Crowns in the Rain – Ashes from the Past (2018)

Hortus Conclusus

Bandcamp

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

Comment: this bunch of 11 compositions comes neither from The United States of America, Great Britain, Canada nor any other outstanding post-rock countries but instead of it an Iranian quintet is behind this masterpiece. Fortunately the music (and recent double album embracing a couple of recuperative live performances as well) is not succumbed to the sanctions (much thanks to Italian imprint Hortus Conclusus). The nucleus of these long-running tracks is based on slow picturesque developments as if depicting a full-fledged autumn full of bright colours and contrast between warmth and chill. And if there is the autumn around there is also some sort of purgative sadness around. The purpose of post-rock, I mean the main branch of it, consisting of massive guitar-induced sound masses and flirtation with eargasmic crescendos, has rarely had to deal with sonic alchemy on its own. It's purpose has been to provide tour de forces, it is like achieving happiness as a process comprising movement from one point to the next one and so on until once one will feel nirvana and absence of suffer in his/her mind and spirit. Yet clarified sadness and light melancholy may be important premises in achieving ennobling happy sensations. Technically post-rock is a multifaceted genre where one can perceive rolling and orchestrated guitars, bold bass lines and rumbling drums to create new ways to fasten and sometime start destroying and rebuilding them. In some ways it is a sort of polyphonic music where instruments are played and modified in their own way yet all the stuff ultimately will constitute a sublime coherent whole even though all of that may run at different speeds at a time. Additionally to happiness as mentioned already above beauty as a phenomenon either seems to be a compound one – one beatific sensation is magnified by another until one can consider it to be overwhelming. It can freely be discerned in music, probably at most. This is an enchanting pickup by including many layers emotively and artistically.

[Teaser of the day] Matador de Senador - 1

• Noise rock
• No Wave
• Avant-rock
• Improvised music
• Dada music
• Experimental rock
• Freeformfreakout

Artist: Matador de Senador
Release: Matador de Senador
Label: Seminal

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Sebastian Albrecht - Drop

• Techno
• Deep techno
• Electronic music

Artist: Sebastian Albrecht

Release: Panorama EP

Label: Micromod Music

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Wasa - Artù

• Post-hardcore
• Emocore
• Alternative rock

Artist: Wasa

Release: Corteccia

Label: Longrail

Year: 2019

Erich Schall – No.7 (2017)

Phonocake

• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Ethnotronica 
• Deep house 
• Musique concrète 
• Organic electronica 
• Dub house 
• Minimal techno 
• Tech-house 
• Minimal synth

Comment: this bunch of 8 tracks contains lots of sublime moments throughout the vibrant course because a prolific German producer called Erich Schall (also being known from a group, Drehkommando) provides different patterns and mixtures though mainly based on house, techno and dub-induced frequencies and combinations. Additionally he plays with concrete sounds, most evidently and in the most exuberant way at Club Birds; the album embarks on an elegantly messy piano chord shuffle at Static Ram where a bit of aggressiveness dissolves to transform into profound nocturnal house vibes with remote dub reverberations at Night Prism. Gentle noises to be panning here and there used to add an extra gritty ingredient to the whole. At Usha Flute he mixes the predominant minimal, even obsessive techno treatment with ethno-tinged female singing and New Age-y flute whiffs. Contra Vs. Melo is a dynamical, catchy sway between obsessive tech-house and minimal synth(-pop) developments. Anyway, all the aforementioned dissents do not balkanize the whole, on the contrary, one can perceive of how the whole keeps growing on you with any next listening time due to its unfathomable depth based on the aforementioned omnium-gatherum. Erich Schall has done lots of tenures under different imprints, mostly being involved in the discography of such ones as basic_sounds, Der Kleine Grüne Würfel, Insectorama, and INFEKTUS yet this one comes out of another respected and senior weblabel called Phonocake being active since the beginning of the 00s. These decent compositions remind of those old good days with regard to the activities of such imprints as Thinner, Epsilonlab, and Humanworkshop, the releases of the ones still stand up 15-20 years on.

KieLoBot – Hounds of Darkmoor (2017)

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• Krautrock 
• Psych-rock 
• Art rock 
• Funk rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Indie rock 
• Pop rock 
• Lad rock

Comment: KieLoBot is a Göppingen, German group (Lobo Loco, and Kieli Cat) who has issued a handful of releases so far. They sing in their native language being mostly backed up by easy arrangements as if set up on the next day followed by a heavy booze-up night. Not yet ready and having no intention to provide something serious and profound but instead of it doing joyous lad pop/rock numbers with occasional hints at funk, reggae and smooth jazz. As if getting billed somewhere in a pub to gig a careless stint. Later on, let's take some steps further, regarding impressive Krautrock progressions over there it will remind of some late performances by CAN where additionally to the music and the band were also represented a joggler on the stage. Something similarly inconsistent feels can be felt throughout this course of 11 tracks. However, Wirklich Wichtig Electromix, self-titled track and Tanzen are true gems with analytical approach more depth to be added and gone into both hypnotic funk and spaced-out spheres. You can find out the combo's albums at Free Music Archive, and Bandcamp.

(029) – Black Files (2019)

Soisloscerdos

Bandcamp

Archive.org

• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Industrial techno 
• Dark electro 
• Tech-electro

Comment: ...white files...blue files...black files. Indeed, rhythmic algorithms to be brought life with a blackened accent being superimposed upon an austere and minimal techno idea, which separately on its own way is all but merry either. It is pessimistically mechanical, i.e determined on programming as if emitting the sort of dystopian sadness followed by the grasp of impending apocalypse and havoc depending on the human being at long last. Industrial machine, otherwise it can also be called industrialised death/suicide machine goes on and on with people having neither wish nor hope to stop it. We continue talking about the rates in economy, about market situations and business speculations which in nature do have no matter anymore. All what is going around it is the final danse macabre, the smart and cynical ones have figured it out, the dumb ones not yet. At Dirty Hands a listener can imagine the silent snarl of Grim Reaper who is immediately ready to finish final seconds of dancing with the human being. At the end of the tunnel one can see grayish light regarding the cover print yet it is even more dystopian than getting into blackened light. The outing is a bit in the discography of Soisloscerdos.

[Teaser of the day] Insula - Carry

• Post-hardcore
• Screamo
• Angst rock
• Post-rock
• Crossover

Artist: Insula

Release: s/t

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Concrete Swords - Fifty Four

Dystopiaq

• Electronic music
• Ambient techno
• Downtempo

Artist: Concrete Swords 

Release: Unbalanced EP

Label: Dystopiaq

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Provote - Il' je vedro il' oblacno

Faturenet

• World music
• Drum and bass
• Breakbeat
• Ethnotronica
• Electronic music

Artist: Provote

Release: Feed the Devil, Make a Deal EP

Label: Faturenet Recordings

Year: 2010

Cousin Silas – Twang 002 (2018)

We Are All Ghosts

Bandcamp

• Ambient
• Drone 
• Microtonal 
• Ambient drone 
• Progressive rock 
• Dark ambient 
• Epic 
• New Age 
• Art music 
• Electronic music

Comment: the Englishman Cousin Silas (born 1959) who does have a solid post-punk and new wave background continues to put up his magical alchemy consisting of gentle reverberant drones and extended ambient soundscapes which at times come close to atmospheric glimpses of progressive rock either. More detailedly, it does mean more vivid and picturesque guitar arcs have been drawn on top of soundscapes. At times the script of the artist changes into a more New Age-y nature with intense colours of northern lights and smouldering flames of implacable music following some sort of glass bead game. Thirdly, Dimension X is the distinctive exception of electronic and electro-acoustic obsession as if put out through warped wires and defective coils. That enchanting glimpse in Cousin Silas' vast discography is also a subsequent part of the one of We Are All Ghosts (by the way, in the very recent days a next brand new one was created and issued by the two, respectively).

Scouts Of Uzbekistan – Aimless And Drifting (2018)

Year Zero

• Kosmische Musik 
• Plunderphonics 
• Sampledelic 
• Electronic music 
• Avant-rock 
• Krautrock 
• Sound collage 
• Noise rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Spoken word

Comment: it is another heavily synthesiser and an old Akai-driven transgressive album to get commented over there today yet it does have a little to do with the genre called synth-pop. Similarly to The Flaming Lips who used lots of uncanny electronic applications and synthesised stuff to create marvellous Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002), or Primal Scream's outstanding ones Vanishing Point (1997), and Evil Heat (2002). Two previous releases by Scouts of Uzbekistan (Mark Carolan, Johnny Zchivago) being represented earlier at RMH, the self-titled outing (2011), and Hate Is Our Religion (2016) were stylistically from a different section, however, with regard to their cutting-edge method and intention of course I don't dare to bet though. At times it chimes like an obscure example from the downright tape underground of the 80s, for instance, regarding such a combo as Big City Orchestra by turning the initial meaning of spoken word samples upside down by giving them an ambivalent meaning or emitting a disorienting madness. At times it rings like a Kosmische Musik tinged shuttle ready to start into a heavily iterative and blissful chaos of squeaky sounds and undulating space. Behind the chaos fractals start to appear as soon as one can digest this whole of 10 compositions (it does mean a listener must do at least a couple of revs across the enchanting orbit).The title track is about Lord, about its characteristics in human terms and then stepwise progressing into a creepy guitar-induced noise symphony. The mind-provoking release is a notch of the discography of Year Zero. A best one of 2018.

Chin Yi – Sanguinem Mitto (2013)

Miga

La Gramola

Bandcamp

• Post-punk 
• Avant-punk 
• No Wave 
• Dance punk 
• Art punk 
• Electroclash 
• Electro-punk 
• Electronic 
• Alternative dance

Comment: this bunch of 6 tracks released by a Granda, Spain-based combo (Pablo Medina (guitar and voice), Vicente Jiménez (bass and guitar), Carlos Gimeno (drums) and Marta Corchs (synths) on Miga Label, and La Gramola Netlabel is a smooth drift between the raucous, insinuating spirit of Mark E Smith (especially at tracks like A Vissen, and Unus through the singing manner, voice timbre and more experimental, dissonant compositional approach), and a synth-punk and electroclash (indeed, the past being externalised through such combos as Searchers, Tuxedomoon, Devo and The Screamers which foresaw its future, and now both temporal categories on their respective sonorous appearances are organically crystallised at one and the same place). Paradoxically, it is great that MES`s spirit and legacy continues living through a thousands of ensembles though the Mancunian legend would certainly hate the cases of similarity based on The Fall. On the other side, all the aforementioned back then in the 70s went on uncompromisingly experimental and artsy rather than poppy and hedonistic. All that power and intriguing arrangements can be heard from within this whole. Very pro.

[Teaser of the day] Guitarrorism - If Hope Is Burried In The Vorgarten

Clinical Archives

• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: Guitarrorism

Release: Gretchen

Label: Clinical Archives 

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Muhr - Dessous le mur de planck

Archive.org

• Art music
• Experimental pop
• Electronic music
• Ambient
• Avant-pop

Artist: Muhr

Release: Farewell Anthology

Label: Free Music Archive/Archive.org

Year: 2009

Momus – Voyager (1992)

Ubuweb

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

Comment: Nick Currie aka Momus had released six long players in the while of 1987-1993 for Creation Records and some decades later decided to upload them at Ubuweb for free download. I can remember for listening to a Creation Records compilation of two discs and I could not find out any tracks from the three most important artists from the roster – My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and Momus. At least the first two ones have proven to be historically the most influential (the impact and reverence to them), their albums are not being articles in second hand shops like the albums of a poor man's Beatles as it strikingly happened after the mass hysteria had been calmed down in 1997. Nick Currie was way too sophisticated and ironic and contemplative to be somehow a mainstream pop icon. Especially if his music could be compared with Pet Shop Boys as if reflecting it through a twisted mirror and on other hand because Momus' sound was more profound, catchy and providing more credibility. In a word, the ideal appearance of PSB. Furthermore, Nick Currie can be considered one of the most honest and prophetic artists at all. Voyager was the penultimate within the discography by offering glimpses into different topics like virtual reality and digital revolution, mirthless life situations and expectations and impending apocalypse. Implications of diving into simulacra, and alienation and silly escape on drugs and frantic behaviour are still relevant and will be more desperate in the future. Great (pop) work.

dessktop – Selsey Bill EP (2008)

Rack & Ruin

dessktop

• Organcore 
• Lo-fi 
• Drone pop
• Improvised music 
• DIY 
• Bedroom music 
• Electronic 
• Psych-pop

Comment: Selsey Bill EP was the first sonorous appearance by Robby Massey aka dessktop, an artist who did have like to record in the bedroom (or at least at home). Later on, he would have released such issues as Kirpi EP, Galleon Quilt, and Voicemeal EP and also the Split EP in liaison with Tiny Feathers all along at Rack & Ruin Records, one of the most important imprints who (in the embodiment of Dean Birkett as the head of the records) picked up grassroot/home recording musicians to be allowed to get some focus on them. If you wish one can find out my interview with him on this site. Fortunately almost all the outings of the imprint are still nicely up on the home site (unlike many other imprints from the period of the end of the 00s/ beginning of the 10s who and whose artists have just tracelessly disappeared. For instance, Holiday Records and its artists as Bonfire Kids, Young Michelin, Victory VIII etc). This handful of primitive compositions (RRR012) is something being conjured up on such instruments as a xylophone, an Indian flute, an Indian bass drum, toy accordion, a couple of acoustic guitars, a melodica, a Casio synthesizer and his vocal. I guess most of the instruments can be distinguished from one another over there to create a frantic blend of drones, glockenspiel plays based on an awkward yet charming scale of notes and key changes. At times it is emotionally heated up, then he gets calmed down and at times the sound disappears as if a river meandering inside the desert just vanishes at one moment. Robby Massey once mentioned that he had been improvising for hours on different instruments to discover and conjure up new motives. Regarded I can only agree with him the music is hard thing to get ultimately accomplished. Secondly, it seems to be a fight between managed songcraft and free improvisation to have provided welcome tension within the creative process. Yeah, it is a little bit more than just an intriguing lo-fi release (although the following outings did it even more) it is also a worth legacy of the aforementioned frenetic era.

[Teaser of the day] I/DEX - Arc_06

• Ambient rock
• Experimental rock
• Glitchtronica
• Electronic
• Improvised music
• Post-rock
• Avant-rock

Artist: I/DEX

Release: ARC 

Label: Foundamental

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] My Bubba & Mi - I Will Never Love A Young Boy Again

Jamendo

• Folk
• Oldie music
• Appalachain music
• Indie folk

Artist: My Bubba & Mi

Release: How it’s done in Italy

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Sarah June - Brand of Bitterness (shoegaze mix)

Silber

• Experimental rock
• Post-rock
• Ambient rock
• Avant-rock
• Shoegaze

Artist: Sarah June

Release: Beneath Black Robes

Label: Silber

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Mart Avi - Here Future Smells Like Perfume

• Singer-songwriter
• Post-pop
• Experimental pop
• Ambient pop
• Electronic music
• Art pop
• Avant-pop
• Sophisti-pop

Artist: Mart Avi

Release: OtherWorld

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Lowpines - Heavy hander

• Indie pop
• Alternative pop
• Dream pop

Artist: Lowpines

Release: Give Me A Horse

Label: EardrumsPop

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Jacquy Bitch - Les Enfants damnes

Zorch Factory

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

Artist: Jacquy Bitch

Release: Zoundbies Vol.1

Label: Zorch Factory

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Sonic Deadhorse - Boring Song no.353

• Art rock
• Progressive rock
• Ambient rock
• Post-rock

Artist: Sonic Deadhorse

Release: Hard Works for Shits - Film score & Remix select Volume1

Label: Sociopath

Year: 2015 

[Teaser of the day] Wilco - Box Full of Letters (Live at Solid Sound '19 - Night 2)

Nyctaper

• Live
• Rock
• Americana
• Folk rock

Artist: Wilco

Release: June 29, 2019 Solid Sound Festival

Label: Nyctaper

Year: 2019

Whalt Thisney – ThisIsNotThis (2019)

Aumega Project

• Modern classical 
• Post-classical 
• Epic 
• Experimental electronica 
• Ambient 
• Glitchtronica 
• Avant-garde 
• Art music 
• Experimentalism

Comment: by bicycling today (30 kilometres in total, 24.1 km/h avs, cross-country and asphalt) I was thinking of how important it is to keep pace in life with different kind of activities like sporting, making and listening to music, reading books, eating etc. Additionally and pertinently, to find out perfect symbiosis between the doings and decisions with enough power to back it all up it could be a formula of happiness. However, before riding the bicycle I was listening to the prolific Portuguese artist Whalt Thisney's subsequent outing ThisIsNotThis, a sequel to WalkThisWay (2019, Batenim) which was a smooth bound of glitches, lone piano chords dropping around here and there, atmospheric layers of electronics and orchestrated music constituting lofty arcs atop. At times a listener can perceive ominous tectonic waves to be scaling throughout the rest of the sound from the bottom . It was a sort of ideal music where moody impressions and artsy ambitions were perfectly counterbalanced at large. In fact, the former did grow out from the latter and then both did supplement one another. All the same can be said about ThisIsNotThis with some exceptions. The recent one is devoid of chanting/spoken word interventions and provides instead of organic/concrete sounds a little bit more vivid glitches in depth and more glitched-out overdrives to variegate the soundscape. Do we need split hairs, though? ThisIsNotThis is a bit less dreamy and soaked in reveries. In any case, deeply rooted in its previous releases with a dollop of changes on a new album this is the way of how an artist could crystallise its oeuvre. It is called the path of an artist. What else could be added but to make acquaintance with the artist's very brand new one This Imagination Machine being issued a couple of days ago. Top tier by any means being released on a German imprint, Aumega Project.

Stillborn Blues – III (2018)

Eg0cide

Archive.org

Bandcamp

• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Art music 
• DIY 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-blues

Comment: it is said at Lastfm site that Stillborn Blues isn't blues but minimalist, awkward, melancholic and lo-fi prepared/detuned guitar pieces played in the dark with too much delay and reverb. Even if it is a honest (self)-confession a listener can find out many layers and gushes of emotions bursting out of this 12-track outing. Musically the whole can be compared with such a cutting-edge guitar juggernaut as Loren Mazzacane Connors whose music is also not being considered blues yet by the experimental musician's own words all he owns musically is due to blues. And also obsessive, dissonant guitar treatments by Fred Frith appear to come to mind after the endless of flow of variegated moods and emotions – from laid-back and halcyon to highly tumultuous, aggressively spaced-out threads. All of that is a dynamical format of dichotomy between chaos and fining, between pain and endorphin-enriched peace. The artist eschews some natural characteristics of experimental music, for example, avoiding progressing into drawn-out improvisations. However, even without it, all these short compositions constitute a dynamical, seamless whole. Although being truly wrung out and stoned for the listener it chimes somehow very archetypical and deeply rooted in the tradition of rock music and because of that I dare to call it a sort of blues as the initial spore of it. The artist's music is anchored over there yet he deconstructs it in different ways. It is all about downright experimentation and invention, about simplicity and intention of giving no damn. No self-indulgence. Some sort of massiveness. It is an instance of true black power which leads the c(o)urse. The impressive outing is a notch in the discography of Eg0cide.

[Teaser of the day] Atlas Sound - Modern Aquatic Nightsongs

Southern Shelter

• Indie folk
• Avant-folk
• Americana
• Improvised music
• Ambient folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Folk indie
• Experimental folk
• Art folk

Artist: Atlas Sound

Release: Athfest Main Stage 2012-06-22

Label: Southern Shelter

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Violeta Päivänkakkara - Minä Myös

• Dream folk
• Lo-fi
• Folk indie
• New Weird Finland
• Forest folk
• DIY
• Singer-songwriter
• Experimental folk
• Indie folk

Artist: Violeta Päivänkakkara

Release: Pimeässä

Label: elementperspective

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Virt - Put Out A Fire And Get Stoned

Peppermill

• Chiptune
• Tracker music
• Bitpop
• Electro pop
• Nintendocore
• 8-bit
• Electronic music
• Chipbreak

Artist: Virt

Release: pm08

Label: Peppermill

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Plumerai - Mortality

Silber

• Indie pop/rock
• Dream pop
• Alternative pop/rock
• Slowcore
• Noise pop

Artist: Plumerai

Release: Marco Polo

Label: Silber

Year: 2012

Baradit – Revolución Tecnológica (2019)

Pueblo Nuevo

• Synth-pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Electronic music 
• Electro pop 
• Kraut-electro

Comment: On the sleeve of this 8-track outing being released on the Chilean imprint Pueblo Nuevo is depicted a stylophone, the miniature stylus-operated keyboard which was invented in 1967 by Brian Jarvis and introduced by such luminaries as John Lennon, David Bowie and Kraftwerk. In principle, the instrument conjures up a buzzing, thick drone-drenched sound. Additionally, the old and analogue electronic keyboards undergo a renaissance. All what is closely related to the music I guess it can be considered acceptable regarding technological progression and mechanical triumph. Or can we in fact? For instance, in the USSR the military complex built up synthesizers at idle time. It is like laundering money to have a spotless, moral outlook. By philosopher Lewis Mumford the aforementioned mechanical triumph has gone on side by side with social distraction regarding a historical horizon. We are subjugated to such confused pragmatic abstractions as money and credit and certain kinds of political systems we used to think of them as things on their own or as clear realities though they are strictly human related and thereby contingent. All that bad happened because of having no counterbalance to the technological triumph. We ardently used to believe in that by avoiding thinking of possible adverse effects. The sort of inferior stuff which is considered superior than the phenomena deserve to be. It is the reason why the moral life and principles deteriorate because the people are stupid enough by having no common sense to distinguish the real entities from the sphere called doxa if to employ the terminology of Plato. Indeed, we are still living in a cave where shades overwhelm our senses. Could it be said about the music as well I would like to say no. Music and the art in general leap over the progressions and regressions, over the ebbs and tides by avoiding instrumental values of which final purpose and real nature may be quite unclear and even self-destructive at worst. Baradit's release is a fine example of poppy tendencies and smooth compositional threads by getting formally inspiration from the 80s synthetic aesthetic and on the other side being cranked up by the stimulus of krautrock, the style of being analogous to the belief in an endless motion. Of course, the real idea can be perceived by listening to old krautrock releases, today's formats and ideas are quite petrified just by following some remote echoes of the idea of the style. In a word, it is a retrospective, enjoyable listening.

Discontinuation Of Treatment – A Deep Remorse (2019)

GufoRecords

Archive.org

• Post-punk 
• Synthwave 
• Alternative rock 
• Gothic rock 
• Experimental electronica 
• Art punk 
• Electronic music 
• Avant-garde 
• Spoken word 
• New Wave 
• Radiophonic art 
• Avant-punk
• Experimentalism

Comment: Discontinuation Of Treatment, the combo from Italy, represents a cutting-edge vision and format and natural thought of post-punk music for the pleasure of genuine melomans. Differently from punk as the stemming genre post-punk as the branching movement (but catalysed by krautrock) was determined to keep changing by embracing different styles, unconventional rock instruments, an unlimited bunch of more or less frantic ideas. This whole of 10 pieces starts off with clear-cut yet majestic reverberant guitar-induced patterns full of longing and dreams being supported by heavy drumming and bold bass lines as something as very well-known being once created by Peter Hook, and Michael Dempsey. At times it turns into a bit more electronic mould thanks to fast beat of a drum machine. However, it is a case of new wave which arguably started off with Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division (I do not agree with it, though, because it was being quite far away from the light-hearted synthesised music of the 80s New Order would embark on). The crucial turns as immanent appearances of the genre are represented through a jungle of exaggerated glitches, digitally bent noises and uncanny iterative algorithmic emergents, littered spoken word snippets which eventually will be externalised as a sort of radiophonic art within a post-punk case. And these freaks may be vile and diabolic as if the main antagonist Killer BOB at Twin Peaks who gets fed up by his victim`s pain and sorrow. For someone I guess it may sound as analogous as seeing confused freaks at a distance. Like Leland Palmer at Twin Peaks. Listen to the ominous final track She Felt Deep Down tif you did not get the idea yet. The spellbinding outing is a part in the discography of GufoRecords.

[Teaser of the day] Mitoma - Triangle Gemini

• Ambient rock
• Experimental rock
• Electronic music
• Avant-rock
• Ambient techno
• Crossover

Artist: Mitoma

Release: Formless:EP

Label: Section 27

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Human Parser - Night Vision

MNMN

• Electronic music
• Ambient
• Epic
• Glitchtronica
• Experimental electronica
• Glitch ambient

Artist: Human Parser

Release: ITS GONNA GRAIN

Label: MNMN

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] The Royal Landscaping Society - Pictures Of You

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Cover
• Post-punk

Artist: The Royal Landscaping Society

Release: Disintegration Revisited

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Sleeping Policemen - Good Guy (Girls Night Out version)

• Twee pop
• Indie pop
• Alternative pop

Artist: Sleeping Policemen

Release: Sleeping Policemen - ePop028

Label: EardrumsPop

Year: 2012

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