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POLICING OF OUR BODIES

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Terre Thaemlitz has commented on the changes to Japan’s controversial Fuueihou law via a statement on her website. The post responds to the “Declaration On the Future Of Japan’s Club Culture”, signed by 40 Japanese DJs on the same day that the 67-year-old law was officially changed by the Japanese government. She argues that it has “no purpose other than [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: SON LUX

Monday, June 29, 2015

This week’s top marks for effort go out to Son Lux, who have just released their new album Bones, for the painstaking stop motion video using nothing but pins and thread for their current single Change is Everything. I, in the meantime, am a little confused by the fact that the singer is male…

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BALLET GOES NOISE

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Our all time favorite noise-heroine Kim Gordon had an interesting collaboration last year, when she was commissioned to compose music for a ballet initiated by artist Nick Mauss. Inversions was first performed at Frieze Projects 2014, now the audio is to receive a limited edition vinyl release. Exclaim reports that Music for Inversions: A Live [...]

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10:37

Monday, June 22, 2015

Chances are like night/you’ll disappear/Caught in the atmosphere/Where you go/She casts no shadow/Still you know she’s near//Here she comes/All parts of everything/Stars in the motherhand

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MONDAY MUSIC: BJÖRK

Monday, June 15, 2015

We posted the trailer for this a few months ago – before Björk’s exhibition at MoMA was shredded into a tousand pieces – and here is finally the real thing: her 10 minute video of Black Lake conceived especially for the show, special effects galore.

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SEARCHING FOR SUMMER SONGS

Saturday, June 6, 2015

As summer has finally arrived in our rather nordic realm it’s time to start the search for this year’s most promising summer songs and videos, in combination or separate – above a few of my recent encounters.

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MONDAY MUSIC: TERRE THAEMLITZ

Monday, June 1, 2015

Unsurprisingly, there are no ‘official’ videos for our current cover star Terre Thaemlitz (or hardly any videos at all, for that matter), so instead we’ll post a ‘fan video’ made for the 2003 track Welcome (Time has Left Us).

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JHAD

Thursday, May 21, 2015

In his solo show that will take place in GSL Projekt in Berlin, Aksaygın is contemplating on discrimination with the help of superhero Jhad, who is carrying artist’s ‘particular social, economical and sexual codes in Germany’. Fashion label SADAK, performance artist, musician and DJ Namosh and curator Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu is contributing with their design, [...]

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FIRST COAT TOOWOOMBA

Sunday, May 10, 2015

With just under a week to go, the organisers of First Coat are confident it will be bigger and better with 61 artists, 30 large-scale murals and one installation to transform Toowoomba’s CBD in just three days. Artists from as far as California, the Netherlands, New Zealand and all around Australia will be in Toowoomba [...]

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TUESDAY

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Besides techno, regardless of the genre, Berlin is an important spot for international music scene as well. Unerhörte Musik is one of the engrossing events in the field of New Music that has been taking place in BKA Theater every Tuesday.  Today, the concert series –  founded in 1989 – is hosting Trio Cimbalarchi Berlin. Eniko Ginzery [...]

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