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King Deluxe – Year Two

10 December 2012

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Canadian label & collective King Deluxe (home of highly talented individuals such as Fancy Mike or the experimental R&B project EVY JANE) have survived another year in this extremely competitive world of independent labels and self-produced DIY projects. A second year they’re willing to celebrate with the release of a new birthday album, this year freely downloadable to everyone.

The net-label run by Peter Krahn in British Columbia has concentrated quite a unique list of artists from all around the world and while most of their releases are distributed for free, this past year we saw their first vinyl release and the digital distribution of some of their most popular artists.

Year 2 cover. Artwork by HR-FM (clip animated by Henning M. Lederer)

On top of this great compilation this past week we also got the official clip of Almandine’s catchy Fade Away, which also happens to be included in Year Two.

SET ONE

1. Option Command – 3000 Clones
2. Julien Mier – Glorious Pencil Drops
3. Aleph – Melt of Time (Limonious Remix)
4. Calvin Cardioid – Phoneline
5. Alphabets Heaven – Hands Up
6. Alphabets Heaven – Soul Dancing (Jacob 2-2 Remix)
7. Almandine – Fade Away
8. Alphabets Heaven – Darma (Kwala’s Headshotboyz Reremix)
9. Julien Mier – Glide, Sail, Float (Ft. Myrthe van de Weetering)(Kit Downes Remix)
10. Aleph – Messa (a-moll)

SET TWO

1. Fancy Mike – Actress
2. Muta – Movie Hour
3. Aleph – Omerta (22:22 Remix)
4. A Thousand Years – Bake Take (Mouch Remix)
5. A Thousand Years – Where I Wanna Be (Allmostt Remix)
6. Calvin Cardioid – Lullaby For A Nameless Creature (HISTIBE Remix)
7. Almandine – Fade Away (Das Robbie Remix)
8. A Thousand Years – Wheel of Fortune
9. Fancy Mike – Superman (S-2 Remix)

Teleglitch

9 December 2012

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Like Joseph Berstein reports on KS, it is a discovery indeed. After 3 years in the making and a highly praised public beta last October, the team @ Teleglitch finally released their dark sci-fi story a couple of weeks ago…

Johann, Mihkel & Edvin have managed to come up with this top-down shooter which shall teleport all of us into the future of humanity, you know… one of those cold worlds where big bad corporations control our world and exploit most human beings.

In Teleglitch that big bad corp is called Miliary Technology Incorporated (aka Militech), who happen to be specialized in necrotic tissue reactivation and nonhuman combatants (zombies, cloned battle organisms, robots etc) and have one of those outer space colonies where they experiment with forbidden things, and logically, things go bad …. and you have to survive.

And while the story may not seem like a novelty… the gameplay and variety of choices throughout the 10 randomly-generated maps is extremely fun, so besides being able to download the demo for free with the first 4 levels, there’s a much juicier option to get the last other 6… and that’s to pay 10€. More info this way.

PIARS opens first edition

9 December 2012

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New sound art contest from the Italian lands of Rome which opened its doors for applicants just a few days ago in what they’re calling PIARS (Premio Internazionale Arti Sonore, aka Int. Sonic Arts Award).

A few Italian cultural associations (SoundEX and moorroom amongst a few others) are collaborating together in this award aimed at the production and promotion of sonic arts at an international level.

A first edition structured in 4 main categories each giving the possibility to earn a 500€ cash prize and in addition there will be a LABEL PRIZE: the FRATTO9 record company will select one artist from the shortlist to release a CD on their label. So what about those 4 categories?

Starting with “Sound Art” (for sonic installation pieces, including multi-channel work, followed by “Experimental Music” (pieces that must not exceed a maximum duration of 10 min and includes works of all kind of sonic research including improvisation on acoustic instruments, electronic instruments, live electronics and computers. Then we have “Acousmatic Music” (for sound compositions in digital form or on magnetic tape which have been composed in the studio and played through speakers without the intervention of live musicians. And finally what they’re calling “Soundscapes” (for compositions which use sound recordings created through the editing, mixing and processing of the environmental sound source).

Submissions are open until January 31st and winners will be announced next May, and while having a registration fee (int his case 25€) could be an obstacle especially for young artists, this kind of contests are always welcome. More information on their webpage and facebook page.

Holy Mountain

9 December 2012

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Earlier this week Stockholm psychedelic rock band “Kriget” released their first North American single “Holy Mountain” b/w “Aghori Diet”, a new demonstration of the increasing musical soundness this experimental (and extremely prolific) trio have put together for their album Dystopico.

If a few days ago that Moley Talhaoui-directed the clip for the extended version of their “Don’t worry it will be over soon”, The Control Group are releasing this week the digital single HM, with a physical 7″ scheduled to hit in January.

Christoffer, Gustav and Per is part of INGRID, a swedish indie artist collective based in Stockholm that has released albums with El Perro del Mar and Peter Morén from Peter, Bjorn and John …. and a large etc. and hopefully their infernal description of society will come ouf of Sweden for a European tour soon enough.

Spamm arrives to ARTE

4 December 2012

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ARTE Creative, that sort of facebook for artists (well, that would imply the negative aspects of FB so let’s omit this comparison), or more like the French equivalent of Behance network oriented towards French & German artists just announced yesterday the creation of their mini-website Spamm.Arte.Tv.

Built as a collaboration between SuPer Art Modern Museum & ARTE, Spamm.arte.tv is willing to showcase each quarter the works from 15 artists (Maurice Benayoun, Systaime, Claude Closky, Grégory Chatonsky…).

SPAMM 1.1 is the just inaugurated first exhibition comissioned by the team @ Spamm themselves and titled “The Vanity of the world”, throwing a small but loud critic to the ordinary art world vanity and their “supra&super” claims mixing contemporary pop iconography with showbusiness and new media.

15 artists to keep an eye on? We don’t know, but some of those ideas worth being reproduced over and over again. Visit them this way.

Fractura - Françoise Gamma - Gif — Fractura – Françoise Gamma – Gif

Little Big Books

4 December 2012

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Some books shouldn’t be cataloged as children’s books. This is the case of Little Big Books, some sort of compilation with some of the best contemporary children book illustrators… but what some editors don’t understand is that usually it appeals elders just as much (they are the purchase decision makers after all).

Little Big Books side (image via Gestalten)

Gestalten’s latest jewel is willing to vindicate the picture book as a “key element of the cultural fabric of any society”. They are way too right. Upon some of our recent interviews with generation Y artists we repeatedly ask the artists about their point of view on the younger hyper-connected generations who didn’t know what it was like before the Internet. Will they ever appreciate what an illustration book is without coming back to the home screen?

And the thing is that books like LBB are still very appealing to everyone.

LBB is a book about books, about children’s books, their makers, authors, writers… and their readers. “LBB includes interviews with experts about the educational aspects, make-up, and psychology of children’s picture books as well as the significance of children’s book awards and practical advice on publishing rights and licensing”.

LittleBigBooks Page 2 (image via Gestalten) — Little Big Books Page 2 (image via Gestalten)

Certainly not your average children illustration book… and that’s translated within the price (39€), but you’ll have to admit that a compilation of such captivating artists is not that usual either. More info & illustrations this way.

LittleBigBooks Page 1 (image via Gestalten) — LBB Page 1 (image via Gestalten)

THE OFFICIAL trailer

3 December 2012

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There is a lot about The Official which makes it an extremely appealing game. Not only because of its paranoiac script, or because of all those subtle subliminal stimuli, but because like any other unreleased game (especially the ones that never make it after the announcement) it’s generating some decent hype during this “teasing” phase without even having a playable demo.

THE OFFICIAL (aka Tymon Zgainski‘s own personal paranoia), conceived as first-person adventure game, just got its first trailer release a few days ago, now that it’s precisely competing for one of the “Indie of the Year” awards.

T.O. is a game with puzzles and exploration which has that minimalistic & bold 3D touch we love so much and admired on Blendo Games’ titles. Although T.O. seems to take the story in a much more serious way and goes deep into the analysis of human dissatisfaction with our daily routines, the cruel corporate world…. and a few other existentialish questions.

We’re anxiously willing to play with it, and if mother fortune is generous with Tymon, she will not only make him finish it next year, but also give him a little award right Miss? More info & stills on the creator’s webpage.

Tiga – Plush

3 December 2012

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The Canadian tiger hits again, although this time he doesn’t even need to move from his chair. “Plush” is the latest single to come out of his mix CD Non Stop, released last month on Different Rec.

Plush, that shameless anthem “inspired by 80s dance TV shows like Pelvic Gold and The Bandana Patrol” was produced with Matthew Dear in what apparently started as a freeform jam session and ended up as one of Tigas’ most sensual vocal performances to date.

Released in exactly 2 weeks, the single will include a couple of remixes by almighty Stuart Price (aka Jacques Lu Cont) and German duo Ame (Kristian Beyer & Frank Widermann), and those will certainly boost (even more?) the already incredible tune.

Outer Osmo Ghost Mode

1 December 2012

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Earlier this month L.A’s Museum of Contemporary Art teased us with their avatar futuristic animated piece “Outer Osmo Ghost Mode”, something that looked like one of Disney’s 80s underground projects, a week after we finally have the 10min piece…

The story is that of Elda and Dell Banner, two online avatars stuck in the home map of a proto-virtual internet exploration program, Osmo. Unfortunately they’ve been left behind in this ghost world by their physical creators, an actual married couple.

A project pushed by MOCAtv and Gleam House is the perfect expression of two artists obsessed with psychedelia… on one side our admired Alan Palomo (from Neon Indian) who had to add that futuristic-but-outdated score; and on the other animtator Johnny Woods who is no stranger to these parallel universes, nor Alan’s own psyche. A project worth saving in your datadrives.

Zodiac Love series

30 November 2012

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New online exhibition from 98Bowery Gallery, the webshop arm of Marc H. Miller’s personal project 98 Bowery: 1969-1989 — View From the Top Floor; again willing to showcase and document (and sell if possible) much of the forgotten art from the 1970s and 1980s.

Tom Otterness’s Zodiac Love exhibition poster (image via 98Bowery)

In this occasion 98B brings American sculpture Tom Otterness and his plaster series “Zodiac Love” to the web palette so anyone can grab a piece of “populist” love from the well-known public sculptor.

First marketed in 1982, each of the twelve small-scale, plaster sculptures in the Zodiac Love series were priced at $11.95. While initially conceived as an unlimited multiple edition, in fact only few of these sculptures were actually sold and they have not been produced since 1987. Online Gallery 98 has obtained a limited selection of these plasters now regarded as important early works by a world-famous artist.

Aries - from Tom Otterness’s sculpture series, Zodiac Love (image via 98Bowery) — Aries – from Tom Otterness’s sculpture series, Zodiac Love (image via 98Bowery)

The just “opened” expo runs though winter until mid-February and joins some other pretty interesting web shows that continue to honor the spirit of Bowery’s artist low-rent refuge. More info this way!

Journey to WuMu – last weeks

30 November 2012

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Last 3 weeks to see Sigrid Holmwood’s “Journey to WuMu” @ London’s Annely Juda Fine Art which, as Sigrid puts it herself, it magically happens to finish the same day Aztecs predicted the end of our world (Dec 21st), great timing indeed!

Peeling Bark - 2012 (c) Sigrd Holwood (image via Annely Juda Fine Arts) — Peeling Bark – 2012 (c) Sigrd Holwood (image via Annely Juda Fine Arts)

For those of you unable to visit Sigrid’s latest works from her personal experience in China, Annely Juda have put together a video of Journey to WuMu for our pleasure…

A tour on Sigrid’s own experience of her travel to the village of WuMu and her own translation of how a westerner can absorb and apply all those paper-making and painting techniques to create such vivid canvases, something we’ve been in love with since we discovered her works a couple of years go @ Saatchi’s BAN.

Sheet Forming the Paper - 2012 (c) Sigrd Holwood (image via Annely Juda Fine Arts) — Sheet Forming the Paper – 2012 (c) Sigrd Holwood (image via Annely Juda Fine Arts)

More information on the exhibition and her Chinese voyage this way.

Clouds – Interactive Documentary

29 November 2012

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Jonathan Minard must be having a few very busy weeks lately, on one side helping digital arts venue Eyebeam recover from the flood New York suffered a few weeks ago, on the other, preparing and polishing the last few details of his upcoming documentary “Clouds“, co-created with media artist James George.

CLOUDS Data capsule with laser etched 3D pointcloud (image via Clouds KS) – one of the potential rewards for supporting their project

After many many months in the making and over 6 months since release of the Beta-teaser, “Clouds” is ready for some mainstream love, but as it happens many times… it needs one last push. A push for completing the film but also for that toolkit they’ve created called RGBDT, an open-source software library they’ve developed for 3D filmmaking. Basically they’ve pared XBOX’s Kinect with an HD video camera to generate that bizarre but intriguing hybrid video you can see on their KS clip…

A project we’ve decided to support not just for “RGBDT” but for the story behind, filled with interviews & talks with more than 30 new media artists, curators, designers… obsessed with emerging technologies, new collaborative tools and above all, “new visual expressionism”. One to keep en eye on. More info on the project & film on their KS page.

RGBD Filmmaking DIY Toolkit (image via Clouds KS)

Espanish Boogie 3

28 November 2012

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Spanish crazy DJ & co-founder of Desparrame Barcelonian nights (with Delorean) Mr K**O brings us yet again one of his unrivaled mixes and last of the renown trilogy “Espanish Boogie” he started 4 years ago.

Recorded directly from vinyls and once again reviving and remixing some of the best hidden Iberian jewels from the 80s, we’ll find in this last volume some big hits … and some less well known tracks, from Enrique de Melchor’s flamenco-boogie “Let’s stay together” to other bizarre freestyle and castellan anthems.

And in case you’re wondering, second volume was published a couple of years ago, and volume one back in October 2008.

Full tracklist…
1. Magia Blanca “Déjate Llevar” (Nuevos Medios, 1985)
2. Luz “Quiéreme Aunque Te Duela” (Zafiro, 1987)
3. Fernando Martínez con Chagrin D’Amour “Todo El Mundo Hace Lo Que Quiere” (Edigsa, 1982)
4. Tino “Discofobia” (Belter, 1984)
5. Mamá Ya Lo Sabe “¿Quieres Ser…?” (Zafiro, 1985)
6. Enrique De Melchor “Let’s Stay Together (Quedémonos Juntos)” (Zafiro, 1983)
7. Germán Coppini “Barbazul” (Hispavox, 1989)
8. Armas Blancas “Ritmo Del Ahogado” (Polygram Ibérica, 1985)
9. Dandy Salomon “Paso De Todo” (CFE, 1983)
10. Iván “Baila” (CBS Discos, 1985)
11. Objetivo Birmania “Baila Para Mí” (WEA, 1985)
12. Hotel “Yo Te Espío” (Epic, 1985)
13. Presuntos Implicados “Te Voy A Provocar” (RCA, 1985)
14. Carlos Pérez “Las Manos Quietas” (Infinity, 1985)
15. María Mendiola “Aerobic” (Movieplay, 1983)
16. Scanpol “Basta de Amor” (Tranvía, 1986)
17. Javier Asensi “Descontrol” (Dial Discos, 1984)

DJ Kigo “Espanish Boogie Vol.3” by Desparrame on Mixcloud

Un Monde Truqué retakes production

27 November 2012

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Well it looks like the path for production and release of French bd legend Tardi’s Un Monde Truqué has just been cleared … once again.

In production since only-god-knows-when (over 5 years, already in 2009 this was big news, then last summer we were re-reassured the film was again in the right pipe…) “Un Monde Truqué” just got the support from Arte France Cinéma who apparently shall be co-participating in the project funding in what will be their first feature animated film…

If not, production should re-start next summer and Je Suis Bien Content (the studio behind the critically acclaimed Persepolis adaptation or the more recent Le jour des corneilles) will continue behind the artistic maneuvers with directors Christian Desmares & Franck Ekinci, the scenario co-created by Benjamin Legrand and the artistic supervision of Jacques Tardi himself.

Time will tell if this steamy and Napoleonic VI-reigned scenario will finally come to our theaters in 2014 or … but if we believe ARTE’s own PR things should come.

Un Monde truqué

Angouleme 2013 competitors unveiled

27 November 2012

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Every year around November we get to know the few lucky (although “few” is usually a generous “few”) selected works who shall be competing for the next edition of the Angouleme festival. For 2013 they’ve been less generous though… only 32 books have been selected to fight in the official category for one of the 4 coveted cats (aka “Fauves”, Best album, Jury prize, revelation and series).

Laurent Maffre - Demain, Demain (Image via Actes Sud) — Laurent Maffre – Demain, Demain (Image via Actes Sud)

From Kengo Hanazawa’s horror-manga series “I am a hero” and the self-imagined self-survival mode his depressive main character constantly lives in, to Laurent Maffre’s “Demain Demain” and his half-fiction half-documentary graphic novel, or Charles Burns’ La Ruche (aka The Hive) which follows his already successful X’ed Out, and the other 29 novels (some of which we’ve already covered here like Paolo Pinocchio or Hereux qui comme), there’s too many good works to choose from.

La Ruche- Charles Burns (Image via Cornelius ed.) — La Ruche (aka The Hive) – Charles Burns (Image via Cornelius ed.)

So who will it be? Well… just 2,5 months and you’ll know. The rest of the selected works can be seen here, and in case you understand French (or simply like the accent) they’ve also just released the detail of next year’s program.

De la cabeza

26 November 2012

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The exoticism of hispanic lips pronouncing easy-to-remember words like “Guerrero”, “Papel” or “Cabeza” is something that German label Kompakt predicted and managed to successfully exploit throughout the rest of Europe a few years ago.

Since Cómeme opened back in 2009 we haven’t stopped dancing harder & harder to the point of willing to become South Americans when we reincarnate after this end-of-year apocalypse. A few days ago we decided we wanted to become Argentinians, and not because of Miss Kirchner, but for DJs Pareja who just released their 12” “De la cabeza”.

The 4-track EP can be listened via Cómeme’s souncloud page so you can practice your Spanish while fantasizing about traveling to one of Mariano and Diego’s Fun Fun nights in Buenos Aires and letting yourself go…

2013 DB Photography Prize shortlist announced

26 November 2012

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It’s only been a couple of months since the winner of this year’s DB Photography Prize was announced (John Stezaker) and barely 4 months since we got to review this year’s shortlist exhibition and today we already know the name of the 3 shortlisted candidates for next year’s edition!

© Chris Killip, What Happened Great Britain 1970 - 1990 (image via The Photographers Gallery) — © Chris Killip, What Happened Great Britain 1970 – 1990 (image via The Photographers Gallery)

The 2013 exhibition won’t happen until next April but at least we know that one of the following will be a happy 2013 winner: Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Mishka Henner, Chris Killip and Cristina De Middel.

Adam & Oliver are nominated for their publication War Primer 2 (2012, MACK), a book inspird by the pages of Bertolt Brecht’s publication War Primer (1955). In the original, Brecht matched WWII newspaper clippings with short poems…. in War Primer 2 Broomberg & Chanarin choose to focus on the ‘War on Terror’; sifting through the internet for low resolution screen-grabs and mobile phone images, the artists then combined them to resonate with Brecht’s poems.

© Cristina de Middel, The Afronauts, 2011 (image via The Photographers Gallery)

Spanish Cristina (based in London) has been working for newspapers in Spain and with NGOs such as Doctors Without Borders and the Spanish Red Cross for almost eight years. Her works combine strictly documentary assignments with more personal projects playing with reconstructions or archetypes that blur the border between reality and fiction… and she’s been nominated for her self-publication “The Afronauts“.

Then there’s multi-awarded photographer Chris Killip and his works of North East England who is nominated for his last summer exhibition What Happened Great Britain 1970 – 1990 at Parisian Le Bal.

And last but not least we get Mishka Henner who has been described as a trailblazer amongst a new generation of artists redefining the role of photography in the internet age. She is nominated for his exhibition No Man’s Land at Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma which just closed last month.

© Mishka Henner, No Man's Land, 2012 (image via The Photographers Gallery) — © Mishka Henner, No Man’s Land, 2012 (image via The Photographers Gallery)

Fuck this jam

24 November 2012

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“Stay ignorant, but once you’re going, carefully research and try what you’re doing”, these were the wise words Zach Gage gave the game developer community a few weeks ago right before “Fuck this” jam started. A game Jam centered around the theme of making a game in a genre you hate. “Through utter ignorance for conventions and hate for the established rules of a genre, beautiful things will happen“.

And beautiful things have come out of this jam indeed. From truck driver simulators which will make you experience the German Autobahn at night…. to sophisticated board games, moral titles or even first person research shooters.

Some of them unique, most of them enjoyable for a second or two but a few interesting ideas were proposed like Andrei Marks’s “Where are you“, where where one person is playing an FPS, and the other is playing a top down strategy game… something to explore really, although you’ll need to find a friend to play with.

One another “interesting” title is Gerop Orbital’s “Portraying The Terran Condition”, simply, a very surreal FPS you could end up loving.. if you like history on acid. The rest, can be explored this way, and hopefully we’ll get more “hated” games next year.

Heureux qui comme

23 November 2012

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Blue for occidental people, pale for women, dark for men…. orange for Africans and their environment, alcohol is presented in greenish tones much like those interior African scenes where there seems to be an impossible coolness for such heavy atmosphere.

Nicolas Presl - HQC extract — Nicolas Presl – HQC extract (all images via Atrabile)

A display of a solid color-code for Nicolas Presl’s latest work who happens to be his first comic happening in the present… and asking ourselves again for all those little things that nourish our human history.

HQC extract2 - Nicolas Presl cover — HQC extract2 – Nicolas Presl cover

2 stories whose paths will inevitably cross at some point, much like the destiny of occident and Africa whose agitated relationships could fill many more graphic novels. 2 unadapted beings… On one side we have the typical business man working for an industrial occidental firm and his not-so-ethical businesses, on the other, a genuinely naive young woman who will find a reality she wasn’t prepared for.

HQC extract3 - Nicolas Presl cover — HQC extract3 – Nicolas Presl cover

Highly recommended, “Hereux qui comme” was released last week under Swiss ed. house Atrabile and which you can get here. More info and stills via BDgest.