// Date: 11 September 2012
// Venue: Festsaal Kreuzberg, Skalitzerstrasse 130, 10999 Berlin
// Time: 20:00
// Tickets 15 advance sale
// facebook event
BLACK DICE (US, Domino)
SILVER APPLES (US)
MV&EE (US, Woodsist)
ANIKA (DJ)
BLACK DICE
For over fifteen years, the highly influential Black Dice have continuously reinvented and mutated punk music into new sonic stews. The New York based trio of Eric Copeland, Bjorn Copeland, and Aaron Warren have released scores of albums, EPs, and singles on iconic labels (Gravity, 31g,Troubleman, DFA, Paw Tracks), that document their musical travels, from raw brutal thrash to inside-out pop anthems from way out.
A decade and half of evolution has seen the amplification get larger, and the instruments more enigmatic. Drums and bass guitars have been replaced with mixer feedback, processed vocals, and alien sounds that seek to seduce and repulse impressionable ears. Using videos, live projections, and printed ephemera, the band has developed an over the top psychoactive audio-visual aesthetic that twists the useless pop sights and sounds we are bombarded with into infectious new strains of music and imagery that ooze a rock and roll spirit.
2012s Mr. Impossible, is the bands sixth full length, and their first release on Ribbon Music (John Maus, Laura Gibson). The album is the soundtrack to a substance-fueled teen basement show on Mars. It explores the uncommon ground between The Seeds punk primitivism, extra-terrestrial throbbing of Funkadelic, and discordant rebelliousness of Royal Trux. The record is informed by countless live performances the group has done worldwide, over its long lifetime. Band highlights from past eras were re-germinated, and grew into a new mutation called Mr. Impossible.
Consistent to every era and all of Black Dices material is an irreverent, aggressive, hand-made aesthetic that simultaneously revels in and reconfigures the whole of popular culture.
ribbonmusic.com/mrimpossible/
SILVER APPLES
Decades after their brief yet influential career first ground to a sudden and mysterious halt, the Silver Apples remain one of pop music's true enigmas: a surreal, almost unprecedented duo, their music explored interstellar drones and hums, pulsing rhythms and electronically-generated melodies years before similar ideas were adopted in the work of acolytes ranging from Suicide to Spacemen 3 to Laika.
MV+EE
Song-bending free folk legends MV+EE return to Europe for the first time in two years. Touring with a generator, portable sound system and 16mm projections in tow the duo's set up will be totally self-contained, allowing them to map out an alternative circuit of village halls, community centres, cinemas, forests, and other unsung locations in the month of September.
The dates synch up with a brand new full length entitled 'Space Homestead' out on Woodsist. Good time front porch vibes, heavy acoustics and zero gravity jams blend with moving image, moonshine and local ale in this untethered and other-worldly a/v show. It's a Village Thing. For the past fifteen years Matt MV Valentine and Erika EE Elder have been formulating an ancient-modern universe of sound from their homestead deep in the Vermont woods, via their own Child of Microtones imprint and a cottage industry of boutique labels, Ecstatic Peace, Woodsist, Arbitrary Signs, and 3-Lobed among them.
Their discography is labyrinthine, documenting a long term vision that has stayed true to its course regardless of passing fads, and places them at the heart of of the US psychedelic underground. A singular exploration of American songform and the unknown worlds beyond.
mvandee.blogspot.de
ANIKA
stonesthrow.com/<wbr></wbr>anika
Presented by:
Festsaal Kreuzberg
CTM-Festival
Digital In Berlin
Berlin Unlike
ByteFM
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