Recent Music Heroes

12/09/2018

Yungeen Ace – Life Of Betrayal (2018)

DatPiff

Hip Hop Mixtapes

Hip-hop
Rap
Urban music
Soul-hop
Southern rap

Comment: Jacksonville, the US-based rapper Keyontae Bullard aka Yungeen Ace's 13-track issue is inspired by a sad event which almost would cost him life. Unfortunately his brother Tre'von aka Quan Quan and two other guys were killed in the car while having a stop in a gas station. He chants about betrayal in many meanings, about the murder attempt, about the bitter feel of pain. Undoubtedly the outing is a way for him to cope with mourning. Musically it is a worth release because it is built on different emotions like sadness, grief, anger, desperation. All of that can readily be differentiated. Such bloody situations will produce frank emotions and feelings and of course an uncompromising music example. The mixtape is released on such sites as DatPiff, and Hip Hop Mixtapes and hosted by DJ Shab. Good luck to the talented rapper and his family.

12/08/2018

Nevesis – Nevesis (2012)

Bandcamp

Hard rock
Stoner rock
Space rock
Progressive rock

Comment: Nevesis is a combo from Paide, a small town from Estonia. However, their debut issue is something which does not admit any borders or signs of smallness. OK, they bear testimony to the golden age of hard rock and early heavy metal, and stoner rock grooves, however, it is not either a parody or a lacklustre and boring imitation of the aforementioned styles. This 9-notch release is full of power due to explosive fuel and igniting energy coming out of permanent key changes and the singer's impressive changes in singing manner. Yeah, guitars and their based solos and stomping drums are omnipresent throughout the course. The most disparate track (at least its intro) is Lysergic Dreams which is a highly powerful space rock case. Five years later, the sophomore issue called Pink Magnet Masters was released. In a nutshell, it is an astounding rock and roll instance at its best.

Makunouchi Bento – The Guardians of Lost Pieces: Found and Never to Be Lost (2018)

Bandcamp

Experimentalism
Ambient drone
Art music
Experimental electronica
Post-industrial
Drone
Ambient
Avant-garde
Improvised music
Remix

Comment: it is always a great pleasure to arrive at the Romanian combo's music because you will never know what kind of surprises you could expect from it. This time they are assisted by a bunch of other musicians either. This 6-notch issue (it is actually an open playlist - at least until it reaches 60-80 minutes - for songs which aren't included on any other official release) is a profound and cohesive amalgamation of different styles, from supersonic droning ambient and heavily stomping bass driven excursions and unnerving interrupted rhythmic structures to a quirky synth-pop example and a jazz-infused convulsion. Moreover, frequently the listener can perceive obsessive focus to have directed toward minutiae – it might be more adequately assumed the minutiae are amplified and magnified into a new quality, into something providing refreshing possibilities to open new entrances for next issues. One can hear scratching within it yet it does have nothing to do with an ordinary hip-hop appearance. At times it sounds like a heavily compressed pop example like chiming somewhere at the bottom of the ocean (Urban Tree). One of the best issues in 2018 for sure.

Vulgar Dèbil – Natura nihil facit supervacaneum et nihil largitur (2018)

Seminal

Field recording
Avant-garde
Electro-acoustic
Experimentalism
Acousmatic music
Musique concrète
Electronic music

Comment: similarly to Makunouchi Bento's issue being recently commented at RMH this swarm of 7 tracks is also very diverse though the accents are a bit different (and partly the same). More profoundly, the Brazil artist João Pàdua's adventures in sound used to make out an intriguing apex based on purgative field recording sounds, elemental sonic effects, ghostly drones and convulsive sonic progressions and occasional spoken word snippets and electro-acoustic effects being obviously conjured up by the contact microphones. Yeah, the result is neither boring nor lacklustre – it is like standing in the middle of various channels or dimensions being exposed to all of them either simultaneously or in a row. By the way, the final part of the final track called Janus-Misologia used to progress into an uncanny sort of psychedelic rock. At times its mystical threads resemble me Alio Die, for example. Yeah, makes sense once again. The provoking work is a part of the discography of Seminal Records, a Brazilian imprint.