[Teaser of the day] Pele - 01

• Minimalism
• Alternative
• Post-classical
• Mood music
• Art music
• Electronic music
• Modern classical

Artist: Pele

Release: EPV_051

Label: Elementperspective

Year: 2011

Langax – Under The Shadow EP (2017)

Soisloscerdos

Soisloscerdos

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Techno pop 
• Electro pop 
• Tekno 
• Trance 
• Crossover 
• Post-disco 
• Italy disco

Comment: Soisloscerdos is a prospering web-label being active in the belt of rhythm-induced and electronica-drenched music. However, those audible examples I have heard so far on the imprint are way too fidgety, delinquent and unorthodox to be pigeonholed as club dance, though. Moreover, the same could be said within the border of any issue either. From minimally shaped techno oscillations which now and then are intertwined with wobbly trance and bubbling tekno threads to a hirsute yet lofty high-pitched electro outlet. The music at least partly abandons the anonymity of the club dance by using it as a tool to magnify and boost the result. Besides it is clearly influenced by the end of the 70s and the 80s due to a strong impact of Italy Disco and spaced-out electro(nica). The last mentioned comparison is clearly unparalleled at Haute Tension. All in all, it can be concluded this handful of tracks is a cut above because of putting on a sprightly well-balanced show with peaky moments.

Christian Alati – Pietra (2007)

Grey Sparkle

• Drone 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Minimalism 
• Microtonal 
• Sound Art 
• Leftfield 
• Avant-electronica 
• Post-classical 
• Modern classical

Comment: this couple of very extended compositions clocking in at a 38 minute is not a nascent one. Vice versa, it was released on an imprint called Chew-Z which does not exist anymore. Fortunately another domestic imprint called Grey Sparkle is still with its discography up there. Yet it was supported by another defunct label as Canebagnato Records either. More profoundly, it was issued 10 years ago but the music is in spite of it thoroughly evergreen. Why should it be otherwise, isn't? Although it does not involve catchy hooks in the terms of pop songs it can be considered a poppy instance within the experimental electronic music scene. Pietra 1 is not the kind of it because the artist is inclined to have experiments with electro-acoustic sounds yet at the end of the composition it is going to lose its austere and rigid facade remarkably. At the ending part those subtle droning waves are flowing over the crackling bits and incisive sounds conjured up with contact microphones. It is going to remind me of something being produced by Penguin Cafe Orchestra many decades ago. However, Pietra 2 introduces even the more acquainted associations due to slowed down drones, lengthy piano chords and poignant electronic effects and then as if coming from nowhere putting on a swarm of fantastically chirping cinematic droning which would without any obstacles be the epic finishing backbone to the maudlin motion pictures. In a nutshell, I applaud the effort of Christian Alati.

Drunkeninstrumentcorporation – Always The Same 10 Fucking Songs (2016)

In Your Ears

• Shoegaze 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Fuzz pop 
• Jangle pop 
• Noise pop

Comment: this 10-track issue clocking in at a 33 minute comes out of from Italy, from the deep Cuneo province in the southwest of the Piedmont region of Italy (nearby the border of France). It is the one-man-project of Marco Abbà whose purpose was to put up a fight against boredom by being imaginative and creative. What does it mean always the same 10 fucking songs? Could it be understood in the same way as the propositions as always having sex with the same woman, always doing the same job, any day visiting and posting the blog? By the way, it could be delightful if your understanding and well-being is closely related to it. In case if the aforementioned sources are bottomless are you still intended to abandon them? In fact, I have been listening to this set of fucking songs five times in a row. The more I listen to it the more appealing it seems to be. In fact, it is the merit of this “always the same”. Distorted galvanized guitars, jangly yet still galvanized guitars, lofty synth-based overdrives and poignant electronic sounds and programmed beats atop and at the bottom respectively and tight, coherent structures of songwriting. The listener could hear certain echoes of Bloody Valentine, Ride, Swervedriver and even more distant echoes of post-punk combos yet Drunkeninstrumentcorporation is not the same. The whole contains a couple of amazing compositions as The Attic, Sea Of Memories, Happy Like A Hurricane, and Blanket. The solid issue is a part of the discography of In Your Ears. Great success.

Troy Spencer – Phase 6 (2016)

2419 Record Label

• Cool jazz 
• Modal jazz 
• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Fusion 
• World fusion

Comment: I am being very lucky because of listening to an outing from the discography of the Netherlands-based imprint 2419 Record Label and at the same time feeling sadness about the label's inability to maintain its website. Unfortunately at Archive.org you can find out some very huge aggregates of sonic files just pigeonholed by genres. For instance, to get one slab a music enthusiast must download a huge volume while it may be choking up his/her computer. Hopefully any album will be set aside over there sometime. In truth, 2419 Record Label has been releasing amazing music in many years like the recent outing used to prove it. More profoundly, this set of 10 compositions embraces lots of chord changes and dodges in mood yet it is way too less to say much enough about it. At times it used to happen to chime in a spasmodic and enraptured way while based on the short fuse of free jazz. Musically it may resemble Miles Davis from the end of the 60s, and at the beginning of the 70s filled in with enormous energy while straddling the border between soothing and wild, between more traditional and vanguard, between sane and mind-provoking. Between cool jazz, and modal complexity. On the other hand, we have to understand the whole as a contemporary release of involving more facade and fads. For instance, one can hear the more steep precipices and angular chords of math/technical rock and even some picturesque Balkan gypsy motives now and then. In a word, it is the fabulous listening session.

[Teaser of the day] Martin Brandt - Vida

• Indie funk
• Alternative pop
• Synth-rock
• Dance pop
• Electronic
• Alternative dance
• Indie pop

Artist: Martin Brandt

Release: Sonidos Para Sentir

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Nasienie - In The Distance

Webbed Hand

• Ambient
• Soundscape
• Avant-garde
• Electronic music
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism
• Acousmatic music
• Microtonal

Artist: Nasienie

Release: Outdoor

Label: Webbed Hand

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Cuarto Para La Una - Avant

• Indietronica
• Alternative
• Hip-hop
• Crossover
• Electro-indie
• Art pop
• Indie-hop
• Electronic
• Post-pop

Artist: Cuarto Para La Una

Release: Avant - EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Paper Wasp - Someone Else`s Apocalypse

• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Symphonic rock
• Art rock

Artist: Paper Wasp

Release: Paper Wasp EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Andy Rantzen - Stone Head

• Avant-garde
• Spoken word
• Electronic music
• Microsound
• Leftfield
• Experimentalism
• Sound poetry
• Microtonal
• Art music

Artist: Andy Rantzen

Release: Worthless Offerings  

Label: 4-4-2 Music

Year: 2016