Honky Tonk Project - Elements (2010)

Honky Tonk Project

8.6

/Experimental electronica, Modern classical, IDM, Nu Jazz, Dark pop/

Comment: this 7-track (one of them is HTP`s remix) issue embarks on a slo-mo piano-driven melancholic introspection with some beatific bits of electronica surrounding it. Onward, the album used to pick up more abrasive and mashed bits and minutiae over time including obsessive shrieks, sharply glistening and fluttering electronica, chopped-up rhythms and near-sound collage aesthetics now and then. Furthermore, because of running on slo-mo mode and sometimes being murky, however, it is getting close to the realms of dubstep, and nu jazz breath. The favorite of mine are Microwave#2.

YOUAREHERE - Tape

Simiram - Talvinen Juttu (2011)

Elpa

9.0

/Downtempo, IDM, Poptronica, Chill out, Psyambient/

Comment: Talvinen Juttu is a follow-up to Somni (Winter) issued in 2010, and Loona issued in 2011 by Ivan "Simiram" Filin. He used to produce subtle shifts between majestic downtempo, poptronica, and IDM-patterned paces which are mixed up with the influences of ethnic music, enthralling symphonic and glacial reflets (as astonishing as St Elmo`s Fire), psychedelic trance progressions. It reminds a little of the outlets of Tunguska Electronic Music Society, a Russian based very interesting art/music collective with whom Filin has collaborated by the way. Finally, it is a little bit lazy but elegant sort of entertainment, however, in the first place thought for your brain and for your soul.

Malandrómeda - Que nos leve pra diante_MAXI (2011)

Malandròmeda

9.2

/Urban music, Hip-hop, Rap, Grime, Electro-hop, Crossover/

Comment: spanish (galician)-chanted electro-hop and grime. Indeed, this is the fourth issue by the gang who has issued music since 2006 (including one LP). The release involves 3 tracks which provides highly catchy and whimsical electro-drenched, jungle and dancehall-shuffled cadences and effect-laden undercurrents aside. The whole can be admitted organic and convincing, because of being dynamical and craftily variegated. This is a way how hip-hop should be produced.

Joxfield ProjeX - VoxLuxRabax (2011)

Tin Can Music

9.5

/Krautrock, Avant-rock, Experimental rock, Noise, Ambient, Improvised music, Noise rock, Ambient noise/

Comment: the unsung juggernauts of krautrock and the champions of avant-prog/experimental rock are back with their brand new heavy one. The first impression of mine is that the Swedish duo seems to be so loud and defiant as never being before. There are up 4 tracks, first time after a while not being issued on Clinical Archives. However, these long-running compositions are filled in with the shards of abrasive sonic metal and razor-edged smithereens, thereby challenging the eminent noise concept of rock done ever before - from My Bloody Valentine`s charming guitar noise and The Jesus & Mary Chain`s dirty feedback-centered resonation to harsh, obsessive concepts of Fushitsusha, and Gerogerigegege and, on the other side, (Le) Fly Pan Am`s (N`Ecoutez Pas) arty noise episodes and post-rock-mixed vistas and Borbetomagus` free jazz-relied improvised noise. Furthermore, the second part of the 3rd track/part (Ola & The Jugglers) does have managed to acquire a highly rhythmic template below the shrieking massives of guitar riffs and "indecipherable" sort of trash (you can perceive even fusion-alike progressions emitting out from it!) and the closing development Cats Sing Strange Songs fuses some sorts of experimental tendencies into glacial glow-hued ambient music. The result is as powerful as JP`s aspirations proclaimed on a handful of the albums before, though, this times having a little different point of view and galvanized aspect. However, you can call it even the kind of white metal, because of its enormous, braw shape (though having more frantic impetus within it). Well done, Oax, and Yan.

Jeesh - Clock Town Carnival

Enko - Sister (2009)

Bypass
Lastfm

8.8

/Experimental electronica, Abstract techno, Glitch techno, Industrial techno, Avant-electronica, IDM/

Comment: it might be you have already experienced sharing of the albums of Enko, a Ukraine-based electronic producer and IDM musician. His music is colourful and it comes up to the listener. Quite short-running notches are represented there, though, the ones are craftily soaked with experimental angles and somehow propulsive compositions. The 10-piece release is set for being far away from the common understanding and perception of electronica/IDM, because of being frequently heavily abstract, glitch-drenched industrial techno. Indeed, it is playful and punching simultaneously. Of course, it is not the most sharpest pencil on his pen-case, yet, it is highly enjoyable.