allmusic.com: "Some call him a genius, others claim he's certifiably insane, a madman. Truth is, he's both, but more importantly, Lee Perry is a towering figure in reggae -- a producer, mixologist, and songwriter who, along with King Tubby, helped shape the sound of dub and made reggae music such a powerful part of the pop music world. Along with producing some of the most influential acts (Bob Marley & the Wailers and the Congos to name but two) in reggae history, Perry's approach to production and dub mixing was breathtakingly innovative and audacious -- no one else sounds like him -- and while many claim that King Tubby invented dub, there are just as many who would argue that no one experimented with it or took it further than did Lee Perry." Read more
epitonic.com:"Voice Crack is a challenging listen, but an endlessly intriguing one. For nearly two decades, the Swiss duo of Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl have been making ominous noise tapestries our of, well, junk -- "cracked everyday electronics," as they call it. Things they find in the garbage. Leftover building materials, shortwave radios on the fritz, broken calculators, whatever they can get their hands on. They transform these unwanted objects into functional electronic instruments and use them to create enigmatic sound collages."
TheWIRE 255: "From the Max Ernst-style Merz of the cover of Fake Universe Man to the International Corporation’s zoned out PR sheet, which comes under the guise of a big business communiquй complete with analysis detailing the temporal point-origin of each vertical stratum of the CD in relation to its position along the recording’s timeline, it’s evident The Lickets are not some tepidly traditional collective. The ten tracks of Fake Universe Man smudge and bleed into one another. In the opener, “Big Happy Bubble,” the listener enters an impossibly dense forest, ponds choked by gigantic fronds, the sky blotted out and peopled by a thousand different varieties of bird and frog. “Reconstruction Research” is reminiscent of Hal Blaine’s paisley shirted grooves and the longform tickertape rhythms on Faust’s So Far; doppler-donkey horns trot past." Read more
Bravo is a dual-gender magazine, with a readership that is about 58
percent female among the 1.75 million copies it sells across Europe. Butthe unique and startling thing about it, for a publication whose readership includes kids as young as 10, is its rather candid approach to sex.
While I was a teen I dind't read Bravo very often, because the Heavy Metal content was close to zero, but I bought all the issues which contained Star Wars poster.
The article is actually a good read, the article argues about the aproach to teenage sex in the USA and Germany.
This is because the culture in Germany promotes a kind of openness about teen sexuality — rather than being gratuitous, it’s educational. In America, teen magazines are also training manuals for most aspects of adolescent life, from one’s first kiss to choosing the right outfit to wear to dazzle your college interviewer. But anything in the bedroom — we don’t go there [...] In the US, attitudes are often ambivalent and contradictory. “US magazines send mixed messages about sexuality — it’s good to be sexy, but best not to have sex; it’s fine to be sexually active (especially if you’re dating, in love, use safer sex), but better if you’re not,”
earlabs.org: "For many years Slovak music of the 20th century has been developing under the pressure of a totalitarian system. Anything new and unconventional in comparison with the set bounds of the culture of the socialist society threatened its strength and safety of the aesthetic criteria in the eyes of the dogmatic cultural policy and therefore was expelled to the margin of the social interest, culture, even beyond the borders of arts" Read more
Spex.de: Das ungekürzte E-Mail-Interview mit Antye Greie-Fuchs (AGF) und Vladislav Delay (VD), anlässlich ihres ersten gemeinsamen Albums »Explode«, über Ein- und Zweisamkeiten, Kommunikationen und Explosionen, Mode, Mut und Dualitäten." Mehr
allmusic.com:"Combining a romantic dreaminess with a massive array of instruments, occasionally heavy guitars, and fragile pop melodies, the Japanese folk-psych band Nagisa Ni Te (On the Beach) is among the most innovative and eclectic groups of the late '90s. Consisting of multi-instrumentalist Shinjii Shibayama, and his partner and musical inspiration Masako Takeda, the group has been compared to a wide range of experimental and emotionally direct groups from the Velvet Underground to Belle and Sebastian." read more
"Kinos in Deutschland 2006" is a series of photos by photographer Sylvia Ballhause from Mannheim (that's also my hometown). The pictures are also available as a calendar at Amazon.de.The picture above shows the "Atlantis" cinemafrom Mannheim.
betterpropaganda.com: The anthemic Olympia, WA-based punk trio Sleater-Kinney formed from the ashes of Heavens to Betsy and Excuse 17, a pair of groups which rode the first wave of the riot grrrl movement. Singers/guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein first met in 1992, when Tucker was one half of the duo Heavens to Betsy; Brownstein, a classically-trained pianist, was so inspired by Tucker and other grrrl musicians like Bikini Kill and Bratmobile (not coincidentally Tucker's own influences) that she formed her own band, Excuse 17, a year later. Read more
Julian Cowley, The Wire 248: The music of Le Doigt De Galilee is gradual and layered. Nicholas Field builds insistently rumbling drum clouds, sustains nervy rattling strokes or scrapes metallic percussion. Jaime Fennelly adds further density with bass drum and enlivens the continuum with unassuming electronic murmurs, feedback gush and occasional penetrating shrillness.
Instrumentation and temperaments preclude smoothness, but contours and dynamics nonetheless meet and fuse in a kind of prolonged musical massage. A sexually aroused robotic figure is the pair's chosen depicted object. More Info
allmusic.com: "Despite the constant shifts in name (from Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel to Foetus Uber Frisco to Foetus All Nude Revue) and the less frequent variations in aesthetics (all focused around the same unforgiving sonic attack), the music manufactured under the prolific Foetus umbrella was solely the product of one J.G. (Jim) Thirlwell. A native of Melbourne, Australia, Thirwell relocated to London in 1978, where he conceived the basic Foetus concept -- impenetrable panaramas of extremist noise built on tape loops and syncopated rhythms -- as an alternative to the constraints of rock music." Read more
allmusic.com: "Picking up the pieces from At the Drive-In, Cedric Bixler and Omar Rodriguez formed the Mars Volta and wasted little time in branching out into elements of hardcore, psychedelic rock, and free jazz that expanded on the boundaries of their previous work. Although their previous band's demise ultimately arrived before they were able to truly capitalize on their mounting commercial triumphs, the Mars Volta immediately impressed with their willingness to eschew conventional logic and push themselves into new artistic directions instead of opting for the more marketable sounds." Read more
allmusic.com: "Crawling out of the same noisy, arty New York underground that sired Sonic Youth and Lydia Lunch, Swans created a dark, abrasive, murky, slowed-down noise rock that served as a starting point for their ruminations about alienation, depression, depravity, and the disturbing side of human nature." Read more
From boomkat.com: How the Los Angeles indie scene of the late 80's, populated by the likes of Rain Parade, Dream Syndicate, Opal and Mazzy Star found sympathy in a Berlin circa 2004 remains a wonderful mystery. Julia Hummer, a German film actress well known in her native country as an ‘onscreen teen wildchild’, together with her musical accomplice, Christopher Uhe, have brought a modern European response to this sound.
mikmusik.org: Mik.Musik.!. is the record label, very small one, run by Wojt3k Kucharczyk with cheerfull companionship of Piotrek Połoz and Bartek Kujawski.
Acts on the borderline between unofficial and official culture, preferes to create a new system, feels no lack of self-character.
Mik.!. has become known from its music all the time avoiding easy associations, preference for nontypical actions and unusal publishing and releasing ideas, great care about covers, activity and uncompromise, provoking "scenes" to think.
pixelsurgeon.com: Rubber Johnny, Chris Cunningham's new short film is six minutes and ten seconds of fucked up terror that fuses the music of Aphex Twin with his own unique visual style . The titular Johnny is a mutant kid stuck in a wheelchair who is shut in the dark by his parents and amuses himself and his pet dog by shape-shifting and raving! Chris himself plays the part of Johnny and the film itself became a kind of side project that evolved out of a 30 second promo for Aphex Twin's Druqks and took several years to complete for both the shooting and the editing. " Read more
I don't know if it's a fake, so if anyone has more information, please write a comment
mindbending.us: "Mindbending Software Inc. is a company specialised on psychological conditioning software packages for children.
With the newest technologies our products infiltrate the computer games of your kids and mingle various subconscious or concious conditiong messages and images in the game contents.
The technology can be compared with the subconscious pictures in the TV program, and if you don’t know about them, ask yourself why are you buying all those things you don’t need. You see it works !
Our software uses the same and some other patented methods to condition your kids.
Try it out, if you aren’t satisfied you’ll get your money back !
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Your kids will be conditioned while gaming, they sit in front of their computers anyway, so let them become as you want them with some brainwashing.
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This company remembered me of an old article I read a while ago:
"Kinder und Teenager werden in den USA wegen sexueller Vergehen einer Behandlung unterzogen, die an "Clockwork Orange" erinnert. Die Folgen der sexuellen Unterdrückung sind fatal." www.heise.de
China Miéville hat mit "Perdido Street Station" und "The Scar" bereits Beweise dafür vorgelegt, dass Science Fiction und Fantasy auf hohem erzählerischem Niveau miteinander kombiniert werden können. In seinem neuesten Buch "Iron Council" geht er nun einen Schritt weiter und betreibt Revolutionstheorie im Gewand der Phantastik." Der vollständige Artikel auf telepolis.de
"Tokyo - A Japanese research team has developed a fuel cell that runs on blood without using toxic substances, opening the way for use in artificial hearts and other organs.
The biological fuel cell uses glucose, a sugar in blood, with a non-toxic substance used to draw electrons from glucose, said the team led by Matsuhiko Nishizawa, bio-engineering professor at the graduate school of state-run Tohoku University." Read more
betterpropaganda.com: The anthemic Olympia, WA-based punk trio Sleater-Kinney formed from the ashes of Heavens to Betsy and Excuse 17, a pair of groups which rode the first wave of the riot grrrl movement. Singers/guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein first met in 1992, when Tucker was one half of the duo Heavens to Betsy; Brownstein, a classically-trained pianist, was so inspired by Tucker and other grrrl musicians like Bikini Kill and Bratmobile (not coincidentally Tucker's own influences) that she formed her own band, Excuse 17, a year later. 
