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Comment: Joxfield ProjeX as a project of a couple of lost musicians reappeared approximately 10 years ago under a Moscow-based cult imprint, Clinical Archives. Indeed, Janne Yan Andersson and Stefan Oax Ek started making music together approximately a half century ago until going to hiatus for decades. It sounds like once upon a time in Sweden… chiming like a fairy tale of the heroes of living much longer than the average human being. For sure, their music will do it. After releasing a bunch of albums under the Russian imprint they went on by issuing a couple of EPs on their own (Tin Can Music) and then they changed “commercial” by signing a deal with the French cult imprint Bam Balam and making collaboration with Cotton Casino, being known from a Japanese space rock juggernaut, Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. This set of 6 compositions comes out of their post-Clinical Archives period (also known as Archives (sic!)) although reflecting upon the same tendencies represented before. Their issues are always the same, always different. More detailedly, krautrock intensity on hirsute guitars and New Age-y and Kosmische Musik on spaced-out electronics with different threads within these 28 minutes set up a dynamic and colourful and vivid carnival-alike milieu. Emotionally it is a coherently ecstatic experience providing a stark remedy to get out of a hard day`s rubbish. However, there are up some more eclipsed compositions as well, Brana Funk Sun Ra, for instance. In a word, it is a top release analogically to the previous releases.

8/20/2018

[Teaser of the day] 2muchachos - Warmtime

Art pop
Dream pop
Electronic
Alternative pop
Ambient pop
Indie pop
Electro-indie
Post-pop
Indietronica

Artist: 2muchachos

Release: Prespring EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Zainetica - Warehouse Spirits Part1

Minimal wave
Electronic music
Techno pop
Synth-pop
Alternative dance

Artist: Zainetica

Release: Unsaid

Label: Elpamusic

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] The Superfools - Latin Electronico

Free Music Archive

Plunderphonics
Latin music
Avant-garde
Rumba
Sampledelic
Experimentalism
Sound collage

Artist: The Superfools

Release: The Superfools

Label: Chinstrap Music

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Roto Visage - Small Steps

Kikapu

Ambient
Experimentalism
Drone
Electronic music
Illbient
Ambient drone
Post-industrial
Avant-garde

Artist: Roto Visage

Release: Der Golem

Label: Kikapu

Year: 2005

Stockfinster* – Dead Line (2009)

Sutemos

Indietronica
Alternative pop
Indie
Electronic music
IDM
Ambient
Synth-rock
Neokrautrock
Post-rock
Ambient pop

Comment: listening to this 13-notch outing it is a cordial arrival at a couple of phenomena being darling to me. Stockfinster, a one-man-project from Malmö, Sweden crafts music representing tendencies in the indie scene having been strongly prevalent in the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 00s mostly in the mid-Europe. Secondly, Dead Line comes out of the roster of releases from a Lithuanian netlabel, Sutemos, being the most respected one from within the Baltic States. The tendencies mentioned above came mostly from Germany, and the Benelux Countries and being inspired by krautrock-infused experimental (pop) music. Just some names to be mentioned – Masha Qrella, Mina, To Rococo Rot, Tarwater, Kreidler, Lali Puna, The Notwist, The Go Find, Styrofoam, Pluramon, Bernd Fleischmann, Mouse On Mars, Radian. The virtue of this movement was not to get encapsulated within one genre but the tendency was to push forward the stylistic borders, mostly toward IDM, and post-rock. All these elements are adeptly represented over there, even more, Batti (with some of his friends) adds more elements to the mix, for example, atmospheric piano chords, concrete music chips, jazz-inflected toots and vague improvisations, and roughly cut-up yet catchy electro cadences in some tracks. In general, most of the tracks used to sink into a laid-back, contemplative mood based on slightly gloomy yet majestic electronic progressions and subtly tinkling guitars. Fortunately all these layers keep moving and changing and interacting with one another in a way not to lose excitement. Partly due to it these 13 compositions constitute a cohesive, worthwhile whole. Dead Line was the artist's third and also the last release so far.

8/19/2018

[Teaser of the day] Adamned.age - Der Dunkelmacher

Camomille

IDM
Experimental techno
Ambient techno
Glitch techno
Microtechno
Electronic music

Artist: Adamned.age

Release: Fragile

Label: Camomille

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Synopterus [aka Blevin Blectum] - Olivier Suite

Dada music
Electronic music
Experimental electro
Avant-pop
Experimental pop

Artist: Synopterus [aka Blevin Blectum]

Release: All Day I Dream About Singularity

Label: Darling Dada

Year: 2017

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8/21/2018

[Teaser of the day] Nine Inch Nails - 21 Ghosts III

[Teaser of the day] Thorn - Stoner Girl

Joxfield ProjeX – Archives EP 1 - Pling Plang (2013)