July + August 2016 The Different Class Issue
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October Recommendations Contents 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
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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
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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 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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Having grown up in Tokyo, Los Angeles and San Juan, Shayna, Mike and Angelica of Peptalk merge their disparate worlds by creating small musical islands of dreamy, exotica-inspired melodies with bird calls, synthesizers and orchestral instruments. The
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July + August Recommendations
Recent finds from our editorial team Expo: Writing On Walls
Expo: Energy Flash
This summer, creative hub C-Mine will be transformed into the artistic stronghold of 13 international revelations from the graphic design scene. Local curator Daan Linsen of Alley brings them together for a summer project that will transcend the limits of an average exposition. Don’t just expect wall drawings and illustrations, the project goes further than that: there’s more to find in the C-Mine shop, the large C-Mine square and the Vennestraat nearby. In short: a vision and a fresh expression of graphic art and design on C-Mine. From 2 July to 11 September: rendez-vous in Genk.
Rave culture started in the Eighties and Nineties and quickly spread from its centre in England, Germany and Belgium to the rest of Europe. Often with more than 1,000 attendees, raves were spontaneously organised concentrations of people that transcended race and class. While using the upcoming techniques of that time, each place developed its own rave culture and innumerable forms of acid house, techno, hardcore and jungle. Energy Flash is the first museum exhibition that illuminates rave as an alternative movement in Europe. It shows the work of several visual artists together with design objects, music, fashion, archive and television material, and takes place from 17 June to 25 September in the Muhka.
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July October + August Recommendations Recommendations De School Amsterdam
Artsy
Still looking for that one place to satisfy all your art-seeking needs? Here’s something for you to hover your mouse over: Artsy is an online database, search engine, professional and educational tool, agenda and ‘collectioner’ tool all rolled into one thoroughly eye-catching, extremely browseable interface to get lost in for hours. With literally thousands of works from the world’s leading museums, galleries and foundations, as well as in-depth coverage of art happenings the world over, you really have no excuse to say you don’t have time for art: it finally comes to you and your Lazyboy.
Since the beginning of the year, De School has been Amsterdam’s latest hotspot and the successor of the dearly departed and legendary club Trouw. Located in an old schoolhouse (what else?) near the Rembrandtpark, De School is a multifunctional complex that’s open seven days a week. Besides a club and music hall, you can enjoy breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks in the accompanying café and restaurant (which has a terrace and courtyard – swoon). In the club, DJs perform in the middle of the crowd and lighting is provided by Children Of The Light. And good news for the Subba fam: Subbacultcha will host concerts in the former technical classroom of the school. Free entrance is also valid for Belgian members! Yaaass.
— artsy.net Sweetflag Enter the web address for Sweetflag and first thing you’re asked is if you’re over 19 (always say yes). A puzzling
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July + August Recommendations and seemingly random question once you enter this airy, whimsical online shop with items categorised by ‘vibe’ (‘realness’, ‘body’, ‘calm, ‘adventure’, ‘magic’). Then you see all the stoner stuff. Then it gets interesting. Through Sweetflag, you can order artisanal pipes made of hollowed out rocks, minimalist incense holders, fish-oil necklaces and other New Age stoner paraphernalia for those with an eye for design. A lot of the stuff is reasonably priced and can multitask as household decorations and elevated talismans of higher plane Feng Shui, if you catch our drift.
various ways of certain Helmut Newton influences (who, incidentally, is the focus of a parallel expo!) The exhibition will run from 17 June to 4 September at Foam.
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It is a rite of passage and the ultimate summer ritual: every year, children, doggies, and pale city-dwellers mesh with the Ardennois natives for a day of music, cows, sausage stew, air castles and sauce riche. The greatest festival to come out of the Namur pastures, this year’s Ptit Fays will host Wolf Mountains, Jinaka Takuto, Samba Sem Fronteiras, and many more, with the inimitable, irreplaceable DJ New Sensation closing the night with Belgian schlager and a full side of Kraftwerk’s Autobahn. See ya there, 09 July, in your pre-Dour chonies.
— foam.org Ptit Faystival 2016
Expo: Carlijn Jacobs, Elizaveta Porodina & Philippe Vogelenzang Foam 3h is a project space of Foam (Museum of Photography Amsterdam) where recently graduated artists and photographers are invited to present their first solo museum exhibition. Exhibiting are three young photographers working at the cutting edge of fashion, portrait and glamour photography. Selected artists Carlijn Jacobs, Elizaveta Porodina and Philippe Vogelenzang each demonstrate a strong, unconventional visual language in both their commercial and autonomous work, reminiscent in
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We Visit You Photo by Catherine Lemblé
Name: Laura Bonne Age: 24 Zodiac sign: Cancer
When I’m by myself I mostly listen to Seventies or Eighties music actually. One of my favourite bands is Can, one of the first German krautrock groups. I saw their former drummer, Jaki Liebezeit, playing in Ghent a few months ago: he’s 78 but still very alive.
Tell us, what do you do in life? I studied art history and right now I’m doing my last year of journalism. I love writing, so I hope to combine that skill with my cultural interest in the future. I’m working for Subbacultcha right now and if everything goes well, I’m moving to Amsterdam in a few months. I’ll see what the future brings!
One more album pops into my mind right now. My boyfriend bought it a few months ago and it’s really one of those records you can listen to every day without getting tired of it: The Big Dream by David Lynch. Amazing.
What inspires you? Motivated people who use their talents without becoming arrogant.
What does an ideal lazy Sunday look like for you? Staying in bed for some time after I’ve woken up, eating breakfast at noon. Taking a bath, reading the newspaper or a book. Going out to a flea market, to drink coffee or visit a museum. And then pre-dinner drinks.
What kind of music are you listening to at the moment? At this time, a lot of Serge Gainsbourg actually. He has one album called Histoire de Melody Nelson that I think is very good. And David Bowie, I’ve always been a huge fan.
Any guilty pleasures? Joyce Sims, The Carpenters, disco music in general. Very much.
Generally, the music I listen to depends very much on the mood I’m in. I like a lot of different music genres, from krautrock to funk and soul, techno or hip hop. One of the few things I can’t stand is trap and reggae.
Every month we visit a Subbacultcha member’s place. If you want us to visit you, please send an email to magazine@ subbacultcha.be
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Asa Moto by Tiny Geeroms
The vintage analogue beats of young Ghentbased duo Asa Moto are the result of a collaboration between Olivier Geerts and Gilles NoÍ. They recently released their very first EP on DEEWEE, the label created by the Dewaele brothers – better known as the men behind 2ManyDJs and Soulwax. This nu-disco effort features two excellent tracks that have given us high hopes at the Subba office, leaving everyone hungry for more of their highly danceable cosmic beats. soundcloud.com/asa-moto101
Photos shot by Tiny Geeroms in Ghent, Belgium
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Asa Moto plays Different Class at 019, Ghent on 13 August. The festival is free for members.
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Syracuse It’s summer, you’re halfway down the sombre stairs of an underground party when you hear tropical percussion resonating through the walls... your ears perceive a voice whispering mermaid-like chants... You follow the beat, and suddenly, you’re deep underwater and discover Syracuse standing in the middle of a crowd, guiding it in a slow-motion trance. We woke up and decided to call up Syracuse, the Parisian duo that focuses on giving its audience the ultimate live music experience Interview by Julien Van de Casteele Photos shot by Irwin Barbé in Paris, France
In what kind of environment did you grow up? Isabelle: I grew up in the Pacific, in New Caledonia with my father. I was really bored there and I moved to Paris alone when I was 15. I started graphic design and fashion studies but I didn’t like how I had to fit a certain mould,
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Syracuse and it was also really competitive. So for a while I was bumming around, graffitiing, things like that. I started working at a club and that led me to meet people from the music industry like Antoine. Antoine: I’ve lived my whole life in Paris. I was exposed very early on to various forms of experimental arts, with my mum being a theatre actor and my dad setting up science-fiction festivals and music shows around France. I joined several bands from various music genres, going from jazz to punk and disco, and finally formed Syracuse. What do your parents think of the career path you chose to take? A: My parents have always told me that the most important thing in life is to be happy. So they’re cool with it. I: For me, my dad wanted me to become some manager or something. So yeah, it was a long process. I wasn’t really good at anything and people were telling me, ‘There will always be people playing music better than you.’ But you know that’s not what we’re trying to do. Then last year, my dad congratulated me for this Sequences thing with CultureBox for FranceTV. So I think his view on it has changed. Is Syracuse more approachable than other ‘underground’ music? A: We love underground, lost, forgotten weird music, but we also love pop music. So we don’t want to only make sense to music geeks, but rather bring different genres together and make their fans more open-minded. Has Syracuse always been a duo? A: Initially we wanted to be a disco band. It was us and people playing the saxophone, guitar, percussions, trumpet, rhodes. It was eight of us. Tour-
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‘We produce music that is rooted not only in the interests and ideas Isabelle and I share but also in those of our audience’ ing with eight people is complicated and you don’t make money off the fee. So we put this project aside more for an economic reason and worked as a duo. We really want to pick it up again, but we’re keeping it for once the band is a bit more established. Yeah, I had the feeling that the instruments used throughout your three releases evolved quite bit. I: Yeah, well we started using raw instruments, like acoustic guitar and percussions, but we realised that we had to create something that was closer to what we do live for the next albums. A: For our latest record we first tested our music on audiences for a year. Based on reactions, we reworked certain arrangements, tested again and gradually the album was ready to be recorded. This is, I think, completely counterclockwise to what’s being done today – which often explains why lives these days aren’t that great. In the end, we produce music that is taking its roots not only in the interests and ideas Isabelle and I share but also in those of our audience. Is this something you wanna keep doing? A: For the next one, I think we’re gonna want to have something that is more studio ‘produced’.
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I: Yeah, we’re gonna try to have a mix of the recording methods from our first and most recent albums. Invite instruments that are not necessarily present live. Who should we keep an eye on? Isabelle & Antoine: Niko Motte, the Lyon label BFDM, Raphaël Top-Secret from Belgium, Anaïs Myako known Syracuse plays Different Class at 019, as Myako, these guys behind Music Ghent on 13 August. The festival is free for from memory. members.
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by Ruud Rudy Van Moorleghem Out-and-proud gay rapper Khalif Diouf a.k.a. Le1f is one of those rare true-meaning-of-theword innovators. He creates refreshing, socially enlightened hip-hop sprung from the roots of the early-’90s drag and ball culture and runs his own hip hop label Camp & Street. Following a series of well-received mixtapes and EPs, Le1f’s debut studio album Riot Boi was released in November 2015. The Manhattan native is a Wesleyan graduate in ballet and modern dance and has established himself as a transcendental fashion icon. And there’s good news: we are welcoming him for Different Class Text by Laura Bonne
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LE1F & Sheniqua World Tour play Different Class at 019, Ghent on 13 August. The festival is free for members.
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Sun Araw
Interview by Sasha Ermakov Photos by Logan White, shot in Los Angeles
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Interview Sun Araw is Cameron Stallones, a man of many projects and adventures. Once you start chatting with the guy you quickly learn that his versatility encompasses lending his musical talents to friends, photography, graphic design, travelling to the Congo and a penchant for movies. While wandering in one of LA’s hidden gardens, Stallones monopolised the conversation, telling many stories – including a great one about a motel in Florida. How would you describe your process of composition? Real inspiration is trans-personal, which just means we share it. Or more specifically, that it’s not something people have; it’s a place people can go. So artwork that comes from real inspiration has a two-fold pleasure principle: first, recognition (‘Hey, I’ve seen that rock!’) and second, the translation (‘Hey, you sure put that rock into words I wouldn’t have used’). Have movies influenced your music in any way? Definitely, I think I started to make music only because it seemed impossible to make the movies I wanted to make. Music was just more immediate, but what I was trying to create with music was what I liked about certain movies, which was the feeling of going completely into a place – a place that has particular qualities – and then exploring that place and those qualities.
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Sun Araw What movies inspire you? In the last few years I’d say Communion (1989) and Vanishing Point (1971), and Knightriders (1981) on the side, as the big three. What are your upcoming projects? I’m outrageously close to finishing the new Sun Araw album, but in the meantime I’ve released an album by Ghanaian gyil-master SK KAKRABA, a book of photos I took on an enchanted cellphone, and I am about to release an album by the one and only Rob Magill. In the other meantime, my friend Ged and I have been releasing hot wave new DUPPY GUN material, which is the outer limits dancehall label we started after our first trip to Jamaica. Two EPs so far this year and two more to come. How would you compare your experience playing in other groups to playing in Sun Araw? In some ways I find collaborating much more relaxing: you see the gap and you fill it. But Sun Araw is like, ‘Hello! HELLO!’ alone in a room until it sounds rich and full, which is a different thing altogether. Solo work is very rewarding but you’re building the whole boat, but then it’s exhilarating when you got this boat. What’s the craziest thing that’s happened to you in a motel in Florida? Well, as a matter of fact something fairly crazy. We were on tour and Alex, my bandmate at the time, was on this downward hell spiral because his wisdom tooth got infected and we were just coping. Soylent Green was on the TV and it was after 3AM and I heard the sounds of robust, vigorous sexual intercourse. I went out on the balcony and looked down to see these peo-
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‘Real inspiration is trans-personal, which just means we share it. [...] It’s not something people have, it’s a place people can go’
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Sun Araw ple doing their thing in the shallow end of the pool. The lady immediately locks eyes with me like she’s been waiting all night and says, ‘You’re watching this’, in this way that makes you immediately, physically need to stop watching it. Her pupils were like rectangles from whatever psychotic mix of crushed antihistamines and spray adhesive they’d been smoking. I decided I wanted nothing of this, and they started on Alex. He was way too far down his pain spiral to even care what was happening and just staring at the waistoid Orlando horizon with dead eyes.The dude noticed and was like, ‘Oh bro, man. You need some weed, man?’ Alex explained that we already had some but this bro is already bounding out of the pool completely naked and shockingly agile looking exactly like Gavin Rossdale at Woodstock 99. This motel was on a super busy intersection in downtown Orlando, mind you, and Rossdale is dripping wet on a public street with a roaring erection and he tosses up a bag of gnarled brown. Alex takes a bit just to get this dude to go return to whatever insanity his night is gonna be from this blessed juncture and leave us alone. But the dude shouts, ‘No way, brother, you gotta take more than that!’ and is throwing the bag back up again. In the meantime, an older man walking by has stopped to gaze at the naked people and the lady points to her own nakedness and says, ‘You coulda been watching this!’ because she’s totally on that hyper-determined creep-out tip which is weird because despite everything, the Gavin Rossdale dude seems somehow so healthy and spiritually whole. The old man takes it pretty even and says, ‘Well, just tell me next time.’ It was super demented and very ‘Florida’, and somehow I remember it fondly. If you knew the world was going to end this Sunday, how would you spend the rest of your week? I think I’d go and be close to a few people I care for very deeply and then eat some real nice Szechuan, and then check out some Sun Araw plays Het Bos, Antwerp on 12 nature till it’s time. July. The show is free for members.
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Featured Artist Elísabet Birta Sveinsdóttir is a Reykjavík-based dancer and artist who works across several disciplines. She was one of the first
Elísabet Birta Sveinsdóttir participants in AIR (Artist In Residence), a side projects of In De Ruimte, a platform/workspace for expositions, workshops, residences and music. We had the chance to meet while making a boat trip through Ghent on In De Ruimte’s so-called ‘spaceship’ Interview by Laura Bonne — Photos shot by Catherine Lemblé on the boat and at In De Ruimte in Ghent, Belgium
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Elísabet Birta Sveinsdóttir What brings you here? One of the founders of In De Ruimte was doing parades in a few European cities, and I collaborated with him in Iceland. I showed him around an exhibition I had going on at that time. That’s when he invited me to participate the AIR project. I was super up for it, so here I am. I feel very lucky.
self in that kind of environment, my work becomes more inviting and aesthetically pleasing. You get lured into it, but then the message behind it is more dark. Have you always worked across disciplines? Yes, it feels natural for me to work that way. I studied contemporary dance first, but I didn’t feel satisfied. I decided to switch to fine arts to broaden my horizons with different media. But I always work with my body. I am the work when I’m performing, for example; then I use it as a material. But also when I’m painting or sculpting I’m really connected with my intuition: I always listen to my body. The idea behind a piece can be abstract, but in the end it always becomes really visceral.
How would you define your work? I often work with feminist issues, though I have mixed feelings about the stamp ‘feminist art’ has. It doesn’t have such a positive connotation: when a piece is made by a woman it is mostly called feminist. As soon as it gets this stamp the artist’s voice becomes less important, because it becomes only about feminism instead of her being an artist who is expressing herself. I work with feminism to question that whole concept. I use myself and my personal experience as an example, to make the result more narrative and relatable. In that way I touch upon women’s issues and role models without being totally conceptual. Where do you get your inspiration? I often use influences from pornography and pop. By placing my-
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Books Text and photo by Gabriela Gonzalez
Outsider Art Sourcebook Edited by John Maizels Since Dubuffet’s original work on artists existing outside mainstream cultural circuits, John Maizels and the Raw Vision crew are arguably at the contemporary forefront of all things outsider art. Through Raw Vision magazine, the latest developments and most pressing issues regarding artists on the fringe are given the much-needed platform that keeps them from falling back into obsolescence. Maizels’s Outsider Art Sourcebook represents the pinnacle of decades of research, documentation and wonder undertaken by Raw Vision and their predecessors. While the latest edition has long been in reprint, the wait was worth it: over 100 artists, galleries and visionary environments have their place in this anthology. Alongside better-known names such as Alex Grey and Henry Darger lurk many underground figures whose stories are often equal parts tragic and inspiring. And while insanity and religious zeal make up a large part of the artists’ transfigurations, this compilation is a true testament to human resilience, the power of creation and the willingness to surpass circumstance and misfortune to create and inhabit one’s own world through art. The section on the aforementioned visionary environments is particularly compelling: to translate one’s mental climate into a physical place makes for a deeply haunting, wondrous experience. I know my next road trip will be planned around these spaces, as there are many of them spread all over the world to remind us that people’s inner worlds are often more engaging than the ones imposed by the reigning authorities of worthiness.
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All clothing by Hannah Vanspauwen Liyo is part of the HE4RTBROKEN collective. They will be closing down Different Class.
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Films by Sabzian
Zomerfilmcollege 2016 10-16 July, Antwerp
‘I can’t help but see in the work of Chantal Akerman a very peculiar kind of “documentary realism”. As a desire to portray objects very precisely and accurately. It’s not vraisemblance or (illusory) reality effects – rather about innuendoes that are controllable for insiders. I don’t know if Jeanne Dielman’s kitchen feels real – for who has known it? – it is astoundingly recognisable. It is probably possible to see Akerman’s films as a venture to portray certain objects correctly and totally.’ (Daniel Robberechts) Every year Vlaamse Dienst voor Filmcultuur organises a week-long symposium bridging the gap between cinephiles and scholars. More than 15 talks (both in English and Dutch) and 20 screenings make up this year’s ‘Zomerfilmcollege’ focused on the work of Chantal Akerman on the one hand and a musical genre on the other. To get up to speed, read our tribute to Akerman on Sabzian.be. Register before 6 July by mailing to info@vdfc.be
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Films Sicilia! Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, 1999 ‘Then one fine day you realise that it’s better to see as little as possible. You have a sort of reduction, only it’s not a reduction; it’s a concentration and it actually says more. But you don’t do this immediately from one day to the next! You need patience. A sigh can become a novel.’ (Straub) Flagey, Brussels, 13, 19, 27 & 31 July and 24 August
Cinematek Retrospectives: Jacques Rivette & film noir Two very different kinds of refuge at Cinematek this summer. Find our selection of both the Jacques Rivette programme and the film noir cycle at Sabzian.be ‘I think that the cinema, even at its most naturalistic, is always secretly involved in levels of dream and fantasy, and that we must see the so-called director as a kind of psychoanalyst. Like the psychoanalyst, the director does not talk, he listens – but this is, of course, just a metaphor.’ (Rivette) Sabzian is a collection of online reflections on cinema, and maps cinephile events in Belgium and its surroundings. Articles are written in Dutch, English and French - sabzian.be
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VrIJDAG 1 JULI SLIDE #3: met o.a Rudy Trouvé, Sjoerd Bruil, Hannes d’Hoine DiNSDAG 5 JULI SUMAC (vs) + MAMIFFER (vs) + JANNE WESTERLUND (fin) DiNSDAG 12 JULI SUN ARAW (vs) DoNDERDAG 14 JULI CENTURIES (vs) + WRONG (vs) + SOUL GRIP VrIJDAG 15 JULI // GRATIS BONNIE BANANE (fr, in de Bosbar) HANTRAX (in de CONCERTzaal) zaterdag 16 JULI YUNG INTERNET (EP Release) ZoNDAG 17 JULI GARLIC & JAZZ festival: met o.a Carate Urio Orchestra MaANDAG 18 JULI ENDLESS BOOGIE (vs) VrIJDAG 22 JULI BLACKLISTED (vs) + ARROW DOWN + OUTLINE zaterdag 23 JULI LINK CAFE (jamsessie) ZoNDAG 24 JULI // Sold Out! COSMIC PSYCHOS (au) + SPEEDÖZER
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woensdag 24 AUGUSTUS RADIOACTIVITY(vs) + BAD SPORTS (vs) vrijdag 26 AUGUSTUS ENTRAILS (sw) + VILLAINY (nl) zaterdag 27 AUGUSTUS EXPLODED VIEW (vk/mex) + GUN OUTFIT (us)
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Film: Eau Zoo
02 October - Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 | â‚Ź5 | Free for members
landscapes beaten by the wind, the movie flirts with a certain anticipation cinema, proves to be a Shakespearean drama and becomes a captivating, peculiar tale.
Emilie Verhamme is a promising young director. Her first full-length
Things to do this month — July + August 2016
was screened at several movie festivals. Lou and Martin are adolescents living on an island with their overprotective parents, trying to escape. Against a backdrop of
Music, art and film
BARBAARD GENE BERVOETS, FRANSSISS BROWNE DE BRUYNE, JOOST VANDECASTEELE, DELPHINE LECOMPTE, ROLAND, OLE SOLLIED, BRAM VAN DER VELDE, ANDY FIERENS, YANNICK MOYSON, MON COCQUYT 02.07 - DOK
BIG NEXT WEEKEND LANY, ROBBING MILLIONS, AMANDA BERGMAN, SHAME, COCAINE PISS, THE GARDEN, WHISPERING SONS, SMERZ, 04.09 - DOK
LOVELY DAY STADT, BERT DOCKX, LSD SOUNDSYSTEM 09.07 - DOK
GHENT SOUNDSYSTEM ACADEMY 10.09 - DOK
OBLIVIANS + The Glücks 26.07 - DOK BEACH PARTY LEFTO, MIXMONSTER MENNO, JUICE BLENDERS… 06.08 - DOK KEVIN MORBY 26.08 - DOK BIG NEXT WEEKEND RHEINZAND, EXPLODED VIEW, SZUN WAVES, BON VOYAGE ORGANISATION, WWWATER, WOOLY MAMMOTHS, KIKAGAKU MOYO, WANTHANEE 03.09 - DOK
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SHARON ROBINSON 06.09 & 07.09 MINARDSCHOUWBURG
DE BELOFTEN 17.09 - ST BAAFSWEIDE ALL EYES ON HIP HOP BISHOP NEHRU 22.09 - DOK HONG KONG DONG 25.09 - DOK FADED OBIE TRICE 07.10 - VOORUIT LEFTO PRESENTS MADE IN BELGIUM 09.10 - VOORUIT COMPACT DISK DUMMIES 15.10 - HANDELSBEURS
BOMBINO + William Tyler 29.10 - DE CENTRALE AUTECHRE + Russell Haswell + Andy Maddocks 30.10 - VOORUIT BLACK FLOWER 06.11 - VOORUIT HORACE ANDY, KEN BOOTHE, JAH9 06.11 - VOORUIT K’S CHOICE THE BACKPACK SESSIONS 10.11 - HANDELSBEURS THE CAT EMPIRE + Tinpan Orange 11.11 - VOORUIT WOODIE SMALLS 13.11 - VOORUIT BALZAAL MURA MASA 15.11 - VOORUIT FUTURISTIC 04.12 - CHARLATAN ADMIRAL FREEBEE 15.12 - HANDELBEURS
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On the following pages you’ll find all of this month’s Subbacultcha events. You can buy a ticket at the door or become a Subbacultcha member and enter for free. Join at subbacultcha.be went through during their year as residents. It’s the ideal occasion to discover new artists and their cutting edge art.
Expo: Foreign Places
Theatre: Aufstieg Und fall der Stadt Mahagonny 01 July - 14 Aug - WIELS, Brussels 11.00 I €10 I Free for members WIELS is one of the most respected arts institutions in Belgium and their residency programme enables young and talented creators to evolve into fully fledged contemporary artists in 365 days. During that year, they have access to a fully equipped work space, and are mentored and challenged by established contemporary artists. The Alumni Residents Exhibition shows the results of their labour, as well as the evolution they
01 July - Opera, Antwerp 20.00 I €14-94 I Free for members ‘For If we don’t find the next whiskey bar, I tell you we must die’. The lizard king’s rendition of these words are the best known, but the song is actually part of the opera-
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meets-cabaret Aufstieg Und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny. Centre stage in this libretto are three fugitives from justice who found a pleasure town in a desolate no man’s land. Sharks from all over flock to the bait and the three fugitives profit excessively from their weaknesses, until the town becomes a living hell. The flamboyant production by Calixto Bieito in Opera Vlaanderen is as illustrious as the original written by German composer Kurt Weill. Dear Members, if you want to come see this show, reservations need to be made before Thursday, 30 June. Send an email to kasper-jan@subbacultcha.be if you want to come.
Boyle turns this story about addicts inside out, with vivid Francis Bacon influenced production design, surrealistic sequences, and an editing style akin to a Spike Jonze music video. Come hang out with your favourite scumbags before the upcoming sequel makes them even more unlikable.
Sun Araw
Film: Trainspotting
01 July - Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 20.00 | €5 | Free for members
12 July - Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | €13 | Free for members
One of the most successful independent films of the ‘90s makes its return to the big screen this month. Follow Denton and his rag-tag team of scottish scum as they try and survive the ‘80s in the harsh heroin capital of Europe. Eschewing the trite cliches about drug addiction, Danny
Experimental sonic wizard and dublab DJ Sun Araw, brings his eclectic blend of live improvisational music to Antwerp this month. Expect his experimental/ psy/dub/unclassifiable music to blow you off this planet, and then keep you suspended in a spacey, zen-like state.
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Film: VampirCuadecuc
First Hate
15 July - Cinematek, Brussels 19.45 | €4 | Free for members
21 July - Boomtown Festival, Ghent 21.30 | €9 | Free for members
Back in the ‘70s Spanish filmmaker Jesùs Franco released Count Dracula. While directing Christopher Lee to step into a coffin there was another Spanish director in the room. Pere Portabella filmed Franco’s crew while they prepared themselves or just goofed around. By combining this footage with scenes from the movie itself, Portabella created a black-and-white, silent metafilm. The film’s reception was mixed, because of the deconstruction of the Dracula myth. By showing the falseness behind this creation, many saw similarities with the efforts of dictators like Franco to create powerful images of themselves in the media.
This mysterious Danish Duo creates dreamy and detached synthpop with a unique atmosphere. Calling First Hate a contemporary cold wave band would be a stretch. But the voice - did Ian Curtis have a baby with Robert Smith? - and the creamy, haunting synths do evoke the atmosphere of Brussels’ early ‘80s post-punk scene. First Hate have mastered the tackiness of the early ‘80s and use it as a tool to surprise, thrill and move the listener. Earlier on that evening, you can - and should - check out the Antwerpbased electro artist Avondlicht.
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CONCERTS SAT 17.09
OUTER LIMITS CLUB RP BOO / HIELE / DJ FIRMEZA / ...
SUN 25.09
TIM HECKER
THU 29.09
KRANKLAND
WED 12.10
HANTRAX
SUN 16.10
ALAIN PIERRE
Join the club with this Chicago footwork legend
SUPPORT: OTTO LINDHOLM
Hazy ambient beauty, for William Basinski / Ben Frost fans Psychedelic guitartrips, with members of SX & Yuko - Caféconcert, free entrance
Future eighties electronics from Antwerp Caféconcert, free entrance Unique solo concert from the man behind Belgian classic cartoon ‘Jan zonder Vrees’ Film Fest @ Vooruit in collaboration with: Stroom tv & Music Mania
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Festival: Rock Zerkegem
Party: After-party Borgerwood Festival 22-23 July - Spoor Oost, Antwerp 23.00 | €13 | Free for members Borgerwood Festival ‘brings music for the hood’. Planning on going? Then don’t plan to get home early, as the afterparties are some serious Subba material and therefore completely free for members — both nights. On the bill: Acid Arab, Robert Bergman, Daniel Wang, Harvey Sutherland, Lawrence Le Doux b2b DeKeiser and sixsixsixties + Kong.
23 July - Schooiweg, Zerkegem 15.00 | €10 | Free for members
Film: El Dia de la Bestia
Somewhere deep in the countryside, right in between Bruges and Ostend, is the lovely town of Zerkegem. On 23 July its air will be filled with psychedelic and all-round experimental music, as Rock Zerkegem is putting up its stages once more. On the line-up you’ll find: Equal Idiots, Voodooland, Embers, The Cosmic Dead, and many more.
2 August - Cinema Galeries, Brussels 19.00 | €8.50 | Free for Members Sinful priests, metalheads, shady TV hosts, acid trips, and the ultimate showdown against the Antichrist in downtown Madrid. El Dia de la Bestia broke the Spanish box office back in the ‘90s,, and just like the titular beast it refuses to
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Festival: Different Class
die. A demented trip and a bloody headfuck - not for the faint of heart, but (sorry) funny as hell.
Festival: Micro Festival
05 & 06 Aug - Espace 251 Nord, Liège All day | €19 | Free for members
13 Aug - 019, Ghent 15.30 | €20 | Free for members
Music collective Jauneorange presents the seventh edition of its very own Micro Festival. Prepare to be launched into a cosmic universe of music with 15 acts from all over our tiny little globe and its musical spectrum. Already confirmed is Dutch band The Ex, Japan-based revelation Goat, Belgian Marc Melia, local Duane Serah from Liège, California native Morgan Delt and Jambinai from South Korea.
Don’t worry friends, the name changes, but everything else remains the same. This means that this summer you’ll still be able to discover some of the most promising pioneer artists of the year. Head over to our focus page to find out about the lineup we’ve got cookin’ for you. So don’t type ‘Wastelands’ in your GPS unless fetish is your thang.
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Kevin Morby
sure to catch him at a show that will consist of witty banter, great riffs and cheap beer.
Film: W.R: Misterije organizma (W.R: Mysteries of the Organism) 28 Aug - Cinematek, Brussels 21.30 | €4 | Free for members Political satire WR: Mysteries of the Organism by counterculture Serbian filmmaker Dušan Makavejev was considered politically offensive and was banned under pressure from Moscow upon release in ‘70s communist Yugoslavia. Makavejev recounts the story of a Yugoslav woman who seduces a Stalinlike Soviet ice skater as a metaphor of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich’s theory Orgone energy. The film is a declaration of Stalinism being a form of Freudian sexual repression. By ignoring the advances of a worker, the young slavic girl rejects her pure communist beliefs and rejoices in the ice skater.
26 Aug - DOK (Democrazy), Ghent 19.30 | €15 | Free for members Mr Folky blues, Kevin Morby, will be in Ghent this month to serenade you with some of his classic oldies, newbies, and a little bit of inbetweenies. His new album Singing Saw shows that the ex-Woods member is maturing like a fine wine. Live, Morby invites you to live a story where the script seems to be pulled out of his journal. To experience him live is a treat, so be
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Agenda — Focus by Sasha Ermakov & Laura Bonne
Different Class From the ashes of Wastelands, the Subba phoenix arises in the form of a newer, louder and sexier festival: Different Class. A crazy merger of creative minds, there’ll be great music, in a great venue, with great drinks and – if we’re lucky – some great summer weather. 13 August - 019, Ghent Syracuse This Parisian electro duo promises highly danceable and aquatic synthpop tunes. The ideal music to metaphorically float away on...
echo the melodies of the Velvet Underground and garage-pop of bands like The Chills and The Bats. Sheniqua World Tour Sheniqua equals a mélange of heavy beats, dark vocals, trance vibes, weird visuals and sexy dance moves.
Asa Moto Asa Moto, with their vintage analogue beats, are one of the newest signees on the Deewee label, run by the Dewaele brothers.
Pruikduif Pruikduif was formed as the result of a ping-pong jam session. Soon a bunch of songs emerged, mixing post-punk attitude with challenging pop tunes.
LE1F New York rapper and producer LE1F’s rapid-fire lyrics frequently confront his experience as an openly-gay hiphop artist, which is sure to make this a must-see performance.
Kablam Swedish-based music that ‘represents and imitates all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and noise of beasts and birds’.
BEA1991 Young dutch pop chanteuse BEA1991 is about to break through internationally. She’s the protégé of Dev Hynes so watch this space.
HE4RTBROKEN Fans of the emo HE4ARTBROKEN nights will be glad to hear this collective is closing. Tissues available at the door.
Ultimate Painting Their economical three-minute songs
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Mykki BlancoUS Slow MagicUS First HateDK Damien JuradoUS Giant SandUS Anna MeredithUK Stuff. The Black Heart Rebellion AND MANy MoRE
opera, handelsbeurs & kouter GENT Introduce your friends to bands at first hand.
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Agenda — Focus by Mathias Bourgonjon
Dour Festival Since its first edition back in 1989, Dour festival has attracted an increasing number of music zealots – 228,000 in 2015 – from across Europe, who make the annual pilgrimage to trample the hallowed festival ground in Hainaut. This year’s line-up will have you dazed, confused – and packing your giantframed sunglasses, your indispensable rubber boots and plenty of cheap supermarket-brand lager. To make things easier for you, we’ve selected this year’s don’t-miss artists. You can thank us later... 13-17 July — Dour SOPHIE 14 July Plastic laser gun-like sounds, bouncy ball-driven rhythms and high-pitched female voices bring London-based electro dance-pop musician Samuel Long’s compositions to Technicolor heights.
name, this Arizona band makes… well, pretty direct and unambiguous music: dense and vehement punk-influenced psychedelic hardcore is their weapon of choice. The Soft Moon 16 July In lunar atmospheres where gravity has completely taken over, Luis Vasquez’s post-punk solo project anchors a complex machinery of industrial sonorities orchestrated by sometimes darkly menacing, sometimes angelically smooth vocals.
Flavien Berger 14 July Standard bearer of the contemporary French wave, this Parisian is an impressionist sound artist whose palette mixes graphic stimuli, meaningful texts and spacious melodic universes. Tav Exotic 15 July Preaching the supremacy of the analogic, these Belgians leave the laptop behind to enhance the listening experience by means of knobs, switches and various other buttons.
Konono N°1 17 July Because a summer festival necessarily requires summer vibes, you’re strongly advised to dance along to this Kinshasa band’s scorching tunes lead by three electric likembé (a Congolese lamellophone), zealous singers and frantic percussions.
Destruction Unit 16 July Behind their direct and unambiguous
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Subbacultcha Events in July + August See all these shows for free. Join at subbacultcha.be
Expo: Foreign Places
01 July - 14 Aug - WIELS, Brussels 11.00 I €10 I Free for members
Theatre: Aufstieg Und fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Party: After-party Borgerwood Festival
22-23 July - Spoor Oost, Antwerp 23.00 | €13 | Free for members
Film: El Dia de la Bestia
01 July - Opera, Antwerp 20.00 I €14-94 I Free for members
02 August - Cinema Galeries, Brussels 19.00 | €8.50 | Free for Members
Film: Trainspotting
Festival: Micro Festival
Sun Araw
Festival: Different Class
01 July - Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 20.00 | €5 | Free for members
12 July - Het Bos, Antwerp 20.00 | €13 | Free for members
05 & 06 Aug - Espace 251 Nord, Liège All day | €19 | Free for members
13 Aug - 019, Ghent 15.30 | €20 | Free for members
Morby Film: Vampir-Cuadecuc Kevin 26 Aug - DOK (Democrazy), Ghent 15 July - Cinematek, Brussels 19.45 | €4 | Free for members
First Hate
21 July - Boomtown Festival, Ghent 21.30 | €9 | Free for members
Festival: Rock Zerkegem
19.30 | €15 | Free for members
Film: W.R.: misterije organizma (WR: Mysteries of the Organism) 28 Aug - Cinematek, Brussels 21.30 | €4 | Free for members
23 July - Schooiweg, Zerkegem 15.00 | €10 | Free for members
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