Editorial issue n° 5
Dear Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,
I am obsessed with cycling. You now might suspect the opposite, having devoured the fifth issue of this publication so utterly devoid of any irony.
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Neutral
Nihilist, urban no wave was a while ago a has-been genre, suited for old farts with a J.G. Ballard obsession, who cannot handle the confident optimism of generation Y. Reality is different nowadays, dystopia
is everywhere, and the Swedish
duo Neutral sharpen their songs
on it. Their debut album Grå Våg Gamlestaden (2014, Omlott) is a fuck you towards optimism and softness, with its broken guitar noise, misan- thropic industrial and warped tape experiments.
We had some back and forth mailing with Sofie Herner and Dan Johansson, dwellers of the warehouse scene of Göthebörg.
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Vex Ruffin
Vex Ruffin smashed all his guitars, but that doesn’t stop him from making minimal post punk no new wave. In the HBO series Girls, Adam lifts weights to his song ‘Take it’. That’s what Vex Ruf- fin does. Pumping adrenalin in your brain circuit. So you can get ready for that booty call. LAMINA!
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JIMI HENDRIX JAMMING ON DARK SIDE OF THE MOON: LONG DISTANCE ECHOES FROM KRAUS
Kraus is a New Zealand experimental musician and composer. The New Zealand Listener called him ‘a national treasure’ and ‘one of the most quietly important and interesting people making music in New Zealand’.
(src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraus_(musician))
07 March 2015 |
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Sea Urchin
Image a place where minimalistic dub meets esoteric avant-garde, and enter a playground of forgotten Italian pop stars. We present for youSea Urchin, the brain child of the Egyptian-Austrian Leila Hassan and the Italian artist Francesco Cavaliere.
07 March 2015 |
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Mathieu Serruys
Mathieu Serruys recently released his first record ’On Germaine Dulac’, a vinyl filled with crescent synths and recorded objects, matured through a signature reel-to-reel handling. He did so on the fresh and ambitious B.A.A.D.M., of which he is half the igniter.
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Young Marble Giants
10 QUESTIONS TO A YOUNG MARBLE GIANT FROM A POST-CHERNOBYL KID
07 March 2015 |
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Bryan Lewis Saunders
Bryan Lewis Saunders is an intense performer and visual artist. He searches the dark corners of himself and mankind in general. He goes to places where average people are not willing
to go. His life seems to be a continuous per- formance in which taking drugs to make self portraits is a logical thing to do. Or regardless of what people think of his disturbed mind, he records himself while sleeping and uses the recordings as source material for albums. He has collaborated on performances and other recordings with fellow dark hunters of the true grotesque John Duncan and Leif Elggren. Most interesting is the unconscious book on tape called, The Confessor, in which our own Razen provided the soundtrack for the title chapter.
07 March 2015 |
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Yong Yong
In 2013 two youngsters scratched their way out of the ass of Europe. Their cut up, out there hip-hop, was born in the basement and squad scene of Lisbon, the city with too much sun and no work. They hipsterised Portugal, with LP’s released by Night School records and a swag tape on Goaty Tapes. Currently they reside in Glasgow, making their way to the top, opening doors to a theatre centred around mythical personae. Crappy synths are the sceptres to open the furthest side of irreality. A chat on their beginnings.
07 March 2015 |
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Rodion G.A.
You will hear him often proudly introducing himself: “I am not normal!”
07 March 2015 |
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MADALYN MERKEY
Madalyn Merkey is a visual and sound synthesis artist who uses the post-romantic idea of the landscape to carefully sculpt fluid and organic electronic pieces. She debuted with the record Scent on Ducktails’ New Images label. It’s successor 'Valley Girl' was a highlight of 2014. We had a Skype conversation on her music, vocoders and Brandy.
07 March 2015 |
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