2013, Overlooked & Unknown (Volume III)
You want to die if you do not use the magic |
1 | | Octo Octa Between Two Selves
(House) Velvet laced deep house for flipping through 80s fashion mags | http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=LFsUAuc8UJ0 |
2 | | Dusa Segermannen
(Ambient) Earthy drones hum through tape decayed forests | http://hibiskofon.se/hfk01_en.html |
3 | | Eric Copeland Joke in the Hole
(Sound Collage) Indefinable sampling hoping around comically on crutches | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP8FEU9LPIg |
4 | | Nothing Downward Years to Come
(Shoegaze) Ghostly polaroids canvassed throughout places of sentiment and wonder | http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=MSbC8qI3Bi0 |
5 | | DJ Smokey Kush Alienz
(Memphis Rap) North Venus, South Venus, Westwood, Orange Mound / Nigga's Ain't On That, Nigga's Ain't On That
| http://djsmokey.bandcamp.com/album/kush-alienz |
6 | | Maxmillion Dunbar House of Woo
(House) Drifting through lucid Mario Kart courses that only deep sleep and dreams can keep afloat |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-yi-n6j_vI |
7 | | Emptyset Recur
(Techno / Noise) Abhorrently self-deprecating realists on suicide-watch who gave up their chance of happiness for
hard truths and even harder techno | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfpIV8aSUmQ |
8 | | L. Pierre The Island Come True
(Ambient) Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of
rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I
knew such lovely pictures. | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT1W896jwV8 |
9 | | C V L T S Intentions
(Neo-Psychedelia / Lo-Fi) Krautrocky ambient noodlings remember your secret trip to the moon |
http://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/album/intentions |
10 | | Willis Earl Beal Nobody Knows
(Soul) An incredible talent brings his message of nothingness to the masses, and not enough people are listening |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuDRyAWxNNw |
11 | | Matana Roberts Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
(Jazz) "high" and "low" musical forms merge into a gorgeous and cerebral work that defies period and trend |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcgTY2JjhA |
12 | | Nmesh Nu.wav Hallucinations
(Sound Collage) Audio wreckage / Outmoded computer renderings / Soda pop and Japanese cars |
http://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/nu-wav-hallucinations-amdiscs |
13 | | SFV Acid The Dwell
(Electronic) Glossy themes of fuzzy characters shopping under 24-hour video surveillance |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlUxaIEYAtE |
14 | | Scowler How to Find Light
(Screamo / Post-Hardcore) Find your light in SHORT BURSTS OF ENERGY | http://scowler.bandcamp.com/ |
15 | | Fake Blood Universe I.Y.
(Drone) Unremorseful industrial humming slightly rattles dust off forgotten death machines |
http://fakeblooduniverse.bandcamp.com/album/i-y |
16 | | Cousins Bathhouse
(Post-Punk) A long, bleak journey through post-punk's past. | http://bridgetownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bathhouse |
17 | | Technicolor Teeth Blood Pool
(Dream Pop) Maybe single's aren't suppose to be here, but it's simply too fantastical to be ignored. For fans of
having fun and dreaming. | https://soundcloud.com/gimmetinnitus/technicolor-teeth-drips |
18 | | Paisley Parks Ghost
(Footwork) Electronic music's cutest couple - the sampler & the drum machine - decide to take acid
together and end up partying a little too hard | http://ghost045.bandcamp.com/album/- |
19 | | Susan Balmar PALCNA
(Glitch / Sound Collage) Hip hop beatz attempt to breathe under wretched plunderphonics |
http://balmar.bandcamp.com/album/palcna |
20 | | BF Hoodrich Eponymous EP
(Trap / Footwork) Hard bangin' trap kits over nu-rave technicolor fantasy, the fusion of shamelessness
and digital nostalgia we need on the dance floor. 01 DJ Nate - Hatas Our Motivation.mp3 |
http://bfhoodrich.bandcamp.com/ |
21 | | Sean Nicholas Savage Other Life
(Synth Pop) Slick MIDI pop straight outta the '80s | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CkDfYIVbck |
22 | | Grooms Infinity Caller
(Indie Rock) Dream pop Nirvana | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDlVfWCDVrg |
23 | | Splashh Comfort
(Indie Rock) Noisy colorwheels of psychedelic energy | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msnLo4Qv2EY |
24 | | Sulk Graceless
(Britpop) Sunshine forever, frolicking through the pastoral fields of Manchester |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2onhuRvTW |
25 | | Deep Magic Reflections of Most Forgotten Love
(Ambient) A world of different styles make for one of the most diverse and enaging ambient releases of the
year | https://soundcloud.com/experimedia/deep-magic-reflections-of-most |
26 | | Foxes in Fiction and Benoit Pioulard Ground Glass / Etalon
(Dream Pop) An incredibly dreamy single, "Ground Glass" being one of the highlights of 2013 |
https://soundcloud.com/frank-5-2/foxes-in-fiction-beno-t |
27 | | Diamond Terrifier The Subtle Body Wears a Shadow
(Avant-Garde Jazz) Extremely difficult to pin-down, it's outsider and choatic jazz jetting from seemingly all
angles | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFgW9wBvgaY |
28 | | Dolphin Tears Spa World
(Ambient) Wonderfully lush water park tape loops | http://lillernetapes.bandcamp.com/album/spa-world |
29 | | The Ocean Blue Ultramarine
Your Reason(Dream Pop) The Ocean Blue rise from the ashes of their late 80s / early 90s material and
create an album that gushes nostalgia | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB2gg-42EtY |
30 | | Mammane Sani et son Orgue La musique electronique du Niger
(Electronic) Hazy old Nigeran organ tunes emulate the memory of NES soundtracks |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPXuw2f0U9U |
31 | | Rod Hamilton Atitlan
(Electronic / Minimalism) Lush tribal-esque minimalism that sounds an awful lot like the crystal cave levels of
Donkey Kong Country | http://rodhamilton.bandcamp.com/album/atitl-n-2 |
32 | | The Ex & Brass Unbound Enormous Door
(Post-Punk) Great mix of chilly post-punk w/ Jazz and Afrobeat influence |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VLUZGHUzNM |
33 | | Fluorescent Heights Vendetta in Paradise
(Ambient) Tropalica for lo-fi junkies | http://sicsic.bandcamp.com/album/vendetta-in-paradise-sicsic044 |
34 | | Bedroom (NY) Trans
(Progressive Electronic) An ever-morphing liquid portal to Germany's historical synthesizer museum |
http://bedroomnyc.bandcamp.com/album/trans |
35 | | Amber London Tru 2 Tha Phonk
(Memphis Rap) Hardest female in 1994 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dfbtwmPtWc |
36 | | Tusen ar under jord Sorgsendomet Fobos
(Ambient) Gloomy lo-fi tape loops of sad and dreary church music |
http://ytims.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/tusen-ar-under-jord-sorgsendomet-fobos/ |
37 | | The Yearning Still in Love
(Girl Group) Rip up the juxebox, throw out the pigtails, and start all over again |
http://elefantrecords.bandcamp.com/album/still-in-love |
38 | | Stupid Bummed Get Used to It
(Dream Pop) Synthetic bedroom pop 4 those w/ ur head n the clouds | http://junipertreesongs.bandcamp.com/album/jts009-
get-
used-to-it |
39 | | Chris Corsano and Bill Orcutt The Raw and the Cooked
(Free Improvisation) Balls-out improvised noise rawkk insanity, leave your soul at the table |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw7N-y8UZno |
40 | | Nathan McLaughlin Karen Studies
(Folk / Drone) Bleakest ever bleak drones guide the raw limbs of a noodling guitar |
http://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/karen-studies |
41 | | Yousei Suzuki The Scene From a Frame
(Folk) Soft spoken bedroom folk for the pure at heart |
http://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/the-scene-from-a-frame |
42 | | Lutto Lento Partition
(Ambient) A wrenching collage of grave stone ambience and the sorrow of the forest behind it |
http://jehuandchinaman.bandcamp.com/album/partition |
43 | | Josh Mason Conduit
(Ambient) Gorgeous dedication loops from the heart | http://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/conduit |
44 | | Andras Fox Erskine Falls
(House / Synth Funk) Completely irresistible 64-bit house, disco, 'n funk. One of the finest EPs of 2013. |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n46r3KUHy-c |
45 | | Dirty Beaches Hotel
(Impressionism) A man and an old hotel piano. Emotion ensues. | http://dirtybeaches.bandcamp.com/album/hotel-ep |
46 | | D/P/I Espresso Digital
(Sound Collage) The entire sunday paper fell in your morning cup of coffee, pictures and words
spilling everywhere, and every time you take a sip you take in a bit of juxapated senselessness |
http://djpurpleimage.bandcamp.com/album/espresso-digital |
47 | | Alan Licht Four Years Older
(Noise) Similiar to Aaron Dilloway's Modern Jester in that it feels much like a heavily labored noise
opus | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZCP5zJUyxY |
48 | | Ahnnu World Music
(Instrumental Hip Hop) One of the classest, most gorgeous instrumental tapes to come out in a while. Fans of Madlib
or Dilla hop in | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umMxrm1w8SU |
49 | | Pali Meursault Offset
(Musique concr?te) Rawest tech no of the year. Real machine music | https://soundcloud.com/experimedia/pali-
meursault-offset-album |
50 | | Matt Krefting High Hopes
(Drone) Decayed tapes and worn out machinary tapping into realms unknown... |
https://soundcloud.com/experimedia/mark-krefting-high-hopes-album |
51 | | Dean Blunt Stone Island
(Dean Blunt) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1yiG96js3M | http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Ik_9iPRKh3k |
52 | | Mark McGuire Along the Way
(Progressive Electronic) Undeniably cheesy compared to his days in Emeralds, but oh Marky Mark your such a
beautiful soul. Evokes images of Spyro the Dragon like music never dared before |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngAbBpFLvc0 |
53 | | Boy Froot Looters
(Hip Hop) Straight dirty lo-fi hippidy hop that rests somewhere between Odd Future & a broken
tape deck via an aluminum baseball bat | http://boy-fruit.bandcamp.com/album/looters-mixtape |
54 | | Echo Lane Afterschool Recreational Dept Greenvale SodaPop & Clinic
(Ambient) Careful and subtle ambient that reaches rare levels of 3pm-hypnosis |
http://echolane.bandcamp.com/album/greenvale-sodapop-clinic |
55 | | The Focus Group The Elektrik Karousel
(Electronic / Sound Collage) 60's psychedelic stock footage electronically tuned |
https://soundcloud.com/experimedia/the-focus-group-elektrik |
56 | | Dolphins Into the Future Writing Suspires, Two Sketches
(Ambient / Minimalism) Two beautiful and challenging sketches from mother nature's choice
ambient artist | http://www.infinite-limits.com/products/1425-lieven-moana-dolphins-into-
the-future-writings-suspires-cassette-c50-tape-cetacean-nation-cas.aspx |
57 | | Lieven Martens Moana Music From the Guardhouse
(Ambient) A rich and classically diverse dive into the realms of cosmic energy and subtly |
https://soundcloud.com/experimedia/lieven-martens-moana-music |
58 | | White Poppy Drifters Gold
(Dream Pop) Beautifully strung ambient pop for pastoral daydreams |
http://whitepoppy.bandcamp.com/album/drifters-gold |
59 | | Cosmonauts Persona Non Grata
(Garage Rock) http://cosmonautstheband.bandcamp.com/album/persona-non-grata |
60 | | Obsidian Pond Artefacts
(Sound Collage / Drone) Murky pop loops hidden in waves of lo-fi obscurity |
http://featheredcoyoterecords.bandcamp.com/album/artefacts |
61 | | Night Beats Sonic Bloom
(Garage Rock / Psychedelic Rock) Honestly, hw does this only have 1 rating? Every
bit as good as White Denim, Ty Segall, and Tame Impala errrrbody loves to eat up.
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWxsa2QPvsk |
62 | | Rene Hell Vanilla Call Option
(Glitch / Noise) s e n t i m e n t i a l r o o m |
https://soundcloud.com/experimedia/rene-hell-vanilla-call-option |
63 | | Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet Photographs
(Electroacoustic / Musique concr?te) Oh nostalgia, why must you tug at our
heartstrings and plow us into sorrow... | http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=gX4R7AGsk5U |
64 | | Nocow Solus
(Ambient Techno) For fans of early Autechre + garage undertones |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY-HWPZuwTA |
65 | | Andrew Chalk and Tom James Scott Wild Flowers
(Ambient / Minimalism) Lovely classical ambience that nods to Stars of the Lid |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVvEJFxtAIU |
66 | | Minilogue Blomma
(Techno / House / Ambient) Perhaps overlong and a bit overwhelming at times, but
Blomma remands one of the most overlooked electronic albums of the year. The
first track (Everything Is All You've Got) is everything electronic music should be. |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3p9MQtJN_Q |
67 | | James Ferraro NYC, HELL 3:00 AM
(Contemporary R&B / Sound Collage) what will the glittery logos, cold architecture,
and dead streets say to the UFO's after we're gone. what will they do with the
survivors. | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yXDuiwIiEs |
68 | | The Proctors Everlasting Light
(Indie Rock) Sunshine jangles straight outta the 80s | http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=qxHH2bvWR4U |
69 | | The Stranger Watching Dead Empires in Decay
(Dark Ambient) The side project of Leyland Kirby (aka The Caretaker) finds him exploring
even darker, more treturous paths | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iRLLxpqr1E |
70 | | Enjoy Boom, Bang, Blast!
(Indie Rock / Lo-fi) Fun, energic lo-fi poppy seeds that nod to Ariel Pink |
http://enjoy2.bandcamp.com/album/boom-bang-blast |
71 | | Mrs Jynx Diving Loop
(Ambient Techno) Goooorgeous ambient techno via 1992. One wonders how Donkey
Kong was able to survive under that aquatic ambience for so long. |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfZ-H2e1Xlo |
72 | | No Master Disconnected
(D-Beat / Powerviolence) Noisy and unforgiving hellfire forever abolished between
thick death sheets of distortion |
http://nomaster.bandcamp.com/album/disconnected-tape |
73 | | Oomori Seiko You Want To Die If You Do Not Use The Magic
(Folk Pop) Cute folky goodness =)) | http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=I5yAYyCGKvc |
74 | | Delroy Edwards Untitled
(Techno) I thought killin' those fools would make me feel good, but it really didn't
make me feel anything. I just knew that I could kill somebody, and if I had to, I
could do it again. | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWKhp8Gisic |
75 | | Mamitori Ulithi Empress Yonaguni San 123 Fairy Tail Chimidoro Phenomenon Satan Inferno
(Indie Rock / Experimental Rock) Stripped, sunken, soft, and subtle (and further
adjectives that start with the letter s); This is a weird and inventine take on a
familiar rock palette | https://soundcloud.com/mamitoriulithiempress/fairy-tail-
chimidoro |
76 | | Helm (UK) Silencer
(Drone / Dark Ambient) You silently walk in horror around the industrial death
factory | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq3YVgnmSdw |
77 | | Ensemble Skalectrik Trainwrekz
(Free Improvisation) Lucid, electronically-tuned obscurity loops revolve endlessly
around a turntable. Surprsingly psychedelic. | http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=0SZoi2l_g6A |
78 | | Work/Death Death Phone About To Ring
(Noise / Drone) One of the most masterful noise albums I've ever heard. Arrestingly
dark and incredibly subtle, slowly let it consume you. For fans of Deathprod's Morals
and Dogma. | https://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/work-death-phone-about-to-ring |
79 | | Heavenly Beat Prominence
(Indie Pop) Cheesy mall music fleshed into incidental songs for shopping through
vintage thrift stores, instagramming ironic outfits, and smoking e-cigarettes |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-uaNtfB9G4 |
80 | | Torn Hawk FIST
(Sound Collage) Insomnia ridden TV-at-midnight as a psychedelic experience |
http://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/album/fist |
81 | | Kat Epple and Bob Stohl Sanctus Spiritus
(Progressive Electronic) A bunch of old musty recordings from two early electronic
pioneers, fasincating stuff | https://soundcloud.com/experimedia/kat-epple-bob-
stohl-sanctus |
82 | | Donato Dozzy Plays Bee Mask
(Ambient / Progressive Electronic) Etheral electronic for meditating in the rain or
exploring crystal caverns | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EbwJhye5yI |
83 | | Roly Porter Life Cycle of a Massive Star
(Dark Ambient) Cinematic galaxy clusters expand far beyond the naked eye |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLjeJd4lr9A |
84 | | Monster Rally Return to Paradise
(Exotica / Instrumental Hip Hop) Tropical loops + boom bappin' beatz |
http://monsterrally.bandcamp.com/album/return-to-paradise |
85 | | Magnetophonique Lush Islands - Illusion of Paradise
(Ambient) Tropicalia - realized. | http://carpi-records.bandcamp.com/album/cr-15-
lush-islands-illusion-of-paradise |
86 | | Bitchin' Bajas Krausened
(Progressive Electronic) The Bajas' droney krautrock reflects images of NEU! |
https://soundcloud.com/permanentrecords/bitchin-bajas-krausened-promo |
87 | | Manix Living in the Past
(Jungle) Classic Jungle straight outta the early '90s for interstellar travelers |
http://manix-reinforced.com/music |
88 | | Rodolphe Alexis Utsukushi Haru
(Field Recordings) Japanese nature, tiny ambiances, conversations in a Ryokan,
shakuhachi flute, shopping mall and Shinkansen. *Binaural recordings must be
listened with headphones to fully experience the Immersion and 3D-sound effect. |
http://impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihab079.htm |
89 | | Secret Pyramid Movements of Night
(Ambient) Lucid, seamlessly crafted guitar drones drift through cavernous structures |
https://soundcloud.com/experimedia/secret-pyramid-movements-of |
90 | | Casino Hearts Lonesome Island
(Ambient) Gorgeous guitar loops for drifters wandering through horrid neon strips and
desolate tropics | http://carpi-records.bandcamp.com/album/cr-16-lonesome-island-2 |
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