beat dis - just like
Triphop. Hungarian. Screaming steampunkish-TIMish design. Eat their MySpace. Now.
ruoska - ei koskaan
I am pissing blood. Writing about the new clip Ei Koskaan by Finnish industrial-metal band Ruoska is in fact one of the hardest things on Earth now, because it's just like they started filming an Avalon copycat but they run out of budget after the first five seconds and ended up with a thrift shop wardrobe, a few airsoft guns and something that looks like a partyplace after King Kong got baptized in it and had its first ritual masturbation. (Oizys, next time send me something that has tits and bleeds when I shoot it.)
daito manabe - electric stimulus to face [test]
Seen this video some six times today on different blogs, but I'll just credit Oizys who sent this to me via Yimmys Yayo. The face you see, that's Daito Manabe, Japanese sound artist and designer, who synchronizes his facial muscles to hifreq glitchcore via microelectroshocks. This is what he says about himself: Redefining the existent media and technologies from unique angles, I have been active in the various fields, such as art, design, and even research and development. I produce the output of sounds, images, and light through analyzing and transforming the numerical values gained from a various sensors and input devices.
And all our faces are just data now.
nox: hiszed-e még? (értsd a választ, értsd a választ)
Jó három hónapja arról kaptam hírt, hogy a No Thanx öltözött szilikonba, most meg újabb tippet kaptam magát megnevezni nem kívánó olvasómtól, hogy az elektrofolkba áthajló Nox új klippel rukkolt elő. Hazai viszonylatban semmi kellemetlen nincs benne (ez a failbloggal egyenértékű eufemizus), a mai fiatalok szemét meg az sem gyömöszöli ki, hogy kétmásodperces rapidfire-lövetekben köszön vissza az Aeon Flux meg az Ultraviolet, egy kommentár szerint még az Ötödik Elem is, de az első két rip után már nem kell mit magyarázni. Azt viszont nem értem, hogy 2:30-nál hogyan mertek bennehagyni egy ergonómiailag ilyen rosszul megtervezett ajtajú járművet, Péter Szabó Szilvi lábáról viszont enni lehetne, jobb kameraállásnál meg futni rajta öt másodperc alatt százat (ebből legalább az egyik jó). Azt viszont, aki szerint jó ötlet bennehagyni a lövésre kész taktikai kommandó előtt belassított néptáncot, az négerfaszláncért esedezik. És majd egy kommentben ugyan magyarázza már el, hogy ha már nem lett wushu tizensok kitartott fegyver ellen, akkor miért. Na jóéjt.
rabia sorda - walking on nails
Black, yellow and speedrunning in Mexico. Thanks to Miss A. for the Erktime, really.
schwarzenegger-inspired metal: austrian death machine
Half your brain is melt into killing the flu you've just received after the yearly "we've seriously revamped the devilish concoction now" flu injection, and Gargaj just killed the other half with the one and only, yet terrific vide of Austrian Death Machine entitled Get to the Choppa.
Now mind you, I know you haven't read my trip report on the Nippon Connection 2008 yet (because only one-third is online, I know I have a few things backlagging) but most of my communication was with Marty, guitarist of cyberpunk metal band New Project, who from time to time (hourly) decided to practice his Arnie impersonation on me, one key sentence focused on the fucking chopper we need to get to? Right. The ADM video is entitled Get to the choppa (noticed the ork spelling?) and if this is not enough for you, their album Total Brutal sports tracks like I am a Cybernetic Organism, Living Tissue Over (Metal) Endoskeleton, Come With Me if You Want to Live or If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It. And by the way, it was done by Tim Lambesis of As I Lay Dying, being "a tribute to the great Arnold movies. It is a band fronted by Ahhnold with music I wrote and recorded in my free time."
And seeing the tour dates, people just don't get it.
ld50 hetedik születésnap, the news is on
Kész a flyer, terjeszthetitek, linkelhetitek. Összefogtunk az Avalon Clubbal (és hatalmas viking asszonyok védelmezzék a NegativeArtot, bár ez most jobban hangzik büntetésnek, mint bármi másnak, pedig Warren óta jól tudjuk, hogy a viking asszonyok a világmeghódítás legjobb eszközei voltak, mert amikor nem baszták őket, akkor hajókat gyártottak belőlük a viking férfiak), a közös buli november 8-án lesz az Őrsön túl: főfellépőnk az Inkubus Sukkubus, supportjaik a Variola és a Servo.Hatred, a flyeren a lemezlovászok, ez meg az év egyetlen alkalma, amikor hajlandó vagyok pult mögé állni, ha jól számolom. A hely a belvároshoz képest elég mocsokmessze van, viszont vannak partybuszok, az arcomat meg valami mosolygörcs rántja össze, amikor belegondolok abba, hogy mennyire jól szólt a Blue Stahli a helyi hangcuccon. So there.
(Igen, hamar lesz kint jobb kép is ezekből.)
rjdj: next-gen music solutions and drugs
RjDj is a music application for the Iphone. It uses sensory input to generate and control music you are listening to. RjDj is mainly consumed with headphones. Think of it as the next generation of walkman or mp3 player. The consumer experience of RjDj is similar to the effects of drugs. Drugs affect our sensory perception, so does RjDj. RjDj is a mind twisting hearing sensation. (Damage sez: will buy new iPhone just for this.)
new project - making voice in the machine
Australian cyberpunk/industrial metal formation (and messiahs of ROCK!) NEW PROJECT is on its way releasing some behind-the-scenes videos, hopefully synched to their up-and-coming DVD release which nobody knows anything about, but still. Watch fingerstomping moshpit action!
bpm by paul sizer: life of a dj compressed into 96 pages
In the past six years I was always more of a promoter than a DJ, even when I moved a dancefloor of two hundred, I knew it was nothing really like the real thing, vinyls, Technics, the crossfader: all the real deal. We always loved CDs and laptops more, either because we were a new generation or we were just wannabes and couldn't afford the original way. But how we lived our life and the typical problems that we all had at the time because of what we did is awesomely reconstructed in the new graphical novel by Paul Sizer.
B.P.M. has an awful amount of teaser pages on the project site and as far as my knowledge goes, it'll be available in November. Read the teasers, order the rest with me. Let me share the official stuff with you.
BPM is a full color 96 page graphic novel written and drawn by Paul Sizer (LITTLE WHITE MOUSE, MOPED ARMY graphic novels). The graphic novel will contain the main story, plus a comprehensive sketchbook section and detailed playlists and notes. Plus, the book will also be linked with iMixes from the Apple iTunes website that provide a “soundtrack” to accompany the book, as well as playlists for each of the main DJ characters, showing each person’s musical tastes.
“B.P.M.” is Paul Sizer’s love letter to the music he loves. In combining the story of a young DJ with the power of computer enhanced artwork, Paul’s goal is to merge his love of comics and his love of music into a moving, dynamic story of passion, motivation and hard choices over following one’s creative dreams. Paul has challenged himself as a writer and artist, using new techniques to tell this story. Combining his art with hundreds of photos he’s taken in New York, Paul has worked to make “B.P.M.” a unique visual experience as well as a thoughtful and engaging story that transmits the raw power and inspiration that music can generate.
call the ships to port, an intermezzo
the line becomes a circle
spin the wheel of fortune
or learn to navigate
covenant - bullet
Back from Avalon, Budapest's hung like a dark grey rag in a shitstorm, installing a new wifi router, rechecking on the Collide live DVD, re-designing the whole Dose mag and sending this clip to m1k3y of grinding.be, because I'm sure he's gonna like that. Be back later when I'm past the culture trauma.
mentallo & the fixer - and angels tread the lands again
It's been twelve years, a grey-and-red BASF tape I've been handed, through a chain of people, back at high school, allegedly having the kick-ass cyberpunk sound that's gonna make me into a Japanese mecha so that I could destroy the world a bit more. Obviously, as you all know with a bit of background knowledge or common sense, it wasn't really the case. Paul van Dyk and Zen Paradox were not even close to spiral arms or Molly's fletchette: they were more like windows onto pop culture, your standard last.fm/youtube run, cast into plastic for ninety minutes in times of an ISP meltdown.
But the tape had minutes of wonders. It had Leaether Strip, orchestral dark EBM, pure adrenaline ricocheting off stomping boots, waves of segregation and seething anger against the world, and no small wonder, Claus Larsen, mastermind behind the Danish EBM project has practically single-handedly forged two of the best-quality EBM albums of the nineties, Solitary Confinement and Underneath the Laughter, both on the now defunct Zoth Ommog label. It had Front Line Assembly, two albums again - Caustic Grip and Tactical Neural Implant, straight from Canada and the underground elite intelligentsia of righteously self-proclaimed cyberpunk, melting pot of every piece of cultural meme Bill Leeb could lay his hands on.
And it had Mentallo & The Fixer. And God, did I have several hundreds of kilobytes of text files, secret recipes into the world of industrial music (remember, this is still high school, 1996, only chosen ones had modems back then) and yet I had no intel on them. I knew there was an album entitled Revelations 23 and it had tracks with emotions as huge as the universe, it had love, desperation, anguish, hunger, all the size of the Cosmos and their tracks were movie canvasses that displayed movies even when noone was listening at them. So I fell in love. Twelve years.
And now it turns out that the Mentallo guys (with the help of Ras Dva label head Ric Laciak) release all their older stuff for free, in mp3 downloads, with artworks. You can download Revelations 23 (an interstellar voyage of crying and hysteria with freckles of cosmic dust and beats to cling on to) and Where Angels Fear to Tread (an album much refined in sound, cooler in emotions and more subtle in everything) and then some more, like two Benestrophe albums, way back in time, when doing synth-electro-pop surely looked like a good idea for them (and Sensory Deprivation is one hell of a radio-friendly ride, trust me.)
Mainesthai, their side project is massive. It's a blind god, lobotomized, behind a Nordlead and two CD decks. Seriously, the Mainesthai track Y (and its two remixes) are serious forces of rebellious narrative ambient electro (and their take on Mentallo's tracks are even better). It's splatter electro from the nineties and it's very much not like Velvet Acid Christ or anything from that era. If you opened the door labeled VAC, the room behind that smelled from all the drugs the local pharmacists could cook up for you. If you opened the Mentallo room, it was all crystal clockwork, cosmic bandwidth and catastrophes.
And it's all free for the taking now. It's very much like being a child, again, looking up at the sky with the funny little light in your eye, because the sky's looking back at you. And it's singing. (mentallo.net)
you know we fake tonight
Rájöttem, mire jó John Coltrane.
John Coltrane ingyen tartja az ívfényt az ágyatoknál. John Coltrane ingyen szaxofonozik nektek (fáklya híján az is megteszi, bár hangosabb, elnyomja a záróizmok kéjes recsegését). John Coltrane elkísér a boltba melegítõben tejért, ha már nincs jobb dolga. John Coltrane nevének kezdõbetűi egybejátszanak Jesus Christéval, élhetünk a gyanúperrel tehát, hogy Jézus él és megvállasodott annyira, hogy tudja cipelni a batár rézkürtöket. Is. Ahogy elnézem, John Coltrane áramvonalasra szarja a mogyorót. John Coltrane koffeinízt kölcsönöz a sonkászsemlének, olykor kutyát eszik. John Coltrane ma elegáns pályán lép be a légkörbe.
Mondok jobbat, fogjuk fel az AIDSet adathalmaznak, hiszen ha harapdálja a DNSt, van benne adat, amivel le is tudja azt harcolni. Ha adat, lejátszható. Bármi lejátszható zeneként, csak egy kellôképpen szabadelvû player meg egy kellôképpen nemsajnált-nemóvott hangfal kell hozzá, a tesztszignált csak kb. egy óráig bírják a középkategóriás hangfalak, talán Isten hangja szól majd a HIVbôl, talán nem. A kérdés, a kérdés csak az, a RIAA levédené a pestist, ha megtehetné? (dbc, öt éve így)
red. angelspit just doesn't stop, really.
Australian cyberpunk duo Angelspit is busy posting the production diaries of their new album and slowly, if they keep their pace of posting and I keep my pace of neglecting posting here in favor of glorious work and keeping my nervous system intact (which is far funnier than it sounds, trust me), [planetdamage] will become nothing more than their foothold. Blimey.
thursday zen buttons: cyberpunk from australia
Long live the Sydney axis and two re-interpretations of cyberpunk. Above, industrial metal band NEW PROJECT promoting their 2006 EP Primal.Logic.Slave, below, another production diary by ANGELSPIT.
angelspit's devilicious video production diary
If Kill Kitty wasn't enough for you, here's a new lo-fi video production diary of Angelspit's new album, Blood Death Ivory.
angelspit's kill kitty video production diary
I have Angelspit's BLOOD DEATH IVORY here with me, the CD looks amazing, the music rocks and now we have six minutes of actual music production documented by Zoog. No comments, it's just so pure crystal effort.