Recent Music Heroes

Comment: by listening to this 3-notch issue you may hear nothing else but an innumerable amount of layers being tightly put on each other. The result is something amazing but Cinchel has been a brand for a while. An audible, even tangible radiance is present for all those 68 minutes you can feel how the result seems to be melting and billowing from one supposed point to another yet the points are unfixed and unlocated. You are not allowed to point to anywhere. Due to a My Bloody Valentine from Chernobyl may sound in this way. From one peak of sonic hill down up to another being surrounded with thick fog. It is the artsy sort of rock music being produced by an electronic musician. That's fabulous. The issue is a part of the discography of Pan Y Rosas Discos.

8/26/2017

[Teaser of the day] Ando Laj - REM

Deep house
Alternative dance
Experimental house
Electronic music
Outsider house

Artist: Ando Laj

Release: EICV7" No. 96

Label: EverythingIsChemical

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Marco Lucchi - Electric Eden

Laverna

Ambient
Microtonal
Drone
Epic
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Minimalism
Ambient drone

Artist: Marco Lucchi

Release: The Summer of Love

Label: Laverna

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Lokua - Cold Limbs

Soft Phase

Electronic music
IDM
Post-classical
Experimental electronica
Mood music
Glitchtronica

Artist: Lokua

Release: Water Rock

Label: Soft Phase

Year: 2009

8/22/2017

[Teaser of the day] Modulatia - Sight Click All

Electronic music
Deep techno
Experimental techno
Alternative
IDM

Artist: Modulatia

Release: Flat Circle EP

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Line Noise - Pegasus

Camomille

Chilltronica
Crossover
Mood music
Electronic music
House
Ambient pop

Artist: Line Noise

Release: Soul Clouds EP

Label: Camomille

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Blake - Krang 4

Broken beat
Urban music
Breaks
Hip-hop
Crossover
Aquacrunk
Wonky
Alternative dance

Artist: Blake

Release: MonoPoly Breaks

Label: Digital Distortions

Year: 2017

8/20/2017

[Teaser of the day] Camp - Architecture Plugin

No Type/Panospria

Glitch-techno
Minimal techno
Abstract
Leftfield
Electronic music
Avant-techno
Clicks And Cuts
Experimental techno

Artist: Camp

Release: Mean

Label: No Type/Panospria

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Sick - Gonda

Post-rock
Indie rock
Dream pop
Mood music
Art rock
Alternative rock

Artist: Sick

Release: Para Uso Recreativo

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Foer - Red Shift

Nishi

Lo-fi
Electronic music
Leftfield
Minimal synth
Improvised music
DIY

Artist: Foer

Release: Landlines

Label: Nishi

Year: 2002

[Teaser of the day] Bacanal Intruder - Modem

Zymogen

Experimental pop
Indietronica
Alternative
Glitch
Electronic music
Art pop

Artist: Bacanal Intruder

Release: Modem

Label: Zymogen

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Docks - Granulation 2

Reverse Engine

Drone pop
Field recording
Electronic music
Organcore
Epic
Indietronica
Musique concrète

Artist: Docks

Release: Ship EP

Label: Reverse Engine/Free Music Archive

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Planet Boelex - Kleistpark

Ambient pop
Chilltronica
New Age
Electronic music

Artist: Planet Boelex

Release: Moments

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Loscil - B15-A

One

Drone
Avant-garde
Ambient
Electronic music
Abstract
Dreamwave
Microtonal
Experimentalism
Ambient drone
Minimalism

Artist: Loscil

Release: Stases

Label: One

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Pele - 01

Minimalism
Alternative
Post-classical
Mood music
Art music
Electronic music
Modern classical

Artist: Pele

Release: EPV_051

Label: Elementperspective

Year: 2011

Langax – Under The Shadow EP (2017)

Soisloscerdos

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

Electronic music
Alternative dance
Techno pop
Electro pop
Tekno
Trance
Crossover
Post-disco
Italy disco

Comment: Soisloscerdos is a prospering web-label being active in the belt of rhythm-induced and electronica-drenched music. However, those audible examples I have heard so far on the imprint are way too fidgety, delinquent and unorthodox to be pigeonholed as club dance, though. Moreover, the same could be said within the border of any issue either. From minimally shaped techno oscillations which now and then are intertwined with wobbly trance and bubbling tekno threads to a hirsute yet lofty high-pitched electro outlet. The music at least partly abandons the anonymity of the club dance by using it as a tool to magnify and boost the result. Besides it is clearly influenced by the end of the 70s and the 80s due to a strong impact of Italy Disco and spaced-out electro(nica). The last mentioned comparison is clearly unparalleled at Haute Tension. All in all, it can be concluded this handful of tracks is a cut above because of putting on a sprightly well-balanced show with peaky moments.

Christian Alati – Pietra (2007)

Grey Sparkle

Drone
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Electro-acoustic
Minimalism
Microtonal
Sound Art
Leftfield
Avant-electronica
Post-classical
Modern classical

Comment: this couple of very extended compositions clocking in at a 38 minute is not a nascent one. Vice versa, it was released on an imprint called Chew-Z which does not exist anymore. Fortunately another domestic imprint called Grey Sparkle is still with its discography up there. Yet it was supported by another defunct label as Canebagnato Records either. More profoundly, it was issued 10 years ago but the music is in spite of it thoroughly evergreen. Why should it be otherwise, isn't? Although it does not involve catchy hooks in the terms of pop songs it can be considered a poppy instance within the experimental electronic music scene. Pietra 1 is not the kind of it because the artist is inclined to have experiments with electro-acoustic sounds yet at the end of the composition it is going to lose its austere and rigid facade remarkably. At the ending part those subtle droning waves are flowing over the crackling bits and incisive sounds conjured up with contact microphones. It is going to remind me of something being produced by Penguin Cafe Orchestra many decades ago. However, Pietra 2 introduces even the more acquainted associations due to slowed down drones, lengthy piano chords and poignant electronic effects and then as if coming from nowhere putting on a swarm of fantastically chirping cinematic droning which would without any obstacles be the epic finishing backbone to the maudlin motion pictures. In a nutshell, I applaud the effort of Christian Alati.

8/18/2017

Drunkeninstrumentcorporation – Always The Same 10 Fucking Songs (2016)

In Your Ears

Shoegaze
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Fuzz pop
Jangle pop
Noise pop

Comment: this 10-track issue clocking in at a 33 minute comes out of from Italy, from the deep Cuneo province in the southwest of the Piedmont region of Italy (nearby the border of France). It is the one-man-project of Marco Abbà whose purpose was to put up a fight against boredom by being imaginative and creative. What does it mean always the same 10 fucking songs? Could it be understood in the same way as the propositions as always having sex with the same woman, always doing the same job, any day visiting and posting the blog? By the way, it could be delightful if your understanding and well-being is closely related to it. In case if the aforementioned sources are bottomless are you still intended to abandon them? In fact, I have been listening to this set of fucking songs five times in a row. The more I listen to it the more appealing it seems to be. In fact, it is the merit of this “always the same”. Distorted galvanized guitars, jangly yet still galvanized guitars, lofty synth-based overdrives and poignant electronic sounds and programmed beats atop and at the bottom respectively and tight, coherent structures of songwriting. The listener could hear certain echoes of Bloody Valentine, Ride, Swervedriver and even more distant echoes of post-punk combos yet Drunkeninstrumentcorporation is not the same. The whole contains a couple of amazing compositions as The Attic, Sea Of Memories, Happy Like A Hurricane, and Blanket. The solid issue is a part of the discography of In Your Ears. Great success.

8/17/2017

Troy Spencer – Phase 6 (2016)

2419 Record Label

Cool jazz
Modal jazz
Improvised music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Fusion
World fusion

Comment: I am being very lucky because of listening to an outing from the discography of the Netherlands-based imprint 2419 Record Label and at the same time feeling sadness about the label's inability to maintain its website. Unfortunately at Archive.org you can find out some very huge aggregates of sonic files just pigeonholed by genres. For instance, to get one slab a music enthusiast must download a huge volume while it may be choking up his/her computer. Hopefully any album will be set aside over there sometime. In truth, 2419 Record Label has been releasing amazing music in many years like the recent outing used to prove it. More profoundly, this set of 10 compositions embraces lots of chord changes and dodges in mood yet it is way too less to say much enough about it. At times it used to happen to chime in a spasmodic and enraptured way while based on the short fuse of free jazz. Musically it may resemble Miles Davis from the end of the 60s, and at the beginning of the 70s filled in with enormous energy while straddling the border between soothing and wild, between more traditional and vanguard, between sane and mind-provoking. Between cool jazz, and modal complexity. On the other hand, we have to understand the whole as a contemporary release of involving more facade and fads. For instance, one can hear the more steep precipices and angular chords of math/technical rock and even some picturesque Balkan gypsy motives now and then. In a word, it is the fabulous listening session.

[Teaser of the day] Martin Brandt - Vida

Indie funk
Alternative pop
Synth-rock
Dance pop
Electronic
Alternative dance
Indie pop

Artist: Martin Brandt

Release: Sonidos Para Sentir

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Nasienie - In The Distance

Webbed Hand

Ambient
Soundscape
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Minimalism
Experimentalism
Acousmatic music
Microtonal

Artist: Nasienie

Release: Outdoor

Label: Webbed Hand

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Cuarto Para La Una - Avant

Indietronica
Alternative
Hip-hop
Crossover
Electro-indie
Art pop
Indie-hop
Electronic
Post-pop

Artist: Cuarto Para La Una

Release: Avant - EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Paper Wasp - Someone Else`s Apocalypse

Alternative rock
Indie rock
Symphonic rock
Art rock

Artist: Paper Wasp

Release: Paper Wasp EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Andy Rantzen - Stone Head

Avant-garde
Spoken word
Electronic music
Microsound
Leftfield
Experimentalism
Sound poetry
Microtonal
Art music

Artist: Andy Rantzen

Release: Worthless Offerings

Label: 4-4-2 Music

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] TOPOT arkestra - <-->

Free jazz
Avant-garde
Leftfield
Fusion
Progressive rock
Zeuhl
Crossover
Improvised music
Jazz rock
Avant-jazz
Art rock
Psych-rock
Experimental rock

Artist: TOPOT arkestra

Release: TOPOT arkestra

Label: ТОПОТ

Year: 2017

Tont – Vaba Vesi (2017)

Trash Can Dance

Bandcamp

Ambient
Abstract
Experimentalism
Avant-garde
Field recording
Alternative
Organic electronica
Musique concrète
World music
Ethnotronica
Spoken word

Comment: Tont (Ghost) is the project of Estonian traveller and musician Siim Kuusemäe whose subsequent outing has been managed grossly in a similar way as his previous ones though there are up some different characteristics as well. So it can be said the artist's physical and mental journey goes on. While I am writing this comment I am not listening to a digital copy of it but an exemplary of the limited edition of 48 tapes entitled Vaba Vesi (Free Water) being released on Tallinn-based underground imprint Trash Can Dance. It starts off with reciting one extraction by the Estonian writer Arvo Valton who states that the thought of travelling can be equalled with the thought of living and the experience of travelling makes one feel more excited about and more empathetic and being an integral part of his/her development. It is the most humanity-related phenomenon. It used to correlate with the thought of Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher from ancient Greece who stated all is moving around and there is no chance to step into one and the same river twice. Similarly Tont has not done it before and does not do it the recent time either. Or is not allowed to do it. Additionally, by Heraclitus Tont may be standing at a crossroad because additionally those prevalent sultry field recording based sounds and shamanic rhythmic patterns one can also hear a more abstract composition at the self-titled track as if hearing passing by the cars at a remote distance while staying somewhere in the middle of the forest. In another piece called Sume Tont exploits more synthetic, artificial templates to create a clear-cut ambient composition in the traditional sense of this word. In a word, Tont issued a subsequent purgatorial outing which can be admitted a best recording in a year. In 2017, more profoundly. Besides his solo albums I recommend put ear on a project, Allinn (at Bandcamp), he has also been get involved in.

8/16/2017

[Teaser of the day] Golden Leap - ma#ygodsface

Electronic music
Techno pop
Alternative
Poptronica
Synthwave
Neoclassical

Artist: Golden Leap

Release: Mother EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Blumen - Squall

Fusion
Jazz rock
Electronic
Minimalism
Progressive rock
Art rock

Artist: Blumen

Release: Mångata

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

8/15/2017

[Teaser of the day] Space Crystals - Night Magic

Cian Orbe

Space music
Kosmische Musik
Synthwave
Alternative
Electronic music

Artist: Space Crystals

Release: Saturnine EP

Label: Cian Orbe

Year: 2017

TÜNEL – Climb (2012)

Nostress

Noise rock
Electronic music
Alternative
Musique concrète
Improvised music
Field recording
Experimental electronica
Leftfield
Art music
Conceptual

Comment: let's go back in time for about five years when a duo called TÜNEL recorded an imaginary soundtrack for mountaineering and possible disastrous events tightly related to it. These seven tracks constitute a terrain where different influences and genres meet one another. Furthermore, it is a mind-provoking storytelling based on sounds which starts off with sprightly children shouting and then progressing into different kinds of electronic music and surprisingly into a noisy rock binge played flat out. It can be asserted it is the frenetic follow-up of disparate chapters full of loads of turns and dodges, exciting interfaces to connect and superimpose different parts on each other and imaginative buildups to show up this kinda audiobook as vivid and magical. Mostly its structure seems to be preset and determined yet at times the duo indulges in having more loose and elemental spans to be added to the mix. You can feel prodigious inner power and impulse oozing from different slots and pits which is not surprising because the intention and goal is to depict the mountainous, threatening landscape up to the listener. This astounding outing is a part of the discography of the Italy-based record label Nostress.

8/14/2017

[Teaser of the day] Max Jahn - Harmonic Blast

Broque

Electronic music
Dub house
Alternative dance
Deep house
Crossover
Club dance
Electro house

Artist: Max Jahn

Release: Skyrunner

Label: Broque

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Grid Resistor - 06_5162017_Three

Enough

Abstract
Micronoise
Electronic music
Avant-garde
Post-industrial
Acousmatic music
Minimalism
Microtonal
Non-music
Experimentalism
Leftfield
Drone
Experimental electronica

Artist: Grid Resistor

Release: Beta

Label: Enough

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] I/DEX - ksren - v/a

Nexsound - Wayward Music

Minimal techno
Ambient techno
Glitchtronica
Kosmische Musik
Electronic music
Crossover
Alternative

Artist: I/DEX

Release: I/DEX / h.h.t.p. / -ED - Micro_Motion

Label: Nexsound - Wayward Music

Year: 2003

Marrach – Swing With A Black Dog (2017)

Enough

Free Music Archive

Jamendo

Archive.org

Bandcamp

Jazz
Electronic music
Improvised music
Cool jazz
Film noir
Alternative
Mood music

Comment: Martinas Rakshtinas, the pride of the Lithuanian underground music is being known under a swarm of pseudonyms which in turn does mean he has been a prolific artist for the last 2-3 years. Lately I had reviewed one of the issues by him under the nom de plume Mirth Naarc and the outing was named FX (2016, Free Music Archive). The 3-notch issue entitled ominously Swing With A Black Dog and thereby tipping off about the parlous allusions with the Lucifer is a turn of 360 degrees in comparison to FX. The last mentioned release was techno, electro and experimental hip-hop blended one though which ultimately turned into quite oppressive by its mood and outfit. The album in consideration is musically slowed-down, smoky and noir tinged behind that sonic curtain the Devil is playing with human beings and their souls as marionettes. Bold minor chords on a piano are backed up with volatile trumpet played tooting and kit drum shuffles and superficial electronic effects atop and behind it. The predominant silence induced layers add seductive touch to get craftily immersed in the rest set of layers. Another impression is as lofty as well due to Miles Davis is playing woeful cool jazz numbers in front of the Fallen Angel himself. The outing is a part of the discography of a stalwart Portuguese imprint, Enough Records (or simply enoughrecords). In a nutshell, the whole impression is emotionally striking and at the same time showing us something coming out from the pit. Put a spell on you.

8/13/2017

[Teaser of the day] Smut - Still Growing

Fuzz pop
Indie rock
Garage rock
Alternative rock

Artist: Smut

Release: Some Things To Let Go

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Tunnelbirds - When Tomorrow Hits

Psych-rock
Alternative rock
Garage rock
Blues rock
Indie rock

Artist: Tunnelbirds

Release: Hohner Sessions

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Kreng - Paris

fant00m

Sampledelic
Trip-hop
Electronic music
Crossover
Chilltronica
Cinematic
Big beat
Mood music
Breaks
Tango

Artist: Kreng

Release: Zomer EP

Label: fant00m

Year: 2008

Lorenzo Gómez Oviedo – Pasajes (2016)

Nowaki

Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Noise
Art music
Experimental electronica
Post-industrial
Sound art
Drone
Spoken word
Musique concrète
Post-classical

Comment: without any doubt the previous year was being very fertile to Lorenzo Gòmez Oviedo while he had released 4 issues, a couple of them were released on the French imprint Nowaki Music. One of them, Pasajes consists of the long-running progression which is imbued with remarkably varied sounds, provoking intentions, arousing intensities and ear-catching phase-related changes. However, the aforementioned gadgetry is adeptly and wittily set up and thereby ultimately creating a dynamic pointed whole throughout the course of a 25-minute. Incisive droning noises in the beginning part are followed by a sublime rhythmic section and cathedral-alike chanting which in turn are followed by new mind-provoking ones including peppering with field recording drenched elements. The kind of electronic music presented by Oviedo is something special because of embracing wider borders to narrate an interesting, seemingly more loose story to all of us. Indeed, literally it involves some spoken phrases though it seems to be a shrewd measure but not the goal on its own. Maybe I am wrong to guess there is up somewhere the ultimate culmination to be reached. In fact, it consists of various flood tides therefore providing a chance to sustain the excitement and pleasure throughout. Is it the hedonistic one? Yes, in a way but first of all, it is the cerebral challenge with some bits for our soul and slightly a bit for the body. It pours out an immense amount of information yet the information is channelized in an appealing way. Top tier.

[Teaser of the day] Luis Marte - iv 3

Pueblo Nuevo

Ambient
Soundscape
Electronic music
Microsound
Avant-garde
Microtonal
Minimalism
Experimentalism

Artist: Luis Marte

Release: iv

Label: Pueblo Nuevo

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] The Mountain Goats - Heel Turn 2

Archive.org

Indie rock
Americana
Live recording
Folk indie
Alternative rock
Indie folk

Artist: The Mountain Goats

Release: Mountain Goats Live at the Fillmore on 2017-06-02

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Xiu Xiu - Crank Heart

Archive.org

Art rock
Noise pop
Experimental rock
Indie rock
Neo-psychedelia
Electro-indie
Alternative rock

Artist: Xiu Xiu

Release: Live at p.m.k on 2017-04-27

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2017

8/11/2017

Nasienie – Chasing The Fog (2011)

Webbed Hand

Ambient
Microsound
Minimalism
Electronic music
Microtonal
Ambient rock
Soundscape
Alternative

Comment: this set of 6 tracks (clocking in at a 28 minute) is viable to be listened to while you feel yourself sad for some bitter events, for instance, if you remind of your broken affairs though it is hard to figure out is it either the effect of it or a very arousing reason for doing it. While feeling an intense painful sense coming inexplicably out from very deep of your heart. On the other side, while driving across the foggy and very snowy highway you could see even more details in comparison to a usual cloudless day because you have to be more concentrated and you are tightly surrounded by a milky ambience to catch sight of other kind of details. Or you can experience the same feeling when you are driving the bus and your head is leaned against the window and watching drops running sinuously and at different speeds from top of the window. There are represented some audible characteristics which chime on their own and on the other side do interact seamlessly with one another. The aforementioned whitened sublime progressions include some reverberant sounds, some more light-hearted, clearly perceived as more crude, directly played and untreated, synthesiser played interludes (for instance, Microsound). For instance, the track called Undertone sounds almost in a psychedelic way. The following composition Mute Witness changes the path of the course (back again) to thriving into something thoroughly thoughtful and beatifically frost-bound and charmingly immobile as if an audible example of an aporia by Zenon about moving and staying still (the second part of the track evokes your soul to crawl). At the finishing 21 experimental rock tendencies stepwise begin to emerge and swim and lazily produce sonic waves of different shapes and range. The fascinating outing is a part of the discography of Webbed Hand.

[Teaser of the day] Acid Mothers Temple - Dark Stars In The Dazzling Sky

Archive.org

Psych-rock
Alternative rock
Space rock
Hard rock
Acid rock
Live recording
Indie rock
Trance rock

Artist: Acid Mothers Temple

Release: Temple Live at Soundlab on 2006-05-16

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Trillion Catz - Oceans

Soisloscerdos

Electronic music
Neokrautrock
Indietronica
Alternative
Experimental rock
Indie
Avant-rock

Artist: Trillion Catz

Release: Keep It Real

Label: Soisloscerdos/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] St Cheatersburg - Heaven-Bound & Holy Rollers

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Psych-rock
Jangle pop

Artist: St Cheatersburg

Release: We Are The Pigeons Of The World

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Go Ask Alice – Perfection Is Terrible (2017)

La bèl

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

Art rock
Post-rock
Experimental rock
Epic
Synth-rock
Electro-rock
Cinematic
Ambient rock

Comment: La bèl is an Italian imprint having been releasing music since 2010. All their artists with some exceptions are being Italian even if the artist's residence has been outside the country's borders. Musically it has embraced a huge range of styles from witty electronica and subtle indie and folk mixed electronic music to artsy electro-acoustic progressions and epic post-rock driven ambience. Go Ask Alice's Perfection Is Terrible is a subsequent solid chapter within the discography by getting hold of different styles of the kind of synthesiser and guitar-driven music. Furthermore, the result is blissful thanks to some cinematic development as if being languished by the sun during a very hot summer day. You do not have enough power and verve but just lay back in the hammock. Let's call it the sort of guitar-based chill out music. With regard to exploiting or imitating such instruments as glockenspiel/vibraphone you can discern some similarities with such artists as Talk Talk, Mice Parade, The Dylan Group, Tortoise, The Mercury Program though Go Ask Alice's music is distinctively more hovering and volatile. Besides the aforementioned elements there are also magniloquent elements yet the result is pushed to the very limits of elegance. Last but not least – there is up a track imbued with a hook of great pop potential (Morning). In a word, it runs head-to-head with the best issues from the recent year. Behind the project are such musicians as Flavio Moro and Lorenzo Albanese, and Valerio Occhiodoro. Undoubtedly this sprightly 7-track outing is one of the most favourite albums from the recent year.

8/10/2017

[Teaser of the day] Dot.AY - Yo No Chero

Chiptune
Electro
Alternative dance
Chipbreak
Tracker music
Bitpop
8-bit
Electronic music

Artist: dot.AY

Release: Specific Emotion

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Dolby - X 09

Thinner

Dubhouse
Deep house
Alternative dance
Deep dub
Club dance
Electronic music

Artist: Dolby

Release: Dub Expo EP

Label: Thinner

Year: 2002

[Teaser of the day] The Silent Partner - Dare Me

blocSonic

Hip-hop
Urban music
Motown
Rap
Electronic pop
Sampledelic

Artist: The Silent Partner

Release: Platters, Act 6: Plates From '08

Label: blocSonic

Year: 2015

Antiplano – Prohibido (2012)

Soisloscerdos

Experimental electronica
Alternative
Avant-electro
Electronic music
Drone
Minimalism

Comment: this bunch of 5 compositions consists of minimally evolving tracks where glowering drones are tightly mingled with ever changing sinuous poly-rhythms being frequently subjugated to stereophonic effects and mind-provoking pitch trickery. Machines are keeping us from being the slaves of our own including listening habits. They introduce us to a universe being wondrous simultaneously due to its fidgety roughness and restless mysticism. While listening to the intense record you can catch your breath. Indeed, it is fortunately all but a mentally oppressive shit. Although it does not involve many layers it will get hold of our thoughts and secretive wishes in a linear way. Throughout the course the artist provides a steady feedback to the previous points passed by. The result is coherent nevertheless how serpentine and disjunct it may be perceived. This pre-eminent outing is a part of the discography of Soisloscerdos Netlabel.

8/09/2017

[Teaser of the day] Color By Numbers - Hyacinth Miasma

Autoplate

Ambient
Ambient rock
Post-rock
Electronic music
Glitchtronica
Avant-rock
Experimental rock
Alternative

Artist: Jason Corder

Release: The Transitions

Label: Autoplate

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Krill.Minima - Holzwurm

Stadtgruen

Alternative dance
Glitch techno
Electronic music
Ambient techno
Deep techno

Artist: Krill.Minima

Release: Borkenkaefer

Label: Stadtgruen

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] iMMANENT. dOMAIN. - Kingdom Hearts

Vaatican

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

Artist: iMMANENT. dOMAIN.

Release: persona non grata (Vaatican edit)

Label: Vaatican/Free Music Archive/God On Safari

Year: 2017

Arcane Waves – Atom Dust (2017)

Murmure Intemporel

Free Music Archive

Dark ambient
Sound art
Illbient
Acousmatic music
Post-industrial
Avant-garde
Abstract
Conceptual
Musique concrète
Experimentalism
Drone
Electro-acoustic
Ambient drone
Experimentalism

Comment: these 53 minutes and 4 compositions are “dedicated” to nuclear accidents in the atomic energy plants around the world. More profoundly, at Lucens (1969), Chernobyl (1986), Kyshtym (1957), Three Mile Island (1979), and most recently at Fukushima Daiichi (2011). These are probably the most remarkable ones though smaller accidents may have been happening. Shit happens if people are doing things even if these processes are indispensable because of the mooch of the human induced economy is going to move on without possibility getting to decelerate the process. I do not think of it the nuclear reactors must be shut down just measures to avoid such sort of disasters should be even more enhanced and possible deviations to be foreseen. However, musically I tagged it as an instance of post-industrial music among the other classifications. Furthermore, one can figure it out in a very straight way. The music over there is to depict industrialized scenes being abandoned by human beings. Besides having gotten informed factually and chronologically about these highly clutch and events the audible result is staggering – lots of memory loaded hisses and glitches, arousing sonic effects, concrete music drenched glimpses, metallic drones at times being variegated with orchestrations and less abrasive electronics. These 53 minutes is a subtle play with shades between darkness and lightness, between a burden and redemptive freeing. The adverse effects are adeptly converted into a state of art. The issue is a part of the discography of Murmure Intemporel. Behind the nom de plume is Jean-Luc Hervé Berthelot, a prolific artist within the netlabel scene for many years.

8/08/2017

[Teaser of the day] Death Grips - Birds

Third Worlds

Avant-hop
Electro-hop
Industrial hop
Experimental hip-hop
Urban music
Rap
Leftfield

Artist: Death Grips

Release: Government Plates

Label: Third Worlds/Soundcloud

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Uppsala Solemne - Perdoa tu a fúria do vento

Modern classical
Art pop
Post-classical
Alternative
Indie
Mood music

Artist: Uppsala Solemne

Release: A fúria do vento

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Xhale - Middle Fountain

Miasmah

Ambient
Musique concrète
New Age
Organic electronica
Downtempo
Electronic music
Crossover
Glitchtronica

Artist: Xhale

Release: Ant Shaped Head EP

Label: Miasmah

Year: 2003

Mmöner – Training Saga (2017)

Bandcamp

Electronic music
Fantasy music
Mood music
Alternative
Primitive music
Avant-garde

Comment: the mystical creature named Mmöner is back with his/her sophomore outing called Training Saga. The artist describes it as old stuff about training skills. Because of that it can be admitted ideologically he/she has stepped out of the forest theme (Forest Eruption, 2016) to put the finger into a sport/training theme. Instead of glorifying and mystifying the forest as our very genuine home the new subject is remarkably more human-related and mundane, even dealing with obvious banalities (though I guess it is imbued with a tongue-in-cheek attitude). Yet musically the difference does not make sense because sonically the outings are tightly correlated. Continually you can visualise and thereby think off a kernel of sounds getting inspiration from the fantasy music soundtracks which in turn are mingled with primitive electronic developments and childish rhythmic patterns which eventually will result in the somehow hyper realistic flow of peaky, exalting, saturated chords. As if the set of three tracks being overloaded with a torrent of serotonin and being warped by the fairy-tales surfacing deep from your subconsciousness you had heard that in your childhood. Even if it's formal appearance is to be moody it's deeper intention is to enter into into the listener's brain and provide an immensely complex experience. Fir sure, it is an uncanny listening session at the recent times.

8/07/2017

Bing Satellites - Thanasphere

[Teaser of the day] gift - 野窓

Post-rock
Alternative
Avant-rock
Indietronica
Experimental rock
Art rock
Electronic

Artist: gift

Release: a EP

Label: elementperspective

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] The Hirundu - Strange Journey

Avant-garde
Sound collage
Electro pop
Cut and paste
Dance punk
Acid house
New Wave
Alternative
Plunderphonics
Sampledelic
Post-disco
Leftfield
Alternative dance
Acid techno
Mash-up
Synth-pop
Experimentalism
Outsider art

Artist: The Hirundu

Release: Electrobebopbottomburpmix E.P.

Label: Pitch And Putt/Bandcamp

Year. 1987

[Teaser of the day] beat.dowsing - Bones

Noisy Vagabond

Downtempo
Chilltronica
Mood music
Electronic pop
Synth-pop

Artist: beat.dowsing

Release: Sydney EP

Label: Noisy Vagabond/Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

Tree No Leaves - Lucy & The Fuzz

Mogadiscio Ensemble – Rejected Ambient Works 2009-2016 (2016)

Bandcamp

Post-industrial
Lo-fi
DIY
Avant-garde
Experimental pop
Art music
Experimentalism
Electronic music
Leftfield
Alternative
Outsider house
Jazz
Crossover
Post-punk
House
Experimental electronica
Avant-pop

Comment: if I can remember for the right way once there existed such an imprint as Milano, Italy-based Paragrafo Records which was reclaimed as having focus on weird, electronic and experimental music. One of the artists coming out from there was Berlin, Germany-based Mogadiscio Ensemble. Unfortunately almost all the traces behind the imprint are gone (just a couple of issues are uploaded at Bandcamp) though fortunately the combo is up there at Bandcamp to provide an immense set of 38 tracks. The amount of the compositions is big enough to write a solid column about it. First of all, it is huge enough to get enough material to feed your ears and brain. More profoundly, the average track within it is quite short of being approximately 2-3 minute long and containing a shitloads of diverse ideas. From old school industrial synthesised layers and rough yet vivid rhythms, deliberately clogged-up progressions of the lo-fi and DIY culture, appealing outsider house numbers, off-kilter, outsider jazz induced developments. It may resemble a bit an early Cabaret Voltaire which had provided different impulses and ideas on industrial and post-punk to further progress into a wider audience appealed compartment, more profoundly to trod seminally on dance music, post-disco, proto-house music. At times it chimes as if being channelized through some shitty filters and cables. Yet the result, however, is very elegant. On the other side, the title does have a clear hint at Aphex Twin`s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 which similarly did provide an episodic coincidence with the ambient style. In fact, there is no classical ambient structures within that whole, there are up only some fragments of reminding of the style. However, there may be behind a methodology of deconstructing the style. Anyhow the result is a top predator.

8/06/2017

[Teaser of the day] Transient - Can It Be Beautiful

Phonocake

IDM
Mood music
Minimal techno
Techno pop
Electronic music

Artist: Transient

Release: Chiquesalunga

Label: Phonocake

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Jimmy Behan - Cathedral

Zymogen

Experimental electronica
Glitchtronica
Crossover
Modern classical
Avant-garde
Post-classical
Experimentalism
Alternative

Artist: Jimmy Behan

Release: In the Sudden Distance

Label: Zymogen

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Miami Slice - Illusions

Free Music Archive

Italo disco
Alternative dance
Electronic music
Club dance
Disco
Dance pop

Artist: Miami Slice

Release: Brooklyn 2 Brooklyn

Label: loveandtonicrecords/Free Music Archive

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Stealing Orchestra - Mujer

Free Music Archive

Avant-pop
Experimental pop
Sound collage
Leftfield
Crossover
Electronic music
Psychedelic
Chillstep
Sampledelic
Plunderphonics

Artist: Stealing Orchestra

Release: Stereogamy

Label: You Are Not Stealing

Year: 2000

[Teaser of the day] Buben - Nor A Cage

Kaos Ex Machina

Rhythmic noise
Power electronics
Breakcore
Electronic music
Industrial techno
Digital hardcore
Leftfield

Artist: Buben

Release: Inch

Label: Kaos Ex Machina

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - Aristotle Bombay

Nishi

Synth-pop
Acid pop
Electronic
Electro-indie
Psych-pop
Krautrock
Electro-rock

Artist: Cagey House

Release: Octopus Two

Label: Nishi

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Ivan Black - Sogonghu

Breathe Compilations

Ambient trance
Electronic music
Crossover
Psybient
Ambient pop

Artist: Ivan Black

Release: Somnium Hypnotic

Label: Breathe Compilations

Year: 2016

Mirth Naarc – FX (2016)

Folksoundomy: Music and Music Albums

Free Music Archive

Electronic music
Alternative dance
Urban music
Electro
Hip-hop
Glitch-hop

Comment: this handful of tracks is created by Martinas Rakshtinas aka Martin Rach, a prolific and talented artist from Lithuania. Mirth Naarc is one of the projects of him and this album of 22 minutes is tagged by him as techno, dance, and abstract hip-hop. More profoundly, spiky incisive drumming is tightly mixed up with an electro matter if to describe it in a gross way. Yet stylistically it is a case of contemporary hip-hop music where digitalised technology and a multi-faceted rhythmic approach prevail the course. A lot of different rhythmic shapes which either are followed by each other or used to be superimposed on each other partly. Emotionally its lightheartedness is beguiling because the ultimate impact of it can be quite dystopia-related and therefore depressive. The machines are governing over a human being mercilessly. Without any emotion, without any discrimination. The issue is released on Folksoundomy, and Free Music Archive.

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