Distape - The Flying Cats Season (2011)

42 Records
Bandcamp
Lastfm

8.8

/Poptronica, Experimental indie, Glo-fi, Lo-fi, Psychedelic, Singer-songwriter, New Weird Europe/

Comment: Distape is the brainchild of Michele Alessi, coming from the homeland of the Farfisa organ - Italy. However, there are represented 5 beautiful examples of the songwriting which are mainly created through catchy electric keyboards-backed hooks-loops, lo-fi beats and slightly pessimistic, symbolism-tinged lyrics. Furthermore, there can be detected for some subtle bows of electrified guitars played up with huge impetus. By the way, the issue is mastered by Barbagallo, one of the Recent Music Heroes` longtime heroes.

Tryad - Struttin`

Orphalis - Watchmaker Analogy EP (2011)

Torn Flesh
Lastfm

8.5

/Brutal metal, Death metal, Black metal, Progressive metal, Technical metal, Goregrind/

Comment: Orphalis (Jens Duerholt - vocals & guitars; Morten Formeseyn – guitars; Danny Koehler - bass; Kai Volman - drums) is a combo from the western part of Germany (Dortmund-Luenen) who used to play appealing technical death metal with some influences from the black metal, and goregrind purviews. Within the 3 tracks can be met stumbling grooves of key changes, mangling riffs, punching drums and grinding voice, all of it wrapped up in an organic (metal) whole. Indeed, it mostly takes on impression via (omni)potent energy.

Ohmbot Cassette Tape - Program 5

Myspace
Archive.org

10.0

/Noise, Avant-garde, Avant-electronica, Tape music, Experimentalism, Drone, Circuit bending, Doomtronica, abstract, Improvised music, Dada music, Acousmatics, Non music/

Comment: This one track-relied set is sent from the state of Pennsylvania (at least the project`s Myspace site hints at OCT this way). Those 68 minutes are filled in with lush analogue (brown) noise, lots of phase changes, drone, itself devouring onyx-tinged outbursts, manipulated circuit-bent electronics, which at times will be evolved into highly suggestive orchestration-like anthems, frantic improvisations, and near-dada occurrences. In fact, it might be described that the total sum exceeds the sum of its particles. Grossly, it really makes hugely sense having an apparent regard to the early tradition of electronics and experimental music indeed. So handle it as an instance of the perfect noise.

Kurobear - Special Electric (2010)

Rec72
Lastfm

8.8

/Dubtech, House, Electronica, Progressive, Crossover, Tech-house, Minimal techno, Breakbeat, Techno, Club dance/

Comment: Kurobear delivers a crafty set of 10 tracks which showcases his profound affinity toward the club music via the highly dynamical grooves of pleasant dub(tech) and tech-house, mesmerizing deep house, melancholic down-tempo electronica, hasty breakbeat, and some glimpses of drum and bass and minimal techno, or crossovered outputs of the abovementioned styles, however, most of those tracks are essentially sublime on its own. In fact, there is also another set of 10 tracks called Rare Traxx, created under his old pseudonym Kid Kaustic during the years 2006-2008, unlike in comparison with the basic disc, running mainly on electro- and electronic-drenched paces which at times chimes really simplistic and primitive, at times solid enough.

Ruby Coast - Made To Change

Radiokoala - Meerkat Approved (2011)

Paragrafo

8.7

/Avant-garde, Non-music, Avant-industrial, Noise, Weird, Experimentalism, Electro-rock/

Comment: Aarghhh...it is a really weird notch from Belarus. On the other side, all the topics under Paragrafo Records have been used to be very strange odes to the pop music so far. The first track Here We Go Spastic, Movement I. Grand Booze at the Hennery kicks off as a warped electro-rock hallmark, and the second track Ants-Conquerors Astride Aeneous Mammoths is getting more into a hell-ish flag, mixing up the indistinct borders of rock and nihilistic (proto-)industrial music and flash backed hauntology into each other. Furthermore, hazy experimenting with the radio waves has been one of the extremities of the experimental music for long time, thereby Radiokoala is intended to give it a serious launch at Badger Circuit-Bends Himself by Inadvertence - by hearing those dense tunings of shortwaves with diverse frequencies will make up some melomans remember for lots of worthy memories from the past times for sure. After all of this abovementioned bunch of sonic mayhem, however, intriguing chopped-up sounds, explorations in the spoken word world and heavily clattering riffs will be conjured up.