[Teaser of the day] Grigoriy Nedelko - Long Haired Rock

Microbit-Records

• Lo-fi
• Psych-rock
• DIY
• Singer-songwriter
• Rock and roll
• Mock rock
• Bedroom music

Artist: Grigoriy Nedelko  

Release: MICROBIT-REC 197

Label: Microbit-Records

Year: 2013

Carcass Brook – A Good Day To Die (2018)

Death Roots Syndicate

Bandcamp

• Gothic folk 
• Americana 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Roots music 
• Appalachian music 
• Death country 
• Music hall 
• Vaudeville music

Comment: Jamie Landsborough's sophomoric album is a glimpse into Americana and roots music through murky lenses which could be described with such prefixes as "gothic", "dark", "death". Indeed, within this set of 11 compositions one can hear all the scope of profoundly America related sounds from a bit buffoonish vaudeville and music hall-induced rays to ominous noise rock and ghastly country instances. Technically it rings as if "normal" songs were played through distortion block with an additional reverb application. In fact, some compositions do sound exactly like new interpretations of oldie ones (End of the World, Crazy Fool). I have heard something like that before for sure. Given that there is no need for a gargantuan effort to create something truly otherworldly and mind-bending. Just up the ante for strong melodies and right sonic effects. It results in all being imbued with a strong emotional and emotive impact, full of sadness and grieve. It makes one`s soul to be scratched and a bit torn. Jamie Landsborough is helped by friends who mostly play electr(on)ic keyboards to add a sustainable droning effect to the mix. The relevant point is about how it works on the listener at a moment. The impressive outing is a bit in the discography of Death Roots Syndicate.

[Teaser of the day] Tiiu Kiik - CTK 811ex

• Drone pop
• Electronic music
• Ambient pop
• Art pop 
• Experimental pop
• Organcore

Artist: Tiiu Kiik

Release: Muinasjutuline teekond

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] HzHearse - Fragmented Reality

• Rhythmic noise
• Hardtechno
• Electronic music
• Breakcore
• Deep techno

Artist: HzHearse

Release: Dystopian Jungle

Label: Silent Method

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] D-Echo Project - Saz Me Up

Cyan Music

• Funk
• Electronic music
• Chilltronica
• Mood music

Artist: D-Echo Project

Release: Cine Visions

Label: Cyan Music

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Randomajestiq - Pulses of Triangle

Kikapu

• IDM
• Electronic music
• Ambient techno
• Experimentalism

Artist: Randomajestiq

Release: Spclab9 EP

Label: Kikapu

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] The Peach Tree - I`m Sorry (The Turning)

• Industrial rock
• Alternative rock
• Electro-rock
• EBM
• Crossover
• Synth-rock
• Electronic music

Artist: The Peach Tree

Release: Lift The Black Veil

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Eko Fisk - The Infiltrator

Silent Flow

• Electronic music
• Ambient
• New Age
• Ambient drone

Artist: Eko Fisk 

Release: Hypnagogia

Label: Silent Flow

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Manipulated Living - Sound Of Light

Nocharizma

• Post-rock
• Experimental rock
• Post-metal
• Epic
• Experimental metal

Artist: The Manipulated Living

Release: Prelude To Oblivion

Label: Nocharizma/Jamendo

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Malameccanica - St. Vincent

Turbinicarpus

• Cinematic
• Electronic music
• Ambient pop
• Spoken word

Artist: Malameccanica 

Release: Noli Tangere 

Label: Turbinicarpus

Year: 2010

Multi-Panel – Empty Handed (2019)

Multi-Panel

Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Duyster 
• Alternative pop 
• Indie pop 
• Electronic 
• DIY 
• Lo-fi 
• Art pop 
• Organic electronica

Comment: the Dutchman Ludo Maas is back again with his brand new album, similarly to his previous ones the 12-track outing straddles on an interface of guitar jangles and twitches, crispy electronic beats and variegated keyboards for creating melodies and blossoming orchestrations and implementing cute harmonies at low and high-ends of the breathing sonic spectrum. Sometimes the soundscape is imbued with spoken word spans, one of them poignantly reflecting upon the problem of the overpopulation of cities and in overall all around the world that is the biggest problem of nowadays of not only defending Earth and other species but also the very ethical stance to live as responsible human beings. It is at least partly inflicted by the fact the people used to live like pigs their snouts deeply stuck in the mud by taking no profound incantation about outer space and not perceiving seamless, imperative connection between this small yet important locus and tremendous cosmic village called Universe (it is much bigger than one same titled movie company could be resulted in its all possibilities I dare to say). How could we influence the course? On the base of the so-called democratic elections? No way, it is hijacked by the union of the politicians and businessmen for a century at least (they cannot be reversed from talking about GDP and economic growth) so to influence Earth and one's health for good could only be done on the grass root level, the smaller society/community is the better it is. At the final instance everybody's personal decisions make up the greatest impact. Otherwise the natural vengeance will be taken on us. Ludo Maas is celebrating with this decent (fourth) album his 20th anniversary as a musician, as a modest dweller by having been perfecting his ennobling trace (other projects: Legion of Spunky (with Mike "Stikewang" Steelman) and Background Radiation (with Tim Dwyer)).

Masayuki Imanishi – Worn Tape (2019)

Moving Furniture

• Non-music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Acousmatic music 
• Musique concrète 
• Abstract 
• Sound art

Comment: in fact, what reasonable to say about this 11-track outing by a Japanese experimental artist? It chimes like your worn home machines were in connection with contact microphones and thereafter those thin, bleak sounds coming out of them were powerfully amplified and recorded. Lots of unstable levels in electricity and voltage, lots of mechanical deviations and industrial spectres are represented over there. No waste of surrounding sounds to be implemented into a miserable everyday's glimpse of a nowadays human being. No intimate community, no close society, just living in an over-regulated and dully systematised existence with silently shrieking machines in the middle of the blocks, waste and cerebral and physical decline called the city (the so-called civilization). Let`s feel more physical hunger for as much as possible to purify and saturate your senses (at the same time as a main measure to avoiding intoxication/diminish contamination of physical, physiological and mental environment). Similarly to this outing (a piece in the discography of Moving Furniture Records) which does nothing to say just reflecting upon something repulsive and unpleasant.

Ivan Black – Aural Sketchings (2017)

Breathe Compilations

• Modern classical 
• Post-classical 
• Ambient
• Electronic music 
• Minimal synth 
• Organic electronica 
• Musique concrète 
• Art music 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Dark ambient 
• Progressive rock

Comment: Ivan Black's 23-track record Aural Sketchings conveys a bliss coming from crossing modern classical and ambient tendencies with one another or rather infrequently, trying to reach pure forms of the aforementioned genres. At times he brings forth more acidic, synthesiser-based experiments which remind of some genres like synthwave and minimal synth after the crease of post-punk started to decline and transform into different subgenres (just a few examples toward it one can find out). Thirdly, Hollow Star is a murky electro-acoustic experiment. Indeed, it is musically and by its mood a solid issue just by going on seamlessly and without any silly pretense to be somehow artsy-fartsy. Because of that I guess, a listener can discover lots of organically extended and accomplished ideas. Emotionally and emotively the best moments are related to those slightly inverted ambient compositions which seem to transcend the borders of time and space, which seem to be simultaneously here and far away (for instance, Day Dream, Adrastea, When You Are Lost, Falling For). Another striking feature is a terrain where field recordings are imbued with droning ambient beauty (Icicles). Additionally, there is also represented Kosmische Musik (In The Stream), dark ambient/dystopbient (Thebe) and spaced-out progressive rock (In The Afternoon). It is a sort of music which probably does arouse one's mind to the extent of hearing new imaginary, physically nonexistent sounds in his/her head. It is a way how sounds and fantasies interact with one another to create a phenomenon called music. I am just trying to humbly map out this wondrous outing with intention not to restrict it somehow in my personal understanding because this autarkic album is filled in with secrets which will persevere even after many listening times I have been having. So let's go on without any superimposition of words on sounds. It is a pure, sophisticated feeling. The glorious issue is a part of the discography of Breathe Compilations. 

Cousin Silas – Snowline (2017)

The Cerebral Rift

Soundcloud

• Ambient 
• Minimalism 
• Drone 
• Ambient drone 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Space music

Comment: although Cousin Silas' one-track composition of a 74 minute is very austere throughout the course it does provide a strong impact on the listener's senses and especially on imagination. Just being embedded in a spaced-out droning with some atmospheric guitar arcs and lifting up to half-orchestrated progressions at times. On the other side, just trying to resect the drone one can hear higher and lower frequencies buzzing around which melt together to provide an imagination of a space shuttle moving on a billions of miles away from Earth. Rushing on the light speed yet in the middle of that slight void it seems like staying at one and the same point and instead of it all the space used to shift in comparison to the rocket. All is relative and conditional in fact, the same can be said about the nature of the issue. All is staying and changing at the same time. And could you feel yourself as one and the same person you used to be before? I guess your perception is more saturated and the feel of reality is more lifted up than before. That's a seductive simulacrum for the human race as possible conquerors of Outer Space. However, this possibility to come to fruition is very low and thereby our obligation is to protect and sustain our beautiful planet. The fabulous outing is a part in the discography of The Cerebral Rift (more profoundly, CerebralAudio as its musical offshoot). 

Pogo – Weightless (2018)

Bandcamp

• Sampledelic 
• Plunderphonics 
• Avant-pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Shibuya-kei 
• Sound collage 
• Alternative dance

Comment: this 15-notch album is certainly a pure blessing in disguise. Its "disguised" nature comes out as twofold as a musical release and as an instance of plunderphonic music (the idea of employing other artist's music in the way to create something absolutely new and different). Given that a good plunderphonic album to be once properly produced it needs much exhaustive work to gather many fitting samples and sounds from a huge amount of cultural heritage. Musically the Australian artist Nick Bertke mixes up a fabulously lofty soundtrack of ennobling melodies and propulsive rhythms either on iterative manner or progressive mood (the uplifting cover print feeds also the fantasy of the nature of the release). Of course, there are up some sort of Japanese impressions in the vein of Shibuya-kei and atmospheric dance pop similar to the likes of Fantastic Plastic Machine, and Pizzicato 5. There are up a couple of tracks that could be added to possible ideal compilation of mine. For instance, Data & Picard, in the refrain it is repeated the phrase She-eere-Khaan, She-eere--Kha-aan in a truly blissful, mind-blowing way. With regard to catchiness the same can be said about a track entitled Trumpular (by sampling the recent president of the United States). The tiny parts constitute a big whole. Great sound, astonishing issue.

Martin Rach – Of Dust And Water (2019)

Bandcamp

• Improvised music 
• Free jazz 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Electronic music 
• Electro-acoustic

Comment: for me, Martin Rach is the most predominant experimental musician from Lithuania, he is prolific, he is consistent and obsessive in his doings. Even if he may have been searching for bordelines and extended areas but it is the case of experimental music since progressive and krautrock but reached its apotheosis through the post-punk movement. On the other side, some new experimental music threads came through jazz, more notably thanks to Sun Ra, the Coltranes, and Miles Davis (of course). In some sense, it is a lost album of John Coltrane (produced by a contemporary experimental electronic music producer) because this 6-notch outing is imbued with cacophonic, jerky saxophone progressions as if played on an unstable, a bit ruined effect block. Those saxophone modalities are surrounded by ambient, faint electro-acoustic reverberations and slightly noisy pads by giving it an arousing yet coherent touch. Very pro album being issued by the artist himself at Bandcamp.

Daniel Barbiero & Cristiano Bocci – Wooden Mirrors (2019)

Plus Timbre

Bandcamp

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

Comment: it is collaborative act between an Italian (Cristian Bocci), and American musician (Daniel Barbiero) who both play double basses in the opening composition (clocking in at a 22-minute), and Cristian Bocci only performs live electronics in the second track From a Concourse (clocking in at a 13 minute). First of all, it is a thoroughly improvised act which seemingly starts off a bit awkwardly as if searching for the intention through accidental notes and sonic combinations based on the plucked instruments. By going on, at a time, the listener can hear more contoured, channelized progressions in the embodiment of dynamic gears and semi-orchestrations which may be considered a drier version of Penguin Cafe Orchestra which are strengthened with iterative phases, phase changes and general improvised music aspects. As mentioned before, From a Concourse is the platform for electronic music within these 36 minutes which reveals a bit creepy wobbly electronic effects which do interact with vivid cello manifestos. There are up amplified echoes, loopy cello gears and ghastly shades coming out through contact microphones to eventually build up a sultry, lofty composition. There can be drawn parallels upon some works of the like of Arthur Russell, for example. The solid issue is a part of the discography of Plus Timbre.

Lavoura – Photosynthesis (2015)

Bump Foot

• Yacht pop/rock 
• Alternative pop 
• Fusion 
• Synth-pop 
• Easy listening 
• Mood music

Comment: this set of 7 tracks comes out of Brazil and it is an exquisite amalgamation of many pleasant things, from azure-tinged electronic keyboards in the vein of yacht pop, smooth jazz/fusion and synth-pop and easy listening meanderings. It may sound a bit naive (deliberately), however, it is sweet and counterbalanced with witty gears and dizzy progressions. It is retrodelic and futuristic at the same time because of reminding of the 80s, especially some bands who started producing easy listening electronic music at the time of the Moscow Olympics in the USSR (particularly in the Baltic States) yet it is vamped up with contemporary production trickery. It is freed from sweaty burden of a hard day's work within this bloody exhausting machine of slavery, it is pleasure, it is fun, it is sunshine. It is an example of constructive way of creating act by creating simultaneously emotive and artsy effect. The arousing issue is a part of the discography of a Japanese imprint, Bump Foot. Set yourself free.

Miami Vice – Lew, Czarownica i Nowa Huta (2005)

Far From Showbiz

• Alternative rock 
• Progressive rock
• Psych-rock 
• Art rock 
• Humour 
• DIY 
• Lo-fi 
• Sovietwave

Comment: by speaking about Iron Curtain-area combos either from the USSR or in Eastern Europe countries they really cannot be understood in terms of Western music and terms. Firstly, all the ideological stuff was managed by the Communist Party and intelligence services, by banning stubborn ensembles and also bringing artificially forth ones to influence the respective musical scenes and peoples` mind in general. Secondly, most countries were Slavic countries and there had been a remarkable inclination toward ethnic related stuff (partly aesthetically and partly politically) and with different temper. Thirdly, even if there had been a bit simplistic understanding of those combos as naive and out of date, however, one can find out lots of great combos from the area. If to mention just some of them, Arsenal, Keldriline Heli/Väntorel, Yuri Morozov, Zodiac, Kino, Suuk, Collage, Teisutis Macasinas, Argo, Czeslaw Niemen, In Spe, Exodus, Zvuki Mu, Władysław Komendarek, Akvarium, Nochnoi Prospekt, Kaseke and punk and indie scenes coming to the surface during the 80s (Propeller, J.M.K.E., Röövel Ööbik, Jim Arrow And The Anachrones, Vennaskond). Of course, the situation was tragic and humorous at the same time given that there were periods when using electricity in guitars and keyboards was forbidden and musicians were arrested or heavily beaten even on the streets (frequently by crooks who in turn were blackmailed by intelligence services). The positive thing in the middle of this chronic lacking in things and diversity of food was people's often incredible DIY ability just because of necessity (not because of ethical stance). Instead of equality Communist (party) leaders lived like Olympic Gods even if they called you a "comrade". The mainstream was predominant with Estrada music (in the USSR) where the only criterion to get attention was to sing mediocre ditties devoid of catchy harmonies and melodies in a shrieking manner. The more high chords you were able to reach the more attention you got nonetheless your vocal cords became finally damaged. On the other side, there were some great composers for film music soundtracks like Eduard Artemyev, Aleksandr Zatsepin, and Sven Grünberg. A Polish group called Miami Vice comes out of from a later era after Eastern bloc was collapsed. However, there is up artsy kind of music, there is up humor in words and compositions. It is from feedback-trodden hard rock outbursts to synthesised orchestrations, from primitive electronic threads to sleazy balladry. All of that seems to be done with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, it is mostly provoking by mocking decent pop song structures and employing the cacophonous elements of noise and guitar (mis)treatment and presenting unstable mental conditions through frantic singing-shouting-chanting. That's honest. However, the aforementioned temper and touch (and music coming out today from the Eastern Europe countries and being influenced by the Communism-era heritage is called Sovietwave) are finely imbued in these 14 tracks. One of the songs has been managed by using the liturgical speech of Eastern Orthodox Church. The outing is a bit in the discography of Far From Showbiz. Let's call it mock rock.

[Teaser of the day] Tony Dubshot - You`re A Fish

Soundcloud

• Dubtronica
• Electronic music
• Experimental dub
• Post-industrial

Artist: Tony Dubshot

Release: Deep

Label: Dubbhism

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Cachette A Branlette - Anders Danse

Los Emes Del Oso

• Synth-punk
• Electronic music
• Art punk
• Synthwave
• Minimal synth

Artist: Cachette A Branlette

Release: Cachette A Branlette

Label: Los Emes Del Oso/Passion Unas 

Year: 2013

Aires – Modernidade Líquida (2019)

Bandcamp

Colectivo Casa Amarela

• Drone 
• Ambient 
• Post-industrial 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Noise 
• Minimalism 
• Electronic music 
• Kosmische Musik

Comment: this batch of 4 compositions is created by Portuguese experimental musician Aires who continues keep exploring the interface between ambient, noise, drone and minimalism relied on many releases. By doing it a listener can perceive post-industrial rays to explore either delightful ambient fields and blissful Kosmische Musik terrains or more tumultuous droning and acute noisy explorations (from harsh, signal-led white noise to more gritty brown noises). There have been a thousands of constructive and destructive machines around us for a thousands of years so regarded that let's call it all Aires' (elegant) machine. It involves a restless balance between threatening, destructive glimpses of the past and of ongoing present and upcoming future and on the other side there are up pleasant possibilities which may save our existence and convey the mind to our lives.

Humbra – 1/4 Para as horas (EP) (2018)

Crooked Tree

Bandcamp

• Lo-fi 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Psych-rock 
• Blues rock 
• Noise pop

Comment: this set of 4 tracks comes out of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil by a quartet called Humbra. Melancholic jangly guitars are mingled with dreamy singing that a bit reminds of Slowdive's late period astonishing ballads like Richard, and Summer Daze though the Brazilian ensemble used to exercise otherwise with appealing abrasive bluesy guitars and suggestive hisses coming somewhere in the middle of seedy Delta blues and early Beck. In another place mild noise pop frequencies come to fruition. Lots of beautiful melodies and catchy harmonies can be heard in the meanwhile in highly  appreciated, slight DIY/lo-fi sauce. That's all we needed for. As you have already figured out you get a variegated thrill just within a course of 4 tracks. The exquisite issue is a bit in the discography of Crooked Tree Records.

Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 3 - Viva Mexico! (2019)

The Blog That Celebrates Itself

• Post-punk 
• Alternative rock 
• Coldwave 
• Indie rock 
• Krautrock 
• Hardcore 
• Art punk 
• Gothic rock 
• Psych-rock

Comment: this miscellany comes to us thanks to Brazilian imprint The Blog That Celebrates Itself. The compilation consists of 14 pieces by Mexican combos based on braveheart rocking sounds of post-punk and coldwave heritage which in turn are supported by some transgressive progressions through ambient, motorik and darkened electronic music. There are up such artists as Tajak, Pure Morning, Los Kowalski, Has a Shadow, Zeit!, The Blue Dress, Car Crash Sisters, El Shirota, Le 1991, Somewhere, Knives, Sunset Images, OCEΔNSS, and Telephone Exchange (their track Machine Learning can be considered the highpoint due to lengthy hypnotic krautrock-ish jamming). In a word, highly enjoyable gathering of ensembles and tracks.

Mela – Mela Two (2019)

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Alternative pop 
• Jazz rock 
• Mood music 
• Art pop 
• Indie pop 
• Easy listening 
• Fusion
• Post-rock 
• Downbeat 
• Crossover

Comment: this amusing bunch of 10 compositions is created by a US-based quartet, Mela consisting of Paul Sottnik (piano, celeste, vocals, acoustic guitar), Frank Valente (vibraphone, shaker, electric piano), Taylor Ford (electric bass, electric guitar), and Jake Payne (the drums). I would like to call it just a fine release of mood music/easy listening based on pastel colours via jazz, fusion and post-rock threads reminding either Miles Davis from the end of the 60s or the sublime outlooks of Tortoise and The Sea And Cake from more recent times. Thirdly, it reminds of bright elements of azure yacht rock mingled with cool jazz touch from the 80s sometime. However, it can be admitted partly because it depends on the balance and burden of a certain composition. Indeed, the vibraphone and hi-hats are frequently predominant in many tracks by adding that sort of vamp what could be expected from a fine fusion of indie/art rock/yacht rock/downbeat/easy listening/post-rock album. For instance, listen to an astounding track, The Darker Side. Truly chill.

[Teaser of the day] Zen Albatross - US984XN

Soundcloud

• 8bit
• Breakcore
• Tracker music
• Bitpop
• Chiptune
• Electronic music

Artist: Zen Albatross 

Release: Sigint EP

Label: 8bitpeoples/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

A Pale View Of Hills – 1924 EP (2007)

INQB8R

• Ambient rock 
• Dream pop 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock
• Epic 
• Art rock 
• Shoegaze

Comment: this batch of 4 tracks provides thick atmospheric layers of guitars full of inner burning to disseminate from nowhere to ultimately form a solid ambient/rock spirit. Just roughly to assume. One can hear abstract vibrations, warped trajectories and ominous accents and buried orchestrations within these meandering compositions but it is the point of the release. It may remind of the most predominant examples from the British experimental rock scene, Flying Saucer Attack, and Pygmalion-era Slowdive (however, a listener can hear epic apotheoses from the other albums by Slowdive as well), and an Australian combo, a Skye Klein's project A Beautiful Machine. However, at times buzzing elements are traded for more lucid incantations to transcend into a beatific dream pop butterfly (more concretely, Sexto Empirico, and C.R). The magnificent outing is a bit in the discography of INQB8R.

Baradit – Japanese Train EP (2010)

Bump Foot

• Synth-pop 
• Krautrock 
• Electro-rock 
• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Motorik 
• Alternative dance

Comment: Chilean Felipe Baradit Stevenson aka Baradit's last release Revolución Tecnológica (2018, Pueblo Nuevo) was a cohesive mix of propulsive motorik synth-pop and Air-alike sophisticated artsy pop music. Anyway, beforehand the artist had issued a batch of outings and one of them was this 4-track long (and clocking in at a 14 minute) Japanese Train EP. Similarly to the latest release it used to rely on intense bubbling of obsessive synth bass chords though on the other side it involves much "accidental" sounds like concrete sound layers, radio waves, downright electronic effects. Thirdly, it may be rougher by its sounds yet it seems to be more pop-oriented due to adding female singing and snooty guitar riffs to the blend. What's the purpose of music in general? Just to provide an alternative to war, negative energy and thoughts, to envy and aggressive intentions. Rather one would experience neurotic excitement than masochistic rational fear within a state of war. Additionally, such sort of experimental pop helps to step outside from a determined system which changes human beings into a psychologically unhealthy one. This spellbinding recombinant pop release is a part of the discography of Bump Foot.

[Teaser of the day] Gabran - News and Tears

Black Square

• Avant-garde
• Neoclassical
• Art music
• Dark ambient
• Experimentalism

Artist: Gabran

Release: X

Label: Black Square

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] 2methylbulbe1ol - Tramadol

Abyssa

• Neurofunk
• Electronic music
• Darkstep
• Breakbeat
• Alternative dance

Artist: 2methylbulbe1ol

Release: 6 Months 

Label: Abyssa

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Apes on Tapes - Not That Ready

• Hip-hop
• Urban music
• Electro-hop
• Grime
• Rap
• Experimental hip-hop

Artist: Apes on Tapes

Release: Foreplays

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

Inger On The Rock – Heimkoma (2008)

Elpa Music

Archive.org

• Post-rock 
• IDM 
• Art pop/rock 
• Indietronica 
• Epic 
• Organic electronica 
• Electronic music 
• Glitchtronica 
• Experimental pop

Comment: this bunch of 13 tracks by a Russian artist (Eredel) is a sublime sonorous pavement to imaginatively trudge along the picturesque landscapes of Iceland, because of that all the song titles and cover print are Icelandic. Additionally, the music also seems to be partly inspired by the country's leading artists like Sigur Ros's sublimely bombastic orchestrations and múm's awkward and austere yet perky electronic grooves and splattering glitches (the very preference of mine). If to go beyond the borders of Iceland one can find out resemblances with the likes of Hood, and To Rococo Rot. On the other side, the picture is even more wide – the listener can hear abrasive, broken drum beats and ennobling digital noise torrents as the soil for melodies to effectively grow up on and sparse incantations on a piano and a cathedral-alike organ led droning beauty. Additionally, let's take a track entitled Vorkoma – it is headed by a contagious melody gear being propelled by a swirling chaos of arousing noises coming through enchantingly configured labyrinths. The artist looks a bit back while pushing the music further while staying vigorously balanced between variety and consistency. The wondrous outing is a part of the discography of Elpa Music, a solid Latvian record label (2006-2013).

Juan Antonio Nieto – Mercury (2018)

Antena.art.br

Bandcamp

• Post-industrial 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Micronoise 
• Abstract 
• Psycho-acoustic

Comment: Juan Antonio Nieto is an adept sonic alchemist from Spain having been active since the beginning of the 80s by starting as the drummer in a combo called Alphaville. Later on, by doing music under the pseudonym Pangea and his own name the sound would get more abstract, more industrial, more austere, more profound, more ominous. Mercury is thoroughly imbued with metallic echoes, light noises, invisible ghosts of those innumerable and anonymous persons and masses who have lost their lives by feeding a horrendous moloch called capitalism. It is being against humanity, it is being against nature by changing the planet into a lunatic asylum. However, a huge concentration of human beings into very large cities to have happened some centuries ago and still is the catalyst for it. Given that, indeed, real life can be seen more ghastly and anxious than a shitty horror movie. Regarded that we deserve it. Yet the positive side of that is related to inspire such sort of music. Indeed, the listener feels the aforementioned painful anxiety and depression oozing out of it. A part of the discography of Antena.art.br.

[Teaser of the day] Gino Pertot - Anita The Saggitarius

Archive.org

• Singer-songwriter
• Psych-folk
• Dream folk
• Art folk

Artist: Gino Pertot

Release: Jew Nails

Label: Golden Pavilion/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 1976/2010 

[Teaser of the day] Niels Gordon - Golden Hours

• Conceptual
• Electronic music
• Covers
• Synth-pop
• Art pop

Artist: Niels Gordon

Release: The Quiet Club: Femtioen skivor av Brian Eno 1973​-​2017

Label: Zeon Light

Year: 2019

Natural Snow Buildings – Aldebaran (2016)

Vulpiano

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

Archive.org

• Experimental folk 
• Free folk 
• Ambient 
• Drone folk 
• New Weird France 
• Avant-folk 
• Epic 
• Post-folk 
• Minimalism 
• Psych-folk 
• Ambient folk 
• Improvised music 
• Drone

Comment: I can remember for my first hearing about Aldebaran was related to a Soviet movie, The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981) being accompanied by a great electronic musical background of Aleksandr Zatsepin (which is now sought by many music lovers worldwide). Aldebaran is one of the most luminous stars in the Universe and it is something which inspired the enigmatic French duo of Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte (being active as NSB since the end of the 90s) to create this 25-track magnum opus. Musically it is thoroughly hypnotic without any exceptions full of droning, intensified guitar and cello chords and lofty feedback-trodden reverberations in the course of almost six hours. A smouldering symphony as an output for something colossal and beautiful. Beyond all the sonorous sounds and faint effects (at times one hears a bagpipe, a melodica, a flute, electro-acoustic clanging, vowels and spoken words) one could discern the structure of songs used to rely on minimal ground through smooth shifts thereby providing a strong wondrous impact on a listener's perception and consciousness. In some sense, it is like a folk/drone version of vaporwave music due to strongly retrodelic, past anchored timbres at first sight yet nevertheless all the result seems to go ahead of our time, go ahead of us like very distant stellar objects do shine to us like being mixed up of reality and mysticism. The whole (sound) resonates physically and seemingly consciously through air. It is called cosmic om, isn't? The album inserts healing awe and purgative wonder to get distracted from surrounding crap and start feeling oneself again to be an integrated part of this tremendous solemn village. In some sense, unfortunately, the release is a bittersweet elegy to our malignant existence on Earth (the issue is finished off with an emblematically entitled track, The Drowned Church). The magnificent issue is a part of the discography of Vulpiano. Simply irresistible magical glimpse.

[Teaser of the day] Khate - Hello Melancholia

Justnotnormal

• Avant-garde
• Electronic music
• Musique concrète
• Improvised music
• Micronoise
• Experimentalism
• Acousmatic music

Artist: Khate

Release: Detritivore

Label: Justnotnormal

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Superfreak - What Red Stands For

• Art rock
• Indie rock
• Soft rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: Superfreak

Release: The Ancient Fish Appreciation Society

Label: Lepers

Year: 2015

room101 – Subconscious (2008)

Test Tube

• Experimental electronica 
• Avant-electronica
• Micronoise 
• Drone 
• Abstract

Comment: I am wondering why I have been so long away from the music of a qualitative imprint, Test Tube. When I started off more than 10 years ago with regard to the net/weblabel scene the imprint was an experimental one dedicated to cutting-edge electronic music among other great ones like Clinical Archives, Zymogen, One, Justnotnormal and Sinewaves. By listening to this 5-track issue I shall have to admit the adventurous, sterling touch of the label has not been diminished over the years. More profoundly, lots of buzzing noises and drones which move forth on cyclic orbits being emblematic of recent chaotic and overloaded life and on the other side an inner impulse by propelling the whole further. So one's consciousness and subconsciousness are poisoned by all sort of troublesome conflicts, tensions, changes and fears in a daily life. It is way too much enough for a person. If someone used to say that the problems are the very ground to step further for developing a life the next question is about the nature of development – has it been viable or failed? Could it foster the life in the next future? And then all the noise by Slovakian Adam Balušík gets disappeared being replaced by total silence – by death, by nothing. And then again – all starts off from scratch. Was there something ever before and will be there something after the end?

Hatch – Arcanoid (2018)

Section27

Free Music Archive

• Techno pop 
• Tech-funk 
• Alternative dance 
• Electro pop 
• Minimal synth

Comment: this batch of 11 pieces is an intense yet truly decent amalgamation of funky basses, techno-induced rough meandering synthesisers and thin hi-hats, bent electronic frequencies and modulated speeds for an example of solid electro pop, at more poppy moments with inclusion of voice and movie samples it is about something coming close to outsider synth-pop/minimal synth numbers. By its deep and obsessive manner it reminds of the best traditions of the Detroit techno and electro scene and more obscure Italo disco endeavours. Indeed, it is like a flourishing flower getting hefty fare from drifting between a rigid, machine-determined moloch and more loose, soul exposed glimpses. It is both for the listener's cerebral and bodily spheres. Behind this one-man-project is Eugene Rowlett from London, UK and the issue is a bit in the discography of Section27.

Lavoura – Mirã (2018)

Bump Foot

• Art pop 
• World fusion 
• Psych-funk 
• Yacht pop 
• Smooth jazz 
• Dance pop 
• Ethnotronica 
• Chill out 
• Mood music

Comment: this couple of tracks was created by seven artists who identify themselves as producers, arrangers, beatmakers, musicians, visual artists and inventors. The release which consists of tracks called Ametista, and MM Moods was issued approximately 4 years after an album, Photosynthesis. All will be picturesquely blossoming here due to psychedelic vibes which in turn are based on worldwide ethnic motives and on the other hand by bumping up on modern styles as funk, jazz, and yacht pop. Analogue synths and other electronic keyboards (electric organs and electric pianos) add unusual sonorous flickers and some sort of depth and marine easiness simultaneously to the mix while woodwind instruments have been managed to up the ante upon moody changes. At times it reminds of 80's Miles Davis and then azure-tinged cinematic yacht pop and in the meanwhile one can hear faint yet indistinguishable Afrofunk churning. All is finely balanced and sequenced. Similarly as the first outing of the combo the outstanding release is a part of the discography of Japanese records Bump Foot, a legendary netlabel. Perfekto.

[Teaser of the day] The X-Structure - Subterranean Low Tech

Bushmen

• Electronic music
• Trip-hop
• Darkwave

Artist: The X-Structure

Release: Westcoast Trip

Label: Bushmen

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Oreinoi - Warmglass

Brusio

• Experimental techno
• Experimental electronica
• Bubblegum techno

Artist: Oreinoi

Release: Wrog

Label: Brusio

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Bloodgorge - Dematerialized In Seconds

Dis-Organ-Ized

• Goregrind
• Sludge metal
• Grindcore

Artist: Bloodgorge

Release: Imperial Death [EP] 

Label: Dis-Organ-Ized/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Violet - Ufer des Botong

Zeromoon

• Abstract
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-electronica
• Acousmatic music
• Minimalism

Artist: Violet

Release: Let The Sunshine In

Label: Zeromoon

Year: 2004