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The Future Issue

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Subbacultcha! Magazine June 2014

The Future Issue

Remember when L.A. looked like Hong Kong and Harrison Ford was hunting down rogue robots? That seemingly distant future is only 5 years away and our reality is far from it. But while we were dreaming up flying cars, computer love and dystopian worlds, the future happened – it was 3D printed, actually. In Heatsick’s words, “the present is the real future, it’s happening right now!” You just didn’t notice because you were too busy swiping left and dissing Siri for her search results. That’s why this month we’re taking issue with the future and all our expectations of it.

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Colophon Subbacultcha! magazine: Da Costakade 150, 1053 XC Amsterdam, the Netherlands www.subbacultcha.nl. magazine@subbacultcha.nl Editors in chief: Leon Caren and Bas Morsch Editor: Phil van der Krogt

Distribution: Patrick van der Klugt (distro@subbacultcha.nl)

Copy editor: Megan Roberts

Interns: Callum McLean and Roxanne Merrell

Design: Marina Henao and Bas Morsch

Good Guys: Keimpe Koldijk, Bram Nigten and Fedor Oduber

Master of affairs: Loes Verputten

Good Girls: Carly Blair, Andreea Breazu, Milou Hautus and Rose Nederlof

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Contributors: Anna Berkhof, Carly Blair, Basje Boer, Koen van Bommel, Brenda Bosma, Andreea Breazu, Zofia Ciechowska, Adam Harper, Marc van der Holst, Mariska Kerpel, Floor Kortman, Ryan Lowry, Callum McLean, Roxanne Merrell, Ina Niehoff, Lonneke van der Palen, Maciej Pestka, Carlijn Potma, Derek Robertson, Marinus de Ruiter, Mandy Sharabani, Gert Verbeek, Isolde Woudstra.

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Content

Trust page 18

Heatsick page 25

Girl Band page 32

Recommendations 11 We Saw You 16 The Morning After 36 Featured Artists 38 Books 44 Fashion 46 Food 48

Music Reviews 50 New Films 52 Subbacultcha! shows 57 Agenda 68 Free Stuff 76 After Midnight 77 Overview 78

Cover image by Piet Langeveld & Gerda Postma

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

Music: TĀLĀ

Music: Quirke

This summer’s rising alt-pop star TĀLĀ is pure gold. It was in south-west London where her family’s wild mix of Iranian pop, Prince and The Beatles chemically bonded with her love of garage and R&B, forever influencing TĀLĀ’s intriguingly diverse style as a producer and singer-songwriter. The result is a glowing, thumping electronic pop akin to the likes of M.I.A. and Fatima Al Qadiri. Her debut release, The Duchess, will drop on 2 June on Aesop.

If sounds came with an epileptic warning, these would. Young Turks have welcomed British producer Quirke amongst their ranks and we couldn’t be more excited to say hello. Track ‘Break a Mirrored Leg’ from his upcoming EP will leave you feeling breathless, terrified, queasy, ecstatic – every emotion all at once, times a million. Acid Beth drops on 19 May on Young Turks. We had to resist typing this blurb in ALL CAPS. Basically, we fucking can’t wait.

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June recommendations Music: Talker

Art: k.i. beyoncé / jongens van de wereld

Chicago underground old timers Jonathan Krohn and Karl Meier have joined forces as Talker, a collaboration that has brought forth a mounting storm of gritty, industrial techno of the brooding, bleak sort. With little back story to tell, their music will speak for itself with its pulsing slow jams that morph into relentlessly tense beats. You’ll be very lucky to get your hands on their 12", which is out on Downwards.

fashion / attitude

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Book: An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

Art: The File Arts

Chances are you’ve already read quite a few things by blogger/editor/writer Roxane Gay. She’s responsible for approximately half of the good stuff on the internet, a superb short story collection (Ayiti), and now An Untamed State, an ‘assured debut’ about a woman being kidnapped, a father refusing to pay ransom and her husband fighting for her release. Plus the aftermath. Wild.

Speaking of the future, here we have The File Arts, an online gallery that sells art that only exists digitally. Digital images are often not recognised as art in their own right, or are shared without a way to credit and compensate the artist. For a fair price, The File Arts sells source files – the closest you’ll ever get to digital art. And you get to do with it whatever you want. You can even put it on your online profile face recogniser platform. Or whatever the kids are using these days. thefilearts.com

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June recommendations Food: Meat the future

Misc: Library of Vanished Sounds Do you know what it sounds like when you mow the grass with a scythe?

Or what sound a grinding millstone makes? The Library of Vanished Sound builds an archive of noises from times past. If you own any old recordings you can submit them. And since today is the future’s past, better start recording that senseo machine before its too late. nps.nl/nps/radio/supplement/99/soundscapes/bibliotheek/

Ten billion people. Sounds crazy, huh?

In 2050 we’re going to have a huge amount of mouths to feed. Will there be enough good quality food to go around?

That’s the question. One thing’s for sure, we need to change our menu and swap all those animal proteins for more sustainable alternatives. Food futurologists predict: lab-grown meats, insects, sonic-enhanced food and algae. The Dutch are already pioneering in this field of play with the so-called Dutch Weed Burger: a hamburger without the, um, ham, instead made with seaweed.

Try one at the Rollende Keukens food festival in Amsterdam, 28 May-01 June.

Misc: Nineties kids

The Nineties are back, again. For real though. Those Nineties kids, born in ’94/’95, they’re not 12 any more. Seriously, they’re, like, 20. They are emerging on the music scene and they’ve brought the Nineties with them. Anyone who caught Torus’ DJ set at the FKA twigs show knows this. Let’s applaud them and their Nikes and haircuts and hats and bling. We from the Eighties welcome you.

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June recommendations Music: SENTINL Recommended by Adam Harper Every month we ask someone who inspires us to share something they are passionate about. This month we called on Oxford musicologist and The Fader and Dummy Mag contributor Adam Harper to cast his musical third eye into the future.

SoundCloud is a great place to run across some intimidatingly skilled and imaginative hi-tech beats by mysterious unsigned producers, pushing the future club sounds of Fade to Mind and co. into some captivatingly twisted non-human zones. Some of my favourite cybernetic discoveries include RSK RSK and Supah Moonmoon, but the robotic probes of SENTINL have drilled themselves into my cranium with their surprising but successful mix of UK alien grime (Bloom, Logos, Visionist) and the avantelectronics of names like Oneohtrix Point Never and Diamond Black Hearted Boy. The name is not divulged but the location is Baltimore, the same as other weird beatmakers such as Gh∞st and VIOLENCE. Some of the better tracks were taken down in preparation of an imminent debut, but SENTINL’s promise shows in a pair of mixes that serve as tours of the modern hi-tech sound palette and are sprinkled with original material. The aesthetic gets visual on the video for one track posted to SENTINL’s Tumblr, where the android drones, servo motors and elegant bass tones mix with crisp interior décor and the very best gadgets. A strong and strange dawn for the new age of technology. soundcloud.com/hyybrid - hyybrid.tumblr.com

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We Saw You: Spotted at Subbacultcha!

Photo by Mariska Kerpel

What’s the first record you bought?

‘When You Look at Me’ by Christina Milian or something by the Spice Girls.

Your first ever music-related memory?

Dancing for hours to ‘Smurfhouse’.

What is your ideal lazy Sunday?

Finally being able to concentrate on my physics homework. If that’s not lazy enough, being woken by the sun, having breakfast in my garden, listening to music, meeting a friend to wander the city, eating roti by a canal or in a park.

Any guilty pleasures?

Eating a huge bowl of eight different kinds of cereal while watching Sex and the City for the sixth time.

Any regrets recently?

No, except some mornings when I ate too much cereal.

What kind of music makes you cry?

Pink Floyd – not the experimental stuff, but songs like ‘Comfortably Numb’ and ‘Wish You Were Here’, that one also makes me smile.

What makes you dance?

Pretty much everything, except for bad dubstep.

Which future Subbacultcha! show are you looking forward to?

Wolf Eyes. I don’t know them, but having your ears twisted into shapes you didn’t know were possible, sounds like fun!

Name: Isolde Wassilissa Kuijper Age: 23 Spotted at: FKA twigs at Trouw Amsterdam on 01 May Home: Amsterdam Keywords: master physics UvA, wasabi, samosa, whiskey, Murakami, Cronenberg, dreaming, dark chocolate, Adrien Brody, dancing, theory of general relativity Zodiac sign: Virgo What are you thinking right now?

About how well the sun and the song ‘What I Got’ by Sublime go together.

What are your plans for tomorrow?

Read the fifth Harry Potter book, but this will probably bore me, so I’ll read Tampa instead. Then again, that might make me sick, so then I’ll read Norwegian Wood.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

I have no idea yet, but I’d like to see more of the world and find different jobs in different places – like New York, such a fascinating monster of a city.

What kind of music are you listening to at the moment?

Psy trance, drum and bass, sublime, Underworld, Seeed, dark psy, the Velvet Underground.

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Trust

Phone Interview by Koen van Bommel Photos shot by Ryan Lowry in Chicago, USA

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The Future Issue. Interview Trust’s Robert Alfons doesn’t have to think about the future. If he wants to know what’s in store for him, he visits a lady who reads cards. And she’s never wrong. This way, he can focus his thoughts and think about the past. Could that be why Trust’s new album, Joyland, sounds even more nostalgic and strangely familiar than their debut? Or maybe it’s because Alfons makes music primarily for himself. Like, he’d still make music if he was the sole survivor in a post-apocalyptic world. Now that’s dedication to craft Hi Robert! Let’s start with the near future. What are you doing after this interview?

I’m just getting some things together for the set this evening; we have a show in Warsaw tonight.

Does touring change your perception of time? Does time move slower or quicker when you’re on tour?

It moves a lot slower, because you don’t sleep. It’s kind of brilliant, because you can get so much done if you don’t sleep! No, it’s not good. You can go through a week and it feels like a month. And you’re moving so often. It’s definitely a weird thing to travel through

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Trust. Continued so many time zones as well. I just flew from Canada yesterday. I don’t really know what time it is.

Do you think it’s constructive to think about the future?

I think I’m the kind of person who usually thinks about the past.

And then maybe about what’s next and how do I get there. But very little about the present. It’s constructive to think about the future because, if you have aspirations and things you want to achieve, it’s productive to think and plan ahead. I don’t know if my balance is healthy, but, well… [shrugs] How did you envision your future self back when you were a child?

I think it changed. I wanted to be a construction worker or a hockey player or a musician. That’s probably what I imagined I would be when I grew up.

How did that play out? Musician worked out, so is construction work something you do on the side, as a hobby?

No. I’m useless like that. It’s definitely something I’d be interested in, but I’m useless.

Where do you see yourself in 25 years?

Goodness... Hopefully I’ll still be making music. Other than that, I think I’d like to make a movie. I also want to become a better gardener. I’d just be good at it. My garden would have tons and tons of food. It’s fascinating, because I’ve lived in cities so much, you get removed from that stuff.

Are you scared of growing old?

I think I’m coming to terms with it. I don’t know if I’m scared, but it’s definitely a weird thing. I don’t know. I feel like I just hit a period in my life where time is more real. It doesn’t feel like I’m suspended in this… fantasy land. Like, each day feels more real to me now. I can feel that time happens and passes and it’s becoming clearer that everything happens only once.

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The Future Issue. Interview ‘I can feel that time happens and passes and it’s becoming clearer that everything happens only once’

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Trust. Continued Have you ever consulted a fortune teller?

Sort of. I’ve definitely seen a card reader. I’ve seen the same one four times in the past five years.

Have any of the predictions come true?

Absolutely! They have all come to light. It’s really freaky. I think she’s a really intuitive person and I really respect her energy. On the other hand, I’m kind of on the fence about these things. I’m a super pragmatic and logical person. At the same time, I’m also the opposite and I believe in these things. I think I was kind of sceptical when I went to her, but she won me over with really intuitive and specific readings. It freaked me out. That being said, I can still talk about it in a very pragmatic and sceptical way. I think I’ll go see her again at the end of this year. I feel like it’s time again.

I used to have this fantasy that I would wake up one day in a postapocalyptic world. If that happened to you, what would you do?

Are we talking, like, no one is left? And I can still roam the world and breathe and stuff? I would just explore. If the natural world is still there, I think that’s what I’d do. I would just explore the entire natural world that I have yet to see.

You could probably still do that with people around, though.

I know! But there are so many different factors right now. And that is definitely a question of how we spend our time and where we decide to put our energy.

Would you still make music if there was no one left to hear it?

Well, absolutely! I make music for myself. It would be sad if I made an album that I didn’t really enjoy myself. So, yeah, I think even if no one was around, I would still have the urge to sing or make music somehow.

Trust plays on 08 June at Melkweg in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

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Heatsick Skype interview by Zofia Ciechowska Photos shot by Ina Niehoff in Berlin, Germany

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Heatsick. Continued Steven Warwick of Heatsick says the future is now. No irony, no middle finger directed at anyone. Don’t get hung up on past failures; don’t plan ahead. We spent the morning talking with the British-born, Berlin-based artist, notorious for his playful experiments in dance music, about playing endless sets, nostalgia and coping with how fast things seem to be going nowadays. Or has it always been like this? Breathe in, breathe out...

We’re supposed to be talking about the future, but I wanted to talk about the present.

I think the present is the real future, it’s happening right now! The future has become this modernist utopia and it’s almost retro to talk about it, you know? I feel like there’s a real culture of FOMO (fear of missing out) that stems from a panicked mentality: you have to be everywhere All. The. Time. It’s not affirmative, it’s based purely on fear.

I think that’s a large part of how experience is structured these days.

And people get interpolated into different positions. At one extreme, you can have people who know what’s happening all the time, and then others will have a 19th-century, retreat-from-technology mentality and say they’re old, grumpy and jaded. It’s important to mediate

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Heatsick. Continued that, otherwise you’ll get some silly steampunk, postmodern thing, like those general stores in Peckham that look like Disney. You don’t have to do that ‘for and against’ thing with this stuff.

Why do you think there’s this nostalgia for pre-internet days where we used payphones and happily asked strangers for directions?

I think that’s people with amnesia who are romanticising a past that they weren’t even a part of. It was totally boring and frustrating.

You’d sit in your room wishing that something like a smartphone existed. I was thinking about this this morning – because you had a strong fanzine scene, you’d go to gigs and it felt more like a subculture. People would bond more because they realised that was the only way of interacting. About 15 years ago I was listening to really obscure music that people had copied for me. Because you knew it was there, but it was hard to get, you searched more. If you can visualise yourself as a fly on a big billiard table, then it’s just overwhelming. Before you couldn’t do that as easily, and it felt more like detective work.

We often worry that the more we are aware of each other and ourselves and the more we consume, the more homogenous we become. How does this relate to your work as an artist?

I guess I just check out sometimes. When I played a four-hour set at Unsound Festival last year I played this very extended anti-festival set. There was a big risk for it to not go well. But people were able to immerse themselves in it. I’m very interested in time and duration.

Philosophical theories around accelerationism, programmed obsolescence, premature sell-by-dates on products: I feel people don’t really believe in all of that. And when I do an extended set like that, it reaffirms that it’s still okay to experiment with long duration. When you spend such a long time listening to one set, you become very conscious of your environment, and that’s inherently more futuristic,

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‘If you plan for the future, you’re not really living because you’re comparing it with your past, your shortcomings, and you go up into this weird feedback loop of regret’ because you’re experiencing something now and that can affect how you will be. If you plan for the future, you’re not really living because you’re comparing it with your past, your shortcomings, and you go up into this weird feedback loop of regret. There’s this quote about constructing the human as a hypothesis, I think that’s more interesting: just see what happens.

Do you believe in endings?

Depends what it means. The end of humanity – maybe. I think people like to have an end so that they can compartmentalise something. I would happily programme an endless set. I’ve been looking into more automated work recently. I’d either have a programme do it for me or some other kind of entity, but I’d let it deviate.

Heatsick plays Somewhere Else on 21 June at De Verdieping in TrouwAmsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members before midnight.

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Girl Band. Continued

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The Future Issue What’s in a name? Deception, in the case of Irish noiseniks Girl Band. Far from saccharine sweet, manufactured pop nonsense, the Dublin quartet deal in righteous rackets married to infectious

Girl Band Phone Interview by Derek Robertson Photos shot by Maciej Pestka in Dublin, Ireland

grooves and cacophonous guitars. It’s a heady mix that’s seen them lauded despite only releasing a smattering of singles, a raucous and unexpected cover of Blawan’s ‘Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage’ and one stellar EP. We asked oracle and bassist Daniel Fox to look into his crystal ball and consider the future of music, the band and humanity 33

Girl Band. Continued It’s getting harder and harder to make a living from music. How do you see the future panning out for musicians?

It’s hard to tell ’cos music is such a huge thing. It’s very, very old, so it’s not going to go anywhere. The context, if you like, in terms of writing and bands and touring, is a relatively new idea so it’s probably going to change over time. There are so many forces at play… but it’s certainly a lot harder than it used to be, financially speaking.

Would you say that your sound is quite futuristic?

I suppose so, yeah. We all listen to a lot of old music, but we listen to a lot of electronic and contemporary stuff as well. It’s futuristic in the sense that we’re not trying to make music in homage to any bygone era or anything like that. We’re fans of different eras but want to keep looking forward in terms of what we do ourselves.

The future is frequently depicted as a dark, dystopian nightmare.

Do you think we’re headed in that direction?

I really hope not! Sometimes, you’d think we are, because everybody knows that the world is heating up and eventually things are gonna be pretty bad for a lot of people. That’s an insanely dark question… but it’s quite possible that will happen.

So what does the rest of 2014 look like for the band?

It’s looking busy! We’ll be touring loads; it’ll be the longest tour we’ve done, and our first time in Spain, France and Belgium. Then we’re planning on doing another single, before hitting the road again in September and October. For the end of the year we plan to do a bit of writing and rehearsing, and come up with some new ideas.

You’re not big fans of giving yourselves deadlines, are you?

It can just feel like you’re rushing things, and you have to make decisions based on wanting to get this song finished instead of finding the right part for the sake of it being right. It might work for loads of people, but for us, it’s better when we let things happen. It’s not that

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‘It’s futuristic in the sense that we’re not trying to make music in homage to any bygone era’

we’re being perfectionists, but sometimes you’ve got to have a little bit of space to come back to things.

If you could have one wish for the band’s future, what would it be?

We’re pretty happy on the trajectory that we have. To keep touring would be good, and do a really good album and get it out in the Girl Band play on 19 June at OCCII in Amsterdam, and on 22 June at EKKO in way we’d like to put it across.

Utrecht. The shows are free for Subbacultcha! members.

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The Morning After: Gardland Photos shot by Annegien van Doorn on Friday, 16 May at 10.28 am

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The Morning After is a monthly photo series depicting the scene of a band’s post-slumber lodgings the day after their Subbacultcha! show. Here’s how Gardland left their Amsterdam guestroom.

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Featured Artists

Piet Langeveld & Gerda Postma This June we celebrate a Subbacultcha! first.

We’ll host two artists-in-residence: visual artist Piet Langeveld and interdisciplinary fashion designer Gerda Postma will creatively terrorise our basement with their project The Future Issue – Residency. During this time they will examine the relationship between technological developments and the human need for tools, working towards a series of tangible and intangible objects, in both physical and digital form pietlangeveld.net gerdapostma.nl The following pages show a sketch of their inspirations. If you’re curious to see more, check the programme or drop by to see the artists in action.

The Future Issue – Exhibition will open on 04 July at the Subbacultcha! HQ: Da Costakade 150, Amsterdam

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The Future Issue - Residency // Programme

Featured Artists: Langeveld & Postma 01 June Start The Future Issue – Residency Open to visitors from Tuesday-Friday from 15.00-18.00 Thursday: 05 June 19.30 - 2001: A Space Odyssey, film screening Thursday: 12 June 19.30 - Workshop Sketch-up: Andrés Novo; architect In this workshop you can learn the basics of 3D computer modelling. Please sign up if you would like to join, and we will send you instructions. Max. 20 people (donation based).

Sign up at: thefuture@subbacultcha.nl Thursday: 19 June 19.30 - Lecture Technology and Literature; Vincent Hessling; Columbia University New York.

Vincent is doing research on the narrative aspects of modern technology and how technology is understood in narratives.

In his talk ‘This is Not Science Fiction’ at Subbacultcha!, he will demonstrate how literary narratives examine the idea of technology understood as a set of tools for realising human objectives and how they reveal it as a multidimensional space of possibilities.

20.30 - Music performance; Michiel Klein Michiel Klein is a Rotterdam-based sound artist who works with challenging, obsolete media, such as cassettes, small key boards, cheap effects and crappy microphones.

Monday: 30 June The end The Future Issue – Residency Friday: July 4 18.00 - Opening The Future Issue – Exhibition

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Books: Self-Help Shelf No 3

By Marc van der Holst. Image by Lonneke van der Palen

60 Stories

by Donald Barthelme

Every month we offer a literary helping hand with the bigger questions in life Besides being something of a crash course on how to write (and read!) short stories, Donald Barthelme’s 60 Stories also deals with real-life problems. For instance, ‘Margins’, which reverses the idea of handwriting reading, suggesting one way to build character is by simply improving one’s handwriting: ‘Make larger capitals. Make smaller loops in your “y” and your “g”. Watch your wordspacing so as not to display disorientation.

Watch your margins.’

Then there’s the highly instructional ‘[A] Manual for Sons’: ‘Son, I got bad news for you. (…) The thing is, you got to go to school, son, and get socialized. That’s the news. (…) It’s a terrible thing, but there it is’. It’s a book within the book about ‘the key idea, in fatherhood, [being] “respon­sibility”.

First, that heavy chunks of blue or gray sky do not fall down and crush our bodies, or that the solid earth does not turn into a yielding pit beneath us’.

Add to these a lecture ‘On Angels’, philosophical treatise ‘Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel’ and, maybe best of all, ‘How I Write My Songs’, and you’ve got a virtual missing manual to life, really: ‘The “I-ain’t-nothin’-but-a-man song is a good one to write when you are having a dry spell. (…) this type of song (…) is particularly good with a heavy rhythm emphasis in the following pattern: Da da da da da (…)’ ‘Well, you see how it is done.

It is my hope that these few words will get you started.’ Whomp, whomp!

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Self-Help Shelf: N o1: I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon, by Philip K. Dick | N o2: Self-Help, by Lorrie Moore | N o3: 60 Stories, by Donald Barthelme

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Fashion

By Mandy Sharabani. Photos shot by Isolde Woudstra

€15 Outfit Every month we give €15 to someone to compose a complete outfit for a good night out. Yes, quite the challenge Earth Mk. II formed this month’s twinkling inspiration for Iztok Klančar, a photographer and filmmaker who is currently exhibiting at Ten Haaf Projects in Amsterdam.

trappings. I used the water as a complementary accessory, as it has a similar shiny character.

Inventive constructions! And the amazing moon boots?

They were a lucky score from the Rode Kruis and happened to be exactly my size. They were really nice and even poured me a cup of free coffee – the people who worked there, not the boots.

Lovin’ the shamelessness of the outfit.

Ha, well, I actually had my boxers off before this shoot, but I thought it was way too Kylie Minogue.

So, Mister Plastic Fantastic, do tell me where it all began.

At first, I was aiming for a futuristic outfit. As a morning ritual, I shoot photos in my neighbourhood.

That’s where I noticed a pair of XXL overalls that could be useful for building houses on the moon. I waited a day, went back and took the overalls with me.

Nice. What happened?

I figured the gravity is different there, so the overalls would probably explode. I bought the plastic to stuff the overalls, but that didn't work. I’m a fan of Sixties sci-fi TV programmes and their space-age

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Earth Mk. II play on 25 June at OT301, Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

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Iztok's total budget spent: €14 Bubble plastic: €6 - Gamma / XXL overalls (not used): €0 - On the streets / Bike light (not used): €6 - Hema / Moon boots & coffee: €2 - Rode kruis / Water: €0

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Food: Cooking With...

By Zofia Ciechowska. Image by Carlijn Potma

Fis Every month we ask an artist to share a recipe for their favourite dish Known for his explorations into the realms of roaring rhythms, Kiwi producer Fis (Oliver Peryman) has left most music journalists lost for words. Somewhere between today and tomorrow, Oliver and I met to have a laugh about food and music. He taught me how to transmit a cup of tea over the internet and told a dad joke or two.

‘To make a downloadable tea you need an OTT cable (“Online Tea Transfer”). It has this temporary vaporisation technology which vaporises the tea you made, turns it into code and sends it to the recipient. If the recipient has an OTT cable, they can just re-condense it into a mug. Just hold the mug under the cable, click the prompt on your computer screen, and the tea will come out. It’s like installing any file.

Make sure the OTT cable is plugged in properly, otherwise it can leak

into your system. There’s still no technology for sending biscuits, so you might have to torrent them.

Once I thought it had been sorted out because I was on the internet and saw this thing called cookies.’

How to make Oliver’s downloadable cup of tea (serves 2) • Steep tea bag in hot water for 2 mins.

• Add milk and honey. Remove tea bag.

• Hold OTT cable over cup. Hit return.

OTT cable will vaporise tea.

• Make sure your friend has their OTT cable plugged into computer to prevent any leaks. They need to click okay when they receive your tea alert.

• Drink tea together over the internet and have some jellies as a snack.

Fis plays on 05 June at OCCII in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

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Music Reviews

By Carly Blair

Owen Pallett In Conflict

Sean Nicholas Savage Bermuda Waterfall

Domino

Arbutus

Canadian multi-instrumentalist and composer Owen Pallett follows up 2010’s wonderful Heartland and A Swedish Love Story EP with his fourth album. Perhaps my favourite thing about Pallett’s music – and there are many – is his ability to seamlessly intermingle the sublime with mundanity and human weakness in a way that’s relatable without sacrificing his ability to inspire awe; titling an early album He Poos Clouds, referring to his powerful live performances as ‘pussyish’ and singing in a gorgeous falsetto about trying to ‘make each other come’ as strings swell in the background are just a handful of representative examples of this gift. On the aptly titled In Conflict, he expresses the inherent duality of the human experience more masterfully and more beautifully than ever.

A mainstay of Montreal’s DIY scene, Sean Nicholas Savage says that while writing his new album, ‘There was a feeling of disappointment in communication with the people that I’m calling out to connect with through my performances and travels in the last year, a feeling of loneliness.’ Having witnessed his awkwardly naked and confrontational live show, such a revelation comes as little surprise. His spindly, mustachioed person and feather-light-sounding but heavy-hearted confessions, backed by cheesy adult-contemporary instrumentation, are neither sexy nor cool (at least not in a traditional sense). Few are brave enough to publicly embrace such vulnerability, much less be the one doing the soulbaring, but Savage’s willingness to do so is the key to his magic.

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Music Reviews Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal

Ed Schrader’s Music Beat Party Jail

Rough Trade

Infinity Cat A duo hailing from the same Baltimore scene as Future Islands and Dan Deacon, Ed Schrader and Devlin Rice commit sonic assault and battery using only vocals/drums and bass, respectively. Rather than sound shackled by their minimalist set-up, Schrader and Rice find freedom in simplicity, and on Party Jail they create a rumbling post-punk racket you’ll want to lock yourself up with for life.

After quietly releasing their debut, New York’s Parquet Courts not-so-quietly released its lauded successor, Light Up Gold, in late 2012. With the brains of greats like the Modern Lovers and Pavement and the brawn of classic punk, on their third album they sound the kind of ‘whole package’ your mom always told you to keep your eyes peeled for, so don’t let Sunbathing Animal be the one that gets away.

Lust for Youth International

Hamilton Leithauser Black Hours

Sacred Bones

Domino

Until now, Copenhagen-based Swede Hannes Norrvide released two murky, haunting albums as Lust for Youth. Scrubbed of the lowerthan-lo-fi production values of previous work and with Norrvide’s vocals pulled from the shadows into the spotlight, International is a revelation not only because of its greater clarity, but also because it makes clear there were synth-pop diamonds buried in that rough all along.

Shortly after indie-rock stalwarts The Walkmen made the unsurprising but disheartening announcement that they were going on ‘extreme hiatus’, frontman Hamilton Leithauser announced this solo debut. Featuring contributions from members of Vampire Weekend, the Shins, Dirty Projectors and more, it’s a star-studded, lushly orchestrated and jubilant new beginning.

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New Films

By Basje Boer

The Double Richard Ayoade - 2014

Do you ever feel like you’re invisible? Your efforts at work go unnoticed and that cute girl from the office hardly knows that you exist – while others just ignore you completely. The Double, a new comedy by Richard Ayoade (Submarine; The IT Crowd), opens with a sad-looking Jesse Eisenberg riding the subway. When a fellow commuter comes up to him, saying, ‘You’re in my seat,’ he briefly hesitates but gives up his seat anyway, though there are plenty of others to choose from. It’s safe to say that if ever there was a loser, it’s this guy right here. This brief scene perfectly captures the tone of The Double, a film that’s as melancholic as it is funny. Not unlike fellow directors Wes Anderson and Aki Kaurismäki, Ayoade manages to conjure up a completely original universe: a dystopian future that’s as absurd as a Kafka novel. Based on the eponymous novella by Dostoyevsky.

Release date 26 June When you’ve finished this one, start watching...

• Cinematic history is littered with doppelgangers, from Vertigo to Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Darren Aronofsky did his version of the doppelganger flick with Black Swan, featuring Natalie Portman as both a naive ballerina and her evil counterpart.

• We really can’t stress enough how bad you need to watch Richard Ayoade’s Submarine, which is a perfect comedy about a not-so-perfect teenage romance.

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Night Moves

Night Moves

Joe

Kelly Reichardt - 2014 Kelly Reichardt is fast becoming one of the most interesting filmmakers on the US indie scene. After films such as Wendy and Lucy, a heartbreaking tale of economic crisis, Old Joy starring Will Oldham and Western-meets-slow cinema Meek’s Cutoff, Reichardt’s latest effort, Night Moves, is centered on a small group of environmental activists who plan to blow up a dam. Jesse Eisenberg, who seems to be everywhere this month, stars together with Dakota Fanning.

Release date 05 June.

track. Less than a year after buddy flick Prince Avalanche, he treats us to Joe, a gritty tale of day labour, violence, poverty and alcohol abuse in rural Texas. None other than Nicolas Cage plays the titular role, an ex-con who befriends a teenage boy who's got issues of his own, one being his no-good father.

Release date 12 June.

Joe

A bunch of young jobless Glaswegians think they can brighten up their future by stealing sinks. Women’s clothes and untested sedatives are their secret weapons during a bumpy heist in a revived lo-fi comedy that still hasn’t lost its charm.

And for couch potatoes...

by Gert Verbeek

That Sinking Feeling Bill Forsyth - 1979

David Gordon Green - 2014 After he seemingly got lost in blockbuster Hollywood, indie filmmaker David Gordon Green is back on

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Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

New Music: Solar Year

Film: Lydia Ainsworth

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

Brooklyn music lady Lydia Ainsworth is simply thrilling. Lydia, if you’re reading this, come and have pizza with me!

Come and have pizza with the world!

This former student of Joan La Barbara has composed for filmmakers, visual artists, poets and contemporary dance groups, putting her at the epicentre of artistic expression, making her the coolest lady everrr. Lydia’s otherworldly vocals are accompanied by a string quartet, drummers, keyboards and this brilliant self-devouring fast-food collage animation. Listen and be happy.

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Music, art and film in June 2014 Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

Those Foreign Kids: 01 September

New Music: Solar Year

Film: Lydia Ainsworth

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Fatima Al Qadiri: 21 June - Trouw Amsterdam, Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! length, Waverly, which is due to appear members before midnight at the end of June on Splendour.

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Artwork by Anouk Jurdant

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For June, we chose an image by Belgian illustrator Anouk Jurdant. Now, all the pretty horses will grant Subbacultcha! members access to all our events. Want your work on the pass? Feel free to submit: printme@subbacultcha.nl

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Wolf Eyes + Betonfraktion

Pharmakon + Fis + Dolf

05 June - OCCII, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members

For nearly two decades, Detroit’s Wolf Eyes have been honing their unique cacophony of experimental music, taking from industrial, death metal, hardcore, free jazz and anything else they can get their razor-edged claws into. At least as prolific as they are averse to sticking to one style, you need only glance at their seemingly infinite abyss of sideprojects and obscure releases, many of which even die-hard fans cannot hope to find copies of. But whether you’re an obsessive of sonic abjection, a learnèd punk icon or a general fan of having your ears twisted into shapes you didn’t know were possible, you’ll want to experience a night of Wolf Eyes. Leiden trio Betonfraktion open.

Margaret Chardiet has been a fixture in New York’s underground noise scene since she was 17 years old, primarily developing her sound at a house/experimental venue known as Red Light District. So naturally, after cancelling her show this past fall due to illness, she had to make her way back to the home of the original Red Light District. As Pharmakon, she unleashes colossal and carefully composed power electronics/death industrial music that will chill your bones and cut through your complacency. A relative newcomer, Tri Angle’s Kiwi producer Fis contorts drum and bass elements into complex and alien electronic meditations, while Dolf, a spin-off of revered local metalheads Mühr, ease you in with their murky drone.

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01 June - WORM, Rotterdam 19.30 | €6 | Free for members

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Trust: 08 June Echokamer 18: 07 June

Trust + Girl Names 08 June - Melkweg, Amsterdam 19.30 | €11 | Free for members

Echokamer 18: Kenzo

Mediamatic’s continued experimentation with space and sound takes on a new form when choreographer/dancer Kenzo Kusuda takes the stage. Its reverberant walls and high ceilings no longer just a playground for composers, musicians and other sound-makers, Kusuda’s performance promises to pull audiences beyond the perception of their physical senses.

Inspired by Cocky Eek’s pneumatic cube and scored by Aki Onda’s cassette tape sound collages, Kusuda’s performance physically explores space, sound and self, extending the experiment to encompass everyone in the audience.

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Though its music scene is diverse and lively in general, Toronto seems to have cornered the market on crossover-capable gothy synth pop. Trust, Robert Alfons’s solo project, avoids the aggressiveness and operatic indulgences of fellow Torontonians. Instead, Trust’s brand of ’80s-channelling dance music is incontrovertibly introverted and gloriously gloomy. While his 2012 debut, TRST, went as well with a druggy dancefloor as it did with moping on your own, his upcoming album Joyland is a more cheerful affair, showcasing a broader palette of influences and an overall fresher and more exciting sound. Belfast post-punk revivalists Girls Names return to provide support on the night.

07 June - Mediamatic, Amsterdam 20.00 | €tba | Free for members

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Classic Muscle: 13 June

Späti Palace Showcase

Adultrock: 13 June

Pissing in the Wind

ft. Classic Muscle + Mother of the Unicorn 13 June - Goethe-Institut, Amsterdam 21.00 | €8 | Free for members

ft. Adultrock + Zes 13 June - EKKO, Utrecht 23.00 | €5 | Free for members before 01.30

Besides wanting to make you feel like you’ve been transformed, Cinderellastyle, into a German aristocrat for an evening, Klub 470’s other objective is to provide a podium for exciting upcoming German bands in a delightfully posh and intimate setting. This edition focuses on Späti Palace, a new Berlin-based indie label. Though they just launched this past December, they’re off to a good start, boasting some of Berlin’s most talked about new bands, including fuzzy garage-pop band Classic Muscle and shoegazey Mother of the Unicorn, whose mastermind Joe Kelly sounds a bit like Coldplay’s Chris Martin, albeit in a notgross sort of way.

Anything but futile, EKKO’s evening with an eye on the future picks a pair of atmospheric electronic producers from its crystal ball. The first, Adultrock, is the solo project of Dublin-based beatmaker Gav Elsted. His recently released 12" EP on Bodytonic, Chants, is a sweet mix of hypnotic synths and hazy house, and features a pair of high-profile remixes from Optimo’s JG Wilkes and the Ron Morelli-Svengalisghost collaboration Ghost 202. This distinctly atmospheric night will be topped off by local beatmaker Zes, whose rumoured dancefloor past ensures he’ll know how to keep everyone on their feet.

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Fatima Al Qadiri: 21 June

Somewhere Else

Girl Band: 19 June + 22 June

ft. Fatima Al Qadiri + Heatsick + Luc Mast & Arif Malawi 21 June - DeVerdieping, TrouwAmsterdam 23.00 | €18 door | €8 | Free for members before midnight

Girl Band

19 June - OCCII, Amsterdam w/ Those Foreign Kids & Yuri Landman 20.30 | €7 | Free for members 22 June - EKKO, Utrecht w/TRAAMS 20.00 | €10 | Free for members While the phrase ‘girl band’ most likely conjures up images of overstyled lady hacks more touted for their looks than their songwriting skills, the Dublin outfit features four dudes whose violent post-punk has a capacity to make you want to smash beer bottles against the wall in a most unladylike fashion. Their self-produced 2012 EP, France 98, is excellent, and anyone who saw them play at Subbacultcha!’s Day Party in Groningen can confirm that they killed it live.

Noisy UK indie-rock trio TRAAMS complete the bill in Utrecht, while Those Foreign Kids and Yuri Landman join forces in Amsterdam.

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Fatima Al Qadiri is revered as one of experimental electronic music’s most intriguing characters. Having released two EPs, an homage to Muslim music as Ayshay and collaborating with Nguzunguzu and J-Cush as Future Brown, she dropped her first full-length, Asiatisch, on Hyperdub in May. You might expect the music of such an overtly politicised artist to be confrontational, but her compositions are minimalist, precise and icily beautiful. As Heatsick, Stephen Warwick rolls out his dancefloor installation, Extended Play, an extended live A/V set featuring specially engineered visuals and decor, lavender scent diffusers, hula hoops, yoga mats and more.

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Black Pus: 26 June Earth Mk. II: 25 June

Black Pus + The Julie Mittens

Earth Mk. II Release Party

26 June - WORM, Rotterdam 19.30 | €6 | Free for members

ft. Earth Mk. II + Eerie Wanda 25 June - OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members Either time flies or Hugo van der Poes is among Holland’s most enterprising talents. It feels like we were only just celebrating his Earth Mk. II debut for Excelsior Recordings, but he’s already back with another release. Promising a new sound – we’ve heard a snippet and it’s pretty breathtaking – and a new live setup, Hugo is set to release a cassette midJune and we’re ramping up the festivities at the place where it all started with a release party that features his Earth Mk. II, Marina Tadic’s dreamy bedroom pop project Eerie Wanda and more.

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Black Pus is the solo project of Brian Chippendale, the seemingly batshit insane but actually quite mild-mannered drummer and vocalist from Lightning Bolt. Besides his frenetic drum stylings, Chippendale is known for hollering through a contact mic fed through an effects processor, embedded inside a terrifying mask. As Black Pus, he unleashes bowel-shaking earthquakes of drums and distortion that assail you, impale you, with monstertruck force, creating brutally heavy and repetitive music – which is to say it’s like limiting yourself to just one hit of LSD before jumping on the scariest ride in the amusement park.

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The Double

Mondofuzz - Twilight of the Idles

01 July - LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9 | Free for members

10 June - Melkweg Cinema, Amsterdam 20.00 | €9 | Free for members

In this dark comedy Jesse Eisenberg is Simon James, a timid office clerk who seems to be invisible to everyone around him. Things get even more difficult for Simon when he’s introduced to his new colleague, James Simon. James is an exact copy of Simon, though no one seems to notice. And anyway, personality-wise the slick and savvy new guy is the exact opposite of Simon. The Double is Richard Ayoade’s second movie after quirky coming-of-age comedy Submarine.

With free-spirited documentary Mondo Fuzz, Andy Ray Lemon takes us right into the heart of the underground music scene of Austin, Texas. The consistently lo-fi images capture the vibe of several bands and musicians performing live in bars, clubs, living rooms, garages and what have you. Mondo Fuzz is a cult in the making, adding cartoons, archival footage and other clips to the live performances and interviews.

Enemy

/Kult Film: Sin City

In Denis Villeneuve latest film, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a teacher who’s bored with his job and girlfriend, until one day he discovers his dopplegänger. When they meet, the two are intrigued by their identical appearance, but then things get really strange. The futuristic architecture of Toronto, drenched in brown and yellow, plays an important part in this cinematic puzzle that alludes to films like Donnie Darko and Eyes Wide Shut.

When neo-noir and cartoon violence meet, you get Sin City, an anthology of stories about crime, violence and the most basic of emotions: lust, anger, spite, greed – to name a few. These separate stories featuring grotesque characters, such as a sad stripper and a nerdy – but nonetheless very scary – serial killer are set in an exaggerated universe that reveals co-director Frank Miller's background as a comicbook writer.

11 June - Studio /K, Amsterdam 21.30 | €9 | Free for members

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Gerda Postma & Piet Langeveld

Artists in residence: Gerda Postma & Piet Langeveld

Foam: Daisuke Yokota

de Kooning Academy. The Media Design and Communication graduates will show until 29 June and the Fine Art graduates show from 11 July until 17 August.

Subbacultcha! HQ, Amsterdam Open Tues-Fri 15.00-18.00 | Free for all

For our first residency, Piet Langeveld and Gerda Postma join forces and disciplines in an experiment that seeks to research the relationship between technological developments and the human need for tools. You're welcome to join one of the special events, or visit our HQ to see the artists in action.

Foam Photography Museum Keizersgracht, Amsterdam Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thur and Fri until 21.00 €9.50 | Free for members

Three new exhibitions just opened at Foam. There are two large exhibitions, one a premiere overview of the Foam Collection, the other a show by Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota. The young talent space is reserved for frequent Subbacultcha! contributor Annegien van Doorn. Also opening on 13 June is Larry Clark’s Tulsa & Teenage Lust, a collection comprised of vintage photos and screenings.

TENT

Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00 €5 | Free for members Starting 12 June TENT presents the endof-the-year exhibitions of the Master programmes of the Piet Zwart Institute, the post-graduate institute of the Willem

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Mediamatic: Lightness Nederlands Fotomuseum: Ad Nuis

Mediamatic, Amsterdam Open Wed-Sun 13.00-18.00 19.00 | €8 | Free for members

of four days, each choreographer will develop a fresh piece to be performed that evening.

In an age where everyone is affected by the weight of society, the overbearing fears of the economy and the heavy hand of government, ‘lightness’ is the way forward. This exhibition is here to counter our crisis depression with a bit of fun. Eleven weeks, 11 exhibitions, six dance performances and plenty of partying. So for those rainy days the Dutch spring tends to bring, go get some lightness.

Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam

Wilhelminakade, Rotterdam Open Tue-Sun 10.00-17.00, Sat and Sun from 11.00 €9 | Free for members On 14 June, two new exhibitions open at the photo museum. Dutch photographer Ad Nuis exhibits his series about the oil industry of Azerbaijan, where he recorded the absurd contrast between the life of the nouveau riche and that of the simple citizens. And Gerogian photographer, collector and entrepreneur Dimitri Ermakov presents more than 100 vintage prints from his archives.

Dance Laboratory 03-06 June - Mediamatic, Amsterdam 19.30 | €tba | Free for members

Building on ‘lightness’, the Junior Company of The National Ballet guides you through the creative processes of four unique choreographies. Over the course

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What else is on this month On the following pages you’ll find a fine selection of concerts, festivals and exhibitions taking place around the country Music: Plaid 01 June - Tolhuistuinzaal, Amsterdam This chilled-out London experimental electronic duo remains as playful and innovative as ever, 25 years into their careers.

Music: Elephant Stone 04 June - Vera, Groningen 07 June - Effenaar, Eindhoven 22 June - Best Kept Secret, Hilvarenbeek Montreal multi-instrumentalist Rishi Dhir played sitar with bands like Black Angels before founding Elephant Stone, whose self-coined ‘hindie rock’ label refers to their fusion of psych and traditional Indian instrumentation.

Music: Flying Lotus + Captain Murphy + Thundercat 03 June - Paradiso, Amsterdam 04 June - TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht Take a trip to the outer reaches of the hip-hop cosmos with Steven Ellison’s jazz-influenced compositions as Flying Lotus and raps as Captain Murphy, plus LA bass virtuoso Thundercat’s fusion of jazz, soul and electronica.

Music: Melt-Banana 04 June - Paradiso, Amsterdam 05 June - Vera, Groningen 06 June - dB’s, Utrecht For over 20 years this legendary Japanese band has been cranking out hyperactive Technicolor hardcore punk and noise rock from the future. Late last year they put out what many consider to be their best album, fetch.

Music: Sharon von Etten + Jana Hunter 03 June - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam While this singer-songwriter has described songwriting as ‘self-therapy’, lately she sounds feisty and even goofy at times. Lower Dens’ singer Jana Hunter performs solo to open.

Music: Twitchy Organs Ft. Nico Muhly + Oneohtrix Point Never + James McVinnie 04 June - Orgelpark, Amsterdam Avant-garde synth wizard Oneohtrix Point Never teams up with contemporary classical music’s hippest composer, Nico Muhly, for what looks to be a very special evening at the Orgelpark, a concert hall in an old church hidden in plain view right next to the Vondelpark.

Music: Merchandise 03 June - Paradiso, Amsterdam Though this Tampa trio’s members built names for themselves playing in hardcore bands, they also indulged ‘fruity’ krautrock leanings in secret before bringing Merchandise’s romantic noise pop out of the closet.

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What else is on this month Music: Wovenhand 04 June - Paard van Troje, Den Haag The tempestuous experimental neofolk David Eugene Edwards makes as Wovenhand miraculously manages to be extremely centered on his Christian faith without coming off as proselytising.

Music: Daedelus 06 June - Sugar Factory, Amsterdam This experimental producer fuses hiphop beats, electronica, jazz, pop and breaks into a textured, danceable and always refreshing whole, and his live performances come highly recommended.

Music: Slint 05 June - TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht Though they released just two albums before disbanding and went almost completely unrecognised while still together, this Louisville post-rock band influenced countless other bands and their recently reissued final album, Spiderland, has been lauded as one of the greatest albums of the ’90s.

Music: Disappears 06 June - Paradiso, Amsterdam 07 June - Eindhoven Psych Lab, Eindhoven This krauty, repetition-loving Chicago group has described theirs as ‘music for record collectors’. Their latest album, last year’s Era, finds them spicing up their collection of influences with dashes of Liars and Clinic.

Music: Sonic Soirée #27 Ft. Little Trouble Kids + Herrek + The Go Find 05 June - De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam De Brakke Grond’s monthly spin-off from its Sonic Connections festival helps uncover raw gems in the nether lands, like footstomping Belgian popsters Little Trouble Kids and Dutch tribal-pop outfit Herrek.

Music: Glasser 06 June - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam With her soaring vocals and slowpaced, crystalline synth-pop compositions, Cameron Mesirow’s work as Glasser is often compared to Bjork and Little Dragon, though it’s neither super indebted to either nor easy to pin down.

Misc: Tripoteca Film Festival 06 June - Kriterion, Amsterdam Get weird with this itinerant psychedelic film festival, stopping at FilmTheater Kriterion for a day crammed with short films, digital art, performances and video installations. Wear something wacky and Enter the Void.

Art: Gender/Blender From 06 June - MU, Eindhoven Curators/artists Hanneke Wetzer and Leonie Baauw play with the sliding scale between femininity and masculinity, probing the cultural potential of a complex understanding of gender. With more than 20 participating artists, there will be plenty to be curious about.

Music: Eindhoven Psych Lab 06-07 June - Effenaar, Eindhoven This new festival will study and attempt to understand or at least docu-

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What else is on this month Music: Pond 14 June - Merleyn, Nijmegen A Tame Impala side project from Perth, Australia, Pond is filled with hand claps, fuzzy guitars, rich piano and catchy chorus lyrics, with elements of folk, psychedelia, glam rock and dance music.

ment what the organisers refer to as ‘the modern psychedelic condition’ by means of showcasing many of the fruitful genre’s most exciting, mind-blowing modern bands.

Art: Cultfest 06-08 June – Werfkelders, Utrecht A new edition of the three-day underground festival Cultfest literally goes underground, to the wharf cellars of Utrecht. This year the theme is Ego, and it promises to be yet another colourfully diverse edition.

Art: Good Hair Festival 14 - 15 June - Lichthal Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam What are the political implications of your bad hair day? Who ensures your right to good hair? And is your hair by any chance racist? Within the Zwit&Wart exhibition, this two-day event will tackle some pretty hair-raising issues.

Art: Amsterdam! Ed van der Elsken 06 June-14 September – Stadsarchief, Amsterdam The City Archives of Amsterdam present a large exhibition of one of the city’s most famous street photographers, Ed van der Elsken. The exhibition offers an overview of Amsterdam in the ’50s and ’60s, combining vintage prints with never-before-seen works of the influential photographer.

Art: Fashion Show 15 June – Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam Check this out if you want to know what kind of futuristic space suits your kids will be wearing in 20 years.

Art: Binnenplaats Festival 13 June – ACTA, Amsterdam The official opening of creative hub ACTA in Amsterdam West will be celebrated with DJs and VJs, including an undoubtedly legendary DJ set by the infamous DJ Kaktus.

Music: How To Dress Well 17 June - MC Theater, Amsterdam Tom Krell’s fragile, off-kilter R&B soars to new heights on the first previews of What Is This Heart?. Rest assured his live renditions will be as breathtaking as ever.

Misc: Das Magazin Festival 14 June – various locations, Amsterdam Just another one of those festivals organised by the megalomaniacs behind one of our most successful literary magazines.

Music: Best Kept Secret Festival 20-22 June - Hilvarenbeek After a successful first edition, this indie-music festival is back with its idyllic location and a ridiculous number of the best new names in indie, folk, hip hop, rock and electronica.

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What else is on this month Art: Photo Town 21 June – Felix &Foam, Amsterdam Second edition of Photo Town, where young photographers can offer their work for sale in a one-day market. This edition includes previous featured artists Irene O’Callaghan and Heleen Peeters.

discovering new talent and they are also great fun.

Misc: Volkshotel Opening 27 June - Volkshotel, Amsterdam It’s been a long time coming, but with all the rubble finally cleared, the Volkshotel reveals its shiny new digs. No word on the opening’s programming just yet, so keep an eye on their website and save the date: www.volkshotel.nl

Music: Heavy Times 22 June - Best Kept Secret, Hilvarenbeek 23 June - ACU, Utrecht 26 June - Vera, Groningen This Chicago band’s founding members skated together in a gang called the Skatesharks; a decade later their less goofy collaboration has been likened to Wipers, Husker Du, and Rocket from the Crypt.

Music: Down The Rabbit Hole Festival 27-29 June - Beuningen With an idyllic location in the Groene Heuvels recreational area between the Maas and Waal Rivers, a huge bonfire and plenty of chill bands, this new festival promises plenty of laidback gezelligheid.

Art: David Cronenberg – The Exhibition 22 June-14 September – Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam EYE presents an overview exhibition of cult director David Cronenberg, who became famous for his quirky, sometimes disturbing movies such as Videodrome and Dead Ringers. Besides films and photographs, the exhibition also shows the director’s unique and highly artistic special-effects attributes.

Music: Naked Song Festival 28 June - Muziekgebouw, Eindhoven Armed with little more than their acoustic instruments, the singer-songwriters that brave Naked Song Festival lay it all bare on their lonesome and prove ‘Unplugged’ isn’t just an MTV gambit for washed-up hasbeens.

Music: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 26 June - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam NYC’s Pains have won over many a listener by wearing their pure hearts on their sleeves, offering up eager and kinetic ’90s-indebted indie pop.

Art: Curiosity 28 June-14 September – de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam ‘Curiosity is the desire to uncover what lies beyond our understanding of the world. It has been condemned as a distraction or a desire to unveil what is actually none of our business. This exhibition refuses to choose between knowledge and pleasure.’ - Curator Brian Dillon

Art: Graduation show: Exposure 26-29 June – HKU, Utrecht The first show of the graduation season. These shows are always good for

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Holland Festival Music theatre, theatrical music and tantalising performance art in spectacular settings: with a full month of around 50 cutting-edge performances, the annual Holland Festival is already larger in scale and scope than most festivals, but the 2014 edition is one of the largest ever as a farewell salute to director Pierre Audi after his ten-year reign.

Staying true to its innovative nature, the 67th Holland Festival welcomes groundbreaking legends as well as younger artists whom the festival has committed to showcasing in recent years 01-29 June - Amsterdam Vortex Temporum, 01 and 04 June, National Opera & Ballet Coming up as a young female four-piece in the Eighties, Rosas was something else in the field of dance, with a sober, direct approach more like a punk band than a ballet company. The Flemish ensemble grew, but maintained its intensity thanks to founding dancer and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersemaeker, who pairs her fascination with musical structures to clever, stripped-down scenographies. Festival opener Vortex Temporum is based on the eponymous composition by Gérard Grisey, known for his dense, layered orchestral music.

of Orgelpark, a former church-turnedconcert venue, with a dose of captivating noise.

20 Pianos, 12 June, Bimhuis Contrary to many electronic music producers, Matthew Herbert tends to delve into history rather than anticipate the future, with timeless results. In his newest project he manages to fit 20 historical pianos on to one stage, by way of virtual re-creations projected on to an interactive video table played by broad-minded pianist Sarah Nicolls.

The Wasp Factory by Ben Frost, 22 and 23 June, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ Noisemeister Ben Frost knows his way around all things dark and engrossing.

For this show, he shelves his A U R O R A instead choosing to adapt Iain Banks’ spine-chilling cult novel The Wasp Factory into a stage show, in collaboration with the Reykjavik Sinfonia string quartet. Warm attire recommended.

Twitchy Organs ft. Nico Muhly and Oneohtrix Point Never, 04 June, Orgelpark In their irreverent take on a supposedly sacred instrument, Manhattan’s contemporary music wunderkind Nico Muhly and Brooklyn’s electronic music enigma Oneohtrix Point Never infuse the organs

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Ben Frost

Oneohtrix Point Never

Vortex Temporum

Matthew Barney

High art on stage Museums and galleries, why bother? At Holland Festival high-end contemporary artists can immerse themselves in the same immediate applause as the actors and musicians on stage, by collaborating directly with them. Iranian feminist video artist Shirin Neshat catches all eyes in the National Ballet’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (18 to 29 June, National Opera & Ballet, world premiere). Dutch video star Aernout Mik collaborates with new music ensemble Asko|Schönberg on a performance named after Soviet astronaut dog Laika

(3 to 8 June, Stadsschouwburg Rabozaal). Reproductive gland-obsessed cultural icon Matthew Barney, known in the art world for his Cremaster film series and outside as Björk’s ex-husband, created his new six-hour film-noir spectacle River of Fundament (23 to 25 June, EYE) in collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, who coordinated a legion of choirs, brass bands, vocal improvisers and free-jazz musicians. Get your tickets or they’ll be gone before you can say gesamtkunstwerk. www.hollandfestival.nl

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Down The Rabbit Hole Like a hippie counterpart to its older bro, Lowlands, this brand new festival is inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and ’60s psychedelic culture in general. With an idyllic location in the Groene Heuvels recreation area between the Maas and Waal rivers, plus a huge bonfire and plenty of chill bands, it promises plenty of laid-back gezelligheid 27-29 June - Beuningen

The Soft Moon

Parquet Courts

tUnE-yArDs Merrill Garbus built her success on exuberance, unrelenting creativity and natural talent, but the touch of refinement she adds to her latest album Nikki Nack makes it a huge leap forward.

household names without sacrificing the idiosyncrasies that made them intriguing.

The Soft Moon Luis Vasquez and his fellow soft moonmen create bleak but hypnotic post-apocalyptic post-punk for the Great Recession era.

Courtney Barnett Aussie singer-songwriter Barnett counterbalances razorsharp lyrics with a softly accented delivery atop a relaxed, countrified folk background, earning her a devoted following in Oz and beyond.

Parquet Courts These NY punks let the spirits of The Modern Lovers and Pavement possess them in a jam session that sounds sloppy, loose and fun, but above all smart in the way that only drug-addled genius can.

John Wizards Mastermind John Withers is a musical omnivore with an appetite for everything from African highlife and mbaqanga to disco, and has a knack for compact and cheerful melodies.

Temples Temples build songs out of cavernous drums and soaring guitars in which they worship the spirits of psychedelic bands past, taking on the ’60s in ways that should please revivalist devotees.

Foals Mathy Oxford indie rockers Foals have mastered the kind of beauty and grandeur that made bands like U2

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13 June

26 June

WORM, Rotterdam 19.30 | €6 | Free for members

ft. Classic Muscle + Mother of the Unicorn Goethe Institut, Amsterdam 21.00 | €8 | Free for members

WORM, Rotterdam 19.30 | €6 | Free for members

Wolf Eyes + Betonfraktion 03 June

FILM: Enemy

LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9 | Free for members

03-06 June

Dance Laboratory

Mediamatic, Amsterdam 19.30 | €tba | Free for members

05 June

Pharmakon + Fis + Dolf

OCCII, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members

07 June

Echokamer 18: Kenzo Mediamatic, Amsterdam 20.00 | €tba | Free for members

08 June

Trust + Girl Names Melkweg, Amsterdam 19.30 | €11 | Free for members

10 June

FILM: Mondofuzz Twilight of the Idles Melkweg Cinema, Amsterdam 20.00 | €9 | Free for members

11 June

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Späti Palace Showcase

Black Pus + The Julie Mittens 01 July

Film: The Double

13 June

Pissing in Wind

ft. Adultrock + Zes EKKO, Utrecht 23.00 | €5 | Free for members before 01.30

19 June

Girl Band + Those Foreign Kids & Yuri Landman OCCII, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members

21 June

Somewhere Else

ft. Fatima Al Qadiri, Heatsick + Luc Mast & Arif Malawi DeVerdieping, TrouwAmsterdam 23.00 | €18 | €8 and free for members before midnight

22 June

Girl Band + TRAAMS EKKO, Utrecht 20.00 | €10 | Free for members

LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9 | Free for members

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Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam

25 June

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

OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members

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