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Popnoname – Surrounded By Weather

Italic / Oct 2008 / download or listen

Posted in de-dans, download on December 12th, 2008 by de-dans | 4 Comments

Soundboy’s Gravestone Gets Desecrated By Vandals

Skull Disco / Nov 2008 / download

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Nu stiu cine e soundboy asta dar stiu ca a avut o moarte agitata. Initial his “nuts get ground up proper“, then his “bones get buried in the dirt“, then “punishments“, then his “ashes get chopped out and snorted” and “hacked up and spat out in disgust“. He leaves a “suicide note” concluding “death is not final“. Si cum lucrurile nu se puteau opri aici his “gravestone gets desecrated by vandals“, o incheiere apoteotica a unui destin de cacat.
Compilatia asta in doua volume se pare ca e chiar ultimul release Skull Disco, un label proiect destinat a exista numai un timp limitat, si strange ultimele releasuri pe vinil aparute (06,08,09,10) plus o gramada de remixuri.
Intr-o lume din ce in ce mai zglobie, un pic de apocalipsa minimala sa ne taie greata.
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Posted in de-dans, download on December 10th, 2008 by de-dans | 4 Comments

5 manifeste techno-leniniste de after hours

cum s-a ajuns aici, pe cubelog aka cubecast blog

Posted in de-dans on December 5th, 2008 by fresh good minimal | 6 Comments

Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid

Kieran Hebden de la Four Tet in niste sesiuni de improvizatie cu un baterist batran versat in free jazz. Nu tocmai easylistening, dar cand iese ordine din haos, in punctul critic, acolo se naste complexitatea. Electronic/jazz improv.

Domino Rec. / 10 Nov 2008 / download

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Posted in de-dans, download on December 3rd, 2008 by de-dans | 3 Comments

Love Poem

Don Paterson, ceva poet scotian, a castigat, in Anglia, The Forward Prize pentru cea mai buna poezie pe 2008 cu o oda inchinata nevestei lui Thomas Brinkmann, compozitoarea de muzica electronica Natalie ‘Tusja’ Beridze. It goes like this:

“Love Poem For Natalie ‘Tusja’ Beridze”

O Natalie, O TBA, O Tusja: I had long assumed the terrorsits balaclava that you sport on the cover of Annule
which was, for too long, the only image of you I possesed –
was there to conceal some ugliness or deformity
or perhaps merely spoke (and here, I hoped against hope) of a
young woman struggling
with a crippling shyness. How richly this latter theory has been confirmed by my Googling!

O who is this dark angel with her unruly Slavic eyebrows
ranged like two duelling pistols, lightly sweating in the pale light
of the TTF screen?
O behold her shaded, infolded concentration, her
heartbreakingly beautiful face so clearly betraying the tru focus
of one not merely content – as, no doubt, were others at the
Manover Elektronische Festival in Wien –
to hit play while making some fraudulent correction to a
volume slider
but instead deep in the manipulation of somecomplex
real-time software such as Ableton Live, MAX/MSP
or Supercollider.

O Natalie, how can I pay tribute to your infinitely versatile
blend of Nancarrow, Mille Plateaux, Venetian Snares, Xenakis,
Boards of Canada and Nobukazu Takemura
to say nothing of those radiant pads – so strongly reminiscent
of the mid-century bitonal pastoral of Charles Koechlin in their
harmonic bravura –
or your fine vocals, which, while admittedly limited in range
and force, are nonetheless so much more affecting than the
affected Arctic whisperings of those interchangably dreary
Stinas and Hannes and Bjorks, being in fact far closer in spirit
to a kind of glitch-hop Blossom Dearie?

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Posted in academia, de-dans on November 26th, 2008 by de-dans | 58 Comments

Mum @ Control

photo by Luiza Alecsandru

Noi am fost. Ne hotarasem cu prea multa vreme inainte ca vom mergem ca sa ne razgandim cand s-a razgandit toata lumea, adica atunci cand s-a aflat ca nu e numai 50 de lei intrarea, ci 65. Era mult si 50, dar era numai deranjant. 65 a trecut linia direct spre refuz. Ok, Mum sunt o trupa super tare care merita vazuta live. Dar nu e live, e special dj set. Special dj set? Meaning what? Poate nu e cea mai fericita alegere sa incepi prin a critica pretul unui eveniment. Si totusi, acum ceva vreme, cand toate petrecerile la Kristal costau cat Mum la Control in 2008, toata lumea injura organizatorii care credeau tiganeste ca trebuie sa platesti bani multi ca sa fie muzica buna si spera la acel moment frumos din viitor cand cluburi alternative vor chema nume cu adevarat interesante la preturi acceptabile, atat la intrare cat si la bere. O sa le aratam noi cocalarilor astora cum se face treaba civilizat. Si ce-am facut? Cand toate cluburile mainstream si-au redus preturile la intrare la jumatate, desi au investit semnificativ in cresterea calitatii cluburilor, alternativii fac petreceri cu preturi prohibitive, in cluburi lipsite de orice personalitate, unde se aude ca dracu.

Calcule proaste. Cand am ajuns la Control, pe la 11, era gol. In fata plin, atmosfera trista de club A. In spate, maxim 30 de oameni beau bere pe unde apucau. Rock dj facea ceva, il vedeam in proiectii, dar nu il auzeam, sunetul nu se aude decat pe “ring”, in rest e zgomot. Pana sa inceapa, in jur de 12, a mai aparut ceva lume, dar la apogeul ei, petrecerea nu a reusit sa depaseasca 200 de oameni.