Connexion Bizarre

Connexion Bizarre update 20080512

2008-05-13T01:50:26Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on 2008-05-12 with new webcasts, reviews, interviews, media featureas as well as new recommended events and links.

Reviewed this week: Troum "Darvê sh/Ajin", Sunao Inami "LaidBack Computing", Francisco López "Live In Auckland", V/A "Hyperreality".
Interviewed this week: br0d, MAB and Blimpcaptain of Boole (part 1), Oleg Smenovykh of Dars Records.
In the Media section: another installment of Business Traveller.
This week's webcast features "Something For The Ladies..." with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead and "Steelwool Q-tips" with music selection by M.
This week, we continue a giveaway of three copies of Subheim's excellent debut album "Approach" (see below for details).

Subheim "Approach" giveaway

We have three copies of "Approach" the debut album of Greek project Subheim (www.subheim.com) to give away, courtesy of the Tympanik Audio record label (www.tympanikaudio.com). "Approach" was recently reviewed in Connexion Bizarre and you may read the review here.
To be elegible to win a copy of this release please mail us info[at]connexionbizarre[dot]net with your full name and street address. The deadline for this giveaway is May 18th, 2008 and winners will be selected at random on that day.
Not valid for current Connexion Bizarre staff members.

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Something For The Ladies..." with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead)
Amon Tobin - Bloodstone
[The Foley Room - Ninja Tune]
Drop The Lime - Glock Box
[Sky City Rising - Brooklyn Beats]
Ital Tek - Weave (feat. Anneka)
[Deep Pools - Square Records]
Macabre Unit - Ghost
[Ghost - Boka Records]
Milanese - Billy Hologram
[1 Up - Warp Records]
Psion - Subterrainean
[Subterrainean / Tyrant EP - Audio Blueprint]
Apex - Space Between (feat Ayah)
[Weapons of Mass Creation 3 - Hospital Records]
Magus - God of War
[God of War - ADHD Recordings]
Black Sun Empire - Arrakis
[Driving Insane - Black Sun Empire]
SPL & T.Z.A - Violation
[Freak Family Drum Circle Explosion - Freak Recordings]
The Panacea - Evil Seed (Limewax Remix)
[Anokhin & Mootz EP - Position Chrome]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Steelwool Q-tips" with music selection by M.)
Muckrackers - ! Aktion !
[[Uckange_4] - Les Forces Alliées]
Absent - Dark Corridor (Ten Data Keshin remix)
[Absent's Children - self-released]
To Mega Therion - The Sermon Of Setekh
[The Blood Rituals EP - Sistinas (unreleased: grab it legally, courtesy of the artist, here and artwork here)]
Hansel - Generate Humans (Evestus - General Nonhuman Remix)
[Reshaping Linear Formulai - D-trash Records]
S?x Only - Psykick Idiotz
[Unknown Sound Object - 9t9]
Sunao Inami - The Man Who Sold The Calculator
[Laid Back Computing - Electr-Ohm]
Stpocold - Sick In Your Mind (orig. by Klinik)
[What Happened Outside - Cold Graey]
Cruise [Ctrl] - Two Men Getting Sick
[I Heard It! - Divine Comedy Records]
Eye8soccer - Sporting Thiscovered Eusebio
[V/A - Thisagree & Shadow - Thisco/Underworld]
Emdy - Mirror
[V/A - ReSSonus Net Vol.1 - ReSSonus]
Monokrom - The Carrots Sweep
[Tales Of Rabbits And Hares - Ant-Zen]

Listen to the Webcast

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

Interviews

Br0d, the MAB & Blimpcaptain - Boole (part 1)
Boole are many things to many people, but mostly unheard from the last half a decade until the release of "The Vital Few" this year. What transpired from a conversation with the band is as weird and varied as Boole's music is. Read and be educated, entertained, and most likely mildly confused. They would have it no other way.
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Oleg Semenovykh - Dars Records
An independent expanding Russian label dedicated to the new intelligent music (post-IDM and new intelligent electronica, glitch, abstract, ambient, electroacoustic music) and other "pushing boundaries" styles.
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Reviews

Troum - Darvê sh/Ajin
Jaroslaw Szeliga from the Polish label Nefryt probably offered Stefan Knappe from Troum to re-release two older vinyl releases on one CD, and from the full discography from Troum it's doubtful if any other two releases would fit a CD this well.
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Sunao Inami - LaidBack Computing
Somewhat ceremonial in some points, and never quite organic, the compositions are ostensibly relaxing or relaxed, making its title a rather adequate one. "LaidBack Computing" is as good as one would expect from an artist like Sunao Inami, sure to please his fans and appeal to appreciators of abstract electronic music.
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Francisco López - Live In Auckland
A worthwhile piece of sound art for the initiated, but perhaps a little too challenging/pretentious for the newcomer.
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V/A - Hyperreality
It is no surprise that a lot of what's on offer here is similar, as it is after all a label sampler rather than a stand-alone compilation, and unfortunately some less than inspired tracks do tend to blur at the borders while other genuinely good (if a little generic) offerings are overshadowed by their placement alongside superior artists.
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Media

Carlos Ferrão - Business Traveller
"As agreed, I will begin sending you copies of the documentation we have been compiling. Once again I apologize for the piecemeal nature of these deliveries but I know you are eager to start your work. I am starting today with the first e-mail of many."
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Connexion Bizarre events

Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
17/05, saturday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
21/06, saturday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Recently added links
Mauin, Japanese experimental electronic/idm
To Mega Therion, noise/industrial/black metal fusion project
Bleepstreet, 8bit/chiptune music record label
Pulsations For You, netlabel
Neurobeat Radio
Sleeveface

Netlabel releases spotlight:
To Mega Therion "The Bood Rituals EP" (artist-authorized distribution of the unreleased EP, originally scheduled to be released by Sistinas Music; .WAV files, full album artwork here)

Latest recommended links
Lexxe Machina
Iron Sky, the new movie project of the Finnish "Star Wreck" crew.
Watchful Eyes - A modern British Poster to make Orwell blush
The Free Network Project

Merchandise

Connexion Bizarre Pins
State your individuality and rhythmical reverberation with this set of five one-inch Connexion Bizarre buttons! One featuring the main C.B. logo, three featuring the alternative mascots/logos and one featuring the Connexion Bizarre "reverberate rhythmically" motto.
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2008-05-01T21:09:59Z

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Connexion Bizarre update 20080428

2008-04-29T01:38:52Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on 2008-04-28 with new webcasts, new reviews, new media features, new recommended events and links.

Reviewed this week were M-Pex "Phado", Subheim "Approach", Bardoseneticcube & Noises Of Russia "New Orthodox Line".
In the media section, a new installment of "Business Traveller".
This week's webcast features "Playlist #39" with music selection by João and "Expected Warning Shot" with music selection by M.
This week, we also continue the giveaway competition of four copies of the new Thisco compilation "Antibothis CD" (see below for details).

"Antibothis CD" compilation giveaway

We have four copies of the new Thisco compilation "Antibothis" courtesy of the label. This is the audio CD that accompanies the 'occultural anthology' "Antibothis" and features spoken word colaboration between a selection of acclaimed underground authors and experimental musicians.
To be elegible to win a copy of this release please mail us at answer at info[at]connexionbizarre[dot]net with your full name and street address. The deadline for this giveaway is May 4th, 2008 and winners will be selected at random on that day.
Not valid for current Connexion Bizarre staff members.

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Playlist #39" with music selection by João)
Screloma - Memories (05:46)
[VA Tonwellen - About 40 Years - Atacama Records]
Mental Destruction - Your Dying Soul (06:06)
[Straw - Cold Meat Industry]
Dissecting Table - Dark Side Of Life (06:16)
[Ultra Materials 1986-1991 - Steinklang Industries]
Fall Weiss - All My Waking Hours (04:00)
[Fall Weiss - Agit Prop]
Flutwacht feat. Synomorph - ? (04:24)
[V/A - Koji Tano (2005 - ?) A Tribute - Steinklang Industries]
Genocide Organ - The Tears Of My Soul (08:38)
[V/A - Juche - ?]
Deadwood - 8 19 (11:04)
[8 19 - Cold Spring Records]
A.R.S. - Judge Of The Nations (04:26)
[A.R.S. - Agit Prop]
Sektion B - Remember The Time (04:32)
[Only Time - Hate And Revenge - Steinklang Industries]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Expected Warning Shot" with music selection by M.)
Gregorio Bardini - Ezra Pound In Mantua
[Sentinelle Del Mattino - The Eastern Front]
Mnemonic - Political Absurdity (8bit rmx by Xabec)
[V/A - Hyperreality - Alien Productions]
Subheim - Hollow (rmx by Mobthrow)
[Approach - Tympanik Audio]
Orphx - Nullity v2.3
[Vita Mediativa - Hands Productions]
Thermidor - untitled
[V/A - Antibothis - Thisco]
Knr - Dim
[V/A - My Life In An Insulation Test - Electr-Ohm/Appliance Japan]
Utopia:Banished - Carve Up A Nit
[Dirtward - AEntitainment]
Proyecto Mirage - Turn It Off
[Turn It On - Ant-Zen]
100blumen - Beat That Nazi Maggot
[In Floriculture There Is No Law! - Ant-Zen]
Exillon - Office Work
[It's OK To Dance - Ad Noiseam]
Twilight Electric - Foreigner's Journey
[V/A - 8BP050 - 8bitpeoples]
Ili - Soft Denebing
[V/A - Music Of Deneb.2099 - Dars Records]

Listen to the Webcast

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

Reviews

M-Pex - Phado
"Phado" is wholly Iberian in atmosphere, sensual and melodic with more than a tinge of nostalgic melancholy, evoking an ambience at once tangy and honey-dipped. These are the songs to compliment sentimental and lonely moods, when distance or time renders someone held dear intangible and missed.
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Subheim - Approach
On the whole, "Approach" is a rather melancholic and atmospheric body of work which some may consider it as lacking variety in composition and emotion. While these are valid criticism, "Approach" is undoubtedly solid, showing great talent and skilled musicianship as well as great future promise for Subheim's growth as an artist.
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Bardoseneticcube & Noises Of Russia - New Orthodox Line
The sheer lack of originality is surprising given the artists involved. At turns it seems to be trying to alienate its audience with ear piercing feedback, then to draw the listener in with much repeated choral motifs, but the balance is uneven and the overall product ill-arranged and unfocused.
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Media

Carlos Ferrão - Business Traveller
"As agreed, I will begin sending you copies of the documentation we have been compiling. Once again I apologize for the piecemeal nature of these deliveries but I know you are eager to start your work. I am starting today with the first e-mail of many."
Read more

Connexion Bizarre events status:

Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
17/05, saturday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Recently added links
Ananda Jacobs, experimental ambient/trip-hop electronics
dDamage
Mushitsuro, industrial techno hardcore
Neus-318, experimental noise electronics
Saburo Hirano, experimental sounds
Les trolls, industrial hip-hop
Uniform, avantgarde electronic music
Crunch Pod, record label site re-vamp
Absetzer, power noise and extreme electronics
Avantgarde Festival (de)
Villette Sonique (fr), electro-rock festival
Storm Party, industrial crossover party (Netherlands)
MP3tunes, online music locker

Netlabel releases spotlight:
t_error 404 "Crush Hour EP" (Absetzer)
t_error 404 "Operation Anti Error EP" (Absetzer)

Latest recommended links
Hospital Productions
K & R Music
Lagowski Music Projects
Art-Errorist, the art of Jean-Herve Peron
Mark Jarzombek "An Anti-Pragmatic Manifesto"
"EMI Says You Can't Store Your Music Files Online" (The Consumerist)
"Four sound effects that made TV history" (BBC)

Connexion Bizarre update 20080421

2008-04-22T01:35:29Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on 2008-04-21 with new webcasts, new reviews, new media features, new recommended events and links.

Reviewed this week were Tzolk'in "Haab'", "My Life In An Insulation Test" compilation, Destroid "Loudspeaker", Nazi Bastards From Aldebaran "Invasion", Combichrist "What The F**ck Is Wrong With You People?".
In the media section, a new installment of "Business Traveller".
This week's webcast features "Freecast" with music selection by PS and "Elektroanschlag #9" with music selection by M.
This week, we also begin a giveaway competition of four copies of the new Thisco compilation "Antibothis CD" (see below for details).

"Antibothis CD" compilation giveaway

We have four copies of the new Thisco compilation "Antibothis" label. This is the audio CD that accompanies the 'occultural anthology' "Antibothis" and features spoken word colaboration between a selection of acclaimed underground authors and experimental musicians.
To be elegible to win a copy of this release please mail us at answer at info[at]connexionbizarre[dot]net with your full name and street address. The deadline for this giveaway is May 4th, 2008 and winners will be selected at random on that day.
Not valid for current Connexion Bizarre staff members.

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Mid-life Christ" with music selection by Bauke van der Wal)
Mörder Machine - I'm so (5:54)
[Death Show - Slaughter Productions]
The Vault - Be my psychotic Slave! (9:32)
[Be my psychotic Slave! - Noir]
Crass - Reality Asylum (6:12)
[Best before - Southern Records]
Deutsch Katholische Feindschaft - Phalaenopsis (6:03)
[Smerzgrenze - Steinklang Records]
Leiche Rustikal - Spring 8 (5:14)
[Mortal Hazard - Indie-Ziert]
TGVT - Kill Under License (4:31)
[How terrorists kill - StateArt]
Predominance - Dust Of Lost Paradise (5:52)
[Nord Ambient Alliance - Cyclic Law]
MK9 - Truth (4:31)
[Resist - Neural Operations]
Stratum Terror - Transcent Vexation (5:05)
[Pariah Demise - Old Europa Cafe]
Navicon Torture Technologies - Love's Executioner (8:30)
[Love's Executioner - Annihilvs]
Mörder Machine - I'm so (reprise) (4:47)
[Death Show - Slaughter Productions]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Stepping On Another Thin Line" with music selection by M.)
Iris - New Invaders
[Hydra - Diffusion Records]
S.I.N.A. - Antagonist
[Nie Und Immer - Hands Productions]
Ultraviolet - Dirty Club
[The Thin Line Between Love And Addiction - Crazy Bear]
Exillon - Hairyback Acid
[It's OK To Dance - Ad Noiseam]
Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria
[Micro-Phonies - Island Music]
Anthony Rother - Little Computer People
[This Is Electro - Datapunk]
The Rorschach Garden - Let The Information Flow
[Transfer - Bazooka Joe]
IGO - Crashing In The Air
[Synth Love - Modern Sky]
Michigan - Shine In Silver
[Pulse Of Pain - Memento Materia/A Different Drum]
Rename - Around Around
[Energize - A Different Drum]
Blank - Beneath
[Impact Zone - Artoffact Records]
Mark Nicholas - Maniac
[Perversions - Dirty Electronic]
David E. Sugar - Temper Temper
[V/A - 8BP050 - 8bitpeoples]

Listen to the Webcast

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

Reviews

Tzolk'in - Haab'
Like an epiphytic outgrowth from formalistic cues, Tzolk'in achieves musical, technical and spiritual success without sacrificing its critical artistic engagement with apocalyptic motifs. Expect music both thrumming and viscid, bathed in swathes of chimeric color and decorated with refined and subtle gestures; prepare to be immersed and transported.
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V/A - My Life In An Insulation Test
An interesting showcase of talent, bound to be broaden one's musical horizons, and presenting the work of artists from relatively 'exotic' locations, this release also hints at a progressive globalization of music styles and a blurring of cultural tendencies and idiosynchrasies.
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Destroid - Loudspeaker
"Loudspeaker" would have made perfect sense if it had preceded "Future Prophecies." The fluid progression of change would be clear and sensible. Instead this sophomore effort is such a departure that it feels somewhat predictable and dispassionate by comparison.
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Nazi Bastards From Aldebaran - Invasion
Very similar to dark electro releases in the same vein (for example, Velvet Acid Christ's "Calling Ov the Dead") - almost trancey in the rhythmic section, heavily laden with trademark dark and mysterious samples, and all linked together with grumbling atmospheric pad work. Old, analog, not very well produced, and unlikely to make a lasting impression on anyone but older fans of the genre.
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Combichrist - What The F**ck Is Wrong With You People?
"WTFIWWYP"'s best tracks are comparable to some of the worst material on previous offerings. This is a release which was intended to capitalize on the act's meteoric rise to fame, but instead feels rushed and lazy.
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Media

Carlos Ferrão - Business Traveller
"As agreed, I will begin sending you copies of the documentation we have been compiling. Once again I apologize for the piecemeal nature of these deliveries but I know you are eager to start your work. I am starting today with the first e-mail of many."
Read more

Connexion Bizarre events

Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
17/05, saturday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Recommended Events:
Note: we are not directly involved in the organization of these events.

STFU Porto
2008-04-24/25/25, Fábrica de Som, Porto (PT)
Please check www.fabricadesom.org/stfuporto2008 for more information.

Recently added links
Ressonus, ambient-glitch-experimental electronic music label
D:S Dark Scene, a "music archeology" blog about experimental and dark music from former Yugoslavia.

Netlabel releases spotlight
Experience. Hold. "March Forth" (Archaic Horizon Records)
Monsieur Connard "Fainéantise Comme Simple Offensive" (Antisocial)

Latest recommended links
"The Music Of Erich Zann", stop-motion adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's classic tale (video dowloadable in Quicktime format, found via Count Marius)

Merchandise

Connexion Bizarre Pins
State your indivuality and rhythmical reverberation with this set of five one-inch Connexion Bizarre buttons! One featuring the main C.B. logo, three featuring the alternative mascots/logos and one featuring the Connexion Bizarre "reverberate rhythmically" motto.
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Connexion Bizarre update 20080414

2008-04-15T14:18:28Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on 2008-04-14 with new webcasts, new reviews, new media features, new recommended events and links.

Reviewed this week were Kilowatts and Vanek "Focus & Flow", Liar's Rosebush "Circle The Squares", Spherical Disrupted "Barriere", Indu Mezu "Opus".
In the media section, a new installment of "Business Traveller".
This week's webcast features "Freecast" with music selection by PS and "Elektroanschlag #9" with music selection by M.

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Freecast" with music selection by PS)
Hakoneko - Plankton (7:48)
[Umi no drone - MiMi]
Comfort Fit - True Form (3:12)
[Forget and Remember - Tokyo Dawn Records]
Gilo - Unity (3:25)
[Studio 6 - Enough Records]
tori amos - slinkyredthing (gun purist rmx) (4:28)
[no'mo no'mo no'mo no'mo - Monotonik]
esem - microessen (4:12)
[scateren - Kahvi]
Letna - Tisza meets Dunav (3:12)
[Tisza meets Dunav - Zymogen]
Shelter - The swamp (2:24)
[Sleepyhead falls off the edge of the world - Test Tube]
Fun Tourist - Who Needs Alice Anyway? (8:44)
[Who Needs Alice Anyway? - Milk]
c6 - dusty link (6:44)
[first - Minusn]
frank bretschneider - pneumatic/airless (5:05)
[fabelbuch - Nexsound]
Idle Sunder vs Dotkràz - Shedding Memory (3:30)
[Rust - Entity]
Velvet Narcosis - DIKTAT (4:10)
[Neu[t]ral - Enough Records]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Elektroanschlag #9" with music selection by M.)
Nin Kuji - Bambasala
[V/A - Elektroanschlag 4 - Elektroanschlag]
Stendeck - Lonely Souls Can't Dance
[Can You Hear My Call? - Geska]
ESA - We All Know The World Is Wrong
[Devotion, Discipline, And Denial - Hive Records]
Geneviève Pasquier - L'Apparence C'est Tout
[Soap Bubble Factory - Ant-Zen]
Loss - Wrapped Up
[I Kill Everything - Spectre]
S?x Only - If 1 Givz Ya Rymz Thuz Shall B Me
[Unknown Sound Object - 9T9]
Chrysalide - 4th World War
[Lost In A Lost World - Audiotrauma]
Tzolk'in - K'ayab
[Haab' - Ant-Zen]
Punch Inc. - Tonic Torture
[Freaktime - Hands Productions]
The [Law-Rah] Collective - Heartfield
[V/A - Elektroanschlag 4 - Elektroanschlag]
Winterkälte - Eco-Lateral Damage
[Disturbance - Hands Productions]

Listen to the Webcast

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

Reviews

Kilowatts and Vanek - Focus & Flow
While the blatant accessibility of Vanek's vocals may turn off some listeners who necessitate more grit to their music, those who find solace in warm electronica along the lines of Postal Service, Styrofoam, or even Apparat will certainly feel right at home with "Focus & Flow."
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Liar's Rosebush - Circle The Squares
Trying to label Rosen's music is pointless. It certainly falls at the hard electronic or breakcore end of things but beyond that it also shows some originality. His method of combining styles is impressive, never letting any given track become in any way repetitive.
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Spherical Disrupted - Barriere
The fact that "Barriere" is essentially an EP consisting of one long new track, together with ten remixes, would otherwise suggest the low productivity to be excessive, but such is the quality of artists lined up here that this minor complaint is soon forgotten.
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Indu Mezu - Opus
Indu Mezu's "Opus" offers a different take on electronic music, dispensing with computers and soft synths to get back to using old experimental techniques and simpler, but still skilful, sound creation and manipulation.
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Media

Carlos Ferrão - Business Traveller
"As agreed, I will begin sending you copies of the documentation we have been compiling. Once again I apologize for the piecemeal nature of these deliveries but I know you are eager to start your work. I am starting today with the first e-mail of many."
Read more

Connexion Bizarre events status:

Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
19/04, saturday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
17/05, saturday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Recommended Events:
Note: we are not directly involved in the organization of these events.

Tanzfront Festival 2008
2008-04-20, Club Gorod, Moscow (RU)
Please check www.tanzfront.ru for more information.

STFU Porto
2008-04-24/25/25, Fábrica de Som, Porto (PT)
Please check www.fabricadesom.org/stfuporto2008 for more information.

Recently added links
No Go!
S?x Only
Club Hard-Drive (uk)
Krachbar (de)
Tanzfront

Netlabel releases spotlight:
Iambic2 "As The Snow Fell" (Laridae)
Photophob "Skaphander Skanks" (Laridae)

Latest recommended links
Grabstein, dark ambient from Dublin via Switzerland
Kavi, Latvian visuals/electronica artist
Brain Kitchen Magazine companion to the album with the same name by Raoul Sinier
Elektroanschlag #9 (2009), photo gallery by S.Alt
Rube Goldberg Machine competition 2008
"Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?" (NY Times)

Merchandise

Connexion Bizarre Pins
State your indivuality and rhythmical reverberation with this set of five one-inch Connexion Bizarre buttons! One featuring the main C.B. logo, three featuring the alternative mascots/logos and one featuring the Connexion Bizarre "reverberate rhythmically" motto.
Read more

Connexion Bizarre update 20080407

2008-04-08T12:18:31Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on 2008-04-07 with new webcasts, new reviews, new recommended events and links.

Reviewed this week were Junkie XL "Booming Back At You", Quench "Fanion", Autoclav1.1 "Broken Beats For Broken Hearts", Life's Decay "Szilentia", Banister "This Is Not About Noise"
This week's webcast features "Toxic Industrial-Techno Dream for Romantic Souls" with music selection by :JW: and "How many faces do you have?" with music selection by M.

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Toxic Industrial-Techno Dream for Romantic Souls" with music selection by :JW:)
Hildegard von Bingen - Anon. Karlsruhe LX - Antiphon & Invitatory (8:55)
[11,000 Virgins (chants for the feast of St. Ursula) - Harmonia Mundi]
Lords of Acid - Drink My Honey (4:01)
[Voodoo-U - Never]
KMFDM - Leid and Elend (6:09)
[Symbols - Wax Trax]
Laibach - Opus Dei (5:00)
[Opus Dei - Wax Trax]
Infected Mushroom - Riders on the Storm (4:29)
[The Doors Remixes - unreleased]
unknown - Kalinka (Remix) (3:48)
[unknown - unknown]
Scooter - The Logical Song (3:52)
[The Logical Song - Sheffield Tunes]
Juno Reactor - God Is God (6:46)
[Bible of Dreams - Blue Room Released]
Catholic Boys In Heavy Leather - Daddy Cruel (4:50)
[Nobody Urged You To Get Canonised - Pflichtkauf]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("How many faces do you have?" with music selection by M.)
Battery Cage - The Perfect Girl
[Forever Never Ends - Forever]
Destroid - Scanner
[Loudspeaker - Mechanismz]
Ultraviolet - Modern Girls
[The Thin Line Between Love And Addiction - Crazy Bear]
Arthur And Martha - Squarewave To Heaven
[Autovia - Happy Robots]
Covox - Switchblade Squadron
[V/A - 8BP050 - 8bitpeoples]
Gregor Tresher - Still
[V/A - We Are Punks - Datapunk]
S.i.c. [Single impulse code] - Odelic
[1 Drum Line 8 Analog Lines - Caustic Records]
dISHARMONY - Sacred Truth (Flint Glass Remix)
[Frames - Aliens Productions]
Rupor Udara - Sun
[V/A - Like Music To Their Ears - Mechanoise Labs]
Daruin - Google Man ver 1.0
[V/A - My Life In An Insulation Test - Electr-Ohm/Appliance]
M-Pex - Phado Menor
[Phado - Thisco]
Stpocold - BAM tale
[What Happened Outside - Cold Graey]

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Reviews

Junkie XL - Booming Back At You
Holistically, a bizarre blend of psychedelia, 80's kitsch and sexual overtones, "Booming Back at You" is raw, raunchy, light-hearted and thoroughly enjoyable stuff. Shallower than a roadside puddle, slicker than greasepaint and sleazier than sin itself, this is what Techno Body Music should embody, and what Junkie XL has managed to do - in spades.
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Quench - Fanion
"Fanion", the latest result of this musical approach by the Funcken brothers, is a collection of four complex, but definitely still quite laidback, compositions with each track being an example of skilful and precise composition with great attention to detail. Aptly titled "Fanion" feels like a marker in a sonic exploration in progress which, if pursued, may well be quite interesting.
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Autoclav1.1 - Broken Beats For Broken Hearts
The track listing on the album has each track described as "broken" rather than "remixed", a nice touch, but it's lucky of course that most of the artists here managed to repair the damage they inflicted on Autoclav1.1 and return with something worthwhile in its own right.
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Life's Decay - Szilentia
Life's Decay have certainly got the potential to become a major force within this still small scene of military pop, but as the singer is the focal point of any pop group this one really is holding them back.
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Banister - This Is Not About Noise
This collection of recordings suffers from poor sound choices and questionable mixing. The percussion is stale. While it's not the worst thing I ever heard, it certainly falls into the realm of the bland and quickly forgettable.
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Connexion Bizarre events status:

Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
19/04, saturday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
17/05, saturday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Recommended Events:
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STFU Porto
2008-04-24/25/25, Fábrica de Som, Porto (PT)
Please check www.myspace.com/stfuporto for more information.

Recently added links
Umbrella Noize Collective
STFU Music
SKTM, Spanish d'n'b/jungle resource/community
Cagey Blog, an illustrated music serial about a kid, a radio and a duck

Netlabel releases spotlight:
Heroines of the U.S.S.R "Spring Snow" (Archaic Horizon)

Latest recommended links
Design and the Elastic Mind
Terence McKenna Audio

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Connexion Bizarre update 20080331

2008-04-01T01:59:54Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on 2008-03-31 with new webcasts, new reviews, new media features, new recommended events and links.

Reviewed this week were V/A "Emerging Organisms", Abominations Of Yondo "Abominations Of Yondo", Igorrr "Moisissure", Thermidor "1929", V/A "Muzyka Voln", Robert Piotrowicz "Lasting Cinamen", Somatic Responses "Digital Darkness".
In the media section, a new installment of "Business Traveller".
This week's webcast features "Live @ SICK 022308" with music selection by DJ Burn and "Beginnings of Sensorial Overload" with music selection by M.

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Live @ SICK 022308" with music selection by DJ Burn)
No tracklist provided at time of upload, sorry.

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Beginnings of Sensorial Overload" with music selection by M.)
M-Pex - Phadistikal
[Phado - Thisco]
The Operative - The Workers Party Of Haiti
[Basic Shortwave Operations - Mechanismz]
ESA - Absolute Utero
[How Pure Would Your Utopia Be? - Hive Records]
Tzolk'in - Yaxk'in
[Haab - Ant-Zen]
Enclipse - Count 666
[V/A - Hyperreality - Aliens Productions]
Somatic Responses - Human Bass
[Digital Darkness - Hymen Records]
Rabato - Simachip
[V/A - 8BP050 - 8bitpeoples]
Mushitsuro - protoCORE_Re:make!
[V/A - My Life In An Insulation Test - Electr-Ohm/Appliance Japan]
H.I.V.+ - Invocations
[We Are All Haunted Houses - Caustic Records]
disHARMONY - Drops Of Dust
[Malignant Shields - Aliens Productions]
Oxyd - The Frozen Moon
[Larva - Aliens Productions]

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Reviews

V/A - Emerging Organisms
A veritable pile of unadulterated dark electronic psychoses and shining atmospheres, the addictive mood kindled by volume one of the Hidden Forms compilation series establishes a precedent that will prove difficult for later installments to match.
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Abominations Of Yondo - Abominations Of Yondo
erhaps this sort of dark ambiental soundtrack is not adequate for everyone but admirers of Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft and similar writers will find this an essential release for their collections. Others should also check it out, if not because this album is also available as a free downloadable release.
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Igorrr - Moisissure
Summarily, it is unlikely that "Moisissure" will garner any commercial accolades for Igorrr; a pity, as anything this original and fresh (there really is nothing even vaguely similar available anywhere) as this selection of eleven pieces of brilliant lunacy deserves great praise.
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Thermidor - 1929
Although no one track appears to have a specific theme as such, each one has a story of its own that is told in colourful detail by J.'s twisting, turning and mutating style. "1929" is a multi-faceted album of hidden depth that leaves plenty to discover on future listens.
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V/A - Muzyka Voln
The Russian label Zhelezobeton decided it was time to create a new sub-label. It is unknown what the speciality for this label will be, but its first release is an ambient/drone sampler presenting 12 Russian composers doing their thing. And what mighty fine things they are...
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Robert Piotrowicz - Lasting Clinamen
For an average listener there might be a bit too much repetition. For sound freaks on the other hand, there is quite a lot to discover. Definitly worth it for the "freaks", though if you're looking for some easy listening ambience... Don't even think about getting this one.
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Somatic Responses - Digital Darkness
While known for their selected brand of stabbing, dark IDM and furious drum 'n bass collages, Somatic Responses take their formula one step backwards this time by adding a variety of squelching 303-style acid tweaking and marginal vocal samples to their recipe.
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Media

Carlos Ferrão - Business Traveller
"As agreed, I will begin sending you copies of the documentation we have been compiling. Once again I apologize for the piecemeal nature of these deliveries but I know you are eager to start your work. I am starting today with the first e-mail of many."
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Connexion Bizarre events status:

Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
19/04, saturday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
17/05, saturday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Recommended Events:
Note: we are not directly involved in the organization of these events.

STFU Porto
2008-04-24/25/25, Fábrica de Som, Porto (PT)
Please check www.myspace.com/stfuporto for more information.

Recently added links
Fractional
Musica Genera, Polish experimental music label & festival
Venn Festival
Beats Play Free, netlabel blog (PT only)
Go Anonymous, fight Scientology.

Netlabel releases spotlight:
And. "Dans" (Enough Records)
Audio Organism "Finding A Balance" (Decisive Sounds Records)
K'teus "Sun God Rising" (DarkStep.Org)
Velvet Narcosis "Neu[t]ral" (Enough Records)

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Fractional "Misute" (video)
Oldest recorded voices sing again
The 10 Most Insane, Child-Warping Moments of '80s Cartoons

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Connexion Bizarre update 20080324

2008-03-24T22:58:59Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on 2008-03-24 with new webcasts, an updated media feature and recommended links.

In the media section, a new installment of "Business Traveller".
This week's webcast features "Cultured Box (part II)" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead and "20080324-0330" with music selection by M.

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Culture Boxed (part II)" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead)
Drop The Lime - Circles
[Shot Shot Hearts - Tigerbeat6]
Burial - Archangel
[Untrue - Hyperdub]
Silk Saw - Jugstrack
[Maschinenfest 2000 - Pflichtkauf]
Spyweidos - 3.5 ec
[Wetsound Orchestra - Poeta Negra]
Black Lung - Panic Squad Interruption
[The Great Architect - Nova Zembla]
Sven Väth - Dein Schweiss
[Contact - Schallplatten GmbH]
Modeselektor - Godspeed
[Happy Birthday! - BPitch Control]
Saul Williams - African Student Movement
[Saul Williams - Fader Label]
Autechre - Eutow
[Tri Repetae - Warp Records]
Architect - Colorado 6am
[I went out shopping to get some noise - Hymen Records]
Twinkle - La Victime Volontaire
[Le Jouet - Audiotrauma/Ant Zen]
Polyspace - Express
[The Label Compilation 01 - Funk Welten]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("20080324-03230" with music selection by M.)
Kenji Siratori - Dead Souls (feat. Julia Durer)
[Epidemic Animals - Old Europa Café]
Manufactura - God Damn The Sun (Swans Tribute) [MNFCTR vs. The Operative]
[In The Company Of Wolves - Crunch Pod]
Xabec - Open State (Re-Programmed Rmx by Mnemonic)
[V/A - Hyperreality - Aliens Productions]
Saburo Hirano - Depths In Minamo 2
[V/A - My Life In An Insulation Test - Electr-Ohm/Appliance Japan]
Andrew King - The Knight Templar's Dream
[The Amfortas Wound - Athanor]
PS vs Sektor304 - 4:57
[PS vs Sektor304 - Enough Records]
ESA - Principals of a Paradisic Resolve
[How Pure Would Your Utopia Be? - Hive Records]
Ambassador 21 - Megeneration
[Fuck All Systems - Invasion Wreck Chords]
Sona Eact - Hydro Crash
[Hard Industrial Loop Check - Pro Noize]
Beton Barrage - All Signals Down
[V/A - Like Music To Their Ears Vol. 2 - Mechanoise Labs]
Tugboat - Never Enough
[V/A - 8BP050 - 8bitpeoples]
Quench - Fanion
[Fanion - Lovethechaos]

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Media

Carlos Ferrão - Business Traveller
"This is the first chapter from Saskia Miller's draft novel which I feel is relevant to your understanding of Mr Tim Miller and what has occurred. It details his first night in India and is a clear sign of his failing mental health..."
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Connexion Bizarre events status:

Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
19/04, saturday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
17/05, saturday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Recommended Events:
Note: we are not directly involved in the organization of these events.

PT.Core 4
2008-03-28, Rock In Chiado, Lisbon (PT)
Please check Thunderdome.Web.PT for more information.

Slaughterhaus 5: Colonisation Begins
2008-03-29, The Others, London (UK)
Please check Slaughterhaus 5 for more information.

STFU Porto
2008-04-24/25/25, Fábrica de Som, Porto (PT)
Please check www.myspace.com/stfuporto for more information.

Recently added links
ManGenerated/RRs.R, Belgian experimental/noise collective/resource/label
Invisible War, podcast host, serious music appreciation and discussion platform
Dtrashcast, D-Trash Records podcast

Netlabel releases spotlight:
ZandoZ Corp. "Organismus Palhaçus" (Alquimia Sonora)

Latest recommended links
D-Trash Records 2008 New Releases Mix
Gutsville #1 (full issue), available for free as JPG's @ Newsarama.
Everywhere and nowhere: social networking will become a ubiquitous feature of online life. That does not mean it is a business (Economist)

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Connexion Bizarre update 20080317

2008-03-18T13:20:41Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on 2008-03-17 with new webcasts, new reviews, new media features, new recommended events and links.

Reviewed this week were Null Device "Excursions", Totakeke "eLekatota: The Other Side Of The Tracks", ESA "How Pure Would Your Utopia Be?", Algol "Deep Thoughts About Universe9", Parade Ground "Rosary".
In the media section, a new installment of "Business Traveller" and the re-release of the "Mothers Against Noise vol.1" compilation.
This week's webcast features "Cultured Box (part I)" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead and "Razorwire Candy" with music selection by M.

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Culture Boxed (part I)" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead)
Ab Ovo - Fragments
Hinsidan - Finally
¥?¥ - White Sand
Ad.Ver.Sary - Friends of Father
Scott Sturgis - Euphondisson
Sofa Surfers (feat. Oddateee) - 21st Century Army
Amon Tobin - Defocus
cLOUDDEAD - I Promise Never To Get Paint On My Glasses Again (1)
Boards of Canada - Sixtyniner
Ra - Wonderful Bastard

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Razorwire Candy" with music selection by M.)
Autoclav1.1 - This is Untitled (Synnack remix)
[Broken Beats For Broken Hearts - Hive Records]
5F-X - Breikelbitjes
[The Xenomorphians - Your Friendly Alien Invasion - Hands Productions]
Memmaker - Energon³
[How To Enlist In A Robot Uprising - Hive Records]
Ambassador 21 - In Love
[Fuck All Systems - Invasion Wreck Chords]
H.I.V.+ - Havoc2027 (ultimate EBM mix by Bak XIII)
[We Are All Haunted Houses - Caustic Records]
Mandelbrot - Thorny Hands
[Thorns - Audiophob]
Nazi Bastards From Aldebaran - Cleansing The Planet
[Invasion - Zhelezobeton]
dISHARMONY - Masonic
[Frames - Aliens Productions]
Heimstatt-Yipotash - Mühsal Der Kosmonautenkrankheit
[Perpetual Beta - Hands Productions]
Oxyd - Transmission
[Larva - Aliens Productions]
S.i.c. [Single impulse code] - Play On
[1 Drum Line 8 Analog Lines - Caustic Records]
Mark Hamn - À partir est d'ici la seule solution
[Je déchire l'ongle aux criminels - Afe Records]

Listen to the Webcast

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Reviews

Null Device - Excursions
You know it when you find something that can't be easily categorized and yet it does fit the title with such perfection that only the album itself can rival with... This is one of those cases and it does make it as an interesting experience indeed.
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Totakeke - eLekatota: The Other Side Of The Tracks
"eLekatota" is one of those albums that demands (and deserves) the listener's undivided time and attention to be fully appreciated. An excellent listening choice for those occasions in which one finds time to not do anything else but sit down, relax, appreciate a very good record and forget about life's worries.
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ESA - How Pure Would Your Utopia Be?
The sophomore release of British musician Jamie Blacker's solo project, ESA (Electronic Substance Abuse), shows that the positive critical reactions his debut offering were quite deserved and that the artist was still capable of improving the quality and creativity of his work.
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Algol - Deep Thoughts About Universe9
The tracklisting on Algol's "Deep thoughts about universe" reads like something approaching the catalogue of a surrealist art collection (exemplified by "Aware of universe's inevitable collapse" and "The conversation of space to time") but the lofty pretensions to high art end there, thankfully.
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Parade Ground - Rosary
"Rosary" won't certainly bring Parade Ground into the forefront of industrial music, but it's worth a few spins especially if you miss the sounds and experiments of the 80's. If you don't, it is possible that you will get tired after some minutes into the record, since this is certainly not easy-listening stuff.
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Media

Various - Mothers Against Noise vol.1
Re-release of the "Mothers Against Noise vol.1" noise and experimental sound-art compilation. Originally released in 2005 as part of the Mothers Against Noise (dot) Org temporary web phenomenon.
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Carlos Ferrão - Business Traveller
"As agreed, I will begin sending you copies of the documentation we have been compiling. Once again I apologize for the piecemeal nature of these deliveries but I know you are eager to start your work. I am starting today with the first e-mail of many."
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Connexion Bizarre events status

Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
19/04, saturday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
17/05, saturday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Recommended Events:
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Sick Disko
2008-03-22, Branx, Portland OR (US)
Please check Sick Disko for more information.

Deep6 Productions presents Iszoloscope vs. Memmaker + Sinnack & Worms Of The Earth
2008-03-23, DC9, Washington DC (US)

PT.Core 4
2008-03-28, Rock In Chiado, Lisbon (PT)
Please check Thunderdome.Web.PT for more information.

Slaughterhaus 5: Colonisation Begins
2008-03-29, The Others, London (UK)
Please check Slaughterhaus 5 for more information.

STFU Porto
2008-04-24/25/25, Fábrica de Som, Porto (PT)
Please check www.myspace.com/stfuporto for more information.

Recently added links
Grenadier
Igorrr
Taratulla Shop

Netlabel releases spotlight:
833-45 "Tunguska" (Excentrica Netlabel)
Heimstatt-Yipotash "Landslide"

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Downtao "Live" (video here and here)
I-Blog
Child-like intelligence created in Second Life (iT News)
Bad Science Journalism and the Myth of the Oppressed Underdog

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Connexion Bizarre update 20080310

2008-03-10T23:22:29Z

Connexion Bizarre was updated on 2008-03-10 with new webcasts, new reviews, updated fiction content, new recommended events and links. In addition, this week we continue the giveaway courtesy of newcomer project Das Gritli Moser (see below for details).

Reviewed this week were Cloama + Blutleuchte "From Wasteland Mausoleums", Pixelh8 "The Boy With The Digital Heart", Suicide Booth "Aura EP", Universal Poplab "Uprising", Tor Lundvall "The Seasons Unfold (sampler)" .
In the media section, a new installment of "Business Traveller"
This week's webcast features "Playlist #38" with music selection by João and "Hectic 20080310" with music selection by M.

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Playlist #38" with music selection by João)
Pankow - Adrenalina (07:28)
[Pankow - Blank Your Mind]
Twinkle - La Victime Volontaire (05:11)
[Le Jouet - Audiotrauma & Ant-Zen]
The Young Gods - Secret (03:42)
[Super Ready / Fragmenté - Play It Again Sam]
F.E.V.E.R. - Do You Breed Summer? (Shhh... Mix) (03:40)
[Electronics - Thisco]
Acumen Nation - Rally And Sustain (Bushwhacker Mix) (05:18)
[VA Industrialnation Vol. 02 - Industrialnation Magazine]
Muckrackers - Monoton (Abrasive Blast Mix) (05:00)
[VA Schlagstrom! Krrrbrrrtztzkrrr 02 - Rustblade]
Alec Empire - Overdose (Remix) (04:56)
[VA Schlagstrom! Krrrbrrrtztzkrrr 01 - Rustblade]
Marilyn Manson - 1996 (04:01)
[Antichrist Superstar - Interscope]
Bizarra Locomotiva - Hiena (03:58)
[Bestiário - Symbiose]
F.Y.D. - Involvement (03:10)
[Defied (Chapter II) - Audiotrauma]
Chrysalide - Wake Up (03:57)
[VA Schlagstrom! Krrrbrrrtztzkrrr 01 - Rustblade]
Diabolos Rising - 666 (06:06)
[666 - Osmose Productions]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Hectic 20080310" with music selection by M.)
a034 - Electrostatic
[Chemical Nature - Afe Records]
Subheim - Howl
[V/A - Konkrete - Spectraliquid]
Geomatic - Holographic Messiah
[Blue Dream - M-tronic]
Autoclav 1.1 - Nothing But Pillow Teeth (Alter Der Ruine Mix)
[Broken Beats For Broken Hearts - Hive Records]
Destroid - Bird Of Prey
[Loudspeaker - Scanner]
Individual Totem - In Memorial
[Mothfly - Artoffact]
Dekad - Next Time
[Confidential Tears - BOREDOMproduct]
Hong Kong Counterfeit - Private Tokyo
[Counterparts LP - Kinetik Media]
15 Degrees Below Zero - The Peculiar Apparatus
[New Travel - Edgetone Records]
Agnivolok - Sculptor
[V/A - ...Where Tattered Clouds Are Stranding - The Eastern Front]

Listen to the Webcast

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Reviews

Cloama + Blutleuchte - From Wasteland Mausoleums
Behind many of Howard Phillips Lovecraft's works lies a hidden terror, an incomprehensible force that if beheld in material form often led to madness. The foreboding sound of "From Wasteland Mausoleums" is reminiscent of such strange stories.
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Pixelh8 - The Boy With The Digital Heart
You can't get more retro than this if you're into this kind of stuff. And like popping up your favourite cartridge in your favourite 80's system, this will - strangely - bring you back all those memories that only those wonderful devices can usually replenish.
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Suicide Booth - Aura EP
Despite the obvious influences and similarities to many 80's genres, "Aura" has a sort of intemporality to it which would probably make it a great record had it been released anywhere between the 1960's and the 2030's, and maybe even beyond.
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Universal Poplab - Uprising
'Gay Synthpop', in the third, non-homophobic sense of the word, is an acquired taste, especially amongst those who enjoy harder electronic music. Universal Poplab, as their name suggests, have broad appeal and should be heading straight for the pop charts. If only synthpop was in fashion again!
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Tor Lundvall - The Seasons Unfold (sampler)
The music is soft and delicate, pleasant while occasionally suggesting a little darkness, especially on the closing track "November's Fields". Gentle melodies flow calmly into the listener's conscience and spacious instrumental arrangements provide soothing release.
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Media

Carlos Ferrão - Business Traveller
"As agreed, I will begin sending you copies of the documentation we have been compiling. Once again I apologize for the piecemeal nature of these deliveries but I know you are eager to start your work. I am starting today with the first e-mail of many."
Read more

Connexion Bizarre events status:

Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
15/03, saturday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Recommended Events:
Note: we are not directly involved in the organization of these events.

Sick Disko
2008-03-22, Branx, Portland OR (US)
Please check the Sick Disko site for more information.

Recently added links
U-Clic
Marionette Records
Amanda's Autopsies, Steampunk taxidermy sculpture & jewelry
Dead Channel, fiction webzine
Mythaxis, online fiction periodical

Netlabel releases spotlight:
Jack Dark "Denizen EP"

Latest recommended links
Overdose Kunst
Parralox
Alan Wilder "Music For The Masses - I Think Not" (Side-Line)
ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show
Roadkill Toys

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