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Comment: I would like to call this set of 8 tracks an instance of old school indie. More profoundly, I mean the music coming out from the 80s, the 90s, and the 00s by the US-based indie mavericks such as Galaxie 500, Yo La Tengo, and Low (with regard to their more restrained moments). On the other side, the issue was released in the middle of the 00s which was the heyday of the Weird New America movement. I really liked and still like such indie chicks who produce lo-fi tinged droning organ/harmonium-based indie being accentuated with blissful melodies and wondrous harmonies. The sort of music where simple elements meet complicated ones yet the flow of it is flawlessly organic and dynamic having been recorded on a 4-track cassette machine. It makes you relaxed and withdraws you from shitty topics around you for a while. It is the meditation. For instance, listen to the ending track Preston Parker which saves one`s soul due to vibrant droning and enchanting female singing. The same can be said about the rest of the 18-minute release. The issue is a part of the discography of Rain Above Records. Without any hesitation it will be added to the compartment – Outstanding music.

10/25/2017

[Teaser of the day] Yoshida Com - Scene 3

Upitup

Synth-pop
Electronic music
Lo-fi
Shibuya-kei
Electro pop
Alternative
Mood music
DIY

Artist: Yoshida Com

Release: Onna no Kanojo

Label: Upitup/Free Music Archive

Year: 1988/2014

[Teaser of the day] Tunnelbirds - You

Garage rock
Indie rock
Psych-rock
Blues rock
Alternative rock

Artist: Tunnelbirds

Release: Tunnelbirds

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] The Machine - Death

Kermesse

Alternative rock
Art rock
Screamo
Industrial rock
Experimental rock

Artist: The Machine

Release: Black & White

Label: Kermesse

Year: 2016

10/24/2017

Pineal Neuron Trauma – The Story Of… (2017)

Etched Traumas

Post-industrial
Avant-garde
Dark wave
Electronic music
Drone
Experimentalism
Dark ambient
Electro-acoustic
Psycho-acoustic
Leftfield
Illbient
Neoclassical
Noise
Experimental electronica

Comment: it is one of the most voluminous if not the most voluminous release having ever been appeared at RMH. It clocks in at a 197 minute (based on the set of 24 tracks) which exceeds more than 3 hours of pure music. The reason is actually simple – it encompasses all the sounds having been produced by the artist. The status of the combo is unknown due to health problems, and collaborative disagreements between the members. The only constant member behind the project has been Tim Van der Schraelen from Antwerp, Belgium, and the members also have been Mattia P. (Italy), Theofil Tsiolakakis (Thessaloniki, Greece), and Joseph (Athens, Greece). In truth, a couple of tracks are added as the oeuvre by Drowned In The Sewers (a collaborative act between Tim, and Theofil). Contingently I tagged the music as post-industrial (among many other tags) because it is a contemporary example of industrial music though by its attitude, approach and characteristics of sound it may even more remind of early old school industrial and noise music acts like Zoviet France, for instance. Second, it also comes very close to neoclassical and dark wave artists because in some tracks the soundscapes are loaded with ominous and depressive seeds and even sickening milieus reflecting upon the shortness and decay of the human being`s life. Indeed, that has always been a moral statement of such sort of music. Given the extent of time, and the nature of music the listener can be very sure to be flooded by intriguing sounds and obscure and morbid moods of different kind. Experiments with disparate timbres and varied rhythms. And you should be warned again – it is very far away from an innocent fun. It more a kind of music providing you a stark accompaniment while walking through a catacomb or a graveyard. Such sort of sound (I mean noise music) is universal in a way because it used to incorporate so many sounds within it (lo-fi, spoken word, sample-based music/plunderphonics, electronic music, drone, improvised music, ambient, electro-acoustic) and while needing no any further categorization and explanation. It is more about the method rather than about certain sounds. The style is being an all-devouring phenomenon. The prodigious issue both by its physical, psychic and intellectual extent is a part of the discography of Etched Traumas, the imprint headed by the same Joseph being mentioned above.

Teaser of the day] L. Valerie - Venus Dreams

Electronic pop
Alternative
Bubblegum pop
Art pop
Primitive pop
DIY
Miniature pop

Artist: L. Valerie

Release: Frika

Label: Bleeding Gold

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] CIRCVLO - Tiki Taka

Jazz rock
Psychedelic rock
Fusion
Dance rock
Yacht rock
Lounge pop
Crossover
Indie dance
Alternative rock
Indie rock

Artist: CIRCVLO

Release: Beleza

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Bite - Espectro visible

Ambient
Modern classical
Minimalism
Art music
Post-classical
Electronic music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism

Artist: Bite

Release: Calle Palma

Label: Basic_Sounds

Year: 2016

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10/26/2017

[Teaser of the day] Purling Hiss - Almost Washed My Hair

[Teaser of the day] GosT - Unum Infernum

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