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Hox Vox - The Wanderer (2011)

Hox Vox

Jamendo
Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.1

/Progressive rock, Avant-prog, Sound collage, Crossover, Avant-garde, Jazz, Latin music/

Comment: Gianluca Missero, a prog-head from Venice, embarks on The Wanderer from an ironic point of view - with samplings by Iggy Pop`s Passenger pouring it over with sound effects and a speech line. Upon it the clear-cut cuttings and sudden starts of progressive rock chords and rhythmic revel will be brought forth, including the details from latin rhythms, funky bass thudding, jazz-hued interventions and electronic undercurrents. A hectic business as usual. Just 5 tracks, yet much enough for a spectacular ambience to be evoked and marvelled. Although the whole is aesthetically multi-layered, it is seamlessly elaborated and subsequently accomplished indeed.

Mirabilia - Sümpaatiline õudus EP (2011)

Bandcamp

9.6

/Experimental indie, Psychedelia, Singer-songwriter, Art-pop, Indie pop, Psychedelia, Leftfield, Space pop, Krautrock, Avant-pop, Indie folk/

Comment: Dallas was a cult combo from Tallinn, Estonia, and was considered as one of the most prominent Estonian (if not the most well-known) indie pop names in the ending part of 90`s (they released the last and self-released output Delay Lama in 2003, though, after being on hiatus for some years before it. By the way, some days ago were their seminal albums Raj Kapoor/Sleeper`s Entertainer re-issued under Seksound). The band which was apparently influenced by Stereolab, blending indie rock tunes with bossa circulations, fairy-alike orchestrated progressions, psychedelic electronica, some dance vibes, all in all, making it out as a beatific pop group anyway. However, Holger Loodus, their leader, made comeback with the project Mirabilia in the mid of 00`s, having released the album Log In Eye (Seksound). In any cases, the follow-up Sümpaatiline õudus EP is a 4-track issue being named after and using the text of Charles Baudelaire`s Horreur Symphatique as well. He is assisted by the members of now or previously existed acts like Galaktlan Project, Kismabande, Chance, and Sinine, all in all, playing out a very solid set, indeed demonstrating himself as an exciting singer-songwriter, who incorporates besides "usual" indie guitar sections the elements of dynamical psychedelia, catchy alt-folk, krautrock-esque experimentalism, variable sound effects and space contexts. Indeed, it may resemble Dallas at times, yet it is an obvious leap upon the next level.

Pablo Akaros - Unis par les cliks (2006)

Edensonic
Archive.org

8.0

/Tekno, Techno, Club dance, Remix, Minimal, Progressive, Minimal/

Comment: A 4-track brainchild of this profilic Spanish-based club music gearhead reflects upon those dodges and beat manipulations so characteristic to the middle period of 00`s. However, it is an example of bouncing yet minimally fluttering, repeated shapes-relied techno-tekno blended sets, which is intersected by progressing, acid-filled synth brooding at times (Mikro Punto). On the other side, though, it is an insertion into more elemental and warped, spaciously blasting avant-techno realms, for instance through the Catkin Bay Remix of the track Mikro Punto by Jesse Somfay.

Dockta Valkus - Infobomb EP (2010)

Neferiu Records
Dockta Valkus
Bandcamp
Lastfm

8.7

/Experimental, Hip-hop, Avant-garde, Psychedelic/

Comment: After his high-acclaimed debut issue SKYBASE (2008) Dockta Valkus is back with his 6 new tracks within 16 minutes, making collaboration with Mighty Vega whose hectic MC-ing makes potently sense in front of a background built on outer space-looking samples, mystically profound, abyss-arrived bass beats, all in all, making the EP out as a remote species from the chart-appealing rap music, moreover, embodying as a kind of ideal hip-hop paces on its own.

Dark van Galaxy - Ekania (2011)

Tunguska Electronic music Society - Tunguska Chillout Grooves vol. 3 (Lilith & Selena)

Jamendo

7.7

/Electronic pop, Psyambient, Chillout, Psytrance, New Age, Downtempo/

Comment: This compilation consists of two albums (Lilith; Selena), having the total length more than 2 hours. I love ARGONIKA`s track Do You Hear, which makes difference with a fine robot pop. Or Alexander V. Mogilco (feat. JAMA)`s soul notch tuned New Age-drenched mix. In the most part, however, it is a kind of middle-tempo swaying on soothing and burbling synths and synthesized flute passages. By the way, the beautiful coverprint as well.