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Sunday, 10 May 2015

Time Out For Fun with Devo

I recently re-watched this 1993 "Devo - the Complete Truth About De-Evolution" and absolutely loved it all over again. Not only do you get 20 of their best feature vids and special live footage of early gigs, but commentaries by Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Vasale, an interview with Director Chuck Statler and the Bruce Conner film "Mongoloid". A pleasant fast-rewind of this post modernist protest band's legacy.

Here are a few of my favorite videos from the DVD.

MidnightRadio Compilation - Artist Album Cover Art - March 2015

Here's some of my fave artists' album cover art from recent MidnightRadio Compilations. With permission from Glasklinge Zeitenlicht. Enjoy!

The SKIP - Fancy Style

CorvusMukuro Proyect - Qanta poem

delaytape - haunted house

Extacy - Kill A DJ

Morogh - Anam

NICOPOL - Angel

Proyecto Lazarus - Lost In Time

StarSpaceDrive - COUCH SHIP

Sylphides - Cowboy Ninja

X-TG "Desertshore" and "The Final Report"

For all you TG/X-TG and Chris and Cosey fans, have a look at this link for info on this collector’s item double vinyl, double CD, digital downloads and special edition double white vinyl albums of X-TG’s “Desertshore” and “The Final Report”. I particularly enjoyed “frieze”, the video footage of Chris and Cosey explaining how Peter Christopherson’s original December 2006 proposal to do a cover version of Nico’s 1970 album “Desertshore” album led them to taking it up before his death in 2010 and “I Live With Wires”, an indepth look at how Chris Carter created TG’s original sound throughout the 70s and 80s using his custom-built modular synths and Chris and Cosey’s musical progression to date.

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Berlin Sculptress Mona Fuchs

During my stay in Berlin in the mid-1980s, I was fortunate enough to meet Mona Fuchs through the Das CassetenCombinat crew. Mona was a sculptress who welded pieces of scrap gears, automobile parts, bicycle wheels, rebar, air filters, pitchforks and other metal together into minimalist metal art. She was gracious enough to exhibit an installation of her artworks for one of my live performances. Here are some photos taken at her atelier and video stills of how I integrated her sculptures into my performance.

The Ramones – Live at German Television – The Musikladen Recordings

I’d thought I had heard every Ramones record but when I recently received the 1978/79 Musikladen Recordings LP in 180 gram vinyl plus the live DVD, I was blown away. Not only is the record remarkable considering it was recorded live using late 70s technology, but the DVD includes an additional 14 minutes of material and is a nice touch to this collector's item. The gatefold cover art depicts the live show and close-ups of the band in grainy VHS video stills. The Ramones play 25 songs in under 50 minutes with only Dee Dee Ramon’s iconic rapid fire “1-2-3-4” as a breather between takes. That left a stunning 2:00 minutes or under for each song. The band starts with “Rockaway Beach” and storms through the set list with a ferocity that only the Ramones were capable of, ending with “We Are A Happy Family”.

Here’s a few of my fave Musikladen vid clips.