ZXZW 2008 festivalguide by Incubate Festival

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Stg. ZXZW PO Box 327 5000 AH Tilburg The Netherlands Chamber of commerce nr. 18079496 Vat (sales tax) nr. 81485166B01 Booklet made by Freshheads Staff Vincent Koreman: Artistic leader Joost Heijthuijsen: External Management Frank Kimenai: Artistic Team, Operational Management PR & Marketing Tijs Heesterbeek: General Marketing and Communications Erik Luyten: Senior Online Marketing, Communications Development & Photography Tineke de Mug: Junior Online Marketing & Band Handling Dyon Schlebos: Head physical promotion Marlies van Randwijk: Chief Editor The Independent Production Chris van Looij: General Production Cees Thomassen: Technical manager Loes Hermans: Site Production, Volunteer Coordination, Production Car Free Sunday Marjolein Kooijman: Production manager "The Living Sun Ra" Bart Hard: Production manager The Shape of Breakcore 2 cum Arlette van Ravenswaaij: Production manager Svart Kunstykke Marisa Goedhart: Production Manager Z-Stock Nick Boers: Production Psychogeografie Curators Sonja Augart: Space That Can Be Filled Wouter Jaspers: European Noise Contest John Corbett: Pathways to Unknown Worlds Sten Ove Toft : Norwegian Invasion Editors bio’s Bart Nijssen, Hans Wetzels, Maurice van der Heijden, Ruud van Esch, Eric Looge, Philippus Zandstra, Vincent Koreman, Joost Heijthuijsen, Frank Kimenai, Tijs Heesterbeek, Bart Hard, Wouter Jaspers, Dyon Schlebos, Erik Luyten Board Floor Boumans: Chairman Jasper van den Dobbelsteen: Secretary Ries Doms: Treasurer Mike van Gaasbeek: Board member Gerard Walhof: Board member Disclaimer Although we’ve tried to be good and contact people, we may have missed a couple on copyright issues. If you spot something of yours here that we’ve used without your permission, sorry. Drop us an email and we will either remove it straight away, or credit you for the picture. Paradoxically, everything else (ie, all text and any other images) contained within this site belongs to everybody. We’ve created it for our community, you can do with it whatever you like.

FOREWORD

FOREWORD I performed in ZXZW last year, and I am very happy to be back this year to conduct The Tilburg Tour of Portland. Part of my desire to do this project is to demonstrate the similarities of Tilburg and my city of Portland, Oregon, in the United States of America. One of the strongest connections between both towns is the initiative and ingenuity displayed by both cities’ creative elements, and for Tilburg ZXZW is an embodiment of that spirit. In Portland in the early 2000s, many artists were doing innovative work, but could not find venues to show it in, so they made their own spaces: arts groups formed that found spaces likes warehouses, empty storefronts, and taverns; there was Charm Bracelet, Alphabet Dress, P.S. What?, and Red76 (I was involved with the latter). Shows were usually one

night affairs of visual arts, bands, and other performances. Occasionally events were carried out for a full week, but nothing ever came close to matching the scope of ZXZW. ZXZW is comprised of that same spirit, but beats Portland at the game. We have some great festivals in America, but nothing that compares to ZXZW’s capture of the individual scope and will. I’m not ashamed to say that I am jealous of these organizers and the government that supports their efforts. Khris Soden

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INDEX

WEEK program

6 - 13

WEEKEND program

15 - 55

EVENTS

56 - 97

Movie program

56 - 57

Space that can be filled

58 - 59

Z-stock

60 - 63

Psychogeography

64 - 65

Svart Kunststykke

66 - 71

The Embassy of The Living Sun Ra

72 - 76

Norwegian Invasion

78 - 83

Kraaklink

Eurovision Noise contest

86 - 89

The Shape Of Breakcore 2 Cum

90 - 95

Car Free Sunday

96 - 97

FRIENDS

98 - 99

week program

Monday 15 September

The Embassy of the Living Sun Ra Sun Ra Arkestra @ Paradox. More info about the shows and exhibitions see the Sun Ra-pages.

Space That Can Be Filled Vloeistof with “Popcornpretpark” @ Must See. More info on the Space That Can Be Filled-pages.

Svart Kunstykke Exhibition @ Kunstpodium T, Argument and Ruimte X. More info on the Svart Kunststykke-pages.

Kraaklink Bosgraaf en Elias @ squat Langestraat 67. More info on Kraaklink-pages.

Movie program @ Filmfoyer. See movie program.

Norwegian Invasion White Tiger Prepade, Håvard Volden/Daniel Meyer Grønvold duo and The Shining @ Batcave. More info on Norwegian Invasion-pages.

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Monday 15 September

Munch Munch (US)

As musically informed by Robert Wyatt as they are by J Dilla and Madlib, this eclectic approach to song writing is filtered through a DIY recording ethic with comparisons to Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective and Gang Gang Dance, due to the prominent synth, abstract lyrics, unpredictable structures and ecstatic playfulness. Their forward thinking is more in step with the current US underground than anything happening in the UK right now. Avantgarde, Powerpop // Cul de Sac

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Tuesday 16 September

The Embassy of the Living Sun Ra Sun Ra Arkestra @ Paradox More info about the shows and exhibitions see the Sun Ra-pages.

Space That Can Be Filled Ivo Dimchev with "Lili H채ndel" @ De NWE Vorst. More info on the Space That Can Be Filled-pages.

Svart Kunstykke Exhibition @ Kunstpodium T, Argument and Ruimte X. More info on the Svart Kunststykke-pages.

Kraaklink Nina van Helvert @ squat Langestraat 67. More info on Kraaklink-pages.

Movie program @ Filmfoyer. See movie program.

Norwegian Invasion Monolithic and Puma @ Batcave. More info on Norwegian Invasion-pages.

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Tuesday 16 September

8GB (ARG)

Computadora (DE)

Gameboy music from Buenos Aires. Visual astonishing and just nice music.

Mashup old 8-bit songs with the groovy glitches and electro squarewave party.

Electro // Cul de Sac

Electro, Punk // Cul de Sac

Goto80 (SW)

Who said that pop, grindcore, acid and polka couldn’t be mixed together using bleeps. and vocals? Electro, Pop // Cul de Sac

Stu (CH) It’s the “Don Atari electro” with crunchy beats and a noise generator. Electro // Cul de Sac

week program

Wednesday 17 September

The Embassy of the Living Sun Ra Sun Ra Arkestra @ Paradox. More info about the shows and exhibitions see the Sun Ra-pages.

Space That Can Be Filled Sonia Si Ahmed with "Marshmellow" @ De NWE Vorst. More info on the Space That Can Be Filled-pages.

Svart Kunstykke Exhibition @ Kunstpodium T, Argument and Ruimte X. More info on the Svart Kunststykke-pages.

Kraaklink Marij van Gorkom @ squat Langestraat 67. More info on Kraaklink-pages.

Movie program @ Filmfoyer. See movie program.

Norwegian Invasion Toy, Sir Duperman, John Hegre, Golden Serenades @ Batcave. More info on Norwegian Invasion pages.

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Wednesday 17 September

Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides (FR)

Tram (BE) Create instrumental Progpowered electronic rock. Sounds like a cross between Battles and Mars Volta, but without that anoying singer! Instrumetal, Progressive // Cul de Sac

They could have called it the Kelly Jane and Pascal Nichols Experience. Because it’s easier to pronounce their names separately than the band name they’ve chosen. With only percussion and flute Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides creates moving, but at the same time haunting freefolk. It’s the kind of music by which you don’t want to look over your shoulder. Freefolk, Freejazz // Cul de Sac

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Thursday 18 September

The Embassy of the Living Sun Ra Workshop Sun Ra Arkestra @ Paradox. Sun Ra Arkestra @ Paradox. More info about the shows and exhibitions see the Sun Ra-pages.

Space That Can Be Filled Bess/ Moa Hanssen & Mirjam Klebel with "Born in the 80s" @ De NWE Vorst. More info on the Space That Can Be Filled-pages.

Svart Kunstykke Exhibition @ Kunstpodium T, Argument and Ruimte X. More info on the Svart Kunststykke-pages.

Kraaklink Thomas Moore @ squat Langestraat 67. More info on Kraaklink-pages.

Movie program @ Filmfoyer. See movie program.

Norwegian Invasion Bjorn Torske and Shari Vari @ Batcave. More info on Norwegian Invasion-pages.

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Thursday 18 September

Botborg (AT)

The Hong Kong Dong (BE)

Botborg is an international audio-visual performance group that fuses and rewires raw electronic signals to create intensely visceral experiences of sound-colour synaesthesia. Avant garde, Electronics // Cul de Sac

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WEEKEND PROGRAM

1982 (BE)

If there is one thing we know about this band, it’s their year of birth. You guessed it, that’s 1982. Genius. In the sound of these Belgians we hear a sparkling wave of surf rock ‘n roll colliding with a raw sounding punkfunk breeze, so get ready to groove!

Agents of Abhorrence (AU)

§ Agents Of Abhorrence are one of hell of a brutally fast-paced grindcore trio from Melbourne, Australia. The band features some known underground musicians from bands of My Disco, Whitehorse, Clann Zu, Magnetics, Blarke Bayer and TerrorFirma. Hopefully, you have grown semi-familiar with a visit to their MySpace before the festival, since the Agents’ grinding teeth will rip you apart at ZXZW. Grind, Screamo // Friday 19 September

Post-punk // Saturday 20 September

Adolf Butler (NL)

Agog (NL)

Adolf Butler brings us a strange and intense live experience with loud decibels and some unpredictable stage and incrowd antics of noisy proportions. Expect a mix of all that is unhealthy to a wealthy society. Think in directions of a trashy doompunknoiserock extravaganza. Yes, all that comes together in just one band. Adolf Butler features members of Dutch bands like Malkovich and Malle Pietje & The Bimbo’s.

Agog are jazzy and psychedelic in a very unusual way. Have a seat and close your eyes as their music will rush your mind into ultrasmooth elevator/jazzy kind of playgrounds. Bass, keys, guitars, cymbals and snares will quickly make you wander off into dark alleys and desert sunside areas of your mind. Meanwhile, the violinesque strings and amplified climactic moments will guide you around and bring you from one realm to the other. A quite astonishing ride!

Noisepunk // Friday 19 September

Jazz // Friday 19 September

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Ambassador 21 (RU)

Anonymeye (AU) Anonymeye is Andrew Tuttle, and sometimes Andrew Tuttle is Anonymeye. Anonymeye creates drony, electronically powerful and sometimes dizzying soundscapes. These are combined with beautiful acoustic guitars, field recordings, clicks ‘n cuts and a bunch of other strange fine sounding audio experimentations. Anonymeye comes from Australia and will bring you something beautiful you won’t forget anytime soon. Ambient, Electronic // Sunday 21 September

Arquettes (BE)

This duo from Russia creates noisy electronic industrial rock in one of its heaviest and purest forms possible. They are most likely one of the final remaining true industrial rock performances out there, so don’t miss Ambassador 21 if you’re into heavy electronics and a pinch of breakcore! Prepare to be blown away, but don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Arquettes is a band based in Ghent (Belgium) which was formed in 2005. Expect nice uptempo, crunchy indie rock with catchy hooks. The Arquettes recently supported The Veils and Built To Spill while also having played a few clubs and festivals like the AB, Trix and Pukkelpop. Imagine a nice blend of the influential sounds of the Stereophonics with dEUS and you’re on the right road to where the Arquettes are heading. Indie, Pop // Sunday 21 September

Breakcore, Heavy Electronics // Sunday 21 September

Autorace (NL) Avant-garage band with its roots in the art-fashion-music-beer-scene which sleeps in the sinister woods of the middle-east of the Netherlands. They try to keep things simple but most of the times they fail, ending up with a noisy, hooky mess which should only appeal to slightly brain-damaged pop-kids with weird hobbies. Indierock, Garagerock // Friday 19 September

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Batrider (NZ)

Black To Comm (GER) Chill out and dream on these (de)layers of overwhelming sounds which come and hypnotize the listener as the tracks progress... feel surrounded by hundreds of creatures from in and outer space, float through endless tunnels of thought or get stuck in deep caves. Enjoy these walls of comfortable sounds brought to you by Black To Comm. Ambient // Sunday 21 September

Batrider hark back to the days when popular music was flooded with the likes of Hole, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth and Nirvana, when somehow an ideal marriage was formed between credibility and commercial viability. Raw but beautiful, jarring but soothing, Batriders songwriting possess all the attributes your ideal best friend should have; complete empathy, wild good times and the ability to always surprise you. No matter how long you have known them.

Blacklisted (US)

Indierock, Powerpop // Friday 19 September

Bite The Gnatze (NL)

Fierce in-your-face hardcoremetal from Philadelphia, USA. Furious music that will make hardcore people go completely crazy. This is the good stuff and Blacklisted are rapidly getting known for making entire crowds getting mad. So jump in the pit and let’s go! We’ll see you later!!!

This is interesting: an experimental jazzy/folk live-experience. According to the band, there is sometimes even a gypsy-like vibe to their Hardcore // Friday 19 September songs. Not that strange, with eight members who all bring their own influences into the band. But more importantly, the eight artists are all committed to instant composing. See how that works out live. It’s hard not to love this! Jazz, Experimental, Folk // Friday 19 September

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Blastocyst (US)

Blurt (UK)

Extremely loud. Extremely noisy. Extremely violent from within. Extreme ear and brain damage. Welcome Blastocyst. Noisepunk, Freejazz // Sunday 21 September

Blipvert (US)

Have a blast with a loud sound collage of blips, hardcore beats, heavy noises and hi-pitched 8bit extremes, all taking turns in a breakcore kind of rhythmical fashion... Something fast and uncontrollably wild... Blipvert! Electro, Hardcore // Sunday 21 September

Completely original British trio producing what some call ‘dada-avantgarde-jazz’ or ‘paranoid jazz-mutant funk’. Shortly said, it’s almost impossible to pigeonhole this band. Blurt is centered around Ted Milton’s alto-sax and poetry. They have a strong live reputation due to the extraordinary theatrical talents of Milton and were once signed to the legendary Factory Records. Post Punk, Poetry // Saturday 20 September

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Bob Corn (IT) If you like melancholic country/folk songs in the vein of Bonnie Prince Billy, the Italian singer/ songwriter Bob Corn might be something for your ears, heart and soul. Only equipped with his acoustic guitar, Bob sings genuine songs about life on the Italian countryside, while calling his music ‘sad punk’.

Bram Stadhouders/Onno Govaert (NL)

Singer songwriter, Acoustic // Sunday 21 September

Bonne Aparte (NL)

This young duo from our own city Tilburg brings us a lovely and pleasant mix of (free) jazzy, electronic, ambient-like soundscapes and rhythms. At the age of 11 Bram played with Noel Redding, the bassist of Jimi Hendrix, at 12 he won the Prinses Christina Concours. Now he’s 20 and into ambient electronics. Avantgarde, Jazz, Electronics // Saturday 20 September

Combining the craziness of Captain Beefheart with the rhythmic tightness of Shellac and the adventurous musical approach of Millionaire, Bonne Aparte stands for overwhelming live performances and songs. On stage they pull up a massive wall of noise and feedback but always with enough space between the bricks to let through a beautiful melody. Indierock, Punkrock // Friday 19 September

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Bulbul (AUS)

Cadence Weapon (CAN) Leftfield hip hop from a former Pitchfork journalist. Signed at the Epitaph label. Cadence Weapon is one of the greatest hip hop’ers at this moment. He doesn’t use the “uhh”’s, “ahh”’s and “yeah”’s all badass hip hop acts use like 100 times per track. No, Cadence has original beats, flows and a great attitude. Forget about Snoop Dogg and Busta Rhymes. Cadence Weapon is the new thing! Hip-hop // Sunday 21 September

Capsula (ARG) Going from bright acoustic pop, to techno-glam through to the guitar frenzy reminiscent of MC5, there is nothing this trio does without providing a sense of personal magic and passion. A review of Capsula album ‘Songs & Circuits’ described them as “garage rock for the 21st Century” reminiscent of The Stooges, The Velvet Underground and the early The Rolling Stones.

Live from Vienna, Austria comes Bulbul. Bulbul is 21st century sexy rock ‘n roll with killer riffs and guitar sounds. It’s quirky, goofy and slightly psychedelic. All of that is combined with Garage rock // Friday 19 September synths to create some booty movin’ music for the body and soul. Electro, Rock // Saturday 20 September

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (US) Chicago’s Owen Ashworth performs as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and creates mellow paced minimal electronica tunes with 8bit influences combined with some emotional tones which can make you feel blue. Grandaddy needed a whole band to create the same emotional driven music. Indie, Electronics // Sunday 21 September

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Castanets (US)

The free folk of Castanets is like drinking a glass of wine on a dark winter evening. In the sore tradition of Smog, Will Oldham and The Black Heart Procession Castanets is shining in its ponderousness and heaviness. Sometimes a ray of sunshine blinks through the window and then it’s like you’re having a cocktail on a sluggish summer day. But be aware: The clouds are never far away! Americana, Folk // Sunday 21 September

Chops (UK)

“Ladies and gentlemen of reckless abandon; we have no taste and we are your chefs tonight”. CHOPS multitasks with reckless abandon and joyous extravagance amongst loosely structured euphoria and improvised chaos. Drums, vintage analogue/crunked digital keys, alto sax/baritone euphonium, guitar/bass and electronics are amplified at catastrophic proportions. For those familiar, CHOPS consists of members of Leeds based DIY label/promoter/ arts collective Chinchilla. Noisepunk, Improv, Pop // Sunday 21 September

Celano-Baggiani Group (ARG) Celano-Baggiani Group is the consequence of an intense collaboration between two Argentinean musicians. It is a tasteful mix of melodies, grooves and harmonies traveling throughout tango, Argentinean folk music, improvised music and jazz. The personal sound developed within this partnership and the original approach to the compositions are the roots of their music.   Freejazz // Friday 19 September

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Chris Moss Acid (UK)

Chris Moss Acid is signed to Chicago acid house label Mathematics Recordings which released his first 12” vinyl London’s Calling. It received a lot of positive reviews. He has a fair amount of joy making synthesizer and drum machine music in the style of acid house. Think smiley’s, think fluor for the floor, MC Hammer pants and Smarties… if you know what I mean… Acid // Saturday 20 September

Computer Truck (FR)

Active in the Paris micromusic scene since 2002, Computer Truck uses laptop and circuit bended toys and synthesizers. His influences range from retro electropop to breakcore and harsh noise. From riot toy party music to 80’s c64 sound and electrogrind music. Complete that with incomprehensible voices from a special Halloween voice transformer and you’ve got music which unites retarded nerds and crusty punks! 8-bit, Electro // Friday 19 September

Crayonsmith (IRE) Having played in various musical projects from a young age, in 2004 Ciaran Smith began playing his own 4-track recorded songs live under the name Crayonsmith. Soon after, he asked close friends and local musicians to jump on board. With them, they bring bass, synthesizers, samplers, autoharp and live percussion/drums to the mix resulting in a fuller band sound. Indie, Electronica // Saturday 20 September

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Dark Room Notes (IRE)

De Haan/ Spruit (NL)

Electro/synthpop with a slightCly sombre overtone and introverted lyrical sensibility. They gather comparisons with the murkier side of electro pop not unlike New Order, Interpol or Joy Division. The music is so cool that if these songs were people with sunglasses, they would wear those sunglasses at night.

Check all those bleeps. They’re great! The Wire wrote: “the template for this kind of improvisation was set by Otomo Yoshihide, Christian Marclay and Martin Tétrault more than a decade ago, since when a host of others have followed their lead. But when is largely irrelevant; more important is how well it’s done.”

Synthpop, Indiepop // Saturday 20 September

Experimental, Turntable, Electronics // Sunday 21 September

David Karsten Daniels (US)

Dethscalator (UK)

Dethscalator are the masters of tempo. They have songs ranging from 88 bpm all the way up to 93 bpm. This has landed them on bills with the likes of Whitehouse, Pissed Jeans and Acid Mothers Temple. Dethscalator delivers heavy dinosaur balls of Black Sabbath and Electric Wizard and After a very fruitful five years in North Carolina, larden them with the spastic inflection of bands David recently packed up his smallest amplifier, like Scratch Acid or Butthole Surfers. Noise, Punk // Saturday 20 September his lightest electric guitar, and laptop before moving clear across the country to Seattle, Washington. Along the way he signed up for a new library card, figured out how to cook sweet Die Pferde (DE) potatoes and married the love of his life. He’s now in Tilburg to show his singer songwriter Die Pferde are young and gifted German capabilities. dudes who play very intense (free)jazz and Singer songwriter, Folk // Sunday 21 September commit themselves entirely to improvisation. Intuitively, without any pre-arrangements or genre boundaries they spontaneously create moments and moods - somewhere between silence and noise - emphasizing spiritedness, atmosphere and emotionality. Think of Ornette Coleman. Feel like Albert Ayler. Freejazz // Sunday 21 September

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Dirge (FR)

Dirge was born in Paris in 1994. The original core was formed by Marc T. (guitar, programming) and by the ex-Damage Done member Laurent P. (voice, programming). The music is full of harsh guitar riffs, robotic rhythms, aggressive frequenced samples and pitched voices. Industrial-metal, similar to bands like Godflesh and Pitchshifter. Doom, Ambient, Postrock, Industrial // Sunday 21 September

Disco Exota with Tako, Zip and Noir (NL) Disco Exota stands for a hot mix, based on true love for music. From melodic underground disco, African influences, touches of rock and soul to deep 70’s and 80’s synthesizer space disco and today’s house tracks. Disco, Soul // Saturday 20 September

DJ Pinchado (ARG)

DJ Pinchado mixes tropical, minimalist and hip hop loops the Argentinean way. It’s Cumbia al the way! After Mano Negra and Balkan beats it’s this Buenos Aires underground sound, championed by the likes of DJ Rupture, that’s the sound of the summer of 2009. After this set you say… Cumbia makes my day! Cumbia // Saturday 20 September

DJ Shabushabu (JP) DJ Shabushabu is a producer, singer, rapper, beat boxer, DJ and performer from Japan. Expect broken hiphop and strange J-pop with a dance twist in the vein of a crazy Money Mark. Strange people, those Japanese’s... 8 Bit, Alt.hiphop, Electronics // Saturday 20 September

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Enablers (US) On the label of Neurosis. There’s something dark and poetic about this San Francisco quartet. The narratives of underground literary veteran Pete Simonelli are like spoken word performances, with an indie band playing in the background. Like poetry slams done over a postcore soundtrack. Features (ex) members of Swans and Tarnation, so expect a vibrant performance. Indie-rock, Post-rock, Poetry // Saturday 20 September

Eva Braun (NL)

FMG (UK) F.M.G. is John Scott, one of the artists of the UK based label Moist Lips Records. F.M.G. uses guitars, pedals, syths, samples, reel to reel, drum machine, four track, and f.m.3. The sound is ambient to atmospheric to brain waving noise. Noise // Saturday 20 September

Gala Drop (PT) Born out of the Portuguese music scene, Gala Drop is a project comprised of Lisbon’s foremost underground agitator Nelson Gomes, dj and label owner Tiago Miranda and hyperactive drummer and percussionist Afonso Simões. Touring Europe for the second time, their music has evolved into a blend of many things, among which are kraut-rock, synthscapes and Latin beats. Kraut, Jam // Friday 19 September

As a band heavily influenced by songs about fucking, Eva Braun has been attending the school of art rock. But even among fellow lo-fi rockers, there’s nothing usual about the band. Eva Braun creates some sort of musical chaos, but manages to keep you focused all the time. Either get up and dance or stare at them in utter amazement. Lo-fi, Noise, Art Rock // Friday 19 September

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Gastón Arévalo (UY)

Sound and visual artist, musician, producer. Born in Uruguay in 1981, Gastón Arévalo began playing traditional instruments at a very young age. Later on he started to incorporate other instruments and began to experiment endlessly with recordings and ambient samples. An aesthetic interest in nature has always been a key element of his inspiration. Arévalo’s interest lies in contemplating different landscapes, primarily the ones near the ocean. Minimal, Ambient, Dub // Saturday 20 September

Gay Against You (UK)

An 8-bit duo with the stunning number of two members. Lachlann Rattray and Joe Howe are enthusiastic, sloppy and very friendly at the same time. Influenced by The Minutemen, Magma, Mae Shi and other bands beginning with an ‘M’, Gay Against You sounds just a tad ‘OMGWTF’. Think electro, old school gaming computers, noise and a big smile. Electronic, Alternative // Sunday 21 September

Gelbart (DE) Gelbart is a genius mad scientist. A true music giant among hordes of laptop charlatans, blending all colors and shades of electronic pop into his test tubes, that consist of old analogue machines, guitars, rewired battery operated instruments, hand-built gadgets and more. His sole purpose is to marvel in explosions of sounds. All in the name of weird science. Indierock, Electro // Saturday 20 September

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Gewapend Beton (NL)

Goldielocks (UK)

A rising star from the Amsterdam punk scene. The traditional sound of anarchistic punk impacts like a chunk of armed concrete. Their song ‘Rita Jugend’, about right wing politician Rita Verdonk, is already a classic. Check ‘em out if you like squat riots, smelly mohawks burning police cars and outfits like GBH, Discharge, The Casualties, BGK, Out Cold and Antidote. Punk // Saturday 20 September

Go Back To The Zoo (NL) Out of the smoking ashes of The Pax arose a new band: Go Back To The Zoo. Apparently, their music makes you want to feed wild animals. Drawing inspiration from both The Beatles and The Stones, to contemporary artists such as The Strokes and Kings of Leon, these beasts throw a great party for every rocker with a weak spot for pop melodies. Indie // Saturday 20 September

Whenever asked what style her music is, Sarah Akwisombe a.k.a. Goldielocks answers “I don’t know really. A bit of electro, a bit of grime, a bit of garage, a bit of pop and a bit of hip hop.” Despite her feminine looks, rapper/producer Goldielocks claims not to be your typical girly girl. In her opinion, most females in the music industry are “Used, abused, and rubbish. Or groupies.”. Hip hop, Crunk, Dance // Sunday 21 September

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Gonga (UK)

Guapo (UK)

These heavy rockers from Bristol bring back the seventies with a bang. Combining elements of stoner, grunge and psychedelic rock, Gonga members love rocking the place as much as they do spacing out. You know what else is weird? Geoff Barrow from Portishead cited the band as an influence. Stoner, Hardrock // Saturday 20 September

Grand Pocket Orchestra (IRE)

Writing “happy songs about not so happy things”, doesn’t necessarily mean you ride the middle of the road. Grand Pocket Orchestra has the intention of making the awful seem not so bad. In doing so, this pocket sized orchestra swings from The Cure and Pavement to Tom Waits and Hoovers & Sledgehammers. Indie // Saturday 20 September

Departing from jazz, Guapo feels like a quest for sounds, meandering thoughts in a subconsciously fixed context. Most of the time there is an expansive growth of momentum, quietly gaining force, sometimes erupting in something louder. Guapo does not do climaxes. Their journeys are continuous peaks of deep contemplation on the flow of sound and the rhythm of mood. Experimental, Jazz, Rock, Jazzrock, Soundscapes // Friday 19 September

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Gura (BE)

Incite/ (DE)

Two musicians descending the dungeons of doom armed with just a four string and a drum kit. While slowly dragging themselves into the depths of depression, those around them are intimidated by gut-wrenching bass tones and pummeled with discomforting rhythms. Ready to take a plunge in pitch black quicksand? Freejazz, Doom, Noise // Saturday 20 September

Is there anything Incite/ does not cross over? Kera Nagel and AndrĂŠ Aspelmeier will throw just about anything in the mix to push the envelope. Using audiovisual art with dynamic A heavy hybrid of noisy punk and post rock, distorted idm-beats, Incite poses as a museum clearly conversant with both the unlikely extremes of krautrock and doom metal. Shouting of modern art and a cutting edge club at the same time, creating intense experiences for vocals and down-tuned guitars also put these guys in league with such not-metal-but-even- ears and eyes. Audiovisual imagery in total scarier acts as Burmese and Unsane. Grinding sync with bone-dry fragmented grooves spawns grooves awash with an almost psychedelic level a unique experience. Experimental, Audiovisual // Saturday 20 September of FX, brought to you by a Korg Kaoss Pad.

Hey Colossus (UK)

Noisepunk // Saturday 20 September

Hooghwater (NL) Hooghwater picks up the pieces Restless Youth left behind with their swansong album. With musicians coming from the hardcore punk scene, the approach of psychedelic seventies rock is full of energy and without pretentions. Hooghwater wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wipe out The Wipers, but they will surely give it a go. Classic Rock, Psychedelic, Seventies // Sunday 21 September

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Jack Beauregard (NL/DE)

You know those movie scenes where a beautiful girl is lying in the green grass. It’s getting sweaty, tender, dreamy, melanchonic. The ideal soundtrack for this is created by by Jack Beauregard. Sweet songs with digital beats. Sixties. Nick Drake. Love. Jack Beauregard! Electronic, Pop, Singer songwriter // Saturday 20 September

James Kumo (UK)

Jeremy Jay (US)

Jeremy Jay is tall (6’3) blond (really) and handsome and wants a cat for his apartment. He writes and plays piano and guitar. Very excited about music, Jeremy’s writing is influenced by dreams and the more fantastic surrealist sensibility linked with the French NewWave but also by 50’s Rock n’ Roll of Buddy Holly and 60’s era Yea-Yea Francois Hardy. Pop, Weird // Sunday 21 September

English born James Kumo is one of the rising stars in the electronic music/house scene at the moment. With recent releases on the Delsin label he hints back at the Detroit techno past, while looking forward into a deep house future. Think somewhere between Underground Resistance and Moodymann… Techno, Dance // Saturday 20 September

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Joop Visser and Jessica van Noord (NL)

Junkie Brewster (FR)

Soko is so 2008. Junkie Brewster is the next French dame to capture your heart. These are real chansons for the future. And the only thing this jeune fille needs is her soprano and a ukulele. Singer songwriter, Acoustic, Freefolk // Saturday 20 September

Joop Visser is the true singer-songwriter of Holland. With a career stretched from the late 50’s to now, he gained a great following of fans. And the only thing he needed was an acoustic guitar and his smart wittiness. A true independent thinker and poet. Since 2005 he plays with Jessica van Noord. Singer songwriter, Protest // Saturday 20 September

Kid Carpet (UK) My tricky 2nd album’, that’s what Kid Carpet called his new album ‘Casio Royale’ for a while. Not to pay tribute to Tricky, but more because it was very hard to top his first, really original and groundbreaking debut album ‘Ideas & Oh Dears’. But he did it, together with the prehistoric Casio-keyboards, referred to in the title of the album. Postironic samplepop with retro-electro elements, what more could you wish for? Electronic, Experimental, Dance // Sunday 21 September

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Koonda Holaa (US)

Kylie Minoise (UK) On his Myspace blog he thanked everyone who helped him after he had a little accident on stage and had to be rushed to the hospital. That’s just everything you really need to know. Want more? In Plan B magazine Lea Cummings said: “Kylie Minoise is the side of me that likes to make a few cracks in normality, cause a bit of discomfort and increase a few pulses”. Noise // Sunday 21 September

Koonda Holaa’s music by fella named Kamilsky a Czech expatriot who lives his American dream high up on a mountain in Mojave desert - is as diverse as colabs with Steve Mackay and Mike Watt the other half of Iggy Pop’s Stooges and producing Bastard Noise record. Kamilsky opened for the Stooges this summer in Moscow and is curently involved with many new projects for example with Otto von Schirach -the breakcore warlord from Miami. He is also known for working with the Residents.

Ladycop (US)

Experimental, Impro, Rock // Saturday 20 September

Kornreiniger (DE)

Indie rockers Ladycop hail from Brooklyn, delivering a sharp, feisty, assertive brand of music that is as fresh as it is subtle. The rhythms, lyrics and melodies all combine in a fiercely self-reliant sound that catches up listeners in an addictive sweep of musical power. Ladycop is a unique listening experience.

This German duo’s claim to fame is making funny, trashy covers of bad 80’s hit singles, like “Feels like heaven” and “Girls just wanna have fun”. Nothing original here, you would say, but the way they do it, is pretty cool and original. Their “karaoke trash” as they call it, is being Electro // Saturday 20 September produced by a laptop, a squiking old clarinet and an occasional guitar. It’s a bit weird at first, but once you get used to it you just can’t get enough! Weird, Pop // Sunday 21 September

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Ladyhawk (Can)

Lakes (UK) UK Hardcore group formed in 2005 in Canterbury, UK. 5-piece (Vocals/Keyboard, Guitar, Guitar, Bass, Drums) band featuring ex-members of Winter in June. Released debut EP in February 2007 through Signature Tune. If you like Blood Brothers or Liars, or you just dig a no nonsense DIY attitude you will like this for sure! Indierock, Mathcore // Saturday 20 September

Maho*Thaidisco (JP) They are rockers and dreamers — still trapped in their apple country teenage minds, looking for girls and kicks, and mining their teenage quarries from the inside-out. Growing up together as the best of friends, they have stories that radiate with the presence of all four members. Ladyhawk’s core is bracing rock. Neil Young’s Tonight’s The Night is the hailstorm on the hood of The Replacements Let It Be, while distorted guitars invoke the thread and swerve of Silkworm and Dinosaur Jr. Rock // Sunday 21 September

We’ve discovered this new genre! well, we didn’t know it existed... Thai Disco is the name and strange, drugged out, chaotic, rhythmic percussion infested disco with Thai vocals on top is the game. Maho*Thaidisco is one of the best dj’s in this genre. She’ll supply you with the best and hottest tracks in the genre! Give it a year, and every festival has its own Thai Disco after party. Thai Disco, Disco, Avantgarde, Techno // Saturday 20 September

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Manatees (UK)

Music for the Defect (NL) Music for the Defect is a five-piece band from the higher regions of The Netherlands, Groningen. With their dark melancholy folky indie-songs they let you drift away into thoughts about honesty and pain. No funlet’s-jump-around-festival-band, but serious listening in the flow of bands like The Black Heart Procession, Pedro the Lion and Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat (zxzw-2007); strings attached!

With comparisons tossed about to the tune of King Crimson and Isis, Manatees are monsters of rock through and through. Their sludge-doom-grind or something template is one followed by a fair few other acts, but the trio’s balancing of destructive bombast, eerie atmospherics and moving passages of introspective ambience is perfect. Sludge //Sunday 21 September

Melted Cassettes (US) From the warm, sticky and ultra hot desert of Arizona come Melted Cassettes, a duo that combines the intensity and stage performance of punk with the nihilistic views and pure audio terror of noise. Stand back, or not only the cassettes, but also your brain will slowly start to melt… Industrial, Punk, Experimental // Saturday 20 September

Acoustic, Alt. Americana, Folk // Sunday 21 September

Mutiny on the Bounty (LUX) Hailing from Esch/Alzette - Luxembourg, MOTB is 4 slobs playing something like straight mathy, time-signature-laden indierock/posthc combining organic angularity with a taste for captivating melodies. Or so they say. We prefer to describe it as a cool, hectic, screaming indierock. Nothing more, nothing less. They shared the stage with an impressive number of cool bands like These Arms Are Snakes, Coheed and Cambria, Enablers, Pelican, Red Sparrows, etc. But if you really want to have a good impression of this band, just go check them out yourself. You won’t be disappointed! Avantgare, Indierock, Mathcore, Punkrock // Saturday 20 September

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Nackt Insecten (UK)

Nanobots 500 (UK) Nanobots are Tiny Wee Robots that form an autonomous swarm (of two) to produce high tech Electronic Space rock. Guitars and bleeps are equally important in their music. Two numpties playing guitars with some bleepy noiseys. The Bastard Child of DEVO and Hawkwind. One day 500 trillion nanobots will replace your blood system. Space Rock // Sunday 21 September

Neurosis Orchestra (DE) Dubstep project from the artist formally known as The LFO Demons. Cool old school electronics in the vain of 808 State and KLF with a little bit of breakcore. Dubstep, Jungle // Friday 19 September

These insects from Glasgow produce drones. If these bugs would crawl in your tent while camping on the ZXZW campsite, their sound would drive you insane, you would suffer of severe insomnia, and you would go slightly mad after a while. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let this stop you from visiting their show though. Especially not if you are into other creepy crawlers like Kylie Minoise or Usurper. Ambient, avantgarde, drones // Saturday 20 September

Newax (NL) Newax Is the band that makes expensive, unhealthy energy drinks and powerpills irrelevant. Take your daily dose of neWax and your youth will come running back to you! The solid mix of ska, wave, heavy rock, and powerpop is the ideal way to lose some weight and enjoy some brain-stimulating entertainment at the same time! Postpunk, Punkfunk // Saturday 20 September

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Nick Castro & the Young Elders (US)

Paint It Black (US)

West Coast psychedelic folkie Nick Castro is currently making some of most dynamic and truly original sounds to emerge from the muchballyhooed new folk movement. As ‘freak-folk’ and assorted hairy-fairy type labels grab the headlines in the underground, Castro strives for a solemn, serene sort of beauty, summoning utterly melodic incantations in song and sound. If you like Nick Drake, check this! Dan Yemin’s impact on punkrock over the years Folk, Acoustic, Psychfolk, Traditional // Sunday 21 certainly approaches Mt.Rushmore status. After September past endeavours as the guitarist for punkrock institutions Lifetime and Kid Dynamite, Yemin finally steps to the mic with Paint It Black. Conveying the intensely personal as well as Our Brother The Native (US) the overtly political, Yemin and company still continue to leave room for the threatening Our Brother The Native are three young urgency of a ‘fuck-you’ song. Blending Minor Americans who have been working together Threat’s aggression with the innovation of Swiz, as a unit since 2005. They stand out for their Paint It Black is most definitely a band worth jagged and ruptured songcraft on their debut, checking out. ne release ‘Make Amends…’ is a much more Hardcore, Punk // Saturday 20 September fluid, immersive affair, a dense weave of layered sounds and slow building dynamics, recalling at times the likes of Sigur Rós, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Stars Of The Lid or Popol Vuh. Peeesseye (US) Still using an array of atypical ephemera to construct their songs, the album is nevertheless From 2002 on this American threesome has more informed by the bands transition into a been combining different elements of warped live entity, creating a sonic tide that comes in rock architecture, freejazz horror, intergalactic and out, with waves of sound building up slowly, glossolalia and stripped down abstract expressionism into their very own creeping and then finally coming to a huge crescendo creations. Their live performances travel and then calm again. through fields of fine decay and up against Ambient, Experimental // Sunday 21 September walls of bone chilling catharsis. Succumb to the purity of intention. Succumb to The Peeesseye. Flaming Primordial Otherness, Jazz, Improv // Sunday 21 September

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Pelican (US)

Penguins Know Why (BE)

Penguins Know Why is a Belgian band that plays postpunk-mantra’s influenced by NY no wavers, shoegazers and krauts. Being influenced by bands like Interpol and Sonic Youth, they create a tense and non-conformist sound that uses a balanced blend of repetition, noise and harsh melodies. Post Punk, Noise Rock // Sunday 21 September

From the Windy City, USA, we present you Pelican. With their third full-length album in their pockets the band is ready to amaze spectators with a glorious mix of the complete range rock music has to offer. On ‘City of Echoes’ the band manages to step beyond the label of being just a metal band. From glacierthick walls of guitars and dynamic riffing to ambient-style breaks and post-hardcore influenced melodies, Pelican have perfected the musical space they can call their own. Postrock, Metal, Stoner // Saturday 20 September

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Pessariüm (NL)

Pilgrim Fathers (UK)

From the gutters of Eindhoven rises a new monster, ready to launch a new breed of danceable, feminist noise-metal at the world. Loaded with hardcore beats, terrible noise and all kinds of greasy fluids they attack the audience and themselves. Candy Cameltoe, Klara Klapperkut, Slut, Hermien Kutschurft and their slave gothchick666_suus always go for the kill. Forget Rockbitch, this is Pessariüm! Noise, Custard Wrestling // Sunday 21 September

Phill Niblock & Katherine Liberovskaya (US) Phill Niblock is a photographer, filmmaker and composer of minimal music, three passions which have him travelling the world. In his performances Niblock plays his thick, loud drones of music in combination with multiple screenings of extracts from his series ‘Movement of People Working’, an archive he has been building up since the early seventies. For this occasion, Niblock will be joined by Montreal based video/multimedia artist Katherine Liberovskaya for a special set. Drones, Minimal, Electronic, Experimental // Friday 19 September

‘Music for astronauts to die to’ is how Pilgrim Fathers from the north of England describe themselves. Having recently released their debut full-length, the band has created an album filled with thundering power grooves and vocals ringing out from behind the walls of sleep. We offer you the opportunity to be the witness to this 50 million-year neo-psychedelic death trip through all galactic touchstones. Psychedelic, Rock // Sunday 21 September

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Ponytail (US)

Pre (UK)

Now garage is dead, avant poppunk is the new rough to enjoy. With no bass, Ponytail gives you a melodic wack on the head with bouncy riffs, crushing rhythms and the squeaks of a girl who sounds like Miss Piggy being stepped on her corky tail. With their new album ‘Ice Cream Spiritual’ these US deranged rockers cannot be overlooked anymore. Let yourself go in their pit of sweaty, assrocking fun. Indierock, Poppunk // Friday 19 September

Potop (MK)

Five noise sprinkled new-wavers. The music sounds like cold sweat caught on tape. Guitar, bass, bass, drum and moon shriek: PRE makes the noise jump. Bored of everything, PRE will be committing suicide live on stage at this year’s ZXZW festival. Be prepared. Noisepunk // Sunday 21 September

If you listen to Potop too long, your heartbeat will drop to ten beats a minute, your blood will get thicker and you will be left gasping from air by the band from Macedonia. But it’s all worth it. This is Doom with a big D, a lot of O’s and a long M. Doom // Friday 19 September

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Pu:ppkakkbaggrlull (NL)

Punt Uit (NL)

Let yourself stand amazed by the impressive live performance of this local noise/drone act. Silence is one of the main ingredients of a Pu:ppkakkbaggrlull performance. Seeking a delicate balance between intense noise and a more than usual amount of silence, the band states that ‘in contemporary society, the importance of silence is underestimated.’ A Pu:ppkakkbaggrlull composition is not over until the silence stops. Noise // Sunday 21 September

Pulling Teeth (US) Pulling Teeth are a brutal metallic hardcore/ punk band from Baltimore. Featuring former members of Slumlords, The Spark, Desperate Measures and Never Enough, they play a furious style of metal influenced hardcore. Drawing heavy influences from bands like Integrity and Left For dead, the music bounces between heavy intros, fast-paced verses and hard mosh parts, with solos thrown in everywhere. Hardcore, Metal // Sunday 21 September

People from Oisterwijk are badasses. Fuck the big city: the real ghetto is in a little town near Tilburg. No pimpcups here, just beer in a can. And some sweets to give to your neighbors child. Before they will take a shit in your front garden. If you haven’t already done that. Crunk, Hip Hop // Friday 19 September

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Radio Eris (US)

Raxinaski (BE) Raxinaski are a trio from Brussels with the rather unorthodox line-up of guitar, drums, trumpet and voice. If you are into freejazz and you have ever loved metal, this is for you: a backbone of dadaïst percussion provides for surreal trumpetlines, polysyncopated metal guitars and nonsensical vocalizing. Expect some crazy-ass instrument bashing and spasm-creating rhythmic abstract instrumental mayhem. Freejazz, Metal // Saturday 20 September

Religious Knives (US)

Beginning as an ambient poetry project between two flawed but driven artists who knew little about music but nevertheless possessed the holy fire – Radio Eris has matured to become a band with a powerful energy and unusual sound. Radio Eris can be ambient and ethereal, psychedelic and offbeat like a reincarnated sixties spacerock band, or as loud and harsh as any punk band. Noisepunk // Sunday 21 September

Religious Knives is a NYC band who combine the thrill of improvisation with the hooks of inventive songcraft and indirect melody and rhythm. Formed from the ashes of Double Leopards, Michael Bernstein and Maya Miller started the band as an outlet for more songbased ideas. Hooking up with Todd Cavallo and Mouthus drummer Nate Nelson allowed them to reach their goal – telling the story of life in the City. Psychedelic, Ambient // Friday 19 September

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Rhythm to the Madness (BE)

Starting out as a side-project of some members of Belgian hardcore-outfit Justice, Rhythm To The Madness has evolved into a fulltime band over time. Also featuring members of Rise and Fall. If you dig crossover hardcore bands like Leeway or Cro-Mags, you’ll dig Rhythm To The Madness.

Rusalnaia (US) Being one of the many collaborations in the extensive psychedelic-and-associated worldwide scene, the fact that Rusalnaia exists isn’t surprising. Neither is the fact that it’s quite good. Given that both Sharron Kraus and Gillian Chadwick are productive performers, this collaboration easily comes across as a logical path for each of them. The two produce a series of beautiful, unsettling songs containing both calm fragility and some odd deviations from the expected form. Psych Folk, Singer songwriter, Psychedelic // Sunday 21 September

Sardonis (BE)

Hardcore // Friday 19 September

Robert Curgenven (AU) Working with harmonics, textures and resonance, Curgenven’s sound explores slowly shifting layers in the fabric of fields of perception. Playing in a variety of contexts from pure field recordings to instrumental harmonics and feedback – one audience member described his music as ‘a punch in the face while elsewhere flowers bloomed.’ Drones, Experimental // Saturday 20 September

Follow the trail of the Behemoth and meet the brotherhood of Sardonis; a two man army playing loud, slow and heavy instrumentals, blending super low doom chords with esthetics of Black Metal. The packs of wolves and ravens that scavenged the aftermath of battles. Doom, Black Metal // Friday 19 September

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Schlammpeitziger (DE)

Seven That Spells (CR) Ever heard a better reason to watch naked women than this? Formed in 2003, in Zagreb, Croatia, as an international commune of psychedelic likeminds, Seven That Spells is exploring the multifaceted cosmos of freak out music and naked women in high hopes of achieving Buddha’s blessing. Seven That Spells will make you trip on psychedelic rock in a way that would make Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa jealous. Let’s get blessed! Rock, Psychedelic // Saturday 20 September

Have no fear, ladies and gentlemen. The fact that Schlammpeitziger named himself to some form of mudfish which can breathe through its anus, doesn’t mean his music sounds like shit. On the contrary; this dude from Germany really has an hypnotic influence on all who listen to his pulsating beats, deep frequencies and eloquent melodies. On the A-muzik label from Mouse on Mars.

Sick Mormons (NL)

Electronic, Techno // Saturday 20 September

Seein Red (NL) These guys are all more than 40 years old, but they’re still rockin’ their ass off much harder than Dead Kennedy’s, Ramones, Minor Threat, Crass and Fugazi altogether used to do. It must have been around 1988 when LÄRM called it quits: Seein’ Red was born. After all those years, they’re still this hardworking political D.I.Y. punk band. These guys aren’t old, no, they’re classics! Punk, Hardcore // Sunday 21 September

The Sick Mormons from Amsterdam are here to bring back the good old days of LA-based punkrock from bands like Adolescents, T.S.O.L. and Social Distortion. Their highly energetic and melodic snotty punkrock will definitely result in a lot of jumping, pogoing and crowdsurfing, as these guys bring sing-a-longs that even your granddad can sing along to. Punk // Saturday 20 September

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Skinless (US)

Skinless is nothing less than legendary. Since 1992, this foursome plays really brutal grind/death metal with a hardcore vibe to it, devastating places all over the world. They shared the stages with Six Feet Under, Cattle Decapitation, Deicide and Cryptopsy, amongst others. So if Skinless doesn’t make you mosh, we don’t know who will! Deathmetal, Hardcore // Sunday 21 September

Starving Weirdos (US)

Distorted avant-drone rock. Think of Sunburned Hand of the Man. Underground darlings. In 1998, Starving Weirdos began crafting a body of staggeringly beautiful, unsettling freeform soundscapes, unbeknownst to all but a tiny circle of friends and neighbors. Their recorded works had not surfaced until very recently, in the form of extremely limited CD-Rs. After you’ve seen the Starving Weirdos live, you’ll be dying for more. Noise, Drone // Saturday 20 September

Stellar Om Source (US) You don’t need LSD for a nice trip. Stellar Om Source presents sounds of the upper and lower registers of ocean waves as transformed by her synthesizer. The music’s progression and regression exist as an organic and humanistic wave to the synthesizer. Stellar’s sounds can be related to Terry Riley or Alice Coltrane and she has played with Tony Conrad and Thurston Moore. Don’t miss the boat; make sure you’ll be there! Shoegaze, Drones, Ambient // Friday 19 September

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Storm & Stress (DE)

Taint (US)

Outstanding musicians, nice songwriting and some metal tunes have made this band drop one of the best debut releases Germany has seen in a very long time, especially for fans of Otis and These Arms Are Snakes. Expect hardcore with metal influences, but no ugly riffing. These guys know how to cause a storm! Hardcore, Metal // Sunday 21 September

Suckinim Baenaim (ISR) Remember Monotonix from last year’s edition of the ZXZW Festival? From the same country, we present you Suckinim Baenaim . They’re best at describing themselves: “we’re all half weird, half normal people (the 2 normal ones, are obviously the 2 vegans) that hate normality and play normal music that strives to be different”. Whatever! If you think the seventies rocked, than you’ve obviously never listened to Taint almost destroyed the Pre-heat of Suckinim Baenaim. Roadburn 2008 with their explosive mixture of Rock // Saturday 20 September metal, might, menace, melody and a whole lot of groove. Signed on Lee Dorrian’s Rise Above Records, these Welshmen have been around for 14 years and kept being seriously overlooked on the mainland. ZXZW joins Roadburn to put them in the spotlight, and give you a jawdropping sonic experience. Sludge, Metal // Saturday 20 September

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Talibam! (US) Talibam! is New Yorks hottest freejazz/noise/ impro ensemble. This hilarious two piece consists of Kevin and Matt. Together they make Mavin and Kett, so you will. The relentless mesmerizing drums and synths that anticipate each other will make your ears bleed. A cross between noise-rock, free-jazz and unabashed fuckeduppedness, Talibam! is audio terrorism at its most playful. Freejazz, Noise // Saturday 20 September, Sunday 21 September

Tank 86 (NL)

Temperatures (UK) At Pitchfork, Thurston Moore told that Temperatures is his favorite band from the UK. But luckily this combination of hype makers did not work like it worked out like it did with Beck or The Arcade Fire. Temperatures is no sell out. They create noise improv with drums, synth, bass and voice. Where too many bands try to make this shit, Temperatures really does it. Freejazz, Noisepunk, Avantgarde // Sunday 21 September

The Black Napkins (NL)

Like a German Panther Tank, this instrume(n) tal stoner four piece band from Breda, The Netherlands, will run you over with their heavy artillery riffs, crush you, and leave you standing in awe. With their roots hinting towards bands such as Karma To Burn and The Sword comes Tank86: get ready for a fierce Blitzkrieg! Instrumetal, Stoner // Sunday 21 September

This crossunder band â&#x20AC;&#x201C; named after a Frank Zappa track â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is mixing all kinds of influences with a solid jazz background. With no need for frames, patterns and constructed safety, The Black Napkins break order and time in a very intuitive way. The result is a challenging phantasmagoria of sounds and ideas, sometimes soothing, sometimes disturbing, but always energetic and awake. Freejazz // Sunday 21 September

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The Devil’s Blood (NL) Their very first show at the Roadburn Festival last April was a blast. The Devil’s Blood plays a nice mix of rock-’n’-roll, hard rock and doom. Think of a frenzy of rock n roll flavored hard rock that speak of times decades past: no modernisms, no trends, no high end sounds. Just Vintage rock music in the vein of Roky Erickson, Black Widow, Coven, Black Sabbath and a rich plethora of sixties and seventies underground psychedelic rock bands. You’d better check this one out before they’re too big! We’ve heard Lee Dorrian is interested… Doom, Rock, Psychedelic // Sunday 21 September

The Lords of Altamont (US)

The Micragirls (FIN)

The Micragirls were born and raised in the smallish city of Kuopio up in the northeast corner of Finland. They are like the perfect cartoonish daughter of Japan’s The 5,6,7,8’s, America’s The Trashwomen and England’s Thee Headcoatees. What it means? Trashy rock and roll and garage rock played by an all female band. The Micragirls have more balls than all the male bands that play at ZXZW together.

The Lords Of Altamont take the raw power of Garagerock, Rock ‘n Roll, Punk // Sunday 21 1960’s punk and brings it into today to crank September out rock n’ roll the way it was meant to be played: loud, fast, and totally out of control. Be prepared for garage-god vocals, a Farfisa organ that’s lit on fire, a few fringe-tossing go-go dancers and a light show reminiscent of science lab blood cell slides memories from an acid trip. With band members from The Cramps, The Fuzztones and The Bomboras, you don’t want to miss this, do ya? Garagerock, Rock ‘n Roll, Punk // Sunday 21 September

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The Pharmacy (US)

The Real Danger (NL) One of the best punkrockbands from Holland, with former members of Uppercut. The Real Danger probably went to the same college as Milo of Descendents did, because these Dutch guys sound something like the American punkheroes. Melody and energy in great 2 minute songs. They squeeze enough of them in their show to tear roofs down, killing people with perfect punkrock. No, really. They’re dangerous! Punk // Sunday 21 September

The Tunics (UK)

First reached prominence as the backing band of Kimya Dawson of the Moldy Peaches. The Pharmacy is a psychedelic/indie punk band from Seattle consisting of a guitarist/vocalist a drummer Brendhan and a keyboard player. Drawing influence from Nirvana, The Beatles and Electric Light Orchestra they created a messy mix of garage and punk, later evolving into a dance-able pop band. Synth-driven psychedelic pop // Sunday 21 September

The Tunics well structured melodic tunes gets to your ears as a nice late-spring breeze and makes you dance alone in your room. Poppunk songs with sharp-witted hooks that strike back to ‘60’s rock, covered in a new package that can be described as a mixture between Kate Nash, The Kooks and early Oasis. Kick out them shoes and dance! Rock, Indierock // Sunday 21 September

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This Leo Sunrise (NL)

Throats (UK)

This Leo Sunrise is a group of songwriters and multi-instrumentalists, playing music characterised by a “roots” sound with heavy influences from the old European and American tradition of country and folk music. Their sound can be intense and dark, slow and lingering, flowery and comforting. This Leo Sunrise use instruments like violin, banjo, accordion and harmonium and do some harmony singing. A very pure and open and “fragile” feel.

Midlands marauders Throats don’t do sing-alongs. They don’t do melodies. They don’t do harmonies. In fact, the young quintet barely do songs. Instead they prefer to carve acidic Converge-like hardcore from riffs that do both razor speed and steamroller intensity and a rhythm section that rumbles like an exploding airliner. With Cutting Pink With Knives and Rolo Tomassi they are one of the most exciting non-pop bands from England.

Folk, Alt. Americana, Country // Saturday 20 September

Screamo // Sunday 21 September

Tigrova Mast (CR) The perfect Eastern European wedding band for Mogwai. Tigrova Mast creates Post rock with Gypsy influences. Add a little bit of surf and electronics and that’s how we like it! After lots of live gigs in 2005 the first record was made, which is to be released by Russian RAIG records. Curious? Good. Now go check this out these crazy Croatians! Noisepunk, Experimental // Saturday 20 September

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Tokota (BE)

Torche (US)

Tokota is a Belgium based band with Thomas Mourant, ex-guitar player from Mintzkov Luna. They started playing together back in the summer of 2005. Six months later, they reached the finals of Humo’s Rock Rally 2006. Next big thing? For sure! Studio Brussel is spinning their singles like crazy, and we at ZXZW are big fans as well. Bet you will be too once you witnessed this great band! Pop // Sunday 21 September

Tom Brosseau (US) Tom Brosseau is a performing songwriter who grew up on the wide-open prairies of the Red River Valley of North Dakota. Citing influences as diverse as Nick Drake, Cole Porter, and Woody Guthrie, Brosseau composes poetic new Dylan-esque folk inflected acoustic rock. Delived in a unique high lonesome sound, his minimalist sound has often been described as “haunting”, or simply “stunning”. Folk, Singer songwriter // Sunday 21 September

After the breakup of Floor in 2004, Torche vocalist/guitarist Steve Brooks decided to carry on the thundering tradition of his former band, introducing the world to a new brand of doom/ stoner/sludge/metalband: Torche. Combining de-tuned, droning guitars reminiscent of doom luminaries Earth and Sunn 0))) with soaring, harmonic vocals, Torche rocks the shit out of you. Sludge, Doom // Saturday 20 September

Tortuga (UK) Tortuga (made up of ex members of November Coming Fire) are combining the sounds of Breather Resist, Botch & Hot Snakes to name a few. Tortuga are truly crushing whilst still having a certain swagger about them that makes them an essential listen. Add to this that their liveshow is insane, and you know where to go. Sludge // Saturday 20 September

WEEKEND PROGRAM

Trash Talk (US)

Formed in the fall of 2005, Trash Talk hit the ground running. 3 years of relentless touring, 5 releases and 4 vans later, they are still running at the same frantic pace that has established them as one of the hardest working hardcorebands today. With live performances deeply rooted in chaos and a track record to match, Trash Talk is a band to be seen as well as heard. Bear witness...

TV Buddhas (ISR)

Friends from Monotonix (Remember ZXZW 2007), representing the upcoming indie music scene from Israel. TV Buddhas combine elements of dance, Indian music and punk into their sound, which consists of two human beings yelling, one twin reverb+cab with enough reverb to kill an elephant, one floor tom, one snare drum and one ride cymbal. Indierock, Noisepunk // Sunday 21 September

Hardcore // Saturday 20 September

Two Minute Noodles (UK)

The mix of synth, electronic organ and drums is used to great effect, without becoming a mindless jam-band. Experimental // Sunday 21 September

WEEKEND PROGRAM

Vogue (BE)

WIRE (UK)

Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got ‘em! No not Ratko Mladic, but Vogue. A Belgian punk band who just don’t want to be discovered. Try it, but you can’t find anything on the internet about them. No Myspace account, no Last.fm, nothing. It’s the Burial from punk. Go see them, before they sink back to anonymity. PS. Think Pissed Jeans, Clockcleaner, that kind of stuff. Punk // Sunday 21 September

Vox von Braun (NL) Vox von Braun plays the kind of music that should come out of the transistor radio of two peroxide-blonds, driving a convertible in any of your favorite mid-seventies road movies. Early shows were characterized by lots of noise, creating a sound reminiscent of shoegaze and 60’s punk rock. Later gigs brought more balance between pop songs and modern, noisy alienation. Influences stretch from the Other Half to My Bloody Valentine and from Lee Hazlewood to Stephen Malkmus. Shoegaze, Indierock, Garagerock // Saturday 20 September

Wire is an important group from the 70s and 80s. They expanded the boundaries of rock music and many bands (REM, The Cure, Bloc Party, Blur) have cited them as a major influence. The art school foursome has the talent to change and evolve. From 1977’s ‘Pink Flag’ every release offers something different, and they’re still pushing 21st century boundaries in the same way the band changed music so radically in the 1970’s. Postpunk, Indierock // Sunday 21 September

Z’EV (US) Z’EV is an industrial pioneer. Acclaimed as one of the world’s best and most original percussionists, Stefan Weiser started in the late ’60s in a handful of psych-out projects. By the late ’70s, he took on the Z’EV moniker to explore the “spatial poetics” of the polyrhythmic clamor he had established with his hand-built percussive instruments. He collaborated with John Cage, Glenn Branca, Psychic TV and more. Industrial // Sunday 21 September

WEEKEND PROGRAM

Zun Zun Egui (FR)

Zun Zun Egui hail from France, England and from everywhere else in the world. They make hypnotic blare-out and joyful noise. Very on the corner, very off its head. This is â&#x20AC;&#x153;tropicalismâ&#x20AC;?, but with influences of subterranean shaped rock, Japanese progressive epicness and a heavy dose of Fela Kuti inspired eternal groove. East African guitar practice hotwired to Zappa and underpinned by a thumping rhythm section. This is where the wild music lives on. Political, inspirational and danceable. Afro beat, Cumbia, Voodoo, Tropical // Sunday 21 September

Movie program

Plaat, Meter and Zwartjes made their first film in the sixties and are now still active. Inevitable as it may seem to reproduce reality in a photographic medium as film, the veterans Meter, Plaat and Zwartjes seem to resist just that. Plaat calls his films “exorcisms,” Meter talks about “a proposal to start perceiving reality differently,” and Zwartjes says, “the only useful answer to the humbug around you is art.” Their films address the viewer directly, without interference by word or narrative. With images they name the unnamable. Their instruments are the camera and the splicer. Their material is the celluloid. Their approach is intuitive. They love their medium. You can get to know them intimately by watching their produce after forty years of filmmaking. The styles of these three authors are as different as their personalities.

Barbara Meter Barbara Meter (1933) made her first short movie in 1967. Since then, she made a great number of experimental films, feature films and documentaries. Her ‘structural’ films make you aware of the material of the volatile medium, film. At the same time, her films are very personal and poetic.

Song for four hands (1970, 16mm, 4:00 min) Departure on Arrival (1996, 16mm, 22:00 min) Andante ma non troppo (1988. 16mm, 7:00 min) In passing: Party (1985, 16mm, 20:00 min) Penelope (1995, 16mm, 10:00 min) Ariadne (2004, 35mm, 12:00 min) Tuesday 16 September @ Filmfoyer

Henri Plaat Henri Plaat (1936) received his education at the predecessor to the current Rietveld Academy. Plaat combines a mild absurdum with documentary images he records on his travels through Europe, Asia, America and North Africa. Besides filming, he also paints, draws and makes collages..

Der Graf von Rü (1978, 16mm, 5:00 min) Other thoughts ( 1989, 16mm, 10:00 min) Return to Prestcold (1986, 16mm, 5:00 min) Ladakh (1981, 16mm, 10:00 min) Spurs of Tango (1980, 16mm, 32:00 min) Postcards (1974, 16mm, 15:00 min) Wednesday 17 September @ Filmfoyer

Movie program

Henri Plaat - Other thoughts

Henri Plaat - Return to Prestcold

Henri Plaat - Spurs of tango

Frans Zwartjes Frans Zwartjes (1927) is filmmaker, musician, violinmaker, drawer, painter and sculptor. Zwartjes approaches the regular feature film the closest in his works. In his abstract films, actors are adorned with make-up and costumes and are put in a setting to enact a staged event. Sexuality, psychosis, cruelty, power and powerlessness

Frans Zwartjes - Sorbet III

are ever recurring themes in his films. Sorbet III (1968, 16mm, 6:00 min) Spectator (1970, 16mm, 11:00 min) Living (1971, 16mm, 15:00 min) Pentimento (1979, 16mm, 73:00 min) Thursday 18 September @ Filmfoyer

Frans Zwartjes - Spectator

Frans Zwartjes - Pentimento

Paul de Mol Paul de Mol (1947) was a student of Frans Zwartjes and one of the first sculptors in the 60â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to make movies. He grew to be one of the style icons of Dutch experimental film. He is known to manipulate his (fysical) film with overexposure of light and double filming.

Ancientry (1969) Oot oak aas (1969) Sisyphus Madseeing (1974) Fragment Murw Fragment remake Malander Friday 19 September @ Filmfoyer

Space That can Be Filled

Like a famous 20th century philosopher once said: “I want to break free.” ZXZW gives you dance and theatre in its most bastardized form. The individual choreographers all have a background in modern dance. But, like ZXZW, they like to push the boundaries to create an unpure danceform including performance art, singing and theater. A Place That can Be Filled shows the diversity of dance and modern movement.

Vloeistof (NL) Vloeistof is a dance performance collective from Tilburg. Their show “Popcornpretpark” will premiere during ZXZW. It takes place in the middle of Tilburg’s biggest cinema, the MustSee. Expect a very clever combination between film and dance where you as the visitor will be in the middle of. “Popcornpretpark”. Monday 15 September @ Must See

Ivo Dimchev (BU) Ivo Dimchev is known thanks to his radical style of physical theatre. In this powerful solo he exposes the body as a multi-expressive reality. It reminds us that the body is not merely a form to be perceived visually, but that it has a constitutive inside. Dimchev extends thisinteriority to the audience by means of voice, movement, speech, even his own blood and engages the audience viscerally. Tuesday 16 September @ De NWE Vorst

Space That can Be Filled

Sonia Si Ahmed (DE)

Bess/ Moa Hanssen & Mirjam Klebel (SW) “Born in the 80’s” is a danceperformance in nonsense-version with delayed meanings and ironic catches. A dancer is telling funny and heartbreaking stories about life and love and asks us what we need to know about her background. It’s about timing, about being on the right place at the right moment… During the process Bess turned inside-out on a decade of politics, estetics and violence. Thursday 18 September @ De NWE Vorst

Sonia studied dance at the Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg, where she graduated in 1999. After that she studied three months at the Cunningham Studio, NYC. “Marshmallow” is a reflection on our vulnerability and our longing for protection. Physical research provides a ground where textures of the body come into dialogue with the textures of objects. The space is full of objects: rubber blocks of foam, newspapers… The audience is seated on the stage. The dancers constantly search for support. Wednesday 17 September @ De NWE Vorst

Eva Meyer Keller (DE) Murdering cherries by electrocution, squashing or with nails. Eva Meyer-Keller turns a simple daily action into an atrocity. “Death is Certain” is a real cherry-torture. The body will slowly transform into a cherry, the object becomes protagonist. A modern classic. Friday 19 September @ De NWE Vorst

Z-stock

Z-Stock is a concert poster convention presented by the American Poster Institute (API) in association with ZXZW. Some of the best concert poster designer display and sell some of their work in the best context possible. A selection of colleagues from all over the world will also give you the opportunity to explore different styles within the visual ‘genre’ of the concert poster. The API is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to serving poster artists and promoting the art form. Z-Stock provides the general public with an ongoing series of opportunities to see fine poster art in person and to meet the artists who’ve created it. They provide the API with a way to present the poster artists collectively while showcasing the breadth of individual styles they represent. From Friday 19th till Sunday 21 September @ Duvelhok

Alan Hynes (USA)

The Decoder Ring (USA)

Z-stock

Willem Kolvoort (NL) His posters could have very also been part of a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book or an adult comics like Fritz the Cat or Mr. Natural.

Tracy Ratliff (USA) Her style is called 'NeoRetro". She mixed handmade drawing with neon colors, which often result in humorous designs.

Wytse Sterk (NL) A powerful, straightforward designer who finds his inspiration in music (rock&roll) and tattoos.

John Howard (USA) Psychedelic posters which illustrate the music, the way it sounds, where it comes from, and what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about.

Mara Piccione (NL) Her style is a world in itself, inhabited by strange creatures of a subhuman disposition. Beautiful color use and strong compositions make her posters luscious and original.

Kunny van der Ploeg (NL) Authentic design methods such as letterpress, screen-printing and collage combined with modern media.

The Decoder Ring (USA) The studio's bold, unconventional and sometimes irreverent solutions has quickly grown to become a celebrated and respected force in the creative industry.

Sidsel Genee (NL) Experimental and abstract posters, made with diverse materials, such as paper, ink, wool and textile to make collages, installations, paintings and prints.

Alan Hynes (USA)

The Decoder Ring (USA)

Z-stock

Janine Hendriks (NL) She describes herself as a designer, who makes designs for people with a mission. She uses everything and nothing, including self-made visual images. Janine is part of Kaftwerk. The Bird Machine (USA) Screen print poster workshop from Chicago, influenced by the Vienna secessionist movement to Russian architectural printmakers.

Studio Jan Koek (NL) Their vision is to take chances and go overboard to make something exclusive. Dan Padavic (USA) Dan Padavic is a part of Vahalla Studios, a screen printing/design/clothing studio located in Kansas City. Tara McPherson (USA) Creates art about people and their odd ways. Was on the team of the Futurama series.

Diana Sudyka (USA) She works as an illustrator, creating work for book covers, album artwork, screen printed rock Mike King (USA) Mike King started by making posters for local posters, to watercolors for her avian blog. punkbands. Since then he has gone on to design posters, record and CD covers, t-shirts Arrache-Toi Un Oeil! (FR) and print advertising. French art collective that creates very unique psychedelic/punkrock-esque poster designs.

The Decoder Ring (USA)

Mara Piccione (NL)

Z-stock Guyburwell (USA) Known for his variety of drawing styles, to fit every subject or project.

Alan Hynes (USA) Gifted with a quite unique touch, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also very determined in his execution.

Lil Tuffy (USA) His posters are simple with only a few colors, but they stand out and you know they belong to Tuffy.

Studio Jan Koek (NL)

PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY

Psychogeography is a research of daily city life through intervening in its social, artistic or technical aspects. Fed by artists, geeks or activists that search for expression in their surroundings. The relations between public and private space, the influence of new technology on the urban experience and modification of advertising bombardment through billboards, posters and flyers in the current age are the main themes. Beware: the art of Psychogeography can pop out anywhere and anytime!

KNITTA

Knitta began in 2005 when the soon-tobe-Knittas were discussing their frustration over unfinished knitting projects: half-knitted sweaters and balls of yarn gathering dust. That afternoon, they knit their first door handle. Then it dawned on themâ&#x20AC;Ś a tag crew of knitters, bombing the inner city with

vibrant, stitched works of art, wrapped around everything from beer bottles on easy nights to public monuments and utility poles on more ambitious outings. With a mix of clandestine moves and gangsta rap, Knitta was born! Today, Knitta is a group of ladies of all ages, nationalities, andâ&#x20AC;Ś gender. Center of Tilburg

PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY

THE TILBURG TOUR OF PORTLAND This September Khris Soden is conducting two joint projects: the Portland Tour of Tilburg, and the Tilburg Tour of Portland. As the names imply, he will be giving tours of one city in the opposite city. He has been developing scaled maps of each town, which he has super-impose over one another in order to develop a common walking route through both. In each city, he will conduct the tour through those city streets, while discussing and pointing out the features of the other city.

TINY ACCIDENTS

17 September 14:00 - 15:00 20:00 - 21:00 18 September 14:00 - 15:00 20:00 - 21:00 19 September 12:00- 13:00 15:00 - 16:00 20:00 - 21:00 20 September 12:00 - 13:00 15:00 - 16:00 20:00 - 21:00 21 September 12:00 - 13:00 15:00 - 16:00 20:00 - 21:00 Starting point: De Heuvel

STREAMING JOURNALISM Ruben and Tijmen will show that journalism and reporting can be done by everyone, anytime, anyplace. Using an old school Matrixprinter, they will give the visitors of ZXZW the opportunity to see their pictures, including text, printed on enormous pieces of paper, which will be showcased ouside 013. Send your own pics through a bluetooth connection and be a real part of DIY! 013

Jaqueline Steck is bringing a series of fictionalized miniaturize accident scenes to the city centre of Tilburg. These accident sites create new landmarks and destinations for urban travelers. Ordinary objects in the environment serve as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;architecturalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; props and become buildings, doorways and rubble in a miniaturized setting. So watch out for falling plains and crashing busses when you are walking down the streets of Tilburg. Center of Tilburg

Svart Kunststykke

Svart Kunststykke (Black Arts) is a collection of visual art spawned by a specific subculture: Black Metal. The occult has always been an influence on visual artists. And since the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s, this extreme variation of Heavy Metal has focused solely on this. The academic esthetics of art are ignored and imperfection gets accented. Poorly lit pictures and art distilled from those images play a major role. Function and readability of graphic elements and letters or logoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s are not important. The main goal is to bring across a specific feeling of uneasiness. Svart Kunststykke has its direct roots in the musical genre of Black Metal. ZXZW present metal heads an overview of current developments in the world of visual arts, related to the subject of and the esthetics of Black Metal. This genre opposes thinking of the age of enlightenment. Historically the genre relates to romantic artists like William Blake and expressionists like Francis Bacon as well as the movement of Vienna Actionism, in the latter part of the 20th century. This project aims to show the visual qualities of decay of the autonomous and applied arts of modern artists working within this field. It tries to get established artists like Erik Smith and Peter Beste in close contact with the, mostly underground and anonymous, artists that inspired their work. And it tries to bring a new audience, usually only interested in the musical genre, to the visual and art inspiring side of Black Metal.

Svart Kunststykke

Peter Beste (US)

Erik Smith (US)

Smith (Boston, 1967), born in America, residing in Berlin, focuses a great deal of his work around the dark and the unexpected. His work ranges from conceptual to drawing. Always with a slightly bitter touch. Some of his better known works include the installation: “The Ghost of James Lee Byars Calling”, which unites the work of American conceptualist James Lee Bryars with the esthetics of Black Metal and the new sculpture “Who, amongst Beste (Washington, 1978), will be presenting you, deserves Eternal Life?” which is build photographs of his current book “True from 2 cars crashed head on. It explores the Norwegian Black Metal”. He grew up in Houston space between acute trauma and timeless as a metal fan. He came across some tabloid transcendence with direct references to art accounts of the Black Metal scene in the early history and fiction, from Andy Warhol, to 90s and "developed this fantastical picture in Jean Luc Godard, J.G. Ballard, and David my mind of what these guys looked like." Beste Cronenberg. would shoot Black Metal shows in Texas and Smith will be working in residence at Ruimte e-mail the photos to the bands. After saving X and some of the drawings of “The Ghost of some money, he traveled to Norway and James Lee Byars Calling” will be shown at the worked the connections he had. Slowly some Scryption museum. 14 till 21 September @ Ruimte X and Scryption Museum of the secluded musicians opened up to him. Beste's photographs are full of contrasts, which in turn reflect a cultural divide in Norway that gave birth to this music and subculture. Peter Beste will expose and sell some of his photos. He will also do a book signing session at the opening of the exhibition on Sunday September 14th. 15 till 21 September @ Kunstenpodium T

Svart Kunststykke

Manuel Tinnemans (NL) Manuel Tinnemans takes the high road to Armageddon. This Dutch artist's meticulous compositions are infused with alchemical symmetry, understated grace, and moody stained-glass textures. There is a transcendent quality to Manuel's best work that would be almost ecclesial if not for its primal death-curse aesthetics. He has created art for Pentacle, Necrophagia, Sauron, Horrible Eyes, Urfaust, Fluisterwoud, and Galgeras. Not content to sit silently at a drawing table, Manuel also provides the ultra low-end bass bludgeoning and throat for Bunkur and organizes the Ashes to Ashes... Doom to Dust festival.

Timo Ketola (FIN) Timo Ketola (1975) is an occultnik artist and freelance designer who has worked with bands like Dismember, Watain, Kaamos, Deathspell Omega, Funeral Mist, Dead Congregation and Teitanblood. He is also credited with designing Dissection's amazing death-head-on-wings insignia. A former zine editor and self-publisher, Ketola is currently focusing on book design and traditional woodcarving.

Dennis Dread (US)

@ De Verschijning

Mchlknr (NL) Michiel Eikenaar graduated cum laude at ABV Tilburg. He is known for his dark creations, will create a new piece of art together with Manuel Tinnemans in de Verschijning during ZXZW. @ De Verschijning

Dennis Dread is a drawer who works mostly with old fashioned ballpoints. He mostly spends his evenings hunched over a drawing table in a moldy basement, howling at the moon and raising the dead! Dread's visceral and obsessively detailed ballpoint pen drawings regularly appear in zines and on metal and punk records, including work for such extremenoise luminaries as Abscess, Darkthrone, Abigail, Phobia, and Engorged. Dread edits and self-publishes the long running underground art magazine Destroying Angels and is the curator of Entartete Kunts.

Svart Kunststykke

Gijs Deddens (NL)

Josine Beugels Josine Beugels (1984) is also known as Osi. She’s a teacher at the Stedelijk Museum in Den Bosch and gives workshops. Besides that, she’s still a student at the fine arts academy in Tilburg. She’s learning how to stuff and mound animals and already makes installations with stuffed animals. Besides that she draws, films and makes photos. @ Mayor office

Futurism, occultism and even primitive cultures all have a great influence on the drawings and paintings of Gijs Deddens. But that doesn’t mean his work hasn’t got roots in the present time. He reacts against the overflow of images in the consumer society. High and Low art goes hand in hand in his work.

Svart Kunststykke

Aguynguerran (BE) “The Christreign Annihilators are back with a poisonous deathstab in the face of Morality.” Aguynguerran bring us pure black metal since 1999. Having just released their full length album called "Perverting The Nazarene Cult" on Shiver Records (BE) in april 2008, Aguynguerran will come to ZXZW to present us their black metal in its harshest, most intense form. Aguynguerran features members of Enthroned, Huldrefolk and Fractured Insanity. Black Metal // Sunday 21 September

Bunkur (NL) Get ready to be taken down into the darkest pits of humanity as Bunkur bring their slow, painful and daring doomnoise to the unsuspecting crowd. Bunkur is a great, dark noise band from Tilburg not to be missed. Are you sure you can handle this experience? Doom, Black Metal // Sunday 21 September

Burial Hex (US)

Black Anvil (US) Black Metal from the US, ready to tear a hole in your soul. Black Anvil brings a straightforward blend of thrash in their black metal sound, which ignites some brutal moshpits. Their new full length release "Time Insults the Mind" will be released this summer and the men behind Black Anvil will most likely showcase some of Burial Hex from Wisconsin is an intense their new work at ZXZW this year. So be warned drone-doom horror-electronic sound experience and get ready. which will suck you up into another realm Black Metal // Sunday 21 September and make you squeal. One of their latest releases ‘Initations’ was released on the famous Aurora Borealis label. The “oppressive necro electronics” of this record are exploring new depths while the madness will be embraced. Drone-doom, Black Metal // Sunday 21 September

Svart Kunststykke

Gorath (BE)

Watain (SW)

A furious Belgian black metal, dealing with nothing but historic and misanthropic subjects. Formed in 1995, Gorath has since released two full length albums. What started out as a oneman project by F. Dupont now has a full line-up featuring members of Panchrysia and Suhrim, and ex members of Leng Tchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;E and Aborted. Black Metal // Saturday 20 September

Watain performs Black Metal in its original form; dangerous, passionate, sinister and magical. Watain has become globally infamous and highly acclaimed for their blood-drenched performances, being ceremonies of radiant madness and the blackest metal fanatism. Black Metal // Sunday 21 September

The Embassy of the Living Sun Ra

Sun Ra was one of the main innovators in jazz. The Arkestra is his future dream and his ancient body. It never was as popular as jazz's best-known big bands, but it did have a steady following and was highly regarded in jazz circles. It appeared on "Saturday Night Live", played a Central Park concert with Sonic Youth and was named best big band in Down Beat magazine's critics poll five times. Sun Ra influenced the whole contemporary music scene and was a true independent mind. ZXZW will devote a whole program to this true jazz pioneer with six performances by his Arkestra, an exposition, workshop, movies, lectures and more.

The Embassy of the Living Sun Ra

ZXZW is very proud to have the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra as their special guests. Sun Ra Arkestra were the allies of the innovative jazz musician Sun Ra. After his death, the Sun Ra Arkestra keeps his spirit alive under the direction of Marshall Allen. From September 15 untill 21 (except for the 19th) the Sun Ra Arkestra will be band-in-residence, performing works from a different period every other day. From Birmingham to Chicago, NYC, Philly and back. Monday September 15th @ Paradox

Thursday September 18th @ Paradox

Tuesday September 16th @ Paradox

Saterday September 20st @ Paradox

Wednesday September 17th @ Paradox Sunday September 21st @ Muzetuin

Tapestries from an Asteroid: Arkestra Art & Design 1956 -1975 Curated by John Corbett and Terri Kapsalis This unique exhibition will showcase a diverse, brilliant, provocative and by-and-large never seen range of materials related to Sun Ra. It includes drawings, texts, records and other artifacts of the Jazz pioneer. ZXZW is the first to bring this exhibition to Europe! September 1st till September 30th, Tilburg Library

Workshop Everything you ever wanted to know about Sun Ra and his Arkestra. The Arkestra will speak about their vision on Jazz, their unique style and the history of their different instruments. They will use samples, referring to what they are talking about and answer questions from those curious. Thursday 18 September @ Paradox

The Embassy of the Living Sun Ra

Clazz Orchestra

The Clazz Orchestra, with students of the Academy of Music in Tilburg, explores the boundaries of where classical music meets popular music. They started in 2007 with a project on Frank Zappa, performing Zappa’s view on Strawinsky’s “Igor’s Boogie” and leaving the audience completely stunned. Especially for ZXZW the Clazz Orchestra will perform their approach to the work of Sun Ra. Friday 19 September @ Studiozaal

SATURNday, Sun Ra Day Saturday the 20th of September will bring you a lot of Sun Ra with movies, keynote speeches and of course a Sun Ra Arkestra show. Be early: it starts in the afternoon.

The Embassy of the Living Sun Ra

Sun Ra movies A phenomenon like Sun Ra was of course the protagonist of a lot of movies. Some of those movies have become real cult hits. ZXZW will show two of them. Saturday 20 September @ Filmfoyer

The Magic Sun (1966) + Introduction by Phill Niblock The Magic Sun is composer, photographer and filmmaker Phill Niblock’s classic of experimental underground filmmaking with a sensational soundtrack by pianist Sun Ra and the members of his Solar Arkestra! Shot in the mid ‘60s, when the Arkestra was based in New York, this film was produced using a unique negative process and ultra-tight close-ups on the moving hands and mouths of the musicians. The result is a virtually abstract music film, mastered from a new print in all its incredibly sharp black and white glory.

Space Is The Place (1972)

Space Is The Place (1972) The all-time Sun Ra Classic! It’s regarded as one of the best jazz movies ever made and an icon of music filmography. Produced by Jim Newman, directed by John Coney, written by Joshua Smith and featuring Sun Ra and his Arkestra. Sun Ra lands on a new planet with his crew, and wants to transport more afro-Americans on this planet. His medium is jazz music.

The Embassy of the Living Sun Ra

Keynote speech Mark Dery

Free jazz freakout Featuring members of Sun Ra Arkestra, festival musicians from bands like Talibam! and local cats. Sunday 21 September @ Studiozaal

Dery writes about media, the visual landscape, fringe trends, and unpopular culture. He kick-started the interest in black technoculture (through his essay “Black to the Future,” in which he coined the term “Afrofuturism”). In a keynote speech Dery will examine the science-fictional (i.e., AfroFuturist) and technobricoleur aspects of the work of Sun Ra, setting them within the context of African-American culture’s relationship to technoculture and sci-fi mythology. Saturday 20 September @ Filmfoyer

NORWEGIAN INVASION

Norwegian Invasion is a collaboration between ZXZW and our Norwegian counterparts, the independent music club Bla, in Oslo. The Batcave will host a whole week of cool Norwegian bands and acts. Next year, Tilburg will invade Oslo, and a significant amount of Tilburg bands will be playing the Bla venue for a week!

Arabrot (NO)

Ars Dada (NO) The main founder of the “Oslo Break Fest” and the club night “Breakcore Kills Music Gabbaret”. This is going to get heavy.. and very fast.. and very loud… Breakcore, Dance // Friday 19 September

Disco Exota (NO) Disco Exota stands for a hot mix, based on true love for music. Three DJ’s, taking turns to create a musical flow by blending 35 years of dance music. From melodic underground disco, african influences, touches of rock and soul to deep 70’s and 80’s synthesizer space disco and todays house tracks. The Disco Exota machine during ZXZW will be run by Tako, Zip and Noir. Cosmic Disco, Dance // Saturday 20 September

Spawned from the small yet vital Norwegian underground "non-scene" boasting bands from Noxagt to Ultralyd to Darkthrone and Burzum, comes Haugesund’s finest noise rockers Årabrot. It takes cues from sources as eclectic as Captain Beefheart to Sunn0)) to Ministry to create an aural assault. Improv, Post Punk, Noise Rock // Friday 19 September

DJ Spykidelic's Acid Grime Club (NO) Durty acid grime form an English Norwegian. Expect your new fix of dub step, grime and other bass heavy music from this resident of the BLA club! Acid, Grime, Dubstep // Friday 19 September

NORWEGIAN INVASION

DJ Sinåspril (NL)

John Hegre (NO)

DJ Sinåspril spins eclectic tunes during the Norwegian theme-week in the Batcave. DJ Sinåspril makes his own eclectic mix-tapes, ranging from Kiss to Annie and from Vader Abraham to Cannibal Corpse. He will set you in a party vibe for the whole week. Eclectic // Monday 15 till Thursday 18 September

Golden Serenades (NO) Jørgen Træen and John Hegre (of Jazzkammer) make dense, harsh noise and electronic influences rock that will shatter your senses... Noise, Rock, Electro // Wednesday 17 September

Håvard Volden/Daniel Meyer Grønvold duo (NO) Håvard Volden and Daniel Meyer Grønvold are two Oslo-based improvising guitarists, focusing on texture and timing. Resulting in experimental soundscapes rather than songs. Vague impressions rather than hooks. You might know Volden from Dallas Wallpaper and Spaennkraft. Daniel also spends his time as a musician in Minn Minn Lights and Mi-Kydno. Acoustic, Experimental, Classical // Monday 15 September

John Hegre is half of Jazzkammer and an established solo artist in his own right. Noise, drones and experimental electronics from up north. Noise, Drone // Wednesday 17 September

NORWEGIAN INVASION

Monolithic (NO)

With Stian Westerhus (Puma, Bladed, Jaga Jazzist etc.) on baritone guitar and Kenneth Kapstad (Motorpsycho, Animal Alpha etc.) on drums. One part extreme metal, one part big balls rock’n roll, a whole lot of sweat and more energy than a raging flock of bulls. Monolithic seek to push the boundaries of what is physicaly possible in rythmic music today. Monolithic is total awareness and explosive energy throughout!

Peter Beste (us)

Photographer of many Norwegian bands. Famous for his book “True Norwegian Black Metal”. For further info, see Svart Kunststykke. 15 till 21 September @ Kunstenpodium T

Puma (NO)

Impro, Free jazz, Rock, Metal // Tuesday 16 September

Experience the most sincere of melodic music, ranging from loud intense physical gestures to the most concentrated gentle hum. The many aspects of their music, the willingness to both confront and complement each other with both razor-edged musical motion to unrestrained drift to wherever, makes Puma haul an energy on their liveshows that very few other bands do after them. Jazz, Impro // Tuesday 16 September

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Shari Vari (NO)

Shari Vari is a Disco night at the Bla club in Oslorun by Dølle Jølle and Todd Terje. Leaders of the current Scandinavian nu-disco crew along with Prins Thomas, Lindstrom and the likes. Shari Vari also does remixes and releases disco edits. Cool stuff incorperating 70’s disco, kraut, weird world music and anything with a great beat. Disco, Afro Beat, House, Cosmic Disco, Dance // Thursday 18 September

Shining (NO)

Band leader Jørgen Munkeby joined Jaga Jazzist at the age of 16 and left the band some years ago to start his own band. The press dropped many names when trying to place Shining´s previous album on the musical map, from The Mars Volta and Slayer via King Crimson and Mahavishnu Orchestra to Henry Cow, This Heat, Ornette Coleman, Ligeti and Messiaen. One thing they all agreed on was the striking originality of this young group who had gone through a radical transition from starting out as a postbop jazz quartet. Freemetal, Jazz // Monday 15 September

Sir Duperman (NO) Jørgen Træen is a superproducer, but as Sir Duperman he explores the space of uncompromising pop. His soundworld is chaotic, but also structured. Træen turns chaos into beauty. Electropop, Freejazz, Noise // Wednesday 17 September

NORWEGIAN INVASION

Sten Ove Toft (NO)

Thinguma*jigSaw (NO)

Sten Ove Toft represents Norway in the Eurovision Noise Contest @ NS16. See Eurovision Noise Contest. Noise // Saturday 20 September

Svarte Greiner (NO)

This duo plays charming, clever, generous, sinister splatterfolk. Excuse Me? Well, splatterfolk combines elements of traditional Irish/British/American folk with contemporary art music, and spices it up with lyrical and musical components usually associated with horror films, experimental theatre and modernistic poetry. All that with a voice, banjo, flute and a musical saw. Splatterfolk // Sunday 21 September

This Is Music Inc (NO) Svarte Greiner is the one man project of Erik K. Skodvin (one half of the duo Deaf Center). Svarte Greiner explores the dark, mysterious and disturbed universe. Drawing inspirations from artists such as Earth, Volcano the Bear, David Darling and Deathprod, the output is draped in David Lynchian mysticism and horror film cinematics. Drones, Ambient, Black // Saturday 20 September

This Is Music inc is part of Norway's leading noise rockers Arabrot. But TIMI is more quiet, emphasising more on the songs themselves and working more in the singer/songwriter vein. Noise // Saturday 20 September

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Toy (NO)

White Tiger Prepade (NO) Born out of good karma, maximal joy and transcendental impulsive alpha waves, The White Tiger Prepade rides through the night on a wave filled with shimmering light and magical crystals. They will fill your ears and flash in front of your eyes with spastic, animalistic primal screams that aims only to give the spectator peace in mind and body. Experimental, Rock // Monday 15 September

Toy's playful tunes mix kids TV (Pingu, Radiophonic Workshop) and Japanese style electronica (YMO and Cornelius) with a touch of Scandinavian electro weirdness. They mix elevator music with beats and grooves to create infectious pop. Electro // Wednesday 17 September

Utarm (NO) Highly distorted guitar chords and shrieking vocals are somewhat reminiscent of black metal. But with Utarm, they receive a trebly deformation enveloped in rough electronics and long music pieces. Blackmetal, Noise // Sunday 21 September

KRAAKLINK

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more radical than contemporary composed music in a squat? Again we will do a series of music by young composers, performed by young musicians, in a local squat. Freaky music in the freaky environment of a squat. Squatters occupy houses as a way of protest. They think everybody has the right to use public space. Well, also young composers need space to bring their sound, so for the first time in history they join forces. For both parties itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a way to legitimate their culture with some unexpected tactics. Buy some cans of beer and enjoy! All shows begin at 20.00 and end 21.45 @ Langestraat 67

Monday 15 September: Bosgraaf en Elias (recorder+guitar)

Thursday 18 September : Thomas Moore (trombone)

Tuesday 16 September: Nina van Helvert (sax)

Friday 19 September: Annegret Mayer-Lindenberg (altviolin)

Wednesday 17 September: Marij van Gorkom (clarinet)

Eurovision noise contest

A turkey, pirates, monsters and plastic fantastic Celine Dion wannabees. Every year the Eurovision Song Contest turns more and more into a freakfest. ZXZW organizes his own song contest: The Eurovision Noise Contest. 19 acts from different European countries will compete against each other for the title of The Best European Noise Act Of 2008. Every act will get 13 minutes to show their skills to the audience and a professional jury will give a professional reply to what the act showed them. The winner will get a release on ZXZW Records and of course the honor of being "The Best European Noise Act Of 2008." Saturday 20 September @ NS 16

Analog Suicide (TUR) Drones and pulsating noise in the blender together with influences from the eighties.

Bruzgynai (LTU) Lo-fi harsh weird psychedelia made with old, half alive sovjet synths.

Chicks Dig Noise (UK) Harshnoise, made by a English Bobby 4 tha ladiez.

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Diskoster (BE) The uncrowned king of Belgium noise. Ritual noise with guitarabusement.

Doornen (NL)

Kaisersnee (LIE) Good old schlagerfestmusik and trashnoisecoreshit.

Kakawaka (ISR)

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s noise Zemirot-style: Jewish hymns, enchanting drones. Massive layers of destructive soundwaves, made by all kinds of instruments.

Mafia vs. Ninja 2 (ISL) Gokkun (BGR) Walls of sound with small electronic devices, squirting sounds from the speakers!

Harshcore (ITA) Analogic and poor electronics, bass, effects and tape loops.

Shitcore for partying.

Null Void Zero (IRL) Feedback loops and haunting noise.

Eurovision noise contest

Panmasonic (BLR)

SEVEN-ARMED OOORGH (RUS) GRAVE NIGGUZ come baby closer to us.

Sheik Anorak (FRA)

Cabaret noise with blood, pain and love.

Programmierter Zellentod & Radioaktiver Alterswohnsitz (LUX) Distorted-heavy break/fastcore with retro gameboy melodies.

Good old free-jazzrock combined with atmospheric doom noise.

Sten Ove Toft (NOR) Guitar demolishing balletdancing, bootybumping and insulting the jury.

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The Disciple (VAC)

Wallkeeper (D)

The Polyfonic Spree of Noise, straight from the Holy Land of Vatican City.

The Sleep Sessions (POL)

Fucking fury with electro-acoustic analog devices.

Noise to blow away the remaining parts of the Berlin Wall.

The Shape Of Breakcore 2 Cum

Breakcore is the bastardchild of many musical genres like Jungle, Hardcore, Punk, Ragga, Breakbeats, Industrial and Noise. Always evolving and adding new influences to the canon of breakcore, the artists invited here keep pushing the boundaries. Always developing and from the beginning till forever it will have an anarchistic attitude. For ZXZW 2008 there will be a special addition in the form of the world's first ever surround sound breakcore set by Otto von Schirach, Doormouse & Rioteer, using the M.A.S.E. interface with eight independent audio inputs and a library of sound movements. The M.A.S.E. interface is developed by Muzieklab Brabant. ZXZW aims to show the diversity of the breakcore genre, as well as provide a meeting point for the likeminded, by putting together artists from all over Europe in The Shape of Breakcore 2 Cum! Friday 19 September @ Hall Of Fame (2 areas), 013 kleine zaal, 013 batcave, V39

And Full Stop (UK) And Full Stop will bring us straightforward 8Bit Jungle/Breakcore, so get ready to party!

Ars Dada (NO)

Assassin (NL) Rotterdam soundboy Assassin likes to combine his sets with MC'inâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Watch his oldskool/hardcorebreakbeat/rave and jungle vibes.

Babyshaker (UK)

The main founder of the "Oslo Break Fest" and the club night "Breakcore Kills Music Gabbaret". More mind altering and feet whiping Breakcore This is going to get heavy.. and very fast.. and combined with swifty synths for your brain! very loudâ&#x20AC;Ś

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Company Fuck (AT) Company Fuck is a one-man noisecore karaoke explosion. With no allegiance to one sound or scene, CxFx simultaneously plunders pirated pop music whilst also blowing apart the formulas of so-called 'underground' genres.

DjDjipe (NL)

Doormouse (US) So way, way, way back in 1994 Doormouse first starting making hardcore techno in Milwaukee Wisconsin, then one day he stumbled upon a Sun Ra record and thus, “Breakcore” in the United States of America was born. Somehow, Mike Paradinas (Mu-ziq) took notice, and “Broken” was Dan’s first major CD release in 2002 on the Planet Mu record label. Furthermore we know his own labels Distort and Addict Records.

Local talent DjDjipe brings his fresh breakcore style.

Ebola (UK) DJ Floorclearer (UK) Wrong Music's DJ Floorclearer batters you to the floor with a platter of leg shattering, synapse dissolving beats. He produces a horrible mix of frenetic ragga-breakcore and pounding 200 bpm gabber, served with a side salad of rave stabs and samples about dead bodies and all that sort of stuff.

Ebola is a founding member of the Brightonbased Wrong Music crew. His "broken" musical style is varied, with definite grime, dubstep, gabba and breakcore influences.

Electric Kettle (FR)

This French musician mixes hard breaks, clear to noisy beats, speed and fun melodies in one of the most musical kind of breakcore ever heard. Really hard, but somehow very accessible.

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FFF (NL)

Freeka Peeka (FR)

Freeka Peeka uses max/msp programming to self produce intensely manipulated software, combing his software with the circuit bending of various gamepad controllers like Playstation 2 and Wii.

His influences come from old rave, jungle, noise and digital hardcore. FFF played breakcore parties all over the world including Japan. His releases can be found on labels like Planet-mu, Sprengstoff, Murder Channel, Mindbender, his own label Orange Socks and many other labels.

Hard Off (JP) Hard Off plays completely live. Nothing is planned, so anything is possible.

Harry Poppins (BE) Fractional (BE) Fractional vomits his brokenbeats and tortures them to submission, waxing them with various bleeps and crackles, smearing almost mystical pads on their bruised bodies. Dark and brooding Brussels-based Harry Poppins started at the electronica with a strong Jungle aftertaste. age of 15 programming his first beats & breaks. Be prepared for some outrageous tunes.

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Judith Priest (UK)

King Pin (NL) One of the main man behind the Not Your Monkey Not Your Robot parties! Be aware for the tight mixing, crossfader madness and mashed-up ragga breakcore sounds!

Ladyscraper (UK)

The Wrong Music rev. Judith Priest preaches the word of Clericore, a potent mix of breakcore, jungle, gabber, noise and crazy religious beats that get the congregations stomping on the dance floor whilst having their souls cleansed.

Kid Kishore (DK) Copenhagen native of Indian descent Kid Kishore strikes a balance between old and new, blending the sounds of India with the electronic music that permeates Denmark. His beatheavy sound is a scattershot mix of musical styles from all over the sonic landscape.

From soothing melodies with broken beats, to mashed up grindcore, Ladyscraper brings you some of the sickest sounds in breakcore, with amazing array of hypnotic melodies, filthy basslines, heavy gabba kicks and ridiculously fast amen breaks.

LFO Demon (DE) LFO Demon produces various kinds of electronic music from hardcore-rave-ragga-mash-upbreakcore to downbeat breaks. He runs the label Sprengstoff Recordings to promote the dope ass sound. Mission: music should never be boring.

Nano.strike (NL) Nano.strike is a diverse musician with a sound spectrum from harsh breakcore to silent, expermental ambient to music. He uses analog based synthesis, tapesound and digital reprocessed field recordings as well as industrial sounding drumcomputers.

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Otto Von Schirach (US)

Raxyor (US) Ruff Breakcore with heavy drum n bass influences by Jeff Benjamin Penton from the USA.

Rioteer (NL) His roots lay in all kind of electronic music, a big blend of punk and African percussive music. Furthermore he is active in Tilburg as part of the Crackbeats events. Watch his special surround set together with Otto von Schirach and Doormouse! The breakcore hero is back at ZXZW with the world premiere of a brand new surround sound project. His live performances include outfits, masks and props. And he builds his own software.

Pisstank (UK) Pisstank runs the fantastic Irritant Records label that artists like Donna Summer got their big start from. He also makes extreme breakcore noisy shit for years and years before that.

Sah Selecter (NL) Sah Selecter plays very diverse tunes with great skills, from mashup/breakcore to tekno to 8-bit, oldskool house, breakbeat, jungle, electro, surf/ exotica/boogaloo/soul and a lot more!!

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Speedranch (UK)

Tapage (NL) The songs of Tapage encompass a very broad variety of sounds. Quiet, gentle soundscapes are countered by brutal, harsh, industrial passages. Tapage never sticks to one genre and tends to search for contrast in his live-act .

Tep (FR)

This Warrington, Cheshire based musician has played in hardcore/punk bands for years, joined V/Vm affiliate Jansky Noise for several collaborative albums and live shows and made the historical "Making Orange Things" album together with Venetian Snares. Speedranch presents a land of distortion, of sonic decimation and cannibalistic calypso. Expect a blending sheer white noise, mayhem breaks and speedcore to be reborn or reincarnated in its final aftermath of sudden fury.

Tep is a "one-man-drum-and-brass-band" from France. In his performances gypsy bands bump into gabbers while a diseased orchestra celebrates an orgasmic burial. Unbounded and puzzling, permanently changing, Tep is a happy, unbearable freak.

The Deathmaker (FR) This founder of the NRDS (NON Respect Du Silence) organization and member of the Provokation label is back in The Netherlands to bring his hard combination of industrial hardcore with influences of metal and terror..

CAR FREE SUNDAY

21th of September is Car Free Sunday in a lot of cities around the world. The center in Tilburg will also be a car free zone. ZXZW and the city of Tilburg joined hands to raise some awareness to the changing climate and alternative means of transportation. But most of all, to organize a party on the streets of Tilburg. During Car Free Sunday, different activities will be organized on diverse locations in the city center.

Live music ZXZW programmed some cool bands at the open air stage in the Muzetuin during the car Free Sunday. Expect some old pioneers and new talent. From hip-hop to indie rock and jazz. @ Muzetuin

Rollerdisco

Aware Square

Get your skates out and practice your moves, because the rollerdisco is back! At the Willemsplein in the center of Tilburg there will be a roller rink where everyone can show their skills on the wheels. Of course there will be DJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spinning the best rollertunes, and a bar if you get tired, or just want to laugh at other peoples expense. @ Willemsplein

Partying on the streets is cool, but you also have to think about why you can party on the streets. The Car Free Sunday wants to make you aware of the environment. On the Aware Square you can debate with different organizations about the environment, mobility and durability. Awareness and care for the environment can be cool! @ Pieter Vreedepein

CAR FREE SUNDAY

European street chalking championship

ZXZW wants to make the streets more beautiful by adding some nice drawings and colors to the concrete and the pavements on the streets of Tilburg. And what better way to do that with something as harmless as chalk? So sign in for the first European street chalking championship. Your efforts will be judged by real experts, and the mighty Denvis will be master of the chalkceremony. @ Koningsplein

Beware! During the 21st of September the inner-city of Tilburg is closed for all cars! So if you come to ZXZW by car, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t park your car in the parking garages in the center. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve arranged special parking spaces at the main entrance ways to Tilburg centre. Special, and environmental friendly, transportation brings you to the centre of Tilburg for free. Of course the train is the best option for traveling this day.

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