Josh McClure – Z-Mon EP (2017)

Tape Safe
Tape Safe

• Shoegaze 
• Hip-hop 
• Avant-hop 
• Experimental hip-hop 
• Leftfield 
• Crossover 
• Electronic 
• Indietronica

Comment: this bunch of 3 tracks is a fascinating and at the same time frenetic blend of shaggy yet imposing hip-hop rhythms, shoegaze-y guitar-led horizons and spaced-out sonic effects. You can perceive synergistic halo rings coming out from these enchanting noises, massive reverberations and blazing electronic trickery. Of course, I would call it indie music at any time but given that many decayed and conformist music groups are called with the same term and having no joint point with the topic of the recent issue so it would be misleading to do it. On the other side, it is much more worth than an average hip-hop issue. It can be concluded it is great to dwell nowhere or at least somewhere in a mediate position (yet it is not a bare derivative release) and having a more sophisticated and uncompromising spot upon this life. Let's call it an example of beautiful noise though making noise music is not the purpose of the artist. By kindred souls I would compare it to the likes of Seefeel, Dälek, Death Grips yet the comparison regards more the attitude of the combos than their sonic examples. The outstanding outing is a bit in the discography of Tape Safe.

Samarah – Robots Smile Too (2006)

Nishi

No Type/Panospria

• Indietronica 
• Electro-indie 
• Alternative 
• Electronic music 
• DIY 
• Lo-fi 
• Dream pop 
• Minimal electro 
• Electro pop

Comment: what is that? Is it a reaction to electroclash music having been so prevalent in the beginning of the 00s? On the other side, it could be admitted to be a subdued and strongly decelerated version of Ladytron. Samarah provides a remarkably more lo-fi, primitive and minimal counterpoint to it. It is just the truth in a half measure. The listener can hear progressions toward the aesthetic of dream pop. Or are the progressions instead of it something reflecting upon the more immersive and ghastly trajectories by Throbbing Gristle? The truth is obviously somewhere out there. The issue is a part of the discography of Nishi, No Type, and Panospria, a quite weird and important angle from Canada within the netlabel/webaudio world. Indeed, robots smile too but the question is whether the smile is human-friendly or not?

[Teaser of the day] Roy Chicky Arad - I Love You

Birdsong

• Cinematic
• Sampledelic
• Easy listening
• Chill out
• Mood music

Artist: Roy Chicky Arad

Release: Yedidim Tovim

Label: Birdsong/Archive.org

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] L.Valerie - Aperture

• Electro-indie
• Art pop
• Avant-pop
• Experimental pop
• Indietronica

Artist: L.Valerie

Release: Arranged Marriage

Label: Bleeding Gold

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] So I`m An Islander - Augusta

• Post-classical
• Modern classical
• Art music
• Piano music
• Post-rock
• Crossover
• Chamber music
• Epic

Artist: So I`m An Islander

Release: Mælodium Ambientum 2

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Hypnodial - Star Ceiling `91

• Electronic music
• Hypnagogic pop
• Synth fusion
• Crossover
• Glo-fi
• Electro house
• Alternative

Artist: Hypnodial

Release: Aether Alcoves

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Decktonic - Out Of Space

• Disco pop
• Alternative dance
• Italo disco
• Electronic pop
• House pop

Artist: Decktonic

Release: Unbox Me

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Robert Daglio – Bitter Blue (2018)

Jamendo

Bandcamp

• Mood music 
• Yacht pop 
• Fusion 
• Jazz rock 
• Swing 
• Jazz

Comment: it is a subsequent issue by an Italian artist, Roberto Daglio to appear on the blog. Daglio's music is always different, always the same. It is always sultry and serene and deliberately retrodelic yet synthesising new elements into a mix. The listener can feel himself like standing somewhere under the cloudless sky while the Sun standing at the zenith and above all. Yet it is a hyper-realistic experience because you are not exhausted by sweating on humid conditions. However, Wintherpole and Steel Drops are exceptions of the 8-track composition due to a heavy, even slamming guitar handling in the beginning of the tracks. Yet in the middle you can hear more meandering and immersive trajectories up there being played on an electric guitar. A third exception is Sometimes In The Rain (Swing Up) based on a classical jazz standard yet it chimes in a refreshing way. In other tracks you can enjoy pastel drawings on the electric guitar and electronic keyboards while being supported by propulsive bass lines. In a word, the result rocks in the way a righteous fusion album should sound. Yeah, it's playful, it's joyous, it's ennobling. And paradoxically it is not bitter at all.

[Teaser of the day] Namm - Sin razon ni sazon

Ephedrina

• Indietronica
• Art pop
• Post-pop
• Alternative pop
• Indie pop
• Electronic music

Artist: Namm

Release: L`Arte Dei Rumori

Label: Ephedrina/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Stephen Briggs - ii

Sucu Music

• Improvised music
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Ambient rock

Artist: Stephen Briggs

Release: Hypnotique

Label: Sucu Music/Archive.org

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Maxim Kornyshev - Infinite Space Travel

Soo.su

• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Synth music
• Chilltronica
• Kosmische Musik

Artist: Maxim Kornyshev

Release: Mellifluous

Label: Soo.su

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Lutz Thuns - BLN 10585

• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik
• Space music
• Minimalism
• Krautrock
• Alternative
• Minimal techno

Artist: Lutz Thuns

Release: On the Other Side

Label: Spheredelic/Bandcamp

Year: 2015/2018

[Teaser of the day] Outra-G - Glided Endlessly

• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Organic electronica
• Art pop
• Experimental pop
• Ambient pop

Artist: Outra-G

Release: Seiren

Label: Soft Phase

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Jan Grünfeld - Farewell To The Island

Headphonica

• Sampledelic
• Field recording
• Leftfield
• Electro-acoustic
• Experimentalism
• Sound collage
• Musique concrète
• Avant-garde

Artist: Jan Grünfeld

Release: A Trace

Label: Headphonica/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

Sturqen/VÄäristymä – Atonia (2018)

Nervu

• Experimental electronica 
• Avant-electronica 
• Electronic music 
• Post-industrial 
• Abstract 
• Glitchtronica 
• Minimal techno

Comment: this is a split release by a couple of projects both of them consisting of the pair of experienced musicians. Indeed, Sturqen's music seems to be more abstract and algorithm driven and VÄäristymä`s 5-notch is more loose and floating coming at times quite close to a sophisticated art pop/indie electronic number. In comparison to Sturqen's part it is not surprising at all because VÄäristymä's compositions are shorter while Sturqen's tenure is clearly conceptual because of consisting of two 15-minute long tracks (Metrologia part 1, and part 2). It explores the colours, reverberations and shades of electronic music within its concept. Yet it does not mean that this couple of tracks used to chime a bit devoid of events while being restrained within the conceptual borders. One can perceive the broad borders surrounding the music. For sure, one can hear influences of the two most praised underground electronic duos of the 90s, Autechre, and Pan Sonic. But not only – it is like an electronic release spawned by a composer having an academic background especially regarding those kind of cassette compilations released by German composers during the 80s and 90s. On the other hand, VÄäristymä's music also involves glitched-out and recycled noises at the fringe so it is a release of providing a joint part between artists additionally to idiosyncratic appearances. The joint release is a part of the discography of Nervu.

System Morgue – Froid (2017)

Frozen Light

Bandcamp

• Ambient rock 
• Shoegaze 
• Alternative 
• Avant-rock 
• Ethereal wave 
• Darkwave 
• Epic

Comment: the simplest way to assure the title "Froid" does mean the music represented over the course of a handful of tracks. Of course, it does mean it does have much in common with the rest albums of the Sankt Peterburg, Russian one-man-project. Indeed, the listener should find out distinctive details and facets which used to differ from the other albums by System Morgue and thereafter you will have the base ultimately to shout out the substance being hidden behind the title. In fact, it would be way too different approach and way too pedantic and suffocating for enjoying music. The artist describes it as winter album having been recorded during winter months. The winter is the season for heroes. Between those meandering guitar layers with more or less hirsute accents you can enjoy deep yearning and broad dreams as if a way to conjure up something blissful and ennobling with quite simple solutions. It is shoegaze but it is not a My Bloody Valentine, it is darkwave but it is not a Lycia, it is ethereal wave but it is not a Cocteau Twins. All of that represented over there is System Morgue, one of the most perspective artists at the moment worldwide. At times, it is a pure power demonstration, at times it is a monument for pure feelings, at times those may be mixed up with one another. However, the whole ego of mine is subjugated to it. It is an avalanche in disparate meanings. The outing is a part of the discography of an imprint called Frozen Light.

Fortadelis – Overdub Session [Jazzed Up] (2016)

Cyan Music

Jamendo

• Nu jazz 
• Italo disco 
• Electronic pop 
• Deep house 
• Yacht pop 
• Mood music 
• Synth fusion 
• Jazz house 
• Chilltronica 
• Remakes

Comment: it's great honour to share my listening experience of Croatian artist Fortadelis' issue Jazzed Up. Previously I did it about Stimulus which is also a marvellous listening experience. As the title suggests this 9-notch outing is about jazz...at least partly. Indeed, all the modern/nu/acid jazz facets are elegantly represented over there. Moreover, Fortadelis is a potent artist who needs no other artists to remix the tracks to give it an additional value but instead of it he creates by himself it by shifting from the electronically swinging jazz and serene synth fusion and yacht pop glimpses to more immersive areas like deep house based numbers. There is just one little but. All the tracks were originally created by German Marco Köller and Fortadelis would change them into more sultry and sunshiny flickers. All the time one can feel an overwhelming dynamic impulse which is the main driving and unifying power giving no chance to deviate from a listening course. All in all, if you need an uncompromising crossover issue of electronic jazz, moody reflections, and refined club dance, you should pick it up. A cut above being issued on such platform as Cyan Music, and Jamendo.

Florian Wahl – Naked Souls EP (2013)

Bandcamp

• Soul 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Alternative 
• Urban music 
• Contemporary classical 
• Crossover 
• Art pop

Comment: Florian Wahl is a young and perspective artist from the Tallinn underground scene and probably the most fancy soul artist within the border of Estonia if his music can be considered soul of course. I guess it could be done at least the part of soul it is the biggest ingredient within it. Vice versa, it involves other stylistic elements like concrete sounds, loose piano improvisations, just airy pop. It is an artsy, pretentious pop example I would like to find out from the stage of Eurovision contest. With regard to songs of recent contests those ones used to suffocate the listener's subconscious layers through fake pretentiousness, softened banality and impotent bombastic ambitions and therefore creating a negative tension within the soul and mind. And these compositions do not stick in your brain. Could you remember them after a half year passed by? You would like to get an aesthetical event but you will get bare shadows of music on the wall of a cave. These 8 compositions do constitute a sublime harmonic whole without any pretenses and hollow statements. Moreover, it unites a recent human being with a primordial one who dwelled naturally in the middle of nature, in his/her utmost natural ambiance. The recent human being is decayed but not Florian Wahl-alike ones. He is a hero. Top notch indeed.

Sann Gusmão – Emaranhado (2018)

Enoughrecords

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

Bandcamp

• Ambient noise 
• Guitar ambient 
• Art music 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• Epic 
• Avant-garde 
• Illbient 
• Experimentalism 
• Dark ambient

Comment: imagine there would be such a kind of artist on the stage of Eurovision by poisoning the lousy taste of the present superficial audience. Hiss and microscopic noises coming through very huge loudspeakers would spread everywhere and conquering the senses of the audience on 120 decibels. This could be an apocalyptic, transcendental experience for them by indicating what would happen if they continue live a decayed life. Like standing face to face with the Grim Reaper who moves his scythe like an electric guitar and as a consequence cranking up the decibels. All would be bleeding – their ears, eyes and noses. Through pain and smell of blood they could experience majestic beauty of mixed machinery and lost humanity once generated by heroes. Indeed, this bunch of 9 notches is the ennobling chaos of a managed process. You can enjoy different sonic monoliths over there, at times more abstract, at times more emotions filled soundscapes. All of that sounds fairly in an elemental way. With regard to Portugal, it is the case indeed, because the artist comes out of Portugal and is a part of the discography of a Portuguese imprint, Enoughrecords. For sure, one of the most impressive and consistent and multi-layered issues in 2018 so far.

[Teaser of the day] Vonsuck - Rauchen

• IDM
• Minimal techno
• Electronic music
• Alternative

Artist: Galaktlan

Release: Enne und

Label: Bandcamp/Kohvirecords

Year: 1999

[Teaser of the day] Lifecoach - Thousand Names

• Hardcore punk
• Stoner rock
• Crossover

Artist: Lifecoach

Release: Coach or Die

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] cHelek - Anemia Or Tuberculosis

Free Music Archive

• Indie rock
• Art rock
• Post-rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: cHelek

Release: e.p.

Label: Birdsong

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] This Lonely Crowd - Oneironauts

• Alternative rock
• Psych-rock
• Fuzz pop
• Dream pop
• Indie rock
• Noise pop

Artist: This Lonely Crowd  

Release: Pervade

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Franco Falistoco Araya - Tentáculos

• Spoken word
• Leftfield
• Avant-garde
• Storytelling
• Experimentalism
• Drone
• Post-industrial
• Abstract
• Electro-acoustic
• Microtonal
• Psycho-acoustic

Artist: Franco Falistoco Araya

Release: Phase IV

Label: Adaptador

Year: 2018

Tiiu Kiik – Lend ja tants (2010)

Bandcamp

• Electronic pop 
• Dream pop
• Mood music 
• Indietronica 
• Ambient pop 
• Synthwave 
• Electro-indie 
• Alternative 
• Synth-pop 
• Chilltronica

Comment: it`s Eurovision time, it`s time for a horrendous freak show time which reflects upon the fact of how declined is the culture of Europe at the moment. And it does not depend on condition is Jean Claude able to drink it more beautiful or less ugly (as you wish). For serious music fans the contest is the synonym of a bad taste and nightmarish balagan which the intention to taunt the nature of music. I can remember for the Eurovision precontest in Estonia in 2010 when Tiiu Kiik with a song called The One and Only – Love competed there but did not get a high place. However, it is a brilliant song and for sure it is not a place to throw pearls before the swines anymore. Dreamy atmosphere and otherworldly harmonies with the swaying singer did create a fascinating milieu. It can be said at Lend ja tants it is one of the highlights. In general, the 14-notch issue contains dream-soaked compositions though there are up some exceptions either. For instance, at Õhtupoolik one can hear post-punk and synth-wave induced electro-indie stomps. Great track. At Üle kuristiku you can hear suggestive bagpipes being embellished with peaky rhythms. In a word, enjoy the album with great flow.

[Teaser of the day] Gurdonark - Morning Fields Cacophony

We Are All Ghosts

• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Art music
• Microsound
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Gurdonark

Release: Open Spaces

Label: We Are All Ghosts

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - In The Line

Bump Foot

• Electronic music
• Weird pop
• Avant-synth
• Experimental pop
• Art music
• Avant-pop

Artist: Cagey House

Release: Ratty Boo

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Cinchel - Walk II

• Post-classical
• Modern classical
• Avant-garde
• Sampledelic
• Ambient
• Experimentalism
• Art music 
• Conceptual

Artist: Cinchel

Release: Music For A Wedding

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Otra Carpeta - Vioglock 2

Free Music Archive

• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Electronic music
• Electro-acoustic
• Leftfield
• Experimentalism

Artist: Otra Carpeta

Release: Cero = ce ro

Label: Pan Y Rosas Discos

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] TT-ram - Urban Trip

• Electronic music
• Breaks
• Post-psychedelic electronica
• Avant-techno
• Breakbeat
• Sampledelic
• Leftfield
• Experimental techno
• Minimalism

Artist: TT-ram

Release: Movements at Night

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Kroma - Someone You Know

• Electronic music
• Chilltronica
• Alternative
• Yacht rock
• Synth-rock
• Art pop
• Crossover
• Synth fusion

Artist: Kroma

Release: Alpentor

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] H Stewart - Ever After

Clinical Archives

• Singer-songwriter
• Experimentalism
• Neoclassical
• Darkwave
• Ambient
• Avant-garde
• Art music

Artist: H Stewart

Release: GenreLess

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2012

x3d5 – Binary Protection (2010)

Subwise

Fusion

• Electronic music 
• Ambient 
• Psybient 
• Alternative 
• Breaks 
• Chilltronica 
• New Age 
• Mood music 
• Glitchtronica

Comment: this batch of 10 tracks is like a raindrop reflecting upon the qualities of being embraced in the other raindrops either. I mean lots of breaks, ambient, cut-up debris, synth effects and psychedelic tendencies to be up there in many ways interspersed with one another. Moreover, it can be considered as a recent New Age music example as if sitting somewhere in the middle of rain forest and enjoying the play of shadows. Sultry rhythms and colourful synthesised shades used to flicker in a way to provide a magical, a bit otherworldly experience. As you can hear it is an organic listening experience. It a bit reminds of some albums of Estonian artist Tont. The cover print is black and white and depicting a place in nature by accentuating its distance from the civilised life. Great music by any means created by Russian artist Vitaliy Stromchinskiy. The outing is a joint release of the discographies of Russian imprints Subwise, and Fusion.

Jonassis O`Hara – A Sailor's Love (2007)

Redstarcommunity

• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Drone pop
• Psych-rock 
• Electronic 
• Organcore 
• Acid pop

Comment: this album was released 11 years ago and as much as possible I searched for additional information about the artist to find out other possible outings but it is the only one. It can be admitted the artist erected the sonorous monument for himself. And it is a fine issue being obviously concordant with some indie and underground tendencies of the 00s. One of the prototypes then was Ariel Pink with his amazing out of time issues. Jonassis O`Hara used to produce similarly in methodological sense though musically his sound is more hirsute and rough and one-dimensional and stylistically it trends toward droning acid rock with hints at noise pop, post-punk, and also electronic music in the sense as if it were produced on Commodore 64 (only My Molly EP 2006 by Ariel Pink can be compared with it as similarly rough and broken). At times the 12-notch outing reminds of the aesthetics of The Fall, and Clinic. The issue is a part of the Swedish imprint Redstarcommunity. Great listening for sure.

The Ears On The Trees – New Beginnings (2017)

Constellation Tatsu

• Drone 
• Ambient 
• Glo-fi 
• Electronic music 
• Musique concrète 
• Dreamwave 
• Organic electronica

Comment: although the issue involves seven different tracks the whole chimes like one lengthy track. More profoundly, you can hear lazily changing yet blissful chords, caressingly ebbing and tiding sea waves and joyous children shrieks from the kitchen garden. At times the chords are deliberately a little bit mutated and used to stumble but it adds an additional value to bring upon a more coherent and organic issue. As I mentioned before it sounds like a lengthy track yet it does not seem to be lengthy in fact because it transcends temporal and space-related dimensions. It is an ennobling experience. There it is, a fabulous issue for a sunny Sunday. The release is a part of the discography of Constellation Tatsu.

[Teaser of the day] Voodoo Tapes - Manman Drums

• Dub
• Electronic music
• Dubtronica
• Dub techno

Artist: Voodoo Tapes

Release: Colonial Blend Extra Bold

Label: A Quiet Bump

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Canoply Games - 10-00

Jamendo

• Electronic
• Electro-rock
• Synth-rock
• Acid rock
• Alternative
• Art rock

Artist: Canoply Games

Release: PM-AM

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Makunouchi Bento - Aphelion

• Post-rock
• Art rock
• Electronic 
• Avant-rock

Artist: Makunouchi Bento

Release: Paquet Congo

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Nuthre - Third Time Chime

Panospria

• Glitchtronica
• Leftfield
• Abstract techno
• Microtechno
• Experimental techno
• Electronic music
• Avant-techno
• Glitch techno

Artist: Nuthre

Release: Saskatoon Shoes

Label: Panospria

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Rivəl - Stand Firm

• Dub
• Dancehall
• Hip-hop
• Urban music
• Crossover
• Electronic music
• Raggamuffin

Artist: Rivəl 

Release: Mashhall Dubplate

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Pete Da Clinker - What Were You Thinking Of?

• Noise pop
• Alternative rock
• Garage rock
• Indie rock
• Psych-rock

Artist: Pete Da Clinker 

Release: Who Hell He?

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] EP Man - The Death Of Marry

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Electronic music
• Breaks
• Trip-hop
• Hauntology
• Urban music
• Sampledelic
• Hip-hop
• Sound collage

Artist: EP Man

Release: Short Horror Stories

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2017

Transvorder – Desmesuras (2012)

Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Electronic music 
• Drone pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Electro-indie 
• Chillwave

Comment: Transvorder is an artist from Argentina whose 7-notch issue reminds me of those blissful times approximately 10 years ago when many lo-fi and DIY musicians conquered the world. Actually I can remember for a netlabel with a short discography (4 or 5 items in total), Scribble Kite, which included an issue by Transvorder. Desmesuras would be created 4 years later but it brings forth the earlier milieu and sensitivity. Droning and a little bit abrasive synths, airy guitar chords used to create a dreamy and lazy terrain for those elegant slackers who do not believe in the utopian visions anymore and being disillusioned with real life and just trying to survive under physical and mental pressure or just trying to get rid of it if possible. The communism is a utopia on its own and the capitalism is predatory and self-destructive. By producing and listening to such sort of music it is a way to get outside the rotten situation. In a word, it is a nice release with such sort of memories one would do away with them. Let's listen to it and feel this masochistic pressure.

Lluvia Àcida – Ciencia Sur (2017)

Pueblo Nuevo

• Synth-pop 
• Alternative 
• Electronic music 
• Techno pop

Comment: this set of 8 compositions is inspired by the beauty of Patagonia, the beatific southern joint part shared by Argentina, and Chile. Lofty mountain tops and deep crystal clear lakes are to be visualised through the electronic soundscapes. The artist combines the sounds of synthesisers with sounds coming from unusual sources (electromagnetic emissions of laboratory instruments, conversion into sound of fossil images by using a special programme). In reality, it is not an abstract result, instead of it you can enjoy poppy, catchy synthesiser led motives with organic yet not exaggerated electronic effects. It can be admitted the conceptual and initial premise is even more intriguing than the real, sonic output. One may expect more alien-alike, unusual sonorous experiences. In fact, all is finely balanced and integrated one cannot take part in very machine driven interruptions. The fine issue is a part of the discography of Pueblo Nuevo.

[Teaser of the day] Alfredo Giammanco Dronescape - Gargantua

Nostress

• Minimalism
• Avant-garde
• Microtonal
• Art music
• Acousmatic music
• Glitch techno
• Crossover
• Drone
• Illbient
• Post-industrial
• Leftfield
• Experimentalism

Artist: Alfredo Giammanco Dronescape

Release: Musiche dal presente perpetuo  

Label: Nostress

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - A Ship Made of Tears

Black Square

• Drone pop
• Sound collage
• Leftfield
• Experimental pop
• Indie pop
• Spoken word
• Art pop
• Organcore
• Alternative pop
• Sampledelic
• Freeformfreakout
• Dada music
• Avant-pop

Artist: Cagey House

Release: Major Monk (plus three)

Label: Black Square

Year: 2010

V.A Christmas (2009)

Petite & Jolie

• Indietronica 
• Art pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Conceptual 
• Improvised music 
• IDM 
• Folktronica 
• Drone pop 
• Organcore

Comment: today is the 29th of April, and it is a date quite far away from the Christmas but I have to admit it is one of the best Xmas compilations I have ever heard. It does not include traditional Christmas songs but new ones. Most of the songs used to chime and soar based on sublime electronic progressions and delicate chord changes, mutant frequencies and crispy beats. Additionally one can find out more technical and maybe less emotion arousing tracks either, for instance, two gentle improvised tracks by Makunouchi Bento. I guess it could be exciting, and at times ennobling and relaxing by listening to the whole while sitting with your family around the table. The compilation is a part of the discography of Petite & Jolie by including 13 tracks in total. There are up such artists as Makunouchi Bento, Julian Winter, Relative_q, QuasiMojo, Pam, Kaneel, Valzi and Blot, Windy Hill Mill, and The_Zwicker_Tone.

[Teaser of the day] Abe Lyman - Oh How I Miss You

78RPMs

• Oldie music
• Big band
• Swing
• Jazz

Artist: Abe Lyman 

Release: Abe Lyman Collection 1925-1935

Label: 78RPMs

Year: 1931/2018

[Teaser of the day] tay_ploops - hhhiii

• Avant-folk
• DIY
• Free folk
• New Weird Canada
• Improvised music
• Lo-fi
• Experimental folk

Artist: tay_ploops

Release: spool oops

Label: Pan Y Rosas Discos/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Cinchel - Begging Bringing In

• Ambient noise
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde
• Drone
• Acousmatic music
• Microtonal
• Ambient
• Sound art
• Soundscape
• Ambient drone
• Experimentalism

Artist: Cinchel

Release: A Sad Study in Temporal Dissonance 

Label: Bandcamp/Patient Sounds

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Makunouchi Bento - Gymnopedie No 1

One

• Conceptual
• Experimentalism
• Field recording
• Dreamwave
• Post-classical
• Crossover
• Modern classical
• Musique concrète
• Avant-garde

Artist: Makunouchi Bento

Release: Trcutu

Label: One/Bandcamp

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Shiftless - The Mailbox

Camomille

• Ambient
• Soundscape
• Epic
• Microtonal
• Electronic music
• Minimalism

Artist: Shiftless

Release: Cloudburst

Label: Camomille

Year: 2004

The Hathaway Family Plot – Bethlehem Is Burning (2018)

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

• Art pop 
• Avant-pop 
• Alternative 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Noise pop 
• Experimental pop 
• No Wave

Comment: Kevin McFadden from Buffalo can be considered a most obscure artist below Star-Spangled Banner and he continues an occult way to pave on this 13-track issue either. The concept of the release is ghastly based on an imagination of a mentally fragile man who believes to be a new messiah born from the fire of Bethlehem. All of that is exquisitely supported by an incisive sonic set where dreamy progressions are interrupted by sharp noises and concerted glitched-out debris. One can hear uncanny marching music being craftily imbued with subdued noises and a bit pointed glitches. Yet you can be sure it is not neither noise nor dream pop at its core. You can find out similarities with the last album of David Bowie, with Robert Wyatt, with Tom Waits, with Scott Walker, with Mart Avi, with a late David Sylvian (Blemish) yet the artist`s handwriting is something fairly singular and extraordinary. For sure, it is an example of pop music in positive term (unlike its nature) because one cannot see destructive tendencies against the poppy structures (though McFadden`s music is filled in with swathes of impressive rage, i.e on emotional level here and there), all of that is positively constructed from scratch instead of manipulating with annihilated mainstream pop dictations and being based on deep-seated contradictions. In a word, it is not the kind of sound collage, it is an integrated, full-fledged composition. For sure, it will be put up in the list of the best albums in 2018 at Recent Music Heroes.

[Teaser of the day] Trianov Maxim - The Morning After

Nexsound

• Experimental electronica
• Avant-electronica
• Post-rock
• Jazz rock
• Improvised music
• Fusion
• Electronic music
• Crossover

Artist: Trianov Maxim

Release: A Chance To Remember

Label: Nexsound

Year: 2014 

[Teaser of the day] Leões de Marte - Inverno Abaixo

• Alternative rock
• Psych-rock
• Post-rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Leões de Marte 

Release: A Face Mais Vermelha

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Samarah - Strip Mall Romance

Nishi

• Electro pop
• IDM
• Glitch pop
• DIY
• Electronic music
• Alternative pop
• Lo-fi

Artist: Samarah

Release: Robots Smile Too

Label: Nishi/Archive.org

Year: 2007

Roberto Daglio – THE ROOMS (part 1) (2015)

Jamendo

• Nu jazz 
• Mood music 
• Easy listening 
• Lounge 
• Yacht pop 
• Smooth jazz 
• New Age

Comment: a couple of weeks ago I posted a teaser of the day, Obsessive Synchronization from the Italian Roberto Daglio`s THE ROOMS (part 1). It is a great track but by listening to it with the rest of 3 tracks it is a seamless flow of very similar tracks. In a word, it does mean that one and the same elements are represented in all the tracks just providing difference within the configuration of each composition. It seems to be so serene and cloudless as if am arousing glimpse from a hyper-realistic universe. It could even be considered a new appearance of New Age music though its roots are based on different jazz and yacht pop facets. For sure, nonetheless its laid-back nature the issue is apparently ambitious inside its core and thereby propelling a bit more further than just an average moody issue. So yeah, practically and functionally I guess it is a remedy for your soul and mind, it helps you cope with exhausting problems and conveys a perspective to move forward. What else I could add but just take your time to listen to the second part of the issue. Just wait a minute...there is no second part of it (at least I couldn't find them). Instead of it I recommend listen to other issues by the artist then.

[Teaser of the day] George L Smyth - Forest And Clearing

• Modern classical
• Art music
• Epic
• Cinematic
• Post-classical
• Ambient

Artist: George L Smyth

Release: Winterfylleth

Label: We Are All Ghosts/Archive.org

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Monopole - Walking Away From Them

Clinical Archives

• Ambient techno
• Electronic music
• Deep techno
• Glitch techno
• Experimental techno
• Microtechno

Artist: Monopole

Release: Sleepless Mind

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] HeAD - Expose

Tape Safe

• Electronic music
• Ambient
• Motorik
• Leftfield
• Alternative
• Kraut-electro

Artist: HeAD

Release: Prélude d'un son imaginé

Label: Tape Safe

Year: 2016

Pete Um ‎– Look Sharp! And Hear The Difference (2011)

Chinstrap

Free Music Archive

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Electronic music 
• Dada music 
• Freeformfreakout 
• DIY

Comment: this 10-notch issue was released exactly 7 years ago at Chinstrap Music, Ergo Phizmiz-led imprint but in fact there is no difference by listening to it 7 years before the year of 2011 or 7 years after that because this kind of music is ageless. By the way, it is the same date when the Chernobyl`s reactors exploded. Peter Um`s music is recorded by using analogue-based, reel-to-reel recorder and stylistically it is a wealthy, further pushing mess of dadaist sounds and dizzy effects. I have also had a similar experience in producing music by manipulating with the tapes only. This is a world with restricted possibilities which in fact is a good premiss to cut off innumerable possibilities and get a spot on certain, tangible things. Indeed, there are up 10 slices of uncompromising pop music with droning electronics and marching rhythms and pitched-up vocals (for instance, Slice 1, and Slice 10) though I guess for the most of people it is not pop music at all. They may right because I guess Peter Um`s purpose is not positive, I mean to produce pop music on its own. It may be more just embracing elements from it and infect them with a frenetic, dadaist fever. In fact, he hijacks primitive melodies and harmonies and change them even more into a simplistic one which is one of the practices to ridicule this pulpy mass culture. On the other side, Um adds experimental, even a bit aggressive facets to emphasize the ridiculousness and unsustainability of it. In general, however, the result is positive because there are up 10 tracks which could not be forgotten and will have surfaced many decades later in the blogs of obscure music unless the servers would not blow up due to insignificant information to be contained within them in the most part.

NB! I do not know was the album presented at yamanotedreams or not but I am very glad that rajsank is back again after a two and a half year hiatus to promote releases from the webaudio world (and especially Japanese issues). The reason of the blogger`s hiatus was he could not be remembering his password. Very dadaist indeed.      

[Teaser of the day] Sann Gusmão - Imagens Frágeis; do inconsciente e Tatilidade

Enoughrecords

• Ambient rock
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Epic
• Minimalism
• Drone rock
• Guitar ambient

Artist: Sann Gusmão

Release: Emaranhado

Label: Enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp/Soundcloud

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Joxfield ProjeX - Hurricane

Cratediggers

• Krautrock
• Avant-rock
• Psych-rock
• Acid rock
• Avant-prog
• RIO
• Experimental rock

Artist: Joxfield ProjeX

Release: Archives EP 1 - Pling Plang

Label: Cratediggers/Folksoundomy

Year: 2013

Mountain Cloth – The Pony (2016)

Bandcamp

• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Post-punk 
• Art rock 
• Noise pop

Comment: today Bandcamp is the best platform to find out the best recent music. I am disillusioned to find it from within major labels whose policy toward the artists has reportedly been disgusting and unnatural. Especially hypocritical used to be those aficionados who pretend to be independent. Bergen, Norway-based Mountain Cloth is one of such artists who showcase of how to cross guitars with sublime studio trickery regarding electronics and slightly bent songwriting. Their aesthetic reminds me of Echo & The Bunnymen a bit. By listening to their 4-notch outing it is like driving along sonic rollercoaster. From silent, immersive chords and artsy atmospheric synth and guitar mixed lofty developments to hirsute guitar outfits and incisive noisy outbursts. Furthermore, between the layers one can feel something which sets the music free. And it is a great value and virtue in this hopelessly fucked-up, quasi-technological world (we pretend to fly to Mars while having no real premises to do it). Instead of the miserable dreaming, just enjoy this decent rocking span.

River Carnival – Ep (2012)

Redstarcommunity

Bandcamp

• Alternative pop/rock 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Fuzz pop 
• Lo-fi 
• Electronic 
• Chamber pop

Comment: indie as a genre is something which used to have a little to say today. In restricted sense. On the other side, today many genres are considered parts of indie like vaporwave, many kinds of electronic music which used not to be so years ago. In a word, we would abandon the stylistic restriction as superficial and excessive. OK, it could be used in retrospective sense, though. River Carnival's 7-notch embraces old and new, and frequently at the same time. At Streets of Gold Remix one can hear 80s eurodisco pop being mixed up with fuzzed-out guitars. I suspect the remix is made by Desiree. It's joke but not a forlorn one. Its original version is an enchanting blend of gothic, death pop alike reverberant female and male mixed vocals, minor piano chords and cinematic orchestrations atop. Top notch (if you watch the official list of the tracks of the release one cannot see the additional mix track but by downloading it you will get it). However, the same description can be ascribed to the rest of the tracks either. There are up both catchy melodies and compelling dynamics. On the other side, it is a simple example of music without excessive bombastic load and annoying artsy burden. Of course, it is artsy but in a sublime way. Outstanding composition by any means. It is a discography of an excellent Swedish imprint, redstarcommunity.

[Teaser of the day] Evolv - Darknot

• Post-classical
• Experimentalism
• Glitchtronica
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-garde
• Art music
• Post-rock
• Crossover

Artist: Evolv

Release: Hawk Moon Records: Volume V

Label: Hawk Moon

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Carcass Brook - Too Little Too Late

Death Roots Syndicate

• Dark folk
• Americana
• Gothic folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Bluegrass
• Psychedelic folk

Artist: Carcass Brook

Release: Carcass Brook

Label: Death Roots Syndicate

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Eddie Cantor - Cheer Up! Smile! Nertz!

78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings

• Oldie music
• Singer-songwriter
• Big band music
• Music hall
• Jazz
• Vaudeville
• Swing

Artist: Eddie Cantor

Release: Collected Works of Eddie Cantor

Label: 78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings

Year: 1931

[Teaser of the day] Violeta Päivänkakkara - Sandy

• Dream folk
• Ambient folk
• Electronic
• Art folk
• Post-folk

Artist: Violeta Päivänkakkara

Release: Love In The Mist

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Pedro Parque - Eva en No menor

• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Post-punk

Artist: Pedro Parque

Release: Impresión Señora

Label: La Gramola

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Music For Your Plants - Terra

• Dubstep
• Breaks
• New Age
• Post-psychedelic electronica
• Crossover
• Electronic music
• Alternative

Artist: Music For Your Plants

Release: PAN EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Walt Thisney - Dust

• Post-classical
• Nu jazz
• Downbeat
• Epic
• Art music
• Crossover

Artist: Walt Thisney

Release: Single-o

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Chenard Walcker - Stringtronics

Comfort Stand

• Disco pop
• Sampledelic
• Synth funk
• Mashup
• Plunderphonics
• Sound collage
• Crossover

Artist: Chenard Walcker

Release: The Lotus Opus

Label: Comfort Stand Recordings

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Muhr - Lucas Arc Part 2

• Electronic music
• Dubstep
• Post-rock
• Epic
• Crossover
• Indietronica
• Alternative

Artist: Muhr

Release: Lucas Arc 

Label: Laverna/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Nick R 61 - Olimpiyskiy Mishka

Fusion

• Electronic music
• Glitchtronica
• Alternative
• Crossover
• Breakbeat
• Ambient techno
• Drill and bass

Artist: Nick R 61

Release: Bilet v SSSR

Label: Fusion

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Ready for Men - Weekends Away

Upitup

• Synth-pop
• Electro-indie
• Alternative dance
• Dance pop
• Electro pop
• Alternative pop

Artist: Ready for Men

Release: Two Young Boys   

Label: Upitup/Free Music Archive

Year: 2013

Multi-Panel – Rekordgate I (2018)

Bandcamp

• Folktronica 
• Indietronica 
• Post-rock 
• Indie pop 
• Duyster 
• Dream folk 
• Electronic 
• DIY 
• Epic

Comment: my first contact with Ludo G. Maas` music was probably related through No-Source imprint. The artist comes from the Netherlands and as it can be seen at the Bandcamp site the hiatus by the artist did last five and a half year. Welcome back again! This 8-notch outing is the first swallow of Maas´ three-part EP trilogy. Indeed, the whole embraces the extended play format because the compositions are quite short extending to the three minute exactly at their longest point. The Flemish indie, folk and electronic music mixed scene is sometimes conveyed with a loose term, duyster, and I can remember one artist (Wixel) from within it who did a similar trick. However, the music is great over there (it is not surprising with regard to Maas` previous releases, though). Firstly, the issue contains technically very interesting threads yet the result is boosted even twice due to an emotional and emotive impact behind it. I have to admit it must be considered even an epic and cinematic one here and there (for instance, Dielman, Lights of Tomorrow). It might be I have listened to albums of 2018 a little but it seems to be the first one for me to be a serious one (I could remember for System Morgue`s Distress, and Massimo Ruberti`s Granchite Yumtruso PT. II either). I even got MGMT`s Little Dark Age as a vinyl but it is just an eunuchised flicker (read it as a way too calculated product) in comparison to it. The emotion and the sense of freedom are one of the most important aspects with regard to the music. And as a consequence of it – the product does not have them or does have just a scarce bit. I guess Lao Tzu would have listened to it in his austere mountain hut. In a word, the start was very promising – let's wait for the next one.

[Teaser of the day] Eva Schlegel - Whisper Of Night Streets

• Post-IDM
• Hip-hop
• Breaks
• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Crossover
• Trip-hop
• Urban music

Artist: Eva Schlegel

Release: Broken Doll

Label: Southern City`s Lab/Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

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

• Contemporary classical
• Modern classical
• Art music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Jared C. Balogh

Release: Music (Pro Licensing) For Commercial Use

Label: Altered State Reflections

Year: 2015