Absent Fever Presents Woman Was The Word

Absent Fever
Mediafire

9.3

/Electronic pop, Indie pop, Chillwave, Soul, Singer-songwriter, Indie folk, Dream pop, Folk indie, Dream folk, Conceptual/

Comment: This is a seamless project between female bloggers and musicians purposed to pay tribute to the women involved in the cultural realm. Three remarkable female bloggers were asked to write pieces, poetry, stories, about anything that made them feel inspired to put pen to paper. Here are 3 tracks, the first of them, Elisabeth`s Rose Throw Me To The West (inspired by East to West) starts out with a snippet from the ancient, 1920`s jazz-influenced pop music which soon gets developed into an electronic-induced soulful brand. Rachel Levy`s Pierced (inspired by Heavy Percussion) and Yohuna & Adelyn Rose`s All The Slow Songs (Waiting) (inspired by Friends With Both Arms) are used to be catchy, dream-alike folk-ish notches, however, representing the indie (folk) music sphere at the highest level.

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