Notforme – Small Town Mysteries (2017)

Southern City`s Lab

• Folk punk 
• Alternative rock 
• Punk folk 
• Post-punk 
• World music 
• Bluegrass

Comment: this 4-notch issue clocking in at a 10 minute is a galvanized blend of droning ethnic tendencies and punk formalism. It starts off with chiming melodic guitars in the vein of Motorama, obviously the most famous Russian alternative rock example at the moment. Given that it is not surprising at all the starting track is influenced by the famous compatriots. However, later on, the jaunty course continues to go on with more roots and world music vibes. At Chekhov's Gun you can hear male and female bound vocals with hints at bluegrass, for example. It's sexy and purgative. The outing is a bit in the discography of the Russian Southern City's Lab. And congratulations to the Russians for winning the Olympic hockey tournament. And congratulations to the Germans for winning the silver medal. It was an unbelievably crazy course one can witness very rarely. You deserved each other.

Aires - Precisamos de espelhos (1)

[Teaser of the day] Wacky Southern Current - Watercolour

Petcord

• Indietronica
• Art pop
• Experimental pop
• Post-rock
• Electronic
• Alternative

Artist: Wacky Southern Current

Release: Ageless Calm in Times of War

Label: Petcord

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Channel Surfing - Line In #Ask

• Sampledelic
• Electronic music
• Glitch pop
• Alternative
• Crossover
• Post-dubstep

Artist: Channel Surfing

Release: Chill Zone

Label: Completely Gone Recordings

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Kosmik Leprechaun - Losin` Sleep

• Mood music
• Chilltronica
• Post-pop
• Sampledelic
• Electronic music

Artist: Kosmik Leprechaun

Release: Poison Orchids

Label: Lucky Chicken Audio

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Les Louise Mitchels - L'Amour du Rixe

• Math rock
• Alternative rock
• Art rock
• Crossover
• Surf rock
• Experimental rock
• Art punk
• Avant-rock
• Technical metal

Artist: Les Louise Mitchels

Release: Es hat uns Spass gemacht

Label: Moncul

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] The Womb - I Hope It Hurts

The Womb

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie pop
• Indie soul
• Alternative pop
• DIY
• Art pop

Artist: The Womb

Release: Sex Tape

Label: Self-released

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] gunctrl - Pastoral

Reverse Engine

• Lo-fi
• Avant-pop
• Organcore
• Experimental pop
• Krautrock
• Avant-blues
• Drone pop
• DIY

Artist: gunctrl

Release: Obituary Cocktail

Label: Reverse Engine

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Microscopes - Poem 65

Free Music Archive

• Art pop
• Lo-fi
• Alternative pop
• DIY
• Bedroom pop
• Avant-pop

Artist: Microscopes 

Release: Points Of Interest

Label: Vulpiano

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Ebola - Skull Pressure

Acroplane

• Electro
• Electronic music
• Breaks
• Illbient
• Crossover
• Acid electro
• Experimental electro
• Alternative dance

Artist: Ebola

Release: Brodmann Area

Label: Acroplane

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Knyaz Mishkin - Ivan Strauss

Haze

• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Freeformfreakout
• Experimentalism

Artist: Knyaz Mishkin

Release: Valsiki

Label: Haze

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Four Letter Word - Chemical Sunrise

• Agit-punk
• Hardcore punk
• Punk rock

Artist: Four Letter Word

Release: A Nasty Piece Of Work LP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 1998 

[Teaser of the day] Counterfly - Underwater

Broque

• Electronic music
• Post-IDM
• Ambient pop
• Mood music
• Alternative pop

Artist: Counterfly

Release: The Invisible Journey

Label: Broque/Archive.org

Year: 2017  

[Teaser of the day] Toupe Mapeto aka THAGKIA - 00260

MiMi

• Breakcore
• Ambient noise
• Drill and bass
• Electronic music
• Jungle
• Alternative dance
• Rhythmic noise
• Breakbeat

Artist: Toupe Mapeto aka THAGKIA

Release: Unreleased Work Collection 

Label: MiMi

Year: 2018

Noblemo "piano,sountrack,lounge" – Heart Of The Piano (2011)

Jamendo

• Piano music 
• Mood music 
• Electronic

Comment: what about us? What about you? What about me? What about those thousands of people who are listening to Jamendo? What about those millions of people who are listening to mainstream stations and having no idea about those thousands of people who are listening to Jamendo. Don't give a heck to them. And vice versa. The recent artist, for example, has issued a loads of albums during the last decade but will those millions of people to know about the outings until their heart stops to beat. I guess no, because worldwide there are up news and information which are immensely more important. For example, I just read that one celebrity, let's say her name is Lyra Tarhum, decided to remove her uterus. Actually it seems to be a very heroic statement by her but I have no chance to remove it even if I would like to do it. In a word, how to translate the information into a useful one from your own perspective? Indeed, we are weird animals who are descended from the monkey, a stupid beast. And some of us thinking they are better than the others. That's called divine comedy acted by mundane worms. This 5-cut outing is a joyful blend of upbeat piano chords, some more joyful piano chords, and some cloudless synthesised hovers in the middle of it. In overall, it is wrapped up by naive and childish tendencies. I guess Noblemo does mean No Problemo in fact. It chimes like a sonic counterpart to a trouble abandoned picture from a brochure of Jehovah's witnesses. A lion is there beside a sheep and he is not intended to attack the other animal because he is satisfied with the uterus from a parallel universe. It is a sci-fi wish similarly to Elon Musk`s ones to fly and then die on the reddish ground of Mars. God, You cantankerous one please let it happen. We need more cerebral outflow, we need more subliminal delirium, we need more tago mago. We need more possibilities to come as soon as possible to our limited yet deadly borders. So what about us? So what about you? What about me?

[Teaser of the day] Masato Abe - Silky Lake With Swan

• Modern classical
• Avant-pop
• Post-classical
• Art music
• Ambient pop
• Epic
• Experimental pop
• Chamber pop
• Art pop

Artist: Masato Abe

Release: Author

Label: Elementperspective

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Secrets Of The 45 - The Daily Grind

• Musique concréte
• Acousmatic music
• Electronic music
• Post-industrial
• Sound art
• Avant-garde
• Field recording
• Drone
• Experimentalism

Artist: Secrets Of The 45

Release: Wake Bell

Label: Underpolen

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Jeff Beam - Wholed

• Alt-country
• Folk indie
• Americana
• Doo wop
• Indie folk
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: Jeff Beam

Release: Something Came From Nothing (EP)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Wings Of An Angel – What Is So Counterintuitive About Forcing An Average Guy To Be A Philosopher? (2018)

Bandcamp

• Contemporary classical 
• Art music 
• Piano music 
• Minimalism 
• Epic

Comment: it can already be assumed that Wings Of An Angel as an artist is stubborn and consistent in many aspects with regard to his oeuvre. It might be even better to describe it with the adjective "uncompromising, the adjective which has been used for the most time for the mighty Fall Mark E. Smith. In the recent case it does mean the Israeli artist employs a few templates to build up a contemplative sonic house. More profoundly, the album starts off in a minor key with lamenting orchestrations and lone piano chords in the middle of them. It is like an austere depiction of the desert in a human soul. It may be. Do you think you feel yourself lonely because of that? It might be it will create imaginable space around you by putting you sitting down within no one's land. Furthermore, a listener is let alone with intentions of the lengthy titles of the compositions so it could be either a purgative or devastating span of your time. Given that the minimal nature of the 6-track album and on the other side the lengthy titles by the artists in overall it can be admitted the artist's purpose to convey his philosophy. Indeed, he has been stubborn during his musical tenure nonetheless a listener is technically stuck by those drawn-out song titles which used to surface some problems either on replaying them in a mp3 player or transferring them from one source to another. I would have to abbreviate the album title with regard to particular tracks to fulfill the conditions. Fortunately the album has been managed in the way to involve changes both in emotive and structural level throughout the course. The listener can breathe in and out while listening to majestic and ennobling progressions. It emits depth and some kind of superficiality at the same time. By practical reasons I was listening to it while reading a book about constituting of paradigms in scientific philosophy. Having been bound together it is a highly motivating and illuminating experience. By based on repetition and distinctions and conditional circularity between them one is audibly chained to have a look at those expected changes. Yeah, get into it there is a broad world inside.

Kaneel – La Pink Note (2008)

Petite & Jolie

Bandcamp

• IDM 
• Synth-pop 
• Electronic music 
• Indietronica 
• Alternative 
• Glitch pop

Comment: by listening to this 6-notch release it is like entering into a time shuttle and journeying back in time for 18 years. Back to the era of which was predominated by such labels as Mille Plateaux, and Morr Music which were being platforms for releasing indie-drenched electronic music (otherwise it would loosely be named acidic artsy synth-pop). Later on, there were netlabels which started to appear for such kind of music (the likes of Aerotone, Poni Republic, Error! Lo-Fi, 12rec, Petite & Jolie, No-Source). The release comes out of the umbrella of Petite & Jolie by providing crispy glitch-imbued rhythmic sections to back up subtle melodic progressions, and vice versa. Emotionally it flips in and out on a border of laid back atmosphere and intensified, even obsessive insight. Indeed, it brings playful dynamics and propulsive tension into the blend. The final part Au Revoir Pt 2 imitates adeptly Parisian street music melodies thereafter putting them under an algorithmic application of electronic music for to provide a proper farewell. That's the point of it. In a word, it a nice and nostalgic contemplation for a contemporary listener. So let's crank up the engine and embark on the journey.

[Teaser of the day] The Cherry Blues Project - Yendo a Casa Pt. 1

Resting Bell

• Field recording
• Experimentalism
• Post-industrial
• Leftfield
• Avant-garde
• Musique concrète

Artist: The Cherry Blues Project

Release: El Viaje Revisited Vol. 1

Label: Resting Bell

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Kirill Platonkin - Cogitative Mineral

Tukuringra

• Abstract
• Drone
• Experimentalism
• Microtonal
• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Ambient drone
• Minimalism

Artist: Kirill Platonkin

Release: Cogitative Mineral

Label: Tukuringra

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Norah Lorway - Superworlds

• Drone
• Avant-garde
• Dark ambient
• Minimalism
• Soundscape
• Ambient drone
• Dreamwave
• Experimentalism

Artist: Norah Lorway

Release: Requiem

Label: Xylem

Year: 2017

Mauro Sambo & Matilde Sambo - ...sibilava tra i Denti...(2017)

Plus Timbre

• Avant-garde 
• Improvised music 
• Experimentalism 
• Art music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Field recording 
• Musique concrète 
• Drone

Comment: these 28 minutes and 48 seconds are based on the play of a couple of musicians whose music meanders through disparate valleys and mountains. There is up the layer of guitars which is surrounded by tectonic sound of a gong, some human sounds, electro-acoustic noises and hisses, at times magnified, at times zoomed out. However, the result sounds always in a magnificent manner. Indeed, you should not be afraid of the technical description of the album. In fact, you can perceive an issue of emitting warmth and providing a welcoming sense nonetheless its heavy technical and artsy buildup. I can hear some similarities with another excellent duo, Natural Snow Buildings. Behind the project are Matilde Sambo who plays electric guitar adds field recordings, and manipulates with electronics. On the other hand Mauro Sambo operates with electronics, plays double bass, gong, kalimba, and percussion. And all the instruments are clearly audible over there. The outing is a bit in the discography of Plus Timbre. NB! By listening to it with an open window you should be warned it may be difficult to differentiate one sounds from the other ones. On the other side, it is a sign of reconciliation of the different ambiances.

Breakup-Party – Ghosts (2017)

Djummi-records

• Power pop 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Emo 
• Art rock

Comment: Breakup-Party`s Ghosts showcases different aspects of the Berlin, German quartet`s 7-notch album. It starts off and continues somewhere with Radiohead tinged dreamy rock yet in the meantime it is loaded with powerful instruments, mostly with ploughing guitars and the drums. More profoundly, Christian Ehrich obviously mimicks Thom Yorke`s singing manner (chopped-up words and heavy repetition on them). Additionally, the soundscape is variegated by atmospheric guitar effects and keyboard based orchestrations and other sounds which makes difference. In a nutshell, it can be said it is a solid outing of which is adeptly produced and dosed with feelings and attractiveness in progressions and just within the sound. The issue is a part of the discography of Djummi-records.

Massimo Ruberti - Falling

[Teaser of the day] Karen Eliot - This is a game of enormous hostility

• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Leftfield
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Drone rock
• Experimentalism

Artist: Karen Eliot

Release: Ticker Tape

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] The Last March of the Ents - Words From The Non​-​Existent

• Hardcore
• Crossover
• Crust punk
• Doom rock

Artist: The Last March of the Ents 

Release: Growing Strange

Label: Torn Flesh

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Hox Vox - Lace

• Fusion 
• Avant-prog
• Cool jazz
• Crossover
• Art rock
• RIO
• Synth-rock
• Electronic

Artist: Hox Vox

Release: Funky All Over

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Martin Dot - Reactor V

Rain

• Electronic music
• Experimental electronica
• Noise
• Minimalism
• Avant-electro
• Leftfield
• Primitive music
• Avant-electronica

Artist: Martin Dot

Release: Spectrum Generator 

Label: Rain

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Tekk - Hard Rhodes

Sologroove

• Alternative dance
• Electro pop
• Electro house
• Electronic music

Artist: Tekk

Release: Tekkoism EP

Label: Sologroove

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] aboombong - I Gaze (Admix ONE - Suisse Miss)

• Krautrock
• Experimental rock
• Space rock
• Ambient rock
• Avant-rock

Artist: aboombong

Release: Admixture

Label: Pen & Mallet

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Satanoid - Slugs

Entity

• Ambient noise
• Illbient
• Digital hardcore
• Electronic music
• Leftfield
• Dark ambient
• Breakcore

Artist: Satanoid

Release: Astronomical Disease

Label: Entity

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Adjusted Speech - V

• Drone
• Experimentalism
• Ambient drone
• Minimalism
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Adjusted Speech

Release: Dissociation Loops

Label: Kage Recordings

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Matti T - Deadlock

Siko

• Ambient
• Experimental electronica
• Psychedelic
• Avant-electronica

Artist: Matti T

Release: Distracted Mind EP

Label: Siko

Year: 2012

Gomme – Hiss (2017)

Moncul

Black Totem

• Punk rock 
• Indie rock 
• Riot grrrl 
• Angst rock
• Alternative rock 
• Post-punk

Comment: Gomme comes out of France by playing rough punk rock/post-punk/alternative rock. It can be considered riot grrrl because the combo embraces three women (Betsy, Lauren, and Hannah). Hopefully I can describe them as women. Maybe I am a chauvinist schwein because of employing this word. However, I really hope I am not. I like many moments within this 10-track outing. There is a German sung composition Gott ist Tot. It is obviously a reference to Friedrich Nietzsche although I am quite sure today Nietzsche would have said today Gott ist nicht tot because the recent society and weltanschauung is not a place to foster genuine heroes. The recent human being is way too weak and fragile and enslaved by machines he/she has him/herself created. Because of being so weak and fragile and practising a parasitic lifestyle he/she cannot consider him/herself a God. It comes the time when we need the genuine God more than we have ever needed. Secondly there is a powerful cover song of Kate Bush`s Wuthering Heights. I like the trio`s straightforward gear mostly played on a guitar, a bass, and the drums (at times the instruments are accompanied by synthesised sounds either). At times the tuning of the guitars is turned down and thereby emitting sounds out there of coming very close to doom rock riffs. At times the guitars are changed into cellophane tuning and millennium-ending anxiety thereby getting an alternative rock combo a la Sonic Youth. I can say Gomme rock very well though the favourite female rock combo of mine is still Electrelane. The issue is a part of the discographies of such labels as Moncul, and Black Totem Records.

Makunouchi Bento – 3 Electrical Snowghosts (2017)

Bandcamp

• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Improvised music 
• Ambient 
• Hauntology 
• Art music

Comment: there is up another wondrously humming release being truly stunning due to its atmospheric layers and lunatic rhythmic sections as if coming out of a helium-filled globe. It chimes like a modern sound enclosure of a fairy tale within one can hear mystical and hyper-realistic tendencies. The fairies are dancing and unicorns are flying. The Romanian combo's music fosters your longing fantasies and drops you down into magic layers to get away from this bleak world. So yes, the music lends validity to the narrative, and vice versa. At times one may say it is a half-way into The Caretaker's aesthetics but it then would take the path elsewhere. For example, the listener can discern uncanny, jazz and improvised music leaves being filtered through the aether in the midst of the mix. Just listen to it because the words and sentences are way too imperfect to translate this 3-notch issue. it is an absolutely brilliant art ghost.

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.