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flavorpill NYC | SF | LA | LONDON | CHI May 10 - 16, 2005

 
 Kevin Carney   
Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 257: majority flavor

While Tony Blair barely eked out a win last Thursday, across the pond we're still feeling hopeful about the possibility of mustering up true cultural consensus — at least when it comes to going out. Strong candidates for your vote this week are the Bicycle Film Festival, a discussion between graphic novelists Art Spiegelman and Marjane Satrapi, and the imposter videos of Slater Bradley. Meanwhile, dark horse contenders include a performance by un-funnyman Neil Hamburger, a punk-funk set from Andrew Weatherall, and a roundtable chat featuring off-the-wall actor David Cross. Cast your ballot, and spread it...

 

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Table of Contents
tue film: A Tribute to Susan Sontag art: ART*^<>@WORK discussion: Art Spiegelman and Marjane Satrapi
wed discussion: Topic's "Family" Roundtable feat. David Cross music: Ken Butler's Voices of Anxious Objects
thur festival: Bicycle Film Festival dance: Dean Moss & Laylah Ali: figures on a field; Kill Rock Stars: New Music and Dance for the Camera dj: Andrew Weatherall
fri comedy: Neil Hamburger dj: James Holden; James Pennington film: Kings and Queen
sat festival: Summer in LongIsCity art: The Muster music: Crazy Titch and J2K
sun theatre: Absence of Magic tour: Peripheral City: City of Refuge reading: David Bezmozgis, Laura Vapnyar, and Mia Yun
mon music: Willy Porter
ong film: Mysterious Skin art: Neo Rauch multimedia: Doppelganger Trilogy
feat good earth: Center for Environmental Research & Conservation cd review: Deadbeat, New World Observer downloads: Gomma
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Spotlight


Tuesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
A Tribute to Susan Sontag

when: Tue 5.10 - Thur 5.12
where: BAM's Rose Cinema (30 Lafayette Ave, Bklyn, 718.636.4100) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | Susan Sontag

A true public intellectual, the recently deceased Susan Sontag democratically embraced art both high and low long before the mixtape prevailed as our reigning cultural metaphor. Her cinematic passions sprang from that wide-ranging aesthetic, as evinced in this ingenious hodgepodge of short films. She touted Cuba Si!, which reflects the souring of her own love affair with Fidel's creation, and Interviews with My Lai Veterans' war imagery, and loudly lamented the poor reception of Godard's Goodbye Sarajevo. But it's Sontag's own image that lingers most, captured in Warhol's notorious screen tests before that famous white streak snaked into her hair. Our cultural landscape won't be the same without her. (LR)

  Susan Sontag wrote and directed four feature-length films. The first two responses to correctly name all four each win a pair of tickets to this event.



DISCUSSION
Art Spiegelman and Marjane Satrapi

when: Tue 5.10 (7pm)
where: The New School, Wollman Hall (66 W 12th St, 5th Fl, 212.229.5488) map
price: $10
links: Event Info

Graphic memoirists Art Spiegelman (MAUS) and Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) are testing the borders of their art. In his latest work, Spiegelman reimagines 9/11 through classic newspaper funnies. Satrapi's new book, Embroideries, is a panel-less comic in which three generations of Iranian women dish on sex and love. But while Spiegelman lives and breathes golden-age American comix, Satrapi draws on the equally vibrant tradition of France. She's part of the vanguard BD collective L'Association, which also put out David B.'s Epileptic. Perhaps moderator Françoise Mouly (Spiegelman's wife and the New Yorker's art editor) can bridge the panelists' cross-Atlantic divide — and keep Spiegelman's notorious chain-smoking in check. (TW)

  Which comic book hero or heroine inspires you the most and why? The most creative answer under 100 words wins a pair of tickets to this event.



ART: Opening
ART*^<>@WORK

when: Tue 5.10 (7-9pm)
where: 520 8th Ave, Suite 1602 map
price:
links: Event Info

Imagine it's 10am: you and your fellow Midtown cubicle-dwellers are staring listlessly at some mundane task when wham! — 18 artists descend and transform your office into a thriving gallery space. Fanning the fantasies of workers everywhere, the nonprofit group Ignivomous is sponsoring its own brand of creative corporate makeover. Artists and collaboratives, such as LoVid, Brian Alfred, Sabrina Gschwandtner, and N.I.N.E., challenge our workaday environs and the role of the white cube by tripping the nexus of desktops, #2 pencils, and the drones that animate them. Report to work, as tonight's added attraction features a live performance by Irene Moon. (NH)

Note: This exhibit runs through Tue 5.31 (Tue: 9am-5pm & Sun: 12-6pm).



Wednesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


DISCUSSION
Topic Magazine's "Family" Roundtable feat. David Cross

when: Wed 5.11 (7-10pm)
where: Show Nightclub (135 W 41st St, 212.278.0988) map
price: $20 / $15 advance
links: Event Info | David Cross

Long the bane of open mics and the lifeblood of psychologists, the subject of family is treacherous terrain. A thin line separates therapy (bad) from hilarity (good). Tonight's panel perfectly blends both pathos and bathos by featuring David Cross' misanthropic humor, Andy Borowitz's récherché shouts and murmurs, Jonathan Ames' wiry eviscerations of normalcy, and Meg Wolitzer's explorations of the sexual revolution's lingering stains. No New Critics here, David Haskell, Topic magazine's dashing editor-in-chief, plumbs the authors for personal details, anecdotes, and vignettes about doting mothers, distant fathers, and sibling hijinks. The event is a fundraiser for Topic, whose latest issue is devoted to all things familial. (JS)

Note: Free Stella Artois from 7-8pm. A private after party follows (10pm-1am).



MUSIC: Kitchen Sink
Ken Butler's Voices of Anxious Objects

when: Wed 5.11 (10pm)
where: Zebulon Café (258 Wythe Ave, Wburg, 718.218.6934) map
price:
links: Event Info | Ken Butler

It sounds like world music, but the visuals say, "What in the world?" Watching Ken Butler play auto parts, axes, shovels, fans, toothbrushes, and other recycled objects revives a sense of childlike wonder. Surprisingly melodic, distinctive, and delivered with conspiratorial glee — especially when Butler turns his skull into a percussion instrument — these hybrid sounds echo the urban mix. For this gig, Butler's backing trio expands to include Persian vocalist Haale and dancer Alisa. Enhanced by his artist's eye and deadpan drollery, a Ken Butler performance is never less than unforgettable. (CM)



Thursday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FESTIVAL
5th Annual Bicycle Film Festival

when: Thur 5.12 - Sun 5.15 (schedule)
where: Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave, 212.505.5181) map
price: $10 / $40 weekend pass
links: Event Info

Fixed gear-heads unite as the Bicycle Film Festival wheels into town for its fifth installment, with much to report from a momentous year. Among the 55 feature-length and short films screening, topics run the gamut from marathoning and messengering to protests, with two pictures (Still We Ride and Bikes Against Bush) documenting bikers' uppity anti-RNC rallies, which incited the NYPD's ire and recently resulted in the city bringing suit against Critical Mass' local mouthpiece, Time's Up!. But celluloid isn't all that's available — community events include a BMX stunt show, a bike parade boasting over a thousand pedalers, and parties featuring the likes of Blonde Redhead, Ninja Tunes' Blockhead, and Matt Safer. When else can you wax quixotic about Quicksilver? (JKG)

Note: All screenings also include free valet parking for vehicles of the two-wheeled variety.

  What reason did its inventor give for creating his strange, two-wheeled proto-bicyle in 1817? The first three correct answers each win a pair of tickets to a program in this festival.



DANCE
Dean Moss & Laylah Ali: figures on a field

when: Thur 5.12 - Sat 5.14 (8pm)
where: The Kitchen (512 W 19th St, 212.255.5793) map
price: $15
links: Event Info

Don't expect a level playing field at figures on a field, a collaboration between Bessie Award-winning choreographer Dean Moss and artist Laylah Ali. Moss' multimedia "kinetic poems" often grapple with the difficulties of assimilation in America. Ali, featured in last year's Whitney Biennial, is known for her signature "Greenheads" — stylized characters that transcend race. Innocents in a capricious universe, these expressive figures are incarnated by a cast of dancer/actors, playing out scenarios that challenge status quos involving war, religion, and the passive consumption of mass culture. At first glance, Ali's vulnerable beings all look alike, but this seeming similarity is the artist's jumping-off point to explore questions of identity and individuality. (CM)

  If you were a chess piece, which would you be and why? The most creative answer under 50 words wins a pair of tickets to this event.



DANCE
Premiere of the Kill Rock Stars DVD Starter Set: New Music and Dance for the Camera

when: Thur 5.12 (8pm)
where: Tonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501) map
price: $8
links: Event Info | Kill Rock Stars

Seminal punk label Kill Rock Stars tries its hand at fine(r) art with this modern dance DVD release party. The seven-part video is produced by KRS founder Slim Moon and features breakthrough pieces by choreographers from Young People and Leg and Pants Dans Theeatre. In addition to a screening of the DVD itself, the event showcases dancer/choreographer Katie Eastburn, with Emily Manzo playing John Cage's "Suite for Toy Piano," a live performance by Free Blood (featuring members of !!!), and Roxy Pain. With DJs John Pugh, Wolfy, and KayRo. (BB)



DJ
Pop Your Funk feat. Andrew Weatherall

when: Thur 5.12 (9pm)
where: APT (419 W 13th St, 212.414.4245) map
price: $10 / $8 advance
links: Event Info

The most memorable DJ sets often come when a selector ventures from the well-trod path of his main genre. Case in point: Andrew Weatherall normally plays around the world as a top-tier techno and electro DJ, but last year the Pop Your Funk duo convinced him to indulge in a one-off excursion in punk-funk rarities. The buck didn't stop there, as Weatherall weaved his way from A Certain Ratio to tech-dub with bits of industrial thrown in. Even the most jaded of music cognoscenti could get down, and by popular demand he's back for an encore. (CJN)

Note: Free vodka from 9-10pm.

  Which of Weatherall's early collaborators recently remixed a Soulwax single? The third correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this show — the fourth and fifth correct answers each win a copy of Weatherall's fabric 19 mix.



Friday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Kings and Queen

when: Opens Fri 5.13
where: Cinema Village (22 E 12th St, 212.924.3363) & Lincoln Plaza Cinemas (1886 Broadway, 212.757.2280) map
price: $10.50
links: Event Info

A messy masterpiece, Arnaud Desplechin's Kings and Queen is overstuffed with people, emotions, and endless pontification — operatic in scale, but never overblown. Tracking the parallel lives of Emmanuelle Devos and Mathieu Amalric, former lovers whose sexual connection is still palpable in the brief moment when their paths cross, Desplechin explores the loose (but ensnaring) ends that link us to passions of days gone by. Devos, a fixture in Desplechin's films, gives an omnivorous performance. Her imploring eyes and soft, childlike voice are wonderfully incongruous with the force of will that her character unleashes on all around her. Devouring the petty offerings of the faltering men who try to hold her, she is a goddess or a monster — depending on the eye of the beholder. (LG)

Note: Kings and Queens opens at BAM Rose 4 Cinemas on Fri 5.20.

  Which Desplechin film centers around a severed appendage? The sixth and seventh correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this show.



COMEDY
Neil Hamburger

when: Fri 5.13 (8pm)
where: Pianos (158 Ludlow St, 212.505.3733) map
price: $8
links: Event Info | Neil Hamburger

Neil Hamburger, in case you haven't heard, is not funny. Rather, he's famously unfunny, perfecting the timing of a swinging '70s Vegas lounge act with the sex appeal of a sweaty, bronchial Elvis. Fresh off a UK tour, Hamburger returns to the US to promote his first "studio" album since 2002's Laugh Out Lord (Drag City) armed with a new sheaf of platitudes, banalities, and humdrum observations in the worst taste possible. Cross your fingers that he includes a presentation of "Zipper Lips," his crowd-pleasing song and dance routine, and prepare to be assaulted by some of the most gut-bustingly awful jokes you have ever heard — all delivered with a wink, a mouthful of gin, and a hacking cough. (RH)

  What's your favorite one-liner? The two jokes that make us groan the loudest each win their tellers a pair of tickets to this event.



DJ
James Pennington (aka Suburban Knight) w/ DJ Dex and Archetype

when: Fri 5.13 (9pm-4am)
where: Subtonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501) map
price: $5
links: Event Info | James Pennington

Detroit's Underground Resistance is still the most influential techno label on this side of the Atlantic — and possibly the strongest, ideologically, in the world. UR artists and the label's highly centralized core staff spread a pervasive techno gospel, promoting humanism through music that many associate with the mechanical. James Pennington is the label's top dog, the author of classics "Nocturbulous Behavior" and "The Art of Stalking"; DJ Dex, long the label's glue in the studio and in the office, is also coming into himself, both with solo projects and DJ appearances. This is Dex's NYC debut, and Pennington's appearances in New York are rare — both are undoubtedly bringing their best stuff. (NP)

  At what age did DJ Dex first take to the decks? The fifth and sixth correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.



DJ
James Holden

when: Fri 5.13 (11pm)
where: Spirit (530 W 27th St, 212.268.9477) map
price: $25 / $10 before midnight w/ RSVP
links: Event Info | James Holden

Under the deft hands of globetrotting DJs, progressive house is starting to sound a lot more like minimal techno. Conversely, micro-purists' recent productions have veered into lush, anthem-like territory, causing dance music enthusiasts to proclaim that common ground has been reached by electronica's fractured sub-genres. Border Community label-head James Holden might well be the optimists' champion. In the aftermath of club culture's post-millennial slump, Holden, the former Bedrock wunderkind, eschewed the standard super-club circuit in favor of steadily building his label's stable of producers, signing current Kompakt darlings the MFA, while remixing tracks such as Nathan Fake's "The Sky Was Pink," a storming monster that has bent revelers' minds from Cologne to Ibiza. (JJ)



Saturday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


ART: Spectacle
The Muster: A Project by Allison Smith

when: Sat 5.14 (12-5pm)
where: Governor's Island (accessible by ferry at Slip 7 of the Battery Maritime Building)
price:
links: Event Info | Allison Smith

What are you fighting for? Allison Smith poses this question in The Muster, a mock call to arms, where some 50 artists fashion uniforms, construct campsites, and publicly proclaim their personal causes. Using a form of Civil War reenactment known as living history, Smith stages a spectacle of performances, which she hopes will give relevance to her troop's objectives. At a summer 2004 muster in Pennsylvania, Peter Eeley campaigned for the Right to Bear False Arms while K8 Hardy declared her purpose as Honest Enthusiasm. Anticipate a rekindling of both beliefs, and more, as this former military outpost becomes a colorful platform for potential change, no matter how offbeat it may be. (JZ)

Note: The ferry from the Battery Maritime Building is adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry in Lower Manhattan. The Muster is a project of the Public Art Fund.



FESTIVAL: Art
Summer in LongIsCity

when: Sat 5.14 & Sun 5.15
where: Various locations (LIC, Queens, 718.956.1819)
price:
links: Event Info

Though MoMA's moved the masterpieces back to Manhattan, Long Island City is still teeming with culture. Commence an art-filled weekend by touring the furtive Fisher Landau Center, an icon-heavy painting and sculpture collection. Then, drop into the nearby Museum of the Moving Image, where Porgy and Bess lights the screen and Digital Play recreates a video-game arcade. Later, listen to live music in the peaceful Noguchi Museum garden or let loose with Skeletons & the Girl-Faced Boys in P.S.1's courtyard. Hit the trail again on Sun 5.15 for two exciting sculpture shows: Make It Now: New Sculpture in New York at the stylish Sculpture Center and the competing Sport at the down-to-earth Socrates Sculpture Park. (YP)



MUSIC: Grime
HEAT: Crazy Titch, J2K, and DJ Cameo

when: Sat 5.14 (11:30pm-4am)
where: Crash Mansion (199 Bowery, 212.982.7767) map
price: $8 / $5 before 1am
links: Event Info

For all of Crazy Titch's Dizzee-baiting, violent lyrics and criminal past, he's been hell-bent on developing into a consumate entertainer and broadening his appeal as much as anyone on the scene. His recent "Singalong" circles heavenly strings around his gruff, throaty one-liners and braggadocious bluster, making it arguably the catchiest grime track yet this year. A new DVD shows him to be as comedically unhinged as his maniacal, off-kilter studio flow implies. The (relatively) more thoughtful J2K backs Titch on the mic, and DJ Cameo drops the freshest post-garage bangers. Word is HEAT's tightened its ship too, so this event should run as smoothly as the beats are rugged. (JL)

Note: There is an open mic competition from 10:30-11:30 (which also features an open vodka bar) with the winner to battle Titch and J2K.

  Which grime MC is Titch's brother? The second correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this show.



Sunday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


TOUR
Red Dive's Peripheral City: City of Refuge

when: Sundays: 5.15, 5.22, 5.29, 6.5, 6.12 & Mon: 5.30 (12, 1:30 & 3pm)
where: Chinatown (tour starts at the corner of Canal and Eldridge Sts, 212.615.6797) map
price: $20
links: Event Info

Brooklyn-based arts collective Red Dive began its Peripheral City series almost a decade ago. These interactive events use multimedia performances and theatrical flair to examine the cultural history and evolution of various local sites. For just over a month, Red Dive turns its creative attention to Chinatown once again. While nominally a walking tour, RD's dance, monologue, and music help transform our conceptions of this misunderstood mega-village, illuminating the role it's played for Asian immigrants for centuries. (JL)

  What is your favorite part of Chinatown and why? The most interesting answer in 50 words or less wins a pair of tickets to this event.



READING
Kinder Loshen feat. David Bezmozgis, Laura Vapnyar, and Mia Yun

when: Sun 5.15 (3pm)
where: Eldridge Street Project (12 Eldridge St, 212.219.0888) map
price: $12
links: Event Info

Literary émigré phenomenon David Bezmozgis took a small part of the reading world by storm when he published his first short stories in the New Yorker, Harper's, and Zoetrope — more or less simultaneously and with much fanfare. The debut collection that followed, Natasha, is a strikingly subtle portrayal of a family of Latvian immigrants who decide to call Toronto home. Bezmozgis is joined tonight by Lara Vapnyar, whose debut There are Jews in My House is, like Natasha, populated with wryly drawn characters and uncanny situations, and Mia Yun, another childhood immigrant and author (most recently) of Translations of Beauty: A Novel. (PJW)

  What was Bezmozgis' first documentary film? The first five correct answers each win copies of Natasha.

  What is the name of Bezmozgis' play that was produced when he was an undergrad? The seventh and eighth correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this reading.



THEATRE
Absence of Magic

when: Sundays through 6.26 (7pm)
where: The Brick (575 Metropolitan Ave, Wburg, 718.907.3457) map
price: $10
links: Event Info

What does it take to be considered a legend in clown theatre? Director Sue Morrison has achieved that status by creating idiosyncratic clown characters, who deal with everything from quantum string theory to cannibalistic expeditions. Her latest work is in collaboration with Eric Davis, whose impish clown character Red Bastard rouses local audiences with his inspired antics. The story follows the crabby clown on a quest for the glove of never-ending awesomeness. Situations range from the intimate to the utterly ridiculous, as our hero battles a disembodied voice and escapes an elastic cave. Don't expect this post-modern Bozo to just clown around. (SP)

  Which is your favorite clown and why? The five best answers in 50 words of less wins a pair of tickets to this event.



Monday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Folk
Willy Porter

when: Mon 5.16 (7pm)
where: Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St, 212.539.8778) map
price: $20
links: Event Info | Willy Porter

Kinetic singer/songwriter Willy Porter is the wild man of the folk music scene. Revered by his followers, this Dave Matthews-cum-Michael Hedges-at-45RPM is a virtuosic one-man band that must be seen to be believed. Porter sings while he scratches, taps, and drums on his curiously-tuned acoustic guitar. Always an original and convincing songwriter, his unbridled passion, inexhaustible talent, and good humor have been known to steal the attention when he opens for iconic talents like Paul Simon. Tonight, the spotlight is all his own. (JM)

  What cover song is included on Porter's latest live album? The third correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this show.



Ongoing / Upcoming TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Mysterious Skin

when: Now showing
where: Film Forum (209 W Houston St, 212.727.8110) map
price: $10
links: Event Info

TV's cuddly alien Joseph Gordon-Levitt grows up in queer film pioneer Gregg Araki's latest and most mature film to date, Mysterious Skin. In a breakout dramatic role, the actor plays one of two teenage boys who, haunted by memories of sexual abuse by their baseball coach, struggle to cope with the truth and define their sexuality. Based on Scott Heim's novel by the same name, the film is an unflinching commentary on molestation, portraying both sides of the coin: the pain and confusion, and the unconscious erotic energy that ends up shaping the sexual identities of the victims for life. (SP)

  What do you think is the most surprising film role for a former child actor? Our favorite response wins a pair of tickets to this film.



MULTIMEDIA
Slater Bradley: Doppelganger Trilogy

when: Now through Sun 5.22 (Sat-Wed: 10am-5:45pm / Fri: 10am-8pm)
where: Guggenheim Museum (1071 5th Ave, 212.423.3500) map
price: $15
links: Event Info | Slater Bradley

When artist Slater Bradley premiered Factory Archives, a blurry video of a singer resembling Ian Curtis of Joy Division, fans of the deceased star were staggered by what appeared to be newly found footage. Fooled by a double cast as both Curtis and Bradley playing Curtis, the film and related photographs filtered into the frontman's fandom, and left Bradley's audience mystified. Continuing along the same lines, the artist made Phantom Release, a simulated bootleg of a mythic Nirvana performance, and followed it with his doppelganger doubling as Michael Jackson boogieing onstage, seemingly caught on a fan's disintegrating Super-8 film. Together, these uncanny bits add up to a precious moment. (PL)

  Which of Bradley's short films shares a star with Gummo? The first five correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this show.



ART
Neo Rauch: Renegaten

when: Now through Sat 6.18 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm)
where: David Zwirner (525 W 19th St, 212.727.2070) map
price:
links: Event Info

Touted by many as the most important artist working in Germany today, the 45-year old Neo Rauch has emerged as the leading member of the Leipzig school of painters. Trained in the old school Communist style of social realism, Rauch is a remarkable painter who juxtaposes memories of proletarian workers and Cold War-era product ads with his own strain of neo-romantic storytelling. Working in a former spinning mill, Rauch weaves monumental figurative dreamscapes, where simultaneous, unrelated actions come together in utopian surroundings. In this show, the imaginative Rauch presents new paintings that mix hookahs with highways, jugglers with thinkers, and a hatful of similarly perplexing links. (PL)



Features TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


  GOOD EARTH: Center for Environmental Research & Conservation  

If Earth Day passed you by this year: a) you weren't reading your flavorpill (which featured recycle-themed cover art), and b) you're in for a rude awakening after you wade through Elizabeth Kolbert's excellent and hair-raising three-part series on climate change in the New Yorker. Fortunately, the folks at the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation are thinking about these issues year-round. CERC exists to forge long-view strategies and develop highly skilled leaders to fight for natural resources and biological diversity for decades to come. Affiliated with Columbia University, CERC's interests and reach are global: it sponsors research initiatives and offers up-to-date training for eco-warriors. You can get informed and show your support by attending its gala fundraiser or the final installment of its spring seminar series — both held on Mon 5.16. (JL)



 


  CD REVIEW: Deadbeat, New World Observer  

~Scape
Released April 2005
$16.99 (Neptune Records)

Inspired equally by Jamaican dub's rhythmic slink and Montreal's clean techno productions, Deadbeat's third album for ~scape, New World Observer, demonstrates an increased geopolitical consciousness and a broader musical palette. Middle-Eastern strings and rhythms surface on "N'importe Quoi," while Deadbeat's dexterity is most apparent in his gradual manipulation of singer Athesia's ethereal vocals into individual, phonetic fragments on "Port-au-Prince." He also samples recent news media — from a pitched-down clip of a right-wing radio commentator justifying Abu Ghraib, to a distraught Palestinian woman on "O Little Town of Bethlehem" — offering observations that are as political as they are musical. (CJN)


 


  DOWNLOADS: Gomma  

Gomma stands in esteemed company as one of the labels to watch out of Germany. Since its inception, eclectic releases from artists such as Midnight Mike, Mocky, and Hiltmeyer Inc. have spanned future disco, warped funk, psychedelic soul, and Chicago-influenced house. Here, feast your ears upon its mix archive, featuring some standouts from friends of the label. Bpitch's Kiki throws down a techno set from three decks, Munk represents Gomma's panoramic vision of genres with a set from Monaco, and APT's own Alec D offers a stellar mix from his lovingly assembled Italo-disco collection. (CJN)

Note: To access the downloadable mixes from Gomma's homepage, click on "mixtapes/videos (games)" in the left-hand navigation, then on "dj-mix." The featured streams will appear on the right side of your screen.



Kiki: 60 Minutes at Superfreak (Techno)
Munk: Live at Klub Erste Liga (Funk/disco)
Alec D: Italo de Ruggiero Mix (Italo-disco)


 


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