Feb 25: Cotopaxi / Humus / DJ Bonzai Tarzan / DJ Paratonnerre

Music City presents

THIS SATURDAY FEB 25, 8PM

at The Student

Rue des Palais 76, 1000 Brussel

COTOPAXI
HUMUS
DJ BONZAI TARZAN
DJ PARATONNERRE

DJ COSMO KNEX

COTOPAXI

Cotopaxi is the playful project of Johann (aka Fyoelk) and Hannah (aka Moemlien). Both schooled at a young age to be free with sound they manage to create interesting compositions almost out of thin air, with great sensitivity for dynamics and balance. Their approach is warm and positive resulting in a 'good times' feel that will leave a smile in the hearts of the listener, so in their own way they are making the world a better place.

http://stenzequo.blogspot.com

HUMUS

A multi-layered substratum, an organic sound matter shining under a full moon sky. Here music, like some appetizing ground digested by enthusiastic worms, reveals the very nature of compost: a gift from the earth.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Compost_Heap.jpg/220px-Compost_Heap.jpg

DJ BONZAI TARZAN

Bonzai Tarzan has worked as a guardian at Doctor Evariste Ossip Natural History Museum for over twenty years. He usually spends his days at the Tropical Bonzai Forest section nourishing the colony of Liliputean monkeys that live happily amidst the lush foliage.

http://m-u-s-i-c-c-i-t-y.blogspot.com/p/dj-bonzai-tarzan.html

DJ PARATONNERRE

Bric & broc, playas, warmth, collages, breaks, clumsiness, gratitude.

http://bit.ly/w58bKm

http://bfkn.wordpress.com

DJ COSMO KNEX

Triple feet fast dancing.

http://bit.ly/y8bny1

Fuming videonarrative by SMOKESCREEN SELECTOR.

http://bit.ly/zagp50

Special gift print by ZULLY ADLER.

http://goatytapes.com

DJ Bongo Man: Choc Thermique (MP3 version)

Here's the digi-version of a now sold out tape.

The present Bongo mix focuses on the 1985-1992 sound, compiling tracks from Togo to Congo all displaying a peculiar interest for the use of electronic gear, following a retro forward thinking approach. Topics approached in these songs are: love, fun, faith and the missing homeland. File under: computerized soukous, shangaan jive, kwasa kwasa, digi dancehall. Released on the occasion of DJ Bongo Man Suomi tour, November 2011. I would like to dedicate this tape to all my Finnish friends in Tampere, Jyväskylä and Helsinki: may this one help you fuel the coming Winter with light and positive energy.

James Ferraro: Rapture Adrenaline DVD

Now also available on DVD!

JAMES FERRARO: Rapture Adrenaline
DVD / VHS / 15 EUR
Coproduced by Music City and Hundebiss Visions

DVD / 15 EUR / All regions / 94 min / Includes a special bonus interview: "Welcome to Candyland"

VHS / 15 EUR / Last available tapes of an edition of 150 numbered copies / 94 min / Please note! This is a VHS PAL format videotape. It will play on most of VHS players in Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Western Europe. The following countries and areas are normally included in a PAL region release

RAPTURE ADRENALINE is a 94 min epic science-action movie from 2009.

STORYLINE

Set in a crime-ridden Rochester, New York in the near future, RAPTURE ADRENALINE centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg. The main plot of the movie revolves around a "Bug" (code word for a member of an alien species that is similar in many ways to a very large cockroach) searching for a miniature galaxy which is also a vast energy source. "Acid Eagle" is the president of Hell-TV (Channel 83, Cable 12), a sleazy television station specializing in sensationalistic programming. Displeased with his station's current lineup (which mostly consists of softcore pornography), Professor Pizza is on a seemingly endless quest for something that isn't so "soft" and will "break through" to a new audience. The rescue turns out to be a fake; the two climbers are taken prisoner by a group of ruthless thieves. The driver is now a hostage trapped by his own seatbelt. However, the robot becomes smarter and more dangerous as it plays putting the boy and his friends in mortal danger. In addition to being an action film, the movie includes larger themes regarding the media, resurrection, gentrification, corruption, and human nature.

REVIEW

RAPTURE ADRENALINE is a virtual videogame car chase through the veins of hyperreality seen through fragments of US movies – mostly produced in the 1990s and diffracted by the euro-lens of Dutch subtitling and French dubbing. To achieve optimal melting these fragments have been transferred from tapes, DVDs and computer files to VHS.

Hollywood is here mirrored, xeroxed, enlarged, cropped and disfigured in order to burn a passage to the next dimension – one defined by cars, weapons, heroes, planes, corpses, space/time machines, virtual reality gods, babies, aliens, animals, dinosaurs... all piled up till reaching new, transcended levels in speed, power, tension, evolution, hi-tech, destruction, sense of space and fear of death… ultimately conveying adrenaline through fear – until you reach meditation point: blue screen. Blue screen is a concept used in computer science to define a state of technological crash, the burn out of the machine, overstimulated by too many demanding applications. The blue screen of death is caused by a fatal system error and is the error screen displayed by the operating system upon encountering a critical error, of a non-recoverable nature, that causes the system to crash.

RAPTURE ADRENALINE is an educational mixtape program, a cyber marine combat training video designed through primitive editing techniques – rough in terms of means yet subtle in their development, displaying a remarkable sense of composition and dynamics plus a peculiar attention to shapes and textures. Operating mythological transformations of popular movie iconography, it reaches the merging point of the magical and the political.

– Fabrizio Terranova & Xavier García Bardón, Chinotto Beach

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