Since 1978 active as a musician, both drummer and bassist and co-composer in several bands (Sexmachines, Starfighter, Needle & The Pain Reaction, Lee & The Lovedaddies , The Drip Dry Man & The Beat Revolver etc...) Lucce 'Kinky Star' comes out with his solo project Wagonman. A fully own experimental music project that gets its start with the EP "Desire" but still definitely gets a sequel. More experimental cassette releases are expected later on his own label Wagonmaniac..
The EP "Desire" is a tribute to Wagonman's early musical influences in full punk wave period of the early 80s. With covers of UK anarcho-punk band Crass and the Belgo wave artist Nacht Und Nebe and two other originals with a nod to bands like Killing Joke and Einstürzende Neubauten, Bauhaus, The Stranglers, Killing Joke, PIL, Nacht und Nebel, TC Matic, Clock DVA, Scars, Spizz Energi, The Fall, Swell Maps, Devo, Suicide, DAF, Dead Kennedys, Chrome,
Other influences coming from the punk, cold wave, industrial, tribal, early 80's UK new wave scene, New York no wave scene, afro beat, kraut rock, neue Deutsche welle,...
Release EP “Desire”: 1st May 2014
label: Wagonmaniac records (coloured 10”) / Kinky Star records (digital)
genre: punkwave, new wave, cold wave, tribal, experimental, 80’s, alternative
Gordon Willis, who was the cinematographer for “The Godfather” series and Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” and “Manhattan” has died. He was 82.
Willis was known for his artful use of shadows, and was the cinematographer on 1970s films including “Klute,” “The Paper Chase,” “The Parallax View” and “All the President’s Men.”
Syd.31’s debut EP ‘Start A War’ is a fierce, rage-filled trash can full of gobby punk ranting which flashes a middle finger in the face of the politics of hate, discriminatory power structures and consumerism. Heavily inspired by the explosive ‘UK82’ era of Brit-punk and focuses on the ‘anger-as-an-energy' approach to music. From the first wrath-filled distorted note of the title track 'Start A War' the EP grabs you by the throat and spews it's electro-punk bile straight into your stomach.
Syd.31 have taken the influence and extreme sounds of their punk idols (Discharge and Exploited) mashing it with classic industrial, electro, rave and post dubstep noises, citing their love of Knife Party, Noisuf-X, Nachtmahr and Nitzer Ebb as key ingredients. It's a contemporary rallying cry to raise the banner, rebel and reject. Syd.31 intend to start a war, and start it in your mind.
Believing that music needs a social conscience, Syd.31 aims to be an active threat again to all that is bigoted, corrupt and destructive to this world. Songs like Power! (Are You Fucking Angry?) and Dieter Rams Is Dead reflect their distaste for the system. Dr Magic, frontman and noise bringer, chose to reject traditional styles of recording and instead did most of the vocals in one single take, improvising on-the-spot lyrics fuelled by raw expressionism, pure emotion, and vulnerability, something which very few artists at the moment are daring to do.
On top of all this, the Start A War EP steals all the best bits and structures from pure pop, such as Kylie, Britney and the Vengaboys – regardless of their rage, Syd.31 believe that all hope is lost if you can’t have fun and dance like a diva.
Start A War is a rallying cry for the dejected and desperate, a kick to the teeth of a political system which chews the vulnerable up and spits them out, and a middle-finger salute to a world which has nothing left to offer any of us.
Tonefloat presents a new wave of jazz. a contemporary approach to the diy philosophy that grew sun ra's saturn label and the underground cassette scene. under the wings of tonefloat, and curated by dirk serries, this little label will focus itself upon a series of limited vinyl editions, in customized sleeves. featuring music that originates from a fascination for free jazz and all related and extracted.
The first album in the series is the selftitled yodok iii: an overpowering melancholy and intense combination of frequencies. this is where introspection and freejazz meet. yodok iii is tomas järmyr: drums, kristoffer lo: tuba, flugabone, effects, and dirk serries: electric guitar, effects. yodok iii will embark on a short tour in june with tour dates on 7th (kinkystar club, ghent), 8th (magasin4, brussels), 12th (worm, rotterdam) and the 13th (de singer, rijkevorsel).
The second album is _ashes and blues by void of expansion - tomas järmyr and dirk serries. a live date is set at studenter samfundet, trondheim (norway) on the 29th of august.
Warner Bros. and Paramount have released the first full-length trailer for Christopher Nolan’s latest sci-fi epic “Interstellar” set for release this November.
Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain star in the film.
Plot details are still vague other than that it follows a group of astronauts charged with the task of traveling in space in order to find way to grow crops back on earth, which for some reason has run out of food.
