Recent Music Heroes

4/22/2017

[Teaser of the day] Robot Speaker - Honymoon Life

Breaks
Trip-hop
Alternative
Cinematic
Sampledelic
Easy listening
Electronic pop
Mood music

Artist: Robot Speaker

Release: EICV7" No. 109

Label: EverythingIsChemical

Year: 2015

Drehkommando – Namenlose Welt (2016)

Der Kleine Grüne Würfel

Techno
Kraut-techno
Minimal techno
Alternative dance
Motorik
Funk
Electronic

Comment: give in to lust, give up to lust, oh heaven knows we`ll soon be dust. It is an excellent phrase of an excellent song of the best musical group to have ever existed and very probably which come to exist in this way in the future either because of a very sublime interaction between music and lyrics. The song is about a voluptuous woman and the firmness of mind of a man though the same words and the intention of it can be transmitted to this set of 5 compositions by Drehkommando whose music used to balance between body and mind, between sexual desires and spiritual strength. More profoundly, it is a delicate vibe between minimal techno rhythms and fine female vocals (by Doris Mücke who sings in German) as if being a part of the laboratories of such labels as Perlon, Kompakt, and of course the Detroit techno scene. In a more indirect way one can hear krautrock influences. For instance, at somehow resigned Die verzauberte Maschine wherein Doris Stücke repeats: /diese verfluchte Maschinen/these damned(cursed) machines in English/. It chimes like a version of the robots about CAN`s album Soon Over Babaluma (1974, United Artists). Indeed, it is a mechanical, synthetic, motorik funk. The same can be said about the opening track Die Toten haben Strassen. If you are felling yourself depressed and being suppressed by Xanax and you are glaring at a greyish, pointless point in a remote distance while having no mind in your fucked-up brain. The great issue is a part of the discography of Der Kleine Grüne Würfel.

4/20/2017

V.A Darker Frequencies (2010)

Kopp

Post-industrial
Noise
Electro-acoustic
Field recording
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Musique concrète

Comment: this is the first entry by Recent Music Heroes to the discography of Kopp Netlabel, and our focus is directed toward Darker Frequencies, a compilation of 15 compositions and 103 minutes. As the title suggests it is all about or at least most of it is about peripheral sound generation and nihilistic industrial structures and noisy progressions. However, this immense set includes many variations either – for instance, Indo`s Vairupa is based on wobbly, fairly slowed-down trance-alike frequencies which are mixed up with spacey field recording undulations. The compilation embraces such artists as Kid Atari, Perankh, BPMV, Loki Fun Lilith& No Way Out, Topi Reta, AQM, Indo, Murmurists, Dopam, To-Bo, Nosens, Rune, and Adrien Mailler. Given that the miscellany was released seven years ago I guess many artists represented over there are defunct at the moment. Additionally to the intriguing music it is a reason even more to dig it up.