(o)†HERS & The Implicit Order - Bribery And Winning Ways (2012)

Bandcamp

8.8

/Hauntology, Freeformfreakout, Avant-garde, Noise, Experimentalism, Plunderphonics, Cut and paste, Acousmatics, Crossover, Sound collage, Non-music/

Comment: this collaboration act includes 8 tracks which are made up of the washes of gritty noise, snippets of vintage motion pictures, off-kilter experiments, heavily warped pop tunes, insect-alike drones and buzzes, and abstract, even haunting soundscapes. Sometimes these aspects are separated from each other, sometimes not. In a word, it contains an amount of irritating information. It can be compared with the albums by The Caretaker, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and the compilations of halloween music taken out from the 60`s.

Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones - Beko_97 (2011)

Beko DSL
Lastfm

9.2

/Noir jazz, Trip-hop, Post-rock, Nu jazz, Avant-garde, Crossover, Cinematic/

Comment: there are up a pair of sublime notches spreaded out over 17 minutes. The whole rotates around the noir-centered progressions and cinematic glimpses. In particular, these ghastly vocal whiffs and smoky bits are blended with minimal/cool jazz/glowering trip-hop in the first part and with more post-rock-esque guitar terrains and a profound, intimate interaction between male and female voices in the second one.

Arts & Crafts Label & Management Sampler Vol. 8 (2012)

Arts & Crafts
Soundcloud

8.8

/Indie pop, Alternative rock, Baroque pop, Electronic pop, Singer-songwriter, Synth pop, Alt-folk/

Comment: this is the eighth compilation by Arts & Crafts, a considerable Toronto-based indie imprint. (Chiming) guitar music meets poptronica/electronic pop/synth pop meets baroque pop - this would be one of the slogans of the miscellany. At times it allows for itself even more bombastic elements having powerful rises and ascending. There are represented such artists as Bishop Morocco, Antoine Reverb, Molly Rankin, Dan Mangan, Gold & Youth, Cold Specks, Parlovr, Trust, Eight and a Half, The Darcys, Zeus, Uncle Bad Touch, Bam Bam. The favourite of mine are Cold Specks`Holland which interlace an alt-folk and chamber folk template with soul(ful) tendencies, and Trust`s Sulk which is an instance of glimmering synth pop.

[Teaser of the day] Maria Minerva - Pirate`s Tale

Spies On Bites - Watch Your Step (2011)

Bandcamp
Soundcloud

8.7

/Hip-hop, Urban music, Electro-hop/

Comment: just a pair of tracks by Nathan Cochran, a producer from Tampa, Florida. These pieces are about gritty hip-hop based on thudding bass lines and intriguing synth sways and poignant electro-tinged rhythms.

Dubsalon - Durban Chamber LP (2011)

Id.eology

9.1

/Dub, Psychedelic/

Comment: this album contains 8 tracks and one huge, 30-minute remix/mixtape by DJ Saetchmo, of course, made up of the notches of Dubsalon. The concept and obsession of the album rotates around dub, dub, and dub. Sometimes it is more traditional, sometimes more psychedelic or electronically hemmed or intensely mixed with each other. However, all of that might not make difference if all this synergy coming forth from the slots and terrains of it wasn`t so mesmerizing and formidable.

P.Laoss - Triplandenia EP (2009)

Load And Clear

9.3

/Dub-tech, Tech-dub, Deep dub, Club dance, Deep techno, Minimal techno/

Comment:Andrè Müller aka P.Laoss aka Vakuum Sounds is a producer from Schwerin, Germany who is inclined to create deep, hypnotic dub and techno-centered compositions which in turn constitute both a cozy private room for the listener and providing catchy dance-appealed sequences for fine club visitors. Sometimes it is more flourishing, at times more restraint and minimal, though. However, to listen to it in late hours it would be acting as the same way as being alone accompanied by the lullabies. Otherwise, excluding the abovementioned situation, it pumps you up. In a word, it is refined and even someway optimal deserving to be a classic.