Connexion Bizarre was updated on July 6th with new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: DJ Intoner @ Connexion Bizarre with music selection by DJ Intoner and "two bullets for Maria - complemento incorrecto para uma circunsição periférica" with music selection by :JW:
Reviews: :papercutz Lylac", SE Epiphora", Coreline Bone and Blood as Stone and Mud", Cyclotimia Music For Stockmarkets", Surma Allocutio", Aphorism Surge", Noises of Russia Experimental Structure", Samarkande 3 Synapses"

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






Recommended Events
(note: we are not directly involved in the organization of these events)

Noxious Arts III
2009-09-03/04/05, thursday to saturday, several locations, Paris (FR)
See flyer for line-up. More details to be announced soon!
Audiotrauma


Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("DJ Intoner @ Connexion Bizarre" with music selection by DJ Intoner)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Oyaarss - A La Holeage (Feat. Cuuku Piseejs) (00:55)
[Unreleased]
Gridlock - Burn (05:18)
[The Synthetic Form - Pendragon Records]
Spherical Distrupted - Beryllium (06:55)
[Barriere - Audiophob]
Selfsimilar - Godspeed (08:00)
[The Darkweight EP - Bassweight Recordings]
Vaski - Resonate (11:24)
[The Union EP - Rottun Recordings]
Hecq - Spheres Of Fury (with Exillon) (13:50)
[Unreleased - Big Mean Robot]
Cloaks - Against (20:08)
[Against / Rust on Metal - 3by3]
Sleeparchive - Russia (22:05)
[L.A.C. / Russia - Stamp Release]
Goldfinger - Chainsaw (25:34)
[The Launch EP Part 3 - Rottun Recordings]
Rosewater - Normality (27:15)
[Motor Medicine - Sturm]
Vex'd - Thunder (30:55)
[Degenerate - Planet Mu]
Broken Note - War In The Making (32:20)
[War In The Making / No Struggle - Ruff]
Gunjack - Down The Ox (34:55)
[A Murder Of Crows - Consume]
Sully- Voidsucka (36:11)
[Destroyah - Creative Space Records]
Marching Dynamics- Un fall able (Endif Remix) (41:41)
[Unreleased]
Candlenine - Penumbra (45:24)
[Unreleased]
Intoner vs. Ahnst Anders & Toninstitut - Sleepless (Deprivation) (51:30)
[Sleepless - play33]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("two bullets for Maria - complemento incorrecto para uma circunsição periférica" with music selection by :JW:)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Manapsara - El Hombre Invisible (5:47)
[Queer (A Soundtrack To The Novel By William S. Burroughs) - Sub Rosa]
Kannonau - Revenge (4:29)
[Initium - Misty Circles]
Rome - To Die Among Strangers (4:14)
[To Die Among Strangers (maxi) - Trisol]
Rising Shadows - Through The Lingering Past (2:51)
[Found In The Cold - Twilight Records ]
Gae Bolg - In Taberna (8:19)
[Petite Introduction Aux Pratiques Des Gymnosophes - Le Cluricaun]
Helium Vola - Friendly Fire (4:17)
[Fuer Euch Die Ihr Liebt - Chrom Records]
Die Form - Voltaic Control System (3:55)
[Noir Magnetique - Out Of Line]
Isis Signum - Destroy The Wall (featuring Sara Noxx) (5:00)
[Electrosexual - Advanced Synergy]
QEK Junior - Koblenz, Nicht Berlin (3:40)
[Ausverkauf - Danse Macabre]
Freezepop - Frontload (Designer Drugs Mix) (4:12)
[Form Activity Motion - Cordless Recordings]
Seelenkrank - Fetisch (3:54)
[Engelsschrei - Maschinenwelt Records]
Robots In Disguise - The Dj' Got A Gun (4:17)
[Get Rid - President Records]
I Monster - A Sucker For Your Sound (3:31)
[A Dense Swarm Of Ancient Stars - Twins Of Evil]

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Reviews



:papercutz - Lylac
Very much recommended to those with a taste for electronica or pop music with a twist - pop music doesn't have to be the cheesy stuff you find on the charts; sometimes you get albums like this, filled with melodies, rhythms and vocals, that uplifts, inspires and somehow restores a little faith that music can still surprise you and still give you something new. Sweet, soothing and intoxicating...
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SE - Epiphora
With an altogether ethereal feel, this isn't like clear-cut IDM, as instruments aren't buried under a slab of unintelligible glitches - in fact, it's the glitches that take a back seat and lets the instrumentation take you somewhere different. An absolute must have for those with a Gridlock-shaped loss in their lives, and for everyone else, this is just recommended to show you that electronic can be tear-inducingly beautiful.
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Coreline - Bone and Blood as Stone and Mud
It's sometimes been hard to reconcile the two facets of Chris McCall's output - the seemingly ultra-serious music and the joyously insane live shows. But here, somehow, we may have the missing link at last. Like some kind of mad scientist (or inventor?) anything that may work is hurled into the mix - presumably from a safe distance just in case it blows up in his face - and it's to his immense credit that the vast majority of these ideas actually work
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Cyclotimia - Music For Stockmarkets
A challenging soundscape with some excellent moments of chill, dark electronica featuring the unique sounds of vintage Soviet equipment and field recordings. It's like the reserved, avant-garde cousin of Oil 10, the guy that sits in the corner somewhere on the edge of serenity and anxiety while everyone else is out back having a beer.
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Surma - Allocutio
Surma's initial foray into the desolate world of martial ambient electronics, on the split EP "Viltis" (shared with fellow Eastern Front grouch-merchants, Kreuzer) was exciting listening, hinting at a potential far beyond the pedestrian doom-and-gloom peddled en masse by similar artists in the genre. Thus, the debut album, "Allocutio" has more than its fair share of hype to live up to...
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Aphorism - Surge
Fresh from Chicago comes Aphorism's "Surge", a conventional electronica album that somehow fell in with a bad crowd and came out reeking of industrial and IDM fallout. While it may not be the most exciting release within the darker side of technoid, Aphorism's "Surge" is nevertheless worth listening to.
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Noises of Russia - Experimental Structure
Documents a live performance by Noises of Russia in St. Petersburg and a musical departure from the death industrial commonly associated with Noises Of Russia - offering instead improvised collages of field recordings from nature, treated instruments, shamanistic chants and sparse industrial noises. Together they form a soundscape which conveys an impression of the performance as a very esoteric experience.
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Samarkande - 3 Synapses
Samarkande are introduced on their website as an apparently experimental group that create by way of improvisation, and to "break the rigidity of electro-acoustic and electronic music". Quite what the latter point means in practice is a difficult one to answer, it seems.
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Price: 6.00 Euro (worldwide shipping included)
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Links

Net releases spotlight
Hezzel "Magnets" (Absetzer)
Various "X" (DarkStep.Org)

Recommended
Bob Basset's - world of "you can't even imagine" things
25 awesome Cross-platform games you can download for free

Connexion Bizarre was updated on June 22nd with new content (reviews, webcasts and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "untitled" with music selection by JanaDark) and "Green Week 24/7" with music selection by M.
Reviews: CTRL "Lost In Static", Bella Lune "Abstracted Visions"

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





Recommended Events

(note: we are not directly involved in the organization of these events)

disco_r.dance @ The Foundry
2009-06-27, saturday, The Foundry, London (UK)
Disco_r.dance

Noxious Arts 2009
2009-09-03/04/05, thursday to saturday, several locations, Paris (FR)
Line-up and more details to be announced soon!
Audiotrauma


Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("untitled" with music selection by JanaDark)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Ad·ver·sary - Darker (06:59)
[A Bright Cut Across Velvet Sky - Tympanik Audio]
Keef Baker - Dead End (07:16)
[Pen Fifteen - Kreuzung Vier - Hymen Records]
The PCP Principle - Defeated By Every Means Possible (04:07)
[Electronic Violence Phenomena - Hands Productions]
Stendeck - Blind Army Parade (04:57)
[Sonnambula - Tympanik Audio]
Marching Dynamics - Going Under (04:26)
[The Workers Party Of Haiti - Hymen Records]
OTX - Countdown To Chaos (07:18)
[A World In Red - Funkwelten]
DarkRad - The Red (03:44)
[Unreleased - Not on label]
Synapscape - Ahuenna! (04:20)
[Again -Ant-Zen]
Coreline - F.B.N (XL Stripglos Orange Sequence Non Adhesive) (04:45)
[Bone and Blood as Stone and Mud - Infekted Sound]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Green Week 24/7" with music selection by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Andrew King & Brown Sierra - The Dark Eyed Sailor
[Thalassocrassy - Epiphany]
Nyctallz - Esion 1
[V/A - Pangaea Noise - Syrphe]
Flatline Skyline - Sleep Tight, Silent Knight
[All Sound / No Vision - Mechanoise Labs]
Aere Aeternus - Conjuration
[Humanity Needs No Funeral - Kaosthetik Konspiration]
Tzii - Go East (remix by The Masters Musicians Of Hop-Frog
[Rotten Friendship - self-release]
T/M/K - Major Problem In Washington DC
[Need The Needle (as Textbook of Modern Karate) - Aentitainment]
John Zorn - The Initiate
[The Crucible - self-release]
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Serpents
[Mutations EP - Ad Noiseam]
IP Neva - Radiation Field
[Symbiosis Of Contradictions - Impulsive Art]
Mandelbrot - Fünf
[Evolution - Audiophob]
Tapage - Clap Retrial
[Fallen Clouds - Tympanik Audio]

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Reviews



Bella Lune - Abstracted Visions
Pleasant and quirky as it may be when one begins to listen to it, halfway through chances are that the listener will get a nagging feeling of déjà vu. And here lies the main problem with this release, a definite lack of variety - something which might not be such an issue if this had been released as an EP.
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Connect_icut - They Showed Me The Secret Beaches
Over the course of his several releases Macklin has developed his own sound, utilizing instruments processed through Max/MSP. He has become adept at making the electronic sound and feel very organic which is why, in a world of plastic-sounding computer music, this is something very refreshing to listen to.
Read more


Store


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Price: 6.00 Euro (worldwide shipping included)
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Links

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Skincage
V-Atak
Automation Records
Das Drehmoment
Intox Noize

Recommended
Tatsuma's Iran Timeline update
JournalSquared: Iran's Netwar
Gwynne Dyer: the Rules for Street Demonstrations in Iran are different
Who's Who in Iran's Political System - Top 10 players in Iran's Power Struggle (TIME magazine)
Eyewitness: from Tehran's streets (TIME magazine)
In Iran, One Woman's Death May Have Many Consequences (TIME magazine)
Foreign Policy: would Iran be different under Mousavi?
How to set up a proxy for Iran citizens
The Dawning of Internet Censorship in Germany (netzpolitik)
Jail Sentence for Hentai Owner raises First Ammendment Issues (Ars Technica)
Ruling on NightJack author Richard Horton kills blogger anonimity (Times Online)

Connexion Bizarre was updated on June 15th with new content (reviews, webcasts and recommended links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Drum Forrest, Drum!" with music selection by the [Law-Rah] Collective and "Flight 23 To Interzone" with music selection by Machinochrist
Reviews: Connect_icut "They Showed Me The Secret Beaches", Flatline Skyline "All Sound / No Vision", Rubik "Carrion EP", UberByte "Dos"

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





Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Drum Forrest, Drum!" with music selection by the [Law-Rah] Collective)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness Remix (06:15)
[Higher State of Consciousness - BMG]
L'il Louis & The World - Blackout (Phase 1) (08:41)
[I Called U - FFRR]
Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat (05:16)
[Analog Worms Attack - PiaS]
Anne Clark - Sleeper In Metropolis (04:51)
[Our Darkness - Ink Records]
Grauzone - Eisbär (04:50)
[Eisbär - LD Records]
The Future Sound Of London - Central Industrial (04:25)
[Accelerator - Addiction Records]
Front 242 - Welcome To Paradise (V1.0) (05:18)
[Headhunter - Red Rhino Europe]
The Shamen - Move Any Mountain (Beat Edit) (03:28)
[Move Any Mountain - Progen (91) - One Little Indian]
Ammo - What Was That Oops For? (03:12)
[Beautiful People - Mirex]
The End - You Only Live Once (03:42)
[Carbon - Mirex]
Moby - Feeling So Real (Original Mix) (04:32)
[Feeling So Real - Indisc]
The Age of Love - Paul Van Dyk "Love Of Ages Remix" (08:39)
[The Age Of Love - TF Productions]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Flight 23 To Interzone" with music selection by Machinochrist)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
William Burroughs - Thanksgiving Prayer
[Dead City Radio - Island Records ]
Bobby Beausoleil - Movement The Second
[Lucifer Rising - Disgust Records ]
Mordant Music - The Hauntological Song
[Picking o'er the Bones - Mordant Music]
Interzone Suite - Ornette Coleman & Howard Shore
[Naked Lunch OST - Milan Records]
Red Sox - Various Productions
[Versus - Various Productions ]
Flying Lotus & Declaime - Whole Wide World
[Whole Wide World EP - Ramp]
Sunn O))) - Big Church
[Monoliths & Dimensions - Southern Lord]
Manatees - Hyperion
[Icarus, The Sunclimber - Eyes of Sound ]
Portal - Sourlows
[Outre - Profound Lore]
Svasti-ayanam - Gilgamesh
[Sanklesa - Crowd Control]
Master Musicians of Joujouka -
[Apocalypse Across the Sky - Axiom Records]

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Reviews



Connect_icut - They Showed Me The Secret Beaches
Over the course of his several releases Macklin has developed his own sound, utilizing instruments processed through Max/MSP. He has become adept at making the electronic sound and feel very organic which is why, in a world of plastic-sounding computer music, this is something very refreshing to listen to.
Read more



Flatline Skyline - All Sound / No Vision
A multifaceted album that confronts listeners with pop tendencies, taking inspiration from the sharp beats, brimming bass and lyrical delivery of indie rock's more electronic leanings, and similarly finds substance with a blended new wave versus old industrial feel. Flatline Skyline overall benefits from its oddly familiar genre-bending forms and passionate articulation.
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Rubik - Carrion EP
"Brevity is the soul of wit" is a saying that also applies to small bite-sized releases like this limited edition three-track 12" by the relatively obscure London-based artist Rubik. "Carrion EP" is one of those things that have a touch of the unexpected, hinting at a lot of potential and quite a few ideas, but pretty much stopping short of giving away the artist's failings.
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UberByte - Dos
"Dos" may not be clever, it may not be original and it may not be the best production quality available in an oversaturated genre, but it is fun. This is musical entertainment for those of a darker bent, but not too dark to preclude having a sense of humour.
Read more


Links

Recently added
Skin Contact

Net releases spotlight
Various "Screaming Into The Void Vol.1" (Crunch Pod)

Recommended
Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has joined a huge rally against the result of last week's election, defying a government ban. (BBC)
Iran election: state moves to end 'Facebook revolution' (Times Online)
Who Protects The Internet? (PopSci)
French court savages "three-strikes" law, tosses it out (Ars Technica)
Lawyers plan class-action to reclaim "$100M+" RIAA "stole" (Ars Technica)
Army Mechanic's Garage Tinkering Yields 18-Foot Mecha Exoskeleton (PopSci)

Due to lack of internet access at home for a few days means that this week's update to Connexion Bizarre was reduced to the bare minimum, namely webcasts and a few recommended links:

Webcast: "Sedated Chaos" with music selection by Invisible War and "Zen and the Art of Microwave Cooking" with music selection by M.

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





Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Sedated Chaos" with music selection by Invisible War)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Sinke Dûs - The Premonition
[Akrasia - Cyclic Law]
Penjaga Insaf - Tenangan (Excerpt)
[Incendium II - Loki Foundation]
Tho|so|aa - Disintegrated
[Absorb - Tesco Organisation]
Ionosphere - Meta III
[Angular Momentum - Power & Steel]
Troum - Peleta
[Aiws - Transgredient Records]
Fjernlys - All Sun's Ceaseless Falling
[Ascending Triads & Luminous Arcs - Loki Foundation]
Pimentola - Death Is A Secret
[Misantropolis - Cold Meat Industry]
Knifeladder - Alpha Male
[Music-Concrete - Cold Meat Industry]
Gnaw Their Tongues - Sawn Asunder And Left For The Beasts
[An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood - Crucial Blast]
Navicon Torture Technologies - Metafleshbioengine
[Scenes From The Next Millennium - Annihilvs]
Visions - Lapsing
[Lapse - Cyclic Law]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Zen and the Art of Microwave Cooking" with music selection by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Black Lung - The World Without Us
[Full Spectrum Dominance - Ant-Zen/Tympanik Audio]
Negruvoda - Claustrophobic Hangover
[Appetizer - Malignant Records]
Tzii - Hypo-Crisis
[V/A - Sonic Terror - De Rebellenclub]
Disciplina Urbana - Desporte Sangrento
[V/A - Sonic Terror - De Rebellenclub]
Navicon Torture Technologies - Mind Is A Prison
[The Gospels Of The Gash - Malignant Records]
Mandelbrot - Null
[Evolution - Audiophob]
Tonikom - Fluorescence
[The Sniper's Veil - Hymen Records]
Tapage - The Silent House
[Fallen Clouds - Tympanik Audio]
SE - hitchhiker
[Epiphora - Tympanik Audio]
Angina P - Free Radical
[Sensitive Files - Hands Productions]
Pandora's Black Book - Empty Words
[Black Brothel - Tympanik Audio]

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Links

Recently added
Escape From Terra
MindHack

Net releases spotlight
Josie Gallows "Guilty Sunrise"
the BRAINHOLE "Nothing (Feels Like...)" (Noecho)

Recommended
Isabela Rosselini's "Green Porno"
Somalia: one week in hell - inside the city that the world forgot
The pirates will always win, says Carphone's Dunstone - Charles Dunstone says illegal downloading cannot be stopped (The Guardian)
Illegal downloads and dodgy figures (The Guardian)
"Et tu, Marvel?" - the world of dumb IP lawsuits, this time involving Marvel Comics...

Connexion Bizarre was updated on June 1st with new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "10 ways to instruct you to pleasure" with music selection by :JW: and "Cruise Controlled" with music selections by M.
Reviews: Kreuzer / Surma "Viltis", Orchestramaxfieldparrish presents ÆRA "To the Last Man / Index of Dreaming", Totakeke "The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes", "Disintegration", Nommo Ogo "Space Cross"

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





Connexion Bizarre events


Bodypop
2009-06-06, saturday, Era Uma Vez No Porto, Porto (PT) map location
A (sporadic?) ressurrection of the Bodypop nights with the usual recipe: synthpop and related variants at usual place (which is now in a different place).


Era Uma Vez No Porto


Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("10 ways to instruct you to pleasure" with music selection by :JW:)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
The Pride Of Wolves - Dawn of the Wolves (7:43)
[Dawn Of The Wolves - SkullLine]
The Ultrasonics - Go Electro (2:24)
[Ultrasound - Self Released]
Miss Kittin & the Hacker - Indulgence (4:08)
[Two - Nobody's Bizzness]
Mona Mur & En Esch - Candy Cane (3:43)
[120 Tage-The Fine Art Of Beauty & Violence - Pale]
Momir Papalescu & The Nihilists - Fast Car (3:30)
[Lewis Neptune - X Production]
Montage - Pedro Almodovar e Bento XVI (3:30)
[I Trust My Dealer - Trama Virtual]
Trash Fashion - Beat Goes Round (5:16)
[ Nights Of Error - Propaganda Records]
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Slow Motion Tag Team (3:16)
[Glistening Pleasure - Team Swan Records]
:wulgata: - Images In Dust (3:48)
[Ressurection of Those Days (A Third Book Has Been Written) - Beast Of Prey]
Hollywood, Mon Amour - Cat People (Featuring Dea Li) (2:55)
[80..s Movie Songs Reinvented - The Perfect Kiss]
The Raveonettes - Aly, Walk With Me (4:59)
[Lust Lust Lust - A:larm Music]
Neils Children - Another Day (4:01)
[Something Perpetual - Vinyl Junkie]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Rockers To Swallow (3:13)
[Is Is - Modular Recordings]
Charles De Goal - Regularisez Moi (1:11)
[Restructuration - Self-Control]
Krystal System - Slice (3:16)
[Underground - Alfa Matrix]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Cruise Controlled" with music selections by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Destillat - Club Devil
[V/A - Auto-Reverse - BOREDOMproduct]
Burikusu!!! - Wrong Side Of The Cube
[2080 - 23DB]
Rubik - Carrion
[Carrion EP - Domestic Records]
Somatic Responses - Murder Thought
[Reformation - Ad Noiseam]
DJ Hidden - Things To Come
[V/A - Emerging Organisms Vol.2 - Tympanik Audio]
Mochipet - Moha
[Uzumaki - Component Records]
Hecq - Steeltongued (Raoul Sinier remix)
[Steeltongued - Hymen Records]
Navicon Torture Technologies - Cult Of Doom (feat. The [Law-Rah] Collective)
[Your Suffering Will Be Legendary - Malignant Records]
T/M/K - From Railroad To Skyline (Tokyo 1975)
[Need The Needle - Aentitainment]

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Reviews



Kreuzer / Surma - Viltis
As far as dark ambient music goes, "Viltis" is perhaps one of the most exciting and stirring releases in recent times, despite the relative freshness of the two talented producers it showcases.
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Orchestramaxfieldparrish presents ÆRA - To the Last Man / Index of Dreaming
Themed around memories and dreams respectively, this double pick up on themes from Fazio's Orchestramaxfieldparrish neo-classical ambient project, with an emphasis on the droning, textural electronic elements of his music; both discs exhibiting short spells of more immediacy and anxiety, appropriate for the differing moods and emotions that can be associated with memories or dreams alike.
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Totakeke - The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes
The most (guilt-free) enjoyable aspect of this album is its use of dissonance (whether intentional or not) and of atonal arpeggios. At its stronger moments "The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes" has a slight Anton Webern feel to it.
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Terra Sancta - Disintegration
Acceptable, unfortunately, is not synonymous with memorable. In an aural universe built primarily out of drones and wind sweeps, it is easy to travel the route of convention and fall prey to mediocrity. In Terra Sancta's case, the addition of epic orchestral tones would transform this musical one night stand into a stand up release. For now it remains a cocktease.
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Nommo Ogo - Space Cross
An experimental project with a fondness for acoustic instruments, abstract soundscapes and drones, Nommo Ogo is a collective of multi-sensory artists and musicians with, interestingly enough, Alaskan origins. In addition to their recorded material, core members Djynnx Ogo, Eyebrane and Higerous Johannes view the performance of their live electronic and electro-acoustic music as an essential characteristic of their work.
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Top 40

Net releases spotlight
Cisfinitum "0 vs 0" (Top 40)
Cisfinitum "Landschaft" (Entity)
Cisfinitum "Malgyl" (Entity)
Perfection Plastic "L'echec de la matiére" (Force Of Nature)
"Soundtrack Of My Day" (Electrobel)

Recommended
Lost in Space - What really happened to Russia's missing cosmonauts? An incredible tale of space hacking, espionage and death in the lonely reaches of space.

Connexion Bizarre was updated on May 25th with new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Rak's Party part II" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead and "From smart to stupid (and slam the brakes)" with music selections by M.
Interviews: interview with Sebastien Béné-Le Touarin of Amesha Spenta
Reviews: Cisfinitum "Nevmenosis", v4w.enko "Harmonic Ratio", Murder By Static "Danceland Dead"

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






Connexion Bizarre events

Bodypop
2009-06-06, saturday, Era Uma Vez No Porto, Porto (PT) map location
A (sporadic?) ressurrection of the Bodypop nights with the usual recipe: synthpop and related variants at usual place (which is now in a different place).
Era Uma Vez No Porto


Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("RAK's Party part II" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Don Goliath - Come Around Refixed
[The Refixes - N/A]
12th Planet & Emu - Are Ya Feelin?
[C-Sick / Are Ya Feelin? - 10 Bag Records]
Antiserum - Rambo Style
[Bay Area Dubstep Volume 02 - Full Melt Recordings]
Skream - Midnight Request Line
[Skream! - Tempa]
Drukore - Guhray Falessh
[Counterpunch - Shift Recordings]
Cardopusher - Milk Thistle
[Milk Thistle - Lo Dubs]
Mobthrow - Deathstep
[Konkrete - Spectraliquid]
Audio - Warehouse (VIP Remix)
[Warehouse VIP - Freak Recordings]
Trillbass - Threat
[In Bass We Trust EP - Trill Bass]
Ultrablack - Hate On Us
[La Dubstep Nostra - La Dubstep Nostra]
Virus Syndicate - Vibrator
[Sick Pay - Planet Mu]
Rustie - Zig-Zag
[Zig-Zag - Wireblock]
Cheyster99 - IntenC9
[N/A - Unreleased]
16 Bit - Chainsaw Calligraphy
[In The Death Car - Boka Records]
Broken Note - Zealot
[Crux / Zealot - Ad Noiseam]
Cakebuilder - Dark Beast
[Feeding The Worms - Ad Noiseam]
Spor - 1UP
[Supernova - Lifted Music]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("From smart to stupid (and slam the brakes)" with music selections by M.)
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[exclusive]
Flatline Skyline - Other Dreams
[All Sound/No Vision - Mechanoise Labs]
Hecq - Steeltongued (Mothboy Remix)
[Steeltongued - Hymen Records]
:papercutz - A Way to Emerge
[Lylac - Apegenine]
Angina P - Remember That
[Sensitive Files - Hands Productions]
Cenotype - Pieces (remixed by ATEK)
[Origins Unfold - self-released]
Pandora's Black Book - Black Brothel
[Black Brothel - Tympanik Audio]
Oil 10 - Airway
[Retrofuture - Funk Welten]
Prometheus Burning - Black Magick Tongue
[Plague Called HuMANity - Crunch Pod]
Necrotek - 200666 (Misanthropic Mix)
[Menschenfeind - Vendetta Music]
The Gothsicles - BAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLS (Prometheus Burning vs. The Gothsicles)
[Sega Lugosi's Dead - WTII]
Uberbyte - The Gift
[Dos - Crunch Pod]
Millimetric - Words and Silence (feat. Martin Dupont)
[Expériences Modernes - M-tronic]

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Interviews



Amesha Spenta - an interview with Sebastien Béné-Le Touarin
A newcomer to the French label/collective Audiotrauma, Amesha Spenta welcomes the listener into a universe of distorded progressive electronic music with ethno-cultural references to the Zoroastrian religion of ancient Persia.
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Reviews



Cisfinitum - Nevmenosis
Voronovsky describes his music as 'metaphysical ambient', a description which may not be that off the mark if one is to judge by this release. Throughout "Nevmenosis", Cisfinitum manages to convey a feeling of timelessness and distance, showing the listener hints of a greater whole and different perspectives which could not be described in any other way but through music.
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v4w.enko - Harmonic Ratio
Nothing about "Harmonic Ratio" suggests any kind of harmony, in a conventional musical sense or otherwise; this is a decidedly uncomfortable, nerve-wracking experience. But then you consider Kvitnu's slogan: "High Blood Pressure Music" and realise it's not meant to be calming.
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Murder By Static - Danceland Dead
"Danceland Dead" distills the love one may (or may not) have for late-90s jungle, and filters it through a more updated feel. While one may have a hard time remembering the individual tracks, it's a great album to listen to as a whole and highly recommended for dicing vegetables or angering your neighbors while drinking your morning coffee.
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Tunecore
PES, stop-motion animation madness
Night Of The Livind Dead: Reanimated

Net releases spotlight
Buben "Shtukar" (NKS International)
Various "Get a Glimpse: Ad Noiseam Free Compilation for Spring 2009" (Ad Noiseam)
Various "Klang!" (Intelligent Machinery)
Various "Lift Muzak" (NKS International)
Various "Vox" (Intelligent Machinery)

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"Old Growth Media and the Future Of News"
Still looking for the western feminists - Women who believe liberal values exploit their sexuality have something much greater to fear - the jackboot of dictatorship, says Clive James. (BBC)
BNP Stock Photography
"BSA piracy figures need a shot of reality"
Mixed Feelings - See with your tongue. Navigate with your skin. Fly by the seat of your pants (literally). How researchers can tap the plasticity of the brain to hack our 5 senses and and build a few new ones. (Wired)
Top 50 movie special effects shots (Den of Geek!)
Eminem vs. the Punisher (Marvel Comics Online)
Evolution of Technology (Saturn Commercial)

Connexion Bizarre was updated on May 18th with new content (reviews, webcasts and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Grow-Speed-Erection Mix" with music selection by GunHed242 and "untitled" with music selections by DJ JanaDark
Reviews: Anhedonia "Ontology", Kryptogen Rundfunk + Hladna "Rokton + Formanta", Niko Skorpio "Psylocibe Necrophilia", Taphephobia "Anomie", Ministry of Rites "Grid"

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





Connexion Bizarre events

Bodypop
2009-06-06, saturday, Era Uma Vez No Porto, Porto (PT) map location
A (sporadic?) ressurrection of the Bodypop nights with the usual recipe: synthpop and related variants at usual place (which is now in a different place).
Era Uma Vez No Porto


Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Grow-Speed-Erection Mix" with music selection by GunHed242)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
William Orbit - Bubble Universe
[Hello Waveforms - Sanctuary Records]
ML - Witchcraft Enters The Comp Age
[Good Morning - En:peg Digital]
Oil 10 - Electric Angels
[Retrofuture - Funkwelten]
Exillon - Duhu
[The Keening Dithers - Ad Noiseam]
Photophob - Hired Hunter (Killbot)
[Your Majesty Machine - Hive Records]
Twerk - Defective Manufacturing
[Humantics - Force Inc. Music Works]
The Connection Machine - Avatar Shopping
[Painless - Down Low Music]
Zonk't - Ohm 05 Part 2
[Purr - Sound On Probation]
Raoul Sinier - Bleeders Curb
[Brain Kitchen - Ad Noiseam]
Clark - Gonk Roughage
[Growls Garden EP - Warp]
Venetian Snares - Bebikukorica Nigiri
[Detrimentalist - Planet Mu]
Servants Of The Apocalyptic Goat Rave - GoatRave vs The Instrument of Torture
[Servants Of The Apocalyptic Goat Rave - Sublight]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("untitled" with music selections by DJ JanaDark)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
Lunar Abyss Quartet - Untitled (06:06)
[Hyperborean - Der Angriff]
Deutsch Nepal - Prehistorical Bulldozer Delivering Service (06:38)
[Reutoff vs Deutsch Nepal - Kreuzung Vier - Ewers Tonkunst]
Totakeke - Dirge (07:28)
[Past:Present:Future - Tympanik audio]
Hum - Ascension (06:28)
[Flesh Of The Soul - Quag]
Clausthome - Distant (04:28)
[Radiophare [ Lampe D'Ambiance ] - Indiestate Distribution]
Troum - Aggilus (01:51)
[Aiws - Transgredient Records]
Ab ovo - Gathering (04:29)
[Various - Elektroanschlag 5 - Not on label]
Anhedonia - Drone (03:12)
[Ontology - Aliens Production]
Mika Goedrijk - White Spiders (05:34)
[Pellicules - Ant-Zen]
Reutoff - Nemesis (06:32)
[Deprivatio - Ewers Tonkunst]
Talvekoidik - Sandstorm (06:28)
[ Silent Reflections - Brume Records]

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Reviews



Anhedonia - Ontology
"Ontology" is a gorgeous piece of work, with massive emphasis on mood, but its presence is somewhat muted and tentative, hardly as sure of itself as previous works. A pity, really, because this is one talented artist indeed, and this recording doesn't quite fulfill expectations based on his previous offerings. It's still very good, though, just difficult to listen to.
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Kryptogen Rundfunk + Hladna - Rokton + Formanta
This work's final result are three long untitled tracks, meditative and disturbing at the same time, which will please all the lovers of the ambient-noise and drone genres - all those who enjoy good sound design more than any kind of enchanting melodies or pounding beats.
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Niko Skorpio - Psylocibe Necrophilia
Based on a pretty unusual concept: the raw materials used for all of its tracks are old tapes of the artist's early bands from the 80's (essentially heavy metal demos and live bootlegs), which have been completely destroyed, cut, re-edited and processed to eventually obtain some brand new material, which absolutely doesn't sound like heavy metal anymore, but more fits into the dark ambient and drone genres.
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Taphephobia - Anomie
On one side of the coin they hit the nail on the head and are gripping, intriguing and magical; on the flip side they drift a little too much into the mundane and dull. The best parts of this album, however, do make up for a lot of their failings.
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Ministry of Rites - Grid
When Ministry of Rites do get it right (and they have the ability), it is genuinely engaging and listenable; it's just that fifty percent of the time they just seem to faff about too much. Something for those with very eclectic tastes that disappointingly just comes somewhere short of approaching other audiences and fails.
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Links

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Disease Foundry Recordings
Plague Haus
Instant Action Oject

Net releases spotlight
Various "Non-Pop #3" (Non-Pop)

Recommended
"Killing The Scene" and "A Mild Taste Of Disdain" two downloadable mixes by DJ Intoner.
Hadopi: la création sacrifiée (Liberation)
How Damaging is Illegal File-Sharing? (BBC)
Pirated pop keeps stars popular - File-sharing sites help make popular acts more popular, finds a study. (BBC)
Political animals - European politicians are breathtakingly hypocritical about sealskins (The Economist)
"A Survival Guide for Decent Folk" from Nightjack blog

Connexion Bizarre was updated on May 11th with new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "Hellen Keller in Outter Space" with music selection by Machinochrist and "So much for inertia (maybe next time)..." with music selections by M.
Interviews: Anhel Liaros of Spectraliquid
Reviews: Tonikom "The Sniper's Veil", Necrotek "Menschfeind", the Gothsicles "Sega Lugosi's Dead", Amesha Spenta "Amesha Spenta", Sister Loolomie & Kryptogen Rundfunk "[w]interloop[s]", High Wycombe "Reverser"

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





Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Hellen Keller in Outer Space" with music selection by Machinochrist)
Chroma Key - Colourblind
[Dead Air for Radios - Fight Evil Records]
Beacon Street Union - The Clown Died in Marvin Gardens
[The Clown Died in Marvin Gardens - See for Miles UK]
Goth Trad - Law
[Law/The Clown - Deep Medi Musik]
Kool Keith - Lost in Space
[Black Elvos/Lost in Space - Ruffhouse]
L-wiz - Egyptic
[Girlfriend/Egyptic - Dub Police]
Curved Air - It Happened Today
[Airconditioning - Warner Brothers Records]
Chris Isaak - Baby did a bad bad thing
[Baby did a bad bad thing - Reprise Records]
Rustie - Spliff Dub
[Mu5h - Hyperdub]
Richard Cheese - Shake ya Ass
[Tuxicity - Surfdog Records]
Starkey - Gutter Music
[Ephemeral Exhibits - Planet Mu]
Neil Young - Dont Let it Bring You Down
[After the Gold Rush - Reprise Records]
Mr Oizo - Two Takes It ft. Carmen Castro
[Lambs Anger - Because Music, Ed Banger Records]
Alleviators - Film Noir
[Erotico Live - Unknown]
Flying Lotus - Robertaflack (ft. Dolly)
[Los Angeles - Warp]
Spearhead - Tha Payroll (Stay Strong)
[Chocolate Super Highway - Capitol Records]

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("So much for inertia (maybe next time)..." with music selections by M.)
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Marching Dynamics - Doorbells In Amsterdam
[The Workers Party Of Haiti - Hymen Records]
Somatic Responses - LFO Assassin
[Reformation - Ad Noiseam]
Burikusu!!! - Sci-Fi Epikusu
[2080 - 23DB]
Hecq - I Will Survive (feat. Nongenetic)
[Steeltongued - Hymen]
Amesha Spenta - Void
[Amesha Spenta - Audiotrauma]
Totakeke - The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes
[The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes - Tympanik Audio]
Tonikom - The Source (album edit)
[The Sniper's Veil - Hymen]
Oil 10 - Synthetic Skin
[Retrofuture - Funk Welten]
Flatline Skyline - Fearful Simmetry
[All Sound/No Vision - Mechanoise Labs]
For Greater Good - Getting Older
[Pen Fifteen - Hymen]
Colin Johnco - An Other Electric Girl
[An Other Electric Girl - Colin Johnco Records]

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Interviews



Anhel Liaros - Spectraliquid
pectraliquid is an independent music & art label based in Athens, Greece that came to life in Summer 2006, in order to deliver high-quality extreme experimental soundscapes and visionary art.
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Reviews



Tonikom - The Sniper's Veil
Tonikom's sophomore release on Hymen Records, "The Sniper's Veil", is a wholly satisfying exercise in breakbeats. Most everything appearing on Tonikom's latest shows fantastic cohesion, simplicity, musicianship and, it must be said, an intriguingly feminine essence.
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Necrotek - Menschfeind
It must also be said that this album is perhaps something of an anomaly - one that wears its influences so obviously has no business twisting new and interesting sounds from such familiar raw materials in such style as this. As a result - particularly if you hanker for the days of industrial of the old school - this is an intriguing and essential purchase.
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the Gothsicles - Sega Lugosi's Dead
If you can leave all seriousness behind and enjoy "Sega Lugosi's Dead" for a really fun CD that doesn't mind poking fun at just about everything, then you'll love this latest offering by the Gothsicles. It's sheer genius in stupid form!
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Amesha Spenta - Amesha Spenta
"Amesha Spenta" as an album is relentless, even in its ambient passages, and however sedate the bpm might be. It is dense, secretive, and part of a floating realm, suspended between the occidental and oriental with chime-like melodies and shivering tones, supported by spine tingling beat structures.
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Sister Loolomie & Kryptogen Rundfunk - [w]interloop[s]
Each track plods along somewhere between whimsy and melancholy without ever really breaching the boundaries of either. With the short track lengths (nothing makes it to four minutes), there is not much time for building or evolution. I'd say the biggest flaw here is that none of the tracks really go anywhere. It's just a collection of sort-of-interesting-sounds that play for a while and then stop.
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High Wycombe - Reverser
If you like Haujobb's eclecticism, chances are you'll appreciate "Reverser". Otherwise you'll at least admire the astonishing exercise of faithfully integrating some strongly contrasting influences into one polished product.
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Net releases spotlight
The Gothsicles "NESferatwo" (Vampire Freaks)
Wunderblock "Act!" (Astor Bell)

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La Nouvelle Industrie Lorraine 3
"Lovecraft Country", webcomic
A collection of Mythos-based short films: "A Lovecraft Dream", "The Hapless Antiquarian", "Between The Stars", "The Other Gods", "Ryleh"
My Manhattan Project - How Michael Osinski helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street. (New York Magazine)
The danger of drugs... and data (The Guardian) and Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Journal
"The Wandering Soul", psyop tape of Vietnam

Connexion Bizarre was updated on April 27th with new content (reviews, webcasts, interview and links).
A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "the abused sushi and other histories" with music selection by James Hotate and "crunch frog!" with music selections by M.
Interviews: Laurent Perrier of Sound On Probation
Reviews: Lingouf "Kovoclak", MCKMN "Orphan Ristophe", Fractional "Still Life?"
Best regards,
Miguel
(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)





Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("the abused sushi and other histories" with music selection by James Hotate)
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[exclusive]
Ghosts Of Breslau - The Girl Under the Lantern (3:44)
[Sacred Place - Twilight Records]
Caprice - Kywitt! Kywitt! (3:58)
[Kywitt! Kywitt! - Shadowplay]
Brygada Kryzys - Centrala (5:56)
[Brygada Kryzys - Tonpress]
Haunted Staircase - Flutters (3:47)
[Flutters - Rabbit Records]
Controlled Bleeding - Whispers (In The Moisture) (3:16)
[Core - Subterranean Records]
Excès Nocturne -     Evacuation Immédiate (3:46)
[Evacuation Immédiate - Slim Productions]
Din[A]Tod - Some Kind Of Hate (5:17)
[Westwerk - Out Of Line]
Ctrl - Lost In Static-XP8 Mix (5:09)
[Lost In Static - Diffusion Records]
KMFDM - Bait & Switch (5:57)
[Blitz - Metropolis Records]
Bondage Fairies - Faze (2:22)
[What You Didn't Know When You Hired Me - Lobotom Records]
Heartsrevolution - Switchblade (3:43)
[Switchblade - IHEARTCOMIX Records]
Millimetric - Suffoque (4:41)
[Suffoque - Black Montanas]
Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("crunch frog!" with music selections by M.)
Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier
[exclusive]
IP Neva - Constellation Of War
[Symbiosis Of Contradictions - Impulsive Art]
For Greater Good - Le Jugement du Roi en Jaune
[For Greater Good - self-released]
Navicon Torture Technologies - In Suffering There Is Beauty
[The Gospels of the Gash - Malignant Records]
Prometheus Burning - Genovese Syndrome
[Plague Called HuMANity - Crunch Pod]
Aphorism - What We See Now (remixed by Access To Arasaka)
[Surge - Tympanik Audio]
Totakeke - Anterograde Amnesia (mix by Pneumatic Detach)
[The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes - Tympanik Audio]
This Morn' Omina - Momentum I
[Momentum Of Singular Clarity - Ant-Zen]
Cenotype - Unearth Me (Save Me vs Unearthed mash-up by Iszoloscope
[Origins Unfold - Cenotype Productions]
Uberbyte - Aeon
[[dos] - Crunch Pod]
Alter Der Ruine - Batsmasher
[Giants From Far Away - Crunch Pod]
Caustic - Pull The Pin
[This Is Jizzcore - Crunch Pod]


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Interviews



Laurent Perrier - Sound On Probation
Some labels exist essentially as a vehicle for the output of a single artist and his several project. To date, that is the case with French label Sound On Probation owned by Laurent Perrier. In the 80's and 90's Perrier was part of the industrial projects Nox and Cape Fear and ran the Odd Size label, more recently he is known for work in the field of choreographic music and for releases under the names Zonk't and Heal.
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Reviews



Lingouf - Kovoclak
Somebody once described this album as sounding like 'a pack of fluffy but insane bunnies armed with steak knives while high on speed & LSD going on a murder spree - sort of an even more twisted version of Happy Tree Friends'. A fitting, and perhaps hard to top, description.
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MCKMN - Orphan Ristophe
This is a debut album, so of course there are a few elements, such as mixing and production, that could be refined and developed in future works, but without a doubt "Orphan Ristophe" is a solid debut. If you like sad/cinematic/melodic music and/or trip hop, but you like upbeat, um, beats, then you should check this out.
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Fractional - Still Life?
Each track plods along somewhere between whimsy and melancholy without ever really breaching the boundaries of either. With the short track lengths (nothing makes it to four minutes), there is not much time for building or evolution. I'd say the biggest flaw here is that none of the tracks really go anywhere. It's just a collection of sort-of-interesting-sounds that play for a while and then stop.
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Black Montanas
Impulsive Art
Noise Central Festival

Net releases spotlight
mind.area "Thenceforward EP" (X-line)
Interior Disposition "Therapy" (Space-Time Continuum)
Various "Absetzer" (Absetzer)
Various "Cd1d Compil #4" (Cd1d)

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solipsistic NATION No. 138: Exquisite Corpse II
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A Cyber-Attack on an American City
Hackers: the China Syndrome (Popular Science)
The Future Of Computing Will Be Good Enough (PC World)
Fishy tales - Only radical actions can save Europe’s fish... and its fishermen (The Economist)

Connexion Bizarre was updated on April 20th with a new release, a new batch of reviews, webcasts and a few recommended links.

A quick overview of this week's update:
Webcast: "You Need It. You Want It." with music selection by DJ RazorGrrrl and "RAK's Party @ Warehouse 9 pt I" with music selections by DJ Istabmyhead
Release: K'teus "Audio Hypersigil 1 (The Awakening)"
Reviews: V/A "Emerging Organisms Vol.2", Mika Goedrijk "Pellicules", This Morn' Omina "Momentum of Singular Clarity", V/A "Getting A:Head", Contagious Orgasm "One Drop Water", Mobthrow "Mutant Dubstep Vol.3", l'Ascenseur "40 Below", U.S.O. Project "InharmoniCity"

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





Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("You Need It. You Want It." with music selection by DJ RazorGrrrl)
Moctan - Plastic Error Mind (Special Bunker Edit)
[V/A. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns - Das Bunker]
Hypnoskull - The Most Feared Man On Earth
[Industrial Owes Us Money - Ant-Zen Records]
Famine - lesion powder sickness (fixed)
[Every Mirror Turns Black - Bugs Crawling Out of People]
Interlope - New World Order
[Petits Arrangements Entre Amis - Expressillon]
Dev/Null - Gorechestra
[Necrobestial Sadobreaks - Cock Rock Disco]
Marching Dynamics - Confederate
[The Workers Party Of Haiti - Hymen Records]
Edgey - Malice Spoils
[The Abuse Technique - Hive Records]
iammynewt vs. Skullduggery - shitMuppET
[Ohaka - Trozoc]
Synth-Etik - Four More Points
[Phantom - Hands Productions]
Bong-Ra - House of Armageddon
[V/A. Maschinenfest 2008 - Pflichtkauf]
Rabbit Junk - Power
[Project Nonagon - The Struggle II - RabbitJunk.com]
DJ Donna Summer - Rock Rock Rock (Aaron Spectre Remix)
[V/A. Rock Rock Rock Remixes - Cock Rock Disco]
End - A Girl Called Trouble
[A Girl Called Trouble - AeroCCCP Recordings]

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("RAK's Party @ Warehouse 9 pt I" with music selections by DJ Istabmyhead)
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[exclusive]
Autechre - Rale
[Quaristice - Warp Records]
The Entity - Wrong Lies (Die In The Dark RMX)
[ENTITY002 - Entity]
Komonazmuk - Fear
[Fear / Preset Whore - Mode Recordings]
Lone Wolf & Maroon - The Others
[Dub Pack - Bloodied Blade]
TC - Where's My Money (Caspa remix)
[Where's My Money / Tron - D-Style Recordings]
Koan Sound - Mafia
[Trill002B - Trill Bass Records]
Bar 9 - Murda Sound
[Murda Sound / Untitled Symphony - Z Audio]
Cardopusher - Cockpit
[Mutant Dubstep Vol. 2 - Spectraliquid]
Innasekt - Bug Powdah
[ROTTUN001 - Rottun Recordings]
Black Ganion - Method (Goth Trad remix)
[Watch The Ride - Harmless]
High Rankin - We're All Dead
[You, Me and the Devil - Suicide Dub]
Reso - Climbing The Walls
[Tags & Throw Ups Vol 5 - Urban Graffiti]
Insane Bangers - LSD (Bass Nectar Mix)
[LSD - Nut (White)]
The Bug feat. Warrior Queen - Poison Dart
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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.
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Reviews



V/A - Emerging Organisms Vol.2
This release as a whole is an absolute joy, and it certainly shows Tympanik as one of the major labels to look towards for consistently interesting and varied releases. It's also good for those of you who may have become a little jaded with electronic music in general; if this is the standard we can be expecting now and in the future, then you have no reason to worry.
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Mika Goedrijk - Pellicules
Although it is probably closer to electronica than the output Goedrijk is known for, "Pellicules" is so beautifully conceived and executed with such precision that it draws the attention. Deceptively addictive, this album really is a cohesive exploration of a concept that couldn't be further from the collection of discarded ideas or sounds if was conceived from.
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This Morn' Omina - Momentum of Singular Clarity
With this release a lot of people will focus on the vocal element as it's a really rather unexpected addition; although the tracks without vocals show more interesting range, one can see the "Momentum" tracks being very popular. It's interesting to see that This Morn' Omina have stepped out of their comfort sound and tried something different, something which will most certainly work well in a live setting.
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V/A - Get A:Head
"Expect the unexpected" could well be the motto for the Mash Up Records label and artists collective and their new release, the 5-track 12" compilation"Get A:Head" illustrates this quite well with a music selection that some would consider paradoxical.
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Contagious Orgasm - One Drop Water
Whereas Japan is often more well known for its impossibly extreme noise scene, certain bizarre artists such as Contagious Orgasm have been operating for many years, throwing all manner of unexpected sounds into highly unique and often very infuriating compositions. But there comes a time when it really doesn't hurt to reign in those indulgent excesses and write some tunes, all within an experimental context of course.
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Mobthrow - Mutant Dubstep Vol.3
In short, while it may not save what was a passable series of releases, this is a highlight and a more than acceptable conclusion to it. Perhaps it is a herald for future work by Mobthrow including, hopefully, a full-length release...
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l'Ascenseur - 40 Below
It could just be that he's been working on this first release for some time, honing each track until he's satisfied, but he does manage to avoid the pitfall, to which many electronica artists fall prey, of having common instrumentation running throughout. On "40 Below" each track is an entity in itself, not really part of a larger picture, and this is possibly the most positive aspect of the record.
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U.S.O. Project - InharmoniCity
For technicality, "InharmoniCity" is quite the achievement, and U.S.O. richly deserves any and all accolades they receive in this category. As far as simple listening pleasure goes, however, they fail miserably. This lack of accessibility to the public at large makes "InharmoniCity" an entirely personal achievement, and one that will probably never receive the attention U.S.O.'s far-reaching, progressive vision could.
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