vrijdag 21 december 2012

The rise of the Neo-Romantics featuring AGE and Tobias Bernstrup

Maybe as no other era before our time asks for a new Neo-Romantic movement. It is evident the old ways of thinking with a focus on the rational and the paradigm of endless growth are not tenable...

In the 60's the Neo-Romantic movement was most visible in the psychedelic and folk music subcultures... and the 80's of course this was new wave at large with even a new wave substyle called The New Romantics. In both era's it was about dreams of the past...

Today... as it goes... all is retro... but at least some people are taking elements from the past to built new foundations to create something new. In music today most is still just retro minded... but some artists have this glow of something partly new around them...

This year AGE released one tape and two 10 inches filled with European folk music elements which are blended in a superb way with electronics... of course this is not new... think Garmarna, Sorten Muld and many other who have done this before... BUT... AGE prepare this mixture of the old and the contemporary in a sort of alchemistic way to serve you a ritual trip... it is sweet, lovely, deeply touching... simply amazing and some of the best music released in 2012...

Here is one piece from the second 10 inch released on Zusammen Records...

Another artist that fits the label "Neo-Romantic" is Tobias Bernstrup... he released a new album this year... which is his third... and best to date... with each album you hear the growth... the music gets better and better and more and more the sound is becoming something new and truly original and totally just Tobias Bernstrup...

Tobias Bersntrup takes elements from italo disco, synth pop and elektro and molds this into a style of his own... and with great success... and the themes he addresses are neo romantic for sure... it is about the decay of this world and about the decadent way we are living... and in doing this is about dreams about a new tomorrow, about a new world, new humans... a new age...

And so is AGE... they are all about dreams about a new tomorrow... about a different world... the true Neo-Romantics of our time are not just retro minded but dreams about the future instead of the past...

Here is a track by Tobias Bernstrup from his last album which says it all... we have no time to die...

And here is a teaser for the upcoming new 12 inch EP by Tobias Bernstrup on Gooiland Elektro... coming spring 2013... Happy Yule!

dinsdag 4 december 2012

OUT NOW: Various Artists - Exploitation 2LP

Out now is the "Exploitation" 2LP soundtrack / compilation.

Here are two more full length previews of tracks (next to the two already posted here... see below)...

Here is 'Believe Me' by Sololust...

And here is 'Fall' by Distel...

For sale now around the world at selected shops and mailorders...

woensdag 28 november 2012

interview: Rude66

Below is an interview with Rude66... who does hopefully does not need any introduction...

Q: It is almost 25 years now you are active as a musician and about 20 years as Rude66, not? What is the best memory when it comes to producing music, performing live, releasing music?

A: Yes, I did my first Bunker LP in '93 I think..but i released some things before that, my first one was a collaboration as 'Voice Of The Mute' on Dirk Ivens' Body Records in 1990. Some of my best memories were linked to places and people I looked up to. The first time I heard my own music on VPRO radio, that I used to listen to all the time myself. The first time I played in a place like Paradiso, on the same stage that my favourite bands had also been on. Finding out that John Peel not only played my records, but knew who I was when I met him.. Some of the best memories in the studio came from trying new things.. first time I used analogue tape to record, rather than DAT for instance. But also, and this is only in hindsight, that I was part of something pretty special that we accomplished with the whole Den Haag acid scene.

Q: And, what is the worst experience when it comes to the music industry?

A: Being ripped off, like many artists.. finding your name on compilations that you never knew about, and never got any money for. My first experience with a real label was an offshoot of Crammed Discs, and it was the standard rockband story: treated like gods by the A&R guy, big fight between band members during recording, issues with the contract, and never paid properly. Luckily after this I started working with Bunker, and these issues never showed up again in this form.

Q: The transition from acid to electro orientated sound… how did this evolve? Was it driven by the development of your artistic skills, or new machines you bought or were you just fed up with the acid sound and you ended up with electro after some experimentation?

A: It was a combination, but mainly being fed up with the acid scene, which by then was mostly people completely out of their mind on whatever drugs they were taking (we're talking hard stuff, not just some weed).. the whole thing just sort of imploded and at the same time I kind of felt I'd said it all with the 'sewer sound' of the early Bunker records. I tried drum & bass for a bit (the industrial kind) but decided that wasn't my way of working, only cutting up samples. So I kind of went back to my musical roots, which is EBM/electro/wave. By coincidence, several people did this same thing and it all sort of fell into place when the 'new' Bunker 3000 started and people like I-f, but also Underground Resistance in Detroit, went through a similar process.

Q: You are big fan of (analogue) synths. Was this always the case? Or is this just what you grew up with? What is special about these machines for you?

A: It's what I grew up with, and back then it was only because the stuff was cheap because everybody wanted digital machines. It's not just the synths though, analogue is almost a way of life. An analogue synth is a musical instrument, a digital synth is an emulation of a musical instrument, basically a computer. What appeals to me in the synths are their unpredictability, which translates into their sound and of course the interface, with one knob for one function. But for me also the whole analogue recording process is preferable over digital. I love the full sound of vintage mixers and tape recorders. I'm a big believer in not going with a new technology unless it's better than the old one. So many people have thrown away all their old stuff just to 'go with the times' and find out later that it sucks.. I've never been convinced that digital recording is better than analogue, or for that matter than cd's and mp3's are better than vinyl, so I stick to the old technologies until something better comes along.

Digital technology has its place when it can do stuff that analogue technology can't do, I use it a lot myself. But unfortunately it's mostly used to emulate vintage analogue gear, and of course the originals are always better than their digital clones.

Q: Many people I guess think Rude66 is you… but is Shaunna is an essential part of Rude66, not?

A: Yes, she is. I started as Rude 66 by myself, initially accompanied live by a scratch dj (who was also the car driver) but Shaunna slowly got involved in lyrics. About 10 years ago I asked her to sing live during gigs, and ever since then, she's part of the team. We share a preference for songs about the dark side of things, and often her lyrics compliment a track I made perfectly. I do the music and we either do lyrics together or she writes them and sings them, and a lot of times she improvises with them when we play live.

Q: You are linked to Bunker in many ways. Even though your sound is maybe today not really representative of the label output. How do you look upon this? Are you in a way the artistic conscience, representing the outer edges of the sound spectrum of Bunker?

A: I'd like to say that I am, though I don't know if anyone would agree with me..;-) It is true though that Bunker boss Guy Tevares and me have been involved together in music for close to 30 years now, and we both come from the punk/DIY side of things which is what still appeals to me in the whole 'west coast scene'.

A lot of the other artists come from different backgrounds and quite a few of them were even too young to have lived through the whole first part of Bunker. I guess people like me and of course Guy and Jan (who were Unit Moebius) are the musically active survivors of that scene today, and still share that combination of the DIY ethics of the hardcore punk scene combined with the love of both electronic dance music and avant-garde electronics.

Q: You were involved with the Vynalogica. Were you ever involved in other labels / releasing music yourself?

A: I had a label called Speedster in about '95 or '96, where I released an EP from myself. When these came back from the pressing plant, our distributor announced he stopped, leaving me with a pile of 300 records (and also problems for a lot of other labels like Bunker, Reference, etc). In the end, I sold most through I-F's Hotmix mailorder and a few years ago, I found 2 more boxes which by then sold pretty fast. I'm thinking about doing some tape-only releases again, just for the fun of it, but I prefer to let other people deal with the process of releasing and selling records..

Q: Since years you also work a lot with Crème Organization. Like Bunker they are from Holland. You prefer to work with Dutch labels / people when it comes to releasing music? Or is this more coincidence?

I prefer to work with people from our own scene, who are almost all Dutch, though I have done stuff for foreign labels linked to us like MinimalRome and others. The advantage is that I've known these guys for years and that they generally can be trusted, also with the financial part of things. I'm a big believer in supporting each other as a way to build up a scene. We have distributors and shops like Clone and Godspill, the radio like Intergalactic FM, artists and labels, and in the end we all need and support each other. Its probably also the reason the whole scene still exists after so many years!

Q: What are you current activities / plans? Any new sounds we can expect? Moving away from the electro sound maybe?

A: I've moved into the field of mastering for other labels which is taking quite a bit of my time and is a lot of fun to do. As for my own music, I've noticed a shift away from electro and more into wave-ish territory on one hand, and back to acid on the other hand. It's not a deliberate choice, but it just sort of happens that way. The acid tracks are definitely slower and darker than before, something I did first on the Stalingrad compilation LP on Bunker and now on the new Jagdstaffel 66 EP, trying to merge the early acid sound with the dark electronics of bands like Coil or Skinny Puppy.

I'm also working on a 'real band' project, where the starting point is 80's guitar noise and shoegaze music (my other musical love apart from electronics) which will see some finished material hopefully this year.

dinsdag 6 november 2012

review: Group Rhoda - Out Of Time - Out Of Touch

I have always looked at 80's new wave music and subculture as a replay of 60's neo-romanticism... the 60's where the first replay of the Romantic era... which was in a way the first youth subculture in Western Society.

The 60's pre-hippie subcultures starting with The Beat Generation (even though the surfer subculture was also an early youth subculture which even adopted LSD) transformed the central idea's of the 19th century movement centered around the anti-rational and the emphasis on the subjective experience into the context of the new era. In the late 70's/early 80's this was given a new twist again fitting the changed world... I would claim that 80's new wave is nothing more as dark version of the neo-romantic movement of the 60's...

In new wave music psychedelic touches or even psychedelic music as such is not difficult to find. 'The Top' by The Cure is filled with references to psychedelic music. The Fields Of The Nephilim played psychedelic rock... but very dark... resulting into something more ritual therefor. The music by The Legendary Pink Dots and Edward Ka-Spel is as psychedelic as it gets. Just to name a few examples... and let's not forget some of the minimal electronics outfits... like Monoton for example... who where on the more experimental side. They often hinted to Minimal Music... which is also a 60's thing...

And... now in this endless 80's revival it is also there... Moon Duo are somewhere in between psychedelic music and Suicide related synth punk. Bronze is like a post-punk outfit spiced up with acid rock. And there is now this debut album by Group Rhoda... which is really close to 60's music... to be more clear... it sounds like The Great Society equipped with 80's instruments like a drum machine and synths... and a voice like that of Grace Slick... coming very close at least and singing in a typical 60's style...

So, no this is not daring new adventurous music... but what is today? Group Rhoda delivers a sound I have been listening to for many years but still untill now I have never heard this typical 60's sound done with 80's musical equipment... and done so well... so yes I love it!!

Even though this is yet another product of our age of recycling I prefer this way above all the cheap re-issues of so called lost gems, cult bands and classic albums from the 80's. Same goes for all these contemporary copycat bands who just sound like it is 1982 all over again... no, I will just put on this Group Rhoda album again and again... as compared to all of that this is daring new adventurous music!

Here is one track from the album...

Exploitation: soundtrack and film previews

Exploitation was premiered 20 October 2012 at Lausanne Underground Film Festival. The soundtrack is scheduled to be released later this month (November 2012). For now here is the title sequence of the film featuring a track by The Spectrometers...

Exploitation from Michael Bulgrin on Vimeo.

Also there are two full tracks online for pre-listening. Here is the track 'Cookie Jar' by Neugeborene Nachtmusik...

And here is the track 'Mass' by Nihiltronix...

The record is up for pre-orders now at the Enfant Terrible webshop here...

dinsdag 18 september 2012

Enfant Terrible kitchen concert at XXX-Berlin, 5 October 2012

Next live event:

October 5, 2012, Berlin, Germany

Enfant Terrible meets XXX-Berlin... Live music + food in the XXX-Kitchen...

Live: Kim Ki O + Former Descent (Tenori On set) + Sololust Dj's: M. + Saint Maurice Entrance: 5 euro / on RSVP only...

See also the flyer below... SO... if you want to be part of this... write to: RSVP@XXX-BERLIN.COM

woensdag 18 juli 2012

review: Vatican Shadow

Vatican Shadow... I have to admit this act was not known to me for some time... even though quite some tapes were released. It was only with the vinyl release of the 'Kneel Before Religious Icon' album I took notice.

Behind Vatican Shadow is the same person who runs the Hospital Productions label... who is also the same person as Prurient and the same person who is involved in Cold Cave... among many more projects and bands...

Cold Cave... only when I thought about it I hear it in the 'Kneel Before Religious Icon' album... like with Cold Cave tracks the basis is a minimalistic and continuous rhythm... a loop going on from beginning to end... but different as with Cold Cave the layers on top of this are much darker... also there is no singing which makes Cold Cave rather pop minded...

Vatican Shadow is not pop minded at all... it is dark and haunting stuff... like neo-folk/dark folk done with electronics... making all sounding rather industrial... the minimal raw rhythms and the dark, often heroic sounding melodies on top of it... marching tunes in a way...

But... at times it has this techno touch in a weird way... not your everyday trendy club techno... no much more off radar dark and raw techno played at some obscure party in an abandoned bunker... the hypnotic aspect is there... the minimalism works trance indulging... just like good techno does...

So yes I was more then happy with this vinyl... so I also bought the other two vinyls... as recently two 12"s came out... the first one with the title 'Iraqi Praetorian Guard'... featuring two dark ambient tracks which are okay but did not get me as jumpy as the album did... on the flip side a techno remix (!!)... so I was curious about that for sure... too bad this remix does not add anything at all... even worse... it kills the vibe of the track completely... the simple and not raw enough beats leave no space for the melodic part... this is not a track I would play as dj nor would like to dance to...

Maybe Vatican Shadow thought the same thing... who knows? Anyway, the 'September Cell' 12" just hits the right spot... this is Vatican Shadow as on the album BUT with spiced up rhythms that are less industrial sounding... more typical electronic but not simple techno beats... it has just the right balance between rawness and... and what? Dancefloor sensibility? Maybe... but without being commercial...

It refers to Autechre and Aphex Twin from with an industrial / dark ambient point of view... and maybe even adventurous dubstep fans might like it... I look forward to further productions of Vatican Shadow if this is the way the music is going and growing...

Here is the complete A side of the 'September Cell' 12"... so both tracks which are one piece anyway...

maandag 2 juli 2012

OUT NOW: Europ Europ mini LP and Les Années Folles compilation

Out now are two new releases on Enfant Terrible:

-Europ Europ - Mellowharsher 10" mini LP -Various Artists - Les Années Folles 12" compilation

Below is a full track preview of the Velvet Condom tracl "The Stars Are Not Right". This one is featured on the Les Années Folles compilation.

Also bellow is a second teaser for the Europ Europ release.

More information and sound previews for the Europ Europ record see here...

More information and sound previews for the Les Années Folles compilation see here...

The Velvet Condom track...

The Europ Europ teaser...

maandag 11 juni 2012

teaser: Europ Europ - Mellowharsher

Here is a teaser for the upcoming Europ Europ 'Mellowharsher' record (ET015)... coming soon...

dinsdag 5 juni 2012

video: Gold Zebra - Useless Night (from Les Années Folles)

Miss Catty Stone (known from Europ Europ) has been so kind to produce a video for the Gold Zebra track Useless Night. This track will appear on the Les Années Folles compilation expected at the end of June (2012). See / listen / enjoy...

vrijdag 18 mei 2012

Minimal by Control Unit, Precision Surgery and Ekman

To people following my Enfant Terrible label and/or this blog it is no secret I love minimal electronics...not minimal synth but minimal electronics as in the perfect blending proto elektro and old school industrial... all of this done by (analogue) primitive equiment responsible for a raw and minimal sound. Although the trend (or continuing hype) is what most people refer to as minimal wave today (but I would rather like to call it soft synth) there are still some musicians around who come up with some excellent stuff in the field of my interests.

Here we are with not one but two new promising labels for example... Backwards and Kurzwellen. Backwards from Italy just released their first two vinyls. One by Fabio Orsi with experimental / drone / ambient music... very nice but not as smashing as the Control Unit they also released.

Control Unit is a duo armed with analogue synths, guitar, bass and voice. You get four long tracks on their debut LP that are sounding very much old school industrial. Could even be Throbbing Gristle recorded live during one of their performances. But at moments they also sound like a drugged out version of Milligram Retreat. The way the rhythms and pulses just go on is trance indulging and sounds primal. Guitar and voices are the topings on this psychedelic industrial trip.

One downer only... this could have been recorded late 1970's / early 1980's... so nothing new here... but still done in an excellent way...

The same could be said for Precision Surgery... only their old school industrial is less trippy and more rhythmic orientated with noisy sounds to finish it off. A bit like Doxa Sinistra at times but less freaky. More contemporary references are Le Syndicat Electronique in his last phase or even Haus Arafna but then less noisy. This project has now two split LP's out on the new Dutch Kurzwellen label. Both released are shared with the dark ambient project Necrosis (I)... which are maybe just the same people doing their ambient thing... Anyway... truly amazing stuff if you like your electronic music served dark, raw and minimal.

Still minimal but something else is Ekman. Behind Ekman is the same musician who is doing the minimal elektro pop of Bakeliet (see the 'Kamp Holland' compilation on Enfant Terrible). Out on Panzerkreuz (a Bunker sublabel) is his debut 12". Raw tekno and elektro tracks done in a minimal way. Sounding dark and nasty. This is stuff I would like to hear at some obscure and hidden party early in the morning. Still I can imagine this being played at the old Bunker parties with only a flashing strobelight in the dark... so maybe this is 1990's... but on the other hand to me this does not fell like retro music at all...

Here is a full track by Control Unit...

Here is a full track by Precision Surgery...

Here is a full track by Ekman...

The Control Unit and Precision Surgery records are for sale at the Enfant Terrible webshop... the Ekman is gone already... sorry but this one went fast and from what I hear it goes fast everywhere... so happy hunting for that one...

zaterdag 12 mei 2012

Full track previews for the Europ Europ release and the Les Années Folles compilation

Expected around early June is an Europ Europ release as well as the first release on the new Enfant Terrible sublabel Gooiland Elektro.

The Europ Europ record is a 10" mini LP entitled Europ Europ Curated By Enfant Terrible - Mellowharsher. Below you find a full track preview.

The first Gooiland Elektro release is a compilation entitled Les Années Folles featuring exclusive tracks by Sololust, Velvet Condom, Gold Zebra, Cute Heels feat. Devon Disaster, Tobias Bernstrup and Terminal Twilight. Below is the track by Sololust called The Spark as full track preview.

zondag 6 mei 2012

Exploitation film and soundtrack coming soon...

In the final stages of production are the film Exploitation by Edwin Brienen and the soundtrack for this film produced by Enfant Terrible. More on this film and the soundtrack can be found here...

maandag 23 april 2012

out now: La Mort De L'Hippocampe - Symphonie Neuronale LP

Out now is the LP Symphonie Neuronale by La Mort De L'Hippocampe. Released by Enfant Terrible in collaboration with Verbascripta. Soon in your favorite (web)shop...

Here is an excerpt of the piece Der Mond (side B)...

maandag 16 april 2012

review: Fräulein Luftwaffe - Leeches Come E.P.


The Etch Wear label from Norway did it again! After the great Epilektrician LP here is a single sided 12" LP... well that makes it an EP... by Fräulein Luftwaffe. You get served minimal electronics as I love them and as they should sound in my opinion... raw, industrial, slightly experimental electronic sounds done in a minimalistic way... and free so not restricted in sound and style...

The sound is unpolished but not necessarily analogue or lo-fi... and the music comes with some suprises... the rhythms are not your standard drum machine patterns we know by now from all the retro synth bands around... they are techno influenced, broken sometimes, elektro and IDM inspired maybe here and there... but again in an atypical way...

There is even a short of hip hop / trip hop beat to found in there... and the vocals are delivered in a distorted / industrialized rap kind of way... sounds maybe weird but it works for sure!

If you like Milligram Retreat and especially their rougher side then you should check this out for sure... also if you like the more adventurous minimal electronic of La Seduction Des Innocents this EP could be of interest to you...

The side with no grooves / no music is painted in the best minimal art way... if Frank Stella would have been into dots instead of stripes (in his black and white period) he would not have done better...

This record comes in an edition of 100 hand numbered copies. There are some copies in the Enfant Terrible webshop here...

Here is a full track from the record...

zaterdag 31 maart 2012

review: Logosamphia - Les Sonates Du Neopolka


You might know Logosamphia from the Enfant Terrible releases 'Kamp Holland' and 'Passage Omni'. On the 'Kamp Holland' compilation there is a weird and twisted electronic track... a bit like Kania Tieffer playing some circus tune... 'Passage Omni' on the other hand is an ambient release done with the Omnichord. The cd 'Les Sonates Du Neopolka' is something different again... but it is also very much Logosamphia...

The title already suggests we are dealing here with Neo Polka music... this is in your face wild party music with elements of Balkan folk... and even though it could compete with the more trendy stuff around in this style Logosamphia gives it his own twist with the wild, crazy and weird touches all over... but without killing the dancefloor potential of most of the tracks...

Next to the simple fact this is great dance music it is also folk music done in a contemporary way. You feel and hear traditional elements but they are served in different ways... sometimes sample based, sometimes done with electronic means (electronic melodies and rhythms) and sometimes it is just there in the mood and feel of the music... funny considering the musician himself is from Iran not from Bulgaria, Yugoslavia or any other country in the Balkan region...

Self released by Logosamphia in a limited numbered edition of 70 copies it is a true collector piece... nice of course, but maybe also a bit of a shame as the music is true party music which could entertain quite some more people I think... or at least it should!

I have some copies in the Enfant Terrible webshop here...

Here is a full track... enjoy!

vrijdag 9 maart 2012

Zusammen Records, Totsoluna Disc, Religion Nouvelle






When Musamore Editions appeared it was first sort of a secret it was the return of A// from Le Syndicat Electronique (LSE) / Invasion Planete Recordings (IP). For the people who know his work and the way he presents his work it never was a secret. Still it was a surprise that this return took place after the way IP came to an end.

After a series of eight cd's on Musamore (see here...) came the return to vinyl with Zusammen Records. First with five 10" records with in a way the well known elektro / electronic sound. Some of these records include small masterpieces... some others are maybe only interesting to the collectors and followers of IP and related stuff.

Recently three 10" record appeared under the alias of Précurseur Grand Bois. These three releases are simply outstanding... both in the repertoire of A// as in the music world in general. The music is a mix of electronics and acoustic instruments... tunes going from minimal repetitive chants to music fitting some old freak show. Some pieces would have been perfect as soundtrack to the Carnivale tv series.

What you hear is original and unique... but I cannot escape the feeling that I am listening to later day LSE jamming around with Novy Svet. Maybe A// did listen to Novy Svet and came up with this stuff... maybe...

Everything around Précurseur Grand Bois must also been seen in relation to the two cd's on Totsoluna Disc and the two tapes recently released on Religion Nouvelle... yet another two (sub)labels run by A//. All four of these releases move away from the electronic music field into the realm of ritual, occult, folklore and traditional music. While both the first cd and the first tape are more ritualistic and occult in feeling the second cd and second tape move more and more into the traditional music and folkloristic world.

Together with this new music he is doing A// also developed a new world of images around him and a new image for himself. Do not get me wrong... throughout the year excellent music has been transmitted into the world by him but this shape shifting thing so to speak is something I do not want to follow. To me when looking back it is like he is in a way the Madonna of the underground. Changing sound and image from time to time in a radical way... maybe too radical. This could have been done in another way... less theatrical...



We have seen the activist (elektro / IP period), the extremist (later day elekto / later day IP period), the prophet (end of LSE / La Seduction Des Innocents period), the hermit (Musamore) and now recently the folkflorist/occultist/freak show character (Totsoluna / Religion Nouvelle / Précurseur Grand Bois)... and coming soon is the first record under the alias of /I\... which sounds and looks like a sort of return the activist and extremist period in sound and image... as it sounds like old school elektro and the cover shows A// (?) in an army jacket and army trousers...

Maybe I should just ignore all this play and shape shifting... as in general the music is good... very good even... and from time to time it is truly brilliant what you get served...

vrijdag 24 februari 2012

in production: La Mort De L'Hippocampe - Symphonie Neuronale



Expected around mid / end of April is the LP Symphonie Neuronale by La Mort De L'Hippocampe. Behind this project is Jérôme Fontan... who sadly passed away last year. Of course he is known for his elektro project Porn.Darsteller.

La Mort De L'Hippocampe is something very different. There is not much pop in this music... it has experimental, industrial and classical sides. All sounds are done with analog equipment, like Minimoog and tape echo, and acoustic instruments.

This project was much more of a performance group centered around Jérôme Fontan then a studio project. The LP was planned to be a co-production between Enfant Terrible and Verbascripta, the label founded by Jérôme. The label is continued now by the other members of La Mort De L'Hippocampe. So this release is still as orginally planned a co-production.

There are even rumours La Mort De L'Hippocampe will do a few performances later this year.

Here is a preview of the artwork and an excerpt of the piece on the A side of the record, 'Die Sonne'.

maandag 30 januari 2012

review: Epilektrician - Symmyriad / Vasareline


Since 1994 the Norwegian Etch Wear label launches into this world music releases... music releases for only true music lovers and the most adventurous of listeners. From time to time a new release appears and it is always a suprise what the label will come up next. Run by Europ Europ you might guess you are into some real sonic adventurous here. You can categorize most of the releases in the field of electronic music, but the sounds go from the weird to noise and from techno to rock.

Their latest release is a LP by Epilektrician who has been releasing music since 1996. This LP is a perfect showcase of how industrial techno should sound. It is noisy but not noise, it is minimal but not minimal techno, it is dark but not like gothic music... and so on.

It hits just all the right points for this type of music. I have to think about some Ant-Zen and Hymen music along the way... Hymen because of the IDM / technoid influences there. Ant-Zen... well mostly because the ritual touches the music has which call to mind This Morn' Omina. Still it is ritual in a different way. Less exotic and more cyberpunk maybe.

Both the ambient pieces as the hard hitting techno pieces have this ritual and trippy feeling all over. This music could work as a soundtrack for some Lovecraft story... like 'At The Mountains Of Madness'... just imagine exploring the dwellings of an advanced but pre-human civilization with this music as a score... I am tapping into that trip all the way right now...

This record is limited to only 100 copies... so... for the happy few only... I have some copies in the Enfant Terrible webshop...

Here is a full track preview...

zaterdag 21 januari 2012

sound previews for Logosamphia and Neurobit releases

Out during the first week op February are the cassettes by Neurobit - The War Of The Worlds (C60) and Logosamphia - Passage Omni (C20).

Neurobit treats us with his interpretation of the classic radio drama The War Of The Worlds from 1938. Here is an excerpt of this 60 minutes long piece...

Neurobit-The War Of The Worlds (excerpt) by EnfantTerribleNL

Next to that there is the ambient music of Logosamphia composed and performed entirely with the Omnichord. Here is a full track preview...

Logosamphia - Passage Omni I by EnfantTerribleNL

These cassettes are for sale (pre-order) already at Enfant Terrible webshop....

zondag 15 januari 2012

Enfant Terrible produces soundtrack for next Edwin Brienen film ' Exploitation'


Enfant Terrible is producing and going to release the soundtrack of the next Edwin Brienen film "Exploitation". This will be a double LP, featuring Neugeborene Nachtmusik, Nihiltronix, Distel, Former Descent, SaraLunden, Europ Europ, Embers, Sololust, Model Z, Zarkoff, Spectrometers and Oplen.

Right now the film in post-production phase and is expected to be release April/May.

A little more about the film... Eva (played by Eva Dorrepaal) has been called in for an audition. The atmosphere is kind of intimidating: the (masked) director (played by Tomas Spencer) dominates and humiliates Eva, forces her into prostitution to raise money for an upcoming film project. Once Eva’s individuality and emotions have been eliminated, we get into a shady world of occultists and devil worshippers.

Here, “Exploitation” uses the so-called ‘mise en abyme’ principle and shows a fictitious film in the film, called “Apocalypse, Part 3”: a breathtaking ‘Abendland’ of dreamy pictures (Eva in white doctor’s coat, almost disappearing in the white snow landscapes of Polish’ Krakow) and nightmarish visions. It’s all there: baphomets, paganism, bizarre costumes. Especially some old-time obsessions of director Edwin Brienen are highly celebrated here: the esthetics of Death in June, the works of painter Alfred Böcklin, or Aleister Crowley’s Thelema spirituality.

woensdag 4 januari 2012

10 times modern classical music - some favorites of M. from Enfant Terrible (for 716 Music)


For summer 2011 I did a dj mix for the 716 Music blog... for the beginning of 2012 I selected 10 of my personal favorite pieces of modern classical music for the blog.

All tracks come with a small note from me and are featured as Youtube video...

Here is the playlist:

1. Luigi Russolo – Corale (1921)
2. Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kontakte (Teil I & II) (1959/1960)
3. Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody To The Victims of Hiroshima (1960)
4. György Ligeti – Lux Aeterna (1966)
5. Luigi Nono – Contrappunto Dialettico Alla Mente (1968)
6. Terry Riley – A Rainbow In Curved Air (1969)
7. Hero Wouters - Dialoog Voor Twee Synthesizers & Tape-transport (1974)
8.Glenn Branca – Symphony No. 3 (Gloria) (1983)
9. Ilya Monosov – Autonomous Guitar Music for Marc Schulz (2002)
10. Puin+Hoop – Bomendocumentaire (2010)

You can listen to the pieces and read my notes on them here at the 716 Music blog...