Heavy Ghost - Ten Thousand Years

Fantastic ep from Illinois Heavy Ghost, "Ten Thousand Years" as quite a lot of influences that goes from heavy Shoegaze to lo-fi electronics and psychedelic percussions, awesome combination if you ask me.

Watch | Heavy Ghost - Ten Thousand Years

Graham Franciose

"I've been drawing for as long as I can remember. I grew up in a very artistic and creative family, and credit them with my decision to pursue art as a career. When I was in college getting my BFA in illustration I was trained in photo-realism; however, after noticing that everyone's work looked very similar I decided to veer off and find a style of my own. Growing up skateboarding, I was always influenced by "low-brow" and "street" artists who really inspired me to do something different." Graham Franciose

mY Indie Soul # 39

First draft of 2011 tunes, already recorded some 2 weeks ago its mostly a psychedelic-lo-fi mixtape with some Garage touches.

Listen | mY Indie Soul # 39

Peaking Lights - Synthy
La Sera - Beating Heart
PJ Harvey - Hanging in the Wire
Vocabulary - Nowhere (Beth)
Toro y Moi - Go With You
Kurt Vile - Runner Ups
Chain and The Gang - Why Not
Banjo or Freakout - Cant be mad for Nothing
Dreams - In Dreams
Warm Ghost - Claws Overhead
Young Prisms - Breathless
Ringo Deathstarr - You Don't Listen
Horrid Red - Transparnt Gardens
Moving Units - Until She Says (We Are Enfant Terrible Remix)
The Babies - Personality

We Love Machines - Short Circuit

Audiopleasures favorite Electro-Bangers from Switzerland "We Love Machines" are set to release their debut Album, "Short Circuit" release party will be on the 1st of April in the Wasserwerk Club, Bern

But before the guys are coming to Amsterdam to play a live gig for the next party joining Audiopleasures and Bon Esprit Asociaal 4 , 18 March at the Winston together with our friends Leonardo Quelhas, Agnesa Roda, Marcia and Hank Disaster

We Love Machines have been very busy playing their amazing live set and have been feature next to awesome people like The Bloody Beetroots, Yuksek, The Lowbrows, Pitchtuner, Haezer and after the Amsterdam gig they are going back to Switzerland to play with Leeroy Thornhill (Prodigy), Smash HiFi (UK/DE), Haezer (SA) and Marten Horger (DE)

Listen | We Love Machines - Electric Shock
Listen | We Love Machines - Machine Love

We are Daniel and Timo.
We are from Switzerland.
We played in rock bands.
We studied music.
We got bored.
We went to clubs.
We got bored again.
We started producing.
We went to clubs again.
We were on stage.
We did not get bored.
We made an album.
We called it "Short Circuit".
We will release it on the 01.04.11.
We will celebrate a big release party.
We invite you to celebrate with us.
We Love You.
We Love Machines.

Junior Boys - Ep

New Junior Boys ep and single taken from the upcoming Lp "All True"

Mp3 | Junior Boys - Ep

Japan

My deepest condolences to all victims, families and friends affected by this tragedy and to all Japanese nation.

Keep it Yours Records Compilation Vol. 1

Excellent upcoming compilation from the Italian label

Thanks for the tip Vinz

World Minimal Music Festival 2011 Amsterdam

World Minimal Music Festival Amsterdam 2011

"Five days of crystal-clear music, DJs, film and talk shows
Hypnotic, repetitive and breathtaking: since as far back as the 1960s, minimal music has been entrancing people with deceptively simple means.

Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam and Muziekgebouw Frits Philips Eindhoven are paying tribute to this exceptional genre with a programme which includes music from Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Simeon ten Holt, Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars, the Mandara Mountains in Cameroon and Machinefabriek.

Friday 01 April , Gavin Bryars
Listen | "The Sinking of the Titanic"

Bass Drum of Death - GB City

Amazind debut album from Oxford Mississippi noisy garage rockers Bass Drum of Death, "GB City" will be out on April 12th via Fat Possum.

"John plays guitar and sings and Colin plays the drums. Together they make blown-out, blazing songs. They are set to release their debut LP GB City on Fat Possum Records. John was Fat Possum's worst employee 3 years ago. He wrote and recorded the whole record himself using just a drumset, a guitar, a usb microphone, a computer, and a shitload of talent. The songs are about drugs, trying to make it with religious girls, panic attacks, stealing stuff, mild to severe depression, Elvis appearing in your dreams and giving you advice, gravity bongs and the devil living inside your brain. This record is the soundtrack playing in your head when you're fucked up and walking home in the middle of the night." Fat Possum

Listen | Bass Drum of Death - Young Pros
Listen | Bass Drum of Death - Heart Attack Kid
Listen | Bass Drum of Death - Get Found

Weekend Wolves

i just love days like this !!!!! awesome random discovery ... dont know much about this dudes except they are Germans and come from Hamburg, there sound is a trilling electronic psycho-kraut ... and their stuff is freaking HOT HOT HOT and their remix from MIT is foking brilliant ... gotta book them asap !!!!!!!

Listen | MIT - Pudong [ Weekend Wolves Remix ]

lot's more here

Munk, hits and remixes free mixtape

Free mixtape from Gomma and Munk, 80 minutes of hits and remixes from the German producer. His new album "The Bird And The Beat" should be out in Gomma is a couple of weeks.

in the meantime enjoy his hits and remixes

Sylvain Chauveau

Just found by pure accident on soundcloud an amazing compilation from Sylvain Chauveau, apparently put together to promote is Japanese tour, Sylvain is one of my favorite composers.

Listen | Sylvain Chauveau + 0 Japan Tour 2011

Supakitch and koralie

Awesome, super cool documentary and interview with the French street artists Supakitch and Koralie, last year they were hyped out of this world with the amazing wall they painted for the Gothenburg Museum of World Culture in Sweden !!!!!

Watch | Supakitch & koralie

Kangding Ray new music video - Or

New Kangding Ray video, "OR" is taken from the upcoming new album out on Raster-Noton from Alva Noto ... really really good stuff, one of the albums that ive been expecting for some time

Kangding Ray - Or

Ringo Deathstarr 05 March @ Irrational Library Patronaat Haarlem

Ringo Deathstarr was a foking show, loud and noisy as f.ck, it was smashing.
Despite all the tec problems it was a blast, Elliot was trying to get sound but is guitar was dead, nothing was happening, someone brought a cable and reconnect pedals and amplifier and the sound came back with loads and loads of feedback, Elliot said to the sound guy, please can u make it louder ? there was a strident sound crawling the café and Elliot faced the public again: " Sorry, we are touring and this is the best we can do" and then BANG there was magic in the air !!!!! The audience went completely crazy, hectic jumping and shouting and incredibly part of the show, i was on stage banging on the tambourine, there was a dude playing bass and also saw lorelei on stage singing with Elliot the amazing Ringo frontman. EPIC !!!!!!! Probably one of the best concerts i've seen in Patronaat since Dutchess Says ... and if you no what that means !!!!! it was the best birthday present ever !!!!!

Ringo Deathstarr left a trail of love and noise in Europe and they are coming back around summer time ...

listen in full to their amazing dedut album "Colour Trip" here






Ps. The girl in white, Lorelei is a friend of mine and it looks like she's one Ringo's Deathstarr :)

Before Ringo was a very cool band with awesome looks and sound, Rockabiliers The Optic Nerves







And before the bands was my 39th birthday party. btw... got a fact to share: No hangovers with Golden Tequila !!!! Bang Bang Bang

Ian Francis solo debut in New York city @ Joshua Liner Gallery

Ian Francis "Fireland"
March 3 to April 2, 2011 Joshua Liner Gallery

"Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Fireland, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by the British artist Ian Francis. This is Francis’ first one-man show at the gallery and marks his solo debut in New York.

Working in mixed media on canvas, Ian Francis combines abstraction, figuration, and elements of both painting and drawing to create distinctly contemporary works. His robust approach uses a range of techniques including acrylic, oil, charcoal, ink and graphite, all deployed in a spontaneous, seemingly off-the-cuff manner. Below this active “surface,” however, are subtle notes of melancholy, alienation and social critique, revealing a nuanced regard for contemporary mores.

Francis draws inspiration and raw material from cinema, pornography, street culture, and images sampled from the Internet, synthesizing these sources into a quasi-literal vision of the “mediated” landscape. Among the exhibition’s mixed-media paintings and selection of works on paper, a number depict urban street life and the complex interactions that occur when random souls collide. Amid high-color washes and jagged brushwork, youthful figures have a reckoning on park steps in A Boy Returns Home Not Realizing How Much He’s Changed. The cityscape is fragmented and unsettling in Walking Down a Street a Person is Crushed by Light, a poignant work that intimates the hardships faced by the elderly and other vulnerable beings among urban dwellers."

Ian Francis is one of my current favorite painters/illustrators and soon will be an interview at Audiopleasures

Club Tarantula 26 February Storing Haarlem

its was another awesome night put together by Haarlem rock n rollers Club Tarantula , The first one was i think around a year ago and they keep getting better and better.
For this edition they brought from France the astonishing one man band King Automatic and from Amsterdam trash blues Footstomp, burlesque Herr Doctor, Dj's Profundo p. (The Anomalys) and Pietertje Pep & Gijsbert Versgemalen (Pignose Willy's/Pussycat kil kill killl)

I fell really gutted for arriving late and missed Footstomp, im really into the whole Dutch underground garage bands but got in time to see King Automatic, so much class that man have and delivered an amazing concert full of energy and rock n roll vibes. go see him !!!!!!

Watch | Footstomp - Boogie Chillen

Watch | King Automatic - She's fine she's mine