Sunday, July 29, 2007


New Y.

simianmobiledisco

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Elizabeth Pictures




23 años
brighton,
Reino Unido
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Jean Cocteau




(1889-1963) Escritor, realizador de cine y pintor francés, nacido en Maisons-Laffitte (Seine-et-Oise) y fallecido en Milly-la-Forêt (Seine-et-Marne). Pocos artistas han tenido una vida tan activa y fértil como él. A comienzos del siglo XX se convirtió en la figura central de la intensa actividad artística de la capital francesa, y uno de sus más importantes trabajos fue el argumento del ballet Parade (1917), con música de Eric Satie y decorados de Picasso. El ballet causó un escándalo inmediato para gozo del artista, que siempre los buscó a través de sus obras.

Éstas parecen manifestar un universo personal y hermético, constantemente en busca de innovaciones; así, fue el pionero de las técnicas modernas del cine con filmes tales como Le sang d'un poète (1930) y Orphée (1949); sus dramas Orphée (1927) y Les parents terribles (1929), deliberadamente ostentosos, llevaban una carga ideológica; su novela Les enfants terribles (1929) escandalizó al público por sus alusiones al incesto.

A veces, incluso los delirios de sus debilidades eran utilizados en su favor, como ocurre con obras como Opium (1929), el diario de su curación de drogadicto, y con un volumen de poesías, Requiem (1962).

Carly Scott Pictures



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The Horrors

Patrick Wolf -Biography



Patrick Wolf is 23 years old and he’s been refining his talents for more than half a lifetime. It all started 12 years ago when Wolf first experimented with car boot sale keyboards and tape recorders and has resulted in one of the most startlingly original and innovative voices now emerging in English pop music.

The roots of Wolf’s music embrace everything from PJ Harvey to Stockhausen and English folk music to the legendary jazz trumpet player and singer, Chet Baker. All this started, however, with a precocious obsession in early electronic music. Indeed, Wolf was barely into his teens when he built his first Theremin, one of the earliest fully electronic musical instruments invented in 1919 by Léon Theremin.

By the time he was 14, Wolf was performing with pop-art collective Minty. He also began writing and recording with an urgency that caught the attention of an independent label called Fat Cat Records who, recognizing Wolf’s extraordinary potential, gave him an Atari computer and a mixing desk, the tools that helped hone Wolf’s unique production and programming. Stumbling across his mother's Joni Mitchell records led to another insight into the art of songwriting.

Wolf left home at the age of 16 and spent the next few years making money from busking in a string quartet and forming a group called Maison Crimineaux, a noisy and rude duo that built its destructive ethics around white noise and pop music. Fate then interceded in Wolf’s life.

Maison Crimineaux were asked to perform in Paris, a show seen by Capitol K, the man who went on to release Wolf’s debut album, ‘Lycanthropy’. The album was a chronicle of Wolf's teenage triumphs and disasters. It was not just the songwriting that set his precocious talents apart - the lush tapestry of sounds were used to astonishing effect, with Wolf’s trademark violin and baritone ukelele joined by an electronic carpet of beats and bleeps.

‘Lycanthropy’ was released on a small independent label in the summer of 2003 and was met with enormous critical acclaim. Wolf was also making guest appearances as a viola player with Chicks on Speed and The Hidden Cameras. The Cologne-based label Tomlab picked up the album for America and Europe, the start of a relationship which was to lead to Wolf’s second album, ‘Wind in the Wires’, released at the start of 2005.

While ‘Lycanthropy’ was being recorded, Wolf took a year to study composition at the Trinity College music conservatoire in London’s Greenwich, the fruits of which can be heard on ‘Wind in the Wires’, an album that received even more applause than his debut recording.

Wolf toured extensively in the UK and throughout Europe. Among his biggest fans were Bloc Party, who invited Wolf to tour with them on their 2005 autumn tour. The year culminated with Wolf’s own sell-out show at London’s Scala and his first major record deal with the Loog label.

He spent the winter recording the album in both Vienna and London, briefly previewing his new songs at a concert – called simply An Evening with Patrick Wolf – at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre in March 2006.

The new album, ‘The Magic Position’, was finished at the end of June and will be released on the 26th February 2007. The album was written, produced and arranged by Wolf and features guest performances by Marianne Faithfull and Edward Larrikin from Larrikin Love as well as contributions from, among others, members of the Symphony Orchestra of Vienna.


More Info: www.patrickwolf.com

Monday, July 23, 2007

MarcioMix and Educ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RYtI6Dy_k4
MARCIO MIX (Power Dj from Brasil)

Sunday, July 22, 2007



Baby INN THE Woods


LINK:http://rapidshare.com/files/44370607/Baby_IIN_THE_Woods_17.m4a.html

AKUFEN



MUSICAL ROOTS
?I got into music when I was very young. Even as a baby I was shakin? and singin?. At the age of five I was playing piano, and I was a guitarist for several years too. I was always in touch with music, generally speaking. I was never immersed in one specific genre, I?d an overall interest in music that spanned jazz; classical; rock; disco; funk; country; salsa; anything! When something is done well, it is fine with me. I?m a huge collector of music but again, it?s very general. I?ve got a big room at home with a huge amount of vinyl. I?m not into CDs to be honest; people give them to me but I don?t buy them. My vinyl is from literally every period of time that it has existed in. As a young kid I was heavily into classical music, from the age of five until now - I still appreciate it ? I?ve loved it. I?m also a real fan of crooners like Tom Jones, Sinatra, and these guys. The Beatles were a huge influence in my teen years, and around 14 I discovered electronic music through Kraftwerk. I was always into contemporary composers like Steve Reich, Boulez, and many others. I studied a bit of theory and practise, but my ear was pretty good and I tended to be lazy on theory. I gave up.

FIRST PROJECTS
?It was always clear in my mind that I wanted to make music all the time. I started to make a living from it four years ago, around the time of the first Mutek festival, but before that I was always working in the direction of making this my life. I wasn?t bothered about making a lot of money, but I wanted to have regular income, pay my rent, pay my bills. I don?t have to focus in anything except music now, and I feel very privileged. My very first official project was 1995?s Noiz Slack-r, a very experimental project in the vein of Aphex Twin, or Alec Empire. These people are the foundations of my style; I was mainly working in an experimental way, trying to find new approaches and ideas. Then the whole house thing happened to me, I would say, by mistake. I was caught by my own trick. When I started making house in 1996 or 1997, it was more as a joke. A friend of mine and myself did a project ? we got the title, Juice Box, from a porno movie that we picked at random from a magazine ? and I found that I really liked the rhythm, I loved the shuffle, and it gave me a refreshing alternative to redundant techno music.?

THE FUTURE
?Right now I?m focused on getting the next album together and looking for the right label to release it on; it?s on its way, My ideas are down, and I?m going to make a record with a few dance pieces but less so than the first one. It?s going to be more eclectic, more downtempo, more loungey and experimental. I just want to go off. I want to treat myself a bit. I think I can afford now to go a little further, take some risks. When you start you have to be a bit careful. You can?t do everything that you want to. I can permit myself to have a bit of an extravaganza now. I?m also keeping busy with my new label Musique Risqu�e. I set it up, with my pal Vincent Lemieux, to support our community and also help bring up new artists that we?re really into ? Stephen Beaupr�, Atom Heart, The Rip Off Artist and Philippe Cam are all scheduled for releases this year.?

THE MIX
?I always loved a certain level of risk taking when it comes to my DJ mixing. Marrying the most awkward music together often turns out to be crazy and sexy. And I strongly believe that if it’s done right, it’ll compliment the artists work while challenging the listener’s mind. It’s all a matter of momentum, like time does not exist anymore. Ninety percent of the people on this CD are close friends of mine. Right from the beginning my goal was to put as many of those people on this record. My manager said ?You can?t please everyone, you?re going to have one hell of a time fitting all of those people on there,? but I thought I had to try. I think I found a way. It took me God knows how many hours before I thought I had it right. I really wanted to find the perfect combination between all those musicians. I don?t like people that mix in and out, fade in and out. You have to create a special environment by having two tracks in the mix together for as long as possible.


Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/17356380/Akufen_-_Live_at_5DaysOff_14.07.2005-stream-Rai-part1.mp3

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Hearts – The Royal Wedding


Room Info
Feeling special. Container came up with a royal theme for their four rooms: “to emphasise the feeling of being special that one gets when one stays in a hotel”, and they also based them on the four suites in a pack of cards. Room 502 is hearts: “The Honeymoon Suite – honesty and true love are the heartbeat of this room; fusing opulent fabrics with romantic accessories; a homage to the romance of a royal wedding. Perfect for sleeping for a hundred years before being woken with a kiss...”
Artist Info
Container – United Kingdom: The illustrations of the London designers Nicola Carter and Luise Vormittag who call themselves “Container” are playful, romantic and atmospheric. Their collaged collaborations of photographs and ink drawing are very three-dimensional in that they “grow” across floors and walls like multi-dimensional fairy tales that have escaped from their books. Container have published in magazines such as Elle and The Face and their first interior designs were for the London department store Selfridges.
www.container.me.uk

King Albino Room


Room INfo
Comfort. For Friendswithyou the whole process was an “enchanting experiment” in maintaining the functionality of a room whilst creating a whole new world inside it: “Welcome to the magical world of Friendswithyou, we are delighted to have you as our guest and will make your stay an adventure. Rest comfortably inside the lurking jaws of his majesty King Albino and realize that you are safe as a fluffy cloud. Here is a place to harness good energy, regain your youthfulness and rest blissfully.”


Friendswithyou – U.S.A.: Sam and Tury may be based in Miami in the U.S. but the strange worlds that they create between themselves are way out there in another dimension. Their modest mission is to: “spread an intelligent look at the world through the eyes of a magical, whimsical, childlike magic”. When not otherwise occupied in creating their “Malfis” – a bizarre take on the cuddly toy concept – they are to be found making videos, installations, paintings and animation films for the likes of Nikelab, Sony and MTV.
www.friendswithyou.com

Ecstasy


Room Info
Spacing out. Interact describes his room designs as being “like a flip book in motion”. He was interested in “feeling the space” rather than just coming up with paintings for the walls.
“…And heavy-hooded eyes inside her black hair / Shined at me from the depths of her hair deepest black / While my fingers pushed into her straight black hair / Pulling her black hair back from her happy heart-shaped face…” Nick Cave


WK interact – France: The French-born artist WK interact has lived in NYC for the last 15 years and has decorated whole tracts of the city’s SoHo district with his dynamic and energetic imagery. But his black and white speeding figures simply do not allow themselves to be tied down to one place: they are permanently on the move; pushing, stumbling and running through the sprawling metropolis. This dynamic energy is also reflected in WK interact’s commissioned work for the likes of Adidas, BMW, Yamaha and Burton.
www.wkinteract.com

Sleep Well



Fun. Geneviève found herself working on interiors for the first time with the Hotel FOX. She loved the freedom of the project because she got the opportunity “to control everything; walls, floor – you’re the boss! It’s just your stuff and nothing else: No logo and no barcode to add! The glorious, technicolor-dream-coat room where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies.”


Geneviève Gauckler – France: Gauckler’s realm is the “magical” side of graphics software, she creates colourful, collaged, kaleidoscopic mandala-like worlds defined by computer graphics. Gauckler works mainly alone but is not averse to collaborative projects now and again. She started out designing LP covers before moving on to videos, advertising and web projects. Her clients range from the Parisian store Colette to Publicis and Virgin as well as BeauxArts Magazine, Mass Appeal, Mixte and Lab Magazine.
www.g2works.com

Hotel FOX

For the launch of the new Volkswagen Fox 21 international artists from the fields of graphic design, urban art and illustration turned Hotel Fox in central Copenhagen, into the world’s most exciting and creative lifestyle hotel.

61 rooms, 21 artist, 1,000 ideas
Each room is an individual piece of art. From whacky comical styles to strict graphic design. From fantastic street art and Japanese Manga to simply spaced out fantasies. You will find flowers, fairytales, friendly monsters, dreaming creatures, secrets vaults and…

Come by, check in and discover our spaces.

One thing we promise: You haven't seen anything like it.

www.hotelfox.dk ---enjoy more rooms at this site---

ADA




Like Areal in general, Ada’s music sounds fresh and oozes a contemporary Cologne sheen but it’s also warm and endearingly retro in its embrace of timeless song structures and analog tools. One of Blondie’s many peaks is ?Each And Everyone (Blindhouse?Mix)? which overlays the heavenly ?Blindhouse? core of skipping beats and harpsichord tinkles with a crooned melody so deliciously forlorn it’s simultaneously heartbreaking and transcendent. Blondie also includes an inspired rendition of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ ?Maps? with an affectingly silky vocal from Ada couched in chiming synths and simple beats. From the hard careening techno of ?Our Love Never Dies? to the Kompakt-styled shuffle of ?The Red Shoes? to the Deep House flavorings of ?Livedriver,? the album marvelously straddles techno and pop with seeming ease, never venturing too far into one without returning to the other. Certainly many of the album’s tracks are rooted in techno yet, always changing, they never devolve into run-on grooves (the best example of this mercurial approach might be the opener ?Eve?); in fact, her original idea of an album filled with short, three-minute songs was abandoned when Areal pushed her to develop them into longer, eight-minute tracks. ?I think that most of all I was and still am influenced by pop-music of all kinds. I used to think that a song couldn’t work if it was over three minutes long but I don’t believe that anymore. Even so, what remains of that original idea is my need for a lot of movement, and maybe that’s why they sound more like songs than tracks.?

http://rapidshare.com/files/11268487/ada_live-at-oslo_club_detroit_29.07.2006_ump3.de.mp3