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Comment: this is a joint miscellany of 12 tracks by Ephedrina Records, an imprint from Italy, and Anti-Demos-Cracia, an imprint from Portugal. There are represented such artists as Mutaform, CRPTC, Fingerflood, Hypercube, Electric Dreamers, Hist, Overdrive, We Hate All These Liberals, Guta Project, Hesskhè Yadalanah, Errors Alternados, and Orquestra Popular De Paio Pires. I guess most of these names may be unknown to you, however, being an ardent follower of the imprints then you should have made acquaintance with the artists. Let`s have some thread about the compilation which will be clocked in at a 54 minute (indeed, it is an accepted longitude for a compilation). Undoubtedly it is a variegated issue with flourishing accents and exuberant shades. At times it is rhythmically obsessive just consisting of different rhythmic combinations to following one another or establishing new mutations within the rhythmic matrix. Some tracks are broadened with progressions toward atmospheric spheres and extracting an enchanting quintessence from synthesiser. All in all, I could not mention any weak track within the whole so I have to admit it to be a classy, mandatory compilation. Get it, support it.

7/06/2018

[Teaser of the day] The Bordellos - Marianne

Alternative rock
Indie rock
DIY
Art rock

Artist: The Bordellos

Release: The Bordellos Underground Tape 10

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Gnomefoam - To Be Given The Glum Job

Sampledelic
Lo-fi
Hip-hop
Crossover
Sound collage
Glitch-hop
Alternative
DIY
Avant-hop

Artist: Gnomefoam

Release: The Girl In The Purple Painting

Label: Rack & Ruin/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Graphic Antics - Party Crasher

blocSonic

Rap
Hip-hop
Underground hip-hop
Urban music

Artist: Graphic Antics

Release: What Does It Mean?

Label: blocSonic

Year: 2017

Deicida 69 – Vocem For Atonal Wave (2015)

Plataforma

NKS International Muzakillabel

Cieliro Diystro

Deicida 69

Bandcamp

Crust punk
Art punk
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Avant-rock
Psychedelic rock
Spoken word
Post-punk
Electro-punk
Crossover
Sampledelic
Jazz
Plunderphonics
Hardcore
Electronic music
Dada music
No wave
Non-music
Jazz punk
Cold wave
Ambient
Leftfield

Comment: this set of 22 tracks consists of a couple of joint albums, more profoundly, Côte, and Ntoa. The combo comes out of Mexico and provides something truly refreshing and mind-altering within the rock (and roll) genre. First of all, it is incisive and harsh by its formal shape and certainly dadaist and postmodernist by its conceptual approach. Of course, the discoloured terms “postmodern” and adjective “postmodernist” do say a bit little about certain phenomena but it can be mapped as a bastard of different genres and exploitation of different genres. It may be tagged as an example of exploitation punk by ranging from art punk/post-punk/electro-punk to hardcore, psych-punk, cold wave/gothic punk and crust punk with hints at spoken word, jazz, electronic music and downright plunderphonics/sampledelic art. But I can guarantee you could find out more cues to even more phenomena and stylistic/stylized pops. Frequently the guitars chime like an angle grinder. One more fact I can admit the artist is obsessed with more or less implicit sexual (under)tones (being inspired by the oeuvre of Marquis de Sade). Undoubtedly one can partake in a frantic pool of very different experiments and combinations. As it is explicated at the site of Plataforma Records their modus operandi is the constant violation of the rules of harmony which dictates the Orthodox Music. At times, at Barbichuettes Night (A Tribute) one can enjoy a submerged, schizoid dialogue being savoured by spacey synthesised atmospheric lines and scruffy analogue synthesiser effects. It comes from nowhere, in the sense that I have no idea of how to localise it. As if being everywhere, it does mean having no place at all. However, at the same time it does not chime in a cheapo and vacuous way altogether. By possible kindred souls it could be compared with the St Petersburg, Russia-based dadaist surf/punk/lounge/avant/sample/psych/fetish-pop combos Messer Chups/Messer für Frau Müller. But I am very sure they have listened to This Heat, Bauhaus, Throbbing Gristle, an early Cabaret Voltaire, Velvet Underground, The Fall, and many artist from within the No Wave pigeonhole either. The overpowering issue is a part of the discography of a French imprint, NKS International Muzakillabel, a part of the discogrpahy of Brazil-based imprint Plataforma, and a part of the discography of the Chilean Cieliro Diystro.

7/05/2018

[Teaser of the day] Erkki Hyva - Kummaline uni

New Weird Estonia
DIY
Singer-songwriter
Art pop
Bedroom pop
Lo-fi
Avant-pop

Artist: Erki Hyva

Release: Varjust rambini

Label: Õunaviks

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] ENKIL - The River

Ephedrina

Electronic music
Alternative
Synth-industrial
Dark synth
Synth-pop

Artist: ENKIL

Release: Blak Garden

Label: Ephedrina/Jamendo

Year: 2015

System Morgue – Gegenstrom (2013)

DNA Production

Drone
Post-industrial
Abstract
Ambient drone
Dark ambient
Avant-garde
Microtonal
Experimentalism
Sound art
Drone doom

Comment: elementally I have reviewed Russian-based artist System Morgue`s brand new albums like Froid (2017, Frozen Light) and Distress (2018, DNA Production) but Gegenstrom is a thread from earlier years and aesthetically there are up some distinct features regarding comparison. The recent issues are more polished and structured (yet not suppressing its enchanting magic) and by its structure come into the experimental/avant/post-rock genre, however, Gegenstrom is conversely more hazy and foggy and subsequently oneiric. At its nucleus all of that is being headed by a ghost-alike drone which is galvanized and impelling by its physical and emotional appearance. It is like the maelstrom or black hole governing all the matter coming into their realms. For sure, it is not a sort of rock music with regard to the artist`s latter albums, it is more like a decent manifestation within the dark ambient, drone and partly sound art genre. Yet the self-titled track is the exception because it is the sort of drone doom rock by flourishing through oscillating pulses and lofty apexes. At first glimpse, it may seem the listener is trudging across a barren landscape where all is thoroughly destroyed and eradicated yet the more you listen to it the more you will see interesting echoes, glimpses, flickers, vibrations, even colours to come out of these five compositions. I cannot be wrong by bounding it geographically to northern, even subarctic hemisphere being generally dominated by northerly airflows and lengthy darkness. In a word, it is an outstanding work on a Russian imprint, DNA Production.

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[Teaser of the day] Low Points - No Place

[Teaser of the day] The Dead Suns - Secret Ocean

7/07/2018

AAVV – The Other Sound Of The Light (2017)