Various Artists - Japanese Lyrics VS Underground Musics (2012)

Edsillforrecordings

8.6

/Electronic pop, Freeformfreakout, Breakcore, Anime pop, Hardcore, Poptronica, Crossover,Conceptual, Shibuya-kei, J-pop, Electro, Hip-hop/

Comment: indeed, such a kind of compilation is proudly up there to treat us with frantic smorgasboard of vibes and rhythms. Stylistically it ranges from harsh, drilling electro and hip-hop mixed propulsions and chopped folktronica and shibuya-kei blended poptronica to high-pressure breakcore attacks and blissful child-alike or blatantly distorted singing by contrast. In a word, it is very intense, nearly without any breathing times inside the whole. It sounds like a bunch of electro artists produced by a Japanoise artist. However, there are represented such artists as ankokushinwa, CHICAGO, eiron, Helianthuz, KenKoTaiji, kyou1110, la:rk, liliIL, netsu_summer_beat, umio.

[Teaser of the day] Bed. - Mirror Waltz

Totokoko

[Teaser of the day] Johnny Parry Chamber Orchestra - Find Your Way Home

Sinine - I`m Dreaming

Lill Piggy - Handicapped Doll EP (2012)

Abstrakt

9.2

/Dub, Electro, Disco, Club dance, Art pop, Electronic pop, Crossover, Alternative dance/

Comment: this batch of 4 pieces provides a pleasing mix of diverse genres and vibes which are tightly interlaced with each other. More concretely, there are presented such styles as minimal funk, lo-fi dub, mutant disco, motorik funk. By its arty and whimsical approach it reminds somehow of Arthur Russell, whose dance album (he had never issued) would have bounced in this way.

Plastic Whore - Wet Planet (2004)

Plastic Whore

Lastfm

8.9

/Doom metal, EBM, Industrial rock, Electro-rock, Grindcore, Electronic metal, Post-metal/

Comment: Plastic Whore is the nom de plume of Jarmo Nuutre, the Estonian musician who is also being known as a half of the stoner/doom project Talbot (the duo had toured across Europe and was the warm-up act for Nadja in Tallinn some years ago, for instance). Wet Planet was his first issue where 10 tracks have been managed in a way to acquire brutal doom and industrial mixed propulsions and suffocating walls, however, where the listener can detect dance-appealed/EBM rhythms, nihilistic sonic rushes, electronically mixed growling, amorphous black psychedelia and even some technical/progressive metal slabs and gears additionally. Yet, his later issues could even be ranked with higher points. In a nutshell, it is frantically ominous shit.

[Teaser of the day] Kelly Latimore - Remembering Broken Things

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