With Test Dept:Redux headlining our first BIMFEST day (Friday, December 14th) we think the information below (taken from the official Test Dept website) might be very interesting to you!
Test Dept: Redux is conceived as a club based EBM (Electronic Body Music) intense music & visual performance experience.
Titled 'UFoF:v2' the performance is a live re-mix and re-imagining by the two founder members of Test Dept - Paul Jamrozy and Graham Cunnington – the tracks performed are taken from Test Dept's own sound and visual archive from their classic agitprop 1986 album ‘The Unacceptable Face of Freedom’* and earlier material.
Originally UFoF was an expression of the rage and frustration felt by a large section of society towards the brutal policies and consequences of the UK's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1979>1990), which has now, once again, gained a powerful relevance to our current circumstances within the wider globalised economic and militaristic order in these recession hit times.
The performance reworks political themes for the new millennium and bringing up to date the methods and techniques that made Test Dept pioneers of a highly original and radical approach to music creation and found sound collage.
TD:R create a dense, powerful, vibrant soundtrack for our time, utilising sound and image samples from the extensive Test Dept back-catalogue; enhanced with new sounds, audio-visual documentation, and the duo's live vocals and percussion. Their channelling of the personal anger and frustration they still experience remains as potent and caustic as before.
Following the melt down of the West's banking infrastructure, and the revelation of the consequences of corporate greed and free-market 'shock therapy' tactics, it is an apt time to revisit the radicalism of Test Dept's dystopian vision of the future as laid out in the seminal album, The Unacceptable Face of Freedom.
* "The Unacceptable Face of Freedom", was the pejorative term used by Thatcher's Home Secretary Leon Britton during the 1984/5 miner's strike. The right of people to protect their jobs and futures was seen as a liberty too far by the right wing political establishment of the time.
Today, A21 are happy to present you the new FUCKALLSYSTEMS video, directed by Aliaksandr Kanavalau, that many of you participated in. This wouldn't have been possible without you guys! Thank you very much
(AMBASSADOR 21)
Watch the video on the link below
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Soon in the theatre: The Possession (or how dangerous a fleamarket can be!)
Entertainment One proudly presents The Possession, a brand new horrorfilm made by Ole Bornedal and produced by the one and only Sam Raimi!
The film will be shown in theatres on 26th December, one day after Santa Claus' visit that is!
Synopsis:
Based on a true story, THE POSSESSION is the terrifying story of how one family must unite in order to survive the wrath of an unspeakable evil.
Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Stephanie Brenek (Kyra Sedgwick) see little cause for alarm when their youngest daughter Em becomes oddly obsessed with an antique wooden box she purchased at a yard sale. But as Em’s behavior becomes increasingly erratic, the couple fears the presence of a malevolent force in their midst, only to discover that the box was built to contain a Dibbuk, a dislocated spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host.
Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan (WATCHMEN) and Kyra Sedgwick (“The Closer”), THE POSSESSION is directed by Ole Bornedal (NIGHTWATCH), written by Juliet Snowden & Stiles White, and produced by horror master Sam Raimi along with Robert Tapert and J.R. Young. A Lionsgate and Ghost House Pictures presentation.
Swedish postpunk sensation Agent Side Grinder will release a live album, "Hardware Comes Alive", on 14 December! In the meantime, you can watch them live at the Botanique in Brussels on 8 December!!
After releasing their latest album "Hardware" in early 2012, one of the best albums of 2012, Agent Side Grinder headed out on tour throughout western Europe. This live album was recorded in Lyon on a 1978-vintage cassette recorder, using no post processing except for some very basic mastering. This disc catches ASG at their raw hypnotic best, right at the crossroads between post-punk, bleak industrial electronics and psychedelia. It goes a long way towards explaining why they are such a brilliant live act.
Track list:
1 Look Within
2 Rip Me
3 Telefunk
4 Mag 7
5 Life in Advance
6 Wolf Hour
7 Die to Live
8 Sleeping Fury
9 Voice of your Noise
To order your ticket for the concert in Brussels: check here.
Read the interview of Agent Side Grinder by Peek-a-boo here. The audio version is here.
The review of "Hardware" can be found here.
Read the review of their concert in Utrecht here and check the pictures here.
Never heard from them you say?
Well, maybe you know Matt Howden who is the man from neofolk-band Sieben.
7JK is an enchanting collaboration between the Polish Multimedia industrialist of Job Karma and violin wizard Matt Howden.
7JK is one of the many bands who appear at this year's BIM-Fest.
Don't miss!!!!!!!!!!
