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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.

7/30/2020

Makunouchi Bento – Drowned In Bodrog (2020)



  • Neoclassical 
  • Electronic music 
  • Fantasy 
  • Art music 
  • Conceptual 
  • Post-classical 
  • Post-industrial

Makunouchi Bento, a duo from Romania (Felix Petrescu, and Valentin Toma) has issued a sequel to their previous release Ghostophonia. Musically the case is quite similar drenched with high-pitched and slowed-down synth progressions which by their nature and emotive side are ominous and eerie. Slight difference comes in by exploiting more Fantasy-filled motives and gravity-free electronics as if some puckish fairies using one's toilet room. It could have happened but this bunch of tight classical and electronics mixed issue plays tricks on one's mind. Where's the truth, where are fake sounds? As once said a little girl about 5 years old to me she does not believe that we exist at all. That's I believe in because all what we can do we can define themselves through the past, a temporal dimension which does not exist anymore. Because of that all is dream altogether, all is non-existence ultimately. There is no difference between life and death. As Ghostophonia this 9-notch outing is a part of the little discography of Cinemaude.

Their Only Years – Mystery Years (2015)



  • No wave 
  • Psychedelic 
  • Alternative rock 
  • Indie rock 
  • Outsider pop 
  • Art rock 
  • Singer-songwriter 
  • Bedroom pop 
  • Alternative dance 
  • DIY 
  • Space pop

A nice bunch of 13 compositions running in the vein of more poppy no wave tradition a la Talking Heads, and Jim Chance & The Contortions which more profoundly does mean catchy yet artsy dance rock patterns full of ecstasy and elegance. On the other side it reflects upon Ariel Pink's timeless spaced-out bedroom pop imbued with unknown reference points in time and space. Thirdly, one should listen to it as a whole because those stylistic differences juxtaposed to one another constitute an organic whole. It is certainly much bigger than one's miserable everyday's life. Art is bigger than life and separated from it.

7/27/2020

[Teaser of the day] Bottlesmoker - East Indies feat. Kronutz



  • Electronic music
  • Alternative dance
  • Indietronica
  • Kraut-electro
  • Electro pop

Artist: Bottlesmoker
Release: Parakosmos
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Timo Petmanson - Rite of the elites


  • Electronic
  • Synth-fusion
  • Easy listening
  • Yacht pop
  • Experimental pop
  • Art pop

Release: Hacker Songs 
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2018

Pinballsound – Дирижабль (2016)


  • Soviet wave
  • Alternative pop 
  • Soft rock 
  • Indie pop 
  • Synth-pop 
  • Dance pop

Pinballsound's 8-track issue can be described under the characteristics of the so-called Soviet wave which in fact is a very loose tag stylistically, more it is just a discernible case. Otherwise it can be described an example of emotionally overloaded soft rock and synthetic pop in Slavic sauce. Getting partly inspiration from kitschy Soviet estrada pop and overall nostalgic milieu (all may seem more green and less problematic because the last decade of the USSR coincided with many musicians' childhood and for many Russians it seems to me personal welfare would worsen remarkably) and on the other side exploiting contemporary alternative pop trickery. Additionally there is also represented the romantics of space age.

7/26/2020

[Teaser of the day] Trash Sun - TV



  • Indie rock
  • Shoegaze
  • Alternative rock
  • Shitgaze

Artist: Trash Sun
Release: Fried
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Origami Repetika - Thats All

  • Lo-fi
  • Indie pop
  • Outsider pop
  • DIY
  • Bedroom pop
  • Alternative pop
  • Soul

Label: 20kbps
Year: 2020

Globobscuro – Morphism of a Dream Anthology (2019)


  • Post-industrial 
  • Industrial music 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Electronic 
  • Psycho-acoustic 
  • Micronoise 
  • Acousmatic music 
  • Electro-acoustic 
  • Dark ambient 
  • Illbient 
  • Spoken word 
  • Neoclassical 
  • Dark wave

This anthology of 42 tracks embraces the Italian experimental musician Emiliano Pietrini aka Globoscuro's works and collaborations with such artists as Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt, Nina Maroccolo, Lutz Thuns, Peter Wullen, Ilaria Fierro, Serena Zingoni, Una Lee, Imi Gavin, Cousin Silas, and Øystein Jørgensen musically ranging from frantic old school industrial and malignant illbient and exquisite noise/micronoise to musique concrète and electro-acoustic experiments, however, going so far as to reach a desirable, ennobling point. These albums did solidify the status of such imprints as Noise-Joy, Enoughrecords, Kaos Ex Machina Promotions, Smell The Stench, and Hortus Conclusus. Being mostly characteristic to Italians he is also able to imbue these very extreme ideas of peripheral sounds with an emotive ingredient thereof resulting in some sort of purgative mysticism as if there were a hidden portal between ancient and contemporary world. If we also could physically overcome the burden of entropy we could travel back in time and go back to our heathenish roots. We have lost our touch with Nature, with our very genuine source. Lost souls as we are because we have been indoctrinated with such nonsenses as ancestral sin, and holy trinity. You know, Holy Trinity were in fact Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle as the three most smart and inspiring men in history I can admit it. In a word, being mentally and naturally a disciple of old school industrial and on the other side exploiting contemporary digital technology one can perceive an artist going beyond the nowadays limits by crosscutting these styles in his own way. I am very convinced his soundscapes will ring ahead of its time in many decades.

7/19/2020

[Teaser of the day] M!R!M - Dire Love Swarm


  • Gothic rock
  • Deathrock
  • Post-punk
  • Alternative rock
  • Indie rock

ArtistM!R!M
Label: Afmusic
Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Professor Kliq - Sewage


  • Electro
  • Alternative dance
  • Electronic music
  • Breakcore
  • Hi-NRG

Artist: Professor Kliq 
Release: Movements EP 
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Blood Ruby - Babel Babel


  • Dream pop
  • Alternative rock
  • Indie rock
  • Art pop
  • Ethereal wave

Artist: Blood Ruby
Release: Recent Songs 
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Jodie Lowther - The Living Ones


  • Electronic
  • Avant-pop
  • Ambient pop
  • Drone pop
  • Experimental pop
  • Art pop

Artist: Jodie Lowther  
Release: The Cat Collects 
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 
Year: 2019

The Hathaway Family Plot – Someday, This Will Never Be Over (2020)



  • No wave
  • Psychedelic
  • Sampledelic
  • Progressive
  • Avant-garde
  • Art pop
  • DIY
  • Experimentalism
  • Noise rock

Comment: hopefully someday this will be over. About all the bullshit what is happening now worldwide. With Trump or without Trump. Pro Trump or against Trump. With Coronavirus or without Coronavirus. In principle, however, there is no difference at all. Different people do have different opinions but there are some universal problems coming up to paralyse each of us from day to day. What's the true goal of a human being should be in fact? Probably the correct answer is to create something which lasts much longer and inspires further in spite of one`s mundane chains restrained him/her to be. Such guys and gals are called heroes but the biggest nowadays shortage is there is no heroes anymore. A musician from Buffalo, Kevin McFadden has been doing music either having inspiration on Trump or not. By sampling Trump of saying "The American Dream is dead" it is even more obvious all will be in decline like a huge snowball coming down the steep. All is profoundly polarised and torn apart because/ and with the very totalitarian purpose to gain control over the opponents' mind. There is up the concept "post-truth" but has someone ever asked was there the truth before? Musically the brand new one is a refreshing deviation from the artist's previous efforts which are strong items yet more determined if you would like to avoid saying "totalism" through those strangling and subjugated relations between piano chords and artificial noises (please, do not take very seriously this sentence!). The recent one may be less ambitious at the first glimpse but within it one may find out more something which can be considered refreshing, loose and less artificial. From Glenn Branca to Procol Harum. Coming from sharp noisy waves to be traversed exquisite noise rock territories to restrained yet panoramic sonic walls to easy listening-alike progressive muzak. Partly it is a welcome arrival to his very first issues being issued on an imprint, WM Recordings. By the way, Glenn Branca was that guy who said "the Grand Epic is over". At the moment it is time for zombies to roam around.

Big City Orchestra – Nereids (2011)


  • Electro-acoustic
  • Avant-garde
  • Drone
  • Experimentalism
  • Abstract
  • Spoken word
  • Industrial
  • Micronoise
  • Acousmatic music
  • Microtonal
  • Electronic
  • Experimental electronica
  • Psychedelic
  • Minimalism
  • Musique concrète

Comment: Big City Orchestra is a combo from Los Angeles, USA which needs no longer introduction to a dedicated old school industrial music fan. Having been active since the first day of 1979 the combo's core consists of a few constant members and many other artists have provided their contributions to this weird and wonderful sonic universe. It can be considered a universe because of being highly prolific similarly to other (old school) industrial acts like Zoviet France, and Ashtray Navigations. It does mean permanent and uncompromising shifts between drone music, more or less noisy explorations, every kind of electronic variations (including the sheer aesthetics of electronic pioneers like Raymond Scott, Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire), and playing with iterative patterns up to a very psychedelic, even magical rate (reminds of Angus Maclise's trancey experiments). This time their soundscape is supported by court jester of hippie music, Daevid Allen. Additionally to his guitar sounds (prominently at enchanting Thirteeb) one can hear those loosely grooving spaced-out synthesised loops here and there being so characteristic to the soundscape of Gong. Speaking about the aforementioned remarkable psychedelic rate the embarking track Special Alert is the best example of it being relied upon shimmering repetitive organ drones full of lysergic magic as if Silver Apples were produced by Philip Glass. All the soundscape of the track used to grow wider and then again a bit get restrained within its borders. There is also a track called Dirty Sheen which speaks of a lack of authority, lack of God which ultimately will produce chaos and thereafter inevitable violence according to silly will of the human being. These overcoming and inspiring foursome tracks are a part of the discography of Nostalgie De La Boue, a really great imprint run by Tristan Koreya.

7/18/2020

[Teaser of the day] Harueda Mizu - Atom



  • Electronic music
  • Ambient
  • New Age
  • Epic
  • Microtonal

Artist: Harueda Mizu
Release: Desert Song
Label: MiMi
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Nin Martoize - Reflections



  • Electronic
  • Improvised noise
  • Avant-garde
  • Improvised music
  • Experimentalism
  • Free jazz

Artist: Nin Martoize
Release: 4 EP
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Cousin Silas - Ukranian Sunrise (For Oleg) (Amidst Silence - Deluxe Edition)



  • Electronic music
  • Ambient rock
  • Kosmische Musik
  • Avant-rock
  • Ambient
  • Experimental rock
  • Progressive

Artist: Cousin Silas
Release: Emporium Sampler
Label: We Are All Ghosts
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Gabran - Oh, my dear love!


  • Electronic music
  • Ambient
  • Glitch ambient
  • Micronoise
  • Sound art
  • Post-classical
  • Microtonal
  • Abstract

Artist: Gabran
ReleaseBS005 X
Label: Black Square
Year: 2010

Tyrone Miller – Batman & Tyrone (2002)


  • Drone
  • Avant-garde
  • Experimentalism
  • Minimalism
  • Post-rock
  • Ambient drone
  • Microtonal
  • Ambient
  • Post-classical

Comment: in fact, one can find out just a couple of links about an artist called Tyrone Miller across the Net. There are up a pair of albums, the second of them All These Moments (2005) already appeared at RMH some years ago but the artist's first outing Batman & Tyrone is here to be focused upon. With regard to the sophomoric issue which is apparently more electronic - and let's say nonsensically contemporary - to introduce the dreams with the aid of synthesisers Batman & Tyrone consists of three lengthy compositions instead based on sparse organ droning which is either twisted and switched on/off or then complete with an electric guitar and spoken word snippets and voice samples. There is no hurry due to each track to clock in at least at a 11 minute meandering from introverted minimal music to lucid outbursts. More profoundly, it is something between late Talk Talk, and Labradford/Pan American. It is issued on a Swedish imprint, Redstarcommunity.

Enoch D▲rk – Enoch Dark (2020)


  • Witch house
  • Drag house
  • Electronic music
  • Cover
  • Newbreed

Comment: it is dark-hued and ominous as if someone being crippled and exhausted after a black mass having then abandoned time capsule for the worse world. Here it is around with galvanized drones, reverb-laden drums running in the range of mid-tempo, and some occasional murky chanting. The best element within it are synthesised and a bit beeping sounds coming out from the flanks because of adding a more extraordinary touch. One of the tracks is a cover of a song by Christian Death (sounds good, isn't?). What else could be added but Christianity may have been the worst legacy for Europe and Western people to come from outside. There is little to do with God but a bunch of ideologically enslaving crap instead of having an adverse impact on the nature and consciousness of those human beings. The only feel you can perceive is being guilty about nothing (all this crap would start with the so-called ancestral sin concept). It is time to abandon the idol and go back to our Pagan roots and discover the true One. Set yourself free just as a member of one species among the other ones. The 8-track issue is a part of the discography of Witch Spectra.

Voditel dlya Vera – Ты (2019)



  • Post-punk 
  • Alternative rock 
  • Indie rock 
  • Soviet wave 
  • New wave 
  • Fuzz pop 
  • Noise pop

Comment: this handful of tracks is an example of a new wave of ensembles coming out from the territory of the previous Soviet Union. It is denoted with the tag Soviet wave in ambivalent way though accents may be different with regard to a certain combo. It may be more electronic, may be more kitsch/estrada pop-influenced or driven by then Soviet underground guitar bands. This case is the last opinion because of being relied upon fuzzy and slightly noisy guitar treatments on the other side obviously running in the vein of impetous new wave charm. Lyrics are in Russian and by their messages being rather pessimistic by singing about losing interest in everything or soulless robots meant in indirect sense, for example. Additionally, it is recommended listening to such precursors as Egor Letov's projects, and Yanka Djagileva.

7/07/2020

[Teaser of the day] Notuv - Nervus


  • Electronic music
  • Chilltronica
  • Breaks
  • Mood music
  • Lounge pop

Artist: Notuv
Release: oO0o8o
Label: Bunkai-Kei
Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Materia Confusa - Transmutation


  • Electronic music
  • Drone
  • Experimentalism
  • Minimalism
  • Avant-garde
  • Abstract

Artist: Materia Confusa
Release: Transmutation EP
Label: Webbed Hand
Year: 2004

7/06/2020

[Teaser of the day] Lizard Kisses - In The Morning



  • Indie folk
  • Alt-folk
  • Americana
  • Folk indie
  • Dream folk

Artist: Lizard Kisses
Release: In The Morning b​/​w Close 7"
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Bodies That Matter - After The Tidy House



  • Electronic
  • Avant-rock
  • Art rock
  • Epic
  • Ethereal Wave
  • Experimental rock

Artist: Bodies That Matter
Release: Apartment Sounds
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020

7/05/2020

[Teaser of the day] Raja Kirik - Tarian Maut Dari Gunung


  • Electronic music
  • Post-industrial
  • Ethnotronica
  • Avant-techno
  • Tribal techno
  • Illbient
  • Experimental techno

Artist: Raja Kirik
Release: Rampokan
Label: Yes No Wave Music/Bandcamp
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Гипнотрон профессора Браилова - У порога Извечной Тайны


  • Electronic music
  • Ambient house
  • Soviet wave
  • Cosmic synth
  • Synth-pop

Artist: Гипнотрон профессора Браилова
Release: Гипнотрон профессора Браилова
Label: Subwise
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Roto Visage - fruitbody


  • Drone
  • Musique concrète
  • Post-industrial
  • Minimalism
  • Microtonal
  • Acousmatic music

Artist: Roto Visage
Release: Out Of Print
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2015

Nicolas Tourney - Sightline (2020)





  • Avant-garde
  • Microtonal
  • Epic
  • Abstract
  • Experimentalism
  • Drone
  • Ambient drone
  • Electronic music

Prantsuse eksperimentaalmuusik Nicolas Tourney on uue aastakümne elik käesoleva aasta sees üllitanud juba kuus albumit. See on ilus muusika – kui seda saab niimoodi üldse nimetada. Aga saab küll – ma vist äsja tegin seda. Taas seotud ärkamise, kasvamise ja vaibumisega. Mis ei ole mitte karvavõrdki kulmukarvasid kergitamapanev, kuna tegu on kaheksateistloolise droonhelidele keskenduva teosega. Ja see nõuab kahtlemata tähelepanu, et kõiki pealtnäha olematuid detaile ja intensiivsusi selles tajuda. Häid hetki on sellel meisterlikul üllitisel rohkelt, aga mingi eriliselt kaasahaarav puude kaasneb elektriliselt laetud pulseerivate lainesagedustega. Justkui kõige minimalistlikuma minimalismi tantsupidu. Eks seda tüüpi muusika ongi erinevate lainepikkuste presentatsioon kõrvuti helide rohkem või vähem ämbientsema paisumisega. Ja erinevusel ongi see põhirõhk – ei pääse interrelatiivsest lugude vahelisest võrdlusmonendist – see on suisa eelduslik. Üllitis on täke USA leibeli Vulpiano diskograafias. Suurepärane torude-juhtmete ventileerimine.

Haarvöl – Ridge Of Humming Spoils (2020)




  • Drone
  • Post-classical
  • Electronic
  • Avant-garde
  • Ambient drone
  • Experimentalism
  • Microtonal
  • Modern classical
  • Electro-acoustic
  • Abstract

Portugalist pärit trio on tagasi rohkem kui eikunagi varem, tehes seda taas Hollandi leibeli Moving Furniture Records abil. See on imetabane tervik droonhelidest, mis paisuvad ja poogivad viieloolise terviku vältel enda külge moodsa klassika, ämbiendi ja elektroakustilise muusika parimad puudutused. See on lumm, mis valitseb kuulaja ajusid, mis valitseb nii muusika kestmisel kui pärast helide vaibumist. Konkreetsemalt on selles nii dünaamilist voogavat soojust, teravamaid metalliklõpsatusi, elektroonilise muusika mahedust ja pretensioonikust; oma kõige minimalistlikumal ja abstraktsemal kujul kõlavad helid kui Alvin Lucier'i kõige perifeersemate helide talletused. Oma kõige lummavatel hetkedel kui ajasõlme kapseldunud klassikaline muusika. Ja see samm-sammhaaval taanduv lumm oma hüpnootilises veetluses on justkui taandumise ja surma võrdkuju. See ei ole hirmutav, pigem julgustav, mis seatud Kõrgema poolt. On liigne lisada, et tegu on selle aasta ühe väljapaistvaima teosega.

6/08/2020

[Teaser of the day] Lately Kind Of Yeah - Sing Me To Sleep



  • Electronic
  • Lo-fi
  • Spoken word
  • Indietronica
  • Minimalism
  • DIY

Artist: Lately Kind Of Yeah
Release: Phthalo
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] sawsquarenoise - Fantasía del Bello Alcazar


  • Mood music
  • Easy listening
  • Conceptual

Artist: sawsquarenoise
Release: Fantasía de los Pinos
Label: Free Music Archive
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] naøs - NRAATØISEXRM (guitarra)



  • Improvised noise
  • Psycho-acoustic
  • Experimentalism
  • Non-music
  • Avant-garde
  • Noise

Artist: naøs
Release: EXTRUSÃO
Label: Seminal
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Posmoderna - The Shadow of the Soul



  • Electronic music
  • Nu jazz
  • Electronic jazz
  • Cinematic
  • Beaks 
  • Acid jazz

Artist: Posmoderna
Release: Trip II
Label: Kermesse
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] José Miguel Candela - Rezo a la Luz


  • Modern classical
  • Art music
  • Minimalism
  • Field recording
  • Post-classical
  • Electronic 
  • Musique concrète

Artist: José Miguel Candela
Release: Rezos
Label: Pueblo Nuevo
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Toxic Chicken - Instant Acquaintances



  • Electronic music
  • Toytronica
  • Sampledelic
  • Minimalism

Artist: Toxic Chicken
Release: Best Friends
Label: Dubbed Tapes
Year: 2020

6/07/2020

[Teaser of the day] Baradit - Pruss pruss


  • Electronic
  • Kraut-electro
  • Synth-pop
  • Neokrautrock 
  • Alternative dance

Artist: Baradit
Release: Electro Lines
Label: Pueblo Nuevo
Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] King Imagine - Old Rubbish


  • Electronic music
  • IDM
  • World fusion 
  • Ethnotronica

Artist: King Imagine
Release: Yellow Magic Tunes
Label: Cota 303
Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Skullpriest - Cosmic Swine



  • Hard rock
  • Psych-rock
  • Heavy psych 
  • Stoner rock

Artist: Skullpriest
Release: Fake But Real
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2018

Graham Dunning – Something About Still Trying (2020)



  • Electro-acoustic
  • Drone
  • Sound art
  • Electronic music
  • Experimentalism
  • Improvised music
  • Avant-garde
  • Musique concrète
  • Field recording
  • Organic electronica
  • Abstract
  • Microtonal

Eimiski. Helides saab kajastada ja väljendada erinevaid fenomene, näiteks Graham'i-nimelise inglase (kes on ka esinenud Eestis) varahommikut kusagil suvilas idüllilise looduse keskel (konkreetselt on salvestatud Põhja-Essex'is ja Rootsis). Ukse kääksumine, põrandalaudade kriuksumine, asjade ümbertõstmisest põhjustatud kolin, mingist hetkest loodushelide sisenemine (tuul, merelained?) ja eelpoolmainitud helidega üheks sulandumine. Sellel kõigel on pealtnäha üks puudus – tahaks pilti näha, tahaks lõhna tunda. Tuttavlikud konkreethelid vallandavad lõhna- ja nägemisimpulsid. Konkreetmuusika suurimaks puuduseks (eeliseks?) ongi nimetatud pingeseisundi tekitamine – mis on selle mõte? Kas peabki alati mõtet selle taga otsima? Samas mainitet pinge taandub – teised impulsid nõrgenevad –, kui sisenevad kunstlikud helid nagu pulseeriv elektroonika ja sumisevad-kumisevad droonhelid. Helid muutuvad kunstiliseks/kunstlikuks, organiseeritud väljundiks elik muusikaks (Raadio Elmari kuulaja ilmselt minuga käesoleva teose foonil ei nõustu). Näiteks kompositsioon A Tracing of a Single Tide kõlab kui elektrifitseeritud, sumisev versioon kõrrega kokteili mekkimisest või luristamisest (maitseasi, on ju?). See kolmelooline reliis – mille on üllitanud plaadifirma Flaming Pines – toob mulle meelde Masayuki Imanishi ülimalt minimalistliku teose Worn Tape (2019, Moving Furniture), mis kõlas kui kodumasinate kuuldamatu hingeelu võimendamine ja esiletoomine. Tõuseb ja vaibub, ärkab ja kustub. Nullist saab üks ja ühest saab null. Ja müra käändub vaikuseks. Ja vaikus on ontoloogiliselt mitteeksisteeriv, st eimiski.

Kroma – Siin kus lõpeb Maa (2014)


  • Kosmische Musik 
  • Electronic music
  • Progressive 
  • Space music 
  • Cosmic synth

Viimased uudised Minneapolise-nimelisest linnast Ameerikamaal edastavad, et osa rahvast ei taha enam politseid kui institutsiooni. Oleksime justkui jõudnud valgustatud seisundisse, kus ei oleks vaja ei politseid, kohtuvõimu ega valitsust. Robert Nozick'i klassikalises teoses "Anarhia, riik, utoopia" käiakse välja idee, et sarnaste huvidega inimesed võiksid koonduda kommuunidesse, kuid konfliktide vältimiseks erinevate kogukondade vahel tuleks palgata turvafirmad või mingi sarnane vahendav institutsioon. See peegeldab seda, et inimene on loodusest eemaldunud; konflikte ei suudeta loomuldasa isekeskis lahendada, erinevused on lepitamatuks kasvanud. Ma ei ole kindel, et inimkond oleks hetkel valmis jõuinstitutsioonidest loobuma; ei ole valmis, asemele tuleks üksnes rohkem vägivalda. Küsimus on eskapismis – kuidas põgeneda üksteise eest, kuidas vabaneda humanistlikust õudusest. Inimese kui olendi loomuse ja kui isendi ilu esilekerkimiseks oleks ideaalis vaja olukorda, kus tsivilisatsioon hukkuks ja inimene loodusliku liigina võiks tuhandetes kordades vähem asustada Põhja-Ameerika ja Aasia põhja- ja lõunaosa, Ida-Aafrika murranguala, Amazonase vihmametsa, Mikroneesia ja Paapua paradiislikke kaldaid. Alasid, kus oldaks vastamisi ülekaaluka looduse stiihia ja iluga, mis ühelt poolt annab loodusele võimaluse ja teisalt sunnib inimest keskenduma olulisele, mitte tegelema seinast-seina lolluste ja puudustega (majandusnäitajad, lõputu võlaorjus, tööpuudus, nipsasjade ihaldamine, (kontseptuaalne) ülemõtlemine, ühte ideoloogilisse sohu vajumine ja (ideoloogilised) sõjad, saastatus, drastilised meeleolukõikumised, enesetapud, upsakas egoism, sookvoodid- ja neutraalsus, rassiprobleemid, silmakirjalikkus, vähemused ja põgenikeprobleemid jne). Teisisõnu, kui suudame end kõigest sellest piisavalt distantseerida ja selge pilguga hinnata, siis võime südamerahuga tõdeda, et elame hiiglaslikus vaimuhaiglas. Eksistentsiaalses mõttes – suhestatuna loodusega – on käesolev olukord kõigest agoonia pikendamine. Inimene kui loomaliik peaks lähenema loodusele, peaks muutuma loomalikuks-loomulikuks. Teine võimalus oleks kosmosesse põgenemine, aga seda võimalust ei ole ega tule – mis kuidagi ei korreleeru piletihulga ja -hinnaga, mida Elon Musk'il on õnnestunud ullikestele miljonite eest maha müüa. Märgatavalt odavama ja käegakatsutavama kosmosereisi saab hankida Antti Turpi ehk Kroma muusika vahendusel, mille pealkirjad viitavad varasematele põgenemistele (nt Lem'i "Solaris", Verne'i "20 000 ljööd vee all"). Ainuüksi plaadifirma Trash Can Dance poolt üllitatud kassettväljaande kaas teeb südame soojaks – Mirabilia raamatusarja stiilis kujundatud skafandris eskapist jälgimas ekraanilt iludust nimega Maa. Kõrvuti leibelikaaslaste Trent Hawkins'i ja Day Of The Triangle'iga on Kroma korralikult panustanud teadvuse avardumisse ja puhastumisse-korrastamisse. Tõepoolest, sõna "kosmos" ja ka sõna "kosmeetika" pärinevad etümoloogiliselt ühest ja samast kreekakeelsest sõnast "kónsmos", mis osutab korrastatusele või korda tegemisele. Atmosfääriline korrastatus, mida hoiavad alal pulseerivad (analoog)süntesaatori rütmid ja kaunistavad sünteetilised arengud ülakihtides ja eemal/kaugustes. Hea on olla kosmoses, veel parem lokaalselt kodus. Vaimselt ja füüsiliselt terves kodus.

6/06/2020

[Teaser of the day] The Shining Men - Substructure Discovering



  • Electronic music
  • Experimental techno
  • Avant-techno

Artist: The Shining Men
Release: From Outer Space
Label: 17th Sons/Jamendo/Bandcamp
Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] CLOUDWARMER - Perceptron



  • Electronic music
  • Avant-techno
  • Hauntology
  • Sampledelic
  • Micro-techno 
  • Experimental techno

Artist: CLOUDWARMER
Release: m o n o l i t h I I 
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] EthnoTronic - Ethnorphines part6



  • Electronic music
  • World fusion
  • Psychedelic
  • Ethnotronica
  • Alternative dance 

Artist: EthnoTronic
Release: Ethnorphines Ep
Label: Ethno Indigo
Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Deftechnixks - Holes In Her Face


  • Progressive
  • Comedy
  • Dada music
  • DIY
  • Avant-rock
  • Art rock 
  • Experimental rock

Artist: Deftechnixks
Release: Reliefless
Label: Underpolen/Bandcamp
Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Batard Tronique - Chill For Real



  • Electronic music
  • Dubtronica
  • Dub house
  • Chilltronica
  • Sampledelic

Artist: Batard Tronique
Release: Oesop
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2011

DV-i – Implementation (2020)


  • J-pop
  • Alternative pop
  • Electronic pop
  • Mood music
  • Alternative dance
  • Electro pop
  • Easy listening

Olen taas Jaapani leibeli Maltine diskograafia juures, seekord märksa positiivsema meelestatusega kui eelmine kord (Coa White'i reliis Momoko). Pitchforkis ilmus mõned aastad tagasi artikkel kümneid tuhandeid inimesi hõlmavast Jaapani klubikultuurist, mis toetub ainult kohalikele netileibelitele. Eraldiseisev, samas ka ühendav subkultuur. Käesolev viielooline üllitis annab põhjust seda asja edasi ajada – kohalikust päkapikudiskost (antud juhul žanrilisel analoogial, mitte hinnangutel põhinev väljend) märksa rafineerituma elektropopi ja ämbientse meeleolumuusikani, samas olles küllastatud jaapanlastele omase laserkiirete rütmimuutuste ja pimestavate üleminekutega. Eks jaapanlased ole Lääne inimesi mürgitanud ülihaaravate meloodiate ja harmooniatega (Pizzicato 5, Fantastic Plastic Machine), mistõttu järk-järguline tung tugevamate meloodiate ja harmooniate järele seda albumit kuulates tugevneb. Hammas on verel - tahaks veel, veel ja veel!

Future Memories – Into the Memory (2020)



  • Vaporwave
  • Seapunk
  • Dreamwave
  • Yacht pop
  • Easy listening
  • Mood music
  • Sampledelic

Into the Memory on ulme (moonutatud olme?); oma mõtetes, fantaasiates on meil võimalik põgeneda tühisusest ja vastuoludest meie ümber; üks tuttav ütles, et mida vähem inimestega kokku puutuda, seda parem. Eriti nende olenditega, kellega on olnud ebameeldiv kogemus; ja kui järjekordne negatiivne situatsioon peaks tekkima, siis tulevad kõik eelnevalt alateadvusliku kalevi alla peidetud emotsioonid taas esile. Olen näinud unenägusid, kus olen olnud täiesti üksi hiiglaslikus keskkonnas-maailmas, ümbritsetuna hiiglaslikest puudest. See on tunne, mida sellesinatses ilmas ei koge. Ühelt poolt veider ja teisalt kosutav, isegi lootust süstiv. Seda muusikat kuulates avardub ruum ja kustuvad konkreetsed mälestused (mis võib-olla on omavahel seotud). Mälestustest on jäänud pelk jälg, mis ei ole emotsioonidest laetud, võib-olla on isegi valemäluga täitunud. Oluline on keskkond, mida konkreetne muusika esile manab. Taevasinine vahemerelik sillerdus, pehme tuul puhub ja päikesepaiste tekitab rammestust. Kaunis hetk, oo, kesta...! Isegi kui vahetevahel tüünus täitub kurjakuulutavamate helidega, on see albumi kui terviku ja kuulaja seisukohalt positiivne, lisades hoogu ja dünaamikat sellesse lühikestest kompositsioonidest (kokku 18) koosnevasse teosesse. Iseenesest mainitud kurjaendeline vahetus on samuti teisele poole tõstva efektiga. Unenäoline psühhedeelia, mille vundamendiks on sujuv kombinatsioon vaporwave'st, yacht pop'st, dreamwave'st ja tolmukorra alla mattunud VHS kultuurist. Ja tänu Future Memories'i anamneetilisele efektile võib taas inimeste sekka astuda.

6/03/2020

[Teaser of the day] 10Konekt - #edeef0



  • Electronic music
  • Easy listening
  • Avant-garde
  • Dubtronica
  • Experimentalism

Artist: 10Konekt
Release: 10 Kolive V 
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2020

[Teaser of the day] Marcus Denight - Exciting Landing


  • Electronic music
  • Kosmische Musik
  • Cosmic synth
  • Organic electronica
  • Progressive
  • Space music
  • Berlin School

Artist: Marcus Denight
Release: The Rustle of Star Memories
Label: United Studios Corporation
Year: 2017

Cough Cool – Buy Some Dust (2009)





  • Shitgaze
  • Alternative rock
  • Lo-fi
  • DIY
  • Indie rock
  • Garage rock
  • Noise pop/rock
  • Fuzz pop/rock

Cough Cool'i nagu paljude teiste alustavate artistide jaoks oli oluline väljalasketoru Prantsuse leibel Beko DSL nullindate lõpus ja kümnendate alguses. Jutt käib kümnetest kui mitte sadadest tuhandetest kuulamis- ja allalaadimiskordadest. Cough Cool esindas käredat garaažiroki suunda, mida lo-fi kõlalisuse ja ragisevatest feedback-kajadest küllastatuse järgi nimetati ka shitgaze'ks. Sitapõrnitsemine – kõlab ju hästi, või mis? Sitt, surm, stimulandid, simulaakrum, surrogaatlapseäri, suu- ja sitaauguseks (tsitaat J.M.K.E. laulust „Aidsist”) on sisuka tänapäeva ülendavad orientiirid. Buy some dust kõlab mõneti sarnaselt fraasiga bite (some) dust – justkui oleks meile inimestele tagatud igavene elu; juhul kui elust lõpuks villand saab, on võimalik surma osta. Vikatimees müügiesindajaks. Sellega seonduvalt on muidugi sümboolne, et paljudes riikides on matuseäri libisenud maffia kätte, mis samuti on surma korralikult paaaanustanud (nagu Margus Lepal meeldib raadioeetris huilata). See seitsmelooline oma lärmakuses ja hulluses on samuti maffia, helimaffia. Cough Cool on selle helimaffia (JAMC) derivaat, mis meie rahvuslikule aardele Iffile tekitas seedeprobleeme Rock Summeril umbes kolm aastakümmet tagasi. Tõsi, albumil on paar erandit, mis kõlavad justkui mürarokkarid oleksid peale väsitavat sessi end segi kamminud ja kitarridega parmupilli mänginud. Elektroakustiline muusika riidekapist.