Connexion Bizarre was updated on 2008-01-21 with a new webcast, new reviews, new recommended events and links. In addition, this week we continue a give-away competition courtesy of Artoffact Records (see below for details).

Reviewed this week were Manufactura "In the Company of Wolves", Andrew Chalk "Time of Hayfield", Bitter:Sweet "The Remix Game", Indu Mezu "Chdetoria", Objekt4 "Shades Of Night", Dimension Zero "Scythe".
This week's webcast features "The Violence Inside You" with music selection by :JW: and "Chronicle 20080121" with music selection by M.




Individual Totem "WWW EP" giveaway

We have 4 copies of the limited-edition "WWW", the much-delayed EP release by electro-industrial legends Individual Totem to give away, courtesy of Artoffact Records label.
Delayed for years, this EP celebrates the return of Individual Totem after nearly 7 years of silence and heralded another release by this German duo on the Canadian label Artoffact, a full-length album titled "Mothfly", also released on Artoffact.
To be elegible to win a copy of this release we ask you to send us a list of all the full-length albums released by Individual Totem (extra points if you know on what label was supposed to release "WWW" back in 2001).
Mail us the answer at info[at]connexionbizarre[dot]net with your full name and street address. The deadline for this giveaway is February 3, 2008 and winners will be selected from the correct entries at random on that day.
Not valid for current Connexion Bizarre staff members.


Webcast & Radio Show

Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("The Violence Inside You" with music selection by :JW:)
Navicon Torture Technologies - Countdown to Messianic Perfection (0:23)
[There's a Price to be Paid for Dreaming - author CDr]
Propergol - Alert and Collision Avoidance System (3:19)
[Ground Proximity Warning System - Annihilvs/Stridulum Recordings]
Evil Nine - Crooked (5:46)
[You Can Be Special Too - Marine Parade]
Ambassador 21 vs. Fragment King - The Habit of Dying (3:12)
[Good Morning W. - Invasion Wreck Chords]
Boogie Pimps - Somebody to Love (Radio Edit) (3:30)
[Somebody To Love (maxi) - Data Records]
Monolith - Paralysed by Fear (3:32)
[Labyrinth - Daft Records]
Lesbians On Ecstasy - Tell Me Does She Love the Bass (5:46)
[Lesbians On Ecstasy - Alien8 Recordings]
NON - Great Destroyers (1:32)
[Might! - Mute Records]
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mais Où Sont Passées Les Gazelles (3:30)
[Lizzy Mercier Descloux - CBS Disques]
Lille Roger - In Himmel (2:47)
[Golden Shower (1984-1988) - CMI]
DJ Entropy - AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs (5:54)
[unknown - unknown]
NON - Cleanliness And Order (2:49)
[Easy Listening For Iron Youth - Mute Records]
Karna - Krisa (3:16)
[Demo]
Premature Ejaculation - Did The Doctor Give You A Pill? (2:07)
[Assertive Discipline - Dark Vinyl Records]
Moscow Machine Gun - Too Drunk To Fuck (3:15)
[Dread Kennedys - A Tribute To Dead Kennedys - Invisible]

Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download
("Chronicle 20080121" with music selection by M.)
Geomatic - Turn Of The Coil
[Blue Dream - M-tronic]
Flint Glass - Al Takwi
[V/A - Emerging Organisms - Tympanik Audio]
Mobthrow - Deathstep
[V/A - Konkrete - Spectraliquid]
This Morn' Omina - Osain
[Les Passages Jumeaux - le 33º degré - Ant-Zen]
Null Device - I Promise
[Excursions - Nilaihah]
Thermidor - Sub Levare
[1929 - Brume Records]
Talvekoidik - Eismeer
[Silent Reflections - Brume Records]
Lazyfish + Alexandroid - Swim (Uyuya)
[OS - Peace Technologies/Lagunamuch]
Abominations Of Yondo - The Last Continent
[Abominations Of Yondo - Earthrid]
Flaque - The Clouds And The Sun
[Mindscapes - Wycombe Music]

Listen to the Webcast

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



Manufactura - In the Company of Wolves
It would seem that Chris Ianuzzi sought to supplement his signature dry and minimalist sound with explicit club-friendly beats, an approach whose efficacy can be questioned, even more so in the context of a full-length album.
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Andrew Chalk - Time Of Hayfield
The biggest departure from Chalk's previous solo material on "Time of Hayfield" is the fact that instead of the album just consisting of a few long songs, we have individually titled tracks, the longest being in the 14-minute range and the shortest not breaking the five-minute mark.
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Bitter:Sweet - The Remix Game
Those of us that believed the trip-hop genre had nearly ceased to exist will find this release a bittersweet reminder of that all but bygone era. This is not to say the artists are simply recycling the sounds of the early 1990s.
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Indu Mezu - Chdetoria
Whether you term Indu Mezu industrial, experimental, glitch or ambient, you'll be somewhat off the mark: on "Chdetoria," labels are transcended and what is left is something more akin to an autobiographical soundtrack, constantly changing and evolving, as does the listener.
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Objekt4 - Shades Of Night
Skilfully composed using essentially processed field recordings and the odd instrumental element (a guitar chord here, a bell there), "Shades Of Night" comes across as the dark side of a meditation tape or, perhaps, even as an aural opiate.
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Dimension Zero - Scythe
While the CD would most likely appeal to a fan of electronic rock, it's time to call a spade a spade and admit that if you're looking for your standard EBM fare, "Scythe" probably isn't going to suit your tastes.
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Connexion Bizarre events status:


Bodypop @ "Era Uma Vez No Porto" bar (map location)
25/01, friday, 11pm-2.30am; Rua do Passeio Alegre 550, Porto (Portugal).
The "usual selection and latest news" of synthpop, electropop, robotpop, 8bitpop and bodypop!

Recommended Events:
Note: we are not directly involved in the organization of these events.


Enough Noise
2008-02-22, Fábrica de Som, Porto (PT)
Live performances by PS and Sektor 304 and after-party with spinning by M. (Connexion Bizarre)
Please check the Enough Records site for more information.


Recently added links
Crazy Language, netlabel
Kahvi Collective, netlabel
Terminal Station, audio/visual netlabel
Alex CF, cryptozoological retrofuture art
IndustrialBCN, Barcelona industrial-related events agenda
BCN Weekly, Barcelona's Alternative Weekly

Netlabel releases spotlight:
Various "L'atelier d'héphaïstos" (Antisocial)

Latest recommended links
"Merck Fragments, an explanation and education, further insight into the plight of independent labels
"Thaddeus Cahill's "Dynamophone/Telharmonium" (1897)"
"Suborderly Music: The Victorian Synthesizer"
"Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software" (Times Online), if this works as well as other Microsoft products we're pretty safe (or fucked, depending on perspective...)
Manned Cloud by Jean-Marie Massaud
"Pioneering research shows 'Google Generation' is a myth" (British Library, full PDF <a href="http://www.bl.uk/news/pdf/googlegen.pdf" target="_blank">here)
Darwin Awards 2007

Constantly updated links
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