[Nettime-nl] 3GP filmvertoning + NL/Japan Audio Art Acts live do 13 april

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do 13 april 20 u:

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Grootbeeld-presentaties van de 3GP short-films uit de workshop van 
MobileVideoNet
Roadmovies: shortfilms voor de mobiele telefoon zoals die binnenkort 
worden uitgezonden in de file
http://www.mobilevideo.net

live:
TERG (NL)
Medogenloze Power-electronics uit de school van Merzbow
http://arjan.dagdief.nl/vene/terg.htm

live:
CONTAGIOUS ORGASM (Japan) versus ZYRTAC,  (NL)
Na het uitbrengen van hun gezamelijke CD DNA Loops presenteert dit gelegenheidsduo 
hun soundsculptures, collages, samples en beats, geluiden uit het hart van de stad.
Pansonic meets Muslemgauze meets Dead Husbands meets Residents meets Sigmund Freud
http://www.blutistzeit.nl/


afterparty hosted by CUTDISCO, Neerlands TOP SCRATCHER!!!
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*CONTAGIOUS ORGASM (JAPAN) VS ZYRTAX (HOLLAND)*

*INFO CONTAGIOUS ORGASM:*

Hiroshi Hashimoto has been recording under the name Contagious Orgasm 
since 1987. He has gone through many changes; from dark and creepy sound 
constructions to beat oriented music verging on dance. There are sample 
based sound sculptures, repetitive looped bits of musical phrases 
sounding like Muslimgauze, Japussy 2000 or Climax Golden Twins and 
wonderful complex soundscapes combined with mellow beats that blend 
right in.

Contagious Orgasm has releases on SSSM, Utsu Tapes, Old Europa Café, 
Blade Records, Speeding Across My Hemisphere, Syntactic, Auscultare 
Research, Ant-Zen, Harbinger, SD-Image, Dreizn, Slaughter Productions, 
Praxis-Dr. Bearmann, MSBR, Less Than Zero, Tesco and DBD Records.

*INFO ZYRTAX:*

Eenmansproject van Johnny van de koolwijk. In 2000 begonnen onder de 
naam Dead Husbands maar in 2005 werd onder een nieuwe naam en met een 
andere sound de draad opgepikt. Grijpt terug op klassieke bands als de 
Residents en Nurse With Wound maar de oubollige lofi-geluiden worden 
altijd gecombineerd met kille electronica en vreemde samples.

Zyrtax werkte in het verleden o.a. samen met Truck van Rental, Ubique 
Daemon, Government Alpha, GX Juppiter Larsen, Dave Phillips, Sudden 
Infant, odal & Contagious Orgasm waarmee hij in 2005 de "DNA LOOPS" cd 
opnam.

*REVIEWS DNA LOOPS CD:*

The work of Contagious Orgasm is now going for more than a decade and he 
never gets enough. Here teaming up with the for me unknown Zyrtrax in a 
particular more rhythmic affair than the usual Contagious Orgasm work. 
Be it technoid, be it industrial or plain minimalist, in the fourteen 
tracks they all pass by, intercepted by sound effects and synthesizers. 
A main influence on this music is, me thinks, Pan Sonic. Some of their 
plain and minimal, yet danceable music can be traced back into this. 
What more can be said? Nothing really. It's a fine mixture of various 
rhythmic influences from the last twenty or so years, ended up in a 
strict personal style. A good and solid CD.

(Vital Weekly)

The inside cover of this CD showsa photocollage by Yasutoshi Yoshida of 
a metropolis by night. All the moving lights produce a nervous image. 
The front cover is more serene. Again we see a metropolis but it lies 
beneath a huge mountain topped by an ancient pagoda. The resaon i'm 
describing the cover is because it perfectly fits the music on the CD. 
This collaboration Between Contagious Orgasm and Zyrtax gives you the 
feeling of walking through a metropolis. Around you the sounds of the 
big city are heard and most of the time it's not relaxing. Agitated 
rhytms, alarming electronic sounds of all kind, voices in agony... you 
better run. Fortunately there are also some tranquil moments. I guess we 
reached the pagoda on the mountaintop now. Time to contemplate and 
recover our strength before we face the chaos of the city again. The 14 
tracks on this CD are all very different and well-produced. It's one of 
those CD's you can listen very often and still you hear something new 
every time.

(Rigodon)

The master of disorientating disaster returns for another crack at 
wiping out the brain cells with this split release with Zyrtax. A 
convention full of psychiatrists would have a field day trying to 
analyse what makes this artist tick. He’s a walking breathing conundrum. 
On the one hand some of the music on "DNA Loops" is accessible and 
acceptable with hints of a tune here and there. By the same turn other 
pieces just beggar belief as they smash head long into an avant-garde 
concrete quagmire. Sigmund Freud could have written a huge thesis on 
Contagious Orgasm’s work and still be none the wiser as to how his mind 
works.

Having been around the music scene for nearly 20 years, time has not 
calmed down Contagious Orgasm’s excesses. Growing old disgracefully and 
proud of the badge of indolence worn proudly on the chest. This mailed 
collaboration is very much in the same vein as the "Crosses Deeply" 
release with Telepherique. Clicks and cuts, repeated samples, controlled 
rhythmic dynamics, touches of noise frequencies, speeded up / slowed 
down tempos, distorted electronics, fucked up voices, cut and paste 
sounds and adventurous sound sculptures all make an appearance. Some 
very welcome. Some akin to a visit by the Jehovah’s Witnesses to your 
house. Over the fourteen tracks of "DNA Loops" there is a monolithic 
musical experience just waiting to be discovered. Taking a random letter 
from the dictionary…in this case ‘C’…the following sums up the music 
adequately: Confusing, childish, challenging, contradictory, convoluted, 
commendable, calamitous, changeable, coherent.

The upshot is that "DNA Loops" is very much an acquired taste. The sheer 
experimental nature of the recording can make for really heavy going. 
There were times when I groaned inwardly as the artists attempted to 
test my perseverance to the max as they played around manipulating the 
sounds before reassembling some form of balance to the recording. 
Intricate musical patterns mixing it up with dumb enthusiasm for 
intolerance ahoy. If you have a backbone made of sterner stuff then 
there’s plenty to love about "DNA Loops". Others may find it appealing 
as a Jehovah’s Witnesses pamphlet. Watchtower alert. Watchtower alert.

(Aural Pressure)

Confusing the issue of mutated electronics this stunning collaboration 
between Contagious Orgasm takes experimental electronic music to new 
levels : industrial monoliths and noisy electro lounge songs clash with 
raw sample based sound sculptures and fresh industrial rhythms. 
Presented in special cardboard packaging with sleeve design from 
Yasutoshi Yoshida

(Chain D.L.K)

Mail collaboration project between these two projects, though not being 
all that familiar with Zyrtax, so hard for me to say exactly what it is 
they’re bringing to the table here. Collagey, surreal, manipulated, 
moving sound sculptures. Sometimes hypnotic, sometimes grating, always 
fresh, always in motion, never boring. In colorful sleeve packaging.

(Malignant)

New "mail" collaboration for Contagious Orgasm, this time with Holland's 
noise act Zyrtax. At times dreamy in the vein of the best Contagious 
Orgasm releases, at time scorching and heavy, this new album is one of 
the most complex and changing I have heard from Contagious Orgam. Well 
produced, it fits well with the rest of this important act's 
discography, but still presents a new side of his art. Well done.

(Ad Noiseam)









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