Surfacing – Surfacing (2014)

Records On Ribs

/Noise, Post-industrial, Neoclassical, Dark Wave, Dub, Alternative dance, Avant-garde, Art music, Neo-noir, Experimentalism/

Comment: this handful of tracks by Nottingham, England based combo Surfacing is a mind-blowing one consisting of disparate impulses and currents. The issue starts off with distortion-heavy noirish chants and shrieks revealing the artist`s obsession toward industrial/neoclassical/dark wave/ambient, doleful dub and obscure post-punk-ish sources full of distress, misery and angriness. Beyond it, it used to progress into more dance-appealed yet menacing threads, however, pouring out desolate and misanthropic feels. At times the artist exploits unexpected combinations of sounds and instruments (for instance, using the chords of harmonica at Amaurot, and Melancholy of Fulfilment). It sounds like a soundtrack for the horror film because of dosing all the aforementioned elements properly. Top notch for your worst nightmares and otherworldy dreamy surfacing. 

[Teaser of the day] Lynlee - The Taste Of Rainy Dawn

Haze

• Sound art
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Dark ambient
• Spoken word

[Teaser of the day] Isaak - John

Soundcloud

• House
• Electronic pop
• Club dance

[Teaser of the day] Chuzausen - Skizo Schoo

WobbleWobWobWow

• Clicks`n´cuts
• Alternative dance
• Sampledelic
• Breakbeat

Madoka - Take a Walk (2014)

La bèl

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

/Indie folk, Art folk, Folk indie, Indietronica, Mood music/

Comment: this handful of tracks is a moody scraping made up of slightly angular electric guitar chords, some barely audible orchestrated shuffles and faint electronic rhythms beneath it. Indeed, it is instrumental music to the full extent filled with emotive key changes and motive replacements and adding some subtle sonic effects and concrete sounds around the main backbone. The artist comes out of Japan and the issue is released on Italian label La bèl. Love it.                        

Dzlav - Toy Machines And Scavenged Melodies (2009)

Just Not Normal

/Experimental electronica, Electro pop, Techno pop, Glitchtronica, Leftfield/

Comment: it is great honour and pleasure to be back again at the discography of Just not Normal, a record label whose intention was to issue pawky experimental music. Dzlav`s 8-track issue sounds exactly in this way – although the uniform of it is made up of sly glitch-y electronic bits its content is quite pop-appealing almost chiming like an instance of dance pop music. In truth it is cutting-edge dance music (at times more electro, at times more techno oriented). The result is fabulous because of showing to us that music consisting of chopped-up chords could emerge in simple or partly pop-oriented way. Actually it is a way of art to cross such different attitudinal elements together seamlessly. Must hear. 

Kane West – Western Beats (2014)

Soundcloud

Mediafire

/Hip-hop, Electro, Game music, Urban music, Breaks, Nu disco, Rap/

Comment: Kane West is a hip-hop musician from London, Great Britain being a part of PC Music. The artist`s 7-track issue is a quite one dimensional issue based mostly on game music induced incisive rhythms which sounds in a quite primitive way. Of course, it does not mean at all the release is somehow inferior or simplistic. Vice versa, those sampled and surprisingly bursting sounds here and there are a part of danceable sequencing replete with electro and nowadays disco rhythms. In short, effect loaded sounds are tightly interwoven with solid programming and spiky rhythms and low bass undercurrents and soulful female singing and some harsher shrieks in the meantime. Enjoyable outing indeed.