Warm Speakers - Mezcal Noon EP (2011)

Bandcamp

Lastfm

8.8

/Alternative dance, Glo-fi, Poptronica, Experimental indie, Chillwave, Alternative, Leftfield/

Comment: Warm Speakers is a glam-electro-indie (or glo-fi) collective from The Big Apple. Behind this one-man-project is a man called Patrick Berlinquette who offers up a handful of tracks spreaded out over 15 minutes. More concretely, the issue used to hark back to the tradition of shoegaze/and powerful dream pop being embellished with charming lo-fi dust and backed up with suggestive disco rhythms. Indeed, Berlinquette searches for the power of seduction. 

Louie & The Ocean – Insubstantial (2012)

Webbed Hand
Lastfm 

8.6

/IDM, Electronic pop, Lo-fi, Electro pop, Mood music/

Comment: this is a drift between IDM-esque beats and downtempo-tinged moody electronica where the listener can meet either melancholic or more swift dodges and angles. Furthermore, the album incorporates the elements of homemade aesthetics and gleaming synth/electro shades. This 9-track album comprises predominantly instrumental notches. In a nutshell, it is obviously better effort than the previous release by Louie & The Ocean, the French artist used to be.

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Hox Vox - Hurry Up Harry - part 2 (2012)

Hox Vox
Jamendo
Bandcamp
Lastfm 
 

8.9

/Alternative, Avant-garde, Avant-prog, Psychedelic rock, World music, Funk, RIO, Experimental rock, Crossover, Progressive rock/

Comment: Gianluca Missero aka Hox Vox is back with his brand new one (21 pieces) whose axis comprises the elements of lopsided progressive rock (let`s call it this way). On the other side, it involves lots of reference points extending from psychedelic funk and disco vibes and bhangra-laden thudding to more ethnic-mixed developments and (psychedelic) trance-alike synthesized bubbling and acidic synth-driven art rock manifestos. It is obvious on the album that one stylistical element used to meld quickly and organically into another. Now and then it sounds like the direct translation broadcasted from a carnival. In a word, Hox Vox proves again to have been a talented musician in his explorations. The album id dedicated to the memory of Marco Bianchi, the drummer of Death In Venice.  

Kisszanto - Surrealism On Tape (2011)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

8.5

/Trip-hop, Hip-hop, Downtempo, Sampledelic, Cut and paste, Lo-fi, Mood music, DIY/ 

Comment: Kisszanto is a producer and DJ from Hungary whose 11-track album Surrealism On Tape used to soothe and bounce simultaneously. Indeed, it is backed up by a wide array of rhythm sequences veering away from slow-natured breaks and hip-hop-alike patterns to more tumultuous jungle/dnb-relied propulsions. All of that is bruished against the sort of homemade aesthetics. Of course, the listener can feel him/herself a little bit confused because there is difference between the title and the content of the album, though, the result is enough enjoyable on its own (built upon repetitive structures, looptronic aesthetics). No doubt, such kind of music seems to be highly influenced by the oeuvres of Flying Lotus.  

I Am Esper - Echoes From A Cold Planet (2012)

Abandonment 

Bandcamp

8.6

/Psycho-acoustic, Acousmatics, Avant-garde, Dark ambient, DIY, Lo-fi, Dystopbient/ 

Comment: this long-running, 18-minute composition seems to be within the realm of lo-fi-tinged black ambient where the listener can perceive hollow shades and some lack of gravity. Indeed, it is a little provolking due to its coarseness and intention to drift in between barely audible and unheardable dimensions as if all of that were situated at the botoom of a well somewhere. Oh, I have forgotten it - it is a cold astral body actually.

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