010 is not the tenth in a series, but the area code for the city of Rotterdam, from which all of these sounds were sourced. On the surface, this is an electronic album, but below the surface, it’s the heartbeat and texture of a city. Regular readers will recall Lakker’s Struggle & Emerge, which used a similar approach. This is the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision’s follow-up to that…
The free download of ‘010′ Fog Mountain x RE:VIVE is available now!
Full tracklist:
1. Roly Porter - Sint Laurenskerk
2. HOEK - Haven
3. Nukubus - Coming From
4. Consulate - Nieuw Maas Terreur
5. Bas Mooy - Maashaven
6. Drvg Cvltvre - Glass, Steel and Skulls
7. Mill Burray - Bring It In
8. Lemontrip - Middelland
9. Fis - Drain Torch
10. Meta - Eva
11. BZGRL - Koppelen
12. Anik - Maastunnel
13. Oaktree - The City Is A Jungle
14. LWA - View From The Euromast
Driving tests, cars falling into canals, Luilak and a magical cat provide the visuals for this futuristic jam.
New track and new video for the RE:VIVE and Fog Mountain compilation out now! 'Damrak' release date in less then a week!
Track produced exclusively by Hague based artist Mill Burray for the RE:VIVE Initiative, based on a MIDI output of flanco-flemish composer Josquin des Prez's "Missa Pange Lingua".
EO REVIEW | NECK DEEP + STATE CHAMPS | 30 AUGUST 2014 | CHRISTCHURCH
We were lucky enough to send our photographer Amanda Hailwood down to Christchurch this past weekend to cover the Christchurch leg of the NZ Neck Deep + State Champs tour. Here’s what she has to say about the night.
Before I begin I want to confess my love for Christchurch. You guys go hard. I’m not quite sure why I expected anything less, but after attending the R18 Auckland gig I definitely had some high expectations for the crowd. These were definitely met by you guys.
First band up on the night was meant to be This Disaster, but due to some technical difficulties they were swapped with Selfhood. If you’ve followed this blog then you’ll probably notice that we’ve worked with the boys from Selfhood before, and for good reason. Frontman Matt Clark did an amazing job of firing up the crowd and getting them amped.
Clark exclaimed with great enthusiasm (and an abundant use of the f word) how happy he was to be there. The crowd roared back at him even more enthusiastically, and it was then that I realized how good of a show I was in for. Clark made the most of his power on the stage, calling out at one point ‘repeat after me: Kyran is attractive’. This was the only time that he was met with an absolute dead silence, however Kyran assured me the next day that people came up to him afterwards to tell him how attractive he was, and apoligized for not knowing how to say his name.
Up next was This Disaster. A band that i’d heard crazy good things about. They were once described to me as ‘being just as perfect as All Time Low are on stage’. So I was expecting some great things to come from their set. They roared through their set list with the kind of expertise that can only come from years of being on stage. Towards the end I put down my camera and just enjoyed their show, because it’s not often you hear a local band sounding that polished on stage.
Anyone who knows me knows that I think Braves are one of the best bands in New Zealand right now, so I decided to put away the camera for the first few songs, and get in amongst the crowd. It was here that the crowd really started to go wild. I’ve seen Braves countless times at Auckland shows, but this might have just been their best show yet. Lead singer Nico Batenburg was going crazy over the crowds reactions, handing over the mic to anyone and everyone who wanted to shout his lyrics back to him.
A few songs in Batenburg jokingly called for a circle pit to be formed, and the Christchurch crowd quickly followed his command. As I picked up my camera to shoot the rest of their set I really began to appreciate how crazy the crowd was, with people tumbling onto the stage and diving back off every few minutes. Even bassist David Newman changed up his usual routine of playing with his back to the crowd, and faced the crowd for the bulk of their set. In the words of someone I once met at an Auckland Braves show ‘you know it’s a good show if Newman turns round for a bit’. They powered through the rest of their set, playing crowd favourites from their EP, as well as their latest release Surgery. They closed their set with a song so new that it still didn’t have a name, Batenburg said that he was open to suggestions for this, and he was quickly met with the reply of ‘Cheesecake!’. I guess we’ll have to wait for it to be released to see whether or not this turns into a real thing.
State Champs took to the stage soon after, and you could see the crowd radiating with excitement as they began to set up.
Opening with their anthem like ‘Deadly Conversation’ the band lunged into a set full of energy as frontman Derek Discanio threw himself around with the members of the crowd that were constantly tumbling onto the stage. Despite guitarist Tony Diaz experiencing minor guitar trouble in the form of a broken string occurring during the first song, a quick guitar swap was made and the band continued to power through without a single worry. As the number of people stage diving grew, the energy rose with each member of the band thoroughly enjoying playing to such an enthusiastic crowd. Discanio began to lose his voice near the end of their set due to being sick, so he offered the mic to a group of kids who lunged forward and screamed along to the final song with the high hopes of the band returning again in the near future.
Closing the show was the UK band Neck Deep, who asked the crowd if anyone would play drums for them because they didn’t have a drummer. Guitarist Lloyd Roberts quickly took a set by the drums, and began to operate the kick drum while Bassist Fil Thorpe-Evans tapped away at the cymbals. This continued on for a few minutes before Drummer Dani Washington made an appearance.
The crowd absolutely roared as Neck Deep kicked in to their first few songs. Front man Ben Barlow exclaimed to the crowd how excited he was to visit New Zealand, and talked about how excited he’d be to return. This was met with some crazy screams from the Christchurch crowd, the crowd went absolutely mental for Neck Deep’s set, with Barlow feeding off this, and encouraging everyone to get crazier, whilst helping up anyone who fell over in the crowd. They closed the set with an encore of ‘Damsel in Distress’, and I gave in and broke gig photographer code by singing along while I was shooting. But so were all the other photographers on the night so I didn’t feel even half bad.
I fell in love with Christchurch at that show, you’re all such nice people, and you all go so crazy in the pit. In the words of Matt Clark ‘there are a lot less shows, although when we do have them, they’re really awesome’.
I can’t wait to come back and visit and go to more shows. Until then, i’ll be tending to my bruises from my ten minutes in the pit. You guys all rule.
A huge thanks goes out to Olly from ODR Productions for putting on yet another rad tour, and giving us the chance to see it all up close.
