Recent Music Heroes

2/01/2018

rr.gross – Plug One (2017)

Suspicious Sound

Minimalism
Experimentalism
Avant-garde
Abstract
Electronic music
Ambient
Sound art
Avant-electronica
Dada music

Comment: undoubtedly this 4-notch issue provides a peculiar listening experience because of being linearly built up and also consisting of minimal changes throughout the course of 4 tracks, three of them are up to 14 minutes each on their own. And one of the tracks clocks in at a nearby 2 minute in contrast. However, I could not recognise it to be up to more than 40 minutes in total. I perceived it to be remarkably shorter though having no idea of how lengthy it used to be in fact. Furthermore, I have checked out to convince myself to have listened to an album consisting of more than one track. It is an intriguing listening experience because of enjoying primitive and complex progressions at the same time. More profoundly, the progressions which may seem primitive at the first glance are enough complex and astute at the second one. You do meet tricky electronic effects, repetitive enchantment, profound ambient layers and watery chord meltdowns. I guess the artist is influenced by such visual artists as Salvador Dali. Most of the course seems to have been transforming while doing violently away with its previous shape. With regard to a tongue-in-cheek attitude it at times turns into a slight dadaist flicker. However, ultimately the release is a surreal appearance. rr.gross is a composer and improviser from the Big Apple who has released it on his own imprint Suspicious Sound.

[Teaser of the day] Sergi Boal - Fukushima

No-Source

Flamenco
World music
Acoustic pop
Art music

Artist: Sergi Boal

Release: Nylon & Turtle

Label: No-Source/Acustronica

Year: 2012

1/31/2018

[Teaser of the day] Corporate Control - Satin

UpitUp

Lo-fi
Outsider house
Electronic music
DIY
Alternative dance

Artist: Corporate Control

Release: Ten Dry Nails

Label: UpitUp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Obsil - Attesa L

Experimental electronica
Post-classical
Glitchtronica
Alternative
Electronic music

Artist: Obsil

Release: AAVV - Hush Noise - Inglorious Ocean compilation

Label: Inglorious Ocean

Year: 2010

Oscar Goldman – Prevoid EP (2017)

Fake Four Inc.

Hip-hop
Rap
Urban music
Electronic music

Comment: this 6-cut one is not a bad hip-hop/rap release at all though the artist has not pretended to manage a frantic rush into one's subliminal layers to get horrendous memories and inferior topics out of it. It involves such topics as pain after one's personal losses, and how to cope with your limited personality within this even more limited world. The world which provides no possibilities for true heroes anymore. Almost everything is dead, all is artificial and bent to nothing. However, such decayed world provides premises for further heroes in the future. Given that let's accept the recent situation. Who am I kidding? Trump is as fake as used to be his opponents. Together they are providing a senseless performance while speaking about a post truth society. The question of mine is what was before it? A thoroughly truthful society, isn't? There have been some truthful heroes around us like Morrissey, and Mark E. Smith. The aforementioned topics are backed up by simple yet cute, slowed-down electronic sounds and quite tenuous cadences. The release is a part of the discography of Fake Four Inc.

Angry Norwegian – Avant-Gardener (2017)

Torn Flesh

Bandcamp

Sampledelic
Avant-metal
Grindcore
Hardcore
Electronic
Cybergrind

Comment: Ross, and Lane from Hell, Michigan, USA do create an explosive mix of metal and hardcore punk and heavy sampling. More profoundly, the plot of this 7-minute issue is quite simple – most of the tracks are started off either by witty spoken word snippets or electronic introductions and thereafter followed by heavy noodling on the guitars. For sure, the duo provides no rest-up with such hellish sort of skronks. It's all about outright power, angriness, cynicism and sarcasm. And presented by a healthy dose of misanthropy. It can be assumed those feelings are controlled by the artistry. I am convinced the duo's purpose is not to provide a singular sonic pattern but influence the audience with an overwhelming barrage of squalling changes and twitchy disturbance within the contrast-enriched buildup. It's a sort of stimulant. The 8-track issue is the duo's one of the earliest releases being released under the umbrella of Torn Flesh Records. From Hell, honestly?

[Teaser of the day] Aräyuí - Filhos de Carbono

Alternative pop/rock
Indie pop/rock
Power pop
Shoegaze
Crossover
Dream pop

Artist: Aräyuí

Release: Cerca Trova

Label: Lo-Slow

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] 20HoursAfterDawn - The Long Creep Persuading Mind Before Soil Shakes

Vaporwave
Ambient
Musique concrète
Dreamwave
Cinematic
Acousmatic music
Sampledelic
Field recording
Electronic music
Soundscape
Alternative

Artist: 20HoursAfterDawn

Release: Sun Will Crackle

Label: I Low You

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Mugre - No detengas la risa

Art punk
Electroclash
Electro-punk
Alternative
Neo-krautrock
Electronic
Synth-punk

Artist: Mugre

Release: Mugre

Label: Adaptador

Year: 2017

1/29/2018

[Teaser of the day] Gabby Borges - Body Water

Indie pop
Singer-songwriter
Alternative pop

Artist: Gabby Borges

Release: Linoleum Complex

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] These Guy - Weird Weather

Neo-psychedelia
Art pop
Alternative pop
Indie folk
Experimental pop
Avant-pop
New Weird Canada
Leftfield
Folk indie

Artist: These Guy

Release: Human Language

Label: Wood & Wire/Free Music Archive

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Ak-47 Big Band - Easy To Love

Clinical Archives

Big band
Jazz
Swing
Brass music
Mood music
Oldie music

Artist: Ak-47 Big Band

Release: Ak-47 Big Band

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2011

Zifhang – Two Worlds LP (2017)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Breaks
Sampledelic
Electronic music
Urban music
Nu jazz
Downtempo
Folktronica
Mood music

Comment: Zifhang aka Tarik Tayeh is a producer from Chile whose 12-track long player represents a bound of two worlds. The listener can only guess what are those worlds behind it in fact. The listener cannot actually perceive perturbations within the course because all the elements are brought forth in first tracks – catchy samples, smoky ambiances, cozy flickers, arousing harmonies. It is a little bit erratic because the whole is a moody expression of sonic combinations and auricular possibilities. It used to alternately ascend and descend, more profoundly, being at times lively and at times wistful. Those wistful moments are the most transcendental ones within it. Microscopic string instrument induced glimpses are varied with macroscopic orchestrated hovers. At times it stands in front of your door, sometimes going close to the horizon. All of that is adhered to the shaggy rhythmic patterns which do repeat themselves endlessly. With regard to the latter sentences one can find out the answer to the question being set up above. The outing is a chip of the discography of Dusted Wax Kingdom, a legendary Bulgarian imprint.

1/28/2018

[Teaser of the day] Gabran - sd2

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

Artist: Gabran

Release: Sounds

Label: Petroglyph

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Warmer Climbs - Like Swimming

Indietronica
Shoegazetronica
Alternative pop
Ambient pop/rock
Indie pop

Artist: Warmer Climbs

Release: Warmer Climbs

Label: Giant Manilow

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Fingerflood - Cloner

Jamendo

Bhangra
Alternative
Ethnotronica
Breaks
Crossover
Dubtronica
World music
Electronic music

Artist: Fingerflood

Release: Beats And Stabs And Kick In Four

Label: Jamendo/Ephedrina/Sucu Music/Noisybeat

Year: 2027

[Teaser of the day] Eluder - Shapes

Ambient
Drone
Epic
Avant-garde
Abstract
Ambient drone
Soundscape
Experimentalism

Artist: Eluder

Release: Constellate

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Gabriel - Sunrise Reef

Archaic Horizon

Electronic pop
Mood music
Ambient pop
Field recording
Organic electronica
Alternative pop
Chilltronica

Artist: Gabriel

Release: Good Old Days

Label: Archaic Horizon

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Outra-G - Frames

Soft Phase

Indietronica
Ambient pop
Alternative pop
Mood music
Electronic music
Chilltronica

Artist: Outra-G

Release: Light Drops EP

Label: Soft Phase/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Christian Doil - Zwielicht

Buddhist On Fire

Ambient
Drone
Experimental electronica
Avant-garde
Microsound
Glitchtronica
Abstract
Minimalism
Electronic music
Sound art
Experimentalism
Micronoise

Artist: Christian Doil

Release: Bilder einer Ausstellung (Christian Doil and Seetyca)

Label: Buddhist On Fire

Year: 2017

TT-ram & Lutz Thuns – Hypnosis (2017)

Hortus Conclusus

Bandcamp

Ambient
Ambient drone
Microtonal
Dark ambient
Neoclassical
Electronic music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Minimalism
Epic
Soundscape

Comment: this set of 6 compositions used to drift somewhere between spirituality and ambient music imbued with flickering ghosts, and shadows reflecting walls and murky memories from the past of having a weaker impact due to passing the time. As if one walked in a surreal grayish world surrounded by gigantic trees and silence. And one would meet no living substance while walking on. Yet one is filled with the expectation of something is going to happen soon or you are waiting for someone. In fact, I have experienced such a sort of dream and by my opinion it would be the description of afterlife. Musically it is a perfect accompaniment and stimulus of your thoughts and desires reflecting upon divine world. Majestic, cathedral/catacombs/monastery drenched ambiances used to develop slowly being backed up by minimal rhythms, and coagulated sonic effects hanging either atop or in front of. It may be only the track called Brainstorming gives you a "false" impression about the direction of the whole outing because there is up the strong shuffle of galvanized rhythms. In overall, it is a blissful and frightening world simultaneously. It is also an excellent example of how minimally managed music can be emotionally highly overwhelming. By kindred souls I recommend listen to the aesthetic of such an Italian ambient juggernaut as Alie Die, and also the music of Globobscuro. Simply the greatest in its minimal magic realism. The collaborative issue (between German Lutz Thuns, and French artist TT-ram) is a part of the discography of Hortus Conclusus.

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.

1/27/2018

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).

1/26/2018

[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

1/25/2018

[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

1/23/2018

[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

1/22/2018

[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.

1/21/2018

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.

1/19/2018

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).

1/18/2018

[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

1/17/2018

[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

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

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.