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Unruly Music Magazine. October 2013

The De(con)struction Issue

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Subbacultcha! Magazine October 2013

The De(con)struction Issue

This photo shows broken tableware on an Amsterdam pavement. The scene was caused by Nicholas Jaar and David Harrington, aka Darkside. We printed the photo to offer you some advice. ‘Cause you know, sometimes it’s healthy to break stuff, to lose the baggage, get back to basics and make a fresh start. Right after the photo was taken, the duo went out into the sun, off on another adventure. And we cleaned up the mess and played our part in the ever-evolving universe of de(con)struction. ‘Cause you can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs, right? And that’s what this issue is all about. Enjoy.

Content Featured Artist Books Fashion Food Music Reviews New Films Subbacultcha! shows Agenda Free Stuff

Cover: Pharmakon by Grant Willing

Recommendations We Saw You Pharmakon Holograms Darkside Robedoor Destruction Unit The Morning After

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October recommendations Each month our staff provides you with a selection of the finer things in life. Enjoy!

Music: Verity Susman

Music: Alice Boman

Say hi to our new Scandi girl crush, Alice Boman. Her latest EP Skisser (that’s ‘sketches’ in Swedish) has melted the hearts of many with its earnest simplicity and heavenly vocals. Think El Perro del Mar, Au Revoir Simone and a bit of Connie Converse. The accompanying video for track ‘Waiting’ is a mini work of art, featuring Boman dancing on a pristine white beach in Sweden. Start spreading the love.

If you haven’t heard what Electrelane’s Verity Susman has been getting up to on her own, it’s high time you checked out her multisensory performances. They are a fast-approaching mothership of saxophones, organs and industrial bass accompanied by dead computer voices reading sexually-charged lyrics. If that’s a lot to take in, Susman also combines her music with visuals that feature Star Trek fan fiction and ejaculating instruments. It’s catchy, funny and pretty fucking clever.

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October recommendations Book: Lolito by Ben Brooks

Books: JD Salinger

According to the new JD Salinger biography and the accompanying documentary by Shane Salerno, we can expect five new Salinger novels between 2015 and 2020. Although there hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been an official confirmation of this news just yet, we sure are getting our hopes up. Until 2015, you still have plenty of time to read or reread his Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter.

Ben Brooks is the new alt-lit talent on the block with his latest book, Lolito, which has provoked much laughter and confusion amongst his readers. His book is an exploration of the fine line between the MILF and the cougar. An earnest, utterly hilarious, first-hand account of a 15-year-oldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s internet romance with a woman in her forties that turns into a slightly uncomfortable, but also totally awesome date IRL. You can get it at the American Book Center in Amsterdam or order it online.

October recommendations Architecture: Castle Almere

Zine: OCCII zine Since the start of this year, talented graphic designer Karoline Swiezynski has been designing very good-looking monthly zines for our favourite gritty hangout in Amsterdam, OCCII. Keep your eye out for the fall-coloured October issue, aptly named Occitober. looklooklook.org/occii

Bookshop: San Serriffe When strolling around the Red Light District, as you do, you might wander into this little inconspicuous art bookshop. On offer are a selection of smallpress and self-published books, and a weekly programme of lectures, book launches and exhibitions. Forming a stark contrast with the red-lit windows, this bright yellow-floored shop, the lovely owners and their outstanding selection of books are a highly recommended excuse, if you need one, to visit that part of town.

Fun idea, but never completed, Castle Almere is a modern-day ruin, a symbol of the end of economic prosperity. Now that we’re knee-deep in crisis, research collective Monnik investigates how notions of tragedy and limitations inspire architecture. With this in mind they put students of Amsterdam’s Academy of Architecture to work, to develop alternative designs for Almere’s failed fortress. Come and see the brainwaves of these future architects at the end of October, time and place TBA.

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October recommendations Art: Cut Shaving by Jaap Scheeren

Food: Kombucha Beer, sausages, honey, cider and cheese – our list of DIY food projects keeps on growing. The next thing in line? Kombucha. This beverage is pretty ‘hot’ among healthies in New York and London and good for preventing autumn cold and flu. Wanna make it? Find yourself a kombucha culture (a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast), combine it with a cooled sweetened tea of your choice and let it ferment for seven to ten days in a cool, dark location. You can buy bottled Kombucha at your local health store for around €3 a bottle.

Jaap Scheeren is one of the more interesting photographers working in Holland today. His work is funny, fresh, colorful, absurdist and full of old-fashioned joie de vivre. For the first time, all of Scheeren’s work comes together in a 144-page publication, called Jaap Scheeren Cut Shaving. The book is designed by Hans Gremmen and according to the press release it will ‘explore ways of reproducing photography, photo books and visual archives, resulting in a fresh and anarchistic publication’. We are officially curious.

Want a cool link to post on all your social media profiles to be like the next digital guru? Emoji Tracker is just that. It’s a real-time display of all the emojis being used on Twitter at this very second. It’s hypnotising and comes with an epilepsy warning, brought to you by Rocket Workshop in New York. If you’re into coding, the code is available online and you can make it even better.

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October recommendations Film: In Search of UIQ by Terminal Beach Recommended by Juha van ’t Zelfde Every month we ask someone who inspires us to share one of their passions. This month radio maker/curator Juha van ’t Zelfde recommends the film-essay In Search of UIQ, a film about a film that was never made.

This is an incredible new film by artists Graeme Thomson & Silvia Maglioni, who operate under the moniker Terminal Beach. In Search of UIQ unfolds the story of French philosopher and psychotherapist Felix Guattari’s attempt to make the sci-fi screenplay he wrote entitled Un Amour d’UIQ into a movie. The original script deals with a hyperintelligent infra-cellular life substance called UIQ (Univers Infra-quark) that is capable of taking control of global communications networks. In this documentary, the filmmakers use video and sound archives, letters and other documents to explore what Guattari’s film might have been (and may still become) in relation to his thought and clinical practice, and considers its implications in terms of the wider social and political transformations both of its own time and of the present moment. Pre-internet speculations about a post-PRISM surveillance apparatus, it’s a timely film of incredible beauty. You can see the documentary on 26 October at EYE in Amsterdam, as part of the side programme of the exhibition Dread – Fear in the Age of Technological Acceleration, which can be seen at De Hallen Haarlem until 24 November 2013.

October recommendations

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We Saw You: Spotted at Subbacultcha! Photo by Mariska Kerpel

What kind of music are you listening to at the moment? My iPod says Twin Peaks ‘Natural Villain’. What’s the first record you bought? Well, that’s a pretty long time ago so I guess it was 5ive. Your first ever music-related memory? Me crayoning something which had to look like a car, while my mother put on ‘So Long Marianne’ by Leonard Cohen. What’s your favourite pastime? Sip some coffee, watch a film, read a book. What does an ideal lazy Sunday look like for you? My lazy Sundays are rare! Waking up without headache would be ideal, though. Any guilty pleasures? Besides smoking, Olvarit baby food. Experienced any regrets recently? Losing my shades was a big regret. What kind of music makes you cry? I’m not much of a crier but Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest album is getting me pretty close. What makes you dance? What doesn’t? Which future Subbacultcha! show are you looking forward to? No Age at DOKA on 15 October.

Name: Edgar Jacobson Age: 22 Spotted at: The Modern Witch Concert at Stedelijk Museum on 15 September Home: Amsterdam Keywords: Knøs, furniture fetishist, communist architecture, Hôtel Droog, Ren Hang, John Lautner, urban planning, art-house films, gay, industrial heritage, modern/ contemporary art, raw chocolate Zodiac sign: Leo - such a pity there isn’t a hippo What did you think of the afternoon? I really liked the fact that Modern Witch was a music experience in a whole different setting than, say, a gig. It was on this thin line between a music and art performance. Did you see any of the exhibitions? We made our little round through the museum and Mark Manders’ ‘Livingroom Scene’ immediately got my attention. I saw his work at the Art Biennale in Venice this summer and I’m always impressed by its sensitivity and volume while maintaining an everyday setting. Oh, and his choice of materials is stunning. I could stare at it for ages.

The De(con)struction Issue. Interview With her alter-ego Pharmakon, New Yorkbased Margaret Chardiet plays extremely loud and utterly disturbing noise music. Her new album Abandon came out on Sacred Bones earlier this year and was partially inspired by the impact of Hurricane Sandy on her Queens neighbourhood Far

Pharmakon Phone interview By Zofia Ciechowska Photos shot by Grant Willing in New York, USA

Rockaway. In effect, the album sounds like a dark force of nature. Reason enough to hook up with Margaret and chat with her about deconstruction, noise and knowing when to abandon things.

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Pharmakon. Continued Tell me about the moment you discovered Pharmakon. It’s been there my whole life. When I heard experimental noise music for the very first time, I immediately realised this was the medium I had been searching for to express myself. The way Pharmakon is dual in nature is why it serves me as an artist. In one sense it’s an extremely painful, intense, emotional, dark process and at the same time it’s very cathartic to release it into the world. That’s how Pharmakon is both a poison and a remedy to me; one could not exist without the other. How important is deconstruction for your creative process? It’s integral to my creative process. When I compose music I usually have a feeling or concept in mind and then I deconstruct the root of that feelings and try to understand what sounds I need to create to evoke that very process of deconstruction. I am breaking down these larger conceptual ideas into these very base, raw sounds and then hark back to the original idea. Breaking down the barrier between audience and performer is also very important to me; speaking to and playing to the audience – as opposed to playing at them. I want to really reach people in a guttural, visceral way, directly, as individual human beings and not as a mass of people. Abandon is your most widely known release to date, and your earlier releases are very difficult to get hold of. What is this new situation teaching you? To hold a full-length record in my hands, that is the most rewarding feeling. I think what I learned from this was that when I made all these limited runs the same people were hearing my stuff. With this release I pushed myself to present my art to people who weren’t familiar with the experimental noise scene. This actually opened my work up to being truly experimental instead of just relying on the same underground trope.

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‘Sometimes you burn a bridge and you take a brick from it and you use that to build a new bridge.’

Do you have certain rituals when you work on your music? I get into a certain trance when I start working on music. It usually comes to me in a rush. I start scrambling down lyrics and sounds in my head and then try to find ways to make those sounds and put them all together. It’s a weird state where I can’t really focus on anything else, because I don’t feel okay till I figure it out. A lot of the inspiration for Abandon happened when I was on tour, it was a huge rush that made me feel like I had to make it right then and there. It all happened very seamlessly and serendipitously.

Pharmakon. Continued You went through a tumultuous period around the time that you made Abandon. Do you build new things on the remains of that which has been destroyed or do you try to patch things together? It’s somewhere in between burning bridges and rebuilding them. I think you have to let go of that which is not the most vital or true. Sometimes you burn a bridge and you take a brick from it and you use that to build a new bridge. You need to fight for what you should be fighting for and abandon what needs to be abandoned. I think you always know somewhere in your gut what the right path is, but you’ll spend a lot of time convincing yourself that it’s not. I think following human instinct is something that is very important. You talk about confronting people with the rawness of your noise. Do you think we’re often too isolated to truly feel? I do worry that a lot of people are too isolated and caught up in a virtual reality to really allow themselves to be open to that kind of experience. It’s really important to constantly get out of your comfort zone. That’s what draws me to experimental music. I’ve had people get very uncomfortable during my shows, some laugh or run away, others feel empathetic or get aggressive. Making someone who you’ve never met before think and feel something is the ultimate goal. Meditation and listening in on silence can actually make you hear the unheard. How do you relate to that? In the way that silence can make you observe things that you once ignored, I think that being in this loud sonic environment can make you notice things that are happening within your body. I think that when sound becomes physical it reminds us of our body and it puts us in touch with this base, Pharmakon plays on 30 October at instinctual human mode. If OT301 in Amsterdam. The show is free silence makes you look outward, for Subbacultcha! members. Other live noise makes you look inward. dates: 31/10 - 013, Tilburg

The De(con)struction Issue. Photo essay

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Swedish photographer Marcus Wilén met up with noisy punk rockers Holograms in Stockholm and tried to deconstruct the concept of the band photo. He sent us these wonderful and thoughtful images. ‘I was interested in seeing how much you could remove of the band and still call it a band photo. I tried to take that idea further.’ 25

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Holograms play on 24 October at OT301 in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

The De(con)struction Issue. Interview We joined Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington from Darkside in the back yard of the Lloyd

Darkside Live interview by Brenda Bosma Photos shot by Isolde Woudstra in Amsterdam

Hotel. We spoke about their new record Psychic, killing darlings and how saying â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;yesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is key to their work dynamic 30

Do you think that in order to create you have to kill some darlings along the way? N: For us it’s more about making darlings out of things that would never be darlings. One of the main structural concerns we had is that we wanted every sound to go through a process, either one that would break the sound or one that would hide the sound, similar to the idea of the dark side. How do you make a sound go through a place without light? How do you hear that? That sounds like an interesting route you chose for the creating process. D: Well, for us it’s more like you create and then kick the thing and then that thing goes on its own journey. I’m now thinking of an anecdote about Michelangelo where he would have his apprentices hatch into a block of marble until an angel would appear out of it. N: The question is: is the angel the one we’re left with or is the angel on the floor? You could say it was hidden all along. D: That sculptural piece analogy is not really how I think either of us ever thought about what we’re making. N: It’s too nice. D: For us it would be more like: you walk by and pick up the pieces and turn those pieces into something else. N: Yeah, you keep the angel locked away. The negative angel, the pieces on the floor, that’s interesting. D: Also, when you’re two people working on something, you don’t have darlings. There’s no sense in that. We’ll know the darling once it’s done. It’s not constructive nor a starting point for us. What do you think is the key to your collaboration? D: We just say yes. How we both grew up, how we first worked together, it’s all about improvisation. That’s not to say that when we made the record we were only jamming; we did make choices there. What I’ve learned about improvising is that you can’t learn to impro-

Darkside. Continued vise, it’s just something you develop. Best thing I ever was taught was to say yes. N: Or to not say no. Otherwise you’d be deprived of new possibly meaningful experiences? N: An example. If we’re improvising and you say: ‘Would you like some salt on your chicken?’ I would answer: ‘Yes.’ Then: ‘Oh, it’s so salty, you put too much salt on my chicken.’ You want to give me salt, so I say: ‘Okay, let’s make a story here.’ D: Then you’ve created something that has a dynamic. That’s how we work. There’s also a lot of luck involved, then? N: In everything. Would you say you have to know what you want to achieve it? N: Oh, we know what we want. But for instance, when for some reason you’ve strayed too much from the path, what do you do? N: We tell each other: ‘We’ve strayed too far from the path. This is bad, let’s try again.’ You’re right about luck though, ’cause it’s about me saying yes, him saying yes, me saying yes, him saying yes, and then maybe we’re like: ‘Oh, this is good!’ But then in another scenario one of us says: ‘I wanna make an ’80s classical music jam.’ And then the other one’s like: ‘YES!’ And then it turns out really bad. In that case we’re unlucky. The new Darkside album Psychic is out on 08 October via Matador Records. They play on 18 October at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as part of the Amsterdam Dance Event. More info about the festival: www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl

‘It’s about me saying yes, him saying yes, me saying yes, him saying yes, and then maybe we’re like: ‘Oh, this is good!’’

The De(con)struction Issue. Interview Britt Brown is one of the founders of the infamously gritty LA-based record label Not Not Fun. Besides running an awesome label, he also plays in a pretty awesome duo called Robedoor, together with his friend Alex. Their latest release, Primal Sphere, is a dark and groovy industrial noise collage,

Robedoor Google chat interview by Basje Boer Photos shot by Suzanna Zak in Los Angeles, USA

that certainly got us excited. We talked to them about trashing your house, giving away your earthly possessions, and other ways of deconstructing your life. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The goal is to achieve a brain-dead sort of Zen state where the void fills in the blanksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 34

Robedoor. Continued First construct, then deconstruct? Or the other way around? A: Totally construct, then deconstruct, then construct again. I love repetition. B: The deconstructing is the constructing – same thing. Rendering a deliberate intention is the act, whether you’re building or wrecking. A: I’ve been renovating my house and I’m really only qualified to destroy: rip shit up, haul out trash. I like building things for sure, but generally my qualifications keep me on the wrecking crew. Is your process of making music basically the same as when you first started out? Or is this process ever-changing? A: Our process is pretty set in stone – or rather, encased in mud. We’ve developed and evolved in the ease of creating the Robedoor language or whatever, but ultimately the way we make music has changed very little. There’s an initial idea, be that a riff, a beat or some doomy conception. Then we work around it. The goal is to get lost and achieve a brain-dead sort of Zen state where the void just fills in the blanks. How old were you when you started making music? A: I started playing the cello when I was a kiddo – bowl cut, gapped teeth, the whole thing. I remember being super into the heaviness of the bass and cello section at the orchestra. B: In eighth grade I started making action movies with a camcorder and sometimes there’d be sections where me and my cousins would wear masks and play Casios and Stratocasters. But it was definitely inane and anti-musical. Do you feel making music is a way to release emotions? A: Sure it’s cathartic – and don’t get me wrong, I’m aware of how fucking doomy and evil our jams are. But I’d like to think it’s beyond emotion – or at least specific emotions. It’s not like channelling anger

Robedoor. Continued or love or something. I find that kind of specificity fairly silly. Are there other ways to make your load of emotions a bit lighter? A: You mean like drinking and drugs? Ha-ha. I mean, there are plenty of non-demonic ways to achieve the same sense of loss: sex, eating fruit, being in the desert at night, hanging with dogs. B: Living a life you respect, writing, having soulful, long-lasting relationships with people you’re captivated by. Lying shirtless in the sun, eating your favourite foods. Is there any stuff in your life that you don’t really need? B: I used to be obsessed with giving away every book after I’d read it, and trading shirts with friends. Just passing things along, to never hoard anything. But at a certain point you can fall in love and you want to create something slightly lasting. To do that sometimes it means you stay put more than you used to. Then you look up and there’s 500 cassettes stacked in a corner. What part of your life could use some deconstruction? A: I think of deconstructing my life like a vacation or something – it seems like it would be a blessed luxury to unpack all my proverbial boxes, sort shit out, toss some garbage, smash some old hats and then put everything back in order… Shit – I mean – my concept of being human is changing pretty rapidly: owning property, being someone’s life partner, being a boss, I got dogs, cats… Maybe I need to get back to unpacking. Maybe I need to deconstruct my ambivalence to social media and get with the times… Nah. B: While I love running Not Not Fun and working in music, I’m secretly curious about new worlds that unfold after, or in parallel with it. I want to make a movie or write Robedoor play on 13 October at OCCII in a book. Human life is vast, you Amsterdam. The show is organized in colshould stumble through as many laboration with A/V Club and is free for Subbacultcha! members. zones and pursuits as you can.

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The De(con)struction Issue. Interviews

Destruction Unit Google chat interview by Brenda Bosma Photos shot by Sam Monkarsh in New York, USA

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Destruction Unit’s Jes Aurelius, who’s responsible for the towering and cataclysmic guitars of the band’s dark and heavy noise freakery, spoke to us about desperation, testing the audience and seeing Fata Morganas in the Arizona desert There’s a lot of heaviness in your performance. Some might call it anger. Do you feel like a different person after the show? I wouldn’t say there is anger – desperation, maybe. Honestly, I don’t particularly enjoy playing live all that much. Sometimes it’s nice, but I would rather be in the studio working on new things. However, we are on a pretty long tour at the moment, and I do enjoy the new songs we’re playing, so it’s something that needs to be done. I certainly do feel exorcised to some extent. Like losing some baggage temporarily? I suppose you could put it that way, yeah. Our shows are a very physical and confrontational experience, both for us and for people in attendance. It’s really a test of what we can get away with. What kind of test are you talking about here? There’s both a sonic and a physical aspect to that. Pushing certain frequencies at extreme volumes will cause people to react in different ways. Some people take it as a meditative affair, while others will become quite enraged and sometimes combative. Same goes with the physical confrontation of completely letting go. Some people enjoy the entertainment; others take it personally. Playing out of desperation... That sounds troublesome. Well, I mean in the sense that this is all we have at the moment. We’ve all quit our jobs, I have no home... Not to say that Destruction Unit specifically is the be-all-and-end-all, but this artistic movement

‘I don’t expect us to fail, because there’s no such thing as failure in art. But the state of affairs in the world, socially, politically and such, is quite unsatisfactory in a lot of ways, and that’s where the desperation kicks in’

Destruction Unit. Continued we’re pushing is of paramount importance to us. That seems heavy, yet wonderful. Surely the desperation doesn’t come from expecting to fail, right? I don’t expect us to fail, because there’s no such thing as failure in art. But the state of affairs in the world, socially, politically and such, is quite unsatisfactory in a lot of ways, and that’s where the desperation kicks in. Do you do anything to flip that desperation? There’s a lot of weed smoking, both before and after shows. Other than that, everyone sort of does their own thing. Talking about psychedelic experiences, DU hails from the Arizona desert. You think it’s an influence? It is an influence to an extent, yes. But it’s also a utility of sorts. There are many reasons I continue to live in the desert. Its seclusion from the rest of the country encourages innovation and experiment. There’s really not much of an audience in the south-west, so there’s no pressure to ‘get it right’. Being left alone to do what you’re going to do, without influences or scrutiny... you can find yourself getting quite creative. If you’re going to be on the cutting edge, it makes sense to go out somewhere that feels like the edge of civilisation. It’s a great challenge, to survive and keep pushing back. It’s a strange world. If there’s any way to go to the edge of it, face the demons, and learn to survive with what you find most difficult, it’s something worth doing. It’s probably also worth seeing a Fata Morgana every now and then. You ever seen one? You see them all the time, certainly. The sun can play many tricks on the eyes. Destruction Unit play on 17 October at dB’s in Utrecht. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members. Other live dates: 18/10 - Patronaat, Haarlem

The Morning After: Braids Photos shot by Annegien van Doorn on Wednesday, 11 September at 8.31am

The Morning After is a monthly photo series depicting the scene of a bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s postslumber lodgings the day after their Subbacultcha! show. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how Braids left their Amsterdam hotel room.

Featured Artist

Wouter Venema We might know Wouter Venema (1985) as the artist behind the visuals of Rotterdambased synth-drone act Mike Koldin, but his work takes many forms. He translates his dark, fragmented way of storytelling from visuals to photography to drawing, graphics and film. With layers of black on black on black, Venema constructs his images by deconstructing his subject, presenting a crystal-like cross section of time, in which past, present and future can happen simultaneously. woutervenema.nl

Featured Artist: Wouter Venema Interview by Floor Kortman

Who are you? Wouter Venema, 28, artist. How are you? I’m okay! I just made three screenprints during a one-week residency at Plaatsmaken in Arnhem. This month’s theme is de(con) struction, something I really related to in your work. It’s very constructed and built up in layers, but subject-wise it’s about deconstruction. Can you relate to the theme in this way at all? Yes, I can really relate to this. I try to visualise and understand the experience of time from as many perspectives as possible, so that’s a form of deconstruction. In earlier works I literally deconstructed stories into fragments but the result was quite distant and impersonal, it was too constructed. Now I relate to this in an intuitive way, so the meaning arises more by itself. You work in a lot of disciplines – video, illustration, graphics and so on. Where do you start, and does where you start determine where you’ll end up? I generally start with one fragment of text or an image, and mostly I don’t know what the end result will be. Eventually I try to find a

medium that best suits an idea, but sometimes it just starts with drawing because I feel like drawing. If I reflect too much on everything it can paralyse me. You make visuals for Mike Koldin and this month you’ll also provide the visuals for the Amen Dunes show at OT301. How do you go about making these visuals? I use found footage when I do visuals for Mike Koldin. Michiel and Keimpe improvise using synths and tape loops and I try to find images that suit or create an interesting combination. I’m not exactly sure what I’ll be doing for the Amen Dunes show yet, I’ll probably make a compilation of my earlier films and create a new story. As I understand it, next year you’ll be attending the Rijksakademie. Do you know what you want to explore there? Yes, that’s right! I really want to do things with 16mm film, it has a handmade quality I want to explore. I also want to find different ways to improvise with film and I want to check out more printmaking methods: etching, woodcut, litho. Other than that, I don’t know. I don’t have a clear plan.

Featured Artist: Wouter Venema

On 03 October Wouter will provide visuals for the Amen Dunes show at OT301 in Amsterdam. His exhibition at the Subbacultcha! HQ will open on 11 October. Da Costakade 150, Amsterdam. Open Mon-Thu 11.00-17.00. Free for all.

Books: Rock ’N’ Roll Library No 6 By Marc van der Holst. Image by Lonneke van der Palen

Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

Every month we add a rockin’ good book to our Rock ‘N’ Roll Library Hey, how about adding some newwave science fiction to our R’N’R shelf? I know just the dystopian novel. First published in 1968, John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar famously predicted the future, and the future is now. Video chats, avatars, a black president named Obomi... Oh well, close enough. One of Stand on Zanzibar’s themes is overpopulation, and the book is likewise overpopulated with characters. Its two main ones are Norman House, an executive in charge of taking over the management of a little country named Beninia, and Donald Hogan, a ‘synthesizing’ spy who ends up kidnapping genetic engineering genius Sugaiguntung from the Asian island of Yakatang. Then there’s, amongst many, many others, Chad C Mulligan, author of book-withinthe-book The Hipcrime Vocab; su-

percomputer Shalmanezer; avatars avant la lettre Mr & Mrs Everywhere; and, my personal favourite, Bennie Noakes, who spends the entire book tripping, thinking he’s making it all up: ‘Christ, what an imagination I’ve got!’ Another major theme is information overload – and, yes, Stand on Zanzibar is overloaded with info as well. With several plots, subplots and collages of headlines, ads and pieces of overheard conversation scattered throughout the book it can get a little confusing at first, but it all turns out to have been weirdly, wonderfully well-structured in its action-packed second half. Laugh-out-loud funny as well as devastatingly dark and dour, it thrills, throttles, rocks and rolls. ‘I tell you three times’: Read this book. Read this book. Read this book.

Fashion By Mandy Sharabani. Photos shot by Isolde Woudstra

€15 Outfit Every month we give €15 to someone to compose a complete outfit for a good night out. Yes, quite the challenge New York experimental rock band Psychic Ills formed this month’s inspiration for 27-year-old Abigail Numan, an event planner currently job-hunting.

look I was going for. The leggings matched quite nicely with the red tee: I had to shorten it to make it a bit more edgy. I wanted to show some skin, but no belly button, well… not initially. Those leggings seem like a character themselves. If they had a name, what would you call ’em? Hmm, I agree. What about ‘Sparkle Dreams’? Ha-ha. Nah,‘Destruction Sparkle’ is way better. So, are you ready to be their psychic muse? Sure, why not?

You were going all the way girl! That’s right. It was quite a challenge, I must say. I had a look into Seventies psychedelic rock and all it’s different atmospheres and styles, such an interesting stream. However, I wanted to give it more of a modern twist by using a lot of bright colours, something that felt free and cheerful, to create a striking look. Yeah, it’s definitely a daring and striking outfit. Do tell us about your finds. I found the sparkly blue leggings at Waterlooplein for a good deal. I had also bought a skirt, which my roommate found too ‘sweet’ for the

Wanna go shopping for a €15 outfit? Email us at fashion@subbacultcha.nl. Psychic Ills plays on 12 October at De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

Abigail Numan’s total budget spent: €10.05 Red tee: €4.50 - Hema // Sparkle leggings: €2 - Waterlooplein Body Paint: €3 - Action // Yellow tape: €0.55 - Action

Food: Cooking With... By Zofia Ciechowska. Image by Carlijn Potma

No Age Every month we ask an artist to share a recipe of their favourite dish For the release party for An Object, No Age’s Randy Randall and Dean Spunt served up vegan pizzas in pizza boxes adorned with their album art. Contrary to what people say, being vegan when you’re on tour isn’t that hard; you just need to stock up on fruit and vegetables, they explain. Dean shared his special recipe for roasted veggies with tahini sauce that he likes cooking when he’s not on tour and eating out of a rice cooker with Randy. ‘Randy has got all sorts of food quirks. Randy hates tomatoes. He likes to put tofu cream cheese on his pizza. He likes to eat rice cakes with soy cheese, Sriracha hot sauce – he actually has a Sriracha tattoo – and Tofurky. I ferment my own sauerkraut. I’ll eat it straight out of the jar for breakfast. Two years ago I made a bunch of sauerkraut and gave it away as gifts. I’m not sure if everyone

was happy about that. I was really excited about it.’ How to make No Age’s Roasted Veggies with Tahini Sauce • Cut the vegetables into half-inch pieces, put them in a dish and coat with olive oil (I like Brussel sprouts, carrots, beetroot and potatoes). • Add fresh rosemary, thyme, pepper and salt, roast for 40 mins at 190C. • Mix olive oil, apple cider vinegar, tahini, lemon juice, fresh herbs and salt and pepper to make the sauce. If the sauce is too thick, add water. • Pour the sauce over vegetables and it’s ready. I tend to make a big batch and eat them the next day with toast or a baked sweet potato and salad. No Age play on 15 October at DOKA in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

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November 8 & 9

New Releases

Various Venues, The Hague

Julia Holter - Baths Ricardo Villalobos & Nils Petter MolvĂŚr & Moritz von Oswald Max Loderbauer present Re: ECM live - Nathan Fake

Festival

Iceage - Tape - Cloud Boat The KVB - Kelpe - Holly Herndon Black Marble - Seams - dBridge Roly Porter - Lone - James Ferraro Space Dimension Controller Stellar OM Source - Lucrecia Dalt Food & Fennesz - MĂ¸ster! - Nishiko Valgeir Sigurdsson - Berend Strik Moon Ate The Dark - Jonas Lund Jerusalem In My Heart + many more

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Music Reviews By Carly Blair

Darkside Psychic

Phèdre Golden Age

Darkside producer Nicolas Jaar and guitarist Dave Harrington met at Brown University back when Jaar was forming a live band to tour with him in support of his excellent 2011 album, Space is Only Noise. The duo follows up their terse but titillating 2011 debut EP and occasionally ingenious full album remix of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories with this proper full-length debut. While Jaar’s love of slinky grooves and cosmic ambiance is in evidence all over the album, Harrington’s sharp, staccato fretwork gives Jaar’s already expansive signature sound an unprecedented depth. Psychic’s cover depicts a crystal ball presumably used for prophesying, and the metaphor is apt, for if you immerse yourself in this visionary album, you’ll end up feeling like you’ve seen the future.

Toronto’s Phèdre are a mystical musical outfit centred around core members April Aliermo and Daniel Lee, who also play in the solid surfrock band Hooded Fang. Their selfreleased 2012 debut was recorded in an attic in less than a week with the help of Doldrums’ Airick Woodhead and plenty of wine, and sounded like an appropriately loose and giddy amalgamation of several decades and genres of pop music, touching most often upon disco and post-punk à la David Bowie and Iggy Pop. Its follow-up, Golden Age, is another DIY affair, quickly written and recorded by Lee and Aliermo in Berlin last winter. Though somewhat gloomier than its predecessor, it’s an even more infectious and accomplished-sounding heady pop concoction that just might take you to a higher plane.

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Frankie Rose Herein Wild

Way Through Clapper Is Still

Fat Possum

Upset the Rhythm

After brief stints drumming for Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls, and Vivian Girls, Frankie Rose fronted her own garage group, the Outs. On last year’s Interstellar, she left behind the band and changed course from the reverbsoaked retro of yesteryear towards some downright heavenly synth-pop. On Herein Wild she follows the same trajectory, arriving at her darkest and poppiest destination yet.

This pastoral punk duo hails from Shropshire, one of England’s most rural and sparsely populated counties. They spent much of last year roving England, collecting field recordings and notes along the way, and Clapper is Still documents this journey. Not unlike the countryside itself, it’s a ragged patchwork of orderly punk, forgotten history, and wild noises, humble but deceptively complex.

Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven

Laurel Halo Chance of Rain Hyperdub

Warp

From one release to the next, this Brooklyn-via-Michigan producer has swayed between skewed almostpop and thumping freeform ‘dance’ music. This new LP, developed from live improvisations, puts a warped and idiosyncratic spin on Detroit techno. Bring an umbrella if the DJ’s forecast calls for a Chance of Rain, since odds are you’ll find yourself on a soaking wet dancefloor.

Though touted as the closest he’s come to traditional songwriting, Brooklyn producer Daniel Lopatin’s latest LP is a far cry from conventional, trading the melancholy of 2010’s Returnal and the conceptual consistency of 2011’s Replica for serpentine song structures that juxtapose jaunty samples with beautifully ethereal soundscapes.

Music Reviews Bill Callahan Dream River

Gambles Trust

On his 14th album, and fourth released under his own name, Bill Callahan continues to hone his own heavy-hearted take on the American folk tradition. Although it was also recorded in Texas and features similar cover art and some of the same personnel as his terrific 2011 album, Apocalypse, Dream River depicts a considerably more laid-back side of Callahan. Over uncharacteristically sumptuous, almost jazzy arrangements of strings, flutes, congas, bongos, and deftly plucked guitars, he delivers characteristically droll and insightful musings in his inimitable baritone. While those who loved Apocalypse’s explosive moments might find it frustratingly inconclusive, close listens reveal Dream River to be a subtler yet no less precious gem in Callahan’s lustrous catalogue.

Hearing singer-songwriters’ backstories is like watching TV specials about serial killers: we become accustomed to actually pretty unimaginable horrors and find ourselves expecting the ever more extreme. New York’s Matthew Daniel Siskin, aka Gambles, doesn’t seem to have suffered much more than your average alcohol-drinking middle-class white person, so the details of his life that help contextualise his songwriting, like loving Leonard Cohen or watching a relationship crumble in the wake of a miscarriage, come off as both mundane and utterly relatable. Fortunately, rather than stay silent, Gambles got drunk and started singing anyway, and on his surprisingly evocative full-length debut he delivers somber, plainspoken poetry printed on a weary and extraordinary voice.

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New Films By Basje Boer

La vie d’Adèle Abdellatif Kechiche

What is it with French high-schoolers? In movies they consistently look frumpysexy, their hair greasy, their make-up (if any) smudged and their clothes rumpled. It’s no different in La vie d’Adèle, the French coming-of-age epos that won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes festival earlier this year. Adèle is a 15-year-old cutie who gets wooed by a not-unattractive school chum when she realises that lady love is more her thing. Enter Léa Seydoux: France’s prettiest ‘it girl’, cast here as a butch art student (and pulling it off!). Director Abdellatif Kechiche (of Black Venus fame) shows Adèle’s first experience of love in extended scenes that suck you completely into the story. Everything from the solid dialogues, the terrific acting and the explicit sex scenes feels completely real. All in all, La vie d’Adèle makes for a fine way to spend your autumn afternoon. Release date 10 October. When you’ve finished this one, start watching... • La belle personne – Léa Seydoux’s breakthrough movie is an inspired combination of 17th-century drama (the film was based on some classic novel) and a contemporary high-school flick. • Candy – More Léa! Watch her do her version of the ‘manic pixie dream girl’ in a series of commercials for Prada, directed by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola. ‘Bonjour, je m’appelle Candy!’

New Films

Don Jon

In The Fog

Short Term 12

where the muscles are flexed and the booties are tooched. GordonLevitt plays a slick Jersey beau with a porn addiction; Scarlett Johansson is his voluptuous love interest. Completely unpretentious and made with the best of intentions, Don Jon is a cute little movie. Johansson’s acting is at times inspired. Release date 03 October.

Destin Cretton - 2013 Short Term 12 is one of those movies that changes moods every other minute. One moment you’re laughing; the next you’re sobbing – and all the while you’re on the edge of your seat. The story is about Grace, a 20-something who works with troubled teenagers and also has a nasty past of her own. Brie Larson kicks ass as Grace, and the rest of the cast is kind of awesome as well. Release date 17 October.

And for couch potatoes... by Gert Verbeek

In The Fog Sergei Loznitsa - 2012

Don Jon

In this beautifully shot and gently paced morality tale, a Russian railroad worker is wrongfully accused by Partisans of collaboration with the German occupiers. Trying to avoid a death sentence, his dignity seems to be no match for the cruelty of fate. Out now on DVD, UK import

Joseph Gordon-Levitt - 2013 Actor-slash-hippest kid in town (not counting James Franco) Joseph Gordon-Levitt makes his debut as a director with offbeat romcom Don Jon. The setting is New Jersey,

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New Music: Solar Year

Film: Lydia Ainsworth

Solar Year (Ben Borden and David Ertel) have become part of the eponymously cool Montreal music family with a bunch of new-age electro-pop tracks under their belt, not to mention some guest vocals from the Grimes goddess herself. The duo have been heard to call their music ‘psalmgaze’, something probably said tongue-in-cheek but immediately pounced on by rabid music journalists like myself – all because of a Gregorian chant sample, ha! Check out their Brotherhood EP, available for free download on the Arbutus Records website and be on the lookout for their fulllength, Waverly, which is due to appear at the end of June on Splendour.

Brooklyn music lady Lydia Ainsworth is simply thrilling. Lydia, if you’re reading this, come and have pizza with me! Come and have pizza with the world! This former student of Joan La Barbara has composed for filmmakers, visual artists, poets and contemporary dance groups, putting her at the epicentre of artistic expression, making her the coolest lady everrr. Lydia’s otherworldly vocals are accompanied by a string quartet, drummers, keyboards and this brilliant self-devouring fast-food collage animation. Listen and be happy.

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Amen Dunes

Las Kellies + Earth Mk. II

03 October - OT301, Amsterdam w/Fetter 20.30 | €8 | Free for members 04 October - WORM, Rotterdam w/Indian Jewelry 19.30 | €5 | Free for members

06 October - Roodkapje, Rotterdam 20.30 | €6 | Free for members

Damon McMahon’s first album under the moniker Amen Dunes, a druggy and claustrophobic collection meant for McMahon’s ears alone, was recorded in a cabin and then promptly shelved. The full-length, Through Donkey Jaw, found the skeletons of ideas from his debut fleshing out into beautiful, benumbing lo-fi pop, while his new Spoiler LP compiles experiments recorded over the last few years. Start your night off in Amsterdam spellbound by Fetter’s bewitching electro-folk and Wouter Venema’s visual narratives, while sexy psych shamans Indian Jewelry get you into a dark and druggy mindset in Rotterdam.

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Las Kellies started in 2005 when three girls met at a gig in Buenos Aires, decided to form a band together, borrowed their friend’s amps and instruments and started cooking up a tasty racket. Perhaps as an homage to their cosmopolitan, European ancestry-packed home country of Argentina, the Kellies sing in Spanish, English, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Catalan and French. Their dub- and post-punk-inflected garage rock songs are as tightly packed with eclectic fillings as an empanada, as sweet as dulce de leche, and as hot and spicy as mate, so bring your appetite! Local darling Earth Mk. II follow up last month’s crack-a-lackin’ release party with a serving of Syd Barrett-chanelling neo-psych.

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Robedoor + Sand Circles

(In collaboration with The A/V Club) 13 October - OCCII, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members

Psychic Ills: 12 October

Psychic Ills + Naive Set

New York’s Psychic Ills have spent the past decade messing with minds via a musical medicine cabinet stocked with a wide variety of psychedelic substances. Their latest release, the aptly titled One Track Mind, finds them locking into a krautrocky groove not unlike that of Moon Duo, to whom they also bear an almost hilariously uncanny physical resemblance. Ease your way into your wild evening with some sweet guitar pop from Amsterdam four-piece Naive Set.

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For the past decade or so, prolific LA duo Robedoor, comprised of Alex Brown Not Not Fun label head Britt Brown, has been churning out slabs of relentlessly heavy, distorted, bass-driven drone music. While their early work was heavily improvised, over time they’ve charted more song-oriented territories. 2010’s Burners and 2011’s Too Down to Die saw them expand to a trio, with Ged Gengras’ explosive drumming adding a touch of doom metal and blues to their already menacing mix. Gengras has since left the band, replaced by more primitive electronic beats and a shift in focus away from catharsis-oriented songwriting. On their latest album, the ominous

12 October - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €8 | Free for members

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No Age: 15 October

No Age + Beach

15 October - DOKA, Amsterdam 20.30 | €10 pre-sale - €12 Door | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Robedoor: 13 October

and unforgiving Primal Sphere, they march like doomed but determined soldiers across a scorched, post-apocalyptic landscape. Kick off your night with a false sense of hope in the form of Sweden Not Not Fun signee Sand Circles’ woozy cinematic soundscapes, reminiscent of the new Boards of Canada album, as heard from the bottom of a swimming pool.

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This LA noise pop band’s early work kind of sounded like a couple of disillusioned kids bashing the shit out of their instruments and finding inspiration in the records of previous generations of disillusioned kids bashing the shit out of their instruments, their angsty proclamations safely buried under layers of noise. On 2010’s Everything in Between they fleshed out the gaps in their old repertoire with more nuances and clarity than ever, but rather than comfortably glide towards accessibility and accomplishment, on this year’s An Object they recover a bit of that youthful uncertainty by trimming away the newfound fat and ubiquitous fuzz of their early work to reveal their leanest and perhaps most intellectual collection of songs yet.

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Holograms: 24 October

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Destruction Unit: 17 October

24 October - OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members

Destruction Unit, one of the many bands affiliated with the label/publishing house Tempe’s Ascetic House collective, started back in 2000 when mastermind Ryan Rousseau briefly moved to Memphis, where he met and quickly started collaborating with none other than Jay Reatard. Rousseau played with the Reatards before starting Destruction Unit, a noise punk project whose lineup featured Jay on their first two albums. Eventually Rousseau headed back to Phoenix to re-form the band with a more psych-oriented sound. About a year ago the band’s lineup locked into its most effectively caustic configuration yet, as demonstrated on the drug-fuelled drag race that is their new album, Deep Trip.

Sweden is typically portrayed as the paragon of Scandinavian socialist democracy, the kind of place where everyone is equal and life is generally safe and comfortable. All that orderliness demands its fair share of conformity, though, and if Stockholm’s Holograms are any indication, not everybody finds it so easy to make the necessary sacrifices. To wit: ‘We live in a sterile, boring country and have to create our own distractions.’ Armed with decrepit instruments, postindustrial industriousness, booze-fuelled impudence and foolish hope for something better, they wage war against the drudgery of dismal existence with their synth-driven post-punk anthems. The battery of hooks and incendiary sense of urgency they employ are potent enough to help listeners defeat boredom, too.

17 October - dB’s, Utrecht 21.00 | €8 | Free for members

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TG Gondard: 25 October

Pharmakon: 30 October

TG Gondard + Bear Bones, Lay Low

Pharmakon + Lust for Youth

30 October - OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members

A night filled with woozy, lo-fi melancholic electronics perfect for getting stoned and lost inside your own head. Not Not Fun signee TG Gondard, born Thibault Gondard and also known as TG, has been active in the French underground scene since the late ’90s but relocated to Brussels in 2009. Armed with a battery of battered analogue gear, his sonic explorations range from synth-driven psych to downtempo post-R&B. Opener Bear Bones, Lay Low, the solo project of Belgium-based Venezuelan producer Ernesto González, also a member of freak-folk collective Sylvester Anfang II, explores a softer, dreamier, and frankly quite lovely side of psych and drone.

Native New Yorker Margaret Chardiet has been a fixture in the region’s underground noise scene since she was 17 years old. As Pharmakon, she unleashes colossal and carefully composed power electronics/death industrial music that will chill your bones and cut through your complacency, shown most recently on her first widely distributed and acclaimed Sacred Bones release, Abandon. Her extraordinary, almost terrifyingly brutal live performances are marked by her desire to confront and connect with her audience, so stop talking, put your cell phone away, and surrender yourself to some of the most challenging and cathartic music being made right now.

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Rotterdams Open Doek: 08 October

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15 October - LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9.50 | Free for members

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Rotterdams Open Doek 08 October - LantarenVenster, Rotterdam 19.30 | €5 | Free for members

The self-proclaimed ‘Wild West of Rotterdam short film’ has no rules, no themes, and no boundaries. Any aspiring filmmaker–amateur or professional–can submit their contribution, the most adventurous and talented of which are then selected by ad- and film-world professionals and discussed during the showcase.

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To stick this film with the gratuitous ‘coming-of-age’ label is to sell Abdellatif Kechiche’s La vie d’Adele severely short. Centred on 15-year-old French high school cutie Adèle, La vie d’Adele explicitly delves into the romantic trials and tribulations of a teenager wooed at first by a male chum before realising that she’ll be far less blue with butch art student Emma. The film’s painstaking realism and astonishing acting have already landed the director in the midst of a flurry of controversy, but at least he’s got a Palm d’Or to show for it.

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Short Term 12: 22 October

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Short Term 12

22 October - LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9 | Free for members

21 October - EYE, Amsterdam 21.45 | €10 | Free for members With 30 years of factory scrubbing under his belt, you can forgive aging Tijuana pensioner Rafael for looking forward to his last day. You might even call his quest to get all dolled up for that milestone with a fresh pair of loafers endearing. Unfortunately for Rafael, his entire pension’s been squandered by an administrative slight. A similar fate’s befallen Rafael’s female parallel, Lidia. Having aided a wealthy elderly dame and her pup Princess for 30 years, the dame’s entire inheritance has been awarded to the coddled hound. So begins this most twisted of Mexican comedies.

Short Term 12 won many prizes at last year’s SXSW festival. And rightfully so, the film about Grace, a 20-something who works with troubled teenagers while dealing with a difficult past of her own, offers a heartfelt mix of humour and drama.

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Cobra Museum: Hundertwasser

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Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00 €4 | Free for Subbacultcha! members Current exhibition Dark Matters is a collection of works that show us an absurd version of the world we live in. Neither a utopia nor a dystopia, these monumental pieces reflect and question the darker parts of our universe.

Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen Open Tue-Sun 11.00-17.00 €9.50 | Free for members

The name Hundertwasser will probably have you thinking of the Austrian’s wild architectural designs, but he actually started out as a painter and in his early work experimented with bold colours, round patterns and ‘horror vacui’. He called straight lines ‘the devil’s tools’. The Cobra Museum provides you with a selection of his early work along with a Zoom-In App, through which you can be your own art critic and create a ‘wild documentation’ of the exhibition. Extra perk: first 25 visitors will receive a poster by graphic designers Niessen & De Vries.

Nederlands Fotomuseum

Open Tue-Sun 10.00-17.00, Sat and Sun from 11.00 €9 | Free for Subbacultcha! members Visit the exhibition of the talented Steenbergen Stipendium nominees including Kyle Tryhorn’s waterfall installation and Jaya Pelupessy’s black-and-white reflections on solipsism. Come back on 16 October to see who wins the prize.

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Foam: Cristina de Middel

Subbacultcha! HQ: Wouter Venema

Foam Photography Museum

Wouter Venema

Subbacultcha! HQ Da Costakade 150, Amsterdam Open Mon-Thur 11.00-17.00 Free for all

In October you can travel through America with Lee Friedlander’s take on the American road trip, or see what a Zambian space programme in the 1950s would have looked like in Christina de Middel’s popular photographic series. On 10 October a new exhibition about traditions in Dutch magazine photography will open.

With his latest work our featured artist Wouter Venema explored the medium of photography without losing his signature raw, black and white style. His exhibition at the Subbacultcha! gallery will show an installation of his slide projections. Come to the opening on 11 October to see the artist in action.

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What else is on this month On the following pages you’ll find a fine selection of concerts, festivals and exhibitions taking place around the country. Art: Voyage Until 31 October - Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam Five photographers show their interpretation of the concept of travel. Includes works by our book-column visualiser Lonneke van der Palen.

Music: Thundercat 02 October - MC Theater, Amsterdam 03 October - BIRD, Rotterdam This LA bass virtuoso produces a complex, forward-thinking yet moving and surprisingly accessible fusion of jazz, soul and electronica.

Art: All Is Giving Until 17 November - Public Artspace, Groningen Group exhibition at the former post office in Groningen that includes drawings by Gijs Deddens and Bert Scholten.

Music: Amen Dunes 03 October - OT301, Amsterdam (w/Fetter) 04 October - WORM, Rotterdam (w/Indian Jewelry) Read more on page 67.

Art: Dread – Fear In The Age Of Technological Acceleration Until 24 November - De Hallen, Haarlem International artists present an impressive collection of artworks inspired by fear relating to technological innovation.

Art: Graphic AND ‘a framed Utopia’ 04-27 October - Electron, Breda Group exhibition curated by artist Ephameron (Eva Cardon) with works by Subbacultcha! summer favourite Louis Reith. Music: Elephant Stone 03 October - EKKO, Utrecht (w/ Bed Rugs) 05 October - Rotown, Rotterdam Montreal multi-instrumentalist Rishi Dhir studied Indian classical music and was a sitar session man for bands like the Black Angels before founding Elephant Stone, whose self-coined ‘hindie rock’ playfully refers to their fusion of psych and traditional Indian instrumentation.

Art: The Rediscovery of the World Until 08 December - Huis Marseille, Amsterdam Photography museum Huis Marseille recently doubled its space by adding the adjacent canal house to the museum. They celebrate with a large group exhibition of Dutch photographers, who have devoted their work to questioning the nature of photography itself.

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What else is on this month Art: Amsterdam Zine Jam 05 October - Mediamatic Fabriek, Amsterdam A celebration of self-publishing and DIY book-making with local artists, zines from around the world, workshops, exhibitions and a reading corner.

their folkier material of yore for a more gothic and squarely electronic sonic palette. Lecture: Destination Outer Space 10 October - TENT, Rotterdam A lecture within the exhibition Dark Matters, about the infinity of the universe and inexplicable phenomena in the cosmos.

Music: Tunng 05 October - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam This self-proclaimed ‘sci-fi-prog-folkband’ from London is known for mixing acoustic folk with electronica in lovely and unpredictable ways.

Music: Factory Floor 10 October - Rotown, Rotterdam (w/ East India Youth) 30 October - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam A move to DFA Records has been accompanied by a shift in this London trio’s sound away from their early postindustrial rock leanings towards meticulously crafted and relentlessly repetitive – but still desolate – disco.

Music: Small Black 05 October - Paradiso, Amsterdam With Limits of Desire, chillwave pioneers Small Black released their most danceable and romantic-sounding record yet. Art: Philip-Lorca diCorcia - Photographs 1975-2012 05 October-19 January - De Pont, Tilburg First European overview for one of the most important and influential American photographers of the late 20th century.

Pitch: Manuscripting 10 October - SSBA-Salon, Amsterdam 25 October - SSBA-Salon, Amsterdam Young, unpublished writers will pitch their work to become Holland’s Next Top Writer.

Music: Las Kellies 05 October - OCCII, Amsterdam 06 October - Roodkapje, Rotterdam (w/ Earth Mk. II) Read more on page 67.

Music: The Holydrug Couple 12 October - 013, Tilburg The Holydrug Couple share a member with Sacred Bones label mates Föllakzoid but offer up a considerably dreamier take on ’60s psych.

Music: Lightning Dust 06 October - EKKO, Utrecht 30 October - Paradiso, Amsterdam 31 October - 013, Tilburg This ever-evolving Vancouver Black Mountain side project recently traded

Music: The Mountain Goats 13 October - The People’s Place, Amsterdam Over the past two decades, Mountain

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What else is on this month Goats mastermind John Darnielle has distinguished himself not only as one of the most prolific, but also most consistently clever and humanistic songwriters of his generation.

sonator, Devon Walsh’s rich vocals and intensely personal, quietly devastating lyrics are enveloped in delicate waves of white noise, synths and minimalist percussion.

Music: Washed Out 13 October - Melkweg, Amsterdam Washed Out continues to refine his own particularly beautiful, blissed-out and increasingly lush take on dance pop.

Music: Stellar Om Source + Palmbomen (DJ set) 17 October - Urban Outfitters, Amsterdam Urban Outfitters is celebrating the opening of it’s new Amsterdam store with some warped retro-futuristic house music courtesy of Stellar Om Source.

Music: Parquet Courts 15 October - Melkweg, Amsterdam (w/ Mazes) 16 October - Vera, Groningen 17 October - Doornroosje, Nijmegen These New York punks once invited doppelgangers of the Modern Lovers, the Velvet Underground, Television and Pavement, got drunk and stoned, then let the spirits possess them for a jam sesh that ended up sounding sloppy, loose and fun, but above all smart in the way that only drug-addled genius can.

Music: Bombino 17 October - 013, Tilburg 20 October - Tivoli de Helling, Utrecht Like Tinariwen and Group Inerane, Jimi Hendrix-channelling guitarist Omara ‘Bombino’ Moctar has helped bring international attention and acclaim to the music of the nomadic Tuareg people. Art: The Sculpture Factory 19 October-22 December - MU | Strijp S, Eindhoven With contemporary digital techniques Italian/English artist Quayola creates sculptures of endless geometric shapes, contesting the classical aesthetics and universal rules for perfection of the master Michelangelo himself.

Music: Amsterdam Dance Event 16-20 October - Amsterdam Over the past 17 years, ADE has grown into the world’s largest electronic music conference and festival. If you love dance music you’ll surely find at least one can’t-miss night on the agenda. Music: Destruction Unit 17 October - dB’s, Utrecht 18 October - Patronaat, Haarlem Read more on page 73.

Music: Steve Gunn 20 October - OCCII, Amsterdam The lush and ornate finger-picking twang of Steve Gunn’s densely woven guitar epics immediately transport you to a timeless folktale on a dusty Western trail.

Music: Majical Cloudz 17 October - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam On his striking full-length debut, Imper-

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What else is on this month Music: CHVRCHES + Trumpers 22 October - Melkweg, Amsterdam This trio has perfected the art of making unabashedly earnest synth-pop, with girlish vocals and thumping bass lines that have garnered them comparisons to Purity Ring.

teeth in Mika Miko, a fixture of the scene revolving around legendary LA venue The Smell, and with Bleached they make melodic punk à la the Ramones and Blondie. Music: Dent May 30 October - Paradiso, Amsterdam Dent May’s gift for writing ‘good feeling music’ in the form of charmingly cheesy lounge-pop has earned him comparisons to songwriters like Jens Lekman and Jonathan Richman.

Music: Japanther 22 October - dB’s, Utrecht 25 October - Nul Zes, Eindhoven (w/ Radkey) 26 October - Let’s Get Lost, Zwolle This anarchic and noisy New York duo’s rousing and riotous live performances run the gamut from highly conceptual performance art to straight-up, superfast punk rock.

Music: Waxahatchee 30 October - Winston Kingdom, Amsterdam Stripped-down, hyper-personal but highly relatable and gut-wrenching electrified folk.

Music: Deafheaven 23 October - 013, Tilburg 31 October - EKKO, Utrecht Deafheaven’s new album Sunbather gracefully explores a landmine-strewn territory between the anger of black metal and the beauty of post-rock and shoegaze.

Music: Pharmakon 30 October - OT301, Amsterdam 31 October - 013, Tilburg Read more on page 75. Festival: Impakt: Capitalism Catch 22 30 October-03 November - Utrecht This edition of the prominent European media art festival explores the fact that while global capitalism seems to be entering a dead end street, we still fail to come up with viable alternatives. Come get inspired.

Art: The Holls Art Collective – Confetti/Control 26 October - 37PK, Haarlem Young, all-girl art collective The Holls will open the second part of their exhibition series at 37 PK. Confetti/Control focuses on the differences between the scatterbrains and control freaks within the group.

Art: Contemporary Art Club 31 October-09 November - Trouw, Amsterdam Contemporary Art Club is the second part of the exhibition and performance programme by Stedelijk Museum in the dark caverns of Trouw.

Music: Bleached 26 October - Let’s Get Lost, Zwolle 27 October - 013, Tilburg Jennifer and Jessica Clavin cut their

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Rewire Festival This contemporary arts and music festival aims to rewire your old expectations about music by plugging it into unconventional venues – think an old warehouse or parking garage – with an exciting mix of experimental rock and electronica that has plenty of potential to spark your interest. 08-09 November – Rond de Energiecentrale, The Hague

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Julia Holter This singer/multi-instrumentalist has a gift for translating cerebral source material into music that’s not only conceptually interesting but also beautiful, eccentric and emotionally evocative.

Cloud Boat This London duo’s majestic and vocals-centred take on post-dupstep would sit comfortably next to James Blake or Vondelpark on a mixtape. Stellar Om Source After a three-year hiatus, this Antwerp-based retro-futurist producer has returned with Joy One Mile, one of this year’s most interesting techno records.

Holly Herndon This laptop composer manipulates her voice with the precision of an ice sculptor, carving it into myriad forms before carefully arranging it amidst chilly electronic soundscapes.

Lucrecia Dalt A geotechnical engineer by day, by night this Columbia-born experimental pop artist uses bass guitar and drum machine to construct surrealist sonic landscapes.

Baths On this American producer/singersongwriter’s new album, his sweetly quavering vocals and palatable glitch-pop sugarcoat some fairly perverted and bleak sentiments.

James Ferraro On his new album, NYC, Hell, 3:00 AM, this highly conceptual American producer adds his own vocals to his usual hypnagogic pop palette.

Iceage These young Danes serve up a refreshing mix of goth, hardcore and postpunk, undeniable energy and near-religious fervor that has led many to label them the saviours of punk rock.

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Free tickets and goodies To win, sign up to our mailing list on www.subbacultcha.nl. 2x2 Tickets Elephant Stone

2x2 Tickets Punch Festival

1x2 Tickets ADE: Darkside

05 October Rotown, Rotterdam

10-13 October Amsterdam

18 October Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

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2x2 day Tickets Impakt Festival

2x2 Tickets Film: Workers

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30 October-03 November Utrecht

Premieres 24 October Theatre of choice

1 November Tivoli, Utrecht

We’re also giving away free tickets to, Parquet Courts, Washed Out, Bombino, Omar Souleyman, Deafheaven, Bleached, Let’s Get Lost and more.

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All Subbacultcha! events in October See all these shows for free. Join at subbacultcha.nl

03 October

15 October

OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members

LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9.50 | Free for members

Amen Dunes + Fetter

La Vie D’Adele

04 October

15 October

WORM, Rotterdam 19.30 | €5 | Free for members

DOKA, Amsterdam 20.30 | €10 pre-sale - €12 door Free for members

06 October

17 October

Amen Dunes + Indian Jewelry

Las Kellies + Earth Mk. II

Roodkapje, Rotterdam 20.30 | €6 | Free for members

08 October

Rotterdams Open Doek

LantarenVenster, Rotterdam 19.30 | €5 | Free for members

12 October

Psychic Ills + Naive Set

No Age + Beach

30 October

Pharmakon + Lust for Youth

OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members All month

Foam, Amsterdam Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thur and Fri until 21.00 €8.75 | Free for members

Destruction Unit

TENT, Rotterdam

dB’s, Utrecht 21.00 | €8 | Free for members

Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00 €4 | Free for members

21 October

Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam

Workers (Sneak Preview)

EYE, Amsterdam 21.45 | €10 | Free for members

October 22

Short Term 12

LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9 | Free for members

Open Tue-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat and Sun from 11.00 €9 | Free for members

Hundertwasser: The Straight Line Is Godless

De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €8 | Free for members

24 October

Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen Open Tue-Sun 11.00-17.00 €9,50 | Free for members

13 October

OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members

Wouter Venema

Robedoor + Sand Circles

(In collaboration with The A/V Club) OCCII, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members

Holograms + Apneu

25 October

TG Gondard + Bear Bones, Lay Low

Koffie5Euro, Rotterdam 21.00 | €5 | Free for members

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