Daedelus Denies The Day's Demise

Sweet denial.

Pointing you out to Daedelus' space again. Get there and listen to his ' Denies the Days Demise'. Released in may, it took some time to win me over. More upbeat, more electronics, but the samba's man, those samba's....
Sundown's gone straight to my heart... I love what he does.

Check it out & Love it!

Harlem 1958

First published in Esquire magazine in january 1959, this Art Kane portrait has to be one of the most lovely pieces of jazz history. Kane was asked to come up with a photo to open a jazz article, he just called every major New York jazz musician he knew of. It was his first professional assignment (...) On the steps of 17E on 126th street, some summer morning at 10 am, these 57 musicians showed up.

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Harlem.org is a great site entirely dedicated to this photograph, which says something about the sheer history captured with it. You can scroll around and click the picture to pop up details like who's who and if you click on you'll be able to get individual artist info and so on. Learning some jazz history through one single picture.






This is probably my favorite part:

You see (from top & left to right) : Sonny Rollins, Lawrence Brown, Marian McPartland & Mary Lou Williams, Emmet Berry and Thelonious Monk. Behind the laidback ( hungover?) looking Monk are Milt Hinton & Vic Dickinson (in the back). I'd imagine Count Basie got tired of waiting for the shot and sat his musical self down on the curb amongst the neighbourhoodkids who were just in it for the fun, legendary moment in time or not....



As a hommage to Kane's A Great day in Harlem photographer Gordon Parks reshot the original still living artists once for Life magazine as well as this hip hop interpretation of the photograph on the same (!!) steps on 126th Street, titeled Another Great Day, for the cover of XXL magazine. In the picture people like Rakim, Busta Rhymes & Wyclef Jean. Great days in jazz and hip hop all on the same simple stoop in Harlem...

Great Day links:

A Great Day in Hip Hop
Harlem.org
Art kane
Gordon Parks

Bootstrapping 1

'Bootstrapping' makes me think of starting without a beginning, creating something with nothing. As impossible as to pull oneself up by his bootstraps, reminiscent ofcourse of the Baron von Munchausen pulling himself up out of a swamp by his own hair.
- read & learn -

Bootstrapping 1 is Eat Concrete's first record release and there's 2 of them! Bootstrapping 1.1 & 1.2! Featuring 9 tracks, the records go anywhere from dark, spheric listeningmusic to seriously soulful dancetracks and beyond. ATeeze, Orgue Electronique, Evan Odd, Ro Lee, The Freak with Thousand E's, Sensory Overload, Mononom, Ricercar and Swonkdog are coming at you from all kinds of directions!












click individual pieces to check out tracklistings & artistinfo and have a listen right here


Eat Concrete is about providing interesting productions to and from the world of electronic music. Formed in 2005 as a network of friends disciplined in a wide range of styles, bound by the history of the dutch underground electronic music scene and their inspiration to spread the music, they joined forces and created these 2 EP's under the watchful eyes and ears of Pete Concrete, the instigator of this all.

If you're not anxiously waiting for the link to buy this record by now, you must be getting curious about it's music at least! Listen to some excerpts here and check out Pete Concrete's nicely selected, new and improved downloads page for sure! featuring mixes and sets from Banzaï radio, parties and other cool musical places...

Congratulations Eat Concrete!

Jaan Pehechaan Ho !!!!

Remember the exhilarating Ghost World opening? Jaan Pehechaan Ho!!! Masked dancers go bezerk dancing to a high energy gogo-like song by Bollywood legend Mohammed Rafi. Ghost World's Enid just goes along dancing the crazy dance wich is highley contagious, I'm sure you'll find as well.



Jaan Pehechaan Ho comes from Bollywoods' first "horror thriller", Raja Nawathe's Gumnaam (1965). The story is completely hilarious though, involving a very funny drunken showgirl, a planecrash on a spooky island, a mysterious book and naturally a murdermysterie and a lovestory.

Topping it all off with drunken duets, extravagant beachparties and more psychedelic dancemania. If you ever get the chance: Watch It!!

Now, thanks to WFMU's Beware of the Blog I finally have the complete clip, instead of just the Ghost World excerpt. Much obliged, WFMU's Brian & others!!!

< Take it here >

Just watching it makes you wanna join! Please do so! Throw back your head, close your eyes and shake yourself to the ecstatic Jaan Pehechaan Ho!

The Ministry of Sound

I like their site. It's very busy, packed with tunes, video's, mixes, games, reviews, a forum. One of the best features is their radiostream. Free (no signing up) and 'on air' 24/7. Also check the mixes and podcasts in the radiosection...

Their tvchannel requires you to register. It's free and you won't be spammed. I think it's video's only. Check out their photogallery too, partypics all round.

In the clubbers guide to life you can read all kinds of articles on all kinds of subjects from the clubbing perspective ;) from travel and work to sex and drugs, law and health. Nice section.

Birthday Hits

What was the nr. 1 song on your birthday? Wanna find out?!
What were people swinging out to when you came into this world?

You can find the right weeknumber of you birthday here,
ISO weekdate calendar. You need it to compare to the chartlists which go by week.

Here is the Dutch one > Top 4000
Uk charts > Uk Charts 1950 - 2000
US & the rest of the world > Charts all over the world

My birthday hit : Spargo's You and Me.

The Forevertron

I'm Loving this:

In 1983 the creator of the Forevertron, Tom Every, was reborn. After 3 decades of working as an industrial wrecker, Tom began to question his role in this destructive business of demolishing well designed but commercially outdated factories and machinery.

So, he gave up his demolition business and reinvented himself as Dr. Evermor. He adapted the identity of a Victorian inventor from Eggington, Britain to suit this new life. Now, as a child the fictive Dr. Evermore had been caught in a massive thunderstorm with his father, a Presbyterian minister. Evermore's father explained the huge force of the electric storm as an act of God. From that day on Dr. Evermor has made a life's work out of creating an extraordinary electromagnetically powered spacecraft that would ultimately deliver him to the celestial heavens above.


Dr. Evermor and the Forevertron

The Forevertron is a monumental sculpture weighing aproximately 300 tons and standing 50 feet high.
It consists almost entirely of iron, brass and stainless steel, welded and bolted together. A broad variety of generators, thrusters and other electromagnetic powersources are at the core of the Forevertron. The complete structure is capped by a glass ball meant to serve as space capsule.

The Space Capsule (upper right corner) in it's iron framework.


The Great Celestial Telescope

Secundairy components of the Fantastic Forevertron include a Celestial Listening Ear and the Gravitron, to reduce the doctor's body weight before take-off. At the north end the Great Celestial Telescope points to the heavens (in case someone would want visual proof of the doctor's spacetrip), while the south end holds a spiral staircase and a fancy vip-gazebo, originally reservered for the Royal Family on take-off day.

The Royal Gazebo

The Forevertron exemplifies Dr. Evermor's distinctive and deliberate creative priority; "to blend history with art". Each part of it consists and preserves some facet of early industrial technology or machine culture, now often disappearing underneath the wrecker's ball. Components such as Edison's late 19th century bipolar dynamos appear naturally linked to the Forevertron. Logically put together, imaginatively transformed or magically conceived, this industrial artifact of artifacts honors and recalls inventors and inventions of an age we have departed.


Dr. Evermor explains:

"These forms were made in a certain time frame and we can pick up the energy of whoever the creator was, whether it be a small blade or something else. That unique form comes along again and is put in that place, so that you always have that energy. That little piece may have a very historical connection to other things and beings of a certain time frame."

"If you look at this thing, it is all curved arches and circles. It is built on the principle of odd numbers -- sets of 3, 5, 7, 9. Given the historical make-up it seems appropriate that its essentially profuse, buoyant, undulating lines recall late Victorian aesthetics, from World's Fair architectural follies to Art Nouveau."

"form before function"















Forevertron Links:

roadsideamerica.com

drevermor.com

heart2art2hear

Making records

Vinyl is dood

Digigarden

Totally pointless ♥

Click the spinning tree and all kinds of gardenstuff will happen...

click tinygrow

Happy New Year

Yearmixes 2005

Zoom in ...

f you look closer you might discover the little fruitpeople in your own food from fresh 99.com, zoomed in food.



I knew it.. the legopotheads take my weed!!!!
from magicmushroom.org



For some really strange lego you have to see the brick testament.
The 'Rev.' Brendan Powell Smith gives you a lego illustrated bible, the uncensored version.

= nudity = sexual content = violence = cursing

Kid Beyond

He's got the music!
Beatboxer, vocalist, singer, one man band...

Live looping and multitracking his own voice Kid Beyond creates
his own multilayered music. If you watch the clip,
he'll explain a little bit of how he works.

It's just one voice, but he creates complete songs with it.
Watch the clip here, read more here

Abandoned again ...

I already posted a link to an abandoned places site by Belgian Henk van Rensbergen.
He knows the stories of the buildings and areas he explores and together with his beautiful,
mystique photographs you can almost smell the abandonment...
His site

photograph © abandoned-places.com


But... even though textually this abandoned Japan site here leaves me clueless, the images tell plenty! Luxury hotels, looking like they've been abandoned on the spot, with complete interiors left. Ghostly amusementpark with rollercoasters still standing by.
It's crazy really, but very beautiful.

photograph © home.f01.itscomnet/spiral

The site is huge, although some files didn't seem to work here.
There appear to be a number of categories, but my japanese just isn't that well ; )
Abandoned Japan

I also found this abandoned britain site, I didn't really check it our quite well.
But here you do get to understand the stories around these ghostplaces
and if you enjoy them as much as I do, you want to explore more.
Abandoned Britain

Feeling a little destructive, are we?

Shred it! Wanna kill a washing machine or computer?
Watch it go down this horrifying shreddingmachine

There's a whole variety of objects to be destroyed on SSI's site!
But they even have a Shred of the Month!
Watch it shred!

U B U W E B

An infinite platform for Art!

Contemporary, Historical, Sound, Poetry, Music, Visual, Film.

From classic stuff like Buñuel's Chien Andalou to obscure performances
like the Manopsychotische Ballet by Otto Muehl in the filmsection


From Huge databases filled with classic art in Film, Writing & Sound to all kinds of contemporary projects by new artists like the 365 days project

From their site :

UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated
to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.

All materials on UbuWeb are being made available for
noncommercial and educational use only.
All rights belong to the author(s).

UbuWeb is completely free.

◘ ubuweb ◘

Conclave Obscurum

A very, very artistic project this site is!
I can't really figure it out, some russian artists collaborating on this for sure.
It's not a portfolio or anything like it.
I only know it's one of the most beautiful sites i've ever seen!
Nice 'n Vague... play with it...
turn up your volume and freak out!

Conclave Obscurum

David Firth

Meeting Saladfingers was a mixed pleasure.
Disturbing little nightmarish cartoons they are ♥ And it doesn't stop there....

Watch and shiver by the cartoons of David Firth. You'll probably want to know more about it's creator and his work. Check fatpie.com but don't expect to be comforted.

Natalie Ferstendik

I Just love her illustrations. Specially these oldschool fashion kind of ladies!

The site hosting them, unit.nl is great to just browse portfolios by all kinds of artists

Tokyoplastic

Just a cool site. Tokyoplastic.com

The Polyphonic Spree

Quest for the Rest.

Another nice way to showcase
a new album.

Aim of the game is to help the little people get home, by clicking all things clickable you'll find out how. Guide them through 3 different 'worlds' and you'll be rewarded. Nice atmospheric music and sweet graphics, game itself is simple but cute ♥

Play Quest for the Rest