Recent Music Heroes

Comment: this handful of tracks says something wonderful about house. About house music. Most of house albums I have listened so far say something wonderful...nuff said. A listener can enjoy reverie-imbued deep house incantations and then all the course will change into more angular techno-influenced house bubbling. However, it is at least as suggestive as deep house numbers. In fact, the aforementioned styles used to pollinate with one another so if someone is over there with intention to dissect one element or style from another it is a Sisyphean try. Why should he/she? The result is truly organic because those little yet influential elements used to reflect upon the whole and the configuration of the whole magnifies the minutiae. The enchanting issue is a part of the discography of Schallwellenmagie, all the artist's ten albums are part of the imprint (as a netlabel guy I guess he personally runs it). Regarding house and tech-house music and Germany it reminds me of the best days of such an imprint as Thinner. Oh dear it is pleasure those glory days to be reminded! The best house album of mine in 2019 so far.

[Teaser of the day] Julio Gutièrrez - Wicca

Mùsica Vermella

Electronic music
IDM
Breakbeat
Glitchtronica
Crossover
Alternative dance

Artist: Julio Gutièrrez

Release: About Magic

Label: Mùsica Vermella

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Terracid - Bleed Wood

Free Music Archive

Electronic music
Avant-garde
Freeformfreakout
Lo-fi
Post-psychedelic electronica
Improvised music
Experimentalism
Drone
DIY

Artist: Terracid

Release: GMOG

Label: We Have No Zen/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Pete Um - Look Sharp Slice 6

Free Music Archive

Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Dada music
Improvised music
Motorik
Lo-fi
Electronic music

Artist: Pete Um

Release: Look Sharp! and hear the difference

Label: Chinstrap

Year: 2011

6/02/2019

[Teaser of the day] Híbrida - Paul Is Dead

Hamsterloco

Alternative rock
Indie rock
Art rock
Psych-rock

Artist: Híbrida

Release: Ho vam intentar

Label: Hamsterloco

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Humbra - As horas

Alternative rock
Indie rock
Space pop
Dream pop

Artist: Humbra

Release: 1/4 Para as horas (EP)

Label: Crooked Tree

Year: 2018

Olympic Smoker – Noises And Echoes (2009)

Bypass

Jamendo

Electronic music
Alternative dance
Breaks

Comment: undoubtedly this patch of 13 tracks is not an easy fare to be described although musically it is an enjoyable ride. Olympic Smoker is an artist from Russia who did start making music in the mid of the 00s. Lots of spiky rhythms, low frequencies and different tempos used to surface and fade away. Clangour is traded for silent progressions occasionally (even a couple of piano balladry stylised snippets are represented over there). I would like to call it post-breakbeat/post-techno/post-jungle music because it contains vague echoes of the aforementioned styles yet surpassing obviously their limits and thriving toward a wider comprehension. Some advantage of the album is a partial withdrawal at greater extent from the annoying contemporary post-dubstep and autotune/poptronic influenced (electronic) pop scene. There is no need to waste time on the aesthetics of softened artists and thin machines. All we need is more power, more jungle, more sweat, more pain, more sincerity, more natural feelings and organic consequences! We need more Barry Whites, Fausts, Sun Ras, Aphex Twins, Kraftwerks, Pulps, Joy Divisions, My Bloody Valentines, Scott Walkers, Johnny Cashes, CANs, The Smiths, Sonic Youths, Carpenters, Authechres, Lee Hazlewoods, Nina Simones, Diana Rosses! We need more obsessed characters and especially natured mavericks! The release is a part of the discography of Chinese imprint, Bypass.

6/01/2019

Nick R 61 – Into The Mind (2019)

Fusion

Noise-hop
Avant-garde
Art music
Field recording
Organic electronica
Experimentalism
Trip-hop
Avant-hop
Drone
Musique concrète
Lo-fi

Comment: as I assumed yesterday no one – neither Trump nor the Left – can save this world. In fact, it is truly childish to set up barricades against each other by the both sides. Something rational and viable can be found from views of the both sides. However, all the saving decisions must be done by us by ordinary people. Only we can bring to pass a silent and green revolution by minimizing our consumption and harmful habits. We shall have to get rid of our corrupted minds and beforehand of noises and wastes all of which is related to excessive consumption of materials and superficial informative content. We shall have to take responsibility for Universe, for us and all the living and yet unborn generations regarding humans and non-humans. Before to do it, before one could be able to comprehend the idea one should clear his/her mind. I guess we need some purgative practises to get out from this god-damned enclosed circle. Profound music examples may help us to deal with it. Most of music one can find from the charts is just a noise – it is not a thing on its own, it is just a product to fasten the aforementioned damned circle. Beyond that one's soul will be empty. Nick R 61's music is being free from this sin. It stimulates thinking of different aspects and spawns suggestive roundabouts in one's mind. Into the mind, isn't? He has been running an imprint called Fusion Netlabel and most of the catalogue is filled in with his own music. Regarding this it can be admitted his path has been long and the recent one is another step to accomplish his audible travel. Otherwise it is a perception of Hindustan and Nepal (the titles of the album are Kathmandau, Chomolungma, and Lhasa), a source of renewing spiritual practises for Westerners since the 60s (The Beatles, George Harrison, Angus MacLise). Nick R 61 employs samples from music/instruments of the abovementioned area and natural sounds to merge them with thick drumming of experimental hip-hop and trip-hop and less or more somber echoes and glowering drones. In a word, the short-running issue is highly poignant and mind-provoking.

[Teaser of the day] Julio y Agosto - La niebla y la autopista

Indie folk
Art folk
Folk indie
Alt-folk
Psych-folk

Artist: Julio y Agosto

Release: La niebla y la autopista

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Mad Grinder - Shore

Doom rock
Alternative metal
Grunge
Stoner rock

Artist: Mad Grinder

Release: Boris

Label: Deserto/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Us - Save Me

Alternative pop/rock
Indie pop/rock
Dream pop

Artist: The Us

Release: The Sky Was Open

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Bloodkin - Her Blues

Southern Shelter

Southern rock
Americana
Live
Blues

Artist: Bloodkin

Release: Bloodkin Live at Flicker on 2019-05-16

Label: Southern Shelter/Live Music Archive

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Bone Conductors - Bermuda

Luvsound

Art pop
Singer-songwriter
Post-pop
Baroque pop
Avant-pop

Artist: Bone Conductors

Release: Twitches

Label: Luvsound/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

Whalt Thisney – WalkThisWay (2019)

Batenim

Modern classical
Post-classical
Ambient
Art music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Piano music
Glitchtronica
Post-industrial

Comment: this handful of tracks is obviously one of the best albums I have heard in 2019 so far. Of course, it is not thoroughly innovative from scratch but the grid and substance and the ultimate impact of the album will haunt you even after you have finished dealing with it. The impact comes out from minutiae of the issue. Glitched-out abrasive microscopic noises sweeping around gentle slope of the piano built sonic mountains and exuberant atmospheric reverberations being steeped with dystopic industrial hisses do build up a magnificent whole. The listener can enjoy the immersive pace of the issue and easy impressionistic climaxes based on the aforementioned elements and fragile volatile piano chords as if a stunning example of meta polyphonic musical concept. It is a glorious part of the discography of Batenim Netlabel.

Globoscuro – 3+3+3 (2018)

Hortus Conclusus

Post-industrial
Avant-garde
Acousmatic music
Experimentalism
Conceptual
Psycho-acoustic
Electro-acoustic
Art music

Comment: the Italian musician Globobscuro has been around for a while with his stunning industrial and experimental sounds to provide an alternative point of view about music and life in general. Emiliano Pietrini's recent work of a couple of tracks is inspired about semi-mythological philosopher Pythagoras and his fancy against the number 3. Additionally, Pythagoras did live in Syracuse, Sicily (recently a part of Italy). Musically it is highly arousing due to vociferous guitar noises, elliptic patterns of tape manipulation, hazy electro-acoustic litters at bottom and ennobling atmospheric hovers in between. Even if the guitars are the most prominent element within the whole it is not about rock music at all because the instruments are not treated in that way. On the other side, it is really beautiful in a rare sense of this term. Beauty is not a thing on its own it is a fertile and organic relation between the aforementioned characteristics even if they are uncanny, provoking and destructive. I like the industrial musicians because they used to be honest because of having no urge to provide aesthetical and economic compromises. Instead of it they have been providing measures to undermine general models and instructions with ultimate intention to liberate the energy of sole parts. The outing is a bit in the discography of Hortus Conclusus. And the cover print is amusing and deep at the same time.

i AM esper – My Withering Life (2012)

Fall Into Void Recs

Post-rock
Art rock
Noise rock
Epic
Experimental rock
Avant-rock

Comment: the US-based artist's 4-notch outing is all about guitars, about clanging and shrieking yet elliptically running guitar patterns. The patterns used to repeat with a slight ambient touch. Of course, Justin Palmieri has been very prolific since 2009, since inception of the project so any minutiae and slightest details I guess is thoroughly developed and analysed. He uses clamorous noises and even melodic sequences atop other layers as if a (noise) poppy version of Glenn Branca's noise symphonies. Indeed, beauty can be perverse and ennobling at the same time – it is a radically indicative anthem for our recent miserable situation globally. Neither Trump nor the leftists can save us although there is up the brainless sort of messianism on both sides. There is no organic ideas and general consensus which could be promulgated within a society. There is no Jesus and Yeezus and will be no Jesus or Yeezus but just hunger and calamities can be seen to come in. All is torn apart. We are poisoning ourselves stepwise to death. Overpopulated Earth is the truly horrendous reality. At least at the same time we can listen to music and enjoy art like this. A party at the time of the plague.

5/23/2019

[Teaser of the day] Circadian Eyes - Our New Home

Post-rock
Post-classical
Epic
Art rock
Ambient rock

Artist: Circadian Eyes

Release: A Future Nostalgic

Label: Hawk Moon

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Derek Clegg - Straight Towards The Sun

Alt-country
Folk indie
Americana
Singer-songwriter
Indie folk

Artist: Derek Clegg

Release: Borish (Songs For L)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

5/19/2019

[Teaser of the day] Wood Spider - Elysian Vows

Balkan folk
Gypsy folk
Folk punk
World music
Ethnic punk

Artist: Wood Spider

Release: Decadence

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Kilowatts - Ravioli Rave

Kahvi Collective

Deep techno
Electronic music
Breaks
Tech-electro
Breakbeat

Artist: Kilowatts

Release: Pasta EP

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2005

5/18/2019

[Teaser of the day] St Cheatersburg - Space Rider

Indie dance
Art pop
Psych-pop/rock
Alternative dance
Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock

Artist: St Cheatersburg

Release: We Are The Pigeons Of The World

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Moses Luster - The Past Is No Place For A Man

Singer-songwriter
Alternative rock
Art rock
Noir rock
Americana

Artist: Moses Luster

Release: The Pre-Apocalypse Years (2011-2015)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Beelzebub Jones – A Good Day To Be A Bad Guy (2019)

Death Roots Syndicate

Speak Up Recordings

Gothic Americana
Singer-songwriter
Art blues
Noir rock
Art rock
Cinematic
Alternative rock

Comment: by following titles of this 13-notch outing (Working For The Devil, Sinners Last Request, Revenge Is My Only Friend, Nicotine, Liquor & Blasphemy, Never Take Me Alive) one can admit the dark, adeptly stylised nature of the songwriter who is obviously influenced by such artsy juggernauts as Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Johnny Cash whose aesthetics used to hark back to the blues music/delta blues at a more or less extent. On the other side, all these reclusive somber themes are appropriately backed up by sublime orchestrations, reverberant and sustained string chords and accentuated stretched singing manner with rich timbre as if providing an impressive depiction of the apocalypse. In fact, there is no difference either regarding personally or in general. One of the tags of the album is "cinematic" based on Spaghetti Western-alike/Morricone-esque exalted threads. I do not know is it the sign of the recent time and age but it fits in very appropriately to this ill-omened age with a little perspective to survive and evolve in an organic way and be in concordance with the universe. We can freely depict ourselves as a little cottage in Outer Space while being burdened with responsibility to tide it up and manage it rationally (we are subconsciously even more burdened by the alleged first sin and the fall of man). For still able to preserve our human-alike face rather than devolving to a fucked-up transgressive diabolical being (unfortunately I am a bloody dick by the way). However, one must not reclaim him/herself as a prophet to foresee hard times to come very soon when supposedly anyone must do very crucial decisions on the base of conflicting moral incantations and survival intentions. It may be happening like our beloved Johnny Cash sang at Wanderer /I went out walking/Through streets paved with gold/Lifted some stones/Saw the skin and bones/Of a city without a soul/. Partly because of that, it is a befitting listening leg and partly because of being somehow ennobling and purgative despite the doom-laden lyrics. The marvellous, schmaltz-free outing is a part of the discography of Death Roots Syndicate, and a part of the roster of Speak Up Recordings. By kindred souls, additionally to the abovementioned ones and artists from within the imprint, it is recommended the listening of Moses Luster.

5/17/2019

[Teaser of the day] The Marquis - The North

Synthwave
Alternative rock
Electronic
Art rock
Industrial rock
Cold wave

Artist: The Marquis

Release: the MARQUIS

Label: Jeunesse Cosmique

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Emily Plays - Baghdad Lover

Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Ork-pop

Artist: Emily Plays

Release: The Fall & Rise Of Graeme Obree

Label: 42 Records/24

Year: 2011

KUNI – Effgenic (2019)

Digital Diamonds

Progressive house
New Age
Electronic music
Ethnotronica
Psybient
Downtempo
Chilltronica
Tech-house

Comment: KUNI (not to be confused with a Japanese hard rock guitarist) provides a variety of house, New Age, reverberations of ethnic music, psy-related vibes and something else more (which is stylistically enough crossed and littered to be not allowed to describe it more precisely) on Digital Diamonds imprint. Loosely it can be tagged progressive house though the impact must be pointed to the word "loosely". Benefiting the artist the soundscape of this 13-notch issue is vertically as deep as horizontally by providing bottomless ominous frequencies and sophisticated and mostly serene upper layers. At times such sort of ideals do fail because an artist's desired ambition to create simultaneously positively magniloquent and suggestive impulses do not magnify each other but interacting with one another by gnawing a possible synergistic set. It catches the listener's attention from the beginning to the very end. In the context of the issue the word "progressive" does mean technical in conjunction with the moody nature of the album. Kicking drums, slightly warped harmonies, profound echoes and poignant effects set up a fine party in a listener's head.

The Womb – An Introduction to The Womb (2017)

Danielle
Free Music Archive

Indie pop
Singer-songwriter
Art pop
DIY
Alternative pop
Funk rock

Comment: Alan Driscoll with her female friends are pushing forward another storytelling of The Womb. He has been active already for a couple of decades with a numerous of albums, compilations, and EPs all having been issued on his own imprint Danielle Records. Business as usual, this set of 15 compositions is discretely voluptuous and obsessive, it is all about huge egos and the so-called sperm wars and instrumentally it is accompanied by chalking guitars, programmed rhythms and electronic odds and ends. It is about the rise of self-awareness and self-indulgence and dominance through sex and relationships. Of course, this (partly) confessional set is incomparably much better than reading the bloody Co...an and more convincing than visiting annoying portals which dissect relationships because the aforementioned institutions in fact say nothing particular about you because they trying to say about everything. In fact, all this relationship stuff constitutes a quite adverse yet partly naturally, partly artificially determined horizon for a single human being. I guess the beasts are naturally more arranged because of following the call of nature and being not decayed and get obsessed otherwise than just dealing with survival (the most important thing is that they are smarter because of knowing of how to do it in the optimal way). And that's the very problem of the mentioned horizon by changing a human being into a foolish monkey. After all, does it really make him or her happier as a bunch of bones, vessels, muscles triggered by some chemical-physical processes? Rather it is called a state of affection. The very touch of this miscellany can only be found out from minutiae like funky rhythms, exhausted appearances in singing manner, exalting propulsions in guitar playing, more profoundly, by exploring gentle feedbacks and chopped chords and extended arrangements over here at times. Furthermore, it is an intelligently dynamic (inter)play between the main course and "exceptions" within it. A spastic and a bit interrupted sax development can be met at Sex Club. Suggestive melody progressions lead the listener at The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Ourselves, and at Don't Remind Me.

5/02/2019

Tracing Arcs – Waste Not, Want Not – Wasteland Remixes (2016)

23 Seconds

Jamendo

Archive.org

Electronic music
Remixes
Alternative dance
Breaks
Art pop
Ambient pop
Space pop
Chilltronica
Easy listening

Comment: Tracing Arcs is a British duo consisting of Fran Kapelle (vocal/lyrics), and Paul H. Addie (synths/guitar/programming) who have been active since the 90s and released music on such imprints as iD.EOLOGY, Mixedmode, Dusted Wax Kingdom, 23 Seconds. It is interesting that their albums would be accompanied by remix outings and their excellent Wasteland (2014, 23 Seconds) is not the exception in the case. Wasteland is a sublime mix of Fran Kapelle's seductive singing and love theme-ridden incantations and differing styles ranging from velvety downtempo, slowly flickering nu jazz and cinematic trip-hop beats to more propulsive big beat and synth-rock impulses. Let's call it a decent example of art pop. However, Waste Not, Want Not provides a difference due to stylistically more stable format. It may musically be less immersive and more volatile thereby there can be drawn parallels upon the like of Saint Etienne, another British charming combo. It is more straightforward due to be more cadence oriented. On the other side, some modes and paces are slowed down and magnified to provide some monumental seconds and profound minutes for a music lover's sake. Sultry rhythms, spaced-out flanges and ennobling progressions as motives are there inseparably around. In a nutshell, the result of nine tracks is thoroughly enchanting.

Meti Edoc – Microb (2018)

Raw Coffin Rec.

Avant-garde
Post-industrial
Drone
Dark ambient
Experimentalism
Abstract
Ambient drone
Microtonal
Psycho-acoustic
Power electronics

Comment: what else could you hear in between the layers of this handful of compositions but at times angry yet always ominous growling of drones and microscopic noises which are all about to depict a microbe – the horrendous microbe. The ghastly growling of serpentine drones is embellished with eerie gongs and metallic clanging, catty squalls and raving howling as if foretelling us something unpleasant which is going to happen in the future. About something invisible yet dangerous with the intention to destroy remarkably much bigger and slightly complicated as similarly as the human race used to stepwise yet permanently destroy a blue oasis called Earth, the gift by Lord for us. However, sometime in the future our descendants will be gifted by something truly unpleasant like it did happen in the middle of the 14th century in Europe. It will be as overwhelming and uncompromising as cancer but in terms of an infectious disease or diseases. It may be happening in a more adverse way as if the very example of contempt – imagine as if the disease was drafted in the human being and the next step by him and her is to have disseminated nothing else but death. Like the effect of King Midas in a different way. Let's call it dead touch. It ultimately may result in something which could be an enormous suicide machine. However, the third album by Meti Edoc on Raw Coffin Rec. is highly vital and uncompromising to convey an apocalyptic vision, a danse macabre. For the sake of our sober mental health to be endured. Thereafter I recommend listen to Pulp`s seedy and voyeuristic classic Different Class.

5/01/2019

[Teaser of the day] Hule - En el museo de cera

Trastienda

Noise pop
Alternative rock
Indie rock

Artist: Hule

Release: Qué está pasando

Label: Trastienda

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] The Womb - Don`t Remind Me

Danielle

Indie pop
Art pop
Alternative dance
Singer-songwriter
Electronic
Indie dance
Alternative pop

Artist: The Womb

Release: Bang - An Introduction to The Womb

Label: Danielle/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Tracing Arcs - Unravel the Thread (Mr Whippys Small Muff Mix)

Jamendo

Electronic pop
Indie pop
Art pop
Alternative pop
Ambient pop
Remix
Alternative dance

Artist: Tracing Arcs

Release: Waste not, Want not - Wasteland Remixed

Label: 23 Seconds/Jamendo/Archive.org

Year: 2016

Dead Month – In The Eyes Of The Beholder (2019)

Raw Coffin Rec.

Minimalism
Avant-garde
Microtonal
Abstract
Drone
Ambient
Experimentalism
Ambient drone
Dark ambient

Comment: this issue consists of a couple of temporally uneven compositions being released on Raw Coffin Rec.. The opening track is about a 5 minute and the subsequent of it is about a 21 minute. More profoundly, one can hear muddy, and lifeless waves rolling from one point to... nowhere. Maybe lifeless is a bit wrong adjective because these abstract drones enthral me, it is enchanting and anemic at the same time. It is all about microscopic changes in tonality and pulsations and greyish landscapes to hold up an ennobling background for the whole. These 26 minutes are thoroughly abstract because they cannot be related to any temporal and spatial entities. Ultimately it can be corrected – anemic yet thoroughly alive. May it be about (starving) vampires? Such a sort of restrained format can be very vigorous like trying to expulse a black flame with white flames. Or vice versa. There is inside a ghastly power.

Nodding By The Fire – The Forest Knows (2015)

Bandcamp

Indie folk
Avant-folk
Alt-folk
New Weird Spain
Folk indie
Art folk
Experimental folk

Comment: some examples of Spanish folk music are quite interesting because of adding something refreshing to the worldwide body of folk music (Ataque Escampe, Bacanal Intruder, XO, árbore & apenino). One of such instances is also Nodding By The Fire who have issued three releases so far. Their music is instrumental and it is a dynamic staples as if moving from one slope down to another or wandering across an immense prairie surrounded by a majestic, a bit mystical forest on one side. As if the forest could know and feel more than it seems to a walker. Such acoustic instruments as acoustic guitars, the percussion, a harmonica, a banjo, a flute, an oboe make up cinematic, spaghetti western-alike drifts over there at times. Especially the harmonica gets justified again as an arousing instrument (as Bob Dylan, and Spiritualized have already proven). A bit extrinsic (in a more experimental sense) elements to the 9-track mix are some gentle drones, found sounds and ambient experiments, however, they resonate well the rest. Similarly to their earlier issues The Forest Knows is issued by the group on Bandcamp.

Vincent DeVine – Wer von fernen Menschen träumt (2012)

Sirona-Records

Digital hardcore
Cybergrind
Electronic music
Spoken word
Cover

Comment: this batch of 13 tracks (clocking in at a 24 minute) can be interpreted differently. Given that the lyrics are in German and the music is highly intense and energetic this can be interpreted as the world view of an average German who is born after the WW II being imbued with shame and angriness and anxiety. However, for German culture and for all of us in general it would turn out as a positive consequence thanks to the appearance of Karlheinz Stockhausen, and krautrock. The first of them showed how the recording and studio technique must be employed for future poppy and artsy juggernauts like The Beatles, Pink Floyd and the latter as a liberatory artsy sonic movement to have influenced post-punk, ambient, electronic music, hip-hop and indie music. For instance, the alien-alike aesthetic of Kraftwerk did provide an outlet for oppressed afro-Americans to take a next step forward. However, it seems to me Vincent DeVine has produced the album with tongue-in-cheek attitude as well because it is exaggerated in lyrics and sound and shouting singing through unexpected yet funny samples. In a word, the intention of an artist can not be underestimated. At times it is deliberately kitschy and campy, but it can be taken seriously only with humour and fun. Otherwise it may be as bad as shit. Moreover, some clichés are fixed to blow them to a ridiculous extent. It may be as punk as your granny behind the bongos. This wild ride is a part of the French imprint Sirona-Records.

4/26/2019

[Teaser of the day] Nodding By The Fire - Sea Of Trees

Art folk
Folk indie
Weird folk
Free folk
New Weird Spain
Indie folk

Artist: Nodding By The Fire

Release: The Forest Knows

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Sacred Animals - Welcome Home

Art folk
Indie folk
Alt-folk
Cowbell indie
Folk indie
Epic

Artist: Sacred Animals

Release: Welcome Home

Label: Delphi/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

4/25/2019

Nac/Hut Report – Wszystko Jeszcze Jest (2019)

Crunchy Human Children

Avant-garde
Shoegaze
Experimentalism
Guitar ambient
Avant-rock
Experimental rock
Dream pop
Noise rock
Abstract

Comment: Nac/Hut Report is a duo from Poland who are inclined to make up mighty noise experiments with electric guitars and processors and effect blocks. More detailedly, this 8-track whole which was released on the imprint Crunchy Human Children is about crushing guitars and crushing with guitars. Additionally, by crushing one's humble music experience and understanding of music like a bug. As if desperately pushing a set of 20 guitars through a couple of broken cables though on the other side providing more softening patches against it, indeed, one can hear at times lofty, a bit orchestrated progressions and at times arousing female singing. Of course, by describing it in the way it seems like a description of Glenn Branca and My Bloody Valentine's music (especially Loveless, of course). It is like having a violent intercourse with a beautiful lady. Some days ago I watched a documentary about a British female serial killer, Joanna Dennehy who used to cut herself while having it (her first unfortunate victim was a Pole). Blood(y) lust, isn't? In a word, the result is the impressive studding on a border of artsy guitar experimentation, and shoegaze-y and dream pop glimpses. Furthermore, by seeing all these immediate yet deceptively hectic tectonic shifts one can compare it with such a sort of magnificent extraterrestrial moving and formation as if it were conceived by mimoids and symmetriads respectively written in at Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. Yeah, superb by its content, moody touch and format.

4/24/2019

[Teaser of the day] Albosel - Sol

Toytronica
Art pop
Bedroom pop
Folktronica
DIY

Artist: Albosel

Release: The Earths An Egg, Soon It Will Hatch

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Blakkar Noir - Sweaty Box

No Type

Breakcore
Electronic music
Jungle
Exprimental electro
Breakbeat
Lo-fi

Artist: Blakkar Noir

Release: Tsunami Tendertimes

Label: Panospria/No Type

Year: 2006

Ego Dome – Neurocentric EP (2019)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Bandcamp

Archive.org

Acid jazz
Nu jazz
Breaks
Trip-hop
Hip-hop
Sampledelic
Urban music
Chilltronica
Folktronica
Electronic music
Mood music

Comment: by listening to this 11-track outing by Ego Dome on Dusted Wax Kingdom I started thinking of the effect of postmodernism as a contemporary phenomenon. That everything used to be appearing in one, and vice versa if to express it roughly. On the other side, if to follow a philosophical principle that something to be established first of all must have borders, without the limits there will exist nothing. Its multiple nature is strength and weakness on the same coin. Music may be a phenomenon which is partly above and beyond the aforementioned contradiction and/or obstruction. More profoundly, what are the characteristics of a very solid album today? Given that many contemporary albums provide strong impressions during first listening times, however, later their impact will fade away. By listening to this New Hampshire, US-based artist I can hear piano ballads, folktronic developments, suggestive scratches, velvety ambient plateaus, chilled-out and trip-hop mixed spans, acid/nu jazz-inflected chopped rhythms and calm cool jazz-esque woodwind instrumentals. However, we need another criterion to separate the chaff from the grains of wheat. This can only be synergistic power which is going to sustain a thrill for further listening times as well. I feel the issue is going to realise that goal.

Yris – Histoire Naturelle (2019)

Jamendo

Bandcamp

Electronic dance music
Post-disco
Electronic pop
Hi-NRG
Remixes
Club dance
Dance pop

Comment: this batch of 11 tracks inflicts simultaneously some sort of pleasure and some sort of detestation. The latter used to associate with the nowadays mainstream dance music called EDM. I do not stand for sleazy dullness and rigidity without any humorous sentiments in music and that is all one can find out from the style. It is like dancing on speed although one's body stands on the verge of a collapse. Like moving from a grisly nightmare into a choking hangover. Before it the most horrendous music was related to such an event as Love Parade in Berlin, Germany. Those cheesy techno and trance mixed vibes were even worse. Some braindead did produce aural zombies. On Histoire Naturelle, the French singer-songwriter's sophomoric outing, one can listen to 8 originals and 3 remixes which ultimately constitute a mixed feeling. Usually those rhythmic structures are very similar to one another as if the artist is employing one and the same preset. New Age-y synths do work at times. Singing is arousing, guitar sounds are pristine yet providing no sense and giving no rest as well. It does not take me higher though Greenland is the favourite of mine due to its variety and suggestive atmospheric trumpet progressions in the background. Great track. However, regarding the artist's success at Soundcloud and on the other side the recent mainstream situation within the dance scene I guess the possibility to conquer bigger venues in Europe could be highly possible. Good luck.

4/23/2019

[Teaser of the day] Natural Snow Buildings - Tiny Kings of Kadath

Vulpiano

Drone folk
Avant-folk
Epic
Space folk
Minimalism
Psych-folk
Free folk
New Weird France
Experimental folk
Post-folk
Dream folk

Artist: Natural Snow Buildings

Release: Aldebaran

Label: Vulpiano/Free Music Archive/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Brevyn - Moonbow

[Teaser of the day] Empty House Cooperative - Fore

Hinah

Post-classical
Avant-garde
Improvised music
Electro-acoustic
Experimentalism
Chamber music

Artist: Empty House Cooperative

Release: Seven

Label: Hinah

Year: 2016

akaUno – [Bad Panda 085] (2011)

Bad Panda

Free Music Archive

Indietronica
Electronic music
IDM
Alternative
Glitchtronica
Cowbell indie

Comment: this batch of two compositions chimes like having no existence, as if coming from nowhere, as if reflecting upon objects which did exist somewhere uncountable days ago. In an ordinary sense, this invisible flow of sonic waves does not exist yet this configuration is always over there to be activated for one's pleasure if needed. Indeed, it was issued in 2011 by Bad Panda, it is a year which seems to be a bit within our grasp, and a bit beyond it. Much water has streamed within the river bed since then. The opening track Sunday Market is saturated with glistening rays as if a strong, radiant reflection by such combos as Mouse On Mars, Kreidler, Hood, To Rococo Rot who did like to make up love affairs with intelligent dance music, krautrock, indie and post-rock. The composition is intense and tight, all of its slots are filled in with blissful yet a little bit poisonous magic. The other track called Hidden Leaves can be considered just an accompaniment of Sunday Market yet it is a fine sequence. The guitars are less ambivalent, the tempo is more slowed down and restrained and the intensity of the first track has disappeared. It is a reflection of something which slowly fades away after having experienced the apotheosis. It is called cowbell indie, isn't? Nice.

Obasquiat – #Drops (2019)

Sunyatha

Drone
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Improvised music
World fusion
Field recording
Musique concrète

Comment: it may be the easiest way to describe this album through the examples of other artists' music, through such examples as Ashtray Navigations, Uton, Kemialliset Ystävät, Six Organs Of Admittance, Charalambides, Tont, Sam Shalabi, Natural Snow Buildings, Children Of The Drone, Vibracathedral Orchestra. More profoundly, the common thread of the aforementioned artists is droning. Droning through different aspects and accents, through ethnic and folk music of Asia (from Middle East to Hindustani peninsula), through modern day folk, through post-industrial and psychedelic angles and patches. Another common thread is improvisation. To put together drone and improvised music it can be summoned as experimental. One can see droning as the hard core of this 15-notch issue yet improvisation can be considered as the intention and thought of the whole. One can hear volatile clouds as experiments with concrete sounds and open spaces, voices and vowels which used to rotate inseparably around the hard core. The marvellous outing (the Brazilian Marco Antonio with his guest musicians) is a part of the discography of Sunyatha.

4/22/2019

[Teaser of the day] John Novak - Visitor from the Outer Planets

Kosmische Musik
Electronic music
Ambient trance
Psybient
Chilltronica

Artist: John Novak

Release: The Moon is a Strange God

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] The Easton Ellises - Falcon 69 (Horny Stevens Remix)

Jamendo

Remix
Electronic pop
Italo disco
Alternative dance
Electro pop
Synth-pop

Artist: The Easton Ellises

Release: SexDrugsRocknRoll and The Falcon 69 (The CT Remixes)

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Irish - March

MinusN

Folktronica
Post-folk
Electronic music
Glitchtronica
Minimalism
Experimental folk
Glitch-folk
Avant-folk

Artist: Irish

Release: Manufactures

Label: MinusN

Year: 2006

Atlas Sound – @ 40 Watt Club 2009-12-31 (2009)

Southern Shelter

Ambient rock
Noise pop
Avant-rock
Live
Experimental rock
Space pop
Art pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Indie pop/rock

Comment: Bradford Cox was back in his hometown Athens, Georgia, USA to perform at a club on the last day of the 00s. The set embraces 10 tracks within a 83-minute. It is an impressive, even dreamy live through improvised songwriting based on noisy outbursts, loopy ambient and space pop chords and rough guitar-based tour de forces as if backed up by an adept guitar hero. Mellow and rough segments used to collide with one another yet all of that does not create some sort of incongruousness to minimize the effect of the whole set. He searches for silence after a noisy outburst, and vice versa. However, those noisy appearances are the best part of the live because by immersing in it one can find out some sort of oblivion In fact, it reflects very exactly upon a human being`s life experience with intention to get fulfilled with positive impulses and get satisfied based on rejecting negative memories and forgetting adverse experiences. The first song was dedicated to Vic Chesnutt who had committed suicide 6 days before. The live set is presented via Southern Shelter.

4/21/2019

[Teaser of the day] The Fucked Up Beat - Jesus Gonna Bring Me Rain

Free Music Archive

Minimalism
Plunderphonics
Sampledelic
Electronic music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Hauntology

Artist: The Fucked Up Beat

Release: A Bomb Shelter In Kansas

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Monkey Warhol - Nuts & Bolts

Alternative dance
Electronic pop
House pop
Alternative pop
Post-disco

Artist: Monkey Warhol

Release: EP5

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Massimo Ruberti - Last Bird In The Valley

Kosmische Musik
Ambient
Organic electronica
Electronic music
Krautrock
Alternative

Artist: Massimo Ruberti

Release: The City Without Sun

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

4/20/2019

[Teaser of the day] Xqui - Red

Ambient
Experimentalism
Ambient drone
Micotonal
Drone
Avant-garde

Artist: Xqui

Release: Timepieces EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Smashing Pumpkins - Real Love

Archive.org

Dream pop
Indie rock
Art rock
Shoegaze
Epic
Alternative rock

Artist: Smashing Pumpkins

Release: Machina II/The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music

Label: Constantinople/Archive.org

Year: 2000

[Teaser of the day] Ego Dome - Scatterbrain

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Hip-hop
Nu jazz
Sampledelic
Chilltronica
Electronic music
Urban music
Mood music
Crossover
Acid jazz

Artist: Ego Dome

Release: Neurocentric (EP)

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Selffish - Born Digital

Thinner

Experimental techno
Electronic music
Microtechno
Sampledelic
Ambient techno

Artist: Selffish

Release: Enas

Label: Thinner

Year: 2002

[Teaser of the day] Mystified - Plunderman_4

Treetrunk

Plunderphonics
Avant-pop
Sampledelic
Minimalism
Electronic music

Artist: Mystified

Release: Adventures Of Plunderman Remastered

Label: Treetrunk

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Sleepdealer - Hang Loose, Sasha

Hip-hop
Breaks
Cinematic
Folktronica
Crossover
Urban music
Trip-hop

Artist: Sleepdealer

Release: i ching

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

4/19/2019

Chad Golda – The Mysterious Nine (2018)

Writing

Bandcamp

Indie folk
Alt-folk
Americana
DIY
Singer-songwriter
Folk indie
Lo-fi
Psych-folk

Comment: Chad Golda is a right songwriter from the USA who started in such borderline folk and indie groups as ***, ringostar, and starstarstar in the second half of the 00s. Later on, he launched his solo projects, and his first albums (CHAD GOLDA`S ALBUM (2009), and Dance Session (2010) were knee-deep yet successful experiments with electronic music, psychedelia, post-industrial sounds and idiosyncratic electronic/synth-pop and dance grooves. All these groups`s and his solo albums had been released on Dean Birkett-led Rack And Ruin Records which was being an important platform for DIY and lo-fi music then (by remembering all of that time it makes me smile blissfully). After Dean Birkett decided to finish the deed with the label with a discography of almost 200 items in 2011 Chad Golda started his own Writing Records and in principle decided to develop in the vein of indie folk music. Indeed, to continue developing the path being already experienced and explored by him. Mysterious Nine is a fine Americana album which does mean to explore folk-related music through psychedelic reveries, uncanny dreams, and some noisy and sublime electronic experiments. From rusty Appalachian strings and synthesised effects and beats to piano chord driven rushes and noise pop outbursts with intention to create catchy melodies and overcoming harmonies. It is like a step into the realm of indie folk and on the other side resembling of the coming of a subsequent aroused New Weird wave what did happen in the beginning of the 00s.

4/17/2019

[Teaser of the day] Noisesurfer - Solstice Four

Tape Safe

Drone
Illbient
Post-industrial
Avant-garde
Dark ambient
Microtonal
Experimentalism

Artist: Noisesurfer

Release: Solstice

Label: Tape Safe

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Blasting Trout Overbite - My Invisible Head Brain

Imaginary Albums

Indie punk
Garage rock
DIY
Alternative rock

Artist: Blasting Trout Overbite

Release: Yes

Label: Imaginary Albums

Year: 2006

4/15/2019

[Teaser of the day] Hukka - Snow Days

Gabumat

Ambient pop
Electronic music
Chilltronica

Artist: Hukka

Release: Strand EP

Label: Gabumat

Year: 2011

4/14/2019

Gallo 84 – Shimano (2018)

Colectivo Casa Amarela

Ambient
Soundscape
Avant-garde
Microtonal
Experimentalism
Minimalism
Microtonal

Comment: by seeing the name Gallo 84 it brought to my mind German krautrock giant Neu!. The Teutonic duo similarly liked to employ numbers and one of their most well-known tracks was being known as Hallogallo. Additionally some Neu!'s endeavours in music are considered as first steps towards ambient music. This 4-notch issue being released on a Portuguese imprint, Colectivo Casa Amarela is also about very broad and frequently bright and serene soundscapes. Furthermore, its gravity point and orbital trace used to be quite similar in comparison with Neu!. However, it is predominantly devoid of rhythms by moving on and making sense by shifting plateaus with different tonality and pulsation frequencies and aligned with different distances. Above all, one is a great rock combo and the other is an outstanding ambient ray. I like the profound intensity and the dynamic interplay between those brighter and darker sonic layers and a new perceivable quality as the synthesis of the layers growing out from within there. It is like a spirited sonic whole by emitting holistic impulses from its very profound core. Superb work by any means.

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