The Washington DC-based band Retrogramme possess the rare ability to surprise us. Always. Whenever they unleash their creativity we have to wait for a result far above our expectations. The antecedent album "For Our Dearly Departed" of 2012 is still considerated as an object of cult, but the new double full-length "Feed" promises to go further. The band's style is a unique, multiform and sophisticated blend of synthpop, IDM, and darkwave, created through asymmetrical or linear rhythms, alienating consonances and sound abstractions that make Retrogramme one of the most important institutions of their music genre.
The new title track enumerates twenty-four songs divided into two separate volumes: each of them is hyper saturated with original sonorities that will drag you into a vortex of dance. The elements to solicit your interest are all there: pulsing bass-lines of drum-programming, robotic or lithe musicality, fascinating and amazing vocalizations. Moreover, the second disk includes exclusively a fantastic series of remixes elaborated by Halo Effect, Framework, DrMOllE, Citizen 16, Bites, Echoknocks, PDR, Poject K-11, Deadliner, Atropine, TourdeForce and Red This Ever. We welcome with true excitement the new Retrogramme and their "Feed", an album that we can define by only one, specific adjective: great.
"The ambitious video for Wildhart’s "Stuck In A Second" is here and I have to say it represents quite a lot to me: Gothenburg (or at least the Swedish west coast), summer, Gothenburg in the summer... Well, you get it. This beautiful piece of video starring a bunch of cool kids dressed as clowns having loads of fun, makes me want to, I don't know, travel to Gothenburg in the summer dressed as a clown?"
From 8th April in the theatres: SHAUN THE SHEEP, THE MOVIE
Directors:Mark Burton, Richard Starzack
When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.
Release in België op 8 april 2015
Na onder andere 'Wallace & Gromit' en 'Chicken Run' laten de genieën van Aardman eindelijk Shaun het Schaap, hun meest populaire personage, schitteren in een speelfilm. Het intelligente en rebelse schaapje vergaarde wereldwijd al miljoenen fans dankzij de gelijknamige TV-serie, uitgezonden in meer dan 180 landen.
De film plaatst Shaun en zijn kudde in een nieuwe omgeving. Deze keer brengen ze hun hilarische fratsen van de boerderij naar de grote stad, met alle gevolgen van dien.
SHAUN HET SCHAAP zit stevig verankerd in de succesvolle Aardman claymation traditie: fun en avontuur met hilarische grappen in een verschroeiend snel tempo, met originele verhaallijnen, en het soort komedie dat zowel jong als oud aanspreekt.
Dapper schaap. Grote stad. Knotsgek avontuur!
Co-regisseurs en co-schrijvers Mark Burton en Richard Starzak:
Mark Burton werkt al jaren voor Aardman als creatief consulent en als schrijver voor o.a. 'Chicken Run' en 'Wallace & Gromit'. Ook buiten Aardman is Burton actief als schrijver van o.a. de Dreamworks animatie-hit 'Madagascar' en Britse comedy programma's als 'Have I Got News For You' en 'Spitting Image'.
Richard 'Golly' Starzak werkt al sinds 1983 voor Aardman. Het was zijn idee om een eigen TV-serie uit te werken rond het personage Shaun the Sheep, voor het eerst verschenen in de Oscarwinnende kortfilm 'Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave' in 1995. Starzak ontwikkelde en regisseerde de serie en kent Shaun dus beter dan wie dan ook.
Electronic duo Rangleklods (Esben Nørskov Andersen and Pernille Smith-Sivertsen) are back with new music from their forthcoming album. The first single 'lost u' is a catchy, experimental pop song that unites the melancholy with an energetic momentum.
On 'lost u' Pernille’s vocals gives a taste of how the duo’s individual personas emerge to challenge each other in Rangleklods' new songs.
"For us 'lost u' is a desperate release of suppressed grief. A euphoric longing to live, mixed with the pain of slipping away from what you know. The song came from an idea that arose a late and drunk night in the studio..." – Rangleklods
During the past 2 years, Esben & Pernille have slaved in their Copenhagen-based studio to realize their vision of the sophomore album.
The legendary Industrial/Neue Deutsch Welle project of R.Goerl and G.Delgado Lopez, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, or DAF for short—best known for their song “Der Mussolini” from the album Alles ist gut, has announced it’s dissolution today via Facebook.
R.Goerl and G.Delgado Lopez have on 1/22/2015 agreed to end their long-standing band project DAF (Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft) In addition, R.Goerl and G.Delgado Lopez have agreed, for a “Goodbye Tour” (Start 05/30/2015 in Moscow) to go again on stage together to say goodbye to their DAF fans.
This farewell tour follows their appearance at the Grauzone Festival in Amsterdam next week. The band have also indicated that they are discussing a “farewell” product to commemorate the band’s history.
Source: Post-Punk.com
