Dirtman - Land An Atom (2011)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.0 

/Alt-folk, Folk indie, Experimental indie, Power pop, Lo-fi, Alternative rock, Art-folk/


Comment: Dirtman is the trio consisting of Dan Jircitano, April Brennan, and Arthur Bond coming out of Rochester, USA. They provide a little lopsided folk music (with the seeds of brass, lo-fi rock, uncompromising indie attitude, faery pop glimpses, power pop developments) being assisted by a numerous amount of collaborators. However, the paralleles can be drawn upon such artists as those ones being related with the Elephant Six.

Binärpilot - Nordland (2010)

Binärpilot

Jamendo

Lastfm

8.4

/Electro pop, 8-bit, Tracker music, Crossover, Alternative dance/ 

Comment: this set of 10 tracks is a crossover album which is overlaid with the frequencies of (at times catchy) electro pop and sawtooth-shaped 8-bit/tracker music. Consequently, the album used to create temperate sort of mood. 

Micromelancoliè - Vacu Sessions 26 (2012)

Vacu Sessions

9.3

/Mixtape, Experimental electronica, Noise, Conceptual, Sound collage, Cut and paste, Avant-electronica, Organic electronica, Musique concrète/  

Comment: you can call this album "compilation" or "mixtape" which consists of different tracks by various artists. Indeed, it chimes very good because of being interlaced seamlessly with each other. Secondly, there are represented lots of genres which used to variegate this lengthy "track" (36 minutes), more profoundly, being composed of lush electronica, more rhythm-relied propulsions, and noiseful appearences at the ending part of the whole.    

[Teaser of the day] земля живих – гангрена

Robots With Soul - Droids That Bleed/Watch out!

Barthol Lo Mejor - Molotov Spray Tan (2012)

Barthol Lo Mejor

8.8

/Electro pop, Alternative dance, Electroclash/ 

Comment: approximately 3 moths ago BLM, the Estonian "popdada" artist (since the mid of 00`s in the offing) had issued 2 EP`s (Jet Set Rebels, Molotov Spray Tan) simultaneously. The latter one consists of 4 tracks which includes suggestive electro pop progressions having reference points to some disco vibes and electroclash-esque convulsive hooks. More concretely, it used to propel somehow like an instance of electro pop being influenced by the aesthetics of rock music.   

Antoine Reverb - A Revolt of Sorts (2010)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Alternative, Experimental indie, Remixes, Art-pop, Post-psychedelic electronica/

Comment: Antoine Reverb is an Arts & Crafts, well-known Canadian indie records-related combo who offer up a batch of 6 tracks which are basically overlied with dreamy keyboards and beatific guitar dust which is accompanied by uplifting, psychedelic drumming dashes. One track is covered by Apache O`Raspi, the compatriots of AR coming out from Mexico. The version by Apache is a fabulous, exotica pop, Latin vibes-tinged voyage.   

N-Qia - Haze EP (2012)

Pharmacom

9.2

/Chamber pop, Indietronica, Folktronica, Alternative, Electronic pop, Crossover/ 

Comment: this 3-piece issue involves some rough, heavy punching rhythms, fairy female vowel effects, lofty violin chords and bulging orchestrations thus making up enough magic-filled reciprocal moments. In a word, the whole is an astonishing one which can be compared with the likes of Efterklang, Bed., mùm, Bjork, Amiina. So you can breathe to these sounds made up by the Japanese musical project.

The Hirundu - Alcoset Metricide

[Teaser of the day] JF Sebastian - Meds!

Archive

Cerebral Pain - Um Jarro De Flores À Janela (2009)

Jamendo

Archive

Lastfm

8.8

/Tango, Instrumental music, Mood music/

Comment: Cerebral Pain is a musical project from Covilha, Portugal who provide 13 tracks extended out over a little more than one hour. All these instrumental compositions are played on an accordion (or a bandoneòn) conjuring up tango melodies and grooves. At times the play of the accordion is adorned with the fingerpicking of a guitar and the whiffs of a flute. In the first place the album used to be a little doleful full of chord changes and moody paths. Pleasant.  

Captain Missouri - Ordinary Pinecone Tricks (2012)

Eye Machine

8.8

/Lo-fi, Anti-folk, DIY, Primitive pop, Singer-songwriter, Psychedelic folk, Blues, Primitronica/

Comment: Captain Missouri (also being known as a half of Brain) hints at the blues tradition which is mixed up with noiseful, even primitivistic guitar twangs and acute, rattling drums. Throughout the course CM exploits lots of electronic devices and manipulates with knobs thereby making up feedback-laden sonic labyrinths. At Sandbox; Children Play Nicely the soundscape gets evolved into a mesmerizing, psychedelic ditty. 

The Olsen Twinns - it's okay because some people still love each other EP (2012)

Bandcamp

Lastfm

9.0

/Chillwave, Alternative, Post-psychedelic electronica, Lo-fi, Leftfield, DIY, Poptronica, Avant-pop, Glo-fi, Post-pop, Experimental indie, Dream pop/ 

Comment: there are up a handful of tracks spreaded out over 20 minutes. It comprises blissful, a little bit dopey electro pop/poptronica with serious attitude of indie/alternative pop. Indeed, these ditties are blissed-out, yet, somehow warped, otherworldly ones which resemble of Scott Walker, Animal Collective, David Sylvian and other obscure pop artists now and then. However, Chering Is Caring reveals the combo`s love affair with Cher.

[Teaser of the day] htrspltn - Don`t Rush

Archive

Thuuooom - Uinua (2012)

Textural Healing

9.2

/Black ambient, Ambient drone, Drone, Minimalism, Avant-garde, Abstract electronica, Sound art, Experimentalism/ 

Comment: Thuuooom is an one-man, Finnish-based experimental/avant-garde combo whose nature is quite problematic to categorize properly for. Some albums of him seems to be more concept-relied or some instrument-centered ones. This time Tuomo`s 6-piece album is about intense, minimally treated ambient and drone explorations which in turn are embellished with obscure, black-coloured dust. Yet, the power of the album are brought forth thanks to some sonic minutiae, i.e barely audible, repetition-heavy oscillations.Furthermore, the closing track Release is built upon shimmering loops and adjacent, ascending synth chords. Very beautiful indeed.   

Wojciech Wszelaki - the motyw - out of space (2012)

Archive

Bandcamp

8.4

/Progressive techno/trance, Dance pop, Synth pop, Space disco, New Wave, Electro pop, Robot pop/

Comment: this set of 11 tracks involves a broad array of the explotation of synths, however, veering stylistically away from glamorous electro pop and elegant space disco grooves to more cheesy, eurobeat-tinged appearances and Dusseldorf-inspired robot pop examples and progressive techno and trance mixed rhythm patterns. Although at times it seems to be way too bulimic, however, at its most refined moments Wszelaki has acquired his own flavour.       

The Fells Division - Lying On Asphalt EP (2011)

White Moon

9.3

/Punk rock, Space rock, Alternative rock, No Wave, Psych-rock, Avant-rock, Experimental rock/

Comment: there are up 3 tracks, 2 of them (the two first ones) are stylistically different from the last one. More concretely, The Fells Division pushes off with dirty and aggressive yet highly catchy punk rock progressions which will be followed by an instance of spacey psych-rock which is made up of resounding, heavy guitar gears and exorcized vocal lines. All`s very OK.   

Mixtape 28.05.2012

Mixtape

Tracklist:

Bulimic Orgy & Mile - Smiling Suburbs

http://dustedwax.org/dwk126.html

Hurtato Bros. Royal Marimba Band of Guatemala - Aida Selection

http://archive.org/details/HurtatoBros.RoyalMarimbaBandOfGuatemala-AidaSelection

FranzSnake - Mikazukino Fantasia

http://mayoware.seesaa.net/article/252983021.html

The Smallest Bones - A Ghost In The Kitchen

http://thesmallestbones.bandcamp.com/

Carl-step - From Far Away

http://www.jamendo.com/en/list/a106013/from-far-away

Vèvè Seashore - Seven Inch Script IV (Warsaw Warpig)

http://dyingforbadmusic.com/dfbm09-the-veve-seashore-seven-years-of-gulliver.phtml

Ringo Star - Washington

http://www.rackandruinrecords.com/

Cidulator - Midnight Occupation

http://www.cidulator.basicbroadcast.com/bestof.html

[Teaser of the day] A Problem Like Maria - No Me Hagas Daño

Globoscuro - Riccardo III (2012)

Enough 

Lastfm

9.1

 /Avant-industrial, Hauntology, Avant-garde, Drone, Spoken word, Crossover, Psycho-acoustic/

Comment: Globoscuro, the Livorno, Italy-based musical project provides 8 notches spreaded out over 54 minutes. It involves the elements of spoken word and ghastly sort of industrial music which used to be full of hysterical despair, painful female crying and paralyzing angst which used to step by step bulge throughout the course. Now and then the result is managed to pour out into a mystical and theatrical sea reminding a little of Alio Die (also from the same country), for instance.

Spell - Hex (2011)

Panospria/No Type

9.3

/Drone, Ambient drone, Experimental electronica, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/

Comment: the centre of this 4-track release is made up of ethereal female vowel effects which is adorned with pitchbent layers and hazy, billowy electronic manipulations. By nature the album is a little bit dark-hued, however, being filled in with suggestive repetitions, and fluttering loops. In a word, it is a creepy, stalking whole which seems to be built upon the same aspects, though, being re-ranked permanently. However, the exception is focused upon Just a Matter of Time which slightly resembles of Bjork due to its electro-drenched incantation/shamanism.

Acre4 - April In March (2012)

Bandcamp

9.3

 /Alternative, Leftfield, Downtempo, Chamber rock, Post-rock, Indietronica, Epic/

Comment: Acre4 is a French duo whose music on the recent issue used to rotate around soothing guitars, lush ascension of orchestrations and sampled voice snippets which are backed up by angular beat programming, however, stylistically extending from elusive indietronic appearances and subdued (down)tempo to highly anthemic chamber and post-rock jitters.

[Teaser of the day] RxGibbs - Futures

Wrong Way Home - Forest Spawn (2011)

Black Mess

9.2

/Avant-industrial, Experimentalism, Abstract electronica, Drone, Avant-garde, Noise, Industrial illbient, Non-music, Pyscho-acoustic, Acousmatics/

Comment: this 8-track whole starts off with booming bass billets tightly surrounded by dark-tinged spheres and abrasive oscillations which in turn are filled in with spoken word snippets, nihilistic noise examples, organic concrete sounds, and intensive, white-coloured industrial droning and looping bits. In contrast, there are up some notches which used to flutter in a more restraint way comprising soft synth vibes and (relatively) dormant electronic gears, out of gravity-hued layers and much more. Indeed, many more aspects.

The OO-Ray – Waimea (2011)

 Distance

9.4

/Ambient, Ambient drone, Shoegaze, Post-rock, Experimental rock, Minimal, Epic/

Comment: this set of a handful of compositions tends to drift between ethereal and noiseful territories searching for redemption due to these amplified reciprocal poles. Stylistically it appears to be highly epic and majestic shifting somewhere inbetween anthemic, symphonical propulsions and compelling droning outlets and beatific post-rock-esque panoramas. Furthermore, at times these sonic progressions do reach lofty shoegaze-tinged points and undulating anchors (Bee Symphony). Indeed, the album includes a batch of stylistical and sonical infiltrations and organic transmissions.

Depth Affect/John Cassettes EP (2006)

autres_directions

9.2

 /Indietronica, Alternative dance, Big Beat, Experimental electronica, Organic electronica, Electronic pop, Remixes/

Comment: this album comprises a loads of remixes which used to shift over the territories of indie and electronica, searching for some mild opportunities to land and seat itself in a more appreciated location somewhere near the centre of the indie scene. More concretely, at this 9-piece album sizzling synth bits and dance-appealed electro vibes surrounded by ringing yet mechanical guitar chords and syncopated vocal/and rap snippets have the deciding role to play in perceiving and teasing. The listener can detect the remixes by the likes of OffTheSky, Mitchell Akiyama, Melodium among others.

[Teaser of the day] Children Of The Drone - 04/02/04 ->14/01/04

Archive

Death by Snoo Snoo - LP (2010)

Bandcamp

Lastfm

9.4

/Indie punk, Alternative rock, Punk rock, Post-punk, Art punk, Dub rock/

Comment: this collective comes out from Finland who used to fuse frenzied garage rock, swiftly striking punk and arty, indie-embellished stuff into an enormous alternative rock chunk. Because of being headed by female vocals and sort of half-shrieking it reminds of Elastica, Slutever, and Bikini Kill. On the other side, Black Worm surprises the listener with a little lopsided, dub-loaded bass frequencies and airy vocal lines. The result is highly galvanic and masterfully balanced between striking power and lofty touch.   

Treasure Hunt - Seatec Astronomy (2012)

Bandcamp

Lastfm

9.1

/Post-psychedelic electronica, Glo-fi, Avant-pop, Sampledelic, Cut and paste, Sound-art, Experimentalism/

Comment: this one-man-project originates from Dallas, Texas and is headed by Myles Byrne-Dunhill who mixes up a diverse array of aesthetics, veering away from sampledelic excursions and sound art-esque spirituality to more knee-deep, trance-induced space pop shamanism and futuristic glo-fi disco glimpses and psychedelic flickers. In a word, the album is an astral body full of frantic, carnival-alike propulsions, however, which can be compared with the likes of Gang Gang Dance, Faust, Vierivä Viiksiportieeri, Kospel Zeithorn etc.   

Julies Moron - Mr. Nowhere (2003)

 Julies Moron

8.7

/Sampledelic, DIY, Experimental electronica, Lo-fi, Experimentalism, Nu jazz, Mood music/

Comment: Julies Moron is the nom de plume for the Estonian artist Tanel Põld who had got involved in musical activity in the first half of 00`s when he had produced a handful of releases. This issue includes 13 short-running instrumental pieces which used to shift somewhere in between jazzy, laidback electronica and more tumultuous/experimental developments (including the frequencies of cut and paste aesthetics, noiseful antics, some out of gravity appearances) which is infiltrated with the kind of lo-fi/DIY aura. For instance, A 100 Year Dream sounds like an excerpt taken out from a Meredith Monk`s notch.

Warm Speakers - Mezcal Noon EP (2011)

Bandcamp

Lastfm

8.8

/Alternative dance, Glo-fi, Poptronica, Experimental indie, Chillwave, Alternative, Leftfield/

Comment: Warm Speakers is a glam-electro-indie (or glo-fi) collective from The Big Apple. Behind this one-man-project is a man called Patrick Berlinquette who offers up a handful of tracks spreaded out over 15 minutes. More concretely, the issue used to hark back to the tradition of shoegaze/and powerful dream pop being embellished with charming lo-fi dust and backed up with suggestive disco rhythms. Indeed, Berlinquette searches for the power of seduction. 

Louie & The Ocean – Insubstantial (2012)

Webbed Hand
Lastfm 

8.6

/IDM, Electronic pop, Lo-fi, Electro pop, Mood music/

Comment: this is a drift between IDM-esque beats and downtempo-tinged moody electronica where the listener can meet either melancholic or more swift dodges and angles. Furthermore, the album incorporates the elements of homemade aesthetics and gleaming synth/electro shades. This 9-track album comprises predominantly instrumental notches. In a nutshell, it is obviously better effort than the previous release by Louie & The Ocean, the French artist used to be.

[Teaser of the day] LarG Productions - A March Through The Fens (Remix)

Royalty-free music for professional licensing

Hox Vox - Hurry Up Harry - part 2 (2012)

Hox Vox
Jamendo
Bandcamp
Lastfm 
 

8.9

/Alternative, Avant-garde, Avant-prog, Psychedelic rock, World music, Funk, RIO, Experimental rock, Crossover, Progressive rock/

Comment: Gianluca Missero aka Hox Vox is back with his brand new one (21 pieces) whose axis comprises the elements of lopsided progressive rock (let`s call it this way). On the other side, it involves lots of reference points extending from psychedelic funk and disco vibes and bhangra-laden thudding to more ethnic-mixed developments and (psychedelic) trance-alike synthesized bubbling and acidic synth-driven art rock manifestos. It is obvious on the album that one stylistical element used to meld quickly and organically into another. Now and then it sounds like the direct translation broadcasted from a carnival. In a word, Hox Vox proves again to have been a talented musician in his explorations. The album id dedicated to the memory of Marco Bianchi, the drummer of Death In Venice.  

Kisszanto - Surrealism On Tape (2011)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

8.5

/Trip-hop, Hip-hop, Downtempo, Sampledelic, Cut and paste, Lo-fi, Mood music, DIY/ 

Comment: Kisszanto is a producer and DJ from Hungary whose 11-track album Surrealism On Tape used to soothe and bounce simultaneously. Indeed, it is backed up by a wide array of rhythm sequences veering away from slow-natured breaks and hip-hop-alike patterns to more tumultuous jungle/dnb-relied propulsions. All of that is bruished against the sort of homemade aesthetics. Of course, the listener can feel him/herself a little bit confused because there is difference between the title and the content of the album, though, the result is enough enjoyable on its own (built upon repetitive structures, looptronic aesthetics). No doubt, such kind of music seems to be highly influenced by the oeuvres of Flying Lotus.  

I Am Esper - Echoes From A Cold Planet (2012)

Abandonment 

Bandcamp

8.6

/Psycho-acoustic, Acousmatics, Avant-garde, Dark ambient, DIY, Lo-fi, Dystopbient/ 

Comment: this long-running, 18-minute composition seems to be within the realm of lo-fi-tinged black ambient where the listener can perceive hollow shades and some lack of gravity. Indeed, it is a little provolking due to its coarseness and intention to drift in between barely audible and unheardable dimensions as if all of that were situated at the botoom of a well somewhere. Oh, I have forgotten it - it is a cold astral body actually.

[Teaser of the day] ZigiZigi - It Burns My Heart

  Royalty-free music for professional licensing

Galvanic Elephants - Moonstruck

Gangrena - The Zombie Survival Society (2012)

Torn Flesh

9.2

/Death metal, Crust punk, Grindcore, Goregrind, Non-music, Brutal metal/ 

Comment: the listener can be sure that Gangrena, the Mexico-based collective is obviously an out of pop group because of incessantly mutilating and demolishing possible fine song structures and harmonies presented in mind. Gangrena`s release used run on devouring, indecipherable vocal/moaning lines, angrily attacking guitar massives, deathly punching drums and other abrasive (or on the other way unexpected) minutiae by right and left side. As the result the issue releases a vast amount of psyched-out emission into surrounding space. In a word, it is a genuinely cruel, hellish dog.    

Fabian Russ - Schrottmann Remixed (2011)

tonAtom

9.2

/Art pop, Experimental electronica, Sampledelic, Remixes, Sound collage, Downtempo, Crossover, Conceptual, Mood music/ 

Comment: first of all, this release of 9 pieces involves a wide array of different kind of paces and moods, more detailly, extending from airy piano music-induced impetus and uplifting art/indie pop washes to more warped electronic compositions, velvety downtempo/trip-hop gears and old school funk bits. Considering all of this merry-go-round-alike patchwork the outlet can be defined as a subtle instance of sampledelic aesthetics. The remixes are made by such artists as Firnwald, Francis Bacon, Photophob, The Plastic Jazz Orchestra, The1983, Hr. Herr, Marco Sebastian Christ, and Osterland. Pro.

Ratkiller - Gallic Cones (2012)

Dipsomaniac

Lastfm

9.0

/Synth fusion, DIY, Progressive rock, RIO/Avant-prog, Experimental rock, Mood music, Crossover/

Comment: this 10-piece album takes on investigation of the relations between psychedelic fusion, 80`s synthesized regatta pop, space tinged-art pop, DIY-hued aesthetics (indeed, successfully avoiding the quality of sterile studio sound), and RIO/avant-prog glimpses and slots. Anyway, the final result is prudently amusive and uplifting where the technical side of it is finely counterbalanced with moody, psychic sides. Behind the project is Mihkel Kleis, who is being known as the leader of such formations as Luarvik Luarvik, and EDASI.

[Teaser of the day] Lucifer`s Lunar Resort - Cathedral

 CLLCT

Wonaldo - Diepsteweg

Overcolored - Corvus Corone Cornix (2011)

 Bandcamp

Lastfm

8.8

/Post-rock, Crossover, Progressive metal, Art rock, Progressive rock, Symphonic metal, Melodic rock/

Comment: Overcolored is a pretentious ensemble from Krakow, Poland whose oeuvre do meet at the crossroads of soothing, at times concrete music-induced post-rock-ish developments, tumultuous progressive rock-ish rhythm patterns and acrid guitar riffs, and spectacular symphonic rock/melodic metal (indeed, the instrumental side is finely counterbalanced by female operatic soaring). In a nutshell, the result is an intricate and intriguing whole. And the coverprint is shrewd and metaphorical indeed.

fydhws / aiRless pRoject Split (2011)

Bandcamp

Lastfm

9.5

/Post-rock, Avant-rock, Experimental rock, Krautrock, Art-rock, Space rock, Conceptual/

Comment: behind this split publication do hide themselves two Macedonian experimental ambassadors whose 5-track album is tightly filled in with spacey flamingo-tinged guitar motives (sic!), intense, monotonous krautrock-esque vibrations and the washes of infiltrated guitar noise. Furthermore, the listener can hear lots of amplified guitar effects, "broken" chords, gliding textures, and shifts between still life and noise. In a few words, it is an example of how superb guitar music should be arranged for. You can draw parallels upon the likes...mhm, having actually no idea with whom it can be comparable with because it seems to be so idiosyncratic and refreshing.

ki††y c▲t - Radioheadache (EP 2011)

Bandcamp 

Lastfm

8.8

/Electronic pop, Post-dubstep, Electro-indie, Drag house, Alternative, Witch house, Alternative, Electro-indie/

Comment: these 8 tracks are made up of thick, brooding electronic/synth-driven layers and intense rhythms and epic thudding, though, sometimes is outreaches the borders of the witch house/drag electro/post-dub/dope step style, however, extending to more rock/electro-indie centered compositions. The artist originates from Russia who has issued a handful of EPs and singles (solid ones as well) over the last years.

[Teaser of the day] Remember Me - Eyes Wet With Clarity

CLLCT

Colateral Soundtrack - N/D

Gene Rodemich Orch - Shanghai Shuffle (1924)

78RPMs and Cylinder Recordings

10.0

/Big band, Jazz, Mood music, Exotica pop/

Comment: Gene Rodemich (1890-1934) was a pianist and conductor from St Louis, Missouri, USA who had accomplished scores for numerous films (for Charlie Chaplin, and Frank Buck`s ones) and introduced many NBC programmes. Shanghai Shuffle is a composition to function as an example of the sequence of amusing big band-played chords embellished with more exotic seeds and shades. It is funny, pleasant, and masterfully composed. Indeed, let`s take a trip into history.

Interlard - Gland (2011)

Milk Kitten

Lastfm 

9.3

/Noise rock, Harsh noise, Experimental rock, Crust punk, Avant-rock, Non-music, Screamo, Goregrind/ 

Comment: Interlard, the Birmingham, UK-based musical project is undoubtedly one of the most extreme collectives in Europe. Over years they have practiced grind-ish, soil-eating noise rock (gore metal) which is full of flourishing power and suggestive impetus/ultra heavy thudding or just being more inflected toward instances of unambiguous harsh noise. More concretely, the ensemble can be compared with the likes of Black Dice, Black Pus, and The Lightning Bolt.  Gland includes 4 tracks (or, say, foreign bodies by their contrasts to the whole of pop music) which are deliberately slow-paced, suggestively repetitive ones which at times are accompanied by desperate shouts (Put to Sleep) or used to swivel around an example of grained harsh noise (Doubloons Aren`t Round).

Vèvè Seashore - Seven Years of Gulliver (2011)

DFBM

Lastfm 

9.2

/Post-psychedelic electronica, Avant-folk, Indie folk, Neofolk, Psychedelic folk, Folk indie, New Weird Europe, Experimental folk, Alt-folk, Krautrock, Dark folk, Anti-folk/ 

Comment: Seven Years of Gulliver is the debut album of the Finnish avant-combo Vèvè Seashore. This 15-track album involves a shitloads of elements and a wide array of experiments veering away from examples of quite bucolic (mostly neo) folk-ish guitar twangs and clear-cut singing to much more dizzy explorations which more concretely used to take on musique concrète-infiltrated frames and knee-deep psychedelic krautrock-esque visions to more epic yet otherworldly moments (Seven Inch Script IV (Warsaw Warpig)) and warped folk indie manifestos (I`m a Full Cloud (I`d like to rain)).      

[Teaser of the day] Andrew Lahiff - An Image Of The Earth

Archive

The Smallest Bones - Cross Mountain (2010)

Bandcamp

 

9.4

/Post-rock, Experimental indie, Dream folk, Folktronica, Indie folk, Art-folk, Folk indie, Post-pop, Alternative/

Comment: this is a blissful experimental indie/post-rock release which used to talk to you without words and syllables /except the secong half of the last track). More profoundly, it is filled in with highly harmonious guitar progressions-arpeggios and ascending, a little haunting chords which in turn are embellished with slight dust of concrete/street sounds and silentful rolling of synthetic marimbas and flourishing electronica ultimately having a vast amount of power to enthrall the listener. Behind the project is Julia Kotowski who is being known as Entertainment For The Braindead in the first place. The fabulous result indeed. 

Hazardous Guadalupe - H.G (2003/2009)

FMA

Spleen Coffin

8.8

/Improvised music, Psychedelic folk, Free folk, Psych-folk, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/

Comment: it can be labeled as an instance of freaking folk and improvised jamming which consists of the squeaks of undecipherable instruments, psyched-out guitar twangs and trance-induced drumming thereby drifting somewhere in between 60`s psych-folk and kind of 00`s New Weird and on the othe rside between acoustic primitivism and more treated vistas. Indeed, this 11-piece outlet is a gritty aspiration to search for some genuine synergical borders. Anyway, If I think of the kindred souls of the group such bands as Vierivä Viiksiportieeri, and Uton come to mind. 

Split - II / Colateral Soundtrack (2011)

  

A.M.P-RECS

9.3

/Ambient, Soundscapes, Minimal, Experimental electronica, Epic, Dystopbient, Conceptual/  

Comment: a pair of lengthy ambient tracks which used to soothe and release the listener`s blocked-up mind. Sometimes it chirps like being closely related to some dystopic, horrible places, on the other side it sounds like being an intimate state of mind during the endless space trip. The compositions do include more abrasive aspects (hisses, microscopic noise, feedback-laden bits), however, thus successfully variegating the moods and soundscapes of the release. The second track is a more loop-based and fine-grained propulsion which in turn contains the epic dimension. This mesmerizing result is issued on the Mexican experimental label A.M.P-RECS.    

[Teaser of the day] Wouter Bruys – This is Guitar Music

Eric Delay - Four Moments (2012)

Fuselab

9.0

/Experimental electronica, IDM, Ambient techno, Downtempo, Mood music/

Comment: Eric Delay aka Silent Cuts (born in 1986) is a musician from Ulyanovsk, Russia who offers up four sonic episodes which will be finished off at the length of 11.30. More concretely, it is a honest, lush blend of gritty brain techno rhythms and downtempo vibes, lambent IDM progressions and tropical electronica. In a word, this is a set of masterfully produced tracks indeed. 

Wrong Way Home - Weedway (2009)

Black Mess

9.5

/Dystopbient, Avant-techno, Industrial techno, Abstract electronica, Industrial illbient, Dark ambient/  

Comment: this 5-piece issue starts off with the kind of abstract, underwater techno which will be followed by more misanthropic, industrial-soaked notches which are full of evil-sounding frequencies, out-of-Earth vibrations and glitch-hued dystopic thudding. However, it conjures up lots of elusive, otherworldly objects of the perception. Amazing drift indeed.

Bulimic Orgy & Mile - Reverse Of the Void LP (2012)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

9.4

/Trip-hop, Sampledelic, Downtempo, Shoegazetronica, Cut and paste, Experimental electronica/

Comment: Bulimic Orgy is a duo from Riga, Latvia who used to fuse the sequences of slow-paced beats and gleaming, sampledelic electronica/trip-hop into a fabulous, organic whole. Now and then it used to grow into a kind of looming reminiscent more of shoegaze-loaded electronica though it used to be laidback frequently as well. However, it is an unforgettable issue because of involving lots of full and half-brushed shades, picturesque effects, and exulting moods. 

[Teaser of the day] ENRIQUE RAMIREZ – Planeras

Elite Gymnastics - Neu! ’92 EP (2011)

Elite Gymnastics

9.5

/Post-psychedelic electronica, Avant-pop, Poptronica, Experimental indie, Alternative, Glo-fi, Neokrautrock/ 

Comment: Elite Gymnastics is another nowadays urban tribal collective which obviously harks back both to the tradition of motorik rock and nature-near (post) psychedelia/the object of hippies and goth-inspired post-punk a la The Cure, and The Comsat Angels. More profoundly, this 4-track issue is filled in with thudding beat sequences and plangent bass frequencies and on the other side blissed-out synth looming and spacey vocal lines. The release can be compared with the oeuvres by the likes of Gang Gang Dance, Excepter, Animal Collective, Chevalier Avant Garde. And of course with Neu!, the legendary Dusseldorf-based krautrock duo which is being the apparent inspiration source for our heroes. At least this time.   

Chevalier Avant Garde - HAIRCUT 7" (2011)

Bandcamp

9.4

/Chillwave, Post-punk, Avant-punk, Alternative, Art punk, Glo-fi, Poptronica, Post-psychedelic electronica, Avant-pop/ 

Comment: let`s go back to Montrèal, Quebec, Canada the city which has been a bacciferous place for a wide array of experimental and avant-garde bands. No doubt, Chevalier Avant Garde is one spot amongst others within there. There are represented a pair of tracks which are full of Zeitgeist-induced tendencies, yet, chiming lovely and naturally. It crosses the territory of blissful chillwave/glo-fi with mechanical, goth-soaked post-punk/art punk a la Joy Division, and Suicide. In a word, it is simply great.   

Metropol - My Own Gravity (2011)

Bandcamp

7.7

/Pomp pop, Alternative pop/rock, Symphonic rock, Synth rock/

Comment: Metropol is a collective from Spain who is obviously influenced by contemporary alternative pop/rock bands like The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Keane (those chiming guitars) and on the other side it used to incorporate more bombastic elements, for instance the seeds of symphonical rock/metal and even some hair rock elements. There are up some amusing synth progressions and the falsetto-styled vocal is variegated with the baritone singing.  

Mixtape 15-05-2012

Mixtape

Tracklist:

MeDo`s Little Trap - Medicine Sound

http://labelnetlabel.com/artists/medos-little-trap

This Lonely Crowd - Scaramouche

http://sinewave.com.br/2012/02/this-lonely-crowd-doppeldanger-and-other-delicious-secrets-2012/

Electricwest - Scarlet

http://www.archaichorizon.com/releases/show/ah033

Clinker - Music Gives You Power

http://clinker.org.uk/albums/mp3.html 

Depth Affect - Sarah Carbone (D_Rradio remix) 

http://archive.org/details/moulin012

Tracky Birthday - Newish Disco

http://www.upitup.com/catalogue/release.php?cat_id=28

[Teaser of the day] Alexander Wigger - On Television

Carl-Step - From Far Away (2012)

Jamendo

9.0

/Electronic pop, Synth pop, New Wave, Experimental electronica, Robot pop/

Comment: this one track takes on the tradition of synthetic, robot pop. First of all, of course, it hints at Kraftwerk and upon it the legacy of New Wave/space disco/electro rock which in turn was heavily influenced by the German more or less electronic rock (so-called krautrock). More concretely, the track (3.44) bases on the formidable melody hook containing gloomy dust and autotuned vowel dust.

Post-Avantist - Vasiform Rima (2012)

 Dystimbria

9.1

/Harsh noise, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Non-music, Psycho-acoustic, Acousmatics/

Comment: wow, it is cruel and burningly hissing. You can imagine it as if My Bloody Valentine (or Mr. Shields) were a bigwig of the harsh noise scene. The whole issue consists of one lengthy, 19 minute composition which functions like a sonic nightmare full of high-registered chords and quite static penetrating impulses. It can be considered an example of the imagination about harsh noise in the classical sense of this word because of including loads of drifts between the washes of brutal noise and silentful spans/or silence. More concretely, these minutes can be compared with the likes of Hanatarashi, John Wiese, Dror Feiler, Kanin Krusete.   

FranzSnake - All`s Well (2012)

Mayoware

9.2

/J-pop, Shibuya-kei, Electro-house, Mood music, Lounge music, Bubblegum techno, Robot pop, Easy listening, Chilltronica/

Comment: this handful of tracks make you feel very happy and truly blissed-out - at times FranzSnake`s topic is to mix up suggestive electro house/robo house with J-pop/shibuya-kei seeds or just having a spot directed toward the rotation of moody guitar riffs and soothing synth chords and restrained paces. Or contrary, offering up more bubblegum-ish rhythm sequences. However, Mikakuzino Fantasia is the summer track of mine (there is also another version of it). The release can be compared with the likes of Fantastic Plastic Machine, and Pizzicato Five, for instance.