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10/31/2011

Thuoom - re:EP (2011)



/Abstract techno, Minimal, Noise, Experimentalism, Avant-garde, Forest folk, Experimental electronica, Post-psychedelic electronica/


Comment: first of all, it is a big event that Tuomo, A Finnish musician arrived at us after a while. If you have listened to his previous soundscapes on his own Textural Healing label then you are aware of the high quality of his oeuvre and became ready for new, innovative expectations. At the time he offers up a cluster of 4 tracks, made up with the assistance of 4-string acoustic guitar, digital camera (Samsung Digimax A7), electric guitar, music box. Moreover, he exploits digital reverb, pitch bending, even distortion, on the other side his sound is highly elusive and faery. Indeed, you can generalize it as elfin noise, brownie techno, or something like that. In a word, it stands outside the recognized places of our world, reflecting upon the hypnagogic statuses of the human being.

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said - Mercerism (2011)



/Post-metal, Drone rock, Drone metal, Avant-metal, Black metal, Noise drone, Avant-rock, Experimental rock/


Comment: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said are a droning noise trio formed in Stirling, Scotland in 2011. The combo consists of Tom James Simpson (Anthrocite), Neil Morrison (The Colours Will Erase Us, Word or Object), and Euan Meikle (The Radiation Line, The Cosmic Dead). Mercerism talks by three long-running tracks, using just sparse but solemn language because of featuring heavily hirsute guitars and now and then a sort of abstract noise either. The album can be compared with Vibracathedral Orchestra, Nadja, and Interlard either.

Joy and Revolution - The Center Stage

Joy and Revolution/ Center stage from Tropical Junkie on Vimeo.

Taiunta - Suoraan Kohti (2010)


Oletustila
Lastfm

9.5

/Hip-hop, Psych-hop, Abstract, Avant-hop, Avant-funk, Experimental hip-hop/


Comment: Taiunta is a project by Henry Vistbacka, an idiosyncratic hip-hop musician from Finland. The debut album Korkeammalle was released in February 2007, the sophomore issue Suoraan Kohti in September 2010. In any cases, the last named album is one of the best hip-hop wholes I have ever heard because of not being hip-hop music in usual sense at all. Vistbacka is shooting incessantly rhymes which are supplemented with the veils of dark ambient, the cutting shards of witch house, obscure kind of club dance, and bent funk music. Taiunta continues the best traditions of vanguard-ish Finnish music (Pan Sonic, Erkki Kurenniemi, Paavoharju, Kimmo Pohjonen, Pekka Airaksinen, Kemialliset Ystävät, Kospel Zeithorn etc). A beautiful shit.

Dream Love - Love Juice (feat. Raw Thrills) (2011)


Noise Horror

9.8

/Space disco, Electro rock, Synth pop, Synth fusion, Glo-fi/


Comment: first of all, this 2-track release reminds me of some notches from the Latvian space disco/electro pop/synth rock/cosmic fusion combo Zodiac`s album Disco Alliance (1980, Melodija), one of the best Soviet pop albums (and more general too) ever. Those gurgitating synths are bucking with marvellous dash, however, displaying its retrodelic core and offering up futuristic possibilities as well. In a word, the past is the present is the future. The future was hidden under the veil of the past. By the way, the title track features Raw Thrills, one of the nowadays USA-related underground stalwarts. The publisher is Noise Horror, an outstanding platform for cassette music and singles. A God`s touch indeed.

The Peach Tree - Revel (2008)



/Techno pop, DIY, Electronic pop, Industrial rock, Singer-songwriter, Synth pop, Folk noir, Electro pop, Neofolk, Crossover/


Comment: Angus Maiden, an artist from Melbourne, Australia, has issued approximately a dozen of albums on his own Tribal Dancing Kid. This set of 13 tracks is about acidic techno pop, high-tempered electro beats, galvanic industrial dashes, dark-hued folk noir/singer-songwriter-ism, and stroking synth pop. In a nutshell, it is sympathetic in its DIY madness.