Recent Music Heroes

Comment: first of all, this great album is issued by a Portuguese imprint, Enoughrecords which is apparently the oldest netlabel being active so far. All other netlabels which started earlier and some of those which would embark on later than 2001 are unfortunately defunct now. However, here it is an elegant gross of jagged intelligent dance mould – sorry, music – from neighbouring Spain which is spiced up by galvanized electro riffs and noisy chiptune undercurrents. For instance, an astounding track called 2000 Problems which almost sounds like an electro(nic) version of Gang Of Four (RIP Andy Gill). Superb cyber punk composition where brittle electronic fabric and air are exquisitely balanced to go ultimately up to an ecstatic dance-appealed apotheosis. However, merry companion by robots can be met everywhere throughout the course of this 9-track outing. Even more, it may sound like an indulgence for a fully mechanic world to come when human race could not keep the pace anymore and robots are singular enough...to single out. And those joyous samples from vintage TV adverts just accentuate a steep gap between the different eras, between the past and future. Forthcoming dance party based purely on reason. Pure reason is a pure fun.

[Teaser of the day] Tongue Bundle - That Is A Thick Cake

Acustronica

Punk funk
Improvised music
Jazz funk
Psychedelic
Avant-funk

Artist: Tongue Bundle
Release: Salty Language
Label: Acustronica/Unbend Leg Out
Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Mikroben Krieg - Mind Metric

Electronic music
Cyberpunk
Kraut-electro
Electroclash
Alternative dance

Artist: Mikroben Krieg
Release: Intrascape
Label: Crime League
Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] AKUSMATiC - Oktavpilz

Dub techno
Electronic music
Minimal techno
Deep techno

Artist: AKUSMATiC
Release: Definados
Label: Schallwellenmagie
Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Mnogo Neb - Stopping Ocean

Haze

Art folk
Experimental folk
Medieval music
Baroque folk
Psych-folk
Chamber folk
New Weird Russia
Avant-folk

Artist: Mnogo Neb
Release: Step
Label: Haze
Year: 2010

1/30/2020

Kryshe – Hauch (2019)

Serein

Art music
Ambient
Modern classical
Improvised music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Jazz
Electronic

Comment: Kryshe is a German artist who likes obsessively operate with silence on different scales like ambient, classical music and electronic music. Furthermore, there are even jazz-tinged incantations and dreamy whiffs based on drowsy progressions. Musically Kryshe reminds of a late Talk Talk more than ever before but I think of it even as a more refined output. It is a subsequent astounding issue (Continuum, a second issue from the previous year) by Kryshe being released on Serein.

[Teaser of the day] 201 Soundsystem - Roads

Dubtronica
Electronic
Trip-hop
Breaks
Alternative pop
Art pop

Artist: 201 Soundsystem
Release: Broken Days
Label: Melodica/Bandcamp
Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Spit It Out - Insulator

Haze

Post-industrial
Experimentalism
Dark ambient
Illbient
Microtonal
Avant-garde

Artist: Spit It Out
Release: Isolation
Label: Haze
Year: 2008

1/29/2020

[Teaser of the day] The Hirundu - Salman Rushdie

Indie pop
Outsider pop
Ork-pop
Alternative dance
Bedroom pop
Sunshine pop
Avant-pop
Lo-fi
Alternative pop
DIY

Artist: The Hirundu
Release: No Preservatives
Label: Pitch And Putt/Bandcamp
Year: 1989

[Teaser of the day] Eknoh Neon Pink - YURAYURAgirl

J-pop
Dance pop
Shibuya-kei
Electronic pop

Artist: Eknoh Neon Pink
Release: Motion
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2019

1/28/2020

[Teaser of the day] SpaceCreeps - Winter (The Loft)

Electro-indie
Cover
Indie pop
Alternative pop
Electronic pop

Artist: SpaceCreeps
Release: Winter Covers
Label: coolcovercomps
Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] This Heel - Ever L. Lipkin

Singer-songwriter
Punk folk
Alternative pop
Folk punk

Artist: This Heel
Release: This Heel II
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2015

1/27/2020

[Teaser of the day] Mentolados Durruti - Nosotros

Electro-acoustic
Experimentalism
Art music
Improvised music
Avant-garde

Artist: Mentolados Durruti
Release: De acá a cien años
Label: pan y rosas discos/Bandcamp
Year: 2019/2020

[Teaser of the day] Martin Dot - Echo

Rain

Experimentalism
Experimental electronica
Ethnotronica
Electronic music
Dubtronica
Improvised music
Avant-garde

Artist: Martin Dot
Release: Nevada EP
Label: Rain
Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Cantaloup - Windchimes

Aerotone

Indietronica
Post-rock
Cowbell indie
Indie pop
Art pop
Alternative pop

Artist: Cantaloup
Release: Tonight It Shows
Label: Aerotone
Year: 2006

1/25/2020

₦ihilis₮ – untitled (2018)

MNMN

Bandcamp

Illbient
Electronic music
Breakbeat
Breakcore
Techno
Experimental techno
Dark ambient

Comment: this 7-track outing unveils like an ominous, mystical thing slowly surfacing from the bottom of darkness. Upper layers are imbued with a bright, glaring light, the sort of light brought to us by Lucifer which in turn are amplified by sultry, very tight broken beats in the frequency of breakbeat and techno. The listener can perceive a shitloads of intriguing progressions inside the rhythms and outside on the flank of it like a thousands of legions were dancing around the backbone of The Fallen Angel. This great issue is a part of the discography of MNMN (aka Monumental) Records.

1/24/2020

[Teaser of the day] Nina Kardec - Bacchanalia (the Dionysos dance)

Eg0cide Productions

Post-industrial
Experimentalism
Ambient
Electronic music
Avant-garde

Artist: Nina Kardec
Release: NEMA
Label: Eg0cide Productions
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Aitänna77 - Backwards

Archive.org

Indietronica
IDM
Art pop
Post-pop
Avant-pop

Artist: Aitänna77
Release: Blurred Pictures
Label: Free Music Archive/Archive.org
Year: 2014

1/23/2020

[Teaser of the day] Nevesis - Boogeyman

Alternative rock
Psych-rock
Hard rock

Artist: Nevesis
Release: Nevesis
Label: Horror Terror/Bandcamp
Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Alexei Borisov and Anton Mobin - Sound Mind

Zeromoon

Post-industrial
Experimentalism
Improvised noise
Power electronics
Psycho-acoustic
Rhythmic noise
Avant-garde

Artist: Alexei Borisov and Anton Mobin
Release: Q
Label: Zeromoon
Year: 2014

1/22/2020

[Teaser of the day] Provote - Stamp ft. Nejra

Faturenet

Breakcore
Electronic pop
Jungle
Breakbeat

Artist: Provote
Release: Feed the Devil, Make a Deal EP
Label: Faturenet
Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Fuck Yuo I Am A Robot - Mashdpotatoes

Fuck Yuo I Am A Robot

Electro pop
Alternative dance
Electronic pop

Artist: Fuck Yuo I Am A Robot
Release: Compensator For The Accelerator
Label: Self-released/Mutasone
Year: 2007

1/21/2020

[Teaser of the day] Kaarel Mihk - Kooma. Apaatia

Post-industrial
Experimentalism
Non-music
Acousmatic music
Noise
Abstract
Psycho-acoustic
Avant-garde

Artist: Kaarel Mihk
Release: Postdebilism
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2018

1/20/2020

The Hathaway Family Plot – This Is Going To Be Ugly (2020)

Bandcamp

Art music
Experimental pop
Avant-pop
Electro-acoustic
Electronic
Post-classical
Singer-songwriter
Post-industrial

Comment: first of all, This Is Going To Be Ugly is Buffalo-based Kevin McFadden aka The Hathaway Family Plot's pessimistic prediction as they look ahead to the year 2020 in America. I can remember for his first albums approximately a decade ago being released on WM Recordings which were haphazard journeys across different frantic sonic terrains which yet involved decent songwriting with some critical lyrics about topics in his society. Later on, he transitioned incisive noise experiments into more reverb-drenched dreams. Of course, the description of mine is a bit conditional because one and the same elements used to meet on all the albums just being spiced up in different measures and built up in disparate configurations (14 albums in total so far). The music features Kevin McFadden's piano playing more than on any previous issues and fewer toy instruments to be included. However, the aforementioned electro-acoustic songs by nature keep hold the pace on the recent issue either. It is desperate, anguished, painful and highly fervent in its sounds and lyrics. It is all about impending climate catastrophe, allegiance to doubtful authorities, mental and physical pollination of soul and body, respectively. There is a piano which is exploited to play unnerving chords which are amplified with creepy electronics, noisy outbursts and sardonic sonic experiments. All will be changing, all will be the same? The first part of the sentence is obviously true, the same can not be said about the second part – regarding the future of the human race and the music of The Hathaway Family Plot. At least the latter does show a healthy incantation and organic progression based on the previous paw tracks left by him. The former is going on without any control about a destruction machine which unfortunately does live its own life. There's no need to talk about the singularity of the robots because we are already controlled by another, more mighty machine (something analogous has been assumed by Lewis Mumford). Kevin McFadden still presides the sonic process, isn't? Implicitly given that it is beatific and lively.

[Teaser of the day] Skala - Wandering

Jamendo

Post-rock
Experimental rock
Krautrock
Motorik
Avant-rock

Artist: Skala
Release: Skalkulator
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Lately Kind Of Yeah - Silence

Archive.org

Art rock
Psych-pop
Noise pop
Alternative rock
Indie rock

Artist: Lately Kind Of Yeah
Release: Continue
Label: Vulpiano/Bandcamp/Mediafire/Archive.org
Year: 2019

1/19/2020

[Teaser of the day] Nine Inch Nails - 1,000,000

Archive.org

Synth-rock
Industrial rock
Acid rock
Electro-rock
Alternative rock
Power pop

Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Release: The Slip
Label: The Null Corporation/Free Music Archive/Archive.org
Year: 2008

1/18/2020

[Teaser of the day] x.y.r. - esto se masca

Exotica pop
Organic electronica
Experimental pop
Tiki music
Electronic
Art pop
Avant-pop

Artist: x.y.r.
Release: Bamboo Shows Tapes 001
Label: Bamboo Shows
Year: 2019

Makunouchi Bento – Pulsating Resins (2019)

Bandcamp

Experimentalism
Avant-garde
Art music
Post-industrial
Electronic music
Avant-electronica
Micronoise
Electro-acoustic
Musique concrète
Organic electronica
Field recording
Abstract
Experimental electronica

Comment: the Romanian persona (non) grata's (Felix Petrescu, and Valentin Toma) subsequent issue embarks on with rooster's crow as the signature to enter into a playful liberation of mind. Throughout the course of four tracks a listener can hear slowed-down and barely twisted sonic madness as if encountering either his/her possible nightmares or lush dreams (it depends on). One can hear ghastly echoes, slight metallic banging, hirsute hisses and pleasant sounds coming from the street but the most important thing is the coherent flow and impressive moment behind this crafty experimental work. More profoundly, it does mean lots of emotive knots and compelling sonic effects within the sonic fabric. That's a way of how industrial music should sound in the 21st century (post after post after post). Do not give a fuck to everything except the art.

Dark Frequencer – Hypnotica (2018)

Petroglyph Music

Ambient techno
Electronic music
Organic electronica
Dreamwave
Field recording
Kosmische Musik
Musique concrète

Comment: this batch of a couple of tracks being released on Petroglyph Music is illustrated with the cover print of a girl being wrapped up in blue and green-tinged reveries. Part 2 is a sultry blend of hypnagogic techno rhythms, meandering spaced-out synths over a maiden's suggestive vowels as if a dreamy version of krautrock (which is called Kosmische Musik then and the revamped, stark hypnagogic elements paved version of it as dreamwave now). Its exquisite iterative pattern is simply overwhelming. Part 1 shows off more muscles due to a more pounding, incisive rhythmic bone which is surrounded by hypnotic iterations on synths and faint field recording vapor and volatile girlish murmurs. In a word, it is an outstanding release with a practical, remedial power. Try it as the tincture to fall asleep. There is another world, there is a better world. (And if you wake up thereafter then continue with Amon Düül II's Mozambique which does provide an astounding proto-Stereolab feel).

Buben – Distillation (2008)

Dadaist Audio

Electronic music
Post-industrial
Illbient
Dubtronica
Avant-techno
Organic electronica

Comment: this batch of 3 tracks being released on Dadaist Audio is a tight blend of different (poly)rhythmic knots and sequences, reverberant echoes, elliptical dub delays and dark-hued noises. Thirdly, a listener can hear remote, greyish sonic shades hectically coming in and then out. The artist has always been experimenting on the verge of daring intellectual noise and industrial-drenched acoustics and perplexed rhythmic outcomes. Buben is a grandmaster from Belarus who has been releasing music mostly under netlabels like Clinical Archives, Dadaist Audio, Haze, Rus Zud, Kaos Ex Machina Promotions, In Noize, Intox Noize, Protoplazma, Noise-Joy if to show up some of the most well-known ones.

1/17/2020

Anémic Cinema - We All Dream, We All Die (2009)

Mediafire

Gothic rock
Darkgaze
Cinematic
Post-punk
Alternative rock
Coldwave
Ethereal Wave
Darkwave

Comment: I have not reviewed many post-punk albums which could be tagged "cinematic" anyhow. Anémic Cinema (what a great name for a combo!) is one of such acts by straddling on the border of moderate powerful and strongly dreamy, in other terms, it is something which conveys an existential anxiety of one's burden of living and impending descending into death. It may be the former is even worse because the perspective of the human being who could live forever it would be truly horrendous. However, many people act against it as if the rules of cosmic power and Eternity were erroneous and as if we were God-alike creatures. Maybe we are but we don't have the omnipotence of Lord. So we are not ultimately, though. Most of us can see nothing more than just bare shadows on the wall of a cave (reference to Plato). Just like living in an idiot joy showland (reference to MES and The Fall). Thirdly, the drift between life and death is something natural and...dreamy and of course mystical. Like something based on a plot by David Lynch. Thanks to the existence of death one could more appreciate his/her life. These 5 compositions of clocking in at a 24 minute and being a bit of the discography of Zorch Factory Records are a blend of such tendencies previously brought forth by Joy Division, Lycia, The Durutti Column, Dream City Film Club, Siouxsie And The Banshees but showing up their own measure within this trademark of floating atmospheric synths, pounding drums, and thundering basses, and expressive guitar licks. Unfortunately I could find out the issue from within the discography of Zorch Factory anymore so I decided to hint at a Mediafire link.

1/16/2020

[Teaser of the day] The Open Directory Project - I Had A Dream About You Again

Camomille

IDM
Experimental techno
Improvised music
Glitchtronica
Microbreak
Electronic music

Artist: The Open Directory Project
Release: Dried Lip EP
Label: Camomille
Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] The Cardboard Lung - Prepare For Government

Earth Monkey Productions

Avant-pop
Experimental pop
Electronic
Primitive music
Dada pop
Comedy

Artist: The Cardboard Lung
Release: Prepare For Government
Label: Earth Monkey Productions
Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] 2muchachos - Vremja Tepla

Chillwave
Experimental pop
Ambient pop
Electronic
Glo-fi
Indietronica
Avant-pop

Artist: 2muchachos
Release: Formanta
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Diigitae - It Took Me The Night to Believe

Electronic music
Non-music
Digital hardcore
Improvised music
Avant-garde
Noise
Post-industrial

Artist: Diigitae
Release: Extreme Computer
Label: Silent Method
Year: 2017

1/14/2020

CRANK STURGEON – v 12 10 18 (2018)

Attenuation Circuit

Experimental electronica
Avant-electronica
Electronic music
Improvised music
Performance art
Sound art
Live

Comment: the US-based artist CRANK STURGEON's almost a half-hour performance at a villa in Augsburg, Germany makes me think of it as an example coming out of a compilation of noise and electronic music compilation by an imprint, Sub Rosa. It chimes like an installation or radio play executed by a very early electronic musician. I have listened to it twice in a row and the second round was a quite different experience in my perception. First it sounded like a communication act between aliens who deployed their station behind a junkyard somewhere at a very remote distance full of slagged-down glitched-out sonic bits which may hurt you if you get really into it. Something which you are not able to decipher off. At the very rear part of the composition one hear zombie-alike moans as if a possible perspective of depravity and deprivation regarding the human race. By the way, the issue being released on Attenuation Circuit includes the live of this performance at Youtube made up of thrift store electronics, clothes of supermarket aesthetics and incongruous practices.

[Teaser of the day] Number Eleven - Stratum

Industrial techno
Experimental techno
Avant-techno
Electronic music

Artist: Number Eleven
Release: Resistance
Label: Electron Emitter/Archive.org
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Astral Robot - When The Rain Falls They Talk of Manchester

Nulogic

Downtempo
Electronic music
Psybient
Space music
Chilltronica
Mood music
Ambient pop

Artist: Astral Robot
Release: Zero Point Fluctuation
Label: Nulogic/Bandcamp
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Palancar - Sunrise Road

Ambient
Electronic music
Kosmische Musik
Ambient pop
Dreamwave

Artist: Palancar
Release: Scarab
Label: Emergent World/Bandcamp
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Ultramerda - Fenice

Psych-pop
World fusion
Experimental pop
Ethnic music
Alternative pop
Avant-pop

Artist: Ultramerda
Release: Plastika
Label: Mizou
Year: 2020

1/12/2020

[Teaser of the day] Edø Pistø Sømi - Undertheblankets #5 (Corruttela edit)

Hortus Conclusus

Industrial
Experimentalism
Improvised music
Psycho-acoustic
Ambient
Electronic music
Avant-garde

Artist: Edø Pistø Sømi
Release: Bed Concepts #1
Label: Hortus Conclusus
Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Golgotha Communications Ltd - Krunj

Sirona-Records

Improvised music
Experimentalism
Industrial music
Acousmatic music
Minimalism
Avant-garde

Artist: Golgotha Communications Ltd.
Release: De Jure
Label: Sirona-Records
Year: 2012

The Hirundu – Git Biscuits 2: More Git Biscuits (2018)

Pitch And Putt

Bandcamp

Electro-funk
Lo-fi
Funk
Outsider music
Alternative dance
DIY
Electronic music
Funk rock

Comment: The Hirundu (from Blackpool, the United Kingdom) is an oblique DIY/lo-fi act which is being underrated so far. They started creating music after seeing a Happy Mondays` show on TV in 1987. Later, at a time onward the combo would have been continuing as a one-man-project led by Johnny Crewdson. However, he has preserved the quality and quantity of The Hirundu by magnifying obsessively new stylistic slots and reshaping mental impact. As I said being underrated so far because they started creating bedroom-tinged psychedelic vanguardian pop a decade earlier than Ariel Pink, for instance. Both aforementioned artists used to reject the concept of time and any stylistic tags and a sustainable amount of humor within it. For the beginners I recommend listen to No Preservatives (1989), and Uneasy Listening (1994) which are stylistically quite different from one another yet related to one another by uncompromising zeal and experimental intent. One could listen to the discography through the artist`s own site Pitch And Putt and Bandcamp. To illustrate the project one can imagine as if Captain Beefheart, Bruce Haack, Jack Smith, Delia Derbyshire, Cabaret Voltaire, CAN, The Fall would have met at a remote crossroad for to start a brawl. Git Biscuits 2 is a 5-track part of the Biscuits trilogy either providing steeply broken funk (rock) with lulling feel or immersing in more synthetic, air-reduced and spasm-filled sequences as if doing away with clear-cut rhythm (although Johnny Crewdson does), however, the veiled rhythm oozing out of the structure propels it forward. Yeah, its greatness reminds of an exploratory branch of the 90s electronic music full of erratic playfulness and frantic aspiration. Last but not least – I was already unfortunately thinking of getting a year without any release by The Hirundu but at the very rear part of the last year there would be released an issue called Tantalus. In a word, keep going on by both sides.

1/11/2020

[Teaser of the day] Chinese Cookie Poets - 09

No Wave
Experimental rock
Improvised music
Psych-rock
Noise rock
Avant-rock

Artist: Chinese Cookie Poets
Release: ■
Label: Brava/QTV Label
Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Xavier Corbera - Experiencies traumatiques

Bestiar

Art pop
Experimental pop
Improvised music
Indietronica
Avant-pop

Artist: Xavier Corbera
Release: El Comiat
Label: Bestiar
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Echo Chamber Rope Trick - How Did We Come To Here

Free Music Archive

Psych-rock
Singer-songwriter
Indie rock
Cowbell indie
Alternative rock
DIY

Artist: Echo Chamber Rope Trick
Release: Oktober Sound Lab
Label: Chinstrap Music/Free Music Archive
Year: 2013

System Morgue – Voies (2017)

ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ

Post-rock
Avant-rock
Experimental rock
Darkgaze
Ambient rock
Post-metal
Progressive rock
Doom metal

Comment: this 3-notch outing is a part of the Russian imprint ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ (otherwise Pantheophania) which has issued such artists as Tim Six (btw, the founder of the imprint), Somniorum, EugeneKha, Alineko, Desolated Horizons, Creation VI, SiJ, Free Tibet, Dvory, Nemertis, XPAAM among others. Voies is an instrumental outing with epic heights reaching guitar flow and undulating cellophane-alike hisses backing it up. Guitar is the central instrument which is played with varying accents at times getting impulse from post-rock and ambient rock, however, more ominous growling loans obviously a bit from within post-metal/doom-laden metal and darkgaze. It might be proper to call it progressive shoegaze because the former element cannot be rejected from one's listening experience. In mid-2018 the artist abandoned the name and had continued under the name Accasari.

Randomajestiq – Deepmove EP (2004)

One

Electro house
Electronic music
Alternative dance
Deep house

Comment: behind Randomajestiq is a musician called Vladimir Hropov from Gomel, Belarus who has been active in creating music since the beginning of the 90s and later on exploring many electronic genres and also crisscrossing them into the mix. Deepmove EP is a fabulous drift between an active and a passive, between the rhythms and laid-back atmospheric swirls, between robots and a human being, between cerebral and a body dance. All what is just said it is a bit artificial construction because if you let it go freely you just perceive it as an organic, undivided one. By the way, the issue is a part of the discography of One.

1/08/2020

[Teaser of the day] Fortadelis - Alonesome

Jamendo

Nu jazz
Jazztronica
Electronic music
Yacht pop
Acid jazz
Easy listening
Mood music

Artist: Fortadelis
Release: Jazzed Up
Label: Jamendo/Cyan Music
Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Adamned.age - Abschied am Tränenpalast

Phonocake

Indietronica
Electronic music
Ambient pop
IDM
Plinkerpop

Artist: Adamned.age
Release: Transit Berlin
Label: Phonocake
Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Magical Unicellular Music - The Fish Smiles

Clinical Archives

Krautrock
Experimental rock
Psych-rock
Improvised music
Motorik
Avant-rock

Artist: Magical Unicellular Music
Release: Monospring
Label: Clinical Archives
Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Eluder - From within

Ambient
Experimentalism
Electronic music
Microtonal
Sound art
Minimalism
Avant-garde

Artist: Eluder
Release: Lords
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2015

1/06/2020

[Teaser of the day] Mike Downey - No More Wheels for Me

Indie pop/rock
Indietronica
Art pop
Singer-songwriter
DIY
Electronic
Alternative pop/rock
Avant-pop
Lo-fi

Artist: Mike Downey
Release: Audio Graves 2, Vol. 8
Label: Heartphone/Bandcamp
Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] The Wind Whistles - Man by Name of Denver

Jamendo

Indie folk
Folk indie
Canadiana
Alternative pop
Indie pop

Artist: The Wind Whistles
Release: Window Sills
Label: Jamendo/Archive.org/aaahh-records
Year:2007

[Teaser of the day] Janne Hanhisuanto - Movement 6

Earth Mantra

Ambient
Art music
Soundscape
Fantasy music
Electronic music

Artist: Janne Hanhisuanto
Release: Icescapes
Label: Earth Mantra
Year: 2010

1/05/2020

[Teaser of the day] Clara Gazul - Drak100

Vaatican

Electronic music
Witch house
Experimentalism
Post-industrial
Drag house
Avant-garde

Artist: Clara Gazul
Release: Vaat466mp - VAATICAN RECORDS - "Sampler 46"
Label: Vaatican
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Pleiades M - 24hourTV

Rec72

Breaks
Post-industrial
Experimental electronica
Avant-electro
Electronic music
Glitchtronica

Artist: Pleiades M
Release: Look Through The Microscope
Label: Rec72
Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Synflict - Prismatine B

Petcord

Avant-garde
Acousmatic music
Micronoise
Experimental electronica
Microtonal
Dark ambient
Sound art
Glitchtronica

Artist: Synflict
Release: Prismatine
Label: Petcord
Year: 2009

Stjerneheimen – II (2013)

Velvet Blue

Hardcore
Post-metal
Experimental metal
Avant-metal
DIY
Drone doom metal
Progressive
Improvised music
Freeformfreakout

Comment: these 13 tracks clocking in at a 20 minute are issued on Velvet Blue Records filled in with galvanized guitar-induced monoliths, rattling hi-hats and quirky threads dominated by sheer electronic effects and unusual drumming times and instrumental deviation all along. The more I am getting into it the more I realize the artist's intention just to manipulate with metal-related heaviness rather than serving it as the purpose. The listener can perceive how the aforementioned genres are disintegrated and pulverised for the sake of playfulness and artistic fun, for the sake of sonorous entertainment and artistic madness. The Convoys can be considered an exception of excelling at hardcore punk. Another exception is The Nothingness by doing away with the gravity of experimentation and heaviness of metal. Just to start off and fading into nothing as the title refers to. Thirdly, the issue is produced by exploiting DIY attitude and lo-fi approach of which artists are predominantly penchant for sonic experiments. This one is the case. Volatile handling on a guitar and rejecting demarcated stylistic borders reminds of another Brazilian maverick called Lucas Pastina aka LFC.

MOMUS – Timelord (1993)

Ubuweb

Singer-songwriter
Alternative pop
Synth-pop
Alternative dance
Art pop

Comment: as we know very well Nick Currie aka Momus shares his six albums (1987-1993) with us via Ubuweb being once released on a famous indie imprint, Creation Records, being also home for such seminal innovative indie rock luminaries as My Bloody Valentine, and Slowdive. Later on, it got home for Oasis but that's a different story (and not so crucial by the impact). In hindsight, Ubuweb is definitely a proper place for his churned-up oeuvre. In principle, Momus goes around like an ominous, academic version of Pet Shop Boys on one side dissecting borderline themes (or at least these ones the politically correct West is ridiculously supposed to have no talk about darker, seedy sides of the human being), sarcastic lyrics yet full of embarrasing sincerity, and on the other side being backed up by witty orchestrations and poignant synth-backed rhythmic treatments. The background of the issue was related to his relationship with a young woman of Bangladesh descent, Shazna Nessa. Obviously by the case the issue sounds to be more doleful, yearning and plunged in incantations of looking backwards and then forward. Given that as his swansong on Creation, it also fits to the thoughtful mood. Moz once sang /Life tends to come and go/That's okay/As long as you know/. Great.

1/04/2020

[Teaser of the day] dDamage - Paranoid

Cybermetal
Digital hardcore
Cover
Electronic music
Alternative dance

Artist: dDamage
Release: Made In England
Label: Darling Dada
Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Tachycardie - A Bag Like This One

Post-hardcore
Noise rock
Experimental rock
Improvised noise
No Wave
Avant-rock

Artist: Tachycardie
Release: Bénéficiant
Label: Cocktail Pueblo
Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] The Spin Wires - Hipster Girls Instrumental

Jamendo

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Indie dance
Funk rock
Dance rock
Conceptual
Psych-rock
Alternative dance

Artist: The Spin Wires
Release: Instrumental Versions of The Spin Wires Music (Vol. 2)
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2019

1/03/2020

CLOUDWARMER – Chronopolis: The Complete Recordings (2019)

Bandcamp

Sampledelic
Space age pop
Experimental electronica
Exotica pop
Plunderphonics
Sound collage
Psychedelic
Electronic music
Avant-garde
Easy listening
Mood music
Experimentalism
Hauntology
Experimental rock

Comment: at times life used to happen to go in the way one's preferences get set in by certain musical qualities and ingredients. Regarding my personal account The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations and Leyland Kirby's project The Caretaker and their disciples The Fucked Up Beat set the pace. More profoundly, Brett Zehner, and Eddie Palmer behind the latter project did have even a bigger impact upon me due to controversial, conspiracy-trodden titles and uncanny spoken word snippets and volatile experimental electronic music even though over a dozen of albums The Fucked Up Beat did trudge along the one and the same trajectory in principle. That's OK, that's even normal practice, however, inside all of that would result in something which can be considered frantic, overwhelming and providing stark new spark and strength. To the uttermost extent and top regarding sonorous and emotive and subconscious content. Always different, always the same. Even if it may be tagged as easy listening or moody music with some reservation an emotionally churned-up, twisted perception is always hidden inside the fabric. At some point Brett, and Eddie decided to foray into a bit different compartment by beginning create music under the name CLOUDWARMER. By my opinion, the decision of them was to incorporate new stylistic elements to the blend – for instance, one can hear even some frenetic (experimental) rock/noise rock/No Wave knots/guitar juxtaposition to be resolved into nonexistence and nonsense in a good sense. Oh yeah, heaven knows we will be dust. In a word, it is an awesome whole of 75 tracks being strikingly rare by its quality, intent and singularity.

[Teaser of the day] Fog Lake - Losing Feeling

Indie folk
Alternative pop
Baroque pop
Cinematic
Indie pop
Art pop
Canadiana
Chamber pop
Folk indie

Artist: Fog Lake
Release: Carousel [ep]
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Tihomir Zdjelarevic - Sail Away

Watch Pineapple Press

Avant-garde
Ambient
Kosmische Musik
Space music

Artist: Tihomir Zdjelarevic

Release: Mikrowelt

Label: Watch Pineapple Press/Bandcamp

Year: 2019

Betelmire – Polyester Tea (2008)

Rain Above

Drone pop
Organcore
Indie pop
Lo-fi
DIY
Singer-songwriter
New Weird America
Twee pop
Bedroom pop
Indietronica
Dream folk
Americana
Experimental pop
Avant-pop
Electronic
Free folk

Comment: first of all, I can admit that Polyester Tea is almost as good as Betelmire's second (chronologically first) issue called 606 MPH (2005). 606 MPH is just pure gold by a female singer-songwriter from the Northwestern part of the United States who had used a cassette machine to record music composed on low-end electronic keyboards, an ukelele and her compelling dreamy singing to charm listeners with stunning melodies and blossoming harmonies. In hindsight, this restricted range of instruments seems to be somehow an inspiring soil to get the utmost result from it. To have drifted between electronic and acoustic, between familiar songwriting and uttermost vanguard pop experiments. Crossing the line with decency and credibility. Undoubtedly the span of time she had been surrounded by was truly fruitful and tumultuous – a musical movement called New Weird (America) was on full sway and on the other side Beach House through their obsessively droning minimalist indie songwriting lighted up a way to be followed. Additionally one can perceive muscles of twee pop. Thirdly, I can remember for then strong DIY scene, one of which platforms was CLLCT, a platform for recording bedroom artists. I can not remember anymore maybe Betelmire was a bit of it is as well but by her musicianship and attitude she could have had a perfect match. Let's mention some outstanding songs on Polyester Tea – Bird & Bee, Bedroom Unreality, Normandy Park, Auburn, Hidden Track (Lullaby). The issue is a part of the discography of Rain Above Records. Thank you, Betelmire for punching your unforgettable trace into my soul and mind. Good night, sleep tight.

Mikael Delta – Elation (2019)

Inner Ear

Bandcamp

IDM
Modern classical
Post-classical
Electronic music
Kraut-techno
Ambient techno

Comment: this bunch of 12 tracks is something which can be entitled as a threnody to classical experimental techno and intelligent dance music and post-krautrock acts which had been operating with different patterns in rhythm and composition in the Ruhr valley at the end of the 90s and the first half of the 00s. Kreidler, Mouse On Mars, To Rococo Rot, Schneider TM etc, all those groups whose members' subconsciousness was obviously imbued with the legacy of Neu!, Faust, CAN, and Kraftwerk yet on the other side their very own time and space happened to be some decades later at a further point of development and understanding in experimental sound. Mikael Delta is an experienced musician from Greece who adds even more lushness based on vowel sounds and atmospheric upper tones to be juxtaposed with Teutonic rigidity and iterative machinery. The fabulous effort is a part of Inner Ear Records.