bird of parallax

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as a sephardic jewess and indigenous person, i can promise you that the sun will freeze before my people are branded and sent to concentration camps again.

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Download full booklet.

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all i ever listen to anymore is israeli hip hop everything else is meaningless at this point

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La URSS. Brooklyn, NY. 2016

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Efialtis, a badass all-girl British punk band with lyrics in Greek. DO NOT MISS OUT!

download ~ demo.

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I'm moving to Haifa in June hmu

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The Yugoslav black wave cinema of the sixties and the seventies is one of the grand, though hidden, chapters of cinema history. Talented young authors, working under the sign of individual expression and aesthetic experimentation, pushed and explored the limits of the constraints of a socialist state. Their efforts lead to a new path of visual expression, so outstanding by its social and political engagement, its formal invention and its courage. 



This book is the result of a multi-disciplinary research attempting to cross over politics, philosophy, design, art, architecture, and some speculative thinking. Starting from archival work, interviews, seminars, screenings and a conference, Surfing the Black has found its (temporary) conclusion in a publication consisting of six theoretical essays and three fanzines that open up the black wave film experience to current affairs. This is Yugoslavia, and modern cinema, at its blackest and brightest.

With six theoretical essays (by Boris Buden, Pavle Levi and Owen Hatherly, among others) and fanzines comprising an interview with one of the most important Yugoslav filmmakers, Želimir Žilnik, and a comprehensive glossary of terms that belong to the period and field of Yugoslav culture and politics, this is the first book on the subject in the English-speaking world. (x)

download ~ Surfing the Black - Yugoslav Black Wave Cinema and Its Transgressive Moments

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"Foie Gras is unabashedly loud and mystic, gentle and soft. Guitar driven, she lives at the intersections of secure drone and reimagined Americana, as if Brian Eno and Patsy Cline have committed themselves to an endless and passionate love affair. Wake up, this is where your daughters have wandered off to."

download ~ godlike

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Gretchen Snakes is the solo project of Nü Sensae’s Brody McKnight (whom has also played/currently plays in other musical outfits such as Heavy Chains, Mutators, Sex Negatives, etc). McKnight’s solo moniker goes along the same vein as Psychedelic drone acts such as Thuja, Suzuki Junzo, etc. 

Most of Gretchen Snakes music is available for download and streaming through bandcamp and SoundCloud.

Download ~ The Complete History of Modern Medicine.

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Recorded to 4-track at Tong-Yi Studios. Keyboards, radio, karaoke.

Six tracks of industrial love here. Chicklette sings for Angels in America. She sees personal trauma where I see vanilla ice cream and sprinkles. Lana Del Rey and Katy Perry covers become agents of dark fantasy and self-flagellation. Hello Kitty, an emblem of humiliation and disgust.

Chicklette’s not upset, though. She talked about splashing in the local pool between cuts, feeding her fish Rex, eating popcorn. There’s no willful fuckedupness here. She’s just soundproofing the basement with oilies. (x)

Download ~ The Loneliest Bitch.

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Psychic TV Interview from Unsound #5.

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Amazing LP of primitive, murky minimal electronics which was originally released in 1981 on the legendary, Osaka based Vanity Records (early Sympathy Nervous, Dada, Sab, BGM, the mindblowing Music Box Set, etc..). The labels stock-in-trade (aside from a few titles such as Aunt Sally) was raw, electronic experimentation which sounds impressively comtemporary when put up against current glitch, minimal techno and laptop artists (this experimentation included toying with ideas of fidelity [or the lack thereof as is evident on first side of this record], recording techniques [hard panning, volume and frequency drop outs], etc..). Tolerance, consisting of Junko Tanage and Masmai Yoshikawa, were the only band that released a second album on Vanity. Their first LP (Anonym, 1979) was supposedly the source for the title of the second Nurse With Wound LP, To The Quiet Men From A Tiny Girl. The label, founded by Yuzuri Agi, also released flexi discs by artists such as Mario Agata, Kurt Schwitters, B. C. Gilbert & G. Lewis, Furious Pig (!!), Brian Eno and others through ROCK MAGAZINE, for which Agi was the music editor. He was also rumored to have ran VOICE records, which in 75-76 released the ultra-mysterious BRAST BURN and KARUNA KHYAL LPs, both featured on the hallowed Nurse With Wound list and reissued a few years back on Paradigm Disc. "[Vanity] was founded in Spring 78 and its positioned as the first Japanese minor label. "MODERN MUSIC", an extra edition of Rock Magazine in 79 had the following as the operating priniciples of Vanity Records in future. "We will produce records pursuing 1). Electronics Music, 2). "Music as Furniture" series (Modernistic Music), 3). Invation to Kayo-kyoku, 4). Music with experimental new vision (Punk., New Wave, Free Music, Modernistic Music, etc.)." The point #3 may be surprising, but it makes sense considering that Mr. Agi used to be in the world of Kayo-kyoku (he debuted with "Kougen No Bojou" in 67, and had the hit movie theme song "Ore Niwa Tenshi No Kimi Datta"). Unfortunately, it has never been realized, but its so exciting to just think about the singer who debuts with Techno Kayo (just my imagination) on Vanity Records." (x)

Download ~ Divine

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Eskenazi was the queen of rembetika, the Greek blues, a genre that sprang up in the Aegean’s port towns in the 1920s. She was a prodigious and prolific talent, revered for her soul and her charisma, as well as for giving a voice to the underclass: the displaced, the poor and the desperate. Yet until now, her music and the extraordinary details of her life have remained relatively unknown. During the German occupation, Eskenazi ran a nightclub in Athens where, despite her Jewish heritage, she managed to escape deportation thanks to a fake baptism certificate and an affair with a German officer. She hid resistance fighters and British agents in her home and saved the lives of many Jews – including her own family – until she was finally exposed in 1943. She spent three months in prison before being released, thanks to campaigning by her German lover and her son. (x)

Download ~ Rembétissa

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I made this compilation ages ago for personal use but recently updated it and added some new stuff. Some of the songs on here are proper good and I haven’t seen anyone compile it all into one zip before, so here’s my attempt at it. There’s a few early tracks acoustic tracks on here, some in-between bits and demos from Deathconsciousness and The Unnatural World, as well as some songs from Tim and Dan’s abandoned punk project Gate, which basically sounds like a faster, more aggressive version of HANL. There’s more information in the readme inside the zip. Thanks to Dan for giving me the go-ahead for this.

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Amazing stuff.

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Currently loving this.

Listen/purchase: Krieg by Brume

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P16D4 was a German band whose music bordered on the industrial and on the cacophonous. On their debut album "Kühe In 1/2 Trauer" (Selektion, 1982) they managed to fuse the playful irrationality of dadaism and the oppressive tones of expressionism. Roger Schönauer and Ewald Weber focused on an austere art and technique of loop and tape manipulation. Stefan E. Schmidt joined the ensemble on Distruct (Selektion,1995), a deconstructed remix of sound sources provided by friends in the industrial scene. The double album Nichts Niemand Nirgends Nie (1985) delved into musique concrete and electronic improvisation. Tionchor (Sonoris, 1987) collects revised rarities (x).

Download ~ Kühe In 1/2 Trauer.

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This is an industrial-themed Italian zine which contains interviews with music acts such as: P16.D4, Negativland, UMYU and The Nocturnal Emissions.

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