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Author: Katja Vercouteren
HAPERENDE MENS SERIES #3 w/ DREW McDOWALL (Coil/Psychic TV) + HELM (uk) + CLAMOR
Together with OCCII we are back for our third collaboration on Sunday the 7th of February with a mesmeric triple bill of electronic music pushing at the edges with Drew McDowall (Coil / Psychic TV), Helm and Clamor. Make sure not to miss this!
DREW MCDOWALL
McDowall formed art-punk trio Poems in 1978 with his then-wife, Rose McDowall. During the 1980s, McDowall was a member of Psychic TV. McDowall performed with Coil regularly for several years, becoming an official member in 1994. McDowall currently is a member of the groups CSD (formerly Captain Sons and Daughters) and Compound Eye (with Tres Warren of Psychic Ills). The notoriously reclusive musician, who resides in New York City, has done a number of public performances for the Modular Synthesizer Solstice and Equinox series in Brooklyn, beginning in 2012. In March 2014, McDowall provided the score to Are You Okay, a short film written by Bret Easton Ellis for the “Are You Okay?” single by Dum Dum Girls.
HELM
Helm is a sound artist and experimental musician based in London, working with a vast array of revolving instrumentation and abstract sound sources. He has produced four full-length albums and three EPs consisting of dense compositions which explore the relationship between acoustic and electronic derived sounds. Helm’s initial influences were derived from a range of 20th and 21st century avant-garde and experimental music, yet recently the project has grown to incorporate elements from other forms of electronic music such as post-industrial and various strains of dance music. He has also performed extensively across Europe and the USA in various different contexts, including many festival dates and North American and European tours with Danish band Iceage.
In 2015 Helm released ‘Olympic Mess’ on PAN, his most substantial and highly acclaimed record to date. Where his previous effort, 2014’s ‘The Hollow Organ,’ dealt in dense, distressed sonics, ‘Olympic Mess’ is Younger responding to a period spent engaged with loop-based industrial music, dub techno, and balearic disco. These musical references, all of which can induce hypnotic states and feelings of euphoria, inform ten evocative aural landscapes which unfurl over the course of an hour and act almost as a counterpoint to the turmoil that spawned them. “It’s about exploring a perverse desire to pull the rug from under yourself, and the struggle to achieve a healthy equilibrium between one’s personal and artistic lives,” Younger says. “Dealing with the problematic consequences of pushing your own limits, forming and dissolving relationships, transient lifestyles, physical and mental exhaustion, excess, and other kinds of personal chaos”. Crafted using an array of heavily processed samples, found sound and electroacoustics, personal conflict manifests in “I Exist In A Fog” and “Outerzone 2015,” where visceral noise disintegrates into veiled, ambient strata. The disquieting crescendos of “The Evening In Reverse” and “Fluid Cloak” offer no such relief, while the title track and “Don’t Lick The Jacket” are mineral, multilayered abstractions twisting around a brittle pulse.
‘There’s a human being behind those machines’ an interview with Helm, Fact
http://www.factmag.com/2015/06/20/helm-interview-olympic-mess-pan/
CLAMOR
A duo founded in 2015 by two comrades with a mutual love for the industrial tradition. Channeling the classic sounds of muffled death industrial as well as fierce power electronics into a beast of it’s own. Over their short existence they’ve played alongside Damien Dubrovnik, Hive Mind, Neutral, Dave Phillips, Arv & Miljö, Cremation Lily and more likeminded souls. Both members are active in a variety of projects such as Qualm, Svartvit, Empty Front & Folteraar.
A loud uproar, as from a crowd of people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmNS5IqI1a4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNxnasZCMbM
HAPERENDE MENS SERIES #4 w/ WOLF EYES (US) + SUZUKI JUNZO (JP)
For the fourth time Haperende Mens teams up with OCCII for an alien and pitchdarkly obscure double bill of sound and confusion with:
WOLF EYES + SUZUKI JUNZO (JP)
Wednesday, June 8Doors: 20:30
Entree €8
Occii, Amstelveenseweg 134, Amsterdam
WOLF EYES
‘Born in the dead, dread-filled haunted hills of Michigan, Wolf Eyes are the rabid beasts of Trip Metal & have been plowing thru new tunnels of the underworld since 1997. Pure audio stunt, homemade post-nuclear terror & claustrophobic atmospheres — the most shattered and confusing horror vision since Bo Diddley dropped the duct taped warhead on all humans in 2024.’ – Wolf Eyes
The infamous blistering noise of Wolf Eyes propelled them from being a basement sensation to the finest ranks of Sub Pop without ever losing a shred of credibility. Originally started as the solo project of former Nate Young, he was soon joined by Aaron Dilloway in 1998, John Olson in 2000 then Mike Connenlly and now Crazy Jim. They has released over 150 recordings in their relatively short lifespan, on labels such as Bulb Records, Troubleman Unlimited, Fusetron, and Sub Pop, as well as on Olson’s American Tapes label, Dilloway’s Hanson Records, Mike Connelly’s Gods of Tundra label and Nate Young’s AA Records.
Their stunning new album “I am a problem: mind in pieces” is now out on Jack White’s Third Man Records.
‘Wolf Eyes have always had a B-movie aura. They’re like the Roger Corman of underground music, churning out releases, inspiring other low-budget noise-auteurs, galvanizing scenes both locally in Michigan and globally in festivals and collaborations. Many of their blunt album titles have a schlock-horror feel: Slicer, Dread, Burned Mind, Human Animal. That feel is in the music too. At turns scary, funny, dramatic, and transfixing, Wolf Eyes’ morphing sound has one constant: creepy, thick tension.’ – pitchfork 2015 album review
https://soundcloud.com/
https://wolf-eyes.bandcamp.
http://www.wolfeyes.net/
SUZUKI JUNZO
(nod and smile recs/utech)
Tokyo/JPN.
Tokyo guitarist/songwriter/singer Suzuki Junzo! Known from his work with MIMINOKOTO, 20 GUILDERS, Overhang Party and more, Junzo’s Shark-Infested Custard mixes psychedelia, blues, drone, noise and rock into an intoxicating singular blend.
http://suzukijunzo.org/
Red Light Radio
RedLightRadio Haperende Mens – 22-8-2016
Rogier van Otterloo – Turks Fruit, theme song – (1973)
Holy Fuck – Choppers – LP (2007)
Chris and Cosey – Put yourself in Los Angeles – Heartbeat (1980)
Autechre – Artov Chain – Elseq 4 (2016)
Bear Bones, Lay Low – Nubes de Miel – Hacia La Luz (2016)
Chris and Cosey – Heartbeat – Heartbeat (1980)
Carter Tutti Void – f(2.7) – f(x) (2015)
Factory Floor – Slow Listen – 25 25 (2016)
Fuck Buttons – Okay, lets talk about Magic – Street Horrrsing (2009)
Listen hier
Win a Incubate passe-partout!
Monday 19:00 hours http://redlightradio.net a Haperendemens Incubate special. The most faltering (haperende) artists that will perform during the september edition of Incubate .
Shacleton, Silver Apples, Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia / Psychic Warriors Of Gaia / PWOG Just a few names from the fabulous Incubate line-up in mondays Haperende Mens- Red Light Radio show.
Tune in monday at 7:00 PM and WIN one of two passe-partouts we are handing out!
Occii vs Haperende Mens #1: Low Jack, Aun & more
AUN (can) + BLACK ZONE MYTH CHANT (fr, High Wolf) + LOW JACK (live set – L.I.E.S – The Trilogy Tapes ) + MARTIJN COMES & DJ CHIFF CHAFF
‘Blending the elements of psychedelic, ethnic industrial & cosmic shoegaze’.
Occii vs Haperende Mens – concert series #1
22 April 2015
Locatie: Occii, Amsterdam.
Amstelveenseweg 134
OCCII, Amsterdam en Haperende Mens presenteren een reeks concerten met nadruk op de door Haperende Mens uitgezetten lijn (Haperende Mens festival september 2014). We zoeken opnieuw de muzikale grenzen op en mede gestimuleerd door het onorthodoxe programmeren van het Occii podium gaan we daarbij nog een stap verder. De ontregeling en het experiment staan centraal, de eigenzinnigheid van de muzikanten is daarbij vanzelfsprekend!
Bij dit ‘Kick Off’ event #1 is de fascinerende drone psychedelia van het nieuwe album van Black Zone Myth Chant live te beluisteren. (side project van High Wolf, eerder te gast op het HM festival). Tevens de donkere ambient-psychedelia van het Canadese AUN, en de presentatie van overtuigend nieuw werk van electro-acoustic’s producer Martijn Comes. Met een live set van de onconventionele Franse industrial techno producer Low Jack wordt de avond plezierig ontregelend afgesloten.
Industriële esthetiek, techno experiment, ambient drone, psychedelica and far beyond. ‘Een massive Zone Music line up!’
AUN (Can) : ‘ Their music melts the boundaries between psychedelic, ambient, shoegaze, industrial and cosmic music into a unique pulsing glitch and gaze aura. Their performance includes video artworks by Julie.’
Cosmic industrial duo AUN, forge their ambient-psychedelia, into a glitchy, pulsing, waking dream experience.
This Montreal power couple, have performed 150+ concerts, in over twenty countries, at such key events as Mutek, FIMAV, Roadburn, Phobos, Wave Gothic, Heart of Noise. Their critically acclaimed discography of over 15 albums, ep’s and splits, on top avant-garde labels such as: Alien8 Recordings (Canada), Cyclic Law (Canada), Important (USA), Denovali (Germany), Conspiracy (Belgium), Drone (Germany), has earned them a solid ever growing international following.
The duo have recently completed two new albums, including a collaborative effort with noted french turntablist Philippe Petit (Lydia Lunch, Murcof) and a return to their home base at Cyclic Law records, intitled ‘FIat Lux’.Martin Dumais: guitars, bass, organ, synthesizers, percussion, visuals
Julie Leblanc: synthesizers, theremin, percussion, vocals, visuals
LOW JACK (F) :Een live set preview van zijn nieuwe album ‘Sewing Machine’ (Release Mei 2015):
What used to be called industrial music by those on the radical fringes of ’80s post-punk is surfacing again in the techno sphere and beyond. French producer Low Jack (aka Philippe Hallais) now seizes control over this rich heritage. His goal is not to take it back to basics and produce something you’ve already heard, but to take classic industrial aesthetics to the next level, extending the trance experience using raw, sharp and rough sounds.
Earned a reputation for his uniqueness, one foot in club culture, the other in abstract experimentation.
On one side, the influence of Bunker Records’ acid-industrial years, sinusoidal blasts by Pan Sonic, Cristian Vogel’s shifted techno, and esoteric grooves by George Issakadis, plus Dancemania records and assorted other ghetto house, East Coast hip-hop, and funk leftovers. On the other side, bullet-shaped noise music, ethno-shamanic trance, punk improvisations, post-industrial ambient, drone and power electronics.
You’re bound to hear anything but tiny and conventional club music. A personal rhythmic frenzy, mostly designed for introspective and deep listening, drawing their magic from the master’s deep Central American roots. Obsessive rhythms, the rumbling sounds of an aircraft, venomous and helicoid frequencies: Low Jack’s music seems to have less to do with techno than a primitive and organic trance, where Afro-Cuban polyrhythms replace the metronomic beat.
BLACK ZONE MYTH CHANT (F) : (High Wolf side project), heeft een nieuw album ‘Mane Thecel Phares’ Februari 2015
French drone/psych producer High Wolf, whose Black Zone Myth Chant side project’s album ‘Mane Thecel Phares’ album is tantalizingly described as an “exceptional slab of squashed, Afro-centric psychedelia”, consisting of polyrhythms, slowed-down vocals and, of course, lashings of drone, with influence from Sun Ra, DJ Screw and Vox Populi. Incredible Deep fried head music direct from the dome of Black Zone Myth Chant It’s gotta be the most fugged-out, abstract hip hop/drone.
MARTIJN COMES
Martijn Comes is a Dutch composer specialized in new media, sound design and electro- acoustic composition. He graduated at the academy for Digital Communications in 2004.
Comes’ music is diverse and goes from ambient soundscapes to technoid dance music to classical compositions. On this album he seems to search for a mixture of all of these delivering a rather special sound which finds its way between cosmic space sounds and abstract rhythms.”
“A good experimental and contemporary mix of ‘abrasive’ noise with underlying synths, choral style pad work, glitched/timestretched beats and percussive elements. I imagine it sitting well alongside music from Cristian Vogel & Jon Hopkins, with the more experimental side of Oneohtrix Point Never.”
“With Infinite Spaces and Beyond from Martijn Comes, IO Sound continues its string of stellar, ground breaking releases. Anyone looking to bring some new vibrancy into their listening oughta check this release out.”