BESTSELLER + FRONCE de BONQUE - "SPLIT N°3 (2009)

Vaatican

• Broken beats 
• Alternative dance 
• Electronic pop 
• Post-dubstep 
• Sampledelic 
• Hip-hop 
• Electro pop

Comment: this bunch of 12 compositions is a split release being issued by an intriguing record label, Vaatican Records. Behind the split are FRONQUE de BONQUE, and BESTSELLER, the both of them delivering 6 compositions. There are many ways of how to approach the whole but I would prefer to describe generic mood and appearance of it. Given that the artists' aesthetic is quite similar. First of all, the release came out in the end of 2009 and my proposition is it happened to be ahead of its time. By my opinion it's a sort of pop music though a tricky one. It is filled in with different sorts of broken beats which in turn are (heavily) imbued with digitalised soul music, hip-hop glimpses, slightly haphazard breakbeat torrents, oval-shaped sampledelic art, and even post-dubstep rhythms though the style was not publicised at that time yet. Furthermore, at I Got Your Keys by FRONQUE de BONQUE one can consider it a weird twist of free jazz. Another composition which must be heard is Singapore by BESTSELLER. Very impressive indeed. However, there are no weak compositions on it. These 53 minutes are to have passed by very quickly due to the high rate dynamic flow of exciting bits and beats. Perfect accomplishment.

Rasalasad – Thisturb (2017)

Tape Safe

• Illbient 
• Dark ambient 
• Micronoise 
• Post-industrial 
• Leftfield 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Glitchtronica 
• Neoclassical 
• Drone

Comment: this handful of compositions is somehow eerie and spooky as if depicting an area being devastated either by an enormous catastrophe or horrendous terror. It does not mean these five soundscapes are directly harsh and abusive, vice versa, one can hear slowly droning templates being surrounded by glitched-out bits and gritty noisy frequencies in upper templates. However, there are also represented more harsh torrents to bring forth the contrasted sensibility between it and murky beauty of droning and minimally orchestrated neoclassical segments. The point of mine is all of that is craftily equilibrated within the whole providing either no excessive information or useless and sterile dodges in the sonic terrains thereby avoiding decline in quality with regard to the concept and sound. I am inclined to think off the title "thisturb" refers to disturbing state thereafter (i.e after a catastrophic event). The convincing outing is a part of the discography of Tape Safe.

[Teaser of the day] Bronze Eye - Nightstick

• Broken beats
• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Post-dubstep

Artist: Bronze Eye

Release: Past Imperfect

Label: Bayshore

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Tom Bragl - Prgn

Kahvi Collective

• IDM
• Breakbeat
• Alternative dance
• Electronic music

Artist: Tom Bragl 

Release: Zerochoice

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Lufth - Nicht Ohne Dich...

Thinner

• Ambient dub
• Electronic music
• Deep dub
• Alternative
• Dubtronica

Artist: Lufth

Release: Tendenzen EP

Label: Thinner

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Mount Eerie - The Place I Live

Archive.org

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie folk
• Americana
• Dream pop
• Free folk
• New Weird America
• Space folk
• Experimental folk
• Live recording
• Weird folk
• Folk indie
• Alt-folk

Artist: Mount Eerie
Release: Live at L'Epicerie Moderne on 2012-03-21 
Label: Self-released/Mount Eerie 
Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] The Antlers - Director

Archive.org

• Indie rock
• Space pop
• Live recording
• Alternative rock
• Dream pop

Artist: The Antlers

Release: Live at Rough Trade NYC on 2014-06-17

Label: Nyctaper

Year: 2014