Deadbeat - Journeyman's Annual (Scape)
Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Jinx (Staubgold)
Slint - Spiderland (Touch & Go)
Kode9 - Sonar 2007 Exclusive Mix (Online)
T Dunn & S Burgon - Baltimore (Skirl)
Death Ambient - Drunken Forest (Tzadik)
Hall & Oates - Rock 'n Soul : Greatest Hits
In its outspoken nakedness and visually minimal style, Electroma, the third longplayer feature by one of the most prolific electronic bands of this era, is strange yet very intriguing.
Daft Punk's Electroma tells a small, yet spun-out story that is set in an American desert-like highway landscape where two robots are in search of human existence. Which unfolds in a drama in the desert landscape. The film has already been compared to Gus Van Sant's Gerry and pays hommage to films such as George Lucas' THX 1138 and Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist. Just try and depict those particular scenes...
No music by the duo Bangalter/De Hornem-Christo this time but featured artists such as Todd Rundgren, Brian Eno, Curtis Mayfield, Sebastien Tellier & Linda Perhacs.
Electroma : trailer
Electroma : full length feature
Music for the Sylvain Emard Dance Company - Montreal
o1o6 : Urgence
oo:oo monkeysteak : lighthouse dub (pinch remix) + o3:4o rhythm&sound : range + o9:oo monolake : alaska (substance remix) + 17:15 monolake : alaska (original) + 24:2o surgeon : bad hands part two (autechre remix) + 29:2o vainqueur : track (phylyps remix) + 4o:4o dbx : losing control (richie hawtin remix) + 44:43 richie hawtin : (re)edit - freek'd + 48:58 sleeparchive : research + 57:o5 END
Created with Ableton Live
When does sound become noise and when does noise become music?
Charalambides documentary - courtesy of French webzine Mille Feuille
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The Annual Instal Festival for New Music Glasgow - Downloads by Jason Lescalleet & Nmperign, Keiji Haino & Tony Conrad, Sachiko M, Ellen Fullman, Jazkamer and others
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Deaf Center - Live at Lab30 Festival Augsberg Germany - Digital release
Last friday i attended a double-bill night, co-produced by Courtisane and Kraak, featuring Japanese altsax performer Masayoshi Urabe, performing with dancer Yukiko Nakamura. Both alienating as fascinating, tiny gestures but with extra-ordinary effect, both created a performance balancing between Albert Ayler, minimalism and film-noirish stylings.
Kraak posted a video which can be viewed here.
Preceding there was a viewing of some of the majestic and surrealistic films of German artist Jurgen Reble. Here's what SensesofCinema has to say about his work : " Jürgen Reble's film works are marked by layers of residue, shifting abstract surfaces, chemical traces, scratches and blotches, as though a virus has infected the image, distorting its tone and colour, imbuing it with unusual textures and a strange aura. In these films destructive processes are the creative aesthetic agent... "
More info at Filmalchemist.
17.11.2006
Tijuana Gent
Eavesdropper . Ansatz Der Machine . o1o6 . Franco Cangelli . The Guy Ritchie . Mnml_D
(K-RAA-K)3 & Artscentre Vooruit Gent present Pauze Festival.
From the 26th 'till the 28th of October, featuring performances by Jonathan Kane, Ekkehard Ehlers & Joseph Suchy, Jos Steen, Keiji Hainio, Charlie Nothing, Overhang Party, MV/EE And The Bummer Road and many others.
Preceding the concerts, screenings of films on Harry Partch, Luc Ferrari and Derek Bailey.
This week's highlight on Youtube.com, a 4-part documentary (originally aired by BBC2) on outer-space jazz legend Sun Ra.
Essential viewing (part 2, 3 & 4 in the sidebar).
Imagine a composition starting off with shortwave static, hiss and subtle washes of white noise, and suddenly a melody emerges, creating dense, organic layers of sound. Canadian, Montreal-based sound composer Tim Hecker acquired attention through his minimal techno moniker Jetone (releasing several singles and an album on German techno-label Force Inc.). His unmistakable talent came upfront via his debut album, released under his birth-name 'Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do It Again' (Alien8 Recordings), which put him aside prolific producers such as Christian Fennesz, Oval and William Basinski. Several albums followed - including the Van Halen-sampling extravaganza 'My Love Is Rotten To The Core' (Alien8 Recordings), 'Mirages' (Alien8 Recordings) and the soundtrack to an imaginary story of Jimmy, a shrimp fisher, titled 'Radio Amor' (Mille Plateaux).
This month sees the release of his new album 'Harmony In Ultraviolet' (Kranky Records), on which he takes his trademark sound a step further into perfection.
Fairytales reveal our nature, the possibilities and limits and the spectre of forces. A little girl and a wolf, a female and a male, and human versus animal. The three artists construct a contemporary fable - their own version.
Adventura Anatomica, a live dance and music performance by Maja Ratkje (music), Odd Johan Fritzøe (choreography) and Karl Hansen (art).
Soundtrack released on SemiShigure (a Bottrop Boy division).
Review and samples up at Boomkat.com.
Today on the stereo, 'Westernization Completed' (2003, Orthlong Musork) by Berlin-based writer/poet/producer Antye Greie-Fuchs aka AGF
AGF Profile (Subjectivisten.org)
Plastikman - Closer
Polwechsel - Archives of The North
Iannis Xenakis - Electronic Music
Office(R)-6 - Mundane Occurences and Presentations
Scott Walker - Sings Jacques Brel
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Taylor Deupree - Northern
Famously reclusive, he hasn't performed in front of an audience since 1978. He only released two albums in 25 years and rarely gives interviews. Until now...
Scott Walker, one-time teen idol with the band The Walker Brothers, has grown to be more demanding, attentive and mysterious with age. Aged 63, Walker released his follow-up to 1995's 'Tilt' in May 2006 : The Drift
The Drift is one of those albums you can't find no words for, how hard you even try. It has an own unique sound and feeling, ranging from baroque to just plain paranoid. One thing's for sure : Walker has established himself as one of most astonishing 'soundmakers' of the last decades with this album.
Television Interview on BBC's Culture Show
This year sees the 25th birthday of the first release and conception of the British Touch label, a multi-media company combining both sonic and visual experimentation.
Until the mid-80's (the dawn of the digital era - read : compact discs), Touch specialized in 'cassette magazines', combining experimental music by the likes of New Order, Cabaret Voltaire and The Residents with visual work by graphic designers and visual artists such as Neville Brody, John Savage, Joseph Beuys and many others.
Since the digitalization the label has been working extensively with sonic artists such as Christian Fennesz, Biosphere, Ryoji Ikeda, Mika Vainio, Philip Jeck, Oren Ambarchi and many many others. Jon Wozencroft, a graphic designer who has worked closely alongside Neville Brody for years, is the main character behind the eye-catching yet simple visual style for most of the Touch releases.
This month in independent recordstores : Touch 25, a sonic and visual birthday package, presented to us by Jon Wozencroft and many Touch artists.
Masada - Live in Sevilla 2000
Henryk Gorècki / London Sinfonietta with Dawn Upshaw - Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs
Ester Brinkmann - Totes Rennen
Various Artists - Invisible Cities
Tim Hecker - Radio Amor
Morton Feldman - Triadic Memories
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Altijd een plezier nieuws te horen van het Nederlandse Machinefabriek (geboren : Rutger Zuydervelt). Duidelijk geïnspireerd door drone-bands als Stars of the Lid en Labradford laat hij op de nieuwe, zelf gereleasede mini-albums 'Slaap' en 'Zucht' een zachtere en dromerige kant horen van Machinefabriek.
Te bestellen op www.machinefabriek.tk
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Always a pleasure to hear from Dutch musician Machinefabriek (born : Rutger Zuydervelt). Clearly inspired by drone bands such as Stars of the Lid and Labradford, he surprises us with a more dreamy, softer side of Machinefabriek on his newly self-released mini-albums 'Sleep' and 'Sigh'.
To be ordered at www.machinefabriek.tk
