ID Sonar 2008

hohohhoo…

The image of Sonar 2008 is mainly in video format and can be seen on the Internet. It consists of seven 1-minute recordings in home video format, filmed in a in mysterious location and showing beings with a disconcerting genetic make-up, that are half human and half animal.

The videos are shot in the back of a “genetic experimentation” laboratory in a remote location in central China . The beings that are the results of biomolecular experimentation are filmed in this setting. The ultimate objective of these experiments is to create a new species of pet like those that used to be exhibited in travelling circuses, like the alligator woman or snake boy.

The pets are shown locked in cages and laid out on a kitchen table while they timidly answer the questions asked in Chinese from outside the cage by unseen speakers.

all movies

sonar site – image 2008

Posted in de-dans on March 28th, 2008 by de-dans | 3 Comments

26

post-laptronica

Posted in de-dans on March 26th, 2008 by de-dans | 0 Comments

20

our favourite blog of the moment, mnml ssgs, strikes again

the indie ppl, mate, they just don’t get it

true and funny

Posted in de-dans on March 20th, 2008 by de-dans | 2 Comments

Bogdan – Angular Momentum

microscopic sound (aka very deep sounds, muzica de laborator si halat alb, acolo unde beat-ul devine oscilatie si orice suprafata are par) pe zona raster-noton de la gluon symmetry

Posted in de-dans on March 12th, 2008 by de-dans | 10 Comments

Rokolectiv ’08

11 aprile / Session / 22h00
An on Bast [PL]
Pantha du Prince [DE]
Dat Politics [FR]
Underground Resistance [US]
The Model [RO]
[After] Dandy Jack & Sonja Moonear [CH/ CL]
Vali Chincisan / SKVJS [RO] / Suso33 [ES]

12 aprilie / Session / 22h00
Tom Wilson [RO]
Kalabrese pres. The Rumpelorchestra [CH]
Mungolian Jet Set [NO]
Elektrofant [NO]
Bjorn Torske [NO]
Dreamrec [RO]
[After] Magda [PL] [Sunrise event / not included]

13 aprilie/ MNAC/ 18h30
Mira Calix [UK]
Sillyconductor [RO]
Planningtorock [UK]
Khan of Finland [DE]
Daedelus [US)
Jean-Jacques Perrey & David Chazam [FR]

Pass festival: 75 RON / 3 zile (numar limitat) / www.bilet.ro
Bilet festival: 35 RON / zi / numai la fata locului

Posted in de-dans on March 10th, 2008 by de-dans | 1 Comments

Jeff Mills

– mult mai bun decat data trecuta la martin. il avantajeaza spatiile mari si multimile. cineva spunea ca unul dintre cele mai grele skilluri pe care trebuie sa si le insuseasca un dj este sa isi adapteze sound-ul la spatiu*. nu poti sa o arzi intim la polivalenta. si jeff nici nu a avut de gand. a fost intens, solicitant, carnal, full on techno experience pentru oameni puternici si dedicati. ceilalti au golit sala de la primele minute.
-jeff mills e grandoman (sa i te adresezi numai cu “sir” si sa nu i te uiti direct in ochi) si pitic. si negru. din cauza asta aproape ca niciodata nu se vede din spatele pupitrului. cine zice ca l-a vazut a avut vedenii techno de la muzica. l-am mai auzit si cu alte ocazii in giguri mult mai mari si niciodata aproape nu se vede. asta e un fel de extrema a anonimitatii in techno. unii isi schimba monikerul la fiecare release, altii isi pun masti pe fata, el e pitic.
– laserele (care din cate am mai citit au creat o frumoasa impresie majoritatii participantilor) au fost un dezastru. nu numai ca te asteptai in orice moment sa apara tiesto din spatele celor de la mandy (care poate si din cauza asta au fost atat de populisti si simplisti) dar nu aveau nici o treaba cu muzica. cand era beat-ul mai plat, muzica mai seaca, atunci incepeau laserele sa zbenguie isteric de te lua cu schizofrenie. daca ne permitem nu inseamna ca si trebuie.

*”A common mistake of novices is playing bigger than the room they’re in. Sound should be contained and only overflow the edges at peak times otherwise you just have a flood… and a mess” Jeremy P. Caulfield, Between Chaos and Control

Posted in de-dans on March 6th, 2008 by de-dans | 1 Comments

Neoclasicism

“At the moment, we appear to be in a recapitulative ‘neoclassical phase’ that’s about recovering the elements that made the music ‘timeless’, either through a direct recapture of the old sound (like Prosumer and Murat Tepeli’s Serenity album), or its filtration through contemporary influences. It’s bound to be a tension in a music that is so often about breaking out of the strictures of structure (using little more than stricture and structure), but right now, it seems like so many people are looking back through the archive for inspiration: witness the growing popularity of slo-mo/Beardo disco (encapsulating cosmic, Balearic and Italo) or the slew of decent Neo-Detroit and dub-house records on offer.”

mnml ssgs – we were never mnml

asta asa cat sa nu mai existe nici un gen ferit de cancerul retro. e oficial criza.

Posted in academia, de-dans on March 5th, 2008 by de-dans | 4 Comments