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9/11/2014

EDASI – Orphaned Demons Follow Your Destiny (2014)



  • Black noise
  • Avant-garde
  • Psycho-acoustic
  • Crust punk
  • Blackgaze
  • Experimentalism
  • Improvised music
  • Non-music
Comment: when I was a little boy while lying in bed I was a little bit frightened by trying to listen to buzzing frequencies behind the silence and dreaming up ghouls coming out of the wall. This 11-track issue by Mihkel Kleis aka Ratkiller aka EDASI recalls me a little bit these early days in my life. Although his music can be considered an exemplar of black noise the album incorporates elements from disparate genres. Fairly sympathetic are those barely audible but effectively resulting sampled particles, occult speech and burked screams-ritual evocations and pulsating synth repetitions among tight layering. Kleis also used to recruit quite uncommon sounds in the context of such kind of music – for instance, melodica-driven explorations in one composition. An important part of the issue is the relation between insistent, besotted noise walls and elements coming out of it. Moreover, it is all about of how a sonic particle or snippet is contingent on the total amount of these particles, and conversely. The final track Outro and partially Intro are more concretely influenced by My Bloody Valentine`s beatific noise aesthetics. Call it architectural approach to create black noise music. In a word, it will take care of your soul.  

Delhotel Records: Club Comfort Remezclado (2009)



  • Indietronica
  • Alternative pop
  • Leftfield
  • Remixes
  • Electro pop
  • Alternative dance
  • Robot pop
  • Electronic pop
  • Chillwave
Comment: this set of 10 tracks involves both original and remixed ones and some reworks, however, all thoroughly rotating around Roberto Polo and Sergio Treviño aka Dj Queco`s collaborative project Club Comfort. Club Comfort`s original sound is based upon gritty indie electronic, volatile chillwave tuning, and electro pop progressions, however, remix makers will make it amenable to more diverse electro pop and stroboscope-lighted and autotuned robot pop touch. The remixers on it are the collective`s label mates like Mersey Hot Springs, DJ Golonsh, Sr. Amable, White Ninja, and Mockingbird. The issue includes enough of highlights to be deemed a top notch. The godfather of the release is an excellent Mexican experimental pop/rock label, Delhotel Records.         

J.-P. CARON – ST (2014)



  • Drone
  • Dark ambient
  • Ambient noise
  • Epic
  • Ambient drone
  • Dystopbient
  • Avant-garde
  • Minimalism
  • Microtonal
  • Experimentalism
Comment: J.-P. Caron`s recent composition may chime like a graveyard or junk yard antidote to La Monte Young`s music. Just kidding. However, there are represented a couple of tracks first of them extend a little longer than one hour and another is approximately about 14 minutes. Despite their imbalance in format the nature is similar – taut, bleak drones run ceaselessly over endless landscapes full of ghostly shades and penumbras. Inspite of the minimal or even microtonal concept the emotion flourishes throughout and will be full-fledged at the end. Of course, such kind of minimally produced music is tractable by illusions thereby the listener cannot be very sure where is laid down the border between reality and fiction. The blurred vision is actually its strength and source of vitality.                    

9/09/2014

[Teaser of the day] Erissoma - Emotional Landslid


  • Glitch ambient
  • Glitchtronica
  • Soundscapes
  • Experimental electronica
  • Abstract
  • Avant-garde
  • Experimentalism
  • Microtonal

[Teaser of the day] Kuh Lida - Havemercy



  • Hip-hop
  • Urban music
  • Leftfield
  • Afrofuturism
  • Funk

Social Club x ANIMAL KINGDOM

Cagey House – Second Sight (2014)



  • Free folk
  • Weird folk
  • Avant-folk
  • New Weird America
  • Sampledelic
  • Sound collage
  • Art music
Comment: Baltimore-native Dave Keifer aka Cagey House has been a prolific artist issuing at least 15 albums since 1999. He is one of the main icons regarding netlabel based music. A shitloads of records who had issued his outcomes are already disappeared but he is still here to delight the listener. When he started to produce his sound it was formally electronic but chimed rather like a modern indie rock combo. However, later on his sound veered into a haunting, more experimental approach full of haunting art house-y milieus and uncanny but catchy melodies atop. However, his previous one Pistol Vest (2010, MAV 0kbps) seemed to be a turn forward due to more psychedelic and improvised set-ups and soundscapes. And now Second Sight denotes another dodge in stylistic approach of him. Keifer sound has never been so folk-ish, though, heavily, blended with sonic effects, orchestrated glides, warped ambiences, 60 and 70s-alike female singing manner and vowel experiments and electronic ploys. Moreover, his recent approach is minimalistic relied on a couple of sonic algorithms and repetitive, even a little bit autistic samples regarding most of these 7 compositions represented over here. Fairly amusing and relaxing.