The Dry Mouths – Memories From The Pines Bridge (2019)

Monasterio de cultura

Spinda

Odio Sonoro

Bandcamp

• Space rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Psych-rock 
• Art rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Stoner rock 
• Progressive rock 
• Crossover

Comment: by tagging this 8-track whole of Spanish combo The Dry Mouths with such labels as you can see above it certainly showcases the transgressive nature of the album. Indeed, it plays with artsy combinations of reverberant chords by creating smooth arpeggios, yearning extended and elongated chords and dynamical circuits and on the other side one can perceive intriguing timbres and powerful torrents of spaced-out rocking. Stylistically it is an ennobling blend of stoner and space rock based progressions as if a strange tribute to the desert as an abandoned territory rejected by the so-called civilised beings (yet one of the greatest Don Van Vliet was born in such environmental circumstances). At times one can feel spaghetti western-alike allusions within guitar progressions by adding something divinely cinematic and spellbinding to the mix. Additionally to the traditional combo of a rock ensemble by embracing the guitar, bass and the drums on some occasions compositions are embellished with theremin, a first and legendary electronic device, by adding a haunting sense to the mix. Oh yeah, the guitar and theremin complement one another so naturally as if they were being kindred instruments a priori. For example, listen to a track, L'Enfer, a tour de force of the issue. The outstanding outing is a bit in the discographies of such imprints as Monasterio de cultura, Odio Sonora, and Spinda (the album is available in different formats).

[Teaser of the day] Nick R 61 - Smoke

Fusion

• Electronic music
• Experimentalism
• Avant-hop
• Film noir
• Musique concrète
• Crossover
• Dark ambient
• Experimental hip-hop
• Avant-garde

Artist: Nick R 61

Release: Castaneda. The Teachings Of Don Juan 

Label: Fusion/Pavillon36

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Covered Faces - Reset III

• Synthwave
• Electro-rock
• Art rock
• Electronic
• Synth-rock
• Alternative dance

Artist: Covered Faces

Release: Reset

Label: Scrapyard

Year: 2017

Stekalive – Europa EP (2019)

Soisloscerdos

Archive.org

Bandcamp

• Experimental techno 
• Minimalism 
• Alternative dance
• Techno
• Art music 
• Electronic music 
• Techno pop

Comment: by listening to this set of four compositions, more detailedly, long-running compositions by Stekalive, an artist from Krasnogorsk, Russia I shall have to admit by getting out more layers from there rather than just listening a musical example reminiscent of techno. However, it is an example of techno yet a vivid and invigorating one. Of course, there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Orbital, and Underworld as fine examples of how to bring underground ideas to a broader ground. The aforementioned juggernauts and Stekalive as their disciple have proved the idea that producing experimental techno one can do without rejecting any pop music facets. Experimental techno and techno pop can be considered as different yet somehow inseparable sides of one and the same path. It may be I am a bit spoiled but I think Autechre also used to have that connection on many occasions. Keep going on, Europa EP is an organic and propelling sequel of acid and motorik, embodying a sort of polyphonic music consisting of almost unchangeably rhythmic shape-shifting and acidic adeptly warped effects set upon and over the former. The listener can perceive organic feedback between the whole and its initial parts. Additionally, one can hear a remote of krautrock especially at its most artsy moments. And that's the cardinal point. The enchanting outing is a bit in the discography of Soisloscerdos.

Beko_Hartzine (2011)

Beko DSL

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

• Indie pop/rock 
• Noise pop 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Cover 
• Psych-pop 
• Live 
• Lo-fi 
• Post-punk 
• Hypnagogic pop 
• Glo-fi 
• Experimental pop 
• Avant-pop 
• New Weird America 
• Coldwave

Comment: in fact, indie compilations may be boring and dull but it cannot be assumed about French imprint Beko DSL and especially about this 18-notch outing. There are up such artists as Tan Dollar, Ender Belongs To Me, Ela Orleans, Colours, Black Vatican, William Cody Watson, Happy New Year, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Jani/Jussi, Collatone, Krusht, To The Happy New, The KVB, Michael Parallax. There is represented a smorgasbord of sounds and styles and an immense amount of crossovers between them. At times more straightforward and noisy, at times more languid and dreamy. At times more electronically employed, sometimes more guitars brought to the focus, at times more vowel effects brought forth thereby echoing back to the golden days of a new wave of the New Weird movement in the 00s. Yet there are up a couple of brilliants over there – Happy New Year's hypnagogic cover of Iggy Pop's The Endless Sea, and Ela Orleans 's Beat Goes On (live at Budokan) which strives to be successfully gravity-free. In a word, get immersed in an idea of indie music of how it would have perpetuated in the beginning of the 10s.

Their Only Dreams – Mania From Heaven (2018)

Bandcamp

• Psych-rock 
• Space rock 
• Indie rock 
• Art rock 
• Alternative rock 
• No Wave 
• Lad rock 
• Experimental rock

Comment: this set of 3 tracks is an ennobling immersion in spaced-out and psychedelic music through joyous yet versatile guitar jangling, voluptuous singing as the hard core and a constellation of intriguing sonic effects and semi-orchestrations and even some faint dance and baggy frequencies around it. Both these spheres together create something enchanting and appealing in a dynamical format. You can find out some parallels from such disparate territories as lad rock, No Wave, psych-folk. There are up shades from the likes of Holy Modal Rounders, Hawkwind, Amon Düül II, Velvet Underground, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Paris Angels. Behind the project is just one guy called David Lyudmirsky and he is doing really well. Simply the best.

Thuoom – Organism (2019)

Textural Healing

Bandcamp

• Experimental electronica 
• Avant-electronica 
• Glitchtronica 
• Experimental electro 
• Drone 
• Abstract 
• Post-industrial 
• Forestelektro

Comment: it is nice to see the Finnish one-man-project Thuoom is back with his brand new album Organism by perpetuating the glorious tradition of Finnish experimental music being created by such artists as Erkki Kurenniemi, Pan Sonic, early Jimi Tenor, Kemialliset Ystävät, Keijo, Uton. Of course, Tuomo continues trudging his personal path by constituting an uncanny whole of crunchy debris, bleeping techno-alike throbs and bent drones and galvanized electronic effects. In fact, the glitches the outing consisting only of are conjured up by exploiting a sound card in a wrong way. And it is a bit different approach in comparison to the artist's previous issues. First time I wrote comments on his first album more than 10 years ago but so far I had avoided the artist's invented term forestelektro. Regarding the recent case it would be sinful to reject it – at times it chimes like the most provocative and mud-eating moments of Throbbing Gristle, at times like a slowly melting substation to get eventually fucked up. However, the aforementioned examples can be handled inseparably as well. As similarly as before the 11-track outing is issued on Tuomo's own Textural Healing. A purgative asylum for all of those who would like to stay far away from bullshit and from superficial appearances in our everyday's life.

[Teaser of the day] Lackluster - Thor`s Magic Bathtub

Soulseek

• IDM
• Electronic music

Artist: Lackluster

Release: Distance

Label: Soulseek

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Humeka - Elephant Haunting Season

Yuki Yaki

• Art techno
• Electronic music
• Glitch techno
• Micro-techno

Artist: Humeka

Release: Densitè Matèrielle

Label: Yuki Yaki

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Noirodyn - How Many Times Do I have To Die

• Breakcore
• Electronic music
• Hardcore techno
• Digital hardcore

Artist: Noirodyn

Release: Beautiful Nightmares

Label: Sociopath Recordings

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] A Beautiful Machine - Another Time

• Experimental rock
• Post-rock
• Minimalism
• Cinematic
• Musique concrète
• Avant-rock
• Ambient rock
• Art rock

Artist: A Beautiful Machine

Release: Another Time

Label: Embryo Recordings/Bandcamp

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger Leopard Priestess

NYCTaper

• Psych-rock
• Indie rock
• Garage rock
• Alternative rock
• Live
• Blues rock
• Acid rock

Artist: Ty Segall

Release: Ty Segall & the Muggers: February 27, 2016 Webster Hall

Label: NYCTaper

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Shearwater - Repetition

NYCTaper

• Live
• Indie rock
• Cover
• Alternative rock

Artist: Shearwater

Release: Shearwater: March 15, 2016 Rough Trade (Bowie’s Lodger album)

Label: NYCTaper

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] The Plastic Heart Pendulum Quartet - The Myth

Haze

• Cool jazz
• Free jazz
• Improvised music
• Post-bop
• Avant-jazz

Artist: The Plastic Heart Pendulum Quartet

Release: The Plastic Heart Pendulum Quartet

Label: Haze

Year: 2013

Marco Lucchi – Kosmische (2016)

Batenim

• Drone 
• Minimalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Ambient drone 
• Microtonal

Comment: this album consists of a couple of compositions by the prolific Modena-based, Italian artist Marco Lucchi. Yeah, (re)discover his albums through Bandcamp, and Archive.org! One of those tracks on Kosmische reaches a 65 minute, the other one does a 5 minute. In general, the outing is subjugated to minimal progressions and microscopic touches yet all the drones represented over there seem to be craftily spiritualised and purified from any possible excessive burden. Indeed, all is poignantly focused and magnified into new qualities. More profoundly, one can hear slightly vibrant cathedral-alike colours within the drones at times being embellished with faint reverberant voices as if the metaphor of fading memories. It is imbued with feelings being somehow ennobling and sad at the same time. It is like a rootless floating in Outer Space a billions of miles away from pillaged Earth because the human being was not able to change its economic course and first of all its devastating life style as the very reason of it. The music is dedicated to Florian Fricke (1944-2001), a Krautrock/Kosmische Musik juggernaut being the leader of Popol Vuh. The highly recommended outing is a part of the discography of Batenim.

Luke Sanger – Ancient Pathways (2019)

Serein

• Experimental electronica 
• Drone 
• Ambient 
• Electronic music 
• Avant-electronica 
• Art music

Comment: this batch of 11 compositions is a blissful view through slow progressions on analogue synths which provide extended hyper-realistic harmony developments being at the same time majestic and incisive as if getting a glimpse into an enchanting ideal world. On the other side, there are also represented intriguing beats by providing obsessive frequencies and spellbinding iterations. Thirdly, the author's intention seems to be creating profound patterns based on clear crystallised and crystalline sounds. The listener's view is not blurred any of the sounds can be clearly distinguished from one another yet the total sum of all these sounds is remarkably bigger than the initial sum of the sounds. One of the cases is the sum of cooperative sounds and patterns yet on the other side one can perceive warmth and coolness oozing out of it. Additionally, as we know warmth and coolness are related to certain sorts of colours. Its precise nature and downright logic seem to represent a sonic embodiment of mathematics. Yet behind it there is up an insinuating element to accomplish the whole. It reminds of the approach of such artists as M Geddes Gengras, Steve Hauschildt. This is an outing which probably will be added to lists of the best albums in 2019. At least to the best list at RMH. It is a bit in the discography of Serein.

[Teaser of the day] David Area - Gaman II

Audiotalaia

• Minimalism
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-garde
• Ambient drone
• Microtonal
• Abstract
• Experimentalism
• Drone

Artist: David Area

Release: Shoganai

Label: Audiotalaia

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Dmyra - Darling Dear

Clinical Archives

• Indie folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Folk indie
• Art folk
• Folktronica

Artist: Dmyra

Release: Mind Over Mind

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Luz Futuro - II

• Shoegaze
• Dream pop
• Noise pop
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Luz Futuro

Release: Luz Futuro EP

Label: La Gramola

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Momus - Spacewalk

Ubuweb

• Art pop
• Singer-songwriter
• Synth-pop
• Alternative pop
• Electronic pop

Artist: Momus

Release: Voyager

Label: Creation/Ubuweb

Year: 1992

[Teaser of the day] Nostalgia - Decadence

• Black noise
• Avant-garde
• Non-music
• Acousmatic music
• Noise drone
• Post-industrial
• Noise music
• Spoken word
• Experimentalism

Artist: Nostalgia 

Release: Infestation

Label: Format Noise

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Subskan - Function

Entity

• Electronic music
• Illbient
• Drone
• Abstract
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Subskan  

Release: Isola Emphasis

Label: Entity/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Peter Um - Possession

• Electronic
• Avant-garde
• Drone
• Post-kraut
• Post-psychedelic electronica
• Experimentalism

Artist: Pete Um

Release: Bad Mood Music

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Keijo - All Alone

We Have No Zen

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

Artist: Keijo

Release: WHNZ:57:WAMAWA

Label: We Have No Zen!

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Mont Ventoux - Bus (The Radio Dept Cover)

Racewillbegin

• Cover
• Electronic pop
• Synth-pop
• Alternative pop

Artist: Mont Ventoux

Release: rwb009

Label: Racewillbegin

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Puppet Lane - Bones

Jamendo

• Indie rock
• Gothic rock
• Alternative rock
• Post-punk

Artist: Puppet Lane

Release: Myths  

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Isocore - Lazy Merda

Upitup

• House music
• Electronic music
• Lo-fi
• Outsider house
• Club dance

Artist: Isocore

Release: Fegato

Label: Upitup

Year: 2018

Inaequalis – Bête Noire (2018)

Free Music Archive

• Psych-rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Krautrock 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-prog
• Crossover 
• Avant-rock 
• Acid rock 
• Art rock 
• Psych-prog 
• Surf rock 
• Space rock

Comment: if anyone of us would decide to play music by following groovy trends then he/she should acknowledge such sort of music would result in nothing more than a soulless product. Because of that I admire such sort of musicians – sometimes being called as outsider musicians – who are obsessed by some definite ideas having no calculation in the case would it be popular or not. Music should be the case about being dead or alive. For instance, Sun Ra, Moondog, Bruce Haack, The Space Lady, Jandek, R Stevie Moore and early Ariel Pink (at the time of The Haunted Graffiti) showcased something truly earnest and unrepeatable worth to be remembered for now and forever. Let's call it the constellation from outside. Inaequalis' 19-notch outing is a joyous jam of daring amalgamation of rhythmic patterns and bass gears being embellished with an effect-laden guitar and vivid and fast changing synths by creating uncanny glimpses as if coming out from very hidden corners of progressive and psychedelic rock. It is knee-deep, it is thoroughly spaced-out. In a sense, it reminds of Trans Am, an unconventional post-rock combo from The United States who used to merge motorik/kraut, synth-pop/electronica, progressive/art rock and much more else into a blatant, vociferous fist. And also there are up some similarities with Amon Düül's fiery psych-prog obsessions. At times the listener is embedded in a deep stoned mayhem played in the key of surf rock. That's marvellous! In a word, listen to this untamed version of contemporary rock and roll. Please do not forget – rock is power, rock is defiance, rock is an ennobling feel. Rock is the identity. Top fare by any means.

[Teaser of the day] Younnat - Incredible Adventure of a Flying Fox

Bump Foot

• Electronic music
• Electro-rock
• Indietronica
• Neokrautrock
• Art pop
• Alternative dance
• Synth-pop

Artist: Younnat

Release: His Name Is Radar

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Uton - Space For Kalki

Free Music Archive

• Forest folk
• New Weird Finland
• Improvised music
• Avant-folk
• Lo-fi
• Post-industrial
• Minimalism
• Drone folk
• Free folk
• Experimentalism
• Anti-folk
• Weird folk
• Avant-garde
• Abstract

Artist: Uton

Release: Violin Massage

Label: Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Va Ra Yam

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Talulah Lotus - The Robots

Free Music Archive

• Lo-fi
• Primitive music
• Improvised music
• DIY
• Cover

Artist: Talulah Lotus

Release: Robot Sun

Label: Chinstrap Music

Year: 2010

Anabasis – Alexander (2016)

Østpreussen

Østpreussen

• Art music 
• Ambient 
• Avant-garde 
• Neoclassical 
• Drone 
• Dark ambient 
• Conceptual 
• Experimentalism 
• Ambient drone

Comment: this handful of tracks is dedicated to one of the greatest, Alexander the Great who similarly to other outstanding rulers and generals spilled blood to fasten his name in the annals of the history. In fact, as a person he was driven by inferior characteristics like low self-esteem and later megalomania, he probably hated everyone and everything, obviously the teachings and ethics by the greatest one Aristotle didn't reach him. The people around him were just pawns to fulfil his own ambitions. Conceptually the purpose of the Swedish musician Henri Summanen's purpose is to fantasise about the feelings Alexander felt in these crucial moments while occupying new countries, territories and civilizations. Musically it is an epic expression through the mix of ennobling droning and shimmery stringed instruments and reverberant applications behind the sound. One can hear extended chords being stretched over the drones thereby building up an impressive mystical milieu. Furthermore, variegated sunshiny and shadowy elements allow a propulsive, dynamical sensation which overwhelms the course. Inevitably it goes beyond the borders of the aforementioned styles by straddling on more technical (and less emotive) approaches like sound art and electro-acoustic music. The enchanting outing is a part of the discography of a Russian, Svetlogorsk-based imprint, Østpreussen.

May HD – Sonho Dobrado (2019)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

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

Comment: I definitely like this handful of tracks being released on a Chicago-based avant-garde/experimental music imprint, Pan Y Rosas Discos. An artist called May HD who exploits turntables and a microkorg synth builds up a whole imbued with some kind of dark matter, debris, crackles, sonic effects, haphazard samples and faint sounds. At times it is about abysmal ambient undercurrents, at times about black-hued yet quite light noisy incantations, at times about convulsive electronic and vowel-based iterations, at times about electro-acoustic music with obvious live touch (in fact, all the whole is improvised at a live session in Brazil). There is even up something which can be considered an off-kilter sort of hard/psych-rock. For Zappa or Captain Beefheart it would have been the case. As we have already experienced beyond the club culture turntablism as a sort of experimental genre is gloriously introduced by such agitated artists as Philip Jeck, Otomo Yoshihide, Janek Schaefer, Martin Tetreault, and Christian Marclay but May HD now with this outing could certainly be added to the noble list.

Alvin Curran – Reinier van Houdt – Dead Beats (2019)

Moving Furniture

Bandcamp

• Modern classical 
• Contemporary classical 
• Piano music 
• Art music 
• Avant-garde 
• Improvised music 
• Experimentalism

Comment: piano music can be represented in quite disparate ways, one could find out different aspects and facets from within it. Given that a listener knows what he/she could expect from it the focus would be set up in a more straight way because the formal tissue of piano sounds is austere and may be even irritating (I have seen a research with the result the piano has the most irritating sound among the instruments). Because of that the role of represented patterns and imaginations of the listener do have a huge impact. Alvin Curran is an acknowledged avant-garde composer from USA by having been experimenting with different instruments and concepts for decades. Piano as his very first instrument to be acquainted with Alvin Curran's relation is something between love and hate, between fondness and repulsion. As a premise before the album to be listened it is intriguing and thereby positive. A listener can perceive lots of slamming series of high, even cutting notes and key changes and superimposed chords which are then traded for almost gravity-free hypnotic explorations throughout long minutes. For a younger generation, or for the audience who like shorter formats like EPs the release may be a challenge due to compositions extending up to a 13 minute or longer. However, those more calm compositions provide something we are done out of – it is silence, it is internal incantation, it is something truly halcyon and pristine. As we see it is possible to create silence artificially. Artistically. Etymologically the words seem to be related on the word "art". And that's it. Furthermore, in the recent everyday situation a well-composed suite can be considered an example of silence. Furthermore, art is silence even if its format may be something noisy – paradoxically it comes out that a noise is not the noise (anymore). Give me (more) choice to get drowned in (more) noise! The 5-notch issue is a part of the discography of Moving Furniture Records (also providing home place for such luminaries as Merzbow, and Machinefabriek).

[Teaser of the day] Rene Kita - Ouija Wart

Archive.org

• Freeformfreakout
• Dada music
• Sound collage
• Avant-garde
• Non-music
• Chamber music
• Electronic music
• Sampledelic

Artist: Rene Kita

Release: Freakland Gazette

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Discontinuation Of Treatment - Avoid And Retreat

• Indie rock
• Coldwave
• Alternative rock
• Darkgaze
• Spoken word
• Post-punk

Artist: Discontinuation Of Treatment

Release: A Deep Remorse

Label: In Your Ears/Bandcamp

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Won - Emptily

Nowaki Music

• Acoustic pop
• Art music
• Improvised music

Artist: Won

Release: Emptiness

Label: Nowaki Music

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Skala - Sea

Jamendo

• Post-rock
• Improvised music
• Art rock
• Fusion
• Crossover
• Free jazz
• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: Skala

Release: Skalkulator

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2005 

Takahiro Mukai – Gently Close The Mouth (2019)

Mahorka

Bandcamp

• Experimental electronica 
• Experimental techno 
• Glitchtronica 
• Abstract electronica 
• Kraut-techno 
• Minimalism

Comment: there has been around one proverb by a nation: speaking can be considered as silver but muteness is gold. Indeed, if you have nothing reasonable to say then gently shut up your mouth and produce something even more beautiful – music. The Japanese artist's 6-notch release is a blissful touch of refined techno rhythms and more abstract pulsations and general electronic explorations. Indeed, minimalism as an approach and methodology is predominant over there. Takahiro Mukai takes enough time within the tracks for himself to fulfil his introverted ideas – indeed, it seems to me that his ideas are directed inside, it is rather contemplative than manipulating overtly with listeners' emotions. On the other side, one cannot exclude different sort of impressions either. He exploits custom-built circuit-bent devices to build up at times abrasive, at times more hushed compositions. There can be drawn parallels upon more abstract and cerebral (meta)-krautrockers like Konrad Schnitzler, and Asmus Tietchens. For instance, #412, and #413 are krautrock-driven though in an indirect sense. Indeed, it is a best part of music if the forms and formats are not taken up directly but using secondary variables and different sorts of extractions. The outing is a bit in the discography of Mahorka.

Xavier Mussat – Provided for Courses (2019)

Eg0cide

Bandcamp

• Electro-acoustic 
• Experimentalism 
• Musique concrète 
• Avant-garde 
• Electronic music 
• Abstract

Comment: this issue consists of 4 long-running compositions all of them are composed of abrasive and angular sonic details and open space around it. Such sort of music is called electro-acoustic, isn't it? More profoundly, he recorded abstract sound ambiances to be used as background sounds to accompany the work of his students during the intuitive drawing classes he gives. Xavier Mussat used the cheap internal microphone of his computer and several objects (bowls, balls, crumbled paper, table, and a prepared banjo), as well as remixed sounds taken from videos of snowy landscapes. Musically it is one and the same process from scratch to the very end – a permanent flow of greyish glitched-out and metallic cut-up sounds, some percussive sounds, explorations on concrete sounds. At times one can discern the sort of radiophonic play feel as if some ghastly semi-orchestrations and ascensions come to the pathway. The outing is a bit in the discography of Eg0cide.

[Teaser of the day] suRRism - Descharge

• Electro-acoustic
• Improvised music
• Psycho-acoustic
• Art music

Artist: suRRism

Release: The Singles

Label: suRRism-Phonoethics

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Tzii - Fascinum 3

Abyssa

• Dark ambient
• Experimentalism
• Epic
• Crossover
• Drone doom metal
• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde

Artist: Tzii

Release: Fascinum

Label: Abyssa

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] La Mansarde Hermetique - Melting Shimmer

Petroglyph

• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik
• Krautrock
• Ambient

Artist: La Mansarde Hermetique

Release: Haunted Attic

Label: Petroglyph 

Year: 2017

M.A.K.T. Sono – Tinnitus Flowers (2019)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Bandcamp

• Abstract 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Electronic music 
• Non-music 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Improvised noise 
• Post-industrial 
• Micronoise

Comment: M.A.K.T Sono is a duo from France, the embodiment of Magali Albespy, and Kecap Tuyul who provide a long-running issue called Tinnitus Flowers. One can hear every kind of electronic (music) experiments and manipulations subjugated to different pitches and speeds and phase changes. It may be not correct to speak of it as the music given that the sound represented over there is overtly sparse and abstract. It seems to be more about sonic signals one can yield while extracting a sound at a sampler pad and then manipulating it within the scope of peripheral frequencies (which is just a fallout of the previous sound). However, as usual, radically built-up issues used to provide some interludes which create an intriguing counterpoint to prevalent debris. In the first part there are up some buffoonish melody progressions, however, which soon get warped and assimilated into the predominant madness of exploring the physical entities of the sound. Later on, there are also represented some droning whiffs resembling of some woodwind instruments and sonic blinking whose sound and handling otherwise could be quite extreme (but not in the case of a signal-spiked outing). I can remember for listening to an anthology of noise and electronic music by Sub Rosa which included such legendary composers as Konrad Boehmer, Ryoji Ikeda, Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varése, Henri Pousseur and I guess in further future any of these three tracks would be considered as a part in a glorious history of experimental electronic music and noise. The overwhelming issue is a part of the discography of Pan Y Rosas Discos.

[Teaser of the day] Motor 166 - bih02hg

Noise-Joy

• Noise
• Experimentalism
• Chiptune
• Electronic music
• Tracker music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Motor 166

Release: Painkillers In My Coffee

Label: Noise-Joy

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Mikk Rebane - Strng

Phonocake

• Ambient pop
• Downtempo
• Ulmetronica
• Electronic music
• Chilltronica

Artist: Mikk Rebane

Release: Between

Label: Phonocake

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Microloop - Thousands Of Little Pieces

Atro-Fact

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

Artist: Microloop

Release: Almost A Decade

Label: Atro-Fact

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Dust Mill - Weird

Sirona-Records

• Electronic music
• EBM
• Electro-rock
• Synth-rock

Artist: Dust Mill

Release: Post-Past EP

Label: Sirona-Records/Completely Gone/God Hates God/Murmure Intemporel

Year: 2017

FuneralPhobia/Mal Aliento/ Scythes Of Evil – Dead Noise Raw (2019)

Skitnaste

Podreira

Bandcamp

• Brutal metal 
• Black metal 
• Extreme metal 
• Trash metal

Comment: it is a bizarre triple format by Podreira Records and Skitnaste Records in embracing three artists, one of them providing five compositions, and the rest ones just one composition. However, the whole time set clocks in at a 15 minute. The point is that PersonalPhobia's tracks used to come up to one minute only. Scythes Of Evil's composition R - A - W is a 5-minute roundabout based on a virtually unchanged yet ominously enchanting drum machine pattern being adorned with reverberant shrieks and moaning. I would not surprised at all if it was produced by Steve Reich, or La Monte Young, for instance. FuneralPhobia's set is a convincing halfway between trash and black metal. Mal Aliento's Untitled Screams is the different story although relative to the two aforementioned artists. It is full of blasting noises and exaggerated screams and kit drums thereof ultimately producing some sort of inferior blackened secret rather resembling black metal in a quite bent way. It is like eating mud with the ears. Very mind-provoking.

La Houle – Première Vague (2017/2018)

Beko DSL
Bandcamp

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

Comment: La Houle is the duo of Simon Sockeel and Geoffrey Papin though by listening to this 10-notch outing it would be honest to admit Clementine Blue's remarkable role by adding her enchanting female vocal to the mix. In overall, it is a gentle nugaze/shoegaze album with groovy keyboards and celestial guitar noises and the aforementioned female and male mixed vocals. All the lyrics are represented in French thus making definitely some difference and adding some welcome exotics. A strong thread on this release is to build up from quiet elements into an eargasmic tumult and some tracks result in overtly dance-appealed frequencies. In other words, its absolute sum is definitely bigger than the sum of its initial parts because one get hit by an invigorating synergy. At times it chimes in a kind of symphonic way. In truth, it is a modern counterpart of symphonic music. Truly beautiful in its bliss being released on Beko DSL, another indie stalwart from France.

Khonnor – Lost Pets EP (2003)

Please Do Something

• Indietronica 
• Art pop 
• Avant-pop 
• Electronic music 
• IDM 
• Experimental pop

Comment: inarguably Khonnor's magnum opus Handwriting was one of the best things what happened 15 years ago. It was a subtle blend of hiss-filled indie melodies, gritty programmed beats and somehow metallic/abrasive effects and lush synthesised orchestrations. In a word, the rough and gentle elements were seamlessly bound to each other while being effectively propelled by arousing harmonies and melodies. A year before it Connor Kirby-Long did release an EP called Lost Pets on Please Do Something. It can be said the predecessor of 6 tracks may seem a bit more unsettled yet maybe it is more righteous to consider it just an electronic issue, more profoundly, IDM-esque ticking embellished with some explosive moments being surrounded by experiments of hiss sounds and wide extended orchestrations and some vowel and singing undercurrents but it lacks a recognizable indie guitar element. In a word, it is a gentle release full of space, light and shades.

[Teaser of the day] Fucksia - Here I Am

Yo! Netlabel

• Microtonal
• Art pop
• Minimalism
• Drone pop
• Electronic music
• Ambient

Artist: Fucksia

Release: Il Piccolo Cinema Di Beseno

Label: Yo! Netlabel

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Nick Haggard - Total Harmonic Distortion

Torn Flesh

• Cybermetal
• Electro-metal
• EBM
• Industrial metal

Artist: Nick Haggard

Release: Glitch

Label: Torn Flesh

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Buccc - Let Me

u|torn

• Kosmische Musik
• Ambient pop
• Hip-hop
• Electronic music

Artist: Buccc

Release: Five Minutes In Space

Label: u|torn

Year: 2010

Leon – Philosophy (2018)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Nu jazz 
• Cinematic 
• Sampledelic 
• Acid jazz 
• Mood music

Comment: this bunch of 5 compositions seems to be suitable for listening to it on a hot summer day. The Mancunian Lofi.Leon (he describes himself in that way at Soundcloud) provides lazy, sun-stricken yet yawning trumpet whiffs being intertwined with dreamy female vowels and enchanting electric piano chords. At times the piano chords are traded for slightly warped string-based chords and as usual being supported by skiddy rhythmic patterns (if you wish it could be called lo-fi by their nature). There are up some funny titles like My Friend Went To South And Came Back With A Beard. Could you imagine such a sort of musical style with such a title? Thereafter you have listened to it for many times you will do it. Frequently it reminds me of another excellent artist called Mentz (who similarly likes to compose short-running tracks). The marvellous outing is a part of the discography of Dusted Wax Kingdom.

[Teaser of the day] Daniele Ciullini - Empty Factory

• Post-industrial
• Dark ambient
• Epic
• Avant-garde
• Electronic music
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism

Artist: Daniele Ciullini

Release: Forgotten Monuments

Label: Statto Elettrico/Nostalgie De La Boue

Year: 2017  

[Teaser of the day] back to Newc45tle - Transmission End

• Electronic music
• Kraut-electro
• Synth-punk
• Alternative dance
• Art punk

Artist: back to Newc45tle

Release: Lost Causality

Label: COUCOU Micromusic 

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Paul Minesweeper - White Swarm

Archive.org

• Dark wave
• Epic
• Darkgaze
• Ethereal Wave
• Drone rock
• Doomgaze
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Post-metal
• Crossover

Artist: Paul Minesweeper

Release: White Swarm

Label: DNA Production

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Mark Harp - Perfect

• Micronoise
• Clicks`n`cuts
• Experimentalism
• Post-industrial
• Sampledelic
• Psycho-acoustic
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde

Artist: Mark Harp

Release: Morning Tea (Various Artists)

Label: Genetic Trance

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Severo - Herança do Homem

• World music
• Dance rock
• Tropicàlia
• Art rock
• Funk rock
• Psych-rock

Artist: Severo

Release: Suor, Violento Precário

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Die Stille - Time To Leave

45RPM-Records

• Electronic pop
• Ambient pop
• Alternative dance
• Chilltronica
• Psybient

Artist: Die Stille

Release: Mirror

Label: 45RPM-Records

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Tiny Rockets - The Horror

• Psych-metal
• Space rock
• Acid metal
• Post-grunge

Artist: Tiny Rockets

Release: The Lost Machine

Label: Shotgun Charlie

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] The Home Stretch - Scream On

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Shoegaze
• Psych-rock
• Spoken word

Artist: The Home Stretch

Release: The Rake 

Label: Giant Manilow

Year: 2014

Melmac – Rambo Rantanplan (2017)

Hinah

Archive.org

• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Improvised music 
• Free jazz 
• Drone rock 
• Space rock  
• Psych-rock 
• Trance rock

Comment: these 1339 seconds as one composition by a French quartet called Melmac used to unveil something mind-provoking and emotionally arousing through slow progressions on guitars, drums, saxophones, and electronics. However, one can hear multifold progressions and improvisations at the same time. It meets at a crossroad of space rock, free jazz, post-rock and knee-deep improvisations. Regarding jazz it provides many forms under the umbrella – from noisy frantic progressions to more complicated modal jazz developments. By rock music side it embraces many forms of experimental rock – from India-alike meditative droning and enchanting semi-orchestrations and repetitive magic and spaced-out psychedelic apotheosis. One can figure out parallels with such a wide scope of artists as Spiritualized, John Coltrane, Borbetomagus, GY!BE. This spellbinding outing is a bit of the discography of Hinah.

Scanner – Lost At Sea (2019)

Bandcamp

• Ambient 
• Conceptual 
• Spoken word 
• Electronic music 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording

Comment: these long-running compositions – one of them extending up to a 25 minute and another up to an 18 minute – embrace telling stories by Scottish fishermen (with their own local English accent, of course) which in turn are surrounded by soothing ambient sounds which in turn consisting of layers of natural sounds, lofty trumpet whiffs, and resonant effects occasionally. At times Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner (also known from such a group as Githead) adds sublime treatments of ocean-related folk songs to the blend. He joined forces with pupils (who provide a part of voices additionally to a part of a local retired fisherman, Ronnie Hughes) of Waid Academy in Anstruther to create an accomplished memorial in sound for men of the East Neuk fishing industry once lost at sea. I guess it was a great honour for the local fishermen and their families to be rewarded by such a renowned musician. Top stuff.

[Teaser of the day] Hanetration - Zygni

• Electronic music
• Contemporary classical
• Piano music
• Experimental electronica
• Drone
• Improvised music
• Crossover
• Micronoise

Artist: Hanetration

Release: Gavia EP 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Shaolin Dub - Destroyer

Free Music Archive

• Hip-hop
• Rap
• Post-dubstep
• Electronic music
• Grime
• Crossover

Artist: Shaolin Dub

Release: New Normals

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2019

Giuseppe Pascucci, Vito Pesce – Nikola, Was Right! (2019)

Plus Timbre

• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Guitar ambient
• Art music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Drone rock

Comment: it can be seen on the site of Plus Timbre that Italian duo Giuseppe Pascucci, and Vito Pesce did release a couple of albums (Humansaurs, and Nikola, Was Right!) on 3rd of February, 2019. The last mentioned issue can be admitted by straddling on a mindset of electro-acoustic and experimental rock and improvised music. These 6 compositions are imbued with reverberant echoes and abrasive guitar chords and playful guitar patterns (one can hear lots of iterative sounds, droning, and minimal phase shifts from one chord to be transmitted into another one). Both artists employ a guitar and effect devices around it. Otherwise one could think of electronics and synthesisers added to the mix. I can remember for another Italian guitar magician Gaetano Fontanazza whose album The Grandpa Lullabies (2018, Sucu Music) was also treated with guitars only though one can perceive electronic segments within it. In a nutshell, the whole is truly worth to be listened to. What could I add but let's listen to Humansaurs either.

[Teaser of the day] Molven - Lights From Inside

Laverna

• Electronic music
• Ambient pop
• Dream pop
• Art pop
• Shoegazetronica

Artist: Molven  

Release: Network  

Label: Laverna

Year: 2013  

[Teaser of the day] Ataraxia Rebel Force - Maximum Heat

Jamendo

• Electronic music
• Tech-house
• Post-disco
• House
• Club dance
• Techno

Artist: Ataraxia Rebel Force

Release: Big Shadow EP

Label: Jamendo/17 Sons/Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Rob Steady - Tremplin a chenille

12rec.

• Glitchtronica
• Sound collage
• Sampledelic
• Microhouse
• Cut and paste
• Electronic music

Artist: Rob Steady

Release: Ask No Lies

Label: 12rec.

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Monks Of Doom - Ukrainian Technological Faith Dance

NYCTaper

• Alternative rock
• Psych-rock
• Blues rock
• Live
• Math rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Monks Of Doom

Release: May 23, 2018 Berlin NYC

Label: NYCTaper/Live Music Archive

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Asian Women on the Telephone - Tooptsar

• Avant-rock
• No Wave
• Krautrock
• Post-punk
• New Wave
• Experimental rock

Artist: Asian Women on the Telephone

Release: SO WOT

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Cousin Silas – Memories Of A Journey (2016)

Batenim

• Ambient 
• Soundscape 
• Microtonal 
• Drone 
• Minimalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Experimentalism 
• Space music 
• Ambient rock 
• Ambient drone 
• Guitar ambient 
• Post-classical

Comment: the 60-year-old Englishman David Hughes aka Cousin Silas is being known as a guitarist who likes to create (and extend) soundscapes for wide and broad and profound. He has been a prolific artist whose number of works in frequency can only be compared with an Israeli artist, Wings Of An Angel. Despite the minimal nature of work his soundscapes seem to be filled in with an internal burning as if longing for something out of reach. One can move toward it yet one can never catch it. In a word, it is intimidating and appealing at the same time. Secondly, despite the minimal nature of work all the changes to have appeared during this long-running course conjure up tectonic changes in the listener's mood and imagination. Not only guitars have been managed to play tricks on a listener's mood and mind but also superficial dissonant flickers and beatific vibrations add a drift into another direction. At One Note it is not stylistically far away from such a genius as Robert Fripp. After such an issue it can be admitted the genius nature of David Hughes. By kindred souls it can also be drawn comparisons with such artists as Bing Satellites, Riccardo Cirani, Drew Miller aka Brother Saturn, Gaetano Fontanazza, Nick Nightingale, Stephen Briggs. This superb audio photograph is a part of the discography of the Batenim Netlabel.