EP : Big Nils - Bitch Gutsssssss 7"

Big Nils is a raw and noisy punk band from Northampton, Mass. This bands becomes of some importance once i knew that the daughter of Sonic Youth Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore is the leading singer, beside the family roots they are extremely good too and there is a familiar sonic distortion and aggression in their music than can be seen as the Sonic Youth legacy. Must be quite overwhelming to have a name like Coco Gordon-Moore attached to you

Thurston Moore, Blogotheque A Take Away Show

One of my mega music heroes ♥ Thurston Moore ♥ has a new album popping out and his the guest on the latest superrrrrrr series blogotheque and The Take Away Shows.

Watch | Thurston Moore, A Take Away Show

Thurston Moore - Benediction video

New music video from the Sonic Youth legend Thurston Moore upcoming new solo album, Demolished Thoughts is out May 24 on Matador.

Watch | Thurston Moore - Benediction

Thurston Moore - Benediction

Listen | Thurston Moore - Benediction

New single from the Sonic Youth legend !!! the new album "Demolished Thoughts" will be released on the indie lable Matador 24 May

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Sonic Youth have unveiled the video for “Sacred Trickster,” opening track off their new album "The Eternal".

Watch | Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster



In a black & white Paris, little creatures with paintbrush decide to brighten up the city...

Reulf is student project from University of Paris VIII directed by Quentin Carnicelli, Charles Klipfel & Jean-François Jégo as part of our graduate program in Arts and Technologies de l'Image.
Music composed by Robert le magnifique & Olivier Mellano.

Watch | Reulf



Frozen, 5 Days Off MEDIA
2 - 26 July 2008
Melkweg Mediaroom, Paradiso
Amsterdam

In the Mediaroom at the Melkweg multi-channel sound pieces can be experienced over an advanced speaker setup, accompanied by sound in a "frozen" form: Images and sculptural objects made using sound as input. These artworks use audio analysis and custom software processes to extract meaningful data from the sound signal, creating a mapping between audio and other media. Frozen will feature digital prints as well as four "sound sculptures" created using digital fabrication technology such as rapid prototyping, CNC and laser cutting, which allow for the direct translation of a digital model into physical form.

Frozen arose in collaboration with the Norwegian artist and curator Marius Watz, whose Generator.x project investigates the implications of generative systems and computational models of creation. The recent exhibition Generator.x 2.0: Beyond the Screen brought together artists and architects to explore the potential of this new mode of creation.

Besides Watz's own contribution, 'audio sculptures' will be on display by Andreas Nicolas Fischer (DE) & Benjamin Maus (DE), Leander Herzog (CH), and Daniel Widrig & Shajay Booshan (UK). These sculptures are based on audioworks by Freiband (Nl, Frans de Waard), and Alexander Rishaug (No). Frozen



A girl from a strange family falls prey to her doppelgänger in this surreal animation that resulted from a collaborative script by John Malkovich for Sony.

To set the scene: a girl looks from a window onto a snowy vista, where she ventures to make a row of snow angels. That is until her doppelgänger buries her in the snow and returns to the house, which is populated by circus folk; a midget, a fire-eater, a contortionist and ‘her’ mother who wears a bandage over one eye. The girl is then sent upstairs call the other girls for breakfast, who turn out to be identical to her, and all dressed in gymnast outfits. Meanwhile outside a groundsman and his dog discover the original girl and begin to dig out the snow. The girls lead the doppelgänger down to breakfast, where her mother takes off her clothes to reveal the same gymnast outfit beneath. Then at the urging of the fire-eater, the midget attempts (and fails) to throw a strawberry into the mother’s mouth much to the glee of the onlookers. The doppelgänger runs to the window, through which we can see it is now Spring and the groundsman stands to reveal a white lilly on the spot where the original girl lay.Short of the Week

Watch | Snow Angel - Online Script Project



ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES - THE FILM

FEATURING: Belle And Sebastian / Grizzly Bear / Sonic Youth / Battles / Portishead / Daniel Johnston / Grinderman / David Cross / Animal Collective / The Boredoms / Les Savy Fav / Mogwai / Octopus Project / Slint / The Dirty Three / The Yeah Yeah Yeahs / The Gossip / GZA / Seasick Steve / Iggy And The Stooges / A Hawk And A Hacksaw / Fuck Buttons / Micah P Hinson / Two Gallants / Akron/Family / Jah Shaka / Saul Williams / Shellac / Patti Smith / John Cooper Clark / Lightning Bolt / Roscoe Mitchell / The Mars Volta

Coming Soon from Warp Films

In an out-of-season holiday camp on the coast of England, alternative music festival All Tomorrow’s Parties serves up a heady combination of alternative music, crazy golf and chalet-living; all curated by a single band or artist. This post-punk DIY bricolage uses material generated by the fans and musicians themselves, on a multitude of formats and over the history of ATP, to capture the uncompromising spirit of a parallel music universe. All Tomorrow’s Parties was created by All Tomorrow’s People and Jonathan Caouette. Ourtrueintent

Watch | All Tomorrow's Parties



Fantastic reel from Samm Hodges , awesome combination of graphics and sound.

Watch | Samm Hodges/Mothlight Design Reel '09





U-Ram Choe work engages a fanciful dialog of aesthetics and machinery, and explores themes of biological transformation, flight, and movement. In his recent work, large-scale metal and plastic automata materialize with such a delicacy and weightlessness that it seems to take on the shape and silhouette of an organic life form. Motors, heat and light sensitive materials add to the intricacy of Choe's kinetic sculptures.

With Choe's incorporation of scientific nomenclature into artwork titling systems, walking into the gallery space can be reminiscent of touring a prehistoric exhibit at a natural science or history museum-there are certain elements of recognition: mechanical diagrams, text descriptions of habitats, visible evidence of fins evolving into wings, and even propellers. The warm biologic livelihoods of machine-creatures become the subject in Choe's work. These dynamic forms bear emotion and have anthropological roots, despite their streamlined metallic sheen. Narratives authored by the artist complement his 3-dimensional designs and drawings. Wikipedia



Whatever Works is an upcoming 2009 comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film is a black comedy featuring Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Kristen Johnston, Ed Begley, Jr., Michael McKean, and Henry Cavill. David stars as Boris Yelnikoff, an eccentric, misanthropic physicist from Greenwich Village who becomes entangled with a young girl from the south (played by Wood) and her parents. The movie was filmed in New York City, marking Allen's return to his native city after a four-film sojourn in Europe. "It's very classic Woody Allen but it's still different than anything he's done," revealed Wood in a December 2008 interview. Wikipedia

Watch | Whatever Works



LJ Kruzer and Uncharted Audio present the Tam Variations, eight engaging experimental versions of Tam, a piece which features on Kruzer's forthcoming album Manhood & Electronics. Each variation is the end result of methodical sequences of sound processing exploring all the possibilities of computer manipulation of digitised sound data - stretching, squashing, restretching and resquashing giving the concertina'd timbres of Tamz; filtering, distorting and reverberating backwards and forwards to create the rough textures of Tamx and Tamxr; modulating brown noise with the source audio to give Tamb; and simple stretching and reverberating resulting in the billowy melancholy of the collection's opener Tam814.

The Tam Variations are available for free as 128kbps mp3s, and name your price for higher quality formats only here. Manhood & Electronics is set for release as a CD and download on Uncharted Audio on June 29th 2009.

Watch | Tam - LJ Kruzer Video

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" The Uperside of the Down Syndrome "

From Today till 21 June , a selection of the 101 pictures taken from the book De Upside van Down of Dutch photographer , Eva Snoijink , will be in exhibit near the Stopera in Amsterdam.

" I made a book with a 101 portraits of children with Down syndrome, the photographs are accompanied by short texts written by the parents of these children.
By showing the pure innocence of the children I want to highlight the positive aspects of Down. In that way I’d like to invite future parents to think about what taking the test means, and help them make concious decisions about the possible results. With my photographs I’d like to make people think about love, about life, and about making the choices that shape our lives."



Watch | The Making of De Upside van Down

For more info on this project please visit :
De Upside van Down



As anounced by Matador Records , Sonic Youth will release their new album " The Ethernal " , somewhere in the Spring.

To warm up our ears here is a the first single free of charges , and a video .

Mp3 | Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster
Watch | Sonic Youth - What We Know Later... With Jools Holland



A video put together by Chris Ware for our spring 2009 event "This American Life -- Live!" -- in which Ira Glass hosts an actual episode of the radio program, performed onstage by some of our favorite contributors. Dan Savage, Starlee Kine, and Mike Birbiglia told stories; David Rakoff and Dave Hill conducted a ‘special investigation. Plus, additional visuals by Arthur Jones, and a very special appearance by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer!

Watch | Quimby The Mouse



Greetings from Thrill Jockey Records! We are very happy to present to you, Beacons of Ancestorship, Tortoise's sixth full-length album and first release of new material in five years! The band has once again recast the mold and crafted an album that defies categorization and expectations and yet remains definitively the work of Tortoise. We hope you will take a listen and consider their new record for coverage in the coming months! It is out June 23rd on Thrill Jockey Records.

Mp3 | Tortoise - Prepare Your Coffin
Mp3 | Tortoise - High Class Slim Floatin' In



The young Gabrielle Chanel is the illegitimate daughter of a travelling salesman who learns to sew in a Catholic orphanage. She earns the nickname 'Coco' at a cabaret club where she is following her singing ambitions and it is also where she catches the eye of several high society gentlemen who would ignite her passion and become instrumental in the development of her remarkable career. Screenrush

Watch | Coco Avant Chanel


The seventh Kitsuné Maison compilation, the lucky one.

Kitsuné gets more and more professional, but stays as fresh and passionate as ever. With a constantly expanding network and always more news, discoveries, talents soon to blow-up, hopes, love, happiness and he-do-nism.

The Maison is not so much a withdrawal, but more of a welcoming space, open to all winds. There are newcomers but also loyalty, some artists are now firmly part of, not just the maison, but the Kitsuné family. Lately the bands from the Kitsuné Maison compilations have also started to play some collective shows together: Kitsuné En Vrai! (Kitsuné For Real!).

The Kitsuné sieve keeps on searching for gold and inevitably some mornings the discoveries put you in a good mood. So here’s already the seventh compilation, the one that strikes lucky.

“Kitsuné Maison 7” will be released June 9, 2009 on Kitsune.

Mp3 | Autokratz - Always More [ Yuksek mix ]



Swarm is one of eight interactive works selected for Re-ACT / Interactive Light Art – an exposition of art installations and objects, all with some form of built in interaction. In our case the position of people under the installation is used to attract a swarm of coloured light which travels through the sculpture. When no-one is engaged in direct playful interaction with the piece, it will start displaying its own decorative behaviour.

For the design of Swarm we made use of Blender and some custom built tools to generate the six meter wide swarm-like shape consisting of almost 500 elements. The control software was created in openFrameworks and uses flocking algorithms and computer vision to let the audience influence the light animations which fly through the sculpture.

Watch | Swarm



Cool Song and video from The Answering Machine .

Watch | The Answering Machine - Light Bulbs




" My mind is like a filter constantly translating the world around me. Everything catches my eye: bright orange traffic cones meandering between the street and the sidewalk; an enormous building sheathed in black mesh from top to bottom; duct tape adhering a handwritten sign to a newly polished subway tiled wall. These are all urban works in progress, part of the transitory, the ephemeral, and the makeshift. These are the environments we inhabit everyday . When experiencing my work I want the viewer to become aware of their own body, their own frailty and strength. I also want them to become sensitive to their desire to touch the work. At times the act of viewing itself becomes physically awkward or like a strange dance. " Diana Cooper


The Glass come with their first new single in over a year on Plant Music 12" and Digital.
No free stuff yet , but a cool video.

Watch | The Glass - Wanna Be Dancin'



Mp3 | Barletta - Fire and Gold
Mp3 | Deepak Sharma - Dieter Krause [ Cubik Original Mix ]
Mp3 | Dirty Projectors And David Byrne - Ambulance Man
Mp3 | Grafton Primary -Allstars [ CIS mix ]
Mp3 | Gravious - Worldoftomorrow
Mp3 | Nickodemus - Sunchildren
Mp3 | Peaches - Mommy Complex [ Barletta & Ernold Sane mix ]
Mp3 | The Honey Brothers - Demonstration
Mp3 | Thot - Ortie [ Emotional Spy mix ]
Mp3 | Twiggy Frostbite - Thrown in Two

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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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" Confuse the Marketplace " - DFA - 2007
Dance Punk / Electro / Disco House

Following the success of the smash sophomore album, Sound of Silver, Lcd Soundsystem gives us the Confuse the Marketplace vinyl-only EP, right on the heels of the commercial release of his disco-epic 45:33. The EP consists of three tracks, all previously unavailable in North America and all aimed directly at the dancefloor. The sensational "Freak Out/Starry Eyes" is a soulful two-part jam laced with heavy congas and soothing vocals that continues in the same cosmic disco vein as 45:33. Also included is "North American Scum," subtitled "Onanistic Dub" and remixed by James Murphy and longtime DFA studio engineer Erick Broucek. Percussion-heavy track "Hippie Priest Bum-Out" completes the trio, emphasizing Murphy's long-apparent love of all things drum-related. Insound

Mp3 | Lcd Soundsystem - Freakout Starry Eyes
Mp3 | Lcd Soundsystem - North American Scum [ Onanistic Dub ]



Now that we are talking about the DFA , its about time to take out of the pocket one of the best kept secrets. One of my favorites out of the James Murphy & Company Label DFA , ive been rocking "Thats the Way i Like it" for a long time , just can't get enought of it.
The good news are , they are back in studio and maybe new stuff will come out this year. Cant Wait ...

Pixeltan are a band consisting of Devin Flynn, Mika Yoneta (both also of Plate Tectonics, along with Adam drummer from Olneyville Sound System) and drummer Hisham Bharoocha (ex-Black Dice). The Pixeltan project was actually begun with DFA in 2001 and the DFA produced track Itchy Cable was completed for inclusion on the Troubleman compilation Mix Tape. But things got sidetracked, for both Pixeltan and DFA. They released a self-produced EP on Troubleman, Devin and Mika formed the free-form hip hop band Plate Tectonics and Hisham got busy with dual careers in Black Dice and as a artist and designer. In April of 2004, after Hisham left Black Dice and DFA reconnected with Devin and Mika, the never-finished tracks were revisited and work commenced once again, as the rediscovered tunes now sounded more relevant than ever. The results include the A Side "Get up / Say What," a DFA remix of 2 Pixeltan tracks that contain some of the subbiest, dubbed out death-disco ever to emerge from the DFA studios.

Mp3 | Pixeltan - Thats The way i like it
Mp3 | Pixeltan - Get Up Say What


" Our Sleepless Forest " - Resonant - 2008
Experimental / Ambient / Psychedelic

Absolutely stunning debut album of ambient electronic space rock from a Frighteningly young three-piece from South London .

Our Sleepless Forest music is multi-layered, complex and dense, yet dedication and attention are rewarded as the intricate slow-build melodies are revealed beneath the feedback, crackle and hiss. Reminiscent at times of the likes of Loscil or even Radiohead's more out-there moments but on the whole avoiding the predictable comparisons associated with music of this genre, this is an album that simply has to be heard.

One of the best albums of the year . A must Have .

Mp3 | Our Sleepless Forest - The Clarion
Mp3 | Our Sleepless Forest - White Bird


" J'accuse Ted Hughes / Agnès B Musique " - SYR - 2008
Post- Rock / Experimental

Another great instalment in Sonic Youth SYR series, this one features two engrossing, lengthy pieces : 'J'Accuse Ted Hughes' and 'Agnes B Musique'. The former was recorded at All Tomorrow's Parties 2001, when the band were premiering material from their NYC Ghosts & Flowers album, and takes the form of a ragged twenty-two minute noise jam featuring free association lyrics by Kim Gordon ("I sent my poem to Good Housekeeping. They paid me ten dollars" she imparts). Meanwhile, the more composed, studio based experiments of 'Agnes B Musique' were originally intended as a soundtrack work as part of a collaboration with the French designer of the title. Sadly, the project never saw completion, instead surfacing some five years later as this incredible eighteen minute B-side, featuring the production and performance of then-bandmember Jim O'Rourke, who helps sculpt the piece into something more dynamic and more fully formed than the anything-goes droner it might have otherwise been. Awesome stuff - Highly recommended. Boomkat

Mp3 | Sonic Youth - Agnes B Musique



New awesome video instalacion by Maxim Zhestkov

Watch | Maxim Zhestkov Advanced Beauty



New short film by Blu , an ambiguous animation painted on public walls. Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)

Watch | Muto



The French riots of 2005 inspired the photographer Denis Darzacq to head for the housing estates on the outskirts of the capital. But he wasn't after gritty shots of urban deprivation, he tells Angelique Chrisafis. He wanted something more - to capture an entire generation in freefall and with no one to catch them.



This an incredible website ... enter , Zune Journey , choose Videos , click old with your mouse and enjoy the tryp.

29/05 Opening Maxalot Art Gallery Amsterdam with Kozyndan
01/06 Gabriel Rios - Bloemendaal Openluchttheater Caprera
02/06 Cat Power - Paradiso
12/06 Fuck Buttons - Patronaat / Haarlem
15/06 Joan as Police Women - Melkweg
23/06 Vladislav Delay w/ Moritz von Oswald Crew - Bimhuis
30/06 Battles - Patronaat / Haarlem
06/07 Cansei de Ser Sexy / Midnight Juggernauts / The Presets - Paradiso