Mathieu Lamontage – Lieux Communs (2018)

Audio Gourmet

• Ambient 
• Epic 
• Soundscape 
• Post-classical 
• Ambient drone 
• Field recording 
• Electronic music 
• Musique concrète

Comment: Mathieu Lamontage is an artist of French-Canadian ancestry from the province of Quebec, Canada who is also being known as Arbee. In fact, he is obviously being better known due to the nom de plume due to having it preceded to writing music under his own personal name. What may be the main difference between Mathieu Lamontage and Arbee? His oeuvre being written under his own name is evidently more concentrated on ambient and drone sounds with intention to create more monumental works – by listening to this 3-track outing one can hear either fragmented or segmented fractals related to a majestically sweeping whole which could be considered a representative of those immense snow fields at northern part of Quebec, a good plateau for riding on snowmobile while being surrounded by the overcoming void and wind. Indeed, it is a beatific perspective being separated off the suffocating civilisation. Of course, such picturesque sort of descriptions cannot be eradicated from my personal memory due to experiencing another Quebecer Tim Hecker`s early albums, especially Radio Amor which is some kind of quintessence of the Northern Hemisphere being described through audible artificial frequencies. The blissful glimpse is a part of the discography of Audio Gourmet.

Aigar Vals - Sooner

[Teaser of the day] Yolke - Perfect Burn

• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Wonky
• Digital soul
• Crossover
• Musique concrète
• Ambient pop

Artist: Yolke

Release: New Weird Australia vs Fallopian Tunes, Gloss & Moss

Label: New Weird Australia

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Non Dolet - Downhearted

• Trip-hop
• Cinematic
• World fusion
• Alternative
• Art pop

Artist: Non Dolet

Release: Dreamlover

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom  

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Pixieguts - Shot At Midnight (with Dementio13)

• Art pop
• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Synthwave
• Singer-songwriter
• Synth-pop
• Gothic pop

Artist: Pixieguts

Release: Walking on Mercury

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Paper Voices - Far Lands

• Ambient drone
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism
• Dark ambient
• Epic
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde
• Organic electronica

Artist: Paper Voices

Release: Clover Hill

Label: Distance Recordings

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Michael Trommer - February Lakes

Serein

• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Organic electronica
• Experimental electronica
• Glitchtronica

Artist: Michael Trommer

Release: Tree Line

Label: Serein

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Smashing Pumpkins - Ava Adore

Archive.org

• Alternative rock
• Art rock
• Live
• Electro-rock
• Indie rock
• Synth-rock

Artist: Smashing Pumpkins

Release: Live at Wembley Arena on 2018-10-16

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Nine Inch Nails - Head Down

Free Music Archive

• Industrial rock
• Alternative rock
• Industrial metal
• Electro-rock
• Synth-rock

Artist: Nine Inch Nails

Release: The Slip

Label: The Null Corporation/Archive.org

Year: 2008

Erich Schall – Gewichtheben auf Eis (2018)

Der Kleine Grüne Würfel

Archive.org

• Deep house 
• Tech-house 
• Club dance 
• Deep techno 
• Downtempo 
• Drum and bass 
• Electronic music

Comment: this set of 9 pieces of electronic tracks is as playful and fulfilled as one solid electronic and club dance mixed issue can be. Undoubtedly Erich Schall (he is being a member of such combo as Drehkommando) has been an experienced creator of sounds since the beginning of the 10s. Lots of different roundabouts can be met over there – from hypnotic techno and intense jungle rhythms to more dynamic and cinematic house vibes and just laid-back electronic explorations. At times stylistic borders within some tracks will be hazed. Yeah, the favourite of mine is the title track – yeah, it is a superb house propulsion, however, all the tracks are fine factures of tempo and stepwise changes. The most experimental track is obviously Broken Water where a downtempo/modern classical motif plays against the wall of white noise. The issue with intriguing name (weightlifting on ice) is a part of the discography of a Cologne, Germany-based imprint, Der Kleine Grüne Würfel.

[Teaser of the day] Buben - Observing Silence

Takkeherrie

• Experimentalism
• Post-industrial
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde
• Illbient

Artist: Buben

Release: _Collected_Works

Label: Takkeherrie Recordings

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Jeremy Messersmith - Great Times

• Indie pop/rock
• Singer-songwriter
• Folk indie
• Alternative pop/rock
• Americana
• Alt-folk
• Indie folk

Artist: Jeremy Messersmith

Release: The Alcatraz Kid

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2006 

Erik Blood – Touch Screens (2012)

Bandcamp

• Noise pop 
• Indie dance 
• Alternative rock 
• Alternative dance 
• Shoegaze 
• Electronic 
• Dream pop 
• Indie rock 
• Cinematic 
• Nugaze

Comment: although I have criticized the so-called nugaze artists I have to admit while listening to these artists I like their music. However, thereafter I forgot what I had been listening because there is a little to be evaluated on its own. Of course, there have been some artists and some albums I used to bring once in a while. For instance, Dykehouse`s Midrange (2004, Ghostly International), and Sereena Maneesh`s self-titled debut album (2005, HoneyMilk). One can find out elements from both of these albums on this Seattle, US-based artist. Dykehouse`s dance-appealed electronic grooves and Sereena Maneesh`s noisy yet truly beatific impulses. Furthermore, beatific because of being noisy first of all. From the first seconds and glimpses at the cover print and lyrics the 12-track is as provocative as suggestive as mind-blowing. Are these sexy dreams or dreamy sex? All this theme to be set aside – to move away from the carnal one to a heaven one – can also hear cinematic orchestrations. I like Erik Blood is being adept to float off from obvious comparisons with My Bloody Valentine, and other shoegaze juggernauts. His musical cognition seems to be a bit different. In a word, it can be considered a nugaze masterpiece.

[Teaser of the day] Ergo Phizmiz - Hole In One

Free Music Archive

• Electronic music
• House pop
• Plunderphonics
• Comedy music
• Jungle
• Sound collage
• Crossover

Artist: Ergo Phizmiz

Release: Music To Help Celine Dion Improve Her Golf 

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Clinker - Done By Three

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie dance
• Psych-rock
• Dance rock
• Alternative dance

Artist: Clinker

Release: Dr Goon Phase

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Muhr - La déscente

Miasmah

• Art pop
• Post-folk
• Ambient
• Folktronica
• Electronic music

Artist: Muhr

Release: La chute du romantisme en ballades 

Label: Miasmah

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Daniel Maze - Waiting For The Bubbles To Disappear

EKO

• Art rock
• Dream pop
• Alternative rock
• Ambient rock
• Chillwave
• Indie rock
• Progressive rock

Artist: Daniel Maze

Release: Lifeguard EP

Label: EKO

Year: 2006

Indigenous Peoples – Life Is Life Is (2012)

Bandcamp

• Drone 
• Lo-fi 
• Avant-garde 
• Ambient 
• Avant-rock 
• Chillwave 
• Psych-rock 
• Experimentalism 
• Improvised music 
• DIY

Comment: the artist's 11-track outing is intense through different sonic aspects and creative playfulness. It starts off and at times comes back to a reverberant droning as if trudging through muddy soil, at times it is based on galvanized guitar playing and improvisations, at times providing majestic inclinations through ambient music, and most surprisingly, through a stupendously suggestive dream pop/chillwave-esque ray through its bottomless haziness. Although the latter element is represented as bare as a glimpse it will make up a contrast in one's mind and memory. Slightly simple iterative motives are mingled with more complicated endeavours and transgressive progressions. There is no premature fixing of style at all. With purpose to show this release as a true lavish one it should not be misunderstood as a superficial approach. All those droning facets create a milieu and impression as something truly obsessive. Indeed, we need it within and through music.

gunctrl – Obituary Cocktail (2017)

Reverse Engine

Free Music Archive

• Lo-fi 
• American Primitivism 
• DIY 
• Krautrock 
• Experimental rock 
• Electronic 
• Drone rock 
• Art pop 
• Americana

Comment: Joe Wozny and Dave Merson Hess spawned the idea to get together in music while having a strike as mattress sellers in Houston. As musicians they both did have a base from earlier times and therefore one should not surprise at all while hearing an adept and stylistically wide result. They play an impressive range of instruments on the 10-track debut album. From immersive acoustic guitar playing and epic Americana and ennobling drone rock progressions to lo-fi poppy electronic and convulsive kraut glimpses it can be considered their drive to come out and fulfill their need for new music. The solid outing is a bit in the discography of Reverse Engine.

[Teaser of the day] José Gallardo A. - Ira

Pueblo Nuevo

• Minimal techno
• Abstract
• Microsound
• Avant-garde
• Acousmatic music
• Electro-acoustic
• Electronic music
• Experimentalism

Artist: José Gallardo A.

Release: Humores 

Label: Pueblo Nuevo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Wasones - Rabia

Nacion Libre

• Hardcore
• Punk rock
• Speed metal

Artist: Wasones

Release: Rabia

Label: Nacion Libre

Year: 2018 

[Teaser of the day] Hamlet His Highness - No Regret

Foundamental

• Ambient rock
• Art rock
• Post-rock
• Epic
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock

Artist: Hamlet His Highness

Release: For All & None

Label: Foundamental/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] 1869 - bom dia

MiMi

• Drone
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde
• Psycho-acoustic
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism
• Noise

Artist: 1869

Release: Bangaihen

Label: MiMi

Year: 2018

Neana On The Trak – The Trak Record (2017)

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Post-rave 
• Acid techno 
• 2-step 
• Speed garage 
• Industrial techno

Comment: musically it is quite hard to assume what sort of music used to be predominant over this 13-notch issue (credited as a debit mixtape by a Manchester, UK-based artist). As contemporary as it used to be it embraces lots of heavy beats (or steps), rattling and clanging, and piercing electro developments. As if a reflection upon the legacy of illegal music events what did happen in abandoned warehouses approximately 30 years ago and on the other side it is a symptom of the contemporary human being being inseparably related to artificial intelligence around her/him. The latter side is expressed through a highly determined, machine-drenched technical shell where every part of the whole seem to be controlled. Quite dystopic yet appealing ambience to be created rather than providing some relaxation instead of it. Indeed, oxygen molecules are eradicated. By another explanation it is just a masochistic pleasure being in accordance with the nature of the human being to move toward its technical collapse. Who could save us against ourselves?

[Teaser of the day] Tale Twist - Socotra Island

Tranzmitter

• Breakbeat
• Electronic music
• Industrial electro
• Alternative
• Breakcore

Artist: Tale Twist

Release: Remote Places

Label: Tranzmitter/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Nole Plastique – Sourire En Souriant (2006)

Nexsound

• Alternative 
• Indietronica 
• Post-rock 
• Organic electronica 
• Electronic music 
• Art pop 
• Glitchtronica 
• Lo-fi

Comment: this swarm of 12 tracks comes out of Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia and is released on a Ukraine-based record, Nexsound. Roman Kutnov's expressive blend of indie, glitched-out and cut-up electronic music and epic post-rock flickers may make your day already in the morning. Paradoxically it chimes in an organic, even rustic way as if depicting someone to trudge somewhere in the forest and being accompanied by extraterrestrial humanoids atop. A swarm of radio signals is worked off by a decent carpet of different sorts of plants, moss and lichen. Deus ex machina. Forests, seas and mountains are our one and the only cathedrals and all the artificial is inferior in comparison to it. These ambiances provide us the superior feel of having been interconnected with the whole. That`s it. That beauty in a very natural state.

[Teaser of the day] Tembryo - Tremblaya part III

Clinical Archives

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

Artist: Tembryo

Release: Tremblaya

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2012 

C da 76er – Out Of Necessity (2018)

blocSonic

• Hip-hop 
• Lo-fi 
• Rap 
• Sampledelic 
• Remix 
• Urban music 
• Trip-hop

Comment: it is a huge, 41-track 2 disc-compilation by a Baltimore, US-based artist CM aka Creative Radio who can be considered a resident on an imprint called blocSonic due to a shitloads of releases and collaborative acts by him over there. Under the recent name C da 76er it is his debut outing. Despite of providing 41 tracks in total it clocks in an 80 minute because most of the compositions are considered just snippets. On the other side, a listener probably is not tempted to tear off any single track from the whole. Mostly it is an instrumental case though his instrumental spectre used to extend over many styles and phenomena though the main staple is pinpointed on hip-hop/rap. These snippets are usually entitled due to the instrument or attitude being predominant within the course. Lyrics are mostly over there to convey his ideas about producing the music (for instance, by employing a Casio keyboard). Since Flying Lotus appeared on the music scene (especially with Cosmogramma (2010, Warp)) (experimental) hip-hop got popularized otherwise than before and has been changed significantly. Lots of skiddy lo-fi and DIY aesthetics-ridden elements are mingled within the whole. All in all, the whole is interesting though it is not as favourable as his issues under the nom de plume Creative (Radio) because it is like listening and seeing a kitchen side to produce music. The final product used to be more interesting than just listening to the middle, instrumental parts of it. A bit of skeleton-alike.

Luka Prinčič - Just Romantique

[Teaser of the day] Songraphie - The Clumsy Elephant Is Collecting Christmas Tree Decorations

Zymogen

• Toytronica
• Experimental electronica
• IDM
• Clicks`n`cuts
• Electronic music
• Glitchtronica

Artist: Songraphie

Release: Toys

Label: Zymogen/Archive.org

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Tidy Kid - Pretty Girl

Test Tube

• Indie pop
• DIY
• Indietronica
• Bedroom pop
• Lo-fi
• Alternative pop

Artist: Tidy Kid

Release: One Week With My Casio

Label: Test Tube/Froggi

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Wochtzchèe - Ilmailma

• Electronic music
• Drone
• Ambient dub
• Ulmetronica
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Wochtzchèe

Release: Diktüoneemakilt

Label: Ulmeplaadid/Bandcamp

Year: 2006

Jacques Malchance – LoopRevil (2007)

Upitup

Bandcamp

• Electronic pop 
• Alternative dance 
• Post-disco 
• Yacht pop 
• Synth-pop 
• Nu jazz 
• Electro pop 
• Acid jazz 
• Breakbeat

Comment: oh yeah, that's cool. Rome, Italy-born Jacques Malchance's sophomoric release is really cool, you can feel a real life behind these more or less twisted yet velvety synths and drum machines because all 10 tracks are performed and recorded live in a studio in Liverpool, UK. It is for one's soul and body, furthermore, it integrates the both dimensions of your body. I would like to imagine of how the artist used to rush behind the machines by manipulating hastily yet adeptly with knobs, keys and pads. Such a sort of sonic wizardry is being so charming. It is an example of how machines can be humane, at least so much as humane as a human being could be because the final result indicates you are going to be a better human being after the listening of it. One can hear soul, nu jazz, and yacht pop influenced synth-pop over there. At times more aggressive electro and breakbeat-induced rhythms will switch on to verify on the rule of an exception confirms a rule. In a word, it is a new pace of synth-pop over there having just a little in common with the classical subgenre. And it is even more a case regarding the creating year of 2007. Of course, we as human beings have been cyborgs for a while and today we create and are surrounded by a relatively dry autotune rap/trap shit which is a quite obtuse stuff. However, Malchance's sound is exuberant and positively magniloquent. The catchy soulful and dance-appealed outing is a bit in the discography of Upitup.

[Teaser of the day] Digitalverein - The Way To Get Down

Thinner

• Tech-house
• Ambient house
• Dub house
• Crossover
• Electronic music
• Dubstep

Artist: Digitalverein

Release: Changes LP

Label: Thinner

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Hanging Freud - Even

• Synthwave
• Post-punk
• Ethereal Wave
• Gothic rock
• Dark Wave
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Hanging Freud

Release: Nowhere

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Massimo Ruberti - Stars Ice Cold

Elpa

• Art pop
• Indie pop
• Acoustic pop
• Chamber music
• Cowbell indie
• Sadcore
• Dream pop

Artist: Massimo Ruberti

Release: Autour de la Lune

Label: Elpa

Year: 2010

Porzellan – Mountains Cycles (2008)

Abyssa

Archive.org

• Experimental electronica 
• Ambient 
• Minimal techno 
• Abstract
• Glitchtronica 
• Avant-electronica 
• Drone

Comment: It is said that sit down, close your eyes, listen to the mountain's birth, listen them rising, remain there forever. Indeed, it is a fine introduction by their French imprint Abyssa into this 12-track issue where silence, as it is said, is the most beautiful instrument. Indeed, nature is something unique and monumental and an artist's ambition to relate to it through his/her oeuvre it could be an immense challenge in any cases. I am convinced that an artist's fancy to record natural sounds to convey them to other people with intention to bring nature to their apartment through loudspeakers it used to be a naive, fallible idea. Because nature is an environment with an innumerable amount of sounds, perceptions and dimensions which all together establish a singular, unrepeatable phenomenon. Of course, if an artist's purpose is closely related to mix it with artificial sounds and subsequently synthesise something transgressive then I am going to say yes. This album is the latter case. This set of a 39 minute is an austere and minimal glimpse into the heart of an electronic genre where the basic algorithms are not unveiled only but also magnified in front of us. The examples are fine – one can hear swaying drones and agitated ambient shards and minimally pulsating techno vibes and roughly droning impulses.

Psychotic Aliens – Disoluciòn de Todo (2017)

Cieliro Diystro

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• DIY 
• Hard rock 
• Improvised noise 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Improvised music 
• Lo-fi 
• Psych-rock

Comment: Psychotic Aliens is a collective based on noise, improvisation and the absolute lack of foreseeable schemes. Its members vary according to the disposition of the day, the mood of the continent and the astral possibilities. And the title can be translated as Dissolution Of Everything. However, in this case it is a positive case because it does result positively rather than providing adverse outputs. Resulting in arts used to be almost always a positive outcome with purgative and relieving side effects. And just shedding a glimpse upon the cover print one is going to understand what they mean. Lots of distracted noisy shards and rusty echoes, accidental guitar chords and cheap synth-based roundabouts. At times it chimes as if coming from a rehearsal room being dwelled by lunatics who like to play psychedelic noise and garage rock with the seeds of hard rock. It is like a lo-fi/demo version of Tago Mago. This 9-track issue is a part of the discography of Cieliro Diystro.

Fortadelis – Cinematique (2018)

Jamendo

• Kosmische musik 
• Conceptual 
• Cinematic 
• Electronic music 
• Berlin School 
• Epic

Comment: within the blog I have commented on such Fortadelis` albums as Overdub Session [Jazzed Up], and Stimulus (2017), although it is just a little drop within a bigger pound. If you are going to visit the Croatian artist`s Jamendo site then you will find nearby 20 issues over there. Cinematique as the title hints itself at it might be about a film score or at least to be inspired by its possible concept and on the other side the purpose of it may be to create something velvety and moody for the soul of a listener. Thirdly, a soundtrack could be thought either for a real film score or a conceivable one. In fact, Fortadelis` 7-track issue embraces all the aforementioned intentions and purposes to create a fascinating listening experience due to providing majestic and fantasy-ridden journeys to sweep around one`s deepest imagination-bound spheres. Yeah, it makes sense via its halcyon yet arcane arcs where the grass will be ever greener and the heaven more blue. Indeed, it is an irritating hyper-reality. Its purpose is not to establish something groovy and dandyish on its own but just to coil inside its deeper values. 

[Teaser of the day] USAISAMONSTER - Rocking at the Pudhouse

Free Music Archive

• Rock and roll
• Avant-rock
• Noise rock
• Freeformfreakout
• Psychobilly
• Psych-rock

Artist: USAISAMONSTER

Release: Soul Jerker Seven Incher

Label: Mass Dist/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Spheriot - Hide & Seek

Jamendo 

• Art pop
• Experimental pop
• Kraut-pop
• Alternative pop
• Indie pop
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: Spheriot

Release: Livingroom Orbits

Label: WM Recordings/Jamendo/Bandcamp/Free Music Archive

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Quint Baker - The Girl In The Wind

Free Music Archive

• Lo-fi
• Freak folk
• Weird folk
• DIY
• New Weird Zealand
• Free folk
• Singer-songwriter  

Artist: Quint Baker  
Release: Psychic Cat'z Golden Fleece
Label: Kill Mommy
Year: 2010

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.