Mental Beat #0
Mental Beat is an old-fashioned paper fanzine devoted to punk rock.
Content: Ginger Wildheart (english text)
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes (english text)
Iggy & the Stooges,
Punk Magazine…
Cover girl: Pepper, American Horror Story – Asylum
Language: Italian, English
Pages: 28
Size: 21 x 15 cm
3 €
The Word Vol. 1 / Is. 3
“The third rate edition”
The Word Magazine is bi-annual print publication with international aspirations and a thick Belgian accent that documents neighbourhood living, photography, fashion, music and the arts.
In this issue:
• Belgian visual artist ANNE-MIE VAN KERCKHOVEN on the importance of scketching.
• The unlikely tale of THE 70,000 VHS TAPE OBSESSIVE.
• The neighbourhood crowing of MARCEL, THE ELECTRO REPAIR MAN.
• The institutionalisation of BELGIUM’S AUTOMATIC BREAD DISPENSERS.
• THE BEST PARTY TENT IN THE WORLD – and it’s Belgian!
• The NOISE-PUNK-ROCK emerging from the country’s French-speaking quarters.
• Eminent Belgian painter LUC TUYMANS on turning points.
• The upper crust of THE COUNTRY’S MOST PROMISING ARTISTS captured in our brand new offices.
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Motto Disco 11: Standish/Carlyon
Motto Mix 11: STANDISH/CARLYON by Mottobooks on Mixcloud
Standish/Carlyon are Conrad Standish and Tom Carlyon, formerly of The Devastations. The ‘futurist dub pop’ duo recently released their debut album, Deleted Scenes, and here they provide the eleventh installment of the Motto Disco series.
Motto Disco 10: M.E.S.H.
Motto Mix 10: M.E.S.H. by Mottobooks on Mixcloud
M.E.S.H. (PAN / Dyssembler / JANUS) is Berlin based producer, James Whipple. He provides the tenth installment of the Motto Disco series.
B-side of Onomatopeic Music. Yuri Suzuki. Dent-De-Leone, Clear Edition & Gallery.
Is it a bird, is it a book? No, it’s BOOM, a visualisation of Yuri Suzuki’s sonic works. If an image is worth a thousand words, it can probably be worth a soundscape, a song or both, however cacophonic. Contributions by DMX Krew, Simone Grant, Tim Hunkin, Momus, Nobumichi Tosa (Maywa Denki) and Åbäke
Edition: 808 copies
Year: 2012
Language: Mostly visual, captions in English
Binding: Thread bound in black thread
Editor: Yuri Suzuki & Åbäke
Text read by: Momus
29 €
Form Next To Form Next To Form. Nova Paul. Dent-De-Leone.
…is a book made from stills from Nova Paul’s 16mm film This is not Dying (2010). Two pieces of writing are included, Karl Steven’s liner notes on musician Ben Tawhiti and Gwynneth Porter and Nova Paul’s essay The Virtues of Trees that like a tree grew from conversations over a year, spanning into ideas of sovereignty, resistance, film analysis, genealogy and care of self and the world around us. RGB print processes were used in its design to echo the RGB optical process of three-colour-separation film itself. Whakarongo Mai, played by Ben Tawhiti on slide and steel guitar for This is not Dying, is reconfigured here on 7″ LP.
Year: 2012
First Edition: 1000 copies
Binding: Sewn
Special! with a vinyl
19 €
All The Knives. Åbäke (Ed.). Dent-De-Leone.
Any printed story on request.
Monsieur, aimez-vous l’art? asked the man with the hat. On a positive response Robert Filiou would show an exhibition contained in a hat to a stranger. All The Knives, the box, modestly listens to Mr Filiou to reveal stories from a pocket, yours?
An exhibition curated by Åbäke with Yair Barelli, Jochen Dehn, Dirk Elst, Aurélien Froment, Vladimir Ivaneanu, Sally OäReilly, Matt Rogers and Adva Zakai, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium, 18 November 2012 — 16 February 2013. Coproduction of Frans Masereel Centrum & Z33.
13 €
Zweikommasieben #7. Patrick Alexander, Guy Schwegler, Ezgi Polat (Eds.). Präsens Editionen.
August 2013
Die Tanzfläche
Modeselektor
Tin Man
Lee Gamble
Terre Thaemlitz AKA DJ Sprinkles
Jan Rohlf
Holy Other
Wie viele Clubs braucht eine Stadt?
Darkstar
German Language
48 Pages
8 €
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Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol. I. Rashad Becker. PAN Recordings.
*Pressed on 140g vinyl, packaged in a pro-press color jacket and a silkscreened pvc sleeve* At long last PAN present the radical, revelatory debut album of sonic fictions by peerless mastering engineer, sound artist and composer, Rashad Becker. Via his day job as a cutting engineer at Berlin’s Dubplates & Mastering and his post-production studio, Clunk, the Syrian-born German-raised autodidact has in some respects contributed more to the shape and timbre of contemporary electronic and avant-garde music than anyone else. He’s blessed with a heightened sensitivity to frequency and a love of bass and subbass which has no doubt enhanced hundreds of recordings and provided him an invaluable, hawk-like view of modern sonic aesthetics. With this in mind, the inspired architecture, dynamics and feel of ‘Traditional Music Of Notional Species’ can be heard as a deliberate and hyper-conscious bypassing of staid conventions in melody, harmony and meter, searching out and inhabiting the microtonal spaces between sounds with an in-depth understanding of their complex relationships and structures. Yet, far from being an avant-garde academic exercise, it provides a breathtaking richness of ambiguous human expression and emotional triggers, albeit from the periphery of human experience. His multi-tiered layers of oily quacks, slyding tones, convulsive spurts and spatial displacements present an embarrassment of fictional sonic capital, setting out a new and idiosyncratic grammar of computer music language with an inimitably exotic ancient-futuristic accent. For us it’s something close to a waking dream rendered in sound, it’s sincerely one of the most phantastical, far out records we’ve heard in a while, at once lending a gridless, human/alien aspect to the harsher sounds of say, Florian Hecker or Andre Vida, with the guile and unswerving, syncretic avant-folk vision of Ghedalia Tazartes and even the soured sensation of Korean classical music. It’s one of the boldest musical statements on PAN yet, and, if like us you crave genuinely new sonic thrills, this album is an absolute must.
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Sonidero City. Mirjam Wirz. Mirjam Wirz & Buzz Maeschi (Eds.).
Sonidero City – Sound system and DJ Culture in Mexico and Colombia, by Mirjam Wirz
“DJs as messengers delivering greetings between friends and communiques between rival gangs: Cumbia-rhythms slowed down to accomodate traditional dance styles. Low tones and ludicrously distorted voices. The Sonidero-culture of Mexico’s neighbourhoods is impossible to ignore.” – Jonathan Fischer on Sonidero City, DU Magazine 819 / 2011
The long-term photographic reportage of Sonidero City is an homage to the Cumbia DJs / Sonideros of Mexico City, who from the 60s to today have stood behind their sound systems’ mics, sending music as well as greetings across the capital’s streets. While some stack loudspeakers into massive towers, others stick to a modest set-up, spinning their own LP collections on 70s-era record players. They go by names such as Sonido Sensación Tropical, Sonido África, Sonido La Conga.
In contrast, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, giant flourescent- painted speakers called “Picó” spill afro-colombian Champeta music through local communities, where the accompanying dance of choice is called “polishing the belt buckle.”
Over the course of three years Swiss photographer Mirjam Wirz visited the living rooms, courtyards and dance events of Mexico City, Monterrey and Barranquilla. The result is her book Sonidero City, a lively visual collection tracing the paths Mexico and Colombia’s sound system culture have forged.
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Sonidero City – Soundsystem und DJ-Kultur in Mexiko und Kolumbien
von Mirjam Wirz
“DJ’s als Vermittler von Liebesgrüssen und Botschaften für rivalisierende Gangs: Cumbia-
Rhythmen, die auf den landestypischen Tanzstil heruntergebremst sind. Tiefe Töne und
aberwitzig verzerrte Stimmen. Die Sonidero-Kultur ist aus den Nachbarschaften Mexikos
nicht mehr wegzudenken.”
Jonathan Fischer über Sonidero City, DU Magazin 819 / 2011
Die fotografische Langzeitreportage Sonidero City ist eine Hommage an die Cumbia DJ’s/
Sonideros von Mexico City, die seit den sechziger Jahren und bis heute am Mikrophon ihres
Soundsystems stehen und Musik sowie Grussbotschaften in die Strassen der Hauptstadt
hinaus senden.Einige bauen riesige Türme von Lautsprechern auf, andere spielen mit kleiner Anlage aus ihrer LP-Sammlung auf den Plattenspielern der siebziger Jahre. Sie tragen Namen wie Sonido
Sensación Tropical, Sonido África, Sonido La Conga.
An der Karibikküste Kolumbien hingegen dröhnt aus in fluoreszierenden Farben angemalten,
gigantischen Lautsprechern die afrokolumbianische Champeta-Musik durch die Nachbarschaften. Das Soundsystem heisst Picó und den Tanz dazu nennt man sich gegenseitig die Gürtelschnalle
polieren.
Die Schweizer Fotografin Mirjam Wirz hat während drei Jahren mit ihrer Kamera Wohnzimmer,
Innenhöfe und Tanzveranstaltungen in Mexico City, Monterrey und Barranquilla besucht, daraus ist das Buch Sonidero City entstanden, eine lebendige visuelle Sammlung, die den Spuren dieser Soundsystem Kultur folgt.
Language: Spanisch / English
Pages: 224
Size: 19.9 x 26.5 cm
31 €
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mono.kultur #34: Brian Eno
mono.kultur #34
BRIAN ENO: REVALUATION (A WARM FEELING)
“I think of surrendering as an active verb, not a passive verb.”
Summer 2013 / English / 15×20 cm / 44 Pages
Interview by Irial Eno
Introductions by Jess Gough & Irial Eno
Portrait by Matt Anker
Design / published by Kai von Rabenau
D 5€ EU 6€ WW 7€
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