[Teaser of the day] NuLix - Jammin' With Mr.Carrot

Groovecaffe

• Deep house
• Electronic music
• Dub house
• Disco house
• Club dance

Artist: NuLix

Release: Toggle The Earth

Label: Groovecaffe

Year: 2006

Caustic Reverie – Splinter (2019)

Bandcamp

• Dark ambient 
• Illbient 
• Avant-garde 
• Microtonal 
• Abstract 
• Post-industrial 
• Micronoise 
• Drone

Comment: Bryn Schurman aka Caustic Reverie has been active for a little bit more than the decade while creating a pair of albums per year. Aesthetically he has been following his own (dark) star (as we all do more or less successfully), and the formula of his music is to create possibly profound, ghost-filled ambiances with the aid of few sounds and some reverberation applications to be pushed through it. In most cases, the listener hears remote sounds imbued with rusty noises, watery echoes, hollow and faintly feedback-trodden drones and some other sounds which may as well be imaginative to appear in one's head because alternately silence-nigh moments and trickling and vibrant microscopic noises come in and go out or just slip away along more or less subliminal lines and twisted orbits. It is like a sonic counterpart to behaviour of primordial Buddhist being ferocious for raw meat while searching for personal integrity through extreme exercises and transcendence allowing mantras. Profound stuff indeed.

[Teaser of the day] Liz + kkfs - Is It Real

Menthe De Chat

• Avant-garde
• Sampledelic
• Experimentalism
• Lo-fi
• Electronic music
• Trip-hop
• Film noir

Artist: Liz + kkfs

Release: Never Ending Love Affair

Label: Menthe De Chat

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Science Man - Hawkins

• Punk rock
• Rockabilly
• Alternative rock
• Post-punk

Artist: Science Man

Release: Science Man

Label: More Power Tapes

Year: 2018

Bleak House – Outwardly (2019)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

• Improvised music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Post-classical 
• Minimalism 
• Modern classical 
• Art music 
• Post-rock 
• Chamber rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock

Comment: it is always being the privilege to explore the discography of a Chicago-based imprint, Pan Y Rosas Discos, the imprint of multifaceted music. This time the British trio Bleak House (the members of it are involved in Keshco, a represented and praised group at RMH) blesses the listener with a 13-notch issue either imbued with watery smooth piano shapes full of hypnotic iterations with the aid of varied discreet electronic music and beguiling orchestrations or improvising on hoarse yet artsy guitar chords which also have been managed to establish round orbits in one's perception. However, the abovementioned elements and details make up lots of different combinations in balance and intensity inclined variations throughout the pace. Alternately the instruments get along well, it seems to be even complementary to swap an instrument for the other one. By listening to either guitar or piano playing one can hear profound serpentine layers of the echo flickering relentlessly behind playful chords. Additionally, those repetitive chords have been set up and bridged with one another in the way to ultimately result in brilliant flashes of the music. In other words, the formative side is saturated with the emotive side. For instance, enjoy a track called Repaired Swing Set. All in all, it is one of the most enchanting releases I have heard during this year. And the issue is a good example of recommendation how the energy of a human being should creatively be transformed for. There can be drawn disparate parallels upon the artists, from kindred souls like Hauschka, Max Richter and Lubomyr Melnyk to chamber rock/post-rock acts like A Silver Mt. Zion to vagabonds like John Fahey, and Vic Chesnutt to post-progressive acts like Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

[Teaser of the day] HOCICÓN - Harto de Ti

• Art rock
• Space age pop
• Exotica pop
• Lo-fi
• Psych-rock

Artist: HOCICÓN

Release: Y Su Rítmo Distorsionado

Label: Saucepan

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] C.Scott - Leave It All Behind

• Sampledelic
• Easy listening
• Mood music
• Ork-pop
• Lounge pop
• Sunshine pop

Artist: C.Scott

Release: Something Comes Over Us

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Misuto – Rainbow EP (2018)

Totokoko

• Electronic pop 
• Toytronica 
• Alternative pop 
• Art pop 
• J-pop 
• Shibuya-kei

Comment: as it is well known to a wide audience the Japanese weblabels and related artists enjoy an exceptionally huge popularity within the homeland and beyond the borders at a lesser extent. Night clubs gather thousands of participants if there is the time up to celebration. One of such imprints is Totokoko, an imprint penchant for acoustic and electronica mixed issues for an approximately 10 years. Misuto's two track record is a gentle amalgamation of gracefully rolling piano chords, jangly acoustic guitars, faint and even naive electronic endeavours and angel touched glockenspiel chords being underpinned by upbeat carnival-drenched rhythms and thriving Japanese singing imbued with a decent joie de vivre and moderate articulation. Very nice.

Auger Shell – The Narrows (2008)

Rack And Ruin

• Drone 
• Drone rock 
• Avant-garde 
• Avant-rock 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Experimental rock 
• Minimalism 
• Ambient drone 
• Abstract

Comment: Detroit, US-based Pat Callow under the nom de plume Auger Shell did have released all his three items under the Netherlands-based Rack And Ruin Records which has been activated in a span of 2008-2011. At RMH Holdstill Ocean is previously reviewed as a wondrous drift between experimental electronic/glitched-out developments, shoegaze/post-rock, minimalism and ambient music. The Narrows as the title suggests got more narrow or restricted. Mostly it chimes like a hard rocker who finally got sick of his lengthy, honoured career as the player of decent riffs and moderate gears being played day after day decided to develop more naughty and experimental offshoot. Indeed, all those gears and riffs are proudly represented over there yet played heavily through echo chambers and effect/control panels (it looms as if the guitar was pushed to a remote distance). At times (at its more austere and abstract moments) it is just a pure example of drone and ambient when the format is overwhelmed by a pulsating, coil-alike pattern, at its more exuberant moments the 3-track outing can be described with the prefix “rock”. Sometimes the artist opens the door to let the more or less determined sounds go out and mingle with surrounding ambiance. At times the soundscape gets more blurred due to swapping the accents with hisses and noises. For sure, the outing is enough a struggle to get through (for the listener it does mean many subsequent listening times). You can find out this issue under the number 073 in the discography of Rack And Ruin Records.

[Teaser of the day] Down Team Up - Track 4

Believe In Billy

• Electro-rock
• Avant-rock
• Synth-rock
• Experimental rock
• Electronic
• Art rock
• Techno-rock

Artist: Down Team Up

Release: Give And Take

Label: Believe In Billy

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Sindy - Lagoon

Cian Orbe

• Electro pop
• Ambient pop
• Techno pop
• Electronic music
• Glitch pop

Artist: Sindy 

Release: Lagoon 

Label: Cian Orbe

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Womb - Freak Flag Fly

Danielle

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Rock`n`roll
• Psych-rock
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: The Womb

Release: Flee The Scene

Label: Danielle 

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Keith Doom and The Wrecking Crew - Dead Byrdz

• Punk rock
• Blues rock
• Hardcore

Artist: Keith Doom and The Wrecking Crew

Release: Malt Walter party (EP)

Label: Spettro 

Year: 2018

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.