Bryyn – Tend My Sheep (2017)

Jamendo

• Indie folk 
• Alt-folk 
• Electronic 
• Americana 
• Art pop/rock 
• Folktronica 
• Folk indie 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Dream folk 
• Art folk

Comment: Tend My Sheep is a second part of the twin issue with In Hiding by the Chicago, Illinois, US-based songwriter Bryyn who has been active since the end of the previous decade. Similarly to In Hiding it embraces cloudless dreams through volatile and dynamic folk progressions yet the difference is sporadically based on more rough and art pop/rock-oriented dodges (and many greyish tones between the styles). Furthermore, it involves more naked (i.e set apart from the rest of particular tracks) and rough electronic developments which seemed to be more integrated on the twin issue. Yet it is not an adverse (i.e disintegrated in the sense of losing its cohesion) aspect by evaluating the issue. Wig on His Head is apparently the most prominent example of how electronic and atmospheric appearances will stepwise take over the course within a track. Bryn Martin shows up his mastermind to have created another gem. It`s deep and entertaining at the same time. Lord have mercy on me as he used to sing at You Are Alive. Indeed, one can agree with him.

Brother Saturn – I Am A Ghost (2017)

Bandcamp

• Ambient 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Sound poetry 
• Soundscape 
• Electronic music 
• Space music 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Dreamwave 
• Alternative

Comment: Drew Miller aka Brother Saturn has created a thread of fabulous albums over the years. Miller has done it with his guitars and electronic devices which have chimed like a dreamy move over imaginable terrains. I Am A Ghost is different yet still the same. You can hear those extended chords and undulating drones at different speeds searching for a space rocket to start it up with lucid dreams and previously inexperienced transcendental beauty. Even if you have heard something like that by him before it still will seduce one's senses. On the other side, I can hear more crispy sounds within the 10-notch album with regard to the rhythms and chord progressions. There are represented pitched-up whistling noises within some chords and glitched-out cadences. That's wondrous and otherworldly. And there is up one enchanting spoken word track. It is not surprising at all – the space rocket has already reached the distance a millions of miles away from Earth. One of the best glimpses from the year of 2017.

[Teaser of the day] Jessica Worms - Esse Som É Muito Style

• Punk rock
• Trash punk

Artist: Jessica Worms

Release: Os Dutrinhas 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Verjault - Reprise

• Post-metal
• Shoegaze
• Ethereal Wave
• Avant-metal
• Doomgaze
• Crossover
• Epic

Artist: Verjault

Release: Violet

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Kinematic - Peyote

Jamendo

• Dance rock
• Indie rock
• Alternative dance
• Alternative rock
• Indie dance

Artist: Kinematic

Release: Kites

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Children of the Drone - COTDcomp3-04

Archive.org

• Improvised music
• Avant-folk
• Space folk
• Live session
• New Weird Britain
• Experimental folk
• New Weird England
• Free folk
• Weird folk

Artist: Children of the Drone

Release: Compilation No. 3

Label: Self-released/Archive.org

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Cutside - They Coming For You

blocSonic

• Breaks
• Trip-hop
• Avant-hop
• Urban music
• Hip-hop
• Alternative
• Experimental hip-hop
• Electronic music

Artist: Cutside 

Release: Empire EP

Label: blocSonic

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Beach Craft Bonanza - Winter

• Indie rock
• Psych-rock
• Surf rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: Beach Craft Bonanza

Release: Debonair

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Must Wave – Suffocation (2017)

MNMN

Bandcamp

• Hardstep 
• Electronic music 
• Rave music 
• Dance music

Comment: this set of 6 tracks is a profound blend of rough rhythms and piercing synths. As if a drift between the rave culture induced dance music and more industrially influenced electro sounds. On the other side, in principle, it can say the whole chimes like a huge composition with minimal variegations here and there. Only the beginning of a track called Flaw is a bit different due to being atmospheric and volatile which later will be mixed up with heavily stomping beats. In a word, let`s find out those differences from this set. The issue is a part of the discography of MNMN Records. 

[Teaser of the day] Inverness - Paper Shadows

• Indie pop/rock
• Dream pop
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Inverness

Release: IVANA

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Juanitos - En Croisière

Jamendo

• Mood music
• World music
• Indie pop
• Exotica pop
• Organcore
• Indietronica
• Crossover
• Art pop
• Alternative pop

Artist: Juanitos

Release: Exotica

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Milhaven - Zombi

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

Artist: Milhaven

Release: Automata

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Tracer Flare - Strange Days

• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock

Artist: Tracer Flare

Release: Strange Days (single)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Clemens Eduard Haipl - Zahltag

Comfort Stand

• Electro pop
• Synth-pop
• Robot pop
• Electronic pop

Artist: Clemens Eduard Haipl

Release: 330rawson  

Label: Comfort Stand Recordings/Free Music Archive

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] notforme! - Blake`s Tyger

• Indie folk
• Alt-folk
• Folk indie

Artist: notforme!

Release: Small Town Mysteries 

Label: Southern City`s Lab

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Weinberger - Glass Wall

• Experimental electronica
• Post-industrial
• Sound poetry
• Leftfield
• Avant-garde
• Avant-electronica
• Experimentalism

Artist: Weinberger

Release: Imaginary Counselling

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Light In Your Life - Christian

Afmusic

• Post-punk
• Alternative rock
• Angst rock
• Art rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Light In Your Life

Release: Light In Your Life

Label: Afmusic/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Sunlight Ascending - Black Bear

• Post-rock
• Avant-rock
• Epic
• Ambient rock
• Art rock

Artist: Sunlight Ascending

Release: All the Memories, All at Once

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Sven Tasnadi - Wuchtbrumme mit Hasskappe

1bit Wonder

• Tech-electro
• Bubblegum electro
• Electronic music
• Minimal electro
• Crossover
• Alternative dance

Artist: Sven Tasnadi

Release: Collected Works

Label: 1bit Wonder

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Rmine - Time And Space

Sirona-Records

• Downtempo
• DIY
• Breaks
• Electronic music
• Lo-fi

Artist: Rmine

Release: Radio Ordinary

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Happy Shopper - Bogof On These Years

Upitup

• Electro house
• Electronic music
• House
• Club dance

Artist: Happy Shopper

Release: Aisles Of Smile

Label: Upitup

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] ykymr - Slow Magic

• Post-rock
• Art pop
• Shoegazetronica
• Indietronica
• Mood music
• Post-pop
• Electronic

Artist: Ykymr

Release: City  

Label: La bèl

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mida Party - Sugarcandy City

Bump Foot

• Soft rock
• Symphonic pop
• Disco rock
• Art rock
• Sunshine pop
• Yacht rock

Artist: Mida Party

Release: Sugarcandy EP

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] First Rebirth - Paroxysmal Attacks

• Electronic music
• Breakcore
• Breakbeat
• Industrial electro

Artist: First Rebirth

Release: Abyss Is Calling

Label: Abstrakt Reflections

Year: 2017

d'incise – Appalachian Anatolia (14th century) (2016)

INSUB.

• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Art music
• Conceptual

Comment: by theoretical side, this issue is interesting to quest. What does it mean Appalachian Anatolia and how it harks back to the 14th century? And how it is relevant today? Furthermore, it consists of one, prolonged track played on guitar by Clara de Asis yet being modified by the Swiss electronic musician d'incise. If I had understood it in a proper way it can considered a collaborative issue though being collaborated separately. A second way to understand it is that d`incise modified the composition for electric guitar beforehand and de Asis played it. In fact, by reading a d`incise`s interview it can be assumed the second version is right. Musically it is a lengthy, 41-minute composition based on guitar induced progressions and discontinuations (which does mean silent spans in between). Yet silence is an invisible conversation as declaimed Malcolm Mooney in a song of CAN. It is also about arousing and fading, about being and no existence and tight relation between the two. The effect of such a sort of production is strongly purgative as if getting small devils out of your tortured soul (because the world around us seems to be sick in the way as it has never been before). Human being as a stupid animal rejects God and thinks of himself/herself that he/she is a God instead but the result is pitiful. All the time the same jokes, all the time the same mistakes? No no. In fact, these mistakes used to become even worse in time. Miserable. Give up life as a bad mistake. The release is a part of the discography of INSUB., previously known as Insubordinations, an imprint to have represented improvised music.

[Teaser of the day] N3rgul - Floridian Hunger

• Breakcore
• Alternative
• Hardstyle
• Crossover
• Breakbeat
• Dark electro
• Electronic music
• Hi-NRG

Artist: N3rgul 

Release: Havana Nocturne

Label: Bandcamp/Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Amitron_7 - Interplantary Northern Arcadians

Enoughrecords

• Musique concrète
• Sampledelic
• Space pop
• Electronic music
• Chilltronica
• Field recording
• Post-pop
• Mood music
• Indietronica
• Art pop
• Alternative pop

Artist: Amitron_7

Release: The Anton Phase Electro Clockwork Menagerie

Label: enoughrecords/Jamendo/Free Music Archive/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Cousin Silas & the Glove of Bones - Disquieting Metaphysical Love Song (Giorgio Dub)

• Improvised music
• Dub
• Ambient rock
• Avant-rock
• Electronic music
• Dub rock
• Crossover
• Experimental rock

Artist: Cousin Silas/ the Glove of Bones

Release: New Dub Manifesto

Label: We Are All Ghosts

Year: 2017

Orphan Stamps - Been There

[Teaser of the day] Drug Train - Finies les folies

• Alternative pop
• Chillwave
• Post-pop
• Electronic
• Dream pop
• Indietronica
• Glo-fi
• Hypnagogic pop
• Art pop

Artist: Drug Train

Release: Petite Nature 

Label: Beko DSL 

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Natural Snow Buildings - The Psychic Circle/Uchronia

• Drone rock
• Psych-rock
• Post-folk
• Dream pop
• Alternative

Artist: Natural Snow Buildings

Release: The Centauri Agent

Label: Vulpiano

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Debutante - Schirm

• Drone pop
• Post-rock
• Epic
• Crossover
• Doom rock
• Post-metal
• Organcore
• Ambient rock

Artist: Debutante

Release: EP3

Label: Cruel Bones

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Anton Rothschild - It's Not Vegas

• Art pop
• Electro-indie
• Crossover
• Singer-songwriter
• Big beat
• Indie pop/rock
• Breakbeat
• Electronic
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Anton Rothschild

Release: It`s Not Vegas

Label: Vulpiano

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] nwonknu - 16.2 Minutes To Go

• Dubstep
• Electronic music
• Crossover
• Witch house
• Alternative
• Leftfield
• Drag house

Artist: nwonknu

Release: Via Entero

Label: Elegant Elephant/Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Christian McKee - You Oughta Know

No-Source

• Hip-hop
• Alternative pop/rock
• Singer-songwriter
• Indie pop/rock

Artist: Christian McKee

Release: Back To The Rock

Label: No-Source

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Lately Kind Of Yeah - Meditieren

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

Artist: Lately Kind Of Yeah

Release: Galaxie Depression

Label: Vulpiano/Archive.org/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Anie Tera - Macerato

Unfoundsound

• Minimal electro
• Crossover
• Alternative
• Microhouse
• Electronic music

Artist: Anie Tera

Release: Paratrechina Longicornis Ep

Label: Unfoundsound

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Angry Norwegian - Mission Kimpossible

Torn Flesh

• Grindcore
• Hardcore
• Cybergrind
• Crust punk
• Freeformfreakout

Artist: Angry Norwegian

Release: Avant-Gardener

Label: Torn Flesh

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Frank Silver - Sleepwalkers

Soundcloud

• Lo-fi
• Electronic
• Ambient pop
• Glo-fi
• Post-pop
• Bedroom pop
• Alternative
• Hypnagogic pop
• Avant-pop

Artist: Frank Silver

Release: Invitation To Love

Label: redstarcommunity

Year: 2014 

[Teaser of the day] Kara-Lis Coverdale - A 478

• Ambient
• Experimental electronica
• Minimalism
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism
• Glo-fi
• Soundscape
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Kara-Lis Covedale

Release: A 480

Label: Constellation Tatsu

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Llankrú - lullaby​@​6

• Post-rock
• Art rock
• Experimental rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Llankrú 

Release: Llankrú  

Label: djummi-records

Year: 2017

CRPTC – Peaks (2017)

Ephedrina

Bandcamp

Archive.org

• Ambient pop 
• Tech-house 
• Deep house 
• IDM 
• Electronic music
• Indietronica

Comment: club dance/club music-oriented rhythms are mixed up with smooth melodies/harmonies and appealing electronic progressions. More concretely, the listener can partake in two different realms running in parallel way at the same time. Firstly, how the ending result used to constitute ultimately over the four track course and secondly, one can track down the process in its playful details. From atmospheric tech-house and deep house to elegant ambient pop/IDM/indie electronic tinged flickers. The issue is a part of the discography of Italian Ephedrina Records.

Number Eleven – Strict (2017)

Electron Emitter

• Experimental techno 
• Avant-techno 
• Electronic music

Comment: the young Lithuanian artist Number Eleven continues to trudge across the path of his experimental techno imbued with spiky beats and spacious pads. There are up no less than 11 compositions being released on Electron Emitter, the imprint being led by the musician himself. A myriad of different rhythmic patterns, microscopic changes, shuffled rhythms, murky drones beneath the upper layers, however, one can perceive festive but dark melodic progressions here and there therefore giving it a singular touch. So open your ears and mind before to start listening to it. It requests your attention to the most extreme to get partaken in this frantic quest for new sonic alchemy. Ultimately you can admit it is a solid sequel to Number Eleven's previous one Autism.

Erik Mowinckel – Drift EP (2017)

Giant Manilow

• Ambient pop 
• Shoegazetronica 
• Electronic music 
• Dreamwave 
• Alternative

Comment: by watching the cover print of this handful of tracks it gets very clear about the intention of this album. The goal of the artist is to conjure up the most lucid imaginations creatively possible. In a tight sense, it is ambient pop being influenced by shoegaze-y impulses. Indeed, it is all about sonic ebbs and tides, how sonic beauty used to appear and fade away. Indeed, the listener may hear sea waves running alongside the coastal line. At times it seems to be even way too transparent and effortless and because of that excluding possible counterpoint of it. So you can find no tension sources from it. Maybe it is good, it might be bad in some sense. The release is a part of the discography of Giant Manilow.

Eastern Block Guitars Compilation (2017)

Bonimedia

• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Alternative dance 
• Synth-rock 
• Electro-indie 
• Synth-pop 
• Electronic 
• Acid rock 
• Post-punk 
• Psych-rock 
• Industrial rock 
• Ska punk

Comment: this set of 26 tracks clocking in at a 90 minute is a great miscellany to reflect upon the quality of the region's music. The tremendous part consists of bands coming from Russia but some groups come from Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic and from some other countries. Secondly, the guitar music does not mean only some sort of strings but also the drums and different sort of keyboards most of them legendary Soviet synths like Polivoks. On the other side, the main accent is on guitars like Tonika, Musima, Jolana which were derivatives of the US-based crafty hardware. There are up enough tracks which do have more similarities with synth-pop and electro pop than die-hard classic rock. However, through the tremendous part of Russian bands there are also represented tracks reflecting upon the so-called Vyssotski's songwriting. And there is also up post-punk in the style of a rough, even experimental Kino. Xmas has already passed by there is a hint at it either. Let's listen to it. The favourite track of mine? I may be Photon's Discobolus, an astounding mix of cellophane tinged jangle pop and moderate dance vibes. It may be Superstruny's Cziestnaja Igra, an alternative rock example gravitating frantically toward psychedelic idols. The solid miscellany is compiled by the Polish Bonimedia led by Emil Bonifaczuk.

[Teaser of the day] Harmit - Long Song

Lost Children

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

Artist: Transit

Release: Harmattan

Label: Lost Children

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Taffmonster - Tragic Cut

Soulseek

• Folktronica
• Chill out
• Electronic pop
• Ambient pop
• Downtempo
• Mood music
• Crossover
• Alternative pop

Artist: Taffmonster

Release: cen-art

Label: Soulseek

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Anitek - Fusiform

Jamendo

• Chilltronica
• Breaks
• Hip-hop
• Sampledelic
• Trip-hop
• Urban music
• Cinematic
• Electronic pop

Artist: Anitek

Release: Lily

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Kaneel - Carrousel

Petite & Jolie

• Indietronica
• IDM
• Art pop
• Electronic music
• Post-pop
• Glitch-pop

Artist: Kaneel

Release: La Pink Note

Label: Petite & Jolie/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] LE SYNDICAT MMX - Délivrance

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

Artist: LE SYNDICAT MMX

Release: Chaos Superior

Label: Attenuation Circuit

Year: 2017

InSpectr – Kaspar Nemo (2017)

Cota303

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Electro pop 
• Kraut-electro 
• IDM 
• Dub techno 
• Techno pop 
• Kraut-techno

Comment: this set of 6 compositions embraces such titles as Dolphin, Jellyfish, White Whale, Lobster, Penguin, and Squid. Given that the title of the issue is Kaspar Nemo which does sound very close to captain Nemo. So what consequence could we extract from it? Is it the marine release? Is it thoroughly sea-green by its tonality? I have no competence to assume it but I think of it as a bloody catchy issue where all the aspects, the configuration of the whole is craftily set up yet stylistic scope of the whole is amusingly broad – from mellifluous spacey synth journeys and puckish IDM to elegant full-fledged electro pop/techno pop/kraut and elliptical dub techno frequencies. The outing is a part of the discography of Cota303.

Thierry Massard – A EN TIO (2012)

Editora Do Porto

Bandcamp

• Drone 
• Old school industrial 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Leftfield 
• Microtonal 
• Abstract 
• Electronic music 
• Non-music 
• Psycho-acoustic

Comment: I guess I made first acquaintance with the Frenchman Thierry Massard in 2009 while I started with the blog. It was a merry time within the blogosphere in general, including those blogs dedicated to free music mavericks. I can remember for a couple of blogs by him, one of them having spot on the nature and personality of artists through a fixed questionnaire. Later on, I discovered him as a musician who recorded his first music already at the end of the 70s (his birth year is 1959). I recommend reading my interview with him where he had shed light upon his doings and intentions behind his musical deeds. At A EN TIO he continues his initial impulse through the creation of abstract, austere soundscapes based on rough drones and abrasive yet restrained electronic music. Although it was issued 5 years ago it can be considered a pure instance of the old school industrial movement. I am always thrilled while listening to such sort of sound. It chimes in a very authentic way having clearly no rivalled counterparts from today. I guess this 3-notch release is also recorded with the same equipment he had been doing approximately 4 decades ago. It is a part of the discography of the Portuguese imprint Editora do Porto.

Bryyn – In Hiding (2017)

Jamendo
Bryyn

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

Comment: in recent days Chicago, Illinois, US-based artist Bryn Martin aka Bryyn (also being known as the frontman of Pinkle and the Polygons) issued a couple of albums. In Hiding is a crystal clear folk album which gets inspiration from the best sources of an American music history and tradition. It is not the first album by him. Vice versa, he has been a highly prolific artist during the last decade for cheering us with more and less whimsical electronic tinged folk releases. As I said already it is a crystal clear issue yet it does not mean he does not employ electronic devices and effects for his own sake. All these instruments are up there to have been measured out just as optimally and poignantly as it is needed to conquer one's senses and heart. The listener can breathe in and out in a free manner because all the music seems to come directly from an effortless cloud, from liberated uncivilised terrains, from somewhere we used to subconsciously longing for. It is idyllic, it is rustic, it is picturesque. There can be drawn parallels upon such an artist as Sufjan Stevens yet it is not a serious objection to assume it as being one of the best issues in 2017. The outing is a bit of the immense platform of Jamendo.

[Teaser of the day] getdizzy - Long Normal Dream

Etched Traumas

• Dub
• Electronic music
• Experimental electronica
• Alternative

Artist: getdizzy

Release: Long Normal Dream

Label: Etched Traumas

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Daniel Robert Lahey - marjory the trash heap 3am (thing_582)

• Ambient
• Post-classical
• Art music
• Epic

Artist: Daniel Robert Lahey

Release: Things Coming At You

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Jacob Faurholt - SH

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

Artist: Jacob Faurholt

Release: Corners   

Label: Cakes And Tapes

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Illocanblo - When Objects Start To Resonate With

Cota303

• IDM
• Micronoise
• Experimental techno
• Electronic music
• Robot pop
• Avant-techno
• Alternative

Artist: Illocanblo

Release: Cryptovirus

Label: Cota303

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Radio for the Daydreamers - Drawing Teeth On The Moon

Black Square

• Film noir
• Improvised music
• Electronic music
• Nu jazz
• Downbeat
• Cinematic

Artist: Radio for the Daydreamers

Release: Denouement

Label: Black Square/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Glintsik - Humanetics

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Breaks
• Urban music
• Nu jazz
• Crossover
• Cinematic
• Sampledelic
• Acid jazz
• Trip-hop
• Electronic music

Artist: Glintsik

Release: Wits End EP

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Entertainment For The Braindead - Two Birds

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie folk
• Art folk
• Dream folk
• Alt-folk
• Folk indie

Artist: Entertainment For The Braindead

Release: Postcard # 4: Songs for a Soft Heart

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012 

K4mmerer – Pixeled (2016)

Jamendo

• EDM 
• Electro pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Ambient pop 
• Dance pop 
• Post-disco 
• Hi-NRG

Comment: K4mmerer has been an unbelievably prolific artist since 2008 having released 36 issues on Jamendo. Pixeled is one of them amongst the whole drifting subtly between gentle ambient pop and more crispy electro pop and straightforward electronic dance music rhythms imbued with highly galvanized frequencies. Fortunately the listener can enjoy a more broad picture in comparison to the one described above so the result is multicoloured and effective ultimately. It makes highly sense. Mostly it is instrumental, at times the artist exploits found sounds (indeed, birds are chirping). It is a balanced drift between your dream centred sensations and body related impulses. I truly feel myself fascinated by those sublime jazzy progressions and irresistibly dreamy synthesised chords being followed by the aggressive beats at Faulty. In a word, it is a post disco album in the pre apocalyptic world. Given that it is an instance of prefix pop in a fascinating manner.

Tana – H (2009)

Les Diks Qui Sautent

• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Ambient 
• Micronoise 
• Leftfield 
• Electronic music 
• Freeformfreakout
• Epic 
• Spoken word 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Ambient noise 
• Space rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Post-psychedelic electronica

Comment: this 12-track issue can be considered an example of improvised music but for sure it is way too wide umbrella to get into a more detailed contact with it. You can hear undetermined sounds from different angles full of effects and various timbres and differing intensities. From rough metallic clanging and burbling electronic noises and gloomy smouldering beneath the upper music layers to extended guitar riffs and explorations of the instrument`s inner life and refined electronic glass bead games to more light-hearted and exalting psychedelic ambient progressions which may sound downright poppy with regard to the first mentioned aspects. The issue will be finished in a very fine epic key with Blanche. In a word, it chimes like a witty barbaric sonic attack in the midst of polished pop music instances yet being enormously more intriguing and interesting. The enchanting issue is a part of the discography of such an infernal platform as Les Diks Qui Sautent. We don't forget it's hellish discography, we will back to it soon.

[Teaser of the day] Evestus - Vault Tec

• Sampledelic
• Lo-fi
• Breaks
• Electro rock
• DIY
• Crossover
• Industrial rock

Artist: Evestus

Release: Wastelands

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Tiiu Kiik - The One And Only - Love

• Alternative pop
• Ambient pop
• Hypnagogic pop
• Art pop
• Electronic pop
• Glo-fi
• Chilltronica
• Mood music

Artist: Tiiu Kiik

Release: Lend ja tants

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Jellyspine Jenkins - Its Gonna Be OK/Lets Hide For A While

• Americana
• Indie rock
• Hard rock
• Psych-rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: Jellyspine Jenkins

Release: It`s Gonna Be OK/Lets Hide For A While

Label: Quiet Songs Records

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Katalept - Our Saviour Died

• Avant-metal
• Experimental metal
• Art metal

Artist: Katalept

Release: Altered State

Label: Isolated Eclipse

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Voyageurs - Vessel Rises

• Psych-rock
• Alternative rock
• Drone rock
• Trance rock
• DIY
• Indie rock
• Lo-fi

Artist: Voyageurs

Release: Alien Iverson

Label: Bandcamp/Free Music Archive  

Year: 2011

nula.cc – East By Rail (2017)

Bandcamp

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Drone 
• Ambient 
• Field recording 
• Musique concrète 
• Experimental electronica 
• Epic 
• Avant-electronica 
• Post-industrial 
• Leftfield 
• Sound art 
• Minimalism

Comment: this 3-notch outing is a fine example of how field recording sounds are treated in a way to chime like coming from an eerie street. It gravitates toward a rail station which does mean one can hear metallic ghosts and at the same time epic industrial echoes which will result in the statement this music is uncannily beautiful and ennobling. And purgative by any means. It can be considered life around us we used to encounter every day, however, being strongly magnified and thereafter amplified. Most of us can recognise the charm of Minecraft, this 50 minutes and a bit more can be considered a counterpart of it in sounds in some sense. In some sense with certain reservations because East By Rail is less artificial because this sound art issue comes directly from an interface where life and observation and production are mixed up with one another. You can perceive rough sonic figures being juxtaposed to more fine sonic dimensions. Indeed, similarly to Minecraft it is highly playful which used to resonate with the surrounding sounds. While listening to it you should be aware of the fact which sound comes from the album and which one comes through a window or wall of your apartment. One of the most outstanding releases in 2017 coming from Prague, the Czech Republic.

[Teaser of the day] Fabio Keiner - The Prayer

• Ambient drone
• Avant-garde
• Dystopbient
• Conceptual
• Electronic music
• Dark ambient
• Experimentalism

Artist: Fabio Keiner

Release: Ishtar Dreaming

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] EugeneKha - Long Night

Amduscias

• Cosmic synth
• Synth-pop
• Electronic music

Artist: EugeneKha

Release: Ambient Collection Vol. 2

Label: Amduscias

Year: 2008

Pasqualino Ubaldini – Mosaique (2017)

Jamendo

Bandcamp

• World music 
• Easy listening 
• Mood music 
• Latin music 
• Art music

Comment: Pasqualino Ubaldini is an artist and guitarist from Italy who has been releasing his music through Jamendo within the last decade (the guitar is not the only instrument he has been playing. One can hear bagpipes, woodwind instruments etc). Mosaique is a great issue due to both technical and moody aspects which in fact are tightly related to one another. One can encounter arpeggios which make your soul either to soar or feel bittersweet melancholy. However, the latter makes your soul to be filled with lofty feels as well. Ubaldini's script reminds a bit of the one of Simon Jeffres, the leader of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra regardless is it related to world music vibes or not. Indeed, it is highly playful and relaxing. Despite its carnival-alike touch you can feel the sophisticated arrangements behind it. These 37 minutes are truly great delight to enjoy it once, twice and now and then. You hear it as if watching it through an omnipotent kaleidoscope. So yeah, I have experienced synaesthetic impulses while listening to this set of 9 tracks. It will be a notch in the list of the best albums of 2017 at Recent Music Heroes.

[Teaser of the day] Koti & Thee Immigrants - Voodoo On You

• Indie folk
• Crossover
• Freak folk
• Psych-folk
• Anti-folk
• Weird folk
• Avant-pop
• Free folk
• Folk indie
• New Weird Brazil
• Surf pop
• Avant-folk

Artist: Koti & Thee Immigrants

Release: The Relaxing Sounds From Tinsley Prison

Label: Death Roots Syndicate/Fon-Fon/Archive.org

Year: 2012/2017

[Teaser of the day] Backdoor Beauty - Xedox II

MNMN

• Ambient
• Electronic music
• New Age
• Space music

Artist: Backdoor Beauty

Release: Imbrina 

Label: MNMN/Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Los Acidos - La tijera

• Indie rock
• Space pop
• Alternative rock
• Acid rock
• Psychedelic rock

Artist: Los Acidos

Release: El maravilloso estanque EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2012

Bongley Dead – Undici (2017)

Soundcloud

• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Glam rock

Comment: Bongley Dead, an Italian combo is back with their brand new one which can be considered a pure revelry and joy. In comparison to their previous outing 4 (2015) it abandoned post-grunge-y smooth mannerisms and reveals its dedication into galvanised, cellophane tinged guitars. Yet through this powerful guitar fuzz one can hear an enchanting glam rock thread which is the lead motif for this 17-notch issue. So let's switch on the electricity and the show is going on. By indirect influences one can hear such combos as Placebo, and Smashing Pumpkins. As I already said indirectly. Solid release indeed.

Erebus Redemption – A Pawn of Darkness (2012)

Sirona-Records

• Death metal 
• Brutal metal 
• Extreme metal 
• Electronic 
• Lo-fi 
• Cybermetal

Comment: this set of 12 tracks is as abrasive as an exceptional outing in the roster of Sirona-records used to be. It is overwhelming and suffocating in its excessively powerful leaps and mad steps. Mostly it is death metal with some exceptions into muddy, lo-fi electronic music. The ambience around the listener gets razed and destroyed so think twice if you would like to get into a dirty manifesto of power. It may push on your sinful mind and trigger some unintended emotions. And the cover print is great.

Ale – Seri-Al Rappers (2017)

In Your Ears

• Hip-hop 
• Rap 
• Urban music 
• Electronic music 
• Electro-hop 
• Grime

Comment: these 219 seconds do slam and jump up within playful electro-hop/grime beats by moving from right to left from atop downwards. It is the vivid backdrop to Italian lyrics being recited also in a playful manner. Although I have no idea what it is all about. The track is a part of the Italian imprint Yo! Netlabel. Highly appreciated.

[Teaser of the day] Niku Senpuki - Soma Salad

• Improvised music
• Experimentalism
• Krautrock
• Leftfield
• Space rock
• Minimalism
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Niku Senpuki

Release: Blah Blah Mimicry

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Herod - 300-Megatone Lullaby

• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Art rock

Artist: Herod

Release: The Best of 2006​-​2016

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Brother Saturn - A Sullen Ships Tale

• Spoken word
• Ambient
• Space music
• Storytelling
• Electronic music

Artist: Brother Saturn

Release: I Am A Ghost

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Lux Viridis - Tale of the Worlds Traveler

• Neoclassical
• Fantasy music
• Alternative
• Soundtrack
• Electronic music

Artist: Lux Viridis

Release: Lords and Ashes 

Label: Bandcamp/Ancient Meadow

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] ART ABSCONs - Galatea (Externsteine, Germany)

• Dark folk
• Neofolk
• Pagan folk
• Unplugged
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: ART ABSCONs

Release: Travelling With Ukulele

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Opollo - Moondrifter

• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Epic
• Minimalism
• Soundscape

Artist: Opollo

Release: Rover Tracks

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Vejopatis - Maumai

• Electronic music
• Ambient pop
• Ambient trance
• Chilltronica
• Psybient

Artist: Vejopatis

Release: Anafielas

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] George Christian - AntiClimaxTransMorte II

Mansarda

• Modern classical
• Ambient
• Experimentalism
• Improvised music
• Piano music
• Electro-acoustic
• Avant-garde
• Post-classical

Artist: George Christian

Release: AntiClimaxTransMorte

Label: Mansarda

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Ollie Cram - Maestro

Bump Foot

• Grime
• Breaks
• Urban music
• Hip-hop
• Electro-hop
• Electronic pop

Artist: Ollie Cram

Release: Shadow You

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2017

VA – The Moon (2017)

The Blog That Celebrates Itself

• Shoegaze 
• Ethereal wave 
• Dream pop 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Post-punk

Comment: I have always thought that a serious compilation should start with the teaser to give it a dynamic boost. Indeed, here it is Eternal Something's September chiming like Cocteaus on synths. As a record label entitles itself The Blog That Celebrates Itself you can be sure it comes out mainly with shoegaze inspired tracks full of purple tinged dreams, hazy beauty, colourful fantasies and psychedelic fringes. But not only this – you can hear also proto-shoegaze sounds the likes of harking back to Cocteau Twins, and Durutti Column. Indeed, all the modern ways bring back to the post-punk sound. By the way, there is represented one track coming very directly from the goth/post-punk breed and there are up a few exceptions additionally. One of those is a favourite of mine the track called Ethereal Love by Dead Serpent at utmost dreams. I would call it infinite darkgaze/ethereal wave. Additionally to the aforementioned artists there are represented such artists as Tropique Noir, Hazed, Bugjar, Pure Confusion, Street Bird, The Wagner Logic, Ikiryo, Strange Things, The Last Passenger, Elegant Dead Star, and European Ghost.

[Teaser of the day] gunctrl - Pastoral

Free Music Archive

• Indietronica
• Alternative
• Electronic
• Avant-pop
• Neo-psychedelia
• Experimental pop
• Art pop

Artist: gunctrl

Release: Obituary Cocktail

Label: Reverse Engine

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Scant Intone - Textview

Panospria

• Noise
• Avant-garde
• Experimental electronica
• Sound art
• Experimentalism
• Avant-electronica
• Leftfield
• Minimalism

Artist: Scant Intone

Release: Victory Building

Label: Panospria

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Liblikas - White Room

• Progressive metal
• Art metal
• Technical metal

Artist: Liblikas

Release: Wooden Spaceship

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013