I first heard KONONO N°1 in a downloaded show of THE WIRE radio show at resonnance fm. The song they played sounded very interesting, something between noise and "world music". I realised, that KONONO N°1 was allready mentioned in The Suburbs Are Killing Us, but didn't download the songs when Christopher posted them.
From crammed.be :KONONO N°1 was founded over 25 years ago by Mingiedi, a virtuoso of the likembé (a traditional instrument sometimes called "sanza" or "thumb piano", consisting of metal rods attached to a resonator). The band's line-up includes three electric likembés (bass, medium and treble), equipped with hand-made microphones built from magnets salvaged from old car parts, and plugged into amplifiers. There's also a rhythm section which uses traditional as well as makeshift percussion (pans, pots and car parts), three singers, three dancers and a sound system featuring these famous megaphones.More info + mp3 excerpt
Those "shows" took place in a trolleybus, which is something inbetween a bus and a train. Download them here. According to my log files, lots of people are looking for Tujiko Noriko fiels, there used to be a lot of files, I posted a few links a while ago, but now, I think the only thing to download is this
The Finnish duo Pink Twins, the brothers Vesa and Juha Vehviläinen, started to work together in 1997. Since then they have been exploring visual and sonic noise combined in a most physical experience. Sampling the everyday images and tearing them apart to pixels then putting them together again to a chaotic and blasting unity.
In their video works, in such as Purple Drain (2002) and Goth (2003), they have transferred the reality to a abstract flow of flickering colourful images and scratchy and noisy sounds. Using their own developed program Framestein, programmed by Juha, the images is real-time transferred to an own aesthetic of digital everchanging visions reminding of powerful paintings and where the original input is hardly recognisable. The fact that they use common images as a input seems not very important since the output seems to have very little to do with normal perception.Read more
From dustedmagazine.com: Hailing from Ulvila, Finland, Es is Sami Sänpäkkilä, a sound engineer, member of the experimental folk ensemble Kiila, day-to-day manager of Fonal Records and sometime collaborator with Kemialliset Ystävät. On Kaikkeuden kauneus ja käsittämättömyys (The Beauty and Inconceivability of Everythingness) Sänpäkkilä has cobbled together a warm mélange of glitch, musique concrete, drones, pulsars, lo-fi samples, vocals and live instrumentation that burns with the intimate glow of a bedside lap at 2 a.m.
Fe-mail is a noise duo consisting of Maja Ratkje and Hild Sofie Tafjord, both known from the anarchistic improv quartet SPUNK.
Fe-mail's music is electronic music based on improvisation with live sampling as well as recordings of their own generated sounds and field recordings. Their music is characterised by the use of old fashioned, analogue electronic and acoustic sound sources such as pan pipes, harmonica, and other underestimated instruments, side by side with computers and samplers. More info and 2 downloads
From Massimo Ricci:
This music is claustrophobic and disturbing; its heavy atmosphere touches your nerves even only through its presence. A sense of menace without an explosion hovers around; the recited Russian texts sound like the madman's vision from a hill of an urban environment that's reaching its last stop. Sound and noise are sapiently linked, like if they came out of a giant, constantly out of tune broken radio. Guitars are skeletal and detuned, too; a bass riff accompanies darkish vocals in something resembling a damnation. Sometimes the jumble of frequencies is so thick, your woofers would like to say goodbye and go relaxing somewhere else. Fractured pulses, powerful mixing, it all gets more obscure as the minutes flow. A perfect isolationist soundtrack, it's also a very interesting broadcast of compressed rage and frustration, with a little humor brought by the sparse use of muzak loops.
Michael Upton offers an exclusive look into the world of Net.Labels --offering advice on how to find those hidden gems on the net along with several recommendations (by sound or mood) and some favorite releases for you to investigate. Read the whole article
Avarus combine psychedelic folk rock, motorik Krautrock, free jazz and modern noise into a totally mesmerising, totally unique modern avant noise/folk, unfurling lengthy meandering almost funereal jams, desolate and mournful, but dreamy and pastoral, machinelike and hypnotic at the same time. Strummed acoustic guitars frame distant throbbing caveman percussion, dreamy soundscapes are punctuated by occasional clang and clatter, all swaddled in the warm drone of amp buzz and ambient hum. Lo-fi, rambling, ramshackle blues jams mutate into wildly propulsive psych-folk with intensely strummed guitars and far-away flute melodies. Read More
Die Bundesbürger geben preis, was sie lieben, kaufen, lesen - oft ohne sich der Folgen bewusst zu sein. Konzerne horten die Daten und sortieren schlechte Kunden aus
Von Götz Hamann und Marcus Rohwetter
Es war genau ein Jahr vor 1984, und sie hatten Angst vor den Computern. Fürchteten, »total erfasst und verdatet« zu werden. Zur Ware zu werden in einem Daten-»Supermarkt«, in dem sich Behörden »nach Lust und Laune bedienen können«. Die Deutschen kannten George Orwells Visionen, und viele sahen die Volkszählung als ersten Schritt auf dem Weg in den Überwachungsstaat. »Pinkelst Du im Freien oder hast Du ein Klo?«, wolle der Staat wissen, schrieb die linke tageszeitung. »Duschst Du Dich?« Mehr
The first issue of TRUCE, a new "culture magazine" from Swizerland, features in interview with Shepard Fairey, the artist behind the OBEY (aka GIANT HAS A POSSE) stencils and graffitis. It is his first appearence in a magazine from a german speaking country (as far as I know).
The magazine costs 15EUR, which is very expensive for a non imported magazine, but I think it's OK because of the great OBEY pictures.
The OBEY face is the big brother of our times. Signs which are showing peolpe who are supossed to be the bad guys are very often done in a Shepard Fairey style.
Never heard of Shepard Fairey? Two readings as an introduction:
From krillminima.de :
This mix is a five year old collage of classic and mostly not so popular ambient tracks from 60ties and 70ties kraut-rock artists. It features tracks by Klaus Schulze, Edgar Fröse, Deuter and Jean Michelle Jarre. The Mix was made with 3CD Players and 1 Vinylplayer running simultaneously. The mix was one of my first dj works. I made it cause I found this great and timeless ambient tracks which really inspired my music in a special way. The problem with the tracks was that the rest of the albums was mostly new age and ethno which i didn´t like. So I took this great tracks and mixed them up in way I liked. Download here
There is an Underground "Metal" Special in the current WIRE issue. Four hughe tracks are availible at the WIRE homepage
Downloads:
MP3: LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR - The Wolf
MP3: GINNUNGAGAP - Reasonably Miserable
MP3: BURNING WITCH - Stillborn
MP3: KHANATE - Fields
I found lots of mp3 files from bands mentioned in that article. Very often a certain CD is referenced, so don't be surprised if the "songs" you can download here don't sound very metal-like, if you are into black metalm (noise fans should give them a try also), try to get hold of a copy of the current WIRE issue and get the mentioned CD. Two of the featured record label are offering many mp3 downloads/streams. Go to :
Ben Goodger, Lead Engineer for the popular browser Firefox has announced that he is no longer paid by Mozilla, and has joined Google.
In a posting on his blog, Ben noted his role will remain unchanged at Mozilla. "I will continue doing much the same work ...with the new goal of successful 1.1, 1.5 and 2.0 releases". Ben, 24, has been working on Firefox since Summer 2003 after the demise of Netscape browser development. Before working on the Firefox project he spent time with America Online/Netscape contributing to a range of their Netscape products. Read More
Born in 1945, Anthony Braxton began studying music at age 17. In 1966, after playing clarinet and alto saxophone in the military, Braxton moved to Chicago and became involved with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. In 1968, he formed his own group, the Creative Construction Company, with Leroy Jenkins and Leo Smith, and released his first record, Three Compositions of New Jazz. Read more + MP3 downloads
Don't be irritated by words like "darkwave" or "gothic" in this posting. Dark Muse is actually very beautifull music. Well...most of it.
From The Dark Muse homepage:
Dark Muse is a one woman dream project offering sound 'splorations in Haunting lush ethereal alchemy, minimal, experimental gothic, darkwave & dark ambient noise flow into a dream near you...
Mostly I refer to it as somber tidings & the soundtrack to my haunted life...
I have been creating sounds with voice, all my life & approach vocals in sound with pure emotion & raw power of experimentation ... While using my voice as an instrument, I am able to manifest textures & layers of patterns with depth.
My true passion is music {along w/jewelry creation}... I am here as a vessel for sound to flow.
