Our Bad: A Michael Jackson Tribute Compilation (2009)

CLLCT

8.4

/Covers, Conceptual, Singer-songwriter, Alternative pop, Alt-folk, Electronic/

Comment: all this caboodle what was going around the death of Michael Jackson recently was far away from being normal and forced to avoid reading the media. This 13-track miscellany was compiled during the legend`s lifetime. I`ll Be There, Billie Jean, We Are The World and other classic ones are covered here by iron like nylon, Patrick Ripoll, tinyfolk, shelby sifers, James Eric (and his side project garden on a trampoline) and other CLLCT-related eminent musicians.

Starfire Connective Sounds - They Call Her One Eye

Kanin Krusete - Like A Thing (2009)

Twilight Luggage

9.4

/Noise, Harsh noise, Psycho-acoustic, Noise rock, Non-music, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/

Comment: an obsessive, freaked out noise (or extreme noise rock) punch by Shea Alterio aka Kanin Krusete. By listening to it you can feel yourself like standing under the waterfall or being stabbed with cathartic noise bursts and "caressing" with crafty phase changes while surrounded by lunatics and zombies.

Craig Chordman - Destiny (2011)

Jamendo

9.4

/Mood music, Glo-fi, Synth rock, Electronic pop, Fusion, Alternative, Progressive synth/

Comment: I reviewed Chordman`s last release (single) Beacon Of Dreams which was an eminent effort. By the way, he has issued the singles only so far. However, his brand new one is certainly bigger and brighter mixing up burbly yet blissed-out synth gears with fusion/jazz rock-alike chords. It reminds a little of the Latvian legend Zodiac. The more you listen to it the better it gets. Huge! Let`s wait for Chordman`s first album. Or is our destiny not to be part of it.

Riga - Escapism (2011)

Chew-Z
Bandcamp

9.1

/Glitch techno, IDM, Experimental techno, Glitch ambient/

Comment: firstly, it is techno music with balls from Italy. These 11 tracks do take on sizzling, smithereens-filled cadences which do pierce behind the gleaming, atmospherical veil of synth layers. Industrial visions at the club stage.

Shan A Shan - Dub Creation Vol. 1 (2011)

Jamendo

8.3

/Dub, Reggae/

Comment: 10 instrumental dub and (less) reggae-inflected episodes which are backed up with simplistic throbbing and being almost remarkably infected with classical music undercurrents/and other cues sometimes. The project comes out not from Jamaica, but from France.

Ram Hoss - PrixQuills (2011)

23 Seconds
Lastfm

8.6

/Lo-fi, Poptronica, Chillwave, Glo-fi, Electronic pop, Hip-hop, Experimental indie/

Comment: first of all, Copx is an eminent pop song reflecting upon essentially nowadays tendencies - angular lo-fi drum loops, blissed-out synth layers and heavenly vocal manner. Furthermore, other 6 tracks do comprise whimsical hip-hop-esque wambling, atmospherical Prince-drenched postures. Ram Hoss is a duo coming out from Calgary, Alberta, Canada being through the line-up closely related with Azeda Booth.