Category Archives: Discovers

For the past couple of years I’m Gary (@noyokono) on twitter has a challenge for February – MWE
“Music Writer Exercise: Each day in February, listen to 1 full album you’ve never heard, from start to finish. Write one tweet about it. #MWE”
Ok, I’m no writer and although I listen to a lot of music everyday, this does spur me to listen to new discoveries. I did this last year and I’m attempting it again and here are the last albums –

MWE#22 – Challenging intriguing chansons of stifled anger and noise for grown-ups – LET THEM GROW by Maja Osojnik

MWE#23 – Experimental Grime, hints of Vaporwave and warped electro Gospel. A revelation that’s quite special –

MWE#24 – Black Quantum Futurism – Space-Time Collapse I – Connecting history with the future in multi layered sonic collages.

MWE#25 – Melodic chillout that moves the feet – Online Dating by Tryphème

MWE#26 – Alice Kemp – Uneasy listening with dark undercurrents creating claustrophobic atmospheres –

MWE#27 Sarah Rasines pyr124 –Gameboy, found sounds, loops + glitches create hypnotic toe tapping rhythmic patterns

MWE#28 Anne Gillis – Lxgrin – Relentless nightmarish experiments in voice, loops and repetition = Challenging and cathartic

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Today’s Discovery – All I can think about is this by Oddstep Deployment Unit

March 2, 2017 Feminatronic

Today’s Discovery is difficult to categorise but covers experimental, kosmische musik, Folktronica and voices –

“This album came out of live shows we were doing around 2010. The Cafe Concrete sound art collective in Plymouth asked us to document this work as limited edition CD, so we blasted out this collection of tracks in a two week period. This is an extensively revised version of that material. Every track has been remixed, many have been edited down to more concise structures and Sleepers, a track that didn’t make it onto the original release due to the strictures of the CD format has finally come home. FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION FOLLOWS FORM “

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Review Reblog -Beast Nest’s “Songs for Puppies”- Heathen Harvest

February 28, 2017 Feminatronic

Sharmi Basu, the intricate powerhouse behind the project Beast Nest, seemingly has the rare power of sleight of hand. Her ability to pull the rug out from under you whilst catching you and projecting you into another time, place, space continuum is infinate considering the finite nature of material recordings. Songs for Puppies reads like…

via Beast Nest’s “Songs for Puppies” Will Project You Straight Out of the Usual Darkness and into DMT-Fueled Light — Heathen Harvest

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Review Reblog – Ashley Bellouin – Ballads

February 26, 2017 Feminatronic

The focus for a couple of weeks is on all platforms is Artists whose surnames begin with B, so this fits perfectly and recommend a listen.

Everyday Ambient

Today’s featured album is an LP of drone compositions by a young avant-garde composer. This is Ms. Bellouin’s second LP overall and first for Drawing Room. The instruments played on this LP are as follows: harmonium, glass armonica, aluminum rods, electronics, electric guitar, and cello.

Side A of the LP begins with a looping drone that gradually gets louder. A bubbling melody comes in, and low, gritty, string-like tones emerge that evolve into a feeling of warmth and tranquility. Small shimmers of melody are added to the mix along with some ringing, chiming tones. As the track progresses, the low tones fade back and forth to the foreground and background. There is some repetitive bleeping, some use of volume, bright melody, and a good deal of texture.

Side B of the LP is much more ominous and uneasy. A high-pitched tone starts this track and moves into a low drone…

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An Album a Day pt3

February 21, 2017 Feminatronic

MWE#13 – How Dance should be – Hypnotic rhythmic earworms of wonderful noise – Plus Instruments – Trancesonics by Truus

MWE#14 – Disorientating the listener with destructive sound manipulation – Facies by Bella –

MWE#15 – Soundtrack to dense sonic nightmares – The Sleep in Opera by Ocean Viva Silver

MWE#16 – Like the weather it’s changeable with many layers of light + shade. Remain Calm – Mica Levi & Oliver Coates

MWE#17 – Defies easy categorisation but disparate elements combine into an avant garde delight. Headphone listening – Canned Fit – cucharas de arena (pyr139)