Connexion Bizarre was updated on October 26th with new content (reviews, podcasts, interview and links). There was also some minor tweaking to the site layout which we hope will make it easier to navigate, especially where more recent content is concerned. Check it out for yourself following the links below!

Podcast (www.connexionbizarre.net/podcast.htm)
This week's podcasts feature
"Smear @ Connexion Bizarre" with music selection by Smear
and
"Maschinenfest'09 Special" with music selection by JanaDark)


Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download

Reviews (www.connexionbizarre.net/reviews.htm)





This week, we review
Autoclav1.1 "Where Once Were Exit Wounds", Lacus Somniorum "Tideshaper" and Cities Last Broadcast "The Cancelled Earth"

Links (www.connexionbizarre.net/links.htm)
Added Links: Bandcamp, Dresden Codak, TuneCore
Net releases spotlight: in[toxin] "ufo rave", t_error 404 "Modify", Various "That's Romance... (a tribute to John Zewizs) I" + "That's Romance... (a tribute to John Zewizs) II"
Recommended links: Amanda Palmer "Virtual Crowd-Surfing" + "Why I am not afraid to take your money", Null Device "Working the DIY angle"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)
    

Connexion Bizarre was updated on October 19th with new content (reviews, webcasts and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Klub V.E.B. @ Connexion Bizarre" with music selection by Codex Europa and "Submission for Radio Futura" with music selection by M.
Reviews: Fhievel Pipe Smoking on a Balloon", Sunao Inami Disinfectant", Y.E.R.M.O. Collision Zone", [syndika:zero] Blindness", V/A Whiteline Vol. III"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)




Machinochrist giveaway

Something slightly different this time with Machinochrist presenting his webcast listeners with a challenge this time.
Detailed instructions are given in the webcast itself but, in a nutshell, download/listen to this set and mail competition@machinochrist.co.uk a list of all the tracks that you managed to recognize. The winner will get a one-of-a-kind CD-R edition of unreleased Machinochrist material in handmade packaging and original artwork.
Quite a treat if one knows his 2007 release "Escape From Woolwich Arsenal" which received a very positive review in Connexion Bizarre (review here).



Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Klub V.E.B. @ Connexion Bizarre" with music selection by Codex Europa)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
ANTIchildLEAGUE - Only One Mother
[The Father - Hagshadow]
Special Victim - Blaue Bohnen v2
[Unreleased]
Ryan Jordan - Assisted Breathing
[Noise=Noise 25.10.2008 - Noise=Noise]
Sz. Berlin - Ringmaster
[Testphase CDR - Unreleased]
John Bowers - October
[Noise=Noise 25.10.2008 - Noise=Noise]
Gerechtigkeits Liga - Funeral March (Field Recordings, London 1987 At Coldstorage 4.Vauxhall, Studio Recordings London)
[Per Ignem ad Lucem - Vinyl on Demand]
artist - track title
[release title - label/netlabel/etc]
Kom-Intern - Ivy Bells
[Maschinenfest 2005 - Pflichtkauf]
Laibach - Jaruzelsky
[Rekapitulacija 1980 - 1984 - NSK Recordings]
Cabaret Voltaire - The Quarry (In The Wilderness)
[Johnny Yesno (The Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture) - The Grey Area, Mute Records Ltd.]
Throbbing Gristle - Beachy Head
[20 Jazz Funk Greats - The Grey Area, Mute Records Ltd.]
Autopsia - Night Landscape III
[Radical Machines Night Landscapes - Illuminating Technologies]
The Caretaker - Friends Past Re-united
[A Stairway To The Stars - V/Vm Test Records]
Zilverhill - Unceasing
[Latent-Active-Descent - Adeptsound, Blind Shouter]
Test Dept. - Funeral
[Materia Prima - Ministry Of Power]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Submission for Radio Futura" with music selection by M.)
This was the 'mixtape' that was submited to and accepted by Radio Zero for a participation in the Radio Futura initiative (the 'official' radio of the 2009 edition of Future Places digital media and online culture festival/meeting). The actual live radio broacast took place on October 17th between 6-7pm but, for those that missed it, here's the original submission, without any spoken comments.
Unfortunately, the exact tracklisting was never noted down (lame) and there's a couple of pieces that I can't identify anymore. Either way, this mix is bound to contain tracks by one or more of the following: Marching Dynamics, Hecq, Lucidstatic, Otto Von Schirach, Igorrr, Sickboy, Zeller, Faux Pride, Drumcorps, Glowstyx, Enduser, Le Diktat, Ten Data Keshin, Az-Rotator and a couple of others which I don't remember at the moment. If by any chance you think you can identify all the pieces in this mix, mail your tracklisting to info@connexionbizarre.net and we'll publish it if it is correct giving you credit (wow!).

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Reviews



Fhievel - Pipe Smoking on a Balloon
A variety of electronic drones, warm crackling noise and many other subtle electronic noises. "Pipe Smoking on a Balloon"album maintains a sense of calm and never strays into harshness or anything that doesn't make you feel like you're floating along with the clouds (perhaps in a balloon with a pipe in hand?). That's not to say it grows boring either though.
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Sunao Inami - Disinfectant
Japanese experimental artist and Electr-Ohm label head Sunao Inami releases "Disinfectant", his seventh album under his own name. The album is composed of tracks recorded live in Tokyo in May 2009 which have been cut up and remixed with the intention of to creating new material whilst maintaining the live feel inherent in the original tracks.
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Y.E.R.M.O. - Collision Zone
Once you've put this CD into your player, you may find that you can't stop listening to it again and again in order to fully appreciate all of its details and subtleties. And for that reason, it should better be played at high volume, on a high end stereo and with lights turned off.
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[syndika:zero] - Blindness
'True Industrial Freedom' is a term bandied about by this relatively new act on the scene to describe their contribution to industrial and harsh electro music. A loftier ideal, perhaps, than club popularity, but their latest release, "Blindness", is more likely to be remembered for the latter than the former.
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V/A - Whiteline Vol. III
Roughly once a year, the German label has released an installment of "Whiteline", their DJ-oriented 12" vinyl compilation series. Like its predecessors, "Whiteline Vol. III" features a selection of tracks by established acts and lesser-known or new and upcoming artists from several points in the world. This time around, Aentitainment presents tracks by Igorrr, Mobthrow, Ebola, Larvae and Hello.JPG.
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Links

Recently added
UMBkollektif

Net releases spotlight
Zahia "Zahia"

Recommended
Recording studios are being left out of the mix (LA Times)
L'affaire Jean Sarkozy est symbolique d'une "culture monarchiste" (Le Monde)
Remembrance of Things Future: The Mystery of Time (NY Times)

Connexion Bizarre was updated on October 12 th with new content (webcasts, links and a competition of sorts).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Dark Night of the Soul" with music selection by Machinochrist and "untitled migraine relief" with music selection by M.

As mentioned before, we have also set up a donations page. While Connexion Bizarre may be hosted for free and run by volunteers but it does have its costs (postal expenses come to mind). If you appreciate the work we are doing or find it useful in some manner, please consider a donation or perhaps a quick trip to our store.

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)





Machinochrist giveaway

Something slightly different this time with Machinochrist presenting his webcast listeners with a challenge this time.
Detailed instructions are given in the webcast itself but, in a nutshell, download/listen to this set and mail competition@machinochrist.co.uk a list of all the tracks that you managed to recognize. The winner will get a one-of-a-kind CD-R edition of unreleased Machinochrist material in handmade packaging and original artwork.
Quite a treat if one knows his 2007 release "Escape From Woolwich Arsenal" which received a very positive review in Connexion Bizarre (review here).


Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Dark Night of the Soul" with music selection by Machinochrist)
Something slightly different this time with Machinochrist presenting his listeners with a challenge this time.
Detailed instructions are given in the webcast itself but, in a nutshell, download/listen to this set and mail competition@machinochrist.co.uk a list of all the tracks that you managed to recognize. The winner will get a one-of-a-kind CD-R edition of unreleased Machinochrist material in handmade packaging and original artwork.
Quite a treat if one knows his 2007 release "Escape From Woolwich Arsenal" which received a very positive review in Connexion Bizarre (review here).

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("untitled migraine relief" with music selection by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Heal - Fille Extraordinaire
[Supernatural - Sound On Probation]
Solar Skeletons - Mr. Saler
[Necroethyl - Night On Earth]
Cullen Miller - untitled #3
[Stolen Nature - Two Circles]
Wentworth Kersey - Wealth
[(O) - Plastic Sound Supply]
TVO - The King In Yellow
[The Starry Wisdom - Highpoint Lowlife]
Scaffolding - Mass
[Narratives - Plastic Sound Supply]
Operateur Fotokopieur - Galactic Kiss
[Atomic Spaceship - Midinette]
Millipede - Diplopoda Crawl
[All My Best Intentions - Hymen Records]
Displacer - Never Compromise
[X Was Never Like This... - Tympanik Audio]
Hanna's Barber - Gumshoe
[The Former Planet Earth - Instant Action Object]
Error Response - The Arrival
[Zen - Elektrotribe]
Config.Sys & Contagious Orgasm - Sound As A Weapon
[Peacemakers Inc. - Invasion Wreck Chords]
Poordream - Sounds Of Consciousness
[Immaterial Monarch - Spectraliquid/33 Recordings]
Dead Voices On Air - Seachange
[Fast Falls The Eventide - Lens Records]

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Links

Recently added
Elektrotribe
Buried Electric Records
Heavy 7 Productions
Xiled Radio

Recommended
Craig Colorusso's Sun Box Installation @ Important Records
Trafigura and the Probo Koala (The Guardian) - what could be one of the worst eco-humanitarian disasters after Bhopal makes for interesting reading to see how far Trafigura went to try and cover-up the whole mess. Also links at Wikileaks (here and here and here), BBC, Spectator and a copy of the e-mail exchanges between Trafigura execs during the whole thing.
Our weakened parliament (The Guardian) - interesting fall-out from the Trafigura scandal
'There will be incredulity that the party of Churchill chooses allies like this' (David Milliband on David Cameron @ The Guardian)

Connexion Bizarre was updated on October 5th with new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Sit Down On The Grass For The After Party" with music selection by Ludovic and "your lips are closer to my secret" with music selection by James Hotate
Interviews: Ian Boddy of DiN Records
Reviews: Wentworth Kersey "(O)", Millipede "All My Best Intentions", Skin Contact "Antitrust", Tzii "Rotten Friendship", V/A "Miwak 12", Roughhausen "Someone's Got To Pay", Brian E "Yellow Light District", Low Technicians "Riga"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)





Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Sit Down On The Grass For The After Party" with music selection by Ludovic)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Jichael Mackson - The Grass Is Always Greener (8:32)
[...Wasn't Me - Musique Risquée]
Minilogue - Snake Charmer (10:12)
[Snake Charmer EP - Wagon Repair]
Cobblestone Jazz - India In Me (13:35)
[India In Me - Wagon Repair]
Lucy - Downstairs (07:41)
[Downstairs - Meerestief Limited]
AFX - Pwsteal.ldpinch D. (03:49)
[Chosen Lords - Rephlex]
James Figurine - 55566688833 (Superpitcher/Tobias Thomas Mix) (9:42)
[Eleven Numbers - Monika Enterprise]
James Holden & Literon - Safari (Artist Mashup) (06:47)
[Unreleased - Unreleased]
Robag Wruhnme - Pontifekks (4:00)
[Papp-Tonikk EP - Musik Krause]
James Holden - 10101 (6:05)
[The Idiots Are Winning - Border Community]
James Figurine - Apologies (John Tejada Remix) (6:09)
[Forgive Your Friends - Monika Enterprise]
Matthew Dear - Elementary Lover (DJ Koze Remix) (03:53)
[Reincarnations - Get Physical Music]


Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("your lips are closer to my secret" with music selection by James Hotate)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Urceus Exit - King (6:55)
[Compensation For The Sound Of Silence - Artoffact Records]
Clan Of Xymox - Emily (3:56)
[In Love We Trust - Metropolis]
Splatterpunk - My Neurosis (4:45)
[Channel 83 - Caustic Records]
Brite Lite Brite - Stormy Weather (2:56)
[Universe Universe -Self Released]
G.D. Luxxe - Hands (4:08)
[Make -Angelika Köhlermann]
Angelspit - Cold Hard Cash (4:05)
[Hideous And Perfect - Metropolis]
My Life With Thrill Kill Kult - Invasion (Of The Ultra Modelz) (4:56)
[Death Threat - Rustblade]
Horologium - The Death Of George (5:19)
[Saint George & The Dragon-Vinyl - Neuropa Records]
Aeterna - End Of Days (3:46)
[New Dawn -Cold Meat Industry]
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio - Glory To Thee, My Beloved Masturbator (3:29)
[O N A N I - [Practice Makes Perfect] - Cold Meat Industry]
The Merry Thoughts - I Wanna Be Your Dog (4:39)
[Pale Empress - Dion Fortune]
Also - Ice In Our Eyes (4:52)
[Cold Rooms - Self-Released]
Sevix - C'mon Baby (3:00)
[Electro People - WWW Records]
Benny Benassi - Able To Love (3:27)
[Hypnotica - ZYX Music]

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Interviews



Ian Boddy - DiN
A veteran of the European electronic music scene since the late 70s, UK based sonic explorer Ian Boddy has produced 13 CDs on his Something Else Records label. Emerging from the post TDream generation, Boddy has carved out a distinctive position as an independent composer and performer.
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Reviews



Wentworth Kersey - (O)
Loosely described as an americana EP, "(O)" is the latest release by Wentworth Kersey, a duo from Denver, Colorado in the USA, and who have a sound that is like shoegazer, post rock, americana... And utterly gorgeous it is too!
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Millipede - All My Best Intentions
This is the first release of Porteur de L'image's Don Hill's side project, Millipede. Don has been creating music for over 10 years and now has found a home for this magnificent project on Hymen Records. The auditory terrain of Millipede is an uneasy landscape of glitch-ridden drums, ambient pads and thick lows, ethereal melodies and symphonic cascades carrying the listener away.
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Skin Contact - Antitrust
Dark electronic break-beat is what you can expect from this little gem of a release from Skin Contact titled "Antitrust". Simply complex, or complexity disguised as simplicity; those were my thoughts as I put my headphones on, turned up the volume, and begun listening. The entire album gives itself to easy listening with a few minor flaws.
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Tzii - Rotten Friendship
The works of Tzii form the basis for a dual CD-R/DVD-R release, coming in an intriguingly beautiful, handcrafted silkscreen packaging with a limited run of 300 copies. An easy recommendation to anyone intrigued by finecrafted aural and visual displays of dark themes, be it an audience uninitiated to the original tracks, or one seeking something new yet (un)comfortably familiar.
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V/A - Miwak 12
All in all this compilation offers us a very wide selection of what Hymen Records has to offer. The broad range of the tracks makes for a varied listening experience but, with repeated listens, one may I tend to skip a few tracks in order to stay in one vibe. "Miwak 12" clearly shows that Hymen is at the top of their game and still has plenty of quality electronic music for us in store.
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Roughhausen - Someone's Got To Pay
Roughhausen produce a great EP but the contribution of live and remix tracks will always detour new listeners. I suggest this album as a taste for any new listener who enjoys My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Velvet Acid Christ or KMFDM. You will not be disappointed with this short bare-knuckle brawl of EBM and industrial.
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Brian E - Yellow Light District
Inspired by living legends of electronic music such as Giorgio Moroder and Kraftwerk as well as by the Italo Disco era, Brian E delivers us an uninterrupted stream of catchy melodies, purring bass lines, and poppy analog synthesizer sounds which were the trademark of the 70's greater masterpieces of the genre, of whom Brian E is the heir.
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Low Technicians - Riga
This electropop outfit from Austin, Texas, claims as its focus a melodic melding of pop and rock, via the medium of electronic dance music. A suitably generic categorization, in any case, for an album consisting of repetitive synthpop standards with mediocre vocals and a splash of guitar for texture.
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Store


Mothers Against Noise apparel
Following a re-release of free "Mothers Against Noise" compilation, we decided to make some of the apparel available again using the original designs. Like before, all sales profits will be used to support initiatives related to experimental/noise/sound art.
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Connexion Bizarre Pins
State your indivuality and rhythmical reverberation with this set of five one-inch Connexion Bizarre buttons! One featuring the main C.B. logo, three featuring the alternative mascots/logos and one featuring the Connexion Bizarre "reverberate rhythmically" motto.
Price: 6.00 Euro (worldwide shipping included)
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Links

Recently added
Vaski
Chase Records
Sonic Circuits (us)

Net releases spotlight
Amitron_7 "The Anton Phase Electro Clockwork Menagerie" (Enough Records)
Ikimashoo Aoi "Sun Bridge" (Enough Records)
Nheap "Skymotion" (Acustronica)

Recommended
The Peter Principle
How to Publish a Scientific Comment in 1-2-3 Easy Steps
The $20 Theory of the Universe (Esquire)
Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child (Salon)

Connexion Bizarre was updated on September 28th with new content. Content-wise, this is s very slow week due to other commitments in the past few days (the Swissport09 Afterparty events) with only the usual webcast and recommended links updates.

As mentioned before, we have also set up a donations page. While Connexion Bizarre may be hosted for free and run by volunteers but it does have its costs (postal expenses come to mind). If you appreciate the work we are doing or find it useful in some manner, please consider a donation or perhaps a quick trip to our store.

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Kate's Virgin (on the ridiculous!) Mix!" with music selection by MissyK8 and "Midnight Polyphony" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)





Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Kate's Virgin (on the ridiculous!) Mix!" with music selection by MissyK8)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
The Prodigy - Baby's Got a Temper (Main Mix)
[Baby's Got A Temper CD Single - XL Recordings]
Chad Jackson - Hear The Drummer (Get Wicked)
[Hear The Drummer (Get Wicked) 12" Vinyl - ATCO Records]
Eero Johannes - Natt I Spårvagnen
[Eero Johannes - Planet Mu]
:papercutz - A Secret Search
[Lylac - Apegenine]
Scaffolding - Mass
[Narratives - Plastic Sound Supply]
Aphex Twin - IZ-US
[Come To Daddy Remixed - Warp Records]
Displacer - X Was Never Like This...
[X Was Never Like This - Tympanik Audio]
Sirius Mo - Wow
[Allthegirls - Exploited]
Grafton Primary - We Are The Music
[Eon - Resolution Music]
Frittenbude - Irgendwie lieb ich das
[Nachtigall - Audiolith]
Diego Bernal - Bring It Home (Mexicans With Guns Remix)
[Bring it Home EP - Exponential Music - Free Download at antipop.net]
Infadels - Sweet Dreams
[Website Freebie - Dead at Thirty Records]
Bit Shifter - Easy Prey
[Miwak Twelve - Hymen Records]
End - Pills To Make You Fun
[The Dangerous Class - Hymen Records]
Captain Ahab - I Can't Believe It's Not Booty (Radio Version)
[I Am Become Ass - CDR Release/Ass Holocaust Tour]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Midnight Polyphony" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Apparat - Not A Number
[Walls - Shitkatapult
The Subdivision- The Light
[Cinematic Dubstep Vol. 1 - DubKraft]
Lamb - Angelica
[Between Darkness And Wonder - Koch Records]
Emancipator - Anthem
[Soon It Will Be Cold Enough - Hyde Out Recordings]
Haujobb - Overflow
[Ninetynine - Metropolis Records]
Amon Tobin - Saboteur
[Supermodified - Ninjatune]
Forsaken - Into The Sunset (Red Sun Edit)
[Redvolume Catalogue pt. 1 - Red Volume]
2562 - Enforcers
[Aerial - Tectonic]
Radiohead - Idioteque
[Kid A - EMI]
Evil Nine - The Wait
[They Live! - Marine Parade]
Swayzak - Sob 1
[Dirty Dancing - Studio !K7]
Luomo - Love You All (Radio Edit)
[Love You All - Huume]
Clark - Springtime Epiphany
[Ted EP - Warp Records]

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Connexion Bizarre radio show @ Radio Zero
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Store


Mothers Against Noise apparel
Following a re-release of free "Mothers Against Noise" compilation, we decided to make some of the apparel available again using the original designs. Like before, all sales profits will be used to support initiatives related to experimental/noise/sound art.
Read more


Connexion Bizarre Pins
State your indivuality and rhythmical reverberation with this set of five one-inch Connexion Bizarre buttons! One featuring the main C.B. logo, three featuring the alternative mascots/logos and one featuring the Connexion Bizarre "reverberate rhythmically" motto.
Price: 6.00 Euro (worldwide shipping included)
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Links

Recently added
20 Knives
Bit Shifter
Ginormous
Hecq
Lights Out Asia
Mad EP
Orphx
Tonikom
SEM Label
Festival Trama

Net releases spotlight
b°tong "hysteria" (NO ECHO Records)
Comaduster "Slip Through"
Muhmood "6200 miles of silence" (NO ECHO Records)
Rafael Flored & Lezrod "6" (SEM Label)
Various "Weezer - The 8-bit Album" (Pterodactyl Squad)

Recommended
Too Hot for MTV: The Best Music Videos You Have to Find Online (Flavorwire)
Musicians back 'three-strikes' rule for illegal filesharers (The Guardian)
39 Creative and Sometimes Controversial Examples of Playstation Advertising (Speckyboy Design Magazine)
Lifelounge Magazine
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine (Wired)
I was sentenced to life in a Chinese labour camp. This is my story. (The Independent)
Revisiting DIY HERF Guns (Slashdot)

Connexion Bizarre was updated on September 21st th with new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links).
We have also set up a donations page. While Connexion Bizarre may be hosted for free and run by volunteers but it does have its costs (postal expenses come to mind). If you appreciate the work we are doing or find it useful in some manner, please consider a donation or perhaps a quick trip to our store.
A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "September Chaos Sedated" with music selection by Invisible War and "Variance Of Descent" with music selection by M.
Reviews: Dead Voices on Air "Fast Falls the Eventide", Miel Noir "Der Honigflügel", Pål Asle Pettersen "Komposisjoner 2005-2008", Thunderwheel "Credo", Overdose Kunst "Was Ist Overdose Kunst?"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)


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Connexion Bizarre associated events


2009/09/16-27, Porto (PT) + 2009/10/01-04, Lausanne (CH)
On September 24th and 25th, Connexion Bizarre participates in the SWISSPORT'09 architecture workshop with a music and multimedia programme. Presenting a selection of Portuguese and Swiss electronic musicians, performers and DJs, this initiative takes place on two of Oporto's most relevant venues/clubs.
Thursday, 24/09 @ Breyner 85 (Porto, PT)
- Thermidor (PT, theatrical dieselpunk ambient performance)
- Operateur Fotokopieur (CH, spacey 8-bit electro)
Friday, 25/09 @ Plano B (Porto, PT)
- Stendeck (CH, IDM electronica & breakbeats)
- Freimatic (PT, techno/breaks/electro madness)
More information...



Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("September Chaos Sedated" with music selection by Invisible War)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Cities Last Broadcast - Cella
[The Cancelled Earth - Cyclic Law]
Troum - Neheh
[Aiws - Transgredient Records]
Lacus Somniorum - Hinterland
[Tideshaper - Cyclic Law]
Funerary Call - On Locust Winds
[On The Brink Of Infinity - Chthonic Streams]
New Risen Throne - Sigh of the Soul
[Crossing the Withered Regions - Cold Meat Industry]
Eldar - New Gods
[Sapere Aude - Cold Meat Industry]
Navicon Torture Technologies - Mother Of All Crossroads
[Mind is a Prison - Annihilvs]
Der Blutharsch - The Pleasures Received In Pain VI
[The Pleasures Received In Pain - WKN]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Variance Of Descent" with music selection by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Urceus Exit - Drifting
[Compensation For The Sound Of Silence - Artoffact Records]
Client - Your Love Is Like Petrol
[Command - Out Of Line]
Marsheaux - Stand By
[Lumineux Noir - Out Of Line]
Dekad - This Aching Kiss
[V/A - Auto-Reverse - BOREDOMproduct]
Scarlet Soho - Modern Radio
[Warpaint - Major Records]
Roughhausen - Dirty Little Secret
[Somenone's Got To Pay - self-released]
Skullduggery - Relapse
[You Are Here. [Nowhere] - Trozoc]
End - LSD Made A Wreck Of Me
[The Dangerous Class - Hymen Records]
Sickboy - Don't Stop Now
[Time To Play - Ad Noiseam]
Dead Hollywood Stars - Back In Town
[V/A - Miwak Twelve - Hymen Records]
Autoclav1.1 - Tomorrow
[Where Once Were Exit Wounds - Tympanik Audio]
Opérateur Fotokopieur - What Are We Leaving Behind?
[Atomic Spaceship - Midinette Records]
Pine Tree State Mind Control - Redemption Song / Subtle Redemption
[Esquimaux - [walnut + locust]]

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Reviews



Dead Voices on Air - Fast Falls the Eventide
The eleventh full-length release from Mark Spybey, an album which is an odyssey of sounds that will evoke soothing and agitated responses. Spybey has mastered the fine art of experimental music by never teetering at the brink of chaos too long and drawing in the listener with classical elements heard through new ears. A treat for the loyal fan and an impressive range of genres for the newcomers that will not soon be forgotten.
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Miel Noir - Der Honigflügel
A dramatic, if not tragic, story is being told here - but you can always invent your own and the cinematic arrangement of the sound seems to invite this. Still, although this is a unique and intriguing work that's perfect for atmospheric late night listening, there's a sense that it could have gone further and transcended its sources more fully, rather than simply running through them.
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Pål Asle Pettersen - Komposisjoner 2005-2008
Although Pål Asle Pettersen's work is full of dramatic and even perverse shifts and transitions it implies a challenge to the way in which we increasingly form instant judgements on music. It can't easily be assimilated in a sitting and demands some attentive repeat listening in order to (try) and piece together what's actually happening.
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Thunderwheel - Credo
Overall fantastic, bizarre, uneasy, absurd, and tortured, some of which may reflect the environment in which it is produced. It's hard to tell how much of this is deliberately humorous or excessively kitsch or whether Gusis simply couldn't restrain himself from over-indulging. In any case, although this is interesting it doesn't match the finer moments of Agnivolok or Chaos As Shelter.
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Overdose Kunst - Was Ist Overdose Kunst?
In its own terms and for whatever target audience (if any) that it may have, this brief collection is probably a brilliant success, but its appeal will definitely be limited - this one is only for true connoisseurs of weirdness.
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Store


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Following a re-release of free "Mothers Against Noise" compilation, we decided to make some of the apparel available again using the original designs. Like before, all sales profits will be used to support initiatives related to experimental/noise/sound art.
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Connexion Bizarre Pins
State your indivuality and rhythmical reverberation with this set of five one-inch Connexion Bizarre buttons! One featuring the main C.B. logo, three featuring the alternative mascots/logos and one featuring the Connexion Bizarre "reverberate rhythmically" motto.
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Indo "Tangata Manu"
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Recommended
This professor of denial can't even answer his own questions on climate change - Ian Plimer is a purveyor of 24-carat bafflegab. So why are publications like the Spectator so keen to champion him? (The Guardian)
Cracking the Spine of Libel (New York Times)
Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs (The Onion)

Connexion Bizarre was updated on September 14th with new content (reviews, webcasts and links).

We have also set up a donations page. While Connexion Bizarre may be hosted for free and run by volunteers but it does have its costs (postal expenses come to mind). If you appreciate the work we are doing or find it useful in some manner, please consider a donation or perhaps a quick trip to our store.

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "untitled" with music selection by DJ JanaDark and "Noxious Flu" with music selection by M.
Reviews: Juan Matos Capote "Jabal", End "The Dangerous Class", Skullduggery "You Are Here. [Nowhere]", Zonk't "Beat Wins You And Me", Empire State Human "Audio Gothic", V/A "The Clock Machine Turns You On: Volume 2", Mad Therapist "Alien Element", Parallel Worlds "Shade", Abraxas Projekt "Baraka-Visions", 15 Degrees Below Zero "Resting On A", Dessau "The Truth Hurts (1985-2000)", the M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab "Modern Expressing Machines of Revolutionary Youth"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)






Connexion Bizarre associated events


2009/09/16-27, Porto (PT) + 2009/10/01-04, Lausanne (CH)
On September 24th and 25th, Connexion Bizarre participates in the SWISSPORT'09 architecture workshop with a music and multimedia programme. Presenting a selection of Portuguese and Swiss electronic musicians, performers and DJs, this initiative takes place on two of Oporto's most relevant venues/clubs.
Thursday, 24/09 @ Breyner 85 (Porto, PT)
- Thermidor (PT, theatrical dieselpunk ambient performance)
- Operateur Fotokopieur (CH, spacey 8-bit electro)
Friday, 25/09 @ Plano B (Porto, PT)
- Stendeck (CH, IDM electronica & breakbeats)
- Freimatic (PT, techno/breaks/electro madness)
More information...


Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("untitled" with music selection by DJ JanaDark)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Kirlian Camera - Easter 1980 (04:45)
[Various - Palace Of Worms - Palace Of Worms]
The well of sadness - Silence (04:52)
[I'm Uprooted From It - War Office Propaganda]
Clausthome - Radiophare III (06:20)
[Radiophare [ Lampe D'Ambiance] - Indiestate Distribution]
Rukkanor - Deora (05:14)
[Deora - War Office Propaganda]
Tribe of circle - Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (04:28)
[Children Of A Weakened God - Hau Ruck!]
S.Q.E - Narcotic (05:44)
[Rise Of The Vulcans - Old Europe Cafe]
Stahlwerk 9 - Ante Bellum Civile (04:28)
[Stahlwerk 9 / Cold Fusion (2) / Rukkanor - Triumvire - War Office Propaganda]
Sektion B - Oklahoma city (03:39)
[Power Is Nothing Without Control -Steinklang Industries]
Rome - Herbstzeitlose (03:36)
[Berlin - Cold Meat Industry]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Noxious Flu" with music selection by M.)
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Chrysalide - The Wall (Traumanoize Cover)
[V/A - Peacemakers, Inc. 2 - Invasion Wreck Chords]
Config.Sys - Widowmaker
[V/A - Peacemakers, Inc. 1 - Invasion Wreck Chords]
Skulldugery - Calamity
[You Are Here. [Nowhere] - Trozoc]
Individual Totem - Don't You Trust Me?
[Mumia Vera - Artoffact]
X Marks The Pedwalk - Arbitrary Execution
[Abattoir - Infacted]
Necrotek - Sense Of Decay
[Menschfeind - Vendetta Music]
Knifeladder - Fearsome Engine
[Music/Concrete - Cold Meat Industry]
.cut featuring Gibet - Bleached Bride (remix by AntiGlück)
[Bleached Bride - [walnut + locust]]
Zonk't - Ore
[Beat Wins You And Me - Sound On Probation]
Lingouf - St-Genie2
[Ange Et Gruikk - Ant-Zen]
Gerostenkorp - Transe Nocturne
[Terre Brulée - OPN Production]

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Reviews



Juan Matos Capote - Jabal
Juan Matos Capote is a sound and visual artist who currently resides in Barcelona and whose impressive resume includes studying circuit-bending under Reed Ghazala.
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End - The Dangerous Class
Straight to the point with this one: this is the soundtrack to the reviewer's inevitable mental breakdown. Tthere is some weird music out there, but this is certainly some of the strangest in some time and with that it brings mental imagery that nothing else could possibly inspire... Rockabilly, Surf Music, Breakcore, Hunter S. Thompson, 1920's Flapper Girls and much, much more besides.
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Skullduggery - You Are Here. [Nowhere]
To do this album justice it's an album you don't need to be reading about, other than to be recommended it. It's not going to be for everyone, but it's really worth giving a try - you will either find it an engaging curiousity or a massively rewarding and challenging listen. The reviewier is in the latter camp, and more than a few listens in is still finding bits he missed.
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Zonk't - Beat Wins You And Me
Zonk't is only one of the many sides of a multifaceted artist who truly deserves to be discovered, for those who don't know him yet... And Zonk't may be the ideal first step to penetrate into his universe, because it remains pretty accessible for a listener who's not used to this kind of music yet, even if it often tends to fit into the experimental genre.
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Empire State Human - Audio Gothic
If a heavy new wave influence on modern electro with a more thoughtful approach to lyrics than is expected by the mainstream, coupled with a willingness to experiment with alternative instrumentation sounds like your idea of synthpop heaven, then Empire State Human is for you. And, if you are of a darker bent, paying attention to Empire State Human's lyrics may offer you some solace as well.
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V/A - The Clock Machine Turns You On: Volume 2
This varied collection offers up some great music from Smartyr, Killing Joke, Transit Kings, The Sun Paulo and Analogue Mindfield. It seems to have something for every listener, which is a good thing and a bad thing at the same time as this may draw in a listener to enjoy some new music or urge them to quickly hit eject.
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Mad Therapist - Alien Element
We are greeted by melodic, clean electronica that is infused with calming overtones. It is an ambitious, intricate album that places the emphasis firmly on composition rather than just assailing the listener with a barrage of beats. The result? Pleasantly atmospheric, cleverly constructed background music that fades in and out of your consciousness without leaving a mark.
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Parallel Worlds - Shade
A knowledgeable hand when it comes to analogue modular synthesizers, Sirros has developed a distinctive sound via his Parallel Worlds project, at once anachronistic and immutable. The album is full of pillowy and fluid sounds; hard edges are notably absent in this somnolent journey that relies upon atmospheric IDM and ambient.
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Abraxas Projekt - Baraka - Visions
The upshot of former songwriter Jerome Paressant's twofold interest in electronic music and contemporary jazz, Abraxas Projekt presents an uncomplicated fusion of both elements with its latest release, "Baraka - Visions". Like its namesake, the 1992 film by Ron Fricke, the album is a study in juxtapositions and motion.
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15 Degrees Below Zero - Resting On A
While not terribly familiar with 15 Degrees Below Zero and liking some of their previously released material, the same cannot be said of "Resting On A", unfortunately. To be honest, one is sort of at a loss as to why anyone would release this and it can be summed up quite quickly in one word: pointless.
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Dessau - The Truth Hurts (1985-2000)
The title is really quite appropriate, in some respects - one fails to understand exactly why this retrospective is necessary, and indeed, who is really going to be that interested other than treating this as a relic from the past. A long-forgotten band who were too similar to some of their much more successful and more creative contemporaries to warrant too much attention, and their best known work is a cover.
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the M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab - Modern Expressing Machines of Revolutionary Youth
It was initially difficult to know what to make of this, but when you dig into who is behind the band, you begin to expect much more. Marc Urselli is a three-time Grammy Award winner, and the other members have been involved in such extreme metal luminaries as Aborym. So really, they can surely do so much better than this.
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Releases



K'teus - Audio Hypersigil 1 (The Awakening)
Part 1 of the "Audio Hypersigil" cycle by U.K.-based d'n'b/breakcore/industrial project K'teus. Pro-printed/duplicated CD-R copies are also available for purchase with all proceedings going directly to Médecins Sans Frontières.
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Store


Mothers Against Noise apparel
Following a re-release of free "Mothers Against Noise" compilation, we decided to make some of the apparel available again using the original designs. Like before, all sales profits will be used to support initiatives related to experimental/noise/sound art.
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Links

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Solar Skeletons
Biothing
Schizophrenia 4 (us) - raided by the police (read it!)

Net releases spotlight
Mach FoX "The Last Planet EP" (Intox Noize)

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How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers (PC Pro)
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World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports (Telegraph)
Religion is not the primary motivation of suicide bombers (Daily Star)
Treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling" - PM (Number 10)
On Influenza A (H1N1) - hacking H1N1 (bunnie's blog)
Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America' (Telegraph)

We're back from our Summer vacation and Connexion Bizarre was updated on September 7th with quite a bit of new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links) and a couple of minor tweaks to the site layout.

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" with music selection by Machinochrist and "Yes, Virginia, we're back..." with music selection by M.
Interviews: Stefan Herwig of Dependent
Reviews: Alistair Crosbie "Music for Shipwrecks", Hyperbubble "Better Set Your Phasers to Stun", Mind Disruption "Fuck Yeah!", Poordream "Immaterial Monarch", Roto Visage + Worms Of The Earth "Celestial Malaise", Solar Skeletons "Necroethyl", Sturqen "Sturqen"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)


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Connexion Bizarre associated events


2009/09/16-27, Porto (PT) + 2009/10/01-04, Lausanne (CH)
On September 24th and 25th, Connexion Bizarre participates in the SWISSPORT'09 architecture workshop with a music and multimedia programme. Presenting a selection of Portuguese and Swiss electronic musicians, performers and DJs, this initiative takes place on two of Oporto's most relevant venues/clubs.
Thursday, 24/09 @ Breyner 85 (Porto, PT)
- Thermidor (PT, theatrical dieselpunk ambient performance)
- Operateur Fotokopieur (CH, spacey 8-bit electro)
Friday, 25/09 @ Plano B (Porto, PT)
- Stendeck (CH, IDM electronica & breakbeats)
- Freimatic (PT, techno/breaks/electro madness)
More information...


Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Keep the Aspidistra Flying" with music selection by Machinochrist)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Jocelyn Pook - Masked Ball
[Eyes Wide Shut OST - Reprise]
No Man - Sweetside Silver Night
[Dry Cleaning Ray - 3rd Stone]
Astor Piazolla - Oblivion
[Oblivion - Personality Holland]
Blackfilm - Midnight to 4am
[Blackfilm - Spectraliquid]
The Gaslamp Killer - Turk Mex
[My Troubled Mind - Brainfeeder]
The Oscillation - Liquid Memoryman
[Out of Phase - DC Recordings]
Richie Crago - Wandering Black Holes
[A Psychedelic Guide to Monsterism Island - Lo Recordings]
Bloody Mary - Sinina
[Black Pearl - Contexterrior]
Bill Laswell - Hashish Poem
[Hashisheen - the End of Law - Sub Rosa]
El-P - Ghost Final Insturmental
[Collecting the Kid - Def Jux]
Chroma Key - Camera 4
[Dead Air for Radios - Fight Evil Records]
Kruder & Dorfmeister - Going Under
[K&D Sessions - G Stone Recordings]
Hecq - Howler
[Steeltongued - Hymen]
Brad Mehldau - Blame it on my Youth
[Eyes Wide Shut OST - Reprise]
Deaf Center - Ashes
[Vintage Well - Type]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Yes, Virginia, we're back..." with music selection by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Nonnon - Radio Texas, Big Beat
[The Entitlement Generation - Automation Records]
Hopen - Lemba Shire (feat. Phillipe Petit)
[The Shark's Wife - Automation Records]
Poordream - Immaterial Monarch (Mr. F Remix)
[Immaterial Monarch - Spectraliquid/33 Recordings]
Cullen Miller - untitled 5
[Stolen Nature - Two Circles Records]
dISHARMONY - Trilianum
[Evolution - Tympanik Audio]
[Haven] - Kuhairib
[Plastic - Tympanik Audio]
Autoclav1.1 - Do You Feel Disposable?
[Where Once Were Exit Wounds - Tympanik Audio]
Sickboy - Don't Stop Now
[Time To Play - Ad Noiseam]
Glowstyx - Bunny
[Class of 1992 - Cock Rock Disco]
the M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab - Mind Rape (Government's Business)
[Modern Expressing Machines Of Revolutionary Youth - D-trash Records]
Igorrr - Melting Nails
[V/A - Whiteline Vol.3 - Aentitainment]
Otto Von Schirach - Sliced Doves On Codeine
[Oozing Bass Spasms - Cock Rock Disco]
Lush - Lovelife (3:56)
[Split - 4AD]

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Interviews



Stefan Herwig - Dependent
Although Dependent operates largely in the 'Electro-Industrial' genre, we have no desire to be pigeonholed as such, unlike most of the bands in the 'scene'. With our unique label concept we hope to escape the ghettoization associated with dance or metal and to establish this style of music firmly in the mainstream.
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Reviews



Alistair Crosbie - Music For Shipwrecks
It's nice to hear someone again just hitting it ambient music from a different angle. This release would most likely have a lot in common with a lot of the Nautilus releases thematically, and I am pretty much sure a lot of fans of The [Law-Rah] Collective wouldn't feel caught short of change if they dipped into their pockets for this one either.
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Roto Visage / Worms of the Earth - Celestial Malaise
This experimental collaboration between two exceptional artists, Roto Visage and Worms of the Earth, is a journey in sound - it blends and experiments with the genres of glitch, drone, ambient and noise to produce an epic experience for the willing ear and devoted fan.
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Poordream - Immaterial Monarch
This album is a taste of what Poordream is capable of and, all in all, a decent collection of remixes. "Immaterial Monarch" is a foreshadowing of treats to come and I look forward to hearing the next release from this talented artist.
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Solar Skeletons - Necroethyl
"Early Cabaret Voltaire gone blues!" If you like really old industrial music and you like blues, or if you just want to hear something unusual the likes of which you've never heard before, give Solar Skeletons a try.
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Hyperbubble - Better Set Your Phasers to Stun
"Better Set Your Phasers to Sun" sounds like the intro music for a sci-fi themed kids' cartoon where nothing bad ever happens. If you like light-hearted synthpop and are of a generally light-hearted disposition, then don't listen to a grumpy old bastard's opinion and go have a listen to some sweet, sugary sounds.
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Sturqen - Sturqen
Sometimes it feels like 'Sturqen' has been jamming away, furiously twisting knobs of various angry synths and cutting out the best bits for us to enjoy. At times the tracks seem to be overtaken by waves of nasty feedback. This does intensify the listening experience, but it also makes it hard to sit through the album in one go.
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Mind Disruption - Fuck Yeah!
A few of the songs on this album seem to teeter on the brink of train wreck while others successfully get your foot tapping. "Fuck Yeah!" is sure to go over well with fans of the genre but the chaotic delivery and loose rhythms may leave new listeners wanting more.
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Store


Mothers Against Noise apparel
Following a re-release of free "Mothers Against Noise" compilation, we decided to make some of the apparel available again using the original designs. Like before, all sales profits will be used to support initiatives related to experimental/noise/sound art.
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Links

Recently added
Basses Frequences
Frigio Records
Peace.Off
Cold Graey Netlabel
Cophosis Rec.
Belgian Independent Music Festival (be)
Festival Elektro Circus (fr)
Geek Pop
Schizophrenia (us)
ze Sub:Culture (fr)
HALAS.am
Ill FM
Association Cycle Opérant
Alien E-Zine
DarkRoom Magazine
Kronic.it
Border Crossings

Net releases spotlight
Bacalao "Tribute to Micromusic" (Midinette Records)
Collothen "Frenetic EP" (Decisive Sound)
Countryside Alliance Crew "Pure Rural Essentials EP"
Gamma10 "Pamplona" (Midinette Records)
d'incise "les lendemains étendus" (Audioactivity)
Minusbaby "Left" (8bitpeoples)
Muckrackers vs. The Austrasian Goat "Muckrackers vs. The Austrasian Goat" (Les Forces Alliées)
Muckrackers vs. Dead For A Minute "Muckrackers vs. Dead For A Minute" (Les Forces Alliées)
Muckrackers vs. Kultur_Industrie "Muckrackers vs. Kultur_Industrie" (Les Forces Alliées)
Muckrackers vs. Stru[K]tur_D "Muckrackers vs. Stru[K]tur_D" (Les Forces Alliées)
Myrrman "PorNOsmagoria" (Cold Graey Netlabel)
Nuclear O'Reilly "Phoning It In"
Phelios & False Mirror "Entropy Reversed" (Audiophob)
Les Poissons Autistes "Mal Foutu" (Midinette Records)
Urceus Exit "Compensation For The Sound Of Silence" (Artoffact)
Zero Degree "Aufbruch" (Audiophob)
Various "Midinette All-Stars" (Midinette Records)

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Die Rostigen Löffel "G Schroeder" (video)
"Alive in Joburg"
Electro Violence
A series of interesting and useful blog articles (many found via Matt Fanale): Take it to the Stage: Reflections on Live Laptop Music from Artists (Create Digital); Laptop Bands (Synnack Blog); Mastering 101 (Null Device Blog); Do I Want to Buy Your CDR? (Toddiovision)
US music publishers sue online lyrics sites (The Register)
Torrents and physical ownership score high for music fans - Might stop freetarding if something decent comes along (The Register)
Climateprediction.net
"In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition" (Washington Post)
I Never Want To Hear The Word "Franchise" Again
"Disney Buy Marvel Comics For $4,000,000,000" + "The Ten Questions Marvel And Disney Have To Answer" (Bleeding Cool)
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street (Wired)
Copy©unts
Dave DeVrie's "The Monster Engine"
"The Love Eaters" (Top Shelf Comix)
Mister Crimson
Sillof's Workshop

Connexion Bizarre was updated on August 3rd with new content (new reviews, webcasts, interview and links). Also, this will be the only Connexion Bizarre update during the month of August as we'll be taking our yearly one-month vacation/break. We'll resume regular updating in the first week of September but should be sending a couple of event-related mailings in the meantime.

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "An evening by the beach" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead, "The Heart of Organic Fissures" with music selection by James Hotate and "BBL KTHXBAI!" with music selection by M.
Reviews: Hecq "Steeltongued", T/M/K "Need the Needle", Fujako "Landform", Hyios "Consuetudines", Pandora's Black Book "Black Brothel", Tapage "Fallen Clouds", Tyske Ludder "Anonymous", Black Lung "Full Spectrum Dominance", Horchata "Acytota", LAN Formatique "The Sadness of Distances", Accomplice Affair "Samotny Horyzont", Exocet "Grotesque Consumer", Hyperdriver "Naked Aggression", Sleepchamber "Sorcery, Spells and Serpent Charms", Violet "Violet Ray Gas and the Playback Singers"

Best regards & until next month,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)





Connexion Bizarre associated events


Swissport'09
2009/09/16-27, Porto (PT) + 2009/10/01-04, Lausanne (CH)
The music programme of this multidisciplinary event will include live performances by Thermidor (PT), Stendeck (CH), Freimatic Twins (PT) + other TBA.
Swissport'09


Noxious Arts III
2009/09/03-05, thursday to saturday, several locations, Paris (FR)
See flyer for line-up. More details to be announced soon!
Audiotrauma & Noxious Arts III


Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("An evening by the beach" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Beefcake - Moondrops
[Drei - Ant ZenRaoul Sinier- Huge Samurai Radish
[Brain Kitchen - Ad Noiseam]
Pivot - Epsilon
[O Soundtrack My Heart - Warp Records]
Bill Laswell - ER
[Broken Vessels - Koch International]
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Pearls Before Swine
[The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Planet Mu]
Subheim - Howl
[Approach - Tympanik Audio]
Apparat - Limelight
[Walls - Shitkatapult]
Boxcutter - Tauhid
[Oneiric - Planet Mu]
iTAL tEK - Blood Line
[Blood Line - Planet Mu]
Various Production - Today
[The World Is Gone - XL Recordings]
Thom Yorke - Skip Divided (Modeselektor Remix)
[The Eraser Remix EP #3 - XL Recordings]
Burial - Ghost Hardware
[Untrue - Hyberdub]
Trifonic - Good Enough
[Emergence - Trifonic Music LLC]
Late- Saw, Sine, Square
[Watch The Ride - Harmless]
Proem - When Frailty Fails
[Socially Inept - Merck]
Talvekoidik - Silent Reflections
[Silent Reflections - Brume Records]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("The Heart of Organic Fissures" with music selection by James Hotate)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Arcana - Abkrat (5:02)
[Raspail - Kalinkaland]
The Sisters of Mercy - Anaconda (4:07)
[Anaconda / Phantom - Merciful Release]
Clan of Xymox - 7th Time (4:40)
[Clan of Xymox - 4AD]
Genevieve Pasquier - Remember (5:28)
[Soap Bubble Factory - Ant-Zen]
Kirlian Camera - The Burning Sea (Original Re-Mix) (4:52)
[The Burning Sea - Triton]
Daybehavior - Carousel (4:47)
[Adored - North Of No South Records]
Peter Murphy - Deep Ocean Vast Sea (4:09)
[Wild Birds 1985-1995 - Beggars Banquet]
Lydia Lunch - Honeymoon In Red (4:54)
[Come Fall - Torso]
Crocodiles - Flash Of Light (5:07)
[Summer Of Hate - Fat Possum Records]
Kasabian - Underdog (4:38)
[West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - Columbia]
Bloc Party - Ares (3:30)
[Intimacy - Wichita]
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Me + Yr Daughter (4:09)
[Glistening Pleasure - Team Swan Records]
Lush - Lovelife (3:56)
[Split - 4AD]

Part 3 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("BBL KTHXBAI!" with music selection by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Andrew King - The Good Luck Ship
[Thalassocracy - Epiphany]
Tzii - I Killed Her (rmx by Brandtalk)
[Rotten Friendship - V-Attak]
John Zorn - Witchfinder
[The Crucible - Tzadik]
Necrotek - Back To The Grave (Terror Punk Syndicate Remix)
[Menschenfeind - Vendetta Music]
Exocet - Narcoholica
[Grotesque Consumer - Ant-Zen]
Ad•ver•sary - Waiting for Gira (patience is a virtue perceived remix by ESA)
[A Bright Cut Accross Velvet Sky - Tympanik Audio]
Defrag - The Old Growth
[V/A - Miwak 12 - Hymen Records]
Synth-Etik - Where My Dreams Live
[Waiting For The Rapture - Hands Productions]
Tokee - Bk
[Plus - Dope Records]
Urceus Exit - The Worst That We've Become
[The Worst That We've Become - ArtoffactRecords]
IAMX - Night Life (People Theatre's Trip to Berlin Mix
[V/A - Orbital Electro - Major Records]
Calluloide - Dive
[V/A - Auto-Reverse - BOREDOMproduct]
Lowfish - Wreckage
[V/A - Miwak 12 - Hymen Records]

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Reviews



Hecq - Steeltongued
"Steeltongued" is one hell of a release. Hecq has earned himself a place amongst the ranks of Autechre, Squarepusher and Boards of Canada, both in terms of ingenuity and songwriting skill.
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T/M/K - Need the Needle
For a first contact with the music world of T/M/K (as Textbook of Modern Karate), this was a very unexpected and rather pleasant surprise. "Need the Needle" is one of those releases that in addition to sounding genuine are bound to have some sort of mainstream appeal as well. Easily one of the standout albums of 2009 and a project to keep an eye out for in the future.
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Tapage - Fallen Clouds
No time is wasted, resulting in an absorbing listen that demands - and gets - your attention for the whole time. Not an album to buy for calming background music, as while on the surface it sounds like it would be, it is nothing of the sort. Instead it is worth investing hours in listening to this a few times to begin to reveal the delights contained within, as it certainly won't work its full magic the first time around.
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Fujako - Landform
Together, producers Jonathan Uliel Saldanha (a.k.a. HHY) and Nyko Esterle (a.k.a. Ripit), having purportedly sequestered themselves in a mountain studio in Portugal, engendered an unforgettable exegesis of post-hip hop norms (if such exist) and pushed the envelope for this genre with startling ferocity. "Landform" won't disappoint.
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Hyios - Consuetudines
Once again, here rises a promising newcomer in the dark ambient/drone scene. With "Consuetudines", his debut album recently released on the US label Malignant Records, this artist from Leipzig, Germany, proves that Hyios is a name worth remembering.
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Pandora's Black Book - Black Brothel
Unmistakably urban, "Black Brothel" is an album with a story to tell, a story which takes place between dimly-lit, smoke-filled basements, littered with the remains of cigarette ash and last week's spilled whiskey, and the dark corners of a delirious mind plagued by creeping paranoia. It is the aural equivalent of a post-modern noir thriller.
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Tyske Ludder - Anonymous
While the "SCIENTific technOLOGY" EP was undeniably political in nature, "Anonymous" seems likely to tread on less toes - especially in non-German-speaking countries, where the majority of people won't have the faintest clue of what they're singing about... In all, it's a far more accessible album, and one that will undoubtedly garner further well-deserved recognition for Tyske Ludder.
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Black Lung - Full Spectrum Dominance
Perhaps what's most refreshing about Black Lung is Thrussell's lack of interest in following musical trends. He has always set his own agenda without any regard for what's zeitgeisty in the wider world of electronica, and that, along with the jaw-dropping clarity of production, gives Black Lung a certain timelessness.
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Horchata - Acytota
A sixty minute powerhouse fashioned from juxtaposed synthetic and organic sounds that don't fall prey to the clichés commonly associated with field recording. Horchata might not be the easiest flavor for your aural palate to digest, yet it's precisely what differentiates it from the artists that suffer from terminal blandness.
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LAN Formatique - The Sadness of Distances
Definitely not the music for the impatient, but for those who see themselves on a journey after a magic stone that will save the civilisation from the creatures that hunt them day and night, desiring their souls. A word could describe the whole of this album: epic.
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Accomplice Affair - Samotny Horyzont
If you are into ambient textures, nice and lightweight sounds that could actually lift you from the ground if you get into it for too long, then it's great stuff. My suggestion is to turn on the Discovery channel and watch the fish swim through the sea, sit back, put Accomplice Affair on the headphones and enjoy total bliss as it drives your mind into the ocean.
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Exocet - Grotesque Consumer
In terms of genre, Exocet operates a subtle blend between rhythmic industrial/power noise and electronica. One could say this has been done many times before by other acts in this scene, but Exocet can be said to really have a trademark sound of its own.
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Hyperdriver - Naked Aggression
In spite of the angry, unapproachable name of the album, there is nothing here that doesn't cause a minor fit of the giggles. More often than not, it's a case of you going, "What the hell am I listening to?", but it's all entertainment in the purest sense, distracting you momentarily from the drab mediocrity of everyday existence.
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Sleepchamber - Sorcery, Spells and Serpent Charms
Where the music is left to find its own way, to focus on the disorientating swirl of layered sounds that radiate and evolve out of each other, Zewizz's weird but intriguing music style comes into its own. Remove the loops and his music is as dark, ritualistic and unnerving as it comes.
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Violet - Violet Ray Gas and the Playback Singers
Utilizing the requisite field recordings, found sounds, CD/tape/vinyl manipulations, etc., Violet presents listeners with an album both disquieting in its peacefulness and jarring in its white noise banality. It is not so much mentally invasive as vaguely irritating, lacking the essential cohesion necessary in an experimental/drone record and likely far more interesting in terms of creative process than actual listenability.
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Connexion Bizarre was updated on July 27th with new content (reviews, webcasts and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "A Mild Taste of Disdain" with music selection by DJ Intoner and "From Greater Purpose to Mundane Sleaze" with music selection by M.
Reviews: IP Neva "Symbiosis of Contradictions", Laurent Chambert "Eurêka", For Greater Good "For Greater Good"

Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)





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Swissport'09
2009/09/16-27, Porto (PT) + 2009/10/01-04, Lausanne (CH)
More details to be announced soon.
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Noxious Arts III
2009/09/03-05, thursday to saturday, several locations, Paris (FR)
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Audiotrauma & Noxious Arts III


Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("A Mild Taste of Disdain" with music selection by DJ Intoner)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Proposition #1 / #3 (00:00)
[The Proposition (Original Soundtrack) - Mute Records
Kraddy - Little Girl Prodigy (05:11)
[V/A - Clipping Paths - Muti Music]
DNN - Try To Feel (07:48)
[Try To Feel - Halbsicht Records]
Amon Tobin - Kitchen Sink (Boxcutter Remix) (11:00)
[Kitchen Sink Remixes - Ninja Tune]
Marching Dynamics - Tapping Intelligent Nature (12:57)
[Nailsleeper - Hymen Records]
Horchata - Somatic (14:10)
[Basidia - Ad Noiseam]
Larvae - Mecha (16:56)
[Monster Music - Ad Noiseam]
Blackfilm - Midnight To 4am (18:00)
[Blackfilm - Spectraliquid]
Zentriert Ins Antlitz - Silence Diary (Access to Arasaka Remix) (20:56)
[...No - Tympanik Audio]
Subheim - Away (23:35)
[Approach - Tympanik Audio]
Adjacency Pair - Dageyh (27:37)
[Adjacency Pair - Hands Productions]
Pan Sonic - Virta 1. / Current 1. (28:53)
[Katodivaihe / Cathodephase - Blast First Petite]
Quench - Caipruss (32:08)
[Caipruss - n5MD]
Subheim - Hollow (Remix By Mobthrow) (34:13)
[Approach - Tympanik Audio]
Haujobb - Overflow (Red Sparrow Remix) (39:01)
[Ninetynine Remixes - Metropolis Records]
Tapage - Much Like A Dream (40:33)
[The Institute Of Random Events - Tympanik Audio]
DNN - 37 Degrees (Atmogat Remix) (42:00)
[Try To Feel - Halbsicht Records]
Android Lust - Burn (47:45)
[The Dividing - Projekt]
Ahnst Anders - Disqualification (48:32)
[Dialog - Pflichtkauf]
Hecq - 0003 (49:15)
[0000 - Hymen Records]
Integral - Digital Drops (50:10)
[Rise - Tympanik Audio]
Barry Lynn - LTI (53:57)
[Balancing Lakes - Planet Mu ]
Evol Intent - Gunpowder Plot (55:13)
[Era Of Diversion - Evol Intent Recordings]
iTAL tEK - Red Sky (56:43)
[cYCLiCAL - Planet Mu]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("From Greater Purpose to Mundane Sleaze" with music selection by M.)
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Black Lung - The Great Unconscious
[Full Spectrum Dominance - Ant-Zen/Tympanik Audio]
IP Neva - U-boat performance
[Symbiosis Of Contradictions - Impulsive Art]
Exocet - The Line Is Profit
[Grotesque Consumer - Ant-Zen]
It-clings - What is the moment of truth (demo yelling version)
[Fuck It All - Bugs Crawling Out Of People]
15 Degrees Below Zero - 2.19.2
[Resting on A - Edgetone Records]
RMSonce - Sky, stars and a woman with a battery
[Reflections - Medusa Music]
Le Moderniste vs Flutwacht - La Fin des Temps Modernes
[Koalition 04 - Les Forces Alliées]
Angina P - Geisteskind
[Sensitive Files - Hands Productions]
Pandora's Black Book - Handless
[Black Brothel - Tympanik Audio]
End - Jailbait Rock
[V/A - Miwak 12 - Hymen Records]
My life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Death Threat
[Death Threat - Rustblade]

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Reviews



IP Neva - Symbiosis of Contradictions
Without a doubt, "Symbiosis of Contradictions" is a superb release and, if one is to judge from it, Ivan Prokurin is an artist definitely worth looking out for in the future (whether as IP Neva or by any other alias). Also, as a first release for the young Greek label Impulsive Art, this album raises the bar pretty high for upcoming releases.
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Laurent Chambert - Eurêka
I really liked listening to "Eurêka", from beginning to end. It somehow captivated me, because it was so nicely mixed and has a fluid sequence that actually proves the artist's ability to manipulate ambient drones, textures, some little beats and some percussion elements layered with nice, chilled synths, as well as proves his ability to vary sounds.
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For Greater Good - For Greater Good
It is clear a lot of effort has been put into this album, and as a result it contains many accomplished and enjoyable pieces of music. But over the full album, For Greater Good appear to cover slightly too many bases, sounding like two or three related projects, and at times certain unsuccessful experiments seem to bring quality levels down slightly.
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