Thierry Massard - 15 minutes of fame (2011)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Noise, Microtonalism, Minimalism, Sound art, Experimentalism, Avant-garde/

Comment: the French noisenik/experimentalist/netaudio activist/philosopher Thierry Massard is back with his brand new one. He initially embarked on with sound mastering in the late period of 70`s creating it with the help of ubiquitous and less conventional music devices/and non-instruments. These 10 short-running tracks play on the experienced shifting inbetween silence and noise, inbetween ominous progressions and barely audible microtonalism, inbetween sonic effects and "fictional" scapes. The album is obligatory for those guys and gals who used to be keen on "heavy" experimental electronic music. An inspiral listening indeed.

Radix - Autopsy (2009)

Modicum Of Silence
Mediafire
Lastfm

9.5

/Ambient, Breakbeat, Ambient techno, Glitch ambient, Glo-fi, Experimental electronica, Downtempo/

Comment: enthralling broken beats wrapped up by dense yet blissed-out atmosphere do make this album really worth always to be remembered for. More profoundly, the beat structures veers away techno, breakbeat, jungle, downtempo, however all these rhythm structures are coated with darkly glistening synths this way rather being a part of the glo-fi/chillwave music scene. Released on the Modicum Of Silence label which once domesticated such outstanding musician as Brothertiger, a melody maker widely known in the circuits of the chillwave/glo-fi scene at the moment.

Bugotak - Thunder Dance

Vektroid - Telnet Erotika (2010)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.5

/Glo-fi, Chillwave, Electronic pop, Dreamwave, Electro pop, Sampledelic, Alternative dance, Hygnagogic pop/

Comment: permanently struggling dream-soaked grooves, warped electro layers, acid-fried pop sensibility, whimsical sonic effects, however, thus having a very crucial impact upon you, dear listener. Samples tend to come in and go out, thereby resulting in the eternal rotation of moods and ambiences. This is what we used to call as "nowadays pop music". And of course, it is really sexy, yet allowing no opportunity to vulgarize itself and those peoples subjected to it.

Tidy Kid - Toxic Feelings (2010)

Umor-rex
Lastfm

9.3

/Indietronica, Folktronica, Dream folk, Toytronica, Experimental folk, Crossover, IDM, Organic electronica, Lo-fi/

Comment: Tidy Kid has been active since the mid of 00`s providing titillating electronic shapes and shadows. 7 tracks of angular folk songs which are heavily undermined with sparkly IDM-based oscillations and lovely childish setups of chord shackles. Occasionally the album is filled in with intimate, dream-infiltrated approach (Toy Plane In Ice). Indeed, Tidy Kid is still able to avoid for being formulaic and predictable.

Kapala - Moon Rivers (2011)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Psych-rock, Drone rock, Experimental rock, Avant-rock, Post-metal, Psychedelia, Stoner rock/

Comment: a decently droning psych/stoner-rock issue from Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The total embodiment of massively resonating guitars and psychedelic organs/spatially radiating electronica will be ascending into a whole as if being a part of a weird sort of symphony music. Such sound does have a bunch of kindred souls from the past and today (Talbot, Lee Noble, Silver Apples, Flora, Nadja, Spacemen 3).

Trudgernaut - You Won`t Come Around