Dream Affair - Endless Days, Contrepoison - ...Until Next Morning - Avant! Records 2011

Many thanks to Andrea for sending this over.

Dream Affair - Endless Days LP/CD

This 9-track gem seems like perfect soundtrack for architectural and psychological communications between urbanistic saccharine downtowns and restless romantic subburbs. Sliding and mannered drums create some kind of buzhie contrast on which rebelling guitars and powerful/acute vocals occur as ghosts attacking well-doing peace of the centre. In terms of time this record does not belong to either past, present or future, it rather somehow plays the role of poignant reminder of man's glory for all times.
Nice stuff.    

Contrepoison - ...Until Next Morning 12'' 

Huge steel-rimmed vertical lines of gold people queues stream to the sky. They move slowly but massively, passing by mountain picks, air channels, heavy clouds inbued with poisoned moisture. They rupture atmosphere and then split up so that each human could get as far as he can and be there alone.. Heartfelt lacerated synth waves, proclaiming vocal and diaphanous drums will tell you this story about the last exodus.
Very much recommended.

Buy both records from Avant! Records.

 

Giant Claw - Mortal Earth/Morbid Earth - Retrograde tapes 2011

Giant Claw - Mortal Earth/Morbid Earth Cassette

There is a good music that perfectly fits in with your feelings. There is also a good music that forces you to step on a new way and go wherever it takes you. And there is a goddamn good music that makes both. This Giant Claw tape gives you a fresh example of such goddamn good music. Deep heaving synth groaning intersperses with straight-from-the-shoulder electric squashes and sploud pauses. Two long but impetuous tracks easily zonk you out with beautifully arranged telegraphic sound phrases. Nevertheless, overtly and covertly outlined idea of composition-based music piece makes this record sound almost as academic-like stuff. Synth orgasm!
Buy this cassette from Retrograde tapes. 

OXYKITTEN - The Streets Were Paved With Circuit Boards - Field Hymns 2011

OXYKITTEN - The Streets Were Paved With Circuit Boards Cassette

This gorgeous tape reveals some freakiest examples of music for dopey computer games. I mean it. This cassette definitely investigates a new way of getting into virtuality without leaving one's body or anything in this world - a complete transformation. Masterfully exploited drum machines, thoughtfully composed and arranged electronics and perfectly measured dollop of abstract elixir make this thing an inexorably appalling and at times parlously dark disco jam. It yields to you: UP! UP! UP!
Hey pal, pull those white thin things out off your brain and sew a nice suit for dancing.
Buy this splendid tape from Field Hymns records. 

Sashash Ulz "Voln" cassette - Full of Nothing 2011

One more tape from the recent batch on FON.
Sashash Ulz "Voln" cassette

 


After a cassette release on great Sweat Lodge Guru and a split work with Swim with a carrot (as Dva Zagorodnyh Doma) released by Goaty Tapes Sasha delivers a new full-length work 'Voln'. Ten lo-fi tropical jams with transliterated Russian titles open for you a muzzy and elusive world of slurred but sharp, enticing but righteous feelings and colors. Unstable blurred drones, far/low guitars and handmade sounds will like a weather make you a whole day.
Catch up!
Buy from Full of Nothing.

Kraken Mare, M. Akers - Retrograde Tapes 2011

Kraken Mare - Kraken Mare Cassette 

This amazing tape contains two long tracks. The first one describes us a space ship. Yeah, a huge machine that penetrates galaxies and approaches to the stars. The sound damn masterfully shows us each detail, each corner of this ship. We can perceive the linkages, electric columns and futuristic metal forms. The second track shows us how this ship works. And it works very cool... We can see its perfect operations, dynamic moves, easy slide through the space: beauty of man's creation. At the end of the track the ship enters one of millions yet unseen places and soon we loose it. The last signals disappear.


M. Akers - The Elders Of New Detroit

This shit blew my mind. First time I listened to it was few weeks ago. Since that time it's in my play list which I usually delete and rewrite each 2-3 days. There is something very simple and very beautiful in this music. Long queues of synth layers lean over the horizon where a new life comes up. And though the sound does not leave traditional field of synth music it burns out your brain right until you find yourself a baby ready to get to this world for the first time!
The songs move smoothly and drastically at the same time. Highly recommended.
(And yes, I love the art - I have a weakness for frames...)
Buy from Retrograde tapes.  

Robedoor- “Rock Bottom” Cassette 2011

Robedoor- “Rock Bottom” Cassette

This 4-track tape became a soundtrack of my day. Shamanistic dances in perplexing esoteric radiance!
Tribal acoustic drone occupies the space around and spreads hordes of low and soulful impulses to captivate you and make you spend the whole day thinking about your own poor mind. Ritualistic, sacred, thoughtful stuff.
Music with many faces. Get a cassette from Night People.    

TIDAL - the future of an illusion Cassette - Sangoplasmo 2011

Many thanks to Lubomir for submitting this.
TIDAL - the future of an illusion Cassette

 One can find two long tracks on this tape recently released by a young Polish label Sangoplasmo. Two long tracks - two long stories. The narrativeness of the music is obviously shown by the voice that appears in the very beginning of the first track. These stories tell us about human-like beings who lived on Earth millions years before us. They tell us about glassy castles where those creatures were spending their long days and nights. They tell us about their life without words but with sights, actions and thoughts. They tell us about eternal life when every move and every thought is a war-long battle, is a life-long research.
Drone-based noisy flows of sound occur as embalmed details from that time. Feel it.
Buy from Sangoplasmo records.