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I wish I was a better person. This is a quote from our very own literary columnist – and talent in general – Marc van der Holst. It’s actually part of a list of five things that Marc liked about 2012 and five things that he regrets and would like to do all over again. It wasn’t just Marc who weighed up the last year: a large part of the Subbacultcha! staff came up with with their own hit-and-miss lists of 2012. You can find a selection of them printed at the bottom of each page. We chose to print only the misses: this is the Let’s Start Over Issue, after all. (Even some general regrets there... yes people, we go all out!) Find the complete lists online. Oh, and Marc will be okay. Marc van der Holst: I wish I hadn’t gotten so drunk at the Spilt Milk 10” release party. // I
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Top 5 New Music We Saw You Toro y moi Chris Cohen White Fence Featured Artist reviews Film
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Another year has passed us by. No biggie. Years come and go. Eternity lies ahead of us, so no need to get (too) dramatic. But the holiday season is always good for reminiscence. So we decided to have one last critical look at 2012, join hands and cut through all of last year’s bullshit as if it were a wedding cake. Then and only then, can we start over again in the new year. Cause the future is now darlings, and there’s nothing more exciting then starting with a clean slate. We’ll leave you to it. Enjoy the holidays and see you on the flip. Page 6
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Concert: Liars @ OT301
The diversity of Brooklyn three-piece Liars’ repertoire sure fell into place at their sold-out OT301 show. From experimental drones to progressive electronics to noisy punk rock, it all came together, turning the venue into a sweaty mosh pit.
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Art: Mike Koldin Visuals at Museumnacht
Rotterdam-based artist Wouter Venema complements Mike Koldin’s ambient music with truly remarkable visuals. And when projected on to the huge cinema screen at EYE they were more powerful than ever.
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Restaurant: Yam Yam, Amsterdam
This restaurant has been a sure hit for about 15 years now, and the pizza they serve is (still) truly delicious – and so is everything else on the menu. and they’re opposite de Nieuwe anita. Need we say more?
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Human behaviour: Queue at the Purity Ring show
The queue for the Purity Ring show was the longest in the history of Club Trouw. Luckily most of you got in. Those of you who didn’t, don’t be sad: we have about 100 shows coming up in 2013. Look to the future!
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Photography: Diane Arbus Exhibition at Foam
‘They are the proof that something was there and no longer is. Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can turn away but when you come back they’ll still be there looking at you.’ This Diane Arbus quote about her haunting photographs says it all. Amazing exhibition.
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This month’s recommendations
New Music
Daphni
soundcloud.com/caribouband/sets/daphni-jiaolong
So you probs heard all about Daphni already, but I don’t really care because I want to reiterate for the hundredth time that Daphni is GREAT and just bask in the pure awesomeness of his latest release, JIAOLONG. For all of y’all looking for a big-band endorsement, this is the side project of Caribou’s Dan Snaith and believe me, this is totally ace shit. Basically it’s a ton of really catchy, danceable tracks – not stupid Calvin Harris bullshit but actually pretty clever music that could be the equivalent of sonic neuroscience, if that existed... Anyway, I’m not here to talk about science – I do that in my horoscope for The Lancet if you’re interested.
Majical Cloudz
majicalcloudz.bandcamp.com Canadian artist Devon Welsh has been lurking around the blogosphere for a while, supported and promoted here and there on video, track or tour by ultra alt.babe Grimes and more recently by synth and sampler man Matthew Otto. Their most recent track, ‘Turns Turns Turns’, is a spinning ballad that will leave you dizzy with its echoing vocals and earnestness. It might even give you an unsupressable urge to put zeds at the end of all your plural nounz. With a debut album out on 03 December on Arbutus and Merok, you’d best be prepared to hear more from Welsh’s soundcloudz. chickening out of my first ballet lesson at the age of four. My dancing career has been in
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Sugarm
sugarm.bandcamp.com Sugarm warns the uninitiated that you can’t really dance to his stuff – but that shouldn’t stop you from trying. Sounding something like a cacophony consisting of a muffled snowy television set, a hoover, a broken fan and the hacking cough of a tuberculosis patient, this might not be the easiest listen, but hey, I put my undying trust in your determination and general excellent taste. Just bear with this mister and wait for the cool tidbits to reveal themselves as you delve into the kinetic drone. If you’re interested, this guy also has a blog that features a lot of guns. Oh, and a release called God’s Clit. If that didn’t get your attention, I don’t know what will.
Zu Shapes
zushapes.bandcamp.com
We’ve extended the expiry date on this baby because it deserves a relisten. Zu Shapes, the solo project of Beau Cole, released an absolute gem of a track called ‘Olivia’ last year that was part of his Merigold EP. Despite the term ‘bliss’ being exploited to the point of passé in music reviews, I’ll make an exception and say it: ‘Olivia’ is lovely, blissful, warm, happy and just really great. Mr Cole, if you’re reading this, send us a tune or two to the Subbacultcha! office and we’ll send you some goodies in exchange. We’ve put MISSING posters all over the blogosphere looking for you. Page 14
shreds ever since. // I wish my grandfather had not slaughtered my pet bunny and turned
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Eraas
eraas.bandcamp.com
Robert Toher and Austin Stawiarz of Apse have reincarnated into Eraas, a rising tempest of howling winds and ominous rhythms. All that New England occult stuff aside, their self-titled debut will become the soundtrack of your wintertime escapades through cold drizzles and up dark, creaky staircases. With a sound that is threatening and foreboding with its repetitive chords, ghostly echoes and muted thuds, Eraas will prick your curiosity in that sinister way that only a good mystery can – which means that we’ll be hearing more from them, no doubt.
Triad God
soundcloud.com/triadgod I remember playing Wu Tang Clan super loud in front of my non-English-speaking granny when I was 12 years old. She never flinched. The roles are reversed when I blast the tracks of Chinese-Vietnamese rapper Triad God, whose NXB – or New Cross Boys in homage to the area of South-East London where he grew up – mixtape apparently overflows with the vilest of Cantonese lyrics. Beats are provided by London-based artist Palmistry, and if the internet rumours of them hanging out in casinos in Chinatown and causing general musical mischief are to be believed, it seems the two have really hit it off. NXB is released on Hippos In Tanks. You might want to keep this one out of earshot if you have a faint-hearted Chinese grandmother. it into pâté and then promptly told me that it had been kidnapped – also when I was four.
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Spotted at Subbacultcha!
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(I only found out the truth when I was 21.) // I regret that time I threw up a mixture of vodka
From the past year: What would you like to do all over again and why? My boyfriend moving from London to Amsterdam. I don’t regret the boyfriend, but more the fact that we didn’t move in together right away.
Anna Sardini, spotted at the Purity Ring show in Trouw, Amsterdam on 08 November 2012
and strawberries in front of my parents when I was 17. // I regret not being able to go on
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Toro y Moi
Chillwave maestro Chaz Bundick, aka Toro y Moi, has abandoned the chill and taken a funkier, sexier direction on new album Anything in Return. He talks Karma, learning to play the acoustic guitar and trying to be a good person. ‘Whenever you give something to someone you shouldn’t always expect something in return.’ Thanks for sharing, Chaz. Interview by Brenda Bosma Photos shot by Christopher Schreck in Brooklyn, USA
Have you ever been asked where you see yourself in five years’ time? Oh yes! I’ve had management ask me that before! [Laughs] And other interviewers, of course. I don’t think it’s such a weird question. I ask myself that all the time. It’s good to keep that question around. Page 18
Is there anything you want to check off before turning 30? Well, I see myself doing music stuff still and I totally would want to release an art book of some sort. Hopefully I’ll be a bit more successful. I’m not really materialistic. I own a car, I hope I can keep that, but if not,
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that’s okay. I guess I’ll probably have another album out. Chances are that it’s not electronic at all. I don’t know yet, but I’m hoping to make something completely different. I get bored pretty easy. I just bought an acoustic guitar, so we’ll see. I’ve got four years to do it! You sort of started the whole chillwave genre. What kind of wave would you like to start next? I can see how waves or trends start and why people pick up on them, but I’m not really out to start one. Bundickwave? Maybe when I’m 50. [Laughs] What’s the meaning behind the album title Anything in Return? It’s a reference to trying to be a better person. Whenever you give something to someone, you shouldn’t always expect something in return. I guess it has to do with the mechanisms of Karma. I’m trying to be a good person. Were you a bad person before?
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Well, I used to be a little bit more apathetic when it came to stuff in general. Things just sort of happened for a reason and that was that. Now I sort of know I can control things a little bit. I also started becoming more opinionated, like on political issues. I guess I am more and more finding my way in having my own opinion about things. Five years ago I didn’t really stand for anything. What are your qualities as a person? Friends always describe me as being really productive and creative. Apart from music, I like to cook, draw, do photography. Generally I like to make stuff. I just sort of feel like doing something all the time and feel guilty when I’m not. That’s probably why I work so much, ‘cause I’m never satisfied with what I’m doing. I’m always pushing it further. That’s funny, because your music has a laidback quality – I can imagine it’s great for back-seat make-out sessions,
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‘I can see how waves or trends start and why people pick up on them, but I’m not really out to start one.’ for instance, or for reminiscing. Do you ever sit still and think about what you’ve accomplished? I’m constantly thankful and appreciative of how far I’ve gotten. It comes in waves, though. Right now I have the feeling I’m on the way up. Can you think of a low point? That would be the time when I went through a big break-up. It was pretty messy. That was also during a time when all of my friends moved to another city. I had to meet new people again. That was a low. How did you get on your way up again? Making music. That makes me feel good. And less alone, even though I like being solitary every once in a while. Is there anything you would want to change or get a second chance at? If I changed anything, I don’t even know if I would be where I am now. I like where I am now, so no, not really. I also don’t have any tattoos or piercings I regret, because I don’t have any! [Laughs] Page 22
Favourite book you’ve read in the past year? Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace. Album? Several. Stuff by Mac DeMarco, Tame Impala, Grizzly Bear, Mount Eerie. Movie? Samsara, a documentary shot in 70mm about the wonders of our world. And your most memorable moment? About two months ago we did a South East tour. I grew up in South Carolina. Going back to that area is always like a special feeling, you know? Toro Y Moi plays on 24 January at MC Theater in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.
parents-in-law, my trousers were way too tight, and I ripped them open when I went to sit
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Multi-instrumentalist Chris Cohen is an indierock stalwart. Over the last decade he’s performed with high-profile acts including Haunted Graffiti, Deerhoof and Cass McCombs, but 2012 was the year he finally went at it alone. Ahead of his show at De Nieuwe Anita this month, he talks nostalgia, responsibility and starting over again. And again. And again. Interview by Basje Boer Photos shot by Bobby Doherty in Brooklyn, USA
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Hello. You just released your first solo album, Overgrown Path, right? It’s true. What’s the difference between being part of a band and going solo? I played in Deerhoof, Cryptacize, Park Details Band, et cetera. Each one was completely different – some more or less collaborative at different times. I like doing things with other people and doing things alone. I guess certain types of material I like to do alone. This material was like that. So it was the material that made you decide to go solo?
Sort of. The material was developed a lot while recording. Nobody else has that kind of time unless it’s their project. Did you miss the camaraderie of a band? Yes, very much at times. But the grass is always greener, as they say. Working alone is very familiar. Why’s that? I learned music on a 4-track. That makes me think you were a nerdy kid. Ha! Well, I was kinda shy, yes. How is it doing a solo tour? It’s awesome. I missed playing live a lot. I’m playing with a band,
in their favourite chair. // I regret spending so many useless hours on Facebook. // I regret
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though – three other people. But now it’s just your name on the bill. I guess maybe it’s a little more responsibility. Like, I have to do all the logistical parts. How’s that working out? No major disasters yet. Your solo music has a hint of nostalgia to it. Do you consider yourself a romantic? Nostalgic, yes. Time is very interesting to me. But I don’t think things were better in the past or something. If we could see into the future, I’d be a futurist too. Do you like living in this era? I don’t ask myself that. Any era is fine. It’s so hard to understand the time you’re in. Yeah, for sure. Why do you find time so interesting? It’s like space. But you can only move one way. So tell me about living in this age. What does an average day look like for you? Start with breakfast. My breakfast looks pretty sad these days. I can barely eat right now since I have stomach flu. That does sound sad. These past couple days have just been practicing, then sleeping. Like, for 16 hours at a time. Now that the year of your first solo album is coming to an end, do you feel like Page 26
2012 was a good year for music? I’m probably not the person to ask: for the first half of it I was a total hermit. I live out in the country. Do you think it’s important that your music fits in with other music? I think if everybody makes music which really comes from them, we would live in a more beautiful world. When you say ‘fit’, I imagine people complementing each other by doing what is most unique to them. Can you tell me more about the atmosphere in which you write and record? It’s different all the time. I like to write songs over many months, I just keep coming back and trying to hear with new ears. What does it look like where you live? Rolling lush hills, many kinds of trees. It’s an area known for when the leaves change colour. It’s beautiful, people travel from New York City to see it. I moved here a year ago from Los Angeles. I needed a change. Did it feel like starting over? I feel like I’m starting over all the time! It makes me rethink choices and assumptions I may have made. It was like this in Los Angeles too, but maybe a little different because that’s where I’m from, so there it takes more work. I guess you could say this is a feeling I cultivate.
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You mean starting over is a feeling you cultivate? I cultivate it to stay alert and be ready to respond to whatever happens, like staying flexible or resilient. And then when I’m working on music, I put it through lots of sometimes random changes to let it evolve and see what the ideas really are. So, one last question. Okay. Be warned: it’s going to be a cheesy one. Bring it on. Any holiday plans yet? Ha! I want to go to Greece after
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the European tour ends. Alone? With my girl! And then... a second album? Yeah, I’d think so. Mac DeMarco and Matt Mondanile from Real Estate and Ducktails are doing something... Any details on that yet? Sorry, no. Chris Cohen plays on 15 December at De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.
was very well-informed at the time...) // I regret going on a date where the boy invited his
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2012 was a busy year for White Fence’s Tim Presley. He released his solo opus, the twovolume set Family Perfume, and hooked up with Wunderkind Ty Segall which resulted in the album Hair, eight hooky songs of harmony-heavy, acid-washed pop. We asked the garage rocker about Ty, tattoos and touring. He doesn’t like the latter too much: ‘I’d rather stay at home with my wife.’ Interview by Brenda Bosma Photos shot by Suzanna Zak in Los Angeles, USA
Hi Tim. If we were sitting here with a bottle of Scotch, beer, some weed and maybe some cocaine and we were toasting the past year, what would you be talking about? Presuming I’m not a cop, of course. Well, I started a label, got married and put out three records and one 7”, toured with friends. My only regret is not putting out four records, not having another wife and losing the presidency. But there is this thing called ‘drugs’ that helps me erase any regrets I have. So, sorry I can’t really think of any. I work so hard to try and not have them.
That takes a lifetime for most of us... If you’d have made a fourth record, what would it have sounded like? Like Elmo (from Sesame Street) wearing a leather jacket. Tough, but cute? Yeah. And about the wife? She’s tough, but cute. No, but seriously: I only have eyes for her. There can only be one. So if you were president, you wouldn’t ask for Michelle’s phone number? Nope, I’d build a white fence around the White House maybe. And I’d have male strippers as my body-
girlfriend along as well. Isolde Woudstra I regret turning 30. Total disaster. // I regret that
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guards. That would repel many. The song ‘Be at Home’ has the line ‘And I know that you always will be at home’. Don’t you like touring? Well, that line is not my mantra or anything, but it definitely was my motor for the last two years. Does touring make you appreciate being home more? It puts it all in perspective, maybe? Yes, I suppose, but I don’t romanticise about it, about any of it for that matter; I just do it. There’s a lot to take in and I don’t really have the time to sit and get emotional about every little aspect. But it’s hard to treat it like some vacation. Perhaps you could make your own hologram like 2Pac, so you can just stay at home. I would totally do that! No, seriously. I’d rather stay at home with my wife. But you’d also miss out on the free food. Oh right, the disgusting free food. You don’t like the free food? My cat could make a better dish. You must have a few nice memories from touring, right? It must sometimes be like an all-inclusive holiday or a school trip, the feeling of we’re-in-thistogether? I do have nice memories, but it’s Page 30
mostly of joking around with the guys in the van. You recorded with rising star Ty Segall. He’s a talented young man. Did you give him any advice or didn’t he need any? No, we just did our thang. He tattooed the name Neil on his arm as an homage to Neil Young. You didn’t try to stop him and maybe put your own name up there? No. I have a name of a girl on my arm. He’s got Neil. Everybody’s got a muse. I would get a Ty tattoo any time. Yeah, before everyone has one and it becomes as common as a tribal tattoo. Then you would regret it. Ha! But okay, to conclude: just do your thang, don’t have any regrets, don’t analyse too much. That’s your recipe? That’s basically it. I wish I could sit back and think about the past, reel in the years, but I’m too busy. How big is the tattoo of the girl’s name? Not too big. That I probably would regret! White Fence play on 12 December at Area51 in Eindhoven and on 16 December at OCCII in Amsterdam. Both shows are free for Subbacultcha! members. Other live dates: 01/12 - Vera, Groningen, 02/12 Le Guess Who?, Utrecht.
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Featured artist
Gaël Odilon Paccard
For this edition of our Featured Artist pages we asked Polly’s Picture Show (a young photography platform based in Amsterdam) to collaborate. One of the artists on their rostrum is Gaël Odilon Paccard. His work is very physical in that sense that oftentimes his images are the conclusion of a series of actions. The actions themselves are what the work is actually about. They are a demanding, often self-reflecting set of rules which generate the eventual image or installation. The photographs printed on these pages are part of a larger and ongoing series for which Paccard makes assemblages with whatever material he can find in the street within the confines of a single city block. After capturing them on camera all objects are returned to their original place and position. www.gaelodilonpaccard.com www.pollyspictureshow.com Page 32
and then dropped it on top of a pizza. And no, it didn’t have a plastic sleeve. // I regret the
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death of my cats, Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer. They were old, though... // I have
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Music Reviews
New releases worth your while
Naomi Punk The Feeling
By Carly Blair
Allah-Las Allah-Las
(Couple Skate/Captured Tracks)
(Innovative Leisure)
This debut LP flew under many a radar when it came out this spring, but is now getting rereleased by Captured Tracks. Since their sound features heavy doses of distortion and elements of metal and punk, plus they hail from the vicinity of Seattle, it’s not shocking that some have labelled them grunge revivalists. I’ve done my damnedest to block out all memory of the ’90s, but I’m pretty sure others would agree that these guys don’t sound much like anyone else out there – past or present. Most of their songs stomp along, pummelling your ears into submission with their blunt force, but they momentarily relent with these eerie and ineffably sad interludes, and that incredibly cathartic contrast is what takes this album from a mere beatdown to a knockout for me.
The dudes from Allah-Las all used to work together at Hollywood’s legendary Amoeba Records, surrounded by stacks upon stacks of classic vinyl. Though they say you can’t learn by osmosis, musical molecules resembling the Byrds, Love, the Beach Boys and The Animals somehow seeped into their decidedly ’60s-inspired sound once they decided to finally form a band. They recorded this debut full-length to analogue tape using old microphones to obtain as authentic a sound as possible, with retro soul man Nick Waterhouse handling production duties. Could be tired or uninspired, but much like lying on a beach in the sunshine doesn’t really ever get old, neither does groovy, laid-back surf rock when it’s this thoroughly authentic sounding, immediately appealing and surprisingly durable.
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Peepholes The Overspill
Lust for Youth Growing Seeds
Peepholes are a Brighton duo featuring primal percussion and androgynous vocals from Katia Barrett and vintage-sounding synths and keyboards from Nick Carlisle. Much like their titular peephole, their music borders the familiar world of dance music and the more mysterious world of underground punk and experimentalism. Following a series of well-received EPs, The Overspill marks their full-length debut. The initial song skeletons were improvised and recorded in two days, then extensively edited and embellished. While the resulting labour of love is by no means modern-sounding, its various idiosyncratic touches (especially the marimba and panpipe Fairlight synth samples) and dark atmospherics give it a distinctive and effectively dystopian disposition.
Gothenburg’s Hannes Norrvide makes lo-fi synth pop as Lust For Youth. He released his first four songs on Copenhagen label Posh Isolation, and soon after relocated to Copenhagen and teamed up with Loke Rahbek of Vår as collaborator. Since its original release on Avant! this spring, Growing Seeds has been reworked and now re-released by Sacred Bones, who will also put out LFY’s follow-up next year. While ’80s influences and the various -wave subgenres are far too fashionable lately, I have to give Lust for Youth credit for repeatedly driving me to the brink of pressing fast-forward with the almost maddening simplicity of their rhythms, then causing me to retract my finger with some incredibly catchy hook, proving they have it in them to transcend the banality of their influences.
(Upset the Rhythm)
(AVANT!/Sacred Bones)
breaking my word about never going to that Pinkpop festival. Viktor Hachmang: I regret
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And... Six Overlooked Albums of 2012
Each year as winter settles in, albums you overlooked come out of the woodwork like mice. We didn’t give these the attention they deserved the first time around, but they’re definitely fitting fodder for all you cats out there. Street Gnar - Study Wall
Case Mahan’s nasally vocals are both distinctive and lovable. The expertly crafted surfy lo-fi psych-pop on his second Street Gnar album shows great promise. Daughn Gibson - All Hell
This part-time truck driver left a metal band to take a road trip down a more Lynchian sonic highway, and the Americanatinged debut that resulted calls to mind both Scott Walker and James Blake. Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
This project features members of Factory Floor and Throbbing Gristle and is utterly intense and amazing. Pulsating electronics and compelling noise eruptions. The album has an extreme sense of modern urgency about it, which is quite remarkable, since two of it’s members are in their sixties. Page 38
Heavy Cream Super Treatment
These Nashville garage punks’ third full-length features a growling, Karen O-sounding frontwoman surrounded by mounds of unruly fuzz, sonically styled by none other than Ty Segall. Evian Christ Kings And Them
The first release from UK producer Joshua Leary squeezes an entire EP’s worth of wholly worthy material from samples of ‘Snapback Back’ by rapper Tyga, backed by druggy beats and rumbling bass. Beak> - >>
This second (and more accomplished) album from the postpunk side project of Portishead’s Geoff Barrow sounds like Arthur Russell singing atop a narcotic kraut-rock foundation. Abstract and real,
not having produced enough work. // That I still haven’t started my own comic book. // That
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Filmquiz met Hans Teeuwen 21 december, 21.00
100 Jaar Hollywood
25 Klassiekers die je niet vaak genoeg kunt zien
EYE Filmcafé
14/12, 17u Talkshow met gasten, film en live muziek
Cinema Egzotik – Cult Night
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By Gert Verbeek and Basje Boer
New films and DVDs
Film
Looper
Electrick Children
Liked Inception? Then you’ll probably like Looper, this year’s thinking man’s blockbuster. Yes, it features Bruce Willis. Yes, there are chases, explosions and bursts of violence. Yes, it’s the good guys versus the bad ones. But wait! There’s also a complicated plot involving time travelling. There’s a creepy kid. There are some credible indie actors among the cast, including Joseph-Gordon Levitt and Paul Dano. There’s a stunningly beautiful Emily Blunt and some equally stunning set pieces. And the story itself ? Well, any info at all pretty much qualifies as a spoiler, so let’s not go there. Go see the movie instead. (BB) In theatres 29 November.
After secretly listening to ‘Hanging on the Telephone’, young Mormon teenager Rachel (relative newcomer Julia Garner) thinks a punk song has miraculously impregnated her. She flees from her small archaic commune and goes on a quest to locate the singer of the song. In Las Vegas she meets skater Clyde (Rory Culkin) and his older brother’s grunge band. It’s natural for her as an outsider to bond with these outcasts: a rock ’n’ roll environment doesn’t differ that much from a religious sect, it turns out. Upcoming talent Garner is at her most angelic while also giving Rachel strength of character. She plays the comedy straight, preventing the culture clashes from becoming predictably funny. Electrick Children makes Vegas look like an attractive place of pilgrimage. (GV) Out now on DVD.
Rian Johnson, 2012
Rebecca Thomas, 2012
I still haven’t got my driver’s license. // That I still haven’t started smoking. // The death of
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Books
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Illustration by Viktor Hachmang
Moebius. Brenda Bosma: I regret not being the master of my own fate. // I regret logging
By Marc van der Holst
How to read...
Books
Jim Thompson Heeeeeere’s Jimmy! Thompson, the ‘Dimestore Dostoevsky’. It’s pulp, Jim, but not as we know it. The bad guys in Thompson’s novels (there are no good guys – and no good gals either) all share a cold ’n cruel outlook on life. These truly are psychological thrillers. Thrillingly funny, too. Take Lou Ford, a smart, sadistic sociopath, small-town sheriff and protagonist of one of JT’s best books, The Killer Inside Me. One of the meanest motherfuckers in all of literature, Lou has the highly amusing habit of trying to bore people to death with corny clichés: ‘“Another thing about the weather,” I said. “Everyone complains about it, but no one does anything. But maybe it’s better that way. Every cloud has its silver lining, at least that’s the way I figure it. I mean, if we didn’t have the rain, we wouldn’t have the rainbows, now would we?”’ LOL. After which our hero sets out on a killing spree that’s probably only matched by, I dun-
no, some of JT’s other books maybe... Like Pop. 1280 (ie ‘population 1280’, a number radically reduced at the book’s end), with another psychotic sheriff, Nick Corey, as its not-very-reliable narrator. Starting out as a comical farce, the story gradually goes nihilistically nuts. Or as that other King of pulp, Stephen, put it: ‘The guy was over the top. The guy was absolutely over the top. Big Jim didn’t know the meaning of the word stop. There are three brave lets inherent in the foregoing: he let himself see everything, he let himself write it down, then he let himself publish it.’ More good stuff that the guy let himself see, write and publish: A Hell of a Woman (no, but rlly), The Grifters, The Getaway (both turned into not-as-good movies) and Savage Night, paranoid, surreal shit featuring booze, onelegged babes and a vagina farm. Hell, yes!
into my Facebook account. // I regret not listening to The Disintegration Loops earlier. //
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Fashion
€15 outfit
By Mandy Sharabani
Every month we give €15 to someone to compose a complete outfit for a good night out. Yes, quite a challenge. Koen van Bommel is a 27-year-old journalist, and makes up one half of the DJ duo Body II Body. His challenge was to create a €15 outfit inspired by cold-wave post-punkers Led Er Est. What do you think of Led Er Est? I didn’t know about them before, but they sound just as I expected: cold and emotional. Did you know what outfit you were going for? My original idea was something black and sporty. In the end it turned out to be a totally different look. Why sporty? Their music reminded me of British football hooligans. Interesting. Tell us about how that translated that into your outfit? I went to a thrift store to find a polo shirt, but instead I found a perfect black turtleneck sweater. As for the trousers, these were the only nonblue jeans they had. I loved them! The Willem II scarf is my sporty find. These three items were weighed on the scale, and based on the combined weight they only cost a total of €5! How’s that? The sneakPage 44
ers couldn’t be weighed, so they gave me a fixed price of €7.50. Did you try to spend the remaining €2.50? No, I decided to keep it sober and functional like Led Er Est’s music. Will you wear this outfit again? I can’t. The zipper doesn’t close because the trousers are way too small. Turtleneck sweater Women’s pants Willem II scarf Weight by the kilo: € 5.00 Listex Thrift Store, Tilburg Shoes € 7.50 Listex Thrift Store, Tilburg
Wanna go shopping for a €15 outfit? Please send an email to fashion@subbacultcha.nl.
I regret drinking soy chai from Starbucks. // I regret not being able to draw a dick on the
Photos by Isolde Woudstra
Fashion
€15 Outfit
Koen van Bommel (27) dressing up to go see Led Er Est on 19 December at OT301, Amsterdam Budget spent: €12.50 sun. Carly Blair: I wish that I hadn’t spent six months after I graduated perpetuating the
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Food
Cooking with...
By Zofia Ciechowska
Wooden Constructions Hi guys, how’s it going? Pretty good! We’ve been rehearsing and eating a lot of salty drop all day, so if we have to go to the toilet now we’re going to have a problem... What kind of food constructions do you like making together? A Copacabana tower of fried bananas. We love fried bananas! You can eat the tower in many ways. You build it mostly for the appearance and to save space on the table, then just pick the fried bananas out of it, like a big game of Jenga. We also make a famous banana sauce and a banana soup. We always have bananas in our dressing room in case we need to make a tower. Bananas can also be very treacherous; one of us slipped on a banana peel the other day. It was a very slapstick moment but also a moment where you realise that bananas are very slippery and it’s not just about the comedy. Y’know how parents always go on about families needing to eat together? Is this important for you as a band? Page 46
Yes, we grew up with this and when we’re on the road together we find it very hard to split up. Unfortunately, we’re like Siamese brothers – we’re not proud of it; it just happened. Today we’re eating with a bunch of Subbacultcha! bands; it’s like The Godfather, but without the spaghetti and meatballs. Before gigs we also eat Chicken McNuggets with sweet-and-sour sauce. If you could participate in an eating contest as a team, what would your food category and technique be? Drinking a milkshake with four straws or eating olives. Or eating olives and drinking milkshakes at the same time. Actually, we’d eat stroopwafels. Eating stroopwafels as a team would be quite erotic: we’d probably end up kissing each other instead of eating the stroopwafels. When we compete together, we always go for gold, we give it all we’ve got. Wooden Constructions play on 19 December at OT301 in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.
self-delusion that I wanted to work in science. // I wish that failing to get hired by Shell, of
Food
Photo by Carlijn Potma
Wooden Constructions’ Special Banana Curry fritessaus
2 bananas 5 tablespoons mayonnaise • Mash 2 ripe bananas in a bowl. • Add tons of mayonnaise – at least 5 tablespoons. • Add a few teaspoons of curry powder and stir until it turns a rich yellow.
3 teaspoons curry powder • Eat with copious amounts of hot fries with your bare hands, no funny little plastic forks. • Wash down with a beer.
all godforsaken companies, to work as an environmentalist, of all ill-fated scenarios, hadn’t
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Horoscope Aquarius
21 Jan-19 Feb
All this swimming around has made you lose your sense of direction. It’s also given you very, very dry skin. Try to put down an anchor somewhere. Anywhere. And moisturise that flaky face of yours.
pisces
20 Feb–20 March
It’s like you’re the protagonist in a cheap romance novel. As he conquers your mouth with a hungry urgency, his throbbing dagger of life pointing at the sky, you start to melt like a thousand cheeses. Then his dark voice penetrates your centre: ‘Gotham City needs you. Now!’ A dark knight rises. Aries
21 March–20 April
Every poop makes you a better person. Head down, elbows on knees, fingers laced together. It’s like praying. It’s almost religious. The goodness passing through you. You feel very blessed with your bowel system.
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By Brenda Bosma
Taurus
21 April–21 May
You’re going bald rather quickly. Your cheeks seem to have filled out with an extra big slice of the good life, which, honestly, makes your face look like a butt. People start to wonder where the old Tauranator has gone. Who are you? Are you Bill from ‘Who Is It’?
GEMINI
22 May–21 June
Busy month for our Gemini. You feel like you could move mountains, when in fact you just need to take out the trash.
Cancer
22 June–22 July
Die for one person? That’s craziness, Crabby. People change. They leave, lie, betray, go mad, get sick and die. How’s your secret lover doing, by the way? Leo
23 July–22 Aug
He/she would take your Nike Airs – yes, even your Reeboks – in his/her lap and tie your shoelaces for you. A knot tied with love. Give him/her a call already.
made me cry. // If you don’t want to spend every last cent you can to go visit someone, you
Illustrations by Kathrin Klingner
VIRGO
23 Aug–22 Sept
You move that table to the centre of the room. You move it back. Things might fall apart at the centre this month. The stars are not at all feng shui-ed for you, Virgo.
libra
23 Sept–22 Oct
Beautiful Libra, your pretty head is not used to rejection. But that’s what just happened. You may cry in your bed. Tears of desperation may roll down your cheeks into your ear canals. Yes, I know, even your ear canals have a charming look to them. But do you hear me? You have been d-u-m-p-e-d!
SCORPIO
23 Oct–21 Nov
All this masturbating is getting a little out of, well, hand. Nowadays you even seem to get aroused by fried pastry. Your fingers get greasy. Your sight deteriorates. But what you see is so irresistable.
Horoscope
Sagittarius 22 November–21 December
You bend your bow towards the better things in life such as love, passion, Zen and Lay’s Sensations sweet Thai chilli potato chips. You tell yourself to try to resist the emotional anesthesia of certain substances. On the other hand, fuck it, you just want to live a little, whether the bow has proper tension or not. Life is about trial and error, hit and miss. And regret is for pussies. You are Saggy. You just shoot away.
capricorn 22 December–20 Janaury
The mornings after the nightmarefilled nights are the most painful, it takes at least three espressos, one hot and one cold shower to loosen the grip on your soul’s throat. You are aware that it’s your own hand that is choking you, right? Don’t expect a deus ex machina to show up like some silly clown in shining armour. You are your own divine intervention, Cappa.
shouldn’t be in a long-distance relationship with them; there are plenty of non-Dutch men
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Agenda
Shows in December/January
Subbacultcha!
Muziekgebouw Tip
Ben Frost Music for 6 Guitars 14 December - 20:30 The December edition of Listen To This will feature the pearl of Ben Frost’s repertory, Music for 6 guitars. The musician, known for his experimental soundscapes featuring influences of everything from electronica to postpunk and minimalist noise, will deliver a hypnotising experience with his electronic guitars. In addition, a legendary composition by Morton Feldman, The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar, will have its Dutch premiere this same night. Page 50
Listen To This The Listen To This concert series is a series of experimental contemporary concerts complemented with a cutting-edge side programme which explores the boundaries of modern classical music and is hosted by Amsterdam’s most adventurous music organisations. Call Het Muziekgebouw or buy tickets at the register 020-788 20 00 www.muziekgebouw.nl
Agenda On the following pages:
Subbacultcha! concerts and films totally free for members Page 52
Other shows Page 61 Free tickets Page 76
This is Jack Colleran, also known as Mmoths. On 10 January he will be playing at the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen. He will also play at De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam on 11 January. That show is free for Subbacultcha! members.
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Cheatahs + Jef Barbara + Femminielli 01 December - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
The line-up of London band Cheatahs is dappled with dudes from Male Bonding and Weird Dreams, plus an American bassist and a German frontman. While they might not be the fastest band on Earth, they have showed rapid progression between this summer’s COARED EP and their brand new Sans EP, and though the modern-day musical savannah is populated with species influenced by the ’90s (eg Cloud Nothings and Japandroids), Cheatahs’ ability to enliven a four-piece set-up is endangered indeed.
Subbacultcha! x Les Animaux @ Le Mini Who?
ft. Jef Barbara, Femminielli, The Silhouettes, Kleinindustrie, Les Animaux DJs 01 December - EKKO Cafe, Utrecht 12.00 | Free for all
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Voorstraat, including cosy and unconventional spots like The Village Coffee and the KLIJS & BOON clothing shop. Furthermore, it’s free for all, so you’ll finally have a socially acceptable way of rubbing elbows with that handsome hobo you’ve been making eyes at all weekend.
David Foster Wallace (Crash) Course 09 December - Subbacultcha! HQ, Amsterdam 17.00 | Free entrance, RSVP only!
Dan Hassler-Forest will take some time off from his position as assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam to shed some light on David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), one of the most important, influential and notoriously challenging authors of the postmodern age. The lecture is organised in collaboration with the John Adams Institute and entrance is free for all. After the talk you can stick around for some food and free Warsteiner. To attend, send an email to RSVP@subbacultcha.nl.
FILM: Rotterdam Open Doek 11 December - LantarenVenster, Rotterdam 19.30 | €5 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
Rotterdam Open Doek is a recurring event at LantarenVester and showcases short films by up-and-coming local filmmakers. Check the website for more information on the programme: www.lantarenvenster.nl
White Fence
12 December - Area51, Eindhoven 20.30 | €8.50 | Free for Subbacultcha! members 16 December - OCCII, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
LA’s Tim Presley is a busy bee. Besides playing with space rockers Darker My Love and backing up The Strange Boys and The Fall, he also transforms his neural nectar into sweet psychedelic honey via his solo work as White Page 53
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Fence. In 2012 alone he’s released two White Fence albums plus a remarkable collaboration with Ty Segall. While his extremely lo-fi home recordings are weird and warped in a stoned and lonely sort of way, playing live brings out his inner hornet, with notched-up tempos and blistering guitar solos stinging your ears in a sonic attack more similar to his work with Segall.
Chris Cohen
15 December - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
LA native Chris Cohen has subtly contributed as a member or touring player to a long list of excellent bands including Deerhoof, Cass McCombs and Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. By relocating to Vermont, the 37-year-old singing drummer gave himself the time and quiet necessary to focus on his own thoughts. Adding bass, a Casio MT65, piano and guitar to his repertoire, the psychedelic pop on his 2012 debut, Overgrown Path, is so delicately dreamy and sympathetically idiosyncratic, I’m delighted that he’s finally stepped into the spotlight.
Pinkunoizu
16 December - DB’s, Utrecht 20.30 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
The name of this Copenhagen quartet means ‘pink noise’ in Japanese, which is a pretty okay way to describe their music, if by ‘pink’ you mean ‘comes in many shades, warm and welcoming, and a bit cuddly around the edges’, and by ‘noise’ you mean, well, ‘noise’. ‘Delightful avant-folk’ works pretty well, too. Page 54
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ROTTT ♥ Subbacultcha! 16 December - Roodkapje, Rotterdam 10.30 | €10 / €7.50 (without breakfast) Free for Subbacultcha! members
We’re teaming up with ROTTT to bring you a day of art, food and (live) music. We’ll kick things off with a hearty breakfast and spend the rest of the day enjoying performances by acts such as Jef Barbara, Michiel Klein and I Am Oak. Work by Ikkai Gerda Postma, Howart and Thijs Kuijken will be displayed and you can also indulge in some exclusive vinyl at the independent Record Fair. This will be our last event at Roodkapje before they close temporarily for (re)construction, so don’t miss out!
Wooden Constructions + Led Er Est
19 December - OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
After a few years of building buzz with their entertaining live performances, Amsterdam’s Wooden Constructions cut the ribbon on their debut album this past summer, a sturdy collection of danceable, Afrobeat-tinged postpunk. Also on the bill are NYC’s Led Er Est, who successfully (re)explore the dark recesses of post-punk and minimal electronica.
Holograms + Girls Names
10 January - EKKO, Utrecht 20.00 | €9 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
Armed with decrepit instruments, post-industrial industriousness, booze-fuelled impudence and foolish hope for something better, Stockholm’s Holograms wage war against the drudgery of dismal existence with their synthdriven post-punk anthems. The battery of hooks and incendiary sense of urgency they employ are potent enough to help listeners defeat boredom. Come early for Belfast twangy indie-popsters Girls Names. Page 55
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Mmoths
11 January - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members One snowy Irish winter not too long ago, a teenaged Jack Colleran opted to lock himself indoors and start recording his own music, rather than go out and play in the snow with his friends, and by the end of that school year he’d already signed his first record deal. His enchanting electronica belies his young age, and is warm and inviting enough to attract listeners like Mmoths to a flame.
Subbacultcha!, Wham! Wham! & Samling Eurosonic Day Party ft. Girls Names, Mø, WOLVON, Jacco Gardner 12 January - Sign Art Gallery, Groningen 13.00 | Free entrance and free Warsteiner
Once again we’re teaming up with our friends from Samling and Wham! Wham! to bring you one of our renowned Eurosonic Day Parties at the Sign Art Gallery. Expect loads of great bands and free Warsteiner beer. This year’s line-up includes Danish groovy dance-pop singer MØ, Belfast indiepopsters Girls Names, notorious Dutch noise-makers WOLVON, alongside Eklin, Herrek, Jacco Gardner, Vakantie, Mike Koldin and more.
Siinai
12 January - Melkweg, Amsterdam tbc | tbc | Free for Subbacultcha! members
Siinai are members of the thriving Finnish prog/krautrock scene, along with bands such as Joensuu 1965 and K-X-P. In 2012 they released their outstanding debut EP Olympic Games and also collaborated with Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown) on his latest Moonface album. Tonight’s event will be complemented with more great acts taken from the line-up of the Eurosonic festival in Groningen. Page 56
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Pete Swanson
13 January - Poortgebouw, Rotterdam 21.00 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
This relentless noisemaker released the astonishing Man with Potential earlier this year and now he’s back with Pro Style, an equally provocative piece of work, which takes his fusion of techno, dark noise and ambient to another level.
Klub 470 ft. Zucker!
18 January - Goethe-Institut, Amsterdam 21.00 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
So besides wanting to make you feel like you’ve been transformed, Cinderella-style, into a German aristocrat for an evening, Klub 470’s other objective is to provide a podium for exciting upcoming German bands. This time around, the ladies of Hamburg duo Zucker! will serve up some sassy and slightly sweet, stripped-down post-punk.
Toro y Moi
24 January - MC Theater, Amsterdam 20.30 | €14 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
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approach of his early work with entirely live instrumentation, moving on to bigger and better things before hordes of would-be imitators dropped in on the chillwave. His forthcoming third full-length, Anything in Return, out this month on Carpark, finds him trying his hand at ‘sincere pop music that’s not all processed and bubblegum’. If the sexy and laid-back lead single ‘So Many Details’ is any indication, Bundick has evolved into an artist capable of producing pop with plenty of crossover potential.
Jacco Gardner (CD release party) 30 January - OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
Jacco Gardner, who hails from Hoorn here in the Netherlands and also plays in psych duo The Skywalkers, weaves harpsichord, strings, flutes and other classical instruments with raw psychedelic effects to produce classicsounding and highly palatable paisley pop. His debut album is called Cabinet of Curiosities and he’s got the Mad Hatter hat down, so you’d probably be wise to bring along your Alice in Wonderland blotter paper in preparation for a trip down the rabbit hole.
Maria Minerva
31 January - EKKO, Utrecht 20.00 | €8.50 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
This Estonian left-field pop chanteuse is a bit dualistic – if not a walking contradiction. Last time she played in Amsterdam, she showed up in high heels but then played her set in a rather dorky pair of white running shoes. Page 58
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She writes lyrics like ‘I don’t want my voice to be heard,’ then sings them. She gave her latest album the seemingly cheesy title Will Happiness Find Me?, after a book of existential questions by the Swiss absurdist art duo Fischli/Weiss. Most importantly: her off-key singing, out-of-place samples and rhythms that flirt with danceability but never go all the way may be frustrating, but they’re also fascinating and strangely addictive.
Foam Photography Museum
Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thur and Fri until 21.00 €8.50 | €1.50 for Subbacultcha! members
Until 13 January 2013, the entire Foam Photography Museum will showcase an exhibition in homage to Diane Arbus. Drop by to get inspired by the celebrated but controversial work of one of the most legendary photographers of the 20th century.
TENT
Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00 €4 | Free for Subbacultcha! members
Visiting this Rotterdam platform for contemporary art is free for members in December and January. On the agenda are ‘The Traveller’, curated by the Rotterdam-based collector, writer and art-activist Alexander Ramselaar, and an exhibition featuring work for Carla Klein, Renie Spoelstra and Gyz La Rivière, the nominees for this year’s Dolf Henkes Prijs. Page 59
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BINNENKORT O.A. DO27DEC
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D A ILY B R E A D + APR I L
VR28DEC
B RIGH T: BONDAX + AUDIO CULTURE DJ’S
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CULTFARM: MANAMANA
ZA19JAN
MA RK EITZE L DO20DEC
RUMOR 71: RHODRI DAVIES + PUMPORGAN ZA26JAN
TOMMIGU N + SUKILOV E ZA22DEC
I AM OAK
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VOLLEDIG PROGRAMMA & TIJDEN:
POPPODIUM EKKO | BEMUURDE WEERD WZ 3 | 3513 BH UTRECHT | WWW.EKKO.NL
Focus
Agenda
State-X New Forms Aside from providing a glimpse into the future of avant-rock and cutting-edge electronics, two-day festival State-X New Forms is setting the record straight in terms of the history of indie music. After seven editions featuring headliners such as Sonic Youth, Pere Ubu and the Melvins, this year’s line-up includes US live sensation Mission of Burma and a host of other cult heroes deserving of wider recognition. 14 & 15 December – Paard van Troje, Den Haag
Boris
Otto Von Schirach
Mission of Burma After disbanding in 1983, Boston post-punk outfit Mission of Burma became ‘the band that influenced influential bands’, from Shellac – who catalysed the 2002 re-formation – to Sonic Youth, whose broad harmonic palette is foreshadowed in ‘All World Cowboy Romance’. Because of their killer hooks we can’t avoid smiling upon hearing such angst-ridden anthems as ‘Academy Fight Song’ and the Moby-covered ‘That’s When I Reach For My Revolver’.
Otto Von Schirach Flabbergasting us with face-melting electro since 1998, Miami gabba Otto Von Schirach tones down his trademark sickness for more dancefloorfriendly booty bass on 2012’s Supermeng.
Boris Their double-neck guitars and supersize gong make Japanese boy-girl-fronted power trio Boris appear more decadent than the average Sabbath-inspired stoner band. What truly sets them apart, however, is their oversaturated sonic knockout punch, delivered with Zen-like conviction.
Gum Takes Tooth Like a Lightning Bolt without strings, this UK duo converts live drums, samples and distorted vocals into high-energy grooves, occasionally infiltrated with blast beats and dubstep drops.
Fantastic Mr Fox James Blake adores him and Jamie xx shares his spotlight, hence Stephen Gomberg’s sticky ‘post-dubstep prodigy’ label. Mellow on the surface, his jerky dance tunes hide intricate sample mosaics, with twists of slick electro soul.
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IFFR The 42nd edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam is truly shaping up to be an excellent one. But as always, you can’t see the wood for the trees... So we are here to take you gently by the hand and guide you through the deep forest of this year’s programme. First off, there’s the Bright Future section, which highlights upcoming talent. Then there’s Spectrum, which focuses on experienced filmmakers. And finally, Signals will treat you to various retrospectives from movie veterans. Found your way yet? No? Read on, then. 23 January-03 February – Various Locations, Rotterdam
Simon Killer
Borderline Films The three New Yorkers behind Borderline Films have previously delivered awesome indie flicks such as Afterschool and Martha Marcy May Marlene. Their latest production, Simon Killer, is said to rely on a highly suspenseful atmosphere, revealing only a few details of protagonist Simon, an American graduate roaming the dark alleys of Paris. ‘A dark ride’, according to the UK’s Guardian, ‘distinguished by a seductive, urgent score and soundtrack’. Dominik Graf (b1952) Is one of Signals’ retrospectives focuses. This German director’s genre movies are both entertaining and disturbing, revealing not only the darkest parts of the human soul but also of German society. Still not enough? How about this: This man also directed some legendary episodes of über-Krimi Tatort.
Lesson of the Evil
Sound Stages Is also a part of the Signals programme, emphasising the role that music plays in cinema and the importance of acoustics. There’ll be live performances at special locations, installations by artists and filmmakers and various presentations and projects. Filmmaker and artist Mika Taanila, filmmaker John Akomfrah and multimedia artist Tony Cokes are confirmed contributors. Takashi Miike Last but certainly not least is Rotterdam favourite Takashi Miike, whose disturbing Audition shocked festival-goers back in 2000. Takashi’s latest, Lesson of the Evil, is about the lengths a school teacher is willing to go to in order to put an end to bullying – but who will stop the teacher? www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com
DJ thing still hasn’t come to fruition. // To all the people whose names I forgot after having
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Shows in December/January
1 DEC 2012 – 24 FEB 2013
+ Artist talk & book launch Roger Hiorns, do 24 jan 2013, 20 uur + Lezing door Louwrien Wijers over Joseph Beuys, do 21 feb 2013, 20 uur Grote Markt 16, Haarlem www.dehallenhaarlem.nl Courtesy Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam The Ekard Collection
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Grauzone Festival New wave emerged alongside punk as a reaction to the over-produced, uninspired popular music of the early ’70s, but gradually came to refer to bands more interested in experimentation, lyrical complexity and polished production. Given the current corporate cultural milieu, it’s no surprise that the genre has seen a resurgence in recent years. This new festival links classic new wave bands with contemporary artists embracing the genre’s original anarchic ethos. 01 February – Melkweg, Amsterdam
Echo and the Bunnymen
Echo and the Bunnymen These Liverpool pioneers parlayed early critical acclaim into commercial success with four essential albums of the early post-punk movement. After breaking up in 1993, two of the founding members reformed the band and have continued to release material as Echo & the Bunnymen throughout the new millennium. Chameleons Vox Manchester’s The Chameleons were another one of post-punk’s most influential players. Since 2009 the original frontman and drummer have been reviving the Chameleons’ back catalogue under the name Chameleons Vox. Fehlfarben Though these Duitsers’ 1980 debut, Monarchie und Alltag, didn’t reach gold status in Germany until 2000, it’s now regarded as a landmark of both the new German wave and German rock in general.
Iceage
Iceage The energetic mix of goth, hardcore and post-punk these precocious Danes have concocted has people labelling them the saviours of punk rock. Linea Aspera A London duo influenced by the electronic music of the ’80s, including synth pop, industrial and noise, and obsessed with medicine as a metaphor for desire, despair and renewal. Lebanon Hanover This Berlin-based British duo uses sombre boy-girl vocal dynamics, gothic basslines and apocalyptic atmospherics to fully embrace the look and feel of classic cold wave. Other bands tapped for the festival include seminal new wave bands Zounds, The Mob and Das Ding, as well as nu-comers Ulterior and Newclear Waves. www.grauzonefestival.com
extended conversations on previous occasions, all the friends I bummed cigarettes from,
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Holograms play EKKO in Utrecht, as well as the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen.
Cheatahs 01 Dec - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 02 Dec - Le Guess Who?, Utrecht This London band features members of Male Bonding and Weird Dreams, and their energetic delivery helps them outrun the competition on a modern-day musical savannah. Read more on page 52.
Hundred Waters 01 Dec - Patronaat, Haarlem This digital-folk five-piece turned heads when they released their delicate debut this past spring – then left people scratching them when they announced that they were going on tour with none other than Skrillex and Diplo. They’ve since signed to Skrilex’s OWSLA label, and the first offspring of this incongruous pairing is the Thistle EP, featuring some surprisingly successful remixes of the title track by AraabMuzik, Star Slinger and more.
Subbacultcha! x Les Animaux @ Le Mini Who ft. Jef Barbara, Femminielli, The Silhouettes, Kleinindustrie, Les Animaux DJs 01 December - EKKO Cafe, Utrecht Just when you thought Le Guess Who? festival couldn’t get any better, this free day-
time mini festival comes along to dazzle you with over 30 of today’s most exciting Dutch bands. Read more on page 52.
White Fence 01 Dec - Vera, Groningen 02 Dec - Le Guess Who?, Utrecht 12 Dec - Area 51, Eindhoven 16 Dec - OCCII, Amsterdam White Fence’s Tim Presley’s extremely lo-fi home recordings are weird and warped and noodly in a stoned and lonely sort of way, playing live brings out his inner hornet, and he sounds more like his work with Ty Segall. Read more on page 53.
Zammuto 01 Dec - Le Guess Who?, Utrecht 03 Dec - Paradiso, Amsterdam Sound collage duo The Books basically wrote the book on folktronica, with their deceptively simple and downright addictive mix of acoustic instrumentation, original vocals and manipulated found sounds. After releasing four consistently enjoyable fulllengths, they decided to split this past January to focus on other projects, and Nick Zammuto’s Zammuto solo project is one of them. While his self-titled debut does feature various Books tropes, the overall feel
all the people I embarrassed or offended with my loudness, all the men I extremely awk-
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is more energetic and more personal, representing a worthy new chapter from this sonic librarian.
Matana Roberts 01 Dec - Le Guess Who?, Utrecht 21 Dec - Paradiso, Amsterdam Jazz saxophonist Matana Roberts has come a long way since her days busking in the NYC subway system. She’s worked with Tortoise and Prefuse 73, got tipped by Jeff Mangum for the ATP he curated and her ongoing composition project, Coin Coin, takes an almost frighteningly purgative look at ancestry, slavery and memory.
Allah-Las 02 Dec - Le Guess Who?, Utrecht 04 Dec - Paradiso, Amsterdam 07 Dec - Vera, Groningen 08 Dec - Merleyn, Nijmegen The dudes in Allah-Las all used to work together at the legendary Hollywood record store Amoeba Records, surrounded by stacks of classic vinyl. Though they say you can’t learn by osmosis, musical molecules resembling the Byrds, Love, the Beach Boys and The Animals have somehow seeped into their decidedly ’60s-inspired sound.
Le Guess Who? Fuzzbox ft. Ty Segall Band, White Fence, Allah-Las 02 Dec - Tivoli Oudegracht, Utrecht This new mini-festival-within-a-festival features a sonic boner-inducing line-up of some of the best new garage rock and psych bands out there today.
Nick Waterhouse 02 Dec - Le Guess Who?, Utrecht 04 Dec - Doornroosje, Nijmegen Ooh wee ooh, this 25-year-old San Fran-
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ciscan looks just like Buddy Holly, and makes retro rock ’n’ roll, classic R&B and soul that’s energetic and timeless-sounding enough to make you forget the day the music died.
Sharon van Etten 02 Dec - Le Guess Who?, Utrecht 05 Dec - Vera, Groningen While her earliest material was timid and damaged-sounding, Sharon van Etten’s foray into music ultimately proved cathartic and empowering. Her latest album, Tramp, features collaborations with hot shots like Beirut’s Zach Condon and production by The National’s Aaron Dessner. While she describes songwriting as ‘self-therapy’, she actually finally sounds ready to put up a fight.
Father John Misty 03 Dec - Paradiso, Amsterdam J Tillman played drums for feel-good folkrock sensation Fleet Foxes, but his solo work was historically stripped down and seriously serious. After a bout of depression, Tillman got into his van with ‘enough mushrooms to choke a horse’ and hit the highway. Soon enough he was writing a novel and finding an entirely different narrative voice in Father John Misty. Fear Fun, the project’s first full-length, is an inspired collection of frisky folk rock, and a thoroughly delightful departure from his previous work.
Local Natives 04 Dec - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam On their 2010 debut, these LA indie rockers synthesized various contemporary trends – yearning vocals, three-part harmonies, psychedelic and folk influences – so expertly that it was hard to enjoy it without feeling a wee bit paranoid that computers finally had figured out how to manufacture indie crossover hits. But what their music
wardly and ultimately unsuccessfully hit on, all the friends I ditched to extremely awkwardly
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Siinai play three shows this January in Gronigen, Tilburg and Amsterdam. See page 75.
lacks in terms of spontaneity or originality, it more than makes up for in sheer pleasurableness.
Incubated ft. US Girls + Slim Twig 04 Dec - 013, Tilburg Incubated is an evening of cutting-edge music curated by the people behind Incubate. On her latest material, US Girls’ Meghan Remy, has polished away the excessive distortion of her early work and ramped up her love of ’60s girl groups and ’90s R&B just enough to make the experimentalism that’s at the core of her songs easier to appreciate. The prolific Slim Twig worked with Remy on her last two albums, runs a label with her (Calico Corp), and makes ever-evolving oddball pop in his own right.
Repetitor 04 Dec - SUB071, Leiden 05 Dec - ACU, Utrecht 06 Dec - PopEi, Eindhoven 07 Dec - OCCII, Amsterdam 08 Dec - Lepel Concerts, Groningen Growing up in the midst of a violent civil war and then having to figure out how to put the pieces back together is a pretty fucking good reason to start a punk band. Belgrade trio Repetitor did just that back in 2005, touring extensively throughout the
region before releasing their now-celebrated 2008 debut Sve što vidim je prvi put. Though not widely known outside the Balkans, they speak the universal language of punk fluently enough for anyone to get their message.
Yeasayer 05 Dec - Paradiso, Amsterdam This eclectic Brooklyn group’s sound shifted dramatically between their debut and 2010’s Odd Blood. Their third album, Fragrant World, came as less of a shock when they released it this fall, since it continues to explore the terrain between rock, world and dance music. Their September tour was cancelled, and we’re hoping this show will have been worth waiting for.
Menomena 05 Dec - Paradiso, Amsterdam Portland’s favourite loop-loving multi-instrumentalists lost the third leg of their tripod when founding member Brent Knopf left the band to focus on his Ramona Falls side project. Their latest album, Moms, is their first as a duo, and revolves around themes of (surprise surprise) mothers (or the lack thereof). Touching upon the inevitable weirdness everyone experiences with their parents, it represents their boldest and most emotionally raw work yet.
and ultimately unsuccessfully hit on men and all the shoulders I irrationally cried upon:
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Crystal Castles
Pinkunoizu
06 Dec - Melkweg, Amsterdam
16 Dec - dB’s, Utrecht 17 Dec - Paradiso, Amsterdam
This polarising Toronto-based electro duo blew up by offering an acerbic and distorted brand of chiptune/new rave/whatevah on their self-titled debut, then gained a much wider audience with their also selftitled sophomore release by taking a more sophisticated and balanced approach. Their new third self-titled album is their most blatantly political to date, yet they remain masters of tempering all that violence with beautiful bleakness.
Slow Magic 09 Dec - Tivoli Spiegelbar, Utrecht Mysterious producer Slow Magic describes his music as being like ‘the sound made by an unknown imaginary friend’. Apparently that friend likes squeaky-cleanly produced dreamy chillwave. He/she/it wears a colourful zebra mask while playing live, so guessing which wildly famous celebrity might be hidden underneath should add to the fun.
State-X New Forms 14+15 Dec - Paard van Troje, Den Haag Aside from providing a glimpse into the future of avant-rock and cutting-edge electronics, two-day festival State-X New Forms sets the record straight in terms of the history of indie music. And that’s impressive. Read more on page 63.
Chris Cohen 15 Dec - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam Chris Cohen has played with a long list of excellent bands including Deerhoof and Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, and his solo psychedelic pop is delicately dreamy and sympathetically idiosyncratic. Read more on page 54. Page 74
The name of this Copenhagen quartet means ‘pink noise’ in Japanese, but could easily stand for ‘delightful avant-folk’ as well. Read more on page 54.
Led Er Est + Wooden Constructions 19 Dec - OT301, Amsterdam Led Er Est use analogue synths, cheap drum machines and bass guitar to carve out a relatively poppy niche for themselves within the coldwave revival, while Amsterdam’s Wooden Constructions hammer out danceable, Afrobeat-tinged post-punk. Read more on page 55.
Vox Von Braun 21 Dec - Vera, Groningen Vox Von Braun is a pop band born out of the almost incestuously intimate music scene of Groningen. Their ’90s-channelling debut album Something Ain’t Wrong came out back in 2008 on Subroutine, and after parking the project for a period they’re ready to roll back out in style with their sophomore album, hopefully aptly titled Rich and on Wheels.
Eurosonic Festival ft. Temples, Chvrches, Sinaii 9-12 Jan - various locations, Groningen This festival is the premier conference and showcase for European music. While the line-up of the festival itself is pretty scattered, the quiet streets and noisy bars of Groningen never fail to charm, and Subbacultcha!’s most excellent (and free) day party has consistently featured shit-hot up-and-coming bands. All in all well worth a trip up North.
sorry! Next year’s going to be a happier, more stable and therefore less wildly drunken one
Shows in December/January
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Holograms
Klub 470 ft. Zucker
10 Jan - EKKO, Utrecht 11 Jan - Eurosonic, Groningen
18 January - Goethe-Institut, Amsterdam
Loud and noisy lo-fi post-punk. Read more on page 55.
Mmoths 10 Jan - Eursonic, Groningen 11 Jan - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam Mmoths’ Jack Colleran makes enchanting electronica warm and inviting enough to attract listeners like mmoths to a flame. Read more on page 56.
Siinai 10 Jan - Eursonic, Groningen 11 Jan - 013, Tilburg 12 Jan - Melkweg, Amsterdam Groovy experimental prog-rockers from Finland. Read more on page 56.
Villagers 10 Jan - Doornroosje, Nijmegen 11 Jan - Eurosonic Festival, Groningen 12 Jan - Hedon, Zwolle If you’re skinny, brown-haired and a little bit bug-eyed; if you make earnest folk music and your name is Conor (for Christ’s sake), you’re pretty much doomed to get compared to Bright Eyes. Wouldn’t be my personal top choice of bands to be likened to, but Villagers’ main man Conor J O’Brien hasn’t let it slow him down yet, creating a distinctively soothing sound and nabbing a Mercury Prize nomination for his 2010 debut.
Pete Swanson 12 Jan - Nasa, Amsterdam 13 Jan - Poortgebouw, Rotterdam Relentless electronic noise maker Pete Swanson is touring in support of his new 12” Pro Style. Read more on page 57. for me, I can sense it. End.
Klub 470’s provides a podium for exciting upcoming German bands. This time around, the ladies of Hamburg duo Zucker will serve up some sassy and slightly sweet stripped-down post-punk. Read more on page 57.
International Film Festival Rotterdam 23 January- 03 February The 42nd edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam is shaping up to be an especially excellent one. Read more on page 65.
Toro y Moi 24 Jan - MC Theater, Amsterdam Chaz Bundick may have made his name as a pioneer of chillwave, but his upcoming third full-length finds him trying his hand at ‘sincere pop music that’s not all processed and bubblegum’. Read more on page 57.
Jacco Gardner 12 January - Noorderslag, Groningen 30 January - OT301, Amsterdam Jacco Gardner weaves harpsichord, strings, flutes and other classical instruments with raw psychedelic effects to produce classicsounding and highly palatable paisley pop. Read more on page 58.
Maria Minerva 31 Jan - EKKO, Utrecht This Estonian producer transforms off-key singing, out-of-place samples and rhythms that merely flirt with danceability into frustrating but fascinating and strangely addictive avant-garde electro pop. Read more on page 58. Page 75
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Send photos that were taken after midnight to aftermidnight@subbacultcha.nl If your photo gets published, you win a good goodie This month’s photo was submitted by Willem Verweyen. A great shot for the end of a music-packed year. Page 77
Overview of all Subbacultcha! shows in December and January
01 December
Cheatahs + Jef Barbara
De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €7 | Free for members
01 December
Subbacultcha! x Les Animaux @ Le Mini Who? EKKO Cafe, Utrecht 12.00 | Free for all
11 December
Rotterdam Open Doek
LantarenVenster, Rotterdam 19.30 | €5 | Free for members
12 December
White Fence
Area51, Eindhoven 20.30 | €8.5 | Free for members
15 December
Chris Cohen
De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €8 | Free for members
16 December
White Fence
OCCII, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members
16 December
Pinkunoizu
dB’s, Utrecht 20.30 | €7 | Free for members
19 December
Wooden Constructions + Led Er Est
OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members
13 January
Pete Swanson
Poortgebouw, Rotterdam 21.00 | €7 | Free for members
18 January
Klub 470
Goethe-Institut, Amsterdam 21.00 | €8 | Free for members
24 January
Toro y Moi
10 January
MC Theater, Amsterdam 20.30 | €14 | Free for members
EKKO, Utrecht 20.00 | €9 | Free for members
Jacco Gardner
Holograms + Girls Names 11 January
Mmoths
MC Theater, Amsterdam 20.00 | €7 | Free for members
12 January
Eurosonic Dayparty
Sign Art Gallery, Groningen 13.00 | Free entrance and Free Warsteiner
11 January
Siinai
Melkweg, Amsterdam tbc | tbc | Free for members
30 January
OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members
31 January
Maria Minerva
EKKO, Utrecht 20.00 | €8.5 | Free for members
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Foam
Open daily 10.00-18.00 Thur and Fri until 21.00 €8.5 | €1.5 for members
TENT Rotterdam Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00 €4 | Free for members
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