Recent Music Heroes

Comment: this set of 21 tracks (or sketches) can be considered a grower. The grower in that sense you will discover many interesting nuances after a bunch of listening times. Undoubtedly it is a mischievous release because the Finnish artist is not interested in developing certain themes but is already ready to make frantic dodges as if zooming in and out incessantly. Because of that pattern it reminds of music being vamped up in the mind set of dada. The issue was outed by WM Recordings, and it reminds of another release from the imprint`s discography, Brunk`s Insert Coin To Continue (2009). In truth, with regard to the release years the proposition should be said vice versa. Of course, the whole is not without exceptions. For instance, at Vuono 18 one can hear enchanting electro house progressions with a midnight vibe. Vuono 17 is a beatific glimpse on the base of a dusty organ chords. Vuono 16 is a bewildering electro funk at its best. All music had been conjured up with Amiga 500 running OctaMED sound tracker program and was recorded to c-cassette in 1994-1995. In a word, you must listen to this eminent and fabulous release.

10/31/2017

[Teaser of the day] The Asteroid Belt - Corruption

Space rock
Improvised music
Experimental rock
Krautrock
Avant-rock
Psych-rock

Artist: The Asteroid Belt

Release: Do Whats Right

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Rawph - Os famosos e os duendes da morte

Spoken word
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Shoegaze

Artist: Rawph

Release: A melancolia vai nos separar, outra vez.

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] FM Raster - Pattern 1

Electronic music
Experimental pop
Art pop
Alternative
Post-dubstep
Post-pop
Avant-pop

Artist: FM Raster

Release: New Weird Australia: Passages, Volume One

Label: New Weird Australia

Year: 2015

10/30/2017

Chris Sabucco – Divided Falls (2017)

2419 Record Label

Singer-songwriter
Pop

Comment: I did not expect such sort of music being released on the Netherlands-based imprint 2419 Record Label. My earlier experiences with the imprint were related to more experimental angles and structures but this one started off with a straightforward, flamboyant song which continues to go the same vein where doleful singing is backed up by the plucking of acoustic guitar, and slightly orchestrated vowels all of that a bit resembling Robert Smith. Like a very light, unplugged version of The Cure. Way too bombastic and transparent while providing no X-factor for a more sniffy listener. Nice ditties for the AOR station though.

[Teaser of the day] James Doesn`t Exist - Sulfuric Acid

Torn Flesh

Death metal
Brutal metal
Screamo
Extreme metal
Grindcore

Artist: James Doesn`t Exist

Release: Leeches

Label: Torn Flesh/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Cubenx - Hollow (feat. Guilhem)

Electronic pop
House pop
Alternative pop
Poptronica

Artist: Cubenx/Guilhem

Release: Hollow (single)

Label: Bad Panda

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] La Mansarde Hermetique - Sonnige Zeiten

Electronic music
Kosmische Musik
Space music
Cosmic fusion
Alternative

Artist: La Mansarde Hermetique

Release: Haunted Attic

Label: Petroglyph/Archive.org

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] The Shalfonts - Boy Musk

Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Jangle pop
C86

Artist: The Shalfonts

Release: Totem Power, Totem Life

Label: Giant Manilow

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Lezet - Hiccup Analogy

Abdicate Cell

Experimental electronica
Leftfield
Folktronica
Crossover
Avant-electronica
Electronic music
Dada music

Artist: Lezet

Release: Earpiece

Label: Abdicate Cell

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Electricwest - Deficient

Ambient dub
Minimal techno
Experimental electronica
Dub techno
Electronic music
Minimal dub

Artist: Electricwest

Release: Inner Forms

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Weldroid - Csillagok

IDM
Experimental electronica
Dreamwave
Space music
Electronic music

Artist: Weldroid

Release: Splines

Label: Soft Phase/Bandcamp

Year: 2010/2017

10/29/2017

[Teaser of the day] Tom Fahy - Slow Autumn and the Fire

Archive.org

Modern classical
Mood music
DIY
Baroque pop
Alternative
Lo-fi
Chamber pop

Artist: Tom Fahy

Release: The Gradual Riddle

Label: Self-released/Archive.org

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Bluebridge Quartet - Karp

Aerotone

Post-rock
Fusion
Jazz rock
Crossover
Avant-rock
Art rock
Experimental rock
Progressive rock

Artist: Bluebridge Quartet

Release: Adjusted For Low Noise Tape EP

Label: Aerotone

Year: 2007

Akiba Jonze – Realm of Rain (2015)

Mothermantra

Bandcamp

Ambient pop
New Age
Folktronica
Musique concrète
Electronic music
Organic electronica
Chilltronica

Comment: this couple of tracks is imbued with concrete sounds, guitar twangs, synthesised gongs and gentle yet compelling electronic beats with intention to conjure up a mystical world somewhere in the middle of tropical warmth, sultry raining as if letting surface a fairy tale alike ambience. It is way too beatific to be a subject of belief. It partly reminds me of such an artist as it is Tont from Estonia whose soundscapes are similarly otherworldly and wondrous. Jokingly, this is a way of how the New Age musicians make folk music. Realm of Rain was the third single by the artist being released on Mothermantra Records. The sort of ideal music indeed.

FET.NAT – Purple Empereur (2014)

Bandcamp

Alternative rock
Indie rock
Improvised music
Art rock
Crossover
Post-punk
Avant-rock
No Wave

Comment: this set of three tracks (classified as B-sides) from Hull, Quebec, Canada is a provoking rock example with crashing guitars, screaming and weeping vocals in French and a minimised amount of electronic music. That's weird in its dadaist approach while being somehow lofty at the same time, that's also artsy and inspiring. It harks back to an experimental compartment of post-punk (in fact, post-punk as a style was being mostly experimental and seminal anyway) to such combos as Ludus (a favourite combo of Moz), and This Heat, but by contemporaneous combos it a little bit resembles ranting Fly Pan Am, another French Canadian combo. The issue is a part of the discography of E-Tron Rec., and Boiled Records.

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.

10/26/2017

[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.

10/25/2017

[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

10/24/2017

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

10/23/2017

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).

10/22/2017

[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.

10/20/2017

[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.

10/19/2017

[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

10/18/2017

[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.

10/17/2017

[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

10/16/2017

[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

10/15/2017

[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.

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