Two Lane Phonebooth – Twisted Rebar (2008)

Two Lane Phonebooth

• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Art rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-prog 
• RIO 
• Techno rock 
• Yacht pop
• Electronic 
• DIY

Comment: I guess it happened a bit more than 10 years ago when I had discovered that artist at Lastfm. I like the artist's laconic outlook by sharing his music through his own website (8 albums in total). Even the most sustainable music platforms like Bandcamp, and Soundcloud are put aside. Because of that it can be said TLP is a genuine indie artist by his attitude and format but not in that way only. By listening to this 14-notch release one can hear cutting-edge touch in the music. Basically it is a cohesive, galvanised rock sound based on guitars, drums and electronic keyboards. As the title hints at the issue it is twisted but fortunately it is not an avant-garde for its own sake. Yeah, it embraces uncanny samples, loops, some tracks like Loud Boat, and You The Serpents Made with offbeat, a bit jazzy glimpses as if something coming out from between yacht pop and Frank Zappa. Rumbling Platform is more Zappa than Zappa himself used to be. Amazing avant-prog/noise rock. All You Need Is Blood is an excellent example of integrated techno rock. Obviously it is tautological to add all the tracks are created with a tongue-in-cheek attitude. By contemporaneous artists I would like to compare the artist with Ariel Pink, similarly to the Californian DIY legend I hear those timeless laid-back sparkles in the music. It would sound a bit in a freaky way but this sound would have been ideal for a recent Ariel Pink. What else could be added but listen to this singular one and the other seven ones as well. Simply great.

[Teaser of the day] ¡para!helion - Ayemenem

Free Music Archive

• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• World fusion
• Experimentalism
• Live

Artist: ¡para!helion

Release: Midaq Alley

Label: Free Music Archive/Pen & Mallet

Year: 1999

[Teaser of the day] Animal Collective - We Tigers

Archive.org

• Improvised music
• Dada pop
• New Weird America
• Live
• Psychedelic
• Avant-pop
• Experimental pop

Artist: Animal Collective

Release: Live at Webster Hall on 2007-10-01

Label: NYCTaper/Live Music Archive

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling

Archive.org

• Live
• Indie rock
• Americana
• Lad rock
• Alternative rock
• Alt-country

Artist: Camper Van Beethoven

Release: Live at The Pageant Theatre on 2018-12-31

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Lycia - The Morning Breaks So Cold And Gray

• Ambient rock
• Darkgaze
• Epic
• Gothic Americana
• Dream pop
• Dark Wave
• Ethereal Wave
• Art pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Lycia

Release: A Day In The Stark Corner

Label: Projekt/Bandcamp

Year: 1993

[Teaser of the day] Bockinger - Raggea

Clinical Archives

• Dub techno
• Electronic music
• Dub house
• Electro house
• Crossover
• Alternative dance

Artist: Bockinger

Release: Tongeflüster EP

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Number Eleven - Bicycle With Square Wheels

Electron Emitter

• IDM
• Electronic music
• Experimental techno

Artist: Number Eleven

Release: Flying Bricks

Label: Electron Emitter

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Olga Scotland - Underwater

• Ethno-ambient
• Electronic music
• World music
• New Age
• Ethnotronica
• Alternative

Artist: Olga Scotland

Release: Craters: Suavjarvi

Label: Tunguska Electronic Music Society/Jamendo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Cinchel - Listening

• Ambient
• Live
• Minimalism
• Drone
• Epic
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism
• Ambient drone
• Avant-garde

Artist: Cinchel

Release: At Once Pleasant

Label: Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Fucked Up Beat - Train Whistle Forget Me Nots

Free Music Archive

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

Artist: The Fucked Up Beat

Release: Insomnie

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp  

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Myrakaru - Süüskuu

Sutemos

• IDM
• Mood music
• Ambient pop
• Ulmetronica
• Electronic music

Artist: Myrakaru

Release: Tammetõru

Label: Sutemos

Year: 2008

Take Pills – Consumer Drones (2005)

Take Pills Die

• Experimentalism 
• Electronic music 
• Krautrock 
• Motorik 
• Experimental electro 
• Minimal synth 
• Avant-garde

Comment: undoubtedly the US-based Andrew Cauthen was one of the most interesting artists along with Cagey House, Amitron 7, starstarstar, The Japanese Gum, Children Of The Drone and Joxfield ProjeX whom I had discovered while embarking on with my blog 10 years ago. The visual trademark of him used to be a bicycle on the cover print of every issue. Musically his sound is still mind-blowing, for example, the recent one is a convergence of krautrock-driven motorik beats a la Neu, and on the other side it is a mix of ambient plateaus and droning phases. In truth, he does away with guitars. Earlier, I guess, five years ago I would have considered it an example of pure electronic sound, however, today it chimes to my ears at least partly like a solid German experimental rock project from the 70s. Additionally to Neu! as already mentioned above the minimalist influences by Konrad Schnitzler can be heard on this 8-track outing. Of course, one can also draw parallels upon the electro sound from Detroit but the seminal impulse came from Germany. However, the latter point is not the most essential but it is a very fine listening experience. In a word, let's consume it.

[Teaser of the day] Noisesurfer - The Sun Let The Way

SP Net

• Electronic music
• Experimental electronica
• Kraut-electro
• Ambient
• Minimal synth

Artist: Noisesurfer

Release: Demolution

Label: SP Net

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - Tin Can Lotus

Free Music Archive

• Ambient pop
• Art music
• DIY
• Improvised music
• Post-pop

Artist: Cagey House

Release: Sometimes Always Never

Label: Pan Y Rosas Discos

Year: 2015

Marcus Denight – Legends of the Imminent Winter (2018)

USC Unlimited

Archive.org

Bandcamp

• Kosmische Musik 
• Electronic music 
• Space music 
• Soundscape 
• Ambient

Comment: Marcus Denight's issue is undoubtedly a proper listening due to the recent seasonal aspect and because of its emotive facet. More profoundly, the listener can hear Kosmische Musik and the so-called Berlin School inspired vast soundscapes which sweep effectively around your head and ears. However, I have never perceived any sort of burning melancholy within the music of Tangerine Dream, for instance, however, through Legends of the Imminent Winter Marcus Denight enters deeply into very profound slots of your heart. The counterpoint and a partial base of it could be considered the gleaming light as if reflecting back from an iceberg. And the feeling of sadness, majestic beauty, and ennobling darkness mingle with one another seamlessly and effortlessly. This is the magic moment and function of music. It is like getting out in a cold winter morning and staring at the sky and seeing a reddish scope of lights at the zenith of your head. Then you could think of it as the only thing you would need in your life. Indeed, you feel sadness and melancholy yet it is not devastating at all but providing much inspiration and power and thereby to get energised inside. Indeed, if you seek a balance providing mental edge then listen to it. The great issue is a part of a Russian imprint, USC Unlimited.

[Teaser of the day] Lobo Loco - Hey Go (ID 1015)

Free Music Archive

• Americana
• Blues rock
• Avant-blues
• Improvised music
• Psych-rock
• Roots music
• Delta blues
• Alternative rock

Artist: Lobo Loco

Release: Vagabond

Label: Free Music Archive/Jamendo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Rolling Calf Sinfonette - Past Bedtime

Webbed Hand

• Electronic music
• Sampledelic
• Exotica pop
• Lo-fi
• Plunderphonics
• Tiki tiki
• Electro
• Crossover
• Alternative
• Ambient
• DIY

Artist: Rolling Calf Sinfonette

Release: Don't Mind If I Do 

Label: Webbed Hand

Year: 2004 

CLOUDWARMER – Anthropocene (2018)

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Sampledelic 
• Plunderphonics 
• Sound collage 
• Hauntology 
• Avant-garde 
• Art music 
• Experimentalism 
• Electronic music 
• Spoken word 
• Exotica pop

Comment: CLOUDWARMER is the project of Brett Zehner, and Eddie Palmer, previously the duo was being known as The Fucked Up Beat (a favourite of mine). As if a couple of conspiracy theoreticians and practitioners in sound used to have had a fun on these as numerous as approximately 20 albums. In general, they continue along an analogue way by using haunting, by its nature ominous speech samples and exotic yet by its nature a bit frightening, a bit otherworldly twisted rhythmic patterns to convey a disaster-ridden world (where the human being and nature welcome each other in an acrimonious way) to us what catastrophic disasters have happened throughout the last 70-80 years. Musically the main difference could be considered by employing doom-laden, noisy sweeps occasionally. For misanthropists this 12-track issue would be a good source to formally refer to the adverse consequences and therefore to their own species as a failed one but for others it would be a pleasant journey through labyrinthine sonic corridors and arousing fear stricken moods to get travelled. For whom this world belongs to in fact? For me? For you? For them? If it so who are then those 'them'? Should it be owned by someone at all? Are we just the pawns in the field of the so-called divine comedy? The mentally overcoming release was issued at Free Music Archive, and Bandcamp.

Yuuki Yamaguchi – Atmosphere EP (2018)

Ceramic

Yuuki Yamaguchi

• House 
• Electronic music 
• Deep house
• Crossover
• Ethno-house 
• Avant-house

Comment: by listening to this 3-notch outing by a Japanese artist, Yuuki Yamaguchi I thought about the possibility to write a review about a house music release. In fact, how much house or drum and bass reviews could you meet today. No, I am not supposed to think of it as an example of boring music but its functionality might predominate over its other qualities more or less deliberately. First of all, it is the synonym of dance music and at a lesser extent, to create a pleasant state of mind (one of the strengths of house music is to build up sultry ambiances). Of course, there have been around many artists whose purpose are being to undermine the aforementioned intentions and outputs. First of all, I could remember for artists under the legendary German imprint Thinner, and Akufen. The Japanese artist's issue being released on Ceramic Records is a tight blend of national motives (which frequently are warped into an appealingly acidic form) and vibrant rhythms. By considering the titles of these tracks (Atmosphere, Distortion, to Nature) one can perceive the artist's drive to move further from within the borders of the aforementioned styles. One can hear the birds are singing, slightly pulsating drones provide an alternative to the more fragmented beats, smithereens-alike sounds used to pop out here and there. To create house music seems not to be his ultimate goal but exploiting it as a platform to reach new heights.

[Teaser of the day] Carcass Brook - Dead Inside

Death Roots Syndicate

• Folk noir
• No Wave
• Singer-songwriter
• Death folk
• Noise folk
• Doom folk

Artist: Carcass Brook

Release: A Good Day to Die

Label: Death Roots Syndicate

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Cousin Silas & Kevin Lyons - The TNT Factory

• Ambient
• Avant-garde
• Post-industrial
• Ambient drone
• Dark ambient
• Soundscape
• Electronic music
• Experimentalism
• Drone
• Illbient

Artist: Cousin Silas & Kevin Lyons

Release: The Fortean Project

Label: We Are All Ghosts

Year: 2018

Luka Prinčič – Antigone/Child (2018)

Kamizdat

Bandcamp

• Ambient 
• Soundscape 
• Art music 
• Epic 
• Post-classical 
• Modern classical 
• Contemporary classical 
• Dark ambient 
• Crossover 
• Ambient drone

Comment: you may not know how indescribably pleasant is to listen to an album which allows you to forget your self and ego just for an hour – it is one of the best sensations you could ever get in at all. I am listening to Slovenia-based artist Luka Prinčič`s 12-track outing and I can feel I have entered outside the mundane realm where I feel I am nobody, I have no goofy obligations, I am just a part of the imminent energy of this unfathomable endlessness. You can feel halcyon chill and ennobling blue and black mixed darkness oozing out of every chord, out of every imaginary slot. Mystical constellations do form in front of you and foster your fantasies. On the other side, it is a bit heretical to dissect the object or goal of which touch is purgative and transcendental and over my head to an incomparable degree. However, I could only assure it would surely not be a topic over there. Just because of that take a time to listen to it, just get into the music, and try to stay inside it as long as possible. In a way, it is an example of post-music because it acts like a medium to bear and sustain a next level, in the recent case overwhelming sensations to be brought to the forefront. The fabulous issue of ambient, drone and contemporary classical music is a part of the discography of Kamizdat, a Slovene imprint.

[Teaser of the day] A Batard Tronique - U Svom Jatu

Ringe Raja

• Breakcore
• Bhangra
• World fusion
• Electronic music
• Breakbeat
• Jungle

Artist: A Batard Tronique

Release: Ringe Raja 038

Label: Ringe Raja

Year: 2016 

[Teaser of the day] Alphaxone - Signals

Eg0cide Productions

• Ambient
• Post-industrial
• Soundscape
• Dark ambient
• Electronic music
• Epic
• Space music

Artist: Alphaxone

Release: Phase.o.n.e

Label: Eg0cide Productions

Year: 2012

Los Pilotos – Under The Breath (2018)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

• Doom rock 
• Sludge rock 
• Art rock 
• Avant-metal 
• Improvised music 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Post-metal 
• Angst rock

Comment: Los Pilotos is the solo project of Keith Helt with a swarm of rotating musical collaborators. In fact, Keith Helt has headed a prolific Chicago, the US-based imprint, Pan Y Rosas Discos for years and it is obviously one of the most represented if not the very most represented project in the discography of the record label. Regrettably I have to admit my experience with the oeuvre by Keith Helt is being moderate because I have reviewed just an album (The Process Of Learning, 2016) before the recent one. However, by comparing these issues I have to assume the releases are quite different ones by their accents and formats. The Process Of Learning was more motorik, psychedelic and electronic music soaked and obviously krautrock influenced but on Under The Breath Keith Helt does away with any electronics and synths. On the other side, this 10-notch whole is a fascinating result due to its repetitive chords on rough yet vibrant guitars and basses and a bit interrupted, convulsive singing manner (yeah, his voice does convey strong passion and intense pain) as if a weird bastard between doom, and sludge rock/metal being subjugated to an improvised algorithm. In a sense, the sparse instrumental premises put huge pressure on the artist's technical virtuosity and aesthetical creativity. At times the listener can perceive even cinematic hovers atop the aforementioned guitar and bass built scaffolding as if some kind of salvation for compensating artsy suffering and fear. All in all, the result is impressive due to Keith Helt's ability to balance between expressive playing style, and a creative formative output. This interaction as a result is truly worth on its own.

Alan Morse Davies – The Morse Codex (2018)

 At The Sea

• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimental electronica 
• Crossover 
• Plunderphonics 
• Micronoise 
• Musique concrète 
• Contemporary classical 
• Art music

Comment: I am not going to wish you a happy new year because no one would care of it, and secondly, the life is not going to change better and happier during the next 365 days. Some things may be better, some things will be worse. Most things are averagely mean. The same could be said about the music – in fact, I do not have belief in the mainstream music at all regarding also the music which is wrongly considered as indie music. The only hope by my side is related to music coming out from within the netlabels, Bandcamp, Archive.org, Jamendo, and Free Music Archive. European culture is declining due to being impotent to create something inspiring and refreshing and seminal. As impotent as one European leader used to be in 2018 who was not able to resolve problems within his country and got heavily punched by his own people. And of course, he did not feel any guilt but blamed the so-called populists for organising the riots. Europe's fate can only be saved by abandoning Christianity as a religion of the slaves. The Europeans should go back to their heathenish roots, directly to clear incantation, directly to the nature and God (however, a true Marxist considers himself/herself a god – he/she knows how the things must be set out). Most of good sonic things are related to the US-based underground scene but also Russian independent creators showcase their power with every new year more and more than before. And Asia's experimental scene is about to explode (especially in Indonesia). Today I am going to review an American creator, Alan Morse Davies whose 12-track issue The Morse Codex is an outstanding one by employing different strategies including the plunderphonic strategy by taking something from other musicians and building something new on them or mashing other authors' music or concrete sounds up. At times one can feel as if dialing a short wave radio. Furthermore, some shortwave-based things seem to be even more cryptic and mystical and thereby reminding a bit of The Conet Project's Numbers Stations. One part of this 12-track outing embraces uncanny yet overcoming noise symphonies and shifting sonic phases. In one song – indeed, the song with the lyrics – he takes a shot at artsy composing a la Robert Wyatt. One can discern the issue to be influenced by world music threads although the threads are warped and indirectly represented. In general, these minutes used to incorporate very different aspects and it is mostly because the release is a collection of tracks from the years 2016-2018. All in all, it is truly inspiring and providing a hefty sort of mental restart. It is a work and joy of non-genre as the artist likes to reckon. As most of his albums used to be this recent one is released on At The Sea.

[Teaser of the day] Cory Allen - Vipassana

Test Tube

• Drone
• Minimalism
• Epic
• Avant-garde
• Kosmische Musik
• Microtonal
• Ambient drone
• Experimentalism

Artist: Cory Allen

Release: Satori In Atlantis

Label: Test Tube

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Erkki Hyva - Klassiõhtud

• Spoken word
• DIY
• Avant-garde
• Bedroom music
• New Weird Estonia
• Storytelling
• Lo-fi

Artist: Erkki Hyva

Release: Varjust rambini 

Label: Õunaviks

Year: 2004

Austin Smith/SLP – Dissolution of the Cube (2010)

Spettro

Archive.org

• Experimentalism 
• Rhythmic noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Acousmatic music
• Improvised noise 
• Psycho-acoustic
• Abstract 
• Post-industrial 
• Non-music 
• Power electronics

Comment: this 6-track issue is a split between such artists as SLP, and Austin Smith on the Italian imprint Spettro. One can hear impressive noisy orchestrations full of pulsating nodules and elliptically rounding soundscapes, elemental hurricane-alike outbursts,  signal-alike static tensions and smouldering grayish reverberations within this 40-minute body. All of that is both physically and mentally pushed forward to drill one`s cerebral hemispheres. On the other side, it can be seen from the perspective of a grasshopper who is frightened due to impending death by an oncoming lawnmower. Microscopic and macroscopic levels are set out to reflect upon each other in a destructive way. Every part of the whole reflects mirrors toward the whole, and vice versa. That`s a crazy horse.

[Teaser of the day] Fusz - Wish Wave

• Ambient pop
• Synth-pop
• Indietronica
• Drone pop
• Alternative
• Electronic pop
• Crossover

Artist: Fusz

Release: MNMN NEW YEAR

Label: MNMN

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Brice Catherin - symphonie consternante movement 2

Free Music Archive

• Electro-acoustic
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Free jazz
• Improvised music
• Crossover

Artist: Brice Catherin

Release: Early Works

Label: Pan Y Rosas Discos

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Tortoise - Salt the Skies

Archive.org

• Jazz rock
• Avant-rock
• Post-rock
• Cinematic
• Art rock
• Live
• Experimental rock

Artist: Tortoise

Release: Live at Littlefield on 2016-03-17

Label: NYCTaper/Live Music Archive

Year: 2016

Soletik – Directional (2017)

Fusion

Archive.org

• Glitch-hop 
• Electronic music 
• Avant-techno 
• Breakbeat 
• Post-industrial 
• Glitchtronica

Comment: this 22-notch mammoth release by Soletik reflects upon some sort of incongruousness within the Directional structure and following and questing subsequent tensions because of it. The breaks are heavily chopped-up, magnified and amplified to take a cacophonous lead over the course of an 86 minute. Stylistically one can hear different club and electronic music elements like techno, house, electro, breakbeat. Frequently the dominant aspect is challenged by fragmented melodies and harmonies as if the irritating counterpoint to it. It is like a symptom describing a deranged human mind, and it is also a prediction what will have happened in societies in 2018. As many signs will have shown people get tired of artificial arrangements of the economics, societal relationships, an imminent, unreasonable burden of migrants. They are searching for a free version of life, seeking for the true version of democracy, for the vox populi. The question is not about either the right wing or left wing, it is all about the survival of (representative) democracy. The mind-provoking issue is a part of the discography of Fusion Netlabel.

[Teaser of the day] Lycia - Silver Sliver

• Indie pop/rock
• Art pop/rock
• Ambient rock
• Ethereal wave
• Epic
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Lycia

Release: Estrella

Label: Projekt/Silber/Bandcamp 

Year: 1998/2005

[Teaser of the day] Mr. Garfield - Bleak House

• Ambient pop
• Electronic music
• Chilltronica
• Ambient house
• Mood music

Artist: Mr. Garfield

Release: Nights EP

Label: Eesti Pops

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Dreamphish - Morning Philosophy

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

Artist: Dreamphish

Release: Is It I

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2000

[Teaser of the day] Mikaere - Soft Lights

Basic_sounds

• Electronic music
• Tech-house
• Minimal house
• Club dance
• Minimal techno

Artist: Mikaere

Release: Ending To Beginning

Label: Basic_sounds

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Belekaip - Deep Space Telemetry (56.44 cut 2-5)

• Electronic music
• Synth-pop
• Art music
• Ambient pop
• Alternative

Artist: Belekaip

Release: Carbon Dub

Label: Electron Emitter

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Wings Of An Angel - My Tri-Headed Tibetan Skull Bead Necklace Is The Only Protection I Need On Doomsday... As Friendship Is Now Cosmically Worthless!

• Dark ambient
• Post-industrial
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde
• Ambient drone
• Microtonal

Artist: Wings Of An Angel

Release: Apocalyptic Love Poems For The End Of The World

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

Bruno Susio – Keep Calm And Enjoy the Music (2018)

Jamendo

• Easy listening 
• Mood music 
• Smooth jazz 
• Acid rock 
• Vaudeville music

Comment: if you are searching desperately for an instance of mood music/easy listening then a recommendation of mine would be the Italian musician Bruno Susio who has been releasing music since the year of 2010. You can enjoy halcyon Mediterranean themes played on guitar and accompanied by sparse drumming. Another example is a beatific piano driven incantation with hi-hat sounds in the mood of smooth jazz. You can also be embraced by fiercely rocking psychedelic organ-driven numbers and clear sailing glimpses through whistling, and the strumming of a banjo. Yet it is not an example of Americana at all, it is rather a stylized vaudeville music. Mostly the tracks are imbued with suggestive natural sounds coming in from the streets like the noises of a crowd, the brakes of vehicles etc. By watching the cover print of this 12-track outing you can see the author sitting on the concrete wall and enjoying a beautiful day and the time when the Sun goes down. It could be the same recommendation for you as well though beyond that it is widened a bit regarding the listening of this issue being released on Jamendo and Smart Note Records (although I am not able to find it out at the latter site). When I was younger I had been enjoying the music by Paul Mauriat. Now I am fancing this suggestive sound. Additionally.

Davic Nod – Do You Remember Me? (2012)

Mùsica Vermella

• Trip-hop 
• Electronic music 
• Hip-hop 
• Dub techno 
• Experimental hip-hop 
• Industrial hip-hop 
• Avant-hop 
• Crossover 
• Noise-hop

Comment: this 4-track issue starts off with industrial noises and hisses to come out and get into sultry dub vibes. However, this multifaceted outing being released on Mùsica Vermella just embarks on showing up its potent and power. One can hear Tricky's Pre-Millennium Tension-alike ominous twists and later more industrial music soaked hip-hop madness like Death Grips, and Dälek used to bring us to get along with it. At times one can partake in a sexually arousing female singing and sighs being backed up by delicate electronic progressions, and galvanized, noise drenched apocalyptic male singing. Lots of exquisite beats, unexpected breaks, impelling twists and managed madness to walk on air. Yeah, it is an impressive experimental hip-hop/trip-hop/dub issue one could vibe on it for real.

Hanging Freud – Nowhere (2018)

myhand.thanx

Bandcamp

• Drone pop 
• Synth-rock 
• Organcore 
• Coldwave 
• Art pop
• Dark wave 
• Electro-indie 
• Synthwave 
• Ambient pop 
• Post-punk

Comment: Hanging Freud (at times it has been called Hangin Freud) is the duo of Paula Borges and Jonathan Skinner whose brand new album Nowhere continues the way the Brazil/British duo has been trudging since the beginning of the 10s. It is an enchanting bound of droning vibrant organs, hovering synths, and restrained female singing. Undoubtedly this is an uncompromising yet blissful pop album inspired by Joy Division yet drifting toward more synth-driven direction. Yet it is neither a new wave nor a synth-pop release. Its poppy strain reflects upon something else. At times it may be considered an accelerated version of Lycia or a pre-exorcized rebound of Cocteau Twins. If such a sort of album were released 35-40 years ago it would have been considered a hallmark outing.  The outstanding issue is a part of the discography of myhand.thanx imprint.

[Teaser of the day] Art Electronix - Stortalraer

MAV [0kbps]

• Post-industrial
• Drone
• Avant-electronica
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde
• Experimental electronica
• Experimentalism

Artist: Art Electronix

Release: Error Process 

Label: MAV [0kbps]/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Stereo Realist - 033H

20kbps

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

Artist: Stereo Realist

Release: Stereo Realist

Label: 20kbps

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Ray Tracing - Mariopaint

Irdial

• Nintendocore
• Electronic music
• Electro pop
• Alternative
• Video game music
• Primitronica

Artist: Ray Tracing

Release: The Electric Family - Mariopaint

Label: Irdial

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Fosel - From Nowhere Into Where

Treetrunk

• Dark ambient
• Electro-acoustic
• Microsound
• Avant-garde
• Post-industrial
• Experimentalism

Artist: Fosel

Release: The Left Hand Of Darkness

Label: Treetrunk

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Ausland - Binse

Laverna

• Ambient
• Minimalism
• Electronic music
• Microtonal
• Ambient drone
• Epic
• Drone

Artist: Ausland

Release: Binse

Label: Laverna

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] LSD - Smells like Von Tina

Ephedrina

• Electronic music
• Experimental techno
• Tech-house
• Minimal synth
• Crossover
• Outsider techno
• Minimal techno

Artist: LSD

Release: Deadhippiehappy

Label: Ephedrina/Bandcamp/Jamendo

Year: 2017

Botânicos – Os Botânicos (2005)

Menthe de Chat

Bandcamp

• Krautrock 
• Psych-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Improvised music 
• Live session 
• Free jazz

Comment: Botânicos is a project by the Brazilian musician Fabio Oliveira aka Frithlang who is supported by 4 other musicians on this 4-notch issue. The compositions are long-running ones three of them reach more than a 10-minute mark. It was recorded live at Ateliê Ana Cohen in February 2005. The issue is a part of the discography of Menthe de Chat. Yeah, the whole trace is trippy and without rush and accelerated tempo, every chord seems to be delineated, magnified and accentuated within the tropical environment. I feel jungle fever within it. Mostly the mood is sultry for yet at times those improvisations and free jazz-inflected propulsions turn into abrasively shrieking whirlpools and weird elliptically shaped forms. Sidharta embarks on very similarly to Radiohead's Paranoid Android yet soon it is headed by wah-wah effects, intriguing vocal mixing, a clockwork-alike instrument, fragmented keys played on a flute and saxophone. One can perceive some sort of controlled madness which will come and go by injecting invigorating impulses to the mix. It may be considered a peculiar kind of New Age music due to its floating nature and oocasional interruptions. And so it goes on to the final and victorious point. In a nutshell, the result is impressively expressive.

[Teaser of the day] Bloody Blue - Bossa Nova

Tape Safe

• Space rock
• Experimental rock
• Electronic
• Krautrock
• Avant-rock
• Motorik

Artist: Bloody Blue

Release: Mobil Ohm Session 

Label: Tape Safe

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] 10Konekt - ..........

• Avant-punk
• Synth-punk
• Acid pop
• Avant-pop
• Art punk
• Minimalism
• Experimental pop
• Electro-punk

Artist: 10Konekt

Release: 100Chaises

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Arfus - Noxillate

Sirona-Records

• Electronic music
• Breaks
• Hardstep
• Techstep

Artist: Arfus

Release: Arfus EP

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2011

Slit In Slot – Birthmarks (2017)

Mahorka

Amek Collective

Bandcamp

• Micronoise 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Post-industrial 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• Ambient 
• Drone 
• Organic electronica 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Acousmatic music

Comment: the more I got into this 10-notch issue by Yavor Grancharov the more I felt some sort of confusion which had fallen over my head. The structures of these compositions used to be complex by using quick transitions from one style to another or just by running multiple stylistic elements at the same time. One can hear spectral human voices coming in from a remote distance while subtle locomotive sounds are set up in front of the listener. In another track an exquisite droning which tends to vary throughout the course is embellished with glitchy shards. And it just goes on and on until it will be finished off sometime without any determination. It is like an antidote to a nowadays human being's life. At times droning gets intensified in volume and in the frequency of chords being meshed with spiky noises and ghostly electro-acoustic clatters from far beyond. Yet it is somehow warm and tempting as if a glimpse into the future, towards futuristic record charts. All in all, it is an overcoming outing in any sense. The issue is a joint release on Mahorka (digital release), and Amek Collective (tape release).

The Hirundu – Tartarus (2018)

Pitch And Putt

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• DIY 
• Psychedelic 
• Art music 
• Synth-rock 
• Tribal music 
• World fusion 
• Avant-pop 
• Experimental pop 
• Crossover

Comment: the Englishman Johnny Crewdson is back with his project The Hirundu. By me he is always being welcomed because he used to have always something intriguing to say. Neverthless, he has been active for three decades already and musically The Hirundu has been a fabulous case by having been a platform for every kind of sonorous experimentation veering away from provoking an outsider lo-fi and DIY-tinged aesthetic and psychedelic alternative rock and nihilistic post-punk tendencies to frantic, dada-inspired radiophonic and disparate kind of electronic and ambient music experiments. In fact, something new will be added with every brand new ones and something old will be reflected back. That's what used to be called cohesive creative process and adhesive feedback, respectively, isn't. By listening to the first half of this 14-notch release one may think of it as a chill-out release in terms of The Hirundu because frequently those compositions lose weight by gravitating in a haphazard yet joyous manner with some sort of easiness with supportive faint reverberations of ecstasy (no hints at the pill, though). I am very convinced Johnny created it with a tongue-in-cheek attitude. The touch of poignant humor always helps and adds an extra value to a mix. With regard to it, for instance, one can think of Frank Zappa, and Captain Beefheart. More profoundly, the course of the first side runs across a patchwork-alike landscape. On the other side, the poignant humor is not the case for confined persons. There is no possibility to think of the album in an ambivalent way – it is thoroughly uncompromising and without any hints at a sleazy taste. Oh damn, I shall have to say again – a favourite issue in 2018. A case of breathtaking music indeed.

Tsantser – Tot Nodig (2018)

Bandcamp

• Alternative 
• Footwork 
• Deep house 
• Crossover
• Hip-hop 
• Chopped and screwed 
• Drone 
• Electronic music 
• Cloud rap 
• Urban music

Comment: this 12-track issue is one of the most playful issues I have heard in the recent year. And along with such releases as End Game by Aigar Vals, Rites by Eoins, bizarre world of non by Day Of The Triangle, OtherWorld by Mart Avi, and Threnody to Smaug by Ratkiller it can be admitted that Eleonora Šljanda aka Tsantser`s issue Tot Nodig (until needed in Flemish) is another outstanding issue by an Estonian artist. She has been studying graphic design in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and partly to playfulness and partly to her rich imagination to be fostered by her studies (obviously the former thread is also implicated by the latter one). She is also being known as DJ I guess her playing subject may have been hip-hop and its bent subgenres like footwork, chopped and screwed, cloud rap, seapunk. Without any doubt she also showcases her DJ abilities over there. In fact, all these styles are boldly represented over there with an uncanny kind of synthesiser music, serpentine deep house interludes, and even spoken word snippets, samples, a bit obsessive, loop-arrested drone music (more remarkably, at Tekk). In truth, beyond all of that much interesting elements one can meet while listening to this 48-minute course. Despite its variegated nature all the elements are adeptly fulfilled and constitute an adhesive whole. It is also sympathetic (and one of the premises of the success of the issue) that she consciously rejected any concepts while had been creating her debut album (it was also published in a very limited tape edition). Honestly, at times I am sick of all of that theoretical crap surrounding a piece of art (however, it is a matter of choice – a visitor/listener can choose the possibility to just avoid the wordy frame of a piece of art). As I have already noticed it will be added to the list of the best albums 2018 at RMH.

[Teaser of the day] A. Vorodeyev - _autumn T

Nocharizma

• Art music
• Microsound
• Electronic music
• Glitch-pop
• Alternative

Artist: A.Vorodeyev

Release: Nanoday EP

Label: Nocharizma

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Entheogen - Vintage Wine Keg

Dadaist Audio

• Breakcore
• Alternative
• Drill`n`bass
• Jungle
• Electronic music
• Breakbeat

Artist: Entheogen

Release: Amok 

Label: Dadaist Audio

Year: 2007 

[Teaser of the day] Min-Y-Llan - When Is Summer Coming

Kift Flipper

• Ambient
• Modern classical
• Minimalism
• Organic electronica
• Post-classical
• Epic

Artist: Min-Y-Llan

Release: The Belders Wench

Label: Kift Flipper

Year: 2010

Mushrooms In Our Shoes – Quarter Libeň (1987/2018)

CS Industrial 1982-2010

• Industrial 
• Experimentalism 
• Improvised noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Ambient 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Electronic music
• Post-psychedelic electronica 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Freeformfreakout

Comment: it is a release by the Mushrooms In Our Shoes, the Czech Republic based duo whose music is improvised on such musical (non)-instruments as guitars, keyboards, metal, sheets, percussion. This bunch of 10 tracks is a part of the discography of an imprint called CS Industrial 1982-2010. It is a Czech and Slovak industrial scene documentation project. Focusing on noise and industrial-related music coming out of the aforementioned years. More profoundly, it is recorded while two musicians called David Urban and Jan Benedict Nosek decided to make music. They did close in an apartment, which was turned into a home studio. Within just a couple of days of playing, recording, mixing, they had spawned ten compositions. Emotively one can hear lethargic incantations and truly rapturous, freaked-out outbursts and snippets. Because of that I guess the duo has spent the interesting time span in the studio. In fact, not only a final result but the creative process of it is as important. At times it chimes like a pedigree of (electro)-acoustic, improvised and electronic music. And the drumming provides mostly tribal connotations. It is fairly cohesive and intrinsically burning. It was initially released in 1987 by Eastmush Records.

Burdeos – S A U D A D E (2014)

Miga

Bandcamp

• Techno pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Ambient pop 
• Synth-pop 
• Post-disco

Comment: Burdeos is an artist from Seville, Spain whose 8-track issue is an exuberant electronic progression through lofty synthesiser developments and a churning rhythmic programming. It used to be a gentle mix between the fluctuating melodic and the bouncy formative side. Some hisses and glitches, sawtooth-shaped shards and rusty synths and robotic voices are set up to add an additional value to the emotionally suggestive threads. As the artist says 'Saudade' is a word difficult to define, which expresses a sense of melancholy, yearning or longing. A beautiful memory for what has been lived and painful because will not come back. All in all, it is for you to decide whether you could feel bittersweet memories or striking rebounds while listening to it or not. The subtle outing is a bit in the discography of Miga.

Krynge - Tuf Kld Spd Rcr (1988)

ZH27

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

Comment: just having read that the French president Emmanuel Macron has a helicopter on standby to evacuate him while France is controlled by a huge part of the nation, by the so-called yellow vests. While listening to this project of Zan Hoffman, and this half-hour issue (he reimagines recordings of his home taping friends like Swinebolt 45, and Minoy). I guess something analogously horrible and terrifying may be happening in the head of the leader now. Especially if there is up a comparison to the situation what happened in Romania exactly 29 years ago or what happened in France 229 years ago. In the latter case, the king did not have a helicopter and his attempt to run away with carriage failed. Musically it is a haphazard yet threateningly ecstatic blend of drumming, chimes and windbells, accidental electronic impulses, steam trumpets, buried shrieks and overamplified speeches, accelerated sounds of engines. Black noises are varied with torrents of howling brown noise attacks, yeah, it seems to be the frank analogue stuff. The issue which was initially released on ZH27 was re-released by the German imprint Attenuation Circuit in 2013 and providing a couple of minutes more music and a bit different content than the original one. The history repeats itself in a bit different manner.

[Teaser of the day] So I´m An Islander - Erle' O'e (Honest Words)

• Modern classical
• Mood music
• Contemporary classical
• Minimalism
• Piano music
• Post-classical
• Art music

Artist: So I´m An Islander

Release: Winter Horizon

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Sanchez Is Driven By Demons - Peak

Redstarcommunity

• Ambient rock
• Space rock
• Post-rock
• Avant-rock

Artist: Sanchez Is Driven By Demons

Release: All Systems Are Ghosts Remnant

Label: Redstarcommunity

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Brother Saturn - Awake In Your Dreams

• Guitar ambient
• Soundscape
• Epic
• Minimalism
• Drone
• Electronic music
• Ambient drone

Artist: Brother Saturn

Release: Atmosphere

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Tanuki - Radiant Memories

[Teaser of the day] The Peach Tree - White Magick

• Alternative rock
• Electro-indie
• Lo-fi
• Art rock
• Synth-rock
• Glam rock
• DIY
• Indie rock

Artist: The Peach Tree

Release: Magick

Label: Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Romo - Airplane Groove

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Nu jazz
• Acid jazz
• Electronic music
• Sampledelic
• Trip-hop

Artist: Romo

Release: Listen, Love (EP)

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2012

Day Of The Triangle – bizarre world of non (2018)

Bandcamp

• Kosmische Musik 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Synth-pop 
• Ambient techno 
• Cosmic fusion 
• Soundscape
• Crossover 
• New Age 
• Deep house

Comment: I can remember for Day Of The Triangle's albums called Salvia Sundays, 48, and Chair Conspiracy could be considered one of the best albums in 2015. And today I can say that bizarre world of non is the favourite release of mine in 2018. Within the Estonian underground scene Tartu-based artist's music was something truly remarkable to provide such a refreshing sort of cosmic breeze up to one's wearisome globe (by the Estonian artists Trent Hawkins and Tont can somehow be compared to it in stylistic and sensual manner). And it still does in the same way 3 years later up to one's cerebral convolutions by trudging across a mystical universe with pulsating rhythms, spaced-out synthesised cascades, and amusing vocal arrangements and tectonic yet transcendental drones. It may remind a bit of The Orb's masterpiece called Orblivion but just for a second (by the way, it starts off with a bouncy synthwave rhythmic metric to develop into an exuberant electro and tricky yet full-fledged (contingent) synth-pop and astral techno and deep house mixed soup as if produced by an outsider mastermind). What's the difference between it and the artists of the so-called Berlin School? The synths and soundscapes represented over there are more warm, less hollow and more timeless. As if reflecting upon the working process of cosmic furnaces full of colourful transformations, supernatural changes, and lush heat emitting. Indeed, one obviously cannot pin down the exact period and place of these sonic progressions. By changing the side of a copy of the tape (indeed, the tape is issued as a limited edition under Trash Can dance) the listener can hear more enchantingly iterative New Age-y hovers as if depicting a flamboyant world beyond the reach and power of our most potent telescopes. Could you see the apparition of Creator? As I already said these 8 tracks do constitute the best issue in 2018.

Borgesss – The Invisible Rope (2017)

myhand.thanx

Bandcamp

• Slowcore 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Americana 
• Gothic rock 
• Singer-songwriter

Comment: does God lie? What happens next if the witch grabs you by the hand? And if you are surrounded by the howl of a pack of wolves or immersed in the darkest blue for some reason? Instead of wolves you could freely be surrounded by Tony Montana, Anton Chigurh, or Max Cady-alike personae. Instead of God you can put the word 'president' or 'leader' to the sentence who know for what is the best for their nations. You can see what is going on in France during a month as the subsequence of such sort of arrogance. And you will have no chance to blame the so-called populists anymore. Furthermore, it indicates the term 'populism' has been used in an exaggerated way. By facing all of that you are either devastated to the bottom in a paralyzing way or will it provide you some power or even inspiration to create something arousing on its own. On this 6-notch release the minor chords played on bold guitar strings and suppressed female singing supported by faint echoes and synthesised electronics are governing the course for all our pleasure. Of course, additionally I do fancy it because Borgesss is the solo project by Paula Borges, the lead vocal of a favourite combo of mine, Hanging Freud. Indeed, there is no chance to partake in deviation of quality and tasteless self-indulgent excesses. By kindred souls one can draw parallels to such artists as Thalia Zedek, Cat Power, For Solacing Grief, Le Bâtiment, Lullabier. The decorous issue is a part of the discography of an imprint called myhand.thanks.

Yungeen Ace – Life Of Betrayal (2018)

DatPiff

Hip Hop Mixtapes

• Hip-hop 
• Rap 
• Urban music 
• Soul-hop
• Southern rap

Comment: Jacksonville, the US-based rapper Keyontae Bullard aka Yungeen Ace's 13-track issue is inspired by a sad event which almost would cost him life. Unfortunately his brother Tre'von aka Quan Quan and two other guys were killed in the car while having a stop in a gas station. He chants about betrayal in many meanings, about the murder attempt, about the bitter feel of pain. Undoubtedly the outing is a way for him to cope with mourning. Musically it is a worth release because it is built on different emotions like sadness, grief, anger, desperation. All of that can readily be differentiated. Such bloody situations will produce frank emotions and feelings and of course an uncompromising music example. The mixtape is released on such sites as DatPiff, and Hip Hop Mixtapes and hosted by DJ Shab. Good luck to the talented rapper and his family.