AAVV – The Other Sound Of The Light (2017)

Ephedrina

Anti-Demos-Cracia

Jamendo

• Electronic music 
• Breaks 
• Space disco 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Alternative
• Disco-rock 
• Electro pop
• House
• Downtempo 
• Deep techno 
• Kraut-techno 
• Glitch-electro

Comment: this is a joint miscellany of 12 tracks by Ephedrina Records, an imprint from Italy, and Anti-Demos-Cracia, an imprint from Portugal. There are represented such artists as Mutaform, CRPTC, Fingerflood, Hypercube, Electric Dreamers, Hist, Overdrive, We Hate All These Liberals, Guta Project, Hesskhè Yadalanah, Errors Alternados, and Orquestra Popular De Paio Pires. I guess most of these names may be unknown to you, however, being an ardent follower of the imprints then you should have made acquaintance with the artists. Let`s have some thread about the compilation which will be clocked in at a 54 minute (indeed, it is an accepted longitude for a compilation). Undoubtedly it is a variegated issue with flourishing accents and exuberant shades. At times it is rhythmically obsessive just consisting of different rhythmic combinations to following one another or establishing new mutations within the rhythmic matrix. Some tracks are broadened with progressions toward atmospheric spheres and extracting an enchanting quintessence from synthesiser. All in all, I could not mention any weak track within the whole so I have to admit it to be a classy, mandatory compilation. Get it, support it.

[Teaser of the day] The Bordellos - Marianne

• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• DIY
• Art rock

Artist: The Bordellos

Release: The Bordellos Underground Tape 10

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Gnomefoam - To Be Given The Glum Job

• Sampledelic
• Lo-fi
• Hip-hop
• Crossover
• Sound collage
• Glitch-hop
• Alternative
• DIY
• Avant-hop

Artist: Gnomefoam

Release: The Girl In The Purple Painting

Label: Rack & Ruin/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Graphic Antics - Party Crasher

blocSonic

• Rap
• Hip-hop
• Underground hip-hop
• Urban music

Artist: Graphic Antics

Release: What Does It Mean?

Label: blocSonic

Year: 2017

Deicida 69 – Vocem For Atonal Wave (2015)

Plataforma

NKS International Muzakillabel

Cieliro Diystro

Deicida 69

Bandcamp

Bandcamp

• Crust punk 
• Art punk 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Spoken word 
• Post-punk 
• Electro-punk 
• Crossover 
• Sampledelic 
• Jazz 
• Plunderphonics 
• Hardcore 
• Electronic music 
• Dada music 
• No wave
• Non-music 
• Jazz punk 
• Cold wave 
• Ambient
• Leftfield

Comment: this set of 22 tracks consists of a couple of joint albums, more profoundly, Côte, and Ntoa. The combo comes out of Mexico and provides something truly refreshing and mind-altering within the rock (and roll) genre. First of all, it is incisive and harsh by its formal shape and certainly dadaist and postmodernist by its conceptual approach. Of course, the discoloured terms “postmodern” and adjective “postmodernist” do say a bit little about certain phenomena but it can be mapped as a bastard of different genres and exploitation of different genres. It may be tagged as an example of exploitation punk by ranging from art punk/post-punk/electro-punk to hardcore, psych-punk, cold wave/gothic punk and crust punk with hints at spoken word, jazz, electronic music and downright plunderphonics/sampledelic art. But I can guarantee you could find out more cues to even more phenomena and stylistic/stylized pops. Frequently the guitars chime like an angle grinder. One more fact I can admit the artist is obsessed with more or less implicit sexual (under)tones (being inspired by the oeuvre of Marquis de Sade). Undoubtedly one can partake in a frantic pool of very different experiments and combinations. As it is explicated at the site of Plataforma Records their modus operandi is the constant violation of the rules of harmony which dictates the Orthodox Music. At times, at Barbichuettes Night (A Tribute) one can enjoy a submerged, schizoid dialogue being savoured by spacey synthesised atmospheric lines and scruffy analogue synthesiser effects. It comes from nowhere, in the sense that I have no idea of how to localise it. As if being everywhere, it does mean having no place at all. However, at the same time it does not chime in a cheapo and vacuous way altogether. By possible kindred souls it could be compared with the St Petersburg, Russia-based dadaist surf/punk/lounge/avant/sample/psych/fetish-pop combos Messer Chups/Messer für Frau Müller. But I am very sure they have listened to This Heat, Bauhaus, Throbbing Gristle, an early Cabaret Voltaire, Velvet Underground, The Fall, and many artist from within the No Wave pigeonhole either. The overpowering issue is a part of the discography of a French imprint, NKS International Muzakillabel, a part of the discogrpahy of Brazil-based imprint Plataforma, and a part of the discography of the Chilean Cieliro Diystro.

[Teaser of the day] Erkki Hyva - Kummaline uni

• New Weird Estonia
• DIY
• Singer-songwriter
• Art pop
• Bedroom pop
• Lo-fi
• Avant-pop

Artist: Erki Hyva

Release: Varjust rambini

Label: Õunaviks

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] ENKIL - The River

Ephedrina

• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Synth-industrial
• Dark synth
• Synth-pop

Artist: ENKIL

Release: Blak Garden

Label: Ephedrina/Jamendo

Year: 2015

System Morgue – Gegenstrom (2013)

DNA Production

• Drone 
• Post-industrial 
• Abstract 
• Ambient drone 
• Dark ambient 
• Avant-garde 
• Microtonal 
• Experimentalism 
• Sound art 
• Drone doom

Comment: elementally I have reviewed Russian-based artist System Morgue`s brand new albums like Froid (2017, Frozen Light) and Distress (2018, DNA Production) but Gegenstrom is a thread from earlier years and aesthetically there are up some distinct features regarding comparison. The recent issues are more polished and structured (yet not suppressing its enchanting magic) and by its structure come into the experimental/avant/post-rock genre, however, Gegenstrom is conversely more hazy and foggy and subsequently oneiric. At its nucleus all of that is being headed by a ghost-alike drone which is galvanized and impelling by its physical and emotional appearance. It is like the maelstrom or black hole governing all the matter coming into their realms. For sure, it is not a sort of rock music with regard to the artist`s latter albums, it is more like a decent manifestation within the dark ambient, drone and partly sound art genre. Yet the self-titled track is the exception because it is the sort of drone doom rock by flourishing through oscillating pulses and lofty apexes. At first glimpse, it may seem the listener is trudging across a barren landscape where all is thoroughly destroyed and eradicated yet the more you listen to it the more you will see interesting echoes, glimpses, flickers, vibrations, even colours to come out of these five compositions. I cannot be wrong by bounding it geographically to northern, even subarctic hemisphere being generally dominated by northerly airflows and lengthy darkness. In a word, it is an outstanding work on a Russian imprint, DNA Production.

[Teaser of the day] Leisure Walks - Empty Room

• Dream pop
• Alternative pop
• Indie pop
• Shoegaze
• DIY

Artist: Leisure Walks

Release: Seaglass EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mystified - Frosted Tundra

Treetrunk

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

Artist: Mystified

Release: Frigid Radiance Remastered 

Label: Treetrunk

Year: 2013

Radio for the Daydreamers – Denouement (2012)

Black Square

Bandcamp

• Indie pop/rock 
• Art pop/rock 
• Folk indie 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Crossover 
• Indie folk 
• Jazz 
• Space pop

Comment: I have been watching like many of you the World Championship of Football In Russia. While being a big sport fan since my very childhood I shall have to admit my relation and attitude toward the sport has been changed over the years. Let`s take a good extraction about it in comparison to the art (music, literature, visual art, motion picture). My relation to the art is based on partaking in art by enjoying it, by actualising it, by creating a value/virtue. Indeed, the art refracts your life because it is frequently bigger than the life and always it is more ennobling and powerful. My relation to the sport is simply affective, it is not based on creating a real value and virtue. It is just an obsession or a psychosomatic trace in my brain. Furthermore, given that by following medical terms I would like to add that football seems to be a highly autistic act. An event of the sport used to have a bare, confined value at a time while you are watching it. It does have no value later. I guess there is no value altogether on its own if someone would be watching the competition between Columbia-England, on July 03, 2018 some years later, for instance. It will change into a mere historical fact but it is not an event anymore. Because of that all kinds of the art used to be more superior on their own. There are many other aspects else to be added to this list (for instance, regarding monetary, financial aspects the gap between them could be even more catastrophic). I am here to always listen to the albums of the The Smiths, Cagey House, My Bloody Valentine, The Fucked Up Beat, Tim Hecker, The Fall, Miles Davis, Stereolab, Cocteau Twins, CAN, Faust, GYBE!, Kraftwerk or read the poems by Edgar Allan Poe, William Somerset Maugham, or H. P. Lovecraft or whoever else (but I do not really care of sport events being happened 5, 10, 20 years ago). It certainly broadens your mental and psychic world instead of playing on your mean instincts. Given that the music is a part of the art, it may be the most layered art with regard to discrete experience by a person because one could always discover new aspects distinctly and in accordance with the previous immense vestige. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US-based Radio for the Daydreamers is over there to cope with this immense vestige. Denoument as a word and as the title of the album refers to a problematic process. The result would come out as a coherent and convincing one, though, yet you could pin down the problematic aspect within it. It is a premise of how to integrate indie and jazz into a vivid, self-perpetuating whole while doing away with any exaggerations and overstatements. The issue is a part of the discography of Black Square. In a word, the value of this issue is certainly more worth than the victory of the Stanley Cup in the combo`s home city. Ars longa, ludus brevis.

[Teaser of the day] Evgeni Rogozin - Thoughtforms

• Abstract
• Micronoise
• Avant-garde
• Sound art
• Microsound
• Non-music
• Leftfield
• Experimentalism
• Minimalism

Artist: Evgeni Rogozin

Release: 卌

Label: Haze

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Buben - Burning All Over

Clinical Archives

• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Sampledelic
• Epic
• Martial industrial
• Leftfield
• Musique concrète
• Minimalism
• Electronic music
• Post-industrial

Artist: Buben

Release: Lock, Stock and Barell... - ep

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2008

Dunai – Illdot0 (2017)

Humanworkshop

• Breaks 
• Alternative dance 
• Post-IDM 
• Hip-hop 
• Nu jazz
• Crossover
• Digifunk 
• Indietronica 
• Ambient pop 
• Rap 
• Remix

Comment: this set of 7 tracks (clocking in at a 33-minute) composed by a Russian artist, Alexei Kalinkin is a fine blend of crystalline rhythms, warped synth manipulations somewhere in the middle and spacey synthesised orchestrations atop. More profoundly, those rhythms are fragile running in the vein of post-IDM, and digitalized funk progressions. Undoubtedly the album has no remote distance with specific spokes from indie electronic, hazy electronic jazz/nu jazz/acid jazz and ambient pop either. Even if you do not have a direct reference to it you could perceive it indirectly being laid behind the aforementioned styles. Indeed, many kinds of rhythmic variations are mobilized and activated over there resulting in a sublime flow. There are up a couple of remixes either – one of them is a remix on Atomar Sense (Leisure-B`s remix) by adding a hip-hop component to the blend, the second one is Julian Winter`s remix on Clever. The solid issue is a part in the roster of Humanworkshop.

Útidúr - Fisherman's Friend

[Teaser of the day] Pangea - Comet

Enoughrecords

• Ambient
• Experimentalism
• Sound art
• Ambient noise
• Dark ambient
• Epic
• Radiophonic art
• Micronoise
• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Illbient

Artist: Pangea

Release: Latimeria

Label: Enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Jamendo

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Syndrôm - Celestial Objects

• Electronic music
• Breakbeat
• Alternative
• Dark wave
• Breaks
• Crossover
• Glitch-hop

Artist: Syndrôm

Release: Sans Artifices

Label: Pavillon36 Recordings

Year: 2016

The Line Of Apollo – The Line Of Apollo EP (2017)

Bonimedia

• Punk rock 
• Emo 
• Alternative rock 
• Power pop

Comment: The Line Of Apollo is a combo from Russia whose handful of tracks is all but post-rock as mistakenly described at their Bonimedia Site. Come on, dear people, it is not an example of post-rock by seeing it at any angle being available. It does have nothing in common either with such bands as Mono or Stereolab which in turn are very diverse by its nature in comparison with one another. However, the particular one is a solid example of post-hardcore and emo rock and especially power pop which by lyrics is induced by unhappy love and harking back to memories (which is a kind of obsession on its own). Given that the songs are sung by male voice (in Russian) I have to admit most men used to idealize their (previous) relationships though there is actually no reason to do it. 

[Teaser of the day] Moosefrog - Sergey a Go-Go

Lo_Kiwi

• Yacht rock
• Alternative pop
• Easy listening
• Synth-rock
• Alternative dance
• Dance rock
• Mood music

Artist: Moosefrog

Release: Come EP

Label: Lo_Kiwi

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Macroform - Memorial

Jamendo

• Chilltronica
• Breaks
• Electronic music
• Mood music

Artist: Macroform

Release: Shining

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Útidúr - Fisherman's Friend

Free Music Archive

• World music
• Baroque pop
• Alternative pop
• Balkan brass
• Epic
• Psychedelic pop
• Indie pop
• Art pop
• Chamber pop

Artist: Útidúr

Release: Bad Panda #51

Label: Bad Panda/Free Music Archive

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Animal Collective - My Girls

Archive.org

• Ambient pop
• Post-psychedelic electronica
• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Live
• Art pop 
• Experimental pop
• Avant-pop
• New Weird America

Artist: Animal Collective

Release: Live at Royal Oak Music Theatre on 2009-05-18

Label: Self-released/Archive.org

Year: 2009

Fingerflood – Beats And Stabs And Kick In Four (2017)

Ephedrina

Noisybeat

Sucu Music

• Dub techno 
• Electronic music 
• IDM 
• Crossover 
• Remix 
• Breaks 
• Ambient trance 
• Psybient 
• Dubtronica

Comment: it is an overhaul of dub music and its possibilities to establish new (crossover) forms with electro, electronic music in general, world music and psychedelic segmentations. At times it is more deconstructed into disparate pieces thereof resulting in deranged yet tickling developments. For instance, electronic effects are juxtaposed to soothing ambient layers and caressing bouncy rhythms. Behind the project is an Italian producer, Gaetano Fontanazza whose 6-notch issue is a joint release between such imprints as Noisybeat, Ephedrina, and Sucu Music.

The Walcker Crew – Emergency Exits (2006)

Free Sample Zone

• Sampledelic 
• Alternative dance 
• Electronic pop 
• Funk 
• Breaks 
• Plunderphonics 
• Dada music

Comment: yeah, this album is strongly recommended to play by emergency cases like airplane crash, hijacking etc. Hopefully the download rate at Archive.org does not correlate with actual incidents though. On the other side, it is fun to imagine while being hijacked by someone you would tell him/her please let me listen to this set. Of course, it could probably water down the perpetrators or...make them even more angry. Similarly to Chenard Walcker's solo efforts it is a dynamic, dance-induced mix of funk, psychedelia, dada music, world fusion. Having no idea is it either an extended team or just another individual embodiment by Chenard Walcker, but it is of a secondary importance though. However, I could identify Chenard Walcker with the protagonist in HP Lovecraft's classy tale The Music of Erich Zann because the French samplecore juggernaut communicates other artists' oeuvre and souls into a thick, hellish groove. Furthermore, it is even more relevant with regard to the intention of this album. All in all, his music used to fascinate and it is the most important thing indeed.

[Teaser of the day] Tinyfolk - The Girl Who Used to Love You

Free Music Archive

• Electronic
• Dream pop
• Lo-fi
• Alternative pop
• Organcore
• Indie pop
• DIY
• Singer-songwriter
• Drone pop

Artist: Tinyfolk

Release: Incredible Snow 

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Pulco - Mechanacon

• Avant-garde
• Avant-folk
• DIY
• Improvised music
• Free folk
• Experimentalism
• Weird folk
• Freak folk
• Electronic
• New Weird Cymri
• Lo-fi
• Anti-folk

Artist: Pulco 

Release: O`r Tu Allan

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] The Courier - Playing It Fairer

Upitup

• Techno pop
• Breakbeat
• Jungle
• Crossover
• Alternative dance
• Electro house
• Breakcore
• House pop
• Electronic pop

Artist: The Courier

Release: Delivery Strike EP

Label: Upitup

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Fortadelis - Wrath Of Pain

Jamendo

• Chilltronica
• Synth-rock
• Mood music
• Alternative pop/rock
• Electronic music
• Electro-rock

Artist: Fortadelis

Release: Cinematique

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] KETADRMS - The Golden View

Kreislauf

• Sampledelic
• Electronic music
• Avant-hop
• Trip-hop
• Alternative
• Breaks
• Experimental hip-hop

Artist: KETADRMS

Release: Die helle Seite des Mondes

Label: Kreislauf

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Paris Angels - Complete Mind

• Dream pop
• Electronic
• Alternative dance
• Madchester
• Soul
• Acid house
• Indie dance

Artist: Paris Angels

Release: Eclipse

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Glass Candy - Lovin` Machine (nite Vocoder version)

Free Music Archive

• Post-disco
• Electro pop
• Synth-pop
• Italo disco
• Robot pop
• Alternative dance
• Electronic pop

Artist: Glass Candy

Release: Iko

Label: Free Music Archive/Troubleman Unlimited

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] German Error Message - A New Season

• Indie folk
• Americana
• Shoegaze
• Alternative rock
• Folk indie
• Dream pop
• Indie rock
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: German Error Message

Release: German Error Message EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Wacky Southern Current - Unterkircher

No-Source

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

Artist: Wacky Southern Current

Release: Like The Wind Within the Hollow Tree

Label: No-Source/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Andrew Weathers Trio - Eastern Island Palm Dub

• Post-rock
• Cool jazz
• Jazz rock
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock

Artist: Andrew Weathers Trio

Release: Guitar Man Whirlgig

Label: Futurerecordings

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Roel Goovaerts - Heup

• Improvised music
• Electronic
• Krautrock
• Motorik
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock

Artist: Roel Goovaerts

Release: We zullen wel zien e  

Label: Bwaa   

Year: 2015 

[Teaser of the day] Potential DifferenSe - V3

Cota303

• Breakbeat
• Crossover
• Electronic music
• Experimental techno
• Ambient techno

Artist: Potential DifferenSe

Release: Coinchain

Label: Cota303

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Vanquish - The Terror Inside

Ekleipsi

• Progressive metal
• Art metal
• Symphonic metal

Artist: Vanquish

Release: Nine Deadly Sins

Label: Ekleipsi

Year: 2006

Monkey Warhol - Bongo Booty

Frank Silver – Invitation To Love (2014)

Bandcamp

• Glo-fi 
• Chillwave 
• Alternative pop 
• Indie pop 
• Art pop 
• Post-pop 
• Synth-pop 
• Indietronica

Comment: that outing makes you fall in love. By its spaced-out timbres and captivating melodies and blissful harmonies which used to endlessly whirl around your intimate zone and you have no power and wish to resist against it. Undoubtedly it is an ideal example of the so-called ideal pop. All the beautiful things seem to come from inside this 5-track whole – endless dreams, bittersweet, tickling perceptions, whatever more else you could find fro behind these thick orchestrated synths, pulsating rhythms and diffuse vocal delivery. Chillwave as a genre was being fabulous having been existed from the end of the 00s to the first years in the 10s. It was like a derivative of dream pop by finding a new direction toward synth-pop. It is a top tier within the genre though like a swan song of the deceased style. Mandatory stuff by any means.

[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.