Electro/Ambient

Artist: Various Artists Label: Strut Records

Artist: Bardspec Label: BY NORSE MUSIC

Artist: Force M.D.'S Label: Goldenlane

Artist: Jason Loewenstein Label: Joyful Noise Recordings

On June 2, Canadian five-piece Obey The Brave will release their third full-length Mad Season. With its raw passion and furious determination, the album affirms Obey The Brave as a major heavyweight in the metalcore genre. The follow-up to 2014’s Salvation, Mad Season came to life during an especially tumultuous period for Obey The Brave (vocalist Alex Erian, guitarists John Campbell and Terrence McAuley, bassist Cory Wilson, and drummer Stevie Morotti). But after a lineup change and a series of false starts in the studio, the band emerged with their most ambitious yet viscerally potent album so far. Co-produced by McAuley—who worked alongside engineer/mixer Dean Hadjichristou (Protest The Hero, Parkway Drive)—Mad Season also proves to be Obey The Brave’s most stylistically diverse work to date. In addition to featuring a collaboration with French Canadian rap group Loud Lary Ajust (on the beat-heavy “RIP”), Mad Season finds Erian expanding his vocal approach and introducing a singing style inspired by old-school punk. Record Label: Epitaph Europe Style: Metal

GOOD TIME CHARLIE release their 10th album “Ready to Rumble”. After over thirty years on the road as one of the premier Norwegian bands – initially taking their musical inspiration from American 50s & 60s soul, savage rock and rhythm & blues – Good Time Charlie are ready with 11 new songs brimming with energy and magical charm. READY TO RUMBLE is a stylish and uncompromising musical experience of unashamed high energy. Purified, unadulterated real music! GTC are able to renew themselves and take the music further in a genre where originality and new ways of thinking have been rare for many years. GTC has once again created a fresh, state of the art production, capturing and enhancing the characteristic and authentic GOOD TIME CHARLIE-sound Record Label: Apollon Records Style: Rock

Artist: Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Label: Mexican Summer

Artist: Floating Points Label: Pluto

Artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS Label: Mental Groove Ltd

Artist: BOLA Label: Skam UK

Artist: Floating Points Label: Pluto

Flying Hair is Bobby Martin, Kurt Mangum, and Matthew Clark. They are a newly formed band from LA. Bobby Martin was a founding member and drummer/vocalist of Zig Zags. Matthew Clark played in Premonition 13. Flying Hair creates heavily riffed and demented jams. Creepiness abounds with these unusual sounds, while a surprisingly catchy pop sensibility emerges from a wave of weirdness and groove. Flying Hair just might be the best band in Los Angeles right now, don't be left out in cold on this one. Haunted Hangout II was recorded by bass virtuoso and studio wiz Dan Horne at his home studio in Echo Park and was mixed by Black Bananas guitarist and tech mastermind Brian McKinley. Flying Hair drummer Matthew Clark has grown the enterprise of his Casual Acid Tea label to finally issue the band's first statement on vinyl. After a first run of band-duped cassettes were snapped up at gigs in California - and south of the border - Casual Acid Tea offered a proper cassette release of Haunted Hangout II, which caught acclaim from rock critics and clamor for vinyl from weirdo collectors as far flung as Finland and Australia. "Flying Hair is immersed in the queasy-uneasy tension between blast-damaged nuthin-fancy stoner rock and that span of the 70s when heavy psych and creepy prog overlapped cuz they were all watching the same horror movies on the same downer." -Chris Ziegler Record Label: Casual Acid Tea Style: Stoner Rock

LP is limited splatter vinyl. The Mothers Earth Experiment Is a six-piece contemporary progressive outfit from the UK. With a wide range of influences ranging from electronica, jazz, psychedelia to black metal and back, the band of childhood friends pride themselves on their eclectic inspirations to weave detailed sonic tapestries to propel their message of social consciousness and environmental awareness. The band is proud to have provided support for such artists as Syd Arthur, Purson, Acid Mothers Temple, Nicholas Allbrook (Pond, Tame Impala), Braids, Arthur Brown And Soft Machine. The band fuses together such a variety of genres that it is both old and fresh simultaneously." Birmingham Review . In the band's own words: "We feel artistic freedom has become the music industry and we aim to express what is close to us and raise awareness through our art." Record Label: Swordfish Style: Experimental

Artist: MAX COOPER Label: Mesh Records

Artist: ZWEIRAUMWOHNUNG Label: It Sounds

Artist: KONDI BAND Label: Strut Records

Artist: KONDI BAND Label: Strut Records

Poiemusia La Nau Dels Argonautes offers a Mediterranean journey, one that Ulysses, Aeneas, and Jason with his Argonauts charted first and Valencian artist, Pep Llopis, retraced and retread from the islands of Menorca to Santorini. All of his experiences are aboard this vessel of sound: no format in mind, no course but the chasm within self. Poiemusia La Nau Dels Argonautes offers a musical language that any listener can understand. Untethered to the meaning of words, one is set adrift and free in minimalist sound and traditional music. Record Label: Freedom To Spend Style: Experimental

Digipack. Hybrid club music for big soundsystems – that's the essence of Schlachthofbronx. On their fourth studio album Haul & Pull Up, the DJ and producer duo from Munich demonstrate how versatile a sound can be that is nonetheless deeply rooted in soundsystem culture and their various local offsprings. With the album name inspired by the seminal 1984 Haul And Pull Uptune by Neville Brown, Jakob and Benedikt pay their respects to the originators all the while clearly formulating a futuristic sound of their own with this new record. Having journalists (and info text writers) struggling to put a genre tag onto their music as a trademark, Schlachthofbronx effortlessly float through conventional style classifications and tempi in their tracks. In the same spirit, they take their vocal contributors and embedd them into a genre that might not have been your first guess when you look at the artists previous work. Warrior Queen, a dancehall artist most known for her intense early Dubstep anthem Poison Dartwith The Bug, ends up delivering her high energy clash lyrics on an 808 HipHop drum workout on Killer to a quite stunning effect. Riko Dan, the Grime MC of Roll Deep fame, finds himself spitting his Copper And Lead lyrics on a Dancehall riddim from outer space while Gonjasufi, the Warp-signed Rapper from San Diego, sings and screams his Goodbye on a beat that is reminiscent of drone metall - if it wasn't for that acid line. And even though this album is 100% club and soundsystem ready and probably will get the occasional rewind when played (haul & pull up – check!), this record goes way beyond that context. The dance imperatives from tunes like Pump Drop Wine with its disgustingly good sounding bassline, or from U Mad and its high fueled Footwork meets arpeggio madness...all that gets easily balanced by versatile productions like the dubby Blurred Vision or the floating Take It Low with Doubla J from Costa Rica on vocals. Plus you will even discover songs that have the potential to work as leftfield pop songs as well: On Bitch Better Have My Money, the guys have Otto von Schirach from Miami as a guest and indulge in their joint passion for all things Booty Bass, ending up with a fun and catchy (yet obviously x-rated) song. But maybe the highlight in this regard is Electone, an instrumental beauty of a song on which Jakob and Benedikt combine multiple layers of melodies with a propulsive beat, evoking feelings of melancholy, happiness and wanderlust until collapsing in a sweet conversation of steeldrum-not-steeldrums with the eponymous Electone organ from Yamaha. The Haul & Pull Up album will be available digitally and on a couple of stricty limited physical formats (CD, 3x12" vinyl bundle, cassette tape) via Rave And Romance Records/Disko B/Indigo. It’s the final release in the Haul & Pull Up series, which contained three EPs leading up to the album. With this, Schlachthofbronx will follow up their three previous original albums (2009s Schlachthofbronx, 2012s Dirty Dancing and 2014s Rave And Romance), completed by EPs & singles for Labels like Mixpak, Monkeytown, Mad Decent, Disko B and Man Recordings as well as production work for artists like M.I.A., Snoop Dogg or Bonde Do Role Record Label: Rave & Romance Style: Electro