Non Dolet – Dreamlover EP (2018)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Darkwave 
• Neoclassical 
• Art pop 
• Trip-hop

Comment: Non Dolet is an artist from Russia who did contact with me for approximately 5 years ago. Now she has released a 4-track issue under the high-praised Bulgarian imprint Dusted Wax Kingdom. I shall have to mention her sound has been progressed over the years and it is a decent listening experience. By its mood, it is a bit darkened and murky though giving no whole hand to it. The listener can see saturated violet-tinged scenes behind the curtains where melancholy and sadness are formed into the state of art. Those majestic orchestrations (you can hear intriguing diffused melodica drones and faint whistles within it) and slowly evolving rhythmic patterns (a decelerated rock and roll beat which is called trip-hop is clearly drawn out) will result in stretched yet a bit obsessive compositions which look at you as if being a human being once having been existed. And hint at you you're lost, you're a ghost, you have no way to return. You will not bum out and get bummed out. The music as a state of art may be exceedingly delightful but undoubtedly this sort of music arouses one's sensations even more. A great listening.

Multi-Panel – Rekordgate II (2018)

Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Electronic 
• Alternative pop 
• Indie pop 
• Art pop 
• IDM 
• DIY 
• Ambient pop 
• Plinkerpop

Comment: indeed, it is time to give a comment on Ludo Maas' sequel to an album, Rekordgate I which had been released in March 2018. Similarly to it one can hear nylon-tinged acoustic guitars and bubbling electronic beats and wobbly synthesised sounds popping out for a while. In fact, Ludo Maas sings here as well though it is shardly decipherable because of being catatonic and pushed to the background. On the other side, it is not an example of shoegaze at least (or at least, it is the one and only common thread). However, in comparison to the previous notch it seems to be more restrained and phlegmatic as if coming through the mindset of a person of having suffered depression before it, he or she is yet fragile enough to trudge forward with more steady steps; for sure, it is the artist's choice as a step to go on and release brand new ones. Later on, listeners would give a retrospective estimation about each release within the series. Let's wait for the third one.

[Teaser of the day] Muhr - Brane Number 2

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Crossover
• Improvised music
• Electro-acoustic
• Post-rock
• Psycho-acoustic

Artist: Muhr

Release: The Forever Tunnels

Label: Miasmah

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Blood Bells - Destroy

• Post-punk
• Alternative rock
• Gothic rock
• Coldwave

Artist: Blood Bells

Release: The DarkSide of TBTCI, II

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself Records

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Grateful Shred - Feel Like A Stranger

• Soul rock
• Funk rock
• Live
• Yacht rock
• Crossover
• Alternative rock

Artist: Grateful Shred

Release: Grateful Shred: July 14, 2018 Brooklyn Bowl

Label: NYCTaper

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Taras Bul`ba - Miyuki

Jamendo

• Math rock
• Experimental rock
• Indie rock
• Psychedelic
• Alternative rock
• Crossover
• Stoner rock

Artist: Taras Bul`ba

Release: Incisione

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] The Antlers - Shiva

NYCTaper

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/ rock
• Art rock
• Live
• Space pop
• Psychedelic rock

Artist: The Antlers

Release: The Antlers Live at Cake Shop on 2009-01-22

Label: NYCTaper/Live Music Archive

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Holzkopf - The Swingers (Part 2)

• Post-industrial
• Power electronics
• Electronic music
• Rhythmic industrial
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde

Artist: Holzkopf

Release: The Sufferer of Conduits in the New Tarot

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp  

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Daniel Maze - The Chiefs Are Folding

Serein

• Deep house
• Alternative
• Ambient house
• Electronic music

Artist: Daniel Maze

Release: Red After Image

Label: Serein

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] K.D. Expression - MC Encounter

Nishi

• Chilltronica
• Ambient pop
• Mood music
• Electronic music

Artist: K.D. Expression

Release: Mental EP

Label: Nishi

Year: 2005

Maxim Trianov – A Chance To Remember (2014)

Nexsound

• Improvised music 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-rock 
• Electronic music
• Guitar ambient 
• Post-rock 
• Experimental electronica 
• Crossover 
• Electro-acoustic

Comment: Maxim Trianov is a musician from Kharkov, Ukraine whose 7-track issue (clocking in at a 48-minute) is predominantly an immersive thought through electric and acoustic guitars and electronics induced effects. Undoubtedly the main heaviness is set up by the guitars in different forms – at times it is set out as organic, subsequent progressions through the chords, at times it involves more incisive interruptions based on effects unit and effect control devices. As if getting obsessively into the essence of a sonic minutia to be explored. At times there are set up a dialogue between the guitars and a lurking atmosphere as if lashing the ghosts around and inside him. Electronic music is foremost set forth at The Morning After which is a platform to meld together glitched-out electronica and slamming electronic beats with broad progressive rock sweeps. The finishing track Outro is the electro-acoustic example. What I should say – imagine Slash were partly abandoned his rock star ambitions to play guitars in a more experimental mode. Of course I do not complain at all – Slash is a great guitar hero, and this case is an album of Maxim Trianov, who is also a great artist. This mind-provoking issue is a part of the discography of Nexsound, a Ukraine-based experimental imprint.

[Teaser of the day] Marisol Celestia - All Throughout The Night

Sirona-Records

• Alternative rock
• Singer-songwriter
• Slowcore
• Indie rock

Artist: Marisol Celestia

Release: A Never Ending Promise

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Pollux - Souvenirs (Ceox Legal Edit)

45RPM-Records

• Electronic music
• Downtempo
• Crossover
• Glitchstep
• Ambient dub
• Glitch-hop

Artist: Pollux

Release: Souvenirs

Label: 45RPM-Records

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] So I`m An Islander - Træj Faue (Three Colours)

• Indie pop
• Drone pop
• Baroque pop
• Post-rock
• Epic
• Chamber pop
• Art pop
• Ork-pop

Artist: So I`m An Islander

Release: Fle'e Mælo'die

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Peach Tree - Hammerhead

• Synthwave
• Alternative
• Electronic music
• EBM
• Industrial electro

Artist: The Peach Tree

Release: The Vases EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp  

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Takeshi Nakamura - Base

Nocharizma

• Glitchtronica
• Avant-electronica
• Abstract
• Electronic music
• Experimental electronica
• Clicks and cuts

Artist: Takeshi Nakamura

Release: Eros, Grotesque, Nonsense

Label: Nocharizma

Year. 2005

VA – Gauchito Gil contra Colocolo (2010)

Los Emes Del Oso

Free Music Archive

• Electro-acoustic 
• Space pop 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• No Wave 
• Drone pop 
• Avant-garde 
• Leftfield 
• Experimentalism 
• Improvised music 
• Lo-fi 
• Avant-pop 
• Psychedelic 
• DIY 
• Progressive pop 
• Tropicàlia pop 
• World fusion

Comment: Gaucho Surrealista, Un Festin Sagital, Radikal Satan, Manuel De La Pileta, Onda Bidón, Tomates Rocky, Los Siquicos Litoralenos, Manuel J. Grotesque, Musicos Del Metro, Kellies, Dadalú, Caballo Loco, Collectivo No, Ø+yn, Pibes De Merlo, Los Pastores De Gelatina, Radio Chilena, and Oso* Y Los Mongos Freneticos are the names represented on this compilation of a fairly broad extent. Thanks to an imprint, Los Emes Del Oso to whom some glimpses from Chile, and Argentina are represented over there. Lots of improvised and immediate sounds (as if straightly from the street and a carnival) make me feel alright, although the processed sounds presented over there are also fine and freely floating – from Os Mutantes-stylized avant/prog mixed Tropicàlia pop (indeed, music does not recognize the geographical borders) and old school radio chirping to murky drone and darkwave flickers to deranged psychedelic addressing and spacey theremin/analogue synth-based developments and warped ethnic/world music extravaganzas. Undoubtedly you can find out much different attitude and parochial approach (in a good sense, of course) you are not allowed to discover in Europe, and the USA. Top notch which makes me psyched out.

Masato Abe – Author (2017)

Elementperspective

Free Music Archive

• Post-rock 
• Modern classical 
• Art music 
• Ambient 
• Epic 
• Post-classical 
• Crossover 
• Piano music 
• Contemporary classical

Comment: In fact, in the previous year I decided not to send my review about the best albums to a public magazine because it should be the closed case. Yet it is ridiculous to expect to have a good review about the albums having been published during an annual span. If there is any possibility to represent it dynamically (via Internet) then do it. Let's consider this excellent Tokyo, Japan-based Masato Abe`s Author (also known from the duo Swan Kid Sue). I have been listening to it for hours today and there is no doubt it should be added to the list of the best albums 2017. It is the case. More profoundly, it is as easy as feather, it is as heavy as honey, it is as dreamy as your most dreamy reveries. This 8-track adept colossus does not distinguish the borders between contemporary classical, and majestic, chamber-tinged rock swathes. At times the course is amended by vocal glimpses, concrete sounds, and sublime piano tenures. All is floating slowly over your fragile soul and affected mind. There is no hurry and a listener should not rush. If you are listening to it this whole makes impact on you anyway. All is blossoming and inevitably wrapping around you. Like me too. Just hear at Small Window Shows So Many Delight those effortlessly rolling violins and charming orchestrations to make up your blissful Sunday. The release is a bit in the discography of elementperspective. So it can be said the case is Japanese wholly.

nula.cc – Trilogy (2018)

Bandcamp

• Drone 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Avant-electronica 
• Abstract 
• Sound art 
• Experimental electronica 
• Microtonal 
• Microsound 
• Non-music 
• Post-industrial

Comment: nula.cc, a Prague, The Czech Republic-based artist is back with three tracks based on friction, and involving such materials as wood, metal, skin, water, and air. For many years ago such a sort of concept would have been interesting but I would soon realize that either the sound used to self-organize itself or there are certain limits for the sound to push the sound into a before existed form or forms. Or maybe human ears are way too weak to get into true new sounds. Or maybe your imagination begins to work in a way to produce sounds of having no existence in reality. It already enters into the philosophical question of phenomenon. However, it is yet interesting to listen to it even though it consists of off-white hisses, vaguely pulsating microscopic chips, exquisite electro-acoustic effects. I guess the artist has exploited contact microphones to provide the essence of the aforementioned materials and mediums. All in all, it is an intriguing whole which feeds your imagination and broadens some listening experience.

Luca Calcagno – La Pioggia Rinfresca L’Estate (2017)

In Your Ears

• Indie pop/rock 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Pomp pop 
• Pop rock

Comment: it is nice to be back at the discography of an Italian imprint, In Your Ears Netlabel (for instance, I can remember such a great release as Drunkeninstrumentcorporation`s Always The Same 10 Fucking Songs (2016). Luca Calcagno is a self-taught musician who is working in a music store. There are represented a couple of tracks, the first of them, the self-titled track is a straightforward, deeply ploughing guitar-based composition without any adornments and magniloquent overstatements. OK, the whole adornment is embraced by the key changes on the guitar. It is an example of AOR and regarding the emotions it is more suppressed in comparison to the subsequent track. It is a decelerated chamber/soul/pop rock example with bombastic sweeps on the guitar and full-fledged fringes on synths. It is a rock balladry without growing into disgraceful sensations and embarrassing feels. All the lyrics are sung in Italian.

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