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Introduction

BRDCST Festival

Like the ashes from which a phoenix rises, Ancienne Belgique has long been a breeding ground for legendary, innovative, resurging and emerging acts. This spring, there’s another myth in the making: BRDCST festival, named after a band whose sounds were futuristic, spiritual and undeniably inventive – something this festival seeks to embody by enlisting some of the most adventurous and challenging musical minds out there. With a killer roster and a Rough Trade seal of approval, be prepared to get your mind-expanding, in-your-face, visionary kicks for four days straight. It all starts here – don’t trust anyone else to guide you through!

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Distribution: Gerlin Heestermans (gerlin@subbacultcha.be) Contributing writers: Valerie Steenhaut, Gabriela González & Julien Van de Casteele Contributing photographers: Ina Niehoff, Stephen Freeman & Tina Herbots Contributing artists: Children of the Light (Christopher Gabriel from Children of the Light also designed the new BRDCST logo) Thank you: Dauwke Fredrix, Isaac Barbé, Mattias Baertsoen, Jens Van Lathem, Louise Vervaet, Valerie Steenhaut, Hannah Dreessen, Sasha Ermakov, Lisa Fraipont, Virginie & Julien Van de Casteele, Kellan Smith, Nikolaas Verstraeten, Lola Pertsowsky, Lawrence Foley, Naoki Karathanassis, Floortje Kattemölle, Nelson Henry, Nimkit Lepcha, Olivier Wouters, Dries Vancauwenberghe, Gert Van Dijck, Matthias Heylen, Vicky De Visser, Saraya Richter, Amaury Wilkin and friends, Thomas Vanoosthuyse, Frederic Busscher, Marie Shuqha & Tijs Delacroix Partners: Ancienne Belgique (<3), Botanique, Beursschouwburg, Het Bos, Vooruit, Democrazy, KVS, Offscreen, 4AD, Netwerk, Motel Mozaïque, Jazz Leuven, Ciné Privé, Little Waves Festival, VK, Lumière, Trix, Cactus, Japan Square Festival, Argos, Art Cinema OFFoff, KultuurKaffee, JauneOrange, Deep In House, Cinema Zuid, Meakusma & KASK Cinema

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October Recommendations Artist: Elysia Crampton

Brooklyn band brings an old fruit crate to their live sets, which when opened reveals a tiny jungle filled with fauna, flora and lights that is magnified and projected onto the walls, enveloping the crowd in an otherworldly glow. Their debut album Islet is out on Home Assembly Records.

— soundcloud.com/peptalk_music

With a challenging near-manifesto spanning geology and complex racial dynamics underpinning her latest works, let’s just say Elysia Crampton isn’t short of artistic ambition. But to place focus Magazine: Zweikommaseiben entirely on the surrounding concept doesn’t do her justice: newly released When we first stumbled across Issue debut full-length American Drift stands #10 of Swiss magazine Zweikomon its own, a mind-blowing, near transmaseiben, we were dumbfounded. cendent masterpiece blending Latin Featuring in-depth interviews with cumbia, Bolivian saya, tribalistic crunk the likes of M.E.S.H., Lena Willikens, and a healthy dose of DatPiff-worthy A FILM Vessel, Powell and Torn Hawk, it was BY mixtape narration. After years of craftas though we’d found our soulmate.

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Artist: Elysia Crampton

rate worlds by creating small musical islands of dreamy, exotica-inspired melodies with bird calls, synthesizers and orchestral instruments. The Brooklyn band brings an old fruit crate to their live sets, which when opened reveals a tiny jungle filled with fauna, flora and lights that is magnified and projected onto the walls, enveloping the crowd in an otherworldly glow. Their debut album Islet is out on Home Assembly Records.

— soundcloud.com/peptalk_music

With a challenging near-manifesto spanning geology and complex racial dynamics underpinning her latest works, let’s just say Elysia Crampton isn’t short of artistic ambition. But to place focus entirely on the surrounding concept doesn’t do her justice: newly released debut full-length American Drift stands on its own, a mind-blowing, near transcendent masterpiece blending Latin cumbia, Bolivian saya, tribalistic crunk and a healthy dose of DatPiff-worthy mixtape narration. After years of crafting sample-dependent (though no less incredible) sonic mosaics under the E+E moniker, she’s finally come into her own, and we’re reaping the benefits.

— soundcloud.com/eande

Magazine: Zweikommaseiben When we first stumbled across Issue #10 of Swiss magazine Zweikommaseiben, we were dumbfounded.

Featuring in-depth interviews with the likes of M.E.S.H., Lena Willikens, Vessel, Powell and Torn Hawk, it was Foto: © Max Kesteloot as though we’d found our soulmate.

Someone somewhere else in the world knew exactly what we were thinking and what we’d want to read.

For the Summer 2015 issue, they’ve turned their attention to another bevy of recent favourites: Beatrice Dillon, TCF, Danse Noir and Oneohtrix Point

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Contents

M.E.S.H 12 Cocaine Piss 18 Photo essay: Children of the Light 24 The Story behind BRDCST 30 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Recommendations 09 BRDCST Guide 37 Subbacultcha Shows 49 Overview 62

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Art: Ambivalently Yours

feminism, which led to the decision not to choose and to start living in the in-between. The results are intriguing and very pink illustrations, sound sketches, videos, blog posts and anonymous notes left in public spaces, ‘meant as conversation starters, acts of compassion and examples of active yet ambivalent resistance’.

— ambivalentlyyours.com Event: Digitaal Materiaal’s Nachtleven Inspired by the Warm Up events of MoMA PS1 in New York and fascinated by the rapid rise of specialised soft and hardware, three guys from Leuven decided to bring together the new and aspiring art talent from their neighbourhood. The idea resulted in the founding of Templar, a new platform for digital artists, DJs and musicians. Collaborating with the whole of Leuven’s arts scene, Digitaal Materiaal will be held on the 18th of March in Museum M, Leuven’s hotspot for arts and culture, where you’ll also get your last chance to see something of the Sarah Morris exhibition.

— digitaalmateriaal.be

Ambivalence is being attracted and repulsed at the exact same time; it’s uncertainty and the inability to make a decision; it’s the simultaneous desire to say or do two conflicting things. It’s also the main trait of Ambivalently Yours, an anonymous (but presumably female) illustrator exploring everyday feminist convictions and concerns.

Her ambivalence lies in the embrace of contradictory feelings towards having traditionally female tastes and desires as well as an urge for radical

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October March Recommendations Recommendations Event: On Ice

after the tenth time it can get pretty tough to blow someone’s mind away.

Thank God we found the perfect solution: Steen en Been, Volkstraat 52, Antwerp. As the display window is ever changing, so are this shop’s insides: from beautiful taxidermy butterflies, jellyfish and minerals to shells that just happen to be shaped like female genitalia. Extraordinary objects, all part of Mother Earth’s most aesthetic delights, for really okay prices. We highly recommend not to go there if you’re going to ‘just have a look’.

— steenenbeen.be

On the 5th and 6th of March Gantoise organisations NEIN and CAMPO invite you to go ‘art skating’ at the ice skating rink Kristallijn. Over there 25 artists are challenged to create a piece that perfectly fits its exhibition space, in this case being 3000m² of slippery glittering ice. In doing so NEIN expands its search for new ways of presenting art to an audience, an interesting initiative which art centre CAMPO was more than willing to support. Skating will be done amongst the works of Eva Vermeiren, Eno Swinnen, Bert Huyghe and many more!

— campo.nu/nl/production/2530/ on-ice

Print: Odiseo

Shop: Steen en Been

Three years ago Barcelona-based design studio Folch decided it was time to explore new horizons and to challenge themselves beyond the limits of graphic design. The idea gave birth to Odiseo,

Does buying presents make your head go completely blank? Yeah, we know,

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March Recommendations an independently-published biannual that’s something between a hardcover book and a magazine with only a limited print run and periodic partnerships.

Inside it you find an ode to sophisticated erotica, intriguing visual art and thought-provoking texts and essays, but above all complete and utter design perfection. Odiseo’s Vol. 7, called ‘The Truth’, is now available for pre-order exclusively on the Folch website.

— folchstudio.com/odiseo-7

to shoot some American Apparel socks into space. Think back to days at skate parks, moshing inhibitions away – perhaps not in everyone’s memory bank, but it damn well should be.

— facebook.com/vvviperpit Film : Ciné Privé

Music: Viper Pit

If you’re an animation film amateur, then Ciné Privé might have something for you from the 3rd to the 5th of March.

Every year this Ghent-based organization moves around the city in search of new and out-of-the-ordinary venues to display a wide variety of moving image works. This year, they fell for the Circus Church in Malem (Ghent) where 18 short, all-animated films will be screened. Intrigued? Open that web browser of yours and type in IVAN’S NEED by Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger and Lukas Suter for some extra tingling.

— cineprive.be

Maybe you saw them at Kraak fest, tearing through with their shrieking, shredding war cries. Or maybe you caught them at a dim garage, sloshing riffs through beer-soaked T-shirts. One thing is clear: don’t wear your best clothes to see this band.

Ernesto González and Mikey Crabbé (Bear Bones, Lay Low and Weird Dust, respectively; Tav Exotic, together) team up with a wild-eyed Venezuelan going dementor on drums. Sixty seconds is all it takes for Viper Pit’s brand of thrash

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Interview

M.E.S.H. With the techno and minimal house scenes continuing to consolidate their reign over Berlin’s nightlife, one club night stood in unwavering defiance: Janus. Originated by artist-turnedproducer M.E.S.H. (aka James Whipple), the night came together with the object of transcending the constraints of the ‘hype, hate, copy’ trend cycle, garnering a league of like-minded contemporaries in the form of Lotic, KaBlam and Total Freedom. Said residency is now sadly defunct, but Whipple continues to channel its spirit via his own musical endeavours with his acclaimed Scythians EP, released two years ago, and a debut full-length, Piteous Gate, the following year. We called him up to discuss his attraction to the melodramatic Skype interview by Deva Rao Photos shot by Ina Niehoff in Berlin, Germany

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M.E.S.H. Considering the melodrama of your debut album, Piteous Gate, I’m curious as to whether this theatricality extends to your day-to-day.

Shit – that’s a good question. I guess it’s an interaction between sort of histrionic feelings, the feelings you can have in a nightclub, social anxiety and the opposite, having a dopamine rush off being with people you like or hearing good music. Maybe you feel rejected, maybe you feel horny, maybe you feel sad… these places where we experience music are places in society where we’re kind of allowed to feel these things – things you wouldn’t necessarily feel sanctioned to be able to feel in your daily life.

Who would you say influenced you in making the album?

That’s pretty hard, man. I mean, all my friends and the people I know that are making music right now. I mean, everyone from the Janus people like KaBlam and Lotic, to Elysia Crampton, TCF and Amnesia Scanner. Just the whole crew.

You’ve spoken before about producers making unconsidered use of samples. Do you feel a responsibility to ensure sounds are recontextualised respectfully?

Yeah, absolutely. As a DJ, I draw from so many different genres and it’s important for me to represent that with the way that I DJ. But at the same time, as an artist and music producer, I’m not really interested in quoting other people’s voices in that way. It’s more about drawing influence where I can, but trying to also stand on my own two feet and have my own point of view. I’m not gonna go release a conceptual ballroom vogue record, you know?

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I mean, you could…

I definitely could. It wouldn’t be very good [Laughs]. But it’s tricky. People are so ready to demonise people and make outrage their hobby. But at the same time, it’s a really important debate. And it’s really important to be sensitive about context.

You broadened my perception of what club music can be, especially when I first heard Scythians. Do you intentionally challenge your audience during your live sets?

It’s funny because I find the whole thing of, like, a DJ ‘educating’ a

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M.E.S.H.

‘Places where we experience music are places in society where we’re kind of allowed to feel’ crowd sort of pretentious. But it’s more like, when we did Janus parties in Berlin, they weren’t these austere music nerd kind of things. It’s more a house-party vibe, you know what I mean? It’s less about challenging people in this boring, serious music way and more like opening up what you can do as a DJ in terms of what you’re going to allow yourself to play. But not in the sense of punishing or educating people. It’s more about an expanded palette of sounds you can draw from. That’s the way I see it with my own DJ-ing.

I read that you recorded a lot of the album in a state of isolation. True?

I wouldn’t call it isolation, I still had healthy relationships with my friends and stuff. But I guess I was going out slightly less during that period, for sure.

So you’re not, like, a hermitic misanthrope.

No, no. It’s interesting that that’s come up, ’cause I’m not a super extroverted person, but… I like people, man. I leave the house a lot [Laughs].

Leaving the house is good; people are as well. It’s good to establish you’re okay with humans, set the record straight.

M.E.S.H. plays BRDCST at AB, Brussels on 25 March. The show is free for Subbacultcha members.

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Cocaine Piss It’s a typical story: four friends growing up in Nowhere Town, bonding over out-there music.

But Cocaine Piss are not your typical band: pure, concentrated fury unfurls when they’re on stage, and when it ends you don’t know what hit you. We met them at the Sound of the Belgian Underground, and in between butt-prodding and munching apples (not a euphemism), we discussed teenage idols, reams of side projects, and the importance of never staying bored

Interview by Gabriela Gonzalez Photos shot by Stephen Freeman in Brussels

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How did you guys start playing together?

Aurélie: We started two and a half years ago.

Yannick: Yeah, but we’ve been friends since waaaay before.

Aurélie: We all grew up in the same shitty town in South Belgium - it was so fucking boring. We were going to shows ‘cause it was the only thing to do and everyone was starting a band. All you do out there is listen to music - it sounds so old school! But if you had a great CD, you’d exchange or make mixes and that’s what we did. I was really into The Distillers, ‘cause Brody Dalle was like my idol. She looked so badass - I knew I wanted to do that one day.

Yannick: Yeah, we were totally in the punk scene; back then it was all bands like F-Minus, Leftöver Crack...

Mathias: Noise music!

Aurélie: We were definitely into the noise scene - basically anything where you can get this sort of crazy energy.

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‘Everything is not about your own band all the time. It’s about the scene, and it’s all we wanna live’ What was you guys’ first show like?

Aurélie: Normally it was supposed to be a one-show project and we did it at the Carlo Levi, which is closed now.

Mathias: A really punk and crusty place! We had fun, though.

Julien: Nobody in the public left, so...[laughs] You’ll be playing the AB twice in two months. Any expectations?

Aurélie: Well, it’s very fancy [laughs]. There’s also a bunch of fucking amazing people working here; I didn’t even believe that it was possible. It’s funny because we started at the Carlo Levi and now we’re playing the AB three times in five months. It’s great, though for us it’s always, like, ‘We can play at your place? Thank you!’

What other projects do you guys have?

Yannick: There’s a band called Umungus that me and Mathias play in - it’s more psychedelic/jazz/world stuff. I’ve got another band named Daggers; we’ve been playing for ten years now.

Julien: Yeah, they played with my old band in Switzerland called Elizabeth - we toured three times with them, in Russia, Cuba...

Yannick: But Cocaine Piss is the king project.

Julien: Especially now!

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Cocaine Piss Oh yeah, you guys have a big trip coming up!

Aurélie: One week in Chicago recording with Steve Albini! We’ve only exchanged emails so far but I’m sure he’s cool, I’ve got a good feeling about him. He is a big figure for us: he recorded F-Minus and a bunch of other bands that created us.

Yannick: We used to play all this stuff really loud when we were younger, so we’ve been listening to the type of sound that he’s doing since forever.

Aurélie: It’s in our DNA, and the opportunity to record with him, knowing that he’s done all the stuff we were listening to when we were kids...it’s a fucking dream.

Where do you guys see this going?

Yannick: Right now, it’s all about the album and getting it done. It’s going to be really trashy, kind of the same vibe we had on the first one.

Julien: Some slow songs and everything! But definitely more fast than slow [laughs].

Yannick: Fourteen songs, 20 minutes!

Aurélie: Yeah, the album is the priority right now but it’s not like when it’s done we’re just gonna sit on our butts waiting.

Yannick: We’ve also been organising shows for the last ten years as a collective [Jungle Booking].

Aurélie: It’s all part of what we do: everything is not about your own band all the time. It’s about the scene, and it’s all we wanna live: playing shows, watching shows, organising stuff, meeting new people, doing it all over again.

Yannick: And never getting bored!

Cocaine Piss plays BRDCST at AB, Brussels on March 24 and Het Bos, Antwerp on 09 March. This last show is free for members.

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Children of the Light

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BRDCST Festival Children of the Light (Christopher Gabriel and Arnout Hulskamp) create immersive experiences and installations, with light as their main tool and canvas. As part of live music performances, they play with the oppositional forces between light and darkness. Their travelling light has led them to perform across the globe, for the likes of DARKSIDE (Nicolas Jaar & Dave Harrington) and HOWLING (RYX & Frank Wiedemann) and on stages ranging from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Art Basel Miami to the Stedelijk Museum, TrouwAmsterdam, The New Institute and TodaysArt, to name but a few.

Currently, Children of the Light call Amsterdamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s De School home â&#x20AC;&#x201C; where Subbacultcha NL also resides. Feast your eyes on a selection of their recent work. children-of-the-light.com

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Children of the Light

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Photo essay Light to accentuate. Light to hide. Light to reveal.

Light to shade. Light to colour. Light to fade.

Light to sharpen. Light to sense. Light to wonder.

Light to make. Light to dance.

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The Story behind BRDCST

Interview by Julien Van de Casteele Photos by Tina Herbots, shot in Huis 23, Brussels

Interview In preparation for BRDCST, we climbed the stairs going up above the AB Café to find ourselves in Huis 23, the cosy, vintage living room set to become the beating heart of the festival.

We sat down with Mich Leemans and Kurt Overbergh, programmers at AB and the guys behind the project, to discuss the intentions of this very eclectic event and the importance for major actors like AB to keep an eye on those underground acts shaping the future of music.

How long have you guys been in the music industry?

Kurt: I’m the artistic director at AB, I’ve been working here since 1997. I love to do the programming for small bands but I also need to do it for larger ones that are much further from my heart so that it keeps the whole thing running. I’ve been in the music industry since the mid-’90s.

I came from record company Rough Trade where I used to promote artists like Jeff Buckley and Pavement, totally unknown at the time.

Mich: I started in the music industry at a booking agency that was focused solely on Belgian bands. After that, I joined AB. I’ve been here for eight years. I mainly take care of all the events taking place at Huis 23 and any other special projects like SOBU or expos. Huis 23 is one of the best things that’s happened to AB because it enables the fans to get closer and connect with bands.

Kurt: Many great artists have been interviewed here, like Michael Gira

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The Story behind BRDCST

‘The idea is to open up the minds of the people showing up at the show; lining up Battles with Mbongwana Star’ (Swans), Sleaford Mods and Squarepusher. This space has allowed us to rethink how to invite artists over. Huis 23 is really low cost and free of all the elements linked to booking an artist. It makes me jealous of Mich sometimes [Laughs].

I read that Huis 23 will be the centrepiece of the festival.

Kurt: When you’ve worked somewhere for a long time you tend to go into autopilot. With BRDCST we try to reinvent ourselves. We decided to launch a festival that doesn’t use AB’s main halls but instead Huis 23 as the main venue and make it free for anyone.

Mich: We like to call it the zero edition, because it’s more of a trial; we want to see if the free thing works. There’ll be talks here, guys from Rough Trade talking about their selection of the month, Steve Ignorant (Crass) who will give a lecture, people from Consouling Sounds will come over to talk about how they started their label – and concerts, of course. So there’ll constantly be something happening here.

Kurt: An important part of these events is the Wondertalks, where we want to share our questions about the music industry. For example, how the hell is Rough Trade doing so well and opening new stores in a music economy that is increasingly becoming more digital? Or with Steve Ignorant from Crass, the ultimate ’80s punk band, we want to confront him with the fact that nowadays there are a lot more punk bands led by women like Perfect Pussy or Cocaine Piss.

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The Story behind BRDCST Is that the goal, sharing your thoughts and tastes?

Kurt: Yes, the idea is to broadcast our recommendations, to say, ‘Hey, listen to Mbongwana Star, to M.E.S.H., to Lotic. This is great stuff, we only discovered it last week.’

Mich: AB is lucky to have a team that has the mind of a smaller venue, but working in a large one like Bataclan or Paradiso.

Kurt: It gives AB the opportunity to host events like SOBU and serve as a multiplicator. That’s the same with BRDCST, which features underground bands like Lotic, M.E.S.H. and Cocaine Piss – which are getting major press coverage.

How did BRDCST come about?

Kurt: Two years ago, I went to Le Guess Who and I was overwhelmed by the fact that they had Selda, this Turkish artist who has been around for 40 years, sharing the roster with Stephen O’Malley from Sunn O))) and Sleaford Mods. I had the same experience when I went to Incubate last year. Though they intermingled drone, world music, classical jazz and hardcore punk, they still managed to have an identity. We wanna do that with BRDCST. We wanted an open door to all kinds of genre, to everything that has inspired Mich and I. The idea is to open up the minds of the people showing up at the show; lining up Battles with Mbongwana Star.

What’s the thing you’re looking forward to the most?

Kurt: Going home after these four days having this incredible feeling of energy coming from an unknown place and telling myself, ‘Yes, it’s working.’

BRDCST, AB, Brussels, 24-26 March

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decades, in a constantly changing musical landscape, the store has managed to keep its finger on the pulse of the moment. Though not physically present in Brussels, Rough Trade will temporarily settle in the AB Café where its sophisticated selection of ‘Albums of the Month’ can be heard for the entire month of March.

Pop-up Bee Bar: Installation ‘The Bee Symphony’ + Tasting Honey Beer Throughout BRDCST Steenstraat 25, Brussels 17.30-22.00 I Free Last year in May, the AB rooftop became the home of 80,000 bees to contribute to the preservation of the biodiversity of the national capital. Though currently in hibernation, the bees will start buzzing around town by the end of March. In celebration of the new nectar season, AB will host a pop-up bee bar where you’ll have the opportunity to give the honey beer a few swigs while listening to ‘The Bee Symphony’ by Chris Watson (ex-Cabaret Voltaire) – a track exploring the musical marriage between the human voice and the buzzing of the bees.

Micro expo: Broadcast - Album Artwork by Julian House Throughout March - Shop windows, Steenstraat, Brussels 24/7 I Free The name BRDCST is a direct reference to the British retro futuristic electronica-pop band Broadcast, which has released inspiring albums like Haha Sound and Noise Made By The People on the influential Warp Records label over the past decade. As tribute to this band, a handful of blow-ups by graphic designer Julian House will be exhibited across Steenstraat.

House is also a member of The Focus Group, with whom Broadcast recorded the album Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age in 2009.

Rough Trade: Albums of the Month Selection Throughout BRDCST - AB Cafe, Steenstraat 23, Brussels 11.00-24.00 I Free

Micro Expo: Consouling Sounds Album Artwork Throughout BRDCST - AB Resto, Steenstraat 23, Brussels Thur, Fri: 12.00-14.30 / 15.30-19.00 & Sat, Sun: 17.30-21.00 I Free Consouling Sounds was originally es-

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Festival programme Album. He will be joined by Cocaine Piss frontwoman Aurélie Poppins to discuss the importance of women in today’s punk groups.

tablished in 2008 as a record company solely focused on post-rock, doom and ambient music. Today, the label has expanded its playing field to exciting music that transcends all musical genres, without losing any of its original quality and aesthetics.

Throughout the festival, Consouling Sounds will present its splendid artworks in the form of vinyl covers from the likes of Monnik, Vondeling, Syndrome, AmenRa, Wiegedood, CHVE.

Wondertalk 2: Nigel House Rough Trade and its Album of the Month Selection 25 March - Huis 23, AB, Brussels 18.00 I Free (seats are limited)

Wondertalk The Wondertalks originated from the festival creators, Mich and Kurt, wanting to share their questions concerning the music industry. Each day, artists, authors and music insiders will drop by for a chat and to enlighten us on a variety of subjects.

In 1976, the first seeds of Rough Trade were planted when Geoff Travis opened a record store in Kensington Park Road, West London.

Rough Trade soon became a label and a distribution channel for various independent labels. In 1978, it was decided to split the label and the shop into separate entities. Following this, a number of young employees, including Nigel House, took over the shop for the price of the records in stock. Under the same name, they managed to save Rough Trade from ruin. To this day, House is still active as director of Rough Trade Retail. House will come in for a chat about the creation of Rough Trade, how it has managed to survive and their recipe for their Album of the Month selection.

Wondertalk 1: Steve Ignorant on the Legendary Anarcho-punk Band Crass 24 March - Huis 23, AB, Brussels 18.00 I Free (seats are limited) Steve Ignorant will open the Wondertalk series with a chat about his life before, during and after Crass, the ultimate punk band of the late ’70s. Ignorant is often – and rightly – considered to be the godfather of the genre. Together with Penny Rimbaud, he established the extremely influential DIY anarcho-punk band Crass, which lived from 1977 to 1984 and released unignorable efforts such as Stations Of The Crass, The Feeding Of The 5000 and Christ The

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Festival programme classical music finds a new outlet in pianist/composer Michael Price, who has collaborated as music editor in Hollywood blockbusters and has appeared on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall. His latest album harkens back to a pre-war romanticism, evoking timeless emotive power and pre-digital rawness.

Music Programme Cocaine Piss + Steve Ignorant’s Slice Of Life 24 March - AB Club, AB, Brussels 20.00 I €15 Steve Ignorant, considered the godfather of punk thanks to his extremely influential DIY anarcho-punk band Crass, brings us his latest project, Slice of Life. Acoustic and intimate, it sounds like the opposite of Crass. But with the inclusion of Crass classics and spoken-word elements, this remains a very anarchic affair.

And from distant Liège comes the abrasive energy bomb known as Cocaine Piss. Their debut cassette is already sold-out and contains short, sharp and explosive songs to leave you lightning struck on the spot.

Watch out for their upcoming first official release, produced by none other than Steve Albini himself.

Tsembla + Pak Yan Lau 24 March - Huis 23, AB, Brussels 20.00 I Free (seats are limited)

Pak Yan is the pivotal figure in Brussels’ groove/trance project Going, plays piano with Lauroshilau and writes music for dance, theatre and film. With prepared piano, synths and toy instruments, Pak Yan Lau’s main focus is on free improvisation and poetic sound mosaics. During BRDCST she’ll present her recently released Solo Books. Tsembla is the musical alter-ego of Swedish-Finnish artist Marja Johansson. Making use of a broad range of instruments, electronica, objects and samples, Tsembla’s music surfs the waves of oblique melodies, abstract vocals and varying textures. Her loosely

Michael Price Trio + Innerwoud 24 March - Archives of the City of Brussels, 65 Rue Des Tanneurs, Brussels 20.00 I €15 (seats are limited) With BRDCST aiming to make it a tradition to host location projects all around Brussels, it’s time for the City of Brussels Archive building in the Marollen to be highlighted. Contrabassist Pieter-Jan Van Assche’s impressive solo project Innerwoud combines drones and dark soundscapes with neoclassical elements. And contemporary

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Festival programme Many, goes from experimental piano melodies and screeching, dissonant sounds to funky improvisational jazz.

compiled compositions seem like instrumental sound-miniatures brewed in the DIY lab of a weirdo alchemist.

Visionist + Lotic + M.E.S.H. 25 March - AB Club, AB, Brussels 20.00 I €15 | Free for Subbacultcha members

GoGo Penguin + Pomrad + De Beren Gieren 25 March - AB Box, AB, Brussels 19.00 I €19

The music of London producer Visionist catapults us into the future with meticulous vocal samples that put him in the ranks of electronica conjurers like Holly Herndon and Arca. Backed by the cult PAN label, his debut, Safe, is a new beacon of minimalistic spooky electronica.

The absolute revelation of the PAN night at Feeërieen was Berlin’s M.E.S.H. James Whipple’s electronic soundscapes sound abrasive, icily industrial and hazy, but at the same time have an organic and impressionistic edge to them. Texas-bred Lotic, along with M.E.S.H, is part of the Janus collective radiating in Berlin’s scintillating underground scene.

His Fallout EP is bursting with unorthodox house, while his latest EP, Heterocetera, is dark and ominous.

Britain’s GoGo Penguin present a futuristic vision of jazz with sophisticated arrangements that sound light, airy and intellectual. Previously nominated for the Mercury Prize, their upcoming album, Man Made Object, has already received the legendary Blue Note Records’ nod of approval.

Belgium also has jazz legends in the making: synth-jazz man Pomrad (Adriaan Van De Velde) brings Daft Punk in Herbie Hancock style accompanied by an idiosyncratic ‘wobble’ sound. As a trio, Van De Velde & Co deliver an electro-jazz spectacle at its finest. De Beren Gieren are Fulco Ottervanger on piano, Simon Segers on drums and Lieven Van Pée on bass. Their album, One Mirrors

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Festival programme Monnik This Belgian experimental one-man band explores the borders of spiritual seclusion and transforms his musical drones into almost ascetic meditations through his carefully layered shamanistic sounds.

BARST Relying on a series of pedals, synthesizers, samplers, minimalistic tracks, drum computers and effects, BARST manages to create a spatial, orchestral sound and break with traditional songs structures.

Daghraven Also part of Illuminine, Daghraven invites you along to the purgatory party with frightening, humming drones, scary creatures and the ominous whispering of an endless day.

Dirk Serries Already part of wonderful projects like vidnaObmana, Fear Falls Burning and Microphonics, Serries has also released a number of albums on Consouling Sounds. This evening he will play a minimal ambient set in which he goes back to his vidnaObmana roots.

Screening ‘De Kamerarbeiders’, Stefan Serneels Stefan Serneels is a Belgian graphic artist noted for twisted and distorted perspectives through which he displays an everyday banality, presented through the visor of his own subconscious and intuitive logic. Following a one-off performance of his theatre piece De Kamerarbeiders, Serneels decided to make a short

Joan Shelley + Broeder Dieleman 25 March - Huis 23, AB, Brussels 20.30 I Free (seats are limited) Hailing from Louisville, Kentucky, Joan Shelley brings us her ’60s West Coast-infused brand of folk which puts her somewhere between Townes Van Zandt and Alela Diane.

Her recently released third album, Over And Even, was recorded with Nathan Salsburg, manager of the Alan Lomax archive, who will also accompany her live. With his banjo, Broeder Dieleman moonlights as South Netherlandic equivalent of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. So it’s no accident then that he released a split 7” with his hero in early 2015. Surrealistic songs about the mystical Dutch landscape are in order.

Consouling Sounds presents 26 March - Huis 23, AB, Brussels 16.00 I Free (seats are limited)

For this first edition of BRDCST, legendary and all-encompassing label Consouling Sounds has put together a day-long programme for Huis23, plus an expo in the AB Resto with artwork from Consouling Sounds lasting the whole of March.

Artists to play are:

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Festival programme Mini festival: Battles + Mbongwana Star + Paus + Fire! feat. Mats Gustafsson 27 March - AB Main Hall, AB, Brussels 16.00 I €28

film based upon the play to make its ephemeral character more tangible.

Especially for BRDCST, Serneels has given permission to present this idiosyncratic piece of work, one which has rarely been seen.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith + Mathieu Serruys 27 March - Huis 23, AB, Brussels 20.00 I Free (seats are limited)

A mini-festival on the final evening of BRDCST: another tradition in the making! Ten years after their first performance in Belgium, Battles remain inimitable. Though the departure of guitarist Tyondai Braxton left them seeking a new identity, their unique mix of art rock and avantgarde jazz is a beast to witness live.

In 2013, the seven-member Mbongwana Star arose from the ashes of Congo’s Staff Benda Bilili. Punk-electronics, Afro-futurism, hip hop, electro, soukous and afrobeat are in order for a party that never ends.

The latest gem of the experimental rock scene comes from Portugal.

While PAUS have only one album to their name, they’ve already made a reputation for themselves with two drums, swinging rhythms and dirty riffs that will make you sway their way. Mats Gustafson’s furious sax in Fire! is a reminder of why this trio has left such a lasting impression on those who have seen them. Fire! excels at avant-garde jazz with punk influences and a generous injection of improvisation – giving the ceremonial closing bang to BRDCST!

Composer, performer and producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith grew up in the countryside of Orca Island, located in the Bay Area of Seattle right off the Canadian border. The island that she describes as ‘one of the most magical and peaceful places’ has a vibrant influence on the music she composes. With her new effort, EARS, released in a couple of days, Smith wants to take her listeners into a three-dimensional journey made out of dense swirls of organic and synthesized notes mixed with sounds of the earth. Her pioneering musical techniques promise this show to be an unforgettable, immersive listening experience.

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Expo: Inside the White Tube. A Retrospective View on the Television Work of Jef Cornelis

Suavemente

04 Mar - Vooruit, Ghent 20.00 I €13 I Free for members ‘Suavemente’ means soft, subtle or smooth. It also has an exotic undertone, referring to various genres like cumbia, R&B, reggaeton, kuduro, hip hop – in fact, all music that radiates passion, the fire in all of you. Subbacultcha Belgium and Vooruit present Suavemente, a gathering for passionate and sensual music, featuring Kamixlo, Aisha Devi, DJ Marfox, Coco Haram and Sky H1.

Until 27 Mar - Argos, Brussels 11.00 I €5 I Free for members Narrating the story of Jef Cornelis’s work is not only about highlighting the professional journey of a man; it is about embracing the evolutive process of Belgian television from one individual’s perspective.

As head of the arts division of BRT Television in Flanders (formerly VRT – Flanders’ main public television channel) between 1963 and 1998, Jeff Cornelis helped shape arts and culture through his unique and stylistic approach to the medium.

This exhibition consists of a series of methodically selected pieces of Cornelis’s work that help communicate the complexity of the project of a lifetime.

Dance: Ode to the Attempt & The Dog Days Are Over 04 + 05 March - KVS, Brussels 20.30 | €17 | Free for members If there’s one name you should remember when it comes to con-

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temporary dance, it’s the young and promising choreographer Jan Martens. In Ode to the Attempt we see him perform solo in a reflection while in The Dog Days Are Over, seven more performers join him in yet another thoughtful piece, this time contemplating the contemporary meaning of dance itself. With the sound of silence and sweating bodies in an ultra demanding choreography, Martens generates nothing more than a minimalistic performance with huge intensity.

very soon conquer foreign ears and hearts armed with a magic bullet of a project. Opening the way for him, promising Ghentbased band Faces On TV.

Cate Le Bon

Glints + Faces On TV

08 March - Botanique, Brussels 20.00 | €14 | Free for members

08 March - BAI (KultuurKaffee), Brussels 20.00 | €7 | Free for members

Cate Le Bon hasn’t been resting over the past couple of years, forming DRINKS with White Fence’s Tim Presley and working with Perfume Genius and Gruff Rhys. This month, she’ll premiere her new album Crab Day in an intimate show alongside the fireball music ensemble BANANA. Multi-creative as she is, the release will be accompanied by a short film shot in Berlin for which Le Bon worked closely with director Phil Collins.

Antwerp-born Jan Maarschalk Lemmens – aka Glints – has patriarchal roots on British territory and brings it forward in his electronic-tinted hip hop. With blood and influences on both sides of the Channel, the artist articulates his accented pop flow on neverebbing energetic melodies. While Glints has already drawn massive attention in Belgium, he should

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Lydia Lunch Retrovirus + Cocaine Piss + Fluwelen Koord

the patron saints of analogue film.

Aside from organising the occasional workshops on analogue film technique, these guys also produce movies. On this particular night their most recent will be screened.

Seven works by Els Van Riel, Thomas Depas, Khristine Gillard, John Peel, Severine De Streyker, Marco Rebuttini and Jens Debauche, ranging from three to 50 minutes, all (surprisingly) digitally shot. In the presence of the makers!

09 March - Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | €12 | Free for members Together with drummer Bob Bert (Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Chrome Cranks), guitarist Weasel Walter (The Flying Luttenbachers, etc.) and bass player Tim Dahl (Child Abuse), Lydia Lunch Retrovirus represents an ensemble of ‘sonic brutarians’ that brings an hour-long overview of the No-Wave iconoclast music materials from 1977 to today. They are accompanied by the madein-Liège punk band Cocaine Piss and the four youngsters of Fluwelen Koord, serving us some raw and modular music.

Faded: Abra

11 March - Charlatan (Democrazy), Ghent 20.00 | €10 | Free for members Abra – or the Dark Wave Duchess as she named herself – resides in Atlanta, the hometown of Awful Records. She is incidentally the lone female artist of this collective led by the producer and rapper Father. While she combines ’80s keyboards and ’90s R&B with a touch of DIY production, Abra cleverly plays with light and shade, as testified by her successful first LP, Rose. Her childish voice, whispers and murmurs over minimal

Film: Labo Brussel

10 March - Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent 20.00 | €7 | Free for members Founded by Sébastien Koeppel, Labo BxL is a group of film fanatics who describe themselves as

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Holydrug Couple + Those Foreign Kids

and raw beats, captivating and intoxicating. The British-born singer will appeal to the fans of Purity Ring and Empress Of, with whom she has already toured.

15 March - MAD Café (JauneOrange), Liège 20.00 I €6 I Free for members

Film: Abigail Child presents Unbound

With a sound that evokes the dreamlike natural wonders of their homeland, the music of Chilean duo The Holydrug Couple doesn’t need much explanation. Like their fellow countrymen Follakzoïd, Ives Sepúlveda and Manuel Parra are Sacred Bones signees and their album, Moonlust, is a gem of dreamy neo-psychedelia. There for support are Dutch Marijn Westerlaken and Teun Heijmans from noise-rock band Those Foreign Kids.

(curated by Gawan Fagard) 14 March - Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent 20.00| €7 | Free for members Abigail Child is considered to be one of the monumental directors representing the second generation of American avant-garde filmmakers. In feature film Unbound, Child was inspired by the Romantic poets Clara, Mary and PB Shelley. Shot during her stay at the American Academy in Rome, this imaginary home movie consists of a series of visual impressions of the Shelleys’ lives, their exile in beautiful Italy and the passionate texts they wrote in their diaries.

Abigail decided to ‘explode’ the film by constantly interrupting the images, heightening the movie’s qualities to its limits.

Vök + Sonøren

15 March - Beursschouwburg, Brussels 20.30 | €5 | Free for members Brought to Brussels from a small town just outside of Hafnarfjörður (yup, it’s in Iceland) is the electro pop band Vök – aka vocalist Margrét Rán Magnúsdóttir and saxophone-slash-synth man An-

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dri Enoksson. While Vök can either mean a little hole in the ice or the first bursts of sun on a cloudy day, Margrét and Andri’s interpretation of the word mainly signifies dreamy and experimental electronic music. They are accompanied by Mr Andri Søren, an Icelandic/Scottish teacher of music performance and production with a passion for improvising, who mixes together music spanning genres like house and techno with soundtracks and soundscapes.

de Velde and instrument builder (for Sonic Youth and Kate Nash!!)

Yuri Landmans, provide their listeners with something that sounds like soft rock music mixed together with a lot of spacey and poppy beats. If you’re into musical instruments, count your blessings, because before the start of their ‘sonic madness’, Landmans will give a Malevich string plate workshop where you can DIY your own string instrument.

Party: Deep In House

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18 March - Recyclart, Brussels 23.00 | €12 | Free for members

This month, Deep in House is back at Recyclart for another round.

Headliner of the night Anthony Child, aka Surgeon, has been at the forefront of the UK techno scene for more than 20 years. With three albums on Tresor Records and many releases on Contrebalance and Dynamic Tension (his own labels by the way), Child has nothing left to prove. He will share the roster with Neila, founder of the Deepheat nights and Kafim, Deep in House’s techno resident.

17 March - BAI (KultuurKaffee), Brussels 20.00 | €5 | Free for members Bismuth makes unconventional experimental music with a danceable attitude. These two Dutch guys, multi-instrumentalist Arnold van

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King Ayisoba + Yelemani Trio

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24 March - Madame Moustache, Brussels 21.00 | €5 | Free for members Fans of Acid Baby Jesus are in for a treat with the Greek Bazooka. This psychedelic garage band consists of singer/guitarist Xanthos Papanikolaou, second guitarist Vasilis Tzelepis, drummer John Vulgaris and bass player Aris Rammos. While in their first Slovenly Records-produced album they were still mainly singing in English, the new LP expected this month, Δεμένος Στο Κρεβάτι Σου, (aka ‘Tied To Your Bed’) returns to their Mediterranean roots. Always faithfully using double guitars and double drums this can only mean double eargasms!

20 March - Vooruit, Ghent 20.30 | €7 | Free for members Since we probably have some more months of rain before us, we’re so ready to be transported to warmer and more colourful places. Closing the Africa Film Festival and accompanied by the Burkinese psychedelic Yelemani Trio, the ‘Modern Ghanaians’ from King Ayisoba might just do the trick. Preaching his way through songs like ‘Wicked Leaders’, ‘Don’t Do The Bad Thing’ and hit song ‘I Want To See You My Father’, the lead singer (with an amazing haircut, by the way) perfectly harmonises the modern with the traditional of home country Ghana. Using the typical Ghanaian two-stringed kologo this ensemble is all about percussion, melody, rap and dance moves that will make you jealous.

BRDCST: Visionist + Lotic + M.E.S.H. 25 March - AB, Brussels 20.00 | €15 | Free for members Head over to our BRDCST guide for a full review of these cool cats. Read page 43.

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bla. With an abundant eye for detail and a very wavy sound, this girl takes us straight to the most abstract corners of electronica.

She’s followed by ML or Michael Leuffen, a journalist-slash-night owl from Cologne, who works for Radio Cómeme and NTS Radio.

Seeing that his radio shows come around as an eclectic genre meltdown, you can expect to hear something similar tonight. Also from Cologne is Jens-Uwe Beyer, founder of two record labels and the man behind all-star band Cologne Tape. Prepare yourself to be thrown into a highly personal and unique sound cosmos.

25 March - Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 I €5 I Free for members Ni le ciel ni la terre is the first full-length film of director Clement Cogitore. Premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival, this war thriller is set in 2014 Afghanistan, where, preparing their retreat from the region, French army captain Antarès Bonassieu (played by belgian Jérémie Renier) and his division are ordered to further control and guard the Wakham corridor. The man suddenly starts going crazy when he realises soldiers are disappearing. A movie with a topical subject, in an attempt to grasp the intangibility of war.

Film: Labyrinth + The Hunger 25 March - KASK Cinema, Ghent 20.30 I €5 I Free for members

Meakusma: Jens-Uwe Beyer + Tsembla + ML

Celebrating their fifth anniversary with the opening of photo expo and phone booth cinema CALL ME, this KASK night is all about two movies starring the forever elegant David Bowie – may he rest in peace.

25 March - Juenglingshaus, Eupen 20.00 | €10 | Free for members Eupen’s Meakusma collective presents three of its finest artists. First up is the Finnish Tsem-

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Expo: Inside the White Tube

Film: Labo Brussel

King Ayisoba + Yelemani Trio

Suavemente

Abra

Bazooka

Dance: Ode to the Attempt & The Dog Days Are Over

Film: Unbound

BRDCST: Visionist + Lotic + M.E.S.H.

Cate Le Bon

15 March MAD Café (JuaneOrange), Liege 20.00 | €6 | Free for members

Until 27 Mar Argos, Brussels 11.00 I €5 I Free for members

04 March Vooruit, Ghent 20.00 I €13 I Free for members

04 + 05 March KVS, Brussels 20.30 | €17 | Free for members

08 March Botanique, Brussels 20.00 | €14 | Free for members

Glints + Faces On TV

08 March BAI (KultuurKaffee), Brussels 20.00 | €7 | Free for members

Lydia Lunch Retrovirus + Cocaine Piss + FLUWELEN KOORD

09 March Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | €12 | Free for members

10 March Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent 20.00 | €7 | Free for members

11 March Charlatan (Democrazy), Ghent 20.00 | €10 | Free for members

14 March Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent 20.00 | €7 | Free for members

Holydrug Couple + Those Foreign Kids

Vök + Sonøren

15 March Beursschouwburg, Brussels 20.30 | €5 | Free for members

Bismuth

17 March BAI (KultuurKaffee), Brussels 20.00 | €5 | Free for members

Deep In House

18 March Recyclart, Brussels 23.00 | €12 | Free for members

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20 March Vooruit, Ghent 20.30 | €7 | Free for members

24 March Madame Moustache, Brussels 21.00 | €5 | Free for members

25 March AB, Brussels 20.00 | €15 | Free for members

Film: Ni le ciel ni la terre

25 March Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 I €5 I Free for members

Meakusma: Jens-Uwe Beyer + Tsembla + ML

25 March Juenglingshaus, Eupen 20.00 | €10 | Free for members

Film: Labyrinth + The Hunger

25 March KASK Cinema, Ghent 20.30 I €5 I Free for members

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