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1/10/2017

[Teaser of the day] Wacky Southern Current - Trains Are Cool

Art pop
Indietronica
Easy listening
Alternative
Electronic
Mood music
Post-pop

Artist: Wacky Southern Current

Release: Today`s Embrace

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Calla Soiled – Lucoq (2015)

Bunkai-Kei

Bandcamp

Chilltronica
Alternative dance
Yacht pop
Electronic pop
Electro-house
Deep house
Crossover
Mood music
Nu jazz
Balearic house
Design pop

Comment: it have always felt myself delighted while coming to a Japanese imprint, this time to Bunkai-Kei. This issue of 11 compositions by Calla Soiled is a true beast due to fairly exquisite modes on chill out, electronica, design pop, jazz, and (Balearic) and electro and deep house and even drowsy yacht pop elements are also represented over there. On the other side, all these elements are not represented in pure way and even not in a sectional way but instead of it with intention to think off something which could be considered an example of universal contemporary music. An example of electronic music without the borders. And the artist reaches the goal in doing it. I have been listening to it since early morning today but the result is getting even more woozy and hazy. It is not because the structure and configuration of these songs is filled with microscopic flaws one could find out after an intense listening session but rather it is zipped in a sophisticated way full of alchemically sticky elements which used to react with one another after a while. On the other hand, it might be I caught the level of nocturnal and deep house-inflected hours within it (for instance, at Rainfall; at Pellucid). By considering the blanket of the issue and the music pouring out from within it you could imagine eine Lichtung /a clearing/lighting to be seen within the ragged top of a volcano in Heideggerian way. Top standing indeed. For your soul, for your body, for your dream, for your reality, for your transcendental mind.

1/09/2017

Erzs-bet – Y2062 (2014)

Radio Stalingrad

Dark ambient
Illbient
Ambient noise
Post-industrial
Leftfield
Electronic music
Dystopbient
Ambient drone
Avant-garde
Drone
Experimentalism
Sound art

Comment: either to understand is this issue decoded or encoded it depends on the viewer`s perspective and keen ability to imagine. For instance, the compositions on it are titled in the following way: Y2022, Y2042, [-1-], [-2-], [–Tran-Sition–], and Y2062. This issue of 13 minutes is produced by the Aussie Reuben Petrovski and being released on an experimental music-oriented imprint called Radio Stalingrad which face to face with the aforementioned titles would freely be denoted as the Battle (of) Stalingrad. At least it could be imagined as a battle between the ghosts of the soldiers who succumbed during it. Indeed, emotionally these six wiggly compositions chime in a morbid and ghastly way because desolate spatial droning of empty fields and fluffy anti-gravitational sensations are followed up by clattery dissonant noises wherein one can make difference between black and brownish noise, between the soil and air. Later on, the artist exploits ghastly sounds as if being lead through the aether to convey a secret message. Is it from one dead ones to other dead ones or is from the dead ones to the living ones? Or vice versa? Emotionally it is remarkably more overwhelming than an average pop song. Aesthetically it is a case where one could see a sort of beauty through gruesome progressions and fascinating ugliness.