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Comment: this handful of tracks had been created approximately 3 decades ago in Japan on low price yet effectively propelling synthesisers and a drum machine called Alesis HR16. Light-hearted melodies, slightly extended and mutant chord ends, and naive yet catchy cadences with a slight tin-tinged flavour and occasional acidic attacks are composed in a way which can very certainly be considered as Japanese. At times it chimes like an example of pre-electroclash via rough simplification of post-punk music (especially at Scene 7). Thanks to Upitup for finding and exposing the Japanese DIY maverick to a wider audience.

Edith Alonso – Límite (2017)

Pan Y Rosas Discos
Free Music Archive

Improvised music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Electronic music
Micronoise
Electro-acoustic
Leftfield
Drone
Live session

Comment: these 21 minutes provide a saturated glimpse into the health of grayish noise. The listener can hear static loaded drones which in turn are enriched by slamming electronic piercing and electro-acoustic clanging. The vicissitude of the release keeps changing throughout the course thereby keeping up interest and welcome tension. I guess someone of us may imagine the whole to collapse eventually but it will not happen though. It is not a sterile but a fertile universe of blurred sounds being fed up by an electric bass, and a synthesiser played by Edith Alonso in a club in Madrid in February 2017. The outing is a bit in the discography of Pan Y Rosas Discos.

11/30/2017

Slow Decay – Ghost E.P. (2017)

Small Bear

Post-punk
Gothic rock
Coldwave
Alternative rock
Epic
New wave

Comment: this set of 3 tracks drags up good old post-punk and gothic rock phenomena such combos as an early Cocteau Twins and The Cure, Comsat Angels, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Chameleons. It is led by the distinctive operatic female voice being accompanied by groovy and spacey synthesizers, semi-atmospheric guitars and intense, compelling drums and bass rumbling. Ultimately these elements will create something more, more than just the sum of the instruments. One can perceive a dark, transcendental flow within the upper layers. That`s all we need at a time. This great outing is a part of the discography of Small Bear Records.

11/28/2017

[Teaser of the day] Alpen Dynamo - Mythique (Instrumental)

Midinette

Acid pop
Electro pop
Electroclash
Alternative pop
Electronic pop

Artist: Alpen Dynamo
Release: Je m'ennuie EP
Label: Midinette
Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Violeta Päivänkakkara - The Song of Leaves

Piano music
Modern classical
Ambient pop
Electronic
Crossover
Art music
Singer-songwriter

Artist: Violeta Päivänkakkara
Release: Melodia · EP
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2015

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12/02/2017

[Teaser of the day] Boss Bass - Lion Warrior

[Teaser of the day] D'Incise - Je n'aime pas les contraintes non plus

Yoshida Com – Onna No Kanojo (2014)