Recent Music Heroes

Comment: at the first glance, this issue embraces a couple of lengthy compositions, one of them is 27-minute and the other side is 31-minute long. A windy and rainy Sunday for nice listening, isn't. In fact, the two blocks are divided into many tracks. The US-born artist's 58 minutes is a vivid excursion based on a galvanised, needle studded electric guitar full of lasting riffs and heavy twangs to be resulted in psychedelic maelstroms and lysergic incantations. By its timbre, reverberant echoes and spiritual touch it chimes like an underground artist or combo out of the beginning of the 70s by loaning something from Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and acid folk artists. Indeed, it is an obvious virtue to reach such sort of sound. And of course, the artist's gritty timbre and expressive singing manner is worth on their own by conjuring up a bit spooky ambience. The aforementioned main course is interwoven with spoken word snippets, "accidental" sounds and something singular else. There is one ditty about an uncanny snowman. It is an unusual and solid songwriter outing. Thanks to Don Campau and his headed The Living Archive of Underground Music it was recently made available for a wider audience (initially in 1987). In a word, come and see.

Zanstones 80 – T T T T T T T T (2000)

ZH27

Improvised noise
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Leftfield
Electronic
Psycho-acoustic
Drone
Acousmatic music

Comment: you are not wrong – indeed, you see 8 Ts in front of your sight. It is obviously the most laconic and uninformative title ever I have encountered since one album and artist's name of just consisting of one very long hyphen only (he or she was probably Japanese by having released a couple of issues on Rack And Ruin Records). Unlike as laconic as the title of it used to be this 31-minute album is speckled with different dots and spans, disparate intentions and blackish and grayish mixed shades. More profoundly, the main line is based on noisy improvisations and around it used to gravitate string-tinged plucks, gathered small noise smithereens, acrimonious autotune-alike vocal threads, bold drones and rough and acute electronic dodges towards. One can hear the pulsations at different frequencies like some kind of electricity permeating the main course. Most sonic blocks are deliberately discolourized and eroded to get stand into a classical noise music feel. Regarding this classic sense you can partake in the intermittent case of continuation and disruption. The mind-provoking and freeing outing is an authorised work in the discography of ZH27 (these are the initials of Zan Hoffman who has issued a noise and experimental music legacy under his own imprint since 1984). This is a bullshit collector of your thoughts. What does it mean? It does mean nothing.

9/22/2018

[Teaser of the day] Mushrooms In Our Shoes - Wir Lieben Unsere Heimat

Lobit
Improvised music
Non-music
Acousmatic music
Noise
Experimentalism
Freeformfreakout
Avant-garde

Artist: Mushrooms In Our Shoes

Release: Quarter Libeň

Label: CS Industrial 1982-2010

Year: 1987/2018

[Teaser of the day] The Konnissurz - Bionic Camel

Breakcore
Tracker music
Sampledelic
Breakbeat
Alternative dance
8-bit
Chiptune
Electronic music

Artist: The Konnissurz

Release: The Konnissurz

Label: Sociopath Recordings

Year: 2016

SubknoT – Moment EP (2015)

On Sunday Recordings

Ambient
Ambient techno
Electronic music
Chilltronica
Chillstep

Comment: by listening to this 6-notch release and given that the title of the issue it can be assumed the music is about crystallisation of the time and space. Indeed, you cannot separate one from another. Yeah, at the first glance, you can perceive it as an example of easy listening, chilled-out electronic progressions with iterative elements and shuffling sublime techno beats within it. As a listener, it makes me feel comfortable by dreaming of blissful blue lagoons or going back to innocent topics and pleasant personal memories. To those times when the soil was not fallen over your head yet. Of course, the boundaries between such styles as techno, chill out, and some sort of step tagged music can be considered hazy in this case. Maybe the most delineated composition is Breathe with the predominant magic chillstep pace. Another exception is the finishing notch Another with those fine breakbeat cadences and nigh (electronic) shoegaze-y walls. The beatific issue is a part of the discography of a Japanese imprint, On Sunday Recordings.

9/21/2018

Narayana – Vacu Sessions 34 (2013)

Vacu Sessions

Avant-garde
Black noise
Illbient
Dark ambient
Experimentalism
Power electronics
Leftfield
Neoclassical
Dystopbient

Comment: heavy or light, new and old, predictable or totally unknown: the important here is the dynamic of the music. A continuous exploration of sound. This is a description of the imprint Vacu Sessions of which description is literally relevant to Narayana's whole as well. I could add one more sentence to it – this is blackened and even more blackened, occult and spiritual. Similarly to most of the releases on Vacu Sessions Narayana's one consists formally of one composition of different merged sonic facets. The listener can hear acute noisy outbursts and malicious fadeouts, horrendous reverberations and stealthy serpentine monsters to leap to your backyard. And heartbreakingly wailing women. Tectonic basses with low frequencies are varied with high-pitched sounds as if being vamped up by the debris from an abandoned junkyard. As if a soundtrack for a story of H.P. Lovecraft, a tribute to Ctulhu. I mentioned the word soundtrack and I did suggest it with proper intention because the main course is somehow cinematic, spookily cinematic. Masterfully horrible, skillfully epic.

[Teaser of the day] Insanity13 - Pablo (feat. Oxy13)

Mixgalaxy

Trip-hop
Psychedelic
Alternative pop
Electronic pop

Artist: Insanity13

Release: Get Your Clothes Off

Label: Mixgalaxy/Jamendo

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Cheese - Pre-Taped Call In

blocSonic

Hip-hop
Urban music
Rap
Sampledelic
Underground hip-hop

Artist: Cheese

Release: Barnaby Comes Alive!!!

Label: blocSonic

Year: 2018

9/20/2018

[Teaser of the day] Oculoss - Scene 0107

MiMi

Organic electronica
Ambient
Minimalism
Post-classical
Electronic music
Soundscape

Artist: Oculoss

Release: Parallel Path

Label: MiMi/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Phasic - Radiobubble

Hippocamp

Ambient pop
Chilltronica
Synth-pop
Mood music
Indietronica
Electronic music

Artist: Phasic

Release: Many Simple Systems

Label: Hippocamp

Year: 2004

Shea Bilè – Tzimtzum (2016)

Torn Flesh

Bandcamp

Neoclassical
Spoken word
Hip-hop
Rap
Darkwave
Crossover
Neofolk
Apocalyptic folk

Comment: undoubtedly this 7-track issue is one of the most peculiar ones I have encountered within recent months. Given that the issue comes out of the imprint Torn Flesh Records hip-hop as a partial way to create music was a quite huge surprise. In truth, Shea Bilè represents his cryptic, diabolical yet somehow lofty lyrics by rapping and chanting intermittently. At times his side is accompanied by operatic female singing. The rest part of the formula is more conventional if it could be possible to say in this way – neoclassical ornaments and darkwave-esque carvings are up there to veil the whole with the more murky curtain. By listening to it one should admit that a human being is the biggest enemy to herself/himself. One searches for redemption to get rid of nothing. Yeah, it is our obligation to create values and comply our duties but there is a danger to get overstretched for the sake of Nothing.

Los Pilotos – The Process Of Learning (2016)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Free Music Archive

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

Comment: just discovered that the 4-notch outing was released exactly two years ago. Behind the project are three men, more profoundly, Eric Es, Alex Morales, and Keith Helt (I guess obviously the one and same person who sends announcements and information about coming brand new releases on Chicago-based imprint Pan Y Rosas Discos to your email address if you are subscribed at the site). They play guitars, the bass, the drums, and synths/electronic devices to produce a dizzy rock embodiment with incisive angle toward knee-deep psychedelia, and avant-garde/avant-rock. More detailedly, the combo employ many electronic manipulations and sampled spoken word cuts to create both disorienting and somehow lofty feeling as if tearing off the conventional social borders around them. They set themselves and the listeners free. All what we want to be is to be free. Scarf Of Hair is a stoned mix of speed metal and psychobilly. Lemmy would have been proud of it. One of the compositions, We Ooze In All Directions, can temporally be considered the central composition because it will have clocked at a 20 minute. However, musically it is an analogous yet exalting case. I like the trio's approach by crafting rehearsal room tinged raw sound (all that massively tectonic romp at the bottom and keyboard skronking atop). The mentioned track reminds of some anti-establishment bound rock compositions like Velvet Underground's Sister Ray, and Faust's Krautrock. It is followed by the self-titled track based on an electronically, filter-heavy and debris filled storytelling and the whole track as a disturbed composition in overall as if driven by a convulsive interplay between the closed and opened stereophonic channels. In a word, it is a truly overcoming, truly cutting-edge release even in terms of the era of postmodernism. What else could I add? The rest of the albums by Los Pilotos the listener could get from within the site of Pan Y Rosas Discos (and Free Music Archive) should also be listened to.

9/19/2018

[Teaser of the day] Aiggom Gaudium - Cycling

Pueblo Nuevo

Electronic music
Minimalism
Avant-garde
Ambient techno
Crossover
Post-classical

Artist: Aiggom Gaudium

Release: Alea Iacta Est

Label: Pueblo Nuevo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Anthony Manning - Concision Nine

Irdial Discs

Electronic
Frippertronics
Experimental rock
Improvised music
Alternative rock
Art rock
Avant-rock
Progressive rock

Artist: Anthony Manning

Release: Concision

Label: Irdial/Bandcamp

Year: 1997

B. Toriyama – Episodes (2015)

basic_sounds

Archive.org

Ambient techno
Downtempo
Electronic music
Ambient dub
Tech-dub
Deep techno
Deep dub
Crossover
Dub techno
Minimal dub
Dub house

Comment: B. Toriyama embarks on this 4-notch outing with wobbly synthesised chords and atmospheric layers in the vein of dub music. In truth, later the distinctive categorization will get a bit watered down by using also techno and downtempo reliefs, however, the spaced-out layer continues to emit through the other stylistic appearances. At Cloud the artist comes back to a deeply soaring inner space by interweaving dub and techno and even near house knots into a 9-minute apparition as if depicting a phantasmagorical plateau at the bottom of the ocean. Yeah, it is deep and minimal. The same can be admitted about Sauce which in truth is a bit more vivid and flaring due to those hypnotically loopy synth fadeouts. Yeah, the listener can imagine slowly swimming monstrous creatures coming out from the shipwrecks. All in all, it is an example of music for your dormant fantasies by allowing you a fantastic space engine for to travel to places of which you could never reach physically. For only thanks to the art one can cross his/her mundane and mortal borders. Music is obviously the fastest way to do it. Here it is. The solid issue is a part of the discography of basic_sounds.

Vivid Tribe of Psychics – Seize To Seizure (2017)

Le Colibri Nècrophile

Bandcamp

Sampledelic
Plunderphonics
Avant-garde
Sound collage
Hauntology
Dada music
Experimentalism
Electronic music
Spoken word
Leftfield
Film noir

Comment: this set of 23 tracks might be considered an instance of excessive luxury today because it could be a content for three albums at least. Musically it embodies the mighty hydra whom two new heads had grew after one was chopped off by the legend. In the recent audible case, the more you listen to it the bigger the audible snowball is growing for the listener. Psychedelic and surrealistic texts being inspired by the beatniks are supported by different kind of stuff, from frantic rhythmic configurations and trebly decelerated trip-hop (if it can be embedded in the term anymore) to eerie, film noir-esque samples and smouldering sonic effects to massive and rough guitar riffs. Lots of oldie music templates get involved in that and thereby it abandons its temporal lines. By shifting swiftly between different eras it will provide the immunity against possible Zeitgeist related platitudes and commonplaces. Are you tracking me? Are you tracking me? By its method and timbre and attitude in general there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of The Fucked Up Beat, and The Caretaker. Additionally to English you can hear storytelling in French, and in Italian. This is a kind of tribute to Crammed discs` serie Made to Measure. The mind-provoking umbrella – consisting of such projects as Gestalt OrchestrA, Parrhesia Sound System, Chromatic, Ubuntu Sound Antisystem, and Wild Worm Web – is located in Montrèal, Quebec, Canada, one of the main centres within the innovative music scene worldwide. The issue is a part of the discography of Le Colibri Nècrophile.

9/18/2018

The Late Virginia Summer – Sundowning (2007)

Redstarcommunity

Lo-fi
Indie
Cowbell indie
Post-rock
Field recording
Musique concrète
Crossover

Comment: soon RMH will celebrate the 10th year anniversary. When I started in January 2009 the first comment was made about Leafes' In The Mountain's Belly being issued on Swedish imprint Redstarcommunity. The Late Virginia Summer's 11-notch outing comes out of the same label and it is also a lovely lo-fi case, however, in the vein of indie and post-rock mixed case. I would like to call such sort of music cowbell indie because you hear glockenspiel chords in the middle of the lightly churning guitars. At times it is variegated with sounds coming out from the nature - from a meadow, from a forest, at times the course is a bit changed by adding droning sequences and lofty orchestrations and a little electronics to the mix. A positive point of the release is due to no sterile production. As it was mentioned above it is a lo-fi apparition. In a nutshell, get it, enjoy it.

[Teaser of the day] 8-Bit Boys - Faulty Console

Chip-hop
Rap
Chiptune
Electronic music
Tracker music
Urban music
8-bit

Artist: 8-Bit Boys

Release: 8-Bit Diagrams

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Take Pills - Construction Road

Take Pills Die

Electronic music
Alternative
Acid electro
IDM
Crossover

Artist: Take Pills

Release: You Are A Fucking Lovely Person

Label: Take Pills Die

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Y2 - Purpose Consummated

Bump Foot

Electronic music
Alternative dance
Experimental electro
Post-kraut
Post-disco

Artist: Y2

Release: The Purpose

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2018

9/17/2018

[Teaser of the day] 3tronik - Constant Nature

Sutemos

IDM
Micronoise
Experimental techno
Electronic music
Techno pop
Glitch-techno

Artist: 3tronik

Release: Mirror

Label: Sutemos

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Helsingfors - Russian Inversion Notation

Lost Children

Post-rock
Art rock
Epic
Indie rock
Alternative rock

Artist: Helsingfors

Release: Schematics

Label: Lost Children/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Sabrepulse - Tonight

Electronic music
Tracker music
Electro pop
Autotune
8-bit
Alternative dance

Artist: Sabrepulse

Release: Paragon

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

9/16/2018

[Teaser of the day] Kulor - Invincibility

8-bit
Tracker music
Chiptune
Videogame music
Soundtrack
Bitpop
Chipdisco
Electronic music
Chipbreak
Alternative dance

Artist: Kulor

Release: Pururnmi OST

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Aquatone - Radio Waves

United Studios Corporation

Electronic pop
Robot pop
Electro pop
Future pop
Space disco
Dance pop

Artist: Aquatone

Release: Synthetic Clouds

Label: United Studios Corporation

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Hanetration - Friction

Drone pop
Experimental pop
Avant-pop
Epic
Organcore
Chamber pop
Crossover
Neopsychedelia
Neokrautrock
Art pop

Artist: Hanetration

Release: Waldsterben EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

Sensorama 19-81 – Retrato un desconocido (2008)

Archive.org

Bandcamp

Art rock
Indie rock
Alternative rock
Progressive rock
Epic
Avant-prog
Avant-rock
Electronic
Experimental rock

Comment: Sensorama 19-81 is the project of the Chilean musician Rafael Casanova whose 12-track issue is a mellifluous love affair of indie/alternative rock with art and progressive rock chips. More profoundly, it does conjure up lots of lofty developments and uncanny sonic explorations from exuberant chamber music panning and elaborate and almost frenetic spoken word snippets to more familiar rock structures. However, as usual, being bound with one another those weird aspects used fortunately to be predominant and to be remembered. And if the familiar ones will appear then these moments are multilayered and profound enough to provide captivating sensations. Indeed, I have to praise the artist for producing such vivid and flourishing soundscapes. Once the term progressive rock was a depreciatory one especially being condemned by many punks. However, this patchwork by attitude is more punk than most punk albums, especially today when many punk ensembles are the kind of caricature just having a bit in common with the genuine ideas of the subgenre. All in all, it is fascinating.

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.

9/13/2018

[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.

9/12/2018

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

9/11/2018

[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.

9/10/2018

[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.

9/09/2018

[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

9/08/2018

[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).

9/07/2018

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.

9/06/2018

[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

9/05/2018

[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).

9/04/2018

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

9/03/2018

[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

9/02/2018

[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

9/01/2018

[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

8/31/2018

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.

8/30/2018

[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

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