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5/20/2017

[Teaser of the day] PS - Stevie Nicks

Enoughrecords

Ambient
Drone
Minimalism
Ambient drone
Experimentalism
Avant-garde

Artist: PS

Release: Self-doubt Mountain

Label: Enoughrecords/Jamendo/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Copy Wrong #1 (2012)

Eye Machine Recordings

Avant-garde
Experimental
Plunderphonics
Harsh noise
Grindcore
Sampledelic
Non-music
Electronic music
Sound collage
Leftfield
Freeformfreakout

Comment: by Wiktionary the term “copywrong” does mean the unethical use of, or disregard for, copyright law. Indeed, this miscellany of 13 tracks by 11 artists (or 12 artists because one of the artists is tagged as unknown and by Luxurious Dagger there are up a couple of tracks) is an example of how popular music can be changed into something peripheral and extreme being heavily mutilated, slowed down and excessively mixed together (for instance, J-pop-based light-hearted harmonies are interlaced with harsh noise torrents, or Luxurious Dagger`s version of The Beatles` Come Together is thoroughly ravaged, or different styles used to play from the both channels at the same time or being switched on and off incessantly. There are also up weird samples, barely audible sonic layers as if being thrown into water. Reality around an average listener is substantially warped and changed into mayhem. There are represented such artists as Ben Presto, Public Domain, noiseoftherose, Luxurious Dagger, MBD, Captain Missouri, Third Organ, Ryder Farms, Hat Goblin, Otto V. Rhino, (o)†hers, and The Implicit Order. This miscellany is represented by Eye Machine Recordings. I guess ideologically a purpose of this issue may be related to capture some basic pop values and employ them ridiculously to derail the mainstream control and intention to manipulate with the people in a certain way.

5/18/2017

Arze Kareem – Akstrumentals Vol.2 (2011)

Audiocast Productions

Nu jazz
Breaks
Sampledelic
Acid jazz
Sound collage
Hip-hop
Synthwave
Trip-hop
Electronic music

Comment: this bunch of 6 tracks is represented by the Latvian beat maker Arze Kareem whose cocktail is a sultry blend of crunchy hip-hop paces and scratches and trip-hop rhythms, cinematic samples and yearning vowel effects, hovering and boldly laid out synths and synthesised orchestrations, and lonely piano chords and even some rock music bottoms here and there. The short-running 6-notch outing is a part of the discography of Audiocast Productions. Belonging to the top tier of sampledelic/sound collage/nu jazz/trip-hop music. A logical consequence thereafter is to go to the first volume of Akstrumentals. And then to the other issues by the artists and then to the discography of Audiocast Productions.