The Womb – Heavy Ghosts (2017)

The Womb

Free Music Archive

• Singer-songwriter 
• Alternative pop 
• Indie pop 
• Art pop 
• DIY 
• Synth-pop 
• Ambient pop 
• Bedroom pop

Comment: the Englishman Alan Driscoll used to have been having always something to say although the song theme do rotate around one and the same – sex. Of course, he is artist and all the theme is coated with the curtains and veils to reflect upon the seedy light from behind it. More profoundly, one can discern drive, expectations, yarns, pain and pleasure coming from within the 10-notch whole. Its ideological side is punctuated by Driscoll's compelling singing and storytelling and the guitars and synths mixed background. It should be added, at times a female affected loon can be mapped out from songs as a warning example of how a male can lose himself as the purpose on his own. One should keep going on instead of dealing with one's regrets. I like heroes but real heroes are a bit thugs. Western Civilization is a bit poisoned by having been insinuated the sense of guilt and at the same time fostering the human being to be an apex predator to survive. These contradictory, schizoid tendencies do enervate the human race. Indeed, with regard to his discography Alan Driscoll has kept to a narrow territory to have an incisive spot on it with purpose to magnify it to the highest standard. He was born in the beginning of the 80s so his teenage years were partly amended by Britpop artists (because one of his self-issued releases was entitled Britpop), I guess by Jarvis Cocker's voyeuristic and sexually lurking themes, and by willful maverick Nick Currie aka Momus. All of that makes sense to me though there are up a couple of stark exceptions like Flirting on Your Deathbed which mirrors an irreconcilable state of mind by a dying man backed up by singing manner almost pushed to tears. The final track Every Little Tree Must Fall is the musically totally disparate case - it is a darkened, a bit low resolution ambient venture with speech samples and guitar-based echoes developing and slowly moving across the space.

Thorn – Solace Of Noise (2018)

Pen & Mallet

• Noise pop/rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Psych-rock 
• No Wave 
• Experimental rock 
• Art punk 
• Garage rock

Comment: as much as I have figured out so far some groups you could find from the site of Pen & Mallet a person called J.C. Thorne got involved in them (aboombong, Dustdevil & Crow, ¡para!helion, Psychic Enemies Network, Azwarm, Icastico). The same case is related to this 3-piece collective and 3-track release. Oh well, it is a striking artsy punk and noise pop/rock tinged No Wave release. More profoundly, you can extract much madness due to many deranged hooks, amplified noises coming from the bottom to the top, from the left to the right. It is sort of a sun-stricken yet loud rehearsal room-based issue with all the brutal energy and propulsive rock and roll optimism getting obviously inspiration from such juggernauts as MC5, Sonic Youth, Motörhead, The Stooges, and Glenn Branca. And I believe in that and the trio. In fact, it is or at least it seems to be a very simple approach but rock and roll as a predominant case of guitar music would never die. I am absolutely convinced in the fact after seeing a gig by Guns'n'Roses some weeks ago.

[Teaser of the day] Naoto Taguchi - Untitled Fragments #002 (Reprised Remix)

Test Tube

• Glitchtronica
• Experimental electronica
• Microtonal
• Avant-electronica
• Minimalism

Artist: Naoto Taguchi

Release: Untitled 9 Fragments Ordinaries Sound Materials ‎

Label: Test Tube

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Macchiato Funky - Godere Supremo

• Funk
• Acid rock
• Psychedelic
• Alternative rock
• Math rock

Artist: Macchiato Funky

Release: Bugella 20-50

Label: La bèl

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Batard Tronique - Katr'lett

cOmaRecOrdz

• Breakcore
• Electronic music
• Jungle
• Breakbeat

Artist: Batard Tronique

Release: Old Works (2008 - 2013)

Label: cOmaRec0rdz

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Indr0 - Micromundoconstante

Pueblo Nuevo

• Ambient drone
• Avant-garde
• Electro-acoustic
• Post-rock
• Crossover
• Drone
• Experimentalism
• Drone rock
• Minimalism

Artist: Indr0

Release: Los Cuerpos Recuperados

Label: Pueblo Nuevo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Forsaken Shadow - It All Looks The Same To Me

Death Roots Syndicate

• Singer-songwriter
• Americana
• Acoustic pop
• Folk pop

Artist: The Forsaken Shadow

Release: Home Alone Sessions

Label: Death Roots Syndicate/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] NODAmasanori - Dancing With The Sunlight

• Alternative dance
• Electro-house
• Acid house
• Electronic music

Artist: NODAmasanori

Release: EPV_081

Label: Elementalperspective

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Giku - Aion

Miasmah

• Ambient techno
• Electronic music
• IDM
• Glitch techno

Artist: Giku

Release: Palsecam (itoa) - We Are Just Borgs III EP 

Label: Miasmah 

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Montgomery Clunk - Sink The Clunkmobile

Free Music Archive

• Electro
• Electronic music
• Electrostep
• Alternative

Artist: Montgomery Clunk

Release: Superbus

Label: Error Broadcast 

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Fall Baby - Coastal Sweats

• Indie pop/rock
• Art pop
• Exotica pop
• Crossover
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Fall Baby

Release: Coastal Sweats

Label: Beko DSL

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Sick Rat - Street Corners

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Sampledelic
• Breaks
• Hip-hop
• Trip-hop
• Jazz
• Mood music
• Cinematic

Artist: Sick Rat

Release: Black And Noir 

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2018

Jon E. Erkkila – Every Man Needs A Mexican Mistress (2011)

Kill Mommy

Bandcamp

• Lo-fi 
• Country 
• DIY 
• Americana 
• Singer-songwriter

Comment: Jon E. Erkkila is a transgender female/shemale person who is proud to be the first transgender country superstar in the USA. Indeed, it is a huge honour, isn`t? Every Man Needs A Mexican Mistress is the country music case with DIY/lo-fi attitude. Sloppy banjos, and accidental harmonicas, and loose-fitting yet somehow charming (male-tinged) singing used to constitute an intriguing whole. I would like to call it a sort of country-exploitation issue because she used to manipulate with hillbilly and country clichès while having a tongue-in-cheek attitude. In truth, could you imagine a glamorous, vamped shemale standing over there and singing seriously the country songs. Although it embraces 11 tracks it will clock in at a 27-minute only but it is not problem. The issue is a part of a short existed Italian label, Kill Mommy. Additionally to the release she would have issued even more 14 albums. Let's discover them under the name Slow Groan) through Bandcamp.

[Teaser of the day] Sleepdealer - Home

• Sampledelic
• Mood music
• Cinematic
• Hip-hop
• Cloud rap
• Alternative

Artist: Sleepdealer

Release: Homesick

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Etterem - ECtBF 05

Nostress

• Experimental folk
• Spoken word
• Celtic music
• Crossover
• Epic
• Post-industrial
• New Weird Italy
• Avant-folk

Artist: Etterem

Release: Etterem's Catching the Big Fish

Label: Nostress

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Cinema Noir - Hopelandic

Nostress

• Post-rock
• Art rock
• Alternative rock
• Epic

Artist: Cinema Noir

Release: Children Kill Ants 

Label: Nostress

Year: 2012

The Pad Foundation – Variations On A Theme (2010)

Swishotheque

• IDM 
• Electronic music 
• Synth-pop 
• Mood music 
• Ambient pop 
• Chilltronica

Comment: these 47 minutes do create the impression of a cohesive release while listening to it the listener can feel common parts coming from one track and then transmitting into another. By the way, this is the method of this 9-track album by using one and the same element in different tracks, so it can be admitted it is an economical approach and effective result at the same time. On the other side, although one can perceive some commonness between the tracks there are also up disparate peaks. For instance, at Scotch Mist the track is built up on revolving piano chords, dreamy female vocal samples, and synthesised orchestrations and something else even more and all of that will be evolving and co-operating through the course in an irresistible manner. It is called synergy, isn't? The following track Elastoplast is remarkably more spastic and nervous – the beats are cut-up, and glitched-out yet being backed up by a beatific sloping upward. At times there are represented slight echoes, and vague sonic effects atop the algorithm of IDM-tinged rhythms. Undoubtedly it does not suffocate the spacey keenness of the release. It reminds me of some Estonian IDM/experimental electronic romantics like Uni, and Myrakaru for the beginning of the 00s. The issue is a part of the discography of Swishcotheque. Top slab.

[Teaser of the day] x.y.r - Into The Wild

• Exotica pop
• Lounge music
• Electronic 
• Dreamwave
• Glo-fi
• Mood music
• Avant-pop
• Post-pop

Artist: x.y.r.

Release: Mental Journey To B.​C.

Label: Not Not Fun/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Massimo Ruberti - Tycho

Elpa Music

• Contemporary classical
• Modern classical
• Art music
• Chamber music
• Mood music
• Conceptual
• Soundtrack

Artist: Massimo Ruberti

Release: Autour de la Lune

Label: Elpa Music

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Dioxadol Borges - Tecnochipland

Free Music Archive

• Improvised music
• Synth fusion
• Avant-pop
• Electro pop
• Crossover
• Art music
• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Experimental pop

Artist: Dioxadol Borges

Release: Siconauta Tourist Class

Label: Pan Y Rosas Discos

Year: 2016

The Sand – Deck Honey (2005)

Free Sample Zone

• Plunderphonics 
• Alternative dance 
• Sound collage 
• Mashup 
• Sampledelic 
• Electronic music

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

[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

[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

The Sway - When Worlds Collide

Karl Frank - Red Eyes

[Teaser of the day] Woodworkings - Lost Friends Found

• Modern classical
• Post-rock
• Avant-garde
• Epic
• Noise rock
• Crossover
• Art music
• Experimentalism

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.

[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

[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

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!

[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

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

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.