Tatira – Fire Everlasting (2018)

Inam

• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Synth-pop 
• Drone 
• Dark ambient

Comment: undoubtedly Tatira's 12-track issue is a solid resistance against the established pop music even if borrowing elements from within it. It is kind of playful resilience full of different abysses and jolly tricks. To get out of this established circle, a sort of determined machine, the only way is to subvert the well-known, paved clichès. Of course, the other way is to produce the sort of music consisting of unusual, uncommon sounds and strange structures yet such sort of music would be standing alone. The better way could be just partly hijacking the acknowledged elements to build up a new structure. In fact, such artists as People Like Us, Ergo Phizmiz, and Cassetteboy have proved that quirky manner used to work. More profoundly, at Fire Everlasting you can hear exaggerated rhythmic structures and overgrown synthesised aesthetics and a lot of monkey-shines in overall and additionally there are up some noise built dodges and drone-y glimpses to even doom rock/metal and flourishing murky ambient appearances. It is a frantic drift between rational, and irrational tendencies due to which the history of human race would have been progressing. The mind-provoking outing is a part of the discography of Inam Records.

[Teaser of the day] Jan LF Strach - Niewiarygordon!

• Noise rock
• Avant-rock
• Acid rock
• Experimental rock
• Indie rock
• Garage rock
• Psych-rock
• No Wave
• DIY

Artist: Jan LF Strach

Release: Balearen Kanaren E.P

Label: Underpolen/Bandcamp 

Year: 2017/2018

[Teaser of the day] OKAM - From The Darkness, Into Darkness

Enoughrecords

• Dark ambient
• Breakcore
• Darkwave
• Alternative
• Electronic music
• Darkstep

Artist: OKAM

Release: Alpha - The Confliction

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

Year: 2018

Celesta en la cesta – Celesta en la cuesta (2013)

Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Folktronica 
• Art pop 
• Cover 
• Electronic 
• Alternative pop 
• Synth-pop 
• Crossover 
• Dream folk 
• New Weird Mexico 
• Cowbell indie 
• Mexicana

Comment: it is a fine 6-track drift from Monterrey, Mexico based on dreamy vocal incantations accompanied by the varied backgrounds – at times it is backed up by sublime guitar strums and natural sounds like water ringing in the middle of artificial sounds, at times by more electronic beats and faint crackling and different blocks of synthesised chords and lofty brass waves coming to tower over the rest layers. However, to get a perfect album it should more have been saturated with torrents of intriguing noises, arousing glitches and a more cinematic feeling in overall. A more spiced soup a la Mexico should be allowed to the listener. More eruptions to have injected more dust and epic chaos into the mix. There is no other way. OK, Bon Voyage is a groovy, top tier one with those massive basses, distant voices and noises, glimmering, ellipse-shaped synths, suggestive singing and explosive brasses. But nevertheless, it is a solid release with intention to unite different folk forms from the traditional ones to the more experimental ones with one another or just representing them in a sequence.

[Teaser of the day] Benfro - Breathe In

Kift Flipper

• Downtempo
• Acid jazz
• Crossover
• Cinematic
• Electronic music
• Trip-hop
• Mood music
• Alternative
• Nu jazz

Artist: Benfro

Release: Observable Universe EP 

Label: Kift Flipper

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Macchiato Funky - MMM

• Art rock
• Experimental rock
• Indie rock
• Psych-rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: Macchiato Funky

Release: Bugella 20-50

Label: La bèl

Year: 2018

EE7A – Tracers EP (2017)

Bump Foot

Archive.org

• Alternative dance 
• Electronic music 
• Tech-electro

Comment: it is said on the site of the Japanese imprint Bump Foot that Clayton Brooks aka EE7A was introduced to the eurorack format of modular synthesis and since then he has preferred recording just in one take rather than just clicking and sticking sonic blocks together on his computer. By keeping listening to it already three times in a row I shall have to assume Clayton Brooks succeeded in his recording politics. Tracers EP is highly ecstatic, even a bit hysterical based on the lame shaped, heavily stomping bass drumming being embellished with faint electro developments, and rusty 8-bit sonic effects. At times the intensity gets a bit attenuated and the pace will be changed into a more monotonous, even a bit hypnotic one. Then I can draw parallels upon the Detroit scene of electro and techno. For me, it embodies the life of an ordinary person within the overwhelming capitalistic machinery. All those doings from one day to another being repeated again and again wherein one can feel pleasure and pain intermittently or simultaneously. It reflects upon the relation between the human being and a machine where exhaustion in one's eyes is mixed up with some hope and look at a next day. However, by creating music, especially by those persons who have built their own studios and create music on their own terms, it is a huge step outside that a bit harrowing system. So one can accelerate the process, be outside the capitalistic system at her/his own disposal. But no one should not forget another truth and be wrongheaded – the communism as a regime is something which cannot be tolerated at all. Otherwise one can see a field of corpses having traversed the countries like it happened in China, the Soviet Union, and Kampuchea during the previous century. There is no need for useful idiots anymore. If someone wishes to behave in that way I guess the North Korea is waiting for you to build up a bright future.

[Teaser of the day] Strom An/Ein/Aus Fall - Es ist nicht schön allein zu sein

Headphonica

• Bitpop
• 8-bit
• Alternative
• Electronic music
• Electro
• Nintendocore
• Tracker music
• Chiptune

Artist: Strom An/Ein/Aus Fall

Release: st

Label: Headphonica

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Cousin Silas - Flipside

• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde
• Soundscape
• Space music
• Experimentalism

Artist: Cousin Silas

Release: Twang 002

Label: We Are All Ghosts

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] ref/inter - Words And Advice

Electron Emitter

• Electronic music
• Drone
• Dystopbient
• Art music
• Post-classical
• Spoken word
• Crossover
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Post-industrial
• Leftfield
• Illbient
• Abstract
• Glitch techno

Artist: ref/inter

Release: iwbiactnle

Label: Electron Emitter

Year: 2018

Brice Catherin – Best Hits – Recent Works For Percussion Ensembles (2016)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Live 
• Conceptual

Comment: this bunch of 5 compositions is not a usual way for defining his/her own oeuvre. Indeed, the French composer Brice Catherin's music is being far away from an average pop album, far away from an average pop jazz issue either. It is a tight improvisation by exploiting magnified cello chords, droning melodica spans, storytelling, windbells, intense drumming. The description can be attributed to the chronologically second part of the issue dedicated to Baubo, the mystical goddess of fertility and performed live by the Norwegian Pinquins in Oslo. The first part being inspired by a Russian composer of classical music, (Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya), rotates mentally and physically around one piano being played by three pianists and two percussion players though they use their voices as well (Ensemble Batida). Musically it is an affair between tumultuous progressions and sonic clusters and on the other side by silent, as if still life incantations. This is the fifth issue by Brice Catherin on Chicago, the US-based Pan Y Rosas Discos.

Background Radiation – Moot Point EP (2010)

No Source

• Indietronica 
• Electronic 
• Dream pop 
• Alternative 
• Art pop 
• Epic 
• Drone pop 
• Cowbell indie

Comment: autumnal sadness and lethargy have overwhelmed our senses and sensations, all seems to be stopped or at least strongly decelerated, the long and warm summer is let behind, and there it is, an old issue being released more than 8 years ago by Ludo Maas (Multi-Panel), and Tim Dwyer (Off Land & Full-Source) on the US-based imprint No Source. Those slowly growing drone-y melodica tinged lead motives being interspersed with pastel acoustic guitar chords and exquisite electronic touches used to churn the listener's mind. Double Negative, and Radiate are enchanting pop songs, indeed, truly enchanting ones. The listener can perceive this 6-notch issue as if a minimized glimpse as a transgressive, self-thrusting catapult to get thrown into a bigger, more flourishing sonic world. Lofty fantasies used to surface after having listened to these relatively miniature developments. Yeah! Yes!

Vavabond – No-Brain Improv (2016)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Microtonal 
• Glitchtronica 
• Experimentalism 
• Electronic music 
• Abstract 
• Drone 
• Avant-electronica 
• Experimental electronica

Comment: this issue being released on Pan Y Rosas Discos is played by Li Qing, Liu Xinyu, and Adam Macgregor in an exhausted state of mind with intention to reject the purposeful work of mind and brain being switched off as much as possible behind it. It is a paradoxical case to come out as a somehow conceptual work because the concepts are the brain related only. As I have understood the audience was also absent-minded at the performance so for a distant listener it is a privilege to try the both variants. At the moment while listening to it in clear state of mind it is a quite extreme case as if partaking in a recycling process of noisy debris being cut into a thousands of pieces and thereafter organised into either fluffy or faintly drilling droning process. Does represent such a sort of "faulty", messy thing for inability of the body to exist without the brain? Could you perceive any traces of mental energy? Could you see/hear bare electrified impulses running between the synapses across the brain? At least in the beginning the listener can hear a little span of piano playing to be rejected very soon. However, the piano playing seems to be rational and structured. Maybe it was just added to accentuate the following glitched-out chaos. Yeah, it is intriguing in its conceptual and non-musical sense through the process of creating and abandoning at the same time. By its minimal, even defiantly microscopic/tonal approach it reminds of Kaffe Matthews' some works. What's next? After having listened to such a sort of austere yet mind-provoking format for many times in a row I am tempted to put on The Commodores' United LP.

Visciera – Six Bits Of Black Broken Glass (2012)

Headphonica

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

Archive.org

• Industrial rock 
• EBM 
• Alternative 
• Electronic 
• Synth-pop 
• Experimental electronica

Comment: as you have already figured out the title of this 6-track issue suggests both irony and desperation, humor and painful experiences, love and hopelessness, aggressiveness and humbleness. By considering the issue's cybernetic, industrial-imbued and machine-bent threads the question could be about the relationship between a human being, and a machine. Is the machine controlled by the human being, or vice versa? As you can see from the question and accents related to it the control is that the most important aspect which regulates our everyday's life between the groups, and how much the machines should be subjugated to the human being as a species? Earlier it was an urgent question about the relationship between the human race and nature. It seems that Florian Cziesla tries to find out a fine balance between the aforementioned compartments, between the touch, and determination. More profoundly, you can hear compositions from exquisite EBM-drenched synth pop and solid industrial rock to a stylistically pure EBM example with the lyrics of pessimistic allusions to downright noisy dead ends shedding no light and hope anymore. The solid issue is a part of the discography of Headphonica.

Bye Bye Pride, A Tribute To The Go-Betweens (2018)

The Blog That Celebrates Itself

• Indie pop/rock 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Chamber pop 
• Art pop/rock 
• Post-punk 
• Conceptual 
• Shoegaze 
• Jangle pop 
• Psych-pop 
• Noise pop

Comment: this bunch of 15 tracks is dedicated to a Brisbane, Australian indie juggernauts The Go-Betweens, a conditional Australian counterpart to The Smiths which probably foretold such groups as Belle and Sebastian, The Concretes. From artsy, keyboards-driven progressions and chamber pop alike expressions to jangly guitar pop to serene indie pop to powerful reverberations by obsessively exploring noise and shoegaze numbers. There are represented such artists as Sinking, Corrections, Leisure Walks, Undone, Waving Blue, Poëtka, Vida Eterna, Soft Layers, Teething Veils, The Vividels, All Sparks Burn Out, Echodrone, Electric LO FI Seresta, Flowers Must Die, and Mevius. This great tribute is issued by The Blog That Celebrates Itself Records. And the compilation is dedicated to Grant McLennan (1958-2006), a founder member of the combo.

[Teaser of the day] The Bordellos - Velvet Tuesday

• Psych-rock
• Americana
• DIY
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: The Bordellos

Release: The Bordellos Underground Tape 16

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] J-K - Quimera

• Hip-hop
• Rap
• Urban music
• Industrial hip-hop
• Underground hip-hop

Artist: J-K

Release: Contos de Espadas

Label: Monster Jinx

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Projekt Luty - Będzie Skok

Underpolen

• Lo-fi
• Noise pop
• Psychedelic
• Improvised music
• No Wave
• DIY
• Avant-pop

Artist: Projekt Luty

Release: Grzybnia

Label: Underpolen

Year: 2018

Twin Muses – French Afrocentric EP (2010)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Archive.org

• Trip-hop 
• Electronic music
• Hip-hop
• Art pop 
• Urban music

Comment: I can remember for those days approximately 20 years ago when I had been listening to Britpop. I would like to prefer to buy the tapes and actually these mediums used to be more dear than the compact discs today as well. Inside the bunch of guitar music there were represented a couple of albums of trip-hop to create a special feeling for certain moments. I did have Portishead's Dummy (1994), and Tricks Pre-Millenium Tension (1996). Actually something like that I experienced by listening to this 4-track record under Dusted Wax Kingdom. At least I could rehash the aforementioned memories. More detailedly, oneiric female singing by Marquee Gibb, smoky scratches, orchestrated panning, dusty reed organs. And all of that is adeptly backed up by fatty, almost tectonic beats. And the most important aspect to be added – the artist (Mr. Moods, and Marquee Gibb) obviously succeeded to get synergistic essence from it. I think today it could be tagged as art/sophisti-pop. Yeah, I love it.

[Teaser of the day] Mark Hamn - Les Structures

Maetrixsolution

• Glitchtronica
• Modern classical
• Microtechno
• Experimental electronica
• Post-classical
• Minimalism
• IDM
• Clicks and cuts
• Crossover

Artist: Mark Hamn

Release: Function Buttons

Label: Maetrixsound

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Miami Vice - Mile Zlego Poczatki

Far From Showbiz

• Neofolk
• Chamber folk
• Neoclassical
• Apocalyptic folk
• Ambient folk
• Dark folk
• Baroque folk
• Art folk

Artist: Miami Vice

Release: Lew, Czarownica i Nowa Huta

Label: Far From Showbiz

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] bad loop - Nth

Soft Phase

• Electronic music
• Psytechno
• Alternative dance
• IDM
• Crossover

Artist: bad loop

Release: Fragments

Label: Soft Phase/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Gaetano Fontanazza - Cave Of Crystals

Sucu Music

• Post-rock
• Guitar ambient
• Avant-rock
• Art rock
• Ambient rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: Gaetano Fontanazza 

Release: The Grandpa Lullabies

Label: Sucu Music/Jamendo

Year: 2018

Various Artists - Extremely Mild And Pleasant Tasting - The Best Of Bob Chaos Recordings 1984-1986 (2004)

WM Recordings

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

• Lo-fi 
• Psych-rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Dada music 
• DIY 
• Free jazz
• Experimental rock 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Noise pop
• Acid rock

Comment: this bunch of 22 tracks provides a good overview about the intention and music of such a cutting-edge imprint as cassette-only Bob Chaos (based on Muncie, Indiana, USA) due to a music label from the Netherlands, WM Recordings. Actually it was released in 2004, at the time home recording activities and the New Weird movement started appear in a dizzy way. Actually by such artists as Latent Chaos, Modern Exteriors, The Suadetones, Atomic Butterfly, MCRB, Disposable Air Sickness Band, Sonic Clams, Band-O-Fun, and Soul Celtics the listener can find out many those characteristics which started appear two decades later. Knee-deep psychedelia, at times being deliberately buffoonish and provoking by subverting the so-called established pop narratives. For instance, there is up a slippery version of Goldfinger by The Suadestones, there is also a song being obviously aroused by the Broadway aesthetics as a main sign of Western Capitalism and decadence. At times there are up themes being obsessive in their absurdity and madness being imbued with faint odours coming from the glistening aesthetic of Joe Meek, kitchen sink, space age music, radiophonic art, exploitation genres, and free jazz. I have always adored such sort of bands who dared to provide absurdity as a refreshing colour to the embodiment of music. And the most important thing is that we all are the apes in spite of bearing clothes and by using smart talk. By the way, our closer relatives used to do it as well. In a word, it is fun to partake in that decorous, spiky madness. Would you cut off your dick for art?

[Teaser of the day] Thuoom - Notmi

Textural Healing

• Avant-techno
• Rhythmic noise
• Power electronics
• Avant-garde
• Experimental techno
• Minimalism
• Abstract techno
• Experimental electronica
• Electronic music

Artist: Thuoom

Release: reCycle 2

Label: Textural Healing

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Starcardigan - Signal

Mizou

• Indie pop
• Electro-indie
• Electronic pop
• Synth-rock
• Indie dance
• Alternative dance
• Alternative pop

Artist: Starcardigan

Release: Men EP

Label: Mizou

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Ellah a. Thaun - Adore, Adore

• Psychedelic pop
• Avant-pop
• Alternative
• Drone pop
• Neo-psychedelia
• Indie
• Experimental pop
• DIY

Artist: Ellah a. Thaun

Release: a retrospective (expanded)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2017

Open Work Stocking – Intrude into the Grey Slush (2008)

Enoughrecords

Jamendo

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• IDM 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Epic 
• Experimental electro 
• Ambient noise 
• Experimental techno 
• Kraut-electro 
• Kraut-techno 
• Alternative dance 
• Art music

Comment: Open Work Stocking is the Russian producer Anton Tatarinov and this 6-cut issue is his debut release under the Portuguese imprint Enoughrecords. Quite much has changed since the year of 2008 yet it is a very solid result full of gentle melodies and lofty progressions while employing the sharp sounds of noises, glitches, unnerving pulsating electronic rhythms. Intellectually merging together the Detroit-based techno and electro tradition and Cologne and Dusseldorf-based IDM/techno/neokrautrock legacy to pop out somewhere in Russia. Additionally, it is keenly a dance-appealed case and those lightweight orchestrations remind of Arthur Russell. Ultimately I am going to say – it is absolutely stunning being perfectly balanced between the experimentally sophisticated and emotively full-fledged one. It must have towered as an IDM classic.

Lo Five – House Is My House-Vol.2 (2018)

Upitup

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

Comment: by listening to this 8-track outing I would like to say house music should be recorded by exploiting the 4-track recorders only. At least I feel myself in that way while listening to an issue being inspired by a tongue-in-cheek attitude, hazy flashbacks, lo-fi aesthetics, broken car stereos and break magazines. Sometimes it chimes like the Chinese version of house music (State Of You). I really like this audibly a bit inferior touch with all those slightly reverberant mid and low-range frequencies churning back and forth. At times it is highly suggestive due to passing through some wobbly sonic filters, and whimsical timbre and chord refractions, at times the artist used to immerse in reckless dreaming as if were forgotten to skip loopy button yet all the time it is emotive, it is catchy. Because of being so playful. The fancy release is a part of the discography of Upitup.

Whalt Thisney – Musica Celestial-Thisconcert (2018)

Bandcamp

• Modern classical 
• Contemporary classical 
• Art music 
• Piano music 
• Mood music

Comment: there has been around a couple of the artists in the last two years in my world who have hijacked and a bit bent famous artist's names and thereafter issued a huge amount of the outings either on their own or on weblabels. One of them is Monkey Warhol, and the other one is Whalt Thisney. This batch of 6 tracks, as the title suggests, tries to tower toward the heaven, toward the celestial spheres, toward someone whom we can reasonably reach and perceive yet having had no possibility to see for. However, as a divine mind called Plato once assumed this world consists of the bare shadows only. The ideas behind it are a part of the aforementioned heaven, the true world. A continuous flow of variegated piano chords being studded with more murky cello chords here and there. At times those mellifluous chords are varied with more high-pitched tinkles and elegantly thudding bass chords. In a word, all is nicely balanced. The general impression is sublimely floating as if consisting of chords having no underpinned intention. A very nice release.

USAISAMONSTER – 5 (2017)

Mass Dist

• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Psych-rock 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Electronic 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Leftfield

Comment: approximately 10-11 years ago the indie scene was partly headed by such radical experimental combos as Black Dice, Terrestrial Tones and The Lightning Bolt who had made noisy, angular rhythms drenched music. Actually USAISAMONSTER chimes in a quite similar way imbued with squalling guitars, psychedelic electronics and slamming drum mazes and angst and artificial angst and dadaism mixed shouts and shrieks. For making sound is it their way to kill pain? However, additionally there are up some off-kilter spans within a considerable part of the whole for showcasing the combo as a part of the music library compartment and reminding of early electronic music explorations within the academic circles. It is the disparate, more abstract case. In turn, those more restrained moments do resemble a little Animal Collective's early post-psychedelic compositions. At that time USAISAMONSTER abandons more or less rock-alike structures by entering into a completely disparate area. For sure, they recognize conventions as much as a mere matter to get subverted and get destroyed just a bit. It is like a perpetrator used to play with his/her victim. Even if it may seem the negative approach it makes sense. Actually it is not an overtly negative statement. Even more, I guess by creating such a sort of din it is a natural part of their vital bloodstream. This overwhelming 17-notch release (clocking in at a 34 minute only) is a bit in the discography of Mass Dist.

メトロノリ– works 14​-​18 ペール (2018)

Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Electronic 
• Lo-fi 
• Art pop 
• Toytronica 
• J-pop 
• Synth-pop 
• Alternative

Comment: this batch of 11 pieces is a playful yet mostly discontinuous blend of infantile chords, microscopic glitches and shaped noise castles, miniature electronic whiffs and portals opening on to the street view conjuring spooky creatures being very important in the Japanese mythology and perception but at the same time embracing the glimpses from a more erudite world by hinting keenly at J-pop, synth-pop/fusion, Shibuya-kei. As you can see the title is overflowed with the Japanese hieroglyphs but in English the proper name counterpart of the artist is Metoronori.

[Teaser of the day] Mount Eerie - Wooly Mammoth`s Mighty Absence

Archive.org

• Folk indie 
• Live session
• Indie folk
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: Mount Eerie

Release: Live at Landmark on 2007-07-28 

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Bing Satellites - Sad To Leave, Happy To Get There

• Modern classical
• Post-classical
• Art music
• Ambient
• Crossover
• Mood music

Artist: Bing Satellites

Release: Treasure

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Tsabeat - Raving Lunatic Mind

Postunder

• Psytrance
• Electronic music
• Rave music
• Alternative dance
• Club dance

Artist: Tsabeat

Release: Attractive Synthesis

Label: Postunder/Ektoplazm

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Jared C. Balogh - Searching For Fractures

45RPM-Records

• Improvised music
• Jazz rock
• Contemprary classical
• Fusion
• Art rock
• Crossover
• Yacht rock

Artist: Jared C. Balogh

Release: Drifting Soul 

Label: 45RPM-Records

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Lezet - Horizontal (Variation)

Bivouac

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

Artist: Lezet

Release: Not Of The Loins

Label: Bivouac

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Joe Cat & The Guidestones - Safety Net

Southern Shelter

• Alternative rock
• Blues rock
• Live 
• Southern rock
• Americana

Artist: Joe Cat & The Guidestones

Release: Joe Cat & The Guidestones @ Caledonia Lounge 2018-08-28

Label: Southern Shelter

Year: 2018

Timothy Gilbert – Come And See (1987/2016)

The Living Archive of Underground Music

Archive.org

• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Psych-rock 
• Improvised music 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Acid folk 
• Psych-folk

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.

[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.

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

[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.

[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.

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

[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

[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.