pupillapornó szinkronra: a négy legjobb autechre-videó
Az eyecandy legjobb magyarítását még @felemaszokni tumblrjéből sikerült elemelni egy kósza reggel, a pupillapornó lefed minden lehelletnyi utalást, amire az angol csak olyan popkulturától szagló szavakkal referál, mint a clock porn vagy a furniture porn, én pedig végre napfényes, fehér és mégis meleg hangulatú, egybenyitott óriásmanzárdhoz ajánlom az alábbi négy Autechre-videót, amit szinkronból, feszült elméket lazító geometriából és a hangok és a világ okkult összefüggéseiből hegesztettek és kaszaboltak össze olyanok, akiket a világ éjszakánként titkos búrákban nevelt a látvány-hangzás-szinkron wu dan skilljeire. Ha valami szervesebbre vágytok, még mindig meg lehet kattintani a Stefan Ringelschwandtner rendezte nemhivatalos Pro Radii klipet.
Unofficial-non commercial video for plyPhon, a song from the latest Autechre release, Quaristice. Every visual element is connected to a sound event; the whole video is intended to be like a sort of virtual score that develops itself in a continued run, according to the music. (lucioarese.net)
DROPP unofficial video made by: http://parkink.net AUTECHRE - ep7 WARP(UK) / NOTHING(US) wapep7 12"+12"/cd 1999
PIR.
The video for Gantz Graf received widespread attention - perhaps more so than any previous output from Autechre; in interviews, Alex Rutterford stated that it achieved cult status in underground computer-generated imagery art circles. The video features an abstract object (or an agglomeration of objects) synchronized to the sounds in the music as it morphs, pulsates, shakes, and finally dissolves. Alex Rutterford (who had previously created an unofficial video for the Tri Repetae track "Eutow" as part of the Channel 4 music programme Lo-Fi in 2001) claims the idea for the "Gantz Graf" video came during one of his LSD trips. Rutterford also stated that there was no generative element to the imagery; every three-dimensional object in the agglomeration was painstakingly and manually synchronised with a specific element or frequency range within the track. (via wikipedia)
faithless - not going home (not going ever)
Not Going Home, the new Faithless single, out 2nd May. Visually teasing (pupillapornó, ha már), musically mediocre. Not going home, not going ever.
leftfield - original
Featuring the one and only Toni Halliday of Curve, and now of Chatelaine, coming from 1995, the year when FBI cracked down on Kevin Mitnick, Ken Ishii released Jelly Tones and I ruined my life by first using Netscape Navigator.
atari teenage riot is back!
2010 is the year of revivals, I tell you. The angriest of the digital hardcore prophets, Atari Teenage Riot is back for a kick in the face - there's a one-off show going down on the 12th of May in Electric Ballroom - and this time they have a fourth member. New Yorker MC CX Kidtronik (having previously worked with Nine Inch Nails and Saul Williams) is on stage with the raw energy chaos was made out of and they've already recorded a new single called Activate. (Electronicbeats reports there's a free remix of Digital Hardcore by dubstephead The Builder.) Below is the Soundcloud embed for Activate. (And, umh, we've found something called the 21 sauces of inspiration for Alec Empire?)
According to Alec Empire's website, Atari Teenage Riot have several tour dates lined up for Europe this summer. NME reports that on May 17, they'll release the new single "Reactivate" on their own Digital Hardcore label. It may very well have some screaming on it. (via pitchfork)
7th street - small city music
Dunno who sent me this but for the sake of the via, drop me a mail! Use your 3D glasses and visit the Chinese Man Records site, receive good karma!
psychick warriors ov gaia: exit 23 (the drum club remix)
Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia is a group of techno music producers from the Netherlands. It is also known as Thee Disciples Ov Gaia and Sluagh Ghairm, one of its members was affiliated to Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth. The group released a number of records and CDs on the Belgian KK Records in the late 1980s and early 1990s. (via wikipedia) | Mysterious formation from Holland (Tilburg), specialised in blends of deep techno, subtle trance and ambient soundscapes, mostly redefining the adjective 'tribal'. At the end of 1992, Robbert Heynen left the group to concentrate on his solo project Exquisite Corpse. (via discogs)
tina root sings reaping beauty about bayonetta (and tina fey)
Last year at Comic-Con, everyone was talking about Bayonetta, this new game about a witch who comes back from hell and tries to find her way home. Beefy, Random and I wrote this song about how Bayonetta looks like Tina Fey and got Tina Root from the 90s industrial band Switchblade Symphony (back with the LA band Small Halo) to sing the hook which she wrote. The song was produced by Jason Bazinet from SMP. (download reaping beauty from mclars.com via kotaku)
2009, missing post #20: veqtor's new album
You must surely remember Veqtor from the London edition of The Dose and his weird, distorted ways of cochlear communication, halfway between jazz thinking, glitch and 8-bit tunes. Now he's got his new album, Parsuitel Orbitelum out for free download out on his label, OXO Unlimited and if you want to say goodbye to 2009 with insane chiptunes (Preprocessor is my fave but the beginning AG Racing is not halfbad for an 8-bit GTA cover song, either!), download the whole pack! I'd say Definite is the best-rolling song of all and anything's that's gone acidways needs some work on it, let those tracks be more strict, the basslines more tense, the wickedness is there already. Oh and those missing The Dose - we're there to promise you lovely little things in 2010. If we get there. (Below, a collaboration of Veqtor and Mathtiiaas Rosén, using a crappy cellphone, upsampled using geniune fractals, then run through max/msp+jitter patch. Stock footage from archive.org has been run through an atari2600 emulator being data-bent and repositioning the footage. Still rocking stuff, though!)
2009, missing post #18: teufels dreizack, yelworc on the rise
One of the new tracks by the accomplished German occult industrial/EBM group yelworC. Make friends with them, emerge in the depths. 2010 is bringing you more of those very sweet pits of modular destruction and despair. Order all the stuff you can get from them, their older materials were released on Celtic Circle Productions, the newer ones via Minuswelt Musikfabrik. All recommended. (And here's something older as well.)
2009, missing post #9: dhc meinhof and the shizit
I've sort of grown to like this DHC Meinhof, a Polish digital hardcore band on D-Trash Records, but the nicest I could tell you about them is that they're a shameless rip-off of Atari Teenage Riot. Which is not exactly a bad thing after all - after the tragic departure of Carl Crack you either went for the slightly (or significantly) different stuff of Alec, Hanin and Nic or you've tried to find something more harsh and less professional in the digital hardcore scene. So the Meinhof ends up in a gapfilling position, however bad this sounds. For them. (You don't think so? Oh. Check Will You Ever Learn.)
And if you missed out some comets just like I did, time for you to know - The Shizit has a new album out called The Shizit - downloadable free of charge from archive.org! (Thanks to Gargaj for the then-lifesaving link!)
2009, missing post #8: the shamen
Too bad I found The Shamen only on the very last week of this year (apart from their very, very bad live recordings such as this one) - turns out they have more connections to cyberpunk and my time spent online than I remembered. Hyperreal, one of their 1990 singles, apparently gave birth to hyperreal.org, a long-lived site formed around music, chemistry and rave culture and their Axis Mutatis album (from 1995) actually gave its name to a cyberpunk community site (sort of) that serves a different Japanese site now under the same domain. (For more cyberpunk digital communities, check Project Cyberpunk and its links.)
2009, missing post #1: everything is made of cheese
Beardyman, one of the world's best - if not the outright best - beatboxer on his 2008 Northern tour. (via hardergeneration, on a magical triple-nine date)
cover galore: the sun always shines on tv
Morten "jósvádájú" Harket és barátai megírták a slágert a huszadik század igazi feng shuijáról, értsd, ha keleti oldalról süt be a nap, nyugati oldalra helyezd a tévét, ha ablakból süt be, ablakkal szemben helyezd, ha lakást tervezel, úgy huzaloztass, aztán csak egyszerhasználatos sláger lett belőle. Egyszerhasználatos. Nincs egy videomegosztón egy olyan felvétel sem, ahol Morten "jósvádájú voltam" Harket jól énekelné ki a kritikus részeket (amúgy tudom a többiek nevét is, olvasok Wikipédiát, volt nemstandard tiniújságból pixeles A-HA plakátom, bekaphatjátok), a feldolgozások pedig még siralmasabbak, az 1985-ös verzió volt a legjobb, mégis összegyűjtöttem egy csokornyivalót (az öt darab), hogy megtudjátok, mit nem szabad. Egy-két kivételtől eltekintve.
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hardware: fields of the nephilim's carl mccoy cameo (with robot heads)
Look where sifting through endless linkboxes stored in 2009 will get you. British cyberpunk movie Hardware done almost twenty years ago (read CPR's review about it here) features none other than Carl McCoy, frontman and lead singer for one of the best bands that the Goth subculture ever donated to the world - Fields of the Nephilim. McCoy's voice is slightly altered but his eyes and the hat he wears give him away instantly - playing a zonetripper character who's out there in the wasteland, scavening whatever's left for the taking. The movie is hilariously bad but hey, it was the golden nineties, everything was permitted. Below, one of their best tracks, For Her Light off the 1990 album Elizium.
planetdamage.com's best music finds of 2009
2009 zenei aranymazsolái, részeg éjszaka maradványa ez a töredék is, az ötlet persze tökéletes, miket kezdtünk el hallgatni idén, amik amúgy nem is annyira új anyagok már - földönkívüli civilizációk bódult isteneitől poszt-grunge szennydívákig, hipnotikus brit space-technótól dzsunkatempóra himbálózó dubstepig visz a lista, videoklipekkel megszórva. Az év legjobb anyagai később jönnek, ha egyáltalán.
To all of you who speak English, just click this. Inside: a few bands I came to love in 2009 from Goth to space techno, sprinkled with lots of videos and MySpace links. If the magical harmony of Hungarian vowels do not instantly bestow you the meaning, fear not.
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little boots gets reactive remixing app
RjDj's been something of a household name this year - their idea of augmented music and sound environments is just something that could really dig its way into the experimental underground community of sound sculptors, music freaks and junkies alike. Seriously. Show the Trippy (previously Album) app's Echolon to a friend, if (s)he freaks out, bam! you know (s)he had LSD. Anyways. I'll dig a bit into creative/augmented music applications and self-generating music later on, but this just came in: Little Boots (Remedy has been a jingly little favourite in Q4) got her own reactive music app for three of her tracks, aforementioned Remedy, New in Town and Meddle.
The result is the first reactive remixing app where fans of either Little Boots or reactive music can use reality to remix her tracks. (...) We’ve used the full reactive toolbox, so the scenes play with manipulating audio input, walk detection and some really interesting new angles on controlling the flow of the music with the accelerometer, Strike style. (via rjdj.me)
blasted mechanism - destiny? play and see
A perem, amire napok óta kapaszkodunk. Van amúgy olvasóm, aki beszél portugálul? (Az egy nyelv, amúgy.)