[Teaser of the day] Dereleech - Vanguard Of Corruption

Jamendo

• Industrial music
• Experimentalism
• Dungeon synth
• Martial industrial
• Neoclassical
• Dark ambient
• Avant-garde

Artist: Dereleech

Release: Disrupted Rites

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Clinker - The Box Is Open

• Electronic
• Space pop
• Glo-fi
• Ambient pop
• Hypnagogic pop
• Indietronica
• Alternative
• Chillwave
• Dreamwave

Artist: Clinker

Release: Dr Goon Phase 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Hirundu - 50days The Hirsty Tape1

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

Artist: The Hirundu

Release: Git Biscuits

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Twilight Kamikaze – A Drive with Elise (2018)

Silent Flow

Archive.org

• Post-disco 
• Alternative dance 
• Electro pop 
• Electronic music 
• Experimental electro 
• Industrial electro

Comment: first of all, this 3-notch outing starts off with the favourite format of electro for me - sultry rhythmic patterns coated with tight synthesiser-induced layers atop. Later on, the course used to turn a little bit by incorporating more ominous sonic effects and by coming near to a more static and restrained yet experimental approach. However, the final track This Void Inside used to successfully merge the tendencies of the first and the second parts of the self-titled track. It is highly galvanized and a bit shifted in its rhythmic work while manipulating with some sort of black matter to build up the result. As if drawing some rhythmic patterns from the Detroit electro scene to build it up on an (post)-industrial template. Yeah, it is convincing in a highly hypnotic way. The astounding issue is a part of the discography of Silent Flow. One of my favourite things with regard to the rhythmic patterns in 2018.

Unlimited Space Nine and Stars Sound System – Be (2018)

Unlimited Space Lab

• Kosmische Musik
• Psytrance 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Synth-pop 
• Ambient pop 
• Crossover

Comment: this is a split release on Unlimited Space Lab consisting of long-lasting (up to a 10 minute) compositions of such projects as Unlimited Space Nine, and Stars Sound System. More profoundly, bass frequencies and modulated synthesiser sounds propel the 4-track outing to an extent one used to have no certainty is it either an example of trance or synth-pop or ambient pop or electronic psychedelic music or EDM. Or something else at all for one's pleasure. Of course, it is the pseudo-concern because the most important aspect is that the issue is thoroughly coherent and soul-arresting. The X Shape, and Watching Secret Rats From VIIIth Dimension are the favourites of mine due to a laid-back propulsion and yet a catchy theme progression provided at the same time, and amazing keyboard pitches and rhythmic symbiosis, respectively. At times the tracks are embellished with ivory piano chords, lofty synthesiser overdrives and suggestive spoken word snippets. Very pro.

Macroform – Shining (2018)

Jamendo

• Chilltronica 
• Electronic pop 
• Alternative 
• Glo-fi 
• Chillwave 
• House pop 
• Breaks

Comment: Macroform is a musician from Sarasota, Florida, USA. He is a musician who explores sound and experiments with a broad range of instruments including guitars, old Casio keyboards, African drums and percussion and found sounds and synthesizers. By listening to this huge, 19-notch outing it can be said he knows how to conjure up one's mood and bump up neurochemicals to optimal level. Macroform has been a prolific artist who has issued more than 40 releases during the last 12 years including 5 issues in the recent year. One may say the amount is way too much to stay at one and the same level artistically. An other one may say it is necessary to produce in a row to preserve and not forget the artistic skills. In this context the second opinion seems to be true. Of course I have not listened to all his issues but by considering the recent one has all what a very decent issue should provide. Stylistically it veers away from house-tinged piano and electric piano shuffles and catchy rhythms to serene chillwave and chilltronica-drenched glimpses and cloudless synthesised and sampled orchestrations. Macroform knows very well how psychologically manipulate the listener to cope with such a long release – from speedy delivery to slowed-down ones, from raspy facets to more floating ones. By balancing different elements with one another it is a foundation to avoid boredom. Secondly it is like a simulacrum for a listener's life. All in all, I am going to add it to my list of the best albums in 2018. Hopefully I can find time to listen to the rest of issues by him having been issued in 2018.

[Teaser of the day] MushroomWavved Collar - Vacuum Morning

8Ravens

• Lobit
• DIY
• Outsider tekno
• Electronic music
• Lo-fi
• Alternative

Artist: MushroomWavved Collar 

Release: [8R086]

Label: 8Ravens

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Deicida 69 - Absolutamente Moderno

• Art punk
• Post-punk
• Angst rock
• Avant-punk

Artist: Deicida 69

Release: Presidentes Puercos

Label: Bandcamp/Jamendo

Year: 2016

Awake In The Dew – Sounds To Ascension (2018)

Tranzmitter

Tranzmitter

• Electronic music 
• Chilltronica 
• Ambient 
• Alternative 
• Kosmische Musik

Comment: undoubtedly this 7-track issue is masterfully produced full of sultry synthesised and spacious progressions as if an interface to bring together heaven and Earth. Awake In The Dew is a project by the Brazilian musician Diego Henrique. He has divided the project`s music into multiple categories: the first of them was 2007 to 2011 drawing more on lo-fi and post-rock ground, and the second started in 2012 and it is obviously electronic. Electronic music may be bottomless, and there it is – as mentioned above the listener can hear a bound between mundane and heavenly, however, the sounds represented over there are very diverse – from profound gentle layers-infused ambient and blissful panoramas to noisy synthesised facets, signal-alike sharp effects and abrasive electro-acoustic reverberations and sheer delays and steep rhythmic patterns. It reminds a bit of Tangerine Dream in the middle of the 70s particularly with such issues as Rubicon, and Ricochet. These astounding 36 minutes are a part of the discography of Tranzmitter.

[Teaser of the day] Enkil - tmd

Ephedrina

• Tekno
• Electronic music
• Ambient tekno
• Alternative dance

Artist: Enkil

Release: AAVV - Hluboko Collective Gate 6 (NetlabelDayEdition)

Label: Ephedrina

Year: 2015 

[Teaser of the day] Prototype 68 - La Harpie

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Sampledelic
• Hip-hop
• Electronic music
• Breaks
• Nu jazz

Artist: Prototype 68

Release: Lost Highway EP  

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2007

Alzar - DrOwL – Nymph of the Alien (2018)

MNMN

MNMN

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Psychedelic 
• World fusion 
• Ethnotronica 
• Breakbeat
• Ambient

Comment: this bunch of 15 compositions is dedicated to strangers/aliens/different kind of life forms. To those living beings having no deal with the human race and the planet Earth. However, contacts with a stranger may enrich our life. Otherwise it may result in annihilation of the human race given that species with lower intelligence have no potential to reach other planets in the galaxy. At least having had a fantasy about the stranger would result in one fine album. Musically it is a sultry blend of psychedelic synthesised whiffs, mid-tempo driven ethnic-tinged rhythms and intriguing electronic roundabouts and arousing loops. At times songs are sensualised by mystical female chanting as if mysterious supernatural creatures from within the Russian forests in fairy tales. So yeah, (horrendous) strangers can come from inside us and from our fears as well. Furthermore, given that we may be even more horrendous than our opposite ones. However, it is just a rough, very generalized overview of it. In fact, it embraces a hundreds of combinations in sonic and rhythmic texture. There are different depths, there are different intensities. It is search for balance between gravity and volatility. The impressive issue is a part of the discography of MNMN Records.

Multi-Panel – Rekordgate III (2018)

Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Electronic music 
• IDM 
• Folktronica 
• DIY

Comment: The Netherlands, Breda-based Ludo Maas aka Multi-Panel is back with his third and final part of Rekordgate. I think the first part and the third part are the favourites of mine. Partly this is a profound insight into electronic music, indeed, with few or without any guitar-based embellishments in some tracks. All the electronic threads in the embodiment of fatty synths, synthesised broad landscapes and stomping bass synths are drawn out boldly. It could almost be named as synth-pop but it is a bit something else due to his DIY and nerdy attitude. Sparkling pop numbers cannot be considered his first, second or third preferences. The electronic/synthesiser-based predominance is obviously the most striking difference in comparison to the rest two issues. On the other side, guitar twangs, treated guitars and exquisite electronic progressions in many interactions and combinations also make sense. Thirdly, listen to Stand and you get a proof that Ludo Maas can create something truly elusive, and blissful. One may think of it as if being written by Jens Lekman. All in all, the sequel of the releases was success. May we wait for a next one?

Albert Negredo – Paricolintencia (2018)

MonoKraK

• Ambient 
• Abstract 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Sampledelic 
• Drone 
• Minimalism 
• Electronic music 
• Space music 
• Electro-acoustic

Comment: Albert Negredo`s 4-track issue Paricolintencia is a short (14-minute) outing yet involving many disparate facets – from pulsating and catchy sample-based ambient to colder, more abstract soundscapes as if reflecting upon a yet unknown life form coming from beyond our restricted and exhausted fantasies. You cannot see its face yet you can feel the presence of it. One can hear one and the same sample at Paradona pulsating from the beginning to the end. Yet it fulfils its goal to amuse the listener because the sample is loaded with catchiness based on a female vowel effect. In fact, I would listen to it for an hour. Cloaca is an exquisite crossroad for ambient and electro-acoustic music. The cover print is also ambiguous reflecting upon our intention to get beyond our restricted, boredom-eaten life. This thought-provoking, great issue is a part of the discography of MonoKraK.

[Teaser of the day] Radiotuman - Mokele-Mbembe Hunting

• Ethnotronica
• Electronic music
• World music
• Psychedelic
• Alternative
• World fusion

Artist: Radiotuman

Release: Tunguska Constellation: Radiotuman - Sakhalin Tales

Label: Tunguska Music Society/Jamendo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Aortha - Sometimes Straightening Herself Up To Warm Puffs

Haze

• Abstract
• Glitch techno
• Dark ambient
• Experimental electronica
• Micro-techno
• Avant-techno
• Experimental techno

Artist: Aortha

Release: Was Sleeping

Label: Haze

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Atlas Sound - Coffin Trick

Southern Shelter

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Noise pop
• Live
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: Atlas Sound

Release: Atlas Sound @ 40 Watt Club 2009-12-31 

Label: Southern Shelter

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] The Antlers - Revisited

NYCTaper

• Art rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Sadcore
• Live
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: The Antlers

Release: Live at Rough Trade NYC on 2014-06-17

Label: NYCTaper

Year: 2014

Mart Avi – OtherWorld (2018)

Bandcamp

• Art pop 
• Post-pop 
• Alternative
• Avant-soul 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Indie 
• Avant-pop 
• Sophisti-pop 
• Space pop

Comment: Mart Avi is a young Estonian art popster who first got attention with such dance rock combos Badass Yuki, and Stones & Holes approximately 10 years ago. However, some years later he started to foster his solo career with potent albums like After Hours (2013), Humanista (2015), Rogue Wave (2016), and more recently OtherWorld. The last three albums constitute a more logical unit due to those sparkling and triumphant yet uncanny poppy incantations as if travelling across an endless astral meadow. For sure, his music is an other world even if you can find out some parallels with such artists as David Sylvian, David Bowie, Scott Walker, The Blue Nile, and Jarvis Cocker and Pulp`s more introvert yet magical bigger-than-life numbers like Seductive Barry, This Is Hardcore, F.E.E.L.I.N.G C.A.L.L.E.D L.O.V.E, and Weeds II. By the way, I heard a mystical, a bit medieval-tinged Dead Can Dance, and a somber, Treasure-era Cocteau Twins either. In fact, it is normal you can find out some parallels with other artists because an artist`s purpose should not be to fend off previous impulses. It is indispensable to come together with them. The most important question is – how all these influences will result in? Does it add some extra value separately and to previous ones as well? I would like to call a music album as an intersubjective experience. You cannot separate it from the past and from the present. While listening to this 8-track album I was running in a darkening forest and the experience was ennobling and frightening at the same time. The dark blue-tinged wall which surrounded me got saturated with a spirited vibe. Was it evil? Was is friendly? Is it a stupid question (of course, it is)? I did not mention before that Mart Avi has been requested as a guest vocalist for many Estonian underground acts. His baritone-tinged singing used to prevail though it is infused more than before with soulful intakes. Similarly to Ariel Pink you cannot categorize him neither temporally nor stylistically. In fact, it is an exquisite play with their own borders to have them and not having them given that the borders must be to an extent to embrace their own spirit. Superb.

[Teaser of the day] St. Jambience - Sunspots

• New Weird Australia
• Avant-folk
• Weird folk
• Post-folk
• Free folk
• Drone folk
• Space folk
• Freak folk
• Psych-fock

Artist: St. Jambience

Release: Sixes and Twelves - Various Artists - New Weird Australia

Label: New Weird Australia

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] fm - Which House

Free Music Archive

• Electronic music
• Synth-pop
• Experimental pop
• Alternative
• Glo-fi
• Avant-pop

Artist: fm

Release: Buttons EP

Label: Wood & Wire/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Buben - Bolds The Record

Chase

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

Artist: Buben

Release: The Number Of Years

Label: Chase

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Max Draztic - Nuna

Dadaist Audio

• IDM
• Electronic music
• Ambient techno
• Glitch techno
• Alternative

Artist: Max Draztic

Release: con-fused.

Label: Dadaist Audio

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Macroform - Dreamy Afternoon

Jamendo

• Chilltronica
• Electronic music
• Dreamwave
• Mood music
• Ambient pop

Artist: Macroform

Release: Rivers

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Olivia Tremor Control - A Sleepy Company

Archive.org

• Indie rock
• Live
• Alternative rock
• Art rock
• Appalachian music
• Americana

Artist: Olivia Tremor Control

Release: Live at 40 Watt Club on 2011-10-14

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] OX - Bang

MNMN

• Alternative dance
• Juke
• Electronic music
• Bhangra
• Crossover
• Hip-hop
• Breakbeat
• Footwork

Artist: OX

Release: Bang EP

Label: MNMN/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Macchiato Funky – Bugella 20-50 (2018)

La bél

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

Archive.org

• Post-rock 
• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Yacht rock 
• Art rock 
• Electronic 
• Funk rock

Comment: Macchiato Funky is a quartet from Italy whose line consists of such musicians as Michele Seggiaro (guitar), Massimo Ferretto (guitar), Nicolò Seggiaro (bass guitar), and Adriano Bossola (electronic & production). I would like to compare Macchiato Funky with Tortoise but the main difference between the combos is that Macchiato Funky`s music used to lean more toward yacht rock-ish horizons rather than flirting with jazz-y edges. Yet, the line between these stylistic characterizations is relatively thin. At times even funky rhythmic patterns used to drive the course (however, it is a bit more synthesised funk than the music of Pop Group, or Gang Of Four due to prominent role by Adriano Bossola). Similarly to Tortoise they use electronic layers and sonic effects around the pace in an adept and intriguing way. Otherwise, the music is an artsy alternative rock/post-rock example being issued on an Italy-based imprint, La bèl. Great album by any means.

Radj – Bitolomaka EP (2017)

Archive.org

Yandex

Illsound

• Trip-hop 
• Sampledelic 
• Downtempo 
• Electronic music 
• Urban music 
• Cinematic 
• Nu jazz 
• Chillstep

Comment: this set of 9 notches consisting of sloppy decelerated rhythms, lone piano chords, and minor orchestrated chamber music fringes. Some tracks are adorned with spoken word snippets in Russian (obviously sampled from old cartoons of Sojuzmultfilm). It is a bit autumnal music with stylised sadness coming from Montrèal, Canada. One can feel invigorative chill flowing from the slots of it. At times it is so slowed down you cannot call it trip-hop anymore – it is rather chillstep instead of it. The exquisite outing is a part of the discography of such labels as Illsound, and Dusted Wax Kingdom.

Deophobic Necrosis – Persecution (2016)

Torn Flesh

Bandcamp

• Death metal 
• Brutal metal 
• Grindcore 
• Goregrind 
• Crust punk

Comment: it is nice to be back again at Torn Flesh. Predominantly does it mean to experience something brutal and aggressive. The human being as a species is violent and for me as a fucking human being it is very suitable to float in a soup of death metal, grindcore, and crust punk (with verbal hints at killing, atrocities and other adverse things). Supposedly aggressiveness is closely related to the development of intelligence so for Western European people there is no chance to get survived while being exposed to the so-called soft values. With regard to it for almost every day we are exposed to bloody news about the collapse of Russia soon but such sort of news are profoundly fake. Do you believe in the collapse of a country who owns a huge territory with a fathomable amount of resources, whose population is high-spirited due to their religion and who don't give a heck to weird and weakening and frequently contrary impulses coming out of the Western side, and who own the optimal amount of aggressiveness to survive and develop further. That's called the evolution. The point of mine is that the Western world used to undermine itself from inside and through uncontrollable migration (which is caused by those who are elected by us due to wars being induced to get entrance to new resource fields. As you see it is a fucked-up closed circle). Actually Deophobic Necrosis hints at the conflict between Christians and Muslims thoughout the 16-track outing. Yeah, Deophobic Necrosis provides a vital and uncompromising whiff of energy which is needed to get out of a pink dream. You can also listen to it as an alleviating remedy to the closed circle hinted above.

[Teaser of the day] J-K - Mais Nada

• Hip-hop
• Sampledelic
• Rap
• Urban music

Artist: J-K

Release: Sorriso Parvo

Label: Monster Jinx

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Kelpe - Rolly Devore

• Synth-pop
• Alternative
• Glo-fi
• Electronic pop
• Crossover
• Ambient pop

Artist: Kelpe

Release: Rolly Devore / Hekla Prays 

Label: Bad Panda

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] The Fucked Up Beat - Refugees of the Drought

• Hauntology
• Avant-garde
• Oldie music
• Art music
• Sampledelic
• Plunderphonics
• Experimentalism

Artist: The Fucked Up Beat

Release: Insomnie

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Scarlet Hideout - Herbivores

Lo_Kiwi

• Experimental rock
• Alternative rock
• World music
• Indie rock
• Psych-rock

Artist: Scarlet Hideout

Release: Hedocentric 

Label: Lo_Kiwi

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Gabriel Ares - Ela vai embora

• Psych-rock
• Tropicalia rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Gabriel Ares

Release: Vale​-​Canção

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Matt Kelly - Villain

• Surf rock
• Alternative rock
• Fuzz pop
• Indie rock
• Psych-rock

Artist: Matt Kelly

Release: EP 2016

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Troposphere - Sylvan Joint

• Electronic music
• Psychedelic
• Ambient
• Downtempo
• Chilltronica
• Alternative

Artist: Troposphere

Release: Tropism Season 2

Label: Post-Label

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Jaydiohead - Lucifer`s Jigsaw

• Hip-hop
• Indie
• Mashup
• Rap
• Alternative
• Urban music
• Sound collage

Artist: Max Tannone

Release: Jaydiohead: Jay​-​Z x Radiohead 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Valzi - Sage And Elisabeth

Backtrack

• Indietronica
• Ambient pop
• Electronic music
• Alternative

Artist: Valzi

Release: Some Girls I'm Not Related To  

Label: Backtrack

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Neil Halstead - Driving With Bert

Archive.org

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

Artist: Neil Halstead

Release: Live at The Moonshine Festival - Festival of the Arts Grounds on 2004-10-10

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Stembreo - Dust Sleep Cometh

• Psycho-acoustic
• Harsh noise
• Freeformfreakout
• Non-music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Stembreo

Release: MK Ultra Lite

Label: Centipede Farm

Year: 2017 

Walt Thisney – Furtho (2018)

Bogus Collective

• Piano music 
• Art music 
• Avant-garde 
• Modern classical 
• Experimentalism 
• Chamber music 
• Post-classical

Comment: this is another fascinating piano-driven outing by a prolific creator. By watching the cover print of this 7-track issue one can see a huge keyboard in front of outer space by divided into the foursquares. More profoundly, musically it is an effortless touch based on exquisite manor piano registers and the rhythm is supported by bold piano chords, double bass steps, and some more orchestrated violin (or cello) improvisations. However, the main accent is set out by those freely floating, light-hearted piano chimes as if one wondrous composition to hover from the beginning to the end. By contemporary souls one can draw parallels upon the likes of Lubomyr Melnyk, Nils Frahm, Hauschka, Max Richter. The magnificent issue is a part of the discography of Bogus Collective.

[Teaser of the day] Kidgloves - KG Luvahman

Hippocamp

• Soul
• Urban music
• Alternative pop
• RnB
• Electronic pop

Artist: Kidgloves

Release: Kidgloves EP

Label: Hippocamp

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Dmyra - Thyp Sagoras

Free Music Archive

• Electronic music
• Ambient pop
• Chilltronica
• Downtempo
• Alternative
• Synth-pop

Artist: Dmyra

Release: Love in the Air 

Label: Clinical Archives 

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - Angels for Feldman

Free Music Archive

• Art music
• Electro-acoustic
• Avant-garde
• Spoken word
• Electronic music
• Alternative

Artist: Cagey House

Release: Queen of Spins

Label: Haze 

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] The Fucked Up Beat - Trypanosomiasis (Our Drones Sent From Heaven)

• Dreamwave
• Avant-garde
• Hauntology
• Chillstep
• Sampledelic
• Ambient
• Experimentalism
• Electronic music

Artist: The Fucked Up Beat

Release: The Watch Towers of Metropolis A 

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Failure Circle ‎– Frozen Clinamen #1 (2018)

Eg0cide Productions

• Avant-garde 
• Noise 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Minimalism 
• Experimentalism 
• Non-music 
• Abstract

Comment: previously I have said many words about noise music. Noise is something which arouses my mind. It is like a wicked desire to get involved in the life of strangers, in the life of machines in this case. What the machines used to say, what is their singular way to perceive other artefacts and subjects around them. Yet, their singular language may be indecipherable because of consisting of highly galvanized voltage, uncountable chains of broken chords, anonymous hisses and hazy penumbras. Kecap Tuyul aka Failure Circle`s 63-minute track/album embraces all those interrupted chains and disturbed phase changes getting power from every day life`s suppressed anxiety. The machines are created by the human being yet the more a human being gets subjugated to the artificial satellite, the more he/she will be enslaved by it. A history of the human being can be viewed as the coexistence of the aforementioned ones. Could you get rid of this addictive relationship given that the machines help you outdo (I mean, forget) your own mortality. You meet Grim Reaper with a motorised scythe. The throbbing sonic issue is a part of the discography of Eg0cide Productions.

[Teaser of the day] Wings Of An Angel - No Sustainable Civil State Can Be Founded Upon Shamefully Corrupted Values, Whereas Its Bloodthirsty Killers Are Made Public Heroes And Its High-End Intellectual Peak Points Are To Be Found In Cannibalistic Love Songs And An Exceedingly Distraught Narrativ

• Avant-garde
• Modern classical
• Chamber music
• Art music
• Post-classical

Artist: Wings Of An Angel

Release: The Steam Roller I Built For Grasshoppers Inside Sweeney Todd's Cutting Edge Barbershop

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Nanaki - Enzuigiri

• Art rock
• Post-metal
• Post-rock
• Epic
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Nanaki

Release: Absence 

Label: Small Bear

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Animal Collective - Kids On Holiday

Archive.org

• Electronic
• Indie
• Post-psychedelic electronica
• Alternative
• Minimalism
• Live
• Experimental pop
• Avant-pop

Artist: Animal Collective

Release: Live at Terminal 5 on 2016-11-02 

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] The Hirundu - Angry Lonerism

• Breakcore
• Electronic music
• Experimentalism
• Lo-fi
• Sampledelic
• Digital hardcore
• DIY
• Leftfield
• Breakbeat

Artist: The Hirundu

Release: Tartarus 

Label: Pitch And Putt

Year: 2018

Sotra – Wayfarer (2014)

U-Torn

• Kosmische Musik 
• Space music 
• Post-rock 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Ambient pop

Comment: by listening to this handful of compositions by Sotra on Ukraine-based imprint, u|torn I got the idea that Kosmische Musik is by its method quite similar to post-rock. Or vice versa, because Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Ash Ra Temple had existed (or have been existing) long before in comparison to Talk Talk, GY!BE, Explosions In The Sky, Mogwai, Tortoise. All those slowly progressing synths and intention to create a delicate mood around the listener throughout the mostly long-running compositions. Of course, electronic devices to conjure up the aforementioned elements are different and it influences the result. At Wayfarer one can hear blinking sounds coming from a lunar echo sounder and bumpy Moog soup on the bottom and glistening analogue synth-based overdrives here and there. The apotheosis comes at Go North with those tense keytar-alike acidic outbursts. Very solid indeed.

Nanaki – Decline & Dislocation (2018)

Small Bear

• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Post-rock 
• Epic 
• Power pop 
• Art rock

Comment: Nanaki is the solo project of Michael Daugherty who is a member of the UK-based combo Postcode. His 9-track instrumental release is based on loaded guitar gears and riffs which used to move from the top of one mountain to the slope of another mountain. Indeed, the touch is epic and majestic. Similarly to the releases of Postcode it is released on Small Bear Records. After the first listening rounds I did get a few impressions of it because it seemed to be an average post-rock release. However, the average post-rock issue may also hide many layers behind the most superficial one. Just will have some patience to get into it. Secondly, by listening to a post-rock release it is also about by discerning the sonic power and a majestic touch of it. From almost invisible progressions and subtle reverberations to overcoming crescendos and ferocious outbursts to make an expressive impact. By Michael Daugherty powerful guitar gears and timbres are tempered with synthesised brass arrangements, however, the latter can only be faintly perceived. Thereafter he reflects upon more picturesque paintings by employing pastel guitar chords, exquisite synthesiser and glockenspiel developments. Indeed, it is a fine result.

[Teaser of the day] Roberto Daglio - Ryoryot

Jamendo

• Easy listening
• Yacht pop
• Mood music
• Chilltronica
• Electronic

Artist: Roberto Daglio

Release: Ryoryot

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] V - Tartare

Tape Safe

• Ambient
• Shoegaze
• Avant-metal
• Cinematic
• Drone metal
• Metalgaze
• Drone doom metal
• Ambient rock
• Post-metal

Artist: V

Release: Cosmic Archeology

Label: Tape Safe/Fuck Labels//Fuck Mastering

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Les Louise Mitchels - Cortipus

• Krautrock
• Grindcore
• Avant-rock
• Electronic
• RIO
• Spoken word
• Crossover
• Experimental rock
• 8-bit
• Electro-rock
• Art rock
• Chiptune
• Avant-prog

Artist: Les Louise Mitchels

Release: st

Label: Moncul

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Michael Sandler - Moonrise

Earth Mantra

• Ambient
• Space music
• Drone
• Minimalism
• Kosmische Musik
• Soundscape
• Electronic music
• Ambient drone

Artist: Michael Sandler

Release: Impending Lunar Ascent

Label: Earth Mantra

Year: 2007

Eknoh – Moi! Kuukauden Valaat (2015)

Ceramic

• Plinkerpop 
• Art pop 
• Electronic music 
• Post-IDM 
• Indietronica
• Alternative pop

Comment: Eknoh is Hal Honke, and vice versa, whose 5-track issue is a part of the discography of the Japanese imprint Ceramicrecords. Because of having had no contact with the artist before listening to this issue I thought firstly it is an album by a Finn due to the Finnish title (Hi! Monthly Whales). I also thought of it as an issue coming out from the 00s under such labels either as Petite & Jolie, Error! Lo-Fi Recordings, 23 Seconds, Aerotone, or No-Source. However, it is a decent alternative, electronic pop issue with acidic grooves, brisk changes between the chords, some catchy melodies and lead motives, and sprawling yet exquisite orchestrations. I would like to call it an example of post-IDM (or IDM pop).

[Teaser of the day] Eureka Brown - I Told You So

Digitalia

• Neo-psychedelia
• Art pop
• Indie pop
• DIY
• Organcore
• Alternative pop
• Glo-fi

Artist: Eureka Brown

Release: ¡Digitalia!

Label: Digitalia

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Petej Amon - Hindu Love

HAZE

• Psychedelic music
• Drone
• Avant-garde
• Improvised music
• Raga music
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism

Artist: Petej Amon

Release: Noise Psychotic Episodes

Label: HAZE

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Chaucerian Myth - Cupid`s Arrow

• Dungeon synth
• Medieval music
• Alternative
• Art music
• Epic
• Martial
• Neoclassical
• Electronic music

Artist: Chaucerian Myth

Release: Troilus and Criseyde

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Kuldaveärt Karud - b​-​06

• Avant-garde
• Dada music
• Acousmatic music
• Experimentalism
• Guitar ambient
• Improvised music
• Post-psychedelic

Artist: Kuldaveärt Karud

Release: Æstivation

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

T.E.A.M.S – Sierra City Center (Diamond Club) (2013)

Bandcamp

• Lo-fi 
• Alternative pop 
• DIY 
• Psychedelic pop 
• Post-pop 
• Hypnagogic pop 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Avant-pop 
• Art pop 
• Noise pop 
• Synth-pop

Comment: by the middle of October of 2018 there is a sufficient time span left behind to consider the most important, seminal musicians during the last decades. By my opinion the importance of Ariel Pink is impossible to overestimate. As one Estonian musician and DJ said about it when he first heard him that God started creating music. I can only agree with him. By listening to his first albums from the end of the 90s to the middle of the 00s it is something extraterrestrial even today for my ears. Many projects got inspired by him and Sean Bowie`s T.E.A.M.S is an amazing churning issue being obviously inspired by Ariel Pink. All those glitterball and stroboscope reflected synths used to bump up in syncopated way as if a faint remembrance from one`s subconscious mind regarding personal pop experience. One would wake up either being horrified and coated with frowsty sweat and exhausted with tremors or being elevated to heaven via gentle surreal and hyperrealistic sounds. From serene disco reverberations and cloudless artificial ambiances to ragged noise pop explosions and frantic drumming and bold yet artsy guitar lines as if an unstoppable liner at the sea. A true gem from the 10s, much better than Ariel Pink`s last issues (unfortunately).

[Teaser of the day] YlangYlang - Earth Heart (He's Trying To Figure Some Shit Out)

• Dream pop
• Avant-pop
• Ambient pop
• Art pop
• Post-pop
• Alternative

Artist: YlangYlang

Release: No Exist (Feel Special)

Label: Carpi 

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Red Cosmos - Monsters Of Pop

• Indie pop
• Art pop
• Singer-songwriter
• Electronic
• Drone pop
• Organcore
• Alternative pop

Artist: Red Cosmos

Release: Dreaming In Unison

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Prophecy Sun - Give Me

Panospria

• Drone
• Experimentalism
• Minimalism
• Leftfield
• Abstract
• Microtonal
• Avant-garde

Artist: Prophecy Sun

Release: Sleep Fever

Label: Panospria/No Type  

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Maina - Ola Calma

Alg-a

• Glitchtronica
• IDM
• Electronic music
• Ambient
• Downtempo
• Crossover

Artist: Maina

Release: Ola Calma EP

Label: Alg-a

Year: 2005

Nanaki - Astray

[Teaser of the day] This Lonely Crowd - Gheegle-Gheegle

• Shoegaze
• Alternative rock
• Dream pop
• Post-rock
• Crossover
• Indie rock
• Epic

Artist: This Lonely Crowd

Release: Meraki

Label: Sinewave 

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Databoy78 - Brain

• Minimalism
• Deep techno
• Electronic music
• Techno
• Alternative dance

Artist: Databoy78

Release: Piano Works EP

Label: Tropic

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Alex Cortex - Cuatrofourvier

Sweet Smelling Surfaces

• Electronic music
• Microtechno
• Art music
• Avant-techno
• Experimental techno

Artist: Alex Cortex

Release: Away Mode EP

Label: Sweet Smelling Surfaces

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Audio Cephlon - Dweller On The Threshold

• Ambient pop
• Cosmic fusion
• Electronic music
• Space music
• Cosmic synth
• Ambient techno
• Crossover
• Kosmische Musik

Artist: Audio Cephlon

Release: Oumuamua

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2018

PSK – Greatest Hits-Anarchy In The Indie (2016)

Ear Alert

Archive.org

• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Psych-rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Noise pop 
• Hardcore 
• Indie punk 
• Speed metal 
• Reggae 
• Ska 
• Acid rock 
• Space rock

Comment: I have mentioned a couple of articles about flourishing Indonesian music scenes recently. However, the information about the prolific Indonesian indie scene was earlier to be well known. Here it is one of those spicy examples. By considering the title of this 9-notch issue there are only two possibilities to come into fruition – if it is seriously thought then this may obviously be a dead born, dull crap. Or secondly it may be vamped up with tongue-in-cheek attitude where the aesthetic of an issue is turned over the top, into a frantic rush. Fortunately the latter description is the case. Straight blatant bashes with speed metal, hardcore punk, and noise pop bottoms are subverted by acidic, freely manipulated keyboards and a melodica (or melodica-alike instrument). In true, when the melodica takes the lead then the ragged psychedelia will change into a gentle reggae or ska number. The singing manner is truly groovy, from loud shouting and screaming to anxiety laden reciting and desperation tinged singing. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Motörhead, Hawkwind, Acid Mothers Temple, Atomic Butterfly, The Damned, The Fall. Ear Alert is the imprint behind this fascinating nuke.

Thuoom – reCycle 2 (2017)

Textural Healing

• Electronic music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Abstract 
• Minimal techno 
• Drone 
• Live 
• Post-industrial 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Abstract techno 
• Experimental electronica 
• Avant-electronica 
• Avant-techno

Comment: as the Finnish artist Thuoom did close his second grand cycle in order to begin a studio hiatus, there are up a couple of compilation issues released simultaneously (10 years In Noise, and reCycle 2). These ones gather together a bunch of unreleased tunes having no particular fit with the albums he composed during the second cycle. Indeed, there is represented a bunch of 13 tracks full of different sort of sonic experiments with uncanny rhythms, heavily boreal infused soundscapes, throbbing techno cadences of recent Finnish witches, amplified electricity and elliptically trudging noises, interrupted yet still loopy circuits, extended guitar chords and bold drones from the tundra. All is changing permanently around the listener yet fulfilling it through slowly changing cycles the ultimate effect will grow even bigger. At a time one can discover he/she has stepped unremarkably into another forest or landscape. Without any doubt, there can be drawn parallels upon his outstanding compatriots Ilpo Väisänen, and deceased Mika Vainio aka Pan Sonic, obviously one of the best artists having ever existed within the history of electronic music. Furthermore, I can personally say I am very proud of my mighty paternal grandmother who is Finnish. But such sort of music adds an extra charge to it (of course, I know such sort of feelings are not very supported in the contemporary highly tolerant Western Europe). A must-have listening for any experimental music fan by a man who has established himself as a symbol within the weblabel world. And as usual, this mighty and cathartic miscellany is released on his own imprint called Textural Healing.

Gaetano Fontanazza – The Grandpa Lullabies (2018)

Sucu Music

Archive.org

• Ambient 
• Post-rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Art music 
• Experimental rock 
• Drone 
• Space music 
• Improvised music 
• Minimalism 
• Electronic

Comment: Gaetano Fontanazza can be pigeonholed with such artists as Brother Saturn, I Am Esper, Glenn Brown, Saito Koji who used to create guitar-based ambient music which, I guess, may be quite obsessive by its method base yet truly relieving for a listener. You can hear extended chord licks which used to move across an artificial space (in fact, by creating and dilating it) and on the other side hover over the listener's mind. Additionally to the electric guitars he employs electronic keyboards and delay and reverb tools to sustain the vibrant ambiances (later the artist contacted me by saying all the sounds are created by using the guitars only). Due to those vibrant drones and faint wobbling which create a pleasant variety based on intermittent pressure and under pressure I would like to call it a dance album for the angels. Furthermore, is it an improvised music example or a designed music issue? Undoubtedly it is one of the best albums in 2018, and the 8-track composition is a part of the discography of Sucu Music.

Windy Hill Mill – Spring Carousel (2010)

Bandcamp

• Folktronica 
• Folk indie 
• Art folk 
• New Weird France 
• Electronic 
• Dream folk 
• Indie folk 
• Post-folk 
• Plinkerpop 
• Indietronica

Comment: are these ditties dreamy incantations for folksy people? What about the members of royal palace? I think the latter ones are listening to dull established music where the etiquette is more important than the essence of a sonic example. This 8-notch outing is as fancy as the dreams could be. Electronic synthesised layers and swirling effects are counterpointed by bubblegum-ish guitar handling and a sensual female voice. Indeed, the electronics and the woman's vox dictate the pace of the issue. A cute virgin goes to a well, meets a handsome bride and some months later will have a profound, long-lasting sexual intercourse with the overcoming orgasm at the end with galvanized, amplified guitars and spasmodic yet stepwise relieving electronic bubbling (at Four Woods). And the following and altogether final track Sesame Chime is just caressing after that. This is mundane and divine at the same time.

No NITZ – Smutek Hmoty (2018)

CS Industrial 1982-2010

• Industrial 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Leftfield 
• Plunderphonics 
• Noise music 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Non-music 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Black noise

Comment: as much as I have understood this issue was originally released as a two-track tape in 1998 by Oblast Records but now being released on CS Industrial 1982-2010 it is divided into 12 parts. Musically it is as frantic as one decent industrial record should be. Lots of cacophonous and disrupted sounds having a deranged, probably misanthropic mind behind it. Stoned drumming and whistling noises and some well-known snippets taken from the cultural heritage to merge all of that into a loopy machinery. Some fucked-up beasts released from the cage to carve the aforementioned patterns with growls, groans, howls, moans. At times it chimes like a very shitty lo-fi black metal composition. Or... . In fact, you can himself define where begins black metal, and where it is an essential part of the noise music. You can partake in all of that magniloquent madness which reflects upon the rational and the irrational side of the human being, it reflects upon the tension and fruitful gap between the two sides. In the case, it is moulded into a bit frightening yet arousing sonic world.

[Teaser of the day] Monokit - v3

Nishi

• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Psybient
• Ethnotronica
• Crossover
• World fusion

Artist: Monokit

Release: Monolyth

Label: Nishi/No Type

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Miche - Triangular Aggregate

Clinical Archives

• Post-classical
• Avant-garde
• Epic
• Electronic music
• Modern classical
• Glitchtronica
• Crossover
• Experimentalism

Artist: Miche

Release: Along Yurikamome

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2012