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6/21/2011

Alexandre Bilodeau - Veins-tu (2006)



/Deep house, Dub house, Tech-house, Club dance, Electro/


Comment: This release is a truly classic one even if it is not unsung to it yet. Coming out from Montrèal, Quebec, Canada, it shows up the chunky beats and drilling-ness of electro, bubblegum-ism, hypnotic repetition-relied house rhythm patterns - veering from dubbed house to deep house, and over to tech-house. The value of the issue is universal, i.e being hidden in its ambivalence - it is thought for the stages of the music clubs and for listening in the cozy ambience in the late night hour somewhere. In any cases, it coils your very mood up.

Thomas Truax - Lost On The Moon In June (2011)



/Synth pop, Experimental indie, Baroque pop, Chamber pop, Electronic pop, Alternative, Singer-songwriter/


Comment: This is another notch of the annual array of 2011 by this US-based singer-songwriter who used to be armed with a loads of weird custom-mastered instruments. In comparison with his previous single Free As Fireflies In May, this time guitars (or at least similarly chiming instruments) are replaced with the electronic approach. More concretely, it is a very nice song orchestrated and embellished with breaking sounds and crooning vocal lines.

Keroøàcidu Suäväk - Keroøàcidu Suäväk (2010)



/New Weird Brazil, Free folk, Improvised music, Weird folk, Freeformfreakout, Experimental folk, Primitive music/


Comment: Those five long-running improvisations come from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Primitivistically freaked out, at times giddy, at times high-tempered folk-based experiments do chart the extremities of pop music, reminiscent of such artists as Hipsu Jänis, Vierivä Viiksiportieeri, and Xarhope. "Lyrics" consists of unusual symbols, some of them having nothing to do with the phonetic syllabies.

6/18/2011

Northcape - Alluvial EP (2011)


Elpa
Lastfm

9.2

/IDM, Electronic pop, Ambient, Experimental indie, Shoegazetronica, Soundscape, Crossover, Dream pop/

Comment: Arghh, it is simply filled in with beauty. Indeed, it is highly intricate by its concept and ouput. It starts out as a buffer zone between soothing electronic pop and IDM-esque shadows, which soon will be evolving into another zone, getting running on dream-alike soundscapes and electronic-drenched shoegaze music similar to Bing Satellites, Northern Picture Library or M83 having its run on restraint mode. The EP consisting of 4 tracks and issued on the Latvian label Elpa can be considered a classical one. First of all, it is recommended for all those old indie guys and gals having acquired their favorite music experiences during the 80s and 90s, and for those people as well who just used to love beautiful music on its own.

Dublin Duck Dispensary - Be Happy

kirameki - exercises in style (2009)



/Sampledelica, Sound collage, Experimentalism, Samplecore, Weird pop, Avant-garde/


Comment: Rack And Ruin was a shrewd label enriching the DIY-based musical scene from 2008 to 2010. By headed up by Dean Birkett, the label issued the kinds of idiosyncratic sound veering from anti-folk and the New Weird America to lo-fi indie and sampledelica, from primitive electronica and sound-art conceptions to dizzy conceptions of psych-rock and of-kilter psychedelia and much more else. Dylan Ettinger, starstarstar, Hungry Owl, Dublin Duck Dispensary, Testicular Manslaughter and many others were parts of the R & R`s roster. However, this album is a confronting act between the domestic Japanese artist _ and The British artist *. As the album title suggests, this case is compiled of sampling parts just following to each other. The most important characteristic is that between a loads of aspects can be perceived for refreshing synergy played astutely out, obviously thanks to different kind of elements snatched from metal music, chamber music, film scores, urban futurism. Heavily pounding rhythmic vistas are variegated with more subtle downbeat paces, industrial and electro-based motorik electronics, ordinary classical music snippets, suggestively vibrating harmonies and all of that mostly wrapped up in the sort of stealthy ambience.