Modern classical orchestra music. With electronic effects and beats. Furious rhythmic songs. Calm ballads with vocals. Cannot write. Whole sentences. Sorry.

Honestly, composer Roger Subirana has done a great job here. As another reviewer put it: “A Jamendo must-have!”

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Point of no return is one of the calmer tracks. After minute two the theme unfolds into a magnificent sound carpet of strings and drums.

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Live in Onara could as well be in the soundtrack for Slumdog Millionaire. It is an upbeat ballad.

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Stay Ali are among of my favourite electronic music artists. They virtuously mix dance music with vintage game console sound (chiptunes). I already wrote a review of Vati Vati EP some years ago, which I prefer as my favourite EP.

This release is published at Superbutton, a netlabel that specialisesd in chiptunes and closely related styles.

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Dopamin is great Electro sound flavoured with tasty 8-bit bleeps. Reminds me of good old video games…

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The Wonderful Bob is one catchy loop, iterated back and forth ad nausea. I like the underlying chords.

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The netlabel Sutemos releases excellent electronic music since 2004. This sampler is the first I stumbled into first. It took me some time to discover the beauty of most songs; it is well hidden from the casual listener by slow and silent composition. It is best heard late in the evening in a thoughtful mood. My favourite songs come from stockfinster, whose contribution I already reviewed in his release All becomes music. So I selected two other tracks for the preview below.

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Streetlights Are Soldiers by The London Apartments is not for everyone, the tender vocals are on the edge of sounding destroyed.

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I’ll Meet You There by ST is the most pop-like song on this sampler. Laid-back beats carry a relaxed and catchy melody. Only the harmonies are too complex/uncommon for a usual radio song.

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William Wilson that is easy to listen to, but hard to describe. Take some soft alternative Rock, add small drops of Electro, Jazz, Classic at selected spots.

It is released at Lophophora Williams, a young netlabel with five releases since 2010. If you like what you hear here, look into their catalogue!

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Vita Ludus Est is a great rock song. And a great electro song. How I like genre-spanning compositions.

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Blank is a jazzy, laid-back ballad. Oh, an the vocals are marvellous.

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…By-Night September Sky is an instrumental piano piece with full background orchestration. Wow. Blows my mind. I better stop, though I’d like to present track #5 as well…

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Take 80′s Pop, add New Wave à la Poni Hoax, stir and serve on a dimly lit dance floor. That’s a rough verbal description of the début release of The Easton Ellises at Enough Records.

Five distinct songs with catchy riffs and great production are packed into this twenty minute long EP. Read on for a preview of two tracks to get you started.

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Liquor Store tells the story of an unlucky guy who has a miserable day: First he’s late to work and gets fired. Back home, he finds his girlfriend with somebody else. Consequently, he opts for heavy drinking, hence the liquor store.

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Endorphin just gets it all right. Listen, tap your foot, dance!

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Chamberlain is alternative rock from Italy with a psychedelic or progressive influence. Guitar soli included. They do good old craft, no heavy effects in post-production.

The EP was released Lophora Williams that has published five releases so far, mainly alternative rock. There are reviews in my pipeline for this netlabel. But for now, listen to my two selections from this three track EP at hand.

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Superstition sounds like a relaxed rock & roll jam session.

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Moon In June (alt. version) has a slow, nearly ambient intro, until the rock song unfolds after 2:00.

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Do you know that kind of music that is repetitive, nearly boring but addictive nevertheless? Oneiro follows this recipe and made me an addict. I would classify this release loosely as indie electronica with shoegaze elements. Another way to describe them: the introvert brothers of MGMT. Anyway, their music is addictive background music for calm evenings.

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Nowhere to Hide is a slowly floating ambient song with soft percussion. You either dig the harmonies or find the song boring.

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Freedom is a musical meditation around the text line “All I want is to be free”. One chord sequence is repeated over and over again, while instrumentation comes and goes.

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This week’s review is about great pop music. Take a great voice, add piano and guitar, some percussion, mix it and you get this single release from Happy Puppy Records. This release has only two tracks, but both are worth the preview below.

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Go On starts with a piano chord sequence, then the magnificent vocals set in. Soft guitar notes accompany the repetitive but never boring song.

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Going Nowhere (funny song title, by the way) has the genes of a classic radio pop ballad. Catchy, easy harmonies and a great production make this song a frequent guest in my playlist.

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bitbasic releases “playful glitchy electronic music” freely. Very kind of him. Pixel Mixel is still his latest album, released 2010 at rec72, a netlabel based in Cologne, Germany. His music hovers between house, instrumental pop and IDM. This album has eleven tracks, some more silent, some are full of beats. Like usual, I present my two favourite tracks in the following.

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An Opener is the ambient start to a more vivid album. The mood is perfect, just like a sunrise on the countryside.

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Owls eye crust is on the glitchy side of bitbasic’s style. Clicky beats, cheesy effects and a bit of distortion make this track quite catchy.

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