Recent Music Heroes

Comment: you are searching for profound and tranquil soundscapes to find a remedy for suffocating your desperate feels and borderline madness. You are aware of the premiss the ideal album must have the imposing centre point being surrounded by many and frequently changing satellite sounds. The method makes sense. Josè Barrera aka Bite's 9-track release on basic_sounds makes sense in that way. It is just an infinite moving where it makes no sense to remember the starting point and the finishing point. Any temporal moment and chord makes sense. The music is very present in any present moment. Given that you have entered into the sphere of continuous present and it does mean the term time makes no sense altogether. That's the point. Musically you hear at times hammering at times slightly lofty piano chords followed by one another and at the same time being accompanied by acidic electronic counterpoints, microscopic noises and ennobling natural sounds. For example, the self-titled track is a fabulous incantation full of profound, iterative, magic reality. Indeed, it bites you. And the rest of eight tracks do the same effect. Superb work by any means. I guess if Beethoven could have had the same technical possibilities he would produce an analogous stuff but instead of the known musical and historical reputation he might have a more hidden influence upon us.

Josh McClure – Z-Mon EP (2017)

Tape Safe
Tape Safe

Shoegaze
Hip-hop
Avant-hop
Experimental hip-hop
Leftfield
Crossover
Electronic
Indietronica

Comment: this bunch of 3 tracks is a fascinating and at the same time frenetic blend of shaggy yet imposing hip-hop rhythms, shoegaze-y guitar-led horizons and spaced-out sonic effects. You can perceive synergistic halo rings coming out from these enchanting noises, massive reverberations and blazing electronic trickery. Of course, I would call it indie music at any time but given that many decayed and conformist music groups are called with the same term and having no joint point with the topic of the recent issue so it would be misleading to do it. On the other side, it is much more worth than an average hip-hop issue. It can be concluded it is great to dwell nowhere or at least somewhere in a mediate position (yet it is not a bare derivative release) and having a more sophisticated and uncompromising spot upon this life. Let's call it an example of beautiful noise though making noise music is not the purpose of the artist. By kindred souls I would compare it to the likes of Seefeel, Dälek, Death Grips yet the comparison regards more the attitude of the combos than their sonic examples. The outstanding outing is a bit in the discography of Tape Safe.

Samarah – Robots Smile Too (2006)

Nishi

No Type/Panospria

Indietronica
Electro-indie
Alternative
Electronic music
DIY
Lo-fi
Dream pop
Minimal electro
Electro pop

Comment: what is that? Is it a reaction to electroclash music having been so prevalent in the beginning of the 00s? On the other side, it could be admitted to be a subdued and strongly decelerated version of Ladytron. Samarah provides a remarkably more lo-fi, primitive and minimal counterpoint to it. It is just the truth in a half measure. The listener can hear progressions toward the aesthetic of dream pop. Or are the progressions instead of it something reflecting upon the more immersive and ghastly trajectories by Throbbing Gristle? The truth is obviously somewhere out there. The issue is a part of the discography of Nishi, No Type, and Panospria, a quite weird and important angle from Canada within the netlabel/webaudio world. Indeed, robots smile too but the question is whether the smile is human-friendly or not?