Such cool girl power rock from the indie-garage axis, but mostly just hot rock and roll.
Deap Vally – Marriage
Walton – Maisie by the Sea
This is some fine IDM, mostly on the ambient side, sometimes broken beats. Working Title is a track that invokes some great masters of IDM with modern mastering—when the melody kicks in at 2:25, that’s goosebumps.
Torn – Borderline
Drum and bass and jungle and breakcore.
Дeva – Csillag
Hungarian folk-infused electronic downtempo.
Bonobo – Fragments
It’s a perfectly Bonobo album. Melodic and emotional electronic music.
Haris Nukem
Amazing hyperstylized photos by Haris Nukem.
Birds ov Paradise – Memorial
Melodic mid-tempo floaty-floaty techno music. Aka beautiful trippin’ techno.
SIERRA – See Me Now
Synth-infused cyber-futuristic electronic music. Also, “I make vampires dance” is the coolest tagline.
DB Armitage – Lovelow
I have such a hard time waiting for Dalma Berger to produce new music, I’m hungry for every new things she makes. She definitely takes her time to release new material with the latest DB Armitage alias but this record is also showing that it’s worth the wait. Beautiful (and sorrowful) electronic pop music from the non-mainstream kind.
It has been interesting to see her journey from the Realistic Crew and Singas Project through Volkova Sisters to where she is now. And whatever she produced or contributed to always orbited around the musical aesthetics that I completely adore. Probably it’s an easy statement that she’s also my favorite Hungarian female vocalist of all time.
CT Kidobó – Impulse & Inhibition, Pt. II
Amazing electro, not simple but pure. Hacker music—not the EBM kind but from the Anthony Rother school.