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8/21/2015

Faerùn – The Night (2014)




/Indietronica, Space rock, Experimental electronica, Hauntology, Crossover, Avant-pop, Dark ambient, Dark wave, Sampledelic, Experimental pop, Musique concrète, Spoken word, Leftfield, Art pop/

Comment: it is great honour to arrive at the album list of Test Tube. Indeed, there is no reason to feel yourself disappointed at all by listening to Barcelona, Catalonia residing Marius Miron aka Faerùn`s bunch of handful of pieces. The issue starts off with Dusk, the poem of Robin Rimbaud where a presumably experimental sound package is masterfully subordinated to an independent music algorithm. The track chimes like a less pop appeal drenched version of the Cranberries now and then in the second part. The same could be said about the finishing track Ndasi where slightly undulating synth-induced drones are accompanied by a dynamic rhythm and mind affecting vocal samples. Emotionally the most crushing and orgasmic piece is Hanako which involves the raping sounds, sighs of a man and weeping of a woman hinting at the crimes of Japanese soldiers during the WW II. Room 3327 is a haunting hybrid of space rock and minimally pulsating electronica adorned with radio waves and spoken word snippets dedicated to Nikola Tesla, the true genius within the physics field. If you are searching for some analogue examples within the experimental pop scene then the oeuvre of Broadcast might resemble of that span of 28 minutes. In a word, it is obviously one of the best (leftfield) pop albums issued in 2014.                    


[Teaser of the day] Mogwai - Mexican Grand Prix


  • Drone pop
  • Indietronica
  • Electro-indie
  • Live 
  • Alternative pop
  • Acid rock
  • Organcore
  • Krautrock
  • Motorik

Artist: Mogwai
Label: Archive.org
Year: 2011

Donquièstar – Cellphone Somewhere (2014)




/Electronic music, Minimal synth, Alternative dance, EBM, Industrial, Synthwave, Dark pop, Coldwave/

Comment: Donuiéstar is an artist from Brussels, Belgium whose 3-bar issue is hinged on his compatriots` glorious coldwave, EBM and minimal synth tradition harking back to the end of the 70s/beginning of the 80s, though the musician presents it in a more contemporary and diversified form. It is filled with brisk yet chill synth hooks being in turn boosted up with murky industrial music and hollow dark wave/goth fuelled reverberations thereby giving possibility for more detailed elements and minutiae to be surfaced. For instance, the opener Dark Wonder is about to bristle with a ring reminiscent of mechanical sound of the movie camera. It could say these solid compositions are composed to arouse your sensations in your soul and set up your body to take on nervous dance-alike movements. Of course, the listener should take care of to discern subtle relation between the main lines and their subsidiary ones. Additionally, let`s discover the music on the Teque-Nique imprint. 

8/19/2015

[Teaser of the day] Rory Storm - rd_01


  • Minimal techno
  • Experimental techno
  • Avant-techno

Artist: Rory Storm
Release: Dot Matrix: Red
Label: Tape-Safe
Year: 2014


The “New” Utica Compilation (2002)




/New Weird America, Crossover, Electronic pop, Blues, Psych-folk, Experimental indie, Acid rock, Psychedelic rock, Anti-folk, Punk rock, DIY/

Comment: I guess I firstly stumbled upon the music of Cozy Home Records at the end of the 00s sometime due to discovering some artists through CLLCT who were being related to the label and closely related platforms like Daydream Generation, and Quixodelic Records. However, this 15-bar issue is the first miscellany being issued under the umbrella in 2002. It was the year when Devendra Banhart, Animal Collective, and Ariel Pink as later backbones to the upcoming New Weird America scene and weird pop appearance just started to gain reputation step by step. Musically the whole is diversified providing a shitloads loads of glimpses into many genres, however, the quality of music not to be given a fuck. Furthermore, it is a vivid exemplar of full-fledged DIY culture in the USA. The listener is being kept in the radar due to thought-provoking crosses between indie and electronic and acid pop bits, freaked-out folk compositions, uncompromisingly stalking blues driven punk rock energy, and effect-laden experimental inclined rock examples. The compilation could be considered as a notch of the so-called New Weird America movement with some reservations because folk music represented over there is not a goal on its own but just a bare instrument to bring forth the magic of sounds. There are represented such artists as The Chrome Ghosts, The Real Burnouts, Have You Seen This, Man?, Zapp Chapp, Crookedfoot (early handwithlegs), D. Only, Dead Priest Sphynx, Early Morning Edison, Christian Science Mobsters, Family Talent Show, Eponine, Travel Labyrinth, Maynard and The Molemen, and The Flying Turdballs (Big Mimi Bourgeous with Jenny Penny and Cashew Cook). Additionally to listening to this lofty legacy I recommend to open up the catalogues and links through the aforementioned platforms to discover an universe within the glorious US-based DIY tradition.


[Teaser of the day] Polyrhythmics - The Mendo Mulcher



  • Live recording
  • Psychedelic pop
  • Funk jazz
  • Dance pop
  • Afro futurism
  • Improvised music
  • Mood music
  • Afro funk

Artist: Polyrhythmics
Year: 2014

Koji Maruyama – Isos (2015)




/Piano music, Modern classical, Mood music, Experimental, Musique concrète/

Comment: once I read that piano is the most disturbing one among the music instruments. However, there are plenty of albums which used to proof otherwise. For instance, Koji Maruyama`s tiny issue Isos (providing a length of 16 minutes only is a sublime drift between minor chords and major chords, between rough taps and subtle chord choices, between ruckus and still life thereby resulting in the emotive content. The artist seems to exert minimal energy to create a truly organic, picturesque whole for your sake. At times those facile chords are mixed up with concrete sounds thereby embracing elements beyond the artificial music compartment (Prelude/Isos). Of course, there is represented electronic music and synthesised orchestrations though at a minimal extent (particularly at Land/Weiter).The favourite of mine is Fluid/Door which brings forth a dynamic flow and moody changes throughout the composition. In  a word, it is a marvellous bunch of tracks indeed. The issue is a bit of the discography of the Japanese imprint Totokoko Records.