Concert : Regal (FR) + DJ Pete Slovenly @ The House of Rising Amsterdam 11 February

After the supa sick new years eve houseparty in Amsterdam with Strange Hands and Le Pecheur Audiopleasures is back on the parteeee zone, this time with the help of some friends were having the wonderful garage rockers Regal live and Slovenly records boss Peter Slovenly on the decks plus Audiopleasures and Bon Esprit dj's @ The House of Rising for FREE !!!!!

REGAL (FR, FRANTIC CITY/AZBIN RECORDS)

DJ PETE SLOVENLY ( Slovenly Records )
Another excuse to celebrate 10 years of Slovenly Recordings! Pete Slovenly (aka Sticker Guy) will be playin some rekkids'!

Dj Chacun Cherche Son Loup Garou ( Audiopleasures )
Dj Hank Disaster ( Bon Esprit )

Watch | Regal - Toi Toi


"Regal, French band formed in Lyon by ex members of Last Rapes of Mr Teach and current members of Le Pêcheur.
The four youngsters from Regal, who look like they just came out of a book by Jack Kerouac, play Garage music.
Their primal influences are definitely rooted in the sixties, Back From The Grave and Garage Punk Unknowns compilation series come to mind first, but Regal is far from being a Revival Garage band.
The guys have been listening to the Black Lips a lot, that's for sure, and two of the twelve tracks on this LP are nice Folk or Americana songs on which acoustic guitar meets Irish fiddle. Not really surprising when you know that Regal's main singer, Caelan O'Flaherty, also playing the guitar in the band, is of Irish origins.
Certain tracks on "Possible Endings" might lead us to fields freshly cultivated by bands like the Indian Wars but the four black sheeps from Regal still feast on that good old grass originally planted by the Seeds and then cultivated by the Black Lips or the Weakends (...and a sip of red wine!).
Twelve "home-recorded" tracks on a nice piece of wax, artwork by Antoine, Regal's drummer, and co-produced with AzBin Records, brand-new record label created by Xavier, the other guitar in the band (who was the drummer in Last Rapes)."

The Mystery of the Black Sapphire

The Mystery of the Black Sapphire fotoshoot with my friend Stephane Serra and dj partner Hank Disaster in the center of attentions, pictures by Amsterdam based photographer Myscha Oréo

News, Pocketwankers, Portugal, After Midnight, Agnese Roda, Scotty Bolton, Lizette Grigio, Sail 2010

Dear Friends and readers, ive been so busy in the last weeks that can't seen to find the time to keep blogging, also i'm not so motivated with the blog its been 3 years and a new challenge is needed, can't really talk about it at the moment but after the summer holidays i will have some news for sure, Audiopleasures will never end but probably will work in a different system.

Next friday im going for two weeks of well deserved holidays to Portugal ... Ill be around Lisbon and Azeitão with some friends i've invited ...
i can fell the sun already ... in Holland the winter as arrived :(

upcoming gigs in Portugal



28 August, A night of frisky, horny, dirty, sleazy, noisy, sluty music
Moi Je Veux !!! ( Audiopleasures ) @ Clube Ferroviario Lisbon Sta Apolonia



Pocketwankers In Portugal
Electro, Indie, Trash, Punk, Garage, Psychobilly and other noisy shit
Moi Je Veux !!! ( Audiopleasures ) vs Hank Disaster ( Bon Esprit Amsterdam )
03 September @ Clube Ferroviario Lisbon
04 September @ Mama Rosa Setubal



Few month ago i send some pictures to the Subbacultcha indie Dutch zine and good music promoters project " After Midnight " , some of the pictures were selected on the first draft and later printed on a booklet, i was invited to the launch of the booklet in Amsterdam but the guys @ Subbacultcha decided to make something so cool that it wasn't cool at all ... half of the booklet was printed so dark that you couldn't see the pictures ... serious guys ... all you needed to do was to print the pictures because after all this was about pictures and not your sense of hype and fashion. my pictures on "After Midnight"



The wonderful friend Agnese Roda, researcher in musicology and a wine lover has her blog running and if you ask me is a kick ass idea ... Agnesa is interviewing expats in Amsterdam and surrounding with music and wine as the common denominator ... i was the first guest and we had a wonderful afternoon talking about the things we love and making some plans for the upcoming months ... cause we also Dj together ... the Riot Soundsystem ...
Please visit Agnese Roda Blog Musacolmuso



Speaking of friends, my new old flat mate Scotty "Evertonion" Bolton returned from his North American adventure ... as a tip ... Mr Bolton the Canadian winter was not to your brains ... in this pic with our kick ass friend from
Salt Lake City Utah Lizette Grigio that im expecting in Portugal next week


picture credit

Last weekend was one of the events that raised more expecations "Sail 2010",
i actually planed my holidays between Sail and the Cello Biennale.

"SAIL Amsterdam is the largest event in the Netherlands which is free to the public. In 2005 the event drew 1.8 million visitors, who gave SAIL Amsterdam 2005 high marks. SAIL Amsterdam 2010 will take place from Thursday 19 August to Monday 23 August 2010 on and around the IJ river.

SAIL's main attraction will be the impressive fleet of Tall Ships, sailing heritage craft, modern ships, naval ships and replicas. In addition to this, every day there will be a varying programme of all kinds of cultural and sports activities. The theme of SAIL 2010 is ‘a nautical encounter between the past, present and future’.

The idea behind SAIL Amsterdam originated during preparations for the celebration of Amsterdam's 700 years of existence in 1975."

We were very luck and caught a ride because Eve decided to make a break, anyway for 10 eur pp we got a kick ass view of the boats ...

Bon Esprit,Alice in Wonderland,Massive Attack,Les Queues de Sardines,Gil Scott-Heron,Irving Penn,Live SDI HfK Bremen,Panic Girl, Mouna Andraos

... Meet the French party animals ...

Big news in town this week was the launch of the Bon Esprit Amsterdam website.

" Bon-Esprit is a rowdy bunch of English-speaking Frenchies based in Amsterdam.
Punk and chic, we bring manners to white-trash.
Our motley crew of artists, personal coaches, designers, P.R. and skateboard addicts concocts a wide variety of events: Fancy-dressed picnics, i-pod battles, Riot Girlz balls and Parties with the cream of the underground scene…
Always in a decadent and generous spirit. "



Bon Esprit iconic and irreverent figure , mon amie :) Stephane Serra aka bad ass & favorite dj Hank Disaster , check it out for his non-valentine mix Bullz N Dikes-The Non Valentine issue mix

next partie : It’s Bull’s Birthday! Bon Esprit couldn’t let her party alone so…Here is : Who Let The Bull Out??!! Saturday 2010-02-27 @ Code 21 Amsterdam
Samidi the Bass Riot (NL), Tomahawk Bang Bang (NL/FR/Bon Esprit), Hank Disaster (NL/FR/Bon Esprit), Masters of Ceremony: SuperMinou, Mr U and Blusher.



Since its publication in 1865, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has delighted the world with a wildly imaginative and unforgettable journey, inspiring children of all ages to suspend disbelief and follow Alice into her fantasy worlds. This new gift edition presents Carroll's tale fully unabridged with a unique visual interpretation by renowned artist Camille Rose Garcia. Harper Collins

Watch | Camille Rose Garcia behind the scenes


Camille Rose Garcia was born in 1970 in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in the generic suburbs of Orange County, where she visited Disneyland and went to punk shows with the other disenchanted youth of that era. Her paintings of creepy cartoon children living in wasteland fairy tales are critical commentaries on the failures of capitalist utopias, blending nostalgic pop culture references with a satirical slant on modern society.



Vey cool Gui Borato remix from the track Paradise Circus (feat. Hope Sandoval), from the new Massive Attack Album.

Mp3 | Massive Attack - Paradise Circus feat. Hope Sandoval [ Gui Boratto Remix ].





The first words that came to my mind when i saw this were Gorgeous and Awesome :)

"Les Queues de Sardines, a registered trademark of the m + o studio, is offering an original range of stockings and tights notable for their unconventional and unique graphic style. Add a pinch of narrative humor - the result is a choice of elegant and unusual models that will dress up your legs with an unusual stylish and elegant pattern. Screen-printed by hand in limited quantities, these rare and exclusive articles will never go unnoticed." Les Queues de Sardines



Much respect and hats off to Sir Gil Scott-Heron , a truly magical comeback , 13 years after his latest release , by many considered the Godfather of hip hop and rap , a man of words full of wisdom and poetry.

Pitchfork has released a super 11 minutes behind the scene of his new album "I'm New Here" .

Watch | I'm New Here


National Portrait Gallery, London

Irving Penn (1917–2009) was one of the great photographers of our time. Focusing specifically on his portraits of major cultural figures of the last seven decades, Irving Penn Portraits is a glorious celebration of his work in this genre.


Alfred Hitchcock, New York, 1947

The exhibition is brought together from major international collections and includes over 120 silver and platinum prints, many vintage, ranging from his portraits for Vogue magazine in the 1940s to some of his last work.


Marlene Dietrich, New York, 1948

Penn photographed an extraordinary range of sitters from the worlds of literature, music and the visual and performing arts. Among those featured in the exhibition are Truman Capote, Salvador Dali, Christian Dior, T.S. Eliot, Duke Ellington, Grace Kelly, Rudolf Nureyev, Al Pacino, Edith Piaf, Pablo Picasso and Harold Pinter.


Truman Capote, New York, 1948

This fascinating survey brings to light the significance of Penn's visual language and provides a rare opportunity to explore his innovative use of composition, light and printing techniques. National Portrait Gallery, London



This video shows a summary of various student's projects displayed at the TROIA pixel room in Bremen, Germany in 2006. The projects are the results of a class called "Live SDI", which took place at the HfK Bremen (University of Fine Arts) in 2005/2006.

They are experiments with light, sound, emotion, ambience and space, meant to be more than mere video displays, creating an animated room. The walls contain real LED pixels, which makes a difference from normal video projectors. If all lights are turned off, the room turns pitch black. All lights on is increadibly bright. The room has a refresh-rate of 50 Hz, so the impression of the live-performance was quite intense.

The project was challenging, but fun to carry out, sadly enough we never managed to have a huge club-party in that room, due to security issues.

Watch | Live Space Display Interaction



New music video Art by Director Reza Dolatabadi.
Track by Panic Girl from their upcoming 2010 Ep Burn and Rise

Watch | Panic Girl - Burn And Rise





Mouna Andraos an R&D OpenLab Fellow, is an interaction designer in various media including web, mobile, electronics and wearables, while applying ideas of softness, intimacy and uniqueness to the electronic spaces and objects that are increasingly inhabiting our personal environments. Her work for a Montreal-based interactive production studio has won recognition ranging from a Best of Show & Best of Art at the South by South West web awards to a cyberLion in Cannes. She recently completed her master's degree at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Eyebeam

Gregory Lagrange,Alexander Rodchenko, Synchronator,Land Of Talk,Ana Ventura, Visual Acoustics,The Essence of Rabbit,The Fun Theory,Paint a Future

Picture by Alwis Anil @ Audiopleasures 2nd Anniversary

Gregory Lagrange aka Emotional Spy (Warp Light District) , French music producer and friend is leaving Amsterdam and is heading to Praag , Next friday Greg is hosting another edition of "Forward" as farwell and will be join by Hank Disaster (Bon Esprit) and Moi, Je veux (Audiopleasures) @ Cafe Batavia in Amsterdam , 22.00 / 03.00

Greg is working on his 2nd album and preparing the release of the trip hop/electronica project Teardrop Slide.

Mp3 | Emotional Spy - Open Skulls
Mp3 | Emotional Spy - Third Side [ Unreleased ]

Mp3 | Hank Disaster [ XXX Rated Megamix ]
Mp3 | Moi, Je Veux ! [ biba lo Electro mix ]

for more info Warp Light District



NIMk and DNK present launch of the Synchronator device

SYNCHRONATOR is an audiovisual project by Bas van Koolwijk and Gert-Jan Prins, for which the artists have developed their own electronics. The project is a continuation on medium specific experiments between image and sound from the early days of video art.
After the release of the first video in 2006, a DVD in 2009 and a range of international live performances, their SYNCHRONATOR device will now be presented during a festive opening at NIMK. The first edition is limited to one hundred numbered copies.

The SYNCHRONATOR device transforms your audio into a composite video signal, compatible with all video equipment supporting composite video input.

Next to a presentation of the SYNCHRONATOR and a performance by its creators, a video programme of related works from the NIMK collection will be shown.

For more info please visit Montevideo / Nimk

Amsterdam , Keizersgracht 264
November 10 20.30 Hrs Free entrance



New video from indie rock band from Montreal , Land Of Talk for "It's Okay", Directed by Davide Di Saro and Mihai Wilson (WeWereMonkeys)

Watch | Land of Talk - It's Okay


Alexander Rodchenko - Revolution in Photography
Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
18 December 2009 - 17 March 2010

Foam presents a unique retrospective of the world-famous Russian avant-garde artist Alexander Rodchenko. The exhibition will contain more then 200 vintage photographs some of which have never been exhibited in the West before. Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) is one of the great innovators of twentieth-century avant-garde art and one of its most versatile practitioners. Having first gained international acclaim as a painter, sculptor and graphic designer, Rodchenko took up the practice of photography in the early 1920s, convinced that it would become the artistic medium of his era. Over the course of the following two decades he developed a bold new vocabulary of acute camera angles, extreme foreshortenings of perspective and close-ups of surprising details. In addition to introducing design as an integral element of photography, Rodchenko’s approach balanced formal concerns with an interest in documenting the social and political life of the Soviet Union. In the process, he helped to change the way people perceived not only photography, but also the role of the photographer. Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam



(in)visíveis , (in) visibles , is the new work of portuguese based in lisbon artists , Ana Ventura , highly unusual and creative work , stories and characters that seen to be taken out of a children book on old and fallen walls , beautiful.



Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away this year, captured the work of nearly every major modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California’s modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public. This unique film is both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman who chronicled it with his unforgettable images.

Watch | Visual Acoustics



No other living creature features as heavily in contemporary character design and art as the humble hare. But what exactly makes bunnies so irresistible to artists, designers and illustrators worldwide? Depending on the viewers' cultural context rabbits can symbolise anything from insanity, alertness, defencelessness, all the way to promiscuity, magic powers and utter innocence. By condensing the endless variations of the rabbit motif into one ultimate system - a perfect bunny mandala - the true nature of the beast emerges: the eternal essence of rabbit.

Pictoplasma (http://www.pictoplasma.com) asked internationally established and upcoming character designers, illustrators and artists around the globe to send in their versions of rabbits, bunnies, hares and everything in between. The result is a full-scale bunny overdose, with far more than 1.500 individual rabbits from 500+ international contributers. Visual Complexity



This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that it’s change for the better.



Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator and feel better” is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers. Few people actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to take the stairs over the escalator by making it fun to do? The Fun Theory

Watch | Piano stairs



Paint a Future is a charity founded by the Dutch artist, Hetty van der Linden.
Hetty travels all over the world, painting with disadvantaged children. She tells them to paint their dreams and that the dreams they paint might one day come true.

Established and well-known artists from many different countries are inspired by the dreams the children paint, incorporating them into their own works of art. The paintings are sold and the proceeds go directly back to the child - helping to fulfill their dreams and create a better future for them and their families.

By purchasing a painting you are not only buying a work of art for your own investment and enjoyment, you are helping a child build a better future. Paint a Future