XCITING
A new festival from the curators of previous ‘Schienenfest’ (Stuttgart, Germany).
Presenting: Rabih Beiani (LB/D), NAH (USA), Scald Rougish (USA), Dave Phillips (CH), The Ångströmers (B), Bocca Al Lupo (UK/I), Cene Resnik / Urban Kušar (SI), DKK (World), The Ångströmers DJ set (B)
And installations of: Video & Sckre, […..], Weiny Fitui, Roland Batroff On Saturday, 16 November 2019, Doors: 20.00.
Location: Innerer Nordbahnhof, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany at the new Projektraum Kunstverein Wagenhalle (PKW)
+ a warm up Friday evening, 15 November with DJ Aclds (USA)
Open: 22.00.
Location: Neue Oper, Contain‘t e.V., Innerer Nordbahnhof 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
https://www.facebook.com/Xciting-102975504414639/http://www.xciting-festival.com
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Consolidated ‘The ol’ mass extinction blues’
Video by Ayelet Hai
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New song and video from Consolidated. Video by Ayelet Hai. Amazing artwork!
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NOISE DANCER
Video: Ayelet Hai
Music: Consolidated
Free Music! Stop America!
Free Music! Stop America! De-Tour 2016 Fockumentary
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Consolidates new video:
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Consolidated returned. Their new song and video:
CONSOLIDATED
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Band:
Consolidated was/and is now again, an American radical activist music group, formed in 1988 and best known in the early 1990s as an alternative dance/industrial music band. Between 1989 and 1994, their instrumental style evolved from industrial, to hip-hop, to hard rock and funk with mixtures of live instruments and electronic instruments. They were distinguished by left-leaning political activism and politically radical lyrics, as well as their innovative sonic collages which blended industrial and hip-hop styles.
Consolidated’s original line-up consisted of Adam Sherburne (guitar and vocals), Mark Pistel (samples, sequencers and keyboards/synths), and Philip Steir (drums).
Live:
In each of their live performances, Consolidated includes a period of time in which microphones are passed among audience members, who can discuss, rebut, argue or elaborate upon the topics of Consolidated’s songs. Consolidated devise these interactions as a way to subvert the typically passive experience of watching a band perform, empowering the audience members to respond and articulate their own opinions on issues addressed in the song lyrics or even the nature of the performance itself.
Their live performances also features video montages, composed by video artists, including footage which correspondents to the lyrical topics of specific songs
Local, regional and national activist groups are invited to set up tables and information kiosks at their shows while on tour.
2020:
Adam Sherburne and Mark Pistel joined again jamming and recording songs. Phil Steir, dealing with other obligations, is eager to colaberate. For sure with a drummer, Consolidated prepares returning on stage.
Contact: https://www.limbabwe.com/contact
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new DKK release:
Free download here:
https://limbabwe.com/DKK-Xciting.zip
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Today, few hours ago, Genesis P Orridge has been returned into earth on an eco-friendly cemetery.
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Genesis P Orridge passed away yesterday, March 14 2020. The sad lost of a great artist. Here a short part of the very last performance of Psychic TV/PTV3 on November 15 2018.
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Today its 21 years ago Curtis Mayfield passed away
What road crew is lacking since the lock downs:
Lack of sleep/traveling/the sights the smells/rock ‘n’ roll/supportive security/late night dinner/never curing flu under your skin/cash on hand payments/smelly bunk/the bar waitress/the venue catering/the energy/the forever ‘where your from?’ question/lazy stage-hands/Spinal Tap quotes/almost never lucky in scoring/dealing with macho colleges/hammock under the stage/wining musicians/
Dragging amplifiers/the white line/broken PA systems/making a wrong turn/Anette/smelly vans/forgotten acquaintances/envy among colleges/having a good time/not bothered about world problems/the ‘family-crew’/full whiskey bottle emptied in a few hours/shitty sound-booth location/toilet stop/one hotel shower room for 18 people/holding on to the mixing desk so you don’t collapse/DB limitations/early hotel check-in/bad gas station food/the live music/snow and rain at load out/always in sweaty clothes/promoter trying to rip you/the street gang around the corner/guest-list arguments/before breakfast hotel check out/fucked up navigation/bossy house-manager/annoying journalist/sunny day you could not enjoy/van breakdown/too small venue and stage/snobby unimportant VIP (very impossible person)/crowded backstage with empty fridge/record company dinner/violent security/stressed stage manager/MTV crew getting on your nerve/ the 1 minute before show start audio output request for recordings/crappy in-house lights/a promoter for more than 40 years in the same office afraid missing that one hip band/3 times returning pizza to the waiter because its not the ordered vegan one/hip bands forgotten after one year/club managers lying to themselves/ridiculous band riders/inexperience local sound technicians/talks about other bands/cold hotel rooms/reliable promoters/arrogant local sound technician/day-of that makes you more tired/waiting…waiting…waiting…/coach back lounge/fairly easy available drugs/borders, where they still are/eating, but not hungry/venue’s home-cooking/5 minutes of fame/selfish driver/desperate WhatsApp message send home, keeping up the idea ‘I have someone there’/mistakes in hotel reservations/laundromats/video games/private accommodations/musicians wife visiting/merch arriving the day you left/room sharing/airplane delays/lost luggage/dirty toilets/tracing packages following you for 2 weeks/dripping hotel shower/… + so much more…….
The double door/Paradiso/SSE Wembley Arena/Effenaar/La Loco/Knitting Factory/K4/The Grant/American Music Hall/Troubadour/RAI/Garage/Zap Club/Pfefferberg/ABC/Escape/Astoria/The End/Nice n Sleazy/The Forum/Kino Ebensee/Forum/…… and many many more…..
General observation of the corona situation: FEAR WINS FROM FREEDOM
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Whayugot? 2015
Watson Kendall: Beats, production
Adam Sherburne: Vox and guitars
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CONSOLIDATED – ‘Robot Flamenco’. Video by Ayelet Hai
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A way to spend your spare corona time:
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Somewhere in Europe. Gig in Corona-times under corona regulations (seated with distance). Still… some try to dance…
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Ghost Producer. Live on Xciting Festival, Stuttgart, Germany. Friday 25 September.
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Found in news media:
Considerable part of Portuguese population ‘presenting light symptoms of depression’
A considerable part of the Portuguese population are presenting “light symptoms of depression” due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This is one of the conclusions of an international study in which Portugal’s institute of investigation and innovation in health (i3s) at Porto University took part. The ‘Life with Corona’ study aims to “continue to evaluate the social and economic impact of the pandemic on a global scale”. Light symoptoms sounds reaonable given the cataclysmic effects on everyday life: it is only further down in reports published today that investigators admit “around 50% of people quizzed in Portugal, Argentina, Indonesia, the UK and US, as well as 40% of Germans “showed more serious symptoms of depression”.
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Interview in The Quietes:
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After watching the soundcheck (see previous post) here a song from the gig filmed with a phone by someone in the audience.
Papal Breakdance by Psychic TV/PTV3 Express Festival, Arena Puccini, Bologna Italy. 28 May 2009.
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Today, 1 year ago, Genesis Breyer P Orridge passed away. In memory some unpublished material from my private archive. Film recordings from a soundcheck in 2009 at the Express Festival, Arena Puccini, Bologna Italy. Date: 28 May 2009. David (guitar) carried a camera on that tour. He stuck it on the side of the stage filming the soundcheck. Further musicians are Edley (drums), Gila (bass) who replaces Alice on this one tour, Jess (Keyboard) who passed away last month and of course Genesis Breyer P Orridge.
Notice the positive atmosphere and joking I will miss a lot. It was always great fun touring with PTV.
Songs performed: Kiss Me, Higher And Higher, Papal Breakdance.
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New album now available for pre-order on Bandcamp. To safe on postage European orders will be shipped from Portugal.
https://consolidated.bandcamp.com/album/were-already-there
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Lets stay a bit into the recording ‘tech’.
Below a comment from David Briggs (February 29, 1944 – November 26, 1995). David Briggs is mainly known as producer of many Neil Young records. Young’s records sound extremely good, especially very dynamic, but not ‘clean’. You hear musicians making playing mistakes, singing out of tune, putting down a (beer?) bottle, hitting a mic, a.s.o….. Listening to Neil Young recordings, all these extra sounds never bothered me. Clearly the tracks are recorded live in the studio, all playing at the same time. I assume thats the secret of the dynamic sound. Neil Young is a very popular recording artist for many generations, until today. It doesn’t seem to be the absolute perfect clean recording that makes a record sell….. I often try to explain to younger technicians taking tracks through digital cleaning procedures, meanwhile killing dynamics.
David Briggs, How to Make Records:
I can teach you everything I know in an hour. Everything. That’s how simple it is to make records. Nowadays, buddy, the technician is in control of the medium. They try to make out like it’s black magic, or flyin’ a spaceship. I can teach anybody on this planet how to fly the spaceship. If you look at the modern console, there’ll be thirty knobs – high frequency, low frequency, midfrequency, all notched in little tiny, tiny, teeny tiny degrees – and it’s all bullshit. All this stuff doesn’t matter, and you can’t be intimidated. You just ignore it – all of it. I walk into studios with the biggest console known to mankind, and I ask for the schematic and say, “Can you patch from here to here and eliminate the ENTIRE board?” I just run it right into the tape machines. All the modern consoles, they’re all made by hacks, they’re not worth a shit, they sound terrible. None of it touches the old tube stuff – like the green board from Heider’s. It has two tone controls – high end, low end and a pan knob – and that’s it. I had great good fortune when I was a kid and started makin’ records. I made ‘em at Wally Heider’s, Gold Star, so all the people that taught me were Frank Dimidio, Dave Gold, Stan Ross, Dean Jensen – these guys were the geniuses of the music business, still are. They taught me more about sound and how sound is made and the principles of doing it, and it’s unshakably correct what they said to me: You get a great sound at the source. Put the correct mike in front of the source, get it to the tape the shortest possible route – that’s how you get a great sound. That’s how you do it. All other ways are work. The biggest moment of my life – the one I haven’t been able to get past every, really – is 1961, when I first got to L.A. I got invited to Radio Recorders to see Ray Charles, and I walk into the studio, and Ray’s playin’ all the piano parts with his left hand, reading a braille score with his right hand, singing the vocal live while a full orchestra played behind him. So I sat there and I watched. And I went, “This is how records are made. Put everybody in the fuckin’ room and off we go.” In those days everybody knew they had to go in, get their dick hard at the same time and deliver. And three hours later they walked out the fuckin’ door with a record in their pocket, man. Of course, in those days they didn’t have eight- , sixteen- , twenty-four- , forty-eight- , sixty-four-track, ad nauseum, to fuck people up, and that is what fucked up the recording business and the musicians of today, by the way – fucked ‘em all up to where they’ll never be the same, in my opinion. People realized they could do their part…later. Play their part and fix it later. And with rock and roll, the more you think, the more you stink.
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Something different. Found this interesting video from 1979 where Greg Calbi explains mastering/cutting vinyl. He shows how he edits (cut) a master tape.
Starting as pre-digital technician myself, yep thats how I did it too…. But this vid is not just nostalgia.
He shows how the vinyl-mother is made. A process that didn’t change much until today, with exception that some equipment became digital.
Greg Calbi is one of the most known vinyl masterers. Every vinyl collector has some records mastered by him. During the filming he was mastering ‘making movies’ from Dire Straits (not my favorite), released in 1980. By that time Calbi was mastering vinyls for 7 years.
Interesting his remark about how to become a good tech in the music scene. Just start doing it, even if it is not paid, get into it, learn yourself and from others who do the job already. You don’t learn it at school…….
A message to those fresh from the (then not existing) pop-academies
Enough of my yacking…….. lets boogie
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Tom Jones, 80 years, no more voice, released a new track few days ago:
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Partly with English translations, please watch the video until the end!
The video is from 12 December last year. Its titled ‘Kunst.In.Aktion. Risikotruppe Bern’.
The video is not mine. Took it from the internet. I have no connection with this group.
On few requests after publishing on this site, I made a limited English translation.
Only the last, very essential, part is English titled. Subtitles all the way trough would have destroyed the impact of the video.
Some voices are in English. Those in German are easy to guess what they say. Names of the speakers appear on the end.
Below an attempt to translate the German voices in English.
Please DO understand. The lines below are translations of what is said in German. Assume they do not reflect the art-group opinions (neither mine). They are samples from interviews, news, public speakers,…. Its a compilation building dynamics towards the last part of the video (opening the map). What you see is ART with a message.
THINK, have the guts to be critical and questioning everything! All the rest is up to you…..
- We are in war. the government must take all steps fighting the epidemic.
- Soon everybody will know someone who died on the corona virus.
- The amount of deaths are the same as in any other normal, not corona, year.
- Trust the health-department, trust the WHO, thrust common sense and journalistic diligence in quality media.
- There will be investigations into Bill and Melinda gates on suspicion of crimes against humanity.
- We will have to adhere to these regulations for months. they have to be the standard and never be questioned.
- Those who decide are not elected and those who are elected have nothing to decide.
- Tomorrow from noon on, our liberty will be severely restricted.
- It won’t be the same as it used to be until we have vaccines and drugs.
- We’re all assuming vaccines will be approved next year. We don’t know exactly how they work, how well they work, what they do, but I am very optimistic that there are vaccines.
- Disinformation can cost lives, but together we can fight fake news.
- We are at war and the nation will support its children.
- If you want to have a real world order, a global political order, then you will not be able to avoid all subjects on sovereignty, rights, to give to others
- That means that other international organizations can then punish us when we don’t follow the regulations.
- Bill gates, UNICEF and the WHO are also accused of deliberately vaccinating Kenyan children through the use of a hidden toxin in the tetanus injection.
- Vaccines, tests and drugs must be available, affordable and accessible to all people in the world.
Xciting
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After years not posting I might start again throwing shit on this page. Lost all my visitors anyway. Nobody reads this.
A ‘new’ download is added. An old Limbabwe release Zwaar Klote/Incest missing in the free downloads: https://limbabwe.com//downloads/zwaar-klote-incest
Something I planned to post years ago, Twin Peaks (also forgotten) and Coopers coffee. re-watching old episodes I picked out a moment where clumsy deputy Andy encounters Lucy in the kitchen of the sheriff station (I think its episode 6). Lucy just starts to make coffee, and drops the box of little coffee bags. I froze the screen (and made a screenshot). The brand is not readable, but obvious, this is one of the worst supermarket-coffee available in those days.
Of course, Cooper with his attitude to coffee was one of Lynch jokes. Especially on places where Cooper was admiring the quality, are known in the U.S. as the places serving the worse coffee.
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Last month live on stage in Denver for the first time after 25 years:
And two days later in Chicago:
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The Xciting program schedule is almost completed. Time to introduce all artist. An exclusive start… Specially made for Xciting: the teaser of ‘Beware Of The Agent B‘. The first movie created by the legendary Cortex (Alex Buess/Roger Graf).
The film is a documentary drama about an undesirable, inhospitable world, kept on the verge of unreality. ‘a fictional time in the fairly near future…’
Xciting presents the premier from a 40min pilot on Saturday 25 September.
Xciting Festival, 24/25/26 September, Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Innerer Nordbahnhof, Stuttgart, Germany
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XCITING 2021. Presents again this year an international, variable PROGRAM. These artists definitely confirmed:
From Poland the legendary KSIĘŻYC, Slavic folk meets psychedelia. / A borderless Audio Visual performance of THE LAPPETITES (international). / One woman noise KIKIRIKI (Slovenia). / First appearances in Germany from the transnational artistic collective MÈCANOSPHÈRE (Portugal/France). / And also for the first time on a German stage the new Russian project PONOMAREV/OBRAZEENA MASSACRE. Also from Poland; restlest sound textures of PURGIST. / The Ukrainian avant-garde singer-songwriter SVITLANA NIANIO. / JEROME NOETINGER, a tape recorder wizzard from France. / From Norway AVANT JOIK creating contemplative atmospheres of the North. / a sloping dancefloor music and noise sharpened sound system from France: A_R_C_C + Pilot world premiere of the very first CORTEX movie by ALEX BUESS and ROGER GRAF (Switserland).
- The festival will partly be presented on different locations in Stuttgart. Kunstverein Wagenhalle stays the main homebase.
Who plays when and where will be published later. - This year the festival is extended with one more day. Most artists will perform in the evenings of Friday 24 and Saturday 25. On Sunday 26 the festival closes with a special late afternoon performance.
- Day-tickets, € 30 a day/ € 10 Sunday, will be available from August 1st. Ticket links will be published here and on Xciting website.
More info soon.
Xciting Festival. 24/25/26 September 2021. Stuttgart Germany.
Xciting is Funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM), Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart Kulturamt, Kunstverein Wagenhalle
Lyrics of the album ‘We’re Already There’
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Xciting 2021
XCITING 2021. Presents again this year an international, variable PROGRAM. These artists definitely confirmed:
From Poland the legendary KSIĘŻYC, Slavic folk meets psychedelia. / A borderless Audio Visual performance of THE LAPPETITES (international). / One woman noise KIKIRIKI (Slovenia). / First appearances in Germany from the transnational artistic collective MÈCANOSPHÈRE (Portugal/France). / And also for the first time on a German stage the new Russian project PONOMAREV/OBRAZEENA MASSACRE. Also from Poland; restlest sound textures of PURGIST. / The Ukrainian avant-garde singer-songwriter SVITLANA NIANIO. / JEROME NOETINGER, a tape recorder wizzard from France. / From Norway AVANT JOIK creating contemplative atmospheres of the North. / + Pilot world premiere of the very first CORTEX movie by ALEX BUESS and ROGER GRAF (Switserland).
….. more will be added. Detailed info soon.
Xciting Festival. 24/25/26 September 2021. Stuttgart Germany.
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New video by Aleyet Hai : Consolidated: ‘Lamenting Autotuned Life’. riffin on Adorno, Karenga, The Beatnigs
From the album ‘We’re Already There’, Available here: https://consolidated.bandcamp.com/
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This year on XCITING XY: DUMA from Kenya. Ornette Coleman meats Napalm Death. A mix of industrial, experimental, noise, metal, punk and jazz. Duma is the new sensation from Africa performing all important festivals this summer, also at XCITING XY on 23 September, Stuttgart Germany.