Negritage – Greetings from the Planet Dub (2017)

Dub-O-Phonic

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Bandcamp

• Dub 
• Reggae 
• Dancehall 
• Raggamuffin 
• Mood music

Comment: this set of 17 tracks is created by the Argentinian Negritage and their numerous collaborators, and any of the second notch is collaborated by a new artist (Yuuri Bamboo, Christina Polycarpou, Ibel Campbell, Jam York, Sammy Gold, Mandlion, Med Dred, Haji Mike, Eter Dub, and Zion Irie). The whole is related to the reggae music, and its subgenres and derivatives. It can be a fine soundtrack for a sunshiny summertime, for your lazy time, to be ready to do nothing. Just to make some drinks and listen to such a sort of music under sultry sunshine and while thinking of himself/herself as an alien as the (mis)interpretation of human being. Indeed, we as human beings are not here to stay for a long time therefore our duty is fight for truth, peace and love and for a better live, for our children and next generations. That's the chain of reincarnation wherefrom you are not allowed to withdraw. Therefore we are here and everywhere under the eyes of Him. So celebrate the life with its relentless ebbs and tides. It is a formula of life. That`s okay as long as you know. This merry outing is a part of the discography of a Cyprian imprint, Dub-O-Phonic.

SUICIDEFORCE – IYE12 (2016)

In Your Ears

• Hardcore 
• Trashcore 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Powerviolence 
• Grindcore

Comment: what could be main impulses behind an inclination to commit a suicide? I guess these can be hopelessness, hatred of people and him/herself as a cursed exemplary among them (among the other cursed ones), overwhelming anxiety and distress coming out from an unknown source and falling fatally over one's head. By listening to this short-running 6-notch issue one can feel physically all the aforementioned distresses and inferior state of moods. It reflects upon mental terror in a very direct way. From the start to its very final pier. It does not take care of you it disseminates its paralysing seeds. Because of that, you shall have to be warned, it might not only be a reflection of suicide machine, it might be a suicide machine on its own. By the way, terror is everywhere where stupid bipedals used to walk around. Terror is a native son of stupidity regardless some cynical and evil creatures may be thinking of themselves as wise ones. A monkey is a stupid monkey. This torrent of overmastering anxiety is a part of the discography of In Your Years. It is powerful, it is violent, it is elegantly horrendous.

[Teaser of the day] Bials Speech - Quero Ver Você Não Chorar

• Shoegaze
• DIY
• Nugaze
• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Dream pop
• Lo-fi

Artist: Bials Speech

Release: Agora Não Tem Volta 

Label: Nap Nap

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Sova Smrti - Iveta Bartosova

• Free jazz
• Noise
• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: Sova Smrti

Release: Sova Smrti

Label: Poli5

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Saleeha - Monody

• Ambient drone
• Minimalism
• Drone
• Avant-garde
• Shoegaze
• Post-rock
• Epic
• Drone doom
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism

Artist: Saleeha

Release: Pillar

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

ʞık – Wormhole (2016)

Bump Foot

• Krautrock 
• Alternative 
• Electronic music 
• Minimal techno 
• Experimental electronica 
• Abstract 
• Minimalism 
• Sound art 
• Kraut-techno

Comment: the press notice of this issue by the home imprint Bump Foot is very short: ʞık (Karl & Karlik) is an experimental improvisational duo from Russia. Wormhole consists of three minimal tracks, although it lasts 45 minutes (the last track is a 32 minute long one). Indeed, the last track is called Einstein who was a German scientist (of Jewish heritage) because he was graduated within the German educational system and being a part of a thought paradigm within the German scientific world of which influence is hard to overestimate. Why I am talking about it because these 32 minutes used to hark back to other German influences in later times in music, more profoundly, in krautrock. Of course, krautrock as a phenomenon was a disparate one ranging from minimal traditional rock instrument driven sound (motorik) to more spaced-out synthesiser based travels (Kosmische Musik) and more abstract, experimental electronic terrains (in theory they can be divided in that way, in practice it is much problematic to do). The latest named compartment being championed by the likes of Conrad Schnitzler, Organisation (a pre-Kraftwerk combo) and Asmus Tietchens can be a home pigeonhole for the Russian duo as well. It is built up on slowly changing sound sculptures, at times quite abstract and austere when music changes into smouldering electricity and vice versa and then providing rhythms and interesting sound effects to give in to more colours, mind-blowing phase shifts and effects. Furthermore, the issue can be considered a vital link between krautrock, and (minimal) techno. In a nutshell, it is a truly solid and arousing outing indeed.

Monkey Warhol – The Darwin LP (2017)

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• Electro pop 
• Alternative dance 
• Electronic pop 
• Electro punk

Comment: after releasing a bunch of EPs in the previous year the oldest human being (and the musician either) - check out the description of him at his Bandcamp site - is back again with the first LP proper. And it is another highly dynamic outing having been listening and reviewed today. More profoundly, this frantic set of accelerated tempos, college pop and pop punk tinged singing and either glimmering or acidic synth pads are adeptly mixed up with a tongue in cheek attitude while avoiding to be somehow lame, simplistic, annoying, and banal. For instance, Manscaping as a track might have been inferior if it would have been produced without a humorous element. Early Mornin' chimes like a revitalisation of Rednex's goofy country disco. It is followed by Everything Starts With an E being enchanting and danceable at the same time within the soup of glimmering synths and a motorik kraut-electro cadence. If Green Day, or Blink-182 used to sound in the way like I Get What I Want sounds then I would have great interest for their music. The 10-track issue will be finished off by Waiting, an electro pop punk number with catchy hooks and a broad appealing factor. In a word, the album is produced by a creature with a high IQ with regard to music, and humour, and incisive understanding to blend them seamlessly into an one. Top predator by any means.