RAZOR COATED CANDIES for 2013-02-13
Razor Coated Candies were visual mixtapes I did when I was working with Dragontape and their service was still functional within the realm of human comprehension and patience. Now? Semi-regular dumps of music links and embeds that keep me alive and kicking. Look grateful and send me more links if you want pimpage.
We are very excited to share with you today a glimpse into AYRIA's much anticipated new album with this upcoming digital EP “Plastic And Broken” that includes two original tracks, as well as five remixes. “Plastic Makes Perfect” combines a driving bass synth line inspired by older styled EBM, which has also now become part of the AYRIA arsenal of styles, but this time, the bassline is blended thickly with layers of intense and chaotic synths and chanting vocals. (Ayria finally coming out with some new material, judging by Missed the Mark, she's still ROCKING OUT with her powerful landmark grunge electro.)
30 years since their groundbreaking dark ambient album "This Death House" ATTRITION's Martin Bowes has combined forces with his wife Kerri on their full length movie score, written for the film G.H.O.S.T from cult U.S. horror film company Mutantville. From uneasy, shifting atmospheres to main themes on piano, vocals and strings, the album was remodelled and mixed at the Cage for this audio only version...
MUSIC VIDEOS OF....ROCK
TRAILER: Proteus (a very lo-fi exploration game)
The emperor of the South Sea was called Shu [Brief], the emperor of the North Sea was called Hu [Sudden], and the emperor of the central region was called Hun-tun [Chaos]. Shu and Hu from time to time came together for a meeting in the territory of Hun-tun, and Hun-tun treated them very generously. Shu and Hu discussed how they could repay his kindness. “All men,” they said, “have seven openings so they can see, hear, eat, and breathe. But Hun-tun alone doesn’t have any. Let’s trying boring him some!” Every day they bored another hole, and on the seventh day Hun-tun died. – Zhuangzi
Proteus is a meditative experimental game about exploration and musical discovery for PC and Mac, now available on Steam, with a Linux version and soundtrack album to follow.
Video production: Erik Ravaglia (@erikrva)
Music: David KanagaGame by Ed Key (@edclef) and David Kanaga (@dkanaga)
BOOKMARKS FOR 2013-02-12
Shiv-R, May 25, 2013, Slimes!
(via tokyofashion.com)
TRAILER: Ghost in the Shell Arise Teaser PV
IO9 just posted the first teaser trailer for Arise, the next installment in the Ghost in the Shell universe. We're talking about an OVA, four 50-minutes parts. What's more important - it's 2027 and it's a prequel! (more via io9)
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Damage interviews Zoog Von Rock of Angelspit
Angelspit frontman Zoog Von Rock has been a long-time comrade on the battlegrounds, fighting the war against apathy, boredom, fake revolutions and grey culture. We put the internets on our coffee table of ROCK and gathered around it, Zoog in New York, me in London and talked about social media, music and the future. How do you talk to your fans? What sort of effort do you need to put into communication? What do you need to sacrifice to live your dreams? And more words of wisdom ahead.
As you might have noticed, there's a lot of Angelspit activity on my blog, always have, always will be. This is because I don't just support their music that I love a lot, but also appreciate their know-how and how they decide to share that with all their fans, how they constantly try to renew themselves and how they put all that change into terms and processes that are simple to grasp, yet are powerful to live by. Support them if you like what you see and hear - here's their site at angelspit.net and you can buy their stuff on Black Pill Red Pill.
Always,
Damage
VIDEO PODCAST: Channel Hell 001
ANGELSPIT's fifth member The Liar did the next hot thing after sliced bread and made the kind of show MTV was when they did 120 Minutes and Aeon Flux and what MTV should be in the cyberpunk futurepresent. This is insane video collage work rooted in chaos, entropy, the visual equivalent of a TB303 resonance knob and mad criticism. Rating? Ten out of fucking ten. Full-on.
TRACKLISTAngelspit - Princess Chaos (Metafakt Remix)
The Presets - My People
Zombie Girl - Creepy Crawler
Angelspit - Sleep Now (Angelspit remix)
Combichrist - Never Surrender
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts (Oliver Huntemann & Stephan Bodzin Dub)
Ladytron - Destroy everything you touch (sasha involv2er remix)
IAMX - Nature of Inviting (Black Light Odyssey Remix)
Angelspit - Vermin
Houratron - $$ Trooper
Angelspit - Defribrillator (Brian Doviak Remix)
BOOKMARKS FOR 2013-02-06
- Weavesilk: A magical interactive artwork
- In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge: “Why so many physical systems behave like random matrices is still a mystery,” said Horng-Tzer Yau, a mathematician at Harvard University. “But in the past three years, we have made a very important step in our understanding.”
- Beauty and the Reef: How a marine biologist and ambient musician are making art shows from their 3,000 coral colonies
- 3 Neat Web Services To Visualize & Analyze Your Last.fm Profile: Collage Generator, Super-Eclectic Test, Obscurometer
- Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 52 (The Invisibles): "To be honest, for the most part, The Invisibles is a bit of a mess. Individual moments of splendor stick out, but the book is adept at self-sabotage and when it doesn’t take itself out in a spectacular own goal DC Comics/Vertigo are usually right behind it and ready to clean up."
- Surprised Scientists Find Lifeforms Six Miles Above Earth’s Surface: For the first time, scientists have found lifeforms where nobody thought it was possible: floating in the troposphere, the slice of the atmosphere approximately four to six miles (eight to 15 kilometers) above Earth's surface. And not just a tiny few, but lot: 20% of every particle in that atmospheric layer are living organisms.
- Beautiful Cyberpunk Collages Made with Discarded Computer Parts: "The mixed media artist hailing from Warsaw, Poland, uses all kinds of materials, from used computer components to old buttons and even dead moths."
DARE: Hand in Carbon Fiber Film
Pierre says he would most definitely go in for cancer treatment after a party trick like this. I've drank glowstick fluid and I'm still alive and kicking, so I bet I could second his sentiment. YouTube comments usually dare the guy to put his dick in the carbon fiber film. We would rather not comment on that.
CONCERT VIDEO: Death in June (2002, New York)
DEATH IN JUNE has always been a strange, subtle and powerful influence over the years. When I started submerging myself into the underground, the first concert I went to was that of Der Blutharsch, the second included Death in June, NON and Boyd Rice (with Scivias being the support act at both events). When I was writing Death Beat Club, my first collection of writing (that's going to make it into the ebook edition of my first published book Damage Report), it was mostly Zeromancer and Death in June that was on. When there are longer periods in my life that need retreat and silence, it's Death in June. Douglas P. has a lot to do with the sombre little fucker in my heart that I often end up being. Today, in the offices - another day when work needs music, not that the loud and disturbing kind. So I end up listening Douglas P. Again. Enjoy this gig. Truly amazing. According to my friend Pierre a single DIJ track has more power than a whole gabber setlist. His words are not without a seed of truth.
GNOSIS: You Program Reality
“Everything is literally entangled, it can all be communicated with and affected ‘at a distance’ because there is no distance, only a simulation of apparent separation which our limited consciousness feeds us second by second at 11 bits. The ‘telepathy’ which brings people together is no more or less supernatural or unlikely than the ‘telepathy’ which brings two of your fingers together when you think about it. Patience, participation and constant close observation of what’s going on, on the inside and on the outside will soon make you a fine sorcerer, if that’s what you want to be.” (via temple of electric light)
NEW ANGELSPIT BLIPVERT: Lyric Content
If I need a creative kick, a surge of motivation after a shitty day or a WARD OF ROCK, I more often than not go for Zoog Von Rock's material. As far as I hear (and know), he's working on new blipverts (that's a Max Headroom reference but it refers to video shorts of great content) - one of them being about lyric content and how to test your words of great wisdom. Enjoy!
TRAILER: Scavengers
A team of space scavengers discovers superior alien technology that threatens the balance of the known universe. Hotly pursued by a rival crew of intergalactic mercenaries, the Revelator crew must fight through the deepest reaches of space to locate and protect the life-altering device. (more at quietearth))
MUSIC VIDEOS for 2013-02-04: How to Destroy Angels, The French Electric, Babymetal
The video was created and directed by the London-based visual arts collective Shynola. While there are only three characters in the short film, it speaks volumes about our reptilian instincts for survival. In a joint email, the members of Shynola say they "had a great conversation where the band articulated their ideas about modern identity, the effect of technology on culture and our inability to connect with others. We're fascinated by anthropology and coincidentally we had been toying with ideas for a feature film about a post-technology civilization, in which humans have reverted to primitive behavior. Sometimes things just fit together." ((more at npr.org))
BOOKMARKS FOR 2013-02-02
- Electronic Insects—If William S. Burroughs Did Cyberpunk: If William S. Burroughs had cyberpunk leanings then he might have conjured up these insects made from various electrical components—but they’re not from the mind of the Beat novelist, instead these are the work of photographer Luca di Filippo.
- Is Your Mind for Sale? Inside the Allure of Digital Sweatshops: Jonathan Zittrain, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and author of the book The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, suggests that "grad students will do this all day long because it's probably the only source of positive feedback in their lives."
- Genetic algorithms become programmers themselves: [Kory] has been experimenting with genetic algorithms. Normally we’d expect his experiments to deal with tuning the variables in a control system or something, but he’s doing something much cooler. [Kory] is using genetic algorithms to write computer programs, and in the process bringing us one step closer to the Singularity.
- Scientists record the first video of thoughts forming in the brain: Japanese researchers have recorded a real-time video of thoughts forming in the brain of a live animal as it stalks its prey.
How to Master Your Time: Say No. Unplug the TV. Kill notifications. Schedule your priorities. First things first. Less volume, more time. Ignore.
LOVE: Hackers
My favourite movie, if I had to pick one. Iain Softley's Hackers from 1995 with Angelina Jolie, Laurence Mason, Matthew Lillard and Jonny Lee Miller.
SCI-FI SHORT: R'Ha
Feast your scifi loving eyes on this jaw-dropping short by Kaleb Lechowski, a 22-year-old German student attending the Mediadesign Hochschule school in Berlin. Yeah, he's already heading to Hollywood. Synopsis: "A member of an alien race is being interrogated and tortured by a machine." Sound is by Hartmut Zeller and voice acting, by Dave Masterson. (more at quietearth.us)
BOOKMARKS FOR 2013-01-29
- Scientists Teach Bacteria To Eat Electricity: Researchers at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, have coaxed a species of bacteria into trading their usual diet of partially-oxidized iron for a small current of electricity--a trick that may eventually make the microorganisms useful producers of biofuels.
- BETTER THAN THE BORG: THE NEUROTECH ERA: Long the stuff of science fiction, technology that can directly tap into, augment, and connect human brains is becoming science fact. And that means big changes for all of us. Consider what we’ve already done – getting data in and out of the human brain.
- Popper's three worlds: Popper's three worlds is a way of looking at reality, described by the Austrian philosopher Karl Popper in a lecture in 1978. The concept involves three interacting worlds, called World 1, World 2 and World 3.
- THE OVERPOPULATION OF POPPER'S WORLD 3:
RICK RODERICK'S VIEWS ON THE EXCESS OF INFORMATION IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD: The first part of this paper is an attempt to offer an overview of Popper's World 3 in the light of philospher Rick Roderick's concerns about the growing excess of information in our times (be they modern or post-modern). - Data Storage in DNA Becomes a Reality: Scientists announced yesterday that they successfully converted 739 kilobytes of hard drive data in genetic code and then retrieved the content with 100 percent accuracy.
- Astronauts needed for one way trip to Mars: Mars One, a nonprofit organisation based in the Netherlands, intends to establish a human settlement on Mars in 2023. They need astronauts.
RESEARCH: A Retrospective Editing of Consciousness
A new study has found that conscious experience can be altered retrospectively, so that experience of visual information can be changed almost half a second later by manipulating where our attention is drawn. (more at mindhacks)
MAGAZINE: Matrix Revelations Issue 4
Fourth issue Alfa Matrix magazine featuring interviews with Helalyn Flowers, RECOIL, GLIS, Dunkelwerk, Lovelorn Dolls, Ayria, Junksista, Aesthetische, Implant, Cynical Existence, Freakangel, Technoir, Daniel B. Prothèse, Kant Kino, Krystal System, Mentallo & The Fixer, I:scintilla, Mari Chrome, Diskonnekted, Siva Six, Metroland.
Machete Girl issue 8 is ALMOST out, the new issue of The Dose mag will be launched in May, Auxiliary's pumping hard the new issues and now Alfa Matrix spits out a new mag issue? This promises to be an interesting few months ahead. No rivalry on the table, so feel free to come forward and download this warbaby - the Mentallo interview is PURE ROCK! (read on issuu)
VIDEO: Amon Tobin - Isam live in Graz (2012)
"When you do things in a different way, it makes you have to think differently about the way you present it. So 'ISAM Live' ended up as a mixture of cinema, live performance and projection art." — watch 30 minutes of Amon Tobin's 'Isam' live show from Graz, Austria, available in 1080p full HD video.
This just gets posted here because Tobin's running a level-up on Isam, one show only in London, here's where you can buy tix, March 8th, 2013, Hammersmith Apollo.
VIDEO: X-Qlusive Wildstylez
On January 19th 2013, you've showed your love for the music and represented the wilder stylez at the Heineken Music Hall. A historical night filled with magical and epic moments you'll never forget!
Wildstylez and Niels Geusebroek got rewarded with a golden record for their track 'Year of Summer', we've celebrated the very last performance of Wildstylez and Headhunterz as Project One and many more.
It's time to relive those moments because this is the official aftermovie of X-Qlusive Wildstylez.
MUSIC: Grimes live on KEXP 2012
I usually find my great music through two or three loops - someone recommends me something or I go fishing for a genre, look at recent sub-subgenres, cross-reference it with the Similar Artists feature of last.fm, look for what else people listen to have in their playlists who listen to that band I just picked and I tend to pick the most obscure ones. This is how I found Claire Boucher, the girl born out of Tumblr, DIY, analog synths, Skinny Puppy, stencils and goth kawaii. Sometimes I'm in love when I'm listening to Grimes, not always and for never too long. But those microseconds are growing longer. And ballistic-electro-ambient-witchpunk-fuck-you has never been this elegant in its statement of Tumblr riot grrls. Start researching Grimes. She has Process.
