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Monday, November 16, 2009 
For centuries Amsterdam was proud of being a tolerant city. Its recent “vertrutting” policy undermines this. I gather this is about the "disney-fication" of Amsterdam. The tightening of laws and a move away from the qualities that have always made Amsterdam one of the most culturally innovative and diverse cities of the world. I am reliably informed that there is a strong protestant puritanical influence in Dutch society, despite what you all imagine the country to be like. When once they legislated to protect free thinking and diversity, they now appear to be legislating against it.

I have played on MS Stubnitz 6 times and have developed a strong bond with the ship and crew. I first played on it in '96 with Download when it was in it's home port of Rostock, East Germany. I gather that the ship has been effectively closed down since it arrived in Amsterdam in September. It's crew of volunteers need your support. There is no big business propping up Stubnitz, do you know how difficult it is to do what the crew of Stubnitz has achieved over the years? Without an ability to host shows, the ship will be lost forever. The Download show in '96 on Stubnitz was the stuff legends were made out of. The gear was loaded in a fishing net through the bowls of the boat, the stage dwarfed by Drumosaurus. The label merch guy was beaten up by Nazi's before the show. The ships sound guy Blo still talks about this show today. I next played on the boat with DVOA supporting Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius. Next came DVOA, Reformed Faction, Rapoon and most recently Beehatch. I was due to go to the boat again to do some field recordings on her. A group of us are interested in creating a performance piece based on the sounds of the ship. For the Beehatch tour, Stubnitz allowed us to stay and rehearse on the ship free of charge. This is a huge issue for anyone that cares about the preservation of an arts culture that is rapidly becoming engulfed by a torrid sea of commercialism and mediocrity. Stubnitz may be one of the very last remnants of a bygone age; of resistance to the norm, the age of squatting, of direct action, of a culture infused by the possibility of creating change through art. The transformation of an ex-East German fishing trawler to a floating, functional arts centre ,mirrored the hope and possibilities of this age. This is not just an assault against Stubnitz and her crew it is an assault against our right to make and to celebrate the importance of a rich and varied artistic tradition within society. 

I urge everyone to sign the petition, details below and tell the city of Amsterdam that artists all over the world will not tolerate being treated like second class citizens. If Amsterdam wants to become a city of intolerance and a proud sponsor of Disney-McDonalds culture so be it BUT AT LEAST ALLOW STUBNITZ TO LEAVE so that it can continue to promote culture in cities that chose to support art and artists.

MS Stubnitz, ‘the ship of 100 subcultures’, is a representative of the diverse and tolerant cultural spirit of Amsterdam.
For unjust reasons the ship has been shut down by the City of Amsterdam, leaving this independent cultural hotspot and its crew in limbo: unable to operate the ship and unable to leave Amsterdam.

Please support the Stubnitz by signing the petition at:
www.clanrewired.com/Steun_MS_Stubnitz_in_Amsterdam.html ..

Details on the illegitimate closure of the Stubnitz can be found in the document “Bezwaargronden” (in Dutch).
www.stubnitz.com/0/temp/files/091106Bezwaargronden_bl.pdf ..

Take notice of the manifesto “Tolerant Amsterdam” here (in Dutch):
http://tolerantamsterdam.jimdo.com/

All information taken from: http://www.myspace.com/stubnitz

also more information at:

http://www.stubnitz.com

LONG LIVE STUBNITZ !
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 
Fantastic BEE HAT CH package available for download from
www.lensrecords.com
$10
The entire live concert from the Sub Club Bratislava, video extracts, loads of high quality photographs, flyers and writing by the musicians: Phil, enNi_w and Spybey.

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Judy Sucks Lemon For Breakfast
By Cornershop
Release date: 2009-07-27
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Saturday, June 20, 2009 
Just when you thought it might never happen, Brood - the second album from The Hatch has been reviewed by Brainwashed.com:

http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7599&Itemid=1

If you don't want to navigate away from here, the review has been cut and pasted:

Brood is the second album born from a fruitful collaboration between Phil Western and Mark Spybey, who, until this project was hatched, hadn't worked together since their shared time in Download. Fans of that electronic supergroup will find much to enjoy with the music presented here, though it certainly isn't a rehash. Tightly sequenced psychedelia and ritualistic rhythms meet with brooding, subsurface vocals and a sound palette that ranges from far Eastern inflections to the claustrophobically industrial. 
 Lens RecordsBeehatch - BroodIn some cases musical projects where the musicians exchange sounds through the mail or over the Internet are lacking in a feeling of immediacy; not so with Beehatch. The sense of organic development within these songs is quite palpable. These artists are so at home in the studio, their mere separation by an ocean becomes irrelevant. Connecting over the fiber optic, joined together in a union of the third mind, they forge seamless electronic soundscapes despite the physical distance separating them.“Edison Medicine” opens the disc in a surrealistic bubble bath of inane mechanical rumbling, hiss and slurred voices that eventually give way to the bright melodic arpeggiations of “I Forgot to Mention,” a piece that ebbs, swirls, and flows like insect swarms watched from a distance. “Du Du Horn” is a short piece in which a voice says, “we dream together,” ushering us into a cyclonic fanfare of regurgitated horns, twittering drums, and partially digested voices. The overall mood of these songs is one of darkness: the kind conducive to a bad psychedelic trip. Snippets of ecstatic beats, showing hints of pop sensibility, emerge briefly here and there, only to disappear moments later, leaving an unsettled feeling of dislocation in their wake, an experience intensified when listening on headphones.Joining forces, Mark Spybey and Phil Western have created a psychotronic world of alternately menacing and amusing surreality. This is partially due to the density of layers contained within each song, stacking sound on top of sound. A dozen or more listens on and I’m still noticing new things: subtly attenuated pieces of broken melody, the spacey oscillations of mutant synthesizers, havoc wreaked with warble and buzz, samples that might have otherwise decayed if they hadn’t been given a place to live. This is the albums strength.
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AMMMusic
By AMM
Release date: 1999-12-13
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Thursday, May 28, 2009 
It is official, Phil and Mark have started work on a new Beehatch album.


BUT, you can buy a mastered downloaded version of the wonderful concert they did last year in Bratislava, Slovakia together with bass player eNni_w, from Lens Records: http://www.lensrecords.com


You will buy a zipped file, with full audio recording (it was the longest show the band did), film footage, photographs and memorabilia.


The download should be available from AUGUST 11th. More details to follow.


In the meantime, if you want to indulge, Lens has a full array of Beehatch merchandise; T Shirts, Hats, Buttons, Art-Cards and of course the CD's for sale.


http://www.lensrecords.com





"Sounds like the hatch. Hatch-esque."


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Dark Rivers
By Rapoon
Release date: 2009-05-21
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 
Beehatch - Brood (CD, Lens, Progressive/experimental)
The second full-length release from Beehatch, the duo consisting of Mark Spybey (Dead Voices on Air, Reformed Faction, Download, zoviet*france) and Phil Western (Download, Floatpoint, Kone, Plateau). We were as impressed as hell with the debut self-titled Beehatch release...and we're pleased to report that Brood is just as good or perhaps even more satisfying. The album consists mainly of experimental sound collage compositions but there are also three vocal tracks. The first ("On Ideal Wings") almost sounds as if it could have been an outtake from Brian Eno's Before and After Science album. But that's where the similarities end, as the remaining two vocal cuts ("You Read Me," "In Silence, Too Silent") feature voices drenched in so many effects that they blur into the instruments and become downright spooky. The sound collage pieces are peculiar and perplexing. Spybey and Western are both experts in the field of electronic music and, as such, the sounds they create and/or combine sound light years better than the dribble spewed out by the average generic twenty-first century computer geek. Droning, ambient sounds combine with soothing warm electronics to create a strangely inviting world where anything can happen. In addition to the vocal tracks, we particularly dig "Edison Medicine," "Du Du Horn," "Softly Said," and "Breaking Shit for Mark." Housed in a stunning white cardboard sleeve which includes four cool limited edition artcards. Truly strange stuff, recommended... (Rating: 5+++)

Baby Sue, LMNOP

http://www.lmnop.com/2009-May-LMNOP-Reviews.html#anchor62021

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Brood
By Beehatch
Release date: 2008-12-15
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSL1nXza7pM

All that binary front nation goose-stepping industrial faux glitter band 'look at me i am weird' militaria rabid rot brigade angular haircut forgot one thing... D.A.F did it with style, humour, minimal precision and with FUNK and with Conny Plank and they look as good now as they did then history lesson

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Saturday, April 11, 2009 
http://www.soleilmoon.com/press_kits/

press release, pictures and sound samples.
you can order now.


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Do You Be [VINYL]
By Meredith Monk
Release date: 1987-07-01
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 
The third Reformed Faction cd will be out on Soleilmoon Records on April 27th.
www.soleilmoon.com
Triple cd, deluxe aluminum cast box, full colour art book, patch, button and a limited edition in an even tougher box with a 3 inch cd.
Over 3 and a half hours of new music.
Pre-sales very soon.
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Brood
By Beehatch
Release date: 2008-12-15
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Monday, March 16, 2009 
And thanks for this to,
M.

http://www. heathenharvest. com/article. php?story=20090313154721164
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Monday, March 16, 2009 
Thanks for this,
M.
http://www. heathenharvest. com/article. php?story=20090313144305650
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Ain't No Saint
By John Martyn
Release date: 2008-09-01
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