planetdamage.com: hard labour with the lovely paris
Hello. I am Damage, gonzo journalist, catalyst and an explorer of weird and futurologistic. A month ago I knew how to time travel. Now, only a few hours ago, to my best knowledge, I woke up while being abducted by space aliens and remarkably under the drills. It gives me great satisfaction, erection and self-confidence to conclude that ambassadors of superior civilizations warp time and space just to drill me. And I also think this was also the equivalent of a galactic job interview. Because we finished the new issue of The Dose magazine. About Paris. And you will buy this magazine. Because all the money I will hoard up from sales will go into new pancreas and a one-way ticket to Singapore. But more about this after the embed and the jump.
THE DOSE magazine - Issue 3 (Paris) TEASER
The Dose. For those who're late for class, it started as a free PDF mag targeting one city per issue to showcase its weird underdog talents: musicians, artists, designers with a focus on music, more music and great eyecandy. I had friends helping me out but it was mostly a solo project and it was a great thing to do, doing a pilot on Budapest and then two more issues, on Tokyo and London. Then three years passed. And we decided to go back to the original plan we liked, I quit being a full-time IT journalist and after long months of working in our free time, here's the Paris issue. If you were following up on what I did, I promised so many times that this will come that you probably didn't believe me. But it's here now.

Yes. The Paris issue. It has features on French steampunk, cyberpunk, netlabels (amazing stuff ranging from mad orgy freejazz to pumping warehouse techno), parkour, psytrance (a great comparison of chocolate and goa!) and fashion. And a great piece of infographics about French bands we loved. Features on LVA, brain hacking and Chinese underground music. Interviews with Clélia Altaïr, Punish Yourself, Lukas Zpira, Die Puppe, Foretaste, Miss Kittin, Scan X, the guys at Dejobaan Games and RJDJ, Nohno / Kibuka, Blue Stahli, Shiv-R and Black Nail Cabaret. And e-readers. And our recommendations for 2010. And lots of reviews.
So spread the news, enjoy the show, buy our mag, support the artists, don't steal this mag if you don't exactly need to, send us feedback and contact us if you think you could help us rock more. And here are a few music videos from these previous artists you gonna love!
nastybyte: one for the old memories
Baltimore-based NastyByte has a YouTube channel for her multi-camera concert shoots for bands like Psychic TV, Haujobb, Covenant, Ministry, Front Line Assembly, Front 242, Ayria, Razed in Black, Delerium, Plaid or Chemlab - basically anything we came to love as industrialists and EBM fans during the past decade. Which either means we're old farts or it means the new generation of the scene hasn't put anything noteworthy on our table. And we doubt that, because we have just received a few good albums in the past two months that made us smile. Two songs to make you remember.
fetish, industrial and cyberpunk tweeters
MySpace without cleavages, Facebook without apps, last.fm without networking. This is how you'd look at Twitter if you'd live in a tunnel with acute hard-on syndrome for eyecandy, ADHD and honest love for click frenzy. That's alright, some of us still do. We'd take a different approach, though, and follow the footsteps of Violet Blue who made a wonderful job drawing up a master list of sex tweeters - we'd do the same for industrial, gothic, fetish, steampunk and cyberpunk, perhaps alternative. Let us know if we're missing someone!
Amanda Palmer of Dresden Dolls
Amelia Arsenic of Angelspit
Björk
Chris Cornell
Das Bunker (the venue)
Dillinger Escape Plan
Dir en Grey
DJ Xian
Dresden Dolls
EBM Radio
Ego Likeness
Erasure
Experiment Haywire
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
The Horrorist (Oliver Chesler)
I:Scintilla
kiEw
Liam Howlett (of The Prodigy)
MERA LUNA FESTIVAL
Mr. Joe Black
Muse
Sigur Rós
The Birthday Massacre
The Genitorturers
The Last Dance
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails
Tyske Ludder
Zoog of Angelspit
[fetish and model photography]
Adrianne Anderson
Alecia Anathema
Amelia G
Ancilla Tilia
Angela Ryan
Apnea
Athena Fatale
Bianca Beauchamp
Captive Culture
Chad Michael Ward
Christine Kessler
Courtney Crave
Darenzia
Deanna Deadly
Dita Von Teese
Donna Ricci
Emily Marilyn
Evelyn Rose
Fetish Jade
Ivy Blue
January Seraph
Josie Nutter
Kumi
Lenora Claire
Lexie Molotoff
Lexmachine
Libby Bulloff
Lithium Picnic
Miss Amarantha
Miss Duveaux
Natalie Addams
Nicotine
Noir Halo
Ropemarks
Rope Marks Muse
Rubberdoll
Rubber Dollemma
Saryn Christina
Satine Phoenix
Steve Diet Goedde
Sofia Valentine
Twisted Mermaid
Ugly Shyla
[they write, draw and design, gloriously]
Aunia Kahn
Ben Templesmith
Billy Antiseptic (of Antiseptic Fashion)
Bizarre magazine
Bruce Sterling
Coilhouse (the magazine)
Cory Doctorow
Douglas Rushkoff
Ectomo (the site)
Ego Assassin (they make printed latex clothing)
Haute Macabre (the site)
Iron Fist Clothing
Jhonen Vasquez
John Perry Barlow
Mer of Coilhouse
Molly Crabapple
Nadya Lev of Coilhouse
Neil Gaiman
Richard Kadrey
Side-Line (the site)
Stephen Levy
Tank Girl
Warren Ellis
Zoetica Ebb of Coilhouse
[list last updated: 2009 apr 23, photo is used by kind permission of @dawe_)