Ataque Escampe – A vida dos Animais (2018)

Bandcamp

• Indie folk 
• Alt-folk 
• Folk indie 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Art pop/rock

Comment: Ataque Escampe did have released their first releases on the imprint A Regueifa Plataforma which had been an outlet for musicians singing in Galician, a local language in Spain having at least as much similarity to Portuguese as to Spanish/Castilian. As much as I have understood A vida dos Animais is their last issue embracing so far unpublished, demo and compilations-related tracks from the years 2012-2018. Musically it is as transgressive as they are linguistically (they sing in English as well). Lots of experiments within the genre of indie/alt-folk with melodies, timbres and harmonies. Fortunately all these experiments are finely balanced with the acceptance of beauty oozing out from these chords. By their attitude they remind of Wilco by incorporating many elements into the embodiment of folk music. For example, at excellent Evita one can immerse in an enchanting noise pop/folk crossover. Lots of electricity, sweat and desire could you find out from there. Maycar is a nice cover of a classic Motown track. Musica Veliz is as cinematic as it is thoroughly dreamy. It is a fine example of how to create and convey a mood. Undoubtedly a combo which deserves more attention.

Ak'chamel, The Giver Of Illness – Old Norse Mara (2013)

Sirona-Records

Free Music Archive

• Apocalyptic folk 
• Dark folk 
• Neofolk 
• Psych-folk 
• Improvised music 
• DIY 
• Improvised music 
• Lo-fi

Comment: with regard to the title and first of all to the nature of music it is a very unusual case of folk music. It is like an example of folk music which were a more conventional case if European nations would have rejected Christianity and gotten overwhelming power from their gentile roots. Like their mighty precursors Vikings and Celtic tribes having power to fight like berserks and having much in common with Nature which is a true face of God. Christianity is a bloody occult of the guilt. The more you are the so-called civilised the more you think of yourself to be sophisticated the more you used to be more declined and rotten in reality. This bunch of 7 tracks is something getting its frenzied power from the remote past. Of course, any kind of life used to provide some sort of interruptions and disturbed visions yet the main course of this thing is right. Additionally to neofolk and dark folk threads one gets impressed by lo-fi approach and free form psychedelic folk numbers a la Sun City Girls. Old Norse Mara was the artist's debut outing released on Sirona-Records, and Chaos Of The Stars.

Alien Trilogy – Live at WFMU for Spin Age Blasters, 8/14/2018 (2018)

Free Music Archive

• Electro punk 
• Art punk 
• Post-hardcore 
• Live 
• Screamo 
• Crust punk 
• No Wave 
• Noise rock

Comment: there is no foreplay into the core of this 13-notch issue being released live at WFMU. Post-hardcore, screamo and noise rock influenced intense noodling based on angular guitars, screeching vocals, blasts of the drumming and discordant synth tweaks to present all that stuff in a repetitively overcoming manner. All of that reminds me of a resurrection of the No Wave movement a bit more than 10 years ago through such projects as Black Dice, Lightning Bolt, Black Pus, USAISAMONSTER, Hella. One can hear more clear moments varied by horrified flashbacks and decays of the mind. All but not least I am happy Free Music Archive and much amazing music got saved by another yet different platform.

[Teaser of the day] Loyalty Freak Music - Grab A Partner

Free Music Archive

• Dance rock
• Synth-rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Disco rock

Artist: Loyalty Freak Music

Release: Roller Disco Dance Dance

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Hirundu - Black Wigs

• DIY
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Electronic music
• Crossover
• Lo-fi
• Art rock

Artist: The Hirundu

Release: Tartarus

Label: Bandcamp/Pitch And Putt

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Numbersix - Chant

Camomille

• Indie rock
• World fusion
• Art rock
• Ethnic rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: Numbersix

Release: Secret Journey

Label: Camomille

Year: 2005

Xedh ‎– El Extasis Y La Agonia De La Hormiga Electrica (2006)

Far From Showbiz

• Post-industrial 
• Experimentalism 
• Power electronics 
• Dark ambient 
• Illbient 
• Avant-garde 
• Electronic music 
• Noise 
• Glitchtronica

Comment: exactly 10 years ago on 24th of January 2009 I started with Recent Music Heroes by commenting on the Swedish artist leafes` In The Mountains Belly (Redstarcommunity). It has been a wonderful time and sort of music which has been produced by Miguel A. García aka Xedh has been one of the main fares over there. Both by its concept and music threads it is something very suitable to my personal preferences. It is a sublime shadow play between silence and noise, between caressing and powerful propulsion, however, having always had an ominous posture and enchanting tension within the sound due to building up slowly by using dodges into illbient and glitched-out music. It embodies me the nature of our life on Earth that all used to change, all used to disappear, all used to die, and then, all used to born again. During the aforementioned span of 10 years the innumerable bunch of people has passed away, a lot of arts has been created, a lot of shit has been produced, a lot of imprints has been disappeared and born again. This mind-blowing 3-track issue is a part of the discography of Polish imprint Far From Showbiz.

[Teaser of the day] Luis Marte - Movilinmovil 4

Pueblo Nuevo

• Modern classical
• Post-classical
• Art music
• Electro-acoustic
• Musique concrète
• Piano music
• Contemporary classical

Artist: Luis Marte/Roger Delahaye

Release: MOVIL/INMOVIL

Label: Pueblo Nuevo

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Under Ten Hurtz - Zombie Bass

Racewillbegin

• Breaks
• Electronic music
• Drum and bass
• Electro pop

Artist: Under Ten Hurtz

Release: rwb008

Label: Racewillbegin

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Appalachian Falls - GrimGrim

Resting Bell

• Ambient
• Guitar ambient
• Avant-garde
• Ambient drone
• Post-psychedelic electronica
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism
• Drone

Artist: Appalachian Falls

Release: GrimGrimAntonym

Label: Resting Bell

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Christian Doil - In Den Dünen 2

Rain

• Drone
• Experimentalism
• Microtonal
• Musique concrète
• Experimental electronica
• Acousmatic music
• Dark ambient
• Organic electronica
• Field recording
• Avant-garde
• Ambient drone

Artist: Christian Doil

Release: Ein Stück Ostsee

Label: Rain

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Odradek - Nakamura

• Progressive metal
• Art metal
• Avant-metal
• Progressive metalcore
• Technical metal

Artist: Odradek

Release: Sinewave Essentials 2018

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Dead Eye Darter - Maria la Bailarina

Death Roots Syndicate

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

Artist: Dead Eye Darter

Release: DEADEYE

Label: Death Roots Syndicate/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Victor Jouk – Cosmic Voyager (2016)

Haze

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Experimental electronica  
• Kosmische Musik
• Alternative 
• Kraut-electro 
• Minimal synth

Comment: Victor Jouk dreams of the same thing the human race has been dreaming from very far times. About conquering outer space which though seems to remain an unobtainable dream for us. Of course, music has been one of the best instruments to indulge in very deep fantasies. There are up even such terms as Kosmische Musik, space music to describe the relationship between our dream and a certain sort of music genre. The genre mentioned in the first place came from Germany being closely related to the so-called Krautrock which in general is being the umbrella term to embrace any sort of experimental music germs to have emerged from Germany from the end of the 60s and through the 70s. All of that was a direct output of the self-awareness of German youth. In the narrow sense, Krautrock makes reference to German experimental rock combos and artists like Neu!, CAN, Faust, Guru Guru, Amon Düül, Achim Reichel. This 6-notch release being released on a Belarusian imprint, Haze reflects upon our ambition through its cover print as something naive, hostile and ridiculous. Musically those blue dreams are bugged by some primitive and a bit abrasive electronic communicative smacks and hoarsely groovy sonic effects. The term "groovy" is not thought in the classical term of dance music. It is something which defies an easy way to be classified. Maybe the formula can be depicted kraut meets dyslexic electro meets smeared minimal synth meets fun meets even some orthodox academic approach. Aesthetically and by pleasure it is a very convincing result. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Konrad Schnitzler, and Asmus Tietchens. If you have an enough amount of money to spend then you could make a gift to Elon Musk under the magniloquent explanation Flight to Mars. It is as an analogue way of behaviour as to listen to Jared Leto and his company's unfledged sound.

[Teaser of the day] Nyolfen - Earth And Sea

Bunkai-Kei

• Electronic music
• J-pop
• Electro pop
• Shibuya-kei
• Breaks
• Alternative
• Crossover
• Mood music

Artist: Nyolfen

Release: Create A New World

Label: Bunkai-Kei

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Chin Yi - Unus

Miga

• Post-punk
• Indie punk
• Art punk
• Acid punk
• Dance-punk
• Psych-punk
• Alternative rock

Artist: Chin Yi

Release: Sanguinem Mitto EP

Label: Miga/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Danielle - Jealous

• Urban music
• Hip-hop
• Electro pop
• Alternative pop
• Electronic music

Artist: Danielle

Release: Do Your Own Thing Album

Label: Heart N Soul

Year: 2017

Cátodo Dúo – Sizigias (2018)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Experimentalism 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Improvised noise 
• Electronic music

Comment: What is the cathode? By a first definition it is a negatively charged electrode that is the source of electrons entering an electrical device. By a second definition it is the positively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current. Amanda Irarrázabal (analogue synthesizer, double bass, processors) and Ramiro Molina (electric guitar, processors) collaboration has been prolific for more than 6 years when they created a sonic bridge between Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Santiago (Chile). Sizigias is their sophomore outing consisting of a couple of albums full of screeching chords and suppressed noises as if an embodiment of an angry person who has lived for a while with obsessive purpose to control his/her overwhelming crushing sensations. What about disc 2? It is certainly more expressive than disc 1 due to those abrasive sounds played on the analogue synth and high-pitched guitar chords and even funny quackish sonic effects here and there. Disc 1 seems to be more donnish though there is thoroughly up a downright experimental/cutting-edge attitude. It might be I split hairs while trying to differentiate the two discs. The main intention of the release is to preserve the invigorating tension/madness between the acoustic instruments and the electronic device. In other words, it is a witty dialogue between the aforementioned instruments. Given that the most intriguing aspect of the music is to represent some elements of the acoustic instruments as electronically treated and vice versa. It is partly a strange mimic and decoupling process in the same whole. Indeed, the purpose gets fulfilled. The intriguing issue is a part of the Chicago, US-based imprint Pan Y Rosas Discos.

Stephen Briggs – Earthbound (2018)

Sucu Music

Archive.org

• Art music 
• Guitar ambient 
• Space rock 
• Progressive rock 
• Mood music 
• Improvised music

Comment: Stephen Briggs used to create a swarm of seven compositions which can be compared with such artists as Gaetano Fontanazza, and Drew Miller, for instance. They are artists who employ their guitars in a way to create meditative soundscapes and enchanting phases of mood. All these artists come from very remote areas related to each other yet their music is comprehensive in a sense. By listening to this issue one could think of it as if it were created by employing electronic devices like synths as well yet it is not so (the same I was thinking mistakenly of the sound of Gaetano Fontanazza). Stephen Briggs employs different sort of technical approaches to brush and vamp up his sound, for instance, by moving chords back and forth and by extending particular chords into the droning and manipulations through phase changes. A main feature is to push electric guitar induced chords are through reverb laden ambiances. Mostly it is illustrated through light-hearted timbres though at times one can hear more ominous threads to disturb the mix. Emotionally the result is adeptly loaded. The spellbinding release is a part of the discography of Sucu Music.

[Teaser of the day] Praveen - Only To Make Ammends

Sutemos

• Indietronica
• Ambient 
• Alternative
• Electronic music

Artist: Praveen

Release: Various Artists - Intelligent Toys 4 

Label: Sutemos

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Elektrobi - Biba

Far From Showbiz

• Electronic music
• Spoken word
• Electro
• Micronoise
• Synth-pop

Artist: Elektrobi

Release: 1+1

Label: Far From Showbiz

Year: 2005

Kalouv – Sky Swimmer (2011)

Sinewave

Bandcamp

• Post-rock 
• Epic 
• Art rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Yacht rock 
• Progressive rock 
• Funk rock 
• Crossover
• Indie rock
• Alternative rock

Comment: this 7-track outing is a debut album by the Brazilian ensemble Kalouv being released on a Brazil imprint, Sinewave (which has been a fine platform for providing a review about a part of the Brazilian experimental rock scene). These 36 minutes build up an arousing listening experience veering away from propulsive yet caressing guitar chords and funky yacht rock-alike gears to dizzy crescendos and lofty ambient rock sweeping to intense progressive rock noodling. It is a simultaneous play with the format and timbre, with the mood and self-expression. Actually the great cover print of this release used to embrace all of that in a fine way. Sea, sun, and a fine, light-hearted mood in overall. Great music by any means.

asdfhg. – Örvæntið ekki! (2018)

Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Drone pop 
• Ambient pop 
• Glitch pop 
• Chamber pop 
• IDM 
• Organcore

Comment: by listening to this 6-notch release it reminds me of those days approximately 15 years ago I had been listening to mùm's first albums as Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK, and Finally We Are No One. In comparison to the mùm's albums one may discern even more layers coming from within it – beyond glitched-out techno rhythms, subtle drone pop waves, suggestive singing in Icelandish one can enjoy more or less synthetic orchestrations, and acerbic ambient rotations. In fact, I do not need any comparisons because it used to meander now and then. It is absolutely over there and everywhere in my ears. It is beauty reflecting back from the blue and white mingled icebergs which in turn reflect back the light of Aurora Borealis. From one channel to the other one to set up an alternative sonic parade. The feeling redeems it. Yeah, it feels organic although it is synthetic. Organically synthetic. Undoubtedly one of the most enchanting albums being released in 2018. It is a way of ideal pop of how it should be represented for.

[Teaser of the day] Xpurm - Duita

Soft Phase

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

Artist: Xpurm 

Release: Prumx  

Label: Soft Phase

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Thuoom - Belly

Textural Healing

• Experimental electronica
• Micronoise
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism
• Abstract
• Avant-electronica

Artist: Thuoom

Release: Uinua

Label: Textural Healing

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Akiba Jonze - Nit d`Hivern

• Alternative pop
• Post-pop
• Dream pop
• Art pop
• Indie pop 

Artist: Akiba Jonze

Release: Nit d`Hivern

Label: Mothermantra

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Tont - Suutra

• Electronic music
• Dark ambient
• Spoken word
• Crossover
• Ethnotronica
• New Age
• Ambient

Artist: Tont

Release: Vaba vesi

Label: Trash Can Dance/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Brother Saturn - I Had The Same Nightmare

• Guitar ambient
• Post-rock
• Avant-rock
• Breakbeat
• Electronic music
• Crossover
• Indietronica
• Experimental rock
• Art rock

Artist: Brother Saturn

Release: When You Find Me, I`ll Be Gone

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Suicide Highlife - Fall From Grace

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

Artist: Suicide Highlife

Release: Where's the matter

Label: Small Bear 

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Chenard Walcker - Javanaise Again

Free Sample Zone

• Plunderphonics
• Sound collage
• Soul
• Alternative

Artist: Chenard Walcker

Release: Omelette

Label: Free Sample Zone

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] The Skipperdees - Hungover At Dollywood

Southern Shelter

• Bluegrass
• Americana
• Appalachian music
• Live
• Folk rock

Artist: The Skipperdees

Release: @ Hendershot’s 2019-01-06

Label: Southern Shelter

Year: 2019

Lucía Chamorro - Luna Anfibia (2017)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Free Music Archive

• Abstract 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Electronic music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Improvised music 
• Post-industrial

Comment: in the second half of the 00s and the first half of the 10s a major experimental music platform was a prolific Moscow, Russia-based Clinical Archives, since then fecund France-based Sirona-Records, and after it ceased to exist fertile Chicago, US-based Pan Y Rosas Discos is up there to provide us sounds mostly from improvised, free jazz, sound art, and at times from experimental/avant-rock world. Fortunately there is also up Portuguese imprint Enoughrecords having already been active since 2001. This 9-track album is created from recordings of sound environments and free improvisations. She sought to recreate situations and sound environments of imaginary places, proposed new ways of listening and re-value the everyday soundscape. Musically it is intriguing as if consisting of elongated sonic snippets and warped ambiences which in turn seem to be created from concrete sounds, indecipherable voices and vowel and electronic effects. By the way, I can hear mutant cicadas and stoned cats to be singing. Now and then, for instance, at Pacto Roto one can partake in an enchanting rhythmic pattern which seems to come from nowhere and last for a while. She was backed up by such artists as Jimena Arruti, Lucía Campugiani, Nicolàs Gonzàlez, Ingrid Palacios, Laura Rodríguez, Elena Solis and Agustín Texeira. Indeed, very pro by any means and full of pleasure to be discovered.

Llankrù – Llankrù (2017)

djummi-records

• Post-rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock
• Art rock

Comment: Llankrù is a 4-head collective from Dresden, Germany led by the brothers Stefan, and Thomas Weiss. However, the drums are played by a woman called Julia Stephan. Yeah, I like that fact and first of all her playing. Undoubtedly this bunch of 6 instrumental tracks is a fine listening experience for any music adorer who searches for balance between moody progressive guitar treatments and on the other side is a proponent for subtle sonic effects around it. Those electronically sounding effects are conjured up on a sampler. Those guitar chords are truly pastel and sensitive at times following a traditional post-rock pattern leading up to powerful yet cinematic crescendos. The decent release is a part of the discography of a German based imprint called djummi-records.

Roto Visage – Der Golem (2005)

Kikapu

• Post-industrial 
• Avant-garde 
• Spoken word 
• Experimentalism 
• Dark ambient 
• Illbient 
• Drone 
• Noise

Comment: Golem was an artificial mystical monster having been created by a Prague-based rabbi to protect Jews from their bullies. It was closely related to magic and something which could be called a certain sort of programming. The US-based artist Jason Popejoy aka Roto Visage conveys a mystical and frightening ambience which very well provides the topic. The listener can hear the growling and moaning of the monster, the rattling of the chains, ominous sounds running throughout corridors and basements, chainsaw reminding intense sounds. Frequently these fragments are mixed up into each other thereby constituting a cohesive view. Indeed, it is a highly exquisite stuff with ever-changing soundscapes and penumbras. With purpose to magnify the contrasts within it one can hear even serene ambient developments and swaying spoken word snippets. The enchanting 12-notch issue is a part of the discography of Kikapu.

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.