[Teaser of the day] OKAM - From The Darkness, Into Darkness

Enoughrecords

• Dark ambient
• Breakcore
• Darkwave
• Alternative
• Electronic music
• Darkstep

Artist: OKAM

Release: Alpha - The Confliction

Label: enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Jamendo/Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2018

Celesta en la cesta – Celesta en la cuesta (2013)

Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Folktronica 
• Art pop 
• Cover 
• Electronic 
• Alternative pop 
• Synth-pop 
• Crossover 
• Dream folk 
• New Weird Mexico 
• Cowbell indie 
• Mexicana

Comment: it is a fine 6-track drift from Monterrey, Mexico based on dreamy vocal incantations accompanied by the varied backgrounds – at times it is backed up by sublime guitar strums and natural sounds like water ringing in the middle of artificial sounds, at times by more electronic beats and faint crackling and different blocks of synthesised chords and lofty brass waves coming to tower over the rest layers. However, to get a perfect album it should more have been saturated with torrents of intriguing noises, arousing glitches and a more cinematic feeling in overall. A more spiced soup a la Mexico should be allowed to the listener. More eruptions to have injected more dust and epic chaos into the mix. There is no other way. OK, Bon Voyage is a groovy, top tier one with those massive basses, distant voices and noises, glimmering, ellipse-shaped synths, suggestive singing and explosive brasses. But nevertheless, it is a solid release with intention to unite different folk forms from the traditional ones to the more experimental ones with one another or just representing them in a sequence.

[Teaser of the day] Benfro - Breathe In

Kift Flipper

• Downtempo
• Acid jazz
• Crossover
• Cinematic
• Electronic music
• Trip-hop
• Mood music
• Alternative
• Nu jazz

Artist: Benfro

Release: Observable Universe EP 

Label: Kift Flipper

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Macchiato Funky - MMM

• Art rock
• Experimental rock
• Indie rock
• Psych-rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: Macchiato Funky

Release: Bugella 20-50

Label: La bèl

Year: 2018

EE7A – Tracers EP (2017)

Bump Foot

Archive.org

• Alternative dance 
• Electronic music 
• Tech-electro

Comment: it is said on the site of the Japanese imprint Bump Foot that Clayton Brooks aka EE7A was introduced to the eurorack format of modular synthesis and since then he has preferred recording just in one take rather than just clicking and sticking sonic blocks together on his computer. By keeping listening to it already three times in a row I shall have to assume Clayton Brooks succeeded in his recording politics. Tracers EP is highly ecstatic, even a bit hysterical based on the lame shaped, heavily stomping bass drumming being embellished with faint electro developments, and rusty 8-bit sonic effects. At times the intensity gets a bit attenuated and the pace will be changed into a more monotonous, even a bit hypnotic one. Then I can draw parallels upon the Detroit scene of electro and techno. For me, it embodies the life of an ordinary person within the overwhelming capitalistic machinery. All those doings from one day to another being repeated again and again wherein one can feel pleasure and pain intermittently or simultaneously. It reflects upon the relation between the human being and a machine where exhaustion in one's eyes is mixed up with some hope and look at a next day. However, by creating music, especially by those persons who have built their own studios and create music on their own terms, it is a huge step outside that a bit harrowing system. So one can accelerate the process, be outside the capitalistic system at her/his own disposal. But no one should not forget another truth and be wrongheaded – the communism as a regime is something which cannot be tolerated at all. Otherwise one can see a field of corpses having traversed the countries like it happened in China, the Soviet Union, and Kampuchea during the previous century. There is no need for useful idiots anymore. If someone wishes to behave in that way I guess the North Korea is waiting for you to build up a bright future.

[Teaser of the day] Strom An/Ein/Aus Fall - Es ist nicht schön allein zu sein

Headphonica

• Bitpop
• 8-bit
• Alternative
• Electronic music
• Electro
• Nintendocore
• Tracker music
• Chiptune

Artist: Strom An/Ein/Aus Fall

Release: st

Label: Headphonica

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Cousin Silas - Flipside

• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde
• Soundscape
• Space music
• Experimentalism

Artist: Cousin Silas

Release: Twang 002

Label: We Are All Ghosts

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] ref/inter - Words And Advice

Electron Emitter

• Electronic music
• Drone
• Dystopbient
• Art music
• Post-classical
• Spoken word
• Crossover
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Post-industrial
• Leftfield
• Illbient
• Abstract
• Glitch techno

Artist: ref/inter

Release: iwbiactnle

Label: Electron Emitter

Year: 2018

Brice Catherin – Best Hits – Recent Works For Percussion Ensembles (2016)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Live 
• Conceptual

Comment: this bunch of 5 compositions is not a usual way for defining his/her own oeuvre. Indeed, the French composer Brice Catherin's music is being far away from an average pop album, far away from an average pop jazz issue either. It is a tight improvisation by exploiting magnified cello chords, droning melodica spans, storytelling, windbells, intense drumming. The description can be attributed to the chronologically second part of the issue dedicated to Baubo, the mystical goddess of fertility and performed live by the Norwegian Pinquins in Oslo. The first part being inspired by a Russian composer of classical music, (Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya), rotates mentally and physically around one piano being played by three pianists and two percussion players though they use their voices as well (Ensemble Batida). Musically it is an affair between tumultuous progressions and sonic clusters and on the other side by silent, as if still life incantations. This is the fifth issue by Brice Catherin on Chicago, the US-based Pan Y Rosas Discos.

Background Radiation – Moot Point EP (2010)

No Source

• Indietronica 
• Electronic 
• Dream pop 
• Alternative 
• Art pop 
• Epic 
• Drone pop 
• Cowbell indie

Comment: autumnal sadness and lethargy have overwhelmed our senses and sensations, all seems to be stopped or at least strongly decelerated, the long and warm summer is let behind, and there it is, an old issue being released more than 8 years ago by Ludo Maas (Multi-Panel), and Tim Dwyer (Off Land & Full-Source) on the US-based imprint No Source. Those slowly growing drone-y melodica tinged lead motives being interspersed with pastel acoustic guitar chords and exquisite electronic touches used to churn the listener's mind. Double Negative, and Radiate are enchanting pop songs, indeed, truly enchanting ones. The listener can perceive this 6-notch issue as if a minimized glimpse as a transgressive, self-thrusting catapult to get thrown into a bigger, more flourishing sonic world. Lofty fantasies used to surface after having listened to these relatively miniature developments. Yeah! Yes!