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5/27/2017

[Teaser of the day] Talkative - Dub Jag

  • New Weird America
  • Neo-psychedelia
  • Psych-rock
  • Alternative rock
  • Acid rock

Artist: Talkative
Release: F Sharp Voice
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2016

The Fucked Up Beat – Insomnie (2017)


  • Sampledelic
  • Avant-garde 
  • Experimental electronica 
  • Ambient 
  • Plunderphonics 
  • Modern classical 
  • Leftfield 
  • Electronic music 
  • Hauntology 
  • Oldie music 
  • Piano music

Comment: it has always been a great event while Brett Zehner and Eddie Palmer aka The Fucked Up Beat have issued a subsequent outing. Their music pretends to be the best one worldwide and I have no arguments against it. Why should I? Furthermore, it is ageless because it used to base partly on ageless facets. The duo has employed the samples of oldie music as a main habit to process the sound. I really hope they will get their merited place in the history of electronic and experimental music. So I hope Simon Reynolds, and Simon Goddard and other popular music journalists could find their way to the artist`s music. In fact, they outdo most of the recent sampledelic artists because of representing their music over the restrictions of decades, and technical possibilities, and ideological outlooks, and human-related stupidity and misanthropy as a logical consequence to it. It is just the music. The duo`s music used to sound in an ancient and modern way at the same time wherein different generations are either present in nearby samples or superimposed on each other. If to compare Insomnie to The Fucked Up Beat`s earlier issues then I have to admit it is a little bit sparser and even more slowed down, however, it does not mean its production is inferior and weak in some way. No, it seems to be the duo`s deliberate choice to add fewer glacially glistening synthesised templates to the mix. Frequently it chimes like a post-classical release being tapped out on a dust-coated piano with intention to fade away (at least a listener can perceive the intention throughout the course with regard to many tracks on it). In fact, the miscellany of 19 tracks (clocking in at a 57 minute) is to have a tight focus on ambient and piano songs being recorded from 2011 to 2016. It is bucolic, and majestic, and yearning, and melancholic in its clear mind. And the duo`s 33rd outing is a very sad event because this will be their very last one to start off with new project. The king is dead, hail to the new one. Brett Zehner and Eddie Palmer have been a fine exemplar of democratization of musical production because of issuing music at their own disposal whenever and how much they would like to issue annually. I tmakes me glad that more and more people are finding their way to the duo. Insomnie will again be mentioned in the end of the year 2017. At least in the chart of Recent music Heroes it will be done.

Recent Music Heroes Mixtape #16 (27.05.2017)



1) Calla Soiled - Rhincodon Typus (2015, Lucoq)

2) Seuora - 34512 (2014, The OddBeats)

3) Loose Link And Option Command - Karramantha (Jostle Throng's Ratatak Remix) (2011, Karramantha)

4) Ev3nmorn - Until The Sun  (2012, Solar Waves)

5) Bluebridge Quartet - Karp (2007, Adjusted For Low Noise Tape EP)

6) Chravis Phranklin - Drumset (2016, Loosened Cheap)

7) Decktonic - Dancing All Alone (2016, Unbox Me)

8) Florian Wahl - Cherry Fairy (2016, 14)

9) Heyhill Muangle - Inside (2016, Heyhill Muangle)

10) Spooky Cigarette - Oh Well (2016, As Loud As I Can)

11) Sympathy Points - Height Width Depth (2016, Negative Space)

12) Tunnelbirds - Dark Side (2015, Hohner Sessions)

ST★RS – Four Letter Words (2014)



  • Electronic music 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Lo-fi 
  • Alternative 
  • DIY
  • Darkwave 
  • Synthwave 
  • Drone 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Minimalism

Comment: behind the nom de plume ST★RS is Jay Stevens from Portland, USA whose 4-track debut outing starts off with Gold which chimes like an old tape broken up and being played on a tape player with smeared cartridge. One can hear faint droning and powerless drumming around it. By using headphones one can hear almost nothing. Because of that the purpose of that track seems to be totally unclear. It might be it is thought to introduce the other tracks to create such a sort of effect before. Indeed, the situation will change with the second track, Frag, which is based on a reverberating, vibrant drone showcasing its very minimal approach in the first place. Haze is also a drone-based issue though abandoning its minimal approach and employing blackened smouldering of somehow glistening synthesisers and intense drumming. The final track Tosh is the most hovering one and opened toward outer space. Indeed, Jay Stevens watches the stars in a magnificent way. The solid outing is a part of the discography of Bayshore Records.

[Teaser of the day] Derek Clegg - Turn Back To Me



  • Singer-songwriter
  • Indie pop
  • Soft rock
  • Alternative pop
  • Americana

Artist: Derek Clegg
Release: DC4t
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Baradit - Cyber Photo


  • Techno pop
  • Ambient pop
  • Alternative
  • Kosmische Musik
  • Synthwave
  • Crossover 
  • Electronic pop

Artist: Baradit
Release: Electro Lines
Label: Pueblo Nuevo
Year: 2017

Get- Effect – Trick Ladders (2015)



  • Krautrock 
  • Alternative 
  • Experimental rock 
  • Drone pop 
  • Motorik 
  • Avant-rock 
  • Art rock 
  • Electronic

Comment: this handful of tracks is based on contemporary tendencies of krautrock/motorik music which was initially started off by an early Kraftwerk, and Neu!, and later developed by such artists as Stereolab, The Notwist, To Rococo Rot, Mina, Contriva and Fujiya & Miyagi, for instance. Get- effect is a project from Glasgow, Scotland whose the most distinctive track is obviously Giant On The Hill which chimes like a tribute to Simon Jeffes through fable short waves, and white noise frequencies providing the intriguing background for the catchy, iterative melody. Otherwise, droning, glacially glimmering synths with acidic vibrations are represented there which used to hover over obsessively iterative rhythmic structures and pulsating guitar gears and throbbing synthesised basses. This fabulous outing is a part of the discography of Manchester, UK-based imprint Vanguardista Records.