17 /
February
HALLO GALLO DANCE NIGHT
YELLOW GALACTIC HUMAN (live)
HAKKI TAKKI (live)
BABA ELECTRONICA
DJ BORIS BECKER
DJ LONELY
SNOID
COSMO KNEX
+ live video mixture
Benefit Night for the SOTU FESTIVAL, happening
on 11-13 May at OCCII, Vondelbunker & OT301!!!
HAKKI TAKKI
DJ BORIS BECKER
DJ LONELY & BABA ELECTRONICA
YELLOW GALACTIC HUMAN
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€5 Doors open 22:00 - 3:00
18 /
February
KETACORE Presents: KARNAVAL MET EEN K!
Karnaval is the name of a music style and cultural movement originated in the south of The Netherlands. The spelling of the word Karnaval is made to deliberately differentiate the musical style from that of Carnaval.
A complete history is made difficult by the underground nature of the movement, but a few facts are clear: In the early 2000s a group of young people gets more and more appalled by the increasingly commercial character of the Dutch Carnaval, and its lack of musical progress. As a DIY alternative, they start creating new music themselves, using computer software and cowbells. Still drawing inspiration from the hoempapa, they manage to incorporate elements from popular electronical music.
Karnaval sound systems form in loose collectives, frequently with anarchist philosophies. They rebel against the church's incorporation of the originally pagan Carnaval festivities. These sound systems join together to hold parties wherever a viable space can be found - typical locations include squatted old farms, bruine kroegen (brown pubs), fields and any other rural spaces. Because Karnaval parties are usually held illegally, this sometimes leads to clashes with the police, as was the case at both the 2004 and 2005 Oeteltek festivals.
Now for the first time in history, some of the originators of the Karnaval movement will come to the surface. Especially for you, they will play their music in one of the biggest commercial venues in Amsterdam, on a party organised by the leading dance promoters of The Netherlands.
History will be made. Don't miss it.
LINE UP:
Bart Hard + De Consument
Dr. Bibber
Meow Meow + Jefflocks
E(')de DJ Team
141 + Shisha
B82 + Baron Staalhard
Capslock
Music will be strictly KarnaKore, JungleSlager, DweilNoise and Breezahlectro!
Come Dressed Up and Get A Free CD!
CAPSLOCK
DR. BIBBER
BART HARD + DE CONSUMENT
MEOW MEOW + JEFFLOCKS
E(')de DJ Team
141 + SHISHA
B82 + BARON STAALHARD
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€5 Doors open 22:00 - 4:00
19 /
February
IN OK/OUT KO!
IAN NAGOSKI + THE FAMILY ELAN + REBETIKA (Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides)
Ian Nagoski will play and discuss a selection of tracks from the collection and relate stories of migration, the embryonic record pressing industry, cultural dispersal and interweaving – he’s delivered several such presentations in the US, where the musical mix of deep contemplation, utter tragedy, blazing jams and some hilarity has left deep impressions on his audiences.
Nagoski’s playback and discussion will be followed by the arrival on stage of The Family Elan, the ongoing project of renowned multi-instrumentalist Chris Hladowski, who you’ll also know from his work with A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Nalle and The One Ensemble.
Delving into the same mine of influence as To What Strange Place, and dipping musical toes in Uzbekistan, Eastern Europe and elsewhere, the current formation of The Family Elan as bouzouki/bass/percussion power trio has inspired involuntary dervishes in audiences across Europe on recent tour dates and will no doubt do the same on this tour.
”Comparisons with Harry Smith’s anthology or Revenant’s American Primitive are in order, not least because this is American music with a capital A, animated by the same feelings of desperation, nostalgia, the quest for cheap kicks and the agony of loss. Like Smith, Nagoski is a Walter Benjamin visionary, using his collection of 78s to hallucinate a history that actually happened but which remains hidden beneath official dogma and nationalisms.” -The Wire, August 2011
”I was entranced; I was FASCINATED. It is one of the most worthwhile purchases you will make this year. I went and got mine; I think you should, too.” - Henry Rollins, KCRW
“Ian Nagoski’s To What Strange Place is a work of great beauty.” - Jace Clayton / DJ/rupture, WFMU
“It feels as essential to an understanding of American music as anything else.” - Pitchfork
IAN NAGOSKI
REBETIKA
THE FAMILY ELAN
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€7 Doors open 20:00 -
23 /
February
MKM!
DAGORA and MIK QUANTIUS vinyl albums release party!
Both Mik Quantius and Dagora will present their latest vinyl lp's tonight.
Mik's first solo album, and Dagora's first double LP. released by Toztizok Zoundz from amsterdam.
For this special occasion Mik and Dagora put together an amazing experimental big band consisting of: Mik Quantius, (vocals), PQ (synths and fx's), Stephen (drums/percussion), Roro (drums/percussion), Yedo Gibson (reeds), Thale (guitar), Stijn van Beek (bagpipes)
SINDRE BJERGA
has been touring the UK every October for the last 5 years, as well as mainland Europe and even Russia and the Ukraine, with his cassette player drones and kitchen sink psychedelia... Splattering collisions between grey and grey, beware of drone fumes seeping into your brains... Armed with an array of tape players, dictaphones and a pile of less-than-glamourous sound debris from the sonic junkyards, he tries to juxtapose and melt sound ghosts hidden deep in the molten magnetic tapes, sometimes force feeding them with sheets of feedback from dying amps, always aiming for that mind-altering head trip...
Sindre has been recording and playing over 70 concerts together with Jan Iversen as the Bjerga/Iversen duo.
Has released about 100 records, solo, duo and in other constellations on labels all over the known universe.
Lately most of his records have been live recordings from his many concerts and tours around Europe.
ANDREW PERRY
has had no idea what he’s been doing for a very long time. Distorted guitar, keyboard and voice in a democracy of the loudest. Has a past in UK drone metal troupe Sunshine Republic, as a well as a (un)healthy interest in most things fuzz and metal.. oh and Belgian beer..
Runs the small label with the great name "We're gonna get fucking drunk tonight boys"
ORPHAX
By the end of this month there will be a new release out by Orphax, his first proper CD called “De Tragedie van een Liedjesschrijver Zonder Woorden”. On the CD will be 6 new pieces mastered by Jos Smolders at EARLabs
STAPLERFAHRER
is the artistic moniker for Steffan de Turck, a Dutch sound artist from Tilburg in the Netherlands, who plays around with crunched and broken sounds, circuit bended gadgetry and electro-magnetic waves… and some weightlifting with powerbooks along the way.
DAGORA w/ MIK QUANTIUS
ORPHAX
STAPLERFAHRER
ANDREW PERRY
SINDRE BJERGA
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€5 Doors open 20:00 -
24 /
February
SWIMMING CITY!
Zea (Amsterdam)
Release of new 7inch by Zea together with Xavier Charles on clarinet. Sounds like children songs, sirens and Ghanian funeral music. The unique Zea style with the wonderful clarinet parts of Xavier Charles.
Xavier Charles (Chalons en Champagne, France)
Birds and park sounds--faint voices, water maybe, calm traffic, softly rumbling engines are treated into held, subdued multiphonics: Xavier Charles always manages to wring something new out of his clarinet. Also known for playing very beautiful with The Ex and Getatchew Mekuria.
Smack Wizards (Glasgow, Schotland)
I saw a fantastic band at Nice n Sleazy in Glasgow last week, named Smack Wizards. What I loved about them was their completely uncompromising approach. They played a set of short instrumentals, guitar and bass overdriven to the max and feeding back but in a really controlled and beautiful way. Young (18ish?) 3 piece with brutal tribal beat female drummer, all sheepish grins and check shirts, watched by 12 friends. I have not seen a band that wrong footed me so much for years-even the alleged underground bands now are sickeningly tame.
Smack Wizards come from the Glasgow DIY music collective ?Winning Sperm Party? in Scotland.
Coma Stereo (Maribor, Slovenia)
Dark blend of live ambiental electronica and guitar driven songs. Takes inspiration from science fiction movies, early Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth and Tangerine Dream. Slavoj Zizek?s favorite backing band.
Oscar Jan Hoogland (Amsterdam)
Improviser, pianist, composer who is working actively in the field of both music and dance improvisation in Amsterdam with an itch to make music that cuts across genres, who does not take himself so seriously, but whose whimsical music has real bite and brainpower.
DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess (Amsterdam)
DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess is a resident DJ in amongst others Vienna, Hamburg and Berlin, but tonight the Amsterdam based DJ plays for the first time in a long time in her native country. Later this year she will release her third double vinyl album on the German Klangbad label, now she plays on three turntables (often simultaneously) vinyl from all over the world, from UK Funky to soukous, from cutting edge electronics to cumbia and from raw techno to feminist postpunk. `Marcelle transforms everyone´s idea of how to dance and feel great´ was written about her in New York. Let you take on a journey you couldn´t imagine that it existed!
ZEA
XAVIER CHARLES
OSCAR JAN HOOGLAND
COMA STEREO
SMACK WIZARDS
DJ MARCELLE (ANOTHER NICE MESS)
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€7 Doors open 21:00 -
25 /
February
REBEL UP! Soundclash
GLOBAL PSYCHE NIGHT
Arrington de Dionyso (US)
(ex Old Time Relijun) "trans-utopian throatsinging, bass clarinet, inspired by Indonesian trance music"
Lowdjo (BE)
eclectic global dj from Brussels who will play a fine selection of original thai funk & turkish psyche records and ethnical bass.
Rebel Up! crew
as always, electical ethnic and everything inbetween to make you listen & dance.
Rebel Up! Soundclash is a party/fundraiser night in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Brussels. Since 2007, We play rougher sounds & visuals from the global underground, a culture mash of multi global styles like global bass, etnographical acoustics, latino cuts, mestiza beats, gypsy funk, straight-up old skool roots, arabic roughness, amplified african rhythms, asian psychedelica and gritty electronics, anything global goes!
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO
DJ LOWDJO
REBEL UP! DJ'S
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€5 Doors open 22:30 - 4:00
26 /
February
A/V CLUB
BODY / HEAD (US)
KIM GORDON (Sonic Youth) & BILL NACE (Vampire Belt, Northhampton Wools, Ceylon Mange...)
Kim Gordon’s side project Body/Head, a duo with electric guitar wizard Bill Nace.
Body/Head (Kim Gordon and Bill Nace) have a new track on FEVER compilation LP (Ultra Eczema).
You can listen to it here: http://ultraeczema.com/releases/
Sonic Youth-boegbeeld, uberbassiste en stijlicoon Kim Gordon. Ze brengt voor de gelegenheid gitarist Bill Nace (Vampire Belt, Northampton Wools, X.O.4...) mee, een van de spilfiguren uit de Northampton, Massachusetts noisescene. Samen vormen ze het noisecombo Body/Head. Recent nog verscheen er een pittige No Wave-versie van de klassieker ‘Fever’ op de Fever Compilation-LP van het Belgische Ultra Eczema-label en liet Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace-label de ultra gelimiteerde cassette ‘Fractured Orgasm’ op ons los.
Vom Grill (Antwerpen, ultra eczema)
Dennis Tyfus - visual artist, purveyor of free noises, throat singer, heir of the Nordic/Belgian outsider tradition and one man driving force behind Ultra Eczema’s vast catalogue of avant-garde sound, books, screenprints and archival off-the-radar gems. His own performances can include a variety of animal noises, vocal grind, analogue synth shrieks, electrified rales and more.
+ new live video performance from Emile Zile (Aus)
BODY/HEAD
VOM GRILL
EMILE ZILE
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€7 Doors open 20:00 -
02 /
March
Radio Resistencia live
Live edition of Radio Resistencia radio show. This radio show is broadcasted every first monday of the month on Intergalatic FM, the platform of elektro producer I-F.
This is going to be a night with elektro and other electronic music. Live on stage will be Cute Heels and Sololust. Cute Heels was called ‘the new blood and spirit for the next step in techno music’ by elektro/techno
pioneer Juan Atkins. Sololust is the elektro talent from Utrecht. Sometimes pumping and sometimes with a good sense for detail, and sometimes both of this.
Radio Resistencia dj’s M. (Enfant Terrible) and Alacidus will spin some records before, in between and after the live acts.. Elektro, new beat, new wave, neo italo, old ebm and other elektronic tunes will be served.
CUTE HEELS
SOLOLUST
Radio Resistencia dj’s M. & Alacidus
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€5 Doors open 22:00 -
09 /
March
AMSTERDOOM GRINDCORE BASSTARDS!
AGATHOCLES
MATKA TERESA
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Doors open 21:00 -
10 /
March
Bassculture Miaaauw Soundz III
Reggae - Roots Steppa - Digi Dub - Miscellanneous
-w/
Live:
SOLO BANTON (UK)
+
Bassculture Family Band
Daniele Labbate – Bassguitar
Luis Ruben Diaz – Drum
Erno Klein - Keyboard
Bredda Marcus - Vocal
Rebecca Waller (uk) – Electric Violin
Malorix - 12" release special
Dj Kultur_M
Selektor Depender
Piss & Laugh TV - Visuals
SOLO BANTON
MALORIX
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€7 Doors open 22:00 - 4:00
19 /
March
IN O.K./OUT K.O
BLURT
"PUPPETEERS OF THE WORLD UNITE" TOUR (PART ONE)
Ted Milton was a puppeteer before he founded BLURT. "Puppeteers Of The World, Unite!" was the first song he wrote & recorded - it was released by Factory Records on The Factory Quartet double album in 1980, then again the following year on the concert recording "Blurt In Berlin", & then reissued last year on the Fac Dance compilation...
Ted Milton will begin each show on this tour with a short "puppet" performance to introduce this song - BLURT will then play material from its earliest back catalogue right up to its most recent work - including the as-yet unreleased "Vous Etes Ici" written with Graham Lewis (Wire) - (the first performance of this song can be seen on utube under "Blurt At The Macbeth)...
BLURT today is Ted Milton vcls/sax Steve Eagles gtr David Aylward drums
BLURT
KANIPCHEN-FIT
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€6 Doors open 20:30 -