Twilight Kamikaze – A Drive with Elise (2018)

Silent Flow

Archive.org

• Post-disco 
• Alternative dance 
• Electro pop 
• Electronic music 
• Experimental electro 
• Industrial electro

Comment: first of all, this 3-notch outing starts off with the favourite format of electro for me - sultry rhythmic patterns coated with tight synthesiser-induced layers atop. Later on, the course used to turn a little bit by incorporating more ominous sonic effects and by coming near to a more static and restrained yet experimental approach. However, the final track This Void Inside used to successfully merge the tendencies of the first and the second parts of the self-titled track. It is highly galvanized and a bit shifted in its rhythmic work while manipulating with some sort of black matter to build up the result. As if drawing some rhythmic patterns from the Detroit electro scene to build it up on an (post)-industrial template. Yeah, it is convincing in a highly hypnotic way. The astounding issue is a part of the discography of Silent Flow. One of my favourite things with regard to the rhythmic patterns in 2018.

Unlimited Space Nine and Stars Sound System – Be (2018)

Unlimited Space Lab

• Kosmische Musik
• Psytrance 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Synth-pop 
• Ambient pop 
• Crossover

Comment: this is a split release on Unlimited Space Lab consisting of long-lasting (up to a 10 minute) compositions of such projects as Unlimited Space Nine, and Stars Sound System. More profoundly, bass frequencies and modulated synthesiser sounds propel the 4-track outing to an extent one used to have no certainty is it either an example of trance or synth-pop or ambient pop or electronic psychedelic music or EDM. Or something else at all for one's pleasure. Of course, it is the pseudo-concern because the most important aspect is that the issue is thoroughly coherent and soul-arresting. The X Shape, and Watching Secret Rats From VIIIth Dimension are the favourites of mine due to a laid-back propulsion and yet a catchy theme progression provided at the same time, and amazing keyboard pitches and rhythmic symbiosis, respectively. At times the tracks are embellished with ivory piano chords, lofty synthesiser overdrives and suggestive spoken word snippets. Very pro.

Macroform – Shining (2018)

Jamendo

• Chilltronica 
• Electronic pop 
• Alternative 
• Glo-fi 
• Chillwave 
• House pop 
• Breaks

Comment: Macroform is a musician from Sarasota, Florida, USA. He is a musician who explores sound and experiments with a broad range of instruments including guitars, old Casio keyboards, African drums and percussion and found sounds and synthesizers. By listening to this huge, 19-notch outing it can be said he knows how to conjure up one's mood and bump up neurochemicals to optimal level. Macroform has been a prolific artist who has issued more than 40 releases during the last 12 years including 5 issues in the recent year. One may say the amount is way too much to stay at one and the same level artistically. An other one may say it is necessary to produce in a row to preserve and not forget the artistic skills. In this context the second opinion seems to be true. Of course I have not listened to all his issues but by considering the recent one has all what a very decent issue should provide. Stylistically it veers away from house-tinged piano and electric piano shuffles and catchy rhythms to serene chillwave and chilltronica-drenched glimpses and cloudless synthesised and sampled orchestrations. Macroform knows very well how psychologically manipulate the listener to cope with such a long release – from speedy delivery to slowed-down ones, from raspy facets to more floating ones. By balancing different elements with one another it is a foundation to avoid boredom. Secondly it is like a simulacrum for a listener's life. All in all, I am going to add it to my list of the best albums in 2018. Hopefully I can find time to listen to the rest of issues by him having been issued in 2018.

[Teaser of the day] MushroomWavved Collar - Vacuum Morning

8Ravens

• Lobit
• DIY
• Outsider tekno
• Electronic music
• Lo-fi
• Alternative

Artist: MushroomWavved Collar 

Release: [8R086]

Label: 8Ravens

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Deicida 69 - Absolutamente Moderno

• Art punk
• Post-punk
• Angst rock
• Avant-punk

Artist: Deicida 69

Release: Presidentes Puercos

Label: Bandcamp/Jamendo

Year: 2016

Awake In The Dew – Sounds To Ascension (2018)

Tranzmitter

Tranzmitter

• Electronic music 
• Chilltronica 
• Ambient 
• Alternative 
• Kosmische Musik

Comment: undoubtedly this 7-track issue is masterfully produced full of sultry synthesised and spacious progressions as if an interface to bring together heaven and Earth. Awake In The Dew is a project by the Brazilian musician Diego Henrique. He has divided the project`s music into multiple categories: the first of them was 2007 to 2011 drawing more on lo-fi and post-rock ground, and the second started in 2012 and it is obviously electronic. Electronic music may be bottomless, and there it is – as mentioned above the listener can hear a bound between mundane and heavenly, however, the sounds represented over there are very diverse – from profound gentle layers-infused ambient and blissful panoramas to noisy synthesised facets, signal-alike sharp effects and abrasive electro-acoustic reverberations and sheer delays and steep rhythmic patterns. It reminds a bit of Tangerine Dream in the middle of the 70s particularly with such issues as Rubicon, and Ricochet. These astounding 36 minutes are a part of the discography of Tranzmitter.

[Teaser of the day] Enkil - tmd

Ephedrina

• Tekno
• Electronic music
• Ambient tekno
• Alternative dance

Artist: Enkil

Release: AAVV - Hluboko Collective Gate 6 (NetlabelDayEdition)

Label: Ephedrina

Year: 2015 

[Teaser of the day] Prototype 68 - La Harpie

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Sampledelic
• Hip-hop
• Electronic music
• Breaks
• Nu jazz

Artist: Prototype 68

Release: Lost Highway EP  

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2007

Alzar - DrOwL – Nymph of the Alien (2018)

MNMN

MNMN

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Psychedelic 
• World fusion 
• Ethnotronica 
• Breakbeat
• Ambient

Comment: this bunch of 15 compositions is dedicated to strangers/aliens/different kind of life forms. To those living beings having no deal with the human race and the planet Earth. However, contacts with a stranger may enrich our life. Otherwise it may result in annihilation of the human race given that species with lower intelligence have no potential to reach other planets in the galaxy. At least having had a fantasy about the stranger would result in one fine album. Musically it is a sultry blend of psychedelic synthesised whiffs, mid-tempo driven ethnic-tinged rhythms and intriguing electronic roundabouts and arousing loops. At times songs are sensualised by mystical female chanting as if mysterious supernatural creatures from within the Russian forests in fairy tales. So yeah, (horrendous) strangers can come from inside us and from our fears as well. Furthermore, given that we may be even more horrendous than our opposite ones. However, it is just a rough, very generalized overview of it. In fact, it embraces a hundreds of combinations in sonic and rhythmic texture. There are different depths, there are different intensities. It is search for balance between gravity and volatility. The impressive issue is a part of the discography of MNMN Records.

Multi-Panel – Rekordgate III (2018)

Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Electronic music 
• IDM 
• Folktronica 
• DIY

Comment: The Netherlands, Breda-based Ludo Maas aka Multi-Panel is back with his third and final part of Rekordgate. I think the first part and the third part are the favourites of mine. Partly this is a profound insight into electronic music, indeed, with few or without any guitar-based embellishments in some tracks. All the electronic threads in the embodiment of fatty synths, synthesised broad landscapes and stomping bass synths are drawn out boldly. It could almost be named as synth-pop but it is a bit something else due to his DIY and nerdy attitude. Sparkling pop numbers cannot be considered his first, second or third preferences. The electronic/synthesiser-based predominance is obviously the most striking difference in comparison to the rest two issues. On the other side, guitar twangs, treated guitars and exquisite electronic progressions in many interactions and combinations also make sense. Thirdly, listen to Stand and you get a proof that Ludo Maas can create something truly elusive, and blissful. One may think of it as if being written by Jens Lekman. All in all, the sequel of the releases was success. May we wait for a next one?