pop
• Plinker pop

Artist: Hometaping

Release: The Summer Wreath EP

Label: Earth Monkey Productions

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Concrete Swords - Unbalanced

Dystopiaq

• Dubstep
• Electronic music
• Crossover
• Alternative
• Techno

Artist: Concrete Swords

Release: Unbalanced EP

Label: Dystopiaq

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] A Beautiful Machine - Empty Space, Points of Light (Version)

• Space rock
• Ambient rock
• Guitar ambient
• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: A Beautiful Machine

Release: Homesick

Label: Embryo Recordings 

Year: 2000

[Teaser of the day] Flooba - Luoo

Batenim

• Ambient
• Organic electronica
• Drone
• Minimalism
• Musique concrète
• Space music
• Field recording
• Electronic music

Artist: Flooba

Release: Shelter For Cork

Label: Batenim

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Abishai - Ambient Piece #3 (02-02-2017)

Vulpiano

• Ambient
• Avant-garde
• Guitar ambient
• Improvised music
• Lo-fi
• Experimentalism
• DIY

Artist: Abishai

Release: Various Extras

Label: Vulpiano/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] lenn9o9n - Little Bird

• Indie pop
• Electronic
• Alternative pop
• Art pop
• Synth-pop
• Electro-indie

Artist: lenn9o9n

Release: Relining Coffins EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] The Space Between Things - Twins

• Indie folk
• Alt-folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Folk indie
• Canadiana

Artist: The Space Between Things

Release: The Space Between Things

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Warchalking - Downside of the Downtime

• Indie folk
• Alternative pop
• Folk indie
• Americana

Artist: Warchalking

Release: Diplomancy

Label: Daydream Nation

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Lowercase Noises - Broke Through The Ice

• Post-rock
• Epic
• Alternative rock
• Ambient rock
• Chamber rock
• Art rock

Artist: Lowercase Noises

Release: Carry Us All Away

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Opus Bedroom - Out To Sea

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

Artist: Opus Bedroom

Release: So Much

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Nord-Sud - Une Pensèe

• Punk funk
• Ska
• Psychedelic pop
• Free jazz
• Dance punk
• World fusion
• Balkan folk
• Brass pop
• Baggy
• Improvised music
• Crossover
• Alternative pop

Artist: Nord-Sud

Release: Co​-​Ni​-​Fer

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Greyvoice - Just Hold On

• Indie rock
• Nugaze
• Alternative rock
• Dream pop
• Shoegaze

Artist: Greyvoice

Release: A View From The Condos

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Bakmahn - Dance In Stereo

• Alternative
• Electronic music
• Glo-fi
• Vaporwave
• Lounge pop
• Hypnagogic pop

Artist: Bakmahn

Release: เ ต้ น

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Room of Wires - Temple Run

• Big beat
• Acid dance
• Electronic music
• Alternative dance

Artist: Room of Wires

Release: Black Medicine

Label: Section 27

Year: 2017

Baradit – Electro Lines (2017)

Pueblo Nuevo

• Ambient pop 
• Electronic music 
• Synthwave 
• Alternative 
• Krautrock 
• Electro pop 
• Crossover 
• Yacht pop

Comment: it is great pleasure to be back again at the discography of a Chilean quality imprint, Pueblo Nuevo. Baradit's 9-notch issue is a fabulous blend of futuristic funky rhythms with gleaming shades and smouldering downtempo vibrations and decelerated ambient echoes. Moreover, one can hear iterative, motorik rhythmic structures and minimalist progressions which remind of Neu!, and an early Kraftwerk. At times it is highly moody and sunshiny, for example, at Crita, resembling strongly yacht pop drives. And of course, there are also represented electro pop elements but it is a fact of obvious kind that electro pop is represented everywhere in music today. Lots of synths, some guitars, iceberg tinged epic orchestrations, spidery cadences make you feel the whole is somehow special.

Alejandro Rojas-Marcos, David Area & Tomás Gris – Trails (2017)

Plus Timbre

Plus Timbre

• Improvised music 
• Experimental electronica 
• Avant-garde
• Sound art 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Experimentalism 
• Microsound 
• Microtonal

Comment: lots of noises being variegated with spans of silence and penumbras mixed of them. From noises to silence, and vice versa. From acoustically warped instruments to noise signal generated electronic dodges. At times the compartments are separated, at times they are superimposed to one another. This minimal approach has much in common with music being provided by early pioneers of electronic music of having experiments with such instrument as theremin. This is austere, rigid it is certainly an example of formalism rather than allowing an entrance to emotive music. One of them is operating in front of a clavichord, one of them is generating electronics, and one of them is playing soprano sax, viola, cello, and objects. It could be said, it is an intriguing blend of instruments. It is the course of this 3-notch outing being a bit in the discography of Greece-based Plus Timbre.

[Teaser of the day] Apache Dropout - Nothing In My Hand

Free Music Archive

• Psych-rock
• Indie rock
• Garage rock
• Blues rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: Apache Dropout

Release: Half of the Apache Dropout LP

Label: Family Vineyard 

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Noisesurfer - Trough The Earth

• Ambient
• Shoegazetronica
• Alternative
• Baggy
• Electronic
• Alternative dance

Artist: Noisesurfer

Release: Counting Days Of Glory Morning And Other Battles

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Evgenij V. Kharitonov - Ambient Compound-2 (Live Act 2017-05-26)

Treetrunk

• Ambient
• Space music
• Field recording
• Alternative
• Epic
• Live recording
• Organic electronica
• Musique concrète
• Electronic music

Artist: Evgenij V. Kharitonov

Release: Ambient Compound 

Label: Treetrunk

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] rin la - Normality Brings Out The Hardcore In Me

• Experimental hip-hop
• Avant-hop
• Rap
• Noise-hop
• Urban music
• Glitch-hop
• Industrial hip-hop

Artist: rin la

Release: Normality Brings Out The Hardcore In Me 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] The Easton Ellises - Black Love

Free Music Archive

• Indie pop/rock
• Dance rock
• Electro-indie
• Alternative dance
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: The Easton Ellises

Release: EP Two 

Label: Enough 

Year: 2012 

[Teaser of the day] Cocolixe - Le futur qui avance

No Source

• Neo-krautrock
• Electro-indie
• Indietronica
• Electronic
• Alternative pop

Artist: Cocolixe

Release: Doméstico EP

Label: No Source

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Can'O'Lard - Bard

Archive.org

• IDM
• Electronic music
• Lo-fi
• Synth-pop

Artist: Can'O'Lard

Release: None of What LP

Label: Archive.org 

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Brother Saturn - Our Hearts Beat As One, As I Stand Alone

• Art music
• Ambient
• Dreamwave
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock

Artist: Brother Saturn

Release: Descent Into Madness

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] VADi - Out Of The Dead

• Electronic music
• Indietronica
• Dream pop
• Art pop
• Alternative

Artist: VADi

Release: Up The Hill

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Dr. Insider - Let`s Play

PZ104ORBIT

• Electronic pop
• Ethnotronica
• Chilltronica
• World fusion

Artist: Dr. Insider

Release: Journey

Label: PZ104ORBIT

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Motonogo - Axxhole

• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Improvised music
• Experimentalism
• Electronic music

Artist: Motonogo

Release: Greatest Hits, Collisions & Casualties

Label: SSN Technologies

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Breuss Arrizabalaga Quintet - They Dwell On Other Planes

Hazard

• Improvised music
• Free jazz
• Alternative
• Downbeat
• Live recording
• Experimental pop

Artist: Breuss Arrizabalaga Quintet

Release: Nfamoudou - Boudougou

Label: Hazard/Free Music Archive

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] I/Dex - Aurora

• Ambient
• Space music
• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik

Artist: I/Dex

Release: Vapour

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Ensamble Passionaria - Supermercado

Kermesse

• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Electronic music

Artist: Ensamble Passionaria

Release: Mecánica Vegetal 

Label: Kermesse

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Mad Masks - Fragile

• Industrial rock
• Post-punk
• Electronic music
• Avant-rock
• Coldwave
• Goth rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: Mad Masks

Release: Mad Masks

Label: suRRism-Phonoethics/Free Music Archive

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Christian Doil - Stahl

Earth Mantra

• Abstract
• Microtonal
• Illbient
• Industrial techno
• Experimentalism
• Electro-acoustic
• Minimal techno
• Avant-garde
• Post-industrial
• Sound art

Artist: Christian Doil

Release: Metall

Label: Earth Mantra

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Pheek - Vivement le matin

Epsilonlab

• Deep house
• Tech-house
• Alternative
• House
• Electronic music

Artist: Pheek

Release: Épisodes

Label: Epsilonlab

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Holger Flinsch - Moonfloat

Thinner

• Deep techno
• Electronic music
• Club dance
• Tech-house

Artist: Holger Flinsch

Release: The Watcher And The Tower 

Label: Thinner

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Mentz - Paper

• Cool jazz
• Cinematic
• Improvised music
• Jazz noir
• Nu jazz
• Mood music

Artist: Mentz

Release: Lines EP

Label: Esc.rec

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] The Dandelion Council - In the Rainbow Forest

• Chillwave
• Alternative pop
• Nugaze
• Poptronica
• Glo-fi
• Electronic pop

Artist: The Dandelion Council  

Release: Dream Homes

Label: Archaic Horizon/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Dadala - Bufferstring

Free Music Archive

• Free jazz
• Experimentalism
• Psychedelic
• Improvised music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Dadala

Release: The Executive Suite

Label: Pan Y Rosas Discos

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Mossa - Take One

Epsilonlab

• Electronic music
• House
• Sampledelic
• Tech-house
• Oldie music

Artist: Mossa

Release: The Town Hall

Label: Epsilonlab

Year: 2005 

[Teaser of the day] Daughters of a Righteous Riot - Old School

Redstarcommunity

• Indietronica
• Electro-indie
• Electro pop
• Kraut-electro
• Alternative pop
• Indie pop

Artist: Daughters of a Righteous Riot

Release: Breaking My Heart Time And Time Again  

Label: Redstarcommunity

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Un vortice di bassa pressione - Hydrocoma Pt. 1

• Drone
• Electronic music
• Micronoise
• Psycho-acoustic
• Crossover
• Experimental electronica
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde
• Glitchtronica
• Experimentalism
• Ambient drone
• Epic

Artist: Un vortice di bassa pressione

Release: Anonymous Said

Label: Inglorious Ocean

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Ziv Shachar - This Could Be Anyone

• Post-dubstep
• Alternative pop
• Electro pop
• Autotune 
• Electronic pop

Artist: Ziv Shachar

Release: Ink - EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Limen - Cerulean

Bump Foot

• Experimental electronica
• Alternative
• Industrial techno
• Breaks
• Art music
• Industrial electro
• Post-industrial

Artist: Limen

Release: Cerulean

Label: Bump Foot 

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Sun Devoured Earth - Depersonalization

• Ethereal Wave
• Darkgaze
• Epic
• Alternative
• Darkwave

Artist: Sun Devoured Earth

Release: A Static Life

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Terracota Blue - Bristol `98

• Hip-hop
• Urban music
• Alternative
• Trap
• Electronic music
• Experimental hip-hop

Artist: Terracota Blue

Release: Beyond The Horizon EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Negritage – Greetings from the Planet Dub (2017)

Dub-O-Phonic

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Dub 
• Reggae 
• Dancehall 
• Raggamuffin 
• Mood music

Comment: this set of 17 tracks is created by the Argentinian Negritage and their numerous collaborators, and any of the second notch is collaborated by a new artist (Yuuri Bamboo, Christina Polycarpou, Ibel Campbell, Jam York, Sammy Gold, Mandlion, Med Dred, Haji Mike, Eter Dub, and Zion Irie). The whole is related to the reggae music, and its subgenres and derivatives. It can be a fine soundtrack for a sunshiny summertime, for your lazy time, to be ready to do nothing. Just to make some drinks and listen to such a sort of music under sultry sunshine and while thinking of himself/herself as an alien as the (mis)interpretation of human being. Indeed, we as human beings are not here to stay for a long time therefore our duty is fight for truth, peace and love and for a better live, for our children and next generations. That's the chain of reincarnation wherefrom you are not allowed to withdraw. Therefore we are here and everywhere under the eyes of Him. So celebrate the life with its relentless ebbs and tides. It is a formula of life. That`s okay as long as you know. This merry outing is a part of the discography of a Cyprian imprint, Dub-O-Phonic.

SUICIDEFORCE – IYE12 (2016)

In Your Ears

• Hardcore 
• Trashcore 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Powerviolence 
• Grindcore

Comment: what could be main impulses behind an inclination to commit a suicide? I guess these can be hopelessness, hatred of people and him/herself as a cursed exemplary among them (among the other cursed ones), overwhelming anxiety and distress coming out from an unknown source and falling fatally over one's head. By listening to this short-running 6-notch issue one can feel physically all the aforementioned distresses and inferior state of moods. It reflects upon mental terror in a very direct way. From the start to its very final pier. It does not take care of you it disseminates its paralysing seeds. Because of that, you shall have to be warned, it might not only be a reflection of suicide machine, it might be a suicide machine on its own. By the way, terror is everywhere where stupid bipedals used to walk around. Terror is a native son of stupidity regardless some cynical and evil creatures may be thinking of themselves as wise ones. A monkey is a stupid monkey. This torrent of overmastering anxiety is a part of the discography of In Your Years. It is powerful, it is violent, it is elegantly horrendous.

[Teaser of the day] Bials Speech - Quero Ver Você Não Chorar

• Shoegaze
• DIY
• Nugaze
• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Dream pop
• Lo-fi

Artist: Bials Speech

Release: Agora Não Tem Volta 

Label: Nap Nap

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Sova Smrti - Iveta Bartosova

• Free jazz
• Noise
• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: Sova Smrti

Release: Sova Smrti

Label: Poli5

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Saleeha - Monody

• Ambient drone
• Minimalism
• Drone
• Avant-garde
• Shoegaze
• Post-rock
• Epic
• Drone doom
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism

Artist: Saleeha

Release: Pillar

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

ʞık – Wormhole (2016)

Bump Foot

• Krautrock 
• Alternative 
• Electronic music 
• Minimal techno 
• Experimental electronica 
• Abstract 
• Minimalism 
• Sound art 
• Kraut-techno

Comment: the press notice of this issue by the home imprint Bump Foot is very short: ʞık (Karl & Karlik) is an experimental improvisational duo from Russia. Wormhole consists of three minimal tracks, although it lasts 45 minutes (the last track is a 32 minute long one). Indeed, the last track is called Einstein who was a German scientist (of Jewish heritage) because he was graduated within the German educational system and being a part of a thought paradigm within the German scientific world of which influence is hard to overestimate. Why I am talking about it because these 32 minutes used to hark back to other German influences in later times in music, more profoundly, in krautrock. Of course, krautrock as a phenomenon was a disparate one ranging from minimal traditional rock instrument driven sound (motorik) to more spaced-out synthesiser based travels (Kosmische Musik) and more abstract, experimental electronic terrains (in theory they can be divided in that way, in practice it is much problematic to do). The latest named compartment being championed by the likes of Conrad Schnitzler, Organisation (a pre-Kraftwerk combo) and Asmus Tietchens can be a home pigeonhole for the Russian duo as well. It is built up on slowly changing sound sculptures, at times quite abstract and austere when music changes into smouldering electricity and vice versa and then providing rhythms and interesting sound effects to give in to more colours, mind-blowing phase shifts and effects. Furthermore, the issue can be considered a vital link between krautrock, and (minimal) techno. In a nutshell, it is a truly solid and arousing outing indeed.

Monkey Warhol – The Darwin LP (2017)

Free Music Archive

• Electro pop 
• Alternative dance 
• Electronic pop 
• Electro punk

Comment: after releasing a bunch of EPs in the previous year the oldest human being (and the musician either) - check out the description of him at his Bandcamp site - is back again with the first LP proper. And it is another highly dynamic outing having been listening and reviewed today. More profoundly, this frantic set of accelerated tempos, college pop and pop punk tinged singing and either glimmering or acidic synth pads are adeptly mixed up with a tongue in cheek attitude while avoiding to be somehow lame, simplistic, annoying, and banal. For instance, Manscaping as a track might have been inferior if it would have been produced without a humorous element. Early Mornin' chimes like a revitalisation of Rednex's goofy country disco. It is followed by Everything Starts With an E being enchanting and danceable at the same time within the soup of glimmering synths and a motorik kraut-electro cadence. If Green Day, or Blink-182 used to sound in the way like I Get What I Want sounds then I would have great interest for their music. The 10-track issue will be finished off by Waiting, an electro pop punk number with catchy hooks and a broad appealing factor. In a word, the album is produced by a creature with a high IQ with regard to music, and humour, and incisive understanding to blend them seamlessly into an one. Top predator by any means.

BESTSELLER + FRONCE de BONQUE - "SPLIT N°3 (2009)

Vaatican

• Broken beats 
• Alternative dance 
• Electronic pop 
• Post-dubstep 
• Sampledelic 
• Hip-hop 
• Electro pop

Comment: this bunch of 12 compositions is a split release being issued by an intriguing record label, Vaatican Records. Behind the split are FRONQUE de BONQUE, and BESTSELLER, the both of them delivering 6 compositions. There are many ways of how to approach the whole but I would prefer to describe generic mood and appearance of it. Given that the artists' aesthetic is quite similar. First of all, the release came out in the end of 2009 and my proposition is it happened to be ahead of its time. By my opinion it's a sort of pop music though a tricky one. It is filled in with different sorts of broken beats which in turn are (heavily) imbued with digitalised soul music, hip-hop glimpses, slightly haphazard breakbeat torrents, oval-shaped sampledelic art, and even post-dubstep rhythms though the style was not publicised at that time yet. Furthermore, at I Got Your Keys by FRONQUE de BONQUE one can consider it a weird twist of free jazz. Another composition which must be heard is Singapore by BESTSELLER. Very impressive indeed. However, there are no weak compositions on it. These 53 minutes are to have passed by very quickly due to the high rate dynamic flow of exciting bits and beats. Perfect accomplishment.

Rasalasad – Thisturb (2017)

Tape Safe

• Illbient 
• Dark ambient 
• Micronoise 
• Post-industrial 
• Leftfield 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Glitchtronica 
• Neoclassical 
• Drone

Comment: this handful of compositions is somehow eerie and spooky as if depicting an area being devastated either by an enormous catastrophe or horrendous terror. It does not mean these five soundscapes are directly harsh and abusive, vice versa, one can hear slowly droning templates being surrounded by glitched-out bits and gritty noisy frequencies in upper templates. However, there are also represented more harsh torrents to bring forth the contrasted sensibility between it and murky beauty of droning and minimally orchestrated neoclassical segments. The point of mine is all of that is craftily equilibrated within the whole providing either no excessive information or useless and sterile dodges in the sonic terrains thereby avoiding decline in quality with regard to the concept and sound. I am inclined to think off the title "thisturb" refers to disturbing state thereafter (i.e after a catastrophic event). The convincing outing is a part of the discography of Tape Safe.

[Teaser of the day] Bronze Eye - Nightstick

• Broken beats
• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Post-dubstep

Artist: Bronze Eye

Release: Past Imperfect

Label: Bayshore

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Tom Bragl - Prgn

Kahvi Collective

• IDM
• Breakbeat
• Alternative dance
• Electronic music

Artist: Tom Bragl 

Release: Zerochoice

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Lufth - Nicht Ohne Dich...

Thinner

• Ambient dub
• Electronic music
• Deep dub
• Alternative
• Dubtronica

Artist: Lufth

Release: Tendenzen EP

Label: Thinner

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Mount Eerie - The Place I Live

Archive.org

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie folk
• Americana
• Dream pop
• Free folk
• New Weird America
• Space folk
• Experimental folk
• Live recording
• Weird folk
• Folk indie
• Alt-folk

Artist: Mount Eerie
Release: Live at L'Epicerie Moderne on 2012-03-21 
Label: Self-released/Mount Eerie 
Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] The Antlers - Director

Archive.org

• Indie rock
• Space pop
• Live recording
• Alternative rock
• Dream pop

Artist: The Antlers

Release: Live at Rough Trade NYC on 2014-06-17

Label: Nyctaper

Year: 2014

Trillion Catz – Keep It Real EP (2017)

Soisloscerdos
Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

 

• Plinkerpop 
• IDM 
• Post-pop 
• Space pop 
• Krautrock 
• Indietronica 
• Alternative 
• Glitchtronica 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Electronic music

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.

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... .

[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

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.

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.

[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