Walt Thisney – Spiryto (2017)

Bandcamp

• Art music 
• Jazz noir 
• Alternative 
• Modern classical 
• Post-classical 
• Ambient 
• Downbeat 
• Crossover 
• Epic

Comment: yeah, this bunch of 6 tracks is truly suggestive due to its atmospheric threads and majestic, ornamental orchestrations based solely on the chords of an airy piano, muffled double bass, and octopus-shaped violins. It conquers both the realms of artsy slowed down jazzy glimpses and spellbinding modern classical progressions. Truly moody and time stopping as if the time got coagulated and then dropping down from the ceiling in an unhurried tempo. Indeed, it conjures up such monumental, thoroughly dreamy flickers within the listener in the way one used to experience such kind of wondrous beauty rarely. The result is a perfectly balanced remedy to arousing one's emotions and fantasies. That's the graceful simplicity that amplifies wonders. By contemporaneous artists the Portuguese artist's music who has released music under a bunch of well-known web-labels so far can be compared with some compositions by an Israeli artist, Wings Of An Angel. One of the best sonic fares from the previous year.

Roswell Conspiracy – Les Fragments Anodins (2007)

Abyssa

• Ambient pop 
• Space pop 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative
• IDM
• Sampledelic 
• Drone
• Kraut-electro 
• Indietronica 
• Ambient drone 
• Post-rock

Comment: if to compare TT-ram and Lutz Thuns´ collaborative release Hypnosis (2017) to Roswell Conspiracy`s 8-notch outing Les Fragments Anodins I can assume both of them are suggestive enough ambient inflected releases though pushed in different directions and showcased with different accents. The recent one is clearly more pop oriented and do away with morbid dark ambient infections in overall. Yet the term “pop” within the last sentence does not suggest something decayed and inferior at all. More profoundly, it does mean melodic and harmonic and intriguing at the same time while moving on through its multi-layered path. Partly it can be compared to the artist`s compatriots The Air`s more experimental doings. However, Roswell Conspiracy goes certainly beyond the above described adjectives because of employing tight and sticky droning at Rien, for instance. At Non the artist goes into a spacey post-rock/indie electronic quest. Here and there the listener can partake in cool electro-acoustic embellishments, some shreds of samples, hypnotic muffled signals and arousing electronic effects which used to stir the rest of the structure of a composition in a dizzy way. Many compositions are wrapped up in enchanting hisses and microscopic noises. The pre-eminent outing is a part of the discography of Abyssa.

The Hirundu – Pain Levels Of The Rich And Famous (2017)

Pitch And Putt

• Dada music 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Leftfield 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Indie folk

Comment: recently we all got the sad announce that Mark E. Smith passed away. The true old-school (post-)punk leviathan who had been the synonym of stubbornness in music for the four decades. MES and The Fall had influenced an innumerable amount of artists including The Hirundu, and Johnny Crewdson behind it. I could say The Hirundu shows up the quality by blending together old and new tendencies and similarly to MES Johnny Crewdson fights against the stupidity and evil threads of the human race by employing incisive irony. What else could be the best weapon but irony and sarcastic approach? Similarly to The Fall it could be admitted about the music of The Hirundu it's always different, it's always the same. It does mean the scope of the sonic phenomena must be stylistically wide enough to drift freely within the borders. From uncanny piano music and energetic electro pop to guitar twangs filled with slight instability to more or less heavily twisted electronic music to mutant world music, and frequently pulling some elements out from one track to transfer them to another. However, I have never heard Crewdson of singing folk songs (it happens in one song though). He seems to reinvent himself with any brand new one. At Neeto The Wonder Wig Part II you can hear a zombie singing a lullaby to you. It's so cute, isn't it? In a word, Johnny did it again. Thereafter I recommend listen to The Fall's Perverted By Language (1983).

[Teaser of the day] Nigo - Sea Monsters

UpitUp

• Electronic pop
• Chilltronica
• Mood music
• Breaks

Artist: Nigo

Release: Various ‎– Knobheads

Label: UpitUp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] KuNa - Satya

• Dub
• Electronic music
• Lo-fi
• Downtempo
• Alternative

Artist: KuNa

Release: Kuna EP

Label: AQuietBump

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Kent State - Secrets For Sale

• Noise pop
• Alternative rock
• Garage rock
• Fuzz pop
• Indie rock
• Neo-psychedelia

Artist: Kent State

Release: The Wrong Side of History

Label: Paranoid Futures

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Smooth Genestar - Jazzo Bandito

Cyan Music

• Electronic music
• Nu jazz
• Ambient dub
• Acid jazz
• Downtempo
• Crossover
• Breaks

Artist: Smooth Genestar

Release: Last Train Downtown

Label: Cyan Music/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Canoply Games - Stains

Jamendo

• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Drone
• Power electronics
• Leftfield
• Electronic music
• Experimentalism

Artist: Canoply Games

Release: Post-Music#2

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Asian Women on the Telephone - Da da da beasts

• Dada music
• Krautrock
• Improvised music
• Avant-rock
• Electronic
• Experimental rock

Artist: Asian Women on the Telephone

Release: hour of Lavsan

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Towards The Forest - Dawn: Home In My Skin

• Indietronica
• Alternative
• Drone pop
• Electronic music

Artist: Towards The Summer

Release: Moon Summer

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Nuclear Biologist - Onomatopoeias Researched!

Nuclear Biologist

• Art rock
• Progressive rock
• Surf rock
• Crossover
• RIO
• Avant-prog

Artist: Nuclear Biologist

Release: Rocket Surgeons

Label: Self-released

Year: 2008

The Shalfonts – Totem Power, Totem Life (2016)

Bandcamp

• Indie pop/rock 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Art pop/rock 
• Post-rock 
• Drone pop 
• Jangle pop 
• Organcore

Comment: Birmingham, UK-based The Shalfonts have much to say because given that 25-notch issue otherwise it could be a merciless failure. These compositions are exquisite and witty drawing comparisons with ensembles of the C86 movement/jangle pop and on the other side there are up hints at the jazz influenced Chicago post-rock scene, especially to the like of Sea And The Cake. Indeed, a listener can perceive some kind of sophisticated easiness in The Shalfonts' music. With regard to the just written words The Shalfonts do create a coherent sonic bound between the USA, and Great Britain. Yet eventually I shall have to admit the US influence is even stronger and more remarkable. Strumming guitars are wrapped up by miscellaneous sonic effects and electronic sounds. Imagine it is a sort of jangle pop (or post-jangle pop) being influenced by an exquisite sort of jazz rock. It burrows its way through minimal changes and by adding a rewarding amount of new elements to the mix. I recommend listening to it because it is immensely more worth hearing rather than following some NHL team while these teams are as changeable as the brothels by its members. Do you think you are following Montrèal Canadiens, for instance? What sort of phenomenon do you follow exactly if the next season at least a third of the team is renewed? Is it worth to waste your time on nonsense? It is a crooked self-deception. The nowadays world is seriously fucked up. Only music does still have something worthy to say. The Shalfonts has also something worthy to say.

Nick Nightingale – Ambient Guitar Works (2017)

Bandcamp

• Ambient 
• Ambient rock 
• Electronic music
• Alternative

Comment: as the title suggests the 8-track album is about ambient music and guitars. But not only though. Nick Nightingale, an American musician who explores electronics and synths as well. Indeed, more or less extended and lively or restrainedly running atmospheric landscapes are balanced with pure electronic uinversums, vibrant drones somewhere nearby the zero and bold bass synth-based templates here and there. But usually one chord is followed by another in a slow tempo. That`s a very OK issue. His music can be compared with another US-based mastermind Drew Miller aka Brother Saturn. 

Les Louise Mitchels/Sex Drugs & Rebetiko – Split (2009)

Les Diks Qui Sautent

• Art punk 
• World music 
• Improvised music 
• Folk punk 
• Crossover 
• Surf rock 
• Drone folk 
• Avant-folk

Comment: Les Louise Mitchels` 6-notch part is an intense blend of artsy punk, dadaist attitude and Balkan/gypsy brass folk punk. But also surf music allusions are up there to provide a more puzzled soundscape. The France-based artist has managed to set a fast pace through the noodling on hirsute guitars, woodwinds, and drums where one can partake in repetitive patterns, improvised progressions and something else between the approaches.

Sex Drugs & Rebetiko`s 3-track is a different story because it is more subdued and restrained due to slowly progressing drones in the vein of folk music. Furthermore, it seems to  me that some phrases are sung in Greek and beside that distinct characteristic there are up obvious patterns from Greek ethnic music. The interesting split is a part of the Les Diks Qui Sautent (ldqs 068).  

[Teaser of the day] KiloWatts - Quartz

Kahvi Collective

• Minimal funk
• IDM
• Synth funk
• Electronic music
• Alternative dance

Artist: KiloWatts

Release: Six Silicates

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] António Bizarro - Berzerker

Enoughrecords

• EBM
• Electro-industrial
• Alternative
• Goth synth
• Electronic music
• Industrial

Artist: Antònio Bizarro 

Release: City of Industry: Slow Gun

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

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Miche - Parallel World

Clinical Archives

• Ambient noise
• Experimentalism
• Glitchtronica
• Post-industrial
• Ambient
• Avant-garde
• Micronoise
• Electronic music

Artist: Miche

Release: Along Yurikamome

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2012

Mart Avi - Blind Wall

[Teaser of the day] The Sleeping Tree - Jah Will Is My Destiny

12rec.

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

Artist: The Sleeping Tree

Release: Leaves and Roots

Label: 12rec.

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Bryyn - Lunar Patterns

Jamendo

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

Artist: Bryyn

Release: Tend My Sheep

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] The Eleventh Hour - The Heaven Lifestyle

Hearthphone

• Coldwave
• Post-punk
• Goth rock
• Art punk

Artist: The Eleventh Hour

Release: Radio Heaven

Label: Hearthphone

Year: 2008

Rastr – Tales Of the Druid (2017)

MNMN

MNMN

• Industrial rock 
• Breakbeat 
• Alternative rock 
• Electronic 
• Alternative dance

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

[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 

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.  

[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.

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.