[Teaser of the day] oxvac - IOK-1

1834

• Electronic music
• Microtonal
• Drone
• Dark ambient
• Experimentalism
• Abstract
• Microsound
• Minimalism
• Acousmatic music
• Avant-garde

Artist: oxvac
Release: Parsec 
Label: 1834
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Joxfield ProjeX - Crimson Complex

Archive.org

• Electronic
• Kosmische Musik
• Experimental rock
• Art rock
• Ambient
• Krautrock
• Psychedelic
• Improvised music
• Progressive rock
• New Age

Artist: Joxfield ProjeX
Release: Archives EP 6 - Madame Balanova Hallucinates
Label: Cratediggers
Year: 2013

Silent Strike x Makunouchi Bento – Winds Veiled In Darkness (2020)

  

Cinemaude

• Electronic music 
• Experimentalism 
• Art music 
• Avant-garde 
• Oldie music 
• Hauntology 
• Sampledelic 
• Conceptual 
• Dark ambient

Comment: this 13-track outing is a collaboration between two Romanian artists one of them is a duo called Makunouchi Bento may be (well-) known to visitors at RMH. Getting inspiration from the invisible and mysterious they have managed to reassemble ghostly shades and hyper-realistic flickers with the assistance of more or less traditional sounds. The heart of the release is a series of wax cylinders recorded by Béla Bartók approximately the century ago, capturing the folk music of Banat, Romania. In fact, either by listening to an example of oldie music or getting an axial sample into a contemporary composition like the compositions of The Caretaker and The Fucked Up Beat have verified so far such sort of music is thoroughly haunting and mysterious to a contemporary human being it may be even more spectral than a deliberately manipulated dark ambient composition used to be. Even if you are listening to the songs of then absolute pop stars like Al Jolson you may feel a shiver coming through your heart and down your body. Similarly something like that one can feel listening to Ghostophonia where the artists have left enough air and space between the oldie samples and more or less warped sonic bits to let microscopic melodies and tiny harmonies appear and accentuate the apex of past times and inevitably the touch of death into one's mind to be come. If it comes to one's mind the more it seems to be amplified through bittersweet remembrance and feeling of immediate passing of time. If to compare this issue to Makunouchi Bento's previous issues (I am very aware of a collaborative tenure by Silent Strike though) Ghostophonia seems to be sonically less layered and more linear, as already mentioned, to get hold of feeling of our temporary residence and finalisation of the inevitable arrangement by Lord (Heaven knows we will be dust as Mozza sang 35-36 years ago at the time of his tenure with the Smiths). Would you like to fight back? You're welcome by following the formula – ars longa, vita brevis. So follow the logic of the artists to become immortal. For the reviewer here it is the first notch from the new decade to be truly worthwhile.

[Teaser of the day] Factice Factory - Baustein

• Coldwave
• Post-punk
• Synthwave
• Art punk
• Alternative rock

Artist: Factice Factory
Release: Cherry Picker 
Label: Holy Hour/Bandcamp
Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Hanetration - Opal

• Electro-acoustic
• Experimentalism
• Drone
• Improvised music
• Microtonal
• Post-industrial
• Minimalism
• Improvised noise
• Avant-garde

Artist: Hanetration
Release: Timelapse EP 
Label: 2419 Record Label/Bandcamp
Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Endamisi Salamisi - NELJAS

• Electronic music
• Conceptual
• Micronoise
• Experimentalism
• DIY
• Avant-garde
• Synth-pop

Artist: Endamisi Salamisi
Release: Muusika tantsuetendusest "Kuidas Ehitada Aiapäkapikku"
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020

Magi – December (2011)

 
Silber

• Post-rock 
• Post-metal 
• Avant-metal 
• Ambient rock 
• Ambient metal 
• Drone doom 
• Doomgaze 
• Experimental rock

Comment: this batch of 3 tracks which clocks in at a half hour in total is a haunting blend of ominous guitar timbres, slowly changing aural ebbs and tides and atmospheric plateaus which are conjured up with effect-laden guitars and cymbal-induced washes. As equal as the outer impact of the powerful facade the inner aspect has been managed to the same degree due to droning and minimally changing notes and swapping timbres. You can be a witness how a microcosmos and a macrocosmos collapse with one another for to get melt down to a seamless whole. At Grey one can hear a droning organ in the middle of guitars which chimes epic and psychedelic at the same time being initially challenging and ultimately rewarding. There is no chip on the shoulder to be found. The impressive outing is a part of the discography of Silber Records which is a solid port of releasing rock music of experimental/droning/ambient kind.

[Teaser of the day] Chiba City Blues - White Out Conditions

• Vaporwave
• Electronic music 
• Hypnagogic music
• Hauntology
• Muzak
• Mood music
• Easy listening
• Sampledelic

Artist: Chiba City Blues
Release: Local Weather Disket  
Label: Strudelsoft
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Hinterheim - Earthwork

Free Music Archive

• Post-rock
• Experimental rock
• Minimalism
• Ambient rock
• Avant-rock
• Epic

Artist: Hinterheim
Release: Face B 
Label: Free Music Archive
Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Nult - Protest

• Post-rock
• Art rock
• Epic
• Psych-rock
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Nult
Release: Istor-o-Nal 
Label: La Gramola/Famèlic/Bandcamp
Year: 2014

Fulmedesh – caracoles de una ciudad enterrada (2020)

pan y rosas discos

Amor Loco

• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Electro-acoustic
• Drone doom
• Experimentalism
• Spoken word
• Abstract
• Electronic
• Psycho-acoustic
• Sound poetry
• Micronoise
• Improvised noise

Comment: Fulmedesh is the long-distance project of Argentina-based Mariela Arzadun (ARP Odyssey, volca bass, guitar, field recordings, poems), and the US-based Keith Helt who runs the imprint pan y rosas discos (guitar, pedals, flute, keyboard, drums, computer, poems) who play an instance of improvised music full of feeling. More profoundly, the soundscape of six compositions is sonically and stylistically angular and spiked with sheer sonic effects, transgressive progressions, fast and frequently unanticipated turns. I did perceive how the music had resonated with sounds coming from the street outside which in fact consists partially of recorded real concrete sounds. In general, all the obligatory elements of experimental/improvised music/noise are represented and something a little bit else additionally here. Mariela Ardazun-played the austere sounds and minimally functional sonic trickery on the vintage Korg ARP Odyssey permeate throughout the course. At Oh yes! It was a different tiger o quién habló de eso antes Anne Boyer reads her poem Not Writing being performed on June 28, 2016 in Zagreb, Croatia. The personal favourite of mine is Forced Landing On The Stomach Of A Turtle which is channelized into a minimally trudging drone doom-laden rock composition being embellished with shards of electronics and stoned intonation. Addtionally to the Keith Helt curated imprint the issue is released in conjunction with Amor Loco.

Intelec – Giro (2007)

 

Miga

Archive.org

• Deep techno 
• Electronic music 
• Experimental techno 
• Glitchtronica 
• IDM 
• Ambient techno

Comment: this bunch of 6 tracks is all about profound reveries on hypnotic rhythms which in turn are surrounded by torn sonic effects, delicate glitches and concealed voice manipulations. Despite its strong impact on the rhythmic backbone (indeed, the kick drum predominantly kicks and rumbles around) the Spanish duo does not forget to craftily impose upon emotive synapses with the aid of halcyon synthesizers and lighthearted melodies. This sort of synthesized expressions are characteristic to deep house notches although the recent case is experimental techno by numbers (i.e unpredictable ones). The masterful issue is a bit within the discography of Miga. The very respect of mine.

STUCKINWAVEFORMS – Seeds (2019)

Orikami

• Hip-hop 
• Trip-hop 
• Electronic music 
• Nu jazz 
• Urban music 
• Breaks 
• Deep house 
• Club dance 
• Sampledelic 
• Funk 
• Mood music 
• Chilltronica 
• Cinematic

Comment: in fact, these tags say all what will be happening in the next 14 tracks. Lots of purple-tinged electric piano chords and mostly mid-tempo breaks are up there for the turntable to lose its power by resulting in twisted chords and more and less unexpected changes in direction and gear. Hello on the other side is a very cheerful due to a combination of bubblegum-ish funk frequencies. Obviously another (compelling) hit beyond that overwhelming Feelgood. Highly welcome are adept dance-appealed entries into the compartment of electro-house and deep house. It can be admitted these 35 minutes are craftily balanced in mood and formal configuration given that it exceeds the fantasy of an average Flying Lotus' inspired artist. The astounding issue is a part of the discography of Orikami Records. Call it futuristic fusion if you wish, however, it is one of the best albums from the previous year.

[Teaser of the day] Lezet - Vandals

Etched Traumas

• Electronic music
• Experimental electro
• DIY
• Lobit
• Primitive music

Artist: Lezet
Release: Curds 6  
Label: Etched Traumas
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Human Flourishing - Cmon Hairman

• Electronic
• Experimentalism
• Electro-acoustic
• Dreamwave
• Ambient
• Improvised music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Human Flourishing
Release: Cmon Human 
Label: Lurker Bias
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Ombrelli Sciolti - Zebras

• Minimalism
• Experimental rock
• Experimentalism
• No Wave
• Avant-garde
• Avant-rock

Artist: Ombrelli Sciolti
Release: AVANZI 
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Nicolas Tourney - Bluebeard

Batenim

• Organic electronica
• Musique concrète
• Space music
• Microtonal
• Ambient drone
• Avant-garde
• Sound art
• Electronic music
• Ambient
• Experimental
• Minimalism

Artist: Nicolas Tourney
Release: Ram 
Label: Batenim
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Ousel - Silent Mess

• Indie pop/rock
• Progressive rock
• Pomp rock
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Ousel
Release: Ousel
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] The Picturesque Episodes - Diamond Birds

• Electronic
• Ambient
• Kosmische musik
• Microtonal
• Progressive
• Minimalism
• Art music

Artist: The Picturesque Episodes
Release: The Best of Ambient 
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] The Triangle Theory - Spirit Sapphosyskos

• Electronic
• Synth-rock
• Art rock
• Progressive rock
• Pomp rock

Artist: The Triangle Theory
Release: The Triangle Theory 
Label: Girly Girl Music/Fish Prints
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] BLC MIRROR CLB - The Evil Way

Jamendo

• Indie pop/rock
• Power pop
• Alternative pop/rock
• Glam rock

Artist: BLC MIRROR CLB
Release: blc mirror clb
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Feldmaus - Sol` i Spark

Archive.org

• Electronic music
• Experimental rock
• Art rock
• Alternative pop
• Post-rock

Artist: Feldmaus
Release: Places  
Label:Fuselab
Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] A Hundred Drums - Apex w/ Templo

• Electronic music
• Post-industrial
• Organic electronica
• Illbient
• Dubstep

Artist: A Hundred Drums
Release: A Hundred Drums
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Tolmunud Mesipuu - Seitsmetolline

• Experimental metal
• Mathcore
• Post-metal
• Technical metal
• Post-hardcore
• Improvised music
• Avant-metal

Artist: Tolmunud Mesipuu
Release: Puusse panen
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Ryonkt - Clear Air

• Minimalism
• Guitar ambient
• Art music
• Post-rock
• Experimentalism
• Microtonal
• Ambient rock
• Avant-garde

Artist: Ryonkt
Release: Past Memory And Image 
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2010

Ann Deveria – Domingo Tarde (2009)

 
Audiotalaia
Archive.org

• Experimentalism 
• Ambient 
• Post-rock 
• Drone 
• Ambient drone 
• Americana 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Musique concrète 
• Abstract
• Live recording
• Avant-garde 
• Acousmatic music 
• Microtonal 
• Micronoise

Comment: this is a 2-notch track of unusual choice of music by Ann Deveria under the Spanish experimental imprint Audiotalaia. The beginning part is a 14-minute track consisting of whitish droning imbued with light hisses, accidental electro-acoustic/concrete music episodes a la door opening, walking and other every day's home noises which in fact add a positive, familiar impact upon the track. The pace behind the composition is brought forth by an act of simple pulsating and harmonized phase shifting. One may perceive it as if a dozen channels of electricity was embedded in a huge concave. Despite its apparently pale nature the result does have a deep sensibility.

The second part, however, is a surprise due to decelerated pace based on lone yet atmospheric acoustic guitar plucks and longing dreamy harmonica improvisations as if Route 66 was depicted in a panoramic view meandering in the middle of a secluded, uncivilized landscape as we frequently can see in the movies. It is also the kind of what Sergio Leone would have used in some episodes of his Spaghetti Western movies. Solid by any means.

[Teaser of the day] Chris Pellnat - Ode to Olivia Rhodes

• Indie folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Americana
• Alt-folk
• Folk indie

Artist: Chris Pellnat
Release: Liftoff 
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] EugeneKha - Balloon (remastered)

45 Echoes Sounds

• Electronic music
• New Age
• Chilltronica
• Organic electronica
• Ambient pop
• Mood music

Artist: EugeneKha
Release: River Songs
Label: Clinical Archives/45 Echoes Sounds
Year: 2010/2013

[Teaser of the day] Shinnosuke Sugata - 到着とそれまでの間 (Arrival And In The Meantime)

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie folk
• Alt-folk
• Japaniana
• Folk indie

Artist: Shinnosuke Sugata
Release: “光目眩ませずとも、あれ (Let There Be Light, Even If It Doesn’t Dazzle The Eyes”
Label: Tanukineiri
Year: 2020

Guilty Strangers – Oracle (2012)

Zorch Factory

Bandcamp

• Post-punk 
• Deathrock 
• Gothic rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Art rock

Comment: this bunch of 10 tracks comes out of the discography of Zorch Factory, now defunct imprint dedicated to post-punk and its a bit darker derivatives like gothic rock and coldwave. The latter one was initially related to French-speaking regions like France and Wallonia. It is not surprising because Zorch Factory Records was a French one. However, not all bands were the aforementioned regions related, like Guilty Strangers hailing from San Antonio, Texas, USA. Yeah, the release is about the gothic yet it is different at most times from the UK-based gothic juggernauts due to deathrock influences thereby resulting in more fast paced and galvanized songs. However, female singing and high registered yearning and cellophane-alike guitars bring in mind Siouxsie and the Banshees unintentionally. At Snake one can partake in slowed-down ragged incantations based on the improvisations of a staccato guitar. In any cases, the second part of the issue embraces more sonic experiments and unusual tempo signatures and song structures. The album includes witty one-liners and dark theme considerations like violence, (ancestral) sin, weird dreams. All in all, it is thoroughly good.

[Teaser of the day] Anteaters & The Women Who Love Them - Bartleby the Scrivener

• Free folk
• Vaudeville
• New Weird America
• Freeformfreakout
• Psych-folk
• Freak folk
• Music hall

Artist: Anteaters & The Women Who Love Them
Release: Shaving & Drinking
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Aevio - Cassiopeia

Nulogic

• Psybient
• Chilltronica
• Electronic music
• Downtempo
• New Age

Artist: Aevio
Release: Bioluminescence 
Label: Nulogic/Bandcamp
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] zgress - Tempo

• Bedroom pop
• Glo-fi
• Singer-songwriter
• Electronic pop
• Outsider pop
• DIY
• Alternative pop
• Chillwave

Artist: zgress
Release: Trial 
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] starstarstar - Island

Archive.org

• New Weird America
• Free folk
• Freak folk
• Live
• Psych-folk

Artist: starstarstar
Release: 2008: 12/20, Magdalenas
Label: Archive.org
Year: 2008

Martin Rach – Doubling Moons (2020)

Bandcamp

• Avant-garde 
• Ambient drone 
• Glitchtronica 
• Noise 
• Experimentalism 
• Electronic 
• Improvised music 
• Drone 
• Chamber music 
• Post-classical 
• Improvised noise 
• Ambient

Comment: before I started listening to this 6-notch Moon series I had listened to two previous outings of the Lithuanian experimental musician. And it was a truly arbitrary, highly accidental choice with regard to Martin Rach's enormous collection behind for obsessive lovers in experimental music (also known as Mirth Naarc). First of them was Piano Attic (2016), an intricate mix of modern piano music with a strong inclination toward electro-acoustic music and elaborated noise. A second was Late Autumn Quartets (2016), a fine flow of post-classical/chamber music work with dodges into noisy bursts and more electronics.
Given that the flow being quite similar related to the last mentioned issue Doubling Moons chimes as his first issue in a new decade (but not the sole issue anymore) due to blurred borders between foggy chamber music, slow motion induced droning and flashback filled, crackled ambient like early wondrous Tim Hecker used to do (from Haunt Me Haunt Me Do It Again to Mirages) to amplified, tectonic noise resonances. In a word, it is a bloody great, absolutely accomplished release which on the other side, fortunately, is just a span in the continuing trajectory of the artist. After that let's be ready to immerse into his subsequent issue called Naihtyme. And the previous ones should be shed light upon again.

[Teaser of the day] Disco Biscuits - Confrontation

Archive.org

• Live
• Fusion
• Improvised music
• Psych-rock
• Soft rock
• Progressive rock
• Pop rock

Artist: Disco Biscuits
Release: Live at Irving Plaza on 2016-08-18
Label: Live Music Archive
Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Al Jolson - Swanee (1920) a

Archive.org

• Oldie music
• Dixieland
• Music hall

Artist: Al Jolson
Release: Collected Works of Al Jolson
Label: 78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings
Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Frozen Geese - Scatter the Rosebuds

 Free Music Archive

• Krautrock
• Experimental rock
• Psych-rock
• Motorik
• Avant-rock

Artist: Frozen Geese
Release: The Starseed 
Label: Free Music Archive/Vanity Case
Year: 2010

Black Bug – Reflecting The Light (2013)

 
Bandcamp

Eighteen

Hozac

• Synth-punk 
• Dance punk 
• Art punk 
• DIY 
• Electroclash 
• Electro-punk 
• Lo-fi

Comment: this 11-track outing is something which straddles on the border of electro and punk being embellished with vintage spoken samples and catchy singing. By listening to the lo-fi production and thorough DIY intention of this Italian-based combo it can be said for instance both Sex Pistols (from the past), and Fischerspooner (from the present time) chime like established combos with regard to it. Additionally, such sort of music resurrects in mind such combos as The Screamers, Digital Leather, Units, Suicide. On the other side, with regard to a permanent acerbic droning and straightforward pace it is close to Silver Apples rather than The Fall. Especially astounding are those a bit hypnotic and a bit venomous progressions on synths being accompanied by howling singing manner and mechanic autistic drums. If you have a wish you can buy their LP being released on Eighteen Records.

[Teaser of the day] Arzathon - Builders Of Golgonooza

Rodent Tapes

• Dub rock
• Experimental rock
• DIY
• Minimalism
• Avant-funk
• Lo-fi
• Avant-rock

Artist: Arzathon
Release: The Fox And The Flies 
Label: Rodent Tapes/Bandcamp
Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Weldroid - Backyard Experiments

• Glitchtronica
• Experimental electronica
• Breaks
• IDM
• Kosmische Musik
• Ambient techno
  

Artist: Weldroid
Release: EXPTIME 
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Phil Reavis - West of Here

WM Recordings

• Alternative rock
• Blues rock
• Americana
• Gothic Americana

Artist: Phil Reavis
Release: Driving Me Backwards
Label: WM Recordings
Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Abigail Press - Drifting Dawn

Melodica

• Singer-songwriter
• Rnb
• Soul
• Electronic pop
• Alternative pop
• Downbeat

Artist: Abigail Press
Release: Drifting Dawn 
Label: Melodica
Year:2012

[Teaser of the day] Ant GM - Azelaial

Soisloscerdos

• Wonky
• Aquacrunk
• Lazer hip-hop
• Grime
• Urban music
• Electro-hop
• Electronic music
• Glitch hop
• Rap

Artist: Ant GM
Release:  Oximoron EP
Label: Soisloscerdos
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Professor Kliq - Out Here At The Outersphere

Jamendo

• Electro-house
• Electronic music
• Yacht pop
• Club dance

Artist: Professor Kliq
Release: Entertainment System 
Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Cinchel - Saturday Doors Open to Sunday Blues

• Ambient rock
• Ambient noise
• Experimental rock
• Post-rock
• Improvised music
• Guitar ambient
• Avant-rock

Artist: Cinchel
Release: Unwanted Purpose 
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2019

Fani Konstantinidou ‎– Winter Trilogy / The Big Fall (2020)

 
Moving Furniture

• Drone 
• Minimalism 
• Microtonal 
• Abstract 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Non-music 
• Acousmatic music 
• Microsound

Comment: the Greek artist Fani Konstantinidou's issue consists of two sections, however, both of them are about droning, droning and...droning. In fact, it needs very adept ability and exquisite perception to make up something appealing from those highly austere and minimalist sounds. On the other side, if it is an artist's purpose to be staying within the limits of the style it is also a challenge. The Greek artist succeeds in the aforementioned aspects by changing the phases, by minimizing or broadening the linear scope of the droning sound. At times it is minimised down to pure humming electricity, at times it is varied by unstable frequencies. Highly experimental, highly abstract which by its intent reminds of Alvin Lucier's compositions. The outing is a part of the discography of Moving Furniture Records.

[Teaser of the day] Golden Duck Orchestra - My Little Kingdom

Jamendo

• Power metal
• Easy listening
• Symphonic metal
• Crossover
• Progressive metal
• Downbeat
• Mood music

Artist: Golden Duck Orchestra
Release: Golden Duck Orchestra 1st EP
Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp
Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Dustings - Transitory

• Shoegaze
• Electronic
• Dream pop
• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock

Artist: Dustings
Release: Transitory 
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Primula - Untitled II

Please Do Something

• Electro pop
• Synth-pop
• Electronic music
• Alternative dance

Artist: Primula
Release: Untitled 
Label: Please Do Something
Year: 2003

Ashbrg – iLL (2007)

Hamsterloco
Archive.org 

• Electronic music 
• Synth-pop 
• Psychedelic 
• Chiptune
• Sampledelic
• Avant-garde 
• Experimental electronica 
• 8-bit 
• Bitpop 
• Progressive 
• Experimental pop 
• Minimal synth 
• Art pop

Comment: A Catalan called Aleix Pitarch is behind the nom de plume Ashbrg who has been releasing albums under the imprint Hamsterloco. The label and the project of him is intended to cross chiptune/8-bit/tracker music with more conventional styles. Mostly they succeed in their intention. For instance, the recent issue is a shift between silence and rough pixels of sound, between exquisite synthesised incantations and childish, playful interlude-alike progressions. Maybe I am wrong – maybe it is all about new progressive music? For instance, a track entitled Old Sounds. Pux perros is the main hit for me on this 18-notch outing – it reminds of the organ-led, catchy acid punk of The Stranglers by the main gear being varied with artsy prog music elements. Snap To Grid is more (warped) indie than many bands being called by this tag. Submarine is a great laid-back glimpse into subconscious dreams and heavy memories. Comoperros ya is a cheerful minimal synth number which does mean lots of acerbic effects rotating around the groovy yet obsessive rhythmic backbone. Doggystyle is about more poppy synthesised developments with regard to the previous track. Yeah, all is an enjoyable ear fare.

[Teaser of the day] Ten And Tracer - Vintage Airplane - Vintage Man

 Zymogen

• Post-industrial
• Experimentalism
• Abstract
• Micronoise
• Avant-garde

Artist: Ten And Tracer
Release: Baker's Blood
Label: Zymogen
Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Otzim Lee - Swimming With Sharks

Schall

• Ambient techno
• Dubtronica
• Electronic music
• Dub techno

Artist: Otzim Lee
Release: Dub Dubom EP
Label: Schall
Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Parametic Delay - Drizzle Ice

No Source

• Breaks
• Electronic music
• IDM

Artist: Parametic Delay
Release: Love Song Before Sleep 
Label: No Source
Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Vertical67 - Whisperwind

Schwa! Records

• IDM
• Synth-pop
• Electronic music
• Alternative dance
• Electro pop

Artist: Vertical67
Release: Daydreamer 
Label: Schwa! Records
Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Lullabier - Il Piano

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie pop
• Ambient pop
• Dream pop
• Art pop
• Slowcore

Artist: Lullabier
Release: The Italian Leaving EP
Label: ViVeriVive 
Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Latent Chaos - True False

Bob Chaos

• Lo-fi
• Psychedelic
• Outsider music
• Improvised music
• Free jazz
• DIY
• Avant-garde

Artist: Latent Chaos
Release: Cafe of Onlyness  
Label: Bob Chaos
Year: 1986

[Teaser of the day] Century of Aeroplanes - Ealeki

WM Recordings

• Ambient rock
• Experimental rock
• Improvised music
• Electro-acoustic
• Avant-rock

Artist: Century of Aeroplanes
Release: A Simple Process
Label: WM Recordings
Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Mogwai - Helicon 1

Archive.org

• Post-rock
• Art rock
• Epic
• Alternative rock
• Live

Artist: Mogwai
Release: Live at Passeio Maritimo de Algés on 2019-07-11
Label: Live Music Archive
Year: 2019

Chuzausen – Corrupted Projects (2019)

 
Enoughrecords

Jamendo

Archive.org

Scene.org

Bandcamp

• IDM 
• Electronic music 
• Electro pop 
• Chiptune 
• 8-bit 
• Bitpop 
• Alternative dance 
• Robot pop

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

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

[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

[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

[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

₦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.

[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

[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

[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

[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

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

[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

[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.

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.

[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