Forgotten futures through the sounds of Evitceles (Bulgaria), The Silence (Japan), and El Huervo (Sweden) — We have handpicked three hauntological tunes of different flavors and countries. We hope longing for a dead future does not become one of your daily chores, but the pleasure can keep you tied to the post for future references and wisdom. Burial-like Hauntology From Bulgaria I, too, will never be able to adjust to…

An invitation to the darkness of Demdike Stare and to leave pop for around seven minutes — According to papers, music is allegedly not a very Darwinian concept. There is no survival of the fittest when it comes to music. Especially contemporary music! Here’s a fact: does anyone in the world remember that in Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Engelbert Humperdinck represented the United Kingdom in the final…

Haunted choirs of Wolf Maps and Mirage — It would be dull, easy, and straightforward if we fill these white spaces with Kierkegaard and Nietzsche quotes and somehow relate them to the drone sound of UK sound artist Wolf Maps. But those quotes could apply to anything tagged with emptiness! This is what the world has come to…

How listening to one Disappears song created a nightmare I don’t regret having — Achtung: The post contains uncomfortable music. Approach with tact, or save it for your sub-brilliant days We would definitely like you to listen to Disappears’ long-play Irreal and its opener “Interpretation.” Except for this time not because it is an excellent blend of shoegaze with some remnants of kraut. And…

Albums that defined the genre for me. (Two are by the same artist, actually!) — It was not that long ago when, drowning in a shopping mall music longing, we found ourselves Betamax-ed at the sights and sounds of vaporwave. It was alien but sweet of sorts. …

Translate and compile the state of your brain into sound — In what appears to be an impressive early ascension to our Kanjira framework, the Japanese experimental veteran, Ghost’s spearhead Kyoto-born Masaki Batoh has spent years developing a physical device that implements similar revolutionary use-cases. We always knew Japan is brilliant in almost taking everything from state A to state B…

On punk rock’s reform in the time of war, and the necessary angst of Alexander Heir — It is to nobody’s benefit that punk rock has its own walls and boundaries. It just doesn’t feel right. We need a punk rock to be destructed and reshaped from the ground up. Punk rock is getting old. Sex Pistols’ anarchism needs to be reinvented because basically, no one gives…

Forking the late Aaron Swartz in furthering the chaos, some harmless satire included — In July 2008, sitting in Eremo, Italy, the late great Aaron Swartz wrote his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto. Following his footsteps, and a few recent public displays of radical authoritarian bullying, we found the time ripe to make our own version. Read more details in the following article by naman. Returning to Aaron Swartz: Guerilla Open Access Manifesto Aaron Swartz was unquestionably more than your normal online blogger rattling about the Establishment subverting the…medium.com

Oneiric doses of the weird and the eerie — [In high school] being the new girl three times taught me to shut up, smoke weed, and play music. ~ Alexandra Drewchin There are words that, through the numbing repetitive slaughter of journalism, have completely lost their charm: dream space, psychedelic, experimental pop, hazy, and the biggest harlot of all…