Immediately I’m filled with nervous tension and excitement. The harsh electronic beat stirs something deep. The back of my head burns slightly. By the time the cool and detached vocal starts, I’m both hooked and convinced that I am hearing some renegade military message. It’s as if this harsh but always feminine voice is speaking, …
KATE BUSH – Minnie Mouse is Alive and Attending Drama Class
We need to talk about Kate Bush. Kate Bush did 22 dates at London’s Hammersmith Apollo in 2014, her first live shows in 35 years, and the tickets sold out in 15 minutes. Now guess what you got for the hype? Dancers dressed as fish skeletons, a wooden puppet child walking round the stage,a band …
Weites Luftmeer – Siebenunddreißigachtundvierzig (2016)
The almost old-school hard rock riff of Isosceles just comes flashing out of my speaker like holy fury. The intensity of the music forces me to my knees- I swear, this move looks cool in my head, despite the pain shooting through the back of my leg and my general awkwardness with such a “Rock Star” move. …
The Record That Changed My Life: Mike Patton on Bad Brains- Bad Brains (1982)
Banned in D.C. with a thousand more places to go. Gonna swim across the Atlantic, cause that’s the only place I can go.You, you can’t hurt me, why I’m banned in D.C. Bad Brains, Banned in D.C. People say that the best about the Bad Brains is the fact that they were all black and still …
Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson – Daily Dance (1972)
You’re in a hell, and you’re gonna die in a hell, just like the rest of ‘em! What better way to confront a crumbling and corrupt society? The Daily Dance is the embodiment of that nihilistic beast of your dreams or nightmares, a righteous plague that reflects all the toxic elements of corruption and hypocrisy …
The Proust Questionnaire – DJ Hell
More than a DJ- HELL is an international producer and publisher of electronic music as well as founder and owner of the renowned International Deejay Gigolos record label. The ‘Munich Machine’ is rooted in the pioneering electronic music tradition of the Bavarian city, which excitingly balances the traditional and cosmopolitan attitude. “I did Kosmische Musik …
An Interview With Craig Leon
Recall for us the first time you ever became aware of Suicide and your impressions of the band. Why do you wanted to produce / be involved with the band? Suicide was active very, very early on in the history of the NY underground scene. Actually they predate CBGB’s. I saw Suicide before I’d even …
Futuro Antico – Futuro Antico (1980)
We’re all feeling it. That creeping sense that something is deeply, even fundamentally wrong. Let’s call it the “Post-Corona-Syndrome”. Technology, social media… tracking us on these fucking smartphones. Modern Western society embraced the promise and creeping of technology long ago- all this technology would soon “ease the burden of man”. By now, we sense the …
The Proust Questionnaire – hackedepicciotto
hackedepicciotto are Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto. Both are legends of their own making: Danielle de Picciotto moved from New York to Berlin in 1987, to become the lead singer of the band „Space Cowboys“, co-initiator of the Love Parade, a collaborator of the Ocean Club with Gudrun Gut, and Alexander’s partner in crime. …
Brian Eno – Thursday Afternoon (1985)
All music or art just wasn’t created for everyone to understand or share equally. That may sound harsh in our altruistic age. Nevertheless, pretending that art doesn’t exclude strikes me as rather ridiculous and frankly a lie. Some music, like other activities, requires certain surrender. A need for self-submission before the greater discovery. Those blissful …