DR – Herr und Knecht (2018)

Murmure Intemporel

• Dark ambient 
• Illbient 
• Microtonal
• Drone 
• Post-industrial 
• Minimalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Ambient drone 
• Experimentalism 
• Abstract

Comment: this album consists of one long-running composition called Wassilij Andrejewitsch Brechunov & Nikita. Dominic Razlaff aka DR's 15-minute track is inspired by the same-titled novel by Lev Tolstoy and the cover print depicts the great Russian writer being illustrated by another outstanding Russian cultural icon Ilya Repin. This is an overcoming composition by providing different functional aspects and different explanations and interpretations. While having listened to it I was reading Stanislav Lem's Solaris and it resonated with the situation while the protagonist Kelvin was falling down towards the surface of the planet Solaris. All you can hear over there it is sonically very monotonous moving emitting eerie and ghastly sentiments as if foretelling something negative is going to happen soon. It can be interpreted as if moving either through a black hole or one is starving in Outer Space because the human being is not expected to come and start dwelling on another populated planet. As one song by the Estonian punk juggernauts J.M.K.E poignantly stated /there are around a plenty of good planets but we are not welcomed to come over there/. One simple punk song can say much more than a sophisticated yet magniloquent philosophical text or discourse or a misleading vision. And it is not going to happen anyway because the human kind is currently in a profound crisis, the conflict between the left-wing and right-wing politicians and intellectuals has obviously never been so intense and hostile as now. One greedy devil is demonised by another and vice versa. In the current situation it is very purgative and transcendental to experience such a black-hued masterpiece as Herr und knecht by the very prolific German ambient producer DR. The strongest point of this release is to transform all those abstract post-industrial inclined drones into sensations where one can perceive warmth, majesty, horror, repulsion and more or less positive or adverse feelings. In this context less is very much. The issue is a part of the discography of Murmure Intemporel.

[Teaser of the day] Dramón - Gestos Que Salvam

• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik
• Experimentalism
• Improvised music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Dramón

Release: Ansiedade Morte

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Cameron Steele - Robot At Disco

Black Square

• Electro-rock
• Electronic music
• Lo-fi
• Industrial rock
• Synth-rock
• Alternative
• DIY

Artist: Cameron Steele

Release: Vintage

Label: Black Square 

Year: 2010

Go Ask Alice – Ten Little Dreams (2019)

La bèl

• Synth-rock 
• Krautrock 
• Prog-rock 
• Art rock 
• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock

Comment: Go Ask Alice`s previous issue Perfection Is Terrible was added to the list of the best albums of 2017 at RMH. It was a blend of strong melodic lines and guitar and synthesizer mixed intellectual soundscapes. Stylistically something between post-punk, synth-rock, and krautrock. However, the lines between the last named genres used to be almost invisible as you have figured out already. And in fact what does it mean the vague term “synth-rock”? All of that case was embraced within the whole of a 28-minute with 8 tracks only. Ten Little Dreams may be a bit disorienting title because the whole clocks in at a 56 minute with 10 tracks. Less guitars, more electronic washes to be added to the melting pot. More dreamy reveries and elaborated progressions, more sonic distances to provide a sophisticated dialogue between blissful dreams, more steep rhythmic structures and hirsute yet somehow atmospheric electric guitars. I would like to call it a contemporary instance of prog-rock. The only exception is a track called sssun!, a pure disciple of motorik/krautrock music. Similarly to the previous issue it is also issued as a part of the discography of an Italy-based imprint, La bèl.

[Teaser of the day] Ducktails - Live at FoEG

Free Music Archive

• Dreamwave
• Electronic music
• Chillwave
• Live
• Exotica pop
• Art pop

Artist: Ducktails

Release: Live at Festival of Endless Gratitude

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] The Freak Fandango Orchestra - Hit Me

Jamendo

• Balkan folk
• Gypsy punk
• World music
• Ethno punk

Artist: The Freak Fandango Orchestra

Release: Lost Songs of Fake Unicorns

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2018 

[Teaser of the day] Anitek - Dobro Wax

Jamendo

• Hip-hop
• Rap
• Trip-hop
• Urban music

Artist: Anitek

Release: ExtraLocal

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2012 

[Teaser of the day] Helaku - Budub 1

cOmaRecOrdz

• Electronic music
• Electro pop
• Alternative dance
• Post-disco
• Chilltronica
• Robot pop

Artist: Helaku

Release: Indian, Indian What Did You Die For?

Label: cOmaRecOrdz

Year: 2015

AlbinoLamb – Pure Phantasm (2013)

Bandcamp

• Drum and bass 
• Indietronica
• Art pop 
• IDM 
• Electronic music 
• Crossover 
• Neo-psychedelia

Comment: Pure Phantasm (AlbinoLamb is a project from Japan) is a fine example of post-indie music by embracing guitar sounds, drum and bass rhythms, psychedelic flickers, orchestrated beauty, dreamy incantations, IDM-esque electronic vibes and sonic effects in an organic way. This set of 10 compositions is something in a row of such transgressive endeavours as Pygmalion by Slowdive, Quique by Seefeel, Primal Scream`s Vanishing Point, Radiohead`s Kid A and My Bloody Valentine`s m b v. It is all about to rock off one`s socks while having no inclination to immerse in weary and often braindead cliches of indie pop/rock templates. In a word, it makes very sense.

[Teaser of the day] Hypp Fractal - Redux

• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Minimal synth
• Synth-pop

Artist: Hypp Fractal

Release: Cosmonautics Day

Label: MNMN 

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Accasari - Captured By The Light

DNA Production

• Ambient rock
• Art rock
• Experimental rock
• Post-rock
• Improvised music
• Avant-rock

Artist: Accasari

Release: Captured By The Light

Label: DNA Production

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Moonshine Blues - Northern Lights

• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Art rock
• Ambient rock
• Post-classical
• Crossover

Artist: Moonshine Blues

Release: Between Dusk and Dawn

Label: Self-released/Hidden Vibes

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Short Hair Ideals - Winterbird

• Musique concrète
• Field recording
• Ambient pop
• Art pop
• Electronic music

Artist: Short Hair Ideals

Release: Hidden Vibes Vol. 1

Label: Hidden Vibes

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Senna - Hopeless Unseen Sofa

• Ambient
• Epic
• Microtonal
• Drone
• Dreamwave
• Ambient drone

Artist: Senna

Release: Talkie - EPV Whites

Label: elementperspective/Free Music Archive

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] The Inhuman Project - Kocaine

Psicotropicodelia

• Trip-hop
• Electronic music
• Post-industrial
• Mood music
• Cinematic

Artist: The Inhuman Project

Release: The InHuman Project EP

Label: Psicotropicodelia/Jamendo

Year: 2008

Bing Satellites – On The Other Side of the World (2019)

Bandcamp

• Ambient 
• Soundscape 
• Ambient drone 
• Epic 
• Post-classical

Comment: Mancunian Brin Coleman aka Bing Satellites (also known as Theta Wave Orchestra) is being a prolific producer whose music represents openness in direct and an indirect sense. He mixes different concepts and sets up different ways of creating music. Initially he came in touch with (fabulous) shoegaze either though his late works represent the ambient approach. There are up 4 long-running compositions full of panoramic views over wide picturesque plateaus and on the other side one can feel his purpose is to get rid of the time and space category. Because there is no necessity to relate the whole with certain places and on the other side one track starts off to get into another track and so on until the listener's perception gets ultimately all of that as an organic whole, as one organic track. His music is bright and sunny as if an elegy to the Sun.

Binkieman – Strictly Binkie (2015)

Dubbhism

• Dubtronica 
• Dubstep 
• Electronic music

Comment: this set of 3 tracks can just be categorized as binkiecore. With regard to the imprint Dubbhism as a distributor of dub music it is all about quite tumultuous low bass frequencies, some more atmospheric threads, and adeptly treated electronic glimpses in between. Of course, in 2015 much was about dubstep as a genre yet fortunately it is not an orthodox issue. Binkieman comes out from the Netherlands and the music is produced on a custom built modular robosynth. Highly convincing.

[Teaser of the day] Marcel Pequel - October

Headphonica

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

Artist: Marcel Pequel

Release: The 12 Months

Label: Headphonica

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Swain - Synapsis

Imaginary Albums

• Post-rock
• Experimental rock
• Art rock
• Improvised music
• Avant-rock

Artist: Swain

Release: The Single

Label: Imaginary Albums

Year: 2004

Accasari – Fracture (2018)

Bandcamp

• Epic 
• Shoegaze 
• Alternative rock 
• Doomgaze 
• Ambient rock 
• Avant-rock

Comment: I lately bought MBV's Loveless, the most important shoegaze album to have influenced a thousands of albums and artists thereafter. By listening to it again, I discovered it is quite austere and minimalist by its sound and its method. Just the guitar-based main thread is embellished by electronic effects and transgressive shifts played on a sampling keyboard. At times the effect just seems to be autistic. Just the same method though in a bit different way did Johnny Marr exploit on the two last The Smiths' albums. The Russian duo Accasari have taken something from it though providing a bit different scope and imagination. Adjacent to the case, it might be wrong to consider it nugaze. There are some unusual corners to surface here and there. It is rather a sort of shoegaze played under waterfall of resentment. It is slowed down and stoned in reveries like droning doom rock as if foretelling an impending chaos and annihilation. As if artistically describing the path of Grim Reaper coming closer and closer. It is simultaneously frightening and cozy, simultaneously beatific and morbid, simultaneously ennobling and gruelling. But you cannot deny the fact Grim Reaper is coming closer and closer. At times you may feel yourself to be dead already.

U25 (2018)

smoke

• Electronic music 
• Avant-garde 
• Ambient 
• Electro pop 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• Italo disco 
• Post-disco 
• Synth-pop

Comment: this batch of 7 compositions is a part of the discography of an imprint called Smoke with purpose to advertise Japanese music. What else we know about Japanese music but Japanese noise, space/psychedelic rock combos and Shibuya-kei, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Pizzicato 5? Indeed, the Japanese music scene is highly eclectic and synthetic and the intention to provide a review about it seems to be tautological a priori. Yet in reality there are up tracks by such artists as Gamacid707, Yossshy, Dan Kubo, Taura Yorihisa, Daisuke Kawashima, EZCO, Seaketa. In reality, in a sense, any sort of music review is not very informative and a bit at odds with the nature of a musical composition. In other words, chords cannot be fully covered by the words. Words create their own microsystem. Descriptively, there are up disparate sonic experiments, from airy vowel and picturesque ambient touches to artsy noise/glitch drenched electro developments and catchy Italo disco and Hi-NRG synth-pop/post-disco vibes to littered concrete music mixed appearances. As I have already hinted at my comment does not matter, the compilation does.

[Teaser of the day] N. Fushigi - Conversations with Thanatos

• Industrial rock
• Synth-rock
• Electro-rock
• Electronic

Artist: N. Fushigi

Release: Incantation nº1: A Guide to Necromancy

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Aairria - Reactor II (2019)

• Industrial electro
• Electronic music
• Minimalism
• Alternative
• Post-industrial

Artist: Aairria

Release: Past Attempts At Greatness Vol​.​2

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2019 

[Teaser of the day] Astrowind - Rusty Radar Operator With Piano In His Head

Free Music Archive

• Ambient
• Space music
• Ambient drone
• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik

Artist: Astrowind

Release: Somewhere The Music Had Been Played

Label: Resting Bell/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] The Bordellos - You Better Run

• Psych-rock
• DIY
• Acid rock
• Lo-fi

Artist: The Bordellos

Release: Debt Sounds

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Taseh - Love of a Neon Girl

• Electronic music
• Urban music
• Future funk
• Synth-funk
• Future soul

Artist: Taseh

Release: Dekotora

Label: Monster Jinx

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Pink Room - Chinchillay

• Punk rock
• Garage rock
• Noise rock
• Fuzz rock
• Psych-rock

Artist: Pink Room

Release: Zum Kotzen

Label: Belly Button 

Year: 2019

Go Ask Alice - The Sudden Dream

[Teaser of the day] Santi Touch - Brazilian Girl

• Dub house
• Electronic music
• Deep house
• Club dance

Artist: Santi Touch

Release: Haze - Far From Moscow

Label: Far From Moscow

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Sean Proper - General Honesty

• American Primitivism
• Improvised music
• Cinematic
• Art music
• Americana

Artist: Sean Proper

Release: We are Wounds

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Death By Snoo Snoo - Yksi arvoitus

• Oi!
• Punk rock

Artist: Death By Snoo Snoo

Release: Kasettikerho #1 2012​-​2013

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Maed Meva - Figure 6

• Trip-hop
• Urban music
• Hip-hop
• Acid jazz
• Crossover
• Nu jazz

Artist: Maed Meva 

Release: Figures

Label: Export Label

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] The TeleVibes - Smiling Tide

• Psych-rock
• Space rock
• Art rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: The TeleVibes

Release: Major Drones

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Globoscuro - 3+3+3 pt.1

Hortus Conclusus

• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Electro-acoustic
• Improvised music
• Illbient
• Experimentalism
• Post-psychedelic
• Psycho-acoustic

Artist: Globoscuro

Release: 3+3+3

Label: Hortus Conclusus

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Massimo Ruberti - Sabotage

• Neokrautrock
• Avant-rock
• Electronic music
• Motorik
• Indietronica
• Experimental rock

Artist: Massimo Ruberti

Release: The City Without Sun

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Niku Senpuki - Nadjoch

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Contemporary classical
• Art music
• Post-classical

Artist: Niku Senpuki

Release: Glossolalia Samsara

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Steffi Starshine - Lullaby for Spectral Girls

• Vaporwave
• Avant-garde
• Crossover
• Dark ambient
• Post-classical
• Electronic music
• Experimentalism

Artist: Steffi Starshine

Release: Vapor Witch

Label: Cian Orbe

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Moe Lodin - Hello Snow

Racewillbegin

• Indietronica
• Alternative pop
• Indie pop
• Art pop
• Electronic music

Artist: Moe Lodin

Release: rwb012

Label: Racewillbegin

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Daughters Of A Righteous Riot - 1.a.m.

Redstarcommunity

• Indietronica
• Alternative pop
• Synth-pop
• Dream pop
• Art pop
• Electro-indie

Artist: Daughters Of A Righteous Riot

Release: Breaking My Heart Again And Again

Label: Redstarcommunity

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Children Of The Drone - untitled 4 (23/08/18)

Archive.org

• Improvised music
• New Weird Britain
• Avant-folk
• Trance folk
• Space folk
• Free folk
• Psych-folk
• Live session
• Experimental folk
• Post-folk
• Weird folk

Artist: Children Of The Drone

Release: St. Petrocks, 23/08/18

Label: Self-released/Archive.org

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Anton Mobin - Tout Seul

Classwar Karaoke

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Psycho-acoustic
• Electronic music
• Post-industrial

Artist: Anton Mobin

Release: Classwar Karaoke - 0012 Survey

Label: Classwar Karaoke

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Elvii Marten - Brislemaitre

• Experimental electro
• Breakbeat
• Wonky
• Breaks
• Electronic music

Artist: Elvii Marten

Release: D'ansphurdoux

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Sean Proper - The World Will Let Me Down

• American Primitivism
• Art music
• Gothic Americana
• Americana
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde

Artist: Sean Proper

Release: Design Engine

Label: Dying For Bad Music

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Stanislav Bobrytskyy - Digesting Duck

We Have No Zen!

• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Conceptual
• Post-classical
• Experimentalism
• Art music
• Piano music

Artist: Stanislav Bobrytskyy

Release:  WHNZ​:64​:MFBL

Label: We Have No Zen!/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Electric Hambone - Painted Heron

Kill Mommy

• Rockabilly
• Psych-rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Electric Hambone

Release: Downturn Boogie

Label: Kill Mommy

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Bryyn - 1

Jamendo

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Fuzz pop
• Dream pop
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: Bryyn

Release: Pastpresentfuture EP

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Deicida 69 - k2

• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• No Wave
• Art punk
• Post-punk

Artist: Deicida 69

Release: Fetish in Sight

Label: Plataforma/Bandcamp/Jamendo

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Planivaar - Feeding Birds

Earth Monkey Productions

• Primitive music
• DIY
• Lo-fi
• Drone pop
• Organcore
• Alternative

Artist: Planivaar

Release: The Orange Balloon

Label: Earth Monkey Productions

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Go Ask Alice - ssssun!

• Art pop/rock
• Experimental pop
• Electronic
• Neokrautrock
• Avant-pop
• Indietronica

Artist: Go Ask Alice

Release: Ten Little Dreams

Label: La bèl

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Lightning Echoes - Far Is Not Far

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

Artist: Lightning Echoes

Release: One Tiny Bright Spot

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Compadre Locura – APTO PARA COCINAR (2018)

Cieliro Diystro

• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Electronic music 
• Ambient 
• Post-industrial 
• Ambient noise 
• Experimental electronica 
• Illbient

Comment: this batch of three long-running compositions is a way for intriguing and intricate sonic combinations, innovative experiments, and decent accomplishments we need in the afternoon of incoming end of the human kind as the aggressive cancer on Earth. Indeed, one can see a very clear parallel with the deadly disease because if an organism gets killed the disease also will succumb. If behind it is a reasonable being then it can be called stupidity. No less no more. In another sense, one can imagine, even if the gross cancerous disease gets eradicated there remain yet some bad cells spread out in an organism which later may get activated and the adverse process takes off again. There can be drawn analogous parallels to the existence and history of the race of homo sapiens. How to survive, how to disseminate, how to annihilate real and possible rivals. Through its exaggerated and voluptuous nature it is even more inferior and destructive than the usual behaviour of an average being from the other species. Creating the art and dealing with analytical philosophy is the only indulgence for the biped malady. The best way to get out from it is just to abandon all this civilised crap by escaping to the wildlife until one's very end. This can be the only purgative, redemptive asylum for a human being. These sometimes wobbly and sometimes more aggressive industrial-tinged rhythms and piercing yet atmospheric noises and alongside running corrupted sonic effects and on the other side sleazy and exhaustive ambient glimpses reflect upon the aforementioned perversity in an artsy way. These 39 minutes of a fine sort are a part of the discography of the Chilean imprint Cieliro Diystro.

De Carli/Dias/Zanatta – Defrag (2018)

Mansarda

Archive.org

• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Drone 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Free jazz 
• Field recording 
• Musique concréte

Comment: this bunch of 15 tracks (most of them are just very short snippets) begins with an intense glistening droning (the truly blissful start to an outstanding release as we can get convinced eventually!) which later will be variegated with electro-acoustic improvisations, downright electronic effects, field recording mixed wide plateaus, uncanny dodges towards obscure jazz inclinations and vowel-based experiments beyond distinctive categorization – in a word, there is no borders to be established. By its nature it is an example of simply experimental music wherein the musicians employ all the aforementioned elements in a playful, witty, and incisive way. By its frequently primitive way at will it is coated with broken sounds and crackling currents as if partaking in an oldie simulacrum providing no dates, providing no spatial parametric orientations. It does mean, of course, the outing is filled in with wholesome humour, it is a something truly one's consciousness broadening and inspiring case being an issue coming out from the discography of Mansarda Records.

[Teaser of the day] Gamardah Fungus - Last Train To Save Us

Nocharizma

• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Improvised music
• Post-rock
• Musique concrète
• Ambient rock

Artist: Gamardah Fungus

Release: Nuclear Winter

Label: Nocharizma

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Skye`s Diamond - Constricted

• Ambient rock
• Experimental rock
• Ambient
• Avant-rock

Artist: Skye`s Diamond

Release: Hidden Vibes Vol. 5

Label: Hidden Vibes

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Hox Vox - Elusive

• Electronic pop
• Synth-pop
• Crossover
• Avant-prog
• RIO
• Art pop

Artist: Hox Vox

Release: Impalpable

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Ratkiller - Hail to Black Warriors

• DIY
• Experimental pop
• Lo-fi
• Synth-pop
• Avant-pop

Artist: Ratkiller

Release: Estrange Tactics

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

Ak'chamel, The Giver Of Illness – Fucking With Spirits (2013)

Free Music Archive

Centipede Farm

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Abstract 
• Drone 
• Post-industrial 
• Improvised music

Comment: this set of 7 tracks continues to unveil the madness of the artist whose first outing was Old Norse Mara (2013) being issued some months before. The title is appropriate, of course, I feel myself like being a witness of a live bed show directly coming out from the Brocken/Blocksberg mountain. I first thought the issue to be pigeonholed as lo-fi and DIY among other ones yet obviously lo-fi says very little about it – it might be it is a simulacrum of it yet on the other side, there is no obvious need to create it – it is an original synthesis which might be something between a new coming of Captain Beefheart, and Sun City Girls. Or it might be a five times darker version of Animal Collective's Campfire Songs. More profoundly, blackened dirges are up there to slowly change into abstract sort of slowed-down drones, then again trance-inducing rhythms are set up to create hypnotic loops and serpentine labyrinths in one's soul. Intensities are up there to get variegated – it is the true algorithm of it. From lethargic witch dreaming to exalting bipolar appearances to come in a way you will find eventually yourself in a state of mind where time and space as the parameters of our physical world are completely eradicated. The mind-provoking outing is a bit in the discography of Centipede Farm.

Reckless Kickers – Conquer EP (2013)

Lemari Kota

• Skate punk 
• Pop punk 
• Hardcore punk 
• Skatecore

Comment: Reckless Kickers is not a North American band like Sum 41, The Offspring, Blink-182 and who have not sold millions of albums but instead of it coming from Indonesia yet playing an analogous punk style. More profoundly, high-energized melodic guitar riffs, fast drumming, invigorated and slightly happy singing is something which can be pigeonholed as melodic hardcore, pop punk, skatecore. By following the lyrics of one song regarding repulsive and desperate feelings related to urban life it might be more righteous to consider it eco-punk/agrarian punk. Just the failed joke of mine. In the first place, it is a sort of pop music rather than a bearer of early punk spirit in spite of the fact Sex Pistols was a business project by Malcolm McLaren. Undoubtedly it is produced very masterfully with some suggestive noise pop-inflected walls behind the refrains which can be considered the most arousing facet of the album. The 5-notch outing is a bit of the discography of Lemari Kota, a fine platform within the vast Indonesian music landscape.

Karras – Fernen (2006)

EKO

• Electronic music 
• Experimental electronica  
• Organic electronica
• Post-rock 
• Glitchtronica 
• Ambient 
• Art music

Comment: Manrico Montero aka Karras aka Linga has issued a bunch of issues under such imprints as Mandorla, Rain, and EKO. Although the 7-notch outing came out from the latter French one and it had happened already 13 years ago while it is still actual due to its atmospheric beauty and fragile yet enchanting rhythmic structures and an adept synthesised touch between an organic feel and artsy succulent progressions. If you analyse it even more thoroughly you can see very austere sounds like glitches and hisses and distant echoes and fading reverberations coming out from the very bottom to be added to the whole mix. Furthermore, the Mexican artist is also not indifferent due to the dichotomy of noise and silence by providing immersive, sustainable pauses. If you wish it could be called a minor brother of Slowdive's Pygmalion (1995) or an alter ego of Tim Hecker's Haunt Me Haunt Me Do It Again (2001). Of course, it contains more electronics and less guitars than Pygmalion but its production and ideological level is analogous. Another branch of the thought is to recognise Pygmalion as one of the most seminal albums out of the 90s (which later on obviously influenced the music of such transgressive post-rock/ambient artists as Labradford, Transient Waves). The aforementioned excellent albums constitute a different approach to post-rock as it usually used to be – their crescendos are build upon on subdued, even obtuse progressions by shedding stepwise more light and adding scintillating elements with the intention to call forth epic impressions and stretch the dimensions of the soundscape in different directions. The apparent emotive apotheosis and majestic highlight of the issue is Dawn Chords (I) where a magniloquent ambient layer with the pointed motif is pushed through a backdrop of slightly fluttering crackling and swirling static. In temporal terms – approximately ten years ago such a kind of album were not tagged as post-rock or somehow related to it yet but now it seems to have clear-cut connotations with an experimental rock scene (one can draw parallels upon a historical event which also can be considered adequately from the distance). Such a sort of description and intention and thrive could be attributed to the music of Fernando Corona aka Murcof, allegedly the most well-known Mexican artist. In a word, an impressionistic top tier as if it were aurally painted somewhere in a remote Pacific island in the past.

[Teaser of the day] Dustdevil & Crow - November

Free Music Archive

• Improvised music
• Avant-folk
• Experimental folk
• Free folk
• Psych-folk

Artist: Dustdevil & Crow

Release: ... And Chiang Tzu Dreamed That He Was Me

Label: Pen & Mallet/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] The Sway - Feasting On My Friends

Jamendo

• Alternative rock
• Psych-rock
• Indie rock

Artist: The Sway

Release: Silk EP

Label: Jamendo/Archive.org

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Chenard Walcker - Touch Of Light

Free Sample Zone

• Sampledelic
• Acid jazz
• Plunderphonics
• Crossover
• Sound collage
• Nu jazz
• Electronic music

Artist: Chenard Walcker

Release: Rock'n Roll Boy

Label: Free Sample Zone

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Inverness - Quema Las Naves

Archive.org

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

Artist: Inverness

Release: Illuminaciones

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2009

Hamlet His Highness – For All & None (2016)

Foundamental

Archive.org

Bandcamp

• Space rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Psych-rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Post-rock 
• Chamber rock

Comment: recently I have unfortunately met a human being for whom I have done a huge favour to make headway in her professional life and general welfare but later I have discovered she is an emotionally stupid one (though intellectually she is rather smart) because she can not recognise positive and friendly (and just sexually neutral) attitude for her. Just talking with her is something you are stalked by searching possible "faults", it is something truly exhaustive by being attacked unexpectedly and by reason. Does she get satisfaction from it by saying negatively? Are she searching for a place under the Sun? A drama queen with inferiority complexes. The only way is to reject her as much as possible by having no word with her even while sitting nearby her. An unlucky girl though for whom I cannot feel no compassion. What could help against and for these people? It might be such sort of music represented by a Belarusian combo called Hamlet His Highness whose music played truly loud will introduce oblivion in one's soul. I would call it an example of improvised post-rock, at times it is an example of elliptically rotating space rock played by a couple of musicians. Lots of chord changes on electric guitars and all of that being amplified and panned by violin bows. Both spatially and emotively it is an exquisite instance. One's contracted soul will be expanded, healed again. As the title hints at it – for all and none (other possibilities/remedies are to listen to the Smiths or The Fall – I just bought 6-CD box The Fontana Years where MES provides poignant descriptions to us of how ridiculous we are. It gives always a heck).

Càtodo Dùo – Al Tiro (2012)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Live 
• Experimentalism 
• Electro-acoustic

Comment: Amanda Irraràzabal (double bass), Ramiro Molina (electric guitar) aka Càtodo Dùo´s music first appeared at RMH some months ago when I wrote about their sophomoric issue Sizigias. Let's have the conversation introspectively. The debut album was different due the scope of instrumentation, the debut one was without analogue synths (played later by Amanda Irrarràzabal) by resulting in more dry timbres, suppressed noises and clanging and fewer electronic effects. However, it is an intriguing 36-minute improvised collaboration between Chile, and Argentina. If they meet once in a while it will result in music. Given that one does have enough attention in music and inclined to jazz and improvised glass bead game. The 2-track composition was recorded live on June 3rd, 2012 at Piso 3, Santiago De Chile. Similarly to the second issue the debut album was also recorded on Pan Y Rosas Discos, an imprint from Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Numbersix – Secret Journey (2005)

Camomille

• Synthwave 
• Indie rock 
• Art pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Sophisti-pop 
• Ambient pop 
• World fusion 
• Crossover 
• Synth-pop

Comment: in the last two weeks we have gotten sad news about Keith Flint, and Mark Hollis. The last of them was a legendary cult musician who did start with a synth-pop outfit but later progressed into an artsy outfit. The Rome, Italy-based Numbersix's 10-notch whole is something as if a crossover between the starting and finishing Talk Talk. At times the ghost of Ian Curtis appears to haunt us in a monotonous and laconic yet appealing way. Electronic elements are closely intertwined with ambient, even pristine space and sophisticated pop progressions which in turn are mixed up with concrete sounds and at times with the singing of indigenous people. At times the issue is getting into a lethargic dream based on buried improvisations and veiled lo-fi noodling. In a word, although it can be considered eclectic it is not a bad content at all. There is also up one track for reminding of Dark Side Of The Moon. Furthermore, it is inevitable and in the first place it is a decent crisscrossing. The release is an example within the discography of Camomille Records.

[Teaser of the day] SEC - La Galère

• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Math rock
• Live
• No Wave
• Art rock

Artist: SEC

Release: Si j'avais un marteau j'aimerais pas être une enclume.

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Alexei Biryukoff - chase #016

Black Square

• Musique concrète
• Experimentalism
• Field recording
• Avant-garde
• Non-music

Artist: Alexei Biryukoff/Muhmood

Release: Train Chase

Label: Black Square

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Recue - Orchard Rd

One

• Mood music
• Electronic music
• Chilltronica
• Dubtronica
• Ambient pop

Artist: Recue

Release: Between Stations

Label: One

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] J. Surak - Skull Cloud

Zeromoon

• Drone
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Micronoise
• Ambient noise
• Microtonal
• Ambient
• Ambient drone

Artist: J. Surak

Release: Skull Cloud

Label: Zeromoon

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Taura Yorihisa - plt

• Shoegaze
• Space rock
• Experimental rock
• Epic
• Noise rock
• Avant-rock
• Crossover

Artist: Taura Yorihisa

Release: Nightfall

Label: Tanukineiri

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Alain Boulugre - Potiteu Fenew

• Punk rock
• Art punk
• Post-punk
• Electronic
• Sampledelic

Artist: Alain Boulugre

Release: Le Retour De Boulugre

Label: Linge

Year: 2019

Riccardo Cirani – Intonazioni Serafiche - Rimembranze d'un estatico oblio (2018)

Laverna

• Art rock 
• Progressive rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Epic 
• Improvised music

Comment: this batch of 4 tracks (Seraphic Intonations with the subtitle Memories Of An Ecstatic Oblivion) is an enchanting progression through dynamic yet slightly easy-running picturesque guitars and loopy patterns as the creative algorithm of it beneath the strings. The term "seraphic" does mean "angelic", "sainty", "cherubic" by English Thesaurus. Of course, by following the aforementioned description we cannot reject the name of a genius called Robert Fripp (King Crimson) and his approach entitled flippertronics. Looped elliptical patterns to go on while vivid guitar chords and also full-fledged riffs used to be improvised atop thereby constituting a magnificent quintessence. On the other side, the moody impression of the album resembles Penguin Cafe Orchestra which was led by another outstanding guitar player Simon Jeffes (1949-1997). Additionally to it during a year I have discovered many great experimental guitar-based issues from Italy, for example, Gaetano Fontanazza's The Grandpa Lullabies (Sucu Music), and OOAME's Milanese-Nwas (Acustronica). And in general, thanks to Italian records like Nostress, Ephedrina, Sucu Music, and Laverna for purveyance of such intellectual sort of music. Indeed, the 56-minute gem is a part of the discography of Laverna. In many senses, it is an example of perfect album because while listening to it the time as a parameter gets set aside and the finishing and starting point come together as a symbol of the circle, a geometrical symbol representing perfection and completeness. Furthermore, it is an instance of ideal music because of uniting seamlessly easy listening and artsy intellectual/progressive rock tendencies. Spirit meets mind. Undoubtedly one of the best (cohesive, cinematic, expressive, pristine, epic, dynamic, enchanting) outings in 2018. I would like to imagine myself while listening to it after a hard day's work in the middle of wildlife somewhere in the middle of a vast forest and in a hut nearby a vast lake (Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake, Athabasca). It is not surprising because the wildlife is a face of Divine. Are you able to put this mind(set) down?

[Teaser of the day] Unconceptual - Bush Dub

• Dubtronica
• Electronic music
• Ambient dub
• Alternative
• Dubstep
• Crossover

Artist: Unconceptual

Release: Unconceptual LP

Label: Section 27

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Moki McFly - Seemless

blocSonic

• Sampledelic
• Hip-hop
• Breaks
• Psych-hop
• Cinematic
• Lo-fi
• Acid-hop

Artist: Moki McFly

Release: Silom

Label: blocSonic/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Peter Um – Merz (2017)

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Experimentalism 
• DIY 
• Lo-fi 
• Comedy music 
• Hip-hop 
• Noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Alternative 
• Abstract

Comment: this batch of 17 tracks, most of them are short snippets, is joyous and playful being tinged with an amusing dadaist touch and poignant electronic effects everywhere. Furthermore, his attitude is reflected through a domestic imprint, Chinstrap Music (an album called LOOK SHARP! and hear the difference was released on it), which is headed by Ergo Phizmiz, who can be considered to have been one of the most well-known sound collage/plunderphonic artists with People Like Us during the last two decades. I like the attitude of the plunderphonic style because all we as humans and consumers are closely related to public domain. On the other side, we have no chance to surpass our mortality so our would be to live in a way God would have fun by watching us. At the moment if we will watch around us we can see something which can be considered divine comedy but in an inferior sense. However, Merz is a superior case making us feel more upbeat and hopeful. To feel himself/herself alright while pretending to be a freak. Musically it is a wide spectrum ranging from electronic effects obsessed noise and abstract sonic experiments and acoustic anti-folk to obsessive yet somehow sparkling outsider synth-pop to some haphazard rap exercises. I would like to paraphrase the lyrics of a song by Suede – obsession in his head does not connect to the (customary) intellect (of one or another style). By producing his music the artist employs old school reel-to-reel tapes and producing threads. In a word, his touch and thinking manner used to make difference. The artist represents and undermines the establishment at the same time. Overwhelming outing in any case given that the future will not be owned by you and me, it will not be owned by nobody else because one`s words are magniloquent and thoughts are shoddy. Just the absolute void everywhere which may be filled with this sound. At least as a thought it is fancy. Let`s have an um-business!

[Teaser of the day] Bledi Boraku - koha.4

• Post-classical
• Drone
• Experimentalism
• Crossover
• Avant-garde
• Trance music

Artist: Bledi Boraku

Release: Tha

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Globular - Dasein

• Electronic music
• Psybient
• Mood music
• Ethnotronica
• New Age
• World fusion
• Alternative
• Chilltronica

Artist: Globular

Release: Entangled Everything

Label: Ektoplazm/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Death Grips - Y

Third Worlds

• Hip-hop
• Industrial-hop
• Urban music
• Electronic music
• Experimental-hop
• Avant-hop

Artist: Death Grips

Release: Fashion Week

Label: Third Worlds

Year: 2015

Bean Machine – Scrap Brain Material (2018)

Abstrakt Reflections 

Bandcamp

• Breakbeat 
• Ambient 
• Breakcore 
• Psybient 
•  Electronic music 
• Post-industrial 
• Crossover

Comment: this set of 11 tracks chimes like a workout and accomplishment on dance music by a hyperactive producer. Indeed, it is a permanent shooting of broken beats, high-pitched signals and glitched-out noises to be mixed up into a frantic killing example of dance music. Indeed, as the title suggests it is thought for stimulation of one's brain in the first place by employing a recycling method, however, it is provided with such an intensity and vigour one is compelled to showcase dance movements voluntarily. Given that the aforementioned description some of you may think of it as a rigid, rough one. In fact, it is adeptly intertwined with soft timbres and atmospheric undercurrents. At some extent it can be considered even psychedelic because of a reminding psybient touch and drive. Due to the fact the issue is quite unique because of merging together post-industrial and psy-related genres. One is not expected to find out a skeletal glass bead game with all its different and intricate combinations only. By the way, there is up one clear-cut ambient exception called Metastasis. The release is the case of hidden merits and attributes. In a nutshell, it is a great issue being released on such a great imprint as Abstrakt Reflections.

[Teaser of the day] The Tinopener`s Art - Angstmacher

The Tinopener`s Art

• Dark electro
• Alternative
• Gothictronica
• Synth-pop
• Electronic music

Artist: The Tinopener`s Art

Release: A Mode Of Reward

Label: Self-released

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Kayve - On The Shore Of Uncertainty

Free Music Archive

• Electronic music
• Dubstep
• Ambient pop
• Alternative

Artist: Kayve

Release: Upgraded

Label: Humanworkshop

Year: 2015