Elite Gymnastics - Neu! ’92 EP (2011)

Elite Gymnastics

9.5

/Post-psychedelic electronica, Avant-pop, Poptronica, Experimental indie, Alternative, Glo-fi, Neokrautrock/ 

Comment: Elite Gymnastics is another nowadays urban tribal collective which obviously harks back both to the tradition of motorik rock and nature-near (post) psychedelia/the object of hippies and goth-inspired post-punk a la The Cure, and The Comsat Angels. More profoundly, this 4-track issue is filled in with thudding beat sequences and plangent bass frequencies and on the other side blissed-out synth looming and spacey vocal lines. The release can be compared with the oeuvres by the likes of Gang Gang Dance, Excepter, Animal Collective, Chevalier Avant Garde. And of course with Neu!, the legendary Dusseldorf-based krautrock duo which is being the apparent inspiration source for our heroes. At least this time.   

Chevalier Avant Garde - HAIRCUT 7" (2011)

Bandcamp

9.4

/Chillwave, Post-punk, Avant-punk, Alternative, Art punk, Glo-fi, Poptronica, Post-psychedelic electronica, Avant-pop/ 

Comment: let`s go back to Montrèal, Quebec, Canada the city which has been a bacciferous place for a wide array of experimental and avant-garde bands. No doubt, Chevalier Avant Garde is one spot amongst others within there. There are represented a pair of tracks which are full of Zeitgeist-induced tendencies, yet, chiming lovely and naturally. It crosses the territory of blissful chillwave/glo-fi with mechanical, goth-soaked post-punk/art punk a la Joy Division, and Suicide. In a word, it is simply great.   

Metropol - My Own Gravity (2011)

Bandcamp

7.7

/Pomp pop, Alternative pop/rock, Symphonic rock, Synth rock/

Comment: Metropol is a collective from Spain who is obviously influenced by contemporary alternative pop/rock bands like The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Keane (those chiming guitars) and on the other side it used to incorporate more bombastic elements, for instance the seeds of symphonical rock/metal and even some hair rock elements. There are up some amusing synth progressions and the falsetto-styled vocal is variegated with the baritone singing.  

Mixtape 15-05-2012

Mixtape

Tracklist:

MeDo`s Little Trap - Medicine Sound

http://labelnetlabel.com/artists/medos-little-trap

This Lonely Crowd - Scaramouche

http://sinewave.com.br/2012/02/this-lonely-crowd-doppeldanger-and-other-delicious-secrets-2012/

Electricwest - Scarlet

http://www.archaichorizon.com/releases/show/ah033

Clinker - Music Gives You Power

http://clinker.org.uk/albums/mp3.html 

Depth Affect - Sarah Carbone (D_Rradio remix) 

http://archive.org/details/moulin012

Tracky Birthday - Newish Disco

http://www.upitup.com/catalogue/release.php?cat_id=28

[Teaser of the day] Alexander Wigger - On Television

Carl-Step - From Far Away (2012)

Jamendo

9.0

/Electronic pop, Synth pop, New Wave, Experimental electronica, Robot pop/

Comment: this one track takes on the tradition of synthetic, robot pop. First of all, of course, it hints at Kraftwerk and upon it the legacy of New Wave/space disco/electro rock which in turn was heavily influenced by the German more or less electronic rock (so-called krautrock). More concretely, the track (3.44) bases on the formidable melody hook containing gloomy dust and autotuned vowel dust.

Post-Avantist - Vasiform Rima (2012)

 Dystimbria

9.1

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

Comment: wow, it is cruel and burningly hissing. You can imagine it as if My Bloody Valentine (or Mr. Shields) were a bigwig of the harsh noise scene. The whole issue consists of one lengthy, 19 minute composition which functions like a sonic nightmare full of high-registered chords and quite static penetrating impulses. It can be considered an example of the imagination about harsh noise in the classical sense of this word because of including loads of drifts between the washes of brutal noise and silentful spans/or silence. More concretely, these minutes can be compared with the likes of Hanatarashi, John Wiese, Dror Feiler, Kanin Krusete.