YANG LI/VE HUMAN MAS/CHINE AT LEISURE CENTER IN VANCOUVER
For Yang Li, the London-based fashion designer, music has always been front and center.
Depeche Mode: Monument
Some time ago in Tallinn, Estonia, I went to a Depeche Mode bar. That such a thing exists is emblematic of the deeply devoted fan following that the band has commanded since its inception. That Depeche Mode is a phenomenon that is hard describe is old news – it’s essentially a pop band that has blundered into the zeitgeist, instinctively grasped it and has held it tight to its chest for decades, more often than not not knowing exactly how or why. Depeche Mode is simultaneously surface and depth, lightness and darkness, seriousness and silliness. Its range of work runs from the cringe-inducing to awe-inspiring. It’s a band that has often been bewildered by its wild success, one whose members who for the first time knew they had a sure hit in “Enjoy The Silence,” ten years after they began making music. In other words, Depeche Mode is a band that despite its mostly electronic sound is quintessentially human. Perhaps this is why the world has been so generous to it, so patient with its failures, and so richly rewarding in its successes. Not to mention that the band’s influence on electronic music, from techno to industrial, cannot be underestimated, but that’s a whole different story.
Nine Inch Nails at Riot Fest
We recently got a rare chance to photograph Nine Inch Nails in concert at Riot Fest in Chicago. Our photo essay is below
Ryoji Ikeda at the Met Museum
For two days only, Septhember 6th and 7th, the groundbreaking Japanese visual and sound artist Ryoji Ikeda premieres his new work, supercodex [liveset], at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The performance is based on his eponymous 2013 album. The final installment of his album trilogy, supercodex [liveset] explores the relationship between data and sound through rhythmic and raw samplings from his earlier albums and hypnotic, enveloping audiovisual installations. If you missed his epic immersive installation “THE TRANSFINITE” at the Park Avenue Armory, this is a good chance to catch up. Tickets are $45.
Ali Shirazinia – Dubfire
Ali ‘Dubfire’ Shirazinia proudly wears the battle wounds of public self-realization not often found in the “everyone’s a techno DJ and producer” scene of today.
Black Asteroid – Thrust
This past Friday, Black Asteroid, who often spins at our events, dropped a new album called “Thrust” on the Last Gang Records label.
Black Celebration – Paris
Please join us for our biggest Black Celebration party in Paris with a special guest.
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s OSTs on Disordered Records
Out now on Disorder Records are three LPs by Alejandro Jodorowsky, OSTs to his films The Holy Mountain, El Topo, and Dance of Reality.
Juan Mendez – Silent Servant
Under the moniker of Silent Servant the DJ, producer, and visual artist Juan Mendez has built an inner and outer world so meticulously precision perfect that it demands we creep in closer, listen harder.
Dominick Fernow – Vatican Shadow
At first listen to noise-industrial-techno stalwart Dominick Fernow, (a.k.a Vatican Shadow) ears dive deep into the producer’s signature cauldron of doomsday heavy beats and grinding techno structures.