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OPN3 Introduxxxions: Horacio Pollard

Horacio Pollard was born in Ibiza in the summer of 1981, he moved to the UK when he was 5 years old, went to college 2001 and it was there that he met Richard Harrison (aka Badboy, Rupert murder, Animal fact) & started to experiment with noise with their project Doggs. He has made many releases all of which vary greatly ie. drum machine industrial kinda stuff to more avant noise freak out jobbies.

He is half of weirdo pop noise outfit 55 blues, and guitarist in outdoor phenomena cau_cational betreet plus countless other one-off projects. His label Neigh Music is constantly releasing interesting unique stuff and he is currently developing a recording studio in East London, Iceni Village, which will be a dedicated noise recording ‘plaza’.

and he makes videooooooooooos:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvvGfRRoKRM]

By Steffan | May 24, 2009 | live gigs |

OPN3 Introduxxxions: Blue Shift

Behind Blue Shift goes one Cybele Collins from Providence, Rhode Island in the USA, who plays the violin as if  it was part of the rite of Exorcism: stomping her feet and making the instrument scream, sigh  and howl. Wim “Mangenerated” van Gelder made a great documentary on her. It’ll tell you more than our silly words.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gezrpEl71wc]

By Steffan | May 22, 2009 | live gigs |

OPN3 Introduxxxions: Kakawaka

Yay! Optimus Prime 3 is coming up on the 12th of June! Another night of howling noise mayhem from allmost all over the world. If we’re not too lazy (or too busy with “organizing”) we’ll try to post some info about every act every day. And today we start off with Germany’s noise clown Kakawaka!

Christoph Petermann is his real name and as Kakawaka he has set the standard for the so-called Krovastyle. Chewing and re-chewing the grassroots of noise? We dunno. Mostly to be seen running around with a big fork and dressed in fashionable yellow, trying to scare the shit out of people. You’ll love him!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5UBN9mdAUQ]

By Steffan | May 19, 2009 | live gigs |

Japanese iPhone mania in Seoul

Almost four months ago I swapped Tilburg for Seoul, South-Korea. It’s not number one noise city, but for those who think nothing is happening here: you couldn’t be more wrong. Two weeks after my arrival for the first time I was playing in Yogiga, a underground (literally) expressionist gallery which is THE place for experimental music. Every last sunday of the month there’s a night (afternoon actually) called Bulgasari. Locals as the Japanese Seoul-resident Sato Yukie (you might have seen him around Europe last year) are playing every time among lot’s of Americans, Japanese and so now and then other foreign artists. The whole thing actually feels like being at a Vatican Analog night.

Yesterday there were some good artists, but especially the Japanese media-artist Masayuki Akamatsu was a pleasant surprise. He showed up with twenty (20) iPhones and a laptop. He made two circles of the iPhones, connected them on a wi-fi network and controlled the settings of the devices from his laptop. The sound is generated by his application at his laptop and/or touching the screens of the iPhones. From beautiful melody’s to cacophonic noise; everything is possible. Akamatsu – professor at the university of media arts in Japan specialized in iPhone applications – didn’t really turn out to be a great musician nor noiseartist though. It all sounded pretty random,but well, impress people by showing off (wheter that’s stuff or appearance) most of the time will to the job . So for those with a better sense for music or noise: save some money and buy 20 iPhones (hint: Akamatsu made a rental deal). And in case you are in Seoul too: this week he will give lectures in Soongsil University.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy4tO8iuhkE&hl=nl&fs=1]

By Bas Verbeek | April 27, 2009 | Uncategorized |

CHORA opening for SONIC YOUTH at the London Scala tomorrow

Chora

Chora

Earlier this month, we organized a triple droner at 013 with UK’s Lanterns, Helhesten and Chora. The latter is opening up for Sonic Youth tomorrow at the London Scala. Tickets already sold out and if you weren’t at our party… well, too bad! But future opportunities will arise at the horizon where their massive slabs of psychedelic chaos will take you once again on an amazing and at points frightening kaleidoscopic journey!

By Steffan | April 26, 2009 | live gigs |

some pics of the SPOONO and CAM DEAS gig

As expected, it wasn’t a huge crowd that exchanged the amplified mayhem of Roadburn for some acoustic guitar picking at my place, but it was a successful evening nonetheless. Both SPOONO and CAM DEAS left behind a pleased crowd and I’m thinking about organizing these kind of intimate concerts more often in the future. Below some pics to give you an impression.

Cam Deas

Cam Deas

 

 

Cam Deas

Cam Deas

 

 

Spoono

Spoono

 

 

Spoono

Spoono

By Steffan | April 26, 2009 | live gigs |

Tonight: guitars and 8bit polkaaa

Besides the livingroomconcert at Staplerfahrers (wanna come, mail sdeturck@home.nl) Wouter (Franz Fjödor) will dj tonight at Hall of Fame in Tilburg as DJ Das Gezicht. He will spin some 8 bit gabba gabba and techno records. Be there!


VR. 24 APR ———-
SPINDEMTUNES # 4
DAS GEZICHT | KIJK EEN STER | NYSTAGMUS
notitie: vince the prince = cancelled
vervanger: das gezicht [8bit polka]
dj party/beats/8bit polka/bass/electro/hiphop
CTRL-Z | 21:30 – 01:00 | € vrijwillige bijdrage

By Vatican Analog | April 24, 2009 | Uncategorized |

OPTIMUS PRIME NOISEFEST!

Hey everybody,

Your favorite organisers from Tilburg, Holland are back in business. This June (12th/13th/14th) we are organising the 3rd OPTIMUS PRIME NOISEFEST here in our beautiful town. Last time we did a festival of one day with around 30 acts and this time we want to at least triple that amount of acts, so we made it into a three day festival. You wanna come and play?

The rules:
– every act plays 12 minutes.
– we want noisemusic, so no ambient, electro or industrial: noise is noise.
– don’t expect much moneywise, we don’t get funding, it’s DIY all the way, but we give gasmoney to the travellers.
– local acts play for free
– we try to provide every foreign act with a sleepingplace (but please take a sleepingbag / matress with you)

Further:
No guestlist, no presslist, no ego’s, only noise for the masses!

Still wanna come and play (you should): send an email to wouterjaspers@gmail.com
More info on the previous OPTIMUS PRIME NOISEFEST:

youtube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_t … EFEST&aq=f

Acts performing on the last Optimus Prime Noisefests:

Kasper van Hoek(NL), Mental Heart Fix (NL), RA-X (NL), Abso lut, Bart Hard (NL), Bitter, Diskoster (be), Doornen & Terg (NL), Ero Babaa (fr), Fckn Bstrds(NL), Gays With Machines ft. Gay – Z (nl/uk), Hybrid Packaging(NL), Levi van Huijgevoort(NL), Pentothal (r) (be), Pu:ppkakkbaggrlull (NL), Staplerfahrer(NL), Sten Ove Toft (no), Strom Varx (fra), Vomir (fra) Kirdec (BE), Rossa Merda (UK), Rinus van Alebeek (DE/NL), Grieffer (CA), NxFxTxEx (DK), Zyrtax (NL), Brutophilia (CA), Seppuku + Mutant Ape (UK), Bas Verbeek (NL), Shortlife (FRA), Gokkuchan (BU), Raaskalbomfukkerz (NL), Portable Noise Kremator (BE), Belch (NL), Antoine Chessex (CH), Monopolka (RU), Bucketovscissors (DE), Pupp:kakkbaggrlull (NL), No John (BE), NIHIL IS ME (IT), Neurobit (NL), Peter Quistgard (NL), Man Manly (DE), Androgene Collective (NL), Impostor (BE), Penthotal® (FR), Laffe Mietjes (NL), Bram Stadhouders (NL), Solar Skeletons (BE)

By Vatican Analog | April 24, 2009 | live gigs |

for those who not only want to go to Roadburn this friday…

Fusing the intricate guitar magic of John Fahey with the beauty of Debussy. Next Friday, Spoono and Cam Deas from the UK will showcase their impressive technique mixed with cascades of echo and haze in the intimate setting of a living room concert. Come on over and allow yourself to let the mesmerizing sounds captivate you.

Cam Deas

Cam Deas

 

Spoono is 24-year old guitarist Jack Allett (who is also half of Towering Breaker), who takes the Takoma School of John Fahey, Robbie Basho et al. as the starting point for his compositions and improvisations, and goes on to incorporate psychedelia, neoclassicism, minimalism, jazz and more into his unique take on modern folk/blues fingerpicking. He has a new album out on Blackest Rainbow Records.

http://www.myspace.com/spoonowoolfe


Since the dissolution of his previous band, Cameron Deas started a solo career under the name Cam Deas. He has released various EPs under the record labels Blackest Rainbow, Dead Pilot, Dirty Demos and others. Deas plays the guitar, and notably the 12 String Guitar. His music is a mix of acoustic and electronic sounds, which “conjures up an air of ancient smoke-wreathed ritual with ghostly moans and 12 string acoustic guitar ragas that disappear into cascades of echo, haze and distortion.”

http://www.myspace.com/camdeasmusic

more info: sdeturck@home.nl

 

 

 

By Steffan | April 20, 2009 | live gigs |