Void of Coil - Deadly Winter Snow (2008)

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Ariel Chapuis

8.9

/Microtonal, Noise, Musique concrete, Organic electronica, Electro-acoustic, Minimalism, Dark ambient, Soundscapes, Avant-garde/

Comment: behind Void of Coil hides himself Ariel Chapuis (aka Ahcapap aka Playing With Nuns), a prolific Argentinian noisenik and off-kilter, peripheral sound producer. There are represented 8 tracks which used to function as the representatives of microtonal sounds. These soundscapes are almost inaudible, involving the aspects of haunting (dark) ambient, organic electro-acoustic, gritty microscopic noise, soothing minimalism, and some concrete sounds, all of them are tightly interlaced with each other.

Danubio Rodriguez - Ser espacial (2011)

Jamendo
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8.8

/Synth pop, Electro pop, Downtempo, Electronic pop, New Age/

Comment: there are up 3 tracks by Danubio Rodriguez, a musician from Uruguay who fuses guggling electro cadences and suggestive synth pop motives with some bombastic New Age and downtempo tendencies. In a nutshell, it is soothing, it is relaxing, it is simply fine music. Nothing more, nothing less. Just so. The more you listen to it the better it gets. It used to grow. And the coverprint is great.

Muuttuvat Kasvot - Muuttuvat Kasvot (2007)

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OM HA SVA HA KSHA MA LA VA RA YAM

9.2

/Forest folk, Free folk, New Weird Finland, Drone folk, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Improvised music, New Weird Europe, Weird folk, Post-psychedelic electronica/

Comment: this 11-track takes on obscure yet charming reflections of an inner space which are made up of creeping raga-alike vistas, heavily droning psychedelia and loose compositions-improvisations. Jari Koho`s project comes out from Finland and can be compared to the likes of Vierivä Viiksiportieeri, Uton, Kemialliset Ystävät, and Keijo, all of them are Koho`s compatriots and part(s) of the so-called forest folk scene.

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Waskerley Way - Wind Shear (2011)

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Lastfm

9.5

/Noise pop, Bedroom pop, Chillwave, New Weird Europe, Shoegazetronica, Experimental indie, Post-psychedelic electronica, Post-pop, Exotica pop/

Comment: Waskerley Way is the one-man-project from Newcastle, Great Britain who has issued a handful of releases over the last two years. Wind Shear involves three pieces which are heavily dubbed, noisefully but dreamily and psychedelically produced. Mikey`s oeuvre is essentially convincing, i.e stroking punching simultaneously thus showing up his ability to create astonishing tracks. All this stuff he has done so far it is not a common practice in Europe at all, more concretely, mixing up the elements of shoegaze, dream pop, exotica pop, chillwave, noise pop, weird folk, and bedroom pop he gets rather more close to the artists across the Atlantic. More profoundly, his music can be compared with the likes of Magicks, early Animal Collective, Chevalier Avant-garde, The Bilinda Butchers, Sekotis, Simon Bird, and Blackbird Blackbird.

Acre4 - Rockspeed EP (2005/2012)

Legoego
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Lastfm

8.9

/Experimental electronica, Crossover, Modern classical, Art pop, Organic electronica, Poptronica, Electronic pop, Experimental indie, Downtempo/

Comment: this 4-track album comes out from Nantes, France where downtempo-inspired electronica and broken beats are tightly interlaced with art pop and indie tendencies and sampling technology (different spoken word parts and insect`s buzz are up there). Acre4 is a duo which pushed off in the year of 2000 being influenced by such legends as My Bloody Valentine, Kraftwerk, Tortoise, Boards Of Canada, Mùm, and Sonic Youth. Indeed, Antoine, and David used to take on uplifting melodies and somewhat glowering progressions which in the first place get hint at Kraftwerk, and Boards Of Canada. Furthermore, now and then it reminds of Art Of Noise due to witty orchestrations and flourishing synth wave fused outlets either. It might be that the ending track Ping Pong (though Ultragain is quite similar to it) makes some difference from the rest of the whole thanks to its heavily sliced and thudding propulsions and melodica-driven motives (indeed, quite close to the early Mùm)

Tatlum - Subject (2011)

Format Noise
Lastfm

8.8

/Power electronics, Industrial techno, Avant-garde, Sampledelic, Cut and paste, Non-music, Rhythmic noise, Experimental electronica/

Comment: Tatlum is a project from Moscow, Russia which is driven by the intentions of noise music and power electronics. Max Zeelot aka Zilot aka Tatlum represents 10 pieces within it heavily distorted, noiseful tunes are interspersed with the tendencies of sampledelics/cut and paste/sound collage and spoken word bits and seamlessly overdriving sample chunks which are bent in a way to be funny (for instance, there can be perceived schlager-based cut-ups in one track). However, frequently the music is getting drifted toward more industrial(-techno)-carved shapes and patterns. Now and then his predominantly exulting music used to be more atmospherical, though, never being a relaxing kind of. In true, there are up few moments where the powerful flow of his sound is somewhat diminished or broken in (for instance, Drei). Such producers as Lebensjunge, Grunt, Edgeist, Interlard, Sick Seed are Tatlum`s kindred souls.