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Unruly Music Magazine The Abstract Issue February 2013 Dracula Lewis, Darkstar, Carter Tutti Void

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This is the Abstract Issue. All about the current rise of interest in abstract noise and soundscapes. Featuring Carter Tutti Void, Darkstar, Pete Swanson, Raime and Lee Gamble

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Unruly Music Magazine The Abstract IssueFebruary 2013

Dracula Lewis, Darkstar, Carter Tutti Void

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The Abstract Issue

This image was made by Dieter Durinck to illustrate the Darkstar interview on page 32. His works perfectly complement the new

modernist musical wave of abstract sounds and vision we’ve been riding recently. Songs are out, sound is in. Synthesized and distorted

by the endless possibilities of easy-access technology. Shaped into new song structures abandoning the good ol’ refrain and chorus. Or, to quote Pete Swanson: ‘We have been moving in this direction that is more conceptual, work that is defined by self-imposed constraints.’ We hear ya, Pete... it’s like crossing the lines of a green angular circle

out into the unknown. We love it.

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Content The Abstract Issue

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Dracula Lewis

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Darkstar

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Pete, Raime, Lee

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Agenda

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The recent surge of ambient soundscapes, deconstructed drones and old school experimentalists has led us to believe that a growing number of music enthusiasts are opening up their ears and minds to more chal-lenging and abstract sounds. We see free-form music with no tangible structure. We see long stretches of pulsating beats, eerie noise and intro-spective soundscapes finding their way from the underunderundergroud through the blogosphere and into the smart souls of your average inde-pendent music consumer. We see meta music for the mighty people. We see evolution. enjoy it while it lasts.

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Top 5 Last month at our office

1 Concert: Eurosonic Day Party What an amazing way to start the new year! Eight bands

performed on a cold Saturday afternoon at the jam-packed Sign Art Gallery in Groningen, while the audi-ence indulged in free Warsteiner and great live music.

2 TV: No TV Who needs TV when you can watch quality pro-

grammes, films and series on your computer? No more commercials, no more aimlessly switching channels without seeing anything interesting. This is about tak-ing matters into your own hands. ’Cause after all, they’re your retinas, so better keep them bullshit free.

3 Music - Pete Swanson - Pro Style EP This relentless EP was part of the reason we wanted

to make The Abstract Issue. It’s dark, progressive and weird - and at the same time bursting with energy.

4 Entertainment: Parks and Recreation And from Pete Swanson, we move to Ron Swanson, one

of the main characters in the hilarious comedy series Parks and Recreation. Season 5 is being aired right now.

5 Author - Hans Fallada With brand new Dutch translations of some of his key

novels, Hans Fallada (1893 – 1947) has been rediscov-ered as one of the most important German authors of the 20th century. After reading The Drinker, we are now thoroughly enjoying Alone in Berlin, a unique, dark and compelling account of small scale resistance in Berlin during World War II

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By Zofia Ciechowska This month’s recommendations New Music

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Twigstwigstwigs.tumblr.com

This month’s new music column is not so much about the super un-derground stuff that y’all have never heard of but more a reminder of all that beautiful new talent that emerged last year and which is ex-pected to make it big this year – according to us, at least. Not much is known about Twigs, the alias of young london-based r&B songstress Tahliah Barnett. Internet anonymity may be part of the package, but the hype around her is constantly rising with her staggered release of four impeccably sexy tracks that will quite literally make your clothes melt with Barnett’s stunningly soft vocals and throttling rhythms. For the moment you can stalk the hell out of her on Instagram, where her feed often features a cute white bunny...

Rainy Milowww.soundcloud.com/rainymilo

emerging from the depths of South london, this supremely talented young songstress is as far removed from her meteorological moniker as could be. With the super cool Limey eP under her belt, which oozes smooth, jazzy head-bopping rhythms and hip hop beats, good things are bound to come to rainy Milo – as they have for many her of her peers at last Night in Paris, a collective of young london-based mu-sicians and visual artists who have been turning heads recently. Limey is still free, so catch it while you can – and keep an eye on the last Night in Paris bunch while you’re at it.

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LE1Fwww.le1f.com

very little ‘new’ music we hear is as bright, colourful, shiny and new as le1F (aka New Yorker khalif Dioufand) with his amazing PvC Tech-nicolor dreamcoat. This dude makes defiantly weird, horny-as-hell and joyfully experimental hip hop courtesy of ex-Das racist himanshu’s greedhead label. Download his incredible mixtape Dark York and get light in your loafers to 30 minutes or so of semi-intelligible, pitch-shift-ing rapping and an amazing clutch of futuristic club beats. As an open-ly gay MC, le1F’s raps playfully subvert the hetero-normative tough-guy traditions of hip hop. And that can only be a good thing.

Mozart’s Sistermozartssister.bandcamp.com

So, what was Mozart’s sister called again? We couldn’t care less now that Caila Thompson-hannant has rocked up on our music radar all the way from Montreal. hush your mouth before you whine out the clichés of being a female musician and living in Montreal: this bright young thing is something else. With the liveliest of voices to accompa-ny her homemade electro-pop beats and len lye-inspired video, Mo-zart’s Sister is the real deal. With a few tracks lurking around the in-ternet dating all the way back to 2011, we’re excited to see what this year has in store for Caila. rumours of a full-length album abound.

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RAIMEwww.soundcloud.com/blackest-ever-black

get a load of these big, scary monolithic slabs of bleak-as-fuck in-dustrial electronica from these Blackest ever Black-signed london-ers. Tom halstead and Joe Andrews are riding a similar wave of brainy angst as other dancefloor-fearing eeyores who have ‘hit the big time’ recently: think Andy Stott, The haxan Cloak and lee gamble. Murky echoes of dub, techno, goth, metal and even field recording sound art are compressed into neat little capsules of misery and despair. lovely, exciting and inspiring misery and despair, that is. That you can dance to.

Warm Sodawarmsoda.bandcamp.com

Sounding like the audio equivalent of a retro science project involving Coca-Cola and Mentos, Warm Soda are a camp, fun, silly, passionate and shouty garage-glam band from uS scuzzball-magnet oakland, California. equal parts naughty and nice, their songs are syrupy sweet but full of sass, perfect for fans of king Tuff, Jeff the Brotherhood and pretty much any vaguely garage-y punk-pop group. They play shows with Thee oh Sees and look as if they aren’t afraid of the odd double-denim dust-up. Ironic facial hair, vintage leather, four-track fidelity – you get the picture. get ’em while they’re hot!

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Dracula Lewis

The evasive Transylvanian-born space-psych-horror maestro and founder of record label

Hundebiss talks about the limitations of language, the ‘everyday psychedelic’, finding space in music...

and, um, Destiny’s Child

Interview by Basje Boer. Photos by Lorenzo Senni

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So. We’ll be talking about all things ab-stract.

Okay. I like abstract. This inter-view will be pretty abstract for sure.How abstract is the term ‘abstract’ to you?

The term ‘abstract’ is like a cage for the idea of abstract. I know that cage really well. That’s why sometimes I hate words. They can be like cages, especially when they are meant to de-fine an idea, a sound, a vision.Are you insulted when people describe your music as abstract?

No, I like it when people say that. I like it when music leaves space in your mind to find forms, when you’re free to explore, to float. That’s why I like dub: there’s a lot of space to it.Would you yourself describe your music that way?

Back in the days, for sure. I guess there still are some abstract ele-ments... I prefer abstract over improv. I like the term ‘free-form’. But I’m not free-form.Explain?

I’m form-free.Sounds pretty abstract to me.

I told you so.Any ‘abstract’ listening tips?

Sure. Israel Vibrations, Same Song Dub. James Ferraro, Clear. Express-way Yo Yo Dieting, Bubblethug. Let

me think... Solid Eye’s Fruit of Auto-mation is a really good album. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Eternal 1999... Israel Vibrations, especially that re-cord, is just so good. Chants com-ing out of a really fucked-up echo chamber. Eternal delays. I just love it. There’s a lot of space in it!Your music has a soundtrack kind of quality to it. What kind of film would accompany it?

Laura Brothers (aka Out4Pizza) conceived some visuals for me. Her animated GIF is one of my favourite visions of my music.And what about a movie with a nar-rative?

I don’t like that idea.Would that be too much of a form?

Yeah, exactly. Though I would like to work on a soundtrack for a mov-ie called Reflections of Evil by [Ameri-can underground filmmaker] Damon Packard – the extended version, three hours long. I truly love that movie.Do you think you could create fitting music for it?

Yeah. I like that movie because it’s basically about one long bad trip. It’s hyper-psychedelic and at the same time really, really grounded. It’s every-day psychedelic.Would you say your music is like a bad trip? Whoa, wait – that sounds terrible.

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Yeah :) That does sound terrible. I wouldn’t describe my music as a bad trip, not at all. But yes, I like the idea of a voyage with some eerie elements.Where do you get your inspiration?

Driving my car, I guess. It sounds stupid but I like driving around in the hills late at night, listening to music, smoking. It’s trippy... And I listen to music 24 hours a day.All kinds of stuff ?

Not really. I hate Italian commer-cial radio.That I can understand.

But I like Rihanna a lot. Desti-ny’s Child...Pretty straightforward pop music.

Yes. There’s no shame in that. I like pop music. I like mechanisms, structures.Do you feel the need to unravel those structures?

I like getting lost in them.So, a hasty Google search doesn’t bring up much info on you – except about how there’s not much info on you. Is it your intention to remain an obscure artist?

That’s also about space, it’s all about space. I like the idea that you can project your own vision on me, that you have the freedom to do that.And what about your live performanc-es? Surely we get to see the person be-hind all the mysteries then?

I’m a blurry person in real life. I’m out of focus.That reminds me of one of my favourite movie scenes ever, the one in Woody Al-len’s Deconstructing Harry when Rob-in Williams is out of focus. Also kind of a bad trip...

Oh, that movie is so good! That scene is so good!Right?

When the girl says: ‘Daddy’s out of focus!’ Genius!Thanks so much for the interview. And see you in Holland.

Please come and say hi. Even if I’m out of focus...

Dracula Lewis plays on 13 February at OC-CII in Amsterdam and on 15 February at Koffie5Euro in Rotterdam. Both shows are free for Subbacultcha! members.

‘The term ‘abstract’ is like a cage for the idea of abstract. I know that cage really well. That’s why sometimes I hate words. especially when they are meant to define an idea, a sound, a vision.

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Pete Swanson vs. Raime vs. Lee Gamble

Last month Raime, Lee Gamble and Pete Swanson played together in Amsterdam as part of the Sonic Acts Festival. The day after their performance, we spoke with them about the

current wave of abstract electronic music.

‘If you’re in control of your own ideas, then you’re a virtuoso of art’

Words by Juha van ‘t Zelfde. Image by Bas Morsch

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To make something that sounds like something no one else could have made is the virtuosity of music that still exists.

... it doesn’t take a particular position at all, but I think it is really in opposition to established forms.

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...like your stuff, Pete: it’s fucking physical

... your music is cerebral, it’s not just functional body music.

I think of my music as being high-anxiety.

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Do you guys play together a lot?Pete Swanson: No, actually this

was the first time we’ve shared a stage together. Both Lee and I are from the noise scene, but it’s funny we never crossed paths in those days. I’ve been familiar with his stuff, and have cor-responded with Raime. It was cool to meet everyone here.

What about your musical kinship? Even though your music sounds very different it seems like there’s a unify-ing factor.

Pete Swanson: A lot of us are coming from different areas and dif-ferent angles. It’s definitely a dark, de-stroyed electronic music, but everyone is coming at it from a really different angle, using really different gear.

Raime: And that reflects what music is doing at the moment, and how people are consuming music. You don’t necessarily have people aligning themselves to one particular scene, strictly listening to one kind of music.

Pete Swanson: When digital me-dia started becoming the predomi-nant means of distribution it really allowed people to tap into whatever music they wanted.

Raime: Everybody worries about the loss of authenticity. Everyone has a panic about the possibility that we

are just consistently consuming media on a very superficial basis. But actual-ly, for all of us to be here, as outsiders or niche musicians, and to play to that many people is incredibly positive.

[US sci-fi writer]Bruce Sterling re-cently commented on the effect of digi-tal music on contemporary musicians: ‘They can make a lot of weirder noises, lots faster, but they don’t become virtuo-sos.’ Would you agree?

Lee Gamble: A virtuoso in the musical sense means that you’re good at one specific thing. Nowadays, there’s tons of software out there that makes making music easy. But you have to be able to curtail all of this. To make something that sounds like something no one else could have made is the virtuosity of music that still exists.

Raime: We’re talking virtuoso in a musical sense, but I don’t real-ly class myself as a traditional musi-cian. I feel like I have been able to join the community of musicians by hav-ing all of these available tools. People are still virtuosos by means of ideas. If you’re in control of your own ideas then you’re a virtuoso of art. For us it’s a rigorous process. We are incredibly obsessed by sound worlds. When we talk about our work we wonder what

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you feel when you are in that world. It is an obsessively worked-over sense of place and narrative.

Lee Gamble: And your music is cerebral, it’s not just functional body music.

Raime: That’s the hybrid that’s happening. Like your stuff, Pete: it’s fucking physical, but at the same time, it’s not the music we’re going to hear in a club a lot. In some respects this is why it appeals to a lot of people: be-cause it works on these two levels.

Pete Swanson: Yes, I think of my music as being high-anxiety. I feel that the energy is very nervous. It’s definitely body music. And on some level it’s also political, but in a very abstract way. It’s very anti-struc-ture. I think there’s a certain inherent politics in that, and it comes from my punk background, but it’s not explic-itly political: it’s not explicitly anti-capitalist, it doesn’t take a particular position at all, but I think it is real-ly in opposition to established forms.

Lee Gamble: A lot of postwar electroacoustic composers were fuck-ing hardcore because they grew up in a war. Stockhausen used to pick up pieces of dead bodies when he was a kid. My music isn’t a political state-ment, but you’re a product of where you are. I live in Tottenham, where

the recent London riots started, and I was playing the next night, and I nearly pulled the show because I was so deeply frustrated ‒ not with the fact that people were rioting, but with the manifestation of this fuck-ing hassle people have to deal with in poorer areas, that it has to come to this point. So yes, if you write records and something like that happens and it doesn’t get in there, you must live in a bubble.

Raime: I also like thinking about it on a micro-scale. I like to experi-ence drama because perhaps some parts of my life aren’t as dramatic as I would like them to be. We all want something to happen in our lives, and we all want to feel. We want to ex-perience. So on a day-to-day level, that’s another reason why I listen to really intense music. I listen to Pete’s stuff walking down the street to get some milk. There’s no part of my life that is intense or dramatic or dys-functional in that scenario, but I still want to fucking feel something. And that’s for me on a very elemental lev-el a political statement ‒ in the sense that I desire to experience, and I de-sire my existence to be real.

More information about the Sonic Acts Fes-tival: www.sonicacts.com

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...Stockhausen used to pick up pieces of dead bodies when he was a kid.

We all want something to happen in our lives... I desire my existence to be real.

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This issue is about the current wave of abstract music out there. It’s almost like some sort of a new avant-garde. How do you feel about that?

Cosey: I’m not sure there can be an ‘avant-garde’ any more, but I get your point and any interest in any-thing ‘other’ always makes me hap-py. I hate anything that smacks of the status quo...

Some of these acts show the influence of the industrial avant-garde of the ’80s, a style which you are often credited with founding. How does it feel to be part of a renewed interest in something that you helped create?

Cosey: I don’t think about it, I just get on with what I want to do. I

guess I’m connected in some way be-cause you’ve just made that connec-tion, but I do feel affinity for people who approach their work in a similar way to me. I’m not into pigeon-hol-ing anything – even as avant-garde. I’m all for as much freedom of cre-ative expression as possible, and cat-egorising actions and works tends to run counter to that.

Chris: I feel whatever we do mu-sically has always been apart from, or in parallel to, current trends and genres. These ‘new waves’ evolve and fragment into sub-genres and waves at such a rate that I find it difficult to feel connected to any in particular. As ever, we just do what we do, regardless of whatever else is being produced.

Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti – of iconic ’70s electro group Throbbing Gristle – are widely

credited with founding the UK’s industrial music scene. As the sound they pioneered enjoys

a resurgence (hence their own 2012 release Transverse as Carter Tutti Void), we caught up

with them to talk inspirations and the possibility of a new avant-garde

Interview by Bas Morsch

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Cosey, last year, in an interview you did with Self Titled Mag, you spoke hope-fully of a new ‘pioneering spirit’ emerg-ing in music. Were your hopes justified?

Cosey: Yes, in part. But the situ-ation is very different now in terms of how people define ‘success’. That’s al-ways annoyed me. There’s still a ten-dency to think of the ‘end game’ rath-er than the moment. That’s what was

so great about the Carter Tutti Void gig and album: none of us thought about the end game. It was all about the moment.

Any contemporary pioneering artists you admire for contributing to new mu-sical developments?

Cosey: Audio hardware and soft-ware developers.

(2009)

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Chris: I don’t generally listen to a lot of music because much of my time is spent in the studio working with sound, I don’t find I need to lis-ten to other people’s music as much as I used to. But there are some re-cent albums I like listening to, usually while I’m doing something non-mu-sic related such as travelling, writ-ing or working with graphics, but the kind of music I listen to for pleasure is pretty much unrelated to the kind of music we produce. I can honestly say I don’t think that any of those albums inspire me musically – well, certainly not consciously anyway.

Any inspirational pioneers when you started playing with Throbbing Gristle?

Cosey: I don’t ever think of al-bums, films, people as ‘inspiration-al’. It’s more that I sense, see, read or hear something that triggers an idea which may have nothing to do with the source that evoked it. And usual-ly it’s not one single thing either. It’s all about life, people, actions and re-actions rather than anything specifi-cally ‘inspirational’. I could say some of the bands around the time of TG triggered the anti-musical aspects but it was so many factors – political, per-sonal, curiosity, a love and hunger for the unknown.

For Chris & Cosey’s latest project they involved Nik Colk Void of Factory Floor. The three of them did one gig together as Carter Tutti Void.

The show was recorded and released as Transverse; one of the most exciting albums of last year. Needless to say we wanted to pick Nik’s brain as well. We posed her the same questions. This is what she said:

‘I do feel like I’m surrounded by a current wave of “abstract” music, but I think it’s more to do with finding interest in imperfec-tions as opposed to high production and regurgitating something that is already out there. Like the Haxan Cloak for instance. I like to hear records with atmosphere. Bob-by Krlic certainly gave me this with his use of ritual bells and cello strings. And Holly Herndon – I’m always interested in the connection of the body and the instrument. When I play my instruments it’s based around extended technique. Where I use bows, and sticks, contact mics to make my samples etc, Holly merges the human body with digital technology.’

‘I feel like it’s the beginnings of something new – I’m very interested in seeing where it goes.’

(2012)

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DarkstarSoon after London trio Darkstar signed to influential electronic label Warp Records, they stowed away to the rolling Yorkshire

countryside to record their new album News From Nowhere. The time away appears to

have had a profound impact, because they’ve returned with a refreshingly lush new sound, leaving behind the cold synth-pop of their 2010 debut North in favor of a much more breezy layering of crazing melodic samples, playful harmonies and subtle percussion. In

anticipation of their upcoming European tour we spoke with beatmakers Aiden Whalley

and James Buttery.

3 way Skype conversation by Brenda Bosma. Images by Dieter Durinck

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Presuming a darkstar is something like a wormhole, what kind of stuff would get sucked into it?

Clocks and clockworks. We used samples of ticking sounds throughout the album. What else? iPhones and iPhone chargers!What about abstract stuff ?

If we can put in the space we were in when we wrote the album, we’d throw that in. The vastness, the silence, the green, the nature. Yeah, basically just those countryside vibes. You were in a cottage in the middle of nowhere. How did the time pass out there?

It was pretty uneventful. You kind of had to amuse yourself. We played Mega Jump on the iPhone a lot.What’s the news from nowhere?

The title is from a book by Wil-liam Morris. We were looking for a title that reflected clockwork sounds and intricacies and our producer sug-gested this book. We wanted to cap-ture the little in-between moments with this album. That’s the news from nowhere: the stuff you wouldn’t actu-ally take much interest in. After being exposed to the hecticness of London, it takes you a minute to adjust after you’ve been in a peaceful surround-ing like we were. You start looking at things maybe the way you used to as

a child. That does not really happen in the city. There’s an eternal distrac-tion there. In your press kit it says: ‘This is a totally different record to North. It’s somewhat brighter in mood, but deeper in feeling and intention… it’s much more rhyth-mic and fluid. It moves quicker.’ From and to what does it move?

We just meant that in a rhythmic way. There are more intricacies with-in the tracks, it’s more percussive and melodic, more floaty textures. It has a wider spectrum. The first record was purposefully concise; for this one, we allowed ourselves to travel a bit more, kept it more open. Was there a specific reason to leave the mood of North behind?

We didn’t think we could go back into that type of thing and take it fur-ther. Our own amusement and enter-tainment were the main factors for leaving that behind.You were bored with it?

Yeah, basically. There’s no point in doing it for someone else.What was the attraction in the first place?

Because we got bored of the oth-er thing. That’s it. [Laughs] Also, it’s about curiosity. We like to experiment and explore new things after every al-bum.

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Quite a lot of bands seem to be exploring abstract sounding, more linear sound-scapes at the moment. Do you think you’re part of a new avant-garde?

From our perspective we can’t re-ally say we’re part of something. There isn’t really a sense of community here in the UK. But I do get what you mean: a lot of bands are experiment-ing with electronic elements. I think you should judge the output rather than the method though. We like to experiment with the sonics that we’re using. It’s almost natural to us now. It’s probably also one of the things we shouldn’t change now. If we focus on the lyrics, what’s the most concrete thing James is singing about?

It varies, but it touches the feeling of being in that open space.What about the song ‘ You Don’t Need a Weatherman’? Why don’t you need one?

Because it’s obvious. You just have to take an umbrella with you. That track specifically is about a com-pass you’ve got inside of you. You’re

always drawn to home.Where’s home for you?

When we were recording the al-bum it was really blurred. Even now it’s still unsure. All of us, apart from James, have got quite a lot going on in London – like girlfriends and such – but we’ve been a little bit in between. When do you think you’ll settle?

It won’t be for a while: we go on tour next week. We enjoy touring. The early mornings are a bitch, though.What kind of surroundings do you pre-fer to be in?

It’s good to know those moments you see when you’re in a peaceful en-vironment, but at the same time, the options you’ve got in London, you can’t really beat that. I guess we’ll keep travelling between those worlds.

Darkstar play on 19 February at Muziekge-bouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam. The show is organised in collaboration with The rest is Noise and entrance is free for Subbacultcha! members.

‘A lot of bands are experimenting with electronic elements. I think you should judge the output

rather than the method though’

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Fleur van Dodewaard

Photographer Fleur van Dodewaard (1983) lives and works in Amsterdam. Her highly conceptual semi-abstract work is smart, witty and crisp. Van Dodewaard’s images seem like studies for the abstract deduction of real-ity but at the same time are unique autono-mous works with great individual strength. The photos printed on these pages are from Van Dodewaard’s most recent series, Sculp-tures Economiques. Its 25 images originate from one ‘mother image’ which is adapted 25 times according to a strict scheme of colour and shape. The work is on display at the Sub-bacultcha! project space starting 15 February.exhibition: Fleur van Dodewaard - Sculptures economiques. 15 February-06 March. Mon-Fri 11.00-17.00, Subbacultcha! hQ, Da Costakade 150, Amster-dam. opening 15 February. rSvP only

www.fleurvandodewaard.com

Art Featured artist

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Music Reviews New releases worth your while By Carly Blair

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

II ( Jagjaguwar)

Ruben Nielson, a sheepish Kiwi now living in Portland, Oregon, spent most of the 2000s making punk music with his brother in the band Mint Chicks. In 2010 he posted a solo track on Band-camp on a whim. The track was ‘Ffunny Ffriends’, a nifty little psych-pop ditty with an indel-ible hook that ffunilly enough was embraced by the world at large, inspiring Nielson to start lo-fi psych project Unknown Mortal Orchestra. His subse-quent self-produced, self-titled 2011 debut was beloved by the blogosphere and beyond. Now a trio dropping a highly antici-pated follow-up, UMO is hard-ly an orchestra and hardly un-known. II is, however, mortal in the best of ways: vocally vulner-able, humble in composition and production, wonderfully warm, and welcoming.

Ducktails The Flower Lane

(Domino)

Real Estate guitarist Matthew Mondanile’s Ducktails side proj-ect started out solo and sound-ing pretty chillwavey but has gradually become poppier and more refined. His fourth full-length was written collabora-tively with Big Troubles and fea-tures Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin, Joel Ford of Ford & Lopatin/Airbird, Made-line Follin of Cults, members of Big Troubles, Real Estate’s Mar-tin Courtney, and others. Giv-en all the additional personnel, it’s unsurprising that The Flow-er Lane is more varied than his earlier work. Although the gui-tar wizardry listeners can always count on Mondanile to deliver is on display here, the overall vibe is so loungey and slick, I wonder if he’s sneaked a peek into the playbook of fellow former chill-waver, Toro y Moi.

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Jacco Gardner Cabinet of Curiosities

(Trouble in Mind)

Jacco Gardner is a multi-in-strumentalist who weaves to-gether harpsichord, strings, flutes and other classical instru-ments to produce psychedelic pop reminiscent of ’60s legends like the Zombies. Appropri-ate, in a way, since it seems like it’s been 50 years since a Dutch artist has received so much in-ternational attention. Though he’s been known to don a Mad Hatter hat, listening to his de-but album, Cabinet of Curiosi-ties, is more like taking a trip down a wormhole than a rabbit hole. Recorded on authentic ’60s analogue gear with Jan Aud-ier, who worked with original Dutch psych bands like Gold-en Earring(s), everything about the album is firmly fixed in a by-gone era. Though this doesn’t make for the most original lis-ten, the exquisite execution does yield some highly palatable pais-ley pop.

Foxygen We Are the 21st

Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic

( Jagjaguwar)

Foxygen founders Jonathan Rado and Sam France have been making music together since 2005, when they were (as they put it) just ‘high school kids ob-sessed with the Brian Jonestown Massacre’ and heavily influenced by ’60s psychedelia. They self-released several CDRs before working up the nerve to give a demo to musician/producer Richard Swift after seeing him perform in 2011. Swift swiftly agreed to record what would be-come their proper debut, as well as the brand new We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic. This bombastically titled sophomore effort represents an even more impressively preco-cious, surprisingly self-assured and spirited Kinks-tinged romp whose tracks would fit nicely on a Wes Anderson soundtrack.

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Music Reviews continued

Widowspeak Almanac

(Captured Tracks)

This Brooklyn band’s 2011 de-but garnered them a lot of com-parisons to various druggy ’90s bands. Singer Molly Hamilton’s sedate vocals in particular re-call Mazzy Star’s Hope Sando-val, but Robert Thomas’s jangly guitar lines helped make it more stimulating than a mere homage to their opiate source materi-al. The inspiration for their fol-low-up was the then-impending apocalypse, and although it re-tains traces of doomsday imag-ery and dread, Almanac certainly doesn’t sound like mankind was meant to perish without ever hearing it. Rather, it resembles its namesake, an annual publi-cation noting the timing of reg-ular but subtly shifting celes-tial phenomena in the coming year: reflecting a fatalistic ac-ceptance of the cyclical nature of life, well-rounded, and a defi-nite progression from their ear-lier work.

DarkstarNews From Nowhere

(Warp)

After getting signed by Warp, London trio Darkstar headed to the countryside to record their new album. Sequestering them-selves from London’s incessant bustle led to a major shift away from the danceable synth-pop of their debut. When Warp made the finished product available to stream last month, it was accom-panied by the message, ‘Listen to the new Darkstar album in full. Take your time, immerse your-self. For this reason, skipping tracks is disabled.’ They have a point. News From Nowhere is filled with vast, darkly atmo-spheric interstices punctuated by points of brightness, and taking in a night sky is far more enjoy-able than simply staring at the sun. I can’t quite get over how much it evokes Feels-era Animal Collective, but if you’re going to pick something to crib, you could hardly do better.

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99 Problems and the Bitch... By Brenda Bosmaknows the anwser Illustration by Martyn F Overweel

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A Nordic music and li fest y le expedit ion

L ARS AND THE HANDS OF L IGHT, PHANTOM, JOHAN GL ANS, NELSON CAN, HIGHASAKITE, DANIEL NORGREN, BOT TLED IN ENGL AND, T HE ECLEC T IC MONIKER, ANE T ROLLE , LYDMOR, BYE BYE BIC YCLE , PE T T ER C ARL SEN, THE MALPR AC T ICE , S T E INAR R AKNE S, BURNING HE ART S, FILMS (O.A. BREAKING GROUND), BREIWORKSHOP

ZATERDAG 2 MAART 2013

N U T R E C H TOPEN: 14:00u / VOORVERKOOP: € 29,00

N O R D I C D E L I G H T . N L NORDIC DELIGHT FEST IVAL IS MEDE MOGELI JK GEMA AK T DOOR

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By Gert Verbeek and Basje Boer New films and DVDs Film

PassionBrian De Palma, 2012

Sure, Brian De Palma has made plenty of straightforward crime classics like The Untouchables and Scarface, but I’ve always liked his kitschy, quasi-erot-ic, Hitchcock-inspired psycho-thrillers best. Those who are with me will surely enjoy De Palma’s latest, a Eurotrashy neo-noir offering about two female frenemies. Isabelle, a shy but talented young woman working in advertising, and Christine, Is-abelle’s cold-hearted bitch of a boss, go from friends to rivals in a plot that illustrates every cli-ché a man might have about women. And no matter how many smartphones and Skype conversations De Palma put in his script, it only takes one saxo-phone solo to reveal that this is a ’90s movie at heart. And that makes me love it all the more. (BB)In theatres 21 February.

The ImposterBart Layton, 2012

For Frenchman Frédéric Bour-din, aka The Chameleon, ly-ing is like breathing. The Im-poster tells the true story of his most spectacular lie. Strand-ed in Spain, he pretends to be one Nicholas Barclay, a Texan teenager reported missing three years before. Prior to meeting Barclay’s family, Bourdin realis-es he’s too old to pass for the schoolboy and doesn’t share any physical resemblance. To his amazement, the family embrac-es him like their long-lost son, no questions asked. Brit director Layton’s documentary expos-es the mechanics of the patho-logical liar. Although the reen-actments make this look like a high-octane fantasy thriller, it is far from being fictional. Bourdin is a dangerous phenomenon – and he knows it. (GV)Out now on DVD (Import) and in theatres 28 February.

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Books Illustration by Viktor Hachmang

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By Marc van der Holst How to read... Books

American satirist Kurt Von-negut graded all his own books in his 1981 collection of essays, short stories, letters and so on, Palm Sunday (itself earning a sol-id ‘C’, which seems about right). According to the man himself, Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle, both graded ‘A+’, are his best. I’ve never been all that keen on S5 myself. Don’t ask me why: of course it’s totally great and all, but I prefer CC, which I must have read at least three times (compared to just once for S5). It’s a very easy read – as are al-most all of Vonnegut’s books. A laugh-out-loud funny book about the bomb, the arms race and technology, CC perhaps most memorably introduces the fictional post-modern religion Bokononism, which is made up out of untruths (foma) that Bo-kononists nevertheless must be-lieve and adhere to in order to achieve peace of mind, and per-haps live a good life. So yeah: basically it’s a lot like most non-fictional religions, only in-

tentionally funny and perhaps a little more nihilistic. The Sirens of Titan (‘A’) is also re-ally good, featuring a Martian invasion of Earth, lots of space travel and this guy who quite lit-erally knows everything (a true omniscient narrator if ever there was one). Rumour has it Von-negut wrote this one in a single night. The writing does have a nice, loose feel to it. As has Slapstick, for which I’ve got a special fondness myself (Vonnegut didn’t, giving it a ‘D’). Written after his sister’s death, it is probably his saddest, bleak-est book, about a pair of hideous-ly ugly twins. Some sort of weird meditation on loneliness, with no real structure and written in a free, associative style, it has two of my favourite of Vonnegut’s lines: ‘So why don’t you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? Why don’t you take a flying fuck at the moooooooooooon?’ and a really good slogan: ‘Lonesome no more!’ Yes pls. K thx bye.

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Girl! Lovin’ the outfit! Tell me how it all began.

I’ve lived in Amsterdam for about nine years now and I like knowing the ins and outs of vin-tage shopping here. I was very confident starting my search.You seem to have some interesting layers going on...

I began with a bustier top. The rest I got at Waterlooplein flea market, where I know some of the vendors. So with a little charm and a wink, I got the red jacket (which I wrapped around my waist for extra volume) and black lace dress for €5! Whoa! Crazy earrings by the way. What’s the story?

I peeked at my boyfriend’s Christmas tree, saw these deco-rations and made them into fan-cy earrings.Imagine you were going on a date with Jacco. What would he need to wear to complement your outfit?

I could see him wearing red trousers, but other than that, all black: black shirt, black blaz-er, some shiny black shoes and a black hat [like he wears on the cover of his single Clear The Air].Would you wear it it to his show?

Oh yes, but I’ll need some space to dance around in this outfit. I’ll be shakin’ my hips and jumping around like crazy!

Bustier Top €9.50

The End, Amsterdam

Red jacket + Lace dress

Flirted for a deal: €5Waterlooplein, Amsterdam

Wanna go shopping for a €15 outfit? Please send an email to [email protected].

Fashion €15 outfit By Mandy Sharabani

Every month we give €15 to someone to compose a complete outfit for a good night out. Yes, quite a challenge.

With Jacco Gardner’s baroque-pop record Cabinet of Curiosities soon to be released, we decided to make him this month’s style

influence for 28-year-old art gallery project manager and vintage lover Joëlla Schippert.

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Joëlla Schippert (28) dressing up to go see Jacco Gardner on 08 February at dB’s, Utrecht.

Budget spent: €14.50

Photos by Isolde Woudstra Fashion

€15 Outfit

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Food Cooking with... By Zofia Ciechowska

Your debut album is called Waktu Dulu, which means ‘before’ in In-donesian. What are your childhood memories of living in Indonesia?

I lived in Papua from the age of two to nine. My father worked there as a missionary, we lived in a tiny village called Kaisah that had no more than 300 people. The memories I have from that period have been untouched by all my other experiences; they exist in a separate part of my brain, which is why I wanted to base my music on them. They are feelings that I cannot describe in words, so I just try to make mu-sic about them instead. When you are a child you don’t judge the world around you, you just take it as your reality and I think that’s beautiful.Is there any Indonesian food in particular that you miss and can’t get in Europe?

Tropical fruit that you can just pick off a tree! Sometimes I also miss the way the people there consumed food. In the vil-lage where I lived, people ate a lot of meat; they would hunt for their food. At the time I also

ate a lot of meat, whereas now I am vegetarian because I can’t stand the way meat is farmed and killed in the West. There you only took what you needed. They hunted deer because there were so many of them and otherwise they would eat all their vegeta-bles, so in a way they complet-ed a circle, the hunting was very much in harmony with nature. You know how some TV chefs and foodies will be all annoying about Southeast Asian street food and serve it up on pretty white plates? What’s it really like?

Well, it’s a lot of rice and fish in Papua. They eat a lot of smoked meat too. Right after hunting you’ll eat fresh meat, but afterwards you salt and smoke it to preserve it for lat-er. Also, they eat these pancakes made out of sago, which comes from palm trees. They also eat this food called papeda at par-ties, which is made out of big white larvae living inside the sago palm trees and some sago flour. It’s a white gluey por-ridge that you eat with fish, it’s very strange but also very cool.

Herrek

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• Findalocallygrowingsagopalmtreeandcutitdownwhenitstartsflowering.

• Poundthetrunktillitspulpcomesout.Thisiscalledsago.

• Make some sago flour from thispulp by grinding the pulp and

washingitwithwaterfromariver.• When your sago flour is ready,

you can make some pancakesoutofitbyfryingitinsomehotoiloverafire.

• Eat the pancakes with somefreshlycaughttropicalfish.

Herrek’s Sago Pancakes

1 Sago palm tree Some water

Herrek play on 16 February at De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam and on 21 Feb-ruary at WORM in Rotterdam. Both shows are free for Subbacultcha! members.

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Horoscope By Brenda Bosma

PIScES20 Feb–20 MarchYou get your wisdom

teeth pulled. The tooth fairy appears. You get three wishes. You wish for peace on Earth, good health for all your loved ones and an iPad mini. Only one of them comes true.

ArIES21 March –20 AprilWhereas some of us

keep smacking ourselves on the head for not clutching on to our mother’s vagina during birth, you enjoy fear-less treks into the unknown. This month you are a shining source of energy and dynamism: every day holds nothing but possibilities for you.

TAuruS21 April–21 MayThey say good ideas

have many fathers. Unfortunate-ly, you feel like a fatherless bad idea. Whose idea was this? The phone rings. It’s your mother. ‘Fine, Mom,’ you reply with a lump in your throat.

GEMINI22 May–21 JuneFebruary’s your favou-

rite month. You call it Fabruary. No-body notices the ever-so-slight dif-ference in pronunciation, though. And everybody ignores you any-way, because you walk around with

a smirking smile on your face all month. Thank God this isn’t a leap year.

cANcEr22 June–22 JulyYou start a band. A boy-

girl band. You call yourselves The Hermits. You make the most beauti-ful music ever, but it will never leave the rehearsal room. You like the re-hearsal room. It feels like home. You are finally there.

LEO23 July–22 AugYou hold in a fart. Why

not just let it slip? Even your in-sides smell of orchids in bloom af-ter an Indian summer in a green val-ley. Come on, don’t give me that false modesty now.

VIrGO23 Aug–22 SeptWinter’s a bitch. You

don’t see any light at the end of the snow tunnel. It’s just another snow tunnel. And another one. An end-less slew of snow tunnels. Wait for spring, Virgini! The theory of prob-ability tells us it will, uhm, probably come. Theoretically.

LIBrA23 Sept–22 OctEverywhere you go you

take the weather with you. Bad, bad

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Illustrations by Kathrin Klingner Horoscope

weather. Rain, sleet and snow. Your friends stop inviting you over for candlelit dinners. By the end of win-ter you’ll have become a goth.

ScOrPIO23 Oct–21 NovBeing home alone

watching reruns of Alf makes you start to feel like an alienated fat pig. You decide to crash land in the ga-rage of a suburban middle-class family. You feel like at last you be-long.

SAGITTArIuS22 Nov–21 DecGreat minds think

alike. But small minds do, too. You and your fellow pea-brained friends have lots of giggly fun watching kit-ten videos on the internet, which you call the interwebs. Your chats consist of sheer emoticons. This month, yet again, only crazy happy ones.

cAPrIcOrN22 Dec–20 JanHow could life ever be

a picnic when you can’t even taste the difference between a sweet cher-ry and a baguette filled with a mushy turd?

AquArIuS21 January–19 February

This is your age. And this is your month. You believe in love again, but a modern one. Modern love will get you to the church on time. The church being the Ap-ple store where you will meet the love of your life. Unfortu-nately, he/she turns out to be a PC person. And life is too short for Windows. You return home alone with a beautiful Apple product. You feel slightly sad, but you have no regrets. You regis-ter your beautiful Apple prod-uct. You log into your OkCupid account. You have one new mes-sage. This is your month. This is your age.

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Agenda Shows in February

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This semi-abstract ‘portrait’ of Trust was shot by Suzanna Zak in Los Angeles, USA. Trust plays on 06 February in TROUW, Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

On the following pages:Agenda

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Tamaryn + Pien Feith05 February - Tivoli Spiegelbar, Utrecht

19.30 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

This San Francisco-based duo’s 2010 debut album rightfully drew compar-isons to shoegaze and otherwise druggy-sounding bands like My Bloody Valentine, the Cocteau Twins and Mazzy Star, and their sophomore effort, 2012’s Tender New Signs, finds them further carving out their own niche within the nugaze movement. With soothing vocals, sumptuous blankets of reverb and narcotic pacing, Tamaryn craft songs so deliciously dreamy you’ll hit ‘replay’ as though it were the snooze button. Opener Pien Feith will showcase the kind of romantic electronic pop you can expect to hear on her upcoming album.

Sightseers (film)05 February - LantarenVenster, Rotterdam

Two screenings | €9 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersAscendant British director Ben Wheatley’s take on the romantic getaway. Scripted by lead actors Steve Oram and Alice Lowe, the film follows the couple as they journey through the British midlands on a caravan holiday, with working-class malcontent Chris eager to expose his sheltered new girlfriend Tina to his world. What starts off as a countryside tour of bizarre heritage sites, however, quickly spins out of control. Before long Chris and his new squeeze are on a murderous rampage.

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Trust + Lemontrip06 February - Trouw, Amsterdam

20.30 | €10 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

With Crystal Castles, Austra and now Trust, Toronto seems to have cor-nered the market on crossover-capable gothy synth pop. The latter duo of Robert Alfons and Austra drummer Maya Postepski avoid the aggression and operatic indulgences of their fellow Torontonians, favouring a brand of ’80s-channelling dance music that is incontrovertibly introverted and glori-ously gloomy. Just because their debut full-length, TRST, which came out last year, leaves the ‘U’ out, doesn’t mean you should feel left out: it goes as well with a druggy dance floor as it does with moping on your own.

Jacco Gardner08 February - dB’s, Utrecht

21.00 | €7| Free for Subbacultcha! members

Jacco Gardner weaves harpsichord, strings, flutes and other classical in-struments with raw psychedelic effects to produce classic-sounding and highly palatable paisley pop. His debut album is called Cabinet of Curiosi-ties, and he’s been known to don a Mad Hatter hat, so you’d probably be wise to bring along your Alice in Wonderland blotter paper in preparation for a trip down the rabbit hole. Although the album is not officially released until the 12th of February, you can get your vinyl copy at this show.

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Hundebiss Showcase ft. Stargate + Dracula Lewis + Primitive Art

13 February - OCCII, Amsterdam20.30 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

15 February - Koffie5Euro, Rotterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Hundebiss is an Italian DIY experimental music label founded by Dracu-la Lewis (aka Simone Trabucchi). For the past few years they’ve been re-leasing meticulously crafted, elaborately packaged limited-edition records – and, often, cassettes – by artists including James Ferraro, Hype Williams, Sewn Leather, JAWS and many more. Featuring performances by Dracula Lewis himself, Stargate (a new project by Presto!? Rec and Burgerdreams owner Lorenzo Senni) and Milan duo Primitive Art, this latest Hundebiss showcase offers a glimpse into the label’s unsettling but strangely beau-tiful universe.

Cosmonauts15 February - AreaFiftyOne, Eindhoven

21.30 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersNormally, if we recommend one of a thousand bands from the same place playing the same type of music, you’d cringe – and rightfully so. But not when we’re talkin’ about yet another psychedelic garage band from Califor-nia, right? Good, because these kids know how to rock the fuck out.

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Dignan Porch + Herrek16 February - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam20.00 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Dignan Porch’s first record, 2010’s Tendrils, was performed and recorded by singer Joe Walsh alone. Now a five-piece band, the reinvented Dignan Porch just released their first album together last summer, the reassuring-ly titled Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen (on Captured Tracks). These guys wear their ’90s influences on their flannelled sleeves, but imbue them with enough youthful optimism and odd touches to transform them into easygo-ing and highly hummable fuzzy pop songs. Rotterdam’s Herrek will get the ball rolling with hypnotic and exotic dark folk tunes.

Darkstar + Lumisokea19 February - Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam

20.30 | €10 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersSoon after London trio Darkstar signed to influential electronic label Warp Records, they stowed away to the rolling Yorkshire countryside to record their new album. The time away appears to have had a profound impact, because they’ve returned with a refreshingly lush new sound, leaving be-hind the cold synth-pop of their 2010 debut North in favour of a much more breezy layering of crazing melodic samples, playful harmonies and sub-tle percussion. Their new album, News From Nowhere, will be released by Warp Records on the 5th of February.

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Dead Ghosts20 February - AreaFiftyOne, Eindhoven

20.00 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

If you love garage and live anywhere near Eindhoven, then you’re one lucky bastard this month: just five days after the late-night Cosmonauts/Stille-tos/Traumahelikopter show, this Vancouver four-piece will summon you back to the skate park with their jangly, Black Lips-channelling garage rock.

Herrek (CD release show) + Eklin + Fabulous Diamonds

21 February - WORM, Rotterdam20.30 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Long a fixture in the Dutch underground, Groninger Gerrit van der Scheer cut his teeth as the frontman of Bonne Aparte and the guitarist for Adept before forming Herrek as a more lyrically-focused project. “Herrek” was Gerrit’s nickname growing up in Indonesia. Musically, the band is purport-edly inspired by bands incorporating tribal and mystical influences, such as Gang Gang Dance, Liars and Animal Collective, so it seems fitting that he incorporates memories of the jungle landscape and mysticism he encoun-tered in Indonesia into the lyrics of debut album Waktu Dulu. Opening per-formances by the always-interesting Eklin and hypnotic Aussie duo Fabu-lous Diamonds should lull the audience into an appropriately contemplative state of mind.

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1991: The Year Punk Broke (film)22 February - Melkweg Cinema, Amsterdam23.00 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

In August of 1991, pioneering noise-punk band Sonic Youth was on the verge of commercial success. With a major label deal and widespread un-derground acclaim, they were set to break into the mainstream. Together with a handful of other up-and-coming bands – Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., Mud-honey, Babes in Toyland and Gumball – Sonic Youth embarked on an in-famous two-week summer festival tour of Europe that exposed them and Nirvana to some of the largest audiences they’d ever seen. 1991: The Year Punk Broke is a collection of documentary Super 8 footage filmmaker Dave Markey shot that summer. After almost two decades of legal haranguing, the film finally saw its DVD release on its 20th anniversary in 2011.

Doldrums23 February - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam20.00 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Toronto’s Airick Woodhead’s panicky, androgynous vocals and chopped-up samples teeter on the edge of electro-hallucinogenic freak-outs before accessible pop melodies pull them safely back to the real world. His full-length debut, A Lesser Evil, is out on Arbutus/Souterrain Transmissions this month.

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Foam Photography MuseumOpen daily 10.00-18.00, Thur and Fri until 21.00

€8.50 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Foam is always free for members, and through late March there are several new exhibitions on display: the first major solo exhibition of Dutch duo Was-sinkLundgren; Jan Hoek’s photos of bizarre models (and the even more bi-zarre stories behind the pictures); the work of Toneelgroep Amsterdam sce-nographer/house photographer Jan Versweyveld (celebrating the theatre group’s 25th anniversary); plus a diverse selection of 19th-century Rus-sian colour photography, from hand-tinted plates to mass-produced prints.

TENTOpen Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00

€4 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersVisiting this Rotterdam platform for contemporary art is free for members in February. On the seventh, a new solo show by Rotterdam- and Berlin-based artists Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson will open. The duo’s work examines the influence of socio-economic and political factors on the surrounding world in the form of installations, video works and neon sculptures, all pro-duced over the last ten years.

Fleur van Dodewaard15 February - 8 March- Subbacultcha HQ

Open Mon-Fri 11.00-18.00Free

This month’s featured artist Fleur van Dodewaard will be showing her most recent (and never exhibited) work Sculptures Economiques at the Subba-cultcha! headquarters. We’re thrilled to be premiering a selection of this conceptual series by one of Holland’s rising photographers. Twenty-five im-ages that originate from one ‘mother image’ adapted 25 times according to a strict scheme of colour and shape. See page 36 for a preview.

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City of CyborgsA cast of international artists participate in this interactive exhibition where man and machine fuse into tactile social beings. Fea-tured artists include Radiohead video di-rector Johnny Hardstaff, Prometheus spe-cial FX wizard Gustav Hoegen, Marguerite Humeau’s opera for prehistoric animals soundtracked by Jameszoo and more. Hudson Mohawke, SBTRKT and Appa-rat DJ setsWill they go sample crazy on throwaway 80s soul or the hardcorest of hip-hop? Maybe they will even remix the live perform-ers at STRP, such as Modeselektor, Lunice and Mala.

Marshmallow Laser FeastWith their cosmic laser shows this Lon-don stage art crew continually crosses over from underground to elite, from Oneohtrix Point Never to Saatchi & Saatchi. Check their epic Meet Your Creator clip on You-Tube for a taste of what to expect.

Ryoji IkedaThe Japanese contemporary electronic mu-sic pioneer presents his latest show, Super-position, inspired by quantum mechanics.

MartynInternationally renowned dubstep innovator Martyn returns to his native of Eindhoven for an immersive multimedia live set featur-ing visuals by Dutch street artist Erosie and French filmmaker Xavier Magot, who has previously collaborated with Sebastian and Flying Lotus.

The New Machine EraOne gigantic factory hall will become one gigantic, wacky chain reaction of machines, each built by its own team of artists, ICT students, craftsmen and other DIY fanatics.

Petite NoirPetite Noir is a lo-fi, experimental project by IAMWAVES (Yannick Ilunga), a Brussels-born singer-songwriter of Congolese/An-golan descent. Melodic African elements shimmer in his contemporary soundscapes, which Ilunga describes as ‘noir wave’.

Holy OtherWith his dark and haunting grooves, Man-chester based Holy Other is truly one of our favourite artists on the prolific Tri-An-gle label.

More info: www.strp.nl

STRP BIENNIAL Namedafteritslocation–Strijp-S,aformerindustrialareainEind-hovennowhometolegionsofyoungcreatives–theSTRPBienni-

alisamash-upofhybridmusic,artandtechnology.IfSTRP’shands-on,high-tech,sexyrobotsandflashylasersdon’tmoveyou,thelive

soundtrackofthebestininternationaldanceanddubstepcertainlywill.

01-10March-Strijp-S(Klokgebouw),Eindhoven

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RyojiIkeda

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Social SoundUntil16Feb-Blokhuispoort,Leeuwarden

If you’re reading this, you probably enjoy hanging out with friends while listening to music, but have you ever given any deep-er thought to the social function of music? This series focuses on just that, with mul-tidisciplinary performances that are certain to break the ice in the audience, housed in the previously anti-social setting of a former prison, the Blokhuispoort.

Grauzone Festival ft. Echo & the Bunnymen + Iceage +

Chameleons Vox01Feb-Melkweg

New wave emerged alongside punk as a reaction to the over-produced, uninspired popular music of the early ’70s, but gradu-ally came to refer to bands more interested in experimentation, lyrical complexity and polished production. Given the current cor-porate cultural milieu, it’s no surprise that the genre has seen a resurgence in recent years. This new multimedia festival links classic new-wave bands with contemporary artists who embrace the genre’s original an-archic ethos.

The Ruby Suns02Feb-Paradiso,Amsterdam

New Zealand’s Ruby Suns released three albums filled with weird, eclectic pop before founder Ryan McPhun and his longtime girlfriend and bandmate split in 2010 and McPhun went on an extended holiday in Norway. The new Ruby Suns album, Chris-topher, was lyrically inspired by the break-up and musically inspired by glossy Scandi-navian synth pop.

Jacco Gardner02Feb-Manifesto,Hoorn

08Feb-dB’s,Utrecht09Feb-Merleyn,Nijmegen

16Feb-DeSupermarkt,TheHague18Feb-013,Tilburg

Dutch native Jacco Gardner weaves harp-sichord, strings and other classical instru-ments with raw psychedelic effects. Read more on page 57.

Metz04Feb-Paradiso,Amsterdam

05Feb-Merleyn,NijmegenSomething like a spindly teenager trans-

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formed into a beefcake by hundreds of hours and thousands of repetitions at the gym, since their 2007 live debut this To-ronto power trio has slowly but deliber-ately shaped its sound into the muscular post-hardcore flexed on its self-titled 2012 debut. Following in the footsteps of ag-gressive predecessors like The Jesus Liz-ard, Metz was impressive enough in its own right to muscle its way on to more than a few ‘Best of 2012’ lists.

Tamaryn04Feb-Paradiso,Amsterdam

05Feb-Tivoli,UtrechtThis San Francisco-based duo uses sooth-ing vocals, sumptuous blankets of reverb and narcotic pacing to craft deliciously dreamy nugaze. Read more on page 56.

Foxygen06Feb-Bitterzoet,Amsterdam

Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado and Sam France have been making music together since 2005, when they were (as they put it) just ‘high school kids obsessed with the Bri-an Jonestown Massacre’. Eventually they worked up the nerve to give a demo to mu-sician/producer Richard Swift after seeing him perform, and Swift swiftly agreed to re-cord what would become their proper de-but, as well as the brand new We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic, an impressively precocious, surpris-ingly self-assured and spirited Kinks-tinged romp whose tracks would fit nicely on a Wes Anderson soundtrack.

Trust06Feb-TrouwdeVerdieping,AmsterdamThis Toronto duo makes gothy synth-pop that goes as well with a druggy dance floor as it does with moping on your own. Read more on page 57.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra07Feb-Paradiso,Amsterdam

Ruban Nielson, a sheepish Kiwi, spent most of the early 2000s making punk mu-sic with his brother Kody in the band Mint Chicks, before starting his solo lo-fi psych project Unknown Mortal Orchestra. The band’s self-produced self-titled 2011 de-but was beloved by the blogosphere and beyond, and the new album, II, should help build even more momentum by taking a more ambitious approach than Unknown Mortal Orchestra without sacrificing the scruffy sweetness that made that release so loveable.

Dinosaur Jr.08Feb-Paradiso,Amsterdam

This legendary indie-rock band have had plenty of ups and downs during their 30-year history, including the onstage fist fight between founding members J Mascis and Lou Barlow that resulted in Barlow get-ting the boot. After retiring the band name in 1997 and recording a few solo albums, Mascis and Barlow reunited in 2005 and have since release three solid albums of new material, most recently 2012’s I Bet on Sky.

Winter Sleaze (via Sleazefest) ft. Traumahelikopter + Vox Von

Braun + White Mystery09Feb-ClubLite,Amsterdam

This all-day garage rock party, brought to you by the sleazebags who organ-ise Sleazefest, promises to leave you beer splattered and sweaty even in the dead of winter. The line-up features Grunnen ga-rage-rock gods Traumahelikopter, whose performances are so mosh pit-inducing you might actually want to have emergen-cy services on standby; fellow Groningers Vox Von Braun, touring behind their well-

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received new album, Rich and On Wheels; brother-sister garage duo White Mystery, and more.

Salif Keita10 Feb - Paradiso, Amsterdam

This Malian world music superstar, often called the ‘Golden Voice of Africa’, was os-tracised as a child by his community be-cause he’s an albino, considered bad luck in his native Mandinka culture. He took solace in music and rose to fame within Africa be-fore moving to Paris and gaining an interna-tional audience. His work mixes traditional West African influences with European and American musical styles like jazz and pop.

Gallon Drunk12 Feb - dB’s, Utrecht

With a name like Gallon Drunk, you might reasonably expect this English band to spe-cialise in sleazy swamp rock – and rightly so. They released a few albums and toured with Morrissey before frontman James Johnston started focusing on playing with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Last year’s The Road Gets Darker From Here was their first album in five years, and found them sounding as intoxicating as ever.

Hundebiss Showcase ft. Stargate + Dracula Lewis + Primitive Art

13 February - OCCII, Amsterdam15 February - Koffie5euro, Rotterdam

Vernasca, Italy-based Hundebiss Records is a DIY experimental music label founded by Dracula Lewis, aka Simone Trabucchi. This showcase offers a glimpse into the label’s dark but strangely beautiful universe. Read more on page 58.

Cosmonauts 15 Feb - AreaFiftyOne, Eindhoven16 Feb - Patronaat, Haarlem (Free)

17 Feb - OCCII, AmsterdamLoud psychedelic garage rockers from Cali-fornia. Read more on page 58.

Herrek16 Feb - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam

17 Feb - Vera, Groningen 18 Feb - 013, Tilburg

21 Feb - WORM, Rotterdam Dutch underground veteran Gerrit van der Scheer cut his teeth fronting Bonne Aparte and as the guitarist for Adept before form-ing Herrek as a more lyrically-focused, folk-based project. Read more on page 60.

Ducktails Herrek

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POPPODIUM EKKO | BEMUURDE WEERD WZ 3 | 3513 BH UTRECHT | WWW.EKKO.NL

BINNENKORT O.A.

VOLLEDIGPROGRAMMA & TIJDEN:

ZA02MRTADRIAN CROWLEY +BROEDER DIELEMAN

VR01FEBDAVID BAZAN PLAYSPEDRO THE L ION

DO21FEBDAN DEACON

VR22FEBPISSING IN THE WINDO.A. DAUWD

VR08FEBBRIGHTO.A. GEORGE FITZGERALD + CALICO

VR01FEB030303 ACID EDITIONLIVE: KID MACHINE + DRVG CVLTVRE

VR15FEBOPKIKKERO.A. EINMUSIK + MALBETRIEB

VR 01MRTTAPED

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Dignan Porch16Feb-DeNieuweAnita,Amsterdam

17Feb-Vera,Groningen18Feb-013,Tilburg-Incubated

London’s Dignan Porch wear their ’90s in-fluences on their flannelled sleeves, but im-bue them with enough youthful optimism and odd touches to transform them into highly hummable, fuzzy pop songs. Read more on page 59.

Ducktails17Feb-Paradiso,Amsterdam

18Feb-Merleyn,NijmegenReal Estate guitarist Matthew Mondanile’s Ducktails project started out solo and sounding pretty chillwavey, but has gradu-ally become poppier and more refined. His new album features Daniel Lopatin and Joel Ford of Ford & Lopatin, Madeline Follin of Cults, Real Estate’s Martin Courtney, and more. Given all the additional personnel, it’s unsurprising that The Flower Lane is more varied than his earlier work, with a loungey vibe reminiscent of the recent work of fel-low former chillwaver, Toro y Moi.

Darkstar19Feb-Muziekgebouwaan’tIJ,

AmsterdamNewly signed to Warp, this London trio’s upcoming second album is their lushest work yet, featuring breezy layers of craz-ing melodic samples, playful harmonies and subtle percussion. Soothingly abstract. Read more on page 59. And read an inter-view on page 32.

Dan Deacon19Feb-Rotown,Rotterdam

21Feb-EKKO,UtrechtDan Deacon got a graduate degree in elec-troacoustic and computer music composi-

tion before moving to the fertile Baltimore music scene, where he and some college friends founded the Wham City arts col-lective. Deacon is as adept at composing Steve Reich-channelling contemporary clas-sical music as multi-coloured, spastic 8-bit symphonies to God, and his latest album, America, represents the most seamless fu-sion of his classical and electronic work yet. His highly interactive live shows are the stuff of legend.

Dead Ghosts20Feb-AreaFiftyOne,Eindhoven

Vancouver four-piece playing jangly, Black Lips-channelling garage rock. Read more on page 60.

John Cale20Feb-Tivoli,Utrecht21Feb-Mezz,Breda

22Feb-DeOosterpoort,GroningenThis legendary Welsh musician probably needs no introduction since he co-founded The Velvet Underground, but you might not know that he released his 15th full-length and first in seven years in late 2012, the curious and curiously titled Shifty Adven-tures in Nookie Wood.

Sonic Acts Festival 21Feb-StedelijkMuseum,Amsterdam

22Feb-Paradiso,Amsterdam23Feb-Paradiso,Amsterdam24Feb-NASA,Amsterdam

This biannual festival focuses on contem-porary and historical developments at the intersections of art, technology, music and science. This year’s edition, aptly entitled The Dark Universe, will seek the unknown through adventurous art, highly sensual in-stallations and mysterious and mind-bend-ing music. We advise you to go down and expect to be surprised.

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Het Veem Theater première tijdens A Taste of Something Raw in De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam.

In deze nieuwe voorstelling van Rodrigo Sobarzo wordt een atmosferische ruimte gecreëerd waarbij zowel het fysieke als het mentale in een ‘uitgestelde’ staat van zijn verkeren; in een suspens zoals we dat kennen van de onderwater wereld. Een Het Veem Theater productie in co-productie

met Dance4 Nottingham en Workspacebrussels.

Voor informatie en reserveringen: www.brakkegrond.nl

13 T/M 16 FEBRUARI / 20:30

A P N E A RODRIGO SOBARZO

Het Veem TheaterVan Diemenstraat 410, Amsterdam www.hetveemtheater.nl

SPECIAL

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Aquaponics Workshop22Feb-MediamaticFabriek,Amsterdam

Aquaponics describes a sustainable, re-circulating ecosystem for food production comprised of fish, microorganisms and veg-etables growing in vertically stacked tanks, wherein the fish feed the plants and the plants clean the water the fish swim in. Me-diamatic is organising workshops in their new location in the Van Gendthallen where you can learn more and help them build a new aquaponics system.

1991: The Year Punk Broke (film)

22Feb-MelkwegCinema,AmsterdamDave Markey’s film documents life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana dur-ing their 1991 European tour. Read more on page 61.

Doldrums23Feb-DeNieuweAnita

Toronto’s Eric Woodhead’s panicky, androg-ynous vocals and chopped-up samples tee-ter on the edge of electro-hallucinogenic freak-outs before accessible pop melo-dies pull them safely back to the real world. Read more on page 61.

Esben and the Witch23Feb-Tivoli,Utrecht

This Brighton ‘nightmare pop’ trio, formed in 2008, take their name from a Danish fairy tale about a boy who outsmarts a witch to save his brothers. Their 2011 debut used the kind of dark imagery and brooding at-mospherics lapped up by those apocalypse-fixated Brits to reap loads of accolades from the UK press. Their new album, Wash the Sins Not Only the Face, should offer fans of neo-gothic rock in the vein of Zola Jesus and Warpaint plenty to enjoy.

Friska Viljor27Feb-Vera,Groningen

28Feb-Bitterzoet,Amsterdam

Composing music while drunk could lead a band to two very different outcomes: maud-lin, sloppy, nonsensical bullshit, or raucous and uninhibited outbursts of joy. Swedish indie rockers Friska Viljor may or may not have stuck to their early pledge to never compose music while sober, but in any case their music tends to fall in the latter catego-ry. Obey their command and line their pock-ets by watching them perform tracks from their new album, Remember Our Name.

Crosslinx 2013 ft. The Dodos + Patrick Watson + Nils Frahm +

Hauschka28Feb-Vredenburg,Utrecht

01Mar-Muziekgebouw,Eindhoven02Mar-Paradiso,Amsterdam03Mar-DeDoelen,Rotterdam

04Mar-Oosterpoort,GroningenAs you might guess from its name if you thought about it long enough, this open-minded and innovative festival crisscrosses the Netherlands over the course of a few days, linking together musical genres and avant-garde artists ranging from indie rock to classical music, often via special collab-orative performances you won’t see any-where else. The festival also organises mini concerts in odd little locations such as boil-er rooms and cellars to showcase upcoming musicians via its Music Mining initiative.

STRP Festival01-10March-Klokgebouw,Eindhoven

Ten days of hybrid music, art and technol-ogy for curious people, featuring DJ sets by SBTRKT, Hudson Mohawke, Lunice, Ap-parat and many more; a New Machine Era ‘proeftuin’; and a City of Cyborgs exhibition. Read more on page 64.

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Free Stuff Free tickets and goodies

2x2 TickeTS winTer Sleaze

FeSTival

09 February Club Lite, Amsterdam

2x2 TickeTS Sonic acTS

21-24 February Various Locations,

Amsterdam

2x2 TickeTS duckTailS

18 February Merleyn, Nijmegen

3x2 TickeTS croSS-linx

28 February - 4 March Utrecht, Amsterdam, Rotter-dam, Groningen, Eindhoven

3x2 TickeTS dan deacon

21 February EKKO, Utrecht

3x2 TickeTS STrP Biennal

1-10 MarchKlokgebouw, Eindhoven

To win, sign up to our mailing list on www.subbacultcha.nl.

We’re also giving away free tickets to Metz, Jacco Gardner, Gallon Drunk, Dignan Porch and FIDLAR

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AFTER MIDNIGHT

Send photos that were taken after midnight to [email protected]

If your photo gets published, you win a good goodie

This month’s photo was submitted by Esther Rubianes.

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Overview of all Subbacultcha! shows in February

05 FebruaryTamaryn + Pien Feith

Tivoli Spiegelbar, Utrecht19.30 | €7 | Free for members

05 FebruarySightseers

(film)LantarenVenster, RotterdamTwo screenings | €9 | Free for

members

06 FebruaryTrust +

LemontripTrouw de Verdieping,

Amsterdam20.30 | €10 | Free for members

08 FebruaryJacco Gardner

dB’s, Utrecht21.00 | €7 | Free for members

13 FebruaryHundebiss Showcase

ft. Stargate + Dracula Lewis + Primitive Art

OCCII, Amsterdam20.30 | €7 | Free for members

15 FebruaryHundebiss Showcase

ft. Stargate + Dracula Lewis + Primitive Art

Koffie5Euro, Rotterdam20.30 | €6 | Free for members

16 FebruaryDignan Porch +

HerrekDe Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam20.00 | €7 | Free for members

19 FebruaryDarkstar + Lumisokea

Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam

20.30 | €10 | Free for members

20 FebruaryDead Ghosts

AreaFiftyOne, Eindhoven20.00 | €8 | Free for members

21 FebruaryHerrek

(CD release show) + Eklin + Fabulous Diamonds

WORM, Rotterdam20.30 | €7 | Free for members

22 February1991: The Year

Punk BrokeMelkweg Cinema, Amsterdam23.00 | €7 | Free for members

23 FebruaryDoldrums

De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam20.00 | €8 | Free for members

25 Februarycosmonauts

AreaFiftyOne, Eindhoven21.30 | €8 | Free for members

All MonthFoam

Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thur and Fri until 21.00 €8.50 | Free for members

TENT rotterdam

Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00 €4 | Free for members

Fleur van Dodewaard

Subbacultcha! HQ15 Feb - 06 Mar Open Mon-Fri

11.00-17.00 | Free for all

See all these shows for free. Join at www.subbacultcha.nl

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