:: Thursday, April 24, 2008 :: Raoul Sinier PDF magazine
From: Ad Noiseam "Hello, Coming as a perfect reading companion to Raoul Sinier's new full length album ("Brain Kitchen", Ad Noiseam adn92), a free 24 pages pdf magazine is now available for download at brainkitchen.raoulsinier.com/."
"Featuring illustrations by Raoul Sinier as well as other artists inspired by his music, an interview, some drafts and three short stories (including one by yours truely), it should help everybody grasp better the intricate and plaful universe of Raoul Sinier. And you know what to play while reading this."
Raoul Sinier says: "The exclusives videos from the Wxfdswxc2 DVD are online (at last). Head to the video section or directly here to see "Wonderful Bastard", "Let the Wxfdswxc Hit'Em", "SkinFest", "Breeders Club" and, of course, many more. My two previous albums (more or less sold out) are about to be re-released in digital format... With a new "extended" tracklist, more details on this soon.
c64 says: "Greetings Folks, A little late on posting this, but a newer set from me none the less. Enjoy! C64 live at Wasted Festival - Berlin, Germany Friday, Jan. 26/07 [192kps / 137 MB / 1hr 40min]
01. Wisp – Beadumeagan (Sublight) 02. Parasite – Toxic Dancehall (Kamakazi Club) 03. DuranDuranDuran – Marathon Man **unreleased 04. Toecutter – Ode To Brendan Phelan (Painfree Foundsound Institute) 05. Cakebuilder – Savage (Ad Noiseam) 06. Istari Lasterfahrer – Self Blur Onload (Sozialistischer Plattenbau) 07. Datachi – Big Mountain (Sublight) 08. Ween – VooDoo Lady (Flying Nun) 09. Mochipet – Arpattack (Peace Off) 10. DJ Technorch – Boss On Parade (Rmx) 11. DuranDuranDuran – Throat Yogurt (Mutant Sniper) 12. Squarepusher -Modern Bass Guitar (Warp) 13. DJ Tugie - Kickin' It Hard (Audio Damage) 14. Society Suckers – Toxic (Painfree Foundsound Institute) 15. Noize Creator – Berzerk (Nasdia)) 16. Bombardier – DC (Low Res) 17. ??????? 18. Dr. Bastardo - Punished (Peace Off LTD) 19. Tom Burbank - Blabber Mouth (Planet Mu) 20. Krumble - Usual Terror (Peace Off) 21. The Flashbulb - Lucid Bass III (Sublight) 22. Knifehandchop - Ninjaman (Deer Hunter Riddim) 23. Venetian Snares – Koonut Kaliffee (Dross:tik) 24. Ruff & Ready - Dreadlock (Ruff & Ready) 25. Richard Devine – Arc-Acid (Hymen / Sublight) 26. Knifehandchop – All Over Your Face (Tigerbeat6) 27. Venetian Snares - Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die (Sublight / Bang A Rang) 28. Xanopticon - Symptom (Thac0) 29. Cakebuilder – Ignited Nations (Dross:tik)
Plus a reminder that this month's Skip to the End is this Tuesday (not Thursday) when my guest will be Rasha Shaheen who will be performing a live 30min set. Catch the show at 9pm from http://www.sound-unsound-network.com/forum.php Vex'd will be on March's cast now because he's got too many gigs this month.
Did I mention that Gusset's Ask Dr Kim remix album is out now on Death$ucker? Oh, ok. We'll, did I menntion that there are 500k MP3 samples of every track on the dSWAT page? No, well here you go.
Raoul Sinier - Huge Samurai Radish Trailer (Ad Noiseam) "12 new tracks including remixes and collaborations with Lynx and Ram, Datach'i, Vast Aire (Cannibal Ox), Wisp and La Caution. Out on Ad Noiseam in December."
[email from Ra] * I won the best "Animabrut" price for the Ev.Panic video in the Cinemabrut festival in Cannes. Check the full selection and videos on Cinemabrut's website. * Since I bought my first camcorder I recorded a few bit of Bleubird's awesome gig in Nancy (with Battles and Myself). Check it you Youtube or Dailymotion. * I also did a little video about my incredible new band, check it on Youtube or Myspace.
:: Monday, February 19, 2007 :: DVD Reviews - Semiconductor and Ra
Semiconductor – Worlds in Flux (Fat Cat)
"A DVD-Video of Short Films, Art-Works, Music Videos and Live Cinema Documentation" by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. I have to admit to being initially sceptical about this, worried that it was just going to be a load of typical club visuals presented on a DVD.
In places it is much more than that, with films of sunspots (untreated documentary data with a choice of 10 different soundtracks) and some brilliant art pieces with dissolving images of Paris, ravaged by mysterious meteorological events. Likewise the treated footage of the Northumberland coast and Earthquake devastated buildings are gripping "fictional documentaries." Their love of architecture is also clear and buildings have been subtly treated in such a way that you wonder how much of it is actually real.
However, the live cinema pieces are exactly what I was worried about. They really don't work outside of the live performance environment. Despite it being apparent that they were impressive at the time (several of them date back to 2002) it is obvious that the technology has already moved on and what was perhaps cutting edge five years ago is now something you see all over the place. The 200 Nanowebbers video for Double Adapter is the best of the bunch here, although it's not entirely clear how live this one actually was.
The highly abstract electronic music used though-out counters the feeling that this is club material, as there is almost nothing danceable here. There is some impressive noodling, some of it also live, but like extreme guitar workouts it's the sort of musical fetishism that is probably only appreciated by practitioners.
In conclusion, there are some intriguing moments I could happily watch and re-watch here, and would love to see performed in a larger, sensory immersing environment, but these are interspersed with some dated and more limited material that distracts from the whole.
Worlds in Flux is released on Feb 26th on Fat Cat.
Ra – Wxfdswxc2 (Sublight)
This limited initial run of this brilliant new album from Raoul Sinier, who I would call the greatest export of French hip-hop influenced electronica, includes a bonus DVD of his video work. Ra's musical work and video work are both just as impressive and together form something greater than the sum of the parts. Although the parts are all worthy on their own. The detail and effort that goes into both is staggering, evidenced by the fact that even the credits on this disk is a short film in itself.
His videos for ddamage are also presented here – compete with animated David Lynch, um, cameo – for completeness, along with a little easter-egg (a plus symbol appears at the bottom of the menu after viewing the stills gallery) of his "day job" material, in the form of odds and sods of ads and flash web design.
The album is more abstract than his pervious Raoul Loves You and perhaps even darker and more brooding. The music alone is perhaps not as instantly accessible as some of his previous work but together with the video it all makes sense.
It seems a shame that for such a visual artist the packaging is so sparse, but considering what a bargain the two disk set is already that is perhaps asking slightly too much. Having said that, I would shell out extra for a book of some of his material.
Brilliant album / video combo. Get it now while you still can!