Saturday, 7 June 2008

Let's Dance, Mary Anne Hobbs, Et Explore Me, Evangelista, Ratatat, Daedalus, Neu!, Munk, M83, Deep Screen, The Last Mistress



Mp3 | The knife - Pass This On [ M.A.N.D.Y. Mix ]
Mp3 | Human League - The Things That Dreams ... [ Tiga mix ]
Mp3 | I-Robots - Frau [ Boys Noize mix ]
Mp3 | Para One - Dundun Dun [ Adam Kesher Cover ]
Mp3 | Munk - Live Fast Die Old [ Salmassi Cash mix ]
Mp3 | Junior Boys - No Kinda Man [ Chloe mix ]



Hats off for Mary Anne Hobbs , an amazing set she delivered friday night in the Warp Light District water front , Rotterdam.
Long time since i heard such a good set , Broken Beats , Dubstep and very muscled dark electronics , after the set i drove her back to the hotel , not only she is awesome behind the decks but also super nice as a person , one her favorites albums for 2008 is Flying Lotus - Los Angeles , will be released 10 June by Warp Records



The Second surprise from the weekend was a Dutch band called Et Explore Me ,they are already called The new sound of the Dutch underground , it was such a great performance , Bass , Organ and Drums and shit loads of noise just the way i like it , they sound a lot like Soulwax and Death From Above 1979. The have lots of free material on their website , go check it here.

Mp3 | Et Explore Me - Bad Hangover


" Hello, Voyager " - Cst Records - 2008
Gothic / Experimental

The Evangelista band continues to comprise Carla and Tara as its nucleus, and continues to build on its relationship with Montreal (where the last album was also made). Hello, Voyager was recorded in Montreal at the Hotel2Tango by Efrim Menuck in late summer 2007, with an even larger cast of Montreal musicians joining Carla, Tara and Shahzad this time around, to work up a more stylistically diverse batch of songs. Raw, beautifully ravaged, semi-improvised soundscapes still underpin Carla's incantatory sung and spoken lyrics on the album's opening and closing tracks, but much of the rest of the record is more overtly composed. Blistering nuggets like the snarling "Smooth Jazz" and the desperate "Truth Is Dark Like Outer Space" are the most rocking tunes Carla has put to tape since the demise of The Geraldine Fibbers, while "The Blue Room" (one of Carla's finest songs, and one she has been carrying around for many years) is finally captured in a stunning studio arrangement that includes organ, violin, cello and contrebasse. "Lucky Lucky Luck" is a playful, sassy, fractured take on the misfit narrative and "Paper Kitten Claw" is its methodical, reflective, poetic foil. Carla's voice perfectly sets and channels the prevailing mood on each song, and is strong as ever. Cst Records

Mp3 | Evangelistac - truth is dark like outer space
Mp3 | Evangelista - hello, voyager!


" Lp3 " - Xl Recordings - 2008
Electronic / Experimental

Tucked away in a private studio named Old Soul, in Catskill, NY the two musical forces behind Ratatat , Evan and Mike, have collaborated yet again to redefine the current state of instrumental music. This time, the album is called LP3 and though it doesn't use much in the way of hi-tech recording equipment it's still laced with a unique balance of penetrating beats and ethereal riffs. However they broaden their palette of sounds this time around by relying more on keyboard instruments than guitars. Don't worry, Mike's characteristic guitar style is still present on this record but there are also an abundance of new textures emanating from the likes of a harpsichord, a wurlitzer, a mellotron and even a grand piano.

Mp3 | Ratatat - Imperials
Mp3 | Ratatat - Shempi


" Love To Make Music To " - Ninja Tune - 2008
Experimental / Electronic

Daedelus is the name under which Los Angeles-based electro-musician Alfred Darlington makes music. Love to Make Music To is his first album for Ninja Tune. Darlington describes the album as "the imaginary memory of a time that never was" and a "drug/love record." Guests are aplenty on Love. They include Paperboy, members of the Sa-Ra Foundation, Laura Darling (who just so happens to be Darlington's wife), and producer Michael Johnson, who has worked with the Lilys and Holopaw.Prefixmag

Mp3 | Daedelus - Get Off Your HiHats
Mp3 | Daedelus - I Took Two




(1972) Neu! (Brain Records)
krautrock / Electronic / Experimental

Neu! was recorded over four days in Hamburg with Can producer Conrad Plank, and its static, aggressive harmonies and almost (but not quite) robotic sound still has a resonance that echoes even today. As any musician from Add N to X to Sonic Youth, from Stereolab to Cabaret Voltaire could tell you, early '70s Dusseldorf band Neu! were one third of the original triumvirate--alongside Can and Faust--that defined Krautrock. Michael Rother (guitar/keyboards) and Klaus Dinger (drums) formed the band in 1971, and with their first three albums established a pattern of minimalist melodies and locked groove "motorik" beats that were to later exert a tremendous influence over left-field music, both in dance and rock. Indeed, one of the great U.S. avant-garde '90s bands, Negativland, take their name from a track on this album. "Hallogallo, Sonderangebot," "Im Gluck"--these are the conveyor-belt grooves, the elemental sweep and soar of the neon-bright autobahn, and the sound of the future when it was still shiny and clean. As David Bowie put it, "[Neu! were] Kraftwerk's wayward, anarchistic brothers." And so much more. Amazon - Jerry Thackray

Mp3 | Neu! - Hallogallo
Mp3 | Neu! - Negativland



New Munk single ," Live Fast die Old " Producers Mathias Modica and Jonas Imbery team up with actress, director and daughter of Dario, Asia Argento, for this track, lifted from their Cloudbuster LP.

Watch | MUNK feat. Asia Argento
Live Fast Die Old




Xlr8r tv Episode No. 62
M83 Teen Romance
The swelling uplifts of M83's new album Saturdays=Youth are made all the more majestic by the singular focus of the record's inspiration—being a teenager. Anthony Gonzales (a.k.a. M83) has long had his music described as "cinematic," so it's fitting that he finds so much kinship with the ecstatic firsts and everything-is-possible excitement portrayed in teen movies. Here, he waxes nostalgic about some of his favorite films in the genre, from the canon of John Hughes to the dark camp of Gregg Araki.

Watch | Anthony Gonzales

Mp3 | M83 - Too Late



Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Deep Screen – Art in Digital Culture presents contemporary works of art which are all in some way marked by today’s digital culture. The jury, chaired by guest curator Andreas Broeckmann, has selected 18 artists out of the 200-plus submissions

The increasing digitalisation of our culture has consequences for the arts. We take instant photos with our cell phones, pick out the shots we want in the blink of an eye on the computer screen, and create our own version of reality using Photoshop and iPhoto. The influence on the visual art world is apparent in the temporary nature of the images used and the centrality of process, repetition and change.



Erica van Loon, Settings II-XIV, 2007



Catherine Breillat's adaptation of An Old Mistress stars Fu'ad Ait Aatou as Ryno de Marigny, and Asia Argento as Vellini, two lovers in 19th century Paris. The two have been passionately involved for nearly a decade, but de Marigny attempts to end their relationship now that he is engaged to Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida), a respectable young woman. As the bride-to-be's grandmother forces de Marigny to confront his past as a notorious womanizer, the film flashes back to reveal the intense decade the lovers shared. Although de Marigny appears to want to shut Vellini out forever, her passions may be far too much for him to deny. Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Watch | The Last Mistress (2008)

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Wednesday, 4 June 2008

Let's Dance, Padded Cell, Au, Beneva/Clark Nova, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Blindness, Joseph Hoback , Oded Ezer, Marcelo Pombo, These New Puritans, Green



Mp3 | Joy Division - No Love Lost [ Lcd Soundsystem Cover ]
Mp3 | Vitalic - You Prefer Cocaine
Mp3 | Ascii Disko - Aldimarkt
Mp3 | Black Strobe - Im a Man [ Black Strobe mix ]
Mp3 | Chromeo - Tenderoni [ MSTRKRFT mix ]
Mp3 | Apparat - Schallstrom [ Thomas Fehlmann mix ]


" Night Must Fall " - Dc Recordings - 2008
Psychedelic / Disco House / Post punk

Padded Cell, Drawing inspiration from bands as diverse as Goblin, The Velvet Underground, Arthur Russell, Material, Bush Tetras, and Carl Craig, this duo's analogue fetishism is tinged with creeping psychosis but makes for a sound that is as soulful and emotional as it is dark and narcotic. The making of "Night Must Fall" has involved a list of collaborators that hints at this rich diversity: Dennis Young (Liquid Liquid) plays percussion and marimba, Chloe Battant from London punk funk band Battant (Kill The Dj) delivers vocals; guitars and synths come from sonic necromancer Giallos Flame (Analogue Screams / DC Recordings), and Italian producers The Diaphanoids (Bearfunk) deliver strings, synths and vocals.

Mp3 | Padded Cell - Savage Skulls
Mp3 | Padded Cel l - Konkorde Lafayette


" Verbs " - Aagoo - 2008
Indie / Experimental

Au Verbs is the elated realization of those many asymmetrical pop diamonds that shone so brightly throughout Au's artful debut (whose warm, Appalachia-informed gems found many favorable comparisons to the far-reaching likes of Arnold Dreyblatt, Animal Collective, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Grizzly Bear)—its many swift and unexpected evolutions shepherded confidently by Wyland's competent, classically-trained hand. As surprising as it is immediate, Verbs is infused with all of the earnest and palpable joy of its creation—the delightfully enveloping whole of which demands to be heard. Aagoo

Mp3 | Au - All Myself
Mp3 | Au - Two Seasons


" Sombunall " - Fenetre - 2008
Electronic / Experimental / Glitch

Working together with the up-and-coming Norwegian vocalist Therese Aune, who sings on “His Freefloating Affection” and “With Love, Etc.” (duet with Rudi), the duo Beneva vs. Clark Nova could be compared to the off the wall pop sound of Hanne Hukkelberg and Silje Nes. Mix this with the electro-acoustic world of Four Tet, the complex rhythms of Autechre, the indietronica of Broadcast, plus a good dose of charm, melodic oddity and some introverted enthusiasm, and you’ll maybe get a grasp of what Sombunall is all about. Tracks like “88 Kilos of Excrement” and “Thora’s Inferno”, with their catchy rhythms and melodies, have been small ‘hits’ on the duo’s Myspace site. The uplifting “Nothing, Only Worthwhile” rounds off the album, which we believe is one of the most exciting releases of 2008. Fenetre Records

Mp3 | Beneva vs. Clark Nova - 88 Kilos of Excrement
Mp3 | Beneva vs. Clark Nova - His Freefloating Affection


" Superwolf " - Dragcity - 2005
Indie / Folk

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney
No matter who or what he calls himself, Will Oldham has always been uniquely capable of making colossal leaps in tone between breaths, and from track to track Superwolf nobly maintains that practice, drifting gracefully from classic-rock stomps to whispery dirges. Consequently, Oldham followers may recognize Superwolf as a welcome midway point between Oldham's past aliases, as it hops from shambling, Viva Last Blues-ish, Palace Music-era shakes to dark, Master and Everyone haunts. "Beast for Thee" matches a gorgeous, barely-there melody with self-deflating lyrics ("Why are you kind to me?/ You could so easily take me in your arms and see/ A donkey"), Oldham's quivering pipes and Sweeney's fragile guitar coalescing into a soft, droning, and tremendously pretty whole. The equally excellent "Blood Embrace" features some of Oldham's heartiest vocals, each word strong and full, floating above dark electric guitar swirls, dodging film samples of a faithless woman whispering to an unnamed lover, crafting an atmosphere so tense and ominous that you almost can't help twisting your face around to peep over your shoulder. Amanda Petrusich - Pitchforkmedia

Mp3 | Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - What Are You_
Mp3 | Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - Beast for Thee



First trailer for Fernando Meirelles's latest film, 'Blindness'. The film stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Don McKellar, Gael Garcia Bernal, Sandra Oh, and Danny Glover.

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Watch | Blindness



Awesome animation by Joseph Hoback

Watch | Creature Mover



The Finger - Oded Ezer new typo art project, is an imaginary landscape of Hebrew letters. It was originally created as a homage to the Israeli poet, choreographer and art critic Hezi Leskley (1952-1994), echoing the title of his first book, published in 1986.

Watch | The Finger



Argentinean artist Marcelo Pombo creates large, colorful paintings that are rooted in a surrealist vocabulary and contain abstracted landscapes, architecture and figurative elements. The artist approaches his paint application through pointillism, employing thousands of small dots to assemble this primitive yet deliberate imagery. Pombo, who currently lives and works in Buenos Aires, is a prominent artistic figure within South American contemporary art. Daily Serving


Click here to watch the whole concert!


The Green Man Festival in the UK, is looking for one last band to open the festival. We want your help and the music loving public's help us discover this band. So we started a search called Green Poll.

This is how it works:
- Bands register for Green Poll on our site greenpoll
- The public vote for the bands they like and get a chance to win a pair of tickets
- Band with most votes plays Green Man attended by 10,000 people and they also get 6 extra tickets

15th, 16th and 17th August 2008
Super Furry Animals / Spiritualized / Pentangle / Richard Thompson / Iron and Wine / The National / Black Mountain / Drive By Truckers / Howlin' Rain / King Creosote / Caribou / Damien Jurado and lots more

for more info The Green Man Festival

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Wednesday, 28 May 2008

Let's Dance, MIT, The Chap, Sigur Ros, The Happening, Gkaster, DixonBaxi, FCD Surfboards



Mp3 | Death From Above 1979 - Blood On Our Hands [ Justice mix ]
Mp3 | The Black Ghosts - I Want Nothing extended mix
Mp3 | Booka Shade - Charlotte [ Dubfire mix ]
Mp3 | Block Party - two more years [ MSTRKRFT mix ]
Mp3 | Elektrochemis - You're my kind
Mp3 | Gui Boratto - like you [ supermayer mix ]


" Coda " - Haute Areal - 2008
Electro / Punk / Experimental

German electronic music can mean one of two things– either a sometimes niche but well respected genre where its listeners can wax lyrical for hours about its heritage, or it can reference the odd dubious euro hit that has, on occasion, sauntered into our top 10. Luckily for listeners, MIT do not follow the path of the latter. However neither do they take their well referenced musical heritage and run full steam in a new and exciting direction. No, Coda is exactly as it initially promises– very electronic and very German.

Sure, so you don’t speak the language, but when MIT are shouting, you will dance. This is perhaps the most important underpinning feature that runs throughout Coda. As with many electronic masterpieces, by the end of the album, you feel that between the swirling of synths and the incomprehensible barking orders form an unnamed source, you’ve likely just been ordained into some unholy cult. Coda is not for the weak minded or singles lover, this is an all encompassing music marathon with most tracks just shy of a 5 minute run. The feeling is not epic, rather just a continuous flow that you suspect– if pesky management hadn’t stepped in– the band could’ve kept up for a few weeks solid, at least. Rock Feedback

Mp3 | Mit - Genau An Diesem Abend
Mp3 | Mit - Gibt Es Denn Keine Anderen GrЃEde


" Mega Breakfast " - Lo Recordings - 2008
Indie / Electronic / Experimental

The Chap courted a good deal of attention thanks to their odd glitch pop aesthetic, as captured on albums Ham and The Horse, but this time around they've outdone themselves, introducing their new material via the barbershop quartet-meets-Hot Chip dynamics of 'They Have A Name', only to slip into the single 'Fun & Interesting', which sounds disconcertingly like Queen in its theatrical harmonised vocal execution. In fact, seldom does something so daft sound so lovingly crafted: just listen to the big production and the sweeping strings. They're hardly befitting a song that comically boasts "my generation needs another me". Boomkat

Mp3 | The Chap - Fun and Interesting
Mp3 | The Chap - Carlos Walter Wendy Stanley


“ með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust ” - Xl Recordings - 2008
Indie / Experiemntal

Sigur Rós will be releasing their fifth album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (English translation: with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly), worldwide the week of June 23. The first track from the album, entitled "Gobbledigook," is available worldwide for free download via Sigur Ros. The video for the song is also on the website.

Mp3 | Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook


" unitxt " - Raster-Noton - 2008
Electronic / Experimental

Of all the rhythm-based music by Alva Noto, this latest batch probably marks the greatest levels of detail and elaboration. If an album like Transform was largely characterised by a strict and pristine approach to minimalism and subtlety, Unitxt presents a more complex and full-blooded exercise. The essential building blocks of the Alva Noto sound remain pared down and elemental, but there's something uncommonly visceral about Nicolai's compositional technique this time around, which while still familiar and unmistakably his work, sounds charged with renewed levels of ferocity and kinetic energy. Boomkat

Mp3 | Alva Noto - u_09-1-2
Mp3 | Alva Noto - u_08



"The Happening" will be Shyamalan's first R-rated picture, A family is on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind--but the most basic human instinct of them all: survival.

Watch | The Happening



Superb Motion Design by Gkaster

Watch | Gkaster Reel



As part of their ongoing relationship with the Sci Fi Channel DixonBaxi has designed, directed and produced an atmospheric mood film on the theme of Sci Fi Movies. The ident is part of an overall Movies graphics package and an exciting development of our recent redesign for the channel.

Watch | Anything Can Happen



A Patagonia and FCD Surfboards Short Film.

Watch | A Patagonia and FCD Surfboards Short Film.

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Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Warp Light District @ WaterFront Rotterdam 06 Jun

Warp Light District Presents :
Friday 6th of June
WaterFront Rotterdam
Electro-Visual Night

Dubstep/Grime/Electronica/IDM/Visual night


Mary Anne Hobbs (Planet Mu/BBC 1 Radio)
Mary Anne Hobbs is regarded as a pioneer of contemporary underground sounds , Her 'Breezeblock' show ran for almost a decade and in it's time featured exclusive live perfromances & interviews from some of the most forward thinking names in contemporary music. Bjork, The Bug, Squarepusher, DJ Shadow and Skream have all found themselves championed as part of Hobbs' fresh new counter culture contributing to what has become considered a landmark in progressive broadcasting. In September 2006 the Breezeblock name was dropped for the title 'Experimental', but the show retained the name of its host in the title as well as the groundbreaking musical remit of it's predecessor.

Milanese (Planet Mu/Warp) feat. Ben Sharpa
World premiere live collaboration between Milanese , Birmimgham's major producer from Warp and Planet Mu, and Ben Sharpa , South AfricanMC exclusively touring Europe this summer.

Since his debut release, Cognac on Various Productions in 2003, Milanese has appeared on Warp, Arcola, Planet Mu, Seed, MG77 and Combat Recordings. His first full-length album, Extend, dropped like an anvil on Mike Paradinas' Planet Mu imprint, pulling together vicious grime workouts, haunting techno and gritty sound design. The end of this month sees tracks from Extend chopped up and reconstructed by the likes of Clark, Hrdvsion and DJ Distance, and released on Planet Mu as a remix EP entitled Adapt.

Steve personally describes his music as a mash-up of jungle / garage / ragga / electro / techno... twisted robot music that sounds like a computer game gone horribly wrong but this description belies the fierce, raw aggression of his rumbling beats and the sinister emotional tone and sophisticated panache of his production, or as UK Bass Music.

Kgotso Semela aka Ben Sharpa aka Oh Kaptain My Kaptain ( South Africa) is a veteran underground rapper and music producer. Considered by many as one of South Africa's most accomplished lyricists, Ben Sharpa is a founding member of cult crews GroundWorks and Audio Visual.

Cane vs Funckarma (Colony/Warp)
Cane is the Techno-Acid-Electro alter ego of brothers Don and Roel Funcken, Funckarma, Shadow Huntaz & Quench. Where FUNCKARMA has an experimental focus within electronic music, CANE takes aim at the dance floor, interlacing Acid, Electro, and Techno infusions with an IDM flavour.
Cane distinguishes themselves within the Techno world by their intermittent use of the 4/4 pulse, having it constantly morph into alternating rhythmic forms without ever abandoning that pulsating dancebeat. With releases on the worldwide renowned WARP records from London (Arcola series), Manchester's SKAM records (home base of giants Autechre and Boards or Canada), Oscar Mulero's WARMUP recordings, Colony Records (Dave Tipper), Athens' Creative Space and Utrecht's own 030303 ACID posse, CANE has proven to be no fly-by-night act.

Emotional Spy (Warp Light District)
Often dark, always possessed and looking for a direct mental reaction. Finding inspiration from lack of sleep, his own hyper sensitive reactions or misunderstood feelings and happenings, Emotional Spy music is all about manipulating electronics to soundtrack our cracked souls, the unsaid, what you try to read between the lines or from the silence, these feelings that can't be expressed. It's probably there that raises this clinic dimension of descriptiveness in his music, making his tracks leaving in you this taste of soundtracks of non existing movies.

Visuals

Stabil (A/V live performance)
Pitch-Visualive
Lennart Visuals
Visual Sound,
Fabrica (live body performers)
screenings: Mihai Grecu + multiscreening and installations

For more information
Warp Light District
Waterfront


Thursday, 22 May 2008

Let's Dance, Remote, Trondheim, Dosh, Bersarin Quartett, Ninja Tune, Advanced Beauty, Waltz with Bashir, Ice Age 3



Mp3 | Nine Inch Nails - Hand That Feeds [ Dfa mix ]
Mp3 | Battles - Tonto [ Four Tet mix ]
Mp3 | The Robocop Kraus - Fake Boys [ Ascii Disko Mix ]
Mp3 | Foreign Island - Fine Dining With The Future [ Boys Noise mix ]
Mp3 | Schatsi - dead end
Mp3 | Monossoround - TakemeLovemeHateme


" Dark Enough " - Kill the Dj - 2008
Techno / Minimal / Electro / Electronic

tiga : AWESOME!!!!! My only problem...try to decide which I like best. Fuck...

Following the success of Chloé’s The Waiting Room, the label Kill the Dj continues to redefine a certain idea of electro music with the long-awaited release of the first album by Remote, aka Seb Fouble & Eric Guillanton. 2000-2003: the post-French touch period, everybody is on the look out for something new, and that something new is somewhere out there on vinyl. Seb & Eric release their first maxi as Joe Zas & Co. on Pamplemousse. Then another, this a really important record, a witness to its time: Astroglide, considered as one of the best maxis in 2003 by the press and DJs alike. Then the incredible first EP by Henry Goes Dirty, Seb & Eric’s side project, citing Sonic Youth and Syd Barett as well as Phuture as influences. A bizarre mix of electro-pop-rock revealing the roots of what is now REMOTE’s identity: a totally personal appropriation of current trends tinged with a certain independent romantism.

Mp3 | Remote - Sinister Boogie
Mp3 | Remote - Veron



" Zum Abschied " - Aerotone - 2008
Electronic / Experimental / Ambient

"Zum Abschied", Trondheim third netaudio appearance (after two EPs on Interdisco), is a collection of six pieces of electronic music ranging from happy Pling Plong to the melancholy of farewell. Pick your favorite state of mind.

Download Here

Mp3 | Trondheim - Sorgenfreies Heldentum


" Wolves And Wishes " - Anticon - 2008
Indie / Experimental / Electronic

Wolves and Wishes, Martin Dosh fourth official LP, arrives after its architect spent nearly a year on the road--touring solo and as a member of Andrew Bird’s band--and yet, he sounds reborn. If 2006’s The Lost Take reimagined the drums, Rhodes and everything-but-the-kitchen-sink virtuoso as a full band, his latest restocks the lineup with a fresh cast of collaborators, then stretches out as Dosh masterminds the material (composing, improvising, arranging) with all the explorative wonderment of a debut ablum. Never has our man sounded so free. And to think, there’s not a single drum machine in the mix. Anticon

Mp3 | Dosh - The Magic Stick
Mp3 | Dosh - Dont Wait for the Needle to Drop


" Bersarin Quartett " - Lidar - 2008
Electronic / Experimental / Ambient

After two contributions to the highly successful Electronica Unplugged compilation series on the Aerotone netlabel, Bersarin Quartett is prepared to take the world by storm with its debut release. Contrary to its namesake, Quartett is merely a one man show -- a "Thomas" -- who at this point in time remains mysterious and would rather let the music speak for itself. An attached press release informs the inquisitive listener that Thomas likens his music to "imaginary fictional filmscores" (as opposed to the "real fictional filmscores" or "imaginary factual filmscores"), which puts him directly in the company of four trillion other electronic/ambient artists with soundtrack ambitions. I'll gripe at small redundancies and cliches in the press release, because there's really nothing about the music itself that I can fault; no, quite the contrary, it's one of the best you're likely to hear all year. Jordan Volz - The Silent Ballet

Mp3 | Besarin Quartett - oktober
Mp3 | Besarin Quartett - nachtblind



Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound , Curated by Universal Everything and Freeform, this is an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, animators and architects

The first release will be a collection of Audio-Visual Sound Sculptures, on High Definition DVD and 5:1 Surround Sound

Watch | Advanced Beauty

Coming in Spring 2008


CALLING ALL VISUAL ARTISTS

Who wants to submit some T.SHIRT designs to Ninja Tune?
We are looking for some skilled ninja artists. We know you're out there and we know you want to get noticed.
There are, of course, some guidelines... like you can only use 2 or 3 colors, and you have to put 'Ninja Tune' somewhere in the design. Remember, these are for t.shirts, not album cover artwork. You can put something on the front, on the back, or on the sleeve(s). All submissions have to be received by JUNE 1, so start thinking about it now and respond to this bulletin with your info TODAY.

To be considered for this contest, simply reply to this post with the following info:
a). your name
b). your email
c). a link to view some of your work (myspace profile is acceptable if you have stuff on there, link us to those images). Don't worry if you've never done any t.shirt designs, we just want to see your style.

If your work is to our liking, you will get more details and a template for the t.shirt design. We will also give you some hi-res ninja tune logos/images to play with.
If your design is selected as one of the 8 finalists, it will be submitted to hundreds of retailers across the U.S., who will then pick their favorites to buy in mass quantities! If your design is selected to go into production we'll give you some kind of outrageous prize like $200 to spend in the ninjashop, or guestlist to shows, or you hang out with your favorite artist on the label for one whole day! (not really the latter, we can't promise that).



Ari Folman animated documentary could easily turn out to be one of the most powerful statements of this Cannes and will leave its mark forever on the ethics of war films in general. Dealing from a very personal point of view with the Israeli incursion into the Lebanon in 1982 and culminating with the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp massacre, which the Israelis did not perpetrate but surely tolerated, this is not only a tremendously potent anti-war movie but also a formidable moral indictment of Israeli conduct at that time. Screen Daily - Dan Fainaru

Watch | Waltz with Bashir



Ice Age 3
The adventure continues as Diego, Manny, and Sid all return for another round of prehistoric fun in this installment of the popular computer-animated series.

Watch | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

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