Under its unpolished, crushing, leadlike, deserted landscape and more introverted take on existentialism, ‘The Road’ is not much more emphatic, yet just as implausibly overdrawn and puritan as any other serious postapocalyptic drama scenario to date.
Based on reflections on the landscape of the river Rhein and starting at written and drawn reflections Grischa Lichtenberger’s works by now cover an extensive visual, acoustic and theoretical archive. On the Raster-Noton showcase he ‘just’ folded beats and screened ‘glitches’.
At last, there we have it, eventually a pretty decent record that might be able to replace the ubiquitous XX record in every Mitte gallery or social media-laden digital bohème nest. Alas, Four Tet’s “There is love in you” already by now is such a bugger.
Even you possibly can’t beat analogue synthesizers in their domain: this was too much fun and not enough moments. Opening act Dan Friel knobtwisted for a long time until he eventually found a schranz approach which had some meat on its bones.
A MAZE. Interact is a festival about the convergence of computer games, art and music analyzing computer game culture from cultural, aesthetic and social angles with a focus on structural changes within the computer games area. All your base are belong to us, I guess.
Merging music, art, fashion and even science, Apparatjik are heavily inspired by the Bauhaus movement and especially the Bauhaus Bühne which is translated in their opulent and optically appealing stage setup. But on a musical level it presents itself rather undaring.
In the program of the Enstatir Sunghife night of the Club Transmediale festival japanese freeform noise pioneer Keiji Haino (灰野敬二) indulged himself in a abrasively loud havoc and cathartic wall of sound, coming as a relief as Merzbow and the likes.
In case you haven’t noticed yet, Drop the Lime obviously can do anything. And yep, that’s true. From sliced and chopped indie grime tracks over discoid mash-up frenzy to booming basses and catchy piano tunes, New York-based Luca Venezia mixes everything in sight.
In its best moments Dark Void really is a kick ass game. It feels almost oldschool and makes it easy to have fun as you have the sublime and heroic feeling of doing something cool as soon as you take the controller in your hand (like skyjacking UFOs mid-flight).