CRPTC – Peaks (2017)

Ephedrina

Bandcamp

Archive.org

• Ambient pop 
• Tech-house 
• Deep house 
• IDM 
• Electronic music
• Indietronica

Comment: club dance/club music-oriented rhythms are mixed up with smooth melodies/harmonies and appealing electronic progressions. More concretely, the listener can partake in two different realms running in parallel way at the same time. Firstly, how the ending result used to constitute ultimately over the four track course and secondly, one can track down the process in its playful details. From atmospheric tech-house and deep house to elegant ambient pop/IDM/indie electronic tinged flickers. The issue is a part of the discography of Italian Ephedrina Records.

Number Eleven – Strict (2017)

Electron Emitter

• Experimental techno 
• Avant-techno 
• Electronic music

Comment: the young Lithuanian artist Number Eleven continues to trudge across the path of his experimental techno imbued with spiky beats and spacious pads. There are up no less than 11 compositions being released on Electron Emitter, the imprint being led by the musician himself. A myriad of different rhythmic patterns, microscopic changes, shuffled rhythms, murky drones beneath the upper layers, however, one can perceive festive but dark melodic progressions here and there therefore giving it a singular touch. So open your ears and mind before to start listening to it. It requests your attention to the most extreme to get partaken in this frantic quest for new sonic alchemy. Ultimately you can admit it is a solid sequel to Number Eleven's previous one Autism.

Erik Mowinckel – Drift EP (2017)

Giant Manilow

• Ambient pop 
• Shoegazetronica 
• Electronic music 
• Dreamwave 
• Alternative

Comment: by watching the cover print of this handful of tracks it gets very clear about the intention of this album. The goal of the artist is to conjure up the most lucid imaginations creatively possible. In a tight sense, it is ambient pop being influenced by shoegaze-y impulses. Indeed, it is all about sonic ebbs and tides, how sonic beauty used to appear and fade away. Indeed, the listener may hear sea waves running alongside the coastal line. At times it seems to be even way too transparent and effortless and because of that excluding possible counterpoint of it. So you can find no tension sources from it. Maybe it is good, it might be bad in some sense. The release is a part of the discography of Giant Manilow.

Eastern Block Guitars Compilation (2017)

Bonimedia

• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Alternative dance 
• Synth-rock 
• Electro-indie 
• Synth-pop 
• Electronic 
• Acid rock 
• Post-punk 
• Psych-rock 
• Industrial rock 
• Ska punk

Comment: this set of 26 tracks clocking in at a 90 minute is a great miscellany to reflect upon the quality of the region's music. The tremendous part consists of bands coming from Russia but some groups come from Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic and from some other countries. Secondly, the guitar music does not mean only some sort of strings but also the drums and different sort of keyboards most of them legendary Soviet synths like Polivoks. On the other side, the main accent is on guitars like Tonika, Musima, Jolana which were derivatives of the US-based crafty hardware. There are up enough tracks which do have more similarities with synth-pop and electro pop than die-hard classic rock. However, through the tremendous part of Russian bands there are also represented tracks reflecting upon the so-called Vyssotski's songwriting. And there is also up post-punk in the style of a rough, even experimental Kino. Xmas has already passed by there is a hint at it either. Let's listen to it. The favourite track of mine? I may be Photon's Discobolus, an astounding mix of cellophane tinged jangle pop and moderate dance vibes. It may be Superstruny's Cziestnaja Igra, an alternative rock example gravitating frantically toward psychedelic idols. The solid miscellany is compiled by the Polish Bonimedia led by Emil Bonifaczuk.

[Teaser of the day] Harmit - Long Song

Lost Children

• Post-rock
• Alternative rock
• Epic
• Indie rock

Artist: Transit

Release: Harmattan

Label: Lost Children

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Taffmonster - Tragic Cut

Soulseek

• Folktronica
• Chill out
• Electronic pop
• Ambient pop
• Downtempo
• Mood music
• Crossover
• Alternative pop

Artist: Taffmonster

Release: cen-art

Label: Soulseek

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Anitek - Fusiform

Jamendo

• Chilltronica
• Breaks
• Hip-hop
• Sampledelic
• Trip-hop
• Urban music
• Cinematic
• Electronic pop

Artist: Anitek

Release: Lily

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2013