Easter Week-End is a time of tradition, celebration and chocolate. To rekindle the old flame of our youth, we should like to suggest a soundtrack to your day, in the form of Opsound. Initiated by American Artist Sal Randolph, known in certain circles as the Woman avec le pink hair, the collection started as an Art project questioning the motivations, joys and pains of the free, the shared and the collective. Opsound has grown both as an Art project and an Art catalyst, attracting experimental musicians from the world over. But it’s also a fantastic way to consume Art by discovering new genres, new inspirations and new soundtracks to inspire creations of your own, whatever your medium.
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Die Antwoord: TEN$ION is out!
Die Antwoord, South African rap/rave group from Cape Town has just released a new album entitled TEN$ION. It didn’t get much of great reviews, musically speaking, but who the fok cares anyway. The style is as ZEF as ever. And the “I fink u freeky” videoclip directed by Roger Ballen & Ninja is totally fokin’ fabulous! Ninja, Yo-Landi Vi$$er & DJ Hi-Tek - we fink u freaky & we like u a lot!
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Playmobil Mania
Smart move from The Slow Readers Club, a Manchester based Indie/ Electro band! They contacted D.O. Roth, the German video director to shoot the video for their upcoming single ‘Feet on Fire’. The same director created a superb Playmobil version of Joy Division’s 1979 TV performance Transmission which got him over half a million views on YouTube and a well deserved 15 minutes of fame. Surprisingly, Roth has never met The Slow Readers Club either – he spent over 100 hours to construct a miniature stage set in his living room, based on footage of the band, in order to create this real-life experience.
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Music makes the world go round
Play here with the infographic to see how the music travels across the continents.
Nice interactive piece showing the evolution of western dance music over the last 100 years in under 20 seconds commissioned by Thomson, a UK-based travel company.
(HT @deafmetal)
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One Pig – Matthew Herbert’s New Album
Matthew Herbert‘s new album is out & it’s the most controversial one until now.
The electronic music guru came up with a original concept of registering & mixing the various sounds in a life of one pig. Staring from its birth and ending with its death in a slaughterhouse, the period of 6 month is presented by various actual sounds: made by the pig itself or recorded from its immediate environement.
Herbert was not able (due to Britain’s food laws) to record the actual sounds during the slaughter, so the album finishes with the consequent butchering, followed by a meal.
We have listened to some extracts through Guardian and it is a pretty powerful, engaging stuff. So is, btw, Herbert’s Manifesto and his explanation of the concept of the project.
(via Cool Hunting)
