Connexion Bizarre News

 

Greetings, Connexion Bizarre was updated on October 27th, 2008 with a huge amount of content! A new compilation release, an interview with Displacer, several new reviews, webcasts, another instalment of "Business Traveller" and recommended links. A quick overview of this week's updates: Webcast: "Invisible War @ Connexion Bizarre" with music selection by Invisible War and "The Door to Cykranosh" with music selection by M. Reviews: Displacer "The Witching Hour", Fin de Siécle "Nine Barns", Bramble "Emergence", Nwodtlem "Video ?R8", Xentrifuge "Light Extinguished", Mathieu Ruhlmann "The Earth Grows In Each Of Us", Vladislav Buben "Prayers Of Steel - Prologue", V/A "A Weevil In A Biscuit" Media: a new installments of Business Traveller Store: be the envy of your peers by getting a set of exclusive Connexion Bizarre badges! All the best, Connexion Bizarre (www.connexionbizarre.net)
Webcast & Radio Show Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download ("Invisible War @ Connexion Bizarre" with music selection by Invisible War) Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier [exclusive] Gnaw Their Tongues - Teeth That Leer Like Open Graves [An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood - Crucial Blast] Pig Destroyer - Towering Flesh [Terrifyer - Relapse Records] The Rita/Wilt - Dead Wife Stalks The Grounds Part 1 [Werewolf In The Black Space - Cipher Productions] Koerperwelten - Kidney Stone of Wisdom [Avatars of Rape and Rage - Malignant Records] Battle of Mice - The Bishop [Jesu/Battle Of Mice Split - Robotic Empire] Dälek - Paragraphs Relentless [Abandoned Language - Ipecac] SPK - Germanik [Auto Da Fé - The Grey Area] Whitehouse - Dictator [Halogen - Susan Lawly] Brighter Death Now - No Pain [Necrose Evangelicum - Cold Meat Industry] Caul & Kirchenkampf - Darkness and Water [Sleep - Night - Death - Malignant Records] Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download ("The Door to Cykranosh" with music selection by M.) Flint Glass - Connexion Bizarre Webcast identifier [exclusive] Vromb - Urgence [Le Pecheur de Noyés - Spectre] The [Law-Rah] Collective - Amelisweerd [Inspiration - Ant-Zen] 15 Degrees Below Zero - Westward [New Travel - Edgetone Records] Concrete Cookie & the Maggot Farmer - Richard III [Mondegreen - Force Of Nature] The Triple Tree - Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You [Ghosts - Cold Spring] Contagious Orgasm & C-drik - Cross [A Journey Into Space And Time - Syrphe] Hermann Kopp - Locus Solus [Under A Demon's Mask - Galakthörro] Kryptogen Rundfunk - Always Let Me Be High (Never Let Me Down) [V/A - Rush For Black Celebration - KultFront] Voice_Electronic Duo - Wszedcie Obnece Ucho [VED - Monotype Records] Nerthus - I am Audiophobic Pt.1 [V/A - Hyperakusis - Audiophob] Tapage - Head Cage [The Institute Of Random Events - Tympanik Audio] Refuse To Die - Auf Wiederzein [Collection Of Agnostic Flies - The Eastern Front] Listen to the Webcast Subscribe the Webcast - http://feeds.feedburner.com/connexionbizarre Connexion Bizarre radio show @ Radio Zero The Connexion Bizarre radio show can be streamed every Friday at 23:00 GMT and Wednesdays at 10:00 GMT from Radio Zero.
Reviews
	Displacer - The Witching Hour Brace yourself for a hair-raising, ultra-chill experience. Oxymoronic, without doubt, but apt all the same when describing Morton's latest tour de force, "The Witching Hour." Listen to "The Witching Hour" past midnight, if you dare, but keep careful watch on the shadows, and be sure to glance behind once in a while... Read more
	Fin de Siécle - Nine Barns This is an engaging release no less of European sounding cinematic music, that is as strange as it gets. Organic instrumentation takes form with the prominent use of violins alongside guitars, female vocals, piano and analogue delay, and adds to the overall raw feel to the release and it's a welcome one at that. Read more
	Bramble - Emergence "Emergence", if we are to believe the press surrounding this disc is the result of vocal sound manipulations and nothing more. If this truly is the case then this has been done extremely well as the drones and sub-dark ambient sounds could easily have come from more conventional synthesizer sources. Read more
	Nwodtlem - Video πR8 "πR8" is a pretty interesting selection and it is good to see something relatively artistic being made with breakcore, as the genre does tend to be a bit silly and not massively creative - but this has proven to me that breakcore can be artsy and silly all at the same time. Read more
	Xentrifuge - Light Extinguished "Light Extinguished" has girth, drive, and pure adrenaline that successfully injects a much-needed classic Industrial sound back into the harsh EBM genre. This should appeal to fans of Tactical Sekt and notable fellow newcomers such as Wynardtage and Acylum. Read more
	Mathieu Ruhlmann - The Earth Grows In Each Of Us The theme of regeneration of the life cycle was the main inspiration for this new album, contrasted against the ever present threat of death as his sister narrowly survived a serious road accident. A very pleasant listen at bedtime then, but slightly frustrating to the listener demanding more happenings and variation. Read more
	Vladislav Buben - Prayers Of Steel - Prologue A lot of the time when passed a purely experimental CD I grit my teeth. There is a hell of a lot of experimental 'music' out there that I appreciate and a hell of a lot I simply deem as 'artistic masturbation', being very polite. Buben come dangerously close to the latter. Read more
	V/A - A Weevil In A Biscuit Overall though "Weevil in a Biscuit" just leaves you feeling a little disappointed and unsatisfied, regardless of the really great tracks. Here's hoping Bearsuit Records focus on the really great material and get some more releases out by those artists, rather than album length releases that are mostly stuffed with fillers. Read more
Media
	Carlos Ferrão - Business Traveller Chapter 29 of the ongoing suspense/bizarro fiction series Business Traveller". Read more
Store
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Links
Recently added RaubBau, record label Les Transnumériques, festival Netlabel releases spotlight Life Toward Twilight "Edison's Frankenstein" (Bottle Imp) Photophob "Skaphander Skanks" (Laridae) Various "Hills'n Trees" (Laridae) Recommended "Digital Maoism:"Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism" by Jaron Lanier (Edge) Online Ghost Stories Andreij Tarkovky's "Stalker" (Google Video) "Confessions of Robert Crumb" (Google Video) ECHELON to cast a wider net (via Xerode)