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5/31/2017

[Teaser of the day] The Dreams - Mein Schatz



  • Post-punk
  • Shitgaze
  • Lo-fi
  • DIY
  • Alternative rock
  • Indie rock

Artist: The Dreams
Release: Morbido
Label: Kill Shaman 
Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Daniel Maze - Foodcourt


  • Deep techno
  • Alternative
  • Ambient techno
  • Ambient dub
  • Deep dub
  • Electronic music

Artist: Daniel Maze
Release: SKUBA
Year: 2006

Schizoid Ops – Gerbil Feed (2012)



  • Dada music 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Non-music
  • Freeformfreakout 
  • Plunderphonics 
  • Sound collage

Comment: I can remember for a time when I decided to reverse the tape of The Fall`s dadaist post-punk issue Perverted By Language (1983, Rough Trade) and then listened to it from the beginning to the end. In fact, the result was not more frantic and weird with regard to the original one (being the favourite of mine by them). Schizoid Ops` 7-notch issue is a bit different case though obviously there is something which may remind of it. More profoundly, this issue is based on more and less known pop song structures which are heavily and thoroughly chopped up and warped. And they have done it with great pleasure. Furthermore, the volume level is very unstable, at times it is barely audible and at times it shouts into your ear. I guess the intention of it is to demonstrate its hostile antipathy against the music industry, towards the RIAA, against the established norms in producing mainstream music and representation of it. By its ideological context it is remarkably more enjoyable than by its nihilistic musical approach. The issue is a part of the discography of Eye Machine Recordings.

5/30/2017

[Teaser of the day] Muhr - De La Gouache Dans Le Ciel


  • Post-classical
  • Modern classical
  • Ambient
  • Art music
  • Electronic music

Artist: Muhr
Label: Zymogen
Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Oldboy Melody - Different But Equivalent


  • Indie pop
  • Dance rock
  • Alternative dance
  • Electro-indie
  • Alternative pop
  • New Wave
  • Indie dance

Artist: Oldboy Melody
Release: Metronome EP
Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] rin la - In The Name Of Dub



  • Hip-hop
  • Experimental hip-hop
  • Urban music
  • Rap
  • Avant-hop

Artist: rin la
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2014

Sabrina Siegel / Bryan Day / Tom Djll / Bob Marsh – Ocean Of Lakes (2015)



  • Improvised music 
  • Electro-acoustic 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Psycho-acoustic 
  • Sound poetry 
  • Avant-jazz 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Free jazz

Comment: in fact, there is much to say about this set of 6 compositions because it is musically and emotionally complex, intense, and mind-provoking. All the music is conjured up by such instruments as kalimba, modular synth, cello, bass guitar, trumpet, voice, and invented instruments (so listen to the issue to figure out the instruments more concretely). It can be said the issue is an fine example of interesting sounds yet all of that will constitute a perceivable whole subsequently. For instance, Sabrina Siegel`s vowel effects and other kinds of sound poetry (additionally I remmond listen to such artists as Maja Ratkje, Jaap Blonk, Roomet Jakapi) used to range from soothing to hirsute, the same could be said about Tom Djll`s synthesiser effects which used to lay over the whole spectre atop, at times changing into something being close to emergency signals. At times it is free jazz with modifications, at times it is more electro-acoustic music with creepy variations, at times the combo enjoys its more silent yet idiosyncratic soundscape being obviously winded from intense sections. Yet its architectural buildup is somewhere between the aforementioned styles. More profoundly, the tempo is slowed down, in fact it is the main approach of determining the pace which is accelerated by spasmodic trumpet whiffs, zigzag acoustic noises and Siegel`s incisive vocal acrobatics now and then. The lower tones are conjured up by a cello, and a bass guitar. The issue is a part of the discography of Pan Y Rosas Discos. As Heraclitus said many thousand years ago that no man ever steps in the same river twice the same could said about the recent one with regard to the perception of it.