The Slaves - Ocean on Ocean

Shoegazey (at least I think it's shoegaze-influenced, I've only heard Loveless by MBV, lol) drones with wordless (I think) vocals. This is how they describe themselves: "The Slaves are a girl/boy duo from Portland OR trading in gothic drones and slowed down 50’s pop and surf.  Using voice, feedback, and synths Barbra Kinzle and Birch Cooper create an overwhelming and melancholic beauty.  Mastered by Matt Carlson of Golden Retriever" (it took me a while to get over that 50's pop and surf thing, it's ridiculous how far people can go to sound original in their "inspirations"). Anyway, you can listen to the full album on Bandcamp, OR download it from here:

Ocean on Ocean (link by The Radiant Now)

David Kanaga

Hailing from Eugene, OR, United States, David Kanaga creates fragmented, psychedelic electronic pop. Catchy, happy melodies hidden beneath mangled samples and almost glitch-like outbursts of sudden synth noise.

BANDCAMP

David Kanaga's blog

A Trip to the Moon (part 2) from David Kanaga on Vimeo.

Sacred Harp - Apparitions at the Kenmore Plantation

 

Sacred Harp is Daniel Bachman from Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA. His music is psychedelic folk heavily influenced by American Primitivists such as Robbie Basho - that is, amazing fingerpicking passages combined with heady droning ragas. Really worth checking out, this man puts an amazing amount of work into his music.

Download here!

Pre-compass - Trails

Pre-compass is Jason Edgil. He describes the name of his project: like Pre-cum-piss, like 'before there were compasses'. The sound of the project can be described as deconstructionist ambient/pop vignettes, heavily inspired by "SAW" era Aphex Twin, ranging from whimsical bursts of distortion ("Big Guns"), melancholic keyboard workouts ("Princessless"). The two real standouts on the album though are the opening track "Ipods", which sounds exactly like something Tortoise would come up with and "Mamma's a Cannibal", which just asks for a minimal techno/microhouse beat to be added. Lots of potential this guy has. Bandcamp

The Inner Space - Agilok & Blubbo

Irmin Schmidt, Michael Karoli, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit shortly before they formed Can. Originally recorded in 1968. Stylistically, this is to Can what Amon Düül was to Amon Düül II: less structured, more improvised, somewhat whimsical/silly at times. Y'know, psychedelic rock/krautrock. The last track is a jam.

AGILOK & BLUBBO!

UNSOUND 2010

CAN'T. FUCKING. WAIT.

Not pictured: Ticket for Carlos Giffoni, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Anna Zaradny and Noveller on Saturday (because it's a free performance).

Residual Echoes

First two albums from the Californian psychedelic power trio. Highly recommended!

Residual Echoes (2004)

Phoenician Flu and Ancient Ocean (2005)

Actually, while I'm at it, I'm gonna post links to the two albums from 2006 I've posted some two years ago...

California (2006)

MFI GBSP (2006)

 Firsts EP (2007)

Prehistoric Blackout / Carlos Giffoni / Keith Fullerton Whitman / Oneohtrix Point Never - Synth Night

Great live album from the four synth masters, recorded in 2009, released on Protracted View. Wonderful droning/prog electronic soundscapes from OPN, KFW and PB, although it is Carlos Giffoni (aka No Fun Acid) who steals the show with his acid techno/house set. Get to it!

Download!

Polymer Slug - Warm Forms

 

Polymer Slug is the project of Adam Tramposh. He creates psychedelic electronic soundscapes using his Casiotone MT-65. The first two tracks are pure ambient, the remaining five tracks are warm synth noodlings ornamented with simple beats. You can buy the cassette on Overland Shark label website or listen to the entire album on the label's Soundcloud page.

Polymer Slug - Warm Forms by overlandshark

Owl Pillage

So, the other day I got an email entitled simply "U might dig this". Apart from that, the email contained only a link to Owl Pillage session on Nitetrotter. "This better not be some chillwave bullshit", I thought. And man, I fell in love immediately. Distorted, superreverbed (is that even a word) psych noise rock. Damn guys, I'm digging the fuck outta these. Recommended, especially if you're a fan of Heavy Winged, Rahdunes or Burnt Hills.

Owl Pillage - "We are High" - NITETROTTER Session by NITETROTTERSEXPARTY4U
Owl Pillage by Teslavision Intergalactic