Koona - Strakey 7´´ (2012)

Ephedrina

Jamendo

Free Music Archive

• Club dance
• Grime
• Trap
• Dubstep
• Breakstep

Comment: Koona is a producer from Corigliano d'Otranto, Italy whose 2-track issue does echo tendencies from contemporary United Kingdom related club scene. Indeed, Koona offers up different pace tissues from dubstep and trap to breakstep and grime which in turn is a far echo of Jamaican rhythms. Nevertheless, these modern labels do not make music by themselves anyway. Fortunately Koona`s music is sophisticated and successful due crispy rhythmic patterns and sublime synth hovers above – the first track Underwater crafts cadences and brooding bubbles meandering along a zig-zag path. The latter piece Starkey seems to be slightly more exuberant thanks to gliding yet darkly glossy synth layers. However, the rhythmic structure is similarly disturbingly intriguing in a good sense. This thought and dance-provoking issue is released on Ephedrina whose discography is vast and worth to get discovered

[Teaser of the day] Children Of The Drone - The Lucid Dreamer

Lastfm

• New Weird Britain
• Free folk
• Space folk
• Weird folk
• Live session
• Improvised music
• Noise
• Experimentalism
• Avant-folk

[Teaser of the day] Du3normal feat. Sensi T - Steppa Anthem

Elephantbass

• Dub
• Raggamuffin
• Dubtronica

Setec - Brittle As Bones

Jon Hans - Natives in a Foreign Land (2011)

Bandcamp

• Indie folk
• Alt-folk
• Americana
• Folk indie
• Singer-songwriter

Comment: Jon Hans is a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California, USA whose 4-track issue was produced in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, the main centre of folk music worldwide. It is an exuberant and up-to-date folk issue where bold string, drumming and singing layers are accentuated with anthemic synthesised whiffs, jew harp chords and interesting stereo effects. In a nutshell, it is simultaneously traditions following and opened for new approaches and touches. And all is balanced very well. There is also represented a ballad, Your Great To Me. Everyone who likes contemporary alt-folk/Americana it is thought for you. Superb release.               

Joxfield ProjeX - Mystery Of The Stoned Pharaoh

Tin Can Music

• Psychedelia
• Kosmische Musik
• Avant-rock
• Experimentalism
• Psych-rock
• Avant-garde
• Experimental rock
• Avant-prog
• RIO
• Alternative dance
• Electronic

Comment: this 7-track issue ending up at 24.16 is the fourth notch in a series of 9 Joxfield ProjeX archives EP. The compositions are edited from the Swedish combo`s three disc album The Pond Intermezzo initially released in 2006. Mystery Of The Stoned Pharaoh proves that every album by the duo of Oax and Yan is a proper event. Brooding compositions based on hirsute and complicated guitar chords or noisy outcomes are varied with more danceable, volatile endeavours and warped modifications of electronic music and vocals and knee-deep psychedelic insights. I recommend listen to their late albums as well, most of them were issued on Clinical Archives and some of them by the duo themselves. By the way, on some publications they collaborated with such luminaries as Kenji Siratori, Geoff Leigh, and Pat Mastoletto. Enjoy this psychedelic carnival of sounds and impulses.

Girlhood – Remixes (2009)

Bandcamp

• Electronic pop
• Mashup
• Remixes
• Alternative dance

Comment: girlhood is an obscure producer from Arizona, USA who has issued a shitloads of albums by himself (all the releases can be found from Bandcamp) or under now defunct CLLCT. This 8-track issue consists of mash-up mongrels and remixes. The result is shimmering, burbly and dashing. The rhythms are corkscrewed against glitch-y noises, warped vocal samples and sheeny synth layering, at times manipulated with pitches and pace speeds to pump up the trunk with good mood hormones. In a word, it sounds like a dance party presented by a debonair DJ.