- Synthwave
- Electronic music
- Deep house
- IDM
- Alternative
Artist:
Cialyn
Year: 2017
- Experimentalism
- Avant-garde
- Minimalism
- Dark ambient
- Drone
- Leftfield
- Ambient drone
- Acousmatic music
Year: 2006
- Avant-garde
- Alternative dance
- Experimental electronica
- Avant-electronica
- Breaks
- World fusion
- Ethnotronica
Year: 2012
- Post-industrial
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Illbient
- Electronic music
- Ambient drone
- Noise music
- Leftfield
- Drone
- Abstract
- Experimental electronica
Comment: a Belarusian,
Vladislav Buben, is a person whose main goal has been - at least it
seems so - to promote (underground) music to the backbone. He has
been a prolific artist of having released more than 100 issues so
far, also has run a radio show with intent to shed light upon
avant-garde and experimental music. His tenures have been under a
bunch of imprints, involving a cult Moscow-based experimental music
imprint, Clinical Archives among others. Glimmer was issued
approximately 10 years ago and for me, the characteristic of this
4-track issue represents one of the facets of the record label
(especially with regard to experimental/electronic/non-rock music).
It is a decent outing because those slightly oppressive sonic details
are set up in the way to provide air and space between them. Buben
likes to play different distances by sampling the chugging of a train
at the distance, by sampling and then producing barely distorted
conversations of politicians (Mr. Lukashenka?, Mr. Putin?). He
employs intriguing drumming and greyish shades and monochromatic
delays going on and on. It could be very interesting to convert all
these sonic effects and relations between the sounds into a visual
kaleidoscope. If I had it this would be a favourite plaything of
mine. Great success by any means.
- Post-punk
- Shoegaze
- Alternative rock
- Indie rock
- Dream pop
Comment: there are up some sounds within the indie music scene that will never go out. One of such sounds is a shimmery, reverberating slightly darkened guitar sound which was introduced by such bands as The Chameleons, Joy Division, Durutti Column, Cocteau Twins which later strongly influenced bands within the shoegaze scene. Oh Well, Goodbye shows us the limits of this sort of music are still up there to get expanded further. Those soothing guitar landscapes are accompanied by sublime synthesised progressions and mellow drumming. A sonic heaven is surrounded by another heaven etc. And so it goes on and on. And finally it will be out to start again and again. Even if the limits would be reached it is about reaching something universal and true. It makes me somehow laugh by thinking of it as a decelerated version of jangle pop. It is about credibility and being trustworthy (about something having always had positive impact). In fact, the rumours about the death of guitar-based indie music are strongly exaggerated. By contemporary kindred souls I recommend listen to Russian combo Motorama. This great set of 6 compositions is a joint release by such imprints as Bleeding Gold, and Hail Hail. Certainly one of the most outstanding moments in 2016.
- Chopped
and Screwed
- Experimental hip-hop
- Vaporwave
- Hip-hop
- Sampledelic
- Witch house
- Leftfield
- Avant-hop
Comment:
these 17 minutes are
obviously first vaporwave and witch house vibes and
moods ever personally heard
on Sirona-Records, a French record label with immense catalogue.
BVBEL is a producer from
Belgium who in turn owns the
huge list of outings at
Bandcamp (16 releases in
total). Lurking, bold-faced
rhythms and greyish noir
milieus are predominant on it being adorned with sheer samples as if
narrating about blackened
themes and grime situations. I guess the sun glimpses and friendly
laughing are not supposed to be out there. In a word, it is a solid
listening span being craftily balanced between the content and
format. This is what we
suppose to get from an instance of outstanding music.
- Techno
- Electronic music
- Alternative dance
- Experimental techno
- Abstract
techno
- Experimental electronica
Comment:
by analysing this handful of tracks while watching the cover print of
this of depicting the lamp of a nightstand it can be said in that
situation you can see many minutiae being otherwise hidden for us.
Is there anything being hidden to our ears? Indeed, the outing needs
more listening times allowing us to understand it to be a bit more
than just a techno album. Indeed, it involves iterative rhythms and
enchanting loops to introduce more experimental and abstract segments
into it. One can even hear corrosive debris and metallic faintness
looping atop and beneath. Furthermore, it is a fine example of how
machine-induced applications and more organic sonic details are
seamlessly mixed up with each other. In fact, the latter element is
subjugated to the first one. The result is a part of the discography
of EverythingIsChemical.
