Iszen - Informal EP (2011)

Vermella

8.7

/Experimental electronica, IDM, Downtempo, Experimental electro, Glitch techno/

Comment: Iszen is a musician by the southern side of the American continent, obviously from Argentina, however, who is prone to offer originally touched vibrant IDM/mellow electronica-driven music which is variegated with slo-mo/downbeat undercurrents and rusty, cut-up glitch-esque beats (the last characteristic is distinctive at Fuerzas Teluricas). De la mano gets at least half of its inspiration beyond the borders of electronic music, however, incorporating baroque-esque layers wrapped up in a kind of electronic-mashed production. It rings out like Skipper (1995), a oeuvre by Daniel Figgis.

Gramatik - So Much For Love

Alland Byallo - Club Soda & Salt (2004)

Epsilonlab

9.7

/Dub-tech, Tech-house, Deep house, Electro-house, Avant-funk/

Comment: Alland Bryant Byallo aka Hall Monitor, is a DJ producer and label owner from California, issued his debut, 4-tracked piece in 2004 on Epsilonlab (most of the publications on this label should be recognized as classic ones today). This EP does have 2 dimensions on its own - the first of them consists of deep tech-house, shimmery electro-house, and at times dub-tech, which, at the second stage used to seamlessly expand into an instance of irresistible funk and techno disco streaming - it can be mentioned as a predecessor of the tunes of nowadays future funk. By the way, the starting track Good Touch is remixed by Éloi Brunelle.

Wreck And Reference - Black Cassette (2011)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.7

/Avant-metal, Psych-metal, Experimental metal, Lo-fi, Doom, Psychedelia, Post-rock, Crossover, Avant-rock, Epic/

Comment: This is a very appearance of frenzied, tortured metal music. Actually I am not able to acquire a clear-cut idea about its ideological standpoint and source - more concretely, is it either an offspring from the GYBE!/A Silver Mt Zion-like otherworldly abrasive obscureness or springing up from experimental metal? Or is it a child of the psychedelic, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd? More importantly, all those 6 progressions are filled in with mesmerizing energy and cleaving aesthetics, stomping and being destructive at every moment and for every rock and metal genre. But after the agreement that it is a kind of metal-based occurrence the album can be considered the best metal album in 2011 so far.

Chris Forsyth + The Paranoid Cat Band - Live on WFMU's The Long Rally with Scott McDowell 3/18/11 (2011)

Free Music Archive

9.2

/Psychedelia, Drone rock, Improvised music, Avant-rock, Rockabilly, Crossover, Trance rock, Experimental rock/

Comment: This is a set of 3 improvised, long-running jam units by Chris Forsyth and 4 of his fellow musicians. Altogether, you can call it just trance rock, for instance. The first, 20-minutes notch involves the similarities with Spaceman 3, and Spiritualized through artistic guitar playing (relied on elusive arpeggios and repetitions and such kind of "dry" chord progressions reminiscent of the string magic by John Fahey) accompanied by Don Bruno`s incessant phase changes of organ`s droning. The second track might be considered as a modified, more experiment-appealed version of Blur`s Tender. The third notch mixes up sheer psychedelia with free form rock and distinctive undercurrents of rockabilly. Indeed, the whole seems to be rational that is the reason of why it is impressively accomplished.

Wouter Bruys - Semur-en-Auxois

Infirm Individual - The Green Incident (2010)

Infirm Individual
Mediafire

9.4

/Experimental electronica, Electronic pop, 8-bit, Primitronica, IDM, Tracker music/

Comment: These 4 tracks are the representatives of catchy, uplifting electronic music by a profilic artist from Germany. His idiosyncratically original soundscape is simply irresistible relied on the maze of 8-bit, IDM, and melodico-tronica. No doubt, this is one of the most eminent 8-bit/tracker music/chiptune-based sounds I have ever heard. The first track The Steampunk-Brothers Arrival rings out as if an easily gliding attempt by the Orb in the second half of 90s. He has sticked voice samples by Terence McKenna into the whole thereby exalting the niveau of a cute-o-meter.