Hirotaka Shirotsubaki – After Hours (2018)

Bandcamp

• Ambient 
• Soundscape 
• Electronic music 
• Ambient rock 
• Organic electronica 
• Field recording 
• Musique concrète 
• Ambient drone 
• Minimalism 
• Drone 
• Epic

Comment: this bunch of 15 tracks clocks in at an 81 minute so it is an immense way for any listener to go. Yet it is a blissful and comforting listening experience full of lush soundscapes being embellished with halcyon droning ambient, suggestive concrete sounds, and broad guitar-based echoes. One can hear droning here and there but I would like to call it meta-droning because all of that seems to be somehow disintegrated and scattered yet the listener can perceive an inner impulse coming out of there. It might be there is the centre in the embodiment of a vector and being surrounded by more or less bound particles around it. At times these interactions will develop into very beautiful, even epic excursions (at Radiational Cooling). Most ambient albums being produced nowadays are solid ones but within them some issues are truly outstanding ones. In fact, I do not know what are those criteria to determine it as a great one but let me suggest that the variety inside the track and between the tracks is an important one. A second one is to mingle organic sounds with artificial ones. I have told about mad professors in rock music like Kevin Shields, Mark E. Smith, Captain Beefheart, Ariel Pink who have found their obsessions and daydreamy fantasies right counterparts in sound. But in ambient and experimental music there are also magicians like Tim Hecker, Daniel Lopatin, Vincent Fugère, Dave Keifer, Daniel Maze. Given that the aforementioned aspects are already represented over there it also needs strength and consistency and belief to realize all of that and give us a subsequent quintessential magic through the sound. The Japanese artist Hirotaka Shirotsubaki provides and synthesises all those sonic facets, and emotive aspects like stark dreams, and overwhelming yearning into a vivid whole. Great issue by any means.

[Teaser of the day] Vonsuck - Islami värk

• World fusion
• Ethnotronica
• Bhangra
• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Psychedelic
• Big beat

Artist: Vonsuck

Release: Enne und

Label: Kohvirecords/Bandcamp

Year: 1999

[Teaser of the day] The Book of Dead Names - The Turn of the Screw

• Grindcore
• Crust punk
• Screamo
• Hardcore

Artist: The Book of Dead Names

Release: Live 1999

Label: Uninvited

Year: 2018

Alex Cortex – Invierano (2007)

Miga

Miga

• Tech-house 
• Club dance 
• Minimal techno 
• Deep techno 
• Tech-electro

Comment: Alexander Neumann is an artist from Germany who has been very prolific over the last three decades. I read at Discogs that he has been doing his music with old-school equipment by employing an Amiga computer system with tracker programs and in this way got established his own idiosyncratic timbre and sound. For sure, by listening to this 3-track outing (being released on Miga) you can perceive his charmingly dusty yet exuberant timbre. The result is invigorating and profound in terms of iterative, hypnotic rhythmic patterns, lofty and spaced-out synthesisers atop. Frequently one can hear different progressions running at the same time yet all of that results in coherent, enchanting tracks. All of that seems to be deeply analysed and much work to have been done you can guess an obsessive professor to be behind it by scraping scarce vibes from the beaker within his alchemic ward. That's not funny, it is a serious, mandatory stuff. You can find out many similarities with the Detroit techno and electro scene but not only in terms of sound and rhythms but also in that sense that this sort of sound is definitely directed toward the future. Although Invierano was issued 11 years ago but by listening to it at the moment I have to admit it hums like a space rocket within my ears.

Le Syndicat MMX – Chaos Superior (2017)

Attenuation Circuit

Bandcamp

• Avant-garde 
• Rhythmic noise 
• Post-industrial 
• Experimentalism 
• Leftfield 
• Noise 
• Sampledelic

Comment: Popsonne: portable noise generators, effectors, home made instruments, microphone, Ruelgo: beats, scratch, effectors, microphone, Scramble System: laptop, effectors, didgeridoo, toy instruments, microphone. Indeed, these guys with these instruments are behind the project which started off in the 80s as a cassette label to foster then underground culture (based predominantly on tapes). The result is frantic and highly galvanized through innumerable combinations of noises, electronic effects, sonic techniques and even funny samples. As the title assumes it either. One could imagine as if standing in a scrapyard in the middle of deformed metal artefacts and then the metal meets noisy instruments sent to recycle it. Noises are generated by machines and the result could sound someway like this 7-track outing. For sure, it is deliberately channelized and treated, you can hear rhythmically stomping patterns and electronic growling and droning intensity. As if the electricity were interfered with interruptions and phase disturbances. The issue is a part of the discography of Attenuation Circuit. How could it be described more properly – beautiful shit maybe.

[Teaser of the day] The Poppees - Humpty-Dumpty Heart

• Americana
• Music hall
• Alt-country
• Bluegrass
• Roots music

Artist: The Poppees

Release: Between the Flowers EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Spheriot - Maitri

WM Recordings

• Folktronica
• Alternative
• Musique concrète
• Neokrautrock
• Electronic music
• Indietronica
• Field recording
• IDM

Artist: Spheriot

Release: Bekennerschreiben  

Label: WM Recordings/Bandcamp/Jamendo/Free Music Archive

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Tatira - Fire Everlasting

• Electronic music
• Experimental techno
• Minimalism
• Alternative dance
• Techno pop

Artist: Tatira

Release: Fire Everlasting 

Label: Inam

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Jeremy Messersmith - Dillinger Eyes

• Americana
• Singer-songwriter
• Psych-pop/rock
• Art pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Jeremy Messersmith

Release: The Reluctant Graveyard

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

Quint Baker – Psychic Cat'z Enochian Boys (2017)

Sirona-Records

Free Music Archive

• Psych-pop 
• DIY 
• Indietronica 
• Alternative pop 
• Synth-pop 
• Art pop 
• Electro-indie 
• Lo-fi 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Dance rock 
• No Wave

Comment: undoubtedly Quint Baker is obsessed with psychic catz because the title of any album by him used to start with this couple of words. There is no doubt those mystical creatures who make miaow and purr are women in fact. God, I thank You for these beautiful creatures except the vixenish feminists, however, who ultimately make me laugh by their silliness probably having no better goal to deal with and maybe by high oestrogen-level in blood. No, it is not the sexist stance because a smart human being has no need to go against the biological, physical, natural and moral limits set up by God and nature. And if you are intended to do it then you have probably lost common sense and used to gad about in a sophisticated quasi-theoretical stupidity. In any cases, it is your right to do it. Yet you should then be ready to tolerate the consequences of your incomprehensiveness. Let`s the life arrange the things organically and normally. Less country, less regulations. I guess God is a taboo thing nowadays because some prominent of us would like to hark back to the ape, a stupid animal. The women arouse my masculine side. I assume if there had been up gender neutrality propaganda for many decades earlier I guess we could not have had such great albums as Different Class, and This Is Hardcore by Pulp, for instance. As you can hear on this course of 13-track Quint Baker may feel similarly with regard to the women. Another good appearance (solid album) is created being inspired by already existing good one. It starts off with a fantastic electro drenched dream pop flicker, Touch Play On The Tape Recorder. As similarly, there will surface those glacially shimmery yet warm synths here and there to create suggestive and dynamic impulses at the same time around one`s head. It is a kind of aphrodisiac. As if a young Ariel Pink were simmered on electro acid. Tamed is based on a restrained buildup including seducing accordion chords from the streets of Paris. Minty Fresh is a cutting-edge progression of the contemporary dance-appealed No Wave music. The first half of the album is superb as I hinted at it, it would be superb as a whole if the second part would have had more teasers and dynamic, extrovert songwriting. The issue is a part of the discography of Sirona-Records, led by French musician/producer Arnaud Barbe.

[Teaser of the day] Selffish - Prism

Thinner

• Deep house
• Alternative 
• Electronic music
• Club dance

Artist: Selffish

Release: Ena

Label: Thinner

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Marco Lucchi - Nocturnal Meditation No. 2

• Piano music
• Improvised music
• Contemporary classical
• Modern classical
• Art music

Artist: Marco Lucchi

Release: Nocturnal Meditations

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Elpha – 17 Seventeen (2018)

Bandcamp

• Modern classical 
• Post-classical 
• Ambient 
• Electronic music 
• Crossover 
• Art music 
• Soundscape 
• Glitchtronica 
• Piano music 
• Experimental electronica

Comment: this set of 10 tracks is something beyond everyday life. By principle, the art is something by standing immensely higher than just solving the main needs like food, water, and shelter on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Of course, more refined needs in the hierarchy like self-transcendence are actually related to it as well. A musical (or the other kind of acts of the art) act as an ultimate goal to be created which is much bigger than life of its creator because it will have been lasting (after his/her life as well). It is as a goal, not having value as an instrumental event. Moreover, the creative act is something which parallels the human being to God (as the ultimate, pure creator). Because of that any creative act is highly religious. Furthermore, the artist fosters your dreams and reflects upon your wishes through minimally progressing noises, throbbing electronic circulations and static electricity. It used to provoke and soothe, at times simultaneously, at times separately and subsequently. In any cases, the moment at a time is the most important thing on it. Undoubtedly all the glimpses will get the attention. Partially you hear lofty piano chords to create atmospheric spaces and hyper-realistic beauty to disintegrate the listener into it, at times electronic music driven maelstrom-alike threads conquer the soundscape. It chimes and has an impact upon the listener is such a way as if the artist from Japan could have taken a malfunctioning electronic device and broken piano to produce something thought-provoking and emotionally enchanting at the same time. Where is your very huge ego to be left aside during enjoying that masterpiece? Are you not able to find it out anymore? That's good. And there is the answer of why this issue stands beyond one's stress eaten life. An outstanding issue in the year of 2018.

[Teaser of the day] Eloi Brunelle - Piknic moderne (Mateo Murphy Remix)

Epsilonlab

• House
• Alternative dance
• Electronic music
• Electro-house
• Remix

Artist: Eloi Brunelle

Release: Piknic moderne

Label: Epsilonlab

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] USAISAMONSTER - 2nd Mvmt.a

Free Music Archive

• Noise rock
• No Wave
• Improvised noise
• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Improvised music
• Drone rock

Artist: USAISAMONSTER

Release: 5

Label: Mass Dist

Year: 2017

Ayankoko – Selfies (2017)

Ayan

• Experimentalism 
• Noise 
• Experimental electronica 
• Glitchtronica 
• Leftfield 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Avant-garde 
• Sampledelic 
• Improvised noise 
• Abstract 
• Microtonal

Comment: to be more hysterically happy and neurotically deranged please take selfies and push them even more onto the screen. Keep smiling with quavering hands and thereafter administer some relaxing medicine. France-based Ayankoko`s 10-track issue reflects finely upon madness based on noisy interruptions, transistor-based short waves and incisive high-pitched frequencies to be interspersed all through the lengthy (58-minute) course. On the other side, a listener can enjoy more mellow glimpses (more profoundly, cool jazz whiffs, melodic cut-outs) in the meanwhile though I guess it just created with strict purpose to establish a safety zone between our synapses and the predominantly belligerent sonic array represented over there. For instance, at 2017.4.25llrec15.32.29 one can take part in an uncanny dub exercise which eventually will progress into a peaky digitalised yet melody sustained mad situation. Undoubtedly those noisy torrents are highly appealing because one can enjoy how energy will set free in huge amounts very quickly. The moral conclusion of the issue is that your selfies to be taken and then posted to social media create more noise and fluence than the issue over there. It is a state of art over there which cannot be stated about taking those damned facial pics. The mind-provoking release is a part of the discography of Ayan Records.

[Teaser of the day] Tree No Leaves - Waheela

• Avant-rock
• Art rock
• Doom rock
• Improvised music
• Space pop/rock
• Post-rock
• Krautrock
• Progressive rock

Artist: Tree No Leaves

Release: Tonalism

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp  

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Boris Lelong - Reflected

• Organic electronica
• Ambient
• Kosmische Musik
• Soundscape
• Post-classical
• Electronic music
• Space music
• Minimalism

Artist: Boris Lelong

Release: Reflection - Free Floating Music

Label: Free Floating Music

Year: 2016

Hanging Freud – Anomalies (2017)

Bandcamp

• Drone pop 
• Indietronica 
• Organcore 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Art pop/rock 
• Gothic rock 
• Electronic
• Indie

Comment: undoubtedly this shit rocks your socks off. In fact, Hanging Freud has always rocked off, of course, by doing it at their own disposal. For sure, it is an example of rock music though an example of rock music of what rock music should be ideally. However, there it is, drawing on hefty drones and Paula Borges` seductive singing. I can remember for the London/Brazilian duo of Paula Borges/Jonathan Perez`s first album Sunken (under the Brazilian imprint Sinewave) which was something special and still persistent in my memories. I have traced their path thereafter and without any disappointments so far. The same could be said about Anomalies either. I guess the 4-track issue can be considered the most minimal record in the duo`s discography. As I already said before the hefty cathedral-based drones implicate apocalyptic associations in this mirthless world like a counterpoint in Bram Stoker`s Dracula where the Count yarned with diabolic pungency about his ongoing travel and beginning life in London. Actually this short-running issue needs no more words to be described but instead of it inducing addiction to repeat it again and again. And again. Paula Borges` flickering vocal used to tower atop the drones and then again the elements will be changed with regard to placement like a couple of curvy lines within the histogram used to meander against one another. Leave is the organic interlude about employing concrete sounds to alleviate the impending obliteration. By kindred souls you can find out some similarities to the likes of Radiohead, and Portishead. Indeed, the heads to be hanged.

The Bordellos – The Bordellos Underground Tape 10 (2018)

Bandcamp

• Alternative pop/rock 
• DIY 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Post-punk 
• Art punk 
• Lo-fi

Comment: imagine to go for 25 years forward in time and then discover a combo called The Bordellos through some obscure blogspots dedicated to post-punk, and underground rock. There would be the following description: a combo from St Helens, UK who used to issue a thread of underground tapes though their music was digitally uploaded only in fact. They would have issued music while the world had been existed in collapsing terms environmentally, morally, and economically while being ruled by evil clowns/ruthless elite, and entertained by “chosen” weddings and goofy football transfer fees. Pro-colonial wars had been held and slight protests against mass migration as a consequence of the wars were oppressed by sending to prison some people who dared to hint at it. At the same time, for instance, there had been told about Russia as the example of a country of suppressing democratic rights. Given that nobody did not know anymore what did mean the term on its own. Moz was considered as a racist in some articles. The Bordellos as a combo did not care of it while playing protest induced songs while drifting in a sinking ship. It was very punk-y. Of course, they did give a heck to their own proper entertainers like Mark E. Smith (who could die in a proper moment) by synthesising something funny within the realm of lo-fi/DIY, post-punk, and psychedelic music. For sure, the combo`s number 10 was lucky because of resulting in one of the best issues by them. I don't care anymore because I do care. Fuck off!

[Teaser of the day] Thierry Massard - Crunchy Craft

SuRRism-Phonoethics

• Experimentalism
• Noise
• Musique concrète
• Post-industrial
• Acousmatic music
• Leftfield
• Avant-garde
• Psycho-acoustic
• Electronic music

Artist: Thierry Massard

Release: inconnu

Label: SuRRism-Phonoethics/Free Music Archive/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] slept. - Skyhorses

• Ambient
• Microtonal
• Soundscape
• Ambient drone
• Drone
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism

Artist: slept.

Release: slept.EP

Label: Test Tube

Year: 2009

Xprompt – Generator (2018)

Pureuphoria

Ektoplazm

• Psytrance 
• Electronic music 
• Hi-NRG 
• Chilltronica

Comment: Xprompt is the new project by Alexei Ovtchinnikov aka alex.neon also being known as Neon, a DJ and psytrance artist who resides in Denmark. This handful of tracks is a tight blend of bouncy trance beats, channelized tricks, wobbly electronics, psychedelic hisses and sustained reverberations and electronically modified and cut-up vocal bits. Eventually it results in sultry yet chilled-out moods. As if standing in the middle of a rainforest yet having no power to abandon his/her civilization sustained symptoms. At least it is a better way to spend your time there rather than taking plastic bags and other garbage along. The life goes on in that way recently. The outing is a release in the discography of Pureuphoria Records, being one of those imprints under the umbrella of Ektoplazm.

[Teaser of the day] Airless Project - Part 4

• Experimental rock
• Post-rock
• Improvised music
• Minimalism
• DIY
• Electronic
• Avant-rock

Artist: Airless Project

Release: Subtlety is a Virtue

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Radikal Satan - Artox

Free Music Archive

• Tango
• Field recording
• Improvised music
• World music
• Drone music
• Musique concrète
• Alternative
• World fusion

Artist: Radikal Satan

Release: Clochette

Label: Los Emes Del Oso/La Voix Des Sirènes

Year: 2010/2013

[Teaser of the day] Sleepy John Corbeck - Dehanches De La Lune

Los Emes Del Oso

• Improvised music
• Blues
• Dark roots
• Avant-rock
• Dark Americana
• Psych-rock
• Gothic Americana
• Experimental rock

Artist: Sleepy John Corbeck  

Release: Sleepy John Corbeck   

Label: Los Emes Del Oso/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Ergo Phizmiz - Underground Horse Comedy

Free Music Archive

• Avant-garde
• Contemporary classical
• Post-classical
• Minimalism
• Art music
• Experimentalism

Artist: Ergo Phizmiz

Release: Anchovy Quadrille

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2014

Crepusculum – Sing On In Silhouettes (2009)

12rec.

Archive.org

Bandcamp

• Acoustic pop 
• Art rock 
• Post-rock 
• Improvised music 
• Mood music 
• Epic 
• Baroque pop 
• Chamber pop

Comment: today is Sunday and this 11-track outing is actually a proper way to finish off the day in an ennobling mood. Fred Baty who is artistically known as Crepusculum creates blissful sequences with his guitar by handling the guitar in different ways – from vamping up dreamy and soothing soundscapes to more immersive and slightly sophisticated. The course seems to be seamlessly flowing. Additionally to the guitar you can hear an accordion (or melodica) and brass-induced progressions in one track (Early Days) and glockenspiel flickers, and even light layers of a synth. The issue is quite weird in that sense that the tracks can be considered improvised ones yet all the possible tumultuous facets and heightened moods and frantic turns are hidden below a mellow moody shell. Of course, I would like to listen to such sort of frenetic turns but in the recent case I do not miss them at all by not founding them from there. The set is instrumental except a track called Abaculus Perspective where Julia Kotowski, and Genevieve Schwartz provide their voices in creating a heavenly choir to the ascending guitar chords. The issue is a part of the discography of 12rec., legendary German imprint to have been existed from 2001 to 2011. Beatific moments by any means.

Wings Of An Angel – Escape Routes (2018)

Bandcamp

• Drone ambient 
• Drone 
• Ambient 
• Microtonal 
• Minimalism 
• Sound art 
• Modern classical 
• Avant-garde
• Acousmatic music 
• Experimentalism 
• Abstract 
• Post-classical 
• Dark ambient 
• Post-industrial 
• Epic

Comment: it is quite problematic to say is Escape Routes a next level for Wings Of An Angel in his discography or not. There are up two reasons closely related to one another. Firstly, for a listener, it demands for an immense stretch to keep pace alongside with all the oeuvre by the Israeli artist, and secondly while almost all the albums (and in turn, any issue clocks in at a lengthy hour) can be characterized with tags like microtonal, drone/drone ambient/ambient, minimalism (with some outings into the modern/contemporary/post-classical world) you could think of a next issue as a subsequent synthesised one where any minutia makes sense. For sure, it is a microscopic exploration of sounds yet on the other side you can a profound feeling coming through this 2-notch issue. You can perceive a warm domestic feel as if harking back to your blissful childhood being surrounded by dear family members and having no annoying daily problems. At least you can identify your memories with the album very closely. Indeed, the listener is massaged by subtle yet scattered humming and propulsive (dark) ambient drones which used to transform from one shape to another. Because of these microscopic details the listener is supposed to take intensely part in that process. It consists of a couple of compositions as said before, one of them is a 7-minute long, and the other is a 42-minute long composition. Maybe such sort of music will be the psychedelic mainstream format for an average future human being. One can discern a semi-tone reflecting upon slightly orchestrated sounds yet being enough incisive to create associations with classical music, at times you hear concrete sounds which in fact may not be presented over there just resulting in illusionary perceptions. However, perceptions (even if they are false and fake) will be appearing as a subsequence are present in my head yet. Drone music and dark ambient music are considered as colder music yet if an example of the styles results in warm domestic feels is it colder music on its own anymore? It might be we would like to make an artificial difference between the format and subsequent feelings, however, is it needful to do it altogether? Marvellous majestic terrains by any means.

[Teaser of the day] Vèvè Seashore - Ein Umgestürzter Hafen

• Psych-rock
• Krautrock
• Space pop/rock
• Drone pop/rock
• Experimental pop/rock
• Avant-rock
• Indietronica
• Art rock

Artist: Vèvè Seashore

Release: Seven Years of Gulliver

Label: Dying For Bad Music

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] hukka - Deepwater Horizon

Gabumat

• Electro
• Alternative dance
• Minimal electro
• Acid electro

Artist: hukka

Release: Human Interaction EP

Label: Gabumat

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] stockfinster. - Sailing Through The Bardo

Sutemos

• Indietronica
• Alternative
• Post-pop
• Electronic music
• Neokrautrock
• IDM
• Post-rock
• Art pop

Artist: Stockfinster.

Release: Dead Line

Label: Sutemos

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Joël Lavoie - états III

• Ambient
• Avant-garde
• Soundscape
• Ambient noise
• Electronic music
• Micronoise
• Experimentalism
• Glitchtronica
• Microtonal

Artist: Joël Lavoie

Release: Cabines

Label: Jeunesse Cosmique

Year: 2018

K.D. Expression – For the Broken Heart from Collapsed Dreams (2007)

Nishi

No Type

• Ambient pop 
• Electronic music 
• Trance 
• Alternative dance
• Chilltronica 
• EDM
• Hi-NRG
• Electronic pop 
• Organic electronica 
• Electro pop

Comment: Sascha Müller aka Pharmacom`s discography and involvement in music is being impressive. As an artist and as a DJ and as the leader of imprints he has also taken part in the establishment of the weblabel/audio world. 9-track For the Broken Heart from Collapsed Dreams is a churning blend of electro beats, bombastic synthesised orchestrations, trance-y threads and atmospheric upper layers providing the asylum to an acid/ecstasy-intoxicated head (it results in a placebo effect though because this part is also thoroughly synthetic). As I have figured out one of his tenures was to play as a DJ at Love Parade. I guess he has played better music there as an average music choice used to be there (which has been quite horrendous in fact!). At least one can hear over there is certainly better stuff. In truth, the current issue is also more mainstream rather than underground influenced because all those bold electro rhythmic patterns and synthesised pads used to be in the contemporary EDM vein (but my intention is not to dilute the estimation of the album because of that). On the other side, given that the issue was released in 2007 on Canadian underground imprints like No Type, and Nishi its mainstream tendency was not so clear then. In a nutshell, it is a solid, coherent flow. It vamps up a mood that is tumultuous and soothing ceaselessly as if the reflection from a day of a person with bipolar syndrome and provides some interesting compositional solutions as well.

Distopia – Visuales (2012)

CABAÑA DISCOS

• Indie pop/rock 
• Dance rock 
• Electro-indie 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Organcore 
• Alternative pop 
• Drone pop 
• Psych-pop/rock 
• Chillwave 
• Alternative dance

Comment: my first thought about this short-running, 7-track issue was it is an example of the post-genesis of post-punk. In fact, this was my only opinion. However, the more I would have listened to it I got convinced it is a good example in term of the so-called retro music. An example of inferior retro music is something which just roughly copies elements from it and providing no further developments and so on. At Visuales which is an album by an Argentine-based artist Federico Maqui used to progress into a session of juggling of the contemporary chillwave and psych-rock scene while keeping up an intellectual and historic bound with the style. As we knew many post-punk bands´ first releases were downright experimental but later they into more dance-appealed areas and psychedelic music. For sure, the primary and secondary enterprises were influenced by krautrock and post-punk artists liked to dance. Visuales is a permanently fluid release veering away from crisp psych-pop/rock and dance rock numbers to chillwave-ish and drone pop excursions. Yet it is a wander-in-rags chillwave concept because the artist`s intention is not to provide a stairway to heaven or at least a slot into a roseate past. More credibility is added by another outstanding Argentine-based artist Transvorder (Mariano Peccineti) who mastered the issue (under CABAÑA DISCOS).

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.