Nevesis – Nevesis (2012)

Bandcamp

• Hard rock 
• Stoner rock 
• Space rock 
• Progressive rock

Comment: Nevesis is a combo from Paide, a small town from Estonia. However, their debut issue is something which does not admit any borders or signs of smallness. OK, they bear testimony to the golden age of hard rock and early heavy metal, and stoner rock grooves, however, it is not either a parody or a lacklustre and boring imitation of the aforementioned styles. This 9-notch release is full of power due to explosive fuel and igniting energy coming out of permanent key changes and the singer's impressive changes in singing manner. Yeah, guitars and their based solos and stomping drums are omnipresent throughout the course. The most disparate track (at least its intro) is Lysergic Dreams which is a highly powerful space rock case. Five years later, the sophomore issue called Pink Magnet Masters was released. In a nutshell, it is an astounding rock and roll instance at its best.

Makunouchi Bento – The Guardians of Lost Pieces: Found and Never to Be Lost (2018)

Bandcamp

• Experimentalism 
• Ambient drone 
• Art music 
• Experimental electronica 
• Post-industrial 
• Drone 
• Ambient 
• Avant-garde 
• Improvised music 
• Remix

Comment: it is always a great pleasure to arrive at the Romanian combo's music because you will never know what kind of surprises you could expect from it. This time they are assisted by a bunch of other musicians either. This 6-notch issue (it is actually an open playlist - at least until it reaches 60-80 minutes - for songs which aren't included on any other official release) is a profound and cohesive amalgamation of different styles, from supersonic droning ambient and heavily stomping bass driven excursions and unnerving interrupted rhythmic structures to a quirky synth-pop example and a jazz-infused convulsion. Moreover, frequently the listener can perceive obsessive focus to have directed toward minutiae – it might be more adequately assumed the minutiae are amplified and magnified into a new quality, into something providing refreshing possibilities to open new entrances for next issues. One can hear scratching within it yet it does have nothing to do with an ordinary hip-hop appearance. At times it sounds like a heavily compressed pop example like chiming somewhere at the bottom of the ocean (Urban Tree). One of the best issues in 2018 for sure.

Vulgar Dèbil – Natura nihil facit supervacaneum et nihil largitur (2018)

Seminal

• Field recording 
• Avant-garde 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Experimentalism 
• Acousmatic music 
• Musique concrète
• Electronic music

Comment: similarly to Makunouchi Bento's issue being recently commented at RMH this swarm of 7 tracks is also very diverse though the accents are a bit different (and partly the same). More profoundly, the Brazil artist João Pàdua's adventures in sound used to make out an intriguing apex based on purgative field recording sounds, elemental sonic effects, ghostly drones and convulsive sonic progressions and occasional spoken word snippets and electro-acoustic effects being obviously conjured up by the contact microphones. Yeah, the result is neither boring nor lacklustre – it is like standing in the middle of various channels or dimensions being exposed to all of them either simultaneously or in a row. By the way, the final part of the final track called Janus-Misologia used to progress into an uncanny sort of psychedelic rock. At times its mystical threads resemble me Alio Die, for example. Yeah, makes sense once again. The provoking work is a part of the discography of Seminal Records, a Brazilian imprint.

[Teaser of the day] (029) - Masai

Soisloscerdos

• Techno
• Electronic music
• Acid techno
• Alternative dance

Artist: (029)

Release: Backwards EP

Label: Soisloscerdos

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Super Crayon - Marathon

• Lo-fi
• Experimental pop
• Alternative
• Minimal synth
• Space pop
• DIY
• Electro-indie
• Avant-pop
• Indie pop

Artist: Super Crayon

Release: VA - bekolympics

Label: Beko DSL

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Walt Thisney - Buried Treasure

• Post-classical
• Modern classical
• Piano music
• Avant-garde
• Cinematic
• Art music

Artist: Walt Thisney

Release: Furtho

Label: Bogus Collective

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Mladic

Archive.org

• Post-rock
• Art rock
• Ethnic fusion
• Live
• Epic
• World music
• Chamber rock
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock

Artist: Godspeed You Black Emperor!

Release: Live at House of Independents on 2018-08-12 

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Ellah a. Thaun - Portal / Green Alphabet

• Electronic music
• Avant-pop
• Kosmische Musik
• Art pop
• Alternative
• Experimental pop
• Drone pop

Artist: Ellah a. Thaun

Release: Happy 31 Honey

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Aderacid - Something (feat Melo)

Phonocake

• Electronic music
• Psybient
• Alternative
• Synth-pop
• Psyelectro

Artist: Aderacid

Release: You Need Colours

Label: Phonocake

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Keith Helt - La Prairie Du Roche

Pan Y Rosas Discos

• Improvised music
• DIY
• Avant-garde
• Lo-fi

Artist: Keith Helt

Release: An Everal In The Nois Count With The Mifsifsip

Label: Pan Y Rosas Discos

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Jarguna - Dark Side Of Calliope

Earth Mantra

• Drone
• Experimentalism
• Space music
• Minimalism
• Post-industrial
• Abstract
• Microtonal
• Avant-garde
• Dark ambient

Artist: Jarguna

Release: Waiting For A Call From The Unknown

Label: Earth Mantra

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Baltic Noise - Surface

• Synth-pop
• Chillwave
• Indie pop
• Electro-indie
• Dream pop
• Alternative pop
• Shoegazetronica

Artist: Baltic Noise

Release: V.A - The Lush Sounds Of Lancaster

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Melinda & Maciek - The Chase

• Yacht rock
• Art pop/rock
• Mood music
• Jazz rock
• Fusion

Artist: Melinda & Maciek

Release: Jazz Frit

Label: La bèl/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Airto - Quartos

MNMN

• Ambient techno
• Electronic music
• Deep techno
• Breakbeat

Artist: Airto

Release: Eighteen Things I've Never Imagined 

Label: MNMN

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Aramboa - Paralysis

• Electronic music
• Ambient pop
• Soul
• Indietronica
• Folktronica
• Crossover
• Cloud rap
• Art pop

Artist: Aramboa

Release: Feather EP 

Label: Gergaz

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Mathieu Lamontagne - si tôt, mégalo

• Ambient
• Soundscape
• Field recording
• Drone
• Minimalism
• Epic
• Organic electronica
• Glitchtronica
• Microtonal
• Ambient drone
• Electronic music

Artist: Mathieu Lamontagne

Release: Lieux Communs

Label: Audigourmet

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Moki Mcfly - Chang`s

blocSonic

• Electronic music
• Breaks
• Sampledelic
• Trip-hop
• Mood music

Artist: Moki Mcfly

Release: Silom

Label: blocSonic

Year: 2018

Oblivian Substanshall – Finnish...But Don't Wait Till You Stop (2010)

Chinstrap Music

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• Comedy 
• Parody 
• Dada music 
• Avant-garde 
• Art music 
• Storytelling 
• No Wave

Comment: this set of 15 compositions is something much more than one could expect from an ordinary, smooth issue after first chords. Of course, given that these 41 minutes are released by Chinstrap Music, the imprint led by Ergo Phizmiz (the cover design is also made up by him) then one should not have been surprised at all. All those surrealistic texts and impressively shifted storytelling reflecting upon the madness and tension being prevalent around us to be resulted in something totally different through our unnerving dreams and serpentine subconsciousness. It is a fertile sole for a genuine art. Undoubtedly the cognitive dissonance used to surface more distinctly being juxtaposed to an ordinary pop assemblage at the first glimpse (a part of the whole is an obvious No Wave din, though). You know an ordinary pop issue embodies something to be hold back and there is a twisted doctor to make experiments with it. Furthermore, to employ an ordinary approach it even more provides possibilities to undermine everyday's life and its dullness. Is it either a diagnosis or an effective result it does not make sense in fact. Let's say 2 in 1. Very pro to add it to a best list of surreal/dada music.

[Teaser of the day] nula.cc - A Shore Veiled In Mist

• Ambient
• Microtonal
• Drone
• Abstract
• Soundscape
• Minimalism
• Microsound

Artist: nula.cc

Release: Midnight Sun

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Viirgiile - Horse

• Avant-electro
• Electronic music
• Click and cuts
• Drill`n´bass
• Breaks
• Alternative

Artist: Viirgiile

Release: Abandon all hype ye who enter here

Label: Vaatican

Year: 2018

No Nitz – Conversation (1998/2018)

CS Industrial 1982-2010

Bandcamp

• Noise 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Industrial 
• Spoken word 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Post-industrial 
• Radiophonic art

Comment: what does it mean the word Nitz. What does it mean the phrase No Nitz? Is it just the negation of it or will it get an additional value with the word No? The conversation is biting and acrimonious undoubtedly over there. This 6-notch issue (which was initially segmented into 8 tracks and released on Oblast Records as a tape outing) is a part of the discography of CS Industrial 1982-2010, an imprint of which purpose is to provide examples from within the noise and (post-) industrial scene of Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. The result is harsh and rigid, and flamboyant in a sense. The outing starts off with a littered, intensified noise attack which later will be embellished with dystopian delays and echoes and hiss-filled samples from haunted transistors and spoken word cuts as if representing some sort of radiophonic play. Indeed, it needs to be considered more closely regarding the profound touch given to it. In a funny way, the album can be considered polyphonic because different aspects used to play at the same time. The self-titled track is a mocking version of how to learn English in a primitive way. By considering the noise music as a genre there a presumed purpose and a way to achieve it may seriously be hazed. Prolog is remarkable due to muezzin-alike repetitive lyrics, reverberant sparse drumming and a suggestive pre-delay effect being prevalent over there. Sludge is sexually suggestive due to a woman who speaks about her virginity and how to defend herself against a man's obtrusiveness and in general how to cope with her sexuality I guess (the words are heavily littered and interrupted). Indeed, it is a fine noise release.

[Teaser of the day] Take Pills - Rain Now

Take Pills Die

• Electronic music
• Techno pop
• Art pop
• Ambient pop
• Kraut-techno
• Alternative

Artist: Take Pills

Release: Consumer Drones

Label: Take Pills Die

Year: 2005 

[Teaser of the day] Centz - Night Games

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Breaks 
• Sampledelic
• Trip-hop
• Cinematic
• Electronic music

Artist: Centz

Release: Night Games

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Yoshiwaku – Back To The Tape (2016)

Le Colibri Nècrophile

Bandcamp

• Noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Live 
• Experimentalism 
• Post-industrial 
• Improvised noise 
• Drone 
• Psycho-acoustic

Comment: this 7-track outing is a part of the discography of French Le Colibri Nècrophile and represents bright side of noise music. The bright side means noise in its playfulness, being represented through an innumerable amount of turns and dodges, iterative phrases and phase changes, galvanised thick whirlpools and distorted synth progressions. I adore the noise music because the genre is ready to allow almost everything into a mix. Sometimes additional channels will be added to get into the more sultry blend. What kind of phenomenon it should represent for I have no idea. Some sort of disease? The madness of the recent world? The tracks are long-lasting extending from an 8-minute span to a 14-minute span (with one exception of a 2-minute torrent). It is recorded live at Dole the 19th march 2016 and indeed it captures the uncompromisingly rough energy of a life performance. By the way, Yoshiwaku is a part of such an intriguing collective called Vivid Tribe of Psychics.

MOnOnOmOnOOtO – 架空の洞 (2014)

 Ceramic

• Indietronica 
• Art pop 
• Electronic 
• Alternative 
• Ethnotronica 
• IDM 
• Drone

Comment: this set of 6 compositions is based predominantly on rhythmic backbones, veering away from programmed angular cadences to more soothing exquisite rhythms to tabla and other ethnic drum induced percussions. Frequently the artsy rhythmic configurations are accompanied by dreamy droning, arousing electronic effects and more atmospheric, lofty electronica. One can enjoy a playful borderline between volatile shades and more visible structures. The subtle issue is a part of the Japanese imprint Ceramic Records.

[Teaser of the day] Wolf Wrams - Entropy

Electron Emitter

• Ambient techno
• IDM
• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik

Artist: Wolf Wrams

Release: Entropy

Label: Electron Emitter

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] PUNQA - Fire Morrisons parafráze

• Avant-rock
• DIY
• Improvised music
• Lo-fi
• Garage rock
• Live

Artist: PUNQA

Release: The Sound Of Poetry Ensemble

Label: CS Industrial 1982-2010

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] MASON - Psycho Motor Agitation

• Avant-garde
• Non-music
• Psycho-acoustic
• Post-industrial
• Experimentalism
• Noise

Artist: MASON

Release: Infraorbital Venous Stasis

Label: Attenuation Circuit

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Sick Rat - Street Corners

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Sampledelic
• Trip-hop
• Acid jazz
• Breaks
• Cinematic
• Crossover
• Electronic music

Artist: Sick Rat

Release: Black And Noir  

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Indr0 - micromundoconstante

Pueblo Nuevo

• Guitar ambient
• Microtonal
• Avant-garde
• Drone
• Epic
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism

Artist: Indr0

Release: Los Cuerpos Recuperados

Label: Pueblo Nuevo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Langax - Medusa

Soisloscerdos

• Techno pop
• Electronic music
• Techno
• Alternative dance
• Acid techno

Artist: Langax

Release: Acid Myths

Label: Soisloscerdos/Jamendo/Free Music Archive

Year: 2018

Noisefever – Love EP (2018)

Kahvi Collective

Bandcamp

• Synth-pop 
• Electro pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Tracker music 
• Dance pop 
• Alternative dance 
• 8-bit

Comment: just discovered someone has tagged this 4-track outing with such cute labels as idiots music, noise, and stupid. What else could I assume but stick your arse with your stupidity. There must have been a serious brain damage to push such shit out of mouth. The first chords of 8-bit/tracker music/chiptune lead off these 19 minutes which later will be involved in catchy and exuberant dance-appealed beats full of key changes, varied rhythmic folds and delightful melodies. From one channel to be pushed over to the other one in an enchanting way. The Germany-based artist`s issue is a part of the discography of the Finnish Kahvi Collective.

Wald Geist – On Fire (2018)

WDG Music

Ektoplazm

• Psytrance 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Goa trance 
• Rave music

Comment: it is a subsequent psychedelic trance issue I have listened to during a week. It appeals me due to those steeped and spiky rhythmic patterns, acidic synthesised grooves, and some mutant vowel effects here and there. Surprisingly at Blue Hour the mix is varied with guitar sounds in the beginning to later provide the path to a heavily stomping rhythmic moloch and throbbing electro frequencies. Throughout the course one can feel an exalted rave music feeling. The 5-track outing will be ended up with Wald Geist`s remix of Parra Nebula`s track Trick Or Treat. The issue is a part of the discography of WDG Music and of course, a part of Ektoplazm.

[Teaser of the day] Dirty Projectors - I Found It In U

Nyctaper

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

Artist: Dirty Projectors

Release: November 18, 2018 Elsewhere (Early Show)

Label: Nyctaper

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] 16 Lovers Lane - Lay Down

Clinical Archives

• Dream pop
• Indie pop
• Art pop
• Slowcore
• Ambient pop

Artist: 16 Lovers Lane

Release: Don’t Try To Push Me (EP)

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2011

Tony Diana – Orbis Alius (2018)

Enoughrecords

Archive.org

Jamendo

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Dark ambient 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Post-industrial
• Art music 
• Space music
• Abstract 
• Electronic music 
• Neoclassical

Comment: this 10-track issue consists of the collaborations by Tony Diana with different artists like Glen Sogge, Boson Spin, Tyler Jones, Darien Davis, Anthony Armondo, Lambmother, and Sergiu Salagean. In overall, the impression is mind-blowing due to intensifying and magnifying progressions based on murky ambient-infused landscapes, massive electro-acoustic rattling, spaced-out vocal ruffles and gleaming synthesised tentacles throughout the course. At times those impregnable blackened walls will be traded either for more softened rhythms or stellar sonic effects. What it would be like to travel to another dimension with music and then back again. You can hear it, you can feel it. Play it loud, partake physically and mentally in it. I guess the ultimate experience would be something mystical and out of this world. The powerful issue is a part of of the discography of a Portuguese imprint, Enoughrecords.

[Teaser of the day] Contaminado - Porque Está Cá Dentro

Enoughrecords

• A capella
• Avant-garde
• Improvised music
• Jazz
• Beatbox
• Experimentalism
• Art music

Artist: Contaminado  

Release: Tetos Vocais

Label: Enoughrecords/Jamendo/Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year; 2018

[Teaser of the day] E.A.R.L. - BAY(BE) WATCHING

• Breaks
• Ambient pop
• Ambient techno
• Electronic  music

Artist: E.A.R.L.

Release: Monster Jinx Beat Camp #02

Label: Monster Jinx

Year: 2018

Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt & Jochen Arbeit – Guitar Solos (2017)

Hortus Conclusus

• Drone 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Improvised music 
• Microtonal 
• Guitar ambient 
• Lo-fi 
• Sound art 
• Minimalism 
• Abstract

Comment: as I see Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt likes to create guitar solos in liaison with other musicians. With regard to these split releases he has collaborated with such artists as Hopek Quirin, Martin Neuhold, and Jochen Arbeit. Chronologically Chicago, the US-born musician's collaboration with the latter named musician was the earliest one based on live recorded guitar manipulations. Undoubtedly such sort of music one cannot hear at a gig by Guns'n'Roses in the embodiment of Slash, and Duff McKagan, for example. Rather one might think of it as not being a guitar-based music at all because all the chords are heavily treated and mutilated. It is an absolutely different (parallel) universe with regard to the legends. It conjures up a fantasy loaded world as if the dwelling place for many horrendous supernatural creatures. It chimes like two metallic surfaces were rubbed against each other in a reverberant room (regarding the track by Jochen Arbeit). However, there is a major difference between the two 15-minute compositions. Jochen Arbeit's work is clean and clear-cut with bass loaded delays and echoes and sometimes employing hisses to be switched on and off. Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt's track, the aforementioned one to evoke ghosts in lobit and lo-fi manner. As if a stoned die-hard lo-fi enthusiast were played his own obtuse psychic shards. It reminds me of some of the most rejective moments by Johnny Crewdson, and his combo The Hirundu being created sometime in the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s. It also resembles my own very first music experiments due to have exploited different sort of artifacts and primitive instruments and tape manipulation in a maniac way. In fact, all the course is highly attractive. The spellbinding release is a part of the discography of Hortus Conclusus.

[Teaser of the day] Leemajik - Ne Tvoj

• Electronic music
• New Age
• Breaks
• Downtempo
• Mood music
• Chilltronica
• Trip-hop

Artist: Leemajik

Release: Access Frame: Property (V.A)

Label: Kamizdat

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Nicholas Mackin - The Longest Year

Soisloscerdos

• Chilltronica
• Electronic pop
• Ambient pop
• Mood music
• Crossover
• Psyelectro

Artist: Nicholas Mackin

Release: A Journey 

Label: Soisloscerdos/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp/Jamendo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Ringo Deathstarr - See You

• Alternative pop/rock
• Shoegaze
• Indie pop/rock
• Power pop
• Dream pop
• Trashgaze

Artist: Ringo Deathstarr

Release: God`s Dream  

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Camion - Amiga

• Post-punk
• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock
• New Wave
• Prog-punk

Artist: V.A

Release: Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 2 - Americas´Attack

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2018

Bendja – Primitive Encounters (2018)

4Drops Productions

Ektoplazm

Jamendo

• Psytrance 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Psyelectro 
• Goa

Comment: before I started listening to this 4-track issue I had been listening to John McLaughlin's Molom (1995, Polydor), a very worth CD issue I once got from a second hand shop. Molom is a refreshing blend of world music having its peak particularly spotted on Mongolian music and on the other side by employing fusion textures, generic artsy explorations and New Age-y hovers. In a word, the warm-up was solid enough to continue with music having been produced in the mountains of southern part of France. Primitive Encounters is the artist's sophomore issue of which intention is to illuminate the forgotten tribes of our world. It is a fine example of how music should be produced to convey a wide and yet profoundly cultivating sweep over a listener's perception. All seems to be mind-provoking from scratch over there – from the mystically suggestive cover print to clear yet profound reverberations and clear-cut rhythmic lines and wobbly acidic electro whirlpools. Furthermore, Ben aka Bendja likes to incorporate Indian and Gypsy motives (Flamenco guitars used to shuffle back and forth) into the blend. Because of that the issue reveals some not so usual threads from inside out. The expressive outing is a part of the discography of 4Drops Productions which in turn is set up under the umbrella of Ektoplazm, the main platform for psytrance, darkpsy, Goa trance, and many other psy-affected styles.

[Teaser of the day] Evan Morris - Ghost Fight

Earth Monkey Productions

• IDM
• Glitch electro
• Alternative
• Breakbeat
• Glitch techno
• Crossover
• Electronic music

Artist: Evan Morris

Release: The Doors Of Turmoil

Label: Earth Monkey Productions

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Blisaed - Take Your Time

Aerotone

• Indietronica
• Alternative
• Indie funk
• Alternative pop
• Electronic
• Art pop
• Alternative dance
• Electro-indie

Artist: Blisaed

Release: V/A - Soundtrack For Your Wedding

Label: Aerotone

Year: 2006

KETADRMS – Die helle Seite des Mondes (2015)

Kreislauf

Archive.org

• Hip-hop 
• Rap 
• Urban music 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Experimental electronica 
• Downtempo 
• Crossover 
• Breaks 
• Kosmische Musik

Comment: I have heard by someone that ketamine as a drug used to cause the subject to endlessly laugh. What then about ketadrms? Is it then about an endless session of exuberant drumming/drum programming? This outing of nine compositions is about a tight mix of unnerving and even choked electronic propulsions and on the other hand one used to hear hip-hop chants, decelerated fatty basses, and lighthearted synthesised progressions atop. Is the latter mentioned facet die helle Seite des Mondes (the bright side of the Moon) mentioned in the title? By my personal opinion I am thinking of it as something easy-going due to those volatile yet impressive gears to be moving along the bouncy rhythmic backbone. The strength of this legendary Kreislauf-released issue can be characterised through its unorthodox, free-flowing nature. In fact, it may remind of those tendencies being prevalent at the end of the 60s in Germany which eventually led to establishment of a swarm of crazed groups called Krautrock. One can feel coherent profoundness and a synergistic essence to latch on to those slightly different tendencies and deceptively ramshackle structures. In a word, as you have already figured out it is a bloody top notch.

[Teaser of the day] Cass Nova - Mapocho

Pueblo Nuevo

• Experimental electronica
• Avant-electronica
• Microtechno
• Drone
• Techno
• Microsound
• Experimental techno
• Crossover

Artist: Cass Nova

Release: Microorganisms 

Label: Pueblo Nuevo/Archive.org

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Jazzdefector - Improvised Solo With Field Recordings

Sucu Music

• Improvised music
• Field recording
• Ambient
• Art music
• Musique concrète

Artist: Jazzdefector

Release: Improvisations

Label: Sucu Music

Year: 2018

Christopher Pellnat – Liftoff (2018)

Bandcamp

• Alt-folk 
• Indie folk 
• Americana 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Folk indie 
• Psych-folk

Comment: just wondering if the human race would be transforming from natural to artificial then what kind of music would be functional? I guess there would be no need for singer-songwriters anymore because all could do away with feelings. Because we would be the robots, or we would be cyber-mixed organisms. Fortunately potent songwriters are over there to be prominently represented. One of them is Christopher Pellnat, a singular musician from Hudson, USA whose 10-notch whole is impressive due to the lyrics of different kind yet reflects upon such topics as escapism, and intention to get out of dirty mud and to ascend higher up to the sky and Mars and then sweeping around the slope of Mount Mons. And getting a feeling there's going to be some healing hints at a recent person who is very stressed and suppressed that his/her sensations are killed. The crucial question is wherefrom one could find out a saving light beam to get out from his/her personal pit? And love as a mighty power can be the reason for adverse events and consequences. Instrumentally it is accompanied by crafty arrangements by employing the 60s British psych-folk invasion, the US-based mavericks, buffoonish outsiders. All the background used to flow in a flourishing way. Let's see at the end of the year 2018.

[Teaser of the day] Pasqualino Ubaldini - Trillo alla Luna (Yugami)

Jamendo

• World music
• Art music
• Mood music
• Acoustic pop

Artist: Pasqualino Ubaldini

Release: Corde

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Makunouchi Bento - Luleradhique

• Avant-garde
• Post-industrial
• Electronic music
• Improvised music
• Drone
• Acousmatic music
• Experimentalism

Artist: Makunouchi Bento

Release: The Guardians of Lost Pieces: Found and Never to Be Lost

Label: Bandcamp/Tandem Tapes

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Gillicuddy - II

Resting Bell

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

Artist: Gillicuddy

Release: The Repeating Thoughts Of Old Zinng-Zanng

Label: Resting Bell

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Kurgan Hors - Incolto

Silent Flow

• Dark ambient
• Drone
• Art music
• Space music
• Minimalism
• Electronic music
• Ambient drone
• Avant-garde

Artist: Kurgan Hors

Release: Palus est

Label: Silent Flow

Year: 2016

Various Artists - DOMINIONATEDdeux (2015)

Quick Before It Melts

Bandcamp

• Covers 
• Folk indie 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Pop rock
• Alt-folk 
• Shoegaze 
• Synth-pop 
• Fuzz pop/rock 
• Indie folk 
• Canadiana 
• Electro-indie

Comment: this is the second compendium of classic Canadian songs (two other ones would be added) covered by contemporary Canadian artists within the series of music compilations where contemporary Canadian artists are asked to cover their favourite Canadian song before the year of 2006, the year Quick Before It Melts as a platform and music marketing blog was launched. The scope of indie music is wide over there because there are up 21 compositions in total. Indeed, the concept seems to be intriguing. There are up gentle sugary ballads and cheerful pop rock incantations and indie folk numbers to enchanting shoegaze-y incantations to transcend an original ditty onto a disparate territory and elegant fuzz pop/rock driven and feedback intoxicated punk rock freakouts to overtly poppy electronic interpretations. There are up such artists as Hollowphonic, The Holy Gasp, VIRE, Evening Hymns, KASHKA, No Museums, Camp David, Matt LeGroulx, Whale Eye, TV Sets, Crossley Hunter, Valery Gore, Alex Bent+The Emptiness, Venus Sans Fur, Las Venus Skyway, Nick Faye & The Deputies, Blackpaw Society, Stonetrotter, WHOOP-Szo, Jonathan Pearce, and Champion Lover. Of course, given that a cover song could be evaluated one should know about the original song either. To evaluate for is the cover version just a faint take-off or could the artist add some new and singular influxes to the mix. However, the whole impression is above the average for sure. Very pro. Listen to the rest (three) miscellanies additionally.

[Teaser of the day] 2muchachos - Adelaida

• Drone rock
• Avant-rock
• Post-rock
• Indie
• Art rock
• New Weird Russia
• Experimental rock

Artist: 2muchachos

Release: Formanta

Label: Parallax Sound/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Ujjaya - A Call Through The Bush

Eg0cide

• Drone
• Live
• Minimalism
• Musique concrète
• Ethnotronica
• Organic electronica
• World fusion
• Field recordings
• Electronic music
• Ethno-ambient

Artist: Ujjaya

Release: The Landing Zone (Live)

Label: Eg0cide

Year: 2016

Clinker – Dr Goon Phase (2018)

Bandcamp

• Indie pop/rock 
• Ambient pop/rock 
• Indie dance 
• DIY 
• Electro-indie 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Psychedelic pop 
• Art pop/rock 
• Hypnagogic pop 
• Synth-rock 
• Electronic 
• Alternative dance 
• Krautrock

Comment: approximately 10 years ago I discovered such projects as The Hirundu, Clinker, fydhws, Joxfield ProjeX, Keshco, Two Lane Phonebooth, Tinyfolk, Hox Vox, Enrique Ramirez, SFIAS, iron like nylon and many many other DIY and lo-fi combos through lastfm of which template then was fairly satisfying because you could follow your own radio stations being created by the music you had enjoyed before and a particular search for music by following the tags. Furthermore, you could add tags to music you had been listening to and there were up fan groups for different styles, movements and combos. London, the UK-based Clinker (Reg Verney Trio, and Opera Dog are/were related projects by the membership) is a partnership between the Peter Jordan aka Pete Da Clinker (some of the issues are released under this moniker) and Tomoko Matsumoto whose music is an embedment of a wide scope of indie music, not particularly based on the whole thread of albums they have issued by themselves so far but also on albums as well. 16-track yet 40-minute only brand new one Dr Goon Phase is a good example of it veering away from psychedelic pop sensations and hypnagogic/dreamwave dodges (The Box Is Open, the favourite of mine comes out from these hazy pigeonholes) to doo wop voice centred ditties to more kraut-induced more or less electronic propulsions and even free jazz-y (at We Can`t Know, Know More), and exquisite bongo drum propelled chants (Lion in Wait). In truth, they do away with more (guitar) noise-intoxicated numbers though it may be disputable at Done By Three. At least it is an artsy and gentle krautrock-infused noise pop example. In a nutshell, the outing is a fairly one though the favourite of mine remains still Good Trip, Bad Trip (2011), a fascinating blend of space rock, art rock, and krautrock.

[Teaser of the day] Will Bangs - California!

No Source

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

Artist: Will Bangs

Release: I Want To Grow Old With You

Label: No Source

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Niku Senpuki - Tardigrade eats the strange starfish from "Warning from Space" with a side order of Sashimi. Leaves bad Yelp review

• Psycho-acoustic
• Harsh noise
• Acousmatic music
• Experimentalism
• Post-industrial
• Non-music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Niku Senpuki

Release: Tardigrade

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Dublin Duck Dispensary - The Death Threat

• Indie rock
• Fuzz pop
• Alternative rock
• Electronic
• Avant-rock
• No Wave
• Noise pop
• Post-punk revival
• Garage rock

Artist: Dublin Duck Dispensary

Release: Luanqibazao

Label: Rack And Ruin (rrr081)/Already Dead

Year: 2008

MacroNoise – Continuum (2018)

post-label

• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Kosmische Musik 
• World fusion 
• Psybient 
• Downtempo
• Ethnotronica 
• Crossover
• Experimental electronica

Comment: this 8-track issue is not the first entry by Prague, the Czech Republic residing artist Tomas Sebelka (of Slovakian heritage) at RMH. I reviewed his issue Various Species (released on a Canadian imprint, Crime League) approximately three months ago. Similarly to Various Species it is a very intriguing outing though it is more mellow and gentle by doing away with more harsh breakbeat and EBM-drenched angles. Instead of it there are represented more decelerated downtempo and emotive electronica appearances. At Taking Off the artist comes close to hypnotic dubstep frequencies. Of course, talking about gentleness regarding MacroNoise's music it is a comparative aspect because the listener can hear glitched-out noises, abrasive keytar-induced progressions and incisive hisses within the mix. One can hear more ethnic music and psychedelic ambient induced sounds though these tracks cannot be directly considered neither examples of world music nor instances of psybient. Indeed, the forms are way too much littered with different sultry kind of minutiae – and that's makes sense anyway. The solid outing is a bit in the discography of post-label, a record label from the Czech Republic.

Butipreferrominapov – Lullaby For My Deaddog (2018)

In Your Ears

• Americana 
• Indie folk 
• Folktronica 
• DIY 
• Folk indie 
• Post-folk 
• Alt-folk 
• Drone folk

Comment: this bunch of 9 compositions bridges successfully the old and modern approach of folk music. For the listener it is an inspiring, horizon-widening outing. There are up the songs mostly getting inspiration from the Appalachian plateau and American roots music (although the artist obviously comes from Italy. In nay cases, Italians have previously developed some very American brands like producing Western movies a la Once Upon Time In America) – banjo and guitar plucked chords are proudly represented and on the other side all of that is varied with droning electronics, acidic keyboards, microscopic electronic beats, treated vowel loops and groovy synthesised whirlpools to add some churning electro-tinged, cybernetic touch to the whole. In that case, one can draw parallels upon The Beta Band. Secondly, resigned glimpses backwards in many songs resemble Wilco. Marco's fragile vocal timbre used to contrast suitably with the aforementioned firework. In one song he yodels like Zach Condon. The magnificent and adorable issue is a part of the discography of an Italian imprint, In Your Ears.

K4mmerer – Mind Train (2018)

Jamendo

• EDM 
• Electro pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Alternative dance 
• Post-disco 
• Dance pop 
• Synth-pop 
• Ambient pop

Comment: K4mmerer has released approximately 40 albums at Jamendo since 2008 and he keeps running in the vein of electro pop and post-disco path. Mind Train, 9-track issue, provides many fascinating vibes full of different configurations with different frequencies on basses and exquisitely kicking drumming. All those finely set up kick, ride, tom and snare pitches. At Nobody one can hear high-pitched guitars/keytars with treated, a bit warped vocals. It is followed by Platform, one of the most laid-back propulsions within the whole. Fallingrainmonkey is another example of how to employ effectively and conjure up convincing symbiosis based on a treated vocal sample and slightly gleaming rhythms. The self-titled track reminds of some tracks from within Currents (2015) by Tame Impala. In other words, it is as if produced by Kevin Parker. In a word, the result is outstanding and I am going to add it to my list of the best albums in 2018.

[Teaser of the day] Hizmi - Nue

Bunkai-Kei

• Electronic music
• Digital soul
• Digital funk
• Glitch-soul
• Crossover
• Alternative

Artist: Hizmi

Release: Dendel Voile

Label: Bunkai-Kei

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Juanitos - Joe Tequila Twist

Jamendo

• Psych-pop
• Alternative pop
• Latin music
• Indie pop
• Crossover
• World fusion
• Acid pop

Artist: Juanitos

Release: Best of Vol.2

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Viktor Van River - Miracle

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Breaks
• Trip-hop
• Alternative
• Electronic music
• Hip-hop
• Cinematic

Artist: Viktor Van River

Release: Almost Human (EP)

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Zgress - Timbo

• Electronic music
• Art pop
• Alternative pop
• Digital soul
• Autotune

Artist: Zgress

Release: Timbo

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

Zis0ky – Into The Abyss (2018)

Sun Department

• Hi-Tech 
• Psytrance 
• Electronic music 
• Darkpsy

Comment: in fact, I have had few contacts with such styles as darkpsy, and hi-tech the music of an artist called Zis0ky is described for. There is represented a bunch of three compositions of which rhythmic frequencies extend to 180 to 190 bpm. It is very fast and tectonic like the gabber style or an accelerated jungle example, however, being imbued with slight psychedelic vines around the rhythmic backbone. In fact, the artist employs and treats vocal samples from TV series (at Brain Trip). Into The Abyss is the debut issue by John-Michael Heck AKA Tranonica and being released on Sun Department Records, and Ektoplazm as the biggest platform for psytrance, psybient, Goa trance etc.

Aigar Vals – End Game (2018)

Bandcamp

• Shoegazetronica 
• Synthwave 
• Post-punk 
• Alternative rock 
• Ethereal wave 
• Epic 
• Dream pop 
• Indie 
• DIY 
• Art pop/rock
• Crossover

Comment: Aigar Vals is known as the drummer from such Estonian dance-appealed indie groups as Badass Yuki, and Junk Riot. End Game is his debut album some weeks before his band mate from Badass Yuki Mart Avi would release his fourth solo outing OtherWorld. 8-notch outing is an intriguing drift between cinematic synthesised developments and epic panoramas – oh yeah, it is so beautiful! - and on the other side, it is more about undulating yet warped electronic shoegaze. Let's say – it is an example of unconventional shoegaze. Indeed, I would like to avoid the term nugaze because nugaze used to relate to something superficial and volatile and secondary in my mind. Most of those bands are produced and channelized into a very similar product. All those guitars, drums, and synths are packaged tightly into a sparkling yet empty box. One can feel lo-fi and DIY-tinged (at times elegantly awkward) attitude within the whole by adding an extra charge to it. Additionally there are up bold bass lines, stomping piano chords and heavy drum fringes here and there thereby drawing parallels upon the electronic post-punk/synthwave scene. Thirdly, those decelerated a bit murky soundscapes remind a bit of such ethereal wave juggernauts as Lycia, Autumn's Grey Solace, and Love Spirals Downwards. All those unforgettable halcyon hours spent behind heavy curtains sometime in the past. However, in the context of Estonian music it is absolutely singular, absolutely extraordinary. I like it very very very much. The issue is a part of the discography of Estonian underground (mostly) tape imprint Trash Can Dance (best regards to Trash as well!).

ZeeKat – it Hertz EP (2018)

Bonimedia

• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Art rock 
• Fusion
• Electronic 
• Post-rock 
• Jazz rock 
• Progressive rock 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Improvised music 
• Sampledelic
• Ambient rock 
• Yacht rock

Comment: behind these eight compositions is the Polish artist Lukasz Padzik whose music is built on atmospheric synthesisers which used to rotate around vivid, frequently fusion-tinged guitars. The aforementioned pillars are variegated with vocal samples, interesting sampled and short wave radio induced minutiae, and treated electronic effects. The whole starts off with 2AM which is based on exuberant synthesiser slides, wide range progressive and jazz rock guitar framing and suggestive samples all the elements used to merge with each other. In fact, it is an excellent start for an album to develop into new and invigorating directions thereafter. Lukasz Padzik likes to stay within the borders to set out a more impressive picture, to get maximally festive and cinematic feeling from within it. At times those prog/fusion guitars are tuned into a more laid-back, yacht rock form. The fascinating release is a part of the discography of Bonimedia.

[Teaser of the day] Monkey Warhol - It`s Warhol Actually

Free Music Archive

• Electro pop
• Synth-pop
• Alternative dance
• Electroclash
• Electronic music

Artist: Monkey Warhol

Release: The Darwin LP

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Limbo Deluxe - Policia Urbana

Jamendo

• Psych-pop
• Alternative pop
• Acid pop
• Latin music
• Indie pop
• Surf pop

Artist: Limbo Deluxe

Release: Super Disco Pop Beat Punk

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Tha Silent Partner - Guns Dont Kill People

blocSonic

• Hip-hop
• Electronic music
• Cinematic
• Breaks
• Urban music

Artist: Tha Silent Partner

Release: (muted) Sessions

Label: blocSonic

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] System Morgue - Torsion

Free Music Archive

• Ambient rock
• Avant-rock
• Dark wave
• Post-rock
• Darkgaze
• Ethereal wave
• Experimental rock
• Electronic

Artist: System Morgue

Release: Voies

Label: ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ 

Year: 2017