A Dance Party Function! DJs in the Ready Room
“GOD’S LEAST FAVORITE” EP NYC RELEASE SHOW
Starting out as a think-tank music and art project by the meeting of two fertile and febrile minds, Collapsing Scenery began their mission in LA warehouses and basements spreading their dark and noisy electronic sound to those in the know. This week they stream Metaphysical Cops, the lead single from their debut UK EP, God’s Least Favourite scheduled for release on Metropolitan Indian Records on September 23rd. You can stream Metaphysical Cops below.
Made up of NYC guitarist Don De Vore (Ink & Dagger, The Icarus Line) and LA singer Reggie Debris, Collapsing Scenery bonded whilst watching predator missiles rain on Middle Eastern heads. As TV stations poured out obscene coverage, the duo assembled a stash of analog electronics: samplers, step sequencers, synths and drum machines, all supplemented by effects pedals. Following the addition of Chris Colley (who previously held sticks with The Strokes’ Albert Hammond and School Of Seven Bells), the trio started looking further afield, built their own sound-system to recreate and expand on their studio work in a live environment and hit the road.
In a genre often lacking in lyrical bite, theirs is electro music with meaning and purpose. It flexes the head as well as the heart. The EP leads with the taut post-punk electro single Metaphysical Cops, a techno inspired opus whose title takes inspiration from Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, specifically this quote from ‘Pnin’: “Metaphysical police can break physical bones.” The body of the lyrics were inspired by the great Harpers piece ’Straight Man’s Burden’ by Jeff Sharlet, and they muse on the culpability of segments of the U.S. religious right in the implementation of Uganda’s horrific anti-gay laws. It considers the very real consequences of invidious and extremist American ideologies which, struggling to find a foot-hold at home, are transplanted into new territories.
Debris commented and said: ‘It’s a comparative examination of two modes of so-called spiritual communion, one based in love and truth, and the other in fear and violence.
‘We recorded the track in complete darkness wearing military issue night vision goggles on a ranch in rural Texas.’
Collapsing Scenery shipped their own sound-system around Europe last month, playing debut shows in Paris and London, De Vore went on to say: ‘We want to play in basements, warehouses, garages – and traveling with our own sound-system, power supply and visuals, that’s exactly what we do’
‘Not being beholden to club promoters or the existing way of doing things is important. We’re 100% self-contained.
Collapsing Scenery offer a new vision for how a modern band can be. They’re not even a band – they’re curators of a series of planet-planning events, expressions, exhibitions, albums, installations, journeys, adventures and parties, all operating outside of the confines of the tired, traditional industry.
God’s Least Favorite EP will be released on vinyl and digital download via Metropolitan Indian Records on September 23rd with a drum remix from Diamond Terrifier and M. Baharie Cliff and another from The Big Pink.
— from Originalrock.net
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The Internet Yami-Ichi NY2 will take place November 6, 2016, 12 – 6 PM
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Sell your “Internet-ish” stuff at the Internet Yami-Ichi in NY2
The Internet Yami-Ichi* is a free-to-attend flea market where people gather and exchange “Internet-ish” things in real life. Originating in Tokyo, the Internet Yami-Ichi was founded by artist duo Exonemo and online art collective IDPW** and has traveled to over ten cities including Berlin, Moscow, and Seoul. This November, Internet Yami-Ichi will return to Knockdown Center, where the first ever US version took place last year, featuring over 130 vendors and 1,500 attendees.
Last year’s Yami-Ichi:
The origins of Yami-ichi “the back streets of the internet”
PARTICIPATION GUIDE
“It’s up to you how to interpret “Internet-ish things.” – Sembo Kensuke, President of Yami-Ichi Corp.
2 rules:
- Sell things related to the Internet.
- No dangerous, harmful, or illegal goods, please!
As the market is independently organized, we are asking vendors to pay a $20 participation fee. *Online payment only. Please follow the payment instruction in a confirmation mail sent after your registration.
Notes:
- Do not sell things that may harm visitors or other participants.
- The selling of illegal items is prohibited.
- Please do not vandalize or make things dirty.
- Avoid things that may cause trouble for other people, such as things that have a strong smell.
- You set the price for what you sell. You receive all profits from sales.
- The event organizer will not take responsibility for problems that individual participants may have. Please take care of your problems on your own.
- Please bring your own change for your customers. You can also use services such as Square or Venmo for your transactions.
- Please take all your garbage home with you.
- Set up and take down your booth on the day of the event.
- If we have more applicants than the space can hold, participants may be selected by lottery.
- The event is from 12pm – 6pm. Invite a friend that can watch your booth if you want to get something to eat or need the restroom.
- Have fun ?
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Internet Yami-Ichi in NY2 is organized and supported by exonemo/IDPW, Chris Romero, Eiji Muroichi, Qanta Shimizu and Linn Wexell.
Volunteers are welcome. If you are interested, please contact =>> yamiichiny@gmail.com
Not Ready! Live! Come and celebrate! Amirtha Kidambi Elder Ones have signed to Northern Spy Records! Come out to Knockdown Center’s lovely Ready Room to meet the band and catch a special performance. Levy Lorenzo and Peter Evans will perform as a duo. NSPY friends/family will be playing records.
“The aggressive and sublime first album by the band Elder Ones, Holy Science, is a kind of gauge for how strong and flexible the scene of young musicians in New York’s improvised and experimental music world can be. At the center of it are drones and phonemes.” – Ben Ratliff, “10 Fall Pop and Jazz Albums You Shouldn’t Miss” The New York Times
Amirtha Kidambi Elder Ones
Peter Evans / Levy Lorenzo
Four DJs, endless styes! Ushka Selecta K7 Dj Ripley Talacha flow across genres, sounds dancefloors and borders of all kinds, in the Ready Room. Roll out with us from 9:30-2am!
Free DJ night! African House, Deep House, Soulful House, AfroBeats, Reggae, Soca, Hip Hop, R&B, Trap, Grime
WATCHING ME / WATCHING YOU is a performance exploring the subtly of oppression within everyday gestures. An ongoing collaboration between Joshua Kent, Matthew Nicholas and Courtney Mackedanz, the performance is crafted in the shadow of accessible pornography and mediated digital flesh. Employing devised and quotational choreography, audiences watch three bodies move within a sparse environment, speaking texts written by strangers and performing dances acquired from television and the Internet. WATCHING ME / WATCHING YOU investigates the spectatorship of live performance and the utility of the gaze within forces of domination, asking audiences to investigate their own culpability within dynamics of presentation.
For the final evening of Cold Open Verse, films by Fiona Banner, Moyra Davey, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, and Gerardo Madera, a rare screening event presented by Blonde Art Books and Poet Transmit.
Screening at 8pm:
– Fiona Banner, ‘Mistah Kurtz – He Not Dead’, 2014 and ‘Phantom’, 2015 – two films produced for the publication, “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad. A work by Fiona Banner. Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin.
– Moyra Davey, ‘My Saints’, 2014. “Burn the Diaries” published by Dancing Foxes.
– Jibade-Khalil Huffman, ‘Working Title’ for the book “James Brown is Dead” published by Future Plan and Program, 2011
– Gerardo Madera, ‘Untitled Printer for Xavier Antin (test video)’, 2014, book and video by Gerardo Madera. “Printed at Home” published by Common Satisfactory Standard.