Comment: Exuberant energy at the North PoleBy : Rehman Rashid Email to friend Print article Putera Umno’s North Pole jumpers a long way from Jalan Sultan Ismail. WHAT was the point of Putera Umno’s distinctly under-celebrated North Pole jump? I guess you had to be there. They should all be safely home today, whereupon the rest of us might get a sense of what it’s like to jump out of a Russian military helicopter a couple of kilometres over the North Pole, into the whipping down draught of rotors whirling through thin air at minus 18 degrees Celsius, to plunge down through the Arctic ether and land at the Pole with enough breath left for a lusty rendition of Negara Ku.Not the sort of thing normal people normally do. But that was the point of the exercise: These were not normal people. They were adventurers. Risk-takers. Daredevils; brave enough to tempt fate, laugh in the face of danger, ride the razor’s edge, and p

Broken Toy is coming to Melbourne! Saturday 17th March will be his first ever Australian gig! Get ready for a big one!

Full-on psytrance room lineup is:

Broken Toy ( South Africa / Alchemy Records ) live & DJ

Triky ( Byron Bay / Triky Entertainment ) live & DJ

Hefty Output ( Illumi

1986: Started promoting parties

1992-6: Ran a record shop in London, UK and started managing DJs

1996: Left the shop to promote full time launching AURAL SEX and DJing there

1997: Closed Aural Sex due to DJ schedule in UK and around world

2001: Launched GOOD LIFE at numerous London venues

2002: Formed 3D (Colaboration with Pedro G/Portugal & Enrique Soto/Spain)

2003: Monthly guest on Ministry radio, produced debut album, arrived in Melbourne

Has DJd in UK including: Ministry of Sound, Fabric, The End, The Cross etc.

Has DJd internationally including: US, Canada, Japan, SA, Italy, Spain, Portugal etc.

Hi there!

We would like to introduce an idea we have developed for European bands & artists.

Every band is welcome to sign up to Church Of Noise & participate in the venue rating. Once having created your account you will be able not only to submit & introduce venues you have played shows at but to rate its work with the help of criteria such as sound, organization, care & catering. You do not necessarily have to submit venues but you are welcome to rate some which have already been submitted & rated by other bands & artists. Once you submit and/ or rate a venue you can leave a comment you should use to underline & express whatever comes into your mind concerning the venue & show.

At the moment we are looking for international bands from all over Europe to start adding new countries & venues to our databank. More than 200 German bands have contributed more than 200 venues already which have been rated around 400 times.

If you know bands or people who could help out - please spread

While more general music festivals like GlobalUnderground and the upcoming ClubMed have been getting the majority of trance addict and underground djs attention in recent times, it was good to see Heineken Night with its strictly dance-oriented line-up - and one appealing to dance music fans right across the board - take its place amongst best Hotel and Resort in Malaysia.

With the likes of Dj Remilex ( Rotterdam Dj) and KampaiTeam as well as DJ Haikal headlining the Godskitchen Arena and Broxdj and Digweed in the Global Tent, it was only fitting then that Lee should bring together the cream of Asian Techno-Trance in his own arena.

The Orb virtually invented the electronic genre known as ambient house, resurrecting slower, more soulful rhythms and providing a soundtrack for early-morning ravers once the clubs closed their doors. Now they invite you to join them to sit back, relax, and drift into 'The Dream'. It's been a busy year for the orb, recording the album, playing Bestival, and seeing the seminal number 1 album, UFOrb getting a re-release. 'The Dream' sees Alex Paterson and Youth at their blessed, and melodious best. Their history speaks volumes, and the future is certainly bright! Track Listing 1 The Dream [The Future Academy Of Noise, Rhythm And Gardening Mix]

2 Vuja De

3 Something Supernatural

4 A Beautiful day

5 DDD [Dirty Disco Dub]

6 The Truth Is

7 Phantom Of Ukraine

8 Mother Nature

9 Lost & Found

10 The Forest Of Lyonesse

11 Katskills

12 High Noon

13 Sleeping Tiger & The Gods Unknown

14 Code

SAFi connection - Parallel Realms - april 2008

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set genere: Psy Trance

stream bit rate: 320k / mp3

tracklist :

krunch - food

tactic mind vs silent hill - toun

unique - flaming

cycle sphere - enzyme

Switch-Universal Source

xerox and illumination - the vision xi remix

Safi connection - rock into the past

Safi Connection - D.M.A

Burn in Noise - Cosmic Haze

black and white vs quantum - time is my enemy dado rmx

RAZ - NO LIMTS IN YOUR MIND

2MINDS - Rock & Roll

cyber cartel - supersonic

beat hackers - make u dance

DIDRAPEST - OFRA HAZA

e-fackt - illusions

talamasca - roswell mania (dizzy mind remix)

cosmic tone - i volume cosmic tone rmx

infected mushroom - merlin (infected remix)

comments are welcome

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by Mark Kirby,

Whether you call it praise music or New Jack gospel, this genre is most often a classic case of "preaching to the choir," with song lyrics lifted artlessly from the King James bible and histrionic music calculated to "reach out and touch somebody's hand." Dear god. Luckily, Charles Laster II and Silvia Pratesi don't make this mistake on their new record Journey of Life. Their songs reference salvation, heaven, and living the Christian life but, like secular soul music, have an uplifting universality. Those of us who aren't Christian - agnostics, Muslims, those whose spirituality can't be pigeonholed - can still understand the positive spirituality that is the wellspring of Laster and Pratesi's music, and still get our groove on. Laster, who composed the excellent lyrics, and Pratesi, who created most of!

the music with a seamless combination of live musicians and samples, remind us how gospel and rhythm and blues gave birth to soul music in the early sixties and how a new kind of s

Size Matters!

From a DJ's viewpoint, the function room size is one of the most important factors for the success of your party. A room that is licensed for 150 evening guests is (reassuringly!) a much better atmosphere with 150 guests in it. If the number of guests were, say, 60 in the same room then crowds become patchy as they space out, and a lot of the intimacy is lost. If the only available suite for your wedding day is too big for your needs, ask if it can be made to look smaller using room dividers or ornamental screens.

Acoustics

Delights for all DJs to see upon entering a venue are lots and lots of carpets and curtains! All soft furnishings soak up sound waves and thus reduce that dreadful echo effect found in many village halls. High pitched roofs are also a bit of a pain where sound is concerned - it tends to rise up and swirl around in the rafters, again creating echoes and also losing momentum. Some of the most architecturally-stunning and historic hotels and venues have the worst acoustics

The Liberating Experience of Hip-Hop in My Music!

By Danny C. Sillada

INTRODUCTION

As a Filipino multi-media artist, I must humbly admit, I don't only compose and sing ethnic songs, needless to mention my ethno-techno compositions, but I also write and perform hip-hop music.

But why Hip-hop?

I. BRIEF HISTORY OF "PINOY HOP-HOP"

Honestly, though, I am new to hip-hop culture especially to the so-called "Pinoy Hip-Hop", imported from America and became prominent in the Philippines via some Filipino mainstream artists in the 1980s, but suddenly lost momentum in the early 1990s, and later resurfaced in the late 1990s onwards.

Among those forerunners of "new Filipino hip-hop generation" are young university college students who, out of disillusionment from authorities and the society, used hip-hop as a potent tool for protest and "self-expression".

One of these progressive groups, some have already graduated with degrees, is called "AMPON" (Absolute Messages Personified Over Noise). They come

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MAGMA Records, Italy's pioneering psychedelic progressive/full on label is back with a brand new dancefloor lifter by Drugon.Drugon are Assaf Arzi & Navot Uriel ba

Noisefactory is the Icompositions virtual band.

Techno/Dance track with some Industrial inspired growling vocals.

Music By factory guy Lyrics & vocals by Noise guy.

Get your Friday Facial from Glorious Noise in the new series, Faces Don't Lie: Expressive Record Reviews with Dylan Burr.

Parisian digital artist and producer Raoul Sinier has previously released two albums and a smattering of EPs as Ra through an impressive selection of labels including Coredump, Planet Mu and Sublight, but this latest EP on the Berlin-based Ad Noiseam label Huge Samurai Radish sees him abandoning the retracted alias in favour of his full [...]

The memories harbored herein play a sort of aural hide-and-seek. Austere sound textures and noise detritus are glimpsed through crevices that close like eyelids and occasionally open onto vast, largely motionless sonic shores. Track titles such as “alter” (the other) and nullus (neither) stand as concrete reasons supporting the intuition that these works serve as [...]

It is early to be sure, but I'll be damned if the opening track, "Your Far Church," isn't one of the best songs I've heard all year. Profound, scary and intimate, it implies worlds of emotion and menace. While the rest of "Saw A Halo" is not as intense and complete, this is an amazing release, on which Mouthus dig deeper and finds new power in their noise/post-rock/ brooding palette. The duo of Brian Sullivan (Eskimo King) and Nate Nelson (Religious Knives) explore the dark corners of hope and community, with a more concrete bottom to their soundscapes than on prior sets. The addition of acoustic guitars to the psych-drone elevate songs like "Armies Between" and "Beaches Sleep Here." All are more frightening (and oddly beautiful) because of that organic presence in the mix. This is not just a wailing, but reaching out for other mourners. They have added new colors to their psychic explorations, and found new ways to help the listener feel less alone in those dark corners. The closer, "Gift of Sighs," is jus

Seriously, it would be compliment to call the new missive from Thee Silver Mt. Zion & Tra-La-La Band) the soundtrack to nice sunny afternoon in the day room at a mental hospital. Really; with environmental sounds that sound alternately like they were taped out a window or in a boiler room, and the creepy but oddly comforting vocals, "13 Blues for Thirteen Moons" could easily be the antidote to despair. Or the trigger. With two violins, two guitars, cello and contrabass (plus drums) there is a lot of ammo to deliver emotional and harrowing noise, as on "1,000,000 Died To Make This Sound" or "Black Waters Blowed." Yet equally creepy are the muted, lo-fi interludes and long preamble, which in their way are more unhinged that the louder freaky-deaky. Guitarist/vocalist Efrim, as on most releases, makes you wonder and worry about him. He is not alone in chilling the spine, though, as he gets vocal harmony help that blend often to sound like a unified burst of deranged testifyin'. But "13 Blues" is another inner-ex

Adversary: Bone Music CD [TA006] - OUT NOW

Hailing from the Canadian electronic music underground after a decade of Techno and Industrial DJ and promotional work, Jairus Khan, aka Adversary, now presents his debut album three years in the making. While providing North American tour support for such acts as Terrorfakt, Antigen Shift, Cyanotic, Adam X, Iszoloscope and others, his many remixes of such Industrial Noise icons as Converter and Iszoloscope have enjoyed heavy club and airplay around the world.

Now, Adversary is ready to conquer minds and destroy dancefloors with his debut album 'Bone Music' out May 13th on Tympanik Audio. Hard Industrial rhythms meet enormous organic soundscapes to create what Re:Gen Magazine calls "...a balance between the brutal and the beautiful."

Featuring remixes by Antigen Shift, Tonikom, and Synapscape. Mastered by Yann Faussurier of Iszoloscope.

Get ready to rock.

Tracklisting_

Ancients

Waiting For Gira

Friends of Father

Bone Music

International

Connexion Bizarre was updated on 2008-05-05 with new webcasts, new reviews, new recommended events and links.

Reviewed this week were Xabec "Feuerstern", Moljebka Pvlse "Lode Lvx", Noise Dreams Machina "In / Out", Shrine "Distorted Legends, Pt.1", Edward Ruchalski "Territorial Objects", Wasteful Consumption Patterns "Solder"

This week's webcast features "asian eyes under the fade of red" with music selection by :JW: and "Soft Labour Times" with music selection by M.

This week, we begin a giveaway of three copies of Subheim's debut album "Approach" and announce the winners for the giveaway competition of the compilation "Antibothis" (see below for details).

Subheim "Approach" giveaway

We have three copies of "Approach" the debut album of Greek project Subheim (www.subheim.com) to give away, courtesy of the Tympanik Audio record label (www.tympanikaudio.com). "Approach" was recently reviewed in Connexion Bizarre and you may read the review here.

To be elegible to win a copy of this release please mail us

We talk to Peter Moren about his new album, The Last Tycoon, and what it means to be known as "Peter from Peter Bjorn and John."

Virgin Passages - Distance (Fire) Get your Friday Facial from Glorious Noise in our series, Faces Don't Lie: Expressive Record Reviews with Dylan Burr.