A Look at the Future (Vol. 2) - Introducing Hugo Freegow

MESSAGE TO OUR FOLKS - While guns were bursting over Luik yesterday, we received this message from local hero Hugo Freegow in the mailbox. Citizens, take note. Hugo's first mix for Music City works as a traveler's guide to outer space.

A Look at the Future (Vol. 2)
Compiled and mixed by Hugo Freegow

Citoyens! Tenez-vous prêts pour une plongée dans l'univers surprenant de la "Library Music" (et de ses ramifications). Initialement enregistrées à l'initiative de maisons d'édition dédiées au marché de la licence (pour le cinéma, la télévison ou la radio), la plupart de ces musiques sont longtemps restées inaccessibles au public. Etrange industrie que celle-là, génèrant un flux continu de sons destinés à accompagner des images qui n'existent pas encore, à faire vivre des reportages qu'il reste à réaliser... Souvent crées en fonction d'une thématique particulière, elles laissent généralement leurs créateurs dans l'ombre.

La particularité de ce contexte de production le laisse facilement deviner: le syndrome de la musique d'ascenseur n'est jamais loin. Mais, parfois, il ouvre aussi la porte aux expérimentations les plus folles... C'est tout particulièrement le cas lorsque, dès la fin des années 50, l'électronique fait son entrée dans les studios. Le son se libère de ses attaches physiques, traçant tout naturellement la voie à une esthétique (rétro)futuriste. Des trésors inouis attendent l'auditeur curieux (et patient)! Passé le choc initial, la fascination continuera souvent d'agir comme un poison, incitant à l'exploration rigoureuse des profondeurs abyssales de ce monde méconnu. Quitte à s'y perdre un peu...

- Hugo Freegow

A look at the future (Vol.2) by Hugo Freegow

TRACKLIST

John Baker "Farm management"
Delia Derbyshire "Electrobuild"
Delia Derbyshire "Doctor Who's theme"
John Baker "Factors"
Alain Poinsot "Punaisarium 1"
Bernard Estardy "Tic tac nocturne"
Roger Roger "Sounds industrials 6"
Bernard Fevre "Dali"
Roger Roger & Teperino "Walking Robot"
Jean-Jacques Perrey & Pat Prilly "Altitude-1"
Georges Teperino "Electrosonics Nr 6"
Joel Vandroogenbroeck "Trilobites"
John Hyde "Magma"
Sauveur Mallia "Rectangle Astral"
Bernard Estardy "Night express"
Tod Dockstader "Bottle Dervish"
P. Bonello "Electronic track 5"
Raymond Scott "Cindy Electronium"
Eddie Warner "K.O."
Li De La Russe "Way out"
Ennio Morricone "In un Ricordo"
Cecil Leuter "Raving Waves"
Bernard Fevre "Le monde avait 5 Ans"
Jacques Lasry "Danse des cosmonautes"
+++ Piero Umiliani : "Spazio e Materia (Omaggio ad Einstein)"

A look at the future is a series of mix initiated by Hugo Freegow and François Boulanger (aka Cuppcave, Ssaliva, Kingfisherg) around their common love for Library music.

Picture collage by Manuel Padding.

New Music City Cassettes

RADIO NUDISM

C 45 / 5 EUR

A collection of priceless documents collected from the sound archives of a Danish nudist radio station from 1993/94. This 45 min mixtape / compilation / radio narrative stands as an audio companion to the exhibition of Massimiliano Bomba, Benjamin Altermatt and Xavier García Bardón curated by Francesco Cavaliere and Marcel Türkowksy at Grimmuseum, Berlin in September 2011. Featuring tracks by the aforementioned nudists and more, this tape has been assembled and spiced up by DJ Bongo Man. Co-released by Grimmuseum, Raw Raw Edizioni, Caleuche Video and Music City in an edition of 120 pro-dubbed copies. Banana picture by Bea De Giacomo.

A few copies of the catalogue of this exhibition (published by Raw Raw Edizioni, Milan) are also available from us. A5 format, indigo print HP7500, Fedrigoni splendorgel paper 115 g, 36 pages. 7 EUR.

DJ BONZAI TARZAN: Un remède radical
Mixtape / C60 / 3 EUR

Bonzai Tarzan has worked as a guardian at Doctor Evariste Ossip Natural History Museum for over twenty years. He usually spends his days at the Tropical Bonzai Forest section nourishing the colony of Liliputean monkeys that live happily amidst the lush foliage, peeling miniature bananas with tweezers and pruning the infinite web of capironas, cercropias, figs, kapok and brazil nut trees. This painstaking, constant and stressful activity led him to develop an unusual relaxation therapy composed of calisthenics and music. Mister Tarzan's Un Remède Radical is a four step music program to relieve a variety of ailments from seasonal disorders to acute boredom. Cover art by Hannah Friese. Pro-dubbed tapes.



DJ BONGO MAN: Choc thermique
Mixtape / C40 / 3 EUR

This new Bongo mix focuses on the 1985-1992 era, compiling tracks from Togo to Congo all displaying a peculiar interest for the use of electronic gear, following a retro forward thinking approach. Topics approached in these songs are: love, fun, faith and the missing homeland. File under: computerized soukous, shangaan jive, kwasa kwasa, digi dancehall. Released on the occasion of DJ Bongo Man Suomi tour, November 2011. I would like to dedicate this tape to all my Finnish friends in Tampere, Jyväskylä and Helsinki: may this one help you fuel the coming Winter with light and positive energy. Home-dubbed tapes, limited run.

Orders: lanouvellecite@gmail.com

Dub Echoes

This is def the most inspiring part of the documentary:

but you can see the whole thing here: http://documentaryheaven.com/dub-echoes/

Palm Wine / Dj Rupture vs. Maga Bo "Dreamachine / Beyond Digital Mix"

Here I am, after five intense months of gestation Palm Wine's tape is finally OUT!
It features a mix of fieldrecordings I've captured in Morocco last year at the Master Musicians of Joujouka festival on one side, and a mix done by Dj /Rupture and Maga Bo, part of their project Beyond Digital - Morocco on side B.

To buy the tape (10€ for Europe and 12€ for United States, South America and Africa) and read the full story behind the production of the tape click here.

Here's a short excpert from the side A and a photo of the tape as it looks.

شكرا shukran Music City!

Sierra Leone Music Panbody

Two great tracks and two nice videos from the huge collection of a frantic Youtube poster: mbaimba1 aka Mbaimba, a Sierra Leone-born UK-based kid I've been following on Youtube lately.

Om is Om. Bowling & Sound Festival

Kraak, Silver Ghosts and Music City present

OM IS OM, BOWLING & SOUND FESTIVAL

- Knock out style bowling festival with music, video, alcohol and espresso -

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Wednesday 26 October, 20:00

ROCK/RITZ Bowling

Rue Henri Werrie 76

1090 Jette

Brussels

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"Awareness of the true Liquid Centre through focus, concentration, execution and release" (Bowling and sound as meditation)

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A seven step program to achieve an enlightened state of being.

• pre tournament ritual

• awakening of the Liquid Centre

• sound senses stimulation

• further awareness of Liquid Centre through bowling meditation

• body mind oneness with the help of holy spirit elixir consummation

• total awareness achievement by crowning of ultimate bowling meditator

• release by the power of party

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Your guides on this trip will be

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ETERNAL TAPESTRY (Us)

ecstatic beyond the mind freedom unit, rock focused liberators

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DRACULA LEWIS (It)

freak zone transcendence instigator, horror electronics sound manipulator

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JAWS (Us)

post bliss apocalypse dance instructor, vibe feeler extraordinaire

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DJ COOL BROCOLI (Be)

aka 'Cool Kid Broccoli' aka 'The Best' aka 'Ultimate Style'

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DJ BONGO MAN (Be)

Music City magus, spinner of magic tunes

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DJ MICHELE ARZANO (It)

italo as a science, next level intensity

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ERNIE MCCRACKEN (Nl)

Master of Ceremony, guidance with the truly tested 'Mijnsbergen' principle

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NON STOP NEXT LEVEL AWESOMENESS!

NON STOP VIDEO PROJECTION!

NNON STOP ACTIONN!

NON STOP MUSIC!

NON STOP FUN!

NON STOP!

NON!

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Sign up here for the program: tickets@kraak.net

€10, only 70 places!

Om is Om, Vol is Vol!

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Your ticket gives you the following in return:

- ESPRESSO as a starter for the evening

- A BOWLING TOURNAMENT in knock out style

- several LIVE ACTS playing on the bowling lanes

- VIDEOS shown continuously

- ESPRESSO bar + special BOWLING COCKTAIL

- DJ's (all night long)

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Poster design by Zeloot

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Kraak

Silver Ghosts

Music City

Saalim Saciid Salim

buufle waa raga jaadka cuna qeyrul mas,uslka aa bararka faristaa kuwaa waye kuwa bacda loo deynayo

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BUUFLE BUUFLE
qatar waye

Nudism - A Furious Undressing!

Whistle, Minotaure! - a series of exhibitions and events curated by Francesco Cavaliere & Marcel Türkowsky - presents the first episode of

NUDISM

with Benjamin Altermatt, Massimiliano Bomba and Xavier García Bardón

14 September - 25 September 2011

GRIMMUSEUM
Wednesday-Sunday 14-19 h.
Fichte Strasse 2
10967 Berlin

A Furious Undressing !

Nudism, often referring to an alternative to "Naturism", the free speech movement of the body becomes a starting point for a series of upcoming episodes. This viewing assumes to move a sense closer to a free and furious experience in a multi dimensional space. A place where radicalism, realism and fight give possibilities to a self-conscious balance that settles and regenerates continuously. A polyphonic story told becomes more of a panoramic view than an attempt to reach a heterogeneous form.

"La Natura Brutale" (The Brutal Nature), a publication by Massimiliano Bomba and Bea De Giacomo can be an example of an uncontrollable revolt, of nature against man, but further still, occurrences of strangeness and ironic creativity that nature produces and reflects in its own image (like the shifting of lands, ways of life and its maps).

Benjamin Altermatt Zordan, Xavier García Bardón and Massimiliano Bomba are in this sense a combination and reflection of both the remnants of the post-colonial cities and the wider cultural mutations of recent times, and at this point is exactly where they could meet with the artistic approaches of Francesco Cavaliere and Marcel Türkowsky and their "neo tropicalist" vision. Alert in picking up the remains of actions, in continuous amplification of visions and lost mirages, this exhibition is moving into multiple directions through editions of books, films, drawings and music as a form of inquiry and narrative imagination.

This exhibition features a new chapter of the ongoing research of Xavier García Bardón on the history and aesthetics of 1980s Congolese music videos, this time under an installation form including a new video (Video Affairs) and a series of stills and original documents (Matonge Montage Collection). Two screenings of the original and amazing Congolese video material will also take place on September 16 and September 25 at 7 pm.

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