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2007 Update Log
Connexion Bizarre staff music picks of 2007
Bauke van der Waal
Vromb - Sous Hypnose
Skincage - Things Fall Apart
20.sv - Insects
Pan Sonic - Katodivaihe
Indigo Larvae - Abandoned to Despair
Servants of the Apocalyptic Goat Rave - Servants of the Apocalyptic Goat Rave
M.B. + Land Use - Neural Frequencies
Gjöll - Not to Lead nor to Follow
Charlie Martineau
1.Connect_icut - LA (An Apology)
2.Irr. App. (Ext.) - Cosmic Superimposition
3.Xasthur - Defective Epitaph
4.Jonathan Coleclough and Andrew Liles - Torch Songs
5.Mono - Gone
6.Thomas Carnacki, Jesse Quattro, Jesse Burson, Jon Brumit - Far Voyage From A Placid Island
7.Andrew Chalk - Time of Hayfield
8.Oren Ambarchi - In the Pendulum's Embrace
9.Diana Rogerson - The Lights Are On But No One's Home
10.Chris Connelly - The Episodes
Dutton R. Hauhart
Architect - Lower Lip Interface
Stendeck - Faces
Amon Tobin - Foley Room
Pelican - City of Echoes
M.I.A. - Kala
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Burial - Untrue
Ellen Allien - Fabric 34
Miguel de Sousa
Architect - Lower Lip Interface
Contagious Orgasm - Ripple
Emmon - The Art & The Evil
Empusae + Nick Grey - Simple Black Lines In A Diagram
Information Society - Synthesizer
It-Clings vs. Pneumatic Detach - The All Too Logical Descent Into Madness
Lingouf - Ecritomate
November Növelet - Magic
Plastic Operator - Different Places
Sonic Area - Explore
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Marching Dynamics - Nailsleeper
Yuki Tendo - Saturnine
Pedro Vieira (a.k.a. :JW:)
01. Ashbury Heights - Three Cheers For The Newlydeads [Out Of Line]
02. A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers [Killer Pimp]
03. Krankhaus - Angelspit [Dancing Ferret]
04. Din A Tod - The Sound Of Crash [Out Of Line]
05. Spectra Paris - Dead Models Society [Trisol]
06. Planetakis - Out of the Club into the Night [Galakthorrö]
07. November Növelet - Magic [Galakthorrö]
08. Necessary Response - Blood Spills Not Far From The Wound [Out of Line]
09. Avoid Catoblepone - Musiques De Chambre Froide
10. Apoptose - Schattenmaedchen [TESCO]
2007-12-31
Reviews: Queynte "Sincarnate", ++99 "Weltverstrickung"
Webcast updated (note that you can use Juicer or iTunes with our webcast to grab the webcasts, just point it to the RSS link ( ).
Links added: Retinascan, Urgence Disk Records.
Netlabel release spotlight: Bogart Shwadchuck "Bitch Go Buy Me A Hotdog", Tatsu Maki vs. NrV "Terrorize The Old Man", Various "Compilation Of The Moment".
Other recommended links for this week: Other recommended links for this week: Necroluxe, Pixelh8, Greatest Uncommon Denominator.
2007-12-24
Reviews: Prometheus Burning "nBoyde raRepi", Zavoloka "Viter", Alec Empire "The Golden Foretaste Of Heaven".
Webcast updated (note that you can use Juicer or iTunes with our webcast to grab the webcasts, just point it to the RSS link ( ).
Other recommended links for this week: Andrei Severinko,
How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later,
Alan Moore Interview Index.
2007-12-17
Interviews: Yann Faussurier of Iszoloscope / Memmaker and Fréderic Arbour of Cyclic Law Records.
Reviews: Igorr "Poisson Soluble", The Impossible Flower "Anthophobia".
Webcast updated (note that you can use Juicer or iTunes with our webcast to grab the webcasts, just point it to the RSS link ( ).
Links added: Fantazja,
e/i,
Audiovisual Theorem,
Noisescape TV.
Netlabel release spotlight: Nurb "Neurotoxique".
2007-12-10
Reviews: Scrap.edx/S.O.R.E.H.E.A.D. "Camo Cuts".
Webcast updated (note that you can use Juicer or iTunes with our webcast to grab the webcasts, just point it to the RSS link ( ).
Links added: Lovethechaos, Tympanik Audio, Bump Foot, Escala.
Netlabel release spotlight: KHI "I Had A Dream", Ludovic "Dimanche Malade EP"
Other recommended links for this week: Igorrr, Hear Voices? It May Be an Ad, "Dinosaur Mummy" Found; Has Intact Skin, Tissue, "Revolutionary Time"
2007-12-03
Reviews: Giancarlo Toniutti "Ura itam taala momojmuj lowajamuj cooconaja", a034 "Chemical Nature", Blue Sabbath Black Cheer "untitled", Parallel Worlds "Obsessive Surrealism".
Links added: Ferns Recording, L'Aigle Mecanique, Digital Enemy, Zymogen.
Netlabel release spotlight: AjaxFree "Chaos Antology" (Digital Enemy), Communication Zero "Not Your Friend" (L'Aigle Mecanique), Structura "Inominável" (Enough Records), Various "Cthulhu Dildonomicon" (Hallo Excentrico), Various "Management Task Force Inc." (Signal Zero)
Other recommended links for this week: Astronomers Find Enormous Hole in the Universe
2007-11-26
Webcast updated (note that you can use Juicer or iTunes with our webcast to grab the webcasts, just point it to the RSS link ( ).
Links added: The Tenth Stage, Australian gothic/electroacoustic experimental duo
Stupid Dream Records, NBKLine.
Other recommended links for this week: Alec Empire and the Hellish Vortex, Various "Drifting Skywards 3",
Long Desert Cowboy "Western Spaghetti" and "Sandshoes",
Addictive Noize, Your Scene Sucks, Tour de Lovecraft, Clusterfuck Nation, France unveils anti-piracy plan.
2007-11-19
Interviews: Andrea Marutti of Afe Records.
Reviews: Conure "The Generation Of Our Grandfathers", Talvekoidik "Silent Reflections", Rachel Car "Rachel Car", Banister "Rotor EP", Territory Of Absence "Territory Of Absence".
Links added: Cruise [ctrl],
Raoul Sinier (aka Ra),
Phisteria,
Bruit,
Rus Zud,
Überklang,
Nördik Impakt (fr),
TEMP.
Other recommended links for this week: Herwig Holzmann "LEM",
Photophob "About The Living Things",
Mortalbass,
"Viewpoint: media freedom dented".
2007-11-12
Interviews: Marcel Nickels of Le Petit Machiniste.
Reviews: Rajapïnta "Bootleg Epiphanies", Book Of Shadows "Inner World", Neotnas "Spak Deti".
Links added: Ambivalence,
Deep Limit,
Toneshared,
Unsound Festival (pl).
Other recommended links for this week: ZandoZ Corp "Frankensteintizations (The Remixes Vol.1) (2007)",
Various ".WAV Party".
2007-11-05
Reviews: Red Needled Sea "Old River Blues", Bisclaveret vs. Bruno "Les Mannequins", O T X "A World In Red", Cordell Klier "Measure Here And Be Now".
Links added:
No links added this week.
Other recommended links for this week:
ps,
"The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study for Industry Canada".
2007-10-29
Interviews: Susan Matthews, Igor & Tanya of The Eastern Front.
Reviews: Welle:erdball "Chaos Total", Utopia:Banished "Dirtward", Machinochrist "Escape From Woolwich Arsenal".
Links added:
Angelspit,
Coilhouse.
Other recommended links for this week:
Dark Star Festival (us),
Hooverphonic,
The Vader Project,
Ron Turner Pulp Magazines Cover Collection,
Angelspit's "Pleasure Series" printzine,
The Sunday Hangover with Warren Ellis #009.
2007-10-22
Reviews:
Avsky "Silent Decay",
Cenotype "Origins",
Pure H "Signia",
Photophob "Circadian Rhythms",
Storybox "No Dancing Allowed".
Links added:
Cenotype, Abstraktsens.
Other recommended links for this week:
Shockvertising: a poke in the brain
2007-10-15
Links added:
Syrphe,
Otsechka,
OPN WebShop.
Other recommended links for this week:
consider:noise.
2007-10-08
Interviews: Ben Arp of Crunch Pod.
Reviews:
Susan Matthews "Hope Bound",
JapaneseCARCRASH "BADmachine",
Plastic Violence "Dog Series",
Six Twilights "Six Twilights",
Concise "Revive",
FrightDoll "Reference Version"
Links added:
CSS,
Afe Records,
Archaic Horizon,
Transit Magazine.
Hinoeuma the Malediction (uk), London-based old and new school industrial music, experimental noise, dark folk, avantguarde, power electronics club event.
Other recommended links for this week:
Antireality,
Ophibre "Reference",
Sensible "Tasty",
"Kadychan, City of Broken Dreams".
2007-10-01
Interviews:
Christopher Braucks and C. Constantin Reineck of AEntitainment.
Reviews: "Imaginary Friends", ManicProject "Square0ne", Freeze Etch "Perjorative".
Links added:
++99,
Life's Decay,
Nin Kuji,
Le-Petit-Machiniste,
Strange Fortune.
Hinoeuma the Malediction (uk), London-based old and new school industrial music, experimental noise, dark folk, avantguarde, power electronics club event.
Other recommended links for this week:
Electrobelle,
ZandoZ Corp.,
Murky Depths,
Gémeo Luís,
Ars Electronica Center Exhibition - "Protrude, Flow" by Sachiko Kodama and Minako Takeno (J) + video.
2007-09-24
Interviews:
Jacek Kozlowski of Artoffact Records.
Reviews:
Erdem Helvacioglu "Altered Realities",
V/A "Modus Vivendi Vol.2",
Sci Fi Industries "Drafts And Crafts",
Darren Tate "Small Worlds",
Phragments "The Burning World",
Battery Cage "A Young Person's Guide to Heartbreak",
Control Alt Deus "Control Alt Deus (demo 2007)",
Schultz "BioMekanikal".
Links added:
Cyanhide, Hyperbubble, Vernian Process.
Other recommended links for this week:
D'incise + Lucas Olivet "L'enclos", Mikroben Krieg "Possessive Memories", PJE "A Different Place EP", Sparagmos feat Kenji Siratori "Corpse City", Play On Tape, They Rule, "End Of The Line", "Maddy: TV torture for the ADD generation", "The cold, cold heart of Web 2.0".
2007-09-17
Reviews: "Whiteline 2".
Links added: Ante-Rasa.
Other recommended links for this week: V/A - Le Ręve Silencieux (a novel without word) by Sobria Ebrietas & friends, H. G. Wells' "War Of The Worlds" (webcomic), Top 10 World's Worst Polluted Places 2007, Celebrity is the fast food of history.
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2007-09-10
Interviews: Alexey Protasov and Natasha of Invasion Wreck Chords.
Reviews: Soiled "Shambolic Psychotic", "Women Take Back The Noise", Slow Soldier "New Under The Volt", Randy Greif & Kenji Siratori "Narcoleptic Cells".
Links added: Eva|3, Pharmafabrik, Bawidamann, CreateSpace, The Bluezine.
Other recommended links for this week: "You Can Play the Record, but Don't Touch", "Death Guild - Beyond Burning Man", "The Great Iraq Swindle".
2007-09-03
Interviews: Andi Schramm a.k.a. Asche of Fich-Art Recordings.
Reviews: Plastic Operator "Different Places",
Reptiljan "Archaeodermophagia",
Circumjecta "Ulchi Hop",
Dunaewsky69 "Xquisite.Xcerpt",
The Garland Cult "Protect Yourself From Hollywood",
Neongrau "Spam'n'Space",
Mordacious "Torture Tactics",
Saemskin "A Simile For Murder".
Links added: Artz+Pfusch, Drumcorps, AEntitainment, Fich-Art, Muertepop, Add Noise, Heathen Harvest, Judas Kiss Magazine, Wounds Of The Earth.
Other recommended links for this week: Else Marie Pade, MPHM "The Art Of Despair", Warren Ellis "The Sunday Hangover 007", "El Chopo, Mexico City's Mosh Pit", "Virtual game is a 'disease model'", "Out of your mind, not out of your body".
2007-08-06
Reviews added this week: Empusae + Nick Grey "Simple Black Lines in a Diagram", The Infant Cycle "Playout", Telepherique "Slow Motion".
Links added this week:
GUD magazine, the "Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine" literary + genre fiction, poetry, and art PDF magazine has just released issue #1.
Other recommended links for this week:
The Inflatable Voodoo Dolls, Australian Electronica
"Tortura: the sounds of Pain and Pleasure", a kinky bondage soundtrack from the 365 Days Project. (supplied by Module 90M 061659 of Waste Disposal Machine)
The Shadow City, urban exploration (from the New York Times, via Prox2).
2007-07-30
Reviews added this week: Social Ambitions "Burning", Nikka "Isotopos", Neurobash "Spoiled", Quelles Paroles "What If I Would Die Right Here on The Spot?".
Links added this week:
Vorbic, netlabel
Wondermark, an illustraded jocularity (webcomic)
Chili Com Carne, 'zine association and underground book publisher.
Other recommended links for this week:
Chaos Sedated, Industrial, Power Electronics, Martial, Dark Ambient and Neo-Folk podcast at Radio Free Satan.
"Corporate Logo Tattoos: Literal Corporate Branding?", another step into mass-stupidity.
2007-07-23
Interviews added this week: Herwig Holzmann a.k.a. Photophob.
Reviews added this week: Sonic Area "Explore", Battery Cage "Product (2005)".
Links added this week:
Datapunk, record label
Earsheltering, netlabel
Other recommended links for this week:
Jungle Is Neutral "Musique de merde pour vie de merde", new release on the Earsheltering netlabel
Kenneth Kirschner "10/19/06 Fragments", new release on the Excentrica netlabel
Hot Rain, Polish electro/futurepop trio
Atum Records, record label
Hypersound, spacesynth record label
Centauri Music, spacesynth record label
Clive Thompson "How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense" (from Wired)
2007-07-16
Interviews added this week: Albérick Giegger of [walnut + locust].
Reviews added this week: Amp "All Of Yesterday Tomorrow", Erthad "Gma", Lietterschpich "I Cum Blood In The Think Tank", Samarkande / Oblivion Ensemble "Samarkande / Oblivion Ensemble", Maurizio Bianchi + Maor Appelbaum "Environmental Meditations".
Links added this week:
Plastic Operator, electro pop duo
Bitriot Records, record label
List Records, record label
Hidden Forms Radio, online Industrial, EBM, IDM, Experimental, Noise radio
Other recommended links for this week:
Dyad "Feedback EP", new release on the Decisive Sound netlabel
Aklo "Music of the Lovecraft Mythos" (via DJ Matt)
Peter McReady VR Photography (via Killjoy5k)
Top 25 Censored News Stories of 2007 (from Project Censored)
"Internet jihad - A world wide web of terror" (from The Economist)
2007-07-08
Interviews added this week: Marc Desforges of Geska Records.
Reviews added this week: Bleiburg "Way Of Crosses", Munkie "Dark Corners".
Links added this week:
Das Drehmoment, record label
Elektrocution (pt), music festival
Glade Festival (uk), music festival
Other recommended links for this week:
The Sunday Hangover, Warren Ellis' weekly column at Suicide Girls.
Tuning Out - A battle over music royalties threatens a nascent industry (from The Economist)
Warning of data ticking time bomb - The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a "ticking time bomb", the chief executive of the UK National Archives has warned. (from BBC)
2007-07-02
Interviews added this week: Squid a.k.a.Rock'N'Roll Super God It-Clings.
Reviews added this week: Connect_icut "LA (An Apology)", One Man Nation "Rained And It Rained, Bullets It Rained", Dyspraxia "A Pound Of Flesh"
Links added this week:
Patenbrigade: Wolff, electro ambient for tower crane conductors
Native State Records, electronica record label
Wonderland Records, Swedish synth/electropop record label
Other recommended links for this week:
Fat Pie Records, spin-off of the famous Fat Pie site, releasing the 'works' of MC Devvo & Shady Piez...
Duckon 2007-Steve Ward's Singing Tesla Coil video
"The Tech Lab: Bradley Horowitz" - Bradley Horowitz, responsible for novel technology development at search giant Yahoo, looks ahead to the "internet of things".
2007-06-25
Interviews added this week: Peter Lee of Force Of Nature.
Reviews added this week: Tetra Plok "Fear Of A Blind Date", Elekore "Voluntary Human Extinction", Nightech "Deviation", Kirdec "Killed by a Coconut".
Links added this week:
Eva|3, British experimental electronic musician
The Tenth Stage, Australian dark pop duo
Soothsayer Recordings, breakcore record label
Technovelgy, "where science meets fiction" - database of inventions and ideas from science-fiction literature.
Other recommended links for this week:
KGC, side-project of Sascha Konietzko of KMFDM, Dean Garcia of Curve and Lucia Cifarelli of Drill.
Gore Vidal interview on CBC
Guerre de 1914-1918, a collection of photographs from World War One.
Grand Illusions
2007-06-18
Reviews added this week: Signalform + Tachikoma "Understanding Media", Zonk't "-trope", Glaukom Synod "Uczulony", Ova Looven "Gravity Has Expired", V/A "Beyond Ignorance And Borders"
Links added this week:
Creative Space, greek electronica record label
Krachcom, the German noise/industrial network
Other recommended links for this week:
V/A - Cruise [Ctrl] "Cruise me, baby [remixes]", new online release on the abYssa netlabel.
Giscard le Survivant "Témérité militaire des tueurs insanes", new online release on the Antisocial netlabel.
Species Of Fishes "Seven Excerpts From Our Lives", new online release on the Musica Excentrica netlabel.
2007-06-11
Interviews added this week: Anders Christensson of Killing Music.
Reviews added this week: Artur Nowak "Granulizer", Niko Skorpio "Escape From Heaven", Element "Genocide", Godlike "It Will Be Godlike/Underground", Xavier Charles & Robert Piotrowicz "///", Supreme Court "Hypocrites + Saints".
Links added this week:
Battery Cage, American electro-industrial act
Random Artists, the voice of underground art, home of Rupture magazine.
Edgetone Records, record label
Slaughterhaus 5, London club event
Other recommended links for this week:
"Kikumoto", video clip for a track by Dyspraxia.
"Why music is really getting louder" (from The Times)
"Online gaming's Netscape moment?" - Video games: Existing virtual worlds are built on closed, proprietary platforms, like early online services. Might they now open up, like the web? (from The Economist)
Multiverse, the premiere network of MMOGs and virtual worlds (referenced in the article above).
2007-06-04
Interviews added this week: Nicolas Chevreux of Ad Noiseam.
Reviews added this week: Hansel "Lorentzian Lineshaper",
It-Clings vs. Pneumatic Detach "The All Too Logical Descent Into Madness",
Flint Glass + Telepherique "Information Gigabyte"
, Neuropa "The Blitz", Various "CrO2: A Tribute to Analog".
Links added this week:
100 Blumen, German industrial/rhythmic noise project
Hansel, American industrial/hip-hop/punk musician
Hecq, German electronic musician
Oloolo, original music with soviet era vintage analogue sound machines
Le Petit Machiniste, d.i.y. label for rhythm'n'noise
Test Tube, netlabel
Improbable Research "Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK"
Other recommended links for this week:
Kom-Intern "Nagasaki Garden", freely downloadable release by French industrial project Kom-Intern.
V/A "Falésia", dark ambient compilation on the Enough Records netlabel.
"Holy Smoke: What Is Reality?", Alan Moore considers the concept of reality (found via Thermidor).
How to Write a Scientific Paper (from Improbable Research)
Caution: Some soft drinks may seriously harm your health, expert links food additive to cell damage (from The Independent)
2007-05-28
Interviews added this week: Greg Werckman of Ipecac Recordings.
Reviews added this week: Stendeck "Faces", Lingouf "Internazionale Fratricide", Gregorio Bardini "Sentinelle Del Mattino", Seventeen Migs Of Spring "Live In Hateiva" and Akron "Origins Of The 7 Deadly Sins".
Links added this week:
Ipecac Recordings
Other recommended links for this week:
"Monoculture", video adaptation of a Spider Jerusalem rant from Warren Ellis' "Transmetropolitan" comic-book.
2007-05-21
Interviews added this week: Dancon1 of disco_r.dance
Reviews added this week: Ghosts On Water "Ghosts On Water", Evestus "Wastelands", Cruise [CTRL] "Garmonbozia!", Igor Krutogolov "White", Contra "Enter The Winter", V/A "The Virus Has Been Spread - a tribute to Atari Teenage Riot", Virtual Server "Setup"
Links added this week:
Disco Digitale, Swedish synth/italo disco trio.
Schizoid, Canadian musician
Zod Records, record label
Convulsions Sonores, French cultural collective/association
Darksite, Swiss art/music resource portal
I Love Hatemail: "eight stories. eight cards. eight ways to say, I Hate You."
Other recommended links for this week:
"Minus", free online release by Jarl
"The Humble Scrawl of Kuo Pao Kun, Mandarin", an alternate history of Chinese Science Fiction (recommended reading, taken from Warren Ellis)
Dripping Wet, ongoing comic at the ACT-I-VATE Livejournal community (taken from Warren Ellis; NSFW)
Radio 1 pulls 'promotional' track for brand of hair gel, "the most disposable incarnation of pop in a post reality-TV world" (via Guardian UK)
2007-05-14
Interviews added this week: Ben Hudson and Henry Collins of Wrong Music
Reviews added this week: U-inductio "Sounds for contemporary performance, exhibition and dance", Maggot Breeder "Myiasis", Oblivion Ensemble "Seraphim Hallucino", Murder by Static "Luxicon Phase".
Links added this week:
Metronique, Spanish experimental electronica/idm musician
Metropol, Spanish experimental electronica/idm musician
Nikka, Spanish experimental electronica/idm/industrial musician
Elektrofon, French electro label
Butternut Squash
Two Lumps
Other recommended links for this week:
Various Artists "Psicotropicodelia Music Vol.1", an international compilation of experimental electronics, breakcore and chiptunes.
"Have you seen any nuclear material?" - Pakistan places advertisements regarding 'misplaced' isotopes. Be afraid, be fucking afraid. (from Nature magazine)
2007-05-07
Interviews added this week: Martin Lemoine of .Angle.Rec. record label
Reviews added this week: Caustic "Booze Up And Riot", Ultraviolet "Dos", Rafael Anton Irisarri "Daydreaming", In Ether "Insult to the Unconditioned", V/A "A Compilation Vol.2".
Links added this week:
Corrupted Suburbs, electro-industrial act from Montreal
Hex Rx, American electro-industrial act
s.o.r.e.h.e.a.d., breakcore/idm act from Montreal
Ultraviolet, Spanish synthpop musician
Powernoise.org, Power Noise wiki
Other recommended links for this week:
Kluge, promising up-and-coming electronica/industrial act
Muteme, Czech experimental electronic label.
Various "Brassens Chante Encore", downloadable compilation in homage of French musician George Brassens (Electrobel netlabel).
Virtual Barbershop, listen with headphones and eyes closed (via C-drík).
2007-04-30
Interviews added this week: Willy Winky of Lagunamuch community.
Reviews added this week: Cultural Amnesia "Enormous Savages", Lingouf "Ecritomate", Unit 21 "November", Feu Follet & Miina Virtanen "The Icicle Lectures Vol.1"
Links added this week:
Altera Forma, Russian electropop project
Emplosia, Russian electropop female duo
Fantazja, Swedish synthpop project
Calyx Records, German record label
Type Records, UK-based experimental music record label.
Abyssa, French netlabel focusing on ambient, electronica, dark, electro, industrial and illbient.
No Fixed Abode, UK-based underground event organizers
Biodustrial, online radio.
Other recommended links for this week:
Plid, electropop act from Houston, Texas
V/A - Blackula "Remixes for the Alienated", new release on the French netlabel Abyssa
2007-04-23
Interviews added this week: Schizoid of D-Trash Records.
Reviews added this week: Cast "Are Teek L", Mark Nicholas "Duchess 33", Svarte Greiner "Knive", V/A "Ghos Busters III", Greg Haines "Slumber Tides", Radium 88 "Only Science Can Tell Us The Truth", Bisclaveret "Psyche noMine", Devhour / City Of Industry / Tatsumaki "Seek And Thistroy!".
Links added this week:
Lingouf, French Tekno-Hardcore-Breakcore musician, also one of the weirdest and most interesting musician sites I've ever seen.
Other recommended links for this week:
Remain Silent "Men-Machines-Souls", French musician Remain Silent presents the third chapter of his opus trilogy "Men-Machines-Souls", "Ether-Asphalt", as a free downloadable album with additional artwork and accompanied by digital remastered versions of the first two albums, "T>I>D" and "Dislocation", originally released in CD format by Brume Records and Axess Code.
Various Artists "A Tribute to Iannis Xenakis", free tribute compilation on the Excentrica netlabel.
Various Artists "Space Will Be Ours!", free downloadable compilation released by Russian IDM label Dars Records in celebration of the Russian Day of Astronautics (April 12th, marking the date of Yuri Gagarin's first space flight).
"Corporate Connections", map of the connections between the world's biggest corporations.
Second Life Sketches: From Hell’s Kitchen to Dune, another Warren Ellis chronicle from Second Life.
2007-04-16
Interviews added this week: Andrew Sega of Diffusion Records and Jason Forrest of Cock Rock Disco.
Reviews added this week: Kotra & Zavoloka "Wag The Swing", Chaos As Shelter "Dawn Syndrome", Itto "Sound on an Empty Road", Moljebka Pvlse "Sadalsuud", Moriarty "Equation Of Madness", Cervello Elettronico "Negate The Instigator".
Links added this week:
4-D mode1, Japanese electro-industrial act
Other recommended links for this week:
In case you live under a rock, Kurt Vonnegut died.
"Alan Moore on Pornography", opinion article by British writer Alan Moore at Arthur magazine
"Army's Hallucinogenic Weapons Unveiled", book review at Wired News
"A real invisibility cloak is in our grasp" (from Yahoo! News)
2007-04-09
No update this week (C.O.M.A.4)
2007-04-02
Interviews added this week: James Kirby of V/Vm Test Records.
Reviews added this week: Keef Baker "Redeye",
Susan Matthews "Lost Sorrows EP", Daniel Menche "Animality", Haeretici 7o74 "Heard Flayings", Q*Ball "This Is Serious Business", Modulate "Skullfuck EP".
Links added this week:
NCC Records (Noise Control Corporation), noise record label
Antisocial, netlabel (check Tzii's release "Sexe, Dominations et autres Réjouissances")
Sukisuki-Elepo, Japanese synthpop portal/webzine
XKCD, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
Noah Vawter, check the "Ambient Addition" project.
Other recommended links for this week:
Riverz End "Possible", free online release from the Russian IDM label Lagunamuch Community.
Butterfly Station
Fabio Feminň Fanta-Science, a repository of sci-fi pulp magazine covers.
Untried cancer drug bought on the internet, another dichloroacetate story, this time from the BBC.
The most Hated Family in America, BBC report on the Westboro Baptist Church
2007-03-26
Interviews added this week: German Rivera of Sistinas Music.
Reviews added this week: Syphilis Sauna "From Initial Infection to Eventual Deterioration", Kenji Siratori "Humanexit", Jetstream Lovers "Voodoo Nature".
Links added this week:
Keef Baker, UK electronic musician
Miasmah, Norwegian drone/ambient/experimental label
Walnutlocust, experimental music label & webzine
Other recommended links for this week:
Polina Voronova "Luxurious", new release on the Excentrica post-music netlabel
V/A "Drifting Skywards 2", new release on the Cold Room netlabel.
CAD + ESC "Not My Saviour (ESC remix)" live @ Rock In Chiado 2007.03.03 (video)
National Noise Day: May 31st, Brighton, UK
Internet Radio Death Watch at Warren Ellis' "The Engine" forums (may be of some interest to musicians, labelheads and other webcasters/digital radio people).
Ben Vautier "Sur la Culture minable Culture (1984)" (found via Saruryujin)
"Fun Latin" - some phrases from "Latin for all Occasions", by Henry Beard.
2007-03-19
Interviews added this week: Vanessa Vy of Reduced Phat
Reviews added this week: Naarmann & Neiteller "Naarland", Mockingwyrd "Cracks in the Void", 24hourflu "24hourflu", 0id "Systems Of Mercy"
Links added this week:
Lingouf, French hardcore/tekno/breakcore musician and visual artist.
Otto Von Schirac
Cock Rock Disco, Jason Forrest's record label
EMD.pl, Polish experimental music record label
Rotorelief Records, French industrial/experimental music record label.
Wrong Music, UK record label covering noise to happyhardcore, acid too alt-rock and pop to grimestep. Featuring artists such as Shitmat, Ebola and DJ Scotch Egg
Dark Winter, netlabel
Sound Proector, Russian IDM resource
Other recommended links for this week:
Proboscus, UK-based record label. Check their free 'label sample' "Calcinator".
Cock Rock Disco online sampler
DSL1.0, DSL2.0 and DSL3.0: downloadable mix compilations from DarkStep.org.
"Heterocera", free online Horchata album.
Yet Another Electro Compilation vol.5, compiled at YAEW.
UK DJ License and UK digital DJ License, legislation pieces (from Mark 'untermensch').
How the music biz can live forever, get even richer, and be loved - a modest proposal - "Register San Francisco bureau chief Andrew Orlowski spoke at the In the City convention in the UK, telling the cream of the music industry it's never had it so good, that it's been swindled by the technologists, and that it should dump DRM and embrace freedom." (from The Register).
2007-03-12
Interviews added this week: Luís 'van' Seixas and Fernando Cerqueira of Thisco.
Reviews added this week: Rubikon "Wonderland", Mewark "Little One", "Deep Sea Shipping" compilation.
Links added this week:
Plague Recordings
GUD magazine, print/pdf magazine of literary and genre fiction, poetry, and art.
Museum of Hoaxes, examining dubious-sounding claims and mischief of all kinds (and a short article about famous scientific hoaxes).
Independent Media Center, what the news sometimes don't show - with full coverage of the Athens protests here, here, here and here (also YouTube video here) (via by George Mouratidis, oddly enough not covered on the BBC).
Other recommended links for this week:
Museum of Hoaxes, examining dubious-sounding claims and mischief of all kinds (and a short article about famous scientific hoaxes).
Second Life Sketches: A Virtual Miscellany (by Warren Ellis)
When vodka is your poison, Russian moonshine vodka laced with hepatotoxic polyhexamethylene biguanide hydrochloride and its consequences (from BBC).
2007-03-05
Interviews added this week: Jamie Blacker a.k.a. ESA and Matt Smith of InfeKted Sound.
Reviews added this week: Phil Von "Deadline Now", FlexKiks "Freeland"
Links added this week:
Servants of the Apocalyptic Goat Rave - banging hardcore/breakcore by Bong-Ra & Sick Boy
Deadsix Communications - canadian experimental electronic music record label.
Nentech Records - american electronic/experimental music record label.
Subconscious Communications - cEvin Key/Skynny Puppy/Download record label & studio
Wycombe Music - german electronic music label
Clinical Archives - independent netlabel for eclectic and ilogical electronic music.
Dissonanze - italian electronic music festival
Space Invaders Project - international art project
Steampunk Magazine - free online publication with fiction, art and articles about the steampunk genre.
Other recommended links for this week:
Countdown - to be accessed when on a plane trip (from Cleverest Blog, stolen from Autoclav1.1)
2007-02-26
Interviews added this week: Davyd Pittman of the Hive Records label.
Reviews added this week: Heal "Starting Back", Jan-M. Iversen "1.05 drone" and "Wiederkehrende Welten", Littl Shyning Man "Mockery", Phantom West "Aleph Null".
Links added this week:
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Bong-Ran & Sickboy 'darkjazz' side-project
Milligramme, French electronic musician
Selffish, Latvian deep electronic musician
Sonver, UK experimental electro-accoustic music project
n5MD, electronic music label
Survival International, helping tribal people defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their futures.
Other recommended links for this week:
Radium88, U.K. trip-hop/electronica project
Riyaz Master Trailer, trailer for the Uma Beecroft/Sigmoon multimedia project.
End Day, BBC docudrama (Google video).
Children's TV 'is linked to cancer, autism, dementia', could be a load of crock but staring at a screen is tiring...
2007-02-19
Interviews added this week: Aaron Rintoul of the Sublight Records label.
Reviews added this week: Susan Matthews "Bruiser", Edgey vs Depth Error "The Abuse Technique", Phantom West "The Rain Expedition EP"
Links added this week:
Lagunamuch Community, Russian idm/electronica label
jon7.net microlabel, netlabel
Machinist Music, Belorussian electro/noise/industrial webzine
Electron Festival, electronic music festival (Switzerland)
Other recommended links for this week:
"Table Of Elements 2.0", new free compilation release, downloadable from the M-tronic label.
Bloc Weekend, electronic music festival (UK)
Kropserkel: an online workshop gallery of some of the world's most elaborate costumes and props.
2007-02-12
Interviews added this week: Doormouse of the Addict Records label.
Reviews added this week: Loss "You Are What Eats You", "Chaos.Lovers" compilation, Rosewater "Bloodcoung", Manufactura "We're Set Silently On Fire", "Sturm III" compilation, Ovro "Mosaick The Serpent / Vipera Aurea", Xisix "De Nada"
Links added this week:
Xynthetic, netlanbel
Taking Notes, independent UK alternative music ezine
Vital Weekly, e-mail weekly publication
Schwerindustrie, trans-Baltic Industrial organization
Tank-FX, online non-virtual effect device
Recommended links for this week:
Various - "Statetement Of Purpose", new release on the Xynthetic netlabel
News Analysis: HPV Vaccine Meets Resistance from Religious Right (AVN, via Warren Ellis)
Web 2.0... The Machine is Us/ing Us: also here (anotated) and here.
2007-02-05
Interviews added this week: Matt Fanale of the Sonic Mainline record label.
Media added this week: "You Are Here: a Compilation of Wisconsin Electronics", compiled by Matt "Caustic Fanale".
Reviews added this week: "Broken Nightlights" compilation.
Links added this week:
Kk.Null, Japanese noise artist
Richard Devine, American IDM musician
Slogun, American power electronics artist
Fluttering Dragon, Polish dark electronics record label (via Purevil)
Misfake, Russian electronic music label/collective
Vital, Danish avantgarde dark electronic music label
oxpd.societe, Lithuanian underground multimedia art collective.
Wormweb, Dutch alternative/underground art organization/collective.
Wormstation, online radion for Wormweb.
Recommended links for this week:
Orange Dust, Australian IDM/glitch/breaks musician (via Purevil)
La Volte, French book publisher (hint: check the "Aux limites du son" book and CD).
The Funny Music Project, name says it all (found via Matt Fanale or Gothsicles?)
"The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello", animation movie set in a steampunk setting. Full video available on YouTube starting here.
"End Of The Affair", French ban on public smoking: a pictorial history (BBC)
Technplogical Singularity, interesting concept and food for thought (Wikipedia)
"God Game - From Molyneux to a new view-- a functioning ecosystem in SL", more Second Life notes.
Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study, summed up by the quote "...They lost on the science; they lost on the moral case for action. All they've got left is a suitcase full of cash." (via WarrenEllis.com)
2007-01-29
Reviews added this week: Celluloide "Passion & Excitements", Rasal.A'sad "Space.Scape", Silence & Strength "Opus Paracelsum".
Interviews added this week: Zak Roberts of Cdatakill and Member U-0176 of the BOREDOMproduct record label.
Links added this week:
Cabaret, Polish electropop
Marsheaux, Greek electropop
Recommended links for this week:
Undo Records, Greek electropop label
Alexei Borosov "Abstractionist" - new release on Excentrica netlabel
Lucid Reflections "Featherchunk" - new release on Decisive Sounds netlabel
"Vista copy protection is defended" - how multinationals effectively treat their costumers as criminals (from BBC News)
"A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" - why the Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history (via BBC News)
"iPhone: Calling the Future" (from Wired News)
"Alienation can be a Humane response to Globalization" - home-grown terrorism has been bred from social dislocation as well as the destruction of alternative ideologies of hope (from Common Dreams Newscenter)
Seeing Dollar Signs - Is the art market making us stupid? Or are we making it stupid? (from the Village Voice via Saruryujin)
"Why would I want to hear your opinions when I've got so many more interesting ones of my own?" (from The Guardian)
"Perversion For Profit" - 50's sex-warning video (found via Jessica Vale)
2007-01-22
Reviews added this week: Tyske Ludder "Trinity", W.A.S.T.E. "This Is What We Seek", "Electricity Is Your Friend" compilation.
Interviews added this week: Matt Jones & Patrick Urn of Backwards Records and Mesh.
Links added this week:
Things Outside The Skin, American Industrial band
Manticore (fr), French gabber/hardcore party event
Recommended links for this week:
U-inductio, sounds for contemporary performance, exhibition and dance.
Sentient Developments: Must-know terms for the 21st Century intellectual: Redux
Lethal secrets of the 1918 flu virus (BBC)
2100: A world of wild weather (New Scientist magazine)
Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers, am wondering how much of this is true and how much is bullshit... (New Scientist)
So much space, so little time: why aliens haven't found us yet (The Guardian)
Missile Punch at Bullet Prices: railguns. (The Freelance Star)
Muhammad Ali's quotes, who needs Chuck Norris? (BBC)
Second Life Sketches: Penthouse to Pavement, Warren Ellis writing for Reuters @ Second Life
2007-01-15
Reviews added this week: Samuel Jerónimo "Rima"
Interview added this week: Todd Durrant of A Different Drum records.
Links added this week:
David Vesel, synthpop musician
Manufactur, electro-accoustic quartet
Recommended links for this week:
Purul "Noir de Cou", Antisocial netlabel release
"How Terrible It All Is", It-Clings vs. Pneumatic Detach It-Clings with Autoclav 1.1 (Montreal, Canada, Spring 2006) video.
Rational Responders, fighting to free humanity from the mind disorder that is theism.
2007-01-08
Reviews added this week: Extropy "The Machineries", h.h.t.p. & portablepalace "Cavitation", Nokalypse "Ocean Of Inexistence"
Interviews added this week: Gwenn Tremorin of Brume Records, Mike Morton of Displacer.
Links added this week:
Carthage, UK dirty beats musician
Niko Scorpio, Finnish dark ambient/experimental electronica musician
Opium, Russian synthpop trio
Tannhauser, Spanish electro-industrial/EBM project
Caustic Records, Spanish record label
Triple Bath, Greek experimental music label
The Rainbow Orchid, webcomic
Recommended links for this week:
Celluloide "Make Things Last" video from the upcoming album "Passion & Excitements" (hosted on YouTube).
Foretaste "Discordance" video, from the album "Beautiful Creatures" (hosted on YouTube).
"How the anti-copyright lobby makes big business richer", revealing article about copyright issues, 'citizen journalism' and related issues which clearly applies to the music world as well (from The Register)
2007-01-01
Reviews added this week: Autoclav1.1 "Visitor Attractions", Soulchasm "Love Is Real", Empty Zen "Empty Zen".
Links added this week:
AIT!, Italian experimental project
Kvitnu, Ukrainian experimental record label
Punch Records, Italian industrial/experimental record label (also a festival).
Noize:Tek, record label for extreme experimentalism and auditory hallucinations
Detali Zvuko (uk), international festival for experimental electronic music in Ukraine.
Recommended links for this week:
Necromondo, music inspired by 70's zombie flicks.
Songs For Dead Secretaries, limited edition hardcore compilation
V/A "Drifting Skywards", excellent new release on the Cold Room netlabel
Pompeii's Erotic Past Revealed (BBC)
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