Roswell Conspiracy – Les Fragments Anodins (2007)

Abyssa

• Electronic music 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Synthwave 
• Alternative 
• Space music 
• Ambient 
• Post-rock 
• Indietronica 
• Krautrock

Comment: this 8-track issue was released 9 years ago but its actuality could be even a bit more brought forth today than many years ago. Recently artists within the indie/alternative music exploit electronic devices as a main instrument to express their aesthetic and artistic ambitions. I am quite sure that soon such a sort of ambient music as represented here will be tagged as indie. However, it should not be surprising at all because history used to repeat itself. Its spiral curve was presented many decades ago with the appearance of krautrock with regard to its inner logic of development, from guitars to be left for synthesizers and for poignant electronic manipulation until it would have changed for a new beginning with other accents. It is partly movement, it is partly the consolidation of an old tradition, and the rejection of it. And sometime this pattern gets forgotten while the repetition is again thinkable. Throughout these 8 pieces one can follow these air and elemental part laden layers full of ennobling emotions and lofty sensations. In fact, its sophisticated technical side does not burn out emotions within it because it is artistically finely balanced. This awesome outing is a bit of the discography of Abyssa.

[Teaser of the day] Motionfield - Falling In Stillness

Autoplate

• Synthwave
• Kosmische Musik
• Soundscapes
• Ambient
• Electronic music

Artist: Motionfield

Release: Music for Pictures

Label: Autoplate

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] The Fig Mints (Of Your Imagination) - Get Out, Stay Out

• Psych-rock
• Garage rock
• Trance rock
• Indie rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: The Fig Mints (Of Your Imagination)

Release: Bad Choice Brigade

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2005

Vernon LeNoir – Balkan Spezialitaeten (2006)

WM Recordings

• Sampledelic 
• Electronic music 
• World music 
• Alternative 
• Conceptual
• Plunderphonics 
• Sound collage 
• Avant-garde

Comment: these 20 minutes are as diversified and manifold as the chart of the Balkan peninsula used to be in front of our eyes at the globe. Indeed, in English the word "balkanization" refers to something hostile and excessively divided. In the context of this issue the meaning of the word would be exploited positively. It is based on samples being either adjusted with each other or superimposed upon. Musically it contains mainly the vivid rhythms of Gypsy music though one can hear Slavic languages and hints at them either. Indeed, the outing is not arbitrarily lopsided. There are also represented spoken word snippets in English and...ABBA additionally. Those light-hearted upper layers and predominant motifs are backed up by thudding basses beneath. In a nutshell, the artist gets right to create a carnival-alike milieu throughout the course. By kindred souls it reminds me of a little bit Russian projects Messer Chups, and Messer Für Frau Müller by its exuberant madness. By artistic side the inspiration for LeNoir were the poetry of Igor Dithyrambescu and the surreal interpretations of Tizian paintings by Anushka Hamedalidbegovic. The issue is a part of the discography of WM Recordings.

[Teaser of the day] Bockholt - The District

Jamendo

• Chilltronica
• Electronic pop
• Electro pop
• Alternative 
• Mood music
• Synth pop

Artist: Bockholt

Release: 2009

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Weldroid - Shanghai Madmen

• Tracker music
• Chiptune
• Alternative
• Electro pop
• 8-bit
• Alternative dance
• Electronic music

Artist: Weldroid

Release: Silicate Garden

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Elvis Bordello – Harmony Beijing (2014)

King Of The Glitch

• Electro-indie 
• Leftfield 
• Alternative 
• Electronic 
• Experimental pop 
• Krautrock
• Leftfield 
• Indie 
• Drone pop

Comment: this bunch of 10 tracks is somehow oppressive and relieving at the same time. Mostly it consists of rigid electro(nica) and austere drones, almost industrial music-alike sonic elements providing somehow dance-appealed seeds within it. The point, however, is it is not a sort of danceable music for the human being. It rather describes robots to shake their clanging hands and rattling fingers in the rhythm of these vibrations. On the other side, these spasmodic and awkward robots seem to have acquired some human characteristics to be gentle and kind in their own terms. It is a remarkable characteristic throughout the album. It can be concluded that the humanism is allowed to exist without the human beings themselves on this occasion. The more you listen to it the more it is getting softened stepwise the more it will absorb and deny its hirsute nature. It is like living under such a star which used to bomb its subjects with tickling electromagnetic flows and arousing particles. All in all, it is the outstanding result of a mind-blowing idea. The artist is promoting his 11 albums through his own blog (King Of The Glitch) of whom Harmony Beijing is the latest one. Undoubtedly we are going to arrive at it sometime.