Nasienie – Prevention of Sleep Disorders EP (2010)

Webbed Hand

Webbed Hand

• Ambient 
• Electronic music 
• Experimental electronica 
• Post-industrial 
• Drone 
• Avant-electronica 
• Electro-acoustic

Comment: as you can see this 4-track issue provides a practical intention. It is produced by a legendary Russian experimental musician, Nasienie so I can guess to get a good result from it. It is not the first time by him to appear at RMH. Once I read about a black metal musician who was treated in the psychiatric clinic in the way he would have to produce one track in a day to reflect upon his recent mental shape. If the sleep disorders could be resolved through demanding rational analysis and it was backed up by commanding music then this album is for you. Indeed, I cannot say this album is an example of music which used to be regarded as the typical sort of sleep music. Although it includes some dreamy progressions it is quite intensive through post-industrial fields which are up there through clanging electro-acoustic experiments, bold and at times amplified drones, and glitched-out fringes (in the first place at Detuned Sunday). On the other side, the artist does not torture a listener with lengthy compositions rather giving her/him possibility to relax through subconscious turns. In a word, it is a strong result by Nasienie and Webbed Hand Records.

Orphan Stamps – Orphan Stamps (2017)

Bandcamp

• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Bedroom pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Indie pop 
• Glo-fi 
• Hypnagogic pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Space pop 
• Fuzz pop

Comment: the 00s has certainly been a great decade in discovering new music. Devendra Banhart, Animal Collective, The Caretaker, Cagey House, slept., Serena Maneesh, Eureka Brown, Tim Hecker, and of course Ariel Pink, the amazing maverick whose music had denied classification both in terms of styles/genres and musical epochs. Honestly, I do not like very much what Ariel Pink would have been doing in the 10s but he is still one of the most enchanting creative forces within the indie scene. But I adore Orphan Stamp's self-titled outing which reflects upon the early period of Ariel Pink though adding a special, idiosyncratic touch to the whole. And 11-notch release is an instance of contradictory impulses at the first glance where faint, and even introverted lo-fi dodges are variegated with highly expressive and hovering glo-fi/hypnagogic pop appearances. Secondly, the whole consists of austere yet highly catchy compositions (for instance, the magnificent River) being juxtaposed to more more chord involving extraterrestrial space pop songs. Truly cloudless developments are represented over there which unfortunately cannot otherwise be met in natural state of a human being's life. In other words, misty, even murky corners are eventually lighted up with highly intense sunbeams as if spending your time in the middle of a forest island filled in with natural play of glistening rays and grayish shades. Behind the project is Karl Frank who had previously released under his own name and under a Swedish imprint, redstarcommunity. Purely golden gem.

Shinpal – Basic Theory Of The Radiation (2017)

Cold Fiction Music

Bandcamp

• Ambient 
• Electronic music 
• Dreamwave 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Soundscape

Comment: this set of a pair of tracks clocks in at a 53 minute, so it is a premise we could wait for a winding issue. I would like to call such sort of music post minimal synth because all those marginal sounds with regard to the rhythm and harmony are magnified into a flourishing and full-fledged soundscape over there. And additionally post Kosmische Musik because the initial base harks obviously back to Tangerine Dream. By any means, it is a fantastic issue where the total sum exceeds grossly the sum of its initial elements. Those elements may be rough on their own yet by listening to it one can feel effervescent life behind them. You can feel different kinds of dance movements coming in and going out by those damned electronic bits. The bits and glitches are mostly supported by semi-orchestrated and floating developments and atmospheric reverberations hovering atop. The outing is a bit of the discography of Cold Fiction Music.

The Blessed Cassettes – Errors And Omissions (2016)

Reverse Engine

• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Psych-rock 
• Electronic 
• Americana

Comment: the combo which were previously being known as The Litter come out of Houston, Texas, USA consisting of members of The Strangelet Disasters. Their 9-notch release is a tight mix of simplistic, even primitive chords and structure, rough harmonies and uncanny psychedelic sensitivity. First listening times of it may seem a bit inferior but the more you are listening to it the more you get the charm out of it. Especially good are those circling electronic/marimba progressions within the guitar noise thus reminding of such post-rock combos as The Dylan Group, and Tortoise but there are also up galvanised guitar-based dodges. And those hazy synth compartments as if coming out of the 80s yet chiming truly retro-futuristic and contemporary in a dreamy way (as if being produced by Daniel Lopatin, for instance). Although it is not an example of roots music it is somehow indirectly influenced by it so you can say it certainly comes out of the United States after hearing the first chords of it. The issue is a part of the discography of Reverse Engine.

The Cherry Blues Project – Selectas Memorias del Invierno (2017)

Petroglyph

• Microtonal 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Micronoise 
• Post-industrial 
• Drone 
• Electronic music 
• Sound art 
• Illbient

Comment: this batch of 11 pieces is based on childhood memories and vacations spent in the city of Gualeguaychu (Argentina) during the 90s. The word Invierno which does mean “winter” in Spanish used to sound quite close to the word inferno, hell by other word. Indeed, by listening to it I would like to say the soundscape supposedly reminds of the latter because of consisting of restrained yet somehow threatening sonic progressions. That's the unexpected consequence because emotional level is high nonetheless with regard to the minimal and buried details of the issue. Yet it is the subjective reconstruction of mine because the soundscape is rich and succulent in its slightly buried appearance. It involves surprising turns as well – at No (Edit) you hear slight Islamic samples together with a layer of chopped, microscopic noise sounds. This mind-provoking outing is a part of the discography of Petroglyph Music.

[Teaser of the day] System Morgue - Corbeaux

• Neoclassical
• Doomgaze
• Epic
• Ambient rock
• Dronegaze
• Ethereal wave

Artist: System Morgue

Release: Smarana II: Dreary Dirges

Label: Heliophagia

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] The Quivering Forest - and i will plot our escape *

• Post-rock
• Epic
• Symphonic rock
• Chamber rock
• Art rock

Artist: The Quivering Forest

Release: Ocean asphalt petroleum breeze and our fluttering high beams

Label: Inglorious Ocean

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Lycia - Gray December Desert Day

• Ethereal wave
• Dark folk
• Ambient folk
• Dark wave
• Neofolk
• Alternative
• Apocalyptic folk
• Dreamwave

Artist: Lycia

Release: Tripping Back Into The Broken Days

Label: Projekt/Bandcamp

Year: 2002

[Teaser of the day] Fredrik - Maran

Heartphone

• Indie folk
• Baroque folk
• Alt-folk
• Chamber folk
• Folk indie
• Experimental folk
• Dream folk

Artist: Fredrik

Release: Holm (single) 

Label: Heartphone

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Sawak - Hebron

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Noise pop

Artist: Sawak

Release: Sawak

Label: Resonating Woods Recordings

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Samara Noronha - Foi sem querer

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

Artist: Samara Noronha

Release: Recomeçar

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Time Hitler and the Assholes From Space - Jeremiah Says

• Indie rock
• Hard rock
• Psych-rock
• Alternative rock
• Art rock

Artist: Time Hitler and the Assholes From Space

Release: Hot N Ready

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Kevin Henry - Bliss Kids

• American primitivism
• Folk
• Americana
• Art folk

Artist: Kevin Henry

Release: Last Thoughts

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Midwestern Medicine - Ecstatic Question

• Americana
• Indie rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: Midwestern Medicine

Release: The Winking Badge

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Maija Sofia - The Girl Who Pulled the Sun Down

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

Artist: Maija Sofia

Release: The Sugar Sea

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Billow - White Ribbon

• Dream pop
• Indie pop/rock
• Shoegaze
• Ethereal Wave
• Slowcore
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Billow

Release: Maps

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Transvorder - c - la tierra suspira estrellas

• Indie pop
• Hypnagogic pop
• Alternative pop
• Indietronica
• Dreamwave
• Glo-fi
• Exotica pop
• Electronic pop
• Chillwave

Artist: Transvorder

Release: Desmesuras

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Gintas K - greit5

• Freeformfreakout
• Sound art
• Post-industrial
• Avant-electronica
• Experimentalism
• Micronoise
• Acousmatic music
• Avant-garde
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Gintas K

Release: Greit

Label: Ilse

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Swain - Quay Dismay

Imaginary Albums

• Indietronica
• Alternative
• Post-rock
• IDM
• Electronic music

Artist: Swain

Release: The Single

Label: Imaginary Albums

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Aitänna77 - Waveforms

• Sampledelic
• Electronic music
• Easy listening
• Spoken word
• Alternative
• Mood music

Artist: Aitänna77

Release: Dried Flowers II

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2017

Reomini – Whitetrash Weekend (2006)

Midinette

• Breakcore 
• Digital hardcore 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Jungle 
• Primitive music

Comment: this batch of 6 short-running compositions is an intensified blend of rough, lo-fi tinged rhythmic patterns and tight electronic oscillations and overloaded effects and neurotic syncopations within the pace. Yet it does not seem to be a lo-fi release eventually because the lo-fi approach is not here by natural causes but rather as an instrumental mean to bring deliberately forth something unconventional to the brink. At times those cadences are truly primitive kind of (at Geniokabchihoca, for example). You can imagine it as a universe which consists of incoming sounds from parallel universes at the same time, at times one of them is alternately being switched off and on. The joyful issue is a part of the discography of Midinette Records.

Neuronphase – 212 (2017)

Bandcamp

• House 
• Alternative dance 
• Electronic music 
• Acid jazz 
• Electro house 
• Club dance 
• Deep house 
• Nu jazz 
• Mood music 
• Sampledelic

Comment: Anti Aaver comes out of Tartu, Estonia once having been a member of the legendary DJ combo Neuronphase with Kalev K, and Tritse in the 90s. Furthermore, he had also been a member of the indie group Bizarre whose album Cafè De Flor (1996, Sally Cinnamon Music) can be considered an outstanding album within the Estonian underground scene with a blistering blend of dreamy guitars, mystically sounding samples and dance-induced rhythms. It is still a magic, time proven record after a 20 year span. By the way, Anti Aaver played guitars over there and at 212 one hear some accidental guitars to appear either. However, the main course is driven by his club-related doings and the 9-notch outing hovers fairly up to the highest standard. Skiddy synth layers, loosely yet succulently gravitating house cadences, exquisite hisses, velvety and sultry synthesised wrappings where you can feel a sturdy touch of (nu) jazz influence (by the way, such a German combo as Jazzanova is highly beloved in the Estonian house circles). Additionally to its dance-induced angle you are also aroused by its emotive depth. The course is changing stepwise thereby adding an extra value to the mix. Another value is based on those prolonged synthesised peaks in the last section of the tracks. In a word, it is a definite addition to the list of the best albums in 2017. A must have stuff to a lover of house music because of being a good example of how an interesting house album should be produced Anno Domini 2017.

Seppuku – Permanent Real Delicate (2011)

Dracula Horse

• New Wave 
• Post-punk 
• Synth-rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Synth-pop 
• Dreamwave 
• Alternative 
• Space pop 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Dance rock 
• Art punk 
• Acid rock

Comment: it is tremendous honour to be back at the discography of Dracula Horse, the American imprint of being closely related to Coolrunnings, a combo that had produced a bunch of outstanding contemporary psychedelic issues. However, Seppuku's 6-track issue of being embedded in a 16-minute is as great as well. It starts off with an abrasive electronic/synth-punk/new wave rant to stepwise evolve into more psychedelic and spacious appearances at will. The artist is dripping with dreamy guitars and dream-drenched synthesisers which used to have more in common with such space explorers as M Geddes Gengras, Oneothrix Point Never, Steve Hauschildt, Leyland Kirby rather than with die-hard post-punk ensembles. First and foremost, I am talking about composition called Ravine. And of course, all of that effortless aplomb leads eventually to remembering Tangerine Dream. In a word, that's an explosive yet bewildering miscellany of dance-appealed guitar chords, and reverie-induced keyboards, and suggestive propulsions. Top quality by any means.

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

[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

[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.

[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

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.

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.