“Snakedressed” is the fourth studio album by most active Dirk Ivens’s incarnation. It was released in 1997 by Daft Records and was made once again in collaboration with Ivan Iusco of Minus Habens Records and Nightmare Lodge fame. A well produced and arranged work with the usual noise infused, yet dance oriented tracks full of harsh bass lines overlayed with intricately woven and noisy synth patches. An album that catapulted Dive as a cult act and one of the strongest influences for a lot of artists.

For the first time available on double vinyl record with all original tracks plus some extras from 1996 including songs from the split EP's with Kirlian Camera and Controlled Bleeding and a couple of tracks from the compilation "2/3” (Hands Productions).

Snakedressed (2LP - tracklist)

A1. Snakedressed
A2. Growing Deep Inside
A3. Where Were You?
A4. Machinegun Baby
A5. Wheeping In The Dark
B1. Bloodshot Eyes
B2. Throw Myself Away
B3. Dark Room
B4. I Was There
B5. Sufferhead
C1. Glow In The Dark
D1. Obsession
D2. Twilight Fields
D3. Ars Moriendi Pt. 2
D4. Too Late
D5. Treasure

Limited edition of 550 copies on double yellow vinyl with gatefold sleeve, printed inner sleeves and numbered card.

Release date: November 15th.

Belgian post-punk outfit Whispering Sons has announced their long-awaited debut album 'Image'. Comprised of ten tracks, it will be available on CD and digitally via PIAS/ Cleopatra Records.

This is the first major release for this Brussels-based outfit since their 'Endless Party' EP in 2015. This new release represents what the band describes as a "giant leap forward". Together with producer Micha Volders and engineer/co-producer Bert Vliegen, the band used their time in the studio as a means to broaden their sound, enriching it with acoustic drums and a whole range of synthesizers.

This album, recorded over a period of ten days at GAM Studios in Belgium, evokes an atmosphere that is ominous and urging, while capturing the band's live intensity. Mixed by Bert Libeert (Goose, B, Raving George - Charlotte de Witte) at Jetson Studio and mastered by Frederik Dejongh (Hooverphonic) at Jerboa Mastering, this work is tinged with angst and isolation. Lyrically these songs stem from alienation, distance and inertia.

The songs on 'Image' were written after the band collectively moved to Brussels in 2016. Between intense touring, they channeled their new ideas into the music found on this album. Feeding on the dynamics of the city, the tracks unveil feelings of alienation and distance. 'Image' is a motionless state, in which observations overshadow actions. It reflects the artificiality of things, yet still desperately clings on to ideals and obsessions, something which is also strengthened by the cover artwork, created of Flor Maesen.

Whispering Sons won Belgium's prestigious Rock Rally in 2016, the same national contest that launched the career of dEUS. Since then they released several 7 inches - 'Performance/Strange Identities' (2016) and 'White Noise' (2017), and the 'Endless Party' EP. Touring extensively in Europe, they've developed a reputation for their animated performances.

As of 19th October, the 'Image' LP will be available everywhere.

In October, Whispering Sons will open for The Soft Moon during a series of dates in Spain and Portugal, before playing several shows with Gang of Four and headlining a series of European live dates in November in support of this album.

TRACK LIST

1. Stalemate
2. Got A Light
3. Alone
4. Skin
5. No Time
6. Fragments
7. Hollow
8. Waste
9. Dense
10. No Image

TOUR DATES
Oct. 10 Barcelona, Spain - La [2] De Apolo (with The Soft Moon)
Oct. 11 Madrid, Spain - Sala Copérnico (with The Soft Moon)
Oct. 12 Lisbon, Portugal - RCA Club (with The Soft Moon)
Oct. 13 Porto, Porgugal - Hard Club (with The Soft Moon)
Oct. 19 Rotterdam, Netherlands - Left of the Dial Festival
Oct. 20 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
Oct. 22 Eindhoven, Netherlands - Dutch Design Week
Oct. 24 Kortrijk, Belgium - De Kreun (with Gang of Four)
Oct. 25 Den Haag, Netherlands - Paard van Troje (with Gang of Four)
Oct. 31 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Sugarfactory
Nov. 2 Berlin, Germany - Bi Nuu
Nov. 3 Bochum, Germany - Kulturbahnhof
Nov. 9 Cologne, Germany - Gebaüde 9
Nov. 10 Namur, Belgium - Belvédère
Nov. 21 Paris, France - Olympic Café
Nov. 24 Turin, Italy - Padiglione 14
Nov. 25 Vignola, Italy - Circolo Arci Ribalta
Nov. 27 Budapest, Hungary - Dürer Kert
Nov. 29 Prague, Czech Republic - Meetfactory
Dec. 1 Genk, Belgium - Sinner's Day Festival (Limburghal)
Dec. 8 Turnhout, Belgium - Kuub
Dec. 14 Gent, Belgium - De Centrale
Jan. 18 Hannover, Germany - LUX
Jan. 19 Hamburg, Germany - Das Bett
Jan. 25 Hamburg, Germany - Hafenklang
Jan. 26 Leipzig, Germany - Moritzbastei
Feb. 2 Hasselt, Belgium - Muziekodroom
Mar. 29 Leicester, UK - Darker Days 2019

Since 2015's debut EP Heartworm, Melbourne industrialists Kollaps have continued to refine their brand of harsh and viscerally raw post-industrial noise. Their hard hitting release SIBLING LOVERS, an LP that intensifies the conflict between the dichotomy of confusion and control cemented what claws at the core of Kollaps' sound.

The bands' distinctive sound, jarring textures and crude tones are created using re-appropriated waste materials like scrap metal, raw plastics and steel beams. For the band, this isn't an empty gesture but instead a way to quite literally use the detritus of postmodern society against itself. Kollaps continue to push the traditional boundaries of what it means to be a "band" whilst engaging the audience in an audible blood-letting and physical exorcism that invokes all the senses.

The bands' intensity and provocation as performers has built Kollaps a reputation for both ferocious live shows and confrontational performances. Their tyrannical stage presence and strident energy continues to steadily attract raucous crowds around Australia and Europe. Kollaps have proved themselves alongside some of the best local and intentional underground performers [Brighter Death Now, Trepaneringsritualen, Youth Code, Armour Group, Military Position, Operant].

This October sees Kollaps embark on a savage European tour of 13 countries and will also see them play WROCLAW Festival in Poland alongside heavyweights like Pharmakon, The Soft Moon, Blixa Bargeld & Teho Teardo and Monolith.

KOLLAPS EUROPEAN TOUR DATES 2018

Thu 25 Oct - Brussels, Belgium - Magazin 4
Fri 26 Oct - Hamburg, Germany - MS Stubnitz w/ Brighter Death Now
Sat 27 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Mayhem
Sun 28 Oct - Stockholm, Sweden - Slaktkyrkan
Mon 29 Oct - Malmö, Sweden - Babel w/ Brighter Death Now
Tues 30 Oct - Aarhus, Denmark - Tape
Thur 1 Nov - Poznań, Poland - LAS
Fri 2 Nov - WROCLAW INDUSTRIAL FESTIVAL w/ Pharmakon, Clock DVA, Blixa Bargeld
Sun 4 Nov - Łódź, Poland - Klub Dom
Mon 5 Nov - Warsaw, Poland - Chmury
Tue 6 Nov - Ostrava, Czech Republic - Jeden Teg
Wed 7 Nov - Zagreb, Croatia - Kset
Thu 8 Nov - Ljubljana, Slovenia - Klub Gromka
Fri 9 Nov - Vienna, Austria - Wien Arena w/ Pharmakon
Sat 10 Nov - Bratislava, Slovakia - Klub Fuga
Sun 11 Nov - Kosice, Slovakia - TBC
Mon 12 Nov - Hungary, Budapest - Lumen Kavezo
Tues 13 - Miskolc, Hungary- Tinta
Wed 14 - Trnava, Slovakia - Kubik
Thur 15 - Linz, Austria - Klub Kapu w/ Hide
Fri 16 - Prague, Czech Republic - Underdogs'
Sat 17 - Berlin, Germany - Urban Spree
Mon 19 - Frankfurt, Germany - INM Bunker
Tues 20- Kortrijk, Belgium - The Pit's
Wed 21 - Cologne, Germany - MTC Cologne w/ Hide
Thu 22 - Lille, France - Imposture Bar
Fri 23 - Paris, France - TBC w/ Trepaneringsritualen
Sat 24 - Antwerp, Belgium - Het Bos w/ Trepaneringsritualen
Sun 25 - Rotterdam, Netherlands - WORM w/ Trepaneringsritualen

*Dates subject to change

Lysander loves Hermia, and Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius; Demetrius used to love Helena but now loves Hermia....Maybe this story sounds familiar to some of you.

William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, written in 1595/96, is one of his most popular plays with its multilayered examination of love and its vagaries. Director Casey Wilder Mott takes the characters from the partriachal society of Athens to the modern city of Los Angeles. He successfully overcomes the gap between a story from the Elizabethan Age and present-day problems. The movie is an inventive and humourous journey through time taking you from the world of modern electronic devices to the old Shakespearean rhyme schemes and back again. This independent film is not only for poets and bards, it definitely arouses interest among the young audience as well and introduces them to the mysterious world of the theatre in quite a fun way.

The movie celebrated its theatrical release last July at the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles followed by director and cast Q&As.

The movie is available via iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/a-midsummer-nights-dream-2018/id140478154.

www.amazon.com/Midsummer-Nights-Dream-Rachael-Leigh/dp/B07GXVJQ9V

We are happy to announce the 31st printed edition of Peek-a-Boo Magazine is out now!
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Reviews within this magazine

• A SLICE OF LIFE : Restless
• ALVAR : I Sew A Blanket Of All The Broken Clouds
• ANNINA MELISSA : Exhibition of Death
• CHRIS WATSON : Locations Processed
• COLE VARGAS : Cole Vargas
• CRIMEN : Silent Animals
• DICEPEOPLE : One From Many
• EMPIRION : I Am Electronic / Red Noise
• EUROPEAN GHOST : Collection Of Shadows
• KNK : Dead Body Music III
• LEAETHER STRIP : World Molæster
• PHANTOM OF THE BLACK HILLS : Scalped
• RAT SCABIES : Rat Scabies - P.H.D.
• SECTION 25 : Elektra
• SEMIOTICS DEPARTMENT OF HETERONYMS : Semiotics Department of Heteronyms
• SHADOWPARTY : ShadowParty
• SIMI NAH : La Terre est Noire
• THE EXPLODING BOY : Alarms!

Interviews within this magazine

• A SLICE OF LIFE
• ALVAR
• DAVID J
• FIRST AID 4 SOULS
• GERTRUD STEIN
• MERZBOW
• RAT SCABIES (EX THE DAMNED)
• SIGLO XX

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