Same Road - Sensem przekaźnika jest przekaz

Quite possibly the BEST psychedelic rock band in Poland right now. Especially after this album. Mind-melting fuzzed out stoner slooooow-burners. "This is how we really sound". Highly recommended. Check out Same Road's previous albums in this post.

Sensem przekaźnika jest przekaz

Skullorian

Truly trippy and murky sound collages by Cologne, Germany based Thomas Gerendás, co-founder of Ghetto Naturalist Series label. Mangled tape loops, found sound, field recordings, synths bleeps and noisez create a thick psychedelic soup in the style of the Skaters, but more cohesive (but still fucking weird!). Check out Thomas' blog, too!

 SKULLORIAN BANDCAMP

Electroluminescent - Bleeds Light 1998​-​2011

A wonderful compilation spanning 13 years of Hamilton, Canada's Ryan Ferguson's career in 13 tracks. Calm guitar workouts drenched in droning ambience, Teutonic synth excavations and Cluster-like ambient pop gems. Highly recommended.

Bleeds Light 1998 - 2011

Kyle Landstra

Bedroom lo-fi drone. Nothing revolutionary, but still very nice selection of moods, ranging from bleak, cold, almost nightmarish soundscapes to slow, somewhat melancholic bliss. Apparently the dude has a tape coming up on Sacred Phrases this summer. Rad! In the meantime, listen and download his first two albums from his Bandcamp.

Recurring Dreams

Moonrise

Review: Reedbeds - G'Morning Gomorrah (Self released, 2011)

Sacramento, CA's mysterious Carter Mullin released his album in an insanely-limited run of 15 copies. Each one of them is completely DIY - from the cover, which is ornamented with a squid-like object drawn with a pencil with something that looks like lipstick. The CD-R, which is not labeled in any way, is housed inside an envelope made of toilet paper. On the other side of the package there is a handwritten project and album name: "Reedbeds - G'Morning Gomorrah". Inside the package, together with the CD-R, is a neatly written piece of paper saying which copy this is (mine was 9 out of 15), and the time of recording.

G’Morning Gomorrah, together being about 50 minutes long, is a sort of a “fundraiser” album, released to collect money to record another, “proper” Reedbeds album. And what a fundraiser it is! The six untitled tracks oscillate between pastoral lo-fi guitar improvisations (with field recordings) in the style of Jewelled Antler roster (especially Loren Chasse) or the slow jams of Thoughts on Air and slowly evolving synthesizer-based drone pieces in the style of early Jeff Witscher (think Marble Sky at its most dronish). The fourth track gives a slightly creepy rendition of musique concrete with old song samples mangled beyond recognition, reduced to a set of droning ghost choirs, suddenly coming into existence and fading just as abrubtly. The last, longest track embodies the albums “ear to the ground” approach, enveloping the gentle synth notes with quiet hum, like a quiet wind going through the forest.

Reedbeds’ album, although extremely limited and not as “official” as other releases offers a relaxing journey through a variety of aesthetics and might be an interesting (if extremely obscure) link between the guitar-based improvisational ambience and the synth drone scene.

Apparently, the last copies of the albums are STILL available at http://dreamfieldeditions.blogspot.com ! Grab them, because I think they will be gone any moment now.

Kplr, Outer Spacist & Worker

Three nice tapes from Canadian label Prairie Fire Tapes and it's subsidiary Dub Ditch Picnic. Kplr is an abstract, glitched-out journey in the vein of recent KFW releases, Outer Spacist offers a one-sided tape of fun psychedelic rock and Worker is a heavy, heavy drone doom tape.

Kplr - Mechanical Mental Space / Mechanical Motion Simulator

Outer Spacist - Tape

Worker - Dream Dead

4/20 special post

Hello everyone! In commemoration of the 20th of April, I'm gonna post some of my favorite psychedelic/experimental albums. Some of them you might already know, some might be a nice surprise.

FOR THOSE FALLING ASLEEP:

Fabio Orsi - Winterreise

FOR THE HYPERKINETIC ONES:

The Psychic Paramount - II

FOR THE FREAK FUNKERS:

Sunburned Hand of the Man - Jaybird

Links removed by request

FOR THE MYSTICS:

Ginnungagap - Remeindre

FOR THE INCENSE BURNERS:

Vibracathedral Orchestra - Dabbling With Gravity and Who You Are

FOR THE ALL-AROUND LYSERGIC TRAVELLERS:

Pärson Sound - Pärson Sound

FOR THE MINIMALISTS:

 Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians


FOR THE IMPROVISATIONISTS:

 Matta Gawa - Ba 


FOR THE NOISE ROCKERS:

Magik Markers - The Voldoror Dance
Part 1
Part 2


FOR THE HEAVY STONERS:

Sleep - Dopesmoker


FOR THE COSMIC TRAVELLERS:

Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - Anthem of the Space

FOR THE PLUNDERPHONISTS:

Negativland - Escape from Noise

FOR THE FURRIES:

 Racco-oo-oon - Is Night People

FOR THOSE FALLING ASLEEP AT THE BEACH:

Sun Araw - Beach Head

FOR THOSE WHO DRIVE UNDER THE INFLUENCE (OF SOMETHING OTHER THAN ALCOHOL:)

Kraftwerk - Autobahn

Uton free archive

Here's a real treat for the fans of the Finnish underground psychedelic scene. A truly vast (and I mean VAST, as in: it would take WEEKS to listen all the stuff) archive (hosted on Freemusicarchive.org) of free albums by Uton and assorted psych/experimental acts. Fucking incredible. I don't even know where to start.

OM LABEL DISCOGRAPHY

UTON ALBUMS ON BANDCAMP

Quilt - We Have Layers of Skin

And now something for the fans of the harsher end of the electronic spectrum, but still somehow staying in the dreamy drone/new new age territory. Pastoral analog ambience vs. sounds ranging from ridiculously overdriven synth drones to pure, in-your-face, harsh wall noise. Think you can handle it?

We Have Layers of Skin

Giant Claw - Midnight Murder

Keith Rankin's electronic goodness. Equal parts whimsical and dystopian richly ornamented kosmische synths with a bit of chiptune on top. Worth getting for the opening track alone, a sequencer bliss, which later kicks into a great minimal techno beat. Preview the album on Bandcamp. Cassette available on Orange Milk Records.

Midnight Murder