Connexion Bizarre

Connexion Bizarre update 20090706

2009-07-06T21:42:21Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on July 6th with new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: DJ Intoner @ Connexion Bizarre with music selection by DJ Intoner and "two bullets for Maria - complemento incorrecto para uma circunsição periférica" with music selection by :JW:
Reviews: :papercutz Lylac", SE Epiphora", Coreline Bone and Blood as Stone and Mud", Cyclotimia Music For Stockmarkets", Surma Allocutio", Aphorism Surge", Noises of Russia Experimental Structure", Samarkande 3 Synapses"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)

Recommended Events
(note: we are not directly involved in the organization of these events)

Noxious Arts III
2009-09-03/04/05, thursday to saturday, several locations, Paris (FR)
See flyer for line-up. More details to be announced soon!
Audiotrauma

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("DJ Intoner @ Connexion Bizarre" with music selection by DJ Intoner)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Oyaarss - A La Holeage (Feat. Cuuku Piseejs) (00:55)
[Unreleased]
Gridlock - Burn (05:18)
[The Synthetic Form - Pendragon Records]
Spherical Distrupted - Beryllium (06:55)
[Barriere - Audiophob]
Selfsimilar - Godspeed (08:00)
[The Darkweight EP - Bassweight Recordings]
Vaski - Resonate (11:24)
[The Union EP - Rottun Recordings]
Hecq - Spheres Of Fury (with Exillon) (13:50)
[Unreleased - Big Mean Robot]
Cloaks - Against (20:08)
[Against / Rust on Metal - 3by3]
Sleeparchive - Russia (22:05)
[L.A.C. / Russia - Stamp Release]
Goldfinger - Chainsaw (25:34)
[The Launch EP Part 3 - Rottun Recordings]
Rosewater - Normality (27:15)
[Motor Medicine - Sturm]
Vex'd - Thunder (30:55)
[Degenerate - Planet Mu]
Broken Note - War In The Making (32:20)
[War In The Making / No Struggle - Ruff]
Gunjack - Down The Ox (34:55)
[A Murder Of Crows - Consume]
Sully- Voidsucka (36:11)
[Destroyah - Creative Space Records]
Marching Dynamics- Un fall able (Endif Remix) (41:41)
[Unreleased]
Candlenine - Penumbra (45:24)
[Unreleased]
Intoner vs. Ahnst Anders & Toninstitut - Sleepless (Deprivation) (51:30)
[Sleepless - play33]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("two bullets for Maria - complemento incorrecto para uma circunsição periférica" with music selection by :JW:)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Manapsara - El Hombre Invisible (5:47)
[Queer (A Soundtrack To The Novel By William S. Burroughs) - Sub Rosa]
Kannonau - Revenge (4:29)
[Initium - Misty Circles]
Rome - To Die Among Strangers (4:14)
[To Die Among Strangers (maxi) - Trisol]
Rising Shadows - Through The Lingering Past (2:51)
[Found In The Cold - Twilight Records ]
Gae Bolg - In Taberna (8:19)
[Petite Introduction Aux Pratiques Des Gymnosophes - Le Cluricaun]
Helium Vola - Friendly Fire (4:17)
[Fuer Euch Die Ihr Liebt - Chrom Records]
Die Form - Voltaic Control System (3:55)
[Noir Magnetique - Out Of Line]
Isis Signum - Destroy The Wall (featuring Sara Noxx) (5:00)
[Electrosexual - Advanced Synergy]
QEK Junior - Koblenz, Nicht Berlin (3:40)
[Ausverkauf - Danse Macabre]
Freezepop - Frontload (Designer Drugs Mix) (4:12)
[Form Activity Motion - Cordless Recordings]
Seelenkrank - Fetisch (3:54)
[Engelsschrei - Maschinenwelt Records]
Robots In Disguise - The Dj' Got A Gun (4:17)
[Get Rid - President Records]
I Monster - A Sucker For Your Sound (3:31)
[A Dense Swarm Of Ancient Stars - Twins Of Evil]

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Reviews

:papercutz - Lylac
Very much recommended to those with a taste for electronica or pop music with a twist - pop music doesn't have to be the cheesy stuff you find on the charts; sometimes you get albums like this, filled with melodies, rhythms and vocals, that uplifts, inspires and somehow restores a little faith that music can still surprise you and still give you something new. Sweet, soothing and intoxicating...
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SE - Epiphora
With an altogether ethereal feel, this isn't like clear-cut IDM, as instruments aren't buried under a slab of unintelligible glitches - in fact, it's the glitches that take a back seat and lets the instrumentation take you somewhere different. An absolute must have for those with a Gridlock-shaped loss in their lives, and for everyone else, this is just recommended to show you that electronic can be tear-inducingly beautiful.
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Coreline - Bone and Blood as Stone and Mud
It's sometimes been hard to reconcile the two facets of Chris McCall's output - the seemingly ultra-serious music and the joyously insane live shows. But here, somehow, we may have the missing link at last. Like some kind of mad scientist (or inventor?) anything that may work is hurled into the mix - presumably from a safe distance just in case it blows up in his face - and it's to his immense credit that the vast majority of these ideas actually work
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Cyclotimia - Music For Stockmarkets
A challenging soundscape with some excellent moments of chill, dark electronica featuring the unique sounds of vintage Soviet equipment and field recordings. It's like the reserved, avant-garde cousin of Oil 10, the guy that sits in the corner somewhere on the edge of serenity and anxiety while everyone else is out back having a beer.
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Surma - Allocutio
Surma's initial foray into the desolate world of martial ambient electronics, on the split EP "Viltis" (shared with fellow Eastern Front grouch-merchants, Kreuzer) was exciting listening, hinting at a potential far beyond the pedestrian doom-and-gloom peddled en masse by similar artists in the genre. Thus, the debut album, "Allocutio" has more than its fair share of hype to live up to...
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Aphorism - Surge
Fresh from Chicago comes Aphorism's "Surge", a conventional electronica album that somehow fell in with a bad crowd and came out reeking of industrial and IDM fallout. While it may not be the most exciting release within the darker side of technoid, Aphorism's "Surge" is nevertheless worth listening to.
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Noises of Russia - Experimental Structure
Documents a live performance by Noises of Russia in St. Petersburg and a musical departure from the death industrial commonly associated with Noises Of Russia - offering instead improvised collages of field recordings from nature, treated instruments, shamanistic chants and sparse industrial noises. Together they form a soundscape which conveys an impression of the performance as a very esoteric experience.
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Samarkande - 3 Synapses
Samarkande are introduced on their website as an apparently experimental group that create by way of improvisation, and to "break the rigidity of electro-acoustic and electronic music". Quite what the latter point means in practice is a difficult one to answer, it seems.
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Price: 6.00 Euro (worldwide shipping included)
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Links

Net releases spotlight
Hezzel "Magnets" (Absetzer)
Various "X" (DarkStep.Org)

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Connexion Bizarre update 20090622

2009-06-23T17:27:18Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on June 22nd with new content (reviews, webcasts and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "untitled" with music selection by JanaDark) and "Green Week 24/7" with music selection by M.
Reviews: CTRL "Lost In Static", Bella Lune "Abstracted Visions"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)

Recommended Events
(note: we are not directly involved in the organization of these events)

disco_r.dance @ The Foundry
2009-06-27, saturday, The Foundry, London (UK)
Disco_r.dance

Noxious Arts 2009
2009-09-03/04/05, thursday to saturday, several locations, Paris (FR)
Line-up and more details to be announced soon!
Audiotrauma

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("untitled" with music selection by JanaDark)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Ad·ver·sary - Darker (06:59)
[A Bright Cut Across Velvet Sky - Tympanik Audio]
Keef Baker - Dead End (07:16)
[Pen Fifteen - Kreuzung Vier - Hymen Records]
The PCP Principle - Defeated By Every Means Possible (04:07)
[Electronic Violence Phenomena - Hands Productions]
Stendeck - Blind Army Parade (04:57)
[Sonnambula - Tympanik Audio]
Marching Dynamics - Going Under (04:26)
[The Workers Party Of Haiti - Hymen Records]
OTX - Countdown To Chaos (07:18)
[A World In Red - Funkwelten]
DarkRad - The Red (03:44)
[Unreleased - Not on label]
Synapscape - Ahuenna! (04:20)
[Again -Ant-Zen]
Coreline - F.B.N (XL Stripglos Orange Sequence Non Adhesive) (04:45)
[Bone and Blood as Stone and Mud - Infekted Sound]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Green Week 24/7" with music selection by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Andrew King & Brown Sierra - The Dark Eyed Sailor
[Thalassocrassy - Epiphany]
Nyctallz - Esion 1
[V/A - Pangaea Noise - Syrphe]
Flatline Skyline - Sleep Tight, Silent Knight
[All Sound / No Vision - Mechanoise Labs]
Aere Aeternus - Conjuration
[Humanity Needs No Funeral - Kaosthetik Konspiration]
Tzii - Go East (remix by The Masters Musicians Of Hop-Frog
[Rotten Friendship - self-release]
T/M/K - Major Problem In Washington DC
[Need The Needle (as Textbook of Modern Karate) - Aentitainment]
John Zorn - The Initiate
[The Crucible - self-release]
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Serpents
[Mutations EP - Ad Noiseam]
IP Neva - Radiation Field
[Symbiosis Of Contradictions - Impulsive Art]
Mandelbrot - Fünf
[Evolution - Audiophob]
Tapage - Clap Retrial
[Fallen Clouds - Tympanik Audio]

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Reviews

Bella Lune - Abstracted Visions
Pleasant and quirky as it may be when one begins to listen to it, halfway through chances are that the listener will get a nagging feeling of déjà vu. And here lies the main problem with this release, a definite lack of variety - something which might not be such an issue if this had been released as an EP.
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Connect_icut - They Showed Me The Secret Beaches
Over the course of his several releases Macklin has developed his own sound, utilizing instruments processed through Max/MSP. He has become adept at making the electronic sound and feel very organic which is why, in a world of plastic-sounding computer music, this is something very refreshing to listen to.
Read more

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Price: 6.00 Euro (worldwide shipping included)
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Foreign Policy: would Iran be different under Mousavi?
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090615

2009-06-16T12:07:45Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on June 15th with new content (reviews, webcasts and recommended links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Drum Forrest, Drum!" with music selection by the [Law-Rah] Collective and "Flight 23 To Interzone" with music selection by Machinochrist
Reviews: Connect_icut "They Showed Me The Secret Beaches", Flatline Skyline "All Sound / No Vision", Rubik "Carrion EP", UberByte "Dos"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Drum Forrest, Drum!" with music selection by the [Law-Rah] Collective)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness Remix (06:15)
[Higher State of Consciousness - BMG]
L'il Louis & The World - Blackout (Phase 1) (08:41)
[I Called U - FFRR]
Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat (05:16)
[Analog Worms Attack - PiaS]
Anne Clark - Sleeper In Metropolis (04:51)
[Our Darkness - Ink Records]
Grauzone - Eisbär (04:50)
[Eisbär - LD Records]
The Future Sound Of London - Central Industrial (04:25)
[Accelerator - Addiction Records]
Front 242 - Welcome To Paradise (V1.0) (05:18)
[Headhunter - Red Rhino Europe]
The Shamen - Move Any Mountain (Beat Edit) (03:28)
[Move Any Mountain - Progen (91) - One Little Indian]
Ammo - What Was That Oops For? (03:12)
[Beautiful People - Mirex]
The End - You Only Live Once (03:42)
[Carbon - Mirex]
Moby - Feeling So Real (Original Mix) (04:32)
[Feeling So Real - Indisc]
The Age of Love - Paul Van Dyk "Love Of Ages Remix" (08:39)
[The Age Of Love - TF Productions]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Flight 23 To Interzone" with music selection by Machinochrist)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
William Burroughs - Thanksgiving Prayer
[Dead City Radio - Island Records ]
Bobby Beausoleil - Movement The Second
[Lucifer Rising - Disgust Records ]
Mordant Music - The Hauntological Song
[Picking o'er the Bones - Mordant Music]
Interzone Suite - Ornette Coleman & Howard Shore
[Naked Lunch OST - Milan Records]
Red Sox - Various Productions
[Versus - Various Productions ]
Flying Lotus & Declaime - Whole Wide World
[Whole Wide World EP - Ramp]
Sunn O))) - Big Church
[Monoliths & Dimensions - Southern Lord]
Manatees - Hyperion
[Icarus, The Sunclimber - Eyes of Sound ]
Portal - Sourlows
[Outre - Profound Lore]
Svasti-ayanam - Gilgamesh
[Sanklesa - Crowd Control]
Master Musicians of Joujouka -
[Apocalypse Across the Sky - Axiom Records]

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Reviews

Connect_icut - They Showed Me The Secret Beaches
Over the course of his several releases Macklin has developed his own sound, utilizing instruments processed through Max/MSP. He has become adept at making the electronic sound and feel very organic which is why, in a world of plastic-sounding computer music, this is something very refreshing to listen to.
Read more

Flatline Skyline - All Sound / No Vision
A multifaceted album that confronts listeners with pop tendencies, taking inspiration from the sharp beats, brimming bass and lyrical delivery of indie rock's more electronic leanings, and similarly finds substance with a blended new wave versus old industrial feel. Flatline Skyline overall benefits from its oddly familiar genre-bending forms and passionate articulation.
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Rubik - Carrion EP
"Brevity is the soul of wit" is a saying that also applies to small bite-sized releases like this limited edition three-track 12" by the relatively obscure London-based artist Rubik. "Carrion EP" is one of those things that have a touch of the unexpected, hinting at a lot of potential and quite a few ideas, but pretty much stopping short of giving away the artist's failings.
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UberByte - Dos
"Dos" may not be clever, it may not be original and it may not be the best production quality available in an oversaturated genre, but it is fun. This is musical entertainment for those of a darker bent, but not too dark to preclude having a sense of humour.
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Links

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Connexion Bizarre update 20090608

2009-06-08T17:39:13Z

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Sedated Chaos" with music selection by Invisible War)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Sinke Dûs - The Premonition
[Akrasia - Cyclic Law]
Penjaga Insaf - Tenangan (Excerpt)
[Incendium II - Loki Foundation]
Tho|so|aa - Disintegrated
[Absorb - Tesco Organisation]
Ionosphere - Meta III
[Angular Momentum - Power & Steel]
Troum - Peleta
[Aiws - Transgredient Records]
Fjernlys - All Sun's Ceaseless Falling
[Ascending Triads & Luminous Arcs - Loki Foundation]
Pimentola - Death Is A Secret
[Misantropolis - Cold Meat Industry]
Knifeladder - Alpha Male
[Music-Concrete - Cold Meat Industry]
Gnaw Their Tongues - Sawn Asunder And Left For The Beasts
[An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood - Crucial Blast]
Navicon Torture Technologies - Metafleshbioengine
[Scenes From The Next Millennium - Annihilvs]
Visions - Lapsing
[Lapse - Cyclic Law]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Zen and the Art of Microwave Cooking" with music selection by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Black Lung - The World Without Us
[Full Spectrum Dominance - Ant-Zen/Tympanik Audio]
Negruvoda - Claustrophobic Hangover
[Appetizer - Malignant Records]
Tzii - Hypo-Crisis
[V/A - Sonic Terror - De Rebellenclub]
Disciplina Urbana - Desporte Sangrento
[V/A - Sonic Terror - De Rebellenclub]
Navicon Torture Technologies - Mind Is A Prison
[The Gospels Of The Gash - Malignant Records]
Mandelbrot - Null
[Evolution - Audiophob]
Tonikom - Fluorescence
[The Sniper's Veil - Hymen Records]
Tapage - The Silent House
[Fallen Clouds - Tympanik Audio]
SE - hitchhiker
[Epiphora - Tympanik Audio]
Angina P - Free Radical
[Sensitive Files - Hands Productions]
Pandora's Black Book - Empty Words
[Black Brothel - Tympanik Audio]

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Escape From Terra
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Josie Gallows "Guilty Sunrise"
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090525

2009-05-25T23:59:11Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on May 25th with new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Rak's Party part II" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead and "From smart to stupid (and slam the brakes)" with music selections by M.
Interviews: interview with Sebastien BTouarin of Amesha Spenta
Reviews: Cisfinitum "Nevmenosis", v4w.enko "Harmonic Ratio", Murder By Static "Danceland Dead"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)

Connexion Bizarre events

Bodypop
2009-06-06, saturday, Era Uma Vez No Porto, Porto (PT) map location
A (sporadic?) ressurrection of the Bodypop nights with the usual recipe: synthpop and related variants at usual place (which is now in a different place).
Era Uma Vez No Porto

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("RAK's Party part II" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Don Goliath - Come Around Refixed
[The Refixes - N/A]
12th Planet & Emu - Are Ya Feelin?
[C-Sick / Are Ya Feelin? - 10 Bag Records]
Antiserum - Rambo Style
[Bay Area Dubstep Volume 02 - Full Melt Recordings]
Skream - Midnight Request Line
[Skream! - Tempa]
Drukore - Guhray Falessh
[Counterpunch - Shift Recordings]
Cardopusher - Milk Thistle
[Milk Thistle - Lo Dubs]
Mobthrow - Deathstep
[Konkrete - Spectraliquid]
Audio - Warehouse (VIP Remix)
[Warehouse VIP - Freak Recordings]
Trillbass - Threat
[In Bass We Trust EP - Trill Bass]
Ultrablack - Hate On Us
[La Dubstep Nostra - La Dubstep Nostra]
Virus Syndicate - Vibrator
[Sick Pay - Planet Mu]
Rustie - Zig-Zag
[Zig-Zag - Wireblock]
Cheyster99 - IntenC9
[N/A - Unreleased]
16 Bit - Chainsaw Calligraphy
[In The Death Car - Boka Records]
Broken Note - Zealot
[Crux / Zealot - Ad Noiseam]
Cakebuilder - Dark Beast
[Feeding The Worms - Ad Noiseam]
Spor - 1UP
[Supernova - Lifted Music]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("From smart to stupid (and slam the brakes)" with music selections by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Flatline Skyline - Other Dreams
[All Sound/No Vision - Mechanoise Labs]
Hecq - Steeltongued (Mothboy Remix)
[Steeltongued - Hymen Records]
:papercutz - A Way to Emerge
[Lylac - Apegenine]
Angina P - Remember That
[Sensitive Files - Hands Productions]
Cenotype - Pieces (remixed by ATEK)
[Origins Unfold - self-released]
Pandora's Black Book - Black Brothel
[Black Brothel - Tympanik Audio]
Oil 10 - Airway
[Retrofuture - Funk Welten]
Prometheus Burning - Black Magick Tongue
[Plague Called HuMANity - Crunch Pod]
Necrotek - 200666 (Misanthropic Mix)
[Menschenfeind - Vendetta Music]
The Gothsicles - BAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLS (Prometheus Burning vs. The Gothsicles)
[Sega Lugosi's Dead - WTII]
Uberbyte - The Gift
[Dos - Crunch Pod]
Millimetric - Words and Silence (feat. Martin Dupont)
[ExpModernes - M-tronic]

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Interviews

Amesha Spenta - an interview with Sebastien BTouarin
A newcomer to the French label/collective Audiotrauma, Amesha Spenta welcomes the listener into a universe of distorded progressive electronic music with ethno-cultural references to the Zoroastrian religion of ancient Persia.
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Reviews

Cisfinitum - Nevmenosis
Voronovsky describes his music as 'metaphysical ambient', a description which may not be that off the mark if one is to judge by this release. Throughout "Nevmenosis", Cisfinitum manages to convey a feeling of timelessness and distance, showing the listener hints of a greater whole and different perspectives which could not be described in any other way but through music.
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v4w.enko - Harmonic Ratio
Nothing about "Harmonic Ratio" suggests any kind of harmony, in a conventional musical sense or otherwise; this is a decidedly uncomfortable, nerve-wracking experience. But then you consider Kvitnu's slogan: "High Blood Pressure Music" and realise it's not meant to be calming.
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Murder By Static - Danceland Dead
"Danceland Dead" distills the love one may (or may not) have for late-90s jungle, and filters it through a more updated feel. While one may have a hard time remembering the individual tracks, it's a great album to listen to as a whole and highly recommended for dicing vegetables or angering your neighbors while drinking your morning coffee.
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BNP Stock Photography
"BSA piracy figures need a shot of reality"
Mixed Feelings - See with your tongue. Navigate with your skin. Fly by the seat of your pants (literally). How researchers can tap the plasticity of the brain to hack our 5 senses and and build a few new ones. (Wired)
Top 50 movie special effects shots (Den of Geek!)
Eminem vs. the Punisher (Marvel Comics Online)
Evolution of Technology (Saturn Commercial)

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Connexion Bizarre update 20090518

2009-05-18T12:45:43Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on May 18th with new content (reviews, webcasts and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Grow-Speed-Erection Mix" with music selection by GunHed242 and "untitled" with music selections by DJ JanaDark
Reviews: Anhedonia "Ontology", Kryptogen Rundfunk + Hladna "Rokton + Formanta", Niko Skorpio "Psylocibe Necrophilia", Taphephobia "Anomie", Ministry of Rites "Grid"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)

Connexion Bizarre events

Bodypop
2009-06-06, saturday, Era Uma Vez No Porto, Porto (PT) map location
A (sporadic?) ressurrection of the Bodypop nights with the usual recipe: synthpop and related variants at usual place (which is now in a different place).
Era Uma Vez No Porto

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Grow-Speed-Erection Mix" with music selection by GunHed242)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
William Orbit - Bubble Universe
[Hello Waveforms - Sanctuary Records]
ML - Witchcraft Enters The Comp Age
[Good Morning - En:peg Digital]
Oil 10 - Electric Angels
[Retrofuture - Funkwelten]
Exillon - Duhu
[The Keening Dithers - Ad Noiseam]
Photophob - Hired Hunter (Killbot)
[Your Majesty Machine - Hive Records]
Twerk - Defective Manufacturing
[Humantics - Force Inc. Music Works]
The Connection Machine - Avatar Shopping
[Painless - Down Low Music]
Zonk't - Ohm 05 Part 2
[Purr - Sound On Probation]
Raoul Sinier - Bleeders Curb
[Brain Kitchen - Ad Noiseam]
Clark - Gonk Roughage
[Growls Garden EP - Warp]
Venetian Snares - Bebikukorica Nigiri
[Detrimentalist - Planet Mu]
Servants Of The Apocalyptic Goat Rave - GoatRave vs The Instrument of Torture
[Servants Of The Apocalyptic Goat Rave - Sublight]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("untitled" with music selections by DJ JanaDark)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Lunar Abyss Quartet - Untitled (06:06)
[Hyperborean - Der Angriff]
Deutsch Nepal - Prehistorical Bulldozer Delivering Service (06:38)
[Reutoff vs Deutsch Nepal - Kreuzung Vier - Ewers Tonkunst]
Totakeke - Dirge (07:28)
[Past:Present:Future - Tympanik audio]
Hum - Ascension (06:28)
[Flesh Of The Soul - Quag]
Clausthome - Distant (04:28)
[Radiophare [ Lampe D'Ambiance ] - Indiestate Distribution]
Troum - Aggilus (01:51)
[Aiws - Transgredient Records]
Ab ovo - Gathering (04:29)
[Various - Elektroanschlag 5 - Not on label]
Anhedonia - Drone (03:12)
[Ontology - Aliens Production]
Mika Goedrijk - White Spiders (05:34)
[Pellicules - Ant-Zen]
Reutoff - Nemesis (06:32)
[Deprivatio - Ewers Tonkunst]
Talvekoidik - Sandstorm (06:28)
[ Silent Reflections - Brume Records]

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Reviews

Anhedonia - Ontology
"Ontology" is a gorgeous piece of work, with massive emphasis on mood, but its presence is somewhat muted and tentative, hardly as sure of itself as previous works. A pity, really, because this is one talented artist indeed, and this recording doesn't quite fulfill expectations based on his previous offerings. It's still very good, though, just difficult to listen to.
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Kryptogen Rundfunk + Hladna - Rokton + Formanta
This work's final result are three long untitled tracks, meditative and disturbing at the same time, which will please all the lovers of the ambient-noise and drone genres - all those who enjoy good sound design more than any kind of enchanting melodies or pounding beats.
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Niko Skorpio - Psylocibe Necrophilia
Based on a pretty unusual concept: the raw materials used for all of its tracks are old tapes of the artist's early bands from the 80's (essentially heavy metal demos and live bootlegs), which have been completely destroyed, cut, re-edited and processed to eventually obtain some brand new material, which absolutely doesn't sound like heavy metal anymore, but more fits into the dark ambient and drone genres.
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Taphephobia - Anomie
On one side of the coin they hit the nail on the head and are gripping, intriguing and magical; on the flip side they drift a little too much into the mundane and dull. The best parts of this album, however, do make up for a lot of their failings.
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Ministry of Rites - Grid
When Ministry of Rites do get it right (and they have the ability), it is genuinely engaging and listenable; it's just that fifty percent of the time they just seem to faff about too much. Something for those with very eclectic tastes that disappointingly just comes somewhere short of approaching other audiences and fails.
Read more

Links

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Plague Haus
Instant Action Oject

Net releases spotlight
Various "Non-Pop #3" (Non-Pop)

Recommended
"Killing The Scene" and "A Mild Taste Of Disdain" two downloadable mixes by DJ Intoner.
Hadopi: la crsacrifi(Liberation)
How Damaging is Illegal File-Sharing? (BBC)
Pirated pop keeps stars popular - File-sharing sites help make popular acts more popular, finds a study. (BBC)
Political animals - European politicians are breathtakingly hypocritical about sealskins (The Economist)
"A Survival Guide for Decent Folk" from Nightjack blog

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Connexion Bizarre update 20090511

2009-05-11T23:12:57Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on May 11th with new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Hellen Keller in Outter Space" with music selection by Machinochrist and "So much for inertia (maybe next time)..." with music selections by M.
Interviews: Anhel Liaros of Spectraliquid
Reviews: Tonikom "The Sniper's Veil", Necrotek "Menschfeind", the Gothsicles "Sega Lugosi's Dead", Amesha Spenta "Amesha Spenta", Sister Loolomie & Kryptogen Rundfunk "[w]interloop[s]", High Wycombe "Reverser"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Hellen Keller in Outer Space" with music selection by Machinochrist)
Chroma Key - Colourblind
[Dead Air for Radios - Fight Evil Records]
Beacon Street Union - The Clown Died in Marvin Gardens
[The Clown Died in Marvin Gardens - See for Miles UK]
Goth Trad - Law
[Law/The Clown - Deep Medi Musik]
Kool Keith - Lost in Space
[Black Elvos/Lost in Space - Ruffhouse]
L-wiz - Egyptic
[Girlfriend/Egyptic - Dub Police]
Curved Air - It Happened Today
[Airconditioning - Warner Brothers Records]
Chris Isaak - Baby did a bad bad thing
[Baby did a bad bad thing - Reprise Records]
Rustie - Spliff Dub
[Mu5h - Hyperdub]
Richard Cheese - Shake ya Ass
[Tuxicity - Surfdog Records]
Starkey - Gutter Music
[Ephemeral Exhibits - Planet Mu]
Neil Young - Dont Let it Bring You Down
[After the Gold Rush - Reprise Records]
Mr Oizo - Two Takes It ft. Carmen Castro
[Lambs Anger - Because Music, Ed Banger Records]
Alleviators - Film Noir
[Erotico Live - Unknown]
Flying Lotus - Robertaflack (ft. Dolly)
[Los Angeles - Warp]
Spearhead - Tha Payroll (Stay Strong)
[Chocolate Super Highway - Capitol Records]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("So much for inertia (maybe next time)..." with music selections by M.)
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Marching Dynamics - Doorbells In Amsterdam
[The Workers Party Of Haiti - Hymen Records]
Somatic Responses - LFO Assassin
[Reformation - Ad Noiseam]
Burikusu!!! - Sci-Fi Epikusu
[2080 - 23DB]
Hecq - I Will Survive (feat. Nongenetic)
[Steeltongued - Hymen]
Amesha Spenta - Void
[Amesha Spenta - Audiotrauma]
Totakeke - The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes
[The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes - Tympanik Audio]
Tonikom - The Source (album edit)
[The Sniper's Veil - Hymen]
Oil 10 - Synthetic Skin
[Retrofuture - Funk Welten]
Flatline Skyline - Fearful Simmetry
[All Sound/No Vision - Mechanoise Labs]
For Greater Good - Getting Older
[Pen Fifteen - Hymen]
Colin Johnco - An Other Electric Girl
[An Other Electric Girl - Colin Johnco Records]

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Interviews

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Anhel Liaros - Spectraliquid
pectraliquid is an independent music & art label based in Athens, Greece that came to life in Summer 2006, in order to deliver high-quality extreme experimental soundscapes and visionary art.
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Reviews

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Tonikom - The Sniper's Veil
Tonikom's sophomore release on Hymen Records, "The Sniper's Veil", is a wholly satisfying exercise in breakbeats. Most everything appearing on Tonikom's latest shows fantastic cohesion, simplicity, musicianship and, it must be said, an intriguingly feminine essence.
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Necrotek - Menschfeind
It must also be said that this album is perhaps something of an anomaly - one that wears its influences so obviously has no business twisting new and interesting sounds from such familiar raw materials in such style as this. As a result - particularly if you hanker for the days of industrial of the old school - this is an intriguing and essential purchase.
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the Gothsicles - Sega Lugosi's Dead
If you can leave all seriousness behind and enjoy "Sega Lugosi's Dead" for a really fun CD that doesn't mind poking fun at just about everything, then you'll love this latest offering by the Gothsicles. It's sheer genius in stupid form!
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Amesha Spenta - Amesha Spenta
"Amesha Spenta" as an album is relentless, even in its ambient passages, and however sedate the bpm might be. It is dense, secretive, and part of a floating realm, suspended between the occidental and oriental with chime-like melodies and shivering tones, supported by spine tingling beat structures.
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Sister Loolomie & Kryptogen Rundfunk - [w]interloop[s]
Each track plods along somewhere between whimsy and melancholy without ever really breaching the boundaries of either. With the short track lengths (nothing makes it to four minutes), there is not much time for building or evolution. I'd say the biggest flaw here is that none of the tracks really go anywhere. It's just a collection of sort-of-interesting-sounds that play for a while and then stop.
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High Wycombe - Reverser
If you like Haujobb's eclecticism, chances are you'll appreciate "Reverser". Otherwise you'll at least admire the astonishing exercise of faithfully integrating some strongly contrasting influences into one polished product.
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Astor Bell, netlabel

Net releases spotlight
The Gothsicles "NESferatwo" (Vampire Freaks)
Wunderblock "Act!" (Astor Bell)

Recommended
Completely Deaf - a follow-up discourse of music downloads
La Nouvelle Industrie Lorraine 3
"Lovecraft Country", webcomic
A collection of Mythos-based short films: "A Lovecraft Dream", "The Hapless Antiquarian", "Between The Stars", "The Other Gods", "Ryleh"
My Manhattan Project - How Michael Osinski helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street. (New York Magazine)
The danger of drugs... and data (The Guardian) and Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Journal
"The Wandering Soul", psyop tape of Vietnam

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Connexion Bizarre update 20090504

2009-05-04T21:40:40Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on May 4th with new content (reviews, webcasts and links).
A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "May Chaos Sedated" with music selection by Invisible War and "Gathering Inertia" with music selections by M.
Reviews: Aidan Baker & The Infant Cycle "Rural Sprawl", Prometheus Burning "Plague Called HuMANity", Keef Baker "Pen Fifteen", Blindhaed "Whether That Will Make People Want To Become Archaeologists, We'll Have To See"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("May Chaos Sedated" with music selection by Invisible War)
Atrax Morgue - Sick Mind In N.Y. (Intro)
[New York Ripper - Slaughter Productions]
Navicon Torture Technologies - Evil Never Recedes
[The Gospels Of The Gash - Annihilvs]
Schloss Tegal - Anti-Life Equation
[Neoterrik Research - Cold Spring]
Navicon Torture Technologies - In Suffering There Is Beauty
[The Gospels Of The Gash - Annihilvs]
Atrium Carceri - Illusion Breaks
[Seishinbyouin - Cold Meat Industry]
Nothing - ...That Come To Corpses
[The Grey Subaudible - Eibon Records]
IRM - Two Bodies
[Virgin Mind - Cold Meat Industry]
David E. Williams - The Ballad Of Bob Crane
[Hope Springs A Turtle - Old Europa Cafe]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Gathering Inertia" with music selections by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
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Rope - This Flightless Bird
[V/A - Emerging Organisms 2 - Tympanik Audio]
Oil 10 - Propaganda
[Retrofuture - Funk Welten]
Stendeck - Lullabies from the cliff by the raging sea
[Sonnambula - Tympanik Audio]
Tonikom - Gap-Toothed Martyr
[The Sniper's Veil - Hymen]
SE - Null
[Epiphora - Tympanik Audio]
Hopen & Colin Johnco - untitled #5
[Save From the Flames I Kissed At Halloween - Colin Johnco Records]
:papercutz - All We Have Left
[Lylac - Apegenine]
v4w.enko - Sm
[Harmonic Ratio - Kvitnu]
Hecq - Steeltongued
[Steeltongued - Hymen]
For Greater Good - Love Your Terrorist
[For Greater Good - self-released]
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Shadows
[Mutations - Ad Noiseam]

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Reviews

Aidan Baker & The Infant Cycle - Rural Sprawl
Powerful and inspiring, "Rural Sprawl" is the kind of music you'll want to get lost in, not in the sense of being "lost" but rather allowing these stunning pieces to flow through your entire body, seeping into the unreachable corners of your mind, and enabling you to float away on whatever implausible daydream you care to have.
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Prometheus Burning - Plague Called HuMANity
From the first awed glimpse of Paul McCarroll's surreal cover art to the initial throbbing anguished moans of "The Box", this latest album from what are quite possibly one of the most exciting acts in industrial and electro music today leaves the listener with some fairly high expectations. Expectations that are, for the most part, fulfilled very well.
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Keef Baker - Pen Fifteen
Where "Pen Fifteen" experiments largely with combining various forms of guitar and electronica, "Light City" is more for the electronic purist and no-holds-barred after-hours fun. If "Light City" is representative of his live appearances, Baker must deliver some interesting sets with a careful balance of furious rhythms contrasted with gentler tones.
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Blindhaed - Whether That Will Make People Want To Become Archaeologists, We'll Have To See
Twenty minutes of highly artistically responsible sounds, which is for some people more interesting than for others. The guts it takes to release a single-sided LP in the era of CDs and MP3s is extremely praiseworthy and a larger future is ahead of this Belgian/Indonesian collaborative effort.
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Links

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Mckmn
Fuck Parade

Net releases spotlight
Luminous "The House of Spades" (NoEcho)
Various "Silver Echo Records Compilation Vol.2" (Silver Echo)

Recommended
Unauthorized Downloads - a discourse
Backlash UK - Uphold the Human Rights Act
The Hunt For Gollum
Zombie Animals and the Parasites that Control Them (found via Dan Barrett)

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Connexion Bizarre update 20090420

2009-04-21T13:12:52Z

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "You Need It. You Want It." with music selection by DJ RazorGrrrl and "RAK's Party @ Warehouse 9 pt I" with music selections by DJ Istabmyhead
Release: K'teus "Audio Hypersigil 1 (The Awakening)"
Reviews: V/A "Emerging Organisms Vol.2", Mika Goedrijk "Pellicules", This Morn' Omina "Momentum of Singular Clarity", V/A "Getting A:Head", Contagious Orgasm "One Drop Water", Mobthrow "Mutant Dubstep Vol.3", l'Ascenseur "40 Below", U.S.O. Project "InharmoniCity"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("You Need It. You Want It." with music selection by DJ RazorGrrrl)
Moctan - Plastic Error Mind (Special Bunker Edit)
[V/A. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns - Das Bunker]
Hypnoskull - The Most Feared Man On Earth
[Industrial Owes Us Money - Ant-Zen Records]
Famine - lesion powder sickness (fixed)
[Every Mirror Turns Black - Bugs Crawling Out of People]
Interlope - New World Order
[Petits Arrangements Entre Amis - Expressillon]
Dev/Null - Gorechestra
[Necrobestial Sadobreaks - Cock Rock Disco]
Marching Dynamics - Confederate
[The Workers Party Of Haiti - Hymen Records]
Edgey - Malice Spoils
[The Abuse Technique - Hive Records]
iammynewt vs. Skullduggery - shitMuppET
[Ohaka - Trozoc]
Synth-Etik - Four More Points
[Phantom - Hands Productions]
Bong-Ra - House of Armageddon
[V/A. Maschinenfest 2008 - Pflichtkauf]
Rabbit Junk - Power
[Project Nonagon - The Struggle II - RabbitJunk.com]
DJ Donna Summer - Rock Rock Rock (Aaron Spectre Remix)
[V/A. Rock Rock Rock Remixes - Cock Rock Disco]
End - A Girl Called Trouble
[A Girl Called Trouble - AeroCCCP Recordings]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("RAK's Party @ Warehouse 9 pt I" with music selections by DJ Istabmyhead)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
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Autechre - Rale
[Quaristice - Warp Records]
The Entity - Wrong Lies (Die In The Dark RMX)
[ENTITY002 - Entity]
Komonazmuk - Fear
[Fear / Preset Whore - Mode Recordings]
Lone Wolf & Maroon - The Others
[Dub Pack - Bloodied Blade]
TC - Where's My Money (Caspa remix)
[Where's My Money / Tron - D-Style Recordings]
Koan Sound - Mafia
[Trill002B - Trill Bass Records]
Bar 9 - Murda Sound
[Murda Sound / Untitled Symphony - Z Audio]
Cardopusher - Cockpit
[Mutant Dubstep Vol. 2 - Spectraliquid]
Innasekt - Bug Powdah
[ROTTUN001 - Rottun Recordings]
Black Ganion - Method (Goth Trad remix)
[Watch The Ride - Harmless]
High Rankin - We're All Dead
[You, Me and the Devil - Suicide Dub]
Reso - Climbing The Walls
[Tags & Throw Ups Vol 5 - Urban Graffiti]
Insane Bangers - LSD (Bass Nectar Mix)
[LSD - Nut (White)]
The Bug feat. Warrior Queen - Poison Dart
[London Zoo - Ninja Tune]

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Releases

K'teus - Audio Hypersigil 1 (The Awakening)
Part 1 of the "Audio Hypersigil" cycle by U.K.-based d'n'b/breakcore/industrial project K'teus.
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Reviews

V/A - Emerging Organisms Vol.2
This release as a whole is an absolute joy, and it certainly shows Tympanik as one of the major labels to look towards for consistently interesting and varied releases. It's also good for those of you who may have become a little jaded with electronic music in general; if this is the standard we can be expecting now and in the future, then you have no reason to worry.
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Mika Goedrijk - Pellicules
Although it is probably closer to electronica than the output Goedrijk is known for, "Pellicules" is so beautifully conceived and executed with such precision that it draws the attention. Deceptively addictive, this album really is a cohesive exploration of a concept that couldn't be further from the collection of discarded ideas or sounds if was conceived from.
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This Morn' Omina - Momentum of Singular Clarity
With this release a lot of people will focus on the vocal element as it's a really rather unexpected addition; although the tracks without vocals show more interesting range, one can see the "Momentum" tracks being very popular. It's interesting to see that This Morn' Omina have stepped out of their comfort sound and tried something different, something which will most certainly work well in a live setting.
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V/A - Get A:Head
"Expect the unexpected" could well be the motto for the Mash Up Records label and artists collective and their new release, the 5-track 12" compilation"Get A:Head" illustrates this quite well with a music selection that some would consider paradoxical.
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Contagious Orgasm - One Drop Water
Whereas Japan is often more well known for its impossibly extreme noise scene, certain bizarre artists such as Contagious Orgasm have been operating for many years, throwing all manner of unexpected sounds into highly unique and often very infuriating compositions. But there comes a time when it really doesn't hurt to reign in those indulgent excesses and write some tunes, all within an experimental context of course.
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Mobthrow - Mutant Dubstep Vol.3
In short, while it may not save what was a passable series of releases, this is a highlight and a more than acceptable conclusion to it. Perhaps it is a herald for future work by Mobthrow including, hopefully, a full-length release...
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l'Ascenseur - 40 Below
It could just be that he's been working on this first release for some time, honing each track until he's satisfied, but he does manage to avoid the pitfall, to which many electronica artists fall prey, of having common instrumentation running throughout. On "40 Below" each track is an entity in itself, not really part of a larger picture, and this is possibly the most positive aspect of the record.
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U.S.O. Project - InharmoniCity
For technicality, "InharmoniCity" is quite the achievement, and U.S.O. richly deserves any and all accolades they receive in this category. As far as simple listening pleasure goes, however, they fail miserably. This lack of accessibility to the public at large makes "InharmoniCity" an entirely personal achievement, and one that will probably never receive the attention U.S.O.'s far-reaching, progressive vision could.
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Tomatillos, "pop" & Neil Young by Steve Albini
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Ants inhabit 'world without sex' - An Amazonian ant has dispensed with sex and developed into an all-female species, researchers have found. (BBC)

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Connexion Bizarre update 20090330

2009-03-30T23:43:56Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on March 30th with new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Route 666" with music selection by Bauke van der Wal and "The Tar Pit" with music selections by M.
Reviews: Marching Dynamics "The Workers Party Of Haiti", Syn- / E.3151 "Manolo on Juliet", Erdem Helvacioglu "Wounded Breath", Kreuzer "In Hoc Signo Vinces", Alaska Highway "Closure", I Am Immune "Entropy", Koolmorf Widesen "Melodies Fork Now", Kilowatts "Love On Saturn"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)

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

Recommended Events
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Propulsion 2009
2009-04-03, saturday, WATT, Rotterdam (NL)
Propulsion 3

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Route 666" with music selection by Bauke van der Wal)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Roger Rotor - Mercy My Ass!
[V/A - Maschinenfest 2002 - Pflichtkauf]
Polygon Window - Quoth
[Quoth - Warp Records]
Nitzer Ebb - Let Your Body Learn
[New Wave Club Classics - Antler/Subway]
Stakker - Humanoid
[Stakker Humanoid - Westside Records]
Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Eels Of Love
[Greatest Hits - Entertainment Through Pain]
Suicide Commando - No More
[New Wave Club Classics 2 - Antler/Subway]
The Normal - Warm Leaetherette
[New Wave Club Classics 4 - Antler/Subway]
Sheep On Drugs - Motorbike
[Greatest Hits - Island Records]
Quazar - Cycledrops
[Seven Stars - Go Bang! Records]
Klangstabil - Vertraut
[Maschinenfest 2002 - Pflichtkauf]
Gridlock - Front
[Trace - Unit]
Vromb - Synchronisateur (Vostok rmx)
[Teknoir - Hymen Records]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("The Tar Pit" with music selections by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Unterm Rad - On The Brink
[The Rake's Progress - Tympanik Audio]
Conure - Gales
[Stream - Edgetone Records]
Navicon Torture Technologies - Hopelessness Is The Great Aphrodisiac
[The Gospels Of The Gash - Malignant Records]
Cisfinitum - Moscow 30
[Nevmenosis - Afe Records]
Von Magnet - Splinter Of Glass
[Ni PrNi Proie - Ant-Zen]
A Wake A Week - A Wake A Week
[Little Black Cloud - Spectraliquid]
Ah Cama-Sotz - Lines Are Sacred
[Declaration Of Innocence - Bats & Cats]

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Reviews

Marching Dynamics - The Workers Party Of Haiti
Somewhat weird, in the sense that the central idea seemed to be to kind of randomly throw 'stuff' together, and give it a nice smooth 'organic flow', "The Workers Party Of Haiti" does encompass a fairly bizarre range of musical stylings. Marching Dynamics bring together random sounds that don't seem to belong with one another and flawlessly makes them work together.
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Syn- / E.3151 - Manolo on Juliet
With "Manolo on Juliet", Syn- and E.3151 succeeded in creating a memorable and captivating experience which thrives on the listener's imagination and which can be revisited over and over again, each visit revealing and giving different meanings to the story of Manolo.
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Erdem Helvacioglu - Wounded Breath
Five tracks cover over an hour of musique concrwith a quality that is quite rare. "Wounded Breath" doesn't have any boring moments at all, it is very well produced and all five pieces are very worthwile. There are sounds to explore and stories to follow.
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Kreuzer - In Hoc Signo Vinces
Despite his relative youth, Israeli producer Arsenicum has managed, with "In Hoc Signo Vinces", to create a very worthwhile addition to the lexicon of dark and martial ambient music. Stirring, evocative and colder than a Svalbard winter, Kreuzer's debut album is off to a grand start.
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Alaska Highway - Closure
Not really an album with high and lows but still an enjoyment to listen. It makes you wonder what more Alaska Highway could have accomplished if this chapter hadn't been closed.
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I Am Immune - Entropy
Mixing new electronics with some classic synthpop elements and adding a generous dash of rock guitar, I Am Immune offer a strong collection of tracks for their debut release. On the basis of this, their future releases should be worth looking out for.
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Kilowatts - Love On Saturn
This release doesn't really work well as an EP, because you're just left hoping to hear more of what Killowatts has to offer. While it is amusing to see someone trying to run one-too-many loops over a house beat, it isn't as attention grabbing as one might wish. Perhaps it would work as a full-length release though.
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Koolmorf Widesen - Melodies Fork Now
As far as this release goes, it wanders too much in the 'just plain average' range. You'd be better off having Venetian Snares "Winter in the Belly of the Snake" on your headphones, whilst playing The Flashbulb's "Kirlian Selections" on your stereo. At the same time. Chances are you'd come close to what Koolmorf Widesen is trying to achieve.
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090223

2009-02-24T23:49:39Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on February 23rd with new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links).
A quick overview of this week's update:

Webcast: "in the shadow of hawksmore" with music selection by Machinochrist and "..." with music selections by M.
Interviews: Les Forces Alli
Reviews: no Xivic "Yksityisyys", Caustic "This Is Jizzcore", Dalglish "Ideom", Alfredo Costa Monteiro "Anatomy Of Inner Place"

This week we also annouce the winners for 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 had 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).
The winners were: DJ Destrukt (us), magnus p. (se) and Matiss M. (lv)

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
("in the shadow of hawksmore" with music selection by Machinochrist)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
The Caretaker - False Memory Syndrome (3:54)
[Persistent Repetition of Phrases - Installsound ]
Sinister Luck Ensemble - Spit in the Well (2:51)
[Anniversary - Perishable ]
A Whisper In the Noise - In Will (3:41)
[Dry Land - Exile on Mainstream]
Jorges Reyes - Adios Mi Acompanamiento (2:45)
[Comala - DigitalPressure]
Intersystems - untitled (1:55)
[Free Psychedelic Poster Inside - Streamline ]
The Fun Years - Autoshow day of the Dead (7:11)
[Baby its cold Inside - barge recordings]
geir jensen - Camp 1.5 (Mountain Upon Mountain) (1:35)
[Cho Oyu 8201m (Field Recordings From Tibet) - Ash International ]
Janek Schaefer - Radio Jodoform (4:00)
[Extended Play - Line]
Carla Kihlstedt / Satoko Fuji - Track 1 (5:42)
[Minamo - Henceforth Records]
John Zorn - Asmodeus (3:02)
[Necronomicon - Tzadik]
Faun Fables - A Table Forgotten (4:25)
[A Table Forgotten - Drag City ]
Drum Circus - Papera (3:32)
[Magic Theater - Garden of Delights]
When - The Virus (6:07)
[You are Silent - Jester Records]
Miocene - Calliope (3:43)
[A Perfect Life with a view of the swamp - Corporate Risk]
Deaf Center - Dial (5:57)
[Neon City EP - Type Records]
Point B - Embrionic (4:47)
[Cinder Cones and Animal Bones - Combat Recordings]
Flying Lotus - Tea Leaf Dancers (3:12)
[Reset EP - Warp]
Pentaphobe - Right in the Eyeball (2:55)
[Tribal Beats for Urban Streets - Classico]
Ott - Rogue Bagel (8:28)
[Skylon - Twisted]
Shpongle - Nebbish Route (3:36)
[Nothing lasts... But Nothing is Lost - Twisted]
Shpongle - Falling Awake (1:50)
[Nothing lasts... But Nothing is Lost - Twisted]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("..." with music selections by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Vromb - Fonds Marins / Objects Trouv
[Le Pde Noy- Spectre]
Sickness - My Coma
[The Scars Of Happiness - PACREC]
Stavros Gasparatos - Fall
[Rehearsals - Creative Space]
The Other Colors - Mes yeux bleus dans tes yeux gris
[361 - LAC Records]
Dave Phillips - Drinking Song From The Tomb
[V/A - Pangaea Noise - Syrphe]
Contagious Orgasm - One Drop Water B1
[One Drop Water - Record Label Records]
Beinhaus - Dreck
[Live! - Les Forces Alli
Lynx And Ram - Tiger Fur Coat
[The System's On And It's Flashing Red - Sublight Records]
Skoyz vs Void Kampf - Sato Sato
[Electronic Manifesto: a French Tribute to Mute Records - M-tronic]
Ex_Tension - Leaking
[Legacy - M-tronic]
Zentriert Ins Antlitz - Silence Diary
[...No - Tympanik Audio]

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Interviews

Les Forces Alli- Les Forces Alli
L'oeuvre bruitiste tente d'annihiler l'influence de ces oeuvres qui offrent des espoirs vains pour dune oeuvre qui est la matd'un dpuissant et libson producteur de sa condition d'homme-machine et rcontre tout un monde, son humanitet rend l'espoir possible, mais pas un espoir venir, une espmais le constat d'un espoir dont on rend compte par l'oeuvre elle-m
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Reviews

no Xivic - Yksityisyys
Three years in the making, "Yksityisyys" is a mercurial set of seven compositions upon which Kyllhas instilled a careful architecture in both form and color. Using a mixture of drone work, found sounds, fields recordings and musique concrhe has generated an auditory experience that surpasses standard visualizations of reality, instead nullifying worldly imagery and emphasizing emotional perception and vision, organic duality and density.
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Caustic - This Is Jizzcore
Love him or hate him, you have to respect Matt "Caustic" Fanale. He is doing what he enjoys, for himself, not catering to the whims of an excessively fickle audience. And, what's more, he's doing it with style. "This is Jizzcore" may not be the most political, nor even the most conceptual album that the contemporary industrial scene has spawned, but it is easily and undoubtedly one of the most entertaining.
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Dalglish - Ideom
In all "Ideom" is a very challenging CD, but a complete one at the same time. It all works so well together that it is hard to pick out specific tracks to listen to - it demands your full attention. Anyone into the darker side of electronic music would be wise to go and buy this. Recommended for those who like to be scared by their CD collection.
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Alfredo Costa Monteiro - Anatomy Of Inner Place
Each track acts as an aural snapshot, evoking an almost voyeuristic feeling, tinged with the uncomfortable thought that this could be a recording of your own home. The layered sounds are alien, jarring, becoming almost unbearable, then fading suddenly to nothing... and the silence they leave behind is deafening.
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090216

2009-02-17T03:23:34Z

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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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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Connexion Bizarre update 20090209

2009-02-10T02:08:41Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on February 9th with new content. A quick overview of this week's update:

Webcast: "February Chaos" with music selection by Invisible War and "self-termination in reverse" with music selections by M.
Interviews: Lucidstatic and Neon Cage Experiment
Reviews: Ovro "Revisited", Steel Hook Prostheses "Atrocitizer", V/A "Electr-Ohm Compilation 2", Shadow Theater "Live in Kaiserslautern"
This week we also begin 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 Event

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
("February Chaos" with music selection by Invisible War)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Bleiburg - Jugendklang
[Way Of Crosses - The Eastern Front]
Aphelion - There Is A Darkness That Must Be Fed
[Lay - Shadowgraph Records]
Aphelion - Frozen Birds
[Lay - Shadowgraph Records]
I-Theist - Logos
[The Night Of Retaliation - Self Release]
NON - Deletion
[Might! - Mute Records]
The Grey Wolves / Werewolf Ensemble - Awake!
[Audial Decimation Compilation Vol. 1 - Audial Decimation Records]
Canaan - Scent Of Anguish
[Walk Into My Open Womb - Eibon Records]
Panzar - Pulse Induction
[Human Degeneration - Ewers Tonkunst]
Grunt - Wings Of Revolution
[Audial Decimation Compilation Vol. 1 - Audial Decimation Records]
Propergol - Initials L.B.
[Program Vengeance - Malignant Records]
Mutus Liber - A New Language
[Provided With Eyes, Thou Departest - Looking Forward To Silence]
Illusion Of Safety - Looking Forward To Silence
[Fifteen/Finite Material Context - Tesco Functional Organisation]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("self-termination in reverse" with music selections by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Lambwool feat. Sonia S. - Photographic
[V/A - Electronic Manifesto: a French Tribute to Mute Records - M-tronic]
syn- / E.51 - Science sans Conscience
[Manolo on Juliet - self-released]
Warbaby - Organic Plastic
[Release - Le Petit Machiniste]
The Other Colors - Rendez-vous
[361 - LAC Records]
Alice In Videoland - We Are Rebels
[She's A Machine - Artoffact Records]
Alter Der Ruine - Perfect Date
[The Giants From Far Away - Crunch Pod]
Ctrler - Nuclear Device (Proyecto Mirage remix)
[This Is Hardcore - Invasion Wreck Chords]
Ambassador21 - Zombie (feat. Schizoid)
[Akcija - Invasion Wreck Chords]
ESA - Your Anger Is A Gift
[The Sea & The Silence - Tympanik Audio]
Orphx - Surface IV
[Teletai - Hands Productions]
C/A/T - Global Power Elite
[The Prisoner - Crunch Pod]

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Interviews

Gravedigger - Lucidstatic
An interview with Lucidstatic, quasi-fresh from releasing his debut album on Tympanik Audio.
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Neon Cage Experiment - Neon Cage Experiment
The kinematic atmospheres supported by samples and textures reflect the band's vision of the universe. NCE's music conveys strong, contrasting feelings elaborated and powered by dynamic programming and punchy rhythms.
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Reviews

Ovro - Revisited
Ovro is very good at maintaining her anonymity, perhaps to retain focus on her music, only choosing to release new material from time to time. However, the music she does release keeps a watchful eye on quality. "Revisited" is an absorbing re-imagining of the "Estraier" EP with great depth that reveals new facets on every listen.
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Steel Hook Prostheses - Atrocitizer
The music contained in "Atrocitizer" stands out admirably above over-used power electronics imagery (photos of tortured prisoners, disabled children, etc) and shows some interesting variations away from the typical sounds of power electronics alongside a strength of performance which viciously beats down much of the competition in the genre.
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V/A - Electr-Ohm Compilation 2
Inami again produces an excellent collection of experimental electronica from a collection of lesser known artists from the Japanese electronic music scene. An interesting compilation of tracks that takes in abstract, glitch, rhythmic, ambient, noise and experimental aspects of electronic music at various points along its journey.
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Shadow Theater - Live in Kaiserslautern
A disappointing offering. Unless you were lucky enough to experience the actual event, or one similar to it and are looking for some tangible memorabilia, this is not a disc worth owning. It does not do Shadow Project, or their unique artistic vision, any justice whatsoever. It is poorly filmed, recorded and produced.
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090202

2009-02-03T13:52:23Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on February 2nd with new content. A quick overview of this week's update:

Webcast: "I'm going to kill you" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead and "Cynical Fuck-Step Enticements" with music selections by DJ Synctank
Interview: Nao Sugimoto of Spekk
Reviews: Burikusu!!! "2080", Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words "Lost in Reflections", Stahlschlag "Acoustiphobie", Babylone Chaos "Les Machines Ecarlates", Broken Fabiola "Severed", Tracy Lee Summers "My Favourite Color", SynchDub "Twilight Last Glance", System:FX "High Definition Violence"

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
("I'm going to kill you" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Mono No Aware - Adiptagara
[Kataku - Hands]
Electromeca - Brutal Funk
[Brutal Funk E.P. - Death$ucker Records]
Hecate - Binah
[Ascension Chamber - Hymen]
DJ Hidden - Inside Us
[Inside Us - Killing Sheep Records]
Limewax - Cracking Core
[Changing Crisis - Tech Itch Recordings]
DJ?Acucrack - Autodeceiver
[Humanoids From The Deep - CrackNation Records]
Gein & Arsenic - Bitch
[Freak Family Drum Circle Explosion - Freak Recordings]
Evol Intent - Dead On Arrival
[Era of Diversion - Evol Intent]
Spor - Outbroken (That Track)
[Anthology Part I Originals & Remixes 1995-2005 - Renegade
Hardware]
Raiden - Infection (E-Sassin mix)
[Dieselboy - The Dungeonmaster's Guide - Human Imprint Recordings]
Future Prophecies - Magnetic
[Warlords Rising - Beatservice Records]
The Teknoist - Have You Seen
[Pillaged And Plundered EP - Ad Noiseam]
Current Value - Machines
[Revealing The Concealed - Future Sickness Records]
Decree - Crushed
[Moment of Silence - Metropolis]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Cynical Fuck-Step Enticements" with music selections by DJ Synctank)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
The Teknoist - Have You Seen
[...Like A Hurricane Made Of Zombies - Ad Noiseam]
Lucidstatic - Unknown Test Subject
[Gravedigger - Tympanik Audio]
Abelcain - Kissing Ice
[Passage - Ad Noiseam]
Ebola - Painkillers (Enduser rmx)
[Mutant Dubstep vol.1 - Spectraliquid]
Edgey - Subterfuge
[Flawed - Hands Productions]
Xanopticon - Ungrokd
[Psicicite - Hymen]
Liar's Rosebush - Beneath The Surface Pt. 2
[Circle The Squares - Hive Records]
Enduser - Switch
[Pushing Back - Ad Noiseam]
SPL - Ghost Kill
[Brainwash / Ghostkill - Evol Intent]
Sickboy - Alundra
[Time To Play - Ad Noiseam]
Mothboy - Deviance
[Deviance - Ad Noiseam]
Cardopusher - Toothsmasher (Innasekt rmx)
[Mutant Dubstep vol.2 - Spectraliquid]

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Interviews

Nao Sugimoto - Spekk
Spekk explores and focuses on various interpretations of minimalism ranging from experimental electronics, electro-acoustic to field recordings and unclassifiable tones - whether they are structured / non-structured or improvised / non-improvised or even just documents of phenomena.
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Reviews

Burikusu!!! - 2080
There is no doubt about it, while I have a soft spot for this album, there is going be a hell of a lot of people out there who completely abhor this release full stop. For now however, this is fresh and new, fun and exciting. If you want cheering up, this is a sure-fire ray of sunshine.
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Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Lost in Reflections
"Lost in Reflections" is not all void and darkness, shrouded apparitions and pervasive melancholy. Full of warmer tones, richer hues and softer timbres, we can accept that ensconced somewhere among the meticulous layering is a mind at odds with its environs, and by no choice of its own.
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Stahlschlag - Acoustiphobie
Listening to Stahlschlag for any length of time may result in palpitations (dancing while playing the disc is by far the recommended course of action), "Acoustiphobie" is a perfect addition to a hard EBM set, or a softer option for an introduction to an industrial one; either way, the target audience for this album is definitely club-based.
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Babylone Chaos - Les Machines Ecarlates
Pure noise fans may not like the more mainstream feel of Babylone Chaos, but it should find a strong fan base amongst those who appreciate later industrial and rhythmic noise. Deceptively light at first, but soon verging on the hypnotic, this CD ends up being surprisingly satisfying.
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Broken Fabiola - Severed
To give a summary: for those, for expediency's sake, who would prefer reading a preface - Broken Fabiola's "Severed" is an affectively stimulating album. Though if you listen to it while paying too close attention to its various parts, something just seems lacking.
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Tracy Lee Summers - My Favourite Color
If you're looking for the ultimate in gentle, happy background music that's guaranteed not to offend even the most sensitive (or desensitised) ears, then the marvelously vanilla, technically brilliant Tracy Lee Summers is your girl, and "My Favourite Color" belongs on your birthday list.
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SynchDub - Twilight Last Glance
A lot to learn with regards to overall flow and ironing out the sound for this project. There may be something special on the horizon for what appears to be a neat and solid act that I am sure we will hear of in the future if they play their cards right.
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System:FX - High Definition Violence
Listening to System:FX is an entirely frustrating process. This is largely due to the vast potential discernible in their work (especially on the opening track, "Virus") that, due to shoddy production, does not translate well into their final product.
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090126

2009-01-28T02:40:38Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on January 26th with a bit of new content. A slow week as promised on the last update:
Webcast: "January 2009" with music selection by JanaDark and "Smear @ Connexion Bizarre, January 2009" with music selection by Smear/Element Abuse
Interview: Pharmafabrik

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
("January 2009" with music selection by JanaDark)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
This Morn' Omina - Untitled (18:29)
[Inferno - Spectre]
Vromb - Air Comprime (01:59)
[Le Pecheur De Noyes - Nautilus]
Mandelbrot - Farewell (05:12)
[Auf Tauchfahrt - Audiophob]
Cyclotimia - Land of Prosperity (02:47)
[Music For Stockmarkets- Zhelezobeton]
ESA - Tasting Nails (05:13)
[The Sea & The Silence - Tympanik Audio]
HIV+ / Babylone Chaos - New Dawn Crash (05:13)
[Split - OPN, Divine Comedy Records, BKO Media]
Stendeck - Like Falling Crystals (03:33)
[Faces - Geska Records]
Sonic Area - Que Les Larmes Me Viennent (04:35)
[Explore - AudioTrauma]
Reutoff - Sun of Sleepness (08:42)
[Deprivatio - Ewers Tonkunst]
Strops - Slepenie Rotallaukumi (06:00)
[Slepenie Rotallaukumi - Sturm]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Smear @ Connexion Bizarre, January 2009" with music selection by Smear/Element Abuse)
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[exclusive]
Zdenek Liska - Et Cetera(Score)
[n/a - n/a]
Metamorphosis - Untitled
[Great Babel Gives Birth - Third Mind]
Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange - Falling
[Within Dreams - BBC Radio 3]
Michele Bokanowski - 4'19
[Trois Chambres D'Inqui- Elevator Bath]
Yuri Kalendarev - Dream
[Sound Sculptures - Die Schachtel]
Cyclobe - The Blue and the Green
[Luminous Darkness - Phantom Code]
Kurt Schwitters - Die Sonate In Urlauten
[Futurism & Dada Reviewed 1912-1959 - Sub Rosa]
Dome - The Red Tent 1
[Dome 1+2 - The Grey Area)
Vromb - Urgence
[Le PDe Noy- Nautius]
Elin - Fable
[Tetroid 2012 - Entity]
Sil Electronics - V8
[Tal-S - SRecordings]
Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange - Running
[Within Dreams - BBC Radio 3]
Kluster - Eruption Part 2
[Eruption - Marginal Talent]
Ruth White - The Irremediable
[Flowers of Evil - Creel Pone]
Zdenek Liska - Punch & Judy(Score)
[n/a - n/a]
Raymond Scott - Portofino 2
[Manhattan Research Inc. - Basta]
Esther Venrooy - Micro Insubordination
[Tetroid 2012 - Entity]
Bruce Gilbert - Work for 'Do You Me, I Did' Part 3
[This Way To The Shivering Man - Mute]
Monoton - Teil 2
[Blau - Monotonprodukt 02 26y++ - Oral]
Brian Eno & David Byrne - Mea Culpa
[My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts - Nonesuch]

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Interviews

Skyd - Pharmafabrik
Despite being active for over ten years, Pharmafabrik does not have anything ressembling an extensive discography. It is, instead more a case of focus and quality over quantity as its releases show and a label geared towards the vision of its creator, a vision that can be understood through these label's sampler compilations.
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Price: 6.00 Euro (worldwide shipping included)
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Net releases spotlight
Fornax "Space Travel EP" (X-Line)
t_error 404 "million thoughts" (X-Line)
Werk 84 "Gears Keep Turning" (X-Line)
Hezzel "Under Pressure" (Absetzer)

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Sunny Hundal: did you know... live music events could pose a terrorist threat? (Guardian)
Comedy Goldmine - Antarctica (found via Cybrid, thanks)

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Connexion Bizarre update 20090105

2009-01-05T19:42:10Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on January 5th with a couple of reviews, new webcasts and a few recommended links. For the first update of this year, here's an overview of contents:

Webcast: "All Beginnings Start With A Miracle" with music selection by :JW: and "Stepping In... The First Step." with music selection by M.
Reviews: "Rush For Black Celebration - Russian Industrial Depeche Mode Tribute", b"Structures"

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 Beginnings Start With A Miracle" with music selection by :JW:)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Ariel Ramy Los Fronterizos - Gloria (Misa Criolla) (2:22)
[L- Recopilation Soundtrack - -]
Laibach - Tanz mit Laibach (4:19)
[WAT - Mute Records]
S.A.M - 24 Stunden (4:36)
[Extreme Suendenfall Vol.5 - Upscene]
Krystal System - Underground (3:35)
[Underground - Alfa Matrix]
Isis Signum - Plastic Culture (featuring Kindel) (5:22)
[Electrosexual - Advanced Synergy]
Imperative Reaction - Product (4:38)
[Minus All - Metropolis Records]
Down In June - Fields of Rape (7:29)
[Covers... Death In June - NERUS]
Reverend and the Makers - The State Of Things (3:02)
[The State of Things - Wall of Sound]
Black Ghosts - Some Way Through This (4:02)
[Black Ghosts - Iamsound]
Momir Papalescu & The Nihilists - Rock And Roll Save My Soul (3:19)
[Analogue Voodoo -Pale Music]
Dirty Princess - Dios (T. Raumschmiere Remix) (5:14)
[Futureclash 2 - Advanced Synergy]
Comando Suzie - Chicos Austriacos (3:27)
[Pobres Chavales - Punch Records]
Queen of Japan - Sex Techniques (3:14)
[Foreign Politics - Echo Kammer]
Montage - I Trust My Dealer (4:05)
[I Trust My Dealer - Trama Virtual]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Stepping In... The First Step." with music selection by M.)
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[exclusive]
The Triple Tree - The Stalls
[Ghosts - Cold Spring Records]
Vromb - Le Fleuve/Roger L'Harmonica
[Le Pecheur de Noy- Spectre]
Zentriert Ins Antlitz - Perphenazin
[...No - Tympanik Audio]
Foretaste - Play The Game
[Terrorist TV - BOREDOMproduct]
High Wycombe - .room101
[Reverser - Wycombe Music]
Alter Der Ruine - Relax And Ride It
[The Giants From Far Away - Crunch Pod]
Vuxnut - A Ladder Into Hell
[V/A - Materia Fria - Sistinas]
ESA - Absolute Fury (In Its Very Fabric)
[The Sea & The Silence - Tympanik Audio]
C/A/T - The Prisoner
[The Prisoner - Crunch Pod]
Broken Fabiola - Under
[Severed - Tympanik Audio]

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Reviews

V/A - Rush For Black Celebration - Russian Industrial Depeche Mode Tribute
As far as tribute compilations go, the Russian music collective kultFRONT can be said to have hit the nail squarely in the head with their industrial tribute to Depeche Mode, epitomizing what music tributes should be - manifestations of new artistic paths made possible thanks to the inspirational work of the artists being paid homage.
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b- Structures
bhas successfully juxtaposed, combined and shifted between a duality of opposing concepts. At times, this is clearly recognizable but eventually - beyond the clich- one ends up unsure of which of two opposites is really at hand. Along with a fair potential for listener immersion, "Structures" has some discomforting and exciting moments to offer.
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Connexion Bizarre update 20081229

2008-12-30T23:47:35Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on December 22th with a few reviews, 3 new webcasts and a few recommended links. How time flies... It would seem that not long ago we were ending 2007, compiling 'best of lists', etc and, all of a sudden it is 2008 that comes to an end and one hopes for the best in 2009 (while preparing for the worst). An overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "2008 In Review", a 3-part webcast special with music selection by JanaDark, Sal-Ocin and M.
Reviews: Totakeke "Forgotten On The Other Side Of The Tracks", Zentriert Ins Antlitz "...No", Eva|3 "The Great Divide"

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

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Connexion Bizarre update 20081222

2008-12-24T16:22:15Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on December 22th with a few reviews, new webcasts and a few recommended links:

Webcast: "DJ Peter @ Connexion Bizarre" with music selection by DJ Peter and "...festive season Martinizeit!" with music selection by M.
Reviews: Artridge "Butterfly Wing Theory - Part 1 (Think Tank)", Pyl"Grounded Hands", Metaorganism "I:Baphomet", V/A "Antibothis - Occultural Anthology 1"

All the best & Merry Christmas to all!

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
("DJ Peter @ Connexion Bizarre" with music selection by DJ Peter)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Autechre - Second Bad Vibel
[Anvil Vapre - Warp]
Sonar - Vanished
[Alien Overdrive - Ant Zen]
SKET - No Limits For Heroes
[Aktivist - Hands Productions]
Peoples Republic of Europe - Antiglobalist II
[Monopoly of Violence - New Dark Recordings]
Peoples Republic of Europe - Antiglobalist I
[Monoply of Violence - New Dark Recordings]
HHH - Knallschall
[Decibel - Plutonium Distribution]
Monokrom - Faglork
[One Fine Day In The Pyramid - Ant Zen]
Edgewood - Hands Face
[Alive - Project 112]
Undacova - Resolution
[Intrusion - Dyslexic Response]
Xanopticon - Ex Nihilo
[Carbon - Mirex]
Subskan - Happy Bacon
[Repaired - Mirex]
The Liar's Rosebush - Beneath the Surface Part 2
[Circle the Squares - Hive Records]
DJ Hidden - Death Seer
[The Later After - Ad Noiseam]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("...festive season Martinizeit!" with music selection by M.)
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[exclusive]
Beinhaus vs. Muckrackers - H
[Koalition 2 - Les Forces Alli
Baxter Lilly - Dort Wo
[Unsichtbare Flecken - Audiotrauma]
Dee N Dee - Way Out
[Words - Les Forces Alli
Waste Disposal Machine - Girl Within A Motorcycle
[Interference - Thisco]
Matamachete - Tanin No Kao
[Tanin No Kao - D-Trash Records]
Dev/Null - Society Of Defilement
[Necrobestial Sadobreaks - Cock Rock Disco]
Suicide Inside - Dead Red
[Dead Red - Pflichtkauf]
Ambassador 21 - Smith And Wesson (Ah Cama-Sotz remix)
[Drunken, Crazy, And With A Gun - Invasion Wreck Chords]
ESA - Dead Fucking Desire
[The Sea & The Silence - Tympanik Audio]
Manufactura - The Precession Concludes
[Psychogenic Fugue + A Damaged Symphony for Depraved Dementia N.2 - Crunch Pod]

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Reviews

Artridge - Butterfly Wing Theory - Part 1 (Think Tank)
Subtitled "Think Tank", "Butterfly Theory Part 1" is a wonderfully experimental affair that toys around with varying degrees of elements from natural sound sources to full instruments to programming, more often than not all in the space of one track.
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Pyl- Grounded Hands
A towering work of alien unease, Laurent Perrier's second release as Pyloffers deeply hypnotic realms. "Grounded Hands" even improves on "Black Grains" (2006), though comparable in format: five extensive tracks probing the limits of esoteric, futuristic dark ambient.
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Metaorganism - I:Baphomet
"I:Baphomet" toys with machine like ambience, not too dissimilar to a creaking great iron bridge that is bowing in the wind and ready to crash into the sea. It's an effective use of sound for at least the first three tracks (which take up nearly the first half of the album).
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V/A - Antibothis - Occultural Anthology 1
This is essentially a collection of ambient works, some ranging from the Thisco stable with spoken word coming by way of Jarboe and Kenji Siratori amongst others. The narration is taken from book anthologies and interviews relating to many an ideology.
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Connexion Bizarre updated 20081215

2008-12-16T02:22:48Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on December 15th. Unsurprisingly, with the coming of the festive season, this is a rather slow week with only a couple of new reviews, webcasts and a few recommended links (kudos to PS of Enough Records for this week's tips). A quick overview of this week's updates:

Webcast: "Murderstep" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead and "Counting down to..." with music selection by M.
Reviews: Manufactura "Psychogenic Fugue", Uberbyte "Sic"

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

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Murderstep" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Caustic Window - Industro Garbage Beat
[J9 EP - Rephlex]
Breakage - The Shroud
[The Shroud - Digital Soundboy Recording Co.]
Funckarma - Woodface
[Dubstoned EP1 - Highpoint Lowlife]
Burial - Space Ape (feat. Space Ape)
[Burial - Hyperdub]
Faithless - Insomnia (Benga Remix)
[Essential Mix 02.02.2008 - BBC Radio 1]
Milanese - Mr Bad News
[Extend - Warp Records]
Excision - No Escape
[No Escape / Bug Powdah - Rottun Recordings]
Broken Note - Zealot
[Crux / Zealot - Ad Noiseam]
Converter - Order/Creature
[Exit Ritual - Ant Zen]
Komonazmuk & Whiteboi - Ayatollah
[Mutant Dubs - N/A]
Cardopusher - Cockpit
[Mutant Dubstep vol.2 - Spectraliquid]
Black Ganion - Method (Goth-Trad remix)
[Watch the Ride - Harmless]
Innasekt - Bug Powdah
[No Escape / Bug Powdah - Rottun Recordings]
Warlock - Click Clack
[Mutant Dubs - N/A]
Goth-Trad - Crunky Heads
[Mad Raver's Dance Floor - Popgroup Recordings]
Moving Ninja - Blackout
[Formations - Tectonic]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Counting down to..." with music selection by M.)
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DBMG/RAF - Fistula
[Die Baader-Meihoff Gruppe/Red Army Faction - Vanity Publishing]
Zeller - Nippongrimeclub
[Audio Vandalistm - Hymen/Fich-Art]
Igorrr - Brutal Swing
[Moisissure - self-released]
The Teknoist - Full Metal Teknoist
[...like a Hurricane made of Zombies - Ad Noiseam]
Action Nano - S.E.T.I.
[Select And Start - M-tronic]
Klangstabil - Perdere Per Vincere
[Math & Emotion - Ant-Zen]
Waste Disposal Machine - I Sing The Body Electric
[Interference - Thisco]
GenCAB - Self Images
[II transMuter - Hive Records]
Zero Degree - Fading Light
[The Inner Realm - Audiophob]
Autoclav1.1 - Trails Without Pathways
[Love No Longer Lives Here - Tympanik Audio]
5F-X - Quadrupel Bits
[V/A - 2009 Hands - Hands Productions]

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Reviews

Manufactura - Psychogenic Fugue + A Damaged Symphony for Depraved Dementia N.2
This double release from Manufactura is a manifestation of the maturity and development that his sound has undergone. While all the former elements of earlier releases are present (and literally so), this release has a more refined sound and much higher production quality.
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Uberbyte - Sic
At the end of the day, this is a party album - a fun mix of beats, bass, and yelling. You might enjoy it a few times at the club, you might enjoy it while weightlifting, or you might enjoy it while you're drunk as hell at 4 a.m. and trying to get evicted from your apartment by playing music as loud as possible.
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Dev/Null "Necrobestial Sadobreaks" (Cock Rock Disco)
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Seetyca "das zubrochene antlitz" (Enough Records)
Various "Mi100" (MiMi)

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Jello Biafra "Open Letter to Barack Obama"

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ELEKTROANSCHLAG 10 WARM UP PARTY - 02/04/09 - Villa Bar

2008-12-09T01:22:45Z

Connexion Bizarre & TanzFronT Project present:

ELEKTROANSCHLAG №10 WARM-UP PARTY

2 APRIL 2009

Music:

M. [Portugal]
JanaDark [Russia]
Sal-Ocin [Belgium]

Start @ 20-00, finish @ 01-00
FREE ENTRANCE!

VILLA BAR

Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 14
04600 Altenburg
http://www.villabar.de

It already became a good tradition that each year at the beginning of April the fans of industrial music gather at famous “Elektroanschlag” held in Altenburg, Germany. Year by year the festival developed and introduced to the audience the best representatives of industrial and related genres as well as new and promising names. This year the event celebrates its 10th anniversary!

Connexion Bizarre and TanzFront Project invite all those coming to the festival this year to a special Warm-up Preparty on the 2nd of April, organised in a cosy “Villa Bar”, which will be ready to open its doors to all!

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http://www.r-reger.de

ELEKTROANSCHLAG 10 LINEUP:

Connexion Bizarre update 20081208

2008-12-09T00:22:05Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on December 8th. Something of a slow week with a couple of new reviews, an interview, webcasts and a couple of recommended links. Also an events announcement. A quick overview of this week's updates:

Webcast: "Russian Force 4" with music selection by JanaDark and "December's (more or less) soothing sounds" with music selection by M.
Reviews: Cacheflowe / Scaffolding / Wayne Winters "The Reprogramming Project", Ten Data Keshin "Neo Neon Generation", Athana "Remixed 05-08"

Connexion Bizarre
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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
("Russian Force #4" with music selection by JanaDark)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Rapoon / Cisfinitum - Run On Branches (13:44)
[Mental Travellers - Ewers Tonkunst/Indiestate Distribution]
Cyclotimia - Manifest Destiny I (05:05)
[New Death Order - Ewers Tonkunst/Indiestate Distribution]
Bad Sector - Hide (06:06)
[The Harrow - Ewers Tonkunst/Indiestate Distribution]
Cisfinitum - Oskolok (02:22)
[VA - Iznutri - Ewers Tonkunst/Indiestate Distribution]
Empusae - Melkor (05:38)
[VA - TanzFront Compilation - Tesla/Indiestate Distribution]
Sal solaris - Untitled (06:34)
[Der Ruf - Der Angriff/Indiestate Distribution]
Reutoff - Le Coeur Brise (06:02)
[Regno Di Pianta -Ewers Tonkunst/Indiestate Distribution]
Troum - Sair (06:18)
[VA - Iznutri - Ewers Tonkunst/Indiestate Distribution]
Allerseelen - Kapli Krasivogo Vremeni (06:08)
[Men Among The Ruins - Ewers Tonkunst/Indiestate Distribution]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("December's (more or less) soothing sounds" with music selection by M.)
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[exclusive]
Esperik Glare - As the Insects Swarm
[As the Insects Swarm - Static Hum Records]
Refuse To Die - Fears
[Collection Of Agnostic Flies - The Eastern Front]
Monokrom - Sklishsk
[One Fine Day In The Pyramid - Ant-Zen]
Boston Typewriter Orchestra - QWERTY Waltz
[The Revolution Will Be Typewritten - self-released]
Orphx - City Limits (Contagious Orgasm remix)
[Teletai - Hands Productions]
Kraken - 08
[Nachtschade - Spectre]
Warbaby - The Patience of Nuclear Waste
[Release - Le Petit Machiniste]
Abelcain - Aquirre, der Zorn Gottes
[Passage - Ad Noiseam]
Templegardens - Lure
[V/A - Maschinenfest 2001 - Pflichtkauf]

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Reviews

Cacheflowe / Scaffolding / Wayne Winters - The Reprogramming Project
Glowing with genuine warmth and innovation, this CD serves as a fine representation of what Electronica can accomplish without the trappings of pre-empted scene representation. "The Reprogamming Project" denotes a standard in the IDM genre that is rarely met these days and effortlessly projects everything that is good and decent about electronic music.
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Ten Data Keshin - Neo Neon Generation
Prolific, chaotic, and even playful at times, "Neo Neon Generation" has all the elements of a solid and distinctive record that will ultimately get your blood pumping and your mind racing. With a frenzied, yet intriguing aural aesthetic to his sound, Ten Data Keshin is certainly worth exploration.
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Athana - Remixed 05-08
A rather mediocre collection containing vague jazz and pop influences and a spectrum of strictly electronic styles. For those unfamiliar with the originals - or even for those who are - the original electro-acoustic experimental formula likely loses something in translation and becomes nothing outstanding.
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Net releases spotlight
Amnion "Exp 1" (Bottle Imp)
Various "Approaching Lights - 2008 catalog sampler" (Tympanik Audio)

Recommended
Phillip K. Dick documentary (BBC via Youtube)

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Connexion Bizarre update 20081124

2008-11-25T01:16:51Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on November 24th with a new reviews, an interview, webcasts and recommended links. A quick overview of this week's updates:

Webcast: "Four Years" with music selection by Joand "20081124-1130" with music selection by M.
Releases: "You Are Here: a Compilation of California Electronics (vol.1)" (NCB007) compiled by Shane Talada (a.k.a. The Operative & MechanismZ record label) re-announced due to a glitch in one of the tracks
Interviews: Nik Bender of Ten Data Keshin
Reviews: e Diktat "Unabomber", Modul "Lo-Middle Lack", Ashley Reaks "Melancholia", Bartek Kujawski "Murlull Movies", Pigface "17 Ways To Suck", Gelsomina + No Xivic "Furnace", Cardopusher "Mutant Dubstep Vol.2", Nedicry "Sincere Wounds"
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Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Four Years" with music selection by Jo
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Anenzephalia - Work for NK (05:28)
[V/A - Juche - ?]
Phelios - Mountains of Madness (05:28)
[V/A - Tonwellen - About 40 Years - Atacama Records]
Indigo Larvae - Am I Dead? (04:02)
[V/A - Steinklang Industries IV - Steinklang Industries]
Montage - World of Lie (07:36)
[V/A - Japanoise of Death II - Steinklang Industries]
Subliminal - So Young With Me (02:42)
[Coping - Galakthorr
Fall Weiss - A Dream for Sleepless Creatures (04:24)
[Fall Weiss - Agit Prop]
Haus Arafna - Song for a Murder (03:16)
[The Singles 1993-2000 - Galakthorr
Sektion B - Torture and Pain (03:30)
[Only Time - Hate And Revenge - Steinklang Industries]
Noiseuse - ? (04:54)
[V/A - Japanoise of Death - Steinklang Industries]
Screloma - Skum-Teck II (at 20000v) (06:48)
[Rotten Sarkoma - Steinklang Industries]
Flutwacht - Night in Chains 2 (02:56)
[Chain - Steinklang Industries]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("20081124-1130" with music selection by M.)
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[exclusive]
Klanstabil - Love Has Too Much Audience
[Math & Emotion - Ant-Zen]
Von Magnet - Capricious Horse (Who Leads The)?
[Ni PrNi Proie - Ant-Zen]
Cardopusher - Cockpit
[Mutant Dubstep Vol.2 -Spectraliquid]
Saffrolla - Near The Sky (feat. Isabel Frutuoso)
[Near The Sky - Saffrolla Sounds]
Displacer - The Witching Hour
[The Witching Hour - Tympanik Audio]
Contagious Orgasm + Kotodama - Gap
[Blackout - SSSM]
The Triple Tree - Lost Hearts
[Ghosts - Cold Spring]
Pyl- Raccroc
[As Far As -Sound On Probation]
Warbaby - Hak Nam
[Release - Le Petit Machiniste]
DBMG/RAF - Disco-Destructo
[Die Baader-Meinhof Gruppe / Red Army Faction - Vanity Records]

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Releases

Various - You Are Here: a Compilation of California Electronics (vol.1)
Free online release showcasing a variety of musical talent from the underground electronic music scene of the US state of California. Compiled by California-based artist Shane Talada alias The Operative. Volume 1 of 2. re-announced due to a (now corrected) glitch in one of the tracks
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Interviews

Nik Bender - Ten Data Keshin
Three years after "Tex*s Instrument", Ten Data Keshin comes back with a new album, "Neo Neon Generation". This is an album inspired by comics, manga, science-fiction, video games and some chaos riot involved books through which Ten Data Keshin delivers a warm massive groovy metallic mix between different styles, from melancolic electronica to industrial hip-hop, break-beat and cyber-punk.
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Reviews

Le Diktat - Unabomber
Le Diktat are fresh, they are here and once heard it's blatantly obvious that this is an injection this diseased riddled industry needs right now. I never give a ten out of ten, but this was so close it was sorely tempting. Utterly the most essential album I have heard in ages and cooler than an Eskimo's nadsack.
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Modul - Lo-Middle Lack
"Lo-Middle Lack", has certain immediacy. Glitch and subtle IDM references came to the front straight away and stopped the listener in his tracks. A wonderful, joyously beautiful, happy release, that is like a breath of fresh air.
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Ashley Reaks - Melancholia
It is difficult, if not impossible, to term this recording as electronica of any sort. Rather, it is more of an exercise in 90's-style Indie rock, in the vein of The Pixies or Nick Cave, with overtones of David Bowie and Gary Numan, performed with the aid of electronic instrumentation.
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Bartek Kujawski - Murlull Movies
"Murlull Movies" is serious, considered music and should be approached as such. At first it may come across as any other experimental electronica - but subsequent listening reveals a depth that many other artists fail to achieve. It's clever, fairly unique in its symphonic methodology, and worth the effort.
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Pigface - 17 Ways To Suck
It can get a little wearing listening to the same song, regardless of the strengths of the remixes, but if you like remix albums, Pigface, or indeed, Nine Inch Nails, you'll get something out of this. An interesting release, to say the least.
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Gelsomina + No Xivic - Furnace
Interesting and disappointing in equal amounts this is a mixed bag of a release that thankfully is saved with the opening and last tracks.
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Cardopusher - Mutant Dubstep Vol.2
In the end, "Mutant Dubstep Vol.2" provides the listener with a short and somewhat formulaic experience, even if is not without its charms, but which probably will not have much appeal to people beyond a universe of dubstep DJs and enthusiasts.
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Nedicry - Sincere Wounds
There simply is far too much in this genre that is fantastic and exciting to warrant me putting "Sincere Wounds" on in place of - which is a pity when you take into account the rather enjoyable second track. Maybe they should take note of that number and follow the path, which could surely bring about great things.
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Various "Endocytose - nu-core compilation" (DirtyRoom77)
Various "Forced Nature Vol.1" (Force Of Nature)

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Connexion Bizarre update 20081117

2008-11-18T00:29:29Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on November 17th with a new release, piles of new reviews, an interview, webcasts and a couple of recommended links. A quick overview of this week's updates:

Webcast: "Me and a Margarita" with music selection by Peter Lee of Force Of Nature Productions and "Cure Me, I Have A Disease - I Believe In Reality" with music selection by :JW:
Releases: "You Are Here: a Compilation of California Electronics (vol.1)" (NCB007) compiled by Shane Talada (a.k.a. The Operative & MechanismZ record label)
Interviews: F.K.L. and Fleur Feijen of Baxter Lilly
Reviews: Reutoff vs. Troum "Kreuzung Zwei (Creatura Per Creaturam Continetur)", Andrea Marutti "The Subliminal Relation Between Planets (Live in Archiaro)", Contagious Orgasm & C-dr"Journeys Into Space And Time", C-dr"Moje C(elo", V/A "Hyperakusis", Laurent Perrier "As Far As", Life Towards Twilight "An Eclipse", Niko Skorpio "Half Born In Half Light", RachMiel "Vortex Engine", tBH "Book of Salms", Brand New Day "Style"
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Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Me and a Margarita" with music selection by Peter Lee of Force Of Nature Productions)
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[exclusive]
Another Electronic Musician - Green And Olive
[Patience - ?]
Proem - A Permanent Solution
[A Permanent Solution - ?]
Oliver Wittchow - Kristallo
[8-Bit Operators - ?]
Mike Ladd - Blah Blah Blah
[You Dont Know Ninja cuts - ?]
Bong Ra - Jah Kingdom
[Bikini Bandits Kill!! - ?]
Lapsed and Non Non - Dead End Stare
[The Death Of Convenience - Ad Noiseam]
Run_Return - Genius Chilly
[Sum Of An Abstract - ?]
Bitcrush - Every Sunday
[Shimmer and Fade - ?]
Sunstanz-t - Gleaming Night
[Beyond E - Hymen]
Universal Hall Pass - Cave Radio
[Subtle Things - ?]
Near The Parenthesis - A Brief Walk in The Sea
ML - My Xmass Tree And Me
[Everybody looks Like Someone Else - ?]
Subheim - Hollow
[Approach - Tympanik Audio]
Synnack - L3d
[V2 - Force Of Nature]
Drokz - A Meggage to Cheating Bitchez
[? - ?]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Cure Me, I Have A Disease - I Believe In Reality" with music selection by :JW:)
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[exclusive]
Claudia Brand Andrew Poppy - Lipstick Vogue (2:48)
[Another Language - There (There)]
Death From Above 1979 - Turn It Out (2:38)
[You're A Woman, I'm A Machine - Last Gang Records]
KnifeLadder - Faultline (Anti Valium remix) (3:00)
[Naevus/KnifeLadder - Document Three - Terra Fria]
A Place to Bury Strangers - She Dies (3:46)
[A Place to Bury Strangers - Killer Pimp]
Plastic Passion - Pass Over (2:52)
[Contrived Imagery - Knew Noise Recordings]
Al Hirt - Green Hornet (2:18)
[The De La Collection - Strictly Breaks Records]
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement (3:08)
[The Age Of The Understatement - Domino Recording Company]
Hooverphonic - Day After Day (2:35)
[Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane - Epic Belgium]
Scratch Massive - Three Imaginary Boys (2:47)
[Time - Chateaurouge]
Aaron Sutcliffe - Fever (5:06)
[Last Train To Salinas - Substream]
Black Heaven - Violent Acts Of Hate (4:09)
[Negativ - Scanner]
Oil 10 - High Adventure (5:11)
[Beyond - Funkwelten]
KMFDM - Led Zeppelin - Rock 'n' Roll (KMFDM Remix) (4:03)
[The Song Remains Remixed - A Tribute To Led Zeppelin - Anagram Records]
Skinny Puppy - Hardset Head (4:05)
[The Process - American Records]
Angelspit - Vena Cava (3:30)
[Krankhaus - DFD]
Unter Null - Sex Voltage (4:39)
[Neocide - Annihilvs Records]

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Releases

Various - You Are Here: a Compilation of California Electronics (vol.1)
Free online release showcasing a variety of musical talent from the underground electronic music scene of the US state of California. Compiled by California-based artist Shane Talada alias The Operative. Volume 1 of 2.
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Interviews

F.K.L. and Fleur Feijen - Baxter Lilly
Hailing from Brussels, the three protagonists of this electro-industrial carnival aim to take listeners on a noisy trip to a deranged industrial funfair inhabited by psychotic clowns. Thanks to them, the greatest show on Earth has just reached a new level of derangement.
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Reviews

Reutoff vs. Troum - Kreuzung Zwei (Creatura Per Creaturam Continetur)
Reutoff is working on a series of collaborations entitled "Kreuzung", and after the first one - where they worked with Antlers Mulm - and before the third one (Reutoff vs. Der Blutharsch), there is this brilliant second one in which Reutoff vs. Troum present "Kreuzung Zwei (Creatura Per Creaturam Continetur)".
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Andrea Marutti - The Subliminal Relation Between Planets (Live in Archiaro)
A dark but serene journey on waves of low droning sound with cascading chimes, vaguely coherent voices and other miniscule sounds carefully assembled to form a hypnotic sonic bedrock. Often resembling a deep dark ocean bed with an ever present bassy drone, each track holds a certain sub-aquatic charm of tiny chinks of sound, both melodic but strangely distant and unseen.
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Contagious Orgasm & C-dr- Journeys Into Space And Time
Gritty and noisy, this release also has the ability to pummel the listener, which isn't surprising since one half of the act is Contagious Orgasm. C-drlifts Contagious Orgasm just when needed gives this album a certain ease of listening when it could get a little too loud. An intriguing and intense listen for those who like their music dark and potent with a fair range of depth.
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C-dr- Moje Čelo
With statements that both artists have done this with a fair share of humour one may wonder if this duo is completely stark raving bonkers. Either way, funny side or not, this is professionally done and a sure-fire winner for fans of proper old industrial and dark ambient purists. A fine, disturbing listen from start to finish.
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V/A - Hyperakusis
A neat little compilation, though not one that's going to set the world alight, and nor is it one for the casual listener. If you are into odd electronics, the organic sound of ambience and approach sound with an extremely alternative ear this is one for you.
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Laurent Perrier - As Far As
Saying Perrier writes obscure music is an understatement. It's a risky business producing what he has here, and more credit to him for trying. "As Far As" is by no means brilliant, dangerously teetering on overstating itself, but it's also a decent release if you are after an extremely strange album.
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Life Towards Twilight - An Eclipse
Life Toward Twilight are a surprise in that it's most likely the first time anyone heard an ambient act from Detroit (these things are usually confined to the darkest depths of Europe, which has the upper hand generally in these circles). Fair to say though Life Toward Twilight play a strong hand and hold up fairly well in the grand scheme of things from the start.
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Niko Skorpio - Half Born In Half Light
There are certain stages of this CD where a genuine atmosphere is created, giving space to the drones and atmospherics, carried by the reverberation of the odd tribal beat followed by simply crushing guitar sounds. When it's done well it's fantastic, but that is simply too few and far between.
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RachMiel - Vortex Engine
It is obvious that RachMiel is a technically competent and well-versed experimental composer and sound designer. A good amount of thought and arrangement has gone into the pieces on "Vortex Engine," however the reward for its audience is dubious.
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tBH - Book of Salms
It's not often that the cover artwork of an album matches the music quite as well as in the case of tBH's "Book of Salms". The desolate loneliness in the grainy, sepia-toned empty landscapes mirrors exactly the musical entropy enclosed within these five deep, meandering journeys through musical melancholia.
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Brand New Day - Style
One can't really t help but think that even synthpop aficionados will turn up their noses at this one.
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Connexion Bizarre update 20081110

2008-11-10T23:36:35Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on November 10th - several reviews, an interview, webcasts, new media page and recommended links. A quick overview of this week's updates:

Webcast: "boontz boontz chik chik chik" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead and "Sugar-Trapped" with music selection by M.
Interviews: Mind Necrosis Factor
Reviews: Disharmony "Cloned - Other Side Of Evolution", 15 Degrees Below Zero "New Travel", Matamachete "Tanin No Kao", Orchestramaxfieldparrish "The Silent Breath of Emptiness", Worms Of The Earth "The Angels Of Prostitution", Voice_Electronic Duo "VED", Phallus Alles "Les Femmes De La Guerre", "C:Himiko "Himiko"
Media: 2008 Flyers
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Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("boontz boontz chik chik chik" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead)
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Ah Cama-Sotz - Nachtzehrer
[The Way To Heresy - Hands Productions]
Plastician - Badboy Sound
[Beg To Differ - Terrorhythm Recordings]
2562 - Enforcers
[Aerial - Tectonic]
Cardopusher - Cardo From The Block
[Life is Peachy - N/A]
Cacheflowe - Mel Gibson Returns (Sean Byrd Remix)
[Automate Everything - Nobot Media]
Modeselektor - D
[Happy Birthday ! - BPitch Control]
Exillon - Hairyback Acid
[It's OK To Dance - Ad Noiseam]
Black Lung - Panic Squad Interruption
[The Great Architect - Nova Zembla]
Abstract Thought - Bermuda Triangle
[Hypothetical Situations - Kombination Research]
Pivot - Fool In Rain
[O Soundtrack My Heart - Warp Records]
Empusae - Ekro-Alakin
[Error 404: Metaphorical Loss - Hands Productions]
The Other Colors - Dans Ma Bulle Noire
[361 - NA]
Drop The Lime - Butterscotch
[We Never Sleep - Tigerbeat6]

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("Sugar-Trapped" with music selection by M.)
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Larvae - Monster Zero
[Loss Leader - Ad Noiseam]
Le Diktat - Room 101
[Unabomber - Audiotrauma]
Cruise [Ctrl] - Eat My Fear
[I Heard It! - Divine Comedy]
Foretaste - 21
[Terrorist TV - BOREDOMproduct]
Go Tsushima - Mu
[V/A - Fabriksampler - Pharmafabrik]
Cdatakill - Tornado Sirens (Abelcain remix)
[Passage - Ad Noiseam]
Zeller - Macbooking
[Audio Vandalism - Hymen/Fich-Art]
The Teknoist - Teef Smasher
[...like a hurricane made of zombies - Ad Noiseam]
AZ-Rotator - T Echo D-
[Indefinable Sugar Cube - Lovethechaos]
Moogulator - Quasdiac
[The Digital Anatomist Project - AEntitainment]

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Interviews

Pierrick C. - Mind Necrosis Factor
In his second LP, Mind Necrosis factor combines acoustic elements and piercing rhythms, tribal cries and post-industrial atmospheres. More than genesis of a new shape, this album traces the emergence of a mind, from the obscurity of the first moments to the cessation of pain. It invites the listener to look beyond the flesh and to feel the breath of the hidden self.
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Reviews

Disharmony - Cloned - Other Side Of Evolution
With "Cloned - Other Side of Evolution", Disharmony has proven that remix albums can add a whole new lease of life to tracks, and create something entirely different in the process.
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15 Degrees Below Zero - New Travel
15 Degrees Below Zero take hold of the territory between droning ambiance and noise and meshes it together quite well and in a very pleasing way, while puting their own unique slant on the styles of music they incorporate.
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Matamachete - Tanin No Kao
Matamachete define their music as a mix between punk, drum 'n' bass and industrial. One could easily be lead to believe that Matamachete is just another one of these digital punk, Atari Teenage Riot wanna-be bands which are often described this way. In this case, just listen and you'll quickly find out that you were wrong...
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Orchestramaxfieldparrish - The Silent Breath of Emptiness
Listening to "The Silent Breath of Emptiness" it is amazing to think that it was recorded live as it was performed and in a single take as music of this type is often carefully orchestrated in a studio using layering techniques and all manner of electronic effects and gadgets.
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Worms Of The Earth - The Angels Of Prostitution
"The Angels of Prostitution" is an expression of what is still left to be explored within electronic music today and an imprint which should leave a notable reverberation within those that are paying attention. If this album is a harbinger of things to come for Worms of the Earth, I'm sticking around to find out what happens next.
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Voice_Electronic Duo - VED
Something like experimental pop, wherein jazz elements, electronic loops and curious vocal manipulations stimulate compositions both expansive in their progression and crystalline in their clarity. There are hints of Portishead here, along with facets of Lali Puna, Tand Zero 7, though altogether none of these resemblances offer a precise comparison.
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Phallus Alles - Les Femmes De La Guerre
Globally, "Les Femmes de la Guerre" is a pretty well-produced EP, but isn't really enough to satisfy those of us who are waiting for a Phallus Alles new album since a while. Let me get this straight: this record isn't going to renew the genre, but without a doubt it's gonna kick some ass.
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V/A - C:
It's not a bad compilation if you've got your 80's head on but fancy a modern twist on it, with some interesting twists in direction from Euthymia and Zentex. Not going to grab much attention from those who aren't familiar with the label already, but it's an interesting introduction none the less.
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Himiko - Himiko
What is most difficult to reconcile about this album is its apparent emptiness, an impoverishment of craft that occurs despite its passionate methodology, DYI punk sensibilities and creative improvisation. "Himiko" challenges only the senses, as it batters them to porridge. But maybe that's the point?
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Media

Connexion Bizarre - 2008 Flyers
A compilation/showcase of the flyers created for Connexion Bizarre-related events in 2008.
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Net releases spotlight
Animosity & Drumcorps "Altered Beast"
Manormouse "Never Fully Recovered EP" (Psicotropicodelia)
March Rosetta "To Wash Against the Hudson River Running" (Clinical Archives)

Recommended
Kibuka, side-project of Dean Dennis (Nohno, Clock DVA)
Couch Surfing
Does Google Know Too Much? (Der Spiegel)
Air Force Aims to 'Rewrite Laws of Cyberspace' (Wired)
Cassini might hold secrets to life on Saturn moon (New Scientist)

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Connexion Bizarre update 20081103

2008-11-04T02:41:20Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on November 3rd, 2008 with quite a bit of new content. A new compilation release, an interview with Thomas P. of Le Diktat, several new reviews, webcasts, the final instalment of "Business Traveller" and recommended links. A quick overview of this week's updates:

Webcast: "Russian Force 3" with music selection by DJ Jana Dark and "20081103-1109" with music selection by M.
Releases: Various - You Are Here: a Compilation of Massachusetts Electronics (vol.2)
Reviews: Le Diktat
Reviews: Mind Necrosis Factor "Morphogenesis", "Fabriksampler v2", Baxter Lilly "Unsichtbare Flecken", [:SITD:] "Bestie:Mensch", Accomplice Affair "Jezioro Wspomnien"
Media: the final installments of Business Traveller
Store: be the envy of your peers by getting a set of exclusive Connexion Bizarre badges!

All the best,
Connexion Bizarre
(www.connexionbizarre.net)

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Russian Force 3" with music selection by DJ Jana Dark)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Fizzarum - Phut of Plex (4:00)
[Monochrome Plural - Domino]
First Human Ferro - Hollow Shells Of Light (05:26)
[Guernica Macrocosmica - Eibon Records]
Industrialnyi Peisage - Holodno (02:25)
[Osvobojdenija net - Self -Release]
Error - Novosibirsk (05:44)
[Unreleased]
Protuberanzed - Stealth Tech (03:58)
[Doomsday Machine - Absetzer]
Virt - Funeral Procession (03:36)
[Clamour (heat station variation's) - Selfrelease]
T_error 404 - Hellth (Damage) (06:14)
[False Level - Absetzer]
Liquid Date - Strange Final (04:33)
[Unreleased]
Sy9 - Spirits (09:07)
[Senses - NBKLine]
Vertical Axis - Sto Let Odinochestva (04:20)
[Dirty Sound - Unreleased]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("20081103-1109" with music selection by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Von Magnet - Mann Hinter Der Vorhang
[Ni PrNi Proie - Ant-Zen]
Contagious Orgasm + Kotodama - a Girl in Chaos
[Blackout - SSSM]
Orphx - Noontide
[Teletai - Hands Productions]
Autoclav1.1 - All For You
[Love No Longer Lives Here - Tympanik Audio]
Ah Cama-Sotz - Isfahan
[Declaration Of Innocence - Bats & Cats]
Totakeke - Strangle(_D)
[Forgotten On The Other Side Of The Tracks - Tympanik Audio]
GenCAB - Let It Be
[II transMuter - Hive Records]
Manufactura - The Failure Of The Heart
[Psychogenic Fugue - Crunch Pod]
Perfection Plastic - Hard Times
[Triomphe de la Mati- Force Of Nature]
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[[SIC] - Crunch Pod]

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Releases

Various - You Are Here: a Compilation of Massachusetts Electronics (vol.2)
Free online release showcasing a variety of musical talent from the underground electronic music scene of the US state of Massachusetts. Compiled by Massachusetts-based artist David Dodson alias Deftly-D. Volume 2 of 2.
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Interviews

Thomas P. - Le Diktat
Nourished with references from the spheres of music (industrial, hip-hop, ambient, noise), politics and visual arts, the politically-charged music of French duo Le Diktat is once again in the spotlight with the release of a second album, inspired by the neo-Luddite movement and the life of American terrorist Theodore Kaczinski.
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Reviews

Mind Necrosis Factor - Morphogenesis
"Morphogenesis" is a technical term used by biologists to describe the set up of a lifeform's structure, the beginning of its arrangement. Through this record, Pierrick Coupwanted to recreate a similar process to combine lots of various elements into a coherent whole - and did so very succesfully.
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V/A - Fabriksampler v2
It is rare to find a compilation like this, one that flows so seamlessly and sounds so organic and coherent, gently but effortlessly grabbing the listener's attention from the beginning without any degree of intrusiveness - effectively going beyond the basic premise of a label sampler.
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Baxter Lilly - Unsichtbare Flecken
Despite initial misgivings, Baxter Lilly tends to ingratiate itself with repeated listening, eventually becoming a welcome change of pace. Sadly, in today's disposal society, even in the underground fringes thereof, your average consumer may not be willing to devote the required time and effort to the album to discover its finer points.
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[:SITD:] - Bestie:Mensch
Overall, Bestie:Mensch is a very strong Electro record that not only shows purpose and progress for an already fantastic band, but should also lure in many new listeners as word gets out about this album.
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Accomplice Affair - Jezioro Wspomnien
In summation, Accomplice Affair is the Michael Bolton of dark ambient, the sonic equivalent of British food, like lukewarm softcore porn. Indistinctive grub is better than starving, however, and softcore will do the job on cold winter nights.
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Media

Carlos Ferr- Business Traveller
Final chapter of the suspense/bizarro fiction series "Business Traveller".
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Price: 6.00 Euro (worldwide shipping included)
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Links

Recently added
Prometheus Burning
Sonic Squirrel, netlabel resource

Recommended
Winter Hands 2008, Canadian-based Hands Productions mini-festival
Rock, Paper, Scissors - How We Used To Vote (New Yorker)
Why White Supremacists Support Barack Obama (Esquire)

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