Full-on noise, not really rhythmic, rather harsh but calm. Sets my piece of mind right now.
The Gaslamp Killer – The Gaslamp Killer Experience: Live in Los Angeles
The true example of why you listen to a live concert recording. On the one hand it brings the full atmosphere into your home, but also makes you weep because you weren’t there.
The Dale Cooper Quartet – Metamanoir
Broken slow dark jazz. Nicely orchestrated deepness. Bohren and Kilimanjaro comes to mind as similar, although this one has some Dead Can Dance and Portishead in the mix at certain points.
Hiatus Kaiyote – Tawk Tomahawk
Smooth jazzy, laid-back music for a Sunday afternoon chillin’. Also great album cover and band name. Their new album is out right now, but not yet available on Rdio and anyway this one is worth a mention on its own.
Martin L. Gore – MG
It’s hard to say wether this album is something or not, either concerning genre or quality. There is a hint of DM meets Twin Peaks ambient mood, tense beat with synth, soundtrack atmosphere, deep pumping, and all else. This is rather like a personal collection of stuff laying around and being collected for some time I guess.
Crisopa – A Lucid Dream Kit
Beautiful ambient soundscapes, triphopish tempo and grain, IDM electronics.
Braids – Deep In The Iris
Slow to mid tempo music, glitchy electronic, girl sings, melancholic. I rarely listen to music like this nowadays but Khoiba just reoccured to me right now.
Apostille – Powerless
Somewhere around industrial, avant-garde and synth-something. But really this is rather an album of compositions around free associations. The free spirit of it is most definitely the best aspect here that kept me listening from beginning to end.
Squarepusher – Damogen Furies
This is quite fucked up. I wasn’t expecting this surprising level of experimentation.
Akkord – HTH035
All different kinds of electronic underground explorations from breaks to techno. What is exceptionally exciting is the HTH020 remix called ‘The Haxan Cloak’s Cloud of Witness’, which starts off a bit intimidating but builds up into some kind of elemental orchestrated rhythmic noise masterpiece in a manner of Fuck-Buttons-meets-post-rock-with-electronics.