Trillion Catz – Vulgar (2017)

Bump Foot

Bandcamp

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

Comment: it is not a wordy and magniloquent issue enough because of being inspired by krautrock, by Neu!, an early Kraftwerk and Faust, the combos who liked move on across a minimal, the so-called motorik pattern. Yet the recent motorik pace based on 14 tracks is a bit different and refreshing. Trillion Catz comes out from Berlin, Germany, a fruitful soil to develop new genres. On the other side, which role is to bear by the musician? To provide the matter, the sound for allowing the listeners to escape from the burden of exhausting sensations, to reach aletheia, to ascend his/her nature into a godlike person. To partake in a systematic, coherent universe. In reality, it does mean to crawl against the mainstream, against the hyper-sexualized and monetary world and the excessive flow of information or to get in touch with them as less as needed. A person's goal should be intended to be less vulgar and mediocre and brainwashed. Is Vulgar a good medium to withdraw him/her from it? The answer of mine is pure yes because it is clearly balanced between those slightly haphazard electronic impulses yet in turn synthesising something new for our aural world. Those miniaturised sounds and effects do set up something unusual and exciting. If to compare it to the aforementioned krautrock juggernauts it may be more (self)-aware of how to elegantly disturb a historical krautrock bound yet at the same time preserving the tight connection with it. That's logical because the first ones had created it while Trillion Catz is deconstructing it. This outstanding (one of the best in 2017) release which adds to krautrock as a style an additional value and meaning is a part of the Japanese imprint Bump Foot.

Alex Mason & The Minor Emotion – Soul Breaker (2017)

Enoughrecords

Jamendo

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Modern classical 
• Contemporary classical 
• Neoclassical 
• Post-classical 
• Epic 
• Art music 
• Chamber music

Comment: this 9-notch issue comes out from Russia, it is a collaborative issue between Alex Mason, and The Minor Emotion. Its formula is simple – lone, minor piano tapped chords being accompanied by soaring synthesised orchestrated progressions which at times are being bent into murky, neoclassical sadness. Emotionally it is hard to measure the impact of the whole upon the listener. Undoubtedly it is epic but on the other side it might be a bit anemic to feed one's the most profound, transcendental ideas. If you need more vivid colours to be inserted into your every day's life then you have to listen to it while watching outside from the window or just walking in the middle of autumnal beauty and decay. Indeed, maybe concrete sounds and sonic effects could add a more organic touch to the whole. The result is a bit flat out in its sheared and predictable dynamics and two dimensional shift. The outing is a part of the discography of Enoughrecords.

[Teaser of the day] Fall Baby - Storm

• Indie pop
• Glo-fi
• Dream pop
• Chillwave
• Alternative pop

Artist: Fall Baby

Release: Beko_Fall Baby EP

Label: Beko DSL

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Purling Hiss - Almost Washed My Hair

• Psych-rock
• Power pop
• Live recording
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Purling Hiss

Release: Live at Three Lobed​/​WXDU Hopscotch Afternoon Jamboree

Label: NYCTaper

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] GosT - Unum Infernum

• Electro-metal
• Dark synth
• Neoclassical
• Synthwave
• Synth-metal
• Black metal

Artist: GosT

Release: Non Paradisi

Label: Blood Music

Year: 2016

Betelmire – 606 MPH (2005/2010)

Rain Above

• Indie pop 
• Alternative pop 
• DIY 
• Lo-fi 
• Folk indie 
• Drone pop 
• New Weird America 
• Organcore 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Indie folk 
• Bedroom pop 
• Indietronica

Comment: I would like to call this set of 8 tracks an instance of old school indie. More profoundly, I mean the music coming out from the 80s, the 90s, and the 00s by the US-based indie mavericks such as Galaxie 500, Yo La Tengo, and Low (with regard to their more restrained moments). On the other side, the issue was released in the middle of the 00s which was the heyday of the Weird New America movement. I really liked and still like such indie chicks who produce lo-fi tinged droning organ/harmonium-based indie being accentuated with blissful melodies and wondrous harmonies. The sort of music where simple elements meet complicated ones yet the flow of it is flawlessly organic and dynamic having been recorded on a 4-track cassette machine. It makes you relaxed and withdraws you from shitty topics around you for a while. It is the meditation. For instance, listen to the ending track Preston Parker which saves one`s soul due to vibrant droning and enchanting female singing. The same can be said about the rest of the 18-minute release. The issue is a part of the discography of Rain Above Records. Without any hesitation it will be added to the compartment – Outstanding music.  

[Teaser of the day] Yoshida Com - Scene 3

Upitup

• Synth-pop
• Electronic music
• Lo-fi
• Shibuya-kei
• Electro pop
• Alternative
• Mood music
• DIY

Artist: Yoshida Com

Release: Onna no Kanojo

Label: Upitup/Free Music Archive

Year: 1988/2014

[Teaser of the day] Tunnelbirds - You

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

Artist: Tunnelbirds

Release: Tunnelbirds

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] The Machine - Death

Kermesse

• Alternative rock
• Art rock
• Screamo
• Industrial rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: The Machine

Release: Black & White

Label: Kermesse

Year: 2016

Pineal Neuron Trauma – The Story Of… (2017)

Etched Traumas

• Post-industrial 
• Avant-garde 
• Dark wave 
• Electronic music 
• Drone 
• Experimentalism 
• Dark ambient 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Leftfield 
• Illbient 
• Neoclassical 
• Noise 
• Experimental electronica

Comment: it is one of the most voluminous if not the most voluminous release having ever been appeared at RMH. It clocks in at a 197 minute (based on the set of 24 tracks) which exceeds more than 3 hours of pure music. The reason is actually simple – it encompasses all the sounds having been produced by the artist. The status of the combo is unknown due to health problems, and collaborative disagreements between the members. The only constant member behind the project has been Tim Van der Schraelen from Antwerp, Belgium, and the members also have been Mattia P. (Italy), Theofil Tsiolakakis (Thessaloniki, Greece), and Joseph (Athens, Greece). In truth, a couple of tracks are added as the oeuvre by Drowned In The Sewers (a collaborative act between Tim, and Theofil). Contingently I tagged the music as post-industrial (among many other tags) because it is a contemporary example of industrial music though by its attitude, approach and characteristics of sound it may even more remind of early old school industrial and noise music acts like Zoviet France, for instance. Second, it also comes very close to neoclassical and dark wave artists because in some tracks the soundscapes are loaded with ominous and depressive seeds and even sickening milieus reflecting upon the shortness and decay of the human being`s life. Indeed, that has always been a moral statement of such sort of music. Given the extent of time, and the nature of music the listener can be very sure to be flooded by intriguing sounds and obscure and morbid moods of different kind. Experiments with disparate timbres and varied rhythms. And you should be warned again – it is very far away from an innocent fun. It more a kind of music providing you a stark accompaniment while walking through a catacomb or a graveyard. Such sort of sound (I mean noise music) is universal in a way because it used to incorporate so many sounds within it (lo-fi, spoken word, sample-based music/plunderphonics, electronic music, drone, improvised music, ambient, electro-acoustic) and while needing no any further categorization and explanation. It is more about the method rather than about certain sounds. The style is being an all-devouring phenomenon. The prodigious issue both by its physical, psychic and intellectual extent is a part of the discography of Etched Traumas, the imprint headed by the same Joseph being mentioned above.   

Teaser of the day] L. Valerie - Venus Dreams

• Electronic pop
• Alternative
• Bubblegum pop
• Art pop
• Primitive pop
• DIY
• Miniature pop

Artist: L. Valerie

Release: Frika

Label: Bleeding Gold

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] CIRCVLO - Tiki Taka

• Jazz rock
• Psychedelic rock
• Fusion
• Dance rock
• Yacht rock
• Lounge pop
• Crossover
• Indie dance
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: CIRCVLO 

Release: Beleza

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Bite - Espectro visible

• Ambient
• Modern classical
• Minimalism
• Art music
• Post-classical
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: Bite

Release: Calle Palma

Label: Basic_Sounds

Year: 2016

Bongley Dead – 4 (2015)

Soundcloud

Mediafire

• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Post-grunge 
• Hardcore

Comment: recently Italian quartet Bongley Dead released a brand new one, Undici, on their own terms being uploaded and letting available for free download at Soundcloud, and Mediafire. Before that they had issued 4, the predecessor of Demo n.3 (2014). In comparison to its predecessor 4 abandons trudging across a path being based on heavy and moshy alternative rock guitars (though Demo n.3 includes exceptions either – even hints at dance punk/rock were represented over there). The guitars are more extended and outstretched, light-hearted and jangling in their timbre and style of play. Yet one should not forget and misunderstand it is not an example of jangle pop because the combo is being influenced and rooted by hardcore and (post-)grunge music. For instance, Blueworms is a pure example of post-grunge style with a commercially accessible tone. Nice pop song indeed. Similarly to the previous outing a Sonic Youth influence (especially at Silent Queen) is also present over there yet it is more buried as it was presented in some songs at Demo n.3. A poppy Sonic Youth version. At She Comes Too Late the ending part is accentuated with epic shoegaze tinged noises. It can be admitted their style seems to be more uniform and unvarying with regard to the previous one. By the way, they are being very kind by adding 41 cover prints (sic!) within the folder. I did have to choose only one from this bunch. Because of having listened to the great album a next step of mine is to listen to Undici.

[Teaser of the day] Quinn Walker - Decline

Rural Colours

• Electronic music
• Ambient drone
• Experimental electronica
• Drone
• Ambient
• Glitchtronica

Artist: Quinn Walker

Release: Quinn Walker: The Weight of Care

Label: Rural Colours

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Rizke - Aluminium

Soisloscerdos

• Minimal techno
• Industrial techno
• Alternative
• Electronic music

Artist: Rizke

Release: E2

Label: Soisloscerdos/Bandcamp/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Non Camera - Sky Lantern

Jamendo

• Indie pop/rock
• Art pop
• Alternative pop/rock
• Synth-rock
• Pomp pop
• Chamber pop

Artist: Non Camera

Release: Behind The Walls

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Abisales – ABSLS (2017)

Bandcamp

• Art rock 
• Jazz rock 
• Fusion 
• Progressive rock 
• Yacht rock

Comment: this swarm of 3 tracks is played by a quartet called Abisales who comes out of Còrdoba, Argentina. One chord is followed by another, gentle guitars are backed up by spacey synthesiser chords, the soundscape used to ascend and descend in a picturesque way.. Although it is tagged as psychedelic rock, space rock, and rock and roll at Bandcamp their music and intention remind more of progressive rock, and fusion. Their approach is based on the first mentioned tag, and the combo`s timbre is very fusion/jazz rock-alike. And yacht rock, of course, the style is quite nearby because for me the whole is an example of artsy mood music imbued with ambition, lofty feeling and craftiness. Predominantly a Pink Floyd influence is present over there. Great thanks to Fran, Nahuel, Pelado, Pablo, and Cristian. And of course, similarly to me you shall have to listen to the combo`s previous four issues either (in fact, XDCS (2013) was reviewed at RMH three years ago and mentioned as one of the best albums in 2013).   

[Teaser of the day] Chenard And The Sand - One-Armed

Free Sample Zone

• Sampledelic
• Plunderphonics
• Breaks
• Psychedelic
• Sound collage
• Crossover
• World fusion
• Alternative dance

Artist: Chenard Walker/The Sand

Release: C-Side 

Label: Free Sample Zone

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Joxfield ProjeX - Abandoned Asteroid - Space Journey

Cratediggers

• Krautrock
• Space music
• Kosmische Musik
• Avant-rock
• Live recording
• Experimental rock
• Improvised music
• Art rock
• Electronic
• Psych-rock

Artist: Joxfield ProjeX

Release: VoxLuxRabax

Label: Cratediggers/Folksoundomy: A Library Of Sound

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] fydhws - Surf Drone

• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Space rock
• Minimalism
• Drone rock
• Psych-rock
• Art rock

Artist: fydhws

Release: Lament for All Alive Rock Stars

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp/Future Sequence

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] edPorth - Unraveled Knot

• Minimal techno
• Experimental techno
• Alternative dance
• Electronic music

Artist: edPorth

Release: Static

Label: 51 Beats

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Romantic States - Take My Hand and Run

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Power pop

Artist: Romantic States

Release: Take My Hand and Run

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Mike Cassells - It's In Here, Somewhere

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

Artist: Mike Cassells

Release: Mike Cassells Power Quartet

Label: Catchy Name

Year: 2017

Noteherder & McCloud – The Tail (2008)

WM Recordings

Archive.org

• Free jazz 
• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Modal jazz 
• Live session 
• Electronic music 
• Leftfield

Comment: I am very glad to back again at WM Recordings, the imprint which has introduced me to many interesting artists like brunk, Chenard Walcker, Roy "Chicky" Arad, Keshco, Phil Reavis, Jared C. Balogh, The Hathaway Family Plot and many others. Beyond that the roster embraces such luminaries as the godfather of the home recording R Stevie Moore, and Russian dadaist sound collage and surf pop mixed madness Messer Chups. Undoubtedly The Tail is a highly complicated and mind-provoking one composed of three different live gigs by the two experienced musicians wherein you can enjoy many parallel running compartments based on the playing of a soprano saxophone, and on the other side it is undermined by poignant synthesiser-based bubbling and effects making an impact on a fastidious listener. And I am probably the demanding reviewer. And if you want to get a solid review of how to play the soprano saxophone in an intriguing way then this issue is for you. Synthesiser is a remarkably more broad instrument or it can even be considered a platform, however, this issue provides a little yet intriguing bit of it. It certainly touches on sonic qualities which remind me of electronic krautrock artists as Konrad Schnitzler, and Asmus Tietchens. Use The Desk Lamp is the favourite of mine because it is absolutely fascinating in its overwhelming tempo and energy. For me, it is jazz punk. In a word, the result is great.

ps – Volatile (2017)

Enoughrecords

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Experimental electronica 
• Glitchtronica 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Ambient noise 
• Drone 
• Ambient drone 
• Electronic music 
• Spoken word 
• Sampledelic 
• Post-industrial 
• Leftfield 
• Psychoacoustic

Comment: this issue of 11 tracks is psychotic, strongly filled out with desperate vocal samples and violent filled dialogues from different motion pictures being backed up by sinister yet blissful soundscapes being in turn filled in with glitchy "errors", and frequently interrupted static providing you a starkly disturbed sonic picture while paradoxically maintaining its picturesque image. By casting the light upon the titles it is mostly about blood and cuts and stillness. As if getting an audible, almost physically tangible bridge from within an unnerving psycho-neurological ward. If to compare it to the artist's release which was recently reviewed at RMH, Finding My Own Way Back Home, the recent one is not about the hiss imbued walls and supportive prodigious power dictating the whole, it used to lurk after you searching for your cerebral traces to overtake it and then modifying it into psyched-up ones. And then the past is going to come ahead of your present to govern the future of yours. Overwhelming by any means. Similarly to Finding My Own Way Back Home it is a part of the discography of enoughrecords.

Ellah a. Thaun – Happy 30 Honey (2017)

Bandcamp

• Indie 
• Drone pop 
• Experimental pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Avant-pop 
• Post-punk 
• Krautrock 
• Electronic 
• Alternative dance 
• Psychedelic 
• Art pop 
• Epic

Comment: Ellah. a Thaun is a contemporary indie artist from France whose method is to embrace many elements into her idiosyncratic mix. Obviously it is not the ultimate purpose of her. It is the way how her music must be made up. This handful of tracks surprises again with its frantic touch though by the sound and loudness all is controlled by Nathanaelle Hauguel. For example, the opening piece Part 1 progresses into a sort of indie techno based on an elliptical catchy loop. It is the favourite of mine though the rest of the whole is also very good. She has always been strongly influenced by post-punk music and the influence comes out in the second part. Rough post-punk germs are crossed with the dreamy higher chords of shoegaze thereof resulting in a bewildering while majestic avant-pop composition. Part 3 showcases Hauguel`s exposure towards the motorik, towards krautrock though the drumming is vamped up by digitally modified thin kick drums as if all of that were extracted either from a contemporary soul or electro pop release. Part 4 is the outing's slacker track being stylistically grunge which lazily continues at Part 5 as well though being strongly intertwined with droning organs and wah wah effects. As if an early Stereolab meets Spaceman 3 yet the comparison is my mirage because that results in something very originally spiritual ultimately. In a nutshell, undoubtedly one of the best issues in 2017, and probably the best indie album in 2017 so far. Amazing gal indeed.

[Teaser of the day] Daniel James Dolby - A Warning

Murmure Intemporel

• Dark ambient
• Film noir
• Illbient
• Electronic music
• Post-industrial
• Leftfield

Artist: Daniel James Dolby

Release: Grimojo

Label: Murmure Intemporel/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Poros - Ter

MiMi

• Post-punk
• Experimental rock
• Gothic rock
• Alternative rock
• Post-rock
• Crossover
• Indie rock

Artist: Poros

Release: Ter

Label: MiMi

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Torley - The Garden

Folksoundomy: Music And Music Albums

• Piano music
• Contemporary classical
• Modern classical

Artist: Torley

Release: Solo Piano 7

Label: Folksoundomy: Music And Music Albums/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

NNY – offear.ep (2004)

Enough

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

Jamendo

• Electronic music 
• Experimental electronica 
• Alternative 
• Drone 
• Minimal techno 
• Glitchtronica 
• Micronoise

Comment: this set of 5 compositions created by Portuguese artist Jerome Faria aka NNY is certainly the kind of electronic music but it is problematic to pigeonhole it in a certain way. Maybe it is just about a physical vibe, to get your change in mood through moving of the sounds from one channel to another. And vice versa. A traffic of gentle and noisy sounds to pass by each other. I couldn't find out any narrative of it. When you have stopped listening to it you could remember just a little bit about the whole. Maybe there were up some shrieks, some noises and glitches, some spans of silence, some kind of talking. You cannot remember nothing but the issue is intriguing and you have to listen to it again to figure it eventually out. It is uneasy to think it off. So your presence is essential for that outing. Without your experience it does not exist in fact. It is a mental terrain which is going to blossom at the presence of the listener. The release is a part of the discography of enoughrecords.

[Teaser of the day] Sekotis - Ravens

Bump Foot

• Art rock
• Indie rock
• Math rock
• Post-rock
• Avant-rock
• Alternative rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: Sekotis

Release: For Your Weird Ears

Label: Bump Foot/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Scissor Lock - I Guess

• Post-psychedelic electronica
• Avant-pop
• Experimental pop
• Electronic
• Leftfield
• Art pop
• Drone pop

Artist: Scissor Lock

Release: Churn

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Lackluster - Starcell U.K

Soulseek/Other Net.Label Artists

• IDM
• Alternative
• Mood music
• Electronic music

Artist: Lackluster

Release: Distance

Label: Soulseek/Other Net.Label Artists

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Blasphemation - Stomped Into a Sludge

Torn Flesh

• Death metal
• Crust punk
• Brutal metal
• Goregrind
• Crossover

Artist: Blasphemation

Release: An Oath of Total Allegiance to the Black God

Label: Torn Flesh

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Wacky Southern Current - Kogan Tribute Piece

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Art rock

Artist: Wacky Southern Current

Release: Today`s Embrace

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Bronze Eye - Hopfrog

• Experimental hip-hop
• Rap
• Electronic music
• Glitch-hop
• Urban music
• Avant-hop

Artist: Broze Eye

Release: Past Imperfect

Label: Bayshore

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Fabio Keiner - Charun

Free Music Archive

• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Drone
• Experimentalism
• Microtonal
• Electronic music

Artist: Fabio Keiner

Release: Shidim

Label: Murmure Intemporel

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Cisne Sônico - Schwermut

• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Neofolk
• Space rock
• Neoclassical
• Dark folk

Artist: Cisne Sônico

Release: Melancolia  

Label: Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Broken Music Box - Achievement

Birdsong

• Lo-fi
• DIY
• Bedroom pop
• Improvised music
• Drone pop
• Avant-pop
• Experimental pop

Artist: Her Highness

Release: Broken Music Box - Featuring Her Highness 

Label: Birdsong

Year: 2004

ps – Finding My Own Way Back Home (2017)

Enoughrecords

Free Music Archive

Jamendo

Bandcamp

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Minimalism 
• Leftfield 
• Noise 
• Ambient noise 
• Microtonal 
• Drone 
• Ambient drone 
• Abstract 
• Illbient 
• Dark ambient 
• Epic

Comment: this batch of 10 compositions can be considered as one monolithic track because it consists of very minimally changed phases as if My Bloody Valentine were standing somewhere under a tremendous waterfall. Yet it is the album having nothing to do with shoegaze. Because My Bloody Valentine under an imposing waterfall can not be a shoegaze case at all. Glenn Branca to be set up under a waterfall? More profoundly, you are directed to a hiss loaded droning universe of energy where you can make decisions on sonic intensity, energetic consumption and burning and mere, almost invisible dodges only. However, it is enough to make difference. Furthermore, even if you thought of it as something excessively primitive at a first glance you soon got realized of it as quite sinister and totally overwhelming. At some point you are not reflecting upon it, it reflects upon you. That's the case. Behind visible sonic carpets one can perceive even more invisible ones which used to resonate with one another and thereof produce new templates again and again. There are connected the physical and mental power of music as a phenomenon. Real, existing sounds are created in the way to induce chimeras and phantasms. Vectors, inner impulses and inertia are seamlessly intertwined into ghastly landscapes. Call it hisswave on its own way. And although it seems to be ominous it is beautiful and wondrous either. This stunning release is a part of the discography of the enoughrecords, the legendary Portuguese imprint.

[Teaser of the day] Eva on the Western Castle Island - Surfing Like a Guru

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Bubblegum pop
• Blonde hair indie

Artist: Eva on the Western Castle Island

Release: The Wong Way 

Label: EardrumsPop

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Nasienie - Walking Around

Webbed Hand

• Drone
• Ambient drone
• Dreamwave
• Glitchtronica
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde

Artist: Nasienie

Release: Prevention of Sleep Disorders EP 

Label: Webbed Hand

Year: 2010

Radj – 8 Tracks (EP) (2017)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Bandcamp

• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Nu jazz 
• Sampledelic
• Hip-hop 
• Breaks 
• Downtempo
• Trip-hop 
• Electronic music

Comment: Radj is an artist from Canada whose - surprise, surprise - 8-notch outing is a tight mix of shambling rhythms, suggestive samples from motion pictures (many of them are in Russian), and cinematic synthesised sounds. The outing is a quite short-running one and used to be uniform from the very beginning to the end point thereby chiming like a total track eventually. Why it is so? Emotionally it is restrained, it deliberately avoids progressing into something boisterous and unleashed. One can encounter some flourishes here and there but all of that seems to be hindered or at least withdrawn anyway. It is strongly controlled in its simple and even primitive format (I mean it in a positive sense anyway). So you can perceive tension with regard to the represented elements and huge potential waiting to be realized to the ultimate extent. The outing is a subsequent release by Dusted Wax Kingdom, a netlabel from Varna, Bulgaria. The heaven is today apocalyptically eclipsed due to the remote consequences of the hurricane Ophelia and as a result it is enjoyable with this set of sound.

[Teaser of the day] Jan Strach - Wierzby (Willows)

• DIY
• Lo-fi
• Space pop
• Art pop
• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Dream pop

Artist: Jan Strach

Release: Jan Pierwszy Starszy

Label: Underpolen/Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Smash Up Fun!! - Bo Fly Mambo

• Latin music
• Lounge pop
• Plunderphonics
• Avant-garde
• Mambo
• Dada music
• Sound collage
• Leftfield
• Exotica pop
• Anti-pop
• Sampledelic

Artist: Smash Up Fun!!

Release: Fly, Not Fly

Label: Ubuibi/Big City Orchestra

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Death Tricheco - Contemporary Art

• Avant-garde
• Plunderphonics
• Sound collage
• Industrial
• DIY
• Freeformfreakout
• Minimal synth
• Experimentalism
• Experimental electronica
• Sampledelic
• Electronic music

Artist: Death Tricheco

Release: Party Music

Label: Silent Method

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] No(Spin) - Queen of Blades

Electron Emitter

• Breakcore
• Drum and bass
• Electronic music
• Alternative dance

Artist: No(Spin)

Release: From The Vaults

Label: Electron Emitter

Year: 2017

Wings Of An Angel – Enter Your Horror Story (2017)

Bandcamp

• Modern classical 
• Contemporary classical 
• Piano music 
• Art music 
• Drone 
• Ambient drone 
• Space music 
• Electronic music 
• Chamber music

Comment: the man behind Wings Of An Angel is a phenomenon. Maybe he is not man at all, no I am not inclined to say instead of a man there is an angel, maybe it is a hidden collective behind it. Why I supposed to think in that way? Because he has released more than 140 releases in recent years. It must be a prodigious exertion to reach it. Only very few chosen are able to do it. If to think of it this can be compared with the doings of the Almighty one. All what he said and did all would get realised immediately. All what Wings Of An Angel has thought all would have surfaced after a while. The recent one consists of a couple of tracks which are quite disparate by their format, composition and tonality. Danger Is An Imminent Reaction used to base on a spherical droning. I was running in a colourful, autumnal forest while I was listening to it for the first time. It is a track which suggests as if you are the only person in the world. There is no place for other persons. You have no need for other people at all because your own existence is tightly related to the surrounding nature which is your mother, father, lover, whatever. In other words, it is the rebuff of civilisation which is the source of decay and depression. The track clocks in at a 16 minute. The following track It's Too Hard To Teach A Daft Sun-Assaulter How To Make Raspberries Grow In The Dirt is as long as a 67 minute being based on piano chord shuffles and surrounded by an airy ambience. Its emotion and mood are more veiled and ambiguous and because of that it is problematic to relate to it on emotionally. However, I suppose I am barking under a false tree and instead of searching for overwhelming emotions (due to the opening composition) you have to set out to follow rigidly the format and the pattern of the composition. That's it. In a nutshell, listen to it for to stand under the shadow of the wings of an angel.

[Teaser of the day] Carbonates On Mars - Forest Canopy

• Ambient
• Ambient drone
• Minimalism
• Space music
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Soundscape

Artist: Carbonates On Mars

Release: This Music Plants Trees 4

Label: Aural Films 

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Wings of An Angel - Only Love Can Heal The Wounds Of Time

• Post-classical
• Art music
• Experimentalism
• Contemporary classical
• Modern classical
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Wings Of An Angel

Release: Odysseys Of An Idling Polar Sun (Musical Diary Of My Spiritual Journey To The Ukraine, Oct 2017)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Uton - Diamond Hearts

Free Music Archive

• Avant-garde
• Abstract
• New Weird Finland
• Avant-folk
• Psychedelic
• Improvised music
• Drone folk
• Experimentalism
• Leftfield
• Experimental folk
• Forest folk
• Noise

Artist: Uton

Release: Holy Burn

Label: Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Va Ra Yam

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Full Load Of King - Medusa

Comfort Stand

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Blues rock
• Psychedelic rock
• Hard rock

Artist: Full Load Of King

Release: Normal 

Label: Comfort Stand

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Snuff American Style - War Of Attrition

• No Wave
• Avant-garde
• Avant-rock
• Experimentalism
• Leftfield
• Electronic
• Experimental rock
• Alternative

Artist: Snuff American Style

Release: The Isolation EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Marylin Roxie - Raumschiff der Krautrock

Vulpiano

• Krautrock
• Electronic music
• Psychedelic
• Kosmische Musik
• Alternative

Artist: Marylin Roxie

Release: Zug der Krautrock 

Label: Vulpiano

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Toxic Chicken - dakterras at Gifgrond

• Electronic pop
• Alternative
• Synth-pop
• Poptronica

Artist: Toxic Chicken

Release: Into the hidden place

Label: Dog Park

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mortua Nix - Drained

• Lo-fi
• Avant-garde
• DIY
• Neofolk
• Neoclassical

Artist: Mortua Nix 

Release: Martyrs

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

The Bordellos – The Bordellos Underground Tape Vol 7 (2017)

Bandcamp

• Indie rock 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Alternative rock 
• Outsider pop 
• Indie folk

Comment: since the end of the 00s I have had two great lo-fi and DIY acts from the very underground of the United Kingdom, more profoundly, The Hirundu, and Clinker. Since 2014 or 2015 I can consider The Bordellos as a third act in the list. Why I like the mentioned acts? It might be because of their cynicism in lyrics and in their music which in turn harks back to my personal experiences while listening to an early MES and The Fall, especially Perverted By Language (1983). Of course, I like the music of the recent ones because these influences cannot be heard as a copy paste version but one can hear unexpected dodges and tradition ruined appearances in music. The Bordellos is not a unit who somehow likes to be aesthetically repressed. They have been doing what they like to do. They have released a bunch of EPs and some albums so far. This 4-notch one is based on quiet and even buried incantations based on primitive chords and visions. Let's call it lo-fi jangle pop, primitive Americana, outsider folk music, tea cup sadcore. I have nothing left to do as they sing. Like The Fall has always loved rockabilly as an American influence The Bordellos has added Americana as an American influence to the latest releases. I have no regret while spending time with it though I would prefer the combo's previous ones because at times it is way too buried. But I understood their musical path to move on from one point to the next one. That's the logic, that's the dynamics.

Megahast3r – Low Level Security (2017)

Soisloscerdos

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

• Acid techno 
• Tekno 
• Electronic music 
• Acid house 
• Rave music 
• Alternative dance 
• Minimal techno

Comment: this bunch of 4 compositions is a bipolar outing with regard to involving restrained yet somehow neurotically loaded electronic progressions and an elegant minimal techno and then trading it for shamelessly stomping electronic dance beats getting obviously inspiration from warehouse parties from the end 80s and the beginning 90s. It is sparse and straightforward yet providing a huge impact on a listener. Indeed, it is truly rave-up. Paradoxically it does have an emotional impact upon me because the emotions are burned off over there a priori. That's the way I like it. The issue is a part of the discography of Soisloscerdos Records.

wk [es] – EXT-ME (2010)

Hz-Records

• Abstract techno 
• Glitchtronica 
• Electronic music 
• Leftfield 
• Experimental techno 
• Minimal techno 
• Avant-techno 
• Experimental electronica

Comment: EXT-ME was the first issue being released in the discography of Hz-Records. It was also a predecessor of an issue called Deus ex machina. In comparison to the last mentioned issue it is more restrained and sparse because of circling around dry glitched-out techno patterns at times being variegated with faint melodic progressions and stoned noise explosions. However, the aforementioned elements are seamlessly integrated into the whole. That's the strength of this 5-notch outing. These errors are very fine ones for your bloody robotic brain. And for my fking brain even more. Debris is to be resurrected like Jesus Christ is to be recycled.

wk[es] - Deus ex machina (2011)

Hz-Records

• Avant-techno 
• Experimental electronica 
• Experimental techno 
• IDM 
• Abstract techno

Comment: if to compare it to a nearby album review Parametic Delay's Love Song Before Sleeping (2011, No-Source) you can draw parallels on glitched-out sounds and IDM-esque cadences yet on the other side it is a disparate case for sure. It is not inflected by indie pop at all these five tracks get their power from outer space to bring it forth through mundane technical support and electronics. That's cool, that's intriguing. Deus ex machina. Although the first two tracks (Dialogue, Phantasm) are quite gentle by its nature the rest of the whole is remarkably more spaced-out and murky in its deliberatedly haphazard playfulness. It reminds me a bit of Autechre, the duo's abstract, mathematical techno. Debris and waste will be employed to the maximal extent. It sounds like a Poltergeist would play somewhere in the middle of a wasteland. This mind-provoking outing is a bit of the discography Hz-Records.

Parametic Delay – Love Song Before Sleeping (2011)

No-Source

• Indietronica 
• Post-pop 
• Electronic pop 
• IDM 
• Plinkerpop 
• Glitch pop 
• Bitpop
• Synth-pop

Comment: I can remember for the first half of the 00s while one of the most interesting sounds was related to the so-called duyster (from Belgium) and such labels as Morr Music, and Monika Enterprise. Such peripheral sounds and bits as glitches, noises, 8 bits and other wonky sounds were scraped to subjugate them to sub pop/gentle indie pop inflected harmonies and melodies. Within the netlabel world there have also been such kind of juggernauts who provided a platform to an immense number of artists. Error Lo-Fi, Aerotone, 12rec. and of course, No-Source imprint (unfortunately all these records are defunct now). All the aforementioned elements are apparently represented on this 5-notch issue coming out from Indonesia (the duo of Benk Robo, and Dittea). It is witty, it is poignant, it is charming, it is cerebral with regard to the choice of sounds and accomplished compositions. At the same time it is intact and not smeared with the burden of everyday life. We cannot be without adjectives while describing an astounding release. This issue makes that sense.

Random Forest – Panoramic (2016)

Bandcamp

• Post-rock 
• Epic 
• Art rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Ambient rock

Comment: post-rock is a style which cannot be understood in one certain way. First, post used to refer to something which comes after rock music yet still having something common with the previous phenomenon. It is the kind of ontological explanation. However, such combos as Stereolab, Broadcast, Slowdive's Pygmalion can be considered post-rock in that transgressive sense. Mostly post-rock is understood as guitar-based music which used to meander on symphonic guitar progressions frequently from the silent starting point to reach loud and majestic crescendos. Like a powerful male to provide multiple orgasms to a female. Indeed, post-rock as a style is a drift between divine and mundane. Furthermore, the categorisations cannot be presumed as clear-cut ones between the ones there supposed to fifty one grey shades of...whatever. Behind the London, UK-based combo Random Forest is the duo of Aaron Gilbert and David Walters (The Echelon Effect). David Walters aka The Echelon Effect has grown an impressive following to his project through the social media and first of all thanks to his wondrous music. In fact, Random Forest as a minor brother of it continues to trudge the same path of atmospheric and dreamy guitars, and electronic beats and suggestive effects. Indeed, these guitars clearly imply their power to dominate and emit beauty simultaneously while the electronics used to support it in an almost invisible way. It can even be compared to The Smiths at The Queen Is Dead (1986) when Johnny Marr added a sampler/synthesiser (denoted as The Hated Salford Ensemble and Orchestrazia Ardwick at Strangeways, Here We Come) to complement guitars with more orchestrated sounds. Or My Bloody Valentine would have been doing since the Glider EP (1990) to give MBV's sound the panoramic touch. In a word, the result is astounding which should be employed as a remedy for patients with low a serotonin level.

[Teaser of the day] Four Letter Word - Emergency Broadcast

• Hardcore
• Agit-punk
• Punk rock

Artist: Four Letter Word

Release: Zero Visibility

Label: BYO/Bandcamp

Year: 1999

[Teaser of the day] Santa Inferno - Marmalade

Imaginary Albums

• Lo-fi
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Psychedelic rock
• DIY

Artist: Santa Inferno

Release: Desert Music

Label: Imaginary Albums

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] A Problem Like Maria - Petrichor

• Indietronica
• Art pop
• Dream pop
• Singer-songwriter
• Post-pop
• Indie pop
• Chillwave
• Alternative pop
• Electronic music

Artist: A Problem Like Maria

Release: Lagniappe

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] dml - Beta Testing

Broque

• Tech-electro
• Electronic music
• Alternative dance

Artist: dml

Release: The Chemistry of Boredom 

Label: Broque

Year: 2016

Tree No Leaves – Sacred Natives (2017)

Bandcamp

• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Progressive rock 
• Art rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Drone rock 
• Americana 
• Southern rock

Comment: I can remember for my first experience with this combo happened approximately 8 years ago with regard to such a great label as now defunct Modicum Of Silence, the Ohio, US-based imprint led by Nic Ross. For sure, you are having serious problems to find out the discography of the record label but many albums you can download from the rare albums section at RMH. Since then, since the first chords Tree No Leaves' music has been highly artsy due to its quest towards a perfect synthesis in rock music. And I think they have succeeded in doing it. For instance, Sacred Natives, the 4-notch outing is a fascinating match by putting together such styles as vehement indie music and on the other side adding to it more traditional yet still mind-provoking genres like Kosmische Musik, krautrock, psychedelia and progressive rock. Thirdly, you can hear American threads like Southern rock, Americana even if those are not always prevalently apparent. At times those freely floating and slightly acidic Hammond organ based grooves remind of such Manchester baggy juggernauts as The Charlatans, and Inspiral Carpets (especially at Emperor's Cyclical Disco). And The Doors is an obvious influence. As I said already it is the perfect match.

[Teaser of the day] Soma - Oceano

MonoKraK

• Ambient pop
• Ambient techno
• Space pop
• Electronic music
• New Age
• Mood music

Artist: Soma

Release: Uno 

Label: MonoKraK

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Pasqualino Ubaldini - Etn(i)a Maris

Jamendo

• Drone folk
• World music
• Crossover
• Big beat
• Psychedelic
• Art folk
• World fusion

Artist: Pasqualino Ubaldini

Release: Metissage

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Jason Sposa - All Of Those Years

Hearthphone

• Indie pop
• Art pop
• Singer-songwriter
• DIY
• Alternative pop
• Dream pop

Artist: Jason Sposa

Release: The Olivia EP

Label: Hearthphone

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Gamardah Fungus - World Dying

Nocharizma

• Ambient rock
• Experimental rock
• Minimalism
• Post-rock
• Avant-rock
• Musique concrète
• Art rock

Artist: Gamardah Fungus

Release: Nuclear Winter

Label: Nocharizma

Year: 2012

Quimper – Wake Up Gastone (2017)

Bandcamp

• Modern classical 
• Electronic music 
• Post-classical 
• Dark wave 
• Leftfield 
• Indietronica 
• Ambient 
• Art music 
• Experimental pop

Comment: Quimper is a project from the United Kingdom who has released nine outings since 2012. In 2017, Wake Up Gastone is the artist`s third issue. Although it is a short issue many dodges and progressions are up there for the listener's sake. It starts off with the self-titled notch being imbued with lurking and droning synths being elegantly opaque by its nature and then the 4-track outing continues with a J-pop influenced pop number (Elephant). Years Out is the most epic track where electronic devices are jettisoned for lonely piano chords and longing female vowels thereby making the listener's soul to feel herself/himself somehow scarred and sadly reflective. The final track He Woke Up is also grave and somber though it used to base on an electronic progression. It is the most atmospheric, ambient and dark wave tinged example within it. By watching the silly cover at I have to admit it seems to be eventually harmonize with the music behind it. In a word, it does not seem to be so silly at all. All In all, the result is impressive and I have to discover more music from the artist.