Recent Music Heroes

Comment: it is a real pleasure to be back by one of the reincarnations of Chenard Walcker who is here to exploit the voice of Helen Merrill and her album A Shade Of Difference (1968) and mingle it with rough yet funky electronic beats, propulsive brass sections, and Motown-led male voices. In truth, a theme called My Funny Valentine has been one of the most well-known themes worldwide for years being created by Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart in 1937. Yeah, I am sure you will get your rocks off on that handful of tracks. Of course, similarly to a very huge part of his other issues the release is a part of his own imprint Free Sample Zone (some albums or tracks are related to such imprints as WM Recordings, Comfort Stand Recordings, and Laboratoire Moderne). In a word, look for a Valentine. For example, yesterday I looked at My Bloody Valentine.

[Teaser of the day] Take Pills Die - Elna Mixre

Take Pills Die

Electro pop
Alternative dance
Plinkerpop
Ambient pop
Electronic pop
Kraut-techno
IDM

Artist: Take Pills Die

Release: 06.08.08 Happy Homeless

Label: Take Pills Die

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] (029) - Busted

Soisloscerdos

Electronic music
Experimental techno
Industrial techno

Artist: (029)

Release: Net

Label: Soisloscerdos

Year: 2018

7/20/2018

[Teaser of the day] Oskar Hallbert - Fractal

Zymogen

Lo-fi
DIY
Modern classical
Electronic
Post-classical
Improvised music
New Weird Sweden

Artist: Oskar Hallbert

Release: 1123581321345589

Label: Zymogen

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] dgtldrmr. - In Limbo

Vaporwave
Electronic music
Seapunk
Cloud rap
Chopped and screwed
Urban music
Hip-hop

Artist: dgtldrmr.

Release: Random Acts Of Faith

Label: Monster Jinx

Year: 2017

7/19/2018

[Teaser of the day] Буерак - Портреты

Gothic rock
Alternative rock
Coldwave
Post-punk
Indie rock

Artist: Буерак

Release: Портреты

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Ringo Deathstarr - Kaleidoscope

Nugaze
Shoegaze
Alternative pop/rock
Indie pop/rock
Dream pop

Artist: Ringo Deathstarr

Release: Colour Trip

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

7/14/2018

The Sway - When Worlds Collide

Karl Frank - Red Eyes

Artist: Woodworkings

Release: I Tried To Write You A Letter (One Sided Cassette)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Awake In The Dew - The Light Hope

Tranzmitter

Rhythmic noise
Electronic music
Chilltronica
Breakcore
Crossover
Power electronics
Alternative

Artist: Awake In The Dew

Release: Sounds To Ascension

Label: Tranzmitter/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Camp - No Fun

Panospria/No Type

Electronic music
Post-rock
Crossover
Experimental electronica
Micro-house

Artist: Camp

Release: Mean

Label: No Type/Panospria

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Alex Mason - A Quiet Place

enoughrecords

Post-classical
Dark ambient
Neoclassical
Cinematic
Epic
Dark wave

Artist: Alex Mason

Release: The Exorcist

Label: Enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Flady – Leave (2015)

Bunkai-Kei

Electronic music
Breaks
Experimental electronica
Alternative
Avant-garde
Experimentalism

Comment: I am back again by digging up in the discography of the Japanese imprint Bunkai-Kei. Some days ago I had listened to an album of being an amalgamation of J-pop, and Western disparate influences resulting in a truly aesthetic entertainment, however, this case of handful of tracks seems to be analogous though revealing its virtue on a bit other premises. It may be a bit less moody and more complicated through its strongly accentuated slamming rhythmic patterns, uncanny samples, glitched-out debris. It is a sort of dance music though standing discreetly apart from well-known styles like house, techno, electro, dubstep. I especially like those string-based samples as if suggestive snatches taken from a cello and woodwind instruments and thereafter magnified and modulated. And of course, it reminds of unforgettable Arthur Russell. All in all, it is a superb selection again. It injects much serotonin into the listener's brain. That's all what we need to get. And the cover print is suggestive for sure.

NAMM – L'Arte dei Rumori (2018)

Ephedrina

Bandcamp

Archive.org

Electronic music
Indietronica
Ambient pop
Post-classical
Modern classical
Synth-pop
Electro pop
IDM
Kosmische Musik
Drone pop

Comment: just before listening to this set of 10 tracks I had listened to GYBE!'s Luciferian Towers (2017, Constellation) which paradoxically introduced L'Arte dei Rumori because the album also involves some orchestrated semi-symphonic post-rock/chamber rock/post-classical opuses yet it is just an angle within the whole (especially a track called La mar). Conversely, predominantly it is driven by adeptly carved synth threads, acidic drones and exuberant rhythmic progressions indicative of lo-fi aesthetics due to those shaggy beats a bit. I guess such a sort of alloy will have been producing for centuries (because it does have a potential on its own) but it is right now and here to be enjoyed. It is a vibrant crossroad for synth-pop, indie electronic and IDM. Saltamontes provides a renewed insight into Kosmische Musik/Krautrock. The issue is a bit in the discography of Ephedrina Records. Very good.

7/11/2018

[Teaser of the day] Dark Frequencer - Hypnotica Part 1

Ambient techno
Organic electronica
Experimental techno
Electronic music
Dreamwave
Kraut-techno
Avant-techno
Minimal techno

Artist: Dark Frequencer

Release: Hypnotica

Label: Petroglyph

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Flowers And Fire - Hanging Garden

Gothic rock
Post-punk
Cold wave
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Cover

Artist: Flowers And Fire

Release: THE CURE Pornography: The CVLT Nation Sessions

Label: The CVLT Nation Sessions

Year: 2017

7/10/2018

[Teaser of the day] BOLGA - Microscopio

Alternative rock
Post-rock
Epic
Power pop
Art rock

Artist: BOLGA

Release: From Such a Cloud of Fire Came Earth / 2

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Soma - Soma Nubes Rojas

MonoKraK

Electronic music
Alternative
Deep house
Ambient house
Club dance

Artist: Soma

Release: Uno

Label: MonoKraK

Year: 2015

7/09/2018

Kanabun – Open The World EP (2011)

Bunkai-Kei

Electronic pop
J-pop
Alternative pop
Cinematic
Hip-hop
Art pop
Shibuya-Kei
Ambient pop
Rap

Comment: it is not surprising to have a talk about the Japanese webscene as one of the mightiest if not the most mighty worldwide. Even there was once up an article by Pitchfork by describing those massively populated parties in Nippon. One of the groundsills is an imprint called Bunkai-Kei wherefrom you can discover a loads of great electronic music and Japanese heritage mixed albums. Yeah, Kanabun`s 4-track Open The World EP is one of them. Of course, one could not underestimate the influence of a style called Shibuya-Kei which strongly flourished in the 90s by its cut and paste method and on the other side by adding cutting-edge easy listening, jazz, and bossa nova and exotica pop styles from the Western cultural sphere to create something truly cinematic and floating. For instance, Link is obviously the most cinematic notch within these 23 minutes, Decillion is a joyous Japanese rap backed up by a sultry beat and enchanting carillon. From experimental, glitched-out noises, vowel effects and sound manipulations to full-fledged artsy pop examples and semi-ochestrated moody hedonism in the self-titled track. In a word, the result is superb, enter the party!

7/08/2018

[Teaser of the day] Pablo Pavlo - Eléctrico balneario

E.P.A Sonidos

Electronic pop
Alternative pop
Indietronica
Mood music

Artist: Pablo Pavlo

Release: Open Plaza

Label: E.P.A Sonidos

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel - The Jack Of Hands

Cabaret
Avant-garde
Music hall
Art music
Leftifeld
Experimental pop

Artist: Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel

Release: I Can Spin A Rainbow

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

getdizzzy – Long Normal Dream (2017)

Etched Traumas

Improvised music
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Experimentalism
Crossover
Downbeat

Comment: undoubtedly it is very problematic to categorize this issue. Furthermore, after the first round of listening I did have problems to identify it somehow because of having so many stylistic references within it, and because of changing permanently throughout the course. I guess the most proper tags to pigeonhole it might be such generic tags as electronic music, and experimental music, improvised music. By listening to such a track as Unfortunate the case will be even more complicated because the beat represented over there can ideologically be considered a thread from hip-hop music but in reality it is more a downbeat case. Walkwalk is an example of psyched-out electro-free jazz. It is not surprising at all with regard to the fact he comes out of Chicago, Illinois, USA which has been a fertile platform for amalgamation and flourishing of different styles, from improvised music, post-rock, to free jazz. The issue is a bit in the discography of Etched Traumas.

[Teaser of the day] Low Points - No Place

Alternative rock
Indie punk
Slacker punk
Prog-punk
New Wave

Artist: Low Points

Release: Feels

Label: Bleeding Gold

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] The Dead Suns - Secret Ocean

Psych-rock
Indie rock
Alternative rock
Power pop

Artist: The Dead Suns

Release: New Days For A Better Man

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2018

7/07/2018

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.

7/06/2018

[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

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.

7/05/2018

[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.

7/04/2018

[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

7/03/2018

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.

7/02/2018

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.

7/01/2018

[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.

6/29/2018

[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

6/28/2018

[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

6/27/2018

[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

6/26/2018

[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

6/25/2018

[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

6/20/2018

[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.

6/17/2018

[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

6/16/2018

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.

6/15/2018

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.

6/14/2018

[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^th 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.

6/13/2018

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.

6/12/2018

[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

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