LP : Shapes Have Fangs - Dinner In The Dark (2011)

Finally Austin's Shapes Have Fangs stunning 2011 garage rock banger debut "Dinner In The Dark" is to stream in totally, enjoy cause this is a real treat and was one of my favorite albums on the year !!

Listen | Shapes Have Fangs - Dinner In The Dark

LP: Troller - Troller 2011 (S/R)

Every year there are a couple of albums that i think how the f*ck did i miss that last year ? The first one this year is Troller, a dark synth-wave duo from Austin TX where is also from another band that fits this sound Sleep 8 Over.
There is not a lot of info about the band or the release but i can assure you that you're into the dark synth music you will go wild with this one, there are a few instrumental tracks but all the others are sweet sweet sweet ... Troller S/T is highly recommended and a must for Tropic of Cancer, HTRK, Sleep 8 Over and Cocteau Twin fans ... etc ...

Freemote Festival 07-11 December Utrecht Holland

FREEMOTE 11 : Threshold edition

Electronic Arts & Co-Creation Festival
December 07 until December 11 : Utrecht (Holland)

At the heart of the Netherlands, Utrecht is known to be a vibrating student city with a wide range of cultural events and in the forefront of the cool festivals like TodaysArt, Le Guess Who and Freemote.

The 11th edition of Freemote offers a dynamic contemporaneous interactive experience in-between new media artists that will collaborate in installations, performances, exhibitions, screenings, AV performances that takes places in a former railway warehouse transformed into a digital playground. Video mapping, data visualization and electronics master-classes will be available, many acts like Knalpot, Individualism, Bitbasic (UK) Einóma (IS), Daniel Zuur, Krampfhaft, Tarik Barri and Julien Mier plus some of the best vj's in Europe that will show their newest works.

Watch | Freemote 2011 Teaser
Watch | Julien Mier & Daan Kars - Passenger

The Kingdom of Survival Documentary

"The Kingdom of Survival is an interdisciplinary documentary combining speculative travelogue and investigative journalism in order to trace possible links between survivalism, spirituality, art, radical politics, outlaw culture, alternative media and fringe philosophy."

Watch | The Kingdom of Survival

The Kingdom of Survival will be screened in Amsterdam during the 24th International Documentary Film Festival, check here for more info dates and venues

Rewire Festival Den Haag 05 November Review

A few weeks back when i heard about the Rewire Festival and knew that the French Born Belgium based composers Sylvain Chauveau was going to be present i knew i had to go, im such a big fan of his piano based works and was with so much expectations on the start of the evening.

Unfortunately there was no piano and was more a experimental drone with field recording micro sounds with some vocals, quite electro-acoustic orientated, the room and so still and so dark that had this filling that we were in some sort of sci-fi suspense triller and all the sounds and noises like door opening, people whispering, glass falling, chairs noises, ghostly shadows actually sounded orchestrated with was going on the stage.

You can imagine, one think is to listen home in your hi-fi set up and really grasp and enjoy Sylvain music the way it should be but generally was a very good experience and even if Sylvain was a bit upset with the loud reverbs and feed back during the concert i think is not reason enough to stop with the live performances because after all his work is in such high demand although he stooped playing piano.



The second concert was by Machinefabriek & Peter Broderick or machines vs man and it was the first attempt to interpret live their 2009 album collaboration "Blank Grey Canvas Sky". During the sound check it sounded awkward and they decided to move to a 100% improvisation piece and im very glad they did, it was so overwhelming to actually see and understand the structure of their creative process, while Rotterdam's Rutger Zuydervelt or Machinefabriek arsenal of dense and sonic noises the American multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick was creating all sorts of layered melodies with the violin, guitar, piano, being a human beat box and even more awesome using a saw to create sounds like it was a violin, even more impressive were Peter body movements during the improvisation that gave the impression that he was part of the music itself, so much dedication and passion to make and take all the most beautiful sounds and then building them together layer by layer, just stunning.



For Nils Frahm & Anne Müller the room was packed and i must say that it was wonderful to see so much interest on the modern classical genre.
They played two separated pieces that sounded quite improvised but actually they have some melodies from their 2010 album 7 fingers and them from there they continue because on Anne Müller words "Nils always needs a lot of space to improvisation".
I was sitting in the back and couldn't see anything but was lucky enough to have spotted a side show on the right side wall, the shadows of Nils and Anna moving to the incredible gorgeous music that was coming out of their instruments. Nils what a stage magnetism and the way they combined from moments of pure minimal Piano/Cello glorious ambients to absolute ragging battle in a complete controlled hysteria, UAU.
After the first piece was over the room simply erupted on applause and an emotional Peter Broderick jumped on stage to congratulate them, that was so beautiful. Nils Frahm & Anne Müller was probably my favorite ever Piano/Cello concert and not only they are exceptional musicians but also super cool, happy and charming persons as well.

After the concert i ask them for a few minutes to take a picture and we talked a bit about Nils new album, "Felt" is out on Erased Tapes and Nils couldn't be more satisfied with the reviews, Anne is also very busy with various projects and collecting sounds and ideas for her debut lp



After the Modern Classical came the dark electronics commonly known as "Drag" or "Witch House". The program started with Manchester's Holy Other that i knew from name but not his music. An apocalyptic vision of muncks murmurs, dense bass and post-dubstep beats were the predominant of his performance but not much could be expected from a guy hiding is face with a black cloth probably pretending to be death itself.



oOoOO probably one of the most strange names you'll ever come across but despite that little detail San Francisco based Chris Dexter Greenspan is on the front row of the "Witch-House" scene and his a regular on my playlists , last night appeared with a backing singer that gave a R&B touch and his performance becomes altogether more charming than the lone ranger behind the laptop, his music moves inside a darker hip hop party in a industrial area and its steamy, hot and sexy, well done !!!!


Thank you very much to the Rewire Festival for including Audiopleasures in the press list and success with preparing the 2012 edition.

Rewire Festival for Contemporary Culture 4 and 5 November The Hague Netherlands

The city of Den Haag (The Hague) in the Netherlands welcomes the first edition of Rewire Festival that will place around the city unconventional locations like the former office building, a church and parts of the old power plant that reflects the spirit of the festival. With a excellent combination of contemporary art events like Abstract-Cinema, Audiovisuals, Installations, Exhibitions and a wide range of cutting-edge music selection like Dirty Beaches, Sylvain Chauveau, Nils Frahm & Anne Müller, oOoOO, Washed Out, Plaid, Holy Other, Machinefabriek & Peter Broderick, Tropics, Dorian Concept and Vondelpark only to name a few.

For more information please visit Rewire Festival

Hozac 2011 Fall Sampler

Fantastic 2011 Fall sampler from the Garage/Surf/Trash/Punk label from Chicago, Hozac.

Fall 2011 by HOZAC RECORDS

The Sonics @ Speedfest 6 10 December Eindhoven

The legendary 60s American garage rock and punk forefathers will play in the 6th edition of Speedfest in Eindhoven.

Listen | The Sonics - Dirty Robber
Watch | The Sonics - Psycho (Live on KEXP)

Speedfest presents an electrifying line up now even more brilliant with the inclusion from The Sonics with Monster Magnet, The Dwarves, Fireballs, The Reverend Horton Heat, The Phantom Rockers, Black-Bone, Black Spiders, Danko Jones, Pentagram, Hookers, Gewapend Beton, Vanderbuyst and the hosts Peter Pan Speedrock.

Fur Gobelins 2011

Graduation short from highly reputed French school of animation.

Watch | Fur Gobelins 2011

Post Panic 2011 Showreel

Another batch of awesome motion creativity by the Amsterdam studio Post Panic

Watch | Post Panic 2011 Showreel

World Press Photo 2011 Amsterdam

The 2011 World Press Photo Exhibition as opened its doors in Amsterdam at the Oude Kerk on 22 April and this year edition will stay untill 19 June.

"Among the works on display is the haunting image of the Afghan woman, Bibi Aisha. Depicting both the struggles of women in the Middle East region as well as highlighting the strength of their endurance, the photo earned top prize.

“Part of what the World Press Photo contest does is take pictures to a wider audience, an audience that is going to ask why,” said Aidan Sullivan, one of the 19 picture editors, curators and photographers that judged the contest’s thousands of submissions in an interview with Time Out Amsterdam.

“What on earth? What’s going on? What has happened? For me, this was the picture that asked the most important questions.”

South African photographer, Jodi Beiber shot the image as part of a Time magazine spread on Afghan women. she says the picture may be discomforting, but that it highlights the strength of Afghan women."