Sorry for bringing you bad news but Amphi Festival is sold-out again!
Due to a sensational demand the Amphi Festival is sold out weeks in advance, for the third time since 2008.
As we can be quite sarcastic at Peek-A-Boo this is what you'll miss if you don't have a ticket for Köln, of course there is always Shadowplayfestival a week later in Kortrijk (Belgium).
Running order Amphifestival, Saturday 16th of July 2011
Mainstage: Doors open 10:00
[X]-RX 12:00 - 12:30
STAUBKIND 12:50 - 13:30
MELOTRON 13:50 - 14:30
ZERAPHINE 14:55 - 15:45
SAMSAS TRAUM 16:10 - 17:00
TANZWUT 17:25 - 18:25
DIE KRUPPS 18:55 - 20:05
DEINE LAKAIEN 20:35 - 21:55
Staatenhaus: Doors open 11:30
KLANGSTABIL 12:30 - 13:10
MIND.IN.A.BOX 13:25 - 14:05
WINTERKäLTE 14:20 - 15:00
FROZEN PLASMA 15:20 - 16:00
GRENDEL 16:20 - 17:05
IN STRICT CONFIDENCE 17:20 - 18:10
LEæTHER STRIP 18:25 - 19:25
SUICIDE COMMANDO 19:50 - 20:50
HOCICO 21:15 - 22:35
MUSIK SOLDAT (DJ Set) 22:45 - 00:00
Theater: Doors open - Block 1 11:30
BOOK PRESENTATION ANNIE BERTRAM - OBSOLETE ANGELS 12:45 - 13:40
TALK C64 PORNOGRAPHIC-ART - ADULTS ONLY! 14:00 - 14:45
TALK DR.MARK BENECKE 15:00 - 15:45
CONCERT ROME 16:05 - 17:00
CONCERT PERSEPHONE 17:30 - 18:40
Changeover 18:50 - 20:45
Doors open - Block 2 20:45
DJ HONEY - (Welle:Erdball) 21:00 - 22:00
DJ GILLIAN - (Nachtwerkt Karlsruhe) 22:00 - 23:00
DJ ALEXX BOTOXX - (Eisenlager Oberhausen) 23:00 - 00:00
DJ RONAN HARRIS - (VNV Nation) & JEANNY 00:00 - 01:00
DJ AD3K - (Analoguetrash - Manchster) 01:00 - 02:00
DJ HIVE - (Vampireparty - Antwerp) 02:00 - 03:00
DJ AMD & DJ SURFIN' WILLIAM - (Dark Star - Hannover) 03:00 - 04:00
Running order Amphifestival, Sunday 17th of July 2011
Mainstage: Doors open 10:00
SHE´S ALL THAT 12:00 - 12:30
FUNKHAUSGRUPPE 12:50 - 13:30
DREADFUL SHADOWS 13:50 - 14:30
DE/VISION 14:55 - 15:45
AGONOIZE 16:10 - 17:00
SALTATIO MORTIS 17:25 - 18:25
NITZER EBB 18:55 - 20:05
SUBWAY TO SALLY 20:35 - 21:55
Staatenhaus: Doors open 11:00
DER FLUCH 11:45 - 12:20
ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO 12:35 - 13:15
DIORAMA 13:30 - 14:15
CLAN OF XYMOX 14:35 - 15:20
IN THE NURSERY 15:45 - 16:35
DAS ICH 17:00 - 18:00
FEINDFLUG 18:25 - 19:25
KIRLIAN CAMERA 19:50 - 20:50
COVENANT 21:15 - 22:35
Theater: Doors open - Block 1 11:30
LESSON CHRISTIAN VON ASTER 12:00 - 12:45
MUSICAL THEATER SALONORCHESTER WEIMAR 13:00 - 14:00
LECTURE DR.MARK BENECKE 15:00 - 15:45
LESSON DAS WEIßE BUCH DES JADEFALKEN 16:05 - 17:00
CONCERT CLASSIC & DEPECHE 17:30 - 18:40
Changeover 18:50 - 20:45
Doors open - Block 2 20:45
DJ RONNY - (Depechemode.de) 21:00 - 22:00
DJ DALECOOPER - (Shadow - Leverkusen) 22:00 - 23:00
DJ ELVIS - (The Mephis - Cologne) 23:00 - 00:00
DJ NIGHTDASH - (Pulp - Duisburg) 00:00 - 01:00
DJ MARCEL - (P60 - Amstelveen) 01:00 - 02:00
DJ DARK WANDERER - (Röhre - Stuttgart) 02:00 - 03:00
DJ CIMERIES - (Industrial Madness - Minsk) 03:00 - 04:00
Supporting programme
Classic & Depeche
Das Weiße Buch des Jadefalken
Dr. Mark Beneck
Musiksoldat - Wolfgang Flür (Ex-Kraftwerk)
Salonorchester Weimar
Warm Up Parties
Autograph sessions
While the opulent retrospective "First Anthology" was more than a huge treat already, the Dark Electro titans take the festivities surrounding their 20th anniversary one step further and present an album that is nothing less than a quantum leap vehemently stirring the space-time continuum.
Barely one year after "Continuum Ride", Project Pitchfork are back with a new album named "Quantum Mechanics".
Described as radical, edgy and aggressive as in "Radical Business", melancholic and dark as in the title track or iconic and masterly as in "Freeze in Silence" that should be passed as the new basic law of Dark Electro.
The album is published in two editions.
Standard CD Edition: • CD in 6-panel digipak • 28-pages booklet
Limited 2CD Special Edition:
• Double-CD in book format (appr. 14 x 21 cm)
• Two exclusive tracks: "Tempest" und "Insomnia"
• Three exclusive remixes of "Freeze In Silence", "Run For Cover" and "Lament"
• One exclusive instrumental version of "Quantum Mechanics"
• Book in hardcover-paperback-cover with elaborate "Singer" thread stitching
• 40-pages extra-booklet, precious artprint on high-quality paper • Including all lyrics and additional artwork
• Strictly limited to 2,000 copies
The album will be out on 12th August 2011.
Also out will be Peter Spilles' other project, Santa Hates You as their newest album "Jolly Roger" will also be released this summer.
Krystal System launches video for 'Nuclear Winter'.
Available now is a brand new KRYSTAL SYSTEM video, "Nuclear Winter". The cybernervous video, which a lust for the eye, holds a motorbike sequence in the beginning of the clip which was made on a wasteland near Paris. The ride itself was shot in the south of France around Cassis, roughly 700 kilometers further. "We were lucky we didn't cross any cops on the road...", so the band told their label.
A free download for the "Nuclear Winter" track is available here.
The track for the video is taken from KRYSTAL SYSTEM's "Nuclear" album on Alfa Matrix.
The French duo KRYSTAL SYSTEM aka Bonnie (female vox, guitars) and Seven's (male vox, synths & bass) are based in Paris and bring a mix of metal guitar riffs, industrial beats and fast catchy synth sequences. Add to that Bonnie's provocative juvenile filtered female vocals (both in English and French) backed by Seven's harsher voice.
Their "Nuclear" album is also released as a deluxe double-CD limited carton box edition with poster and a bonus CD featuring several exclusive remixes by the duo itself as well as the unreleased cyber punk cut "Dead World", plus a selection of fruitful collaborations between KRYSTAL SYSTEM and artists like the famous Japanese DJ Taiki, their neighbors TREPONEM PAL and PUNISH YOURSELF, DJ's Ethan Fawkes and DJ Drill/Edrive69 or yet label mates masters IMPLANT andAMGOD.
The people from Body Farm Festival (the festival around Parade Ground and their friends) inform us that the second edition has an other date.
This event still takes place at Le Botanique in Brussels but the date is now 14th October.
Next to the brothers Pauly (aka Parade Ground) you can also see Morpheus Secrets (featuring Samy Birnbach from Minimal Compact-fame), Dive, Underviewer (Front 242), Nothing but Noise (Front 242), Dive and Tzii.
Look below how genius Parade Ground are on stage these days!
Two brand records will be soon out on Dark Entries.
The first album is a re-issue of the debut album Flesh by Jeff & Jane Hudson.
This will be expanded with an extra LP of singles and EP material. Jeff & Jane Hudson are a husband/wife duo from Boston who got their start in the art punk band The Rentals in 1977.
Their first single No Clubs was released in late 1980 and showcased a lo-fi avant garde all synthesizer band.
The World Trade EP came next in 1981, expanding their brand of post-nuclear electronic pop. Their vocals qualities were distinct; Jeff quivery and drug-addled while Jane more detached and icy.
The duo reached their pinnacle with 1982′s seminal Flesh.Perhaps one of the United States biggest achievements in the entire "synth" movement of the 80s. The music was electro-pop employing early Roland synths and the TR808 drum machine.
Completing the discography is the Special World 7″ released in 1983 before the band emigrated back to Boston and stopped recording and performing.
This deluxe edition has been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkerley directly from the original master tapes.
LP 1 is the Flesh LP and LP 2 features the No Clubs and Special World singles plus the World Trade EP.
Each double LP set comes in a gatefold sleeve with unreleased photos, original artwork and a lyrics sheet.
All 2xLPs come with a free digital download card!
Another new one is the reissue of Starter.
Starter was a minimal electronic/synthpop group from Switzerland, formed in 1980 by vocalist and fashion designer Francis Foss, Claudine Chirac (from fellow Swiss Wave group Grauzone and Jet Harbour. Originally the band also included Stephan Eicher who co-wrote two songs but departed before the band recorded their debut album.
STARTER began in the city of Bern when Francis, Claudine and Jet decided to create their own brand of New Wave music inspired by Gary Numan and Kraftwerk.They released their debut, self-titled album Starter in the summer of 1981, making this summer the 30th anniversary of this long out-of-print and extremely hard to find LP!
Using early analog Roland and Korg synthesizers, STARTER’S music seamlessly merges wistful electronics from Germany’s Neue Deutsche Welle movement and powerful vocal stylings from French chanson.
The next few Dark Entries Records releases are in the works!
Parade Ground – The Golden Years – LP
System Liliputt – Harpa LP
Europa – La Ultima Emocion! LP
Vita Noctis – Against the Rule 2xLP (co-release with Daft Records)
