Recent Music Heroes

Comment: this bunch of 6 instrumental tracks is an instance of industrial rock. More profoundly, it does mean heavily clanging drums and slamming programmed beats which are up there to show direction and provide the back-up to incisive and harsh guitar riff-based attitude. Due to a typical industrial example it is very straightforward and emotion oppressive, it is more about showing off its muscles and power. Due to an atypical industrial rock release it involves lots of torrents of broken beat massacres. Just a couple of sequences are aligned with one another to prevent possible greyish zones and deviations in between. It`s now your turn to decide is it either positive or negative value to go out from the set. The issue is a part of the discography of MNMN Records.

[Teaser of the day] Betelmire - My Mensa Dream

Rain Above

Lo-fi
Singer-songwriter
Drone pop
New Weird America
Bedroom pop
Dream pop
Free folk
Organcore
Weird folk

Artist: Betelmire

Release: 606 MPH

Label: Rain Above/Morgan Leah/Jigsaw

Year: 2005/2010

[Teaser of the day] Quimper - Cut Below The Knee

Electronic music
Ambient
Art music
Avant-garde
Film noir
Neoclassical

Artist: Quimper

Release: Little Legs For Little Eggs

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Captive Portal - Choir Librarian

Sampledelic
Crossover
Nu jazz
Funk
Crossover
Afrofuturism
Acid jazz

Artist: Captive Portal

Release: Having A VHS For A Leg

Label: Mahorka/ZAP

Year: 2017

1/16/2018

[Teaser of the day] Eden Ariel - She`s

New Weird America
Indie folk
Singer-songwriter
Free folk
Modern classical
Alt-folk
Dream folk

Artist: Eden Ariel

Release: Lilith

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Genital Hercules - Zero Gravitas

Art rock
Glam rock
RIO
Avant-prog

Artist: Genital Hercules

Release: Zero Gravitas

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Organ of Qwerty - Secret Lands of The North

Test Tube

Improvised music
Electronic music
Avant-electronica
Sound art
Experimentalism
Electro-acoustic
Experimental electronica
Avant-garde

Artist: Organ of Qwerty

Release: Treasury of Curiosities

Label: Test Tube/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

1/15/2018

Niku Senpuki – Blah Blah Mimicry (2017)

Bandcamp

Experimental electronica
Illbient
Drone
Post-industrial
Avant-electronica
Leftfield
Krautrock
Dark ambient
Abstract
Improvised music
Ambient drone

Comment: oh yeah, I was listening to it while cutting out the old tapestry from my living room. Believe me, I could but a little remind from it. First of all, it is the kind of glass bead electronic music and on the other side, the last track Bruitful involves the kind of (post-)metal and post-rock mixed music in the ending part. Yet it does not mean it is rubbish even though the artist Fabian Otto says it an over-orchestrated nonsense. It can be said an over-orchestrated post-industrial quest may be a gem in terms of pop music. For sure, while focusing on it you can discover a profound well of intriguing sounds and intricate schemes which used to sway from one bewildering angle to another, used to move from one mind-provoking edge to another, used to trudge through gravitation-free and gravitation-heavy terrains. Given that I am in a quandary to suggest is it either determined sort of music or improvised stuff. As you can see above Fabian Otto has got managed to set it up being tightly located around the axis of post-industrial and its adjacent styles like illbient, drone, abstract electronic music. At Nomad Filet one may say it is the kind of beautiful music. Indeed, I feel an uncanny beauty at its core and at its flanks. And Soma Salad is the dance track of the issue. Furthermore, I can feel within it a tribute to be paid off to Faust, a krautrock juggernaut. I am here to fully praise that full-fledged effort. That makes fairly sense. And it may be not the best idea to listening to it while scratching the walls of your apartment.

1/14/2018

[Teaser of the day] Mimi Majick - Mimi Majick`s Utilities Two

Irdial

Primitive music
Minimalism
Alternative
Electronic music
Toytronica

Artist: Mimi Majick

Release: Mimi's Utilities

Label: Irdial

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Tuonela - Takka Sihl

Drone
Experimentalism
Electronic music
Avant-garde
Minimalism

Artist: Tuonela

Release: Takka

Label: Petroglyph/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Geolm - Picking Up Signals

Nu-Logic

Electronic music
Minimal techno
Alternative dance

Artist: Geolm

Release: One Hundred Sights EP

Label: Nu-Logic

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Jared C. Balogh - May

Enoughrecords

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

Artist: Jared C. Balogh

Release: Revitalized Eyes

Label: Enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Archive.org/Jamendo

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] David Nadeau - Architecture Contaminèe

suRRism-Phonoethics

Avant-garde
Electronic music
Experimental electronica
Micronoise
Crossover
Improvised music
Leftfield
Avant-electronica
Experimentalism

Artist: David Nadeau

Release: Le Labyrinthe De La Mort Symétrique

Label: suRRism-Phonoethics

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] D-Echo Project - Dulcet Rujak

Cyan Music

Chilltronica
Mood music
Sampledelic
Dubtronica
World music
Lounge pop
Ambient pop
Electronic music

Artist: D-Echo Project

Release: Unity in Diversity

Label: Cyan Music

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Candids - Ecstatic

Jamendo

Shoegaze
Indie rock
Power pop
Garage rock
Crossover
Alternative rock

Artist: Candids

Release: Modern Life EP

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Colaars - You Lead Me

Jamendo

Post-punk
Alternative rock
Neo-psychedelia
Indie rock

Artist: Colaars

Release: Underheart

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2017

Alpen Dynamo – Je m`ennuie EP (2005)

Midinette

Electroclash
Electronic pop
Alternative dance
Post-disco
Electro pop
Synth-pop
Space disco
Italo disco
Crossover

Comment: what else I could say but this 4-track issue is today as relevant as it was 12 years ago while being released on Midinette Records. Catchy punk inflected electro pop propulsions and atmospheric upper layers entering into outer space are densely mixed up vowel effects and phrase repeating and singing in French. There can be drawn parallels upon the contemporary likes of Fischerspooner, Felix da Housecat, and Miss Kittin but the influences seem to hark back to 70s pop electronic examples like Space, Ganymed, and Giorgio Moroder as well. Because of that it can be said the set is ageless.

1/13/2018

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.

1/12/2018

[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.

1/11/2018

[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

1/10/2018

[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

1/08/2018

[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

1/03/2018

[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.

1/02/2018

[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

1/01/2018

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

12/31/2017

[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

12/30/2017

[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.

12/28/2017

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.

12/21/2017

[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

12/20/2017

[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.

12/18/2017

[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

12/17/2017

[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.

12/15/2017

[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

12/13/2017

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.

12/11/2017

[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

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