Connexion Bizarre

Connexion Bizarre update 20091102

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:40:36 GMT

Connexion Bizarre was updated on November 2nd with new content (reviews, podcasts, interview and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Strumming the Beats" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead and "Post-Halloween Thing '09" with music selection by M.
Reviews:

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

Podcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Strumming the Beats" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Podcast identifier
[exclusive]
Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - Bonkers (Club Mix)
[Bonkers - Dirtee Stank Recordings]
Deadmau5 - Complications
[Random Album Title - Ultra Records]
16 Bit Lolitas - Murder Weapon
[Nobody Seems To Care - Anjunadeep]
Skepta - Rolex Sweep
[Rolex Sweep - Data Records]
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex (Extended Version)
[Wearing My Rolex EP - Asylum Records]
Drop The Lime - Bella
[We Never Sleep - Tigerbeat6]
Surgeon - Hunger
[Body Request - Dynamic Tension Records]
Download - Eruption
[FiXer - Sub-Conscious Communications]
Boys Noize - Deny Select
[Oi Oi Oi - Boysnoize Records]
Noisia - Yellow Brick
[Yellow Brick - Division]
The Presets - My People
[Apocalypso - Modular Recordings]
Feed Me - Raw Chicken
[The Spell / Raw Chicken - Mau5trap Recordings]
Mr Oizo - Erreur Jean
[Lambs Anger - Ed Banger Records]
Ed Rush & Optical - G-Force Jesus
[Travel The Galaxy - Virus Recordings]
Pendulum - Fasten Your Seatbelt
[Hold Your Colour - Breakbeat Kaos]
Hadouken! - That Boy That Girl
[Music for An Accelerated Culture - Surface Noise Records]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("The post-Halloween thing '09" with music selection by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Podcast identifier
[exclusive]
Wentworth Kersey - Teton Mountains
[(O) - Plastic Sound Supply]
Wilt - A Small Release
[Cemetery Road / Dead Electroniks - Ad Noiseam]
Sturqen - 47
[Piranha - Kvitnu]
Raoul Sinier - Alternative Rush
[Tremens Industry - Ad Noiseam]
Imminent - Lorst
[Cask Strength - Ant-Zen]
Lingouf - Vifoogy
[Ange et Gruikk - Ant-Zen]
Scrap.edx - The Gospel According to Cranium
[Merciless Protraction - Hands Productions]
S.K.E.T. - How DU Works
[Depleted Uranium Weapons - Hands Productions]
Mono-Amine - If I Started ..........
[Like A Machine - Ant-Zen]
W.A.S.T.E. - Cleansing The Earth
[A Silent Mantra Of Rage - Vendetta Music]

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Reviews

Defrag - Lament/Element
"Lament/Element" is a perfect chaos of mood and mode of expression, ranging from dnb to glitch/experimental to ambient orchestral grandeur - an album which is a must have for fans of intelligent electronics. This will be a return selection in my collection showing wear and tear of multiple repeat cycles in my stereo.
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dISHARMONY - Evolution
It may not feature the next big dancefloor filler, but an older, wiser audience cannot fail to sit up and take notice. Taken as individual tracks, or in its entirety, dISHARMONY have, indeed, evolved on this album, taking their compositions one step further towards enlightenment than many of their contemporaries would dare to.
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Gerostenkorp - Terre Brûlée
More IDM than experimental per se, but there's still nearly as much attention given to the process as the result, making for a well-balanced (if unclassifiable) album that will resonate equally well with fans of either.
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Aere Aeternus - Humanity Needs No Funeral
This is not to say that Aere Aeternus aren't honest about the message they are trying to convey. Perhaps they should consider re-evaluating their aesthetics and their discourse to avoid the clichés mentioned above or, perhaps (and quite difficult), reformulate them into something more convincing.
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Links

Recently added
Arkronik
Umpako
Musée Bizarre

Net releases spotlight
Marcus Reuter & Ian Boddy "Dervish Remixes" (DiN)
Mak's Chornyj "Sarkofagiya" (Umpako)
Metaform free downloads

Recommended
MI5 comes out against cutting off internet pirates (Times Online)
China looks to export censorship (BBC)
The new fast ways of keeping in touch are driving us further apart (The Guardian)
Criminal record checks are turning us into a nation of suspects (Telegraph)
Virtual Geocities Tribute

Connexion Bizarre update 20091026

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:38:51 GMT

Connexion Bizarre was updated on October 26th with new content (reviews, podcasts, interview and links). There was also some minor tweaking to the site layout which we hope will make it easier to navigate, especially where more recent content is concerned. Check it out for yourself following the links below!

Podcast (www.connexionbizarre.net/podcast.htm)
This week's podcasts feature
"Smear @ Connexion Bizarre" with music selection by Smear
and
"Maschinenfest'09 Special" with music selection by JanaDark)

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download

Reviews (www.connexionbizarre.net/reviews.htm)

This week, we review
Autoclav1.1 "Where Once Were Exit Wounds", Lacus Somniorum "Tideshaper" and Cities Last Broadcast "The Cancelled Earth"

Links (www.connexionbizarre.net/links.htm)
Added Links: Bandcamp, Dresden Codak, TuneCore
Net releases spotlight: in[toxin] "ufo rave", t_error 404 "Modify", Various "That's Romance... (a tribute to John Zewizs) I" + "That's Romance... (a tribute to John Zewizs) II"
Recommended links: Amanda Palmer "Virtual Crowd-Surfing" + "Why I am not afraid to take your money", Null Device "Working the DIY angle"

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

Connexion Bizarre update 20091019

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:17:03 GMT

Connexion Bizarre was updated on October 19th with new content (reviews, webcasts and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Klub V.E.B. @ Connexion Bizarre" with music selection by Codex Europa and "Submission for Radio Futura" with music selection by M.
Reviews: Fhievel Pipe Smoking on a Balloon", Sunao Inami Disinfectant", Y.E.R.M.O. Collision Zone", [syndika:zero] Blindness", V/A Whiteline Vol. III"

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

Machinochrist giveaway

Something slightly different this time with Machinochrist presenting his webcast listeners with a challenge this time.
Detailed instructions are given in the webcast itself but, in a nutshell, download/listen to this set and mail competition@machinochrist.co.uk a list of all the tracks that you managed to recognize. The winner will get a one-of-a-kind CD-R edition of unreleased Machinochrist material in handmade packaging and original artwork.
Quite a treat if one knows his 2007 release "Escape From Woolwich Arsenal" which received a very positive review in Connexion Bizarre (review here).

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Klub V.E.B. @ Connexion Bizarre" with music selection by Codex Europa)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
ANTIchildLEAGUE - Only One Mother
[The Father - Hagshadow]
Special Victim - Blaue Bohnen v2
[Unreleased]
Ryan Jordan - Assisted Breathing
[Noise=Noise 25.10.2008 - Noise=Noise]
Sz. Berlin - Ringmaster
[Testphase CDR - Unreleased]
John Bowers - October
[Noise=Noise 25.10.2008 - Noise=Noise]
Gerechtigkeits Liga - Funeral March (Field Recordings, London 1987 At Coldstorage 4.Vauxhall, Studio Recordings London)
[Per Ignem ad Lucem - Vinyl on Demand]
artist - track title
[release title - label/netlabel/etc]
Kom-Intern - Ivy Bells
[Maschinenfest 2005 - Pflichtkauf]
Laibach - Jaruzelsky
[Rekapitulacija 1980 - 1984 - NSK Recordings]
Cabaret Voltaire - The Quarry (In The Wilderness)
[Johnny Yesno (The Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture) - The Grey Area, Mute Records Ltd.]
Throbbing Gristle - Beachy Head
[20 Jazz Funk Greats - The Grey Area, Mute Records Ltd.]
Autopsia - Night Landscape III
[Radical Machines Night Landscapes - Illuminating Technologies]
The Caretaker - Friends Past Re-united
[A Stairway To The Stars - V/Vm Test Records]
Zilverhill - Unceasing
[Latent-Active-Descent - Adeptsound, Blind Shouter]
Test Dept. - Funeral
[Materia Prima - Ministry Of Power]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Submission for Radio Futura" with music selection by M.)
This was the 'mixtape' that was submited to and accepted by Radio Zero for a participation in the Radio Futura initiative (the 'official' radio of the 2009 edition of Future Places digital media and online culture festival/meeting). The actual live radio broacast took place on October 17th between 6-7pm but, for those that missed it, here's the original submission, without any spoken comments.
Unfortunately, the exact tracklisting was never noted down (lame) and there's a couple of pieces that I can't identify anymore. Either way, this mix is bound to contain tracks by one or more of the following: Marching Dynamics, Hecq, Lucidstatic, Otto Von Schirach, Igorrr, Sickboy, Zeller, Faux Pride, Drumcorps, Glowstyx, Enduser, Le Diktat, Ten Data Keshin, Az-Rotator and a couple of others which I don't remember at the moment. If by any chance you think you can identify all the pieces in this mix, mail your tracklisting to info@connexionbizarre.net and we'll publish it if it is correct giving you credit (wow!).

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Reviews

Fhievel - Pipe Smoking on a Balloon
A variety of electronic drones, warm crackling noise and many other subtle electronic noises. "Pipe Smoking on a Balloon"album maintains a sense of calm and never strays into harshness or anything that doesn't make you feel like you're floating along with the clouds (perhaps in a balloon with a pipe in hand?). That's not to say it grows boring either though.
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Sunao Inami - Disinfectant
Japanese experimental artist and Electr-Ohm label head Sunao Inami releases "Disinfectant", his seventh album under his own name. The album is composed of tracks recorded live in Tokyo in May 2009 which have been cut up and remixed with the intention of to creating new material whilst maintaining the live feel inherent in the original tracks.
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Y.E.R.M.O. - Collision Zone
Once you've put this CD into your player, you may find that you can't stop listening to it again and again in order to fully appreciate all of its details and subtleties. And for that reason, it should better be played at high volume, on a high end stereo and with lights turned off.
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[syndika:zero] - Blindness
'True Industrial Freedom' is a term bandied about by this relatively new act on the scene to describe their contribution to industrial and harsh electro music. A loftier ideal, perhaps, than club popularity, but their latest release, "Blindness", is more likely to be remembered for the latter than the former.
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V/A - Whiteline Vol. III
Roughly once a year, the German label has released an installment of "Whiteline", their DJ-oriented 12" vinyl compilation series. Like its predecessors, "Whiteline Vol. III" features a selection of tracks by established acts and lesser-known or new and upcoming artists from several points in the world. This time around, Aentitainment presents tracks by Igorrr, Mobthrow, Ebola, Larvae and Hello.JPG.
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Links

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UMBkollektif

Net releases spotlight
Zahia "Zahia"

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Connexion Bizarre update 20091012

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:02:08 GMT

Connexion Bizarre was updated on October 12 th with new content (webcasts, links and a competition of sorts).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Dark Night of the Soul" with music selection by Machinochrist and "untitled migraine relief" with music selection by M.

As mentioned before, we have also set up a donations page. While Connexion Bizarre may be hosted for free and run by volunteers but it does have its costs (postal expenses come to mind). If you appreciate the work we are doing or find it useful in some manner, please consider a donation or perhaps a quick trip to our store.

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

Machinochrist giveaway

Something slightly different this time with Machinochrist presenting his webcast listeners with a challenge this time.
Detailed instructions are given in the webcast itself but, in a nutshell, download/listen to this set and mail competition@machinochrist.co.uk a list of all the tracks that you managed to recognize. The winner will get a one-of-a-kind CD-R edition of unreleased Machinochrist material in handmade packaging and original artwork.
Quite a treat if one knows his 2007 release "Escape From Woolwich Arsenal" which received a very positive review in Connexion Bizarre (review here).

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Dark Night of the Soul" with music selection by Machinochrist)
Something slightly different this time with Machinochrist presenting his listeners with a challenge this time.
Detailed instructions are given in the webcast itself but, in a nutshell, download/listen to this set and mail competition@machinochrist.co.uk a list of all the tracks that you managed to recognize. The winner will get a one-of-a-kind CD-R edition of unreleased Machinochrist material in handmade packaging and original artwork.
Quite a treat if one knows his 2007 release "Escape From Woolwich Arsenal" which received a very positive review in Connexion Bizarre (review here).

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("untitled migraine relief" with music selection by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Heal - Fille Extraordinaire
[Supernatural - Sound On Probation]
Solar Skeletons - Mr. Saler
[Necroethyl - Night On Earth]
Cullen Miller - untitled #3
[Stolen Nature - Two Circles]
Wentworth Kersey - Wealth
[(O) - Plastic Sound Supply]
TVO - The King In Yellow
[The Starry Wisdom - Highpoint Lowlife]
Scaffolding - Mass
[Narratives - Plastic Sound Supply]
Operateur Fotokopieur - Galactic Kiss
[Atomic Spaceship - Midinette]
Millipede - Diplopoda Crawl
[All My Best Intentions - Hymen Records]
Displacer - Never Compromise
[X Was Never Like This... - Tympanik Audio]
Hanna's Barber - Gumshoe
[The Former Planet Earth - Instant Action Object]
Error Response - The Arrival
[Zen - Elektrotribe]
Config.Sys & Contagious Orgasm - Sound As A Weapon
[Peacemakers Inc. - Invasion Wreck Chords]
Poordream - Sounds Of Consciousness
[Immaterial Monarch - Spectraliquid/33 Recordings]
Dead Voices On Air - Seachange
[Fast Falls The Eventide - Lens Records]

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Links

Recently added
Elektrotribe
Buried Electric Records
Heavy 7 Productions
Xiled Radio

Recommended
Craig Colorusso's Sun Box Installation @ Important Records
Trafigura and the Probo Koala (The Guardian) - what could be one of the worst eco-humanitarian disasters after Bhopal makes for interesting reading to see how far Trafigura went to try and cover-up the whole mess. Also links at Wikileaks (here and here and here), BBC, Spectator and a copy of the e-mail exchanges between Trafigura execs during the whole thing.
Our weakened parliament (The Guardian) - interesting fall-out from the Trafigura scandal
'There will be incredulity that the party of Churchill chooses allies like this' (David Milliband on David Cameron @ The Guardian)

For more information and the complete articles, check http://www.connexionbizarre.net/.

Connexion Bizarre update 20090928

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:32:05 GMT

Connexion Bizarre was updated on September 28th with new content. Content-wise, this is s very slow week due to other commitments in the past few days (the Swissport09 Afterparty events) with only the usual webcast and recommended links updates.

As mentioned before, we have also set up a donations page. While Connexion Bizarre may be hosted for free and run by volunteers but it does have its costs (postal expenses come to mind). If you appreciate the work we are doing or find it useful in some manner, please consider a donation or perhaps a quick trip to our store.

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Kate's Virgin (on the ridiculous!) Mix!" with music selection by MissyK8 and "Midnight Polyphony" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead

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

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Kate's Virgin (on the ridiculous!) Mix!" with music selection by MissyK8)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
The Prodigy - Baby's Got a Temper (Main Mix)
[Baby's Got A Temper CD Single - XL Recordings]
Chad Jackson - Hear The Drummer (Get Wicked)
[Hear The Drummer (Get Wicked) 12" Vinyl - ATCO Records]
Eero Johannes - Natt I Spårvagnen
[Eero Johannes - Planet Mu]
:papercutz - A Secret Search
[Lylac - Apegenine]
Scaffolding - Mass
[Narratives - Plastic Sound Supply]
Aphex Twin - IZ-US
[Come To Daddy Remixed - Warp Records]
Displacer - X Was Never Like This...
[X Was Never Like This - Tympanik Audio]
Sirius Mo - Wow
[Allthegirls - Exploited]
Grafton Primary - We Are The Music
[Eon - Resolution Music]
Frittenbude - Irgendwie lieb ich das
[Nachtigall - Audiolith]
Diego Bernal - Bring It Home (Mexicans With Guns Remix)
[Bring it Home EP - Exponential Music - Free Download at antipop.net]
Infadels - Sweet Dreams
[Website Freebie - Dead at Thirty Records]
Bit Shifter - Easy Prey
[Miwak Twelve - Hymen Records]
End - Pills To Make You Fun
[The Dangerous Class - Hymen Records]
Captain Ahab - I Can't Believe It's Not Booty (Radio Version)
[I Am Become Ass - CDR Release/Ass Holocaust Tour]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Midnight Polyphony" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Apparat - Not A Number
[Walls - Shitkatapult
The Subdivision- The Light
[Cinematic Dubstep Vol. 1 - DubKraft]
Lamb - Angelica
[Between Darkness And Wonder - Koch Records]
Emancipator - Anthem
[Soon It Will Be Cold Enough - Hyde Out Recordings]
Haujobb - Overflow
[Ninetynine - Metropolis Records]
Amon Tobin - Saboteur
[Supermodified - Ninjatune]
Forsaken - Into The Sunset (Red Sun Edit)
[Redvolume Catalogue pt. 1 - Red Volume]
2562 - Enforcers
[Aerial - Tectonic]
Radiohead - Idioteque
[Kid A - EMI]
Evil Nine - The Wait
[They Live! - Marine Parade]
Swayzak - Sob 1
[Dirty Dancing - Studio !K7]
Luomo - Love You All (Radio Edit)
[Love You All - Huume]
Clark - Springtime Epiphany
[Ted EP - Warp Records]

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Store

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Following a re-release of free "Mothers Against Noise" compilation, we decided to make some of the apparel available again using the original designs. Like before, all sales profits will be used to support initiatives related to experimental/noise/sound art.
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Comaduster "Slip Through"
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Various "Weezer - The 8-bit Album" (Pterodactyl Squad)

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Lifelounge Magazine
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Revisiting DIY HERF Guns (Slashdot)

For more information and the complete articles, check http://www.connexionbizarre.net/.

Connexion Bizarre update 20090921

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:59:02 GMT

Connexion Bizarre was updated on September 21st th with new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links).
We have also set up a donations page. While Connexion Bizarre may be hosted for free and run by volunteers but it does have its costs (postal expenses come to mind). If you appreciate the work we are doing or find it useful in some manner, please consider a donation or perhaps a quick trip to our store.
A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "September Chaos Sedated" with music selection by Invisible War and "Variance Of Descent" with music selection by M.
Reviews: Dead Voices on Air "Fast Falls the Eventide", Miel Noir "Der Honigflügel", Pål Asle Pettersen "Komposisjoner 2005-2008", Thunderwheel "Credo", Overdose Kunst "Was Ist Overdose Kunst?"

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

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Connexion Bizarre associated events

2009/09/16-27, Porto (PT) + 2009/10/01-04, Lausanne (CH)
On September 24th and 25th, Connexion Bizarre participates in the SWISSPORT'09 architecture workshop with a music and multimedia programme. Presenting a selection of Portuguese and Swiss electronic musicians, performers and DJs, this initiative takes place on two of Oporto's most relevant venues/clubs.
Thursday, 24/09 @ Breyner 85 (Porto, PT)
- Thermidor (PT, theatrical dieselpunk ambient performance)
- Operateur Fotokopieur (CH, spacey 8-bit electro)
Friday, 25/09 @ Plano B (Porto, PT)
- Stendeck (CH, IDM electronica & breakbeats)
- Freimatic (PT, techno/breaks/electro madness)
More information...

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("September Chaos Sedated" with music selection by Invisible War)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Cities Last Broadcast - Cella
[The Cancelled Earth - Cyclic Law]
Troum - Neheh
[Aiws - Transgredient Records]
Lacus Somniorum - Hinterland
[Tideshaper - Cyclic Law]
Funerary Call - On Locust Winds
[On The Brink Of Infinity - Chthonic Streams]
New Risen Throne - Sigh of the Soul
[Crossing the Withered Regions - Cold Meat Industry]
Eldar - New Gods
[Sapere Aude - Cold Meat Industry]
Navicon Torture Technologies - Mother Of All Crossroads
[Mind is a Prison - Annihilvs]
Der Blutharsch - The Pleasures Received In Pain VI
[The Pleasures Received In Pain - WKN]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Variance Of Descent" with music selection by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Urceus Exit - Drifting
[Compensation For The Sound Of Silence - Artoffact Records]
Client - Your Love Is Like Petrol
[Command - Out Of Line]
Marsheaux - Stand By
[Lumineux Noir - Out Of Line]
Dekad - This Aching Kiss
[V/A - Auto-Reverse - BOREDOMproduct]
Scarlet Soho - Modern Radio
[Warpaint - Major Records]
Roughhausen - Dirty Little Secret
[Somenone's Got To Pay - self-released]
Skullduggery - Relapse
[You Are Here. [Nowhere] - Trozoc]
End - LSD Made A Wreck Of Me
[The Dangerous Class - Hymen Records]
Sickboy - Don't Stop Now
[Time To Play - Ad Noiseam]
Dead Hollywood Stars - Back In Town
[V/A - Miwak Twelve - Hymen Records]
Autoclav1.1 - Tomorrow
[Where Once Were Exit Wounds - Tympanik Audio]
Opérateur Fotokopieur - What Are We Leaving Behind?
[Atomic Spaceship - Midinette Records]
Pine Tree State Mind Control - Redemption Song / Subtle Redemption
[Esquimaux - [walnut + locust]]

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Reviews

Dead Voices on Air - Fast Falls the Eventide
The eleventh full-length release from Mark Spybey, an album which is an odyssey of sounds that will evoke soothing and agitated responses. Spybey has mastered the fine art of experimental music by never teetering at the brink of chaos too long and drawing in the listener with classical elements heard through new ears. A treat for the loyal fan and an impressive range of genres for the newcomers that will not soon be forgotten.
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Miel Noir - Der Honigflügel
A dramatic, if not tragic, story is being told here - but you can always invent your own and the cinematic arrangement of the sound seems to invite this. Still, although this is a unique and intriguing work that's perfect for atmospheric late night listening, there's a sense that it could have gone further and transcended its sources more fully, rather than simply running through them.
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Pål Asle Pettersen - Komposisjoner 2005-2008
Although Pål Asle Pettersen's work is full of dramatic and even perverse shifts and transitions it implies a challenge to the way in which we increasingly form instant judgements on music. It can't easily be assimilated in a sitting and demands some attentive repeat listening in order to (try) and piece together what's actually happening.
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Thunderwheel - Credo
Overall fantastic, bizarre, uneasy, absurd, and tortured, some of which may reflect the environment in which it is produced. It's hard to tell how much of this is deliberately humorous or excessively kitsch or whether Gusis simply couldn't restrain himself from over-indulging. In any case, although this is interesting it doesn't match the finer moments of Agnivolok or Chaos As Shelter.
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Overdose Kunst - Was Ist Overdose Kunst?
In its own terms and for whatever target audience (if any) that it may have, this brief collection is probably a brilliant success, but its appeal will definitely be limited - this one is only for true connoisseurs of weirdness.
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Store

Mothers Against Noise apparel
Following a re-release of free "Mothers Against Noise" compilation, we decided to make some of the apparel available again using the original designs. Like before, all sales profits will be used to support initiatives related to experimental/noise/sound art.
Read more

Connexion Bizarre Pins
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090914

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:01:52 GMT

Connexion Bizarre was updated on September 14th with new content (reviews, webcasts and links).

We have also set up a donations page. While Connexion Bizarre may be hosted for free and run by volunteers but it does have its costs (postal expenses come to mind). If you appreciate the work we are doing or find it useful in some manner, please consider a donation or perhaps a quick trip to our store.

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "untitled" with music selection by DJ JanaDark and "Noxious Flu" with music selection by M.
Reviews: Juan Matos Capote "Jabal", End "The Dangerous Class", Skullduggery "You Are Here. [Nowhere]", Zonk't "Beat Wins You And Me", Empire State Human "Audio Gothic", V/A "The Clock Machine Turns You On: Volume 2", Mad Therapist "Alien Element", Parallel Worlds "Shade", Abraxas Projekt "Baraka-Visions", 15 Degrees Below Zero "Resting On A", Dessau "The Truth Hurts (1985-2000)", the M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab "Modern Expressing Machines of Revolutionary Youth"

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

Connexion Bizarre associated events

2009/09/16-27, Porto (PT) + 2009/10/01-04, Lausanne (CH)
On September 24th and 25th, Connexion Bizarre participates in the SWISSPORT'09 architecture workshop with a music and multimedia programme. Presenting a selection of Portuguese and Swiss electronic musicians, performers and DJs, this initiative takes place on two of Oporto's most relevant venues/clubs.
Thursday, 24/09 @ Breyner 85 (Porto, PT)
- Thermidor (PT, theatrical dieselpunk ambient performance)
- Operateur Fotokopieur (CH, spacey 8-bit electro)
Friday, 25/09 @ Plano B (Porto, PT)
- Stendeck (CH, IDM electronica & breakbeats)
- Freimatic (PT, techno/breaks/electro madness)
More information...

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("untitled" with music selection by DJ JanaDark)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Kirlian Camera - Easter 1980 (04:45)
[Various - Palace Of Worms - Palace Of Worms]
The well of sadness - Silence (04:52)
[I'm Uprooted From It - War Office Propaganda]
Clausthome - Radiophare III (06:20)
[Radiophare [ Lampe D'Ambiance] - Indiestate Distribution]
Rukkanor - Deora (05:14)
[Deora - War Office Propaganda]
Tribe of circle - Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (04:28)
[Children Of A Weakened God - Hau Ruck!]
S.Q.E - Narcotic (05:44)
[Rise Of The Vulcans - Old Europe Cafe]
Stahlwerk 9 - Ante Bellum Civile (04:28)
[Stahlwerk 9 / Cold Fusion (2) / Rukkanor - Triumvire - War Office Propaganda]
Sektion B - Oklahoma city (03:39)
[Power Is Nothing Without Control -Steinklang Industries]
Rome - Herbstzeitlose (03:36)
[Berlin - Cold Meat Industry]

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("Noxious Flu" with music selection by M.)
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Chrysalide - The Wall (Traumanoize Cover)
[V/A - Peacemakers, Inc. 2 - Invasion Wreck Chords]
Config.Sys - Widowmaker
[V/A - Peacemakers, Inc. 1 - Invasion Wreck Chords]
Skulldugery - Calamity
[You Are Here. [Nowhere] - Trozoc]
Individual Totem - Don't You Trust Me?
[Mumia Vera - Artoffact]
X Marks The Pedwalk - Arbitrary Execution
[Abattoir - Infacted]
Necrotek - Sense Of Decay
[Menschfeind - Vendetta Music]
Knifeladder - Fearsome Engine
[Music/Concrete - Cold Meat Industry]
.cut featuring Gibet - Bleached Bride (remix by AntiGl
[Bleached Bride - [walnut + locust]]
Zonk't - Ore
[Beat Wins You And Me - Sound On Probation]
Lingouf - St-Genie2
[Ange Et Gruikk - Ant-Zen]
Gerostenkorp - Transe Nocturne
[Terre Brul- OPN Production]

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Reviews

Juan Matos Capote - Jabal
Juan Matos Capote is a sound and visual artist who currently resides in Barcelona and whose impressive resume includes studying circuit-bending under Reed Ghazala.
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End - The Dangerous Class
Straight to the point with this one: this is the soundtrack to the reviewer's inevitable mental breakdown. Tthere is some weird music out there, but this is certainly some of the strangest in some time and with that it brings mental imagery that nothing else could possibly inspire... Rockabilly, Surf Music, Breakcore, Hunter S. Thompson, 1920's Flapper Girls and much, much more besides.
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Skullduggery - You Are Here. [Nowhere]
To do this album justice it's an album you don't need to be reading about, other than to be recommended it. It's not going to be for everyone, but it's really worth giving a try - you will either find it an engaging curiousity or a massively rewarding and challenging listen. The reviewier is in the latter camp, and more than a few listens in is still finding bits he missed.
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Zonk't - Beat Wins You And Me
Zonk't is only one of the many sides of a multifaceted artist who truly deserves to be discovered, for those who don't know him yet... And Zonk't may be the ideal first step to penetrate into his universe, because it remains pretty accessible for a listener who's not used to this kind of music yet, even if it often tends to fit into the experimental genre.
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Empire State Human - Audio Gothic
If a heavy new wave influence on modern electro with a more thoughtful approach to lyrics than is expected by the mainstream, coupled with a willingness to experiment with alternative instrumentation sounds like your idea of synthpop heaven, then Empire State Human is for you. And, if you are of a darker bent, paying attention to Empire State Human's lyrics may offer you some solace as well.
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V/A - The Clock Machine Turns You On: Volume 2
This varied collection offers up some great music from Smartyr, Killing Joke, Transit Kings, The Sun Paulo and Analogue Mindfield. It seems to have something for every listener, which is a good thing and a bad thing at the same time as this may draw in a listener to enjoy some new music or urge them to quickly hit eject.
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Mad Therapist - Alien Element
We are greeted by melodic, clean electronica that is infused with calming overtones. It is an ambitious, intricate album that places the emphasis firmly on composition rather than just assailing the listener with a barrage of beats. The result? Pleasantly atmospheric, cleverly constructed background music that fades in and out of your consciousness without leaving a mark.
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Parallel Worlds - Shade
A knowledgeable hand when it comes to analogue modular synthesizers, Sirros has developed a distinctive sound via his Parallel Worlds project, at once anachronistic and immutable. The album is full of pillowy and fluid sounds; hard edges are notably absent in this somnolent journey that relies upon atmospheric IDM and ambient.
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Abraxas Projekt - Baraka - Visions
The upshot of former songwriter Jerome Paressant's twofold interest in electronic music and contemporary jazz, Abraxas Projekt presents an uncomplicated fusion of both elements with its latest release, "Baraka - Visions". Like its namesake, the 1992 film by Ron Fricke, the album is a study in juxtapositions and motion.
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15 Degrees Below Zero - Resting On A
While not terribly familiar with 15 Degrees Below Zero and liking some of their previously released material, the same cannot be said of "Resting On A", unfortunately. To be honest, one is sort of at a loss as to why anyone would release this and it can be summed up quite quickly in one word: pointless.
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Dessau - The Truth Hurts (1985-2000)
The title is really quite appropriate, in some respects - one fails to understand exactly why this retrospective is necessary, and indeed, who is really going to be that interested other than treating this as a relic from the past. A long-forgotten band who were too similar to some of their much more successful and more creative contemporaries to warrant too much attention, and their best known work is a cover.
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the M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab - Modern Expressing Machines of Revolutionary Youth
It was initially difficult to know what to make of this, but when you dig into who is behind the band, you begin to expect much more. Marc Urselli is a three-time Grammy Award winner, and the other members have been involved in such extreme metal luminaries as Aborym. So really, they can surely do so much better than this.
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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. Pro-printed/duplicated CD-R copies are also available for purchase with all proceedings going directly to MSans Fronti
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Store

Mothers Against Noise apparel
Following a re-release of free "Mothers Against Noise" compilation, we decided to make some of the apparel available again using the original designs. Like before, all sales profits will be used to support initiatives related to experimental/noise/sound art.
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090907

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:39:03 GMT

We're back from our Summer vacation and Connexion Bizarre was updated on September 7th with quite a bit of new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links) and a couple of minor tweaks to the site layout.

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" with music selection by Machinochrist and "Yes, Virginia, we're back..." with music selection by M.
Interviews: Stefan Herwig of Dependent
Reviews: Alistair Crosbie "Music for Shipwrecks", Hyperbubble "Better Set Your Phasers to Stun", Mind Disruption "Fuck Yeah!", Poordream "Immaterial Monarch", Roto Visage + Worms Of The Earth "Celestial Malaise", Solar Skeletons "Necroethyl", Sturqen "Sturqen"

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

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Connexion Bizarre associated events

2009/09/16-27, Porto (PT) + 2009/10/01-04, Lausanne (CH)
On September 24th and 25th, Connexion Bizarre participates in the SWISSPORT'09 architecture workshop with a music and multimedia programme. Presenting a selection of Portuguese and Swiss electronic musicians, performers and DJs, this initiative takes place on two of Oporto's most relevant venues/clubs.
Thursday, 24/09 @ Breyner 85 (Porto, PT)
- Thermidor (PT, theatrical dieselpunk ambient performance)
- Operateur Fotokopieur (CH, spacey 8-bit electro)
Friday, 25/09 @ Plano B (Porto, PT)
- Stendeck (CH, IDM electronica & breakbeats)
- Freimatic (PT, techno/breaks/electro madness)
More information...

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Keep the Aspidistra Flying" with music selection by Machinochrist)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Jocelyn Pook - Masked Ball
[Eyes Wide Shut OST - Reprise]
No Man - Sweetside Silver Night
[Dry Cleaning Ray - 3rd Stone]
Astor Piazolla - Oblivion
[Oblivion - Personality Holland]
Blackfilm - Midnight to 4am
[Blackfilm - Spectraliquid]
The Gaslamp Killer - Turk Mex
[My Troubled Mind - Brainfeeder]
The Oscillation - Liquid Memoryman
[Out of Phase - DC Recordings]
Richie Crago - Wandering Black Holes
[A Psychedelic Guide to Monsterism Island - Lo Recordings]
Bloody Mary - Sinina
[Black Pearl - Contexterrior]
Bill Laswell - Hashish Poem
[Hashisheen - the End of Law - Sub Rosa]
El-P - Ghost Final Insturmental
[Collecting the Kid - Def Jux]
Chroma Key - Camera 4
[Dead Air for Radios - Fight Evil Records]
Kruder & Dorfmeister - Going Under
[K&D Sessions - G Stone Recordings]
Hecq - Howler
[Steeltongued - Hymen]
Brad Mehldau - Blame it on my Youth
[Eyes Wide Shut OST - Reprise]
Deaf Center - Ashes
[Vintage Well - Type]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Yes, Virginia, we're back..." with music selection by M.)
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Nonnon - Radio Texas, Big Beat
[The Entitlement Generation - Automation Records]
Hopen - Lemba Shire (feat. Phillipe Petit)
[The Shark's Wife - Automation Records]
Poordream - Immaterial Monarch (Mr. F Remix)
[Immaterial Monarch - Spectraliquid/33 Recordings]
Cullen Miller - untitled 5
[Stolen Nature - Two Circles Records]
dISHARMONY - Trilianum
[Evolution - Tympanik Audio]
[Haven] - Kuhairib
[Plastic - Tympanik Audio]
Autoclav1.1 - Do You Feel Disposable?
[Where Once Were Exit Wounds - Tympanik Audio]
Sickboy - Don't Stop Now
[Time To Play - Ad Noiseam]
Glowstyx - Bunny
[Class of 1992 - Cock Rock Disco]
the M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab - Mind Rape (Government's Business)
[Modern Expressing Machines Of Revolutionary Youth - D-trash Records]
Igorrr - Melting Nails
[V/A - Whiteline Vol.3 - Aentitainment]
Otto Von Schirach - Sliced Doves On Codeine
[Oozing Bass Spasms - Cock Rock Disco]

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Interviews

Stefan Herwig - Dependent
Although Dependent operates largely in the 'Electro-Industrial' genre, we have no desire to be pigeonholed as such, unlike most of the bands in the 'scene'. With our unique label concept we hope to escape the ghettoization associated with dance or metal and to establish this style of music firmly in the mainstream.
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Reviews

Alistair Crosbie - Music For Shipwrecks
It's nice to hear someone again just hitting it ambient music from a different angle. This release would most likely have a lot in common with a lot of the Nautilus releases thematically, and I am pretty much sure a lot of fans of The [Law-Rah] Collective wouldn't feel caught short of change if they dipped into their pockets for this one either.
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Roto Visage / Worms of the Earth - Celestial Malaise
This experimental collaboration between two exceptional artists, Roto Visage and Worms of the Earth, is a journey in sound - it blends and experiments with the genres of glitch, drone, ambient and noise to produce an epic experience for the willing ear and devoted fan.
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Poordream - Immaterial Monarch
This album is a taste of what Poordream is capable of and, all in all, a decent collection of remixes. "Immaterial Monarch" is a foreshadowing of treats to come and I look forward to hearing the next release from this talented artist.
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Solar Skeletons - Necroethyl
"Early Cabaret Voltaire gone blues!" If you like really old industrial music and you like blues, or if you just want to hear something unusual the likes of which you've never heard before, give Solar Skeletons a try.
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Hyperbubble - Better Set Your Phasers to Stun
"Better Set Your Phasers to Sun" sounds like the intro music for a sci-fi themed kids' cartoon where nothing bad ever happens. If you like light-hearted synthpop and are of a generally light-hearted disposition, then don't listen to a grumpy old bastard's opinion and go have a listen to some sweet, sugary sounds.
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Sturqen - Sturqen
Sometimes it feels like 'Sturqen' has been jamming away, furiously twisting knobs of various angry synths and cutting out the best bits for us to enjoy. At times the tracks seem to be overtaken by waves of nasty feedback. This does intensify the listening experience, but it also makes it hard to sit through the album in one go.
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Mind Disruption - Fuck Yeah!
A few of the songs on this album seem to teeter on the brink of train wreck while others successfully get your foot tapping. "Fuck Yeah!" is sure to go over well with fans of the genre but the chaotic delivery and loose rhythms may leave new listeners wanting more.
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Store

Mothers Against Noise apparel
Following a re-release of free "Mothers Against Noise" compilation, we decided to make some of the apparel available again using the original designs. Like before, all sales profits will be used to support initiatives related to experimental/noise/sound art.
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Links

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Nuclear O'Reilly "Phoning It In"
Phelios & False Mirror "Entropy Reversed" (Audiophob)
Les Poissons Autistes "Mal Foutu" (Midinette Records)
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Zero Degree "Aufbruch" (Audiophob)
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Copy©unts
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Remember the "Mothers Against Noise"...?

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:54:15 GMT

Figured I could bring a few things back from retirement:

All available here

Under consideration:

Obscene prices courtesy of print-on-demand services not being cheap.
Also, Printfection does not offer black hoodies. Caffepress does but it would seem their printing isn't as good as that of Printfection. So I'm playing with these in white unless someone convinces me that grey is an acceptable option.

Connexion Bizarre update 20090803

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:26:57 GMT

Connexion Bizarre was updated on August 3rd with new content (new reviews, webcasts, interview and links). Also, this will be the only Connexion Bizarre update during the month of August as we'll be taking our yearly one-month vacation/break. We'll resume regular updating in the first week of September but should be sending a couple of event-related mailings in the meantime.

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "An evening by the beach" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead, "The Heart of Organic Fissures" with music selection by James Hotate and "BBL KTHXBAI!" with music selection by M.
Reviews: Hecq "Steeltongued", T/M/K "Need the Needle", Fujako "Landform", Hyios "Consuetudines", Pandora's Black Book "Black Brothel", Tapage "Fallen Clouds", Tyske Ludder "Anonymous", Black Lung "Full Spectrum Dominance", Horchata "Acytota", LAN Formatique "The Sadness of Distances", Accomplice Affair "Samotny Horyzont", Exocet "Grotesque Consumer", Hyperdriver "Naked Aggression", Sleepchamber "Sorcery, Spells and Serpent Charms", Violet "Violet Ray Gas and the Playback Singers"

Best regards & until next month,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)

Connexion Bizarre associated events

Swissport'09
2009/09/16-27, Porto (PT) + 2009/10/01-04, Lausanne (CH)
The music programme of this multidisciplinary event will include live performances by Thermidor (PT), Stendeck (CH), Freimatic Twins (PT) + other TBA.
Swissport'09

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

Connexion Bizarre associated events

Swissport'09
2009/09/16-27, Porto (PT) + 2009/10/01-04, Lausanne (CH)
The music programme of this multidisciplinary event will include live performances by Thermidor (PT), Stendeck (CH), Freimatic Twins (PT) + other TBA.
Swissport'09

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

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("An evening by the beach" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Beefcake - Moondrops
[Drei - Ant ZenRaoul Sinier- Huge Samurai Radish
[Brain Kitchen - Ad Noiseam]
Pivot - Epsilon
[O Soundtrack My Heart - Warp Records]
Bill Laswell - ER
[Broken Vessels - Koch International]
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Pearls Before Swine
[The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Planet Mu]
Subheim - Howl
[Approach - Tympanik Audio]
Apparat - Limelight
[Walls - Shitkatapult]
Boxcutter - Tauhid
[Oneiric - Planet Mu]
iTAL tEK - Blood Line
[Blood Line - Planet Mu]
Various Production - Today
[The World Is Gone - XL Recordings]
Thom Yorke - Skip Divided (Modeselektor Remix)
[The Eraser Remix EP #3 - XL Recordings]
Burial - Ghost Hardware
[Untrue - Hyberdub]
Trifonic - Good Enough
[Emergence - Trifonic Music LLC]
Late- Saw, Sine, Square
[Watch The Ride - Harmless]
Proem - When Frailty Fails
[Socially Inept - Merck]
Talvekoidik - Silent Reflections
[Silent Reflections - Brume Records]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("The Heart of Organic Fissures" with music selection by James Hotate)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Arcana - Abkrat (5:02)
[Raspail - Kalinkaland]
The Sisters of Mercy - Anaconda (4:07)
[Anaconda / Phantom - Merciful Release]
Clan of Xymox - 7th Time (4:40)
[Clan of Xymox - 4AD]
Genevieve Pasquier - Remember (5:28)
[Soap Bubble Factory - Ant-Zen]
Kirlian Camera - The Burning Sea (Original Re-Mix) (4:52)
[The Burning Sea - Triton]
Daybehavior - Carousel (4:47)
[Adored - North Of No South Records]
Peter Murphy - Deep Ocean Vast Sea (4:09)
[Wild Birds 1985-1995 - Beggars Banquet]
Lydia Lunch - Honeymoon In Red (4:54)
[Come Fall - Torso]
Crocodiles - Flash Of Light (5:07)
[Summer Of Hate - Fat Possum Records]
Kasabian - Underdog (4:38)
[West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - Columbia]
Bloc Party - Ares (3:30)
[Intimacy - Wichita]
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Me + Yr Daughter (4:09)
[Glistening Pleasure - Team Swan Records]
Lush - Lovelife (3:56)
[Split - 4AD]

Part 3 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("BBL KTHXBAI!" with music selection by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Andrew King - The Good Luck Ship
[Thalassocracy - Epiphany]
Tzii - I Killed Her (rmx by Brandtalk)
[Rotten Friendship - V-Attak]
John Zorn - Witchfinder
[The Crucible - Tzadik]
Necrotek - Back To The Grave (Terror Punk Syndicate Remix)
[Menschenfeind - Vendetta Music]
Exocet - Narcoholica
[Grotesque Consumer - Ant-Zen]
Ad•ver•sary - Waiting for Gira (patience is a virtue perceived remix by ESA)
[A Bright Cut Accross Velvet Sky - Tympanik Audio]
Defrag - The Old Growth
[V/A - Miwak 12 - Hymen Records]
Synth-Etik - Where My Dreams Live
[Waiting For The Rapture - Hands Productions]
Tokee - Bk
[Plus - Dope Records]
Urceus Exit - The Worst That We've Become
[The Worst That We've Become - ArtoffactRecords]
IAMX - Night Life (People Theatre's Trip to Berlin Mix
[V/A - Orbital Electro - Major Records]
Calluloide - Dive
[V/A - Auto-Reverse - BOREDOMproduct]
Lowfish - Wreckage
[V/A - Miwak 12 - Hymen Records]

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Reviews

Hecq - Steeltongued
"Steeltongued" is one hell of a release. Hecq has earned himself a place amongst the ranks of Autechre, Squarepusher and Boards of Canada, both in terms of ingenuity and songwriting skill.
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T/M/K - Need the Needle
For a first contact with the music world of T/M/K (as Textbook of Modern Karate), this was a very unexpected and rather pleasant surprise. "Need the Needle" is one of those releases that in addition to sounding genuine are bound to have some sort of mainstream appeal as well. Easily one of the standout albums of 2009 and a project to keep an eye out for in the future.
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Tapage - Fallen Clouds
No time is wasted, resulting in an absorbing listen that demands - and gets - your attention for the whole time. Not an album to buy for calming background music, as while on the surface it sounds like it would be, it is nothing of the sort. Instead it is worth investing hours in listening to this a few times to begin to reveal the delights contained within, as it certainly won't work its full magic the first time around.
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Fujako - Landform
Together, producers Jonathan Uliel Saldanha (a.k.a. HHY) and Nyko Esterle (a.k.a. Ripit), having purportedly sequestered themselves in a mountain studio in Portugal, engendered an unforgettable exegesis of post-hip hop norms (if such exist) and pushed the envelope for this genre with startling ferocity. "Landform" won't disappoint.
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Hyios - Consuetudines
Once again, here rises a promising newcomer in the dark ambient/drone scene. With "Consuetudines", his debut album recently released on the US label Malignant Records, this artist from Leipzig, Germany, proves that Hyios is a name worth remembering.
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Pandora's Black Book - Black Brothel
Unmistakably urban, "Black Brothel" is an album with a story to tell, a story which takes place between dimly-lit, smoke-filled basements, littered with the remains of cigarette ash and last week's spilled whiskey, and the dark corners of a delirious mind plagued by creeping paranoia. It is the aural equivalent of a post-modern noir thriller.
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Tyske Ludder - Anonymous
While the "SCIENTific technOLOGY" EP was undeniably political in nature, "Anonymous" seems likely to tread on less toes - especially in non-German-speaking countries, where the majority of people won't have the faintest clue of what they're singing about... In all, it's a far more accessible album, and one that will undoubtedly garner further well-deserved recognition for Tyske Ludder.
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Black Lung - Full Spectrum Dominance
Perhaps what's most refreshing about Black Lung is Thrussell's lack of interest in following musical trends. He has always set his own agenda without any regard for what's zeitgeisty in the wider world of electronica, and that, along with the jaw-dropping clarity of production, gives Black Lung a certain timelessness.
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Horchata - Acytota
A sixty minute powerhouse fashioned from juxtaposed synthetic and organic sounds that don't fall prey to the clichés commonly associated with field recording. Horchata might not be the easiest flavor for your aural palate to digest, yet it's precisely what differentiates it from the artists that suffer from terminal blandness.
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LAN Formatique - The Sadness of Distances
Definitely not the music for the impatient, but for those who see themselves on a journey after a magic stone that will save the civilisation from the creatures that hunt them day and night, desiring their souls. A word could describe the whole of this album: epic.
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Accomplice Affair - Samotny Horyzont
If you are into ambient textures, nice and lightweight sounds that could actually lift you from the ground if you get into it for too long, then it's great stuff. My suggestion is to turn on the Discovery channel and watch the fish swim through the sea, sit back, put Accomplice Affair on the headphones and enjoy total bliss as it drives your mind into the ocean.
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Exocet - Grotesque Consumer
In terms of genre, Exocet operates a subtle blend between rhythmic industrial/power noise and electronica. One could say this has been done many times before by other acts in this scene, but Exocet can be said to really have a trademark sound of its own.
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Hyperdriver - Naked Aggression
In spite of the angry, unapproachable name of the album, there is nothing here that doesn't cause a minor fit of the giggles. More often than not, it's a case of you going, "What the hell am I listening to?", but it's all entertainment in the purest sense, distracting you momentarily from the drab mediocrity of everyday existence.
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Sleepchamber - Sorcery, Spells and Serpent Charms
Where the music is left to find its own way, to focus on the disorientating swirl of layered sounds that radiate and evolve out of each other, Zewizz's weird but intriguing music style comes into its own. Remove the loops and his music is as dark, ritualistic and unnerving as it comes.
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Violet - Violet Ray Gas and the Playback Singers
Utilizing the requisite field recordings, found sounds, CD/tape/vinyl manipulations, etc., Violet presents listeners with an album both disquieting in its peacefulness and jarring in its white noise banality. It is not so much mentally invasive as vaguely irritating, lacking the essential cohesion necessary in an experimental/drone record and likely far more interesting in terms of creative process than actual listenability.
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090727

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:09:21 GMT

Connexion Bizarre was updated on July 27th with new content (reviews, webcasts and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "A Mild Taste of Disdain" with music selection by DJ Intoner and "From Greater Purpose to Mundane Sleaze" with music selection by M.
Reviews: IP Neva "Symbiosis of Contradictions", Laurent Chambert "Eurêka", For Greater Good "For Greater Good"

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

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Swissport'09
2009/09/16-27, Porto (PT) + 2009/10/01-04, Lausanne (CH)
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Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("A Mild Taste of Disdain" with music selection by DJ Intoner)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Proposition #1 / #3 (00:00)
[The Proposition (Original Soundtrack) - Mute Records
Kraddy - Little Girl Prodigy (05:11)
[V/A - Clipping Paths - Muti Music]
DNN - Try To Feel (07:48)
[Try To Feel - Halbsicht Records]
Amon Tobin - Kitchen Sink (Boxcutter Remix) (11:00)
[Kitchen Sink Remixes - Ninja Tune]
Marching Dynamics - Tapping Intelligent Nature (12:57)
[Nailsleeper - Hymen Records]
Horchata - Somatic (14:10)
[Basidia - Ad Noiseam]
Larvae - Mecha (16:56)
[Monster Music - Ad Noiseam]
Blackfilm - Midnight To 4am (18:00)
[Blackfilm - Spectraliquid]
Zentriert Ins Antlitz - Silence Diary (Access to Arasaka Remix) (20:56)
[...No - Tympanik Audio]
Subheim - Away (23:35)
[Approach - Tympanik Audio]
Adjacency Pair - Dageyh (27:37)
[Adjacency Pair - Hands Productions]
Pan Sonic - Virta 1. / Current 1. (28:53)
[Katodivaihe / Cathodephase - Blast First Petite]
Quench - Caipruss (32:08)
[Caipruss - n5MD]
Subheim - Hollow (Remix By Mobthrow) (34:13)
[Approach - Tympanik Audio]
Haujobb - Overflow (Red Sparrow Remix) (39:01)
[Ninetynine Remixes - Metropolis Records]
Tapage - Much Like A Dream (40:33)
[The Institute Of Random Events - Tympanik Audio]
DNN - 37 Degrees (Atmogat Remix) (42:00)
[Try To Feel - Halbsicht Records]
Android Lust - Burn (47:45)
[The Dividing - Projekt]
Ahnst Anders - Disqualification (48:32)
[Dialog - Pflichtkauf]
Hecq - 0003 (49:15)
[0000 - Hymen Records]
Integral - Digital Drops (50:10)
[Rise - Tympanik Audio]
Barry Lynn - LTI (53:57)
[Balancing Lakes - Planet Mu ]
Evol Intent - Gunpowder Plot (55:13)
[Era Of Diversion - Evol Intent Recordings]
iTAL tEK - Red Sky (56:43)
[cYCLiCAL - Planet Mu]

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("From Greater Purpose to Mundane Sleaze" with music selection by M.)
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Black Lung - The Great Unconscious
[Full Spectrum Dominance - Ant-Zen/Tympanik Audio]
IP Neva - U-boat performance
[Symbiosis Of Contradictions - Impulsive Art]
Exocet - The Line Is Profit
[Grotesque Consumer - Ant-Zen]
It-clings - What is the moment of truth (demo yelling version)
[Fuck It All - Bugs Crawling Out Of People]
15 Degrees Below Zero - 2.19.2
[Resting on A - Edgetone Records]
RMSonce - Sky, stars and a woman with a battery
[Reflections - Medusa Music]
Le Moderniste vs Flutwacht - La Fin des Temps Modernes
[Koalition 04 - Les Forces Alliées]
Angina P - Geisteskind
[Sensitive Files - Hands Productions]
Pandora's Black Book - Handless
[Black Brothel - Tympanik Audio]
End - Jailbait Rock
[V/A - Miwak 12 - Hymen Records]
My life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Death Threat
[Death Threat - Rustblade]

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Reviews

IP Neva - Symbiosis of Contradictions
Without a doubt, "Symbiosis of Contradictions" is a superb release and, if one is to judge from it, Ivan Prokurin is an artist definitely worth looking out for in the future (whether as IP Neva or by any other alias). Also, as a first release for the young Greek label Impulsive Art, this album raises the bar pretty high for upcoming releases.
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Laurent Chambert - Eurêka
I really liked listening to "Eurêka", from beginning to end. It somehow captivated me, because it was so nicely mixed and has a fluid sequence that actually proves the artist's ability to manipulate ambient drones, textures, some little beats and some percussion elements layered with nice, chilled synths, as well as proves his ability to vary sounds.
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For Greater Good - For Greater Good
It is clear a lot of effort has been put into this album, and as a result it contains many accomplished and enjoyable pieces of music. But over the full album, For Greater Good appear to cover slightly too many bases, sounding like two or three related projects, and at times certain unsuccessful experiments seem to bring quality levels down slightly.
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090720

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:19:44 GMT

Connexion Bizarre was updated on July 20th with new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Culdesac, Idaho" with music selection by Bauke van der Wal of the [Law-Rah] Collective and "Scattered Return" with music selection by M.
Interviews: Peter Vanek, David Holmes of Summer Rain Recordings, Dean Dennis & Snook of Kibuka & Nohno (part 2)
Reviews: Psychic Space Invasion "Transmission"

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Noxious Arts III
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Webcast & Radio Show

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Tuxedomoon - No Tears (05:43)
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[Music For The Jilted Generation - PiaS / XL Recordings]
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[Dirtdish - K.422]
Catholic Boys In Heavy Leather - Daddy Cruel (04:47)
[Maschinenfest 2002 - Pflichtkauf]
This Morn' Omina - One Eyed Man (05:32)
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Converter/Asche/Morgenstern - Monster (04:42)
[Erode - Ant-Zen]
Brighter Death Now - No Pain (04:42)
[Innerwar - Relapse/Release]
Deathpile - Shit Pig (04:50)
[Final Confession - Pain Compliance Productions]

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pndc & housework - 30000 feet (remix by Laurent_)
[secondhand language - Ammonite]
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Lone Road
[Death Threat - Rustblade]
Zno vs. Zno - re gliffed surhuman strength
[Agressivsouls - External World]
Ad•ver•sary - Friends Of Father (Oil Sands Remix by Monoculture)
[A Bright Cut Accross Velvet Sky - Tympanik Audio]
The Bipolar Canibal vs. La Verge - Fast Food Fuck
[Koalition 03 - Les Forces Alliées]
Ybrid - Yborg Act III
[Per Inania Regna - Ark-Aïk]
Synth-Etik - 05212011
[Waiting for the Rapture - Hands Productions]
Bureau of Nonstandards - Musee Mechanique
[Bureau of Nonstandards - self-released]

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Interviews

Swaying In Thisbelief - an interview with Peter Vanek
Peter Vanek (or Peter Van Ewijk to his friends) is a man of many guises. Many may already be aware of Kilowatts & Vanek, his joint project with Jamie Watts, but there's a whole lot more to this man ranging from his own solo material to Dutch cabaret through to a Mediterranean influenced new music project
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Summer Rain Recordings - an interview with David Holmes
Summer Rain Recordings, established in the summer of 2007, is a record label with a difference. Every artist signed to the label donates a minimum of 5% of their royalties for every release to NextAid, or a charity of their choice, and we match their percentage donation from the label profits from the release.
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Kibuka / Nohno - an interview with Dean Dennis & Jose Snook (part 2)
Kibuka is a new project from Dean Dennis & collaborator Snook. Dean is known for his work with Clock DVA, TAGC, Sector & most recently Nohno. Kibuka provides an outlet for the more beat driven and anti-social side of the artists' personalities and stylistically it draws upon Dennis' earlier work with Clock DVA and early Sector.
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Reviews

Psychic Space Invasion - Transitions
It's hard indeed to describe, or review, what would be termed 'dark ambient' in its purest form such as this. It ebbs, it ebbs some more, and doesn't really flow anywhere except at a glacial pace. It starts out inaudibly, takes nearly two minutes to be heard... But then, when you have forty-one minutes for the single track, why rush things?
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090706

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:42:21 GMT

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"

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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]

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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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Connexion Bizarre update 20090622

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:27:18 GMT

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
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("untitled" with music selection by JanaDark)
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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]

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("Green Week 24/7" with music selection by M.)
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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.
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090615

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:07:45 GMT

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)
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[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)
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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.
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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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Connexion Bizarre update 20090608

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:39:13 GMT

Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Sedated Chaos" with music selection by Invisible War)
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[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]

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("Zen and the Art of Microwave Cooking" with music selection by M.)
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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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Josie Gallows "Guilty Sunrise"
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090525

Mon, 25 May 2009 23:59:11 GMT

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)
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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.)
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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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Eminem vs. the Punisher (Marvel Comics Online)
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090518

Mon, 18 May 2009 12:45:43 GMT

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)
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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)
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[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.
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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

Mon, 11 May 2009 23:12:57 GMT

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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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

Mon, 04 May 2009 21:40:40 GMT

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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The Hunt For Gollum
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090420

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:12:52 GMT

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)
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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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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

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:43:56 GMT

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

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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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Graphic artists condemn plans to ban erotic comics (Guardian)
The Human Rights Act can't restrain the government (Guardian)
New campaign to urge Londoners to report suspicious activity - closer and closer to turning the U.K. into the new East Germany... (Metropolitan Police Service)
"I am NOT infected"

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Connexion Bizarre update 20090223

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:49:39 GMT

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)
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[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
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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

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:23:34 GMT

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

Interviews

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

Metaform - Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants
While five years in the making, "Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants" arrives as a soulful and decidedly charming journey across decades of musical innovation that defines the true essence of a great electronic record. Admittedly this is one of the coolest albums to have been released in quite some time. Fans of DJ Shadow, RJD2, U.N.K.L.E., and even Four Tet are sure to fall in love with this release.
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ESA - The & The Silence
Decidedly an intense release, "The Sea & The Silence" isn't an easy ride, but it is immensely satisfying and entertaining, and perhaps it will give rhythmic noise the shake-up it desperately needs. One can only look forward to seeing what ESA comes up with next.
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Zero Degree - The Inner Realm
"The Inner Realm" is an well rendered and mesmerizing release that should be able to bridge the gap between a number of electronic music styles and draw in fans because of its excellence rather than its strict adherence to any narrow categorization.
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Heft vs. Scaffolding - We Will Diminish
Both artists are faultlessly professional, and the label deserves credit for putting two very leftfield tracks on the same release as two much more conventional slices of DJ fodder. And then giving it away for free...
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Phragments - Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood
As a well-refined performance of Phragments' trademark musical styles, based for the most part in sombre dark ambient building to more bombastic martial classical passages with forceful industrial touches, "Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood" is arguably one of the best ways to capture an effective sense of the immense tragedy that is genocide.
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Cacheflowe - Cache, Stacks & Queues EP
Hailing from Colorado, via the Plastic Sound Supply label, CacheFlow makes hip-hop-tinged dubstep, avoiding the dirtier fringes of that
genre in favour of more rounded analogue-style sounds and futuristic IDM glitch-beats.
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Hansel - Reshaping Linear Formulai
Hansel show some very real promise here, there are some fantastic tracks available here, but I'd like to see them focus on their more digital hardcore sound, rather than try and mix it up with their slightly more restrained fare. It's enough of a taster to make me want to go check out their other stuff though, and that's good enough for me.
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MMMF - In The Lab
MMMF characterizes itself as "never boring or foreseeable", and its musical methodology is something of an electronic melting pot, filled with sharp layering. If their music may be described as a bit conventional and whimsical, it's because "In the Lab" seems to be just that - superficially simple tracks with titles to match.
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Combichrist - Today We Are All Demons
The fourth full-length from prolific producer Andy LaPlegua's electro-industrial incarnation, Combichrist, is nothing like what it could be. If it were a beverage, it would be Combichrist Lite - half the sleaze, none of the conviction.
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Connexion Bizarre update 20090209

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:08:41 GMT

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 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.
Price: 6.00 Euro (worldwide shipping included)
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