[Teaser of the day] Moses Luster - Sorrow Town

• Singer-songwriter
• Art rock
• Vaudeville
• Americana

Artist: Moses Luster

Release: Mother Sauce - The Pre​-​Apocalypse Years (2011​-​2015)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Bramir – Amuletos: I-IV (2017)

Mansarda

• Drone 
• Microtonal 
• Minimalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Ambient drone 
• Post-industrial 
• Micronoise

Comment: this 4-notch issue provides a different sort of haunting music rather than just coming out of a horror movie. It does not include either shrieks or highly lurking narrative, it is warm and permanent in its endless droning while emitting almost audible shades behind it. Yet it is possible I have hauled in non-existent entities in reality. It may have cheated my perception elegantly due to its iterative nature and elliptical fringes. Yet if the music evokes these ghosts in my head I guess they can be considered as existing ones. As real ones. Yes, it is a philosophical question about the nature of entities. I can hear the very intense soundscape behind these layers yet at the same time chiming in a muffled way. Otherwise it could be a merciless harsh noise attack. Yet the more you listen to it the more it reveals its malignant nature. The pulsating drones beat in my head and will connect with my intellect. The music which makes one thinking of. The outing is a part of the discography of Mansarda Records.

[Teaser of the day] Zijnzijn Zijnzijn! - Breathe In

• Drone
• Experimental rock
• Epic
• Post-rock
• Minimalism
• Electronic music
• Microtonal
• Dream pop
• Avant-rock
• Drone rock

Artist: Zijnzijn Zijnzijn! 

Release: Wordwounder

Label: Futurerecordings 

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Roger Plexico - Aniva Rock Lighthouse

• Mood music
• Indietronica
• Post-pop
• Alternative pop
• Chilltronica
• Art pop

Artist: Roger Plexico 

Release: Where The Sidewalk Ends

Label: Monster Jinx/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Arze Kareem - Da blocks

Jamendo

• Breaks
• Downtempo
• Hip-hop
• Chilltronica
• Electronic music
• Trip-hop
• Mood music
• Urban music

Artist: Arze Kareem

Release: Akstrumentals Vol.1+2

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2011

Yaporigami – Loop 1.0 (2011)

Hz-Records

• Experimental techno 
• Glitch techno 
• Avant-techno 
• Minimal dub 
• Electronic music 
• Experimental electronica

Comment: Yaporigami is a Japanese artist whose 15-notch outing is a fine blend of crispy beats, clockwork-alike electronic effects and neurotic electrified wobbling. It is like metal as a material will get elaborated incessantly from one form to another. Stylistically it is a drift between glitched-out techno and minimal dub. The artist has entitled all the tracks as loops but in fact these ones are enduring compositions on their own. The listener is allowed to rumble around across the labyrinthine and boxy channels full of ear-provoking dodges, vivid turns and enchanting rushes. It is the source of dizziness ultimately. It is a part of the artificial world, it may even be a bit dystopic and suffocating yet at the same time preserving its irresistible outfit and inner playfulness. This outstanding techno and dub outing is a bit in the discography of Hz-Records.

[Teaser of the day] Randomajestiq - Gravity 0

One

• House 
• Alternative dance
• Electro-house
• Electronic music
• Club dance

Artist: Randomajestiq

Release: Deepmove Mode EP

Label: One

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Josh McCurdy - Chromium Lexeme

GodHatesGod

• Breakbeat
• Ambient techno
• Alternative dance
• Electronic music

Artist: Josh McCurdy

Release: Destroyed Dimensions GHGR 17316

Label: GodHatesGod 

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Peacock Ball - Perlet Gate

Free Music Archive

• Progressive rock
• Hard rock
• Psych-rock
• Art rock

Artist: Peacock Ball 

Release: Dž (official album 2015)

Label: Radio Bunker

Year: 2015

Circa State – Homegrown (2017)

Kahvi Collective

Bandcamp

• Ambient pop 
• Chilltronica 
• Poptronica 
• Electronic pop 
• Mood music 
• Post-IDM

Comment: first of all, this 8-notch outing's purpose seems to be arouse one's emotions and sensations. Furthermore, Circa State's purpose is not only arouse emotions and sensations but also create them in the listener's head. However, it can be considered philosophical dispute with regard to the question of which our sensations consist of? And which is the genuine base of them? By stylistic side I would like to prefer the pigeonhole “post-IDM” with regard to its emotional and technical edge. As I have already said it is very moody music and it employs certain sounds from the genuine IDM to foster the soundcape. Those gentle bubble-alike synthesised progressions, acidic microgrooves and atmospheric layers atop are intended to provide an enchanting emotive accompaniment. The more I listen to it the more it will grow on me. Grower. Homegrower. Paradoxically or not, such sort of music does not allow describe itself with many words. Because of that, in a word, just listen to it and enjoy the vibe of it. The decent release is a part of the discography of the Finnish Kahvi Collective.

[Teaser of the day] Cousin Silas - The House In The Wood

• Ambient
• Experimentalism
• Post-classical
• Ambient drone
• Electronic music
• Space music
• Epic
• Soundscape
• Avant-garde

Artist: Cousin Silas

Release: Studio 4632 Dark Ambient Sampler I

Label: Studio 4632

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Sounddog65 - No Where No Here

Mutant Sonic Exposure

• Sound art
• Electronic music
• Drone
• Post-industrial
• Musique concrète
• Industrial techno
• Crossover
• Experimentalism
• Micronoise
• Field recording
• Ambient noise
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde
• Acousmatic music

Artist: Sounddog65

Release: XLIX/Bandcamp

Label: Mutant Sonic Exposure/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Eternalkeys - Train Bridge

Hortus Conclusus

• Synth-pop
• Dark wave
• Art music
• Alternative
• Mood music
• Crossover

Artist: Eternalkeys

Release: Cryin` Ghost

Label: Hortus Conclusus

Year: 2017

LFC – Maggots In My Tongue (2010)

pCloud

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Leftfield 
• Non-music 
• Psycho-acoustic

Comment: it's time to arrive at Lucas Pastina aka LFC's music. The Brazilian persona non grata in music sets up something truly provokingly dysfunctional through these 9 compositions. The more I listen to it the more I feel I am being surrounded by our distant forefathers coming out of the Stone Age. Their dysfunctional speech and lack of articulation do shift the listener's perception through rough vowel effects, let's try to be without any adornments, just spooky moaning. Our dear forefathers as zombies. Do you think such sort of sound has never had any impact on pop music? You are wrong. Some music critics consider Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica the most innovative chapter within the history of pop music. LFC is here without blues, without no musical accompaniment altogether. Just some sonic effects, cold reverberations and sharp clashes are up there to deviate a possibly more coherent impact you could otherwise pick up on it. In a word, it is a ruthless example of sound yet the surrounding life is clearly more remorseless. Moreover, deranged madmen in music used to spill their seminal seeds for the forthcoming generations given that insanity is a driving force to move the ideas further. If you are thinking of the title and the cover print as disgusting you would change your mind by thinking of it as nutritionally highly caloric. You will get nourished. Frankly, it is frantic.

[Teaser of the day] Ahteha - Soma

• Psybient
• Alternative dance
• Psytrance
• Ambient pop
• Ambient trance
• Electronic music

Artist: Ahteha

Release: Soma

Label: Subwise

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mmöner - Supëŗ Adul† ☾ombo ☿

• Fantasy music
• Experimental electronica
• Alternative
• Primitive music
• Electronic music

Artist: Mmöner

Release: Training Saga

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Empirical Evidence - Meteors

Nostress

• Ambient
• Micronoise
• Ambient rock
• Electronic
• Ambient noise
• Shoegazetronica
• Alternative

Artist: Empirical Evidence

Release: Neospectralism

Label: Nostress

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Patrick Ripoll - Latent Homotextual

• Sampledelic
• Sound collage
• DIY
• Electronic
• Anti-rock
• Mash-up
• Freeformfreakout
• Americana
• Noise pop
• Lo-fi
• Avant-garde
• Plunderphonics
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Patrick Ripoll

Release: Disorient

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Mentz - Tumble

Free Music Archive

• Nu jazz
• Cinematic
• Easy listening
• Mood music
• Sampledelic
• Alternative
• Electronic jazz
• Acid jazz

Artist: Mentz

Release: Re-Locate EP

Label: Humanworkshop

Year: 2008  

[Teaser of the day] Kirk Cosby - Advancement Opportunities

Vaatican

• Avant-garde
• Freeformfreakout
• Sampledelic
• Spoken word
• Experimentalism
• Electronic music
• Plunderphonics
• Experimental electronica
• Sound collage

Artist: Kirk Cosby

Release: Dreams In The Absence Of Oxygen

Label: Vaatican

Year: 2011

The Bordellos – Gary Glitter e.p (2016)

Bandcamp

• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Post-punk 
• Art punk 
• Experimental rock 
• Art rock 
• Alternative dance 
• DIY 
• Americana 
• Lo-fi

Comment: it is probably one of the most favourite releases by The Bordellos for me where the soaring dynamics through raw sounds and vivid dodges comes to the surface. It is like The Fall meets Faust in a way. Beaming galvanised guitars and subtle electronics are mingled with sassy vocals and singing manner. Furthermore, having been very characteristic to The Bordellos throughout the discography they used to add fragmented Americana influences to the mix. But not only – the whole Free Download Generation as a track chimes like a piss out Americana pickup on clumsy folk and awkward rockabilly. The most uncanny track is Disco Pants with the offbeat frequency in the rhythmic measure being accompanied by acidic electronics and gravity-free singing as if produced by the unforgettable Arthur Russell. I don`t even know is it either a dance track or an anti-dance statement. In a word, give a heck to it because it will transport you somewhere else from this nowadays overproduced and overloaded pop rock to some very roots of rock and punk music with its own idiosyncratic touch.

Thuoom – Circadian (2017)

Textural Healing

• Ambient 
• Soundscape 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Electronic music 
• Minimalism

Comment: the term "circadian" does mean of relating to biological processes at 24-hour interval. I guess the main adjectives to describe the process are iterative, analogous, unvarying and consistent. The Finnish artist's 10-notch release is thought to illustrate it through the language of sounds. Minimally changing elements and rhythmical impulses within Thuoom's breathing and organic universe. There are up a thousands of ambient releases worldwide but Thuoom's power is to find out an idiosyncratic slot within it. Of course, I have described it a little bit in a negative and artificial manner because I don't think altogether his premise is to face off against someone's music; instead of it his plan is to think off his own sound in an organic and natural way. In general, he employs natural and artificial electronic sounds to bound them together which in turn adds a breathing and thereby mystical substance to the whole (by that point the outing can be compared with such an artist as Alio Die). As the artist's previous issues the recent one has been issued on his own imprint Textural Healing. Quite simple by its initial elements to embark on yet highly impressive by establishing the album as a whole.

The Peach Tree – The Peach Tree (2010)

Bandcamp

• Synthwave 
• Goth synth 
• Alternative rock 
• Industrial rock 
• Electro rock 
• Synth-rock 
• Electronic music 
• World fusion 
• Hard rock 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Dark wave

Comment: The Peach Tree is the solo project of Angus Maiden whose is being known as a Melbourne, Australian maverick in sonic creation. An indie man with more heavy leanings in aesthetic preferences. Throughout the course of 12 tracks the listener can perceive this stylistically wobbling enterprise based mostly on the industrial rock template. In a word, boxy guitars and set-up machine rhythms are intertwined with electronic layers and loaded boats of electrified energy. Yet his grip is remarkably broader due to dodges into murky dungeon synthesiser realm and fragmented and convulsive world music (a fascinating composition called Ganesh) and also riff-based hard rock at Blind. Furthermore, On A River is a profound insight into a beatific moment while spending your time being far away from the civilization and being affected by the natural elements as one's genuine brothers only. Place Of Out is a drift between the aforementioned dungeon industrial progressions and muffled storytelling. Just an acoustic guitar and one phrase singing are up there as a way to partake in meditation being backed up by an atmospheric synthesised layer. In a word, it is a solid glimpse into Angus Maiden's versatile world. It will take you by surprise even if you are listening to it a third or fourth time in a row. It unveils many sonic surprises followed by other ones and ultimately you can perceive the fine balance between the technical and moody side. That's all what we need from a decent music outing.

Viktor Van River – Triumph of Unconscious (2017)

blocSonic

blocSonic

Bandcamp

• Sampledelic 
• Hip-hop 
• Breaks 
• Urban music 
• Rap 
• Chilltronica 
• Mood music 
• Trip-hop 
• Ambient pop

Comment: this swarm of 10 tracks cannot be considered a triumph of unconsciousness only, it is a triumph of music, it is a triumph of voluptuous listening sensations. While listening to it I watched a football match from the TV on mute and the play seemed to be even more attractive. It seemed to be consisting of dynamics while being framed by the nature of still life. That's cool. It chimes partly like the upload of a Moon Safari yet it is a different case eventually due to conveying cosmic electro impulses to the listener`s head. It is an example of very up-to-date pop music which is not going to age in the future. The ending track Word is a decent bow toward Tricky and his Pre-Millenium Tension (1996). Undoubtedly it has been one of the most enchanting issues in 2017 so far and beyond that not being the first entrance by an excellent imprint, blocSonic being added to the list. Viktor Van River is the one-man-project of Viktor Chuprin from Kazakhstan (by the way, it is an immensely better way spending your time rather than watching loathing Borat).

Zelde 743 – Dark Intense EP (2017)

Illogical Kit

• Acid techno 
• Dubtronica 
• Acid house 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Psychedelic 
• Post-rave

Comment: I insistently recommend listen to this 3-track outing because it is so fluffy and deep at the same time. Indeed, approximately 20 years ago the last named adjective was employed to describe deep house, and deep techno, for instance. With regard to the term “techno” the set is strongly imbued with acid techno and house influences having been popular in the UK approximately 25-30 years ago. Let`s call it post-rave music. The warehouses are demolished but the memories of them are still up there though slightly blurred and thereof mixed up with other genres either (for instance, the dub influence is also represented over there). The beat is straightforward and loud and psychedelic as if setting out the plan to re-create a new dance revolution. In a nutshell, it is a fairly pleasant listening time being commissioned by Illogical Kit Netlabel. Zelde 743 is a duo from Poland who already started off in the eighties.

[Teaser of the day] Wochtzchèe - Rongad

• Experimental electronica
• Ambient techno
• Dub techno
• Epic
• Crossover
• Ambient dub

Artist: Wochtzchèe

Release: Diktüoneemakilt

Label: Ulmeplaadid/Bandcamp

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Claudio Nuñez - End of A Story

Black Square

• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Jazz
• Experimentalism

Artist: Claudio Nuñez

Release: End of A Story 

Label: Black Square

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] V - Fresh Off My Flesh

Tape Safe

• Vaporwave
• Seapunk
• Witch house
• Drag house
• Alternative
• Electronic music

Artist: V

Release: Wich Size Of Summer

Label: Tape Safe/Fuck Labels//Fuck Mastering

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Walt Thisney - Discipline

Petroglyph

• Ambient 
• Avant-garde
• Modern classical
• Piano music
• Mood music
• Electronic music
• Crossover
• Post-classical
• Experimentalism
• Chamber music
• Epic

Artist: Walt Thisney

Release: Spektro  

Label: Petroglyph

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] CRPTC - Landscapes Textures

Ephedrina

• Techno pop
• IDM
• Synth-pop
• Electronic music
• Ambient pop
• Indietronica
• Crossover

Artist: CRPTC

Release: Peaks

Label: Ephedrina

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Lullatone - Wander Music

• Toytronica
• Electronic music
• Lo-fi
• Bedroom pop
• DIY
• Mood music
• Conceptual

Artist: Lullatone

Release: Hello Kitty Black Wonder Soundtrack

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2005

Hanetration – Ancients EP (2017)

Bandcamp

• Experimental electronica 
• Space music
• Ambient drone 
• Ambient noise
• Epic 
• Ambient techno 
• Deep techno

Comment: when the UK-based artist Hanetration sent me the link of this outing at Bandcamp he said he would hope this album would get enough attention due to its special nature. In fact, all the previous Hanetration`s issues are being idiosyncratic ones with highly leftfield and experimental edges. Yet this handful of tracks may be considered a universe within a universe because I cannot remember for Hanetration would have been chimed in that spaced-out way. I reminds me a little bit of the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 00s in my domestic Estonia while listening to such artists as Uni (“dream” in English), Galaktlan, Von Suck the artists whose oeuvre would like to tag as ulmetronica. “Ulme” does mean “science fiction” in the narrow sense of this word. In the broader sense it is the opposite word to “olme”. It does mean something very usual something that you are doing and you have to do in your everyday`s life. In a more indirect sense, having deal with such sort of sound it is a way to escape, to go elsewhere, it is a sort of transcendental experience. In fact, Hanetration is very kind to provide such sort of sound. In a gross sense, it is a subtle mix of space music, ambient and techno. In a sublime sense, it excels at these borders to create something beatific and otherworldly. It might be that a die-hard fan could find this release to be somehow a compromise but by my opinion it is a new substance of sound in his discography. Indeed, it can be considered majestic but it is not a play of shallow, flat postures; you can perceive something majestically noisy coming out from this magic pot. I am sure it is the most pre-eminent issue by Hanetration at least at emotional level. One of the best issues in 2017. 

[Teaser of the day] Noo - Old Man

MiMi

• J-pop
• Electronic pop
• Pop
• Poptronica

Artist: Noo

Release: San Toy

Label: MiMi/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] ANORAK - Culture Shock

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

Artist: ANORAK

Release: Fake Funk Replica

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] i AM esper - My Life Without You

• Post-rock
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Ambient rock
• Art rock

Artist: i AM esper

Release: The Mending

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017 

[Teaser of the day] Joseph Young - Bird Colony_Unst

Green Field Recordings

• Music concrète
• Field recording
• Non-music

Artist: Joseph Young

Release: In a Shetland Landscape 

Label: Green Field Recordings

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Elliott White - Back In NYC

• Electronic
• Lo-fi
• DIY
• Outsider pop
• Alternative

Artist: Elliott White

Release: Elliott White Album

Label: Dracula Horse

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Emil Klotzsch - Geteiltes Sein

One

• Electronic music
• Glitch-pop
• Electronic pop
• Alternative
• Art pop
• Ambient pop

Artist: Emil Klotzsch

Release: Feinquisit

Label: One

Year: 2006

Aitänna77 – Dried Flowers II (EP) (2017)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Bandcamp

• Breaks 
• Trip-hop 
• Sampledelic 
• Downtempo 
• Cinematic 
• Downbeat

Comment: this set of 8 tracks clocking in at a 17 minute only is based on fragmented and slowed-down (trip-hop) beats being adorned with different kind of speech samples (with regard to music production). I can remember for that the Spaniard Mikel Martínez`s first outings (Health Needs; Buenas Son Tortas) were clearly more post-rock, indie(tronica) and folk(tronica)-tinged, however, this set of tracks is produced to be fully without any guitars (though obviously employing more exotic instruments). (No I am being wrong – 84 Years employs guitars, though). So it can be said the artist will have moved on to new terrains. For me, however, the technical and instrumental side of the albums is not the most important thing in music. I like those cinematic samples which used to appear here at times. Furthermore, it can be said microscopic moody moments are variegated with more arousing, beatific peaks (at Waveforms, for instance). The release is emotionally vectorised. The whole is coherent among its particles you are not allowed to feel a slacker flow throughout the course. Of course, with regard to the contemporary sample-based urban music we cannot deny the influence of Flying Lotus. The solid outing is a part of the discography of Dusted Wax Kingdom. 

[Teaser of the day] Silent Strangers - Entic 3

• Ambient techno
• Breakbeat
• Electronic music
• Experimental techno
• Drill and bass

Artist: Silent Strangers

Release: Anagram 4: Lume

Label: Section 27/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Quiet Noise - Thankyou Morgan and Heri

Kift Flipper

• Folktronica
• Breaks
• Electronic music
• Dubstep
• Glitch-folk
• Crossover
• Alternative

Artist: Quiet Noise

Release: Pet Chicken EP

Label: Kift Flipper

Year: 2011 

[Teaser of the day] slept. - Vapor

• Dark ambient
• Minimalism
• Electronic music
• Microtonal
• Ambient
• Avant-garde
• Drone
• Ambient drone

Artist: slept.

Release: Torpor.EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2010

c'est pu l'temps gras – commencez bien la drogue (2008)

Les Diks Qui Sautent

• Dada music 
• Primitive music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimental pop 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Psychedelic 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Crossover 
• Spoken word 
• Electro pop 
• Comedy music 
• Outsider pop 
• Toytronica

Comment: undoubtedly music which is based on fun and a primitive base may paradoxically be more serious than seriously intended music. Of course, it might be the case of proper adjectives but this set of 12 compositions is a frantic example of disparate elements which starts off with the sound of a cheap second-hand synthesiser, however, later incorporating strings and freaky singing to the mix. biche is an example of motorik electro rock though it did start off with the buffoonish mantra and continuing with a spoken word snippet and some concrete sounds here and there. Do I perceive it in a schizoid way? No, I do not. Johnny Bigoudi is a seminal crossroad for heavy beats and droning synths to get harmonized in a poignant way. All the lyrics are sung in French except the one phrase /like Sonic Youth/ at Trou. Indeed, I also like Sonic Youth though not so much as… . Or like Sonic Youth. This whole is not like Sonic Youth though. In spite of this enormous miscellany the whole will not water down and being convincing due to revealing its coherent nature ultimately (it is paradoxical, isn`t?). Many tracks within involve psychedelic layers with acidic organs and toy-like electronic sounds. The issue is a part of the discography of such a label as Les Diks Qui Sautent (065).

[Teaser of the day] DR - Grapefruit Dream

TVK

• Kosmische Musik
• Cosmic synth
• Musique concrète
• Field recording
• Electronic music
• Alternative

Artist: DR

Release: Ambient EP

Label: TVK

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Pixieguts - Voide - The Beat of You (feat. Pixieguts)

• House pop
• Electro pop
• Electro house
• Robot pop
• Alternative
• Electronic music

Artist: Pixieguts

Release: I Sand

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Jahzzar - Europa

Free Music Archive

• Easy listening
• Mood music
• Lounge pop

Artist: Jahzzar

Release: Galaxy

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Bebhionn - Dispersions

Zimmer

• Techno
• Alternative dance
• Experimental techno
• Avant-techno
• Minimal techno
• Electronic music

Artist: Bebhionn

Release: Polarizer

Label: Zimmer

Year: 2017 

[Teaser of the day] The Undynamic Pop Experiment - Part-Time Lover

Free Music Archive

• Art punk
• Psychedelic
• Post-punk
• Prog-punk
• Dance punk
• Punk funk

Artist: The Undynamic Pop Experiment

Release: The Undynamic Pop Experiment

Label: Self-released/Free Music Archive

Year: 2002/2017

[Teaser of the day] Caroline Park - We Can Be What They Are Doing

Vuzh Music

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

Artist: Caroline Park

Release: RIM

Label: Vuzh Music

Year: 2013

MDL4 – Anima Mundi (2017)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Bandcamp

• Trip-hop 
• Sampledelic 
• Breaks 
• Electronic music 
• Mood music 
• Alternative 
• Hip-hop 
• Urban music 
• Big beat 
• Electro 
• Chilltronica

Comment: MDL4, an artist from Sacramento, California, USA makes a little bit difference within the last albums I have heard from the discography of the Bulgarian imprint Dusted Wax Kingdom, a fine record based on samples and crunchy beats thereof constituting a whole universe for our sake. The difference is based on more smooth transitions from one sample to another, more organic shifts from one beat to another, more subtle drifts from one style to another which also include more profound, cinematic reflections and stylistic movements. In a word, you can extract something magically elegant from within. The opening track Time Stamp is based on the storytelling of an estranged relationship. Sunwalker is the thick bound of a thrilling electro cadence and a massive big beat rhythm. Waves is about sublime, lofty waves as if coming out of your subconscious mind and at the same time having an influence as a tranquiliser. Old Waters is an astounding underground hip-hop appearance based on thick and gleaming beats and cut-up vowel effects. Starborn is an astral break-out based on suggestive electric piano chords and otherworldly synthesised layers. These ones were only some descriptions of this amazing whole. In my music player the 11-track issue will be finished off by Leaper which I would like to call muezzin-hop. Great stuff. In a nutshell, I am going to insert it into a list of the best issues in 2017. Into the list of the best issues in 2017 which is already up there at Recent Music Heroes.

Kara-Lis Coverdale – Triptych I (2012)

Bandcamp

• Piano music 
• Modern classical 
• Mood music 
• Contemporary classical 
• Art music 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Post-classical 
• Minimalism

Comment: I am honoured to listen to Kara-Lis Coverdale`s music who is a Canadian (Montrèal) musician of Estonian descent, and second, she has collaborated with Tim Hecker on his Virgins (2013) whose albums from the first half of the 00s can be considered one of the best ambient music having ever been created. Triptych (as the title says) is 3-track issue consisting of floating piano chords which create arousing moods and feeling despite its minimal and sparse format in a sense. The emotiveness of the outing is brought forth due to consisting of an incessant flow of chord changes while preserving some enchanting iterativeness in her music. As K-LC has stated once of being influenced by sacred music and beyond that she has been working as an organist in different churches across the domestic country for me this album appears as a shelter within it one can withdraw from our spasmodic and neurotic life. Her music can be compared with such artists as Max Richter, Nils Frahm, Lubomyr Melnyk (another Canadian modern classical artist) and by its light-heartedness and captivating mood it can also be compared with such female troubadours on guitar as Vashti Bunyan, Linda Perhacs yet this is a special item by any means. 

[Teaser of the day] Sir Edgar Carpenter - Polydactyly

Zenapolae

• Electronic music
• Avant-garde
• Leftfield
• Experimental electronica 
• Experimentalism
• Post-industrial
• Psycho-acoustic

Artist: Sir Edgar Carpenter

Release: Mabels Side 

Label: Zenapolae

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Hanging Freund - Lines

• Art pop
• Electronic
• Avant-pop
• Organcore
• Experimental pop
• Drone pop
• Epic

Artist: Hanging Freud

Release: Anomalies

Label: Tiny Box 

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Elisa Luu - Pixie Space Rock

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

Artist: Elisa Luu

Release: Come (Single)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

Putro And The Money Making Machine Bedroom Session Part 1 (2013)

Ear Alert 

Soundcloud
Archive.org

• Anti-folk
• Lo-fi
• DIY
• Unplugged
• Singer-songwriter
• Covers

Comment: indeed, this set of 10 tracks embraces covers and the unplugged session with vocal and acoustic guitar and all this set of 25 and a half minute is played in the vein of agit-pop (based on the intensely strumming guitars, and straightforward and clear vocal line). The artist provides attention to such artists as Green Day, Operation Ivy, The Ramones, The Descendent, Social Distortion, No Use For A Name, Alkaline Trio, The Bouncing Souls, MXPX, and The Vandals. If you have not made acquaintance with the artists and songs before that yet it is time to do it now with regard to compare the original oeuvre with the cover versions. In fact, for me that agit-pop edge adds a welcome edge to the original ones. The more I listen to it the more I like it. The outing is a part of the discography of Indonesian imprint Ear Alert Records. 

[Teaser of the day] Tarred Brigade - We Looked Away

Free Music Archive

• Lo-fi
• Indie pop
• Alternative pop
• DIY
• Americana
• Bedroom music

Artist: Tarred Brigade

Release: Second HoneyMoon

Label: Self-released/Free Music Archive

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Monkey Warhol - Berghain

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

Artist: Moneky Warhol

Release: EP5

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] TNKS - Mechanical Bike

Sucu Music

• Electronic music
• Chilltronica
• Electro pop
• Crossover
• Mood music
• Alternative pop 
• Indietronica

Artist: TNKS

Release: Nostalgic Happiness

Label: Sucu Music

Year: 2017

Furiosa – Furiosa (2017)

Naciòn Libre

Bandcamp

• Stoner rock 
• Trash metal 
• Doom rock

Comment: Aracely Sánchez (voice), Alan Vargas (guitar), and Arturo Villalobos (the drums) from Mexico do synthesise something truly reverent through a powerful attitude toward the metal and power rock tradition. Of course, the best elements from the genres are picked up to be added to the 10-track mix. Tortured ghost loaded smouldering thick energy used to keep going on fast pace around the voice of Aracely, and the instruments of Alan, and Arturo. Indeed, it is possible to put together lurking elements and fast tempo on this album throughout the course. The listener can perceive the burning circle around the chords as if an example of the representation of flaming rings in the middle of purgatory. A strength feature of this issue? In fact, it features no weak and self-indulgent moments in production and general appearance. The outing is a part of the discography of Naciòn Libre. An outstanding trash/stoner/doom melted album. By listening to it one will create his/her own mosh pit in front of his/her computer or sofa or somewhere else.   

[Teaser of the day] Coolrunnings - Side A: Spirit of the High

• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Psych-rock
• Rockabilly
• Neo-psychedelia
• Experimental pop

Artist: Coolrunnings

Release: Spirit of the High (Digital) 7"

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Ronco - Femea Fatal

• Alternative rock
• Psych-rock
• Blues rock
• Hard rock

Artist: Ronco

Release: EP

Label: Brechò Discos

Year: 2015 

[Teaser of the day] Gray Souvenirs - I Barely See the Earth

• Post-rock
• Art rock
• Epic
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Gray Souvenirs 

Release: The First Sight

Label: Salitre

Year: 2017

Norja – Vuonoja (2007)

WM Recordings

Archive.org

• Primitive music 
• DIY 
• Art music 
• Electro house 
• Electronic music 
• Dada music 
• Electro funk

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.

[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

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

[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.