Recent Music Heroes

Comment: this issue of just consisting of one extended, 32-minute composition starts off with halting effects and rusty echoes in the vein of rough and a little bit lobit electronic music which later on keeps steadily its pace formally minimal by employing a bit changes in the middle of ascending darkened ambient/dark wave flames. Since at a point the listener can hear twofold progressions, respectively. The course could get ever better (read: sinister) since then. Many ominous shades creeping from one's possible horrendous past and searching for a chance to overcome him. Time to live, time to die. And time to haunt thereafter. The impressively expressive issue is a part of the discography of Drill Records.

Uriko – Away From My Aim (2007)

Digital Kunstrasen

Indie folk
Alt-folk
Americana
Folk indie
DIY

Comment: at the first glance this case of 6 compositions may seem a bit tedious and weary. Yet by listening to the release many times in a row there can be drawn analogous parallels upon Wilco's issues which also start to blossom after a while by unveiling different aspects and suggestive moments. Regarding the kind of indie folk one should not try to create a new form of it at any cost because it could be a Sisyphean effort. The virtue of a folk album is related to its coherence between the melodies and harmonies and the lyrics. Between some exquisite minutiae to create something truly spellbinding and impeccable. One can find out many enchanting moments from within it - from acoustic guitar-based rants to more bombastic synthesised orchestrations. The decent outing is a part of the discography of a German imprint, Digital Kunstrasen.

3/05/2019

[Teaser of the day] Accasari - Tigres

Ambient
Microtonal
Experimentalism
Soundscape
Ambient drone
Minimalism
Drone
Abstract
Avant-garde

Artist: Accasari

Release: Sables

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Humberto Luis Schenone - Sudestada Paredón y Después

Clinical Archives

Tango
Avant-garde
Experimental pop
Musique concrète
Art music

Artist: Humberto Luis Schenone

Release: Human Fights = Human Rights I

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2009

3/04/2019

[Teaser of the day] Deicida 69 - Requiem

Psychedelic rock
Alternative dance
Acid rock
Spoken word
Krautrock
Avant-prog
RIO
Dance rock
Synth-rock
No Wave

Artist: Deicida 69

Release: Mirando Costras

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] D3Zs - We Know Kung-Fu (Featuring Pot-C & T-Pick)

blocSonic

Hip-hop
Urban music
Rap

Artist: D3Zs

Release: U Got It Bad

Label: blocSonic

Year: 2014

3/03/2019

[Teaser of the day] Doctor Sandy Masters - Aqua Bling

Ambient
Minimalism
Soundscape
Dreamwave
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Electronic music

Artist: Doctor Sandy Masters

Release: In Sea

Label: Sanzimat International

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Gnomefoam - Yorkshire Trousers

Jamendo

Electronic music
Synth-pop
Electro-rock
Acid house
Synth-rock
Crossover
Acid techno
Alternative dance

Artist: Gnomefoam

Release: Meet My Beassst

Label: Rack & Ruin/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

OOAME – Milanese-Nwas (2018)

Acustronica

Folktronica
Glitch-folk
Post-folk
Epic
Electronic
Avant-folk

Comment: by listening to this 11-notch release of having come out from an imprint, Acustronica this is something of which hard core is centred on heavy sampling of an acoustic guitar and its soft core is based on permanent and at the same volatile chord and format variations. More profoundly, it can be assumed all the samples are manipulated through an effect control panel by pitching and lowering, accelerating and decelerating, saturating and amplifying glitched-out minutiae. At the same time it is not a fusty technological adventure because of preserving an easy emotional impact within it. The general impression of it is atmospheric and spiritually ennobling despite convulsive and warped shapeshifting downwards. It reminds of psychedelic folk troubadours on a guitar only without any electronic interference. Indeed, it is an enchanting listening experience provided by Giorgio Sancristoforo.

Wasones – Rabia (2018)

Naciòn Libre

Archive.org

Bandcamp

Hardcore punk
Punk rock

Comment: this batch of five tracks is a galvanized attack in the key of aggressiveness of hardcore punk. Any track represented over there does not extend more than a 2-minute span. Undoubtedly it is the best approach to channelize effectively one's rage and contempt. Fortunately we are living in a time being surrounded by greed, stupidity, moral decay, hypocrisy, hate speech, cruelty, artificial tendencies and intimidating based on political correctness, accusative labelling and a general lack of sense of humour and all of that is a good reference point for rebels to state himself/herself against the aforementioned threads. The point of mine is that in this way the rulers could get have a better platform to implement the divide and rule principle within a society. The more I follow recent intentions and tendencies going on in Western societies the more I can see very similar tendencies going on in the Soviet Union. And it is not elegantly natural at all. By listening to this Mexican quartet with the lead by their amazing frontwoman Julieta Ronquillo is a refreshing restart in the middle of the frowsty pound. Anarchism as a tool for punks is usually related to the left wing though the rejection of a deep state by them is clearly opposite to the leftists. In that case they may even be more related to the so-called economic right theorists whose purpose is to minimize the role of the government and the state as much as possible. Additionally, I did not forget that approximately a century ago in the Soviet Russia bolsheviks/communists killed anarchists. It was not a taboo for them altogether. Of course not because thereafter at a time they started to annihilate each other. Rabid, blind ones whose purpose was not to get a divine rather a rat-alike one. The courageous issue is a part of the discography of a Mexican imprint, Naciòn Libre.

3/02/2019

SkeAmo – erA (2011)

Miga

Indietronica
Electronic music
Experimental electronica
Glitchtronica
IDM
Post-rock

Comment: this handful of tracks is a dexterous release by Jorge Sierra also being known as the lead figure of Eclectik Recording, and a visual artist. Musically it is a diverse whole within certain borders only – more profoundly, one can drift between lone yet suggestive piano chords, high-pitched yet gentle drones, velvety electronic churning, modulated odds and ends. Jorge Sierra is supported by female vocals by such artists as Chenene, Yoka, Worenagia. At Chrysalis the apotheosis of the track comes due to a sublime post-rock climax. It is the most beautiful moment on the release. The outing is a bit in the discography of Miga Records. Follow the universe.

Circadian Eyes – A Future Nostalgic (2018)

Hawk Moon

Post-rock
Electronic shoegaze
Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Epic
Ambient rock
Art pop/rock

Comment: do you like M83? I do not like. On the other side, I like it. It is like listening to an average example of punk music when three or four tracks from the beginning seem to be great but thereafter all would change into a quite boring, annoying case. The same can be said about the French project's sound sometimes. It might be the reason comes out from there the issue starts off with the most ecstatic moments yet later on nothing new cannot be added to a mix. At the same time the patheticness of electronic shoegaze/nugaze sound is sustained which at times may make impression upon, at times not. It depends on. It depends on different subjective and objective reasons. Circadian Eye's 10-notch whole being released on Hawk Moon Records is an analogue case – before having consumed the beer at the amount of a couple of litre I can feel the result is fine by the sounds and production, by its touch and temperance. And a quintessential mix eventually would come to fruition. Bryan Collins aka Circadian Eye's purpose is just to create an outing with hovering progressions and majestic synthesised chords and propulsive drumming beneath. It might be it is not an analogue case with M83 because by listening to this release three times in a row (as I used to behave while writing a comment) I did not feel any sort of embarrassment for a while. In a word, the result is completely accomplished and absolutely worth to be added to the list of the best albums in 2018 at RMH. And the beer would have been let outside the discussion it did not make any difference at all. Great by any means.

[Teaser of the day] Martin Rach - Loop9

Enoughrecords

Electronic music
Experimental electronica
Krautrock
Ambient
Minimalism

Artist: Martin Rach

Release: Unfinished Loops

Label: Enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Yoko Absorbing - Lo-Fo Theory

Clinical Archives

Avant-garde
Experimental electronica
Electronic music
Improvised music
Experimentalism
Avant-electronica

Artist: Yoko Absorbing

Release: Vinyl

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] The Borderline Bunnys - Regea

Sirona-Records

Breakcore
Electronic music
Rhythmic noise
Digital hardcore
Power electronics

Artist: The Borderline Bunnys

Release: Too Punk 4 Long Ears

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Lys - Naunuee

Sutemos

IDM
Deep techno
Electronic music
Ambient techno

Artist: Lys

Release: Naunuee

Label: Sutemos

Year: 2004

2/27/2019

[Teaser of the day] Turvia - Irse

Etched Traumas

Indietronica
Avant-pop
DIY
Post-rock
Experimental pop
Electronic music

Artist: Turvia

Release: Entropia

Label: Etched Traumas

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Popkan - Nightman

Textone

Electronic music
Micro-electro
Alternative dance
Tech-electro
Minimal electro

Artist: Popkan

Release: First Step EP

Label: Textone

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Leonel Jacquier - Baby Santa

MonokraK

Avant-techno
Electronic music
Experimental techno
Alternative
Micro-techno

Artist: Leonel Jacquier

Release: Naomi

Label: MonokraK

Year: 2012

Meik Puppe – Färbe Deine Elche (2007)

Digital Kunstrasen

Bandcamp

Art music
Cabaret music
Oldie music

Comment: unfortunately I have already forgotten my ability in speech and understanding in German though German was my second foreign language after Russian and before English. No practice kills one's adept to speak a language. This 7-track outing being issued on such an imprint as Digital Kunstrasen is as grossly focused on lyrics as it is craftily stylised on oldie cabaret music driven by vivid piano chords and more generally on permanent chord changes and thematic turns. As we know well in its early days, approximately a century ago, the cabaret in Germany (especially in metropolises like Munich, and Berlin) embraced avant-garde tendencies by providing an outlet for expressionists, for example. Because of that I guess the listener could get an increased impression from these texts of this 7-track outing. As the title already expressively hints at it - paint your elks. By the way, as the most rock music was based on the template of black blues music then such an avant-rock combo as Velvet Underground instead of it have had its roots in the white, even the so-called elite European culture, remarkably it did have an indirect cabaret touch as well (of course, for Hitler and his comrades who were being dismally stylised bastards it was an inferior representation of culture and it would be "cured" through concentration camps). By its touch the release is an old-fashioned yet amusing glimpse like warming up all those old ghosts.

nula.cc – a dream of smoke and birds (2018)

Bandcamp

Drone
Sound art
Ambient
Post-industrial
Soundscape
Dark ambient
Ambient drone
Musique concrète
Organic electronica

Comment: a subsequent release by Prague, the Czech Republic-based nula.cc´s is a credible listening due to its emotive touch which in turn is induced by a crafty composition and suggestive sounds. The scheme as it used to appear if one intends to create a solid issue. Yesterday I saw a trailer about upcoming post-apocalyptic games like Metro Exodus, The Devision 2, Fear the Wolves, Atomic Heart, The Last Of Us 2 which indeed seemed to be quite fancy. All of that stuff used to resonate with the 7-notch outing of which area of activity seems to come out from a remote distance which is the dwelling place for mutants and inferior bastards. In fact, at the moment the heroes are gone and mostly the dickheads are left who have neither sympathy nor empathy (even if they pretend to have it). One can hear fear and oppressive tension oozing from those hazily saturated drones and semi-ambient and industrial progressions. It is empty and full at the same time, as if an embodiment of the schizoid nature of human being`s mind and psyche, the embodiment of a distracted configuration. Undoubtedly one of the strongest issues by the artist.

2/26/2019

[Teaser of the day] Hanetration - Wither

Drone
Avant-garde
Post-industrial
Epic
Experimentalism
Post-classical

Artist: Hanetration

Release: Murmurist EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Valhearst - Drunk of Passion

Electronic music
Outsider house
Singer-songwriter
Bedroom pop
Alternative dance

Artist: Valhearst

Release: Rest Regards

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2019

2/25/2019

[Teaser of the day] Felipe Baradit Stevenson - Rewiro

Epa Sonidos

Synth-pop
Kosmische Musik
Techno pop
Alternative dance
Cosmic synth

Artist: Felipe Baradit Stevenson

Release: Techno Synth Pop

Label: Epa Sonidos

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Dark Frequencer - Hypnotica Part 2

Electronic music
Ambient techno
Musique concrète
Organic electronica
Dreamwave
Hypnagogic pop

Artist: Dark Frequencer

Release: Hypnotica

Label: Petroglyph Music

Year: 2018

Mark Hamn – Function Buttons (2005)

Maetrixsolution

Complementary Distribution

Avant-garde
Folktronica
Alternative
Experimentalism
Ambient
Glitch-folk
Glitchtronica
Post-folk
Organic electronica
Sampledelic

Comment: Mark Hamn is the pseudonym of an Italian musician, Francesco Giannico. It starts off like a music example of having lost its gravitation and as if coming out of a sinking car audio. Later on, it is filled in with succumbed shrieks, intense rattles, microscopic noises, thick bass frequencies, drawn-out sonic effects. And then a guitar comes in sometime to provide more anchored pinpoint for this 6-notch release under Maetrixsolution, Complementary Distribution (and temporally the Canadian Nishi imprint). By the way, by talking about Canadians, especially about these ones coming out from Quebec province I have to mention such artists as Simon Trottier, Nicolas Bernier, and Vincent Fuguere (Muhr) who also like to endeavour at crossroads of glitched-out electronica, folk and modern classical compositions. However, Francesco Giannico likes to play with the format and possible deviations and artificial errors within it. It is like an elegant standing against the form and pressure of a correct conversation and sterile creative process which are the obvious sources of killing our natural sense of (self-)expression. We just used to act in a way because we are teached to act in that way. Regarding what we should or must do, in fact, we do not have a comprehensive, experience-based understanding at all. We are like digitalised creatures with a narrow middle spectrum of frequencies if to be compared to the analogy of the sound. Just be ready to take one detail, then another and start to combine. Yet Francesco Giannico by standing in the middle of scattered sonic chaos will ultimately create blissful monumental spans and flashes. In a word, it is an exquisite listening.

2/24/2019

Art Electronix – Loop Constructor (2012)

Nanoloopsis

Archive.org

Tech-house
Techno
Electronic music
Club dance
Alternative dance

Comment: behind the Ukraine-based combo Art Electronix are a woman, and a man who have evaluated such values as constant search of original sounding, development of art performances and live concerts, experimental quality music production, and many other art forms. Indeed, the duo has been truly prolific over the years by issuing more than 50 outings so far. This 3-notch issue comes out of such an imprint as Nanoloopsis and showcasing the Ukrainians' inclination toward techno and near techno rhythms. The latter category does mean techno cadences are mingled with electro, dub and house oscillations. In a nutshell, these 12 and a half minute constitute a substantial experience.

Andrew Weathers Trio – Guitar Man Whirligig (2018)

Futurerecordings

Bandcamp

Post-rock
Art rock
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Experimental rock
Avant-rock
Americana
Epic

Comment: Andrew Weathers is a musician from Littlefield, Texas, USA whose trio embraces four persons in fact. In truth, I do not know how the trio should be considered – should the lead figure be included or not? Weathers plays guitars, an organ, a pianet; Aaron Oppenheim plays a bass, Scott Siler plays the drums, and Tom Djll operates with a trumpet, and electronic effects. On this 6-notch release they play post-rock with an experimental angle where they pay attention to the structure and sparkling timbres. At times the quartet may associate with Tortoise but just a bit. Similarly to the legend from Chicago it is a post-rock case yet they also do not follow the classic crescendo-bursting buildups of the style. However, those semi-crescendos make highly sense. It is very fine to partake in a whole filled in with internal power and profound impulses coming permanently to the surface. Because of that their intention to create a cohesive, well integrated release does not water down at all. The guitar used to repeat the main motive in an enchanting way by exuding ennobling warmth at Short Denim Demon Shirt. The guitar as the main instrument on the album recedes at Eastern Island Palm Dub by admitting the lead to a suggestive, dreamy trumpet play. The finishing track Creosote Band (Trio) is a different case by playing some sort of darker cinematic Americana with smouldering eyes. That's great again. The beguiling post-rock release is a part of the discography of a cult post-rock imprint, futurerecordings. Obviously one of the best (post-rock) albums in 2018.

[Teaser of the day] Airplanemusic - Astral Hologram Disappear

Tranzmitter

Hardstep
Electronic music
Ambient techno
Crossover
Alternative

Artist: Airplanemusic

Release: Elements

Label: Tranzmitter/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] G.G. Allin's Dick - Hiki, the Scaly Man

You Are Not Stealing

Comedy music
Music hall
Freak pop
Vaudeville
Electronic music
Alternative

Artist: G.G. Allin`s Dick

Release: King of the Road

Label: You Are Not Stealing

Year: 2005

We Hate All These Liberals – Lost Tapes (2018)

Anti-Demos-Cracia

Nu jazz
Deep house
Club dance
Electronic music
Drum and bass

Comment: as we know very well Portugal is being a well fare to foster great imprints like Test Tube, You Are Not Stealing Records, Enoughrecords, Green Field Recordings, XS Records, MiMi Records. Anti-Demos-Cracia as a music label was founded more than 30 years ago with purpose to release music of a combo called Varples Pravles. Since then the discography of the imprint has grown remarkably and music one could find out from there used to range from dark ambient and (post-)industrial incantations and rough psychedelic outbursts and just artsy experimental/unclassifiable glass bead game to more contemporary club driven beats. By the way, under ADC one can find out older, analogue-processed yet now digitalised releases (originally released on tapes or just waiting its time to be issued) and just brand new stuff as well. We Hate All These Liberals is a domestic, rolific, at the moment 13-album project under the label by producing music which can be labelled as rhythmic, profound and catchy. It veers away from deep house vibes, sultry nu/acid jazz oscillations to sublime drum and bass and stylistically more transgressive instances. It is a true quality stuff worth to be played both in sapid night clubs and evening radio shows of a good quality. It is nice to see again that people with conservative world perception love house music. Indeed, who could love all those artificially behaving liberals just by thinking of themselves as kind of better people and as if by knowing what other people also must do and because of that sweeping on a very slippery slope. Hitler knew, Stalin knew, Pol Poth, and Mao Zedong also knew exactly what is the best under their rule. The less the country and lobbist groups come into the life of a single person the better it is. We can all see what is going on in France for more than a couple of months. Another unfortunate example is socialist Venezuela. Grass roots democracy/sub-anarchy would be also an alternative. We want to be set free. However, music is something which provides an asylum against inferior, oppressive tendencies within the human race.

2/23/2019

[Teaser of the day] KOSIK - Center In, Center Out

Please Do Something

Alternative
Art pop
Ambient pop
Electronic music
Indietronica

Artist: KOSIK

Release: Fastas

Label: Please Do Something

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Frank Biedermann - Endor Forest

Stadtgruen

Electronic music
Club dance
Dub house
Ambient house

Artist: Frank Biedermann

Release: Wookiee Woods

Label: Stadtgruen

Year: 2004

VA – Soundtrack For Your Wedding (2006)

Aerotone

Electronic music
Indietronica
Post-rock
Alternative
Ambient pop
Art pop
Post-rock
Plinkerpop
Chamber pop

Comment: these 60 minutes are something special from the past when indie music was tightly mingled with electronic music. Aerotone was a German imprint which had complemented the tradition being launched by such imprints as Monika Enterprise, Morr Music, and City Slang. There are up 14 songs by such artists as The Royal Horse Gala, 7oi, Leader, Mint, Gras, Renniac, Turnus, Cignol, Cloinc, Blisaed, Muhr, Planet Boelex, Ecoplan, and Aligning Minds. In a word, back then in 2006 such sort of music was a borderline indie example but today it is not anymore. Such sort of music can be considered a mainstream indie case. However, old cases like this one are more pleasant for me than new ones because most new ones could be evaluated in the future while having a decent time span behind. One should get a chance to separate out between a hype and a lasting virtue. By the recent miscellany it can be admitted this borderline case is truly transgressive (it is the tautological assumption, though!) by providing many intriguing yet full-fledged dodges within the whole. All in all, admit a solid present for this special day.

Young Jeezy – The Real Is Back (2011)

RapRadar

Hip-hop
Rap
Urban music
Gangsta rap

Comment: this is the tenth mixtape by Jeezy being compiled by DJ Drama. The mixtape features guest appearances from 211, Slick Pulla, Scrilla, Fabolous, Yo Gotti, Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Boo, Freddie Gibbs, and Alley Boy. Throughout the 20 tracks he employs trivial gangsta themes like tough personal every day's experience, "niggas", women, money and hypocrisy (and the topic of credibility). Musically it is mostly driven by compelling, a bit foreboding bass drives which make a strong contrast to the recent, soul-soaked hip-hop. Arriving at the lyrics it wasn't about the politics though nowadays it would have been at least partly about Donald Trump, and Kanye West (allegedly to be a “token negro” endorsed by a couple of the so-called opinion leaders) as a supporter of him. By following the news about Donald Trump it must be admitted it is some sort of religious nightmare within the heads of left-wing intellectuals and journalists. Middle Ages seem to be back again what was frequently about feverish suspicions and beliefs and wishful thinking. If you have real facts to enact impeachment then ultimately do it. Do not waste your and other people's precious time while practising verbal self-stimulation. Additionally I do not believe in the fact that 90 per cent of black Americans support Democratic Party. Why I should do it while at the reigning period of Barack Obama there were tumultuous riots by black people against police violence but the demonstrators also demanded vacant jobs at the same time. For instance, in Baltimore, Maryland. Given that the recent economic climate is remarkably more stable and the country is more wealthy than some years ago why they should behave in an irrational way? And before someone called Ayanna Pressley denotes someone as "the occupant of the White House..." she should be aware of the presumption of innocence. Last but not least - it is a fine listening experience.

2/21/2019

[Teaser of the day] Karmacoda - Motion Picture

Miasmah

Trip-hop
Electronic music
Downtempo
Cinematic
Alternative pop

Artist: Karmacoda

Release: Display EP

Label: Miasmah

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Kris Keyser - Cutting Ties

8bitpeoples

Chiptune
8-bit
Tracker music
Chipbreak
Nintendocore
Electro pop
Primitive eletronica

Artist: Kris Keyser

Release: Reviver

Label: 8bitpeoples

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] elephantknuckle - Cladogenesis

Torn Flesh

Electronic music
Cybergrind
Cybergore
Brutal metal
Cybermetal

Artist: elephantknuckle

Release: Once the Infernal Device

Label: Torn Flesh

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Space Dimension Controller - Title Sequence

Acroplane

Synth-pop
Electronic music
Cosmic synth
Synth-funk
Alternative dance

Artist: Space Dimension Controller

Release: Unidentified Flying Oscillator

Label: Acroplane

Year: 2009

Bing Satellites – Soothing Images 48-59 (2018)

Bandcamp

Modern classical
Post-classical
Piano music
Ambient
Soundscape
Art music

Comment: this 12-notch outing constitutes volume 4 of the Soothing Images series. Mancunian Bryn Coleman who is behind the project employs a virtual double tape loop system to create airy but pensive soundscapes on a piano, a synthesiser and a guitar. He has shifted styles a number of times yet such sort of music is being a main fare for him recently. At times those sounds evolve into epic semi-orchestrations, of course, in slowed-down terms of Brin Coleman. The echoing guitar chords and gentle strumming create an additional, hued space by reminding of other guitar geniuses like Drew Miller, Stephen Briggs, and Gaetano Fontanazza. I guess the music could be depicted as if a travelling on the unstable ground of gigantic gas planets like Jupiter, and Saturn. One will ultimately feel a desperate pain of loneliness and having no chance to reach some populated points in the middle of the vast ground of the planets. In a word, it is a fine example of the music of the spheres where bittersweet sensations are embedded in rather than parted. Great work by any means.

Cory Allen – Satory In Atlantis (2007)

Test Tube

Archive.org

Ambient
Electronic music
Minimalism
Epic
Ambient drone
Microtonal
Field recording
Organic electronica
Dreamwave
Musique concrète

Comment: Austin, Texas, US-based musician, producer and a music label co-owner Cory Allen's 5-notch outing is a tense blend of dreamy droning incantations and beatific ambient plateaus. Despite his deliberately austere concept he has much to deliver to us. "Satori" is the Buddhist term for "awakening, comprehension, understanding". Less is more which could be the slogan of this issue under the marvellous Portuguese imprint Test Tube. To get awoken a human being needs silence, as a part of the rest; given that there is almost no places around where one could do it the artificial silence is suitable for this purpose. It may be there exists no absolute silence at all - it might be silence is an invisible conversation as once sung Malcolm Mooney from CAN. These 30 minutes create an organized calming padding for both an unnerving person and adventurous music lover. Journey to Bodhi can be considered an example of contemporary New Age/Reiki music. As it is said his work focuses on the manipulation of human perception with the intent of altering the listener's state of consciousness. I am very convinced this outing can be considered as a step for a person to move toward his/her personal enlightenment.

Voyageurs – Nude Vegas (2010)

White Moon Recordings

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

Space rock
Psych-rock
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Acid rock
Drone rock

Comment: this batch of 7 tracks is a sublime mix of undulating stoned guitar rants and overcoming drumming and desperate yet suppressed shouting by the vocalist, and heavily pushing psychedelic organs everywhere around it. And of course, the littered, rehearsal room-alike sound is a positive sign. In a word, all these seven loose structured tracks can freely be considered as an one lengthy track where any track reflects upon the whole and vice versa. The main intention of this issue is to create a hypnosis inside the musicians and their followers. A hypnosis through languid timbre and elliptical, iterative rhythmic patterns. Voyageurs is a combo from Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA who have issued a bunch of issues over different platforms, Free Music Archive, and Bandcamp. I am just wondering has Bill Clinton – who had spent many years in Fayetteville in the 70s – ever listened to the combo? It would be a fancy idea that the former president would heavily be get involved in that and reflecting his opinion publicly. I guess an almost unknown combo would get their ranking remarkably higher. The outing is a part of the discography of White Moon Recordings.

2/19/2019

[Teaser of the day] Mrs Dink - G*Boi

Bump Foot

Hardstep
Tracker music
Electronic music
8-bit
Crossover
Minimal electro
Breakcore
Chiptune
Hard electro

Artist: Mrs Dink

Release: How Up R U? EP

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] abelest+Takeshi Fuwa - 睡眠

Maltine

J-pop
Electronic pop
Autotune
Urban music
Mumble rap
Digital soul

Artist: abelest

Release: 健康

Label: Maltine

Year: 2019

The Rabbits – That Cave of Love Part 1 (2008)

WM Recordings

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

Avant-rock
Alternative rock
Art pop
Cinematic
Noise pop
Fuzz pop
Comedy pop
Experimental pop

Comment: The Rabbits` third outing on WM Recordings is playful and sardonic, entertaining and poignant at the same time. I have no understanding why such sort of music does not make up music charts because in fact it does have everything. Obviously it is way too dizzy for masses and all those influencers, opinion leaders and bosses of music labels who wish the world would be full of "of chickeny softness” while the world need heroes instead of it. The 9-notch outing was issued in 2008 yet it would predict what used to happen today when bloody political correctness embraces all within a society. I do not think that all sort of the so-called liberal activists with gleaming eyes could change world into a better place. I guess their pretension to make it is filled in with half-truths, faulty assumptions and partial knowledges while pretending to be idols by their public ambitions. More profoundly, one of the consequences is that young people are eunuchised by it and locked in porn sites. In truth, it is ridiculous to see all of that for a critical bystander. Do you think is it possible to change someone into a god who is a sort of animal (even if he/she does not recognize it) and headed by drives and subjugated to natural laws? Of course, it is the premise for so-called divine comedy. I do not believe in revolutions anymore, I believe in art and music and an organic way of living instead of it. I believe in a sort of patchwork through music which is represented over there – from dadaist outbursts and noise/fuzz pop spans to slightly pop-oriented developments and astounding blissful cinematic undulations and ork-pop quests. And the most important point – there is up freedom one could not find out from a recent society anymore.

2/18/2019

[Teaser of the day] Pogo - Hoo Ba Ba Kanda

Electronic pop
Poptronica
Sampledelic
Funk
Alternative pop
Plunderphonics

Artist: Pogo

Release: Weightless

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Sensual Physics - Cold Sweat

Epsilonlab

Deep techno
Electronic music
Techno pop
Bubblegum techno
Alternative dance

Artist: Sensual Physics

Release: Expanding Itself

Label: Epsilonlab

Year: 2005

Tidy Kid – One Week With My Casio (2008)

Test Tube

Froggi

Toytronica
Electronic music
DIY
Alternative
Indietronica
Lo-fi
Electro pop
Glitchtronica
Singer-songwriter
Breakbeat

Comment: one of the first netlabels I was honoured to meet was Test Tube. It might be the first impression of mine was highly piebald about the netlabel/webaudio scene and because of that I could not evaluate any single netlabel properly. However, by listening to the discography of Test Tube back now it is being a highly pleasant quality time. Brisbane, Australia-based Tidy Kid`s One Week With My Casio can be considered rather an unusual example within the discography due to providing no spot upon lush experimental/ambient music but instead of it experimenting with sounds and creating poppy songs on his own cheap Casio synthesizer. By the way, I have also a fancy Casio synth, a small monophonic Casio SA-1, my cordial relation with it has been lasting since 2000. Musically this 6-track issue is a great one by sharing expressive touch between sonic experiments, poppy song structures, and moody feeling hovering above it. From obscure lo-fi flickers and dreamy indie electronic patches to convulsive, glitched-out broken beat madness, littered electro pop and interrupted yet somehow catchy songwriting. By the way, the 6-track outing was also released as a tape release on the German imprint Froggi Records. Astounding lo-fi electronica.

[Teaser of the day] x.y.r. - Warm Pulsations

Organic electronica
Dreamwave
Electronic music
Exotica pop
Avant-pop
Ambient pop
Post-pop

Artist: x.y.r.

Release: el dorado

Label: Bandcamp/12th Isle/Illuminated Paths

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Fla.mingo - Aliens

Electronic music
Future funk
Nu disco
Vaporwave
Post-chillwave
Electro pop
Synth-pop
Alternative dance

Artist: Fla.mingo

Release: Fantasy

Label: Business Casual

Year: 2017

2/17/2019

Digitalverein – Changes LP (2004)

Thinner

Electronic music
Dub house
Dub techno
Dubtronica
Ambient dub

Comment: Jörg Schuster (aka Lufth, and Sensual Physics) is an artist and a designer of graphics for computer software from Dortmund, Germany. He can be considered a main domestic artist within an acknowledged imprint called Thinner. In fact, Germany can be considered home for many outstanding dub and minimal techno labels and one of such cornerstones is certainly Thinner. One can just conclude from it the artist should be worthwhile. This 8-track outing is as emotive as it is hypnotic. The first adjective does not exclude the latter, and vice versa. The vibes just come in, starting to wobble around one`s head and soul and then keep mutating slowly, almost invisibly into something else. The format is mainly restricted with techno, dub, and atmospheric and nocturnal electronic developments yet at times one may perceive something punctual and iterative therefore creating a bridge between the aforementioned styles and krautrock. There is even up one track by employing exquisite vibraphone sounds and thereby resembling a bit of Tortoise. At times dub rhythms are replaced by more bold steps (proto-dubstep?) yet preserving its wobbly feel. Just listen to it, just feel the touch of it.

2/16/2019

[Teaser of the day] Neokyoto - Incubate Me

Electronic music
Synth-pop
Electro pop
Future synth
Alternative pop

Artist: Neokyoto

Release: Zero Transition

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Jan LF Strach - Cały Lipiec Słuchałem The Fall-a

Dada music
Experimental pop
No Wave
Psych-pop
DIY
Anti-pop
Freeformfreakout
Noise pop
Avant-garde

Artist: Jan LF Strach

Release: Wygaszacz Ekranów

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Yuni In Taxco – Yuni In Taxco EP (2010)

Cakes And Tapes

New Weird America
Indie folk
Doo wop
Sunshine pop
Dream folk
Psych-rock
Alt-folk
Folk indie
Free folk

Comment: this 4-track outing (clocking in at a 12-minute) is a dodge into the discography of Portuguese imprint Cakes And Tapes Records from the year of 2010 which still did reflect upon the influence of the so-called New Weird movement and on the other side it goes even more backward in time to such experimental psychedelic rock combos as Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and glittering sunshine pop and doo wop harmonies from the 60s. In the first place, those occasionally loaded effervescent vocal appearances and fast changes in mood and structure remind of Panda Bear and Animal Collective and it is a blissful reverberation over the place by the Seattle-based combo. Strumming guitars and shuffly drumming are backed up by artsy electronics and woodwind instruments. And as we would see 4-5 years later Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper was produced by Sonic Boom. In a word, it is a decent issue which is very worth to be remembered even 9 years after the release. It is for your own sake to enjoy a true example of beauty in the middle of a vanity fair and chaos.

[Teaser of the day] Orange Crush - Distant Child

Archaic Horizon

Shoegazetronica
Indietronica
Ambient pop
Alternative pop
Drone pop
Indie pop
Electronic music
Lo-fi

Artist: Orange Crush

Release: The Fields

Label: Archaic Horizon/Bandcamp

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Mad Grinder - Lombra

Stoner rock
Alternative rock/metal
Doom rock/metal
Heavy metal
Psych-rock

Artist: Mad Grinder

Release: Boris

Label: Cosmos Art Studio/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Mor(R)ons - System Re-tarded

Hardcore punk
Punk rock
Skate punk
Melodic hardcore
Skatecore

Artist: The Mor(R)ons

Release: Healthy Selfishness EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

Desired – Lovestory (2015)

Business Casual

Future funk
Vaporwave
Dance pop
Shibuya-kei
Crossover
J-pop

Comment: Desired is a beloved artist from Yekaterinburg, Russia whose as you can see has a solid follow-up at Bandcamp, and Lastfm. Undoubtedly Lovestory is a cornerstone of his success where different styles are synthesised either into new ones or revamped into modern ones. More profoundly, he employs much from the Japan scene, especially such sort of music which in turn is strongly influenced by Western pop music, such styles as shibuya-kei, and more generic J-pop. Catchy hooks through bubbling melodies and blissful harmonies and gentle yet compelling funky rhythms and some witty dialogues create a coherent upbeat release. It reminds me of a little bit of a shiny vibe which can be found from the end-70s and beginning-80s Soviet Union-era which was neither pathetic nor embarrassing like most of popular music which had come from the devastating political and cultural monster. The glittering 9-track outing is a part within the discography of Business Casual.

2/14/2019

[Teaser of the day] Reid Karris - Fasciculation

Free Music Archive

Improvised music
Avant-garde
Electro-acoustic
Improvised noise
Experimentalism

Artist: Reid Karris

Release: Creatio Ex Nihilo

Label: Pan Y Rosas Discos

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Kreatiivmootor - Olme ja ulme

Dada music
Avant-garde
New Weird Estonia
Freeformfreakout
No Wave
Improvised music

Artist: Kreatiivmootor

Release: Kaleidoskoop

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

2/13/2019

[Teaser of the day] Luarvik Luarvik - Tantsib huntidega

Experimental rock
Art rock
Improvised music
Electro-acoustic
Avant-rock
Progressive rock
RIO
Avant-prog

Artist: Luarvik Luarvik

Release: Passioon & Fuuga

Label: Bande/Strangiato

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Nin Martoize - Un

Improvised music
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Free jazz
Experimentalism

Artist: Nin Martoize

Release: Digittoe Air

Label: Bandcamp/Free Music Archive

Year: 2018

Appalachian Falls – GrimGrimAntonym (2011)

Resting Bell

Ambient
Soundscape
Avant-garde
Live
Ambient drone
Microtonal
Experimentalism

Comment: some artists come to stay, some artists come to disappear forever. Appalachian Falls seems to be a representative of the latter version. One can find out very austere information about him/her (he/she is called as austerely as I) traces in music. However, GrimGrimAntonym consists of two long-running compositions in the vein of ambient and drone mixed powerful appearance. More profoundly, it is represented with the texture of ambient music and the inner, propulsive impulse of drone music by employing an array of distortion pedals and tape machines. The music is recorded during a live session which used to slowly build up in the manner of post-rock through massive crescendos and subsequent purgative fadeouts. The enchanting aural experience is a part of the discography of Resting Bell, a well-recognized German imprint (unfortunately its mission has come to an ending). That`s great indeed.

Svann E. Langguth – Drei- Und Vierstimmige Interventionen & Polymorphe Vivisektion (2016)

Der Kleine Grüne Würfel

Archive.org

Lo-fi
Improvised noise
Experimental rock
Electronic music
Experimentalism
DIY
Noise
Psycho-acoustic
Drone
Abstract
Avant-garde
Avant-rock

Comment: there is quite much to say about this 16-piece whole. In other words, one can write a solid review in alphabetic characters about it. The artist created the music on DIY modules built up by himself. It consists of two parts – three and four-voice interventions, and polymorphic vivisections. By its mood it is at times tumultuous due to intense noisy droning and whimsical glitched-out whirlpools, at times it used to fade away due to those oblivious guitar patterns being somewhere in the remote background. At times the aforementioned parts will fuse with one another or being the transgressive threshold for the other part. In fact, it is even more versatile than the full title of this album hints at it. It reminds me of my own musical doings while manipulating on my sampler Yamaha – by extracting sounds into very small units and moving them back and forth and searching for proper ones. In principle, it is nothing more or less than just (shape)shifting austere sonic waves and just bare signals to align them with one`s cerebral interface. Some magniloquent sort of improvised noise by its method and output. At times it chimes like a real, spirited embodiment of electricity (at QuadNand vierstimmig). By the way, I tagged the album partly as DIY, and lo-fi. Of course, it is the discussion point of considering any sort of electronic music as somehow lo-fi, or DIY. May it be a bit tautological? Pop-inflected music can be more clearly handled as hi-fi and lo-fi. The overcoming outing is a part of the discography of Germany-based imprint Der Kleine Grüne Würfel.

2/12/2019

[Teaser of the day] Chad Golda - Move Your Body

Writing

Indie folk
DIY
Americana
Alt-folk
Appalachian music
Psych-rock
Singer-songwriter
Lo-fi
Crossover
Folk indie

Artist: Chad Golda

Release: The Mysterious Nine

Label: Writing/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] NAMM - Saltamontes

Electronic music
Alternative
Experimental pop
Art pop
Drone pop
Avant-pop
Indietronica

Artist: NAMM

Release: L'Arte dei Rumori

Label: Ephedrina

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Champagne Cherry - Be Seen

Hip-hop
Rap
Electronic music
Urban music

Artist: Max Tannone

Release: I`ve Grown

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

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