MigloJe – Perception (2017)

Kahvi

Bandcamp

• Ambient drone 
• Microtonal 
• Microsound 
• Minimalism 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Abstract 
• Dark ambient 
• Leftfield 
• Micronoise

Comment: it is said very exactly at the site of Kahvi Collective that the Lithuanian artist MigloJe is the master of drone in the discography of the imprint. Indeed, Perception is certainly a disparate case if to compare it to other issues I have heard so far. It avoids merry beats, easier synthesised progressions and picturesque compositions, it is being deliberately reserved and sealed in minimal droning and dark ambient aesthetic while arousing the listener's perceptions nevertheless. The structure of compositions used to grow slowly and stepwise. At times the aesthetic of droning is painted with loaded electricity and a wisp of more white coloured (orchestrated) overflows and some electronic effects, glitches, vague clicks and beeps and barely audible rhythms. Less is more and it will be approved eventually. As Malcolm Mooney of CAN once chirped in the beginning of the 70s that silence is an invisible conversation. It is a sublime drift between almost silence and sub-noise/microscopic noise. Of course, you shall have to add your perceptible appearances tightly correlating with them to the whole as well. It is an essential part of the perception. It may be a soundtrack for your nightmares. Highly appreciated in the perception of mine. Take enough time and silence to perceive it accurately. I guess in Lithuanian the title is as Suvokimas. 

[Teaser of the day] Matti T - Thoughts Are Like Waves

Phonocake

• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Breaks
• Mood music
• Ambient techno

Artist: Matti T

Release: I Did It For Me

Label: Phonocake/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Nyhos - It Is So Omnipresent

Limit Cycle

• Electronic music
• Breaks
• Crossover
• Glitchtronica
• DIY
• Sound collage
• Indietronica
• Lo-fi
• Alternative

Artist: Nyhos

Release: #3

Label: Limit Cycle

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Svarte Fjell - Skog

Treetrunk

• Ambient
• Organic electronica
• Soundscape
• Microtonal
• Epic
• Dark ambient
• Ambient drone
• Minimalism
• Musique concrète
• Drone
• Avant-garde
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Svarte Fjell

Release: Taakeheimen

Label: Treetrunk

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Kayswag - Scared O` The Throne

Bushmen

• Hip-hop
• Urban music
• Avant-hop
• Sampledelic
• Electronic music

Artist: Kayswag

Release: Hard To Define

Label: Bushmen

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Silent Strangers - Retinal

• Industrial techno
• Alternative
• Leftfield
• Neoclassical 
• Electronic music

Artist: Silent Strangers

Release: Anagram 4: Lume

Label: Section 27/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

Alex Elgier and Cecilia Quinteros - Hiken! (2017)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Free jazz
• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Electro-acoustic

Comment: first of all, these 27 minutes and some seconds additionally are sexy and puckish. It is played by a man and a woman thereby creating a sultry synergy between each other. Furthermore, the finishing part of the composition is quite eargasmic and ending with a powerful culmination. In fact, it starts off in the same manner. On the other side, it is prankish because of consisting of an improvisational set which in turn consists of an innumerable amount of chords and abrasive key appearances on the piano and the cello respectively as if played on a prepared instrument with an extended technique. I would prefer to call it modal jazz because both instruments used to progress in different directions to eventually meet each other in mutual areas in a quite agitated and frantic way. Like demonstrating the clash between the sexes. And thereafter getting together again. Like the human life supposedly used to be. That's cool, I mean highly ear-provoking even if it is quite austere and abrasive by its instrumental park. Musically it used to be a play with angularity and deformations where the chords will get partly broken and then repaired again. Intensity is a third component within the formula. And it is the basic cycle of the cooperation. The intriguing  outing is a bit in the discography of Pan Y Rosas Discos, a dwelling place for experimental music worldwide.

Neil Scrivin – Twenty Years On Ben Nevis (2008)

Rack And Ruin

Fonolith

• Ambient 
• Drone 
• DIY 
• Electronic music 
• Lo-fi 
• Dreamwave 
• Drone pop 
• Organcore 
• Mood music

Comment: just discovered that Blackpool musician Neil Scrivin`s both albums Twenty Years On Ben Nevis, and Tomorrow`s World are uploaded at Bandcamp, both of them are remastered and are available in tape format being now closely related to such Blackpudlian imprint as Fonolith. However, my intention is to review it as a bit in the discography of Rack &Ruin Records, a record label reflecting upon an interesting microscopic sonic space at the end of the 00s, and the beginning of the 10s. Rack & Ruin Records had been heading by the Englishman Dean Birkett from 2008 to 2011 whose taste was DIY friendly while experiment orienting. There was up enough noisy indie, peculiar folk-based issues, clumsy lo-fi and bedroom masterminds, warped electronic and deranged ambient-alike stuff. If to name only some artists I would like to denote such artists as Gnomefoam, starstarstar, Tropical Australian Stinger Research Unit, Zgress, Chad Golda, Patrick Hussey, If The People Were Paper, Tyson Brinacombe, Hipster Youth, Dog Bite, Cody England, Gnouli Monsters, Vincent Lillis, The Macadamia Brothers, Lean Horse Marathon, Frost Faire, dessktop, Andy`s Airport Of Love, Chimney Fish. This album of 14 compositions which will clock in at a 35 minute is a sublime drift within droning ambient coated electronic music where the listener can perceive dreamwave-tinged seeds to appear. It is almost (indie) pop music but I have to emphasise the word almost. It is being always admirable if electronic music is produced in dreamy mode (to do it one hs to surpass the mechanical, machine-drenched nature of it). In fact, such sort of sound would mostly get popularized some years ago after the recent release thanks to such artists as Oneothrix Point Never, M Gedded Gengras, Steven Hauschildt. All of that is the contemporary counterpart of Kosmische Musik where adorable vibrations and otherworldly beatific drones are followed by one another or superimposed on eath other. While listening to it you do not need nothing else for your fortune. It sounds like going backwards the past you could find the future from it waiting for you. Originally it was released in 2007 yet at Rack & Ruin it was released one year later.  

[Teaser of the day] Erich Schall - Night Prism

Phonocake

• Minimal techno
• Deep techno
• Alternative dance
• Electronic music

Artist: Erich Schall

Release: No. 7

Label: Phonocake

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] _bew_ - Glock Dub

Acroplane

• Electronic music
• Dub
• Glitch dub
• Breaks
• Alternative
• Dub electro
• Broken beat
• Urban music
• Glitch-hop
• Crossver
• Dubtronica

Artist: _bew_

Release: _dubs_EP

Label: Acroplane

Year: 2008