P.P. Roy – Watch The Dough Nut Not The Hole (2014)

Upitup

• Sampledelic 
• Plunderphonics 
• Lo-fi 
• Electro pop 
• Acid 
• Chilltronica 
• Easy listening 
• Avant-pop 
• Electronic music 
• Mood music

Comment: to peel this 14-notch properly away there are many possible ways to go. Just let it go, many listening times in queue, to get a vague impression in your heart. And thereafter you can get a chance to analyze it more properly. The same effect may be coincided with such plunderphonic luminaries as Vicky Bennett aka People Like Us, Pogo and Ergo Phizmiz, however, any new case is extraordinary (indeed, the crucial question is about how to handle this enormous set of informative bits which used to succeed rapidly to each other). At times those lysergic wry synth progressions used to keep the pace with the assistance of wonky, a bit weary rhythmic shuffles, and then the previous hectic stylistic element will transition into a laid-back, easy-running development which is up there to create a stunning gravity-free atmosphere. And then the artist blends seamlessly all the lines between genres. In fact, P.P. Roy fulfills it all the time. A widely used deed in last years within the experimental music scenes has been the sampling of ballroom music and other elderly, slightly haunting sounds – here are also represented high-pitched female vocals and exaggerated yet flair orchestrations. I can see nothing else but every element lives up to the expectation. The impressive outing is a bit in the discography of Upitup.

Cinema Perdu – Amsterdam CS (2018)

Moving Furniture

• Post-industrial 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Space music 
• Drone 
• Micronoise 
• Dark ambient 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• Acousmatic music

Comment: this batch of 6 compositions is a conscience widening aural experiment with the aid of vibrant peripheral drones, sheer sonic layers and humming static, orchestrated noises and concrete sounds. In fact, Martijn Pieck aka Cinema Perdu is behind the concept based on recording at Amsterdam Central Station though his purpose was not to create a pure audio document. Instead of it he has managed to arrange more abstract, more artificial, more intriguing soundscapes even if you hear fast trains passing by and incisive loudspeakers to announce the schedule. That's good because the pure natural sounds used to mount the perspective for a listener in the middle of artificial sounds of natural origin. The release is a part of the discography of Moving Furniture.

Dereleech – Deadspace (2012)

Jamendo

Bandcamp

• Ambient drone 
• Drone doom metal 
• Avant-metal 
• Minimalism 
• Dark ambient 
• Dystopbient

Comment: we are living at the time of stupidity and degeneration, we are dealing with pseudo-concerns and excessively evaluating political correctness instead of dealing with the real facts and concerns which in reality create even more inequality and madness and misunderstanding as a result. Every sort of buffoonish social and psychological experiments and formal and informal prescriptions for behaviour have all but healthy outcome – one of the results is that the people of Hungary and Poland have chosen the different way and some other countries are also on the road to right in the EU. The United States also did it and obviously will be keeping the same pace after the 2020 election. The population in many countries is hopelessly divided and full of hatred of each other. One can operate with such empty words and terms like "post-truth" today though which does not have no value in terms of history and politics (because the twisting of truth has been a favourite deed from the beginning of times). The situation is simultaneously ridiculous and ominous and because of that it may be sober to get into such sort of music like the Finnish artist Dereleech's Deadspace. The music which veers away from solemn yet ghastly ambient and suggestively vibrant droning to overwhelmingly powerful drone doom black metal. It is free from inferior spasmodic and hectic leaps, it is all about a stubborn, logical progression both on the structure and emotive side. Could you see a light at the end of tunnel?

[Teaser of the day] Ak`chamel - Cancer Eclipsed The Sun

Free Music Archive

• Avant-folk
• DIY
• Experimental folk
• Freak folk
• New Weird
• Anti-folk
• Lo-fi
• Psych-folk
• Weird folk

Artist: Ak`chamel

Release: Fucking With Spirits

Label: Centipede Farm

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Go Genre Everything - I Am The Best and No One Is Better Than ME

• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• No Wave
• Noise rock
• Anti-rock
• Freeformfreakout
• Dada music
• Comedy

Artist: Go Genre Everything

Release: Humans And Luxury

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp 

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Sans Libertas - Cerveza

Nación Libre

• Hardcore
• Punk rock

Artist: Sans Libertas

Release: Sans Libertas

Label: Nación Libre

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Ayankoko - Sens

Clinical Archives

• Avant-garde
• Electronic music
• Experimentalism
• Abstract
• Experimental electronica
• Microtonal
• Avant-electronica
• Micronoise

Artist: Ayankoko

Release: Plojj

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Drehkommando - Part 04

Der Kleine Grüne Würfel

• Electro-punk
• Experimental pop
• Live
• Electro-house
• Synth-punk
• Crossover

Artist: Drehkommando

Release: Elektro Grill

Label: Der Kleine Grüne Würfel

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Karel Van Deun - Isch Holidays

• Acoustic pop
• Art music
• Improvised music

Artist: Karel Van Deun

Release: Zij ziet het zonnige

Label: bwaa. records

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Maripool - Easy to Breathe

• Indie pop/rock
• DIY
• Singer-songwriter
• Lo-fi
• Dream pop
• Bedroom pop
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Maripool

Release: Adult Weakness

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Eisenlager - Tagesschau

• Sampledelic
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Improvised noise
• Acousmatic music
• Dada music
• Broken media
• Freeformfreakout

Artist: Eisenlager

Release: @ work

Label: Attenuation Circuit

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Tallinn Daggers - Hidden Knives

• Post-punk
• Alternative rock
• Dance rock
• Indie rock
• Alternative dance

Artist: Tallinn Daggers

Release: FM Transmission

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

Air Protection Office – Sky Is The Limit But The Sky Is Inside My Mind (2017)

Ekar

• Techno pop 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Ambient techno 
• Techno 
• Tech-electro 
• Electro pop

Comment: Enrico Bozzato's handful of tracks is a sublime blend of intricate cerebral techno and electro-spiked rhythms and more poppy (techno pop) flickers with exuberant synth hovers and bubbly cadences. It chimes and throbs like a highly functional biotechnical organism accommodated with a large scale of emotions and sensations. At times the artist's approach does extend beyond the technical side given that more atmospheric layers are deemed to be highly atmospheric and spatial. On the other side, however, as previously mentioned it is an intricate rhythmic output where cerebral and technical aspects come smoothly together. The voice parts undoubtedly do bring legendary Kraftwerk in mind. This mesmerising outing is a bit in the discography of Ekar Records.

Kryshe – Continuum (2019)

Serein

Bandcamp

• Art pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Modern classical 
• New Age 
• Post-classical 
• Avant-pop 
• Organic electronica 
• Ambient pop

Comment: Kryshe's 10-notch whole is a marvellous insight into those remote areas of pop music where tenderness and subtlety used to prevail in an artsy way like it happened to Talk Talk and David Sylvian after their temporary stints with synth-pop. The listener hears spatial flutes and silent whiffs of woodwinds and elliptically rounded piano improvisations and minimal electronics and a small scale of glockenspiel-based orchestrations to cheer you up with some more space, gentle breeze and bittersweet hope. From minor intimate glass bead plays to more large scale compositions to bring forth a dynamical drift. This great work is a part of the discography of Serein.

Inaequalis – Beach Bum (2017)

Free Music Archive

• Neokrautrock 
• Electro-rock 
• Alternative dance 
• Avant-pop 
• Electronic

Comment: this handful of tracks is a dynamic/motorik blend of 70s German inspired rhythms and churning guitar riffs and electro vibes of the 80s and its derivatives. You know by listening to a part of these beats in another context may be a bit cheesy as if getting a déja vu sense of the sleazy 90s Europop and German trance but the wall of those tightly mixed intertwined guitar riffs and key changes and twisted analogue electronic effects and shimmering keyboard harmonized lines do absorb all possible inferior tendencies into an ennobling whole. All the aforementioned elements and balance between them remind me some first albums by Swedish combo Joxfield ProjeX. On the other side, it is neither clinical nor dry. Great music by any means.

Elizabeth Joan Kelly – Farewell, Doomed Planet! (2019)

Bandcamp

• Ambient pop 
• Art pop 
• Experimental pop 
• Synth-pop 
• Electronic music 
• Ambient 
• Electro pop 
• Post-pop

Comment: it is nice to hear Joan Elisabeth Kelly's sonic experiments and poppy expressions at full sway. Undoubtedly it is a blissful, groovy and heady view on pop music at its best sense. Since the times back in the beginning of the 10s with the onset of such genres as chillwave and witch house the status of ambient music has been changed from the so-called design music to a subject for more melody and harmony-trodden endeavours even if the main theme was dark. Yeah, this 11-track outing hits the way cruising somewhere between profound ambient and more recognised, more comfortable themes. In its most ultimate potentiality – the listener can perceive it during some spans of a few seconds – it could have been ended at a nightmarish threshold over which line unsound fantasies come into one's mind. The aforementioned comfortable themes are all but cheap, self-indulgent ones because they do have intrinsic potentiality for transgressive, ominous mutations. Given the topic of the album it refers also to the doings by a human being both individually and collectively – we have potentiality to build up something beautiful and on the other side we can all screw up. It is full of determined noises, intriguing dynamic rhythms and vivid sonic effects which together make up an irresistible punch of sonic waves. For instance, listen to a track, the favourite of mine, Harm, by giving contemplation about a time to come when such a sort of song would hit the charts.

[Teaser of the day] Cartel - Into The Dark Sky by Mallz and Cartel Ft Julian Lima

Jamendo

• Hip-hop
• Urban music
• Grime
• Autotune
• Trap
• Rap

Artist: Cartel

Release: music inspired by the HBO series, Insecure

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Gilman Mom - The Revisionist

• Chilltronica
• Lo-fi
• Organic electronica
• Ambient pop
• Downtempo
• Trip-hop
• Vaporwave

Artist: Gilman Mom

Release: Revisionist History

Label: Macaque/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp/Jamendo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Postcode - This Day Will Come

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Psych-pop/rock

Artist: Postcode

Release: Year Of The Zebra - Part Two

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Zeffon - Cash in the Bag

Jamendo

• Electro-acoustic
• Avant-dub
• Avant-garde
• Avant-blues
• Improvised music
• Electronic music
• Dub blues
• Experimentalism
• Crossover

Artist: Zeffon

Release: Manipura 4

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Dereleech - 299792458

Jamendo

• Dark wave
• Ethereal wave
• Darkgaze
• Avant-metal
• Drone doom
• Post-metal
• Doomgaze

Artist: Dereleech 

Release: Deadspace

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Alisu - Solitaria

• Electronic music
• Ambient dub
• Dub techno
• Ambient techno
• Chilltronica

Artist: Alisu

Release: Un azar diseñado por mi

Label: Tropic

Year: 2013

Jankenpopp – Candy Marx (2006)

Jankenpopp

• Electro pop 
• Breakcore 
• Experimental electro 
• Drill and bass 
• Electronic music 
• Breakbeat 
• Abstract electro 
• Chiptune 
• Bitpop 
• Crossover

Comment: it is one of the first issues by a French musician/activist and hacker, Jankenpopp being released in 2006, however, the artist's sound is thoroughly timeless because all the three temporal dimensions invented by us – the past, the present and the future – used to reflect on each other and through one another. Firstly, it is playful and puckish based on unstable yet mapped rhythmic structures full of galvanized electro, primitive video game-alike and rough breakbeat-induced paces. A best moment on it happens relatively in the beginning when these angular and loose cadences are backed up by a lofty deep house synth layer. Later on, cut-up vowel samples are added to the mix to make up a more personal experience. All those predispositions the artist does have taken from the club scene are transmitted through a tongue-in-cheek attitude (of course, there is an exquisite veiled criticism/and irony behind it). One compartment within the set of 9 notches consists of more buried endeavours as if searching for a silent corner to take a rest for a while. Just for a while for to keep going over the ragged mountains and seas of a tumultuous sonic universe. Given that is a short-running issue and on the other side it embraces a lot of information and reflections it can be admitted as an accelerated musical course. Very nice.

Marco Lucchi – Se da lontano (2016)

Breathe Compilations

Bandcamp

• Modern classical 
• Microtonal 
• Post-classical 
• Ambient 
• Drone 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Minimalism 
• Piano music 
• Ambient drone 
• Dark ambient

Comment: prolific Italian, Modena-residing musician Marco Lucchi's 5-notch outing is a bit different with one exception than some other albums I have heard by him so far. Of course, there is represented drone music, his profound minimalist approach inclined to reach profound, organic mysticism and otherworldly spirituality of dark ambient which is being characteristic to other Italian juggernauts like Ain Soph, Stefano Musso aka Alio Die, Gianluigi Gasparetti aka Oöphoi, and Lorenzo Montanà (just naming a few of the crowd) as well. Indeed, in some tracks like Shady and the title track spiritual dimensions are vamped up with the aid of vibrant drones being accomplished by immersive yet slightly awe-induced orchestrations as if walking around under the ground, in a catacomb somewhere in Southern Italy embraced by skulls, decay and the presence of centuries as an ennobling and frightening continuum. One can perceive the presence of Grim Reaper who represents both death and life, existence and disappearance (the counterparts can be evaluated and ennobled being placed side by side – there is no need to live forever, there is the need to be active/creative and contemplative and search for unity with the rest of Universe). At Psiche Abbandonata, the aforementioned exception, a listener can enjoy a skillful, expressive improvisation on an oboe by Paulo Chagas being accompanied on a sparse piano accompaniment by Matteo Marchisano-Adamo. The overwhelming, mind-broadening outing is a bit in the discography of the Mexican imprint Breathe Compilations.

Lately Kind Of Yeah – Two Shades Of Apart (2006/2019)

Vulpiano

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

Archive.org

• Improvised music 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Art rock 
• Noise rock 
• Electro-acoustic

Comment: this set of 14 tracks is just a fine dedication to guitar playing but nothing else by employing different techniques, timbres and colours. A listener can hear feverish chord changes, dynamic arpeggios, and arousing strumming here and there. At times the guitar seems to be "tortured" on prepared setups and arrangements full of slamming noises, elliptic sonic effects, electro-acoustic shrieks, warped chords and majestic wall of sounds. It is mostly all about the technical possibilities one could get out of the instrument. That also can be tagged as non-guitar music because its intention is to go far away from a weary imagination through phantasms, interruptions, filters, deviations. But not only. Beyond that melodic progressions and silent incantations used to surface in the middle of the tumult by balancing the result. Indeed, at times it chimes like a lighter version of Glenn Branca or Sonic Youth. For sure, emotive side is strong enough on it because it contains the earliest experiments by the artist then aged 15-16 years old only. Very accepted to waft the upstream of an ordinary guitar template; the album is being released on Vulpiano. 

[Teaser of the day] Obasquiat - Killing of Shaimaa el Sabbagh

  • Improvised music
  • Experimental rock

  • No Wave

  • Avant-rock

  • Space rock

Artist: Obasquiat

Release: Strugatsky
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Cold Womb Descent - Approaching the Borders of Mortality

• Dark ambient
• Electronic music
• Dystopbient
• Ambient drone
• Epic
• Ambient
• Space music

Artist: Cold Womb Descent

Release: Ldaovh Trilogy

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Betelmire - A Record Low

Rain Above

• Alternative pop
• Lo-fi
• Bedroom pop
• Singer-songwriter
• Drone pop
• Dream pop
• DIY
• Organcore
• Indie pop

Artist: Betelmire

Release: 606 MPH

Label: Rain Above/Morgan Leah/Jigsaw

Year: 2005/2010 

Hypnodial – Sub (2019)

Somniscope

• Ambient 
• Organic electronica 
• Ambient drone 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• New Age

Comment: this issue consists of a pair of long, 27-minute, compositions, the first of them is the original and the second is a mix version of it. The original one is an ennobling blend of synthesized effects and a theme progression which a little reminds of Angelo Badalamenti's lead theme of Twin Peaks. But then now, all of that slowly and unremarkably fades away and will be traded for a solemn cathedral organ being backed up by raindrops which keep falling on your face. And then hushed industrial shrieks, amplified hisses, minimal vibrations, natural sounds (rain, sea waves) and a reverberant rhythmic pace are mixed up with each other to result in a sultry ambient composition which may resemble a sonic and imaginative jungle similar to one depicted by Estonian musician and globetrotter Tont. This sort of music I would like to tag “New-New Age” or “Meta-Dub”. Or it is a sort of ambient music which leaves behind abstract patterns to come over into the heart of a listener. It is really pleasant to hear such a thick, analogue-alike processing of sounds. The mix called Surface Mix is a bit dissimilar due to reconfiguration in sonic elements and some differently accentuated layers. However, similarly to the main track it is at least as powerful and suggestive and thereof convincing to my ears. In a word, it is a great issue for relaxing and stimulating one's brain. All the donations the Palma, Spain-based artist gets go to the support of Coral Reef Alliance. The issue is a part of the discography of Somniscope.

[Teaser of the day] Light Leak - Beach Dream

• Alternative pop
• Electronic music
• Ambient pop
• Chillwave

Artist: Light Leak

Release: Graduation EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Bob Bucko. Jr. - Inarticulate Particulates

• Avant-garde
• Brown noise
• Lobit
• Non-music
• Noise drone
• Psycho-acoustic
• Experimentalism
• Post-industrial
• Micronoise
• Microtonal
• Live
• Minimalism

Artist: Bob Bucko. Jr.

Release: Junior Nuclear

Label: Lurker Bias

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] The Wind Whistles - Devil`s Cauldron

Jamendo

• Indie folk
• Alt-folk
• Chamber folk
• Folk indie
• Canadiana
• Art folk

Artist: The Wind Whistles

Release: Window Sills  

Label: Aaahh/Jamendo

Year: 2008