The Bordellos – The Underground Tape Vol. 11 (2018)

Bandcamp

• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Garage rock 
• Folk rock

Comment: similarly to most of the UK-based The Bordellos' previous issues it is a mushy one veering away from awkward littery balladry to more impetuous and twitchy garage rock gears with some hints at hirsute Americana, and folk rock. In truth, post-punk has also been a main fare in their menu though it is not the recent case. Just getting together on weekends to have some beers and chin music and thereafter improvise some tracks at their own disposal. Sounds like fun. Despite some slightly adverse adjectives mentioned above The Bordellos provide examples of inner flaring which in fact are catchy. However, the favourites of mine are such releases as Gary Glitter EP, How To Lose Friends And Influence No-One, and The Bordellos Underground Tape 10.

Swain – The Single (2004)

Imaginary Albums

• Indietronica 
• Electronic music 
• Post-rock 
• Experimental pop 
• Alternative 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Art pop 
• Indie

Comment: this batch of 12 tracks came out under such imprint as Imaginary Albums in 2004 which had been releasing the records in the 00s being a dwelling place for DIY and lo-fi music. It embraced such artists as The Harvey Girls, Santa Inferno, Hubre, Procrustes, Tiny Creatures, C.J Pizarro among others. The Swain's issue which was the first nod in the discography of the label is multifaceted due to disparate dodges though the main base of it is delineated as electronic with intention to create an indie tinged stuff. From littery electronic shuffling to more laid-back and thoughtful glimpses with steady electronic layers and blissful glockenspiel induced chord leads which frequently remind of Tortoise, for example. Indeed, the listener can hear jazzy undercurrents regarding those rambling and clattering drums here and there (the best example is Synapsis). Indeed, the construction of some tracks is progressive and artsy with stepwise yet artistically overcoming effects ultimately. Fine stuff.

[Teaser of the day] Tree No Leaves - Ghost Town Rider

• Psych-rock
• Indie rock
• Progressive rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: Tree No Leaves

Release: Sleepy Shakti

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Asher - V

Con-v

• Modern classical
• Experimentalism
• Contemporary classical
• Piano music
• Art music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Asher

Release: Perpetuals

Label: Con-v

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Victor Jouk - Disco Night - Omega

Haze

• Electro pop
• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik
• Experimental electro

Artist: Victor Jouk

Release: Cosmic Voyager

Label: Haze

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Caïman Nain - Too Early

Los Emes Del Oso

• Synth-punk
• Art punk
• Alternative
• Cyber punk
• Electro-punk

Artist: Caïman Nain

Release: Cassette

Label: Los Emes Del Oso

Year: 2011 

Ryonkt – Sea (2007)

Noise-Joy

• Drone 
• Abstract 
• Minimalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Ambient 
• Epic 
• Electronic music 
• Ambient drone

Comment: Ryonkt is a Sapporo, Japan-based Ryo Nakata born in 1984. He is being known due to his tenures to such imprints as Audiotalaia, Resting Bell, Dog Eared Records, Hibernate, Noise-Joy, Smallfish, Experimedia and some other ones. I have recently listened to some shows having spot on contemporaneous alternative pop/rock/indie/electronic music but I have to admit most of it chimes like listening to infantile poppy nonsense because it is so dull, sterile, predictable and hollow. By employing technological richness without spawned with poignant ideas. Ryonkt`s Sea sounds like a weirdly flourishing symphony, serious music if to juxtapose it with aforementioned ones. The one and only genuine stuff comes mostly through Bandcamp, web-labels, and underground labels today. Nuff said, however. I am not wondering anymore why the sales under the gigantic imprints drop down and at Bandcamp it will be rising up. These 928 seconds are indeed a contemporary counterpart of symphonic music through those descending and epically ascending droning oscillations which at times become freezing at one point like a refined reflection of still life. Doubly refined. In classical sense, it is tuneless yet there are somehow magnetising elements or inner synergy between sonic particles of the drone to conjure up a similarly overcoming and uplifting feeling. The mesmerising issue is a part of the discography of Noise-Joy.

Herzliyya Boardwalk String Sextet – Godzilla´s In The East (1989/2018)

The Living Archive of Underground Music

Archive.org

• Improvised music 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Abstract 
• Improvised noise 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde

Comment: this release is twofold consisting of compositions both longer than 22 minutes. Behind the issue is the Israeli/Jewish Joseph Copolovich whose sound is built upon smithereens-alike noises, intermittent concrete sounds, tectonic bass rumbling and much more I am not able to describe it for though. I am tempted to find out a possible location for this release but I am not allowed to do it. Undoubtedly it is crushing and crashing as if the aforementioned elements were put into some kind of virtual washing machine and then all the produced audible debris taken out from within it and put gravitating toward comprehensible centres (read: human beings). Of course, one can imagine an even more funny-tragic mixed event when some amateurish kabbalist were demolished under the curse because of his/her falsely chosen words. Getting knocked down by the Golem. The question is whether is the music positively or negatively appreciated? For me, it is quite neutral by listening experience because of being the abstract strip yet by historical importance it is a positive cut. We know a little about Israeli noiseniks except Dror Feiler who though has been living in Sweden for a while. The release was initially released in 1989 and now it is picked up by Don Campau`s The Living Archive of Underground Music.

[Teaser of the day] Echo Chamber Rope Trick - Hallo Jam

Free Music Archive

• Psych-rock
• DIY
• Improvised music
• Alternative rock
• Lo-fi

Artist: Echo Chamber Rope Trick

Release: Let the Wolves In

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2018 

[Teaser of the day] Ergo Phizmiz - Mr Punch Finds a Machine Gun

Free Music Archive

• Sound collage
• Electronic music
• Leftfield
• DIY
• Sampledelic
• Experimental electronica
• Post-psychedelic electronica

Artist: Ergo Phizmiz

Release: DIK DOK

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] NO NITZ - Noisila No. II

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Electronic music
• Non-music
• Improvised noise
• Dada music
• Old school industrial

Artist: No NITZ

Release: Conversation

Label: CS Industrial 1982-2010

Year: 2018

Gozne – Fin del Tiempo (2017)

Pueblo Nuevo

• Kraut-techno 
• Motorik 
• Minimal techno 
• Electronic music 
• Techno pop 
• Ambient 
• Deep techno 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Drone

Comment: these 8 tracks clocking in at a 46 minute are set up to provide an example of techno music at the artist`s own disposal. The main instrument is a thick bass line which is arranged in different forms and through different frequencies. It reminds of the era when Kraftwerk intended to shift from guitars, a flute, an organ and the drums mixed experimental rock format into an overtly synthetic apparition (by denoting such outings as Ralf und Florian (1973), and Autobahn (1974)). Undoubtedly Gozne`s motorik impresses me because if you have grown up or at a time rejected other styles by listening to Faust, Neu!, and early Kraftwerk this profound motorik trace is put deeply into your perception. It is not only hypnotic, it is transcendental because it is seminal all the time - in other words - it is ahead of its time. It is proud, it is reluctant, it is self-confident because its value is distinctly delineated in the history of pop music. And as you can see by the recent case the influence continues to grow further. Of course, while talking about and trying to understand the contemporaneous filter should be added in between to get a proper comprehension. At Fin del Tiempo the listener can hear different variations of it – stubborn techno pop at EL FIN (Ez. 7.2); TIERRA NUEVA (Ap. 21.1) is the most disorienting composition within it due to those squeaking-squealing concrete sounds as if coming outside your headphones, from the street or as if someone is ringing the doorbell of your apartment. So I took away the headphones to make difference… . Secondly, it is an exuberant, undulatory ambient track and because of it being distinctive from the rest. In truth, the opening track EL HADES (Ap. 20.14) is quite similar thanks to those high-pitched yet lone electronic chords atop space-y droning. By its form it is rather an example of electro-acoustic music. This impressive brace of tracks is a part of the discography of Pueblo Nuevo. Both of them are the Chilean ones.

[Teaser of the day] Yuko Ikoma - Prestidigitateur Chinois

• Toytronica
• Art pop
• Electronic music
• Conceptual
• Alternative

Artist: Yuko Ikoma

Release: Erik Satie ( digital )

Label: Musica Moschata

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Azureflux - Waves

Jamendo

• Bitpop
• Electronic music
• Chipbreak
• Tracker music
• Chiptune
• Nintendocore

Artist: Azureflux

Release: Bit Pops

Label: enoughrecords/Jamendo/Bandcamp/Free Music Archive

Year: 2018

Muhr – Nod Your Head Don't (2014)

Bandcamp

• Mash-up 
• Sound collage 
• Mixtape 
• Hip-hop 
• Rap 
• Electronic music 
• Remixes

Comment: it is quite surprising to find Vincent Fugère is such position to introduce his new beginning. It is miles away from previous doings, far away from exquisite electronic music, vivid post-rock, and hazily borderline modern classical music. Yeah, this mixtape based on 35 minutes consists of hip-hop beats, rap rhymes, thick bass lines, abrasive sonic progressions and sprawling electronic spaces. Propulsive moments are variegated with more laid-back, even dreamy glimpses and thereof creating a dynamic feel of deliverance throughout the course. Additionally to his own oeuvre he employs other artists` music like Jay Z, Arvo Pärt, Millimetrik, GY!BE, Dinah Washington, Julie London, and Max Richter. In these cases the Montrèal-based artist edits or remixes them. All in all, it is a creditable introduction toward a new future.

[Teaser of the day] Herzog - Bellwether iii

Serein

• Musique concrète
• IDM
• Ambient techno
• Microtechno
• Glitch-techno
• Electronic music

Artist: Herzog

Release: The Autumn Parade EP

Label: Serein

Year:  2005

Jessica Worms – R I S E (2017)

Death Roots Syndicate

• Punk rock 
• Art punk
• Speed metal 
• Hardcore

Comment: Jessica Worms is not a physical woman in reality because behind it are two men, Gregory Debaco (voice, guitars), and Lincoln Tomazzoni (the drums) who demonstrate one quite ideal way of how punk should be interpreted and showcased. In truth, there is a woman on the sleeve but it is the embodiment of the devil. Lots of key chords, powerful yet vivid guitar riffs, low frequencies, and intense drumming, and all the aforementioned elements are channelized adeptly into a synergistic whole. The permanent whirlpool around the listener's brain. The 6-track album was recorded in Brazil under the Brazilian imprint Contrabandeando Discos and the US-based imprint Death Roots Syndicate. The Stooges, Motörhead are those introducing ghosts at the threshold. The really surprising and exceptional track is the starting one, Pipeline (Jaguara Thunders Versão), thought for the surfboarding people in the first place. All in all, it is an honest, convincing and creditable record, I guess an additional value may be gotten from a live session.

Thrust Pomp – Very Cool Party (2016)

20kbps

• Rave music 
• Electronic music 
• Hardstep

Comment: in some sense, this 4-notch outing sounds like a mocking caricature of such styles as rave, acid house, and acid techno. First of all, the set consists nominatively of such parts as Awesome Sex Party, Roaring Dirty Party, Extremely Nice Party, and Truly Marvellous Party. I recently watched a quite infantile, clichè-ridden, smartass citations-stuffed motion picture called Friends with Benefits (2011) and this issue would suitably have been a proper soundtrack for the film if Mila Kunis were replaced by some thematically relevant "actresses" like Erika B. or Simona V. and Justin Timberland could have much more fun in the alternative case. Heavily thumping rhythms are overdriven by electro progressions as if the depiction of a heavy... at different angles. More actions and less words. Less verbal onanism. The suggestively seedy release is produced by Vziel, and released on 20kbps imprint.

[Teaser of the day] Turning Torso - Glossolalia

• Electronic music
• Dubtronica
• Alternative
• Glitch dub
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Turning Torso

Release: Xenoglosia

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Albert Negredo - Paradona

MonoKraK

• Sampledelic
• Ambient
• Minimalism
• Cinematic

Artist: Albert Negredo

Release: Paricolintencia

Label: MonoKraK

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Empirical Evidence - Socialism

Nostress

• Alternative dance
• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Sampledelic
• Indietronica
• Leftfield

Artist: Empirical Evidence

Release: Psychische Revolution

Label: Nostress

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Ant GM - Restborg

Soisloscerdos

• Alternative dance
• Tech-electro
• Crossover
• Electro pop
• Kraut-techno
• Techno pop
• Electronic music

Artist: Ant GM

Release: Herbal Underground

Label: Soisloscerdos/Free Music Archive

Year: 2018

Macroform – Spacious (2018)

Jamendo

• Mood music 
• Chilltronica 
• Electronic music 
• Synth-pop 
• Ambient pop 
• Kosmische Musik

Comment: these 29 blithesome minutes can be compared with Tangerine Dream and the so-called Berlin School though the US-based Macroform`s 10-track issue chimes like a diluted, watery version of it. Yet it does not mean it is weaker than the German legends` music. It is not the point at all. More concretely, it does mean some similar sonic templates and stylistic elements are adopted to be added to the sonic body yet its emotive side is arranged quite differently. For sure, it is a blithesome journey through outer space, across the meadow, on one`s serene mood. For instance, listen to Verbatim which is thoroughly awesome. In fact, at times some compositions go onto a more thoughtful strip yet the sensation is bittersweet rather than sad and somehow depressive I would dare to say. Obviously Tedious is the most "invasive" track on it with those readily bouncy rhythmic parts and thumping bass drumming at bottom. There is no hesitation to have any doubts about the experience and skills by Macroform. With the recent one you can listen to 43 albums by him at Jamendo (since 2006).

Go Genre Everything – Ghost Dreamer (2014)

Munchiegohilarious

• Krautrock 
• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimental rock 
• Psych-rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Trance rock 
• Space rock 
• Doom rock 
• Drone rock

Comment: this album of 9 tracks is about those human beings who used to imagine the ghosts really exist and because of that they also can be considered ghosts. Actually the combo can also be considered a phantom band because it is quite hard to discover some definitive information about them. First of all, the Australian Go Genre Everything used to exclusively release their sound under the domestic imprint Munchiegohilarious (you can find out approximately 10 releases from within). Formally it is a skewed release because 4 tracks are longer than 13 minutes and the rest of 5 tracks each of them used to be shorter than a span of 6 minutes. However, musically these 85 minutes are going to alter your mind due to those knee-deep psychedelic improvisations, and hirsute noisy soundscapes with such graters as haphazard, free-form drumming, dada-alike speech sound, didgeridoo-induced drones, loopy guitar-driven walls, lycanthropic growling and howling. If it seems to be wild and setting you free at the same time, then something it is still inside you you will have not cut primordial natural roots yet. The predominant rhythmic pattern of the issue is thick and groovy as if providing a dance-appealed material for the doom, space and krautrock-septic geeks. Hypnotic and baneful. More profoundly, killing boring feelings and tedious life aspects. All in all, it is overcoming and diving you potty in a positive sense. It may involve even more – it can be depicted as a pilgrimage through the purgatory where the intention and the ambience do encounter and interact with one another. Or a process of exorcism. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of AXXONN, Circle Of Lebanon (both artists come from Australia), TFSL, LFC, Outer Gods, Ashtray Navigations, Vibracathedral Orchestra. In fact, the album`s sound used to partially connect to even more artists, from the dada music and freaked-out acts to free jazz and drone music to noise and sound art. A cut above for sure.

[Teaser of the day] The Hathaway Family Plot - Hitchhiking - Trucker with a Red Cap

• Art pop
• Electronic
• Avant-pop
• Post-classical
• Leftfield
• Experimental pop

Artist: The Hathaway Family Plot

Release: Bethlehem Is Burning

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Sun Devoured Earth - Messy Clothes

• Darkwave
• Shoegaze
• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Dream pop

Artist: Sun Devoured Earth

Release: Autumn Songs

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Ringo Deathstarr - Girls We Know

• Shoegaze
• Alternative rock
• Noise pop
• Indie rock
• Nugaze

Artist: Ringo Deathstarr

Release: Mauve

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Töfie - Geislun

• Dream pop
• Alternative pop
• Electronic
• Indie
• Synthwave
• Art pop
• Indietronica

Artist: Töfie

Release: From Earth LP

Label: Linge

Year: 2018

1g0g – Quiet Cube (2010)

Drill

• Live session 
• Avant-garde
• Electronic music 
• Sound art
• Dark ambient 
• Musique concrète 
• Experimentalism 
• Minimalism 
• Drone 
• Ambient

Comment: this bunch of 53 minutes is an old recording from a Butoh theatre (Japanese dance theatre) in Sankt Peterburg, Russia taped in 2008. Undoubtedly it is an intriguing, adventorous issue though the very first minutes of it are needed to get into the point of it. In fact, what is the core and intention of this issue? How much the volume knob should be cranked up? Actually there are hidden many points into it to be found out by the listener. First of all, one can hear iterative patterns coming over your head in an enchanting way. It embarks on with a pattern of the repetitive ringing of church bells by representing it in a way to connect the mundane and heavenly aspect. There is up glitched-out debris, there are represented sounds reminding of the scrapes of metal, sometimes you can hear fascinating drones and murmuring and hectic short wave radios and mind-altering spoken words (in Finnish) which started to live their own life which later will be replaced stepwise by autumnal, a bit caliginous drone ambient and then in turn by splashing watery sounds and spatial female singing. However, the pace of the album continues to be the same – hypnotically iterative. The more you listen to it the more this magnificent world by Gosha Solntsev (a part of the art combo Noises Of Russia) opens up inside your spiritual and mental cerebral centre. The great issue is a part of the discography of Drill Records, and Haze Records (unfortunately I could not find out the link of the latter one anymore).

Solxis – Dance Dance Dance (2018)

Jamendo

• Trance 
• Electronic music 
• EDM 
• Chilltronica 
• Progressive house 
• Crossover 
• Synth-pop
• House

Comment: Solxis is an artist from USA whose 11-track outing is a solid example of electronic dance music of featuring such styles as trance, techno, electro, synth-pop and (progressive) house. Undoubtedly it is professionally mixed up and thereafter represented in a neat format. At times such sort of music is filled in with tedious clichès and being dry but it is above the complaint. At times the interfaces between the styles are oiled with atmospheric glimpses by adding an extra charge to the whole. By investigating the artist's previous and adjacent releases there are up two features to pop out. First of them is thematic because the artist has been issuing releases being distinctly related to a music genre at a time (for instance, Funked Up, Spa Dreams, Bossa Chillanova, Ambient Guitar etc). Secondly, the recent year is being truly fertile for the artist because of having issued approximately 20 items. Come close to those ones. Solxis says the set may be suited well for retail stores and fitness centers/gyms. Yeah, it does but not only over there.

[Teaser of the day] Daigoro - William Herdman`s Cinema

ShutUpAndListen

• Ambient
• Minimalism
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism
• Microsound
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Daigoro

Release: William Herdmans Cinema

Label: ShutUpAndListen

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Roomdark - Antubis [Dedication To Stephen King)

Haze

• Experimental electronica
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde
• Post-psychedelic electronica
• World music

Artist: Roomdark

Release: Frothiness 

Label: Haze

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Burdeos - Santa Catherina

Miga

• Techno pop
• Alternative dance
• Electro-indie
• Synth-pop
• Electro pop
• Crossover
• Indietronica
• Electronic music

Artist: Burdeos

Release: Saudade

Label: Miga

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Komiku - Battle of Pogs

Free Music Archive

• Chiptune
• Nintendocore
• Electronic music
• Acid electro
• Tracker music
• Chipbreak
• Conceptual
• Primitronica
• Bitpop
• Alternative

Artist: Komiku

Release: Captain Glouglou's Incredible Week Soundtrack

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Weldroid - Hidden Treasure (Opaeq Remix)

• Electronic music
• Ambient pop
• Cosmic synth
• Remix
• Chilltronica

Artist: Weldroid

Release: Silicate Recursions

Label: Section 27

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] The Juliets - G.W.N.L

• Art pop
• Indie pop
• Vaudeville
• Music hall
• Avant-pop
• Music hall
• Alternative pop

Artist: The Juliets

Release: Perfect Season

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] USAISAMONSTER - Beh Beh

Free Music Archive

• Noise rock
• Avant-garde
• No Wave
• Experimentalism
• Improvised music
• Experimental rock
• Freeformfreakout
• Avant-rock

Artist: USAISAMONSTER

Release: 5

Label: Mass Dist

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Walt Thisney - The Void

Free Music Archive

• Post-classical
• Micronoise
• Modern classical
• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde
• Crossover
• Experimentalism

Artist: Walt Thisney

Release: Bhakthis

Label: Vulpiano/Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Windy Hill Mill - Four Woods

• Indietronica
• Ambient pop
• Dream pop
• Alternative
• Art pop
• Indie
• Electronic music
• Avant-pop

Artist: Windy Hill Mill

Release: Spring Carousel

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

Daniel Maze – Red After Image (2008)

Serein

• Ambient 
• Experimental electronica 
• Dub techno
• Epic  
• Electronic music 
• Glitchtronica 
• Ambient dub 
• Dreamwave
• Micronoise

Comment: as we know ambient as a musical style or as a part of a conglomeration of styles may be very beautiful and epic and profound even if being distracted by microscopic noises and glitches. In fact, such Canadian artists as Tim Hecker, and Scott Morgan aka Loscil have demonstrated that eloquently. The same can be said about a third representative from within the country, Daniel Maze. Red After Image which was released in 2008 takes on ambient music in a very alchemistic way with intention to produce emotive music. However, it is a main premise to produce a nice ambient outing. His family name Maze does denote the word labyrinth otherwise, and this bunch of 10 compositions is complex and highly enjoyable simultaneously. The tracks used to veer away from introverted electro-acoustic minutiae and faint microscopic squalls to serene dreamwave-esque insights to thick ambient and dub infused outlets. Those epic moments galore chime almost like symphonic vignettes. In spite of the different appearances the listener cannot perceive the feeling of different styles to square off with each other. All is either seamlessly intertwined with one another or followed by one another. There is up the definitive whole. In fact, ten years ago there was nobody talking about the label dreamwave but there it hovers around on the issue. Indeed, tracks like The Chiefs Are Folding used to be played on the indie shows now. As I said before it contains a bunch of 10 tracks but there is no need to differentiate one track from another. All is sticked together organically and seamlessly. The stunning one is a part of the discography of Serein.

[Teaser of the day] Cinchel - Time with Dinosaurs, the Flying Ones

• Free folk
• Post-concrète
• Epic
• Psych-folk
• New Weird America
• Avant-folk
• Drone folk
• Minimalism
• Post-folk
• Weird folk
• Organic electronica
• Experimental folk

Artist: Cinchel

Release: A Sad Study in Temporal Dissonance

Label: Patient Sounds/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Bryyn - Into the Ark

Jamendo

• Indie folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Alt-folk
• Americana
• Folk indie
• Art folk
• Folktronica

Artist: Bryyn 

Release: Pink Noise

Label: Self-released/Jamendo

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] K4MMERER - Dream Train

Jamendo

• Electronic pop
• Electro pop
• Alternative dance
• Synth-pop
• Electro-funk

Artist: K4MMERER

Release: Mind Train

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2018

EE7A - Immunity

Atomic Butterfly – Atomic Butterfly (1985)

Bob Chaos

• Hard rock 
• Heavy metal 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Live session
• Crossover
• Krautrock 
• Improvised music 
• Math rock 
• Space rock

Comment: there has been a coon`s age since I last reviewed something from an obscure imprint called Bob Chaos Recordings. It can be said most of the compositions from within come out of the 80s. Outside the imprint there has been slight traces of it. I can remember for a release of WM Recordings called Extremely mild and pleasant tasting The best of Bob Chaos Recordings 1984-1986 (one of the artists appeared on it was Atomic Butterfly). And four more issues by Phil Reavis. By the way, Phil Reavis was a member of Atomic Butterfly, a name which used to have resemblance with Iron Butterfly, a combo which did contribute strongly to the development of heavy rock, and heavy metal. In fact, by listening to the albums and watching the pictures of the so-called heavy metal and hard rock combos from the end-60s and the beginning-70s the case used to be frequently thoroughly psychedelic and hippy by its nature although some violent threads started already to appear within the combos` sound. It is the case because Atomic Butterfly`s 12-track issue - unfortunately I was allowed to download 10 tracks only because a couple of them had problems with the downloading links - is as rough and hirsute as a piece of corroded iron. In truth, Atomic Butterfly is a live session record filled in with stomping drums, abrasive guitar noodling and acidic organ playing. I like that shitty sound quality. In any cases, if are searching for a robust, refreshing experience then you should come over to this legacy. It is a frantic instance of improvised music being far away from a neat, commerically oriented, often contemporary hard rock example (nuff said). You can hear even some motorik/krautrock, and math rock patterns although officially the latter term was not invented yet. In any cases, for once again, crank up the volume knob and get your rocks off on listening to it with your neighbours.

[Teaser of the day] Tony Diana - Blood Portal Breechers

Jamendo

• Drone 
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Illbient
• Post-concrète
• Sound art
• Abstract
• Dytopbient
• Post-industrial
• Dark ambient
• Electronic music
• Art music

Artist: Tony Diana

Release: Orbis Alius

Label: enoughrecords/Jamendo/Free Music Archive/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Background Radiation - Radiate

No Source

• Indietronica
• Lo-fi
• Dream pop
• Plinkerpop
• Indie pop
• DIY
• Drone pop
• Alternative pop
• Electronic music

Artist: Background Radiation

Release: Moot Point EP

Label: No Source

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Alinoe - Everyday Routine

Bump Foot

• Electronic music
• Alternative dance
• Art house
• Minimal house
• Deep house

Artist: Alinoe

Release: Almost 22 P.M.

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2017

MacroNoise – Various Species (2018)

Crime League

• Electronic music 
• Breakcore
• Post-kraut 
• Cosmic synth 
• Electro 
• Crossover 
• Breakbeat
• Kosmische Musik 
• Alternative dance 
• EBM

Comment: MacroNoise is the one-man-project of Tomas Sebelka, an artist from Prague, the Czech Republic. I can remember for he issued an album called My Steps Lead Backwards on Kahvi Collective at the end of the previous year. His 5-track issue Various Species which is issued on Toronto, Canada-based Crime League is a frantic patchwork of different styles and intentions as hinted at by the title of the issue as well. More profoundly, angular electro grooves and agressively trudging (almost industrial) broken rhythms are balanced by spatial synthesisers and wrought sonic effects of voices and electronic keyboards and additionally plucking of natural strings in the vein of folktronic music. Eventually it is getting to gravitate toward the dance locale (especially at Still Alive). At times one can feel that all of that described above used to shift in different directions at the same time. It is called tectonic, isn't? In fact, it is an outing with the complex configuration which needs to have more listening times to convey proper touch. All in all, it is a solid post-kraut/Kosmische Musik release by assimilating old formats and changing them into a new one. As an overcoming and coherent release it should be remembered at the end of the year of 2018.

[Teaser of the day] tay_ploops - Slush March

• Avant-garde
• Freeformfreakout
• Dada music
• Post-psychedelic electronica
• Improvised music
• Experimentalism
• New Weird Canada

Artist: tay_ploops

Release: Spool Oops

Label: Pan Y Rosas Discos

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Lo Five - Someone Actually Lived Here

Upitup

• Lo-fi
• DIY
• Alternative dance
• Outsider house
• Electronic music

Artist: Lo Five

Release: My House Is My House - Volume 2

Label: Upitup

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] MASM - Pedestais

• Synth-pop
• Electronic pop
• New Wave
• Alternative pop
• Dance pop

Artist: MASM

Release: Marè Rasa

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Smany – Kotoba (2017)

Bunkai-Kei

• Art pop 
• Synth-pop 
• J-pop 
• Post-pop 
• Experimental pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Hip-hop 
• Post-classical
• Singer-songwriter 
• Urban music 
• Rap 
• Modern classical 
• Dream pop

Comment: by listening to this 8-track issue I just was thinking of how this electronic release could have been tagged 20 years ago, for instance? I guess it could have been labeled “electronic”, “techno” and probably devoid of “pop” suffix. From the 90s to the 10s a huge amount of water has flowed to the sea, much has changed around us and now such sort of sophisticated music is certainly within blood stream of poppy music. In fact, the Japanese artist's sound is bottomless due to an immense amount of elements arising from the bottom at a time and constituting interesting sonorous and stylistic combinations with one another. Fortunately Smany is adept in preserving the balance between the technical and melodic and harmonic side by buliding up a coherent and interactive configuration. At Echo she collaborates with rappers-MCs called himeshi & TPSOUND. The listener can hear a massive guitar-based background while in front of it being adorned with subtle tabla rhythms and floaty piano chords in one composition. At Emigre one can hear another wall of sound in the background. That`s soul-carved, that`s epic! Her voice is filled in with sweet dreams and aching for something intangible. At times she employs concrete sounds around her atmospheric singing. The results are enchanting. All in all, all is perfect, all is mind-arousing, all is overwhelming. This magnificent issue is a part of the discography of Bunkai-Kei, which is a favourite imprint of ours.

[Teaser of the day] Unthunk - Vertebrae

Free Music Archive

• New Weird Canada
• Chamber folk
• Art folk
• Medieval music

Artist: Unthunk

Release: Coin

Label: Happy Puppy

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Berthelot - Pliure VII

DNA Production

• Avant-garde
• Musique concrète
• Avant-electronica
• Acousmatic music
• Post-industrial
• Abstract
• Experimental electronica
• Field recording
• Experimentalism

Artist: Berthelot

Release: Dans les pliures des rêves synclinaux

Label: DNA Production

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Stillborn Blues - Paranoia`s Carousel

eg0cide Productions

• Art music
• Guitar ambient
• Avant-garde
• Avant-blues
• Improvised music
• Ambient rock
• Experimentalism

Artist: Stillborn Blues

Release: III

Label: eg0cide Productions

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Koala - Belezas Mortas

• Hip-hop
• Rap
• Sampledelic
• Urban music

Artist: Koala

Release: Atomo

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Nole Plastique - Cap

Nexsound

• Experimental electronica
• Folktronica
• Experimental rock
• Post-rock
• Glitch-folk
• Avant-rock
• Post-folk
• Glitchtronica
• Electronic music
• Crossover

Artist: Nole Plastique 

Release: Sourire En Souriant

Label: Nexsound

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Multi-Panel - Dielman

• Indietronica
• Alternative pop
• Lo-fi
• Folktronica
• DIY
• Epic

Artist: Multi-Panel

Release: Rekordgate I

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

FailedSitcom – Her Blameless Mystery (2010)

Daydream Generation

• Lo-fi 
• New Weird 
• Free folk 
• Freak folk 
• Weird folk 
• DIY 
• Electronic music 
• Folktronica 
• Toytronica 
• 8-bit 
• Chiptune

Comment: similarly to the project's another release Of Life's Declivity the recent case is a blend of cut-up electronic snippets and lighthearted folksy plucks. Furthermore, the 12-track issue is imbued with lo-fi and DIY aesthetic. However, it is the general description of the album. More profoundly, you can hear different minutiae from 8-bit rhythmic patterns to street music from Paris, from psychedelic electro bugs to harp driven lofty imaginations and even old-fashioned harpsichord chords stumbling over the course. Its methodological thread reminds me of the fancy Super Furry Animals though musically it is a disparate case. That's funny. At times the approach goes into a childish direction as if a stylised play for remembering all that naive and intact from your very childhood. This decent release is a part of the discography of The Daydream Generation.

Baltazàr – After Kanzai (2018)

Pueblo Nuevo

• Noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Post-industrial 
• Leftfield 
• Electronic music 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Improvised music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Psycho-acoustic

Comment: in truth, this is obviously the first issue coming out from Cuba being appeared at RMH. Indeed, Fidel Castro is dead and Cuba, Island of Freedom is not the same anymore as it has been for decades beforehand. One of the new signs is this 10-notch whole due to its highly provoking and unnerving nature. Honestly, I didn't expect to find it from Cuba. By immersing in noise torrents and frantic electronic appearances (for instance, spasmodic electronic flickers and saturated improvisations and abstract signal-alike beeps). On the other side, the frenetic side is a bit balanced by string instruments though the nature of it is also harsh rather than gentle. At times the listener can hear silently flowing sampledelic undercurrents as if bearing a hidden message. This highly galvanized release is a part of the discography of a Chilean release, Pueblo Nuevo.

Tinyfolk – Incredible Snow (2011)

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• Drone pop 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Electronic music 
• DIY 
• Electro-indie 
• Synth-pop

Comment: soon 10 years will be passed by from the moment when I did discover the incredible world of netlabels, platforms like Archive.org, Free Music Archive, Jamendo, CLLCT, The Daydream Generation and many outings within them. There was then the initial, true user-friendly version of Lastfm through which I did contact with Tinyfolk and discovered his releases. Indeed, all his issues were released through Bloomington, Indiana-based CLLCT which was a bottomless source for the contemporary DIY and lo-fi scene of the USA. It is redundant to speak out I truly miss those times. However, Incredible Snow is a 4-track issue and crafted after Ross Woods (now he is she under the name Sara June Woods) moved from Bloomington to the Windy City. Before that he had created a loads of issues of mixed quality but the recent one reflects on his maturity in coherent songwriting and because of it I would like to partly avoid the tag lo-fi although it is a stylistic lo-fi example. It is a great release with melodically catchy teasers although the release is more minimal than Ross/Sara's previous issues. I guess similarly to his previous issues it is created on Apple Garageband but without any guitars and ukuleles. It is fully electronic with synthesised drones and orchestrations. You can hear the female singing occasionally probably belonging to Meghan Lamb from Iron Like Nylon. This is her one of the latest issues before the project came to the end and she started a new project, Pretty Swans with Meghan, and Jim Laczkowski (Garden On A Trampoline).

Tripnectar – The World Is Yours (2017)

MNMN

Archive.org

• Electronic music 
• Chillstep 
• Alternative  
• Chilltronica 
• Sampledelic 
• Trap 
• Dubstep

Comment: Tripnectar is a producer from a small town from Siberia, Russia and The World Is Yours gets a third place chronologically in the list of four releases so far. The 9-notch outing consists of relaxing beats even if some more acute frequencies and angular patterns are incorporated into it, and truly atmospheric layers filled in with synthesised orchestrations, tectonic dubstep inflected bass thudding and slowly rotating phrases and reverberant effects toward the rhythmic backbone. At Left-Right the listener can hear more outlined trap cadences injecting more life to the whole. One of the favourite pieces of mine is South thanks to the murky, scurrilous monologue from a movie and a wonky rhythm to keep shuffling thereafter. All in all, Tripnectar is on the right track. The solid release is a part of the discography of MNMN Records, a Russian imprint.

[Teaser of the day] Mountain Cloth - The Wasps of Summer

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• DIY
• Twee pop

Artist: Mountain Cloth

Release: Haircutter

Label: Giant Manilow

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Gamardah Fungus - Two Hemispheres, Two Worlds

Turbinicarpus

• Post-rock
• Post-metal
• Art rock
• Crossover
• Ambient rock
• Doom rock
• Improvised music

Artist: Gamardah Fungus

Release: Two Hemispheres, Two Worlds

Label: Turbinicarpus

Year: 2010

elconEstharoe – Imenginations (2018)

Murmure Intemporel

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Experimental electronica 
• Avant-electronica 
• Drone
• Experimentalism 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde

Comment: it is said that these 42 minutes come out from a pyramidic-machine, which converts electromagnetic signals and cosmic background into an audible spectrum. Subtlety and roughness are represented simultaneously through the compositions. At times it reminds me of a possible post-apocalyptic vision when all is destroyed but there is a new, powerful impulse to come out as soon as possible to embark on a new life. It contains a lot of metallic hisses and rusty noises as if a sign of the subsequences of a defunct civilization set in ruins due to the corrupted initial premises. Indeed, through all this technical debris as a sign of decay you can hear more mellow sounds like slight orchestrations, spatial ambient hovers as a sign of memories of a once existed full-fledged society. It is like a marred interface or circuit bending which does not function correctly. The bent title Imenginations provides an impulse about the tension and artificial wrongdoing between the abovementioned ones. By perceiving this in that way it is quite painful. The 10-notch issue is a part of the discography of Murmure Intemporel.

[Teaser of the day] Sotra - SpaceBorn

U-Torn

• Synth fusion
• Kosmische Musik
• Space music
• Krautrock
• Cosmic fusion
• Electronic music

Artist: Sotra

Release: Wayfarer

Label: U-Torn

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Skala Collective - Waiting For Something

Clinical Archives

• Dub rock
• Psychedelic
• Electronic
• Art rock
• Avant-rock
• Krautrock
• Experimental rock

Artist: Skala Collective

Release: Black Constellation

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2011

Lately Kind of Yeah – Galaxie Depression (2017)

Vulpiano

Bandcamp

• Ambient rock 
• Art rock 
• Alternative 
• Minimalism 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Post-rock

Comment: first of all, this 7-track issue comes out from the US-based imprint Vulpiano Records and contains a couple of long-running compositions (for instance, Resonanz, and Erinnerung reach the mark of 20-minute, Adaptieren even more, clocking in at a 31-minute). Secondly, Vulpiano Records is a home record for some albums by the France-based Natural Snow Buildings, one of the most outstanding artists within the experimental folk/post-folk/New Weird movement. Galaxie Depression does have some common threads with Aldebaran, The Night Country, and The Alpha Centauri due to its minimally changing approach through long progressions while being imbued with spatial instrumental incantations. In true, Lately Kind Of Yeah`s music runs in the vein of (post-)rock music, that`s the main difference. Although it says something there are up many additional elements either. The artist likes to improvise on the guitar by cranking up the volume and crafting intriguing zig-zag-alike patterns and crackling effects as if playing it through a broken amplifier on the instrument. The instrumental incantations are interspersed with enchantingly iterative cycles, wide guitar bows and even ear-deafening outbursts. By listening to Resonanz it is an example of eargasmic music. All the titles are in German and referencing to the nature of a certain track. In a word, there are up fabulous 95 minutes.

[Teaser of the day] Nine Inch Nails - 21 Ghosts III

Archive.org

• Art music
• Electronic music
• Post-classical
• Minimalism
• Art rock
• Crossover
• Modern classical
• Avant-rock
• Experimentalism
• Post-rock
• Avant-garde

Artist: Nine Inch Nails

Release: Ghosts I-IV

Label: Self-released/Archive.org

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Thorn - Stoner Girl

• Stoner rock
• Noise pop
• No Wave
• Screamo
• Psych-rock
• Garage rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: Thorn

Release: Solace Of Noise

Label: Pen & Mallet

Year: 2018

Joxfield ProjeX – Archives EP 1 - Pling Plang (2013)

Archive.org

• Pychedelic 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Synth-rock
• Electronic 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Art rock 
• Krautrock

Comment: Joxfield ProjeX as a project of a couple of lost musicians reappeared approximately 10 years ago under a Moscow-based cult imprint, Clinical Archives. Indeed, Janne Yan Andersson and Stefan Oax Ek started making music together approximately a half century ago until going to hiatus for decades. It sounds like once upon a time in Sweden… chiming like a fairy tale of the heroes of living much longer than the average human being. For sure, their music will do it. After releasing a bunch of albums under the Russian imprint they went on by issuing a couple of EPs on their own (Tin Can Music) and then they changed “commercial” by signing a deal with the French cult imprint Bam Balam and making collaboration with Cotton Casino, being known from a Japanese space rock juggernaut, Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. This set of 6 compositions comes out of their post-Clinical Archives period (also known as Archives (sic!)) although reflecting upon the same tendencies represented before. Their issues are always the same, always different. More detailedly, krautrock intensity on hirsute guitars and New Age-y and Kosmische Musik on spaced-out electronics with different threads within these 28 minutes set up a dynamic and colourful and vivid carnival-alike milieu. Emotionally it is a coherently ecstatic experience providing a stark remedy to get out of a hard day`s rubbish. However, there are up some more eclipsed compositions as well, Brana Funk Sun Ra, for instance. In a word, it is a top release analogically to the previous releases.

[Teaser of the day] 2muchachos - Warmtime

• Art pop
• Dream pop
• Electronic
• Alternative pop
• Ambient pop
• Indie pop
• Electro-indie
• Post-pop
• Indietronica

Artist: 2muchachos

Release: Prespring EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010