The BBC about Icarus: "First impressions of the music are of playful, skittering beats combined with frisky turntable manipulations: has Squarepusher left his Aphex Twin and Jaco Pastorius obsessions behind and taken up instead with a new mistress by the name of Free Improv? " More
The BBC writes: "A few words: Engaging folk music. Off- centre electronica. A little edginess. A brush of guitar. A hum of synths. A pleasant wall of sound. An air of Latin moods. One of the most innovative albums for a while. And here's the twist in the tale. It's not from London, New York or Paris but......Buenos Aires." More
Texas-born, Detroit-based Matthew Dear has made remarkable steps toward becoming one of America’s best new techno artists. Between his stunning live performances and evolved DJ sets, Matthew has perked the ears of the industry’s best. His debut album under his birth name, Leave Luck to Heaven, was released in winter 2003-04 on Spectral Sound/Ghostly International, having garnered positive reviews in such publications as Rolling Stone, Spin, NME, and the NY Times and remaining on the CMJ RPM chart for over 13 weeks. More
The music is instrumental post-rock of the Tortoise school, a hybrid sound that draws from rock, techno, ambient, and jazz. But, refreshingly, it lacks the kinds of artistic pretensions that lead musicians to apply labels like post-rock to their music. To Rococo Rot just rides along through pleasant, sometimes oddly jarring musical landscapes with a minimum of self-consciousness and a maximum of groove. The music has an aimlessness that actually comes as a kind of a relief, as if there's nowhere to be, no grand statement to make. To Rococo Rot is only interested in the journey -- which winds through a warm landscape of shifting patterns, dynamic textures, and weird samples and is powered by smooth, confident electro beats and rhythms...More
If you followed the "underground" hip-hop movement in North America during the late 90’s, you may have seen his name on lots of the records, and you probably saw him on stage at many a show around that time. Buck 65, Sebutones, Sage Francis, Peace (Freestyle Fellowship), L’ronius, Aquasky, The Goods, and various Anticon members all have a place in the story. More
Review of the newest CD by Skalpel in the WIRE #243: This release deserves to see them revered far beyond Poland..
“It’s a mixture of breaks and ambient sounds, and a hip-hop way of producing it,” says Marcin, simply summing up their sound. “Yes. I am agreeing. Perfect,” nods Igor. “We were thinking about doing something original and we decided that the Polish jazz is something we could give to the rest of the world.”
CAN is one of a few internationally known "Krautrock" groups; they are famous for their repetitive and hallucinatory sound. CAN was founded in 1968 by LIEBEZEIT, Irmin SCHMIDT and Holger CZUKAY, and in their early days they also included American singer Malcolm MOONEY or Japanese vocalist Damo SUZUKI. They transformed progressive-rock into a science. By bridging classical music, jazz music and rock music of their times, CAN accomplished the first organic study on rhythm and texture. More info and two full MP3 downloads
Wow. Both of these vehicles hit the exact same off-set barrier at 40mph.Now there's no question what would win in a head-on collesion between the two but then again the majority of accidents involve only a single car. All you have to do is look at the dummy's legs and you can get an idea of what would happen if you hit a wall in either car. The MINI had almost no intrusion which "indicates that the driver's survival space was maintained very well" - the F150 on the other hand had "Major collapse of the occupant compartment that left little survival space for the driver." More
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Battle Royale II - Requiem Was soll der Mist? - Ein Politkommentar zum Geschehen unsere Zeit? Naive Kritik an der US- Außenpolitik? Terrorismus ist böse, manchmal aber nicht? Der Zweck heiligt alles? Auge um Auge? Alles zerbomben ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste? Wischiwaschi, Peng, Peng, Boom, Boom; stolz und strohdumm mit der Waffe im Anschlag?
Als ich aus dem Kino kam dachte ich genau so, hat sich bis jetzt noch nicht geändert.
Tetsuo - The Iron Man Die synergetische Apokalypse aus Fleisch und oxidierenden Alteisenwaren! Ein Alptraum zwischen Anarchie und Angstneurosen, Masochismen wie Fetischismen; nicht ohne bösen Humor präsentiert! - "Tetsuo" ist Cyberpunk, brutal und zynisch, subversiv und eruptiv. Hatte vor Jahren schon von diesem Film gehört, oft auch im Zusammenhang mit dem Soundtrack. Irgendwann war ich dann so neugierig, dass ich mir beide Teile bei Ebay gekauft habe. Die FIlme sind aber so brutal und verstörend, dass ich sie mir bisher nur teilweise angeschaut habe.
Electric Dragon - 80000V Power on! Ein Elektrosturm, Punkkultur und Subkultur. - Die Rückkehr zur Anarchie, das Kraftwerk Sogo Ishiis früherer Indiewerke: "Crazy Thunder Road" und "Burst City". "Electric Dragon" ist Kino der Extreme, Low Budget, verrückt und kürzer als 60 Minuten. Meiner Meinung nach der Film überhaupt. Hab zwar vergessen, von wem die Musik zum Film stammt, ich glaub' aber von Guitar Wolf, "klingt" aber auch wie HIgh Rise.
Portland, Oregon-based improvisational weirdos Jackie-O Motherfucker filtered numerous musical genres (avant-garde, electronic music, folk, country, world music, spirituals, etc.) through their noisy, psychedelic scrape and grind. Formed by core members Tom Greenwood and Jef Brown, who both contribute to the band on a variety of instruments, Jackie-O Motherfucker also relies on the contributions of sax players John Flaming and Nester, drummer Jesse Carrot, guitarist Honey Owens and multi-instrumentalist Andy Cvar. More
so was muss ich lesen: "Die zu adsorbierende Komponente wird im ungebundenen Zustand Adsorptiv, im gebundenen Zustand Adsorpt genannt. Den zur Bindung des Adsorptivs eingesetzten Feststoff nennt man Adsorbens. Zusammen nennt man das Adsorbens und die dünne an der Oberfläche des Adsorbens angelagert Adsorptschicht auch das Adsorbat."
Did David Hasselhoff really help end the Cold War? Baywatch star David Hasselhoff is griping that his role in reuniting East and West Germany has been overlooked. So what part, if any, did the hunk in trunks play in ending the Cold War?
Ice-T to produce Hasselhoff rap album Ice-T is to produce David Hasselhoff's first hip-hop album.
The pair are neighbours in Los Angeles and are said to have struck up a close friendship.
Max Goldt, geboren 1958 in Göttingen, siedelt 1977 nach dem Abitur nach Berlin über, wo er eine Fotografenausbildung beginnt. Er bricht diese jedoch ab und widmet sich der Musik. Auf den Wogen der Neuen Deutschen Welle schwimmt er als Frontmann der Gruppe "Foyer des Arts". die er zusammen mit Gerd Pasemann 1981 gründet. Er ist als Musiker ebenso erfolgreich wie als Autor. Als Musiker hat er zahlreiche Schallplatten veröffentlicht, teils im Duo, teils solo; als Autor schreibt er seit 1989 für das Satire-Magazin Titanic. - Max Goldt lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. Mehr
Jason Forrest, an artist formerly known as Donna Summer, is a celebrity among electronic artists; featured by magazines all around the world, he is one one of the most brilliant Plunderphonic artists who has ever walked the Earth. He samples, deconstructs and reconstructs himself into a rage while driving audiences to the verge of madness.
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The BBC writes: "A few words: Engaging folk music. Off- centre electronica. A little edginess. A brush of guitar. A hum of synths. A pleasant wall of sound. An air of Latin moods. One of the most innovative albums for a while. And here's the twist in the tale. It's not from London, New York or Paris but......Buenos Aires." 
Texas-born, Detroit-based Matthew Dear has made remarkable steps toward becoming one of America’s best new techno artists. Between his stunning live performances and evolved DJ sets, Matthew has perked the ears of the industry’s best. His debut album under his birth name, Leave Luck to Heaven, was released in winter 2003-04 on Spectral Sound/Ghostly International, having garnered positive reviews in such publications as Rolling Stone, Spin, NME, and the NY Times and remaining on the CMJ RPM chart for over 13 weeks. 
The music is instrumental post-rock of the Tortoise school, a hybrid sound that draws from rock, techno, ambient, and jazz. But, refreshingly, it lacks the kinds of artistic pretensions that lead musicians to apply labels like post-rock to their music. To Rococo Rot just rides along through pleasant, sometimes oddly jarring musical landscapes with a minimum of self-consciousness and a maximum of groove. The music has an aimlessness that actually comes as a kind of a relief, as if there's nowhere to be, no grand statement to make. To Rococo Rot is only interested in the journey -- which winds through a warm landscape of shifting patterns, dynamic textures, and weird samples and is powered by smooth, confident electro beats and rhythms...
If you followed the "underground" hip-hop movement in North America during the late 90’s, you may have seen his name on lots of the records, and you probably saw him on stage at many a show around that time. Buck 65, Sebutones, Sage Francis, Peace (Freestyle Fellowship), L’ronius, Aquasky, The Goods, and various Anticon members all have a place in the story. 
CAN is one of a few internationally known "Krautrock" groups; they are famous for their repetitive and hallucinatory sound. CAN was founded in 1968 by LIEBEZEIT, Irmin SCHMIDT and Holger CZUKAY, and in their early days they also included American singer Malcolm MOONEY or Japanese vocalist Damo SUZUKI. They transformed progressive-rock into a science. By bridging classical music, jazz music and rock music of their times, CAN accomplished the first organic study on rhythm and texture. 
Portland, Oregon-based improvisational weirdos Jackie-O Motherfucker filtered numerous musical genres (avant-garde, electronic music, folk, country, world music, spirituals, etc.) through their noisy, psychedelic scrape and grind. Formed by core members Tom Greenwood and Jef Brown, who both contribute to the band on a variety of instruments, Jackie-O Motherfucker also relies on the contributions of sax players John Flaming and Nester, drummer Jesse Carrot, guitarist Honey Owens and multi-instrumentalist Andy Cvar. 
