[Teaser of the day] Court Of Hidden Faces - Serenity Wheeler

Nishi

• Post-rock
• Ambient
• Experimental electronica
• Ambient rock
• Crossover
• Electronic music

Artist: Court Of Hidden Faces

Release: Snow

Label: Nishi

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Nilaesh - Nu Thing

• Breaks
• Psytrance
• Acid electro
• Alternative dance
• Post-rave
• Electronic music

Artist: Nilaesh

Release: Gladio

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Valhearst – Souvenir EP (2017)

Bandcamp

• Lo-fi 
• Art music 
• Drone pop 
• New Weird France 
• Ambient 
• Avant-garde 
• Improvised music 
• Ambient 
• Electronic 
• Experimentalism 
• DIY 
• Drone 
• Krautrock 
• Kosmische Musik

Comment: behind the project is Pascaline Raphaëlle whose 5-track issue is quite disparate in its stylistic variety and length. It starts off with a silent electro-acoustic composition based on repeated sounds, guitar-based chords and effects, microscopic noises and hisses, and Pascaline`s chants atop. It can be considered an example of slowed-down, deconstructive post-punk. On the other side, it resembles those free folk/weird folk/freak folk numbers in a decade back where some artists from a new generation of folk musicians watched toward the forest and nature and therefore organic sounds. Indeed, one is listening to music which chimes as if recorded with the microphone from a distance (especially at Waterlidl). Nowhere is a very short, 1-minute yet the only rhythmic improvisation. The narrative will be changing in the last two compositions while introducing ambient and droning sounds into the mix. More profoundly, you can find out similarities with artists by Not Not Fun, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, and her French compatriot Eléonore Hauguel a.k.a. Ellah a. Thaun. In a word, the strong issue.

[Teaser of the day] The Tami Show - Bender

Hinah

• Slowcore
• Folk indie
• Alternative pop
• Sadcore
• Indie folk
• Indie pop
• Dream pop

Artist: The Tami Show

Release: Grind My Nails

Label: Hinah

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Speculativism - Requiem For Leif Ericson`s Parrot

Archive.org

• Art rock
• Progressive rock
• Avant-prog
• RIO
• Improvised music

Artist: Speculativism

Release: Speculativism by Peter-David Smith

Label: Self-released/Archive.org

Year: 2008

The Cherry Blues Project – Psychiatric Years EP. 1 (2009)

Resting Bell

• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Indie folk 
• Outsider music 
• Folk indie

Comment: unfortunately I can't speak Spanish and because of that I can`t understand the message of these seven songs. Regarding the duo my previous and in truth first experience was related to Selectas Memorias del Invierno (2017, Petroglyph Music) which was absolutely different issue due to microtonal progressions, austere drones, and twisted ambient soundscapes (i.e illbient) music. Why should I speak Spanish because I presume one of the two Argentinian musicians (or both of them) does speak about his admittance in a psychiatric ward. At least I hope the sort of premise because musically it is backed up by sparse acoustic guitar chords which just create a monotonous background. The favourite of mine has been The Smiths for 20 years thanks to the balance between the quartet`s lyrics and music though the subject in Moz`s songs used to be a candidate in the aforementioned ward. It has a strong assuasive impact upon you. On the other side, you know, the medicine used to work a little bit/it is not curative with regard to psychological diseases either. It might be the current one does work (with message) as well. The issue is a part of the discography of a legendary Berlin, Germany-based imprint, Resting Bell Netlabel. Resting Bell makes sense. Of course, I suggest you listen to the second part of Psychiatric Years as well. The music will save the world if something would do it. But it does not save eventually.

Koti & Thee Immigrants – The Relaxing Sounds From Tinsley Prison (2012/2017)

Death Roots Syndicate

Bandcamp

Fon-Fon

• World music 
• Acid pop 
• Mood music 
• Psychedelic 
• Alternative pop 
• Psychobilly 
• World fusion 
• Art pop

Comment: we are listening to an album from Brazil under the fantastic California, US-based imprint Death Roots Syndicate. Koti & Thee Immigrants´ 10 track issue was initially released under Fon-Fon Records approximately five and a half years ago so it is quite surprising yet welcome to hear it under an imprint which has used to release issues being dark and gothic (yet playful and artsy). The Relaxing Sounds From Tinsley Prison is predominantly a psychedelic case with fluid dusty organ lines and suggestive singing. There is up a song called Gipsy Man with hints at the life of Romani people so could I presume these 33 minutes are about the life of the ethnicity with some dodges into other culture`s layers either? All this Balkan and Gypsy music influenced music has been a mainstream for more than 10 years largely thanks to motion pictures by Emil Kusturica. By listening to the final instrumental track Tinsley House Tea Time you can admit the collective`s tongue-in-cheek attitude with regard to Music Hall-alike buffoonish loosely sequenced rhythms and the acidic organ and Tiki Music drenched improvistation which funny facet can be generalized over the course.  The more I listen to it the more I hear similarities with Juan Naveira aka Mr Juan aka Juanitos aka Limbo Deluxe aka Miss Emma. That's hugely important especially for a starting weekend. In a word, this album is strongly recommended for all those music lovers who enjoy an artsy challenge and a moody aspect within one bound.

[Teaser of the day] The Post Riot Era - Meeting You Again in the Future

• Ambient
• Experimentalism
• Soundscape
• Epic
• Post-classical
• Microtonal
• Dark ambient
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde

Artist: The Post Riot Era

Release: Quiet Exit

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Jessica Worms - I`ll Be Breaking My Bones

• Punk rock
• Psychobilly
• Hardcore
• Speed metal

Artist: Jessica Worms

Release: R I S E

Label: Sepaticonha/Death Roots Syndicate

Year: 2017

Valzi – I Nvr 3 U (2009)

Petite & Jolie

• Chiptune 
• Electronic music 
• Indietronica 
• 8-bit 
• Glitch pop 
• Alternative 
• Bitpop 
• Chipbreak 
• Crossover 
• Avant-pop
• Electro pop 
• Robot pop 
• Electro pop 
• Nintendocore 
• Tracker music

Comment: I assume glitch pop as a genre comes partly out of the tracker/chiptune/bitpop scene. I have always loved chiptune music even though I did not it consciously or being aware of the genre which started sometime in the 80s. Because the first playing consoles of mine were yellow cartridge-based, mostly Chinese productions. Milk & Nuts, Mutant Ninja Turtles, Lode Runner, Getaway, Konami NHL 1988, Tank, The Wild Gunman etc were the games I had spent very many hours within. I can vividly remember for a game called Bomberman which sounded as if an outtake from one of the songs by Throbbing Gristle. The rhythmic 8-bit lines within it would break to many sonic shards yet it would incessantly be trudging over the game scene. For sure, the genre was not the very first electronic music created ever (as we know very well thanks to the Sub Rosa`s compilations of noise and electronic music the first electronic and noise compositions were already peoduced in the second part of the 19<sup>th</sup> century). It was not the very first computer music ever created as well. However, I like the consistency and strength of people who follow the genre by promoting and creating by themselves. Valzi`s 11-track issue being released on Petite & Jolie is a great issue crossing at an interface of chiptune and indie electronic music. Its poppy yet elegantly exaggerated tendencies to come to the surface permanently used to provide it even a more cutting-edge shape. That's cool. It is a sort of electro pop but it chimes as if coming from a broken, abandoned computer world. Unfortunately it somehow resonates with sad news from the recent world where even celebrities do commit suicide. The soul of a broken human being can be compared with the one of a broken computer. The biggest problem in the nowadays world is that a human being is exercised to be machines but the soul within the creature is still not be ready to step to the next, robot level. The only way is to set robots free but the biggest consequence of it may be the man-machines will eradicate the human being as a species. Given that it is an example of chiptune music you should not take the adjective “exaggerated” seriously because within the genre there cannot be any of the elements exaggerated in the strict sense of the word. All is finely integrated and exposed to the ears of a hungry music fan. And the cover print is really cool by creating a psychedelic pathway to arrive at your positive self. Take it, remember it.

Igniael – Blossom (Core Edition) (2017)

Khannomusic Studios

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Ambient pop 
• Crossover
• Field recording 
• New Age 
• Organic electronica
• Musique concrète 
• Art pop

Comment: Iñaki Barrocal aka Igniael is a musician from Andorra, a very small country (467,6 km²) nearby Spain where the Catalan language is the official language. With regard to the artist`s name I can assume he may be a Basque by his own nationality. However, all the songs represented over there are predominantly sung in English. Yeah, the course of 10 tracks is atmospheric, mostly light-hearted and spiritual (predominantly induced by choral singing and emotive chants) though at times one can hear more murky tones and glimpses in his soundscape as if entering into some of the catacombs in Southern Europe by feeling the ephemeral span of a human being. The Grim Reaper and his scythe are doing their work properly but it should not be surprising at all because the balance between life and death must exist. On the other side, given that those sounds of water flowing and chirping the birds and the particular singing one can imagine by attending a place nearby a (bit heretic) monastery being deviated by the strict Catholic canon. Barrocal`s mystical approach reminds me a bit of the Italian legend Alio Die`s spiritual ambient landscapes. Such sort of music I guess could be a poppy example within the circuit of dark folk/neoclassical/dark wave followers. The enchanting issue is a part of the discography of Khannonmusic Studios.

[Teaser of the day] Nyhos - It is So Omnipresent

Limit Cycle

• Wonky
• Urban music
• Glitch hop
• Sampledelic
• Alternative
• Broken beat
• Electronic music
• Breaks

Artist: Nyhos

Release: #3

Label: Limit Cycle

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] GLD8TRZ - Gassed Up

blocSonic

• Urban music
• Hip-hop
• Rap 
• Gangsta rap

Artist: GLD8TRZ

Release: Gladiator Muzik

Label: blocSonic/Archive.org

Year: 2018

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.