Connexion Bizarre update 20090216

Connexion Bizarre was updated on February 16th with new content.
In what is something of a Connexion Bizarre first as far as interviews go, this week we present a double interview with C-drone of the most active persons in the international music scenes, covering his activity as musician, DJ, promoter, traveller and labelhead of the Syrphe label.

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "all the sadness in the heart - her twin sister licked my tears with arguments of sound" with music selection by :JW: and "abnoxious companions" with music selections by M.
Interviews: double interview with C-dron his activity as musician, dj, promoter, traveller and as labelhead of Syrphe
Reviews: Metaform "Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants", ESA "The & The Silence", Zero Degree "The Inner Realm", Heft vs. Scaffolding "We Will Diminish", Phragments "Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood", Cacheflowe "Cache, Stacks & Queues EP", Hansel "Reshaping Linear Formulai", MMMF "In The Lab", Combichrist "Today We Are All Demons"

This week we also continue a giveaway of 3 copies of "Little Black Clouds" the debut album of A Wake A Week (new Detritus project) courtesy of the label Spectraliquid (see below for details)



Spectraliquid giveaway

We have three copies of "Little Black Cloud", the debut release of A Wake A Week (new project of Dave Dando-Moore a.k.a. Detritus) to give away, courtesy of the Spectraliquid label (www.spectraliquid.com). To be elegible for this give-away, please send a mail with your name and street address to info[at]connexionbizarre[dot]net.
The deadline for this giveaway is February 22st, 2009. Winners will be selected at random.
Not valid for current Connexion Bizarre staff members.



Connexion Bizarre events

Elektroanschlag 10 Warm-Up Party @ Villa Bar
02 April, thursday, 10.00pm-2.30am; Friedrich-Ebert-Stra14, Altenburg (Germany) map location.
Elektroanschlag 10 warm-up party, organized in partnership with TanzFront with spinning by M. (pt), JanaDark (ru) & Sal-Ocin (be)
Elektroanschlag 10 | Villa Bar | Connexion Bizarre | TanzFront | Sal-Ocin


Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("all the sadness in the heart - her twin sister licked my tears with arguments of sound" with music selection by :JW:)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Clint Mansell - Pi r(1:30)
[Pi Original Soundtrack - Silva Screen]
The Young Gods - C'est Quoi C'est (4:05)
[Super Ready/Fragment- Ipecac]
Apollo 440 - Excalibur (3:53)
[unknown - unknown]
Kirlian Camera - E.D.O. (Europa Drama Orbit) (4:27)
[Shadow Mission HELD V - Out Line]
Invisible Front - Initial Desolation (3:36)
[Bombs Around My Head - Thonar Records]
Sleep Chamber - Justify My Love (3:48)
[Fetish Soundtracks II - Hypnobeat]
Vanessa Daou - My Love Is Too Much (5:49)
[Zipless - Krasnow Entertainment]
Tricky - Veronika (3:00)
[Knowle West Boy - Domino]
Digit All Love - Run Away (4:35)
[Digit All Love - Open Sources]
Hooverphonic - Expedition Impossible (4:07)
[The President Of The LSD Golf Club - Play It Again Sam]
Deutsch Nepal - Behind A Wall of Silence (8:22)
[A Silent Siege - Old Europa Cafe]
Noise/Girl - Discopathology (5:39)
[Discopathology - Killer Pimp]
Triarii - Muse In Arms (2:55)
[Muse in Arms - Eternal Soul Records]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("abnoxious companions" with music selections by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Erdem Helvacioglu - Blank Mirror
[Wounded Breath - Aucourant Records]
A Wake A Week - Little Black Cloud
[Little Black Cloud - Spectraliquid]
Keef Baker - Mintymart Overdraft
[Pen Fifteen - Hymen Records]
Cacheflowe - Oh! Dub
[Cache, Stacks & Queues - Plastic Sound Supply]
Kirdec - Trautiger Zirkus
[Das Gemeinsame Schicksal - Syrphe]
Tomoroh Hidari - Nothing
[Thus Spoke Zerothruster - Record Label Records]
Marching Dynamics - Byzango Datura
[The Worker's Party Of Haiti - Hymen Records]
Broken Fabiola - Japanese Call Girl (Dirty Inside Mix)
[Severed - Tympanik Audio]
Conure - Hobart
[Stream - Edgetone Records]
Orphx - Surface IV
[Teletai - Hands Productions]

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Connexion Bizarre radio show @ Radio Zero
The Connexion Bizarre radio show can be streamed every Friday at 23:00 GMT and Wednesdays at 10:00 GMT from Radio Zero.


Interviews



C-dra.k.a. Kirdec - an interview with Cedrik Fermont
A Belgium based musician, producer and sometimes gig organizer and DJ who started to record industrial and noise music in 1989 with the band Crno Klank and since then played in many other projects and under different names and collaborated live or studio with many artists, in many styles such as electro-acoustic, noise, improv, digital punk, breakcore, electro and dark ambient.
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C-dr- Syrphe
Syrphe (and Textolux) is a small label owned by C-drik (Crno klank, Ambre, Kirdec, Axiome, Tetra plok, Elekore and many others). It is mainly focused on electronic, experimental and noise music (in all meaning of the word) coming from all those lost islands the West seems to ignore: Africa, Asia, the Middle-East (...) but also C-drik's own productions.
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Reviews



Metaform - Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants
While five years in the making, "Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants" arrives as a soulful and decidedly charming journey across decades of musical innovation that defines the true essence of a great electronic record. Admittedly this is one of the coolest albums to have been released in quite some time. Fans of DJ Shadow, RJD2, U.N.K.L.E., and even Four Tet are sure to fall in love with this release.
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ESA - The & The Silence
Decidedly an intense release, "The Sea & The Silence" isn't an easy ride, but it is immensely satisfying and entertaining, and perhaps it will give rhythmic noise the shake-up it desperately needs. One can only look forward to seeing what ESA comes up with next.
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Zero Degree - The Inner Realm
"The Inner Realm" is an well rendered and mesmerizing release that should be able to bridge the gap between a number of electronic music styles and draw in fans because of its excellence rather than its strict adherence to any narrow categorization.
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Heft vs. Scaffolding - We Will Diminish
Both artists are faultlessly professional, and the label deserves credit for putting two very leftfield tracks on the same release as two much more conventional slices of DJ fodder. And then giving it away for free...
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Phragments - Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood
As a well-refined performance of Phragments' trademark musical styles, based for the most part in sombre dark ambient building to more bombastic martial classical passages with forceful industrial touches, "Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood" is arguably one of the best ways to capture an effective sense of the immense tragedy that is genocide.
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Cacheflowe - Cache, Stacks & Queues EP
Hailing from Colorado, via the Plastic Sound Supply label, CacheFlow makes hip-hop-tinged dubstep, avoiding the dirtier fringes of that
genre in favour of more rounded analogue-style sounds and futuristic IDM glitch-beats.
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Hansel - Reshaping Linear Formulai
Hansel show some very real promise here, there are some fantastic tracks available here, but I'd like to see them focus on their more digital hardcore sound, rather than try and mix it up with their slightly more restrained fare. It's enough of a taster to make me want to go check out their other stuff though, and that's good enough for me.
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MMMF - In The Lab
MMMF characterizes itself as "never boring or foreseeable", and its musical methodology is something of an electronic melting pot, filled with sharp layering. If their music may be described as a bit conventional and whimsical, it's because "In the Lab" seems to be just that - superficially simple tracks with titles to match.
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Combichrist - Today We Are All Demons
The fourth full-length from prolific producer Andy LaPlegua's electro-industrial incarnation, Combichrist, is nothing like what it could be. If it were a beverage, it would be Combichrist Lite - half the sleaze, none of the conviction.
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Links

Recently added
Jamez Dean and Squirrel Liberation Front
Violet And The Mutants
VortexSoundTech
La Manufacture de Bruit, netlabel

Net releases spotlight
Children Egoism "Eleven Axis" (NOECHO Records)
Ex Delicto "Hostile" (X-Line)
Ivan Ckonjevic "Plavi bicikl pod oblacima rdje" (NOECHO Rechords)
kdes vs. ps "live in Helsinki" (Enough Records)
Lindstorm "red lights ep" (X-Line)
NaRick "Transcendental Storm" (Absetzer)
t_error 404 "Mecanizmo" (Absetzer)

Recommended
"Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live" (New York Times)
Champagne, lobster and caviar: Robert Mugabe plans binge in land of hunger (The Times)
Famous Berlin squat faces closure (BBC)
Join New Zealand Internet blackout protest against insane copyright law
"The other Moore's law" and "Suspended animation" part of a special report on the new middle classes in emerging markets (The Economist)



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