Don't say we don't spoil you as Peek-A-Boo got informed by Atomic Neon that you can grab their music for free. Well, at least some EP's that is....
Quite difficult to say that they're postpunk or coldwave, but we definitely know these guys from Essen are very good.
A click below will bring you to their headquarters!
What would BIMfest be without a portion (ha!) of industrial music?
Job Karma are from Wroclaw and have a connection with Sieben and In The Nursery.
ARCANA "Un Passage Silencieux" Digital (59th Cycle)
Back in 2005 Arcana's "Le Serpent Rouge" album was released, and the first 100 copies came in a special box hand made by Peter Bjärgö himself.
Within that box, there was a code that promised the owners of this box a limited edition "sister" release to be publisehd at a later date. In 2011, the release finally came to life under the title "Un Passage Silencieux".
A 4 song album, three newly made with oriental, arabic influences and the fourth being a remix of the track "Amber", titled "A New Amber" and now with female vocals added. Only 100 physical copies if this new album were pressed and sent to those who had purchased the box. But with time the demand for these songs just go overwhelming and so a digital only release was, it seems, a good option for those unlucky ones that missed out on the physical release
Still like ten days to go before BIMFEST happens.
Time to buy your tickets and time enough to present a band.
What about Simi Nah?
Formed by Praga Khan bass player Simi Nah, sometimes also referred to as the French Queen of Goth. Electro-Klash with a Praga Khan twist!
It's dark, sexy, bombastic, melodic.....everything you want in fact!
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.
