Joy Division - Atmosphere
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Joy Division - Shadowplay Live 1978
Joy Division - Shes Lost Control Live 1978
Joy Division - Transmission Interview and Shes Lost Control
epd.de: Es ist noch nicht allzu lange her, da konnte man die regelmäßig erscheinenden, lesenswerten Filmzeitschriften des deutschsprachigen Raums an einer Hand abzählen. Und Publikationen, die sich den Randbereichen des Kinos widmeten, gab es außer der exzellenten "Splatting Image" schon gar nicht.
Das Ende 2002 gegründete, halbjährlich erscheinende Magazin "Ikonen" kann daher nur als Bereicherung der film-, oder besser: kulturpuplizistischen Landschaft betrachtet werden. Herausgegeben von dem Mainzer Filmwissenschaftler Marcus Stiglegger befasst sich das Heft mit Kunst, Kultur und alternativen Lebensstilen - im Klartext heisst das: Ein Text von Peter Sloterdijk über Cioran hat ebenso Raum wie ein Report über die Londoner Fetisch-Szene, eine Hommage an Werner Herzog, ein Essay über Paul Schraders "Mishima", ein Nachruf auf Johnny Cash oder ein Interview mit einer japanischen Bondage-Diva." Mehr
Auf der Homepage des Magazins sind jede Menge Artikel online nachzulesen. Einige Artikel der aktuellen Ausgabe sind ebenfalls online verfügbar. Wer "Splatting Image" liest, wird einige der Schreiber schon kennen.
variety.com: "David Lynch is making a new movie with StudioCanal. In fact, he's already been shooting it under the radar for two years.
Titled "INLAND EMPIRE" (in capitals, though Lynch doesn't explain why), it stars Laura Dern, along with Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton, Jeremy Irons and a host of others Lynch won't specify.
In fact, there's still very little the enigmatic Lynch is comfortable to reveal about the movie.
"It's about a woman in trouble, and it's a mystery, and that's about all I want to say about it," he comments diffidently." Read more
Wilco guitarist and frontman Jeff Tweedy and Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig offer up their opinions regarding Napster, free culture and the arts. Lessig wrote the 2004 book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Steven Johnson, author of Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate, will moderate the discussion."
In Dude, Where’s My Country?, Moore takes aim at America’s ruling class after September 11, 2001. He looks at the Bush family’s business dealings with the bin Ladens and asks why Osama’s relatives were quickly flown out of the US after the September attacks when the rest of the country was grounded."
greylodge.com: “To win without fighting is best,” Sun Tzu said. For the Chinese philosopher/general war was coeval with life. Tzu viewed the world as a network of combat zones where the stakes are high and struggle is the primary mode of being, where no one is to be trusted, and survival depends on nothing less than unconditional victory. Actors Ron Silver and B.D. Wong narrate this 2,500-year-old work of wisdom that continues to guide and inspire people of all cultures, teaching the principles of strategy required in everything from sports to business to affairs of the heart. Augmented by commentaries and anecdotes, this audio edition maintains the spare, near-poetic tone of the original.
matadorrecords.com:" M. Ward is a Portland, Oregon based songwriter whose music seems to occupy a place that is uniquely "out of time". A place that bridges the gaps between the roots of various American musical traditions—folk, country, blues and rock. Armed with a guitar, harmonica, sparse percussion and a tin-pan alley-esque piano, Ward spins timeless classics that seem to flow effortlessly; simple yet eloquent tales alive with metaphor and imagery, told in a raspy, sepia-toned croon. Listening to an M. Ward record is like thumbing through and old family photo album, full of black and white photographs that are fading around the edges; an imperfection that only adds to the clarity of their memories." Read more
One of the best online comics I ever read became finaly availible as a comic book in Germany. The comic is called „Same Difference & Other Stories“ by Derek Kirk Kim and can also be read entirely at the creator's webpage at: lowbright.com
greylodge.org: "Feeling out of place (at Disney) and ready to leave, Burton was given the opportunity to direct Vincent, a six minute short based on a children’s story he had written. The film is a humorous look at a suburban boy named Vincent who reads Edgar Allen Poe and identifies with horror film star Vincent Price. The studio gave Burton the go ahead after Price read the story and agreed to do the voiceover."
slashdot.org : "Because there is already a plethora of information about BitTorrent, this interview takes a different approach and focuses entirely on Cohen's Asperger's Syndrome. In addition to being interesting to anyone interested in BitTorrent, Cohen's story is extremely inspirational to those of us who do have Asperger's, and will probably be so even to those without Asperger's Syndrome." Read the interview here
testcard.de : "Discover America, benannt nach dem gleichnamigen Titel einer LP von Van Dyke Parks aus dem Jahre 1972, lädt ein, ein Land neu zu entdecken. Viele Linke erliegen hierzulande dem sie mit der Rechten wundersam einenden Kurzschluss, dass US-amerikanische Kultur und Mentalität ja längst bekannt seien und sich auf McDonald’s, Hollywood und Michael Jackson - kurz: auf so genannten Kulturimperialismus - reduzieren ließen. Der in Deutschland neu erstarkte Antiamerikanismus, dem nicht nur linke Antiimp-Blätter und rechte NPD-Organe, sondern auch die bürgerlichen Medien zum Großteil erlegen sind, macht sich nicht nur der dummen Gleichsetzung eines zugegebenermaßen gefährlichen Präsidenten mit "den USA" oder "den Amerikanern" schuldig, sondern spielt auch der seit drei bis vier Jahren massiv vorangetriebenen"
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Alle gegen einen. Ursachen und Folgen desAntiamerikanismus.
Die Guten und die Bösen. Beobachtungen zum amerikanischen Aufstand gegen George W. Bush.
Befreite Klänge. Die neue Lust an Experiment und Kollektiv – von BLACK DICE bis Load Records.
Christoph Jacke: Quiet Is The New Loud – neue stille Songschreiber in den USA oder das Dazwischen von Punk und Techno.
papigroove.org : a collection of avant garde/ free jazz/ psychedelia from the BYG Actuel catalogue & other great black music selection. Download here 74 min 104MB
from brainwashed.com :Japanese punksters Melt Banana might be pop fans at heart, but they'd rather play loud and fast than sing karaoke like the other kids at school. They have been recording and touring for ten years, leaving people like Brainwashed contributor Jonathan Dean hurt and injured in the ensuing rawkus that erupts at their shows. The shows are intense and the songs are lightning fast and quick and it was an honor to have some one-on-one time with singer Yako.
With Electrelane's driving instrumentals earning the band a reputation as the young things to watch, high profile gigs with Sleater-Kinney, Death In Vegas, Broadcast, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Primal Scream, and Le Tigre followed, along with a US deal with radical indie label, Mr. Lady. The release of Rock It To The Moon, followed by an EP, 'I Want To Be The President', confirmed the rumors. By now, sell-out gigs were the norm as a swathe of art rocker fans of Godspeed You! Black Emperor! and the Velvets, pure popists in love with X-Ray Spex or the B52s, indie kids who'd seen through the packaging of Britpop, poured into venues from Athens to London to New York.
from anniegosfield.com "Annie Gosfield has created a body of work that includes large–scale compositions, chamber pieces, electronic music, video projects, and music for dance. Her work often explores the inherent beauty of non–musical sounds, and is inspired by diverse sources such as machines, destroyed pianos, warped 78 records, and detuned radios. She uses traditional notation, improvisation, and extended techniques to create a sound world that eliminates the boundaries between music and noise, while emphasizing the unique qualities of each performer. Annie lives in New York City and divides her time between performing on piano and sampler with her own group and composing for many ensembles and soloists." Read more
The Wire, 2003: Plastic Crimewave Sound is something like the musical analogue to the Galactic Zoo Dossier fanzine, and their first single Grade Ceased, is about what you’d hope for from that connection. It is loud, crude psychedelic sludge, with heavily amped and effected guitars slicing through the swamps of midnight, with vocals buried in tanks of Japanese laughing gas, and rhythms sliding along like moist candy dropped from the lips of Alan Vega. Official homepage with 4 downloads
from "thesuburbs are killing us": This is the first recorded work of Konono No. 1 to reach the West. It was provided to me by Peter over at Worldly Disorientation, who got it dubbed from a friend who owns a cassette of Zaire: Musiques Urbaines a Kinshasa on the French ethnographic label Ocora." Read more + Download
From allmusic.com : "The Melvins were the first post-punk band to revel in the slow, sludgy sounds of Black Sabbath. Their music is oppressively slow and heavy, only without any of the silly mystical lyrics or the indulgent guitar solos -- it's just one massive, oozing pile of dark slime. The Melvins' first record was released in 1987; they've released several albums since then, but it wasn't until 1993 that they went to a major label, thanks to their protégé, Kurt Cobain. While the Melvins can be dull and repetitious, their place in rock history is interesting, even if it is just a minor footnote. The band formed in Aberdeen, WA, the same town that produced Nirvana's Cobain and Chris Novoselic." Read more @ allmusic.com
from fabpress.com :"With Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, Tokyo Fist and Bullet Ballet, Shinya Tsukamoto has become one of the most widely praised filmmakers in Japan today. Edgy, intense and overwhelming, Tsukamoto's films are nightmarish visions of a world in which man's greatest enemy is his own environment of cold concrete and twisted technology.
Shinya Tsukamoto rejuvenated the Japanese film industry, paving the way for an entire generation of young Japanese directors like Takashi Miike (Audition) and Hideo Nakata (Ringu). He has been credited as a direct influence on modern Western cinematic masters including Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill), David Fincher (Fight Club) and the Wachowski Brothers (The Matrix)."
matadorrecords.com:" M. Ward is a Portland, Oregon based songwriter whose music seems to occupy a place that is uniquely "out of time". A place that bridges the gaps between the roots of various American musical traditions—folk, country, blues and rock. Armed with a guitar, harmonica, sparse percussion and a tin-pan alley-esque piano, Ward spins timeless classics that seem to flow effortlessly; simple yet eloquent tales alive with metaphor and imagery, told in a raspy, sepia-toned croon. Listening to an M. Ward record is like thumbing through and old family photo album, full of black and white photographs that are fading around the edges; an imperfection that only adds to the clarity of their memories." 
greylodge.org: "Feeling out of place (at Disney) and ready to leave, Burton was given the opportunity to direct Vincent, a six minute short based on a children’s story he had written. The film is a humorous look at a suburban boy named Vincent who reads Edgar Allen Poe and identifies with horror film star Vincent Price. The studio gave Burton the go ahead after Price read the story and agreed to do the voiceover." 
testcard.de : "Discover America, benannt nach dem gleichnamigen Titel einer LP von Van Dyke Parks aus dem Jahre 1972, lädt ein, ein Land neu zu entdecken. Viele Linke erliegen hierzulande dem sie mit der Rechten wundersam einenden Kurzschluss, dass US-amerikanische Kultur und Mentalität ja längst bekannt seien und sich auf McDonald’s, Hollywood und Michael Jackson - kurz: auf so genannten Kulturimperialismus - reduzieren ließen. Der in Deutschland neu erstarkte Antiamerikanismus, dem nicht nur linke Antiimp-Blätter und rechte NPD-Organe, sondern auch die bürgerlichen Medien zum Großteil erlegen sind, macht sich nicht nur der dummen Gleichsetzung eines zugegebenermaßen gefährlichen Präsidenten mit "den USA" oder "den Amerikanern" schuldig, sondern spielt auch der seit drei bis vier Jahren massiv vorangetriebenen"
With Electrelane's driving instrumentals earning the band a reputation as the young things to watch, high profile gigs with Sleater-Kinney, Death In Vegas, Broadcast, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Primal Scream, and Le Tigre followed, along with a US deal with radical indie label, Mr. Lady. The release of Rock It To The Moon, followed by an EP, 'I Want To Be The President', confirmed the rumors. By now, sell-out gigs were the norm as a swathe of art rocker fans of Godspeed You! Black Emperor! and the Velvets, pure popists in love with X-Ray Spex or the B52s, indie kids who'd seen through the packaging of Britpop, poured into venues from Athens to London to New York. 
from fabpress.com :"With Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, Tokyo Fist and Bullet Ballet, Shinya Tsukamoto has become one of the most widely praised filmmakers in Japan today. Edgy, intense and overwhelming, Tsukamoto's films are nightmarish visions of a world in which man's greatest enemy is his own environment of cold concrete and twisted technology.