- Agit-punk
- Lo-fi
- Singer-songwriter
- Bedroom music
- DIY
- Alternative rock
Artist: Ego Revenio
Release: Vis Ignota
Label: Mothermantra
Year: 2019
10/16/2020
[Teaser of the day] Ego Revenio - Gauza Bitxiak
[Teaser of the day] Spiedkiks - All Wayz Near
- Hip-hop
- Easy listening
- Cinematic
- Sampledelic
- Future funk
- Lounge pop
- Electronic
Artist: Spiedkiks
Release: A Pompous Whimsy Peak
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Gregory Talbot - A3 – Interior #2
- Electronic music
- Avant-garde
- Musique concrète
- Microsound
- Acousmatic music
- Experimentalism
- Micronoise
- Industrial music
Artist: Gregory Talbot
Release: Recordings On An Empty Stomach
Label: Midnight Circles
Year: 2017
[Teaser of the day] Luka Prinčič - Cat
- Ambient
- Easy listening
- Electronic
- Lo-fi
- Vaporwave
- DIY
Artist: Luka Prinčič
Release: Of Judy Stroat
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2019
10/14/2020
[Teaser of the day] Olah Istvan - export 5
- Trip-hop
- Ambient dub
- Cinematic
- Cloud rap
- Electronic music
- Downtempo
Artist: Olah Istvan
Release: export 5
Label: Test Tube
Year: 2009
[Teaser of the day] Dighom - Vaana
Aboombong – asynartetic (2020)
- Art music
- Experimentalism
- Avant-garde
- Improvised music
- Modern classical
- Minimalism
- Post-classical
Aboombong on (pool)müstilise USA muusiku J.C Thorne'i sooloprojekt. On teada, et ta on olnud aktiivne aastakümneid; ta on pigem olnud varjuline võlur, kelle asi on jätta endast maha kunstilised helikontuurid. Kuigi ta on osaline ka seesugustes ansamblites nagu Psychic Enemies Network, ¡para!helion, The Jonny Cats, Anxiety of Silence ja veel mõnes teiseski, aga Aboombong on jätnud neist sügavaima mulje. Eks ole ka olnud huvitav jälgida projekti muutumist kümne aasta jooksul, mis algas motoorse krautroki, minimalistlike motiivide, flippertronics'it meenutava proge ja psühhedeelse šamanistliku avangardiga. Hiljem muutus muusika fokusseeritud ämbient-eksperimentideks ja moodsa klassika ilminguteks (reeglina oli see ebatavaline, st oli kas kuidagi nihestatud või sisaldas stilistiliselt veel midagi).
Võib nentida, et J.C Thorne jätkab sealt, kus eelmine album "AGNOSIS" pooleli jäi. Klaverimuusika eksperimendid, mis sellel viieloolisel üllitisel on võtnud varasemaga võrreldes toorema kuju; jätkuvalt õhuline, aga nurgelisem, ümbritsetuna elektroakustilistest helieksperimentidest. Saab nautida nii tehnitsistlikku tahku – mida artist ei püüagi varjata – kui suhteliselt puhast harmoonilist väljundit, mis on esile manatud klahvpillide, metallofoni, eksootiliste trummide-kellade ja keelpillidega. Nagu ikka, on käesolev album osa mehe isikliku plaadifirma Pen & Mallet diskograafiast. Väga viis.
10/11/2020
[Teaser of the day] Jacques Malchance - La Constellation Malchanceuse
- Synth-funk
- Easy listening
- Indietronica
- Electro pop
- Synth-pop
- Alternative dance
Artist: Jacques Malchance
Release: ARPEOLOGIE
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Porzellan - Third Cycle
- Minimalism
- Art music
- Electronic music
- Organic electronica
- Ambient
- Experimental electronica
- Musique concrète
Artist: Porzellan
Release: Mountains Cycles
Label: Abyssa
Year: 2008
[Teaser of the day] Hox Vox - Constructivism
- Electronic
- World fusion
- Progressive
- Synth-rock
- DIY
- Ambient pop
- Art pop
- Sophisti-pop
Artist: Hox Vox
Release: Epistemology [album in progress]
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020
Thuoom – Luonto (2020)
- Avant-garde
- Ambient
- Microtonal
- Abstract
- Experimentalism
- Drone
- Musique concrète
- Organic electronica
- Field recording
- Minimalism
- Avant-techno
- Non -music
- Electronic
Soome ühemeheprojekt Thuoom on tagasi kaheksanda albumiga "Luonto". 13-looline album on rajatud üksnes pärishelidele, mis on kas ehedal, st töötlemata kujul või on seda vähem või rohkem töödeldud. Näiteks lood "Unipuu" ja "Syvä puu" kõlavad kui laias laanes salvestatud kõlksatustest ja kajast läbiimbunud transsilangenud tehnomuusika. Leida transis meelte ja vaimu puhastumine (ka füüsise korrastamine ja laiemalt terviklikkuse saavutamine). Väga soomeugrilik lähenemine – oma privaatruumi hõivamine, selle laiendamine ja isikupäraseks kujundamine. Meie rahvaste õnnis paganlik embrüo, mis aeg-ajalt end meelde tuletab. Ühelt poolt inimene tagasihoidliku sekkumisega looduse keskel või äärel, piirnedes aukartustäratava kimalasparve lennu või hirve haukumisega. Just nimelt seesugune peab olema keskkond, et inimese kui eraldi isendi ja ühe loomaliigi esindaja ilu saaks esile tulla. See on kahtlemata eskapistlik album pääsemaks eemale ühiskondliku-sotsiaalse pasarahe eest. Ainult looduse keskel ei pea inimene pretendeerima olemaks teine, kolmas või neljas jne; surumaks alla oma viha ja emotsioone, mõtlemaks ette mitut käiku ja kulutamaks tarbetult oma energiat. Sarnaselt Tuomo eelmistele albumitele on käesolev üllitatud isikliku blogileibeli Textural Healing all ((muideks, samaaegselt üllitas albumi "Natur", peitudes pseudonüümi Thuuooom (selles ilmnevat Tuomo ämbientlikum pool – siinkirjutaja arvates on see pelgalt maitseasi) taha (järjekorras neljas)).
Brandon Blommaert – Dotgunk (2003)
- Glitchtronica
- Experimental electronica
- Ambient
- Ambient drone
- Electro-acoustic
- Microtonal
- Glitch techno
Siin on kolm keskmise pikkusega – kuigi elektroonilist muusikat arvestades pigem lühikest – kompositsiooni, aga dünaamikat on kõvasti. Õigupoolest on siin ämbientmuusikale iseloomulik anonüümsustaotlus või varjule jäämise püüe – kuidas soovite! – mängitud valendiku ilmumise vastu. Ehk on korrektne sõna "ilmnemine", kuna loogiline progressioon ei ole alati vaadeldav ja muutused suht äkilised. Flaami nimega Edmontonis sündinud, kuid Kanada uuendusliku muusika pealinnas Montréalis resideeriv muusik ja lühifilmide autor pakub kinemaatilist pinget ja hetkedesse ja kordustesse uppumise kunsti, milles kahtlemata on täheldatav suure kaaslinlase Tim Hecker'i glitch-alkeemilised meetodid. Sünteesitakse peaaegu eimillestki, st helirämpsust, meeliülendavad taiesed, milles helimaterjali vormivad algoritmid ilmuvad kummitustena pinnale. Kolmandaks on iseenesest kummituslik kaevata välja need kümmekond minutit kummitusliku plaadifirma BricoLodge diskograafilisest kirstust. Tuleb naasta siia hiljem veel ja veel – kahju, et ei saa naasta Blommaert'i enda muusika manu, kuna "Dotgunk" on jäänud tema esimeseks ja viimaseks.
10/10/2020
Jonas Meyer – Konfusion (2019)
- Microtonal
- Ambient
- Electronic music
- Glitchtronica
- Indietronica
- IDM
- Musique concrète
- Shoegaze
- Art music
- Minimal techno
- Electro-acoustic
Sõna "konfusio(o)n" on kõlaliselt sarnane sõnaga "konfessio(o)n". Äkki ongi nii, et inimene, kes on segaduses, läheb pihile. Läheb ära rääkima, et hakkaks kergem; et enda peataolekule tagasipeegeldust ja võimalikku lahendust leida. Samas sobivad selleks harjutused – nii füüsilised kui ka vaimsed. Näiteks muusika loomine. Meenub kaugest minevikust seik ühe ekstreemheli loojaga, kes, sattudes vaimuhaiglasse, pidi iga päev ühe loo komponeerima oma raviarsti nõudel. Jonas Meyer komponeerib hästi nii enda kui ka teiste hüvanguks. Žanriliselt on asjatu vaev seda ühevärvilise vihmavarju alla venitada. Siin on nii IDM-likku rütmipuntrat, intiimseid konkreethelisid ja elektroakustilist introvertsust, mikrotonaalsust, mäenõlvu pidi allarulluvat ämbienti kui ka udus kokkusurutut abstraktset kingapõrnitsemist; samuti kõrgemate sfääride indielektroonikat ja äkilist glitch-purset. Kuna tegu on vägeva taiesega, siis nimetet fraktaalid ei jää isekeskis seisma, vaid moodustavad orgaanilise terviku. Siin on nii unelevat hõllandust, unustust kui veenvat lihaste pingutamist. Võiks tagantjärele hõigelda, et mulluse aasta üks parimaid elamusi. Üllitise on välja andnud alati vapustavalt salapärane Serein.
[Teaser of the day] Vincent Bergeron - Dave and Drew Banned Art
- Electro-acoustic
- Dada pop
- Avant-garde
- Post-classical
- Electronic
- Weird pop
- Experimentalism
- Chamber music
- Art pop
Artist: Vincent Bergeron
Release: L'Art au Déssaroi
Label: You Are Not Stealing/Bandcamp
Year: 2005
[Teaser of the day] The New Mystikal Troubadours - Feather Fingers
- Psych-rock
- Lo-fi
- Alternative rock
- Indie rock
- Trance rock
- DIY
Artist: The New Mystikal Troubadours
Release: The New Mystikal Troubadours' III
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2011
[Teaser of the day] Psychosonic - Whispering Words
- Alternative dance
- Electronic music
- Ambient techno
- Electro pop
- Acid techno
Artist: Psychosonic
Release: Jupiter Tales
Label: Zimmer
Year: 2006
[Teaser of the day] Cubus Larvik - Mirror
- Electronic music
- Drone
- Minimalism
- Cosmic synth
- Avant-garde
- Acousmatic music
- Experimentalism
Artist: Cubus Larvik
Release: Memorial
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2014
Odessey & Oracle – Crocorama (2020)
- Baroque pop
- Indie pop
- Chamber pop
- Alternative pop
- Sunshine pop
Ma ei tea, mida see pealkiri täpsemalt tähendama peaks – esmapilgul võiks ju arvata, et on pühendatud krokodillidele, alligaatoritele ja gaavialitele. Aga pealkirjades nende nimesid ei esine. Mis iganes, aga muusikaliselt on see pilguheit helgele päiksepaistelisele valule, mis nominaalselt uhkeldab suure hulga legendaarsete elektrooniliste klahvpillide kasutamisega (meenub kohe Air`i “Moon Safari”), aga liialt ekspluateeritud neid ei ole. Pigem vastupidi – keelpillid, elektroonika ja puhkpillisektsioon on kenasti tasakaalus ansambli kolmandal albumil. Tundub, et sarnaselt Damo Suzuki`le, kellel oli märkimisväärne mõju tulevastele Jaapani (eksperimentaal)bändidele, on ka Stereolab`i ja Laetitia Sadier`i mõju märkimisväärne tänapäeva Prantsuse ansamblite loomingus (sealtkaudu ja eraldi mõjuliinid yo-yo popist ja Serge Gainsbourg`i OST-esteetikast). Üldmulje on selline tasalahja aasapopp (jah, võib leida sarnasust üle-eelmise kümnendi Rootsi indipopparitega nagu The Concretes, Suburban Kids with Biblical Names, Sambassadeur, I`m From Barcelona, Club 8 jpt), milles on ka mõni tummine lihatükk sees. Näituseks “Ferdinand L'Albigeois”, mis jagab end hoogsa refrääni ja keskaegse muusikalise kudrutamise vahel.
10/06/2020
[Teaser of the day] Nin Martoize - Reflections
- Electronic music
- Experimentalism
- Improvised music
- Free jazz
- Experimental electronica
- Avant-garde
Artist: Nin Martoize
Release: 4 EP
Label: Muteant Sounds
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Legowelt - Your Angels Drowned on the Beach
- Synth-pop
- Electronic
- Synthwave
- Alternative dance
- Coldwave
Artist: Legowelt
Release: Pancakes With Mist
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Arkhaios - Surface
- Electronic music
- Minimal techno
- Dub techno
- Musique concrète
- Ambient dub
Artist: Arkhaios
Release: Radial
Label: Cism
Year: 2013
TANUKI – Kanji Title (2018)
- Shibuya-kei
- J-pop
- Dance pop
- Future funk
- Smooth jazz
- Synth-funk
- Electronic pop
Vaadates TANUKI Bandcamp`i leheküljel artisti – kes teeb ilmselget japspoppi, samas elab Glasgow`s Šotimaal ja kolmandaks kannab Swoosh-särki, millel ilutseb NASA kiri – võiks arvata, et tegu on pesuehtsa kosmopoliidiga. Mis seal siis ikka – ka muusika kätkeb piiritletut ja piiridest väljumist – nagu on see J-pop`ile aastakümneid iseloomulik olnud. Ühelt poolt maine ja tantsuline, teisalt reaalsust moonutavad filtrid ja rohkem või vähem (ala)teadlikult himustatav kosmiline mõõde (NASA!) – soov väljuda ja saada taikonaudiks või areneda hoopis Frankenstein-küborgiks, et kiirendada suurest kiirguskoormusest täidetud ilmaruumi, et kaduda kuhugi...õigupoolest eikuhugi. Saada eimiskiks. Vahet ei ole – muusika kui katalüsaator, muusikast kui kütusest enesehävitamise teel jääb jutt. Elegantsem ja sügavam kui Swoosh`i trajektoor. Elu on lühike, aga kunst igavene. Kas need 12 minutit muusikat on tõesti kestvam kui keskmise Joosepi elu? Kindlasti – peaasi, et hiigelserverid tohutu infohulga all ei plahvataks. Kale neutron- ja prootonosakestega pommitav kosmos tundub selle digitaalse düstoopilise eelduse ja tingimuse kõrval paradiis olevat, on ju? Oleks planeet lame, saaks üle ääre alla hüpata ja minema putkata. Kuigi see 4-looline üllitis on üdini joviaalne ja justkui emotsionaalselt ülevoolav – tõepoolest, justkui… . Tõepoolest on selle kontrapunktiks vargsi hiiliv õud. Taara (a)vita! (brevis!!)
10/05/2020
[Teaser of the day] Xqui - Horses
- Abstract
- Microtonal
- Avant-garde
- Ambient drone
- Drone
- Avant-garde
- Ambient
- Experimentalism
Artist: Xqui
Release: Vulpiano Records Sampler EP: Vol. 13
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Garde Forestier - Yu Know Fram Wen
- Electronic
- Dark electro
- EBM
- Alternative dance
- Electro-industrial
Artist: Garde Forestier
Release: Happy Endings
Label: cOmaRecOrdz
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Thuuooom - Bumblespace
- Electronic
- Avant-garde
- Ambient noise
- Musique concrète
- Post-industrial
- Acousmatic music
- Non-music
- Illbient
- Ambient drone
- Abstract
- Field recording
- Experimentalism
Artist: Thuuooom
Release: Natur
Label: Textural Healing
Year: 2020
Monster Rally – Escape to the Cloud Forest (2020)
- Exotica pop
- Tiki music
- Sampledelic
- Ethnotronica
- Breaks
- Electronic
- Psychedelic
- Avant-pop
- Raga music
- Sound collage
- Minimalism
- Post-pop
- Plunderphonics
- Lounge pop
Kuuldes flöödihelisid peaks igal indimehel sülg tahtmatult suunurka valguma. Nimelt indimuusika signatuurlauludes "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" (The Smiths) ja "When You Sleep"(My Bloody Valentine) on sämplitud/sünteesitud vastavat instrumenti, mis tagavad lugudele vastupandamatu voo. 33-aastane jänki Ted Feighan on kindlasti märkimisväärse erudeeritusega melomaan, kuna ta muusika on sämplipõhine. Leida kohaseid sämpleid eeldab korralikku plaadikogu, arusaamist muusikaajaloost ja selle (ala)peatükkidest ning teisalt suurt pühendumist see kõik üksipulgi läbi käia ja sellele oma tõlgendus anda. Aga seda ta on teinud, ning ei ole melomaanidele varjatuks jäänud. “Põgenemine pilvemetsa” koosneb kahest üsna erineva rõhuasetusega kompositsioonist. Ühiseks osaks on psühhedeelne kordustele toetumine ehk antud kontekstis võiks sobivalt kirjeldavaks sõna olla “sämpledeelia”. “Mööda jõge” põgenemise lugu on kantud algul mainitet instrumendil mängitud meeldesööbiva käiguga meloodiast, mis mingi hetk lõtvub mõõdukalt kammitsemata ulmaks. Ju siis põgenemine õnnestus – pingelangus! Teine osa (“Mägiküla”) on seotud kohaselt Maailma Katuse vahetus ruumis elavate rahvaste muusikaga elik Hindustani raga, rahvamuusika ja psühhedeelne puudutus juhivad minimalistliku algoritmiga kogu kupatust. Ja eestikeelne “jaa” käib pidevalt läbi. Ka mina ütlen neile üheksale minutile jaa.
10/04/2020
[Teaser of the day] Garay Palma - Compost Etico
- Trip-hop
- Easy listening
- Sampledelic
- Mood music
- Chill out
- Ambient dub
- Downtempo
Artist: Garay Palma
Release: Musica De Mentira
Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom
Year: 2020
The Echelon Effect – Drift Ten (2020)
- Post-rock
- Cowbell indie
- Alternative rock
- Indie rock
- Ambient rock
- Art rock
- Progressive
Kui Angloameerika väljaanded teevad kokkuvõtteid parimatest albumitest žanrite lõikes, jäävad pinnale lõviosas USA ja Briti asjad; harva on seal mõni Kanada ja Saksa üllitis, veel harvem mõne teise maa oma esindatud. Ei ole seda taaka sel korral. The Echelon Effect on suhteliselt vähetuntud Briti ühemeheprojekt, niinimetatud Bandcamp'i demokraatia sünnitis, kuigi tolles keskkonnas keskmisest vähem anonüümsem, st rohkem tuntud. Mis tähendab seda, et albumi on kümmekond inimest või natuke rohkem ostnud. Ten Drift on meditatiivne kulgemine pastoraalses keskkonnas, mis rõhutab õuel leiduvaid pastelseid värve, veiklevaid varje, paitavaid tuuleiile, sujuvalt muutuvaid ilmastikumuutusi ja kõduhaisu. Nagu sünesteetilise kogemuse rekonstruktsioon, taaselustades seda linnakorteris konutavale unistajatele; kes õhtul on liiga väsinud, et tiibu saputada. Mõnikord võib sellesuunaline taotlus areneda millekski painajalikuks ja düstoopiliseks, kui vilets esteetika püüab oma olemuselt košmaarset taotlust elik simulaakrumit lunastada (hoopis võimendades seda). Muusikaliselt ei tahakski seda mõne teise postrokkalbumiga võrrelda, kuna mõtted liiguvad hoopis Simon Jeffes'i juhitud imetabase Penguin Cafe Orchestra-nimelise imelooma manu. David Walters' i algus- ja lõpp-punkti vahe on väiksem, st ta koob vähem, loob rutem suhteliselt kitsa diapasooniga meeleseisundeid, ent jätab seeläbi ekstaasile vähem aegruumi välja areneda. Kokkuvõttes siiski korralik kuulamine.
Small Scale Collisions – Deploy Face Parachutes (2020)
- Krautrock
- Psychedelic
- Avant-rock
- Experimental rock
- Motorik
- Electronic
- Minimal wave
- Trance rock
- Progressive
Peab tõdema, et Faust'i žanrit defineerivast loost "Krautrock" olen vist väsinud – vist on natuke liiga pikk, võinuks vabalt viis minutit lühem olla. Eks palju ole kuulatud ka. Sarnaselt šotlaste Small Scale Collisions'i viieteistkümne minuti kanti. Olgu, eelnev jutt on väikese naljakoefitsendiga kirja pandud, Faust oli ere täht eksperimentaal(rokk)muusika vallas. Kõlab ka nüüd aegumatult. Nagu bändi nimigi veidi vihjab, on siit oodata kokkupõrkeid, st esteetilises keeles nautisklemist psühhedeelse, kordustel põhineva, ent efektselt motiive muutva lineaarroki saatel. Nojah, tegu on pigem kokkupuudete kui kokkupõrgetega. Või siis hetkeliste kokkupõrgatamistega. Motoorne apatšibiit piitsutamas alateadvust. Krautrokk jah, ehkki pigem postkrautrokk, kuna vaiksematel perioodidel, kui targu hoogu kogutakse, on lugu staatiline (pool)sünteetilises minimal wave'likus kuues, mis tuli kord (post)punkaritega esile. Teisisõnu, on siin nii otsest krauti kui ka tuletuslikku postpungi mõju. Krautrokkpuntide eeskujud olid tetavasti progerokk, akadeemiline avangard, improvisatsiooniline muusika ja Velvet Underground, mis ei sisaldanud minimal wave'i elemente (kui väga tähte närida, leiab igalt poolt midagi). Suurepärane lugu-album, mille eest peab tänulik olema plaadifirmale Herhalen. Hea krautrokk töötab alati.
9/27/2020
[Teaser of the day] Cythnos - the end of summer
- Electronic
- Witch house
- Witchgaze
- Vaporgaze
- Ethereal wave
- Avant-garde
- Drag house
- Newbreed
- Vaporwave
- Experimental
Artist: Cythnos
Release: MEMORIES OF SUMMER
Label: MNMN
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Blackout Transmission - Lullaby
- Cover
- Alternative rock
- Indie rock
- Post-punk
- Gothic rock
Artist: Blackout Transmission
Release: Disintegration Revisited
Year: 2017
[Teaser of the day] Zeffon - Red Soil Jars With Faces on Them Ver. 2
- Experimentalism
- Industrial
- Avant-garde
- Electronic
- Abstract
- Dada music
- Freeformfreakout
Artist: Zeffon
Release: Phantoms Wave in the Wind
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2019
9/26/2020
In Vitro – Transdimensional Woods (2018)
- Tech-house
- Post-disco
- Tech-funk
- Electronic music
- Club dance
- Electro-funk
I guess a term, "in vitro" refers at technical aspect, and "transdimensional woods" may be a hint at Ghostwood National Forest, the forest that surrounded Twin Peaks. In a word, a technical aspect superimposed upon sounds being imbued with profound mystics. More detailedly, techno and house related rhythmic patterns are propelled by funky touch as similarly as CAN's krautrock was propelled by funk on Soon Over Babaluma (1974). This bunch of 4 tracks comes from within the discography of Nulogic.
9/25/2020
[Teaser of the day] René Roco - Creciente
- Electronic music
- Improvised music
- Electro-acoustic
- Experimental techno
- IDM
Artist: René Roco
Release: Mùsica para el caos
Label: Pueblo Nuevo
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Anta Infidelidad - Onda (Deep Mix)
- Micro-techno
- Electronic music
- Click`n`cuts
- Minimal techno
- Experimental techno
Artist: Alta Infidelidad
Release: Cactus Y Volcanes
Label: Thinner
Year: 2006
[Teaser of the day] The London Apartments - Streets In Autumn
- Electronic
- Bedroom pop
- Indietronica
- DIY
- Lo-fi
Artist: The London Apartments
Release: rwb005
Label: Racewillbegin
Year: 2004
[Teaser of the day] Cousin Silas & Adam Steinberg - The Quiet Skyline
- Ambient
- Modern classical
- Art music
Artist: Cousin Silas & Adam Steinberg
Label: Weareallghosts
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Altus - Part IV
- Electronic
- Ambient
- Drone
- Ambient drone
- Post-industrial
- Abstract
Artist: Altus
Release: Rapid Eye Movements
Label: Rain
Year: 2008
9/13/2020
Coti – Metamemoria (2001/2020)
- IDM
- Electronic music
- Experimental electronica
- Downtempo
- Minimal techno
- Organic electronica
- Musique concrète
- Ambient techno
Coti's Metamemoria was firstly released on Vibrant Music in 2001 and since then being considered an important issue in Greece. Inner Ear Records released it on vinyl approximately two decades later to resurface electronic memories from the period when many important issues and projects did take place. Boards Of Canada, Squarepusher, Plaid, Plone, and of course two main stalwarts like Richard D. James based on his many pseudonyms, and Autechre from the Great Britain, and on the other side Teutonic IDM/neokrautrock/post-techno artists like To Rococo Rot, Mouse on Mars, Kreidler, Jan Jelinek, Pole, Oval, Microstoria had broadened borders of electronic music. Given that chronological and technological advantage most musicians from other districts were undoubtedly influenced by them. Metamemoria is a fascinating issue because of searching successfully for balance between coherent flow in harmonized and syncopated progression and refreshing sonic fabric and compelling effects. All these elements are properly represented doing away with undue exaggerations. However, the listener can find out a legacy of Kraftwerk coming from their Autobahn period. The favourite of mine is M Key, a superb track of cinematic semi-orchestrations imbued with heavy vinyl crackles and backed up by a slowed-down pace. In a word, solid performance.
[Teaser of the day] Cement Tea & EriS - Orc Feast
- Electronic music
- Digital hardcore
- Hardstep
- Sampledelic
- Drill and bass
Artist: Cement Tea & EriS
Release: Cute Possession EP
Label: Lost Frog Productions
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Rick Tarquinio - Wave 1
- Ambient
- Microtonal
- Ambient drone
- Minimalism
- Avant-garde
- Art music
- Post-classical
- Experimentalism
- Electronic
Artist: Rick Tarquinio
Release: Waves
Label: Resting Bell
Year: 2012
[Teaser of the day] !((0rkza1 - Black Snow
- Electronic music
- Acousmatic music
- Experimentalism
- Noise
- Abstract
- Psycho-acoustic
- Improvised noise
- Avant-garde
- Sampledelic
Artist: !((0rkza1
Release: Karaoke.Midiclash
Label: Camomille
Year: 2004
[Teaser of the day] Natural Snow Buildings - Sister Ritual
- Drone folk
- Avant-folk
- Experimental folk
- Electro-acoustic
- Psych-folk
- Ambient folk
- Trance folk
- Improvised music
- Post-folk
Artist: Natural Snow Buildings
Release: The Night Country
Label: Vulpiano
Year: 2014
Origami Repetika – Wonder & Suspicion in Cryptomnesia (2020)
- Lo-fi
- DIY
- Indie pop/rock
- Alternative pop/rock
- Bedroom pop
- Psychedelic
- Singer-songwriter
In fact, this album being released on the lo-fi imprint 20kbps is the favourite pop issue from this year. It deals with remembering and interpretation of dreams. In truth, it is a human being's necessity to live in the past because the present is just a second to get immediately disappeared and the future is not available in strict sense. So we are already dead in advance. I see Ariel Pink as the most important musician in the last two decade because his early home recorded lo-fi music could surpass the aforementioned categories of time. As one thoroughly music related person said after in my country he had heard Ariel's music for the first time God (who is beyond everything) started to create (pop) music. There has been just few embodiments of Lord – Ennio Morricone, and Angus Maclise I would like to add. First four albums by Tim Hecker and some albums by Natural Snow Buildings are also bright candidates. Listen to this 10-notch whole get immersed in swathes of soft guitar jangles, subtle vocal arrangements and exquisite synthesised progressions coming over the listener's head. The subject and the object meld together due to timeless sense of melody and harmony. One's perception seems to be otherwise as it was before starting a listen. You have a chance to soften personal existential turnarounds.
3EEM – Third Segment (2009)
- Improvised music
- Avant-garde
- Avant-rock
- Experimentalism
- Electronic
- Post-rock
- Experimental rock
- Free jazz
- Psychedelic
- Avant-prog
- RIO
It was almost a crime one did not have had officially a chance to get a copy of this excellent album by an excellent now defunct Italian imprint, Chew-Z for a while. The end of the 00s and the first couple of years of the 10s was a merry time span within the music scene. Lots of musicians with hope and passion, with zeal and power happened to be around there. This bunch of handful of compositions is a proof - an elegant, compelling drift between groovy free jazz, picturesque post-rock, razing progressive rock, some experimental electronic undercurrents (glitch, musique concrète) and borderline psychedelic music which makes the listener think outside of the formal walls of experimental music which otherwise used to happen quite frequently (related to the sense of being incarcerated in a dungeon – though dungeon noise is an OK subgenre of the generally rubbish genre dungeon synth). Lots of changes is up there but it is not the goal but an instrumental measure helping to come to fruition. Before starting listening to a contemporary improvised music release take this in before.
Awesome Ochinchins – thirteenwaystosaygoodbyetoyou (2019)
- Noise rock
- Post-hardcore
- Post-metal
- Alternative rock
- Emo
- Shoegaze
As it is well known Japan is a country of sonic contrasts – from the eclectic yet catchy mix of J-pop to the abrasive at times unbearable nature of Japanoise. Awesome Ochinchins stands somewhere in the middle though a bit more toward the latter named movement due to similarities with such noise rock legends as Fushitsusha, and Boredoms. One can hear excited layers of post-hardcore and bombastic emo vowels being backed up by alternate shapes and ibtensity of electric guitars full of frantic anxiety and unnerving state of mind. More silent moments borrow guitar touch from shoegaze (more concretely reminding of Loveless-era My Bloody Valentine). However, ultimately all of that feels to be neatly managed which could be considered simultaneously the plus and minus of this album. The loveable outing is a part of the discography of Nepiaporo Records.
9/06/2020
[Teaser of the day] The Death of Pop - Percolator
- Cover
- Post-pop
- Alternative pop
- Psychedelic
- Motorik
- Avant-pop
- Alternative dance
- Electronic
- Krautrock
- Indie pop
- Indietronica
- Art pop
Artist: The Death of Pop
Release: Stereolab in, Metronomic Underground Versions
Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself
Year: 2017
[Teaser of the day] Peredmova - Lonely Moon
- Indie pop/rock
- Alternative pop/rock
- Art pop
- Psychedelic
- Shoegaze
Artist: Peredmova
Release: Abetka
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2017
[Teaser of the day] Twilight Fields - Loss
- Indie rock
- Art rock
- Ambient rock
- Epic
- Alternative rock
- Canadiana
Artist: Twilight Fields
Release: Songs from the Age of Ruin
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2019
[Teaser of the day] Sensual Physics - I Think For Myself
- Electronic music
- Alternative dance
- Microfunk
- Electro-house
- Alternative dance
- Microhouse
- Deep house
Artist: Sensual Physics
Release: Expanding Itself
Label: Epsilonlab
Year: 2005
[Teaser of the day] TNKS - 24 Giugno
- Electronic
- Dark wave
- Ethereal wave
- Ambient pop
- Art music
Artist: TNKS
Release: Coming Out
Label: Sucu Music
Year: 2020
8/30/2020
Ecovillage – Sacred World (2018)
- Art pop
- Baroque pop
- Musique concrète
- Chamber pop
- Sophisti-pop
- New Age
- Ambient pop
- Experimental pop
The Swedish duo of Emil Holmström and Peter Wikström provides a picturesque glimpse into an intimate life of indie music. More profoundly, what happens behind the veiled walls of advanced indie pop, being comparable with the path at the point of the second half of the 80s regarding Talk Talk and also more restrained moments of Simon Jeffes' led Penguin Cafe Orchestra come to mind. And if you implement imagination of how could sound Pygmalion (by Slowdive) in the middle of nature then it is for you. Bamboo flutes, bird chirping, gusts of wind, the flood of water, and exquisite swathes of sea waves are intertwined with lone guitar chords, sparse drumming and slowed-down strings. It is said by the Chinese if you want to learn to play the bamboo flute the best teacher for it is the wind. I guess the album may be a case of that learning process (particularly at Garden Of Bliss). All in all, superb revelation through sound and nature. It is an example of perfect New Age. The fabulous one is a notch in the discography of Constellation Tatsu.
8/22/2020
[Teaser of the day] Nine Inch Nails - Clap Trap Crack Slap
- Electronic
- Industrial rock
- Electro-rock
- Synth-rock
Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Release: Strobe Light
Label: Archive.org
Year: 2019
[Teaser of the day] Old Solar - Guard Our Minds As We Sleep
- Ambient rock
- Post-rock
- Art rock
- Progressive
- Alternative rock
Artist: Old Solar
Release: Quiet Prayers
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2017
[Teaser of the day] Origami Repetika - Red Zamboni
- Indie pop/rock
- Lo-fi
- Chamber pop
- DIY
- Alternative pop/rock
- Baroque pop
Artist: Origami Repetika
Release: Red Zamboni
Label: sub65 media
Year: 2019
[Teaser of the day] Heifervescent - Destination Altair
- Indie rock
- Alternative rock
- Psychedelic
Artist: Heifervescent
Release: Excuses For The Common Man Instrumental Versions
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2018
Mutate – No One In The Mirror (2012)
- Post-rock
- Avant-rock
- Experimental rock
- Drone
- Post-industrial
- Ambient
- Abstract
- Micronoise
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Ambient drone
- Microtonal
First of all, I would like to thank the players of Montréal Canadiens for their brave fight against Philadelphia Flyers. By following the series from the second game on one could see how the players from Philly had truly frightened looks due to Habs' energetic avalanche over them. Such a pity in twofold, firstly, if to express in terms of the logic of another language the success of Flyers in the beginning of the game 6 was just based on bounces through the arses of Habs' players and secondly, how many wasted moments on very unfortunate stick handling in front of Flyers' goalie Hart. However, the overall picture was very good even without Brendan Gallagher, true fighter who had made a spectacular performance in the game 5. It was just a bit more than sport and hockey. Good recovery, Brendan, the rest bunch of players and Claude Julien. Habs' fan since the end of the 80s.
Before starting listening to Mutate's 5-notch issue I was listening to another Montréal pride GYBE's 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (2012) which tuned me in due galvanized noisy guitar walls and stepwise dynamic gears hovering up to sublime orchestrated music. However, Mutate's issue is a bit different based either on the abstract hisses of post-industrial and otherwise on sustained guitar chords, similarly to GY!BE's album embellished with concrete sounds and accidental stream of (sub)consciousness/hypnosis. This profound comes out of the discography of Black Square.
8/16/2020
Oculoss – Parallel Path (2018)
- Post-rock
- Avant-rock
- Experimental rock
- Ambient
- Minimalism
- Ambient drone
- Cowbell indie
- Ambient rock
There have been talks about the goodness and badness of recent musicianship in comparison to previous decades. In some sense, it is nonsensical because like the historical events the releases should be evaluated after decades to get a hint at their goodness. I am now very convinced that Slowdive's Pygmalion, Stereolab's Dots And Loops and Broadcast's Noise Made By People are superb issues, for instance. On the other side, this can be said only about few albums within Britpop. Of course, good music can be found today as well, though in underground circles only. Most mainstream acts most of them have who have loaned from the underground scenes have seriously failed because they are settled down in a huge distance from ideal pop (given that it must be the ultimate goal within the pop scene). Because of that, paradoxically, many old experimental albums used to sound more poppy than nowadays acts due to have put more catchiness in a song. MiMi Records represents something very special in the embodiment of Oculoss' 5-notch outing. It starts off with a loopy, minimalism-driven ambient track, scene 1221 to go on with more guitar-based sounds. It is silent and immersive and iterative yet enough mind-provoking on the other side to think of it supposedly a weird guitar technique must have been behind. As if modern classically presumed floating watery chords instead of the piano ones. Someone may call it post-rock, maybe cowbell indie. As if Lubomir Melnyk was sat down in front of electric guitar to implement his subtle touch instead of the keyboard. In a word, minimalism/rock/ambient come together to provide an amazing crossover album with a vibration. Pure bliss.
Bottlesmoker – Parakosmos (2017)
- Indietronica
- Electronic
- Alternative dance
- Psychedelic
- Synth-pop
- Glo-fi
- Ethnotronica
- World fusion
- Electro pop
Bottlesmoker is an Indonesian duo whose 10-notch whole is a sultry blend of psychedelic electronic vibes on the fringe of indie music, with some new appearances of it like glo-fi. Massive synthesised orchestrations with meandering acidic vessels in the middle used to hover atop bold beats. I guess they are a part of the powerful indie scene in Indonesia within it one can find out lots of bands with a remarkably huge part of custom-built instruments as I have read at Cyclic Defrost. Beyond similarities with Western combos there are seamlessly represented World/ethnic music influences. The bouncy gem is a part of the discography of Yes No Wave Records. Two tracks within are absolutely superb with regard to their catchy nature – Batara Pandita (the rear part of it), and East Indies feat. Kronutz.
[Teaser of the day] The Fall - Going to Spain
- Post-punk
- Live
- Prog-punk
- Art punk
- Alternative rock
Artist: The Fall
Release: Live 1993 at Hallam University, Sheffield
Label: Sheffield Tape Archive
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] Curve - Dirty High - Moles Master
- Electronic
- Indie pop/rock
- Alternative dance
- Electro-indie
- Big beat
- Indie dance
- Alternative pop/rock
Artist: Curve
Release: Chinese Burn E P - Bootleg Series 2
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Mogadiscio Ensemble - Rosae Crucis
- Electronic
- Breaks
- Indietronica
- Synth-pop
- Altrnative dance
Artist: Mogadiscio Ensemble
Release: Rejected Ambient Works 2009-2016
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2016
8/05/2020
[Teaser of the day] Skies Of Ember - Headlights
- Dream pop
- Alternative rock
- Indie rock
- Shoegaze
Artist: Skies Of Ember
Release: VA - Alunig: A Shoegaze Pilipinas Compilation Volume 1
Label: Shoegaze Filipinas/Bandcamp
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] D-Echo Project - 7 Cocktail
- Chill out
- Easy listening
- Mood music
- Chilltronica
- Ambient pop
Artist: D-Echo Project
Release: Flavours
Label: Cyan Music/Bandcamp
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Studebaker´s Blacksmith Shop - Elimination Of Danger
- Art rock
- Indie rock
- Alternative rock
- Psychedelic
Artist: Studebaker´s Blacksmith Shop
Release: Excuse me, are you sick?!
Label: Clinical Archives
Year: 2011
[Teaser of the day] Asato Maa - Changes Are Coming
- Electronic music
- Ambient pop
- Synth-pop
Artist: Asato Maa
Release: ... Is Coming
Label: Enoughrecords
Year: 2020
CLOUDWARMER – monolith II (2020)
- Experimental pop
- Avant-pop
- Electronic
- Breaks
- Sampledelic
- Post-pop
- Sound collage
- Plunderphonics
Some days ago I got an idea Lana.. had issued a book of poetry… . I guess she needs some more millions of bucks to cope with. At the moment many Americans shit their pants off to pay their colossal Corona treatment bills and then comes out a local pocket-Dickinson to treat them with an additional bill (don't tell me the buying is a voluntary, non-brainwashed act regarding especially children). It would have been a nice act by her to release it for free as a thanksgiving to her fans in these dim times. At least I got inspired by the idea to go back to Cocteau Twins, and Slowdive as seminal acts and musical heroes. By thinking of Slowdive I thinking of Oasis at the same time as the dark shadow of the shoegaze legend who were dropped from the roster of Creation Records allegedly because of the Mancunians. In last years of the 90s the third album of Oasis (I could not remember the title of this hype anymore, sic!) was a main article in British second hand shops. So you can draw parallels and create a possible scenario between L and O. Could you find out Slowdive's Pygmalion in a second hand shop? Indeed, history showcases frantic paradoxes within to bring forth the truth/objective meaning. In fact, could we know the truth at the time of post-post-post-post-tttrrruuuttthhh?
There have been around a couple of guys for years who has been releasing music from a possible sonic trash (I have no exact idea of their initial sonic material and its goodness and ugliness). They started as The Fucked Up Beat and had been producing as CLOUDWARMER. The duo of Eddie Palmer and Brett Zehner have again activated during the recent year by issuing at least four releases full of sampledelic charm, haunting glimpses from the past (we are living in the past anyway), smoky jazz whiffs, skiddy trip-hop and Latin mixed rhythms. In comparison to their previous act the sound has been managed to be more pop-appealing and catchy with more accessible harmonies and compelling gears and doing away with ghastly samples related to dark events or obscure accidents during the 20th century. Beautiful shit in any cases.
8/04/2020
[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - Crypto II (Dude Lord Draco)
- Spoken word
- Sound collage
- Sampledelic
- Indie rock
- Alternative rock
- Ambient rock
- Post-rock
- Art pop
Artist: Cagey House
Release: Queen of Spins
Label: HAZE
Year: 2014
[Teaser of the day] Massimo Discepoli-Daniel Barbiero - The Occulted Measure
- Experimental rock
- Post-rock
- Avant-rock
- Chamber rock
- Post-classical
- Art rock
- Progressive
Artist: Massimo Discepoli-Daniel Barbiero
Release: An Eclipse Of Images
Label: Acustronica
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] Pilesar - No Regard for Time
- Electronic
- DIY
- Drone
- Outsider music
- Conceptual
- Ambient drone
- Lo-fi
- Dark ambient
Artist: Pilesar
Release: Underscores
Label: Zeromoon
Year: 2013
(029) – Black Files (2019)
- Techno
- Tech-house
- Electronic music
- Alternative dance
- Minimal techno
Some may say is there any point at all to produce further albums given that the most important albums within a genre have been already produced. Regarding techno music such artists as Autechre, Plaid, Plone, Aphex Twin and the Detroit-based techno scene have made up solid ground which seems to be impossible to break. Some could say like Anthony Braxton that the second wave of a genre is obviously the most fruitful and eager to fulfil daring ideas. There is just a problem how to date back to the second or first movement? Regarding synth-punk for instance, is the starting point embarked on with Suicide at a time or should we go back more in time to such a combo as Silver Apples? I would prefer the latter version.
(029) is an artist from Toledo, Spain who has issued a handful of issues under an imprint, Soisloscerdos. Black Files is a determined case like it used to be characteristic to techno albums with determined drifts within the genre and some little slides outside the genre. The artist's techno is austere and dystopian as if living in a miserable, hopeless world like...the recent one. Maybe it is time to withdraw in corpore and let our closest relatives chimpanzees and bonobos take our place. But maybe it is not a great idea because of having similar developmental thread in their genes and subsequent activities. Bonobos (a subspecies of the chimps) solve their conflicts by having sex with one another. Although the hippies tried to mimick them in the 60s the world would have changed in a worse direction. Noises and dissonances are nice subjects as far as it makes sense within a context as new and groundbreaking, otherwise it is just an example of agony. Where are new Angus Maclises, early Einstürzende Neubautens, Glenn Brancas and young John Cales? Where are new crazy masterminds like once were Joe Meek, Raymond Scott, Mort Garson, the Barrons, Bruce Haack, Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire? How to change this inferior inferno? Get involved more in absurdity as a pioneering counterpoint to contemporaneous common sense as the damned premise of nothingness. In a word, give me some money, bitch. Pay less, get more!
8/03/2020
[Teaser of the day] Neoplan Project - Hyphen
- Electronic rock
- Progressive
- Art rock
- Synth-rock
Artist: Neoplan Project
Release: Neoplan Project
Label: Far From Showbiz/Jamendo
Year: 2005
[Teaser of the day] Postmoderna - Game
- Electronic music
- Easy listening
- Cinematic
- Chilltronica
- Mood music
- Art pop
Artist: Postmoderna
Release: Atari EP
Label: Kermesse
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Y-nISo - Track 30
- Electronic
- Post-industrial
- Illbient
- Avant-garde
- Noise
- Experimentalism
Artist: Y-nISo
Release: Movie 2005
Label: Rain
Year: 2005
8/02/2020
[Teaser of the day] Cloudwarmer - Elizabeth Woolridge Grant Lived Among The Fascists
- Electronic
- Jazz noir
- Experimental pop
- Sampledelic
- Art pop
- Sound collage
- Avant-pop
- Hauntology
Artist: Cloudwarmer
Release: Hushers
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Pigmalião - Drums of Poison
- Electronic music
- World fusion
- Ethnotronica
- Breaks
- World music
Artist: Pigmalião
Release: V/A - Quintessence
Label: Tropical Twista
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] Bing Satellites - Sail Away to Heaven (Sheffield soundcheck)
- Ambient
- Post-rock
- Experimentalism
- Live
- Microtonal
- Space music
- Soundscape
- Ambient rock
- Avant-garde
- Epic
- Ambient drone
- Minimalism
Artist: Bing Satellites
Release: The ambient archives - July 2019 - live
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020
[Teaser of the day] E.A.R.L. - 505
- Electronic
- Easy listening
- Electro-funk
- Post-disco
- Alternative pop
Artist: E.A.R.L.
Release: Monster Jinx Crib Season
Label: Monster Jinx
Year: 2020
Pablo Gómez Bate – Conflicto Bélico (2020)
- Electronic music
- Avant-jazz
- Drone
- Electro-acoustic
- Ambient drone
- Experimental techno
- Ambient techno
The Chilean imprint Pueblo Nuevo used to release intriguing crossover issues of different genres and Pablo Gómez Bate's 6-notch one has been managed to run across disparate landscapes like IDM, jazz (in-between cool-Miles, and fusion-Miles), electro-acoustic morasses, (ambient) droning, elaborated vowels amplified into abstract noises, simplistic toytronic fantasies, and every kind of sonic trash can dance which used to loop alone and constitute colourful kaleidoscopic patterns with one another. Something comes in, something goes out, something staying in place, something disappears, something goes wrong, something transforms into a chimera, something...never mind. All is truly possible in a dreamy state of mind, all will then be cancelled in the non-existent state of mind. The highlight of the issue is dynamically progressing Pachita, the aforementioned state between differently played trumpets of Miles Davis.
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