Microscopes – Points of Interest (2010)

Vulpiano

Free Music Archive

• Lo-fi 
• Space pop 
• DIY 
• Indie pop 
• Bedroom pop 
• Synth-pop 
• Art pop 
• Soul

Comment: given that the issue was released in 2010 and while listening to the duo`s music I would like to assume their points of interest are closely Zeitgeist-ridden drawing on lo-fi and DIY approach which made a renaissance in the beginning of the 00s. Moreover, their music does away with sterile studio production and even incorporating hirsute and noisy developments into the 11-track mix. Dusty or spaced-out synth pads which used to come in and go out and Fred´s singing rather in high registers add an extra value to the blend. At times it is soul, at times just deranged mumbling out of a bedroom, at times like an example of proto-house. On the other side, it involves every kind of classical pop tendencies so by matching the two aforementioned tendencies the result is intriguing enough as have showcased such lo-fi luminaries as Ariel Pink, and R Stevie Moore and many more before the year of 2010. The favourite tunes of mine are artsy Wolfman, and Child`s Play. The issue is a part of the discography of Vulpiano Records.

[Teaser of the day] Giant Giants - Eat Your Fear

• Spoken word
• Alternative rock
• Post-rock
• Art rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Giant Giants

Release: A Sudden Punch

Label: Bleeding Gold

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Tom Fahy - Epsilon Limited

Archive.org

• Space music
• Ambient jazz
• Improvised music
• Soundscape
• Mood music
• Cool jazz
• Space jazz

Artist: Tom Fahy

Release: Cygnus Express

Label: Self-released/Archive.org

Year: 1997

[Teaser of the day] fydhws - VI

• Ambient
• Experimentalism
• Leftfield
• Avant-garde
• Abstract
• Post-industrial
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock

Artist: fydhws

Release: Early Recordings V​.​2 Fictions

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2011 

[Teaser of the day] Matti T - Almost There

Phonocake

• Ambient pop
• Chilltronica
• Mood music
• Alternative pop
• Electronic music

Artist: Matti T

Release: Past and Future

Label: Phonocake

Year: 2017

Monkey Warhol – Hannah Banana (2018)

Free Music Archive

• House pop 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Electronic pop 
• Indietronica
• Electro pop 
• Robot pop 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Alternative dance

Comment: I am very delighted to listen to a brand new issue called Hannah Banana by Monkey Warhol. In fact, by having listened to the previous issues by the artist I soon realized he is an outstanding musician due to a humorous touch and dadaist turn while preserving his overwhelming poppy drive. The recent set of 31 minutes provides something new and surprising – indeed, similarly to the previous experience you can take part in light-hearted post-disco, carefree electro and flowing poppy house and alternative dance appearances but the whole of 8 compositions adds an extra value with such numbers as Fremdenfuhrer which is an artsy indie pop/rock number. Almost same things can be said about Open Highway which is a witty drone and power pop mixed balladry. In truth, it takes my heart. Very beautiful. Beyond all of that you can hear intense robot pop-inflected numbers. Let's ascend into a cliché – he did it again.

Le Mansarde Hermetique – Haunted Attic (2017)

Petroglyph

Petroglyph

Bandcamp

• Kosmische Musik
• Krautrock 
• Motorik 
• Electronic music 
• Ambient pop 
• Psychedelic 
• Alternative 
• Space music

Comment: this bunch of 8 compositions takes on an exploration of spaced-out electronica inspired by Kosmische Musik/krautrock. Minimally surfacing and slowly changing rhythms and microtonal changes create vintage yet arousing ambiances around the listener. So yeah, it is beatific and ennobling at the same time. I guess it can be considered an example of harmonious music because you can hear proportionate and symmetrical structures and elements faced against one another. Even more, it can be considered an example of music for the spheres. All the pivotal points are subtly integrated into the mix from scratch and given that the music is a mellow flow without any disruptions and deranged effects. Mostly it used to base on synths though some guitars add an additional value to the blend. At Sonnige Zeiten one hears a psychedelic droning with an obsessive, minimal/motorik rhythm. By kindred souls one can draw parallels upon the likes of Tangerine Dream, Manuel Göttsching, Klaus Schulze, Ash Ra Tempel. The issue is a part of the discography of Petroglyph Music, a Norwegian imprint. Behind the project are Micahel Brückner, and Mathias Brüssel, and Haunted Attic is their homage paid to French comic artist Jean Giraud aka Moebius (1938-2012). Top (kraut/Kosmische) release.

[Teaser of the day] Weldroid - A New Planet

• Electronic music
• Psybient
• Chilltronica
• Mood music

Artist: Weldroid

Release: Turgeoncellsil

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Nick R 61 - Kangaroo Jack

Fusion

• Electronic music
• Breaks
• Glitch-hop
• Sampledelic
• Alternative dance
• Skwee
• Hip-hop
• Broken beats
• Urban music

Artist: Nick R 61

Release: ( isla )

Label: Fusion

Year: 2011

Dave Fuglewicz – Orange Mist Sunrise/Orange Mist Sunset (1996)

The Living Archive of Underground Music

• Synth music 
• Improvised music 
• Electronic music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimental electronica 
• Psychedelic 
• Experimentalism 
• Minimal synth 
• Drone 
• Minimalism 
• Avant-electronica

Comment: one of the main characters of the blogosphere is to dig out music having been produced many decades ago and having the status of virtually forgotten. Given that many of these blogs used to have a considerable following it will give a refreshing impulse to many projects. One of the most striking categories is music which can be pigeonholed as minimal synth, krautrock tinged experiments most of them following DIY attitude. One of those issues is also Dave Fuglewicz's Orange Mist Sunrise/Orange Mist Sunset consisting of 12 tracks. You can see an impressive analogue synthesiser-based technical park on pictures and your sonic experience probably fits with it. One hears throbbing Moog synths providing the pace and intriguing layered synthesises with different phases on experimentation. You can hear how different layers used to shift against one another, more profoundly, one of the layers is switched off white the other one is switched on for pitch effects, deceleration and acceleration, lots of arpeggio moves. And vice versa. All of that used to happen in a minimal vein and at the same time you obviously figure out it is an example of improvisational music. And at the same time it does not do away with a free flow and psychedelic facets. It might be you start thinking of it as way too lengthy but one should consider the fact it is in concordance with the nature and mind of this kind of music. Remember the works of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, for example. By the way, with regard to contemporary synth wizards like M Geddes Gengras, Steve Hauschildt, Daniel Lopatin you can see the same tendencies to go on. The issue was the tape of a month of The Living Archive of Underground Music curated by Don Campau.

Radikal Satan – Nueva Marginalia (2009)

Discos Buen Pony

• Tango 
• World fusion 
• Alternative 
• Post-industrial 
• Neofolk 
• Dark folk 
• Art music

Comment: Radikal Satan is a combo from Argentina who has produced some suggestive music so far. If tango as a style is of Argentinian heritage then Nueva Marginalia is genuinely Argentinian. Beyond tango which is an adornment on the basis of post-industrial and neofolk music it ebbs and tides between heaven and earth, between an artsy heaven and an artsy hell. Mostly its murky components are concerted into a subtle whole yet at times the anarchy falls down to the ground. It is finely predominated by a deranged mind. If you used to enjoy Einstürzende Neubauten induced desperation and anxiety then such a sort of hell is also presented over there. Just listen to it to cope with your own devils. The aforementioned variety filled with spaced-out breathing attests to the fact the 4-notch issue provides memorable moments. The release is a part of the discography of Discos Buen Pony.

Marcel Pequel – From One To Nine (2012)

Headphonica

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

• Modern classical 
• Contemporary classical 
• Piano music 
• Mood music 
• Art music

Comment: from one to nine by having been illustrated with short compositions on a piano where one dim chord is followed by another in a loose yet refreshing way. It varies at length from a minute to a three minute. I guess the piano is played in a dark room being away from a hot summer day. The mood is being created, the relations between the chords equate the flowing, slowly and a bit hypnotic atmosphere which provides a forward-flowing and purgative impulse. For sure, it is a moody experience yet simultaneously it is an instance of active listening where any chord must be caught with stark seriousness. The outing is a bit of the discography of Headphonica.

[Teaser of the day] Jeremy Messersmith - #5

• Indie pop/rock
• Art pop/rock
• Baroque pop
• Singer-songwriter
• Chamber pop
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Jeremy Messersmith

Release: Paper Moon

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

Hundra Fåglar – Svågerpolitik (2014)

Bandcamp

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

Comment: the release comes out of Sweden, it is an instrumental release without any possible spoken suggestions yet quite fragmented music provides enough suggestions for. From frozen chamber music and piano tapped induced dreams and iterative effect loaded and shifted guitars to dim synthesised flickers and a glockenspiel driven still life. Indeed, the result is rock music, more profoundly, rock music as a state of art.

The Tinopener's Art – A Mode Of Reward (2017)

Tinopener`s Art

• Electronic pop 
• EBM 
• Synth-pop 
• Post-disco 
• Rave music 
• EDM 
• Dark electro 
• Trip-hop

Comment: this bunch of 14 tracks is a hefty meal of different styles, some of them are more contemporary, some of them harking back to the past. While stepping back it is sometimes necessary to get a glimpse toward the future. At times it is surprising like entering into a parallel universe. Do you know how would sound Rammstein produced by an electronic body music producer? Here it is. By the way, many songs are backed up by rough German language. The artist has set up some tracks on autotune and deliberately clean digital sounds thereby showing up his wish to take part in a contemporary music scene, more profoundly, entering into the post-rave and EDM scene. For sure, many compositions are vamped up a bit in an exaggerated way and it's a positive approach to shake the frowsty styles. The words are often seductive and loaded with velvety eroticism. The album is finished off with a suggestive trip-hop beauty, called At The End Of The Road which reminds me of Pulp's more seedy tracks like This Is Hardcore, and Seductive Barry. Artsy pop. It is classy to end an issue with a classy track.

[Teaser of the day] Chenard Walcker - Verification du bon cablage de votre chaine

Free Sample Zone

• Sampledelic
• Cinematic
• Avant-garde
• Mood music
• Breaks
• Cut and paste
• Plunderphonics
• Leftfield
• Electronic music
• Sound collage

Artist: Chenard Walcker

Release: Testez Votre Chaine Hi-Fi Avec

Label: Free Sample Zone

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Jòvenes y Sexys - Gold Day (Pepepe Remix)

Poni Republic

• Indietronica
• Alternative pop
• Indie pop
• Remix
• Electronic
• Art pop

Artist: Jòvenes y Sexys

Release: Bruno Remixed EP

Label: Poni Republic/Bandcamp/Free Music Archive/Archive.org 

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] The Hermit - Totality

Broque

• EBM
• Alternative
• New Wave
• Electronic music
• Industrial electro
• Crossover
• Synthwave
• Neue Deutsche Welle

Artist: The Hermit

Release: The Gate 

Label: Broque

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Joxfield ProjeX - The Entropy Is Strong

Clinical Archives

• Space rock
• Experimental rock
• Jazz rock
• New Age
• Impovised music
• Avant-rock
• Kosmische Musik
• Fusion
• Crossover
• Art rock

Artist: Joxfield ProjeX

Release: Numbers & Letters (3 Disc Set)

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2010

The Walcker Crew – OK Robot (2005)

Free Sample Zone

Archive.org

• Sampledelic 
• Plunderphonics 
• Electronic music 
• Psychedelic 
• Afrofunk 
• Alternative dance 
•  World music 
• Afrofuturism 
• Crossover 
• Mood music 
• Easy listening

Comment: today is the birthday of Morrissey, the godfather of indie pop/rock. The icon's band The Smiths has saved my life for many times and will be doing in that way. Indeed, I have listened to The Smiths today and of course I did drink 100 grams to bless Moz and his righteous way. Indeed, I am aware of those little worms up today who have tried to accuse him to be a racist, islamophobic and so on. Screw you, you blind hypocrites. Moz is one of those few ones who deserves the status of saint in these days. In the meantime I have listened to a French samplecore/plunderphonic artist, Chenard Walcker who had towered higher than his destiny and inspite of grave disease in the first half of the 00s. Since the middle of the 00s he has been disabled to the extent not able to produce music anymore but before it he had issued a loads of albums under his own Free Sample Zone and some albums on such imprints as WM Recordings, and Comfort Stand Recordings. So his legacy is proudly up there and one should find the way to go there and honour his doings. For sure, he has been one of the symbols of the webaudio world and will stay in that status for future as well. His concept is a bit tricky, and undermining because all of that is based on the oeuvre of other artist's sound. Yet I am quite sure no one of us is able to track down the original authors of this 9-notch outing. In fact, it is a large scale of styles, rhythms and sounds. Given that it can be admitted he turned it into a state of art. I like his psychedelic Afrofunk approach, I have always liked it very much, I like his slightly clumsy rhythmic patterns which slyly work like spiderwebs to catch a listener. You can take part in moody, almost gravity-free snippets by giving you the feel. All is fine, all is consistently bound to create the drive and dreams inside you.

[Teaser of the day] The Organdicks - A Severed Arm Grows Itself A New Body

Siko

• Dada music
• Minimal synth
• Avant-garde
• Leftfield
• DIY
• Electronic music
• Primitronica

Artist: The Organdicks

Release: Music for Drooling Idiots with Trendy Beards

Label: Siko

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Greg Houwer - Slow Learner

WM Recordings

• Americana
• Singer-songwriter
• Psych-rock
• Indie rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: Greg Houwer

Release: Sauna Planet

Label: WM Recordings

Year: 2010

Origami Repetika – Jamboree Train (2017)

20kbps

Archive.org

• Experimental pop 
• Alternative 
• Indietronica 
• Avant-pop 
• Art pop 
• Weird pop 
• Psychedelic 
• Experimental pop 
• Americana

Comment: I have a good and a bad new to announce. The good new is today is the birthday of Kevin Shields, the mastermind behind My Bloody Valentine, the most creative and inspiring combo having existed after the break-up of The Smiths. The sad announcement is related to Glenn Branca who died on the 13th of May (today I just got aware of the fact). Both these men showcased the noise music can be truly ennobling and truly artsy and truly fascinating. Thereafter all the guitar music would turn into history. They did not care of the opinion of other people they behaved like mad professors by following their own sonic obsessions and alchemical drives. The same can be admitted about the Yankee Adam Sigmund who had been excelling at creating a template of weird pop music. He has issued music under such labels as KomKol Autoprod, 20kbps, Proc-Records, and Sirona-Records. The recent, 4-notch issue is out of the discography of 20kbps and is an uncanny reflection upon mutant slacker pop and warped Americana and roots music. In some sense Jamboree Train can be compared to Beck's Odelay (1996) though Adam Sigmund has made even more steps forward. His fun seems to be more buried and morbid through the effect loaded compositions propelled by stomping drum programming and artsy guitar handling and evocative tuning. In a word, the result is truly impressive.

[Teaser of the day] Quint Baker - Girls Bathing In A Teapot

Sirona-Records

• Electro-indie
• Outsider pop
• Alternative
• Synth-rock
• DIY
• Slacker pop
• Dada pop
• Weird pop
• Psych-pop
• Lo-fi

Artist: Quint Baker

Release: Psychic Cat'z Enochian Boys

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Optic - Become The Sky

Schall

• Dub techno
• Ambient dub
• Electronic music
• Deep techno
• Crossover

Artist: Optic

Release: Distant Memories EP

Label: Schall

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Lycia - The Better Things To Come

• Darkgaze
• Shoegaze
• Gothic rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Ethereal wave
• Dream pop
• Epic
• Darkwave

Artist: Lycia

Release: The Burning Circle And Then Dust

Label: Silber/Bandcamp

Year: 1995

[Teaser of the day] Jan LF Strach - Neighbourinna

• Avant-pop
• Lo-fi
• Dada pop
• Sampledelic
• Psych-pop/rock
• Acid pop
• Space pop
• Leftfield
• DIY
• Outsider pop
• Experimental pop

Artist: Jan LF Strach

Release: Balearen Kanaren E​.​P.

Label: Underpolen

Year: 2018

Wings of an Angel & Scott Lawlor – Lo And Behold Ye Confirmed Minister Of War, The Olympian Falcon (2017)

Scott Lawlor

Wings of an Angel

• Drone 
• Microtonal 
• Avant-garde 
• Minimalism 
• Sound art 
• Microsound 
• Electronic music 
• Micronoise 
• Experimentalism 
• Abstract 
• Leftfield 
• Non-music 
• Drone noise

Comment: firstly I decided to use Scott Lawlor`s title version on Bandcamp because Wings of an Angel`s version is way too long for the row of the title (Lo And Behold Ye Confirmed Minister Of War, The Olympian Falcon, Galloping Away Like A Humiliated Homer, You Were The Perfect Ripper In The Backdoors Of London, Before You Had Found Your Forepleasures In The Subdefinitions Of The Prowling, Censorious, Nutcrackers Of The Kitchen). It is massive and profound, isn't? Indeed, it is a joint release by the Israeli and US-based musician both of them are well known within the circles of experimental music. Wings of an Angel is probably the most prolific artist at the moment worldwide and Scott Lawlor is also being known as the lead figure of Earth Mantra netlabel. By listening to these 54 minutes I tried to guess whether is it the measured midway between the aesthetics of the two artists or is it something absolutely qualitatively new created by them? Indeed, the track is lengthy (yet not drawn-out) so it can be said the both aspects are really true. For sure, it does away with modern/post/contemporary classical progressions which is an important part in the aesthetics of Wings of an Angel but on the other side the Israeli juggernaut`s ambient touch is bound tightly with the US-artist`s abstract droning and austere ambient/sound art appearance. Furthermore, you can hear as if all the sounds were produced on nearby a custom-made saw mill as if all the sounds were processed through restrained sonic channels and then the erroneous result were cranked up to a maximal volume bar. Indeed, the result is very tight and abrasive yet it is not an obnoxious noise release. Because of arousing majestic and epic feelings in the listener I have to admit it is a fairly exquisite issue on its own. You will be bludgeoned and caressed at the same time. It might be even more an epitome of ruining the contemporary civilization by throwing the stones into its clockwork. It might be the sound of the collapsing one. It may also be a synonym of the human being`s greediness asi if experiencing the feel of ingurgitation. Get the newest technical applications and cell phones to your home and into your pocket, respectively! Eat yourself fitter! The second part of the track/composition/album seems to be chiming as if just moving on inertially. But you know one`s perception starts to play mischievous tricks on his/her mind while listening to such a sort of tight soundscape. And now while listening to this great one just try to decipher the point of the title.

[Teaser of the day] Galgo - Dromomania

• Dance rock
• Indie rock
• Space pop
• Alternative rock
• Indie dance
• Alternative dance
• Psychedelic rock

Artist: Galgo

Release: EP5

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Monster Rally - Jungle Cruise

• Exotica pop
• Lounge music
• Alternative
• Mood music
• Tiki music
• Breaks
• Minimalism
• Electronic music
• Chill out
• World music
• Sampledelic
• Avant-pop
• Post-pop

Artist: Monster Rally

Release: Flowering Jungle

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Vista Kid Cruiser - Please, One Last Dance

• Electronic pop
• Post-disco
• Psychedelic
• Hypnagogic pop
• Alternative dance

Artist: Vista Kid Cruiser

Release: Ali M And The NightClub

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Bite – Calle Palma (2015)

basic_sounds

• Modern classical 
• Post-classical 
• Field recording 
• Ambient 
• Electronic music 
• Avant-garde 
• Epic 
• Experimentalism 
• Organic electronica 
• Minimalism 
• Piano music 
• Musique concrète 
• Art music 
• Drone

Comment: you are searching for profound and tranquil soundscapes to find a remedy for suffocating your desperate feels and borderline madness. You are aware of the premiss the ideal album must have the imposing centre point being surrounded by many and frequently changing satellite sounds. The method makes sense. Josè Barrera aka Bite's 9-track release on basic_sounds makes sense in that way. It is just an infinite moving where it makes no sense to remember the starting point and the finishing point. Any temporal moment and chord makes sense. The music is very present in any present moment. Given that you have entered into the sphere of continuous present and it does mean the term time makes no sense altogether. That's the point. Musically you hear at times hammering at times slightly lofty piano chords followed by one another and at the same time being accompanied by acidic electronic counterpoints, microscopic noises and ennobling natural sounds. For example, the self-titled track is a fabulous incantation full of profound, iterative, magic reality. Indeed, it bites you. And the rest of eight tracks do the same effect. Superb work by any means. I guess if Beethoven could have had the same technical possibilities he would produce an analogous stuff but instead of the known musical and historical reputation he might have a more hidden influence upon us.

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