Vymethoxy Redspiders' KILLER Covid-19
Hello Euromaniacs!!! It’s your favourite frenzied future femme Vymethoxy Redspiders here coming to you from locked down Leeds, UK in the company of my stranded Green Tipped Sand Syd and four fuzzy phasmids (Peruphasma Schultei variety). After being given permission by lovely Gonzo Gabby to “go freeform” with this task, I have indeed done just that and far exceeded the proposed “Covid 5” list and instead rode my loquacious instincts towards a verbose LIST TO END ALL LISTS of media indulgence, including music, films, books and video games that have been in my psychic field over the last while. Come now! There’s no excuses to be made about not having enough time to absorb all this. We’re all stuck in the same big, many chambered boat here. So stand 2 metres away from me and follow me down the rabbit hole…
YOU ASKED FOR IT!
25 April 2020 |
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SPRING BRAKERS 3: Jung An Tagen & Eric Frye
Continuing our Spring Brakers series is our first double bill! Austrian computerist and blacklight wizard Stefan Juster aka Jung An Tagen brings us an electrifyingly moody set as he comes down from the high of setting his new digital label loose into the (virtual) world. Completing the fray is Minneapolis-based digi-composer Eric Frye. Check out what they were up to back then, were supposed to be up to real soon, and will be up to presently on your screens.
16 April 2020 |
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SPRING BRAKERS 2: Roxane Métayer
The French multidisciplinary artist Roxane Métayer has recently begun enchanting crowds over the lowlands with her haunting violin atmospheres. As part of Sage Alyte alongside David Jarrin (Disposición Asoleada) as well as with her solo meanderings, Métayer crafts an expansive environment where the acoustic possibilities of the instrument join the physicality of space and movement. Here, talks about projects unbound by restrictions, and interactions with the unexpected audiences of the wild yonder.
09 April 2020 |
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Floris Vanhoof's COVID 5 +
Mad scientist and sorcerer of brainwave magic Floris Vanhoof breaks through the laws of nature and shares with us a torrent of links to tether consciousness into the expanse of the now. Whoa.
08 April 2020 |
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Isolation Jams Pt. Germanalia!
Two gems were dropped in our mailboxes recently: a sick new track from the KRAAK Fest 2020 legendary Yürgen Karle Trio, and a swoon-worthy mix by 1/3 of YOR to elevate dreams of physicality into the same realm as this endless waking reverie.
07 April 2020 |
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SPRING BRAKERS 1: Will Guthrie
Time for faith and upheaval: as habits are upended, the KRAAK sludge heads team up with a gang of trusted allies to provide some form of entertainment under duress. For this first edition of Spring Brakers: the venerable drummer Will Guthrie, whose latest project, Nist Nah ensemble, would’ve seen their Brussels debut at Les Ateliers Claus last Saturday. As a band-aid to this gamelan-sized wound, we kindly asked the man to play a long distant solo show instead, in a place where he usually wouldn’t perform. In the meantime, we checked in on him to see what these odd circumstances look like for him. Doesn’t seem half bad, really.
02 April 2020 |
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Lieven Martens' COVID 5
The wayfaring collector of exotic incantations and hawaiian print shirts shares the current rotation of his musical interests and beyond during the most tropical confinement one can afford. There may be no football or island expeditions on the horizon, but one can still bear a flag and travel far far away.
02 April 2020 |
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Isolation Jams Pt 2: Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson
In this second Isolation Jam, blubbering artist Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson shares drawings made in a confined state of mind - which, in reality, don't differ that much from his usual scribbly ways that revel in the madness of a mind set free within mortal constraints.
01 April 2020 |
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Brecht Ameel's COVID 5
Because all we're doing at the moment is listening to music: Brecht Ameel/Ameel Brecht, he of the Polygraph Heartbeats and Razen clan, shares some of his currently spinning cures. His current status: besides a couple of torn ligaments from failed acrobatic demonstrations, he fares well. His selected confined sounds are as magical and transporting as one would hope from the man ~ checkitout:
26 March 2020 |
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Isolation Jams Pt I: Orphan Fairytale
Isolation Jams is a (hopefully short-lived) weekly series meant to showcase the artistic activity of our associates and kindred spirits in order to support them during this period of disruption and change. In this first instalment, Eva Van Deuren presents dreamy collages that refer to realms still distinct from realities current and past
25 March 2020 |
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