- Electro-punk
- Art punk
- Post-punk
- Alternative pop
- Synth-punk
Artist: PVC16
Release: bogopop
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2016
3/05/2020
[Teaser of the day] PVC16 - пиончик
Artist: PVC16
Release: bogopop
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2016
Pogohm – Raptor Jesus (2012)
- Electronic music
- Alternative dance
- Lo-fi
- DIY
- Eurobeat
- Vaporwave
- Breaks
- Trance
Comment: behind Pogohm is a French musician Arnaud Barbe who is better known and being more prolific behind a nom de plume, Pollux. He leads also an imprint, Sirona-Records, and the recent 5-notch outing is also a part of it. If someone asks for the point of Pogohm and difference between the two aliases then the first thread one can hear coming out of Raptor Jesus is an appealing VHS quality embracing all the sound. A second characteristic is a cheesy rhythmic sound being something between Eurobeat, and German trance. Given that Arnaud Barbe's profound experiments with ambient and electronic music as Pollux one may see it as a Barbe's guilty pleasure or seedy self-indulgence, however, despite its simplistic rhythms it chimes in an alien way coming close to Vaporwave sound. In a word, it is an enjoyable experience full of bittersweet nostalgia and passed times. Nice shit making your day.
Philipp Bückle – Paintings (2018)
- Folktronica
- Organic electronica
- Post-rock
- Modern classical
- Art music
- Post-classical
- Electro-acoustic
- Ambient pop
- Glitchtronica
- Electronic music
- Field recording
- Drone
- Post-classical
- Abstract
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Musique concrète
Comment: this bunch of 12 tracks is something which makes you feel ennobling and purgative. For me as a listener this would be an ideal pop case in an ideal world. It is uncompromising and incisive by channelizing familiar and daring where soaring faint harmonies and semi-melodies and exquisite sonic manipulations are seamlessly intertwined with one another. As a punching sonic fist which includes so many layers to be grasped for it needs many listening times in any cases. In spite of it there remains something mysterious ultimately. From subtle piano-induced contemporary classical progressions and broad ambient plateaus and subliminal folktronic and post-rock soars to field recording drenched soundscapes and abstract hisses and daring static. The issue is out of the discography of Moving Furniture Records.
Moki Mcfly – Silom (2018)
- Hip-hop
- Sampledelic
- Urban music
- Cinematic
- Trip-hop
- Ethnotronica
- Psychedelic
- Lo-fi
- DIY
- Mood music
- Easy listening
- World fusion
Comment: this 14-notch release being a part of the discography of blocSonic Records is a mesh of instrumental hip-hop rhythms and cinematic orchestrated beats. There are represented other sort of cadences as well, at Tuk Tuk Dub one can hear the churning of surf guitars; at Chang's a psychedelic organ gear and a weak Far East flavour comes to the surface. Aesthetically it is imbued with lo-fi and DIY attitude. Furthermore, in many tracks an exquisite ethnic music touch is added to the mix. All in all, a listener can hear a blissful mix of the aforementioned elements and a wondrous vibe running throughout the whole course. Great.
3/04/2020
[Teaser of the day] Siegmar Fricke - Dermabrasion
- Electronic music
- Ambient techno
- Minimal techno
- Experimental techno
- Avant-techno
Artist: Siegmar Fricke
Release: Selective Resections
Label: Clinical Archives
Year: 2007
[Teaser of th day] Grinphox - I Prefer You
- Electronic music
- Experimentalism
- Improvised music
- Avant-garde
Artist: Grinphox
Release: Spectrum
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2018
[Teaser of the day] Peter David Smith - That`s Nothing
- Blues rock
- Alternative rock
Artist: Peter David Smith
Release: That's Nothing - but it's angry
Label: Archive.org
Year: 2019
[Teaser of th day] Gypsy - In Lak’ech Ala K’in
- Electronic music
- Chilltronica
- Indietronica
- Art pop
- Easy listening
Artist: Gypsy
Release: Poets And Lovers
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Valv - Debtor`s Jail
- Alternative rock
- Indie rock
- Psych-rock
- Power pop
Artist: Valv
Release: Ammonite
Label: Midsummer Madness
Year: 2001
3/02/2020
[Teaser of the day] Charles Rice Goff III - Mother Ann`s Song
- Electronic
- Neoclassical
- Experimentalism
- Post-industrial
- Improvised music
- Medieval music
- Avant-garde
Artist: Charles Rice Goff III
Release: Acren Wacren Waney Vo
Label: Taped Rugs Productions
Year: 2012
3/01/2020
[Teaser of the day] Jap Jap - Spatial Analysis
- Electronic music
- IDM
- Downtempo
- Chilltronica
- Synth-pop
- Art pop
Artist: Jap Jap
Release: Blue Shimmery Fall
Label: Maetrixsolution
Year: 2006
[Teaser of the day] Obasquiat trio - Malagueña Salerosa
- Spoken word
- Experimental rock
- No Wave
- Avant-rock
- Jazz rock
- Fusion
- Post-hardcore
- Avant-metal
- Freeformfreakout
- Improvised music
- Crossover
- Psych-rock
- Noise rock
Artist: Obasquiat trio
Release: Ignorance is a Bless
Label: Sunyatha
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Igniael - Glimpses of Heaven
- Electronic music
- Ambient
- Space music
- Art music
- Organic electronica
- Soundscape
- Fantasy
- Epic
Artist: Igniael
Release: Laptop Daydreaming Vol.4
Label: Khannonmusic Studios/Bandcamp
Year: 2020
The Hirundu – Tantalus (2019)
- Alternative pop/rock
- Psych-rock
- Lo-fi
- Electronic
- Alternative dance
- DIY
- Indie dance
- Outsider music
- Psych-pop
- Indie pop/rock
- Electro-rock
- Baggy
- Dance rock
- Progressive
- Avant-pop
- Experimental pop
- Progressive
Comment: the members of The Hirundu got an inkling to embark on recording their own music by watching a TV show with the appearance of Happy Mondays there. It did happen sometime at the end of the 80s when soaring guitar sound was mingled with acid house inspired dance-appealed beats. I guess Johnny Crewdson and company from Blackpool did not get interested in that not because it was hip but it did have a strong psychedelic groove, possible DIY attitude and a solid amount of humour within the backbone. The things would have developed in the way the number of albums by The Hirundu today can already be compared to The Fall, another big favourite of theirs. From initial strong psychedelic groove and dadaist take on radiophonic art and frantic lo-fi pop and rock to be progressing into an idiosyncratic electronic experimental slot. However, by exploring the discography of the combo one can figure out unpredictable twitches between the aforementioned stylistic developments. Additionally, The Hirundu made a lot of modern lo-fi/DIY things to happen approximately a decade before Ariel Pink and a new wave of home recording artists did.
By listening to this 15-notch album and from the very first psychedelic soporific chords one can admit the proper way to set up new directions in music is to explore the past because music like everything around is an experiential and synthetic field for sure. More profoundly, it is Johnny Crewdson's retrodelic act one can hear influences coming out from Primal Scream's Screamadelica (A Nuttist) and sublime baggy rhythms by searching for psychedelic cloudless quietude and to be succumbed to halcyon gravity-free grasp. Indeed, at times I was even struck by a heretical thought Johnny Crewdson tries to retreat deliberately from the previous efforts with regard to either some more silent moments or progressive examples (Seven Feffers) within it. However, there is no heresy in the artist's thinking, Tantalus is a knowing realisation of his frightening yet mesmerizing ideas. For instance, the album is ended up by Merengue, a superb melodic artsy pop approach where you can feel the ambition, dynamics, humor and sensibility. The album is top notch by any means especially living at a time when (mainstream) music is being fucked-up due to stupid exploitation of mechanical voice machines. At a time of talentless and cowardly artists.
2/29/2020
Sean Nicholas Savage – Screamo (2018)
- Singer-songwriter
- Alternative pop
- Soul
- DIY
- Indie soul
- Sophisti-pop
- Synth-pop
- Cinematic
Comment: screamo, indeed, but it is not screamo as music style at all represented within the course of 12 tracks. Maybe it is a screamo of desperation in soul being induced by urge for love and intense dislocated longing. It may be because the Canadian troubadour continues stubbornly walking the same path he has done so far. And that's good because I could not imagine him by getting no hold of DIY-tinged soul being saturated with honest feel and sheer depth. I can remember him for performing at a small indie festival in a small town at the beginning of the 10s, the Sun had already set down while he was performing in front of approximately 2500 attendants being barefoot and surrounded by little flying vampires. Yeah, it was an astounding performance, it was the first class entertainment by him.
While he does not use much instruments and magniloquent gizmos to bring a listener the impact for any element represented here is thoroughly accentuated and emotively saturated. It may represent a screamo in his soul but it involves a lighthearted cinematic feel to solace me as a listener. Top tier which as usual as Sean Nicholas Savage used to be is related to an imprint called Arbutus Records.
[Teaser of the day] Xalm Retribution - The New World
- Electronic music
- Organic electronica
- Dark ambient
- Microtonal
- Drone
- Field recording
- Acousmatic music
- Musique concrète
Artist: Xalm Retribution
Release: The Apocalypse
Label: enoughrecords/Jamendo/Bandcamp/Archive.org
Year: 2020
2/28/2020
[Teaser of the day] Cousin Silas & Candy L - Snow Arrives
- Ambient rock
- Experimental rock
- Organic electronica
- Improvised music
- Art music
- Progressive
- Electronic
Artist: Cousin Silas & Candy L
Release: Scenes From A Forest
Label: 4632 Studio
Year: 2019
[Teaser of the day] Aigar Vals - Sooner (Galaktlan Remix)
- Electronic
- Indietronica
- Shoegaze
- Remix
- IDM
- Alternative pop
Artist: Aigar Vals
Release: End Game Remixes
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2018
[Teaser of the day] Pinkwave - Youth
- Synth-punk
- Minimal Wave
- DIY
- Crossover
- Synthwave
- Trash metal
- Minimal synth
- Art punk
- Vaporwave
- New Wave
Artist: Pinkwave
Release: Damage Done
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2019
[Teaser of the day] Teams - 4/4
- Electronic music
- Industrial hip-hop
- Dub
- Experimental hip-hop
- Hip-hop
- Avant-hop
Artist: Teams
Release: Any Way Is Not My Own Nor Your Own To Judge
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2013
2/27/2020
[Teaser of the day] The Glove Of Bones - Melpomene - Tarkovsky Dreamed Beijing
- New Age
- Minimalism
- Improvised music
- Dreamwave
- Art rock
- Electronic
Artist: The Glove Of Bones
Release: 9
Label: Argali
Year: 2019
VIIRGILE – Abandon all hype ye who enter here (2018)
- Electro pop
- Breakcore
- Electronic music
- Alternative dance
- IDM
- Experimental electro
- Glitchtronica
Comment: rusty shrieks, metallic rattles, amplified industrial hisses, incisive digitalised noises which at times are quite hostile are varied with sublime evocative melodies and vivid rhythmic combinations to an exuberant extent within the concept of a playful music production. This 17-notch issue embraces a whole universe of diverse yet integrated cadences, sonic experiments and frantic visions. It is all about how to domesticate austere bleak sonic bits into a tractable blossoming oasis. More profoundly, it used to rotate about an electro dance with an innumerable amount of dodges and branches into such styles as industrial, noise, and glitchtronica. The overwhelming outing is a part of the discography of Vaatican Records.
2/25/2020
[Teaser of the day] Radio On - Dylan`s Organ Jam
- Psych-rock
- Indie rock
- Improvised music
- Alternative rock
- Acid rock
Artist: Radio On
Release: Sounds of Objects
Label: Shame File Music
Year: 2019
[Teaser of the day] C. Reider - Total Solar Eclipse, August 21, 2017, Camp Wyoba, Casper Mountain, Casper, Wyoming
- Electronic music
- Ambient
- Field recording
- Conceptual
- Musique concrète
- Spoken word
Artist: C. Reider
Release: Total Solar Eclipse, August 21, 2017, Camp Wyoba, Casper Mountain, Casper, Wyoming
Label: Vuzh Music
Year: 2017
[Teaser of the day] Fuck Yuo I Am a Robot - Reverse Paranoia
- Electronic music
- Electro pop
- Kraut-electro
- Alternative dance
Artist: Fuck Yuo I Am a Robot
Release: Unleashed ( A Collection Of Tracks)
Label: Mutasone
Year: 2011
[Teaser of the day] ChopChop - Antilife
- Electronic music
- Breakcore
- Jungle
- Breakbeat
- Drum and bass
- Alternative dance
Artist: ChopChop
Release: Music For Scumbags Like Me
Label: Sociopath Recordings
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] Rosalie - Innocent Hearts
- Electronic music
- Kosmische Musik
- Space music
- Ambient
- Post-classical
- Art music
Artist: Rosalie
Release: Tsuki
Label: Buddhist On Fire/Archive.org
Year: 2019
2/24/2020
[Teaser of the day] Emerald Hill - Um Ano a Mais
- Indie rock
- Singer-songwriter
- Alternative rock
Artist: Emerald Hill
Release: Para Sempre Conectados, Mas Eternamente Distantes
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2018
Nicolas Tourney – Ram (2020)
- Ambient
- Minimalism
- Drone
- Microtonal
- Ambient drone
- Sound art
- Electronic music
- Abstract
- Avant-garde
- Organic electronica
- Musique concrète
Comment: at the time of searching for a teaser track for the blog from the French composer, imprint owner and blogger Nicolas Tourney's brand new one Ram I was inclined sensually to find out just one track called Bluebeard. However, having been listened to the 15-track outing many times in a row I can admit it to be a great one. Indeed, it is about tonality and microscopic sensuality within broadening and narrowing swathes of exquisite sound. Lots of used to happen in reality and a listener's mind or being inseparably intertwined with one another. It is like a wondrous universe with stable arrangement of sonic elements and little changes coming in and moving outside. Wavering quietude is compellingly represented throughout the course there. Less is more on the base of this issue. The release is a part of the discography of Batenim.
2/22/2020
[Teaser of the day] Quarto Nove Ilda. feat. Julio Cesar - Caminhos (Mix Original)
- Electronic pop
- Alternative pop
- Electro pop
- Sophisti-pop
- Synth-pop
Artist: Quarto Nove Ilda
Release: Grande Império
Label: Ilimitada Edições
Year: 2019
[Teaser of the day] Yoshiwaku - Flashback
- Electronic music
- Experimentalism
- Improvised noise
- Post-industrial
- Drone
- Power electronics
- Avant-garde
Artist: Yoshiwaku
Release: Back To The Tape
Label: Le Colibri Nècrophile
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] usual name - Seven Elements
- Electronic music
- Art pop
- Easy listening
- Ethnotronica
- Tribal ambient
- Mood music
- Experimental pop
Artist: usual name
Release: 甘口-mild-
Label: on sunday recordings
Year: 2017
[Teaser of the day] Pablo Meijueiro - Aguar
- Dream folk
- Psych-folk
- Indie folk
- Singer-songwriter
- Tropicalia
- Alt-folk
- Folk indie
- Art folk
Artist: Pablo Meijueiro
Release: Mãe de Tudo vol.Y
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2019
[Teaser of the day] The Zodiac - Capricorn
- Electronic music
- Breaks
- Avant-hop
- Sampledelic
- DIY
- Hip-hop
- Outsider music
- Glitch-hop
Artist: The Zodiac
Release: Cosmic Sounds Revisited
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2018
[Teaser of the day] DISRAGE - BALAS CONTRA BALAS
- Crust punk
- Raw punk
- D-beat
- Brutal punk
- Hardcore punk
Artist: DISRAGE
Release: NOISE RHYTHM
Label: Craneal Fracture
Year: 2015
2/21/2020
[Teaser of the day] Twilight Kamikaze - This Void Inside
- Electronic music
- Breakbeat
- Electronic dance music
- Electro
- Post-disco
- Breaks
Artist: Twilight Kamikaze
Release: A Drive with Elise
Label: Silent Flow
Year: 2018
[Teaser of the day] oxvac - IOK-1
- 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
- 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)
- 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.
2/20/2020
[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)
- 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.
2/19/2020
[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
- 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)
- 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.
2/18/2020
Intelec – Giro (2007)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
2/17/2020
[Teaser of the day] Nicolas Tourney - Bluebeard
- 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
2/16/2020
[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
- 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
- Electronic music
- Experimental rock
- Art rock
- Alternative pop
- Post-rock
Artist: Feldmaus
Release: Places
Label:Fuselab
Year: 2014
2/15/2020
[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)
- 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.
2/14/2020
[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)
- 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)
- 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.
2/13/2020
[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
- Psybient
- Chilltronica
- Electronic music
- Downtempo
- New Age
Artist: Aevio
Release: Bioluminescence
Label: Nulogic/Bandcamp
Year: 2019
2/12/2020
[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
- 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)
- 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.
2/11/2020
[Teaser of the day] Disco Biscuits - Confrontation
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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.
2/09/2020
[Teaser of the day] Arzathon - Builders Of Golgonooza
- 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
- 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
- Singer-songwriter
- Rnb
- Soul
- Electronic pop
- Alternative pop
- Downbeat
Artist: Abigail Press
Release: Drifting Dawn
Label: Melodica
Year:2012
2/08/2020
[Teaser of the day] Ant GM - Azelaial
- 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
- 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
2/07/2020
Fani Konstantinidou – Winter Trilogy / The Big Fall (2020)
- 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
- 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
- Electro pop
- Synth-pop
- Electronic music
- Alternative dance
Artist: Primula
Release: Untitled
Label: Please Do Something
Year: 2003
2/05/2020
Ashbrg – iLL (2007)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Breaks
- Electronic music
- IDM
Artist: Parametic Delay
Release: Love Song Before Sleep
Label: No Source
Year: 2011
[Teaser of the day] Vertical67 - Whisperwind
- IDM
- Synth-pop
- Electronic music
- Alternative dance
- Electro pop
Artist: Vertical67
Release: Daydreamer
Label: Schwa! Records
Year: 2010
2/04/2020
[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
- Lo-fi
- Psychedelic
- Outsider music
- Improvised music
- Free jazz
- DIY
- Avant-garde
Artist: Latent Chaos
Release: Cafe of Onlyness
Label: Bob Chaos
Year: 1986
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