Drum N Bass : NOISIA - Imperial EP

Dutch Drum n Bass awesomeness got their senses back and are putting back some trashy bombs, was about time guys cause there's enough cheesy dubstep in the world !!!

Asmita,The Radio Dep,Ari Marcopoulos, Make the Girl Dance, Jessica Tremp, Noisia,Acid Test,Lali Puna, RdeuxDdeux, We Have Band, Amsterdam

Asmita: State where the ego and the sense of individuality are completely transcended and there is only pure awareness.

Directed by Ryan Hooks and music by the Soft Spot

Watch | Asmita
Mp3 | Soft Spot - Asmita

Soft Spot are Sarah Kinlaw and Bryan Keller from Brooklyn New York , they are releasing their debut Lp and touring the Usa.

"Soft Spot is music to dance to and music to sit to, music to wake to and music to make love to. For as childhood ambitions once scribbled in crayon and existing only in daydreams, this product of two passionate hearts can only have the sweetest of fruits." Molly Would

Mp3 | Soft Spot - Half House
Watch | Soft Spot - Half House



Swedish band , The Radio Dep is releasing a new album "Clinging to a scheme" on Labrador Records in the coming month

"The band has combined the most unequalled components from their previous albums “Lesser matters” and “Pet grief” with soul guitars, P-funk, glittering, distorted synthesizers, cut/paste-beats, 70’s futuristic orchestra sounds and sounds you don't know what they are. Things you've never heard before. "Clinging to a scheme" is way beyond pleasing - it's absolutely breathtaking."
Labrador

Mp3 | The Radio Dep - David
Mp3 | The Radio Dep - Heavens on Fire



Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
Ari Marcopoulos - It might seem familiar
27 February 2010 until 16 June 2010

This spring Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam presents an exhibition by the Amsterdam-born photographer and filmmaker, Ari Marcopoulos. Marcopoulos (b. 1957, Amsterdam) set off for New York in 1979 and quickly became a significant documenter of alternative youth culture in America throughout the last three decades. Foam is showing work from his entire oeuvre, ranging from photos of the emerging hip-hop and downtown art scene in New York in the 1980s and the snowboard and skate culture in the 1990s, to frequent depictions of his own family in Northern California over the last ten years.

Marcopoulos’s work is characterized by a remarkable feeling of intimacy. Whether it concerns celebrities from the world of music or art, or his own family, he approaches his subjects in an intuitive manner and he always knows how to get close to the heart. His photos are direct, extremely personal and subtly structured. Recurrent themes are art, music, graffiti and the vulnerability of the human body. The exhibition shows a cross-section of his work from the last 30 years, varying from grainy black and white copies, monumental colour photos, videos, books and zines. Foam


Seventy-One Percent of Earth
A film by Ari Marcopoulos

Big wave surfers Grant "Twiggy" Baker, Brian Conley, Greg Long, Rusty Long,
Frank Solomon and Anthony Tashnick call for the creation of marine protected areas in our oceans, like national parks on land, in this film by Ari Marcopoulos, presented by NRDC

Watch | Seventy-One Percent of Earth



Video for Parisian duo Make the Girl Dance.

Watch | Make The Girl Dance - BABY BABY BABY!


Photography by Jessica Tremp

Born in 1981, Jessica grew up in Switzerland before moving to Melbourne at the age of 18. She has been scratching her creative itch through various mediums and having looked at the world through a view finder all her life, with or without a camera in hand, finally opened the floodgates on photography more seriously in the last few years. She has been published in magazines including ‘empty’ and the American ‘shots’ and has participated in various group shows. Her passion for creativity keeps growing into an obsession and constant desire for release.



Super Dutch drum n bass outfit Noisia has new EP "Machine Gun" and are on a extensive world tour , if they knock on your neighborhood dont miss it , its a real blast.

'Ma­chine Gun' is the first sin­gle off Nois­ia's forth­com­ing al­bum 'Split the Atom', re­leased April 5th.

Watch | Noisia - Machine Gun
Mp3 | Noisia - Invisible Studio Mix January 2010



ACID TEST: This groundbreaking NRDC documentary explores the startling phenomenon of ocean acidification, which may soon challenge marine life on a scale not seen for tens of millions of years. Featuring Sigourney Weaver.

for more info please visit Acid Test Movie

Watch | Acid Test



Long time favorites , Lali Puna is preparing the release on their new album " Our Inventions " out on Morr Music 02 April.

More than half a decade has elapsed since the release of Faking The Books, Lali Puna's third (and hitherto most recent) long-player, but the band's impact on the climate of electronic rock music remains palpable. Along with sister-group The Notwist, this Weilheim quartet have helped map out the musical landscape for modern, experimentally minded pop music, and Our Inventions finds Lali Puna continuing to push the frontiers of their medium. Along with sister-group The Notwist, this Weilheim quartet have helped map out the musical landscape for modern, experimentally minded pop music, and Our Inventions finds Lali Puna continuing to push the frontiers of their medium. Morr Music

Mp3 | Lali Puna - Remember



Very cool customized bags and robot shirts by Bruxelles based creative Art Director Mana



New We Have Band Video :), directed by Jul & Mat , debut album on April.

Watch | We Have Band - Divisive
Mp3 | We Have Band - Divisive [ DJ Mujava Edit ]



The Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (AMA), in the very heart of Europe, attracts people and organisations from around the world. Since centuries, Amsterdam has been a hub for world trade. In the years to come, the local authorities will make a joint and critical effort to pro-mote the more intensive use of their territories.

To give international investors and companies a better opportunity of getting to know about all the possibilities of the area an unique experience was created. What in the old days used to be a model of the landscape from wood and foam, committed to stay in one spot, now became a digital interactive standalone application with a voiceover which allows delegations to travel around the world and show in easy access the look, feel and facts of AMA. Project on behalf of and in collaboration with INDG. Monkai

Watch | Amsterdam Metropolitan Area Experience

Audiopleasures Mixtape,Noisia,Hildur Gudnadóttir,Mountains,Erased Tapes,10-20,Codes in the Clouds,The Halves,Too Loud a Solitude,Sonic Youth

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Audiopleasures Mixtape

Mp3 | Apparat - Koax [ Ellen Allien mix ]
Mp3 | Bat For Lashes - Whats a Girl to Do [ Plaid mix ]
Mp3 | Battles - Tonto [ Four Tet mix ]
Mp3 | Booka Shade - Outskirts [ Trentemoller mix ]
Mp3 | Boozoo Bajou - Same Sun [ Quantec Remake ]
Mp3 | Bumblebeez - Pump Up The Bass [ Ed Banger mix ]
Mp3 | Christian Vogel - Neon Underground
Mp3 | Fuck Buttons - Colours Move [ Mogwai mix ]
Mp3 | Marc Hellner - Asleep on the wing [ Telefon tel aviv mix ]
Mp3 | Red snapper - Brickred [ Subway mix ]
Mp3 | The Chap - They Have a Name [ Atlas Sound mix ]
Mp3 | The Knife - We Share Our Mothers Health [ Ratatat mix ]

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Excelent Drum n' Bass set by Noisia friday @ Melkweg Amsterdam

Watch | Noisia - Desolation


Moi and K , the Danish dynamite . lol


Hildur Gudnadóttir @ Paard van Troje
24 Apr Den Haag

A few weeks ago , Hildur Ingveldardóttir Gudnadóttir has released a magisterial record on Touch , my favorite of the year , not only a contender to best record of the year , but already an instant Contemporaneous Classic.

Its a must have and especially a must see , Im quite excited to see Hildur live in 4 weeks and to have the opportunity to ask her a few questions about " Without Sinking " and her marvelous Cello.

Mp3 | Hildur Gudnadottir - EruptingLight



Mountains is Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp, friends since their middle school days. The duo were brought together by mutual artistic and musical interests, and both ended up at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was during this time that they began exchanging musical ideas and compositions which led to them founding the Apestaartje label in 1999. As their collaborations and individual projects blossomed, they decided to create Mountains as a vehicle for live performance.

A love of sculpting sound in front of an audience is at the heart of Mountains. The group’s third album, Choral, (their first self-titled release and second album Sewn were both on Apestaartje), is the culmination of their work to date and a balanced mix of the first two efforts. Mountains is often compared to artists such as Brian Eno and Fennesz citing their extended melodies and their unique broad guitar work. Mountains seamlessly blend pastoral electronic sounds with both field recordings and a plethora of acoustic instruments. The resulting soundscapes are broad in scope and rich in detail. The effect is incredibly sublime and hypnotic as the sounds slowly wrap themselves around each other and alter themselves in the mind of the listener. Choral is a uniquely soothing and addicting listening experience and an aural crazy quilt: warm and inviting with many details to discover and explore. Thrill Jockey

Mp3 | Mountains - Choral



Since early 2007 German-born initiator and founder of Erased Tapes Records, Robert Raths, has captured and released a wide spectrum of alternative pop music from neo-classical to IDM – picturesque, universally speaking music for people of all ages to dream to. To celebrate Erased Tapes’ first year of releases, label nights, tours and a now worldwide distribution network, the 10th release comes in form of a free Digital Download Code for a compilation album. The so-called DDC enables customers to download a selection of 11 songs from the Erased Tapes catalogue including exclusive remixes. Visit Erased Tapes and type in ‘MY–FREE–ERATP010’ for your personal copy.



10-20’s self titled album is a claustrophobic hulk of a release, constructed from parts of discarded machinery, short-circuiting currents of krautrock, broken hip hop structures, dense aquatic substreams and spectral elements, all of which are funnelled towards a single cohesive hypnotic pulse.

Based in devon, the coastal and elemental forces of the producer’s environment is evident in the scope of intricate sounds layered and woven into rough shorn textures, where only a filtered ghostly impression of club-land’s influence can be discerned within the resultant sound.

Mp3 | 10-20 - Arcadeagle



Instrumental rock music is experiencing a new peak in England. Codes In The Clouds, the quintet of Morahan, Peeling, Smith, Major and Power from Greater London/Kent have found a firm place in this vast growing post-rock scene.

With their harmonious and blissful sound they weave guitar melodies, liable to explode any minute. If you still can’t imagine intense music without vocals then you will be surprised how easily these boys will let you forget this prejudice. Energetic and charming at once, surprising and unpredictable at all times.

Paper Canyon video trailer shot at Camber Sands, UK in December 2008. Director: MacGregor. Producer: Mike Hedge. Concept: Robert Raths

Watch | Codes in the Clouds Teaser



A video for the halves song Tony Hart's Revenge Theme from their first EP

Watch | The Halves - Tony Hart's Revenge Theme



Trailer for Genevieve Anderson's puppet film based on the Bohumil Hrabal novella. Paul Giamatti contributed the voice of Hanta.

Watch | Too Loud a Solitude



So much class !

Watch | Sonic Youth - Reena



Mp3 | Bell X1 - Flame [ Chicken Lips mix ]
Mp3 | Crookers - What Up Y'all [ Dirty Disco Youth mix ]
Mp3 | Editors - Camera [ SebastiAn mix ]
Mp3 | Guns n Bombs - Riddle of Steel [ Para One mix]
Mp3 | Just a Band - We Are [ The Shoe mix ]
Mp3 | Kreeps - All I wanna do is break some hearts [ Boys Noise mix ]
Mp3 | M83 - Couleurs [ Jori Hulkkonnen mix ]
Mp3 | Peaches - Downtown [ Simian Mobile Disco mix ]
Mp3 | Shazam - Pool Party 2009 [ Headman mix ]
Mp3 | SPA - Pets Dance [ Steve Aoki mix ]
Mp3 | Tigerstrike - I Disappear [ Lapse Dub Mix ]

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