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Subbacultcha! Magazine October 2014

The Cold Comfort Issue

Most years, October comes and goes with a shiver, one that’s hard to shake till spring. This year, we’re taking charge of the seasonal clichés by deconstructing labels like gloomy, dreary and dark often affixed to certain strains of contemporary music. Reaching beyond somber epithets, we talked frustrated expectations, unkind reviews and commonplace tribulations with Vessel, The Wytches and Lemontrip. Contemplate this image of Lemontrip floating in a tranquil, albeit freezing, lake and ask yourself:‘What leaves you cold? What gives you comfort?’

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Vessel page 18

Lemontrip page 24

The Wytches page 32 Recommendations 09 Recommended By 15 We Saw You 16 The Morning After 38 Featured Artists 40 Books 46 Fashion 48

Food 50 Music Reviews 52 New Films 54 Subbacultcha! Events 59 Agenda 70 Member Giveaways 76 Overview 78

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

Music: Giant Swan

Music: Hey Elbow

We spotted these two Bristol boys causing a whole lot of trouble in some dingy basement as they released waves of relentless noise, thumping beats and a cacophony of squawks into a happy crowd using only two guitars, some pedals and some hardware. There are tiny jigsaw pieces of information about them out there, but we’ve not been able to piece them together yet. Reveal yourselves!

Julia, Ellen and Liam from Malmö, Sweden, make up this new cool experimental-pop Scandi band that is creeping up on everyone’s radar. The three practice a wonderful kind of restraint that makes their music serene and utterly captivating. This is also one of the few times you will hear a trumpet, percussion and guitar sound really good together. Yes, a trumpet. We also pinched ourselves. Their debut single, ‘Blanca’, came out on Double Sun earlier this summer.

www.howlingowlrecords.com

soundcloud.com/heyelbow

October Recommendations Music: TOPS

Music: Frankie Cosmos

We love this four-piece studio-pop band from Montreal so much that we want to play keyboard and sing bittersweet songs in matching turtlenecks with them in the wee hours of an abandoned karaoke party. Although Jane, David, Riley and recent newcomer to the band Madeline have been around for a few years, it’s the release of their new poppy album, Picture You Staring, on Arbutus, that has made us sit up and listen to its charming DIY quality. tttopsss.com

Misc.: A Softer World Frankie Cosmos, aka Greta Kline, could be the beautiful wild child of The Moldy Peaches and Connie Converse. Along with her three pals, this NYC bunch makes some awesome guitar songs about life: boys, girls, being happy, being sad, birthdays, being silly, the world being really big – y’know, that kind of stuff. In the words of the band: ‘Frankie Cosmos is connected to your soul. Frankie Cosmos is the flower you should grow.’

Words of wisdom are scarce these days, but if you’re aching for some tough love, you can find it at Emily Horne and Joey Comeau’s A Softer World. It’s a photo strip that looks like a comic that feels like a slap in the face. As one of the authors puts it: ‘If you can’t be a good example, you have an obligation to be a horrible warning.’ Peruse it on a bad day, one when you’re feeling particularly cynical. It will cancel out your negativity.

www.facebook.com/frankiecosmos

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October Recommendations Misc.: Somebody

Misc.: Opera Remember when we said you always talk too much at shows? We’ve found a place where you can practice being quiet: Amsterdam’s Stopera. We snuck in with our We Are Public passes only to find ourselves swept up in the drama, the singing, the costumes, the makebelieve. (No wonder Wagner thought he’d cracked the formula for the total work of art.) You should go there too. www.operaballet.nl

Misc.: conscious living

The Bharani Effect = inspiration to live in harmony with the Earth, each other and ourselves through a weekly conscious city guide, plus profiles of people, places and products from around the globe. Craving a more conscious lifestyle and willing to make the world a little better? Step one is this:

In a desperate attempt to stop you staring at your phone, Miranda July, artist extraordinaire, has made an app that has you staring at people in your immediate proximity instead. For you’ll be looking to find that one Somebody user to whom you’ve been entrusted to deliver, and even act out, a message from one of their friends. That’s you, right there, putting the ‘human’ back in ‘human interaction’ (which, as you know, means invading someone’s personal space with a performance of your most awkward self, sweaty palms and all).

www.thebharanieffect.com

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July and August recommendations

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October Recommendations Book: Knife and Fork

Book: Women in Clothes

Taste is important, but visuals even more so: when it comes to food, we also eat with our eyes. A beautifully packaged chocolate bar just tastes better than one wrapped in plain plastic. That’s what the recently released coffee-table book Knife and Fork is all about. It’s a showcase of unconventional visual identities from the world of eating, drinking and hospitality – including brands and places like Bacoa in Barcelona, Dutch catering start-up Orange Olive and Berlin’s Michelberger Hotel. Perfect to feed the eyes.

Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton surveyed over 600 women to learn about their body image, style and shoplifting habits. They edited the thousands of answers into a book called Women in Clothes, a truly fantastic celebration of female individuality, self-expression and confidence. It includes some great conversations, diagrams and drawings from the likes of Miranda July, Cindy Sherman and Molly Ringwald. Because it’s an ongoing project you can also fill out the survey on the website.

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October Recommendations Music: The Love Of Everything Recommended by Ray McAndrew (Perfect Pussy) Every month we ask someone who inspires us to share something they are passionate about. This month we give the floor to Perfect Pussy guitarist Ray McAndrew.

I recently toured with a group of amazing bands, one of which was a one man band appropriately named The Love Of Everything. The single member, Bobby Burg, has been a part of an endless list of bands, including Joan Of Arc and Make Believe. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been doing tours every year since 2002, and on his longest tour he was a full time roadie and played two sets a night. Over the course of a week-long tour, I got to see a form of what Bobby has been doing for over 20 years. One night, he explained to me at a bar that after touring for so long and so consistently, you realise youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve become a resident of the planet rather than of any particular city, state, or country. There is a home wherever you go - a perspective I found to be a breath of fresh air, considering that so many musicians are starting to dread touring. Bobby is a person who genuinely loves what he is doing and succeeds in being both talented and innovative, turning peculiar sounds, such as the charge of a flash on a camera, into instruments to be played on a loop during a song. loveofeverything.bandcamp.com - Perfect Pussy play on 28 October at EKKO, Utrecht. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

We Saw You: FilosofischeStilte Interview by Brenda Bosma, Photo by Mariska Kerpel

and at the time I thought it was really cool, so I asked my dad to take me to a record store. He did. Your first ever music-related memory? I think it was in our old living room when my father would play some records and then we’d dance to it for, like, two hours straight. I think I was four or five years old. What’s your ideal lazy Sunday like? That depends on what I did the day before, but most of the time I’ll just watch a movie with a little bit of hash. Any guilty pleasures? I hate FM radio – or at least, in the Netherlands I do. But, at this screenprinting company where I work during the summer, they’re always listening to it. There’s always one song they play that just gets to me in a way that makes me feel pretty guilty. Naturally, I’m not telling which song it is. What kind of music makes you cry? LOL Boys – ‘Changes’ (Shlohmo Remix). What kind of music comforts you? Music my father used to listen to, like the album Sincere by MJ Cole. What makes you dance? UK Music, like two-step and four-byfour bassline.

Name: Luuk Graham Age: 21 Spotted: Performing with Mykki Blanco at TrouwAmsterdam Home: The Hague Keywords: soundcloud.com/ filosofischestilte Zodiac sign: Cancer

What’s the story behind your moniker? I can’t remember exactly when I came up with the name, but it probably happened when I was trying to think of a name for a rap group, but it didn’t really seem to fit a rap group, but I still liked it and felt (and still feel) it really represents me as a person, producer, beatmaker – whatever you wanna call it. What kind of music are you listening to at the moment? I’m listening to a lot of grime artists like MssingNo, Spooky and Moleskin and also a lot of new hip hop stuff like Kool John, Travi$ Scott, Young thug. Oh, and I’m a big Gucci Mane fan! #FREEGUWOP! Also, DJ Smokey. He’s always on point even when I’m not really feeling it. What’s the first record you bought? Verschil Moet Er Zijn by Brainpower. My neighbour showed me that record

The Cold Comfort Issue. Interview Sebastian Gainsborough, better known as Vessel, feels at ease going back to square one – a place where most of us return with heads hung. Far from being discouraged, it is in this very place that Gainsborough

Vessel Interview by Zofia Ciechowska Photos shot by Harry Wright in Bristol, UK

made his second full-length album, Punish, Honey. Learn to unlearn, accept discomfort and make things that you don’t know how to make, Vessel explains, even if that means hammering away for months in your dad’s shed. Find solace in being challenged, the results will surprise you. Approach with no cynicism, but with a great deal of good humour 19

Vessel. Continued What expectations do you have of yourself as an artist? I find it easier to not think of myself in terms of being an artist. I’m just a regular person who happens to make music. I use it as a way to communicate with myself and an audience. So I don’t set any long-term goals, but it has to keep progressing – that’s very important for me. I feel that I don’t function well when I am comfortable. When I accomplish something, I then have to start again from square one, I need to feel like I am constantly learning. How do you actually learn to unlearn? Specifically in the context of the new record, I had to completely stop using the computer and electronic hardware. I obviously had no idea how I’d do this, so I had to start from square one. It meant that I could no longer do things on autopilot, I had to relearn them completely. I had to think about everything I was doing in a different way. You made a lot of instruments for Punish, Honey. Was that also a way of getting out of your comfort zone? I felt I had to do something that I had no idea about. I had no woodworking or metalworking skills. So I got a couple of books and taught myself. All of these instruments were super cheap to make. You just need bits of wood and metal, some piano strings, or things like big reinforced balloons for making drums. I made a harmonic guitar, a flute and a bizarre alien drum structure, which grew out of my normal drum kit with lots of clamps and attached bits of hammered sheet metal. For months I was building them at my dad’s house because he has loads of tools, confusing him with what I was doing. He’s a middleaged guy, a child of the ’60s, good with his hands, and as far as he was concerned, I had no idea what I was doing so I shouldn’t be doing it. He would come out in the morning with his cup of coffee and find me dismantling an old bike that I’d found in the street. Sometimes I think he was extremely worried about my mental health.

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Vessel. Continued ‘There’s so many people making dark electronic music now that we need to know how to laugh at ourselves’ How do you deal with other people’s expectations of you? I think at the end of the day, people will think what they want to think. Once your music is out there, it doesn’t belong to you any more, it belongs to the people. The compartmentalisation of electronic artists is a tricky one, too, because it means you have to engage with how the industry is promoting you as a product. For instance, I can’t shed the fact that I live in Bristol. It doesn’t matter that I don’t like Tricky, Massive Attack or Portishead, I can’t get away from the fact that people want to compare me to them because we’re from the same place. It’s lazy and boring. It helps to have a sense of humour about these things. There’s so many people making dark electronic music now that we need to know how to laugh at ourselves. It’s not all doom and gloom. Where do you find comfort? From doing nothing, sitting, reading, walking and being quiet and on my own. I feel that we’re so busy these days even though we seemingly do very little with our smartphones and the people we’re constantly in touch with. It’s a hollow experience that exhausts me. I need to switch off and read a book until I start feeling normal again.

Vessel plays on 08 October at OT301 in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

The Cold Comfort Issue. Interview When you’re asked to do a photoshoot for Subbacultcha!, you generally don’t expect an endurance test. But that’s the turn things took for Lemontrip, as we submerged him in a freezing lake. Why, you ask? Because this

Lemontrip Interview by Koen van Bommel Photos shot by Isolde Woudstra in Utrecht, the Netherlands

is the Cold Comfort issue. After watching him almost drown, we called Lemontrip up for a chat about all things cold. ‘When I’ve worked on a song for a really long time and I let someone listen to it, and they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, nice.’ Nice? I’ve worked on this for months! To me, that’s cold’ 25

Lemontrip. Continued What went through your head when you found out you’d be swimming in a freezing lake? Well, I knew beforehand so it wasn’t a surprise or anything. When I heard, I probably thought something like, Whatever – I’d do anything for art! And I suppose I hoped it would be a nice, warm lake. But no; it was freezing cold. The photos turned out great. How’s that for cold comfort? I wouldn’t call that a cold comfort, though, because that expression has such a negative connotation. I didn’t need any comfort, it was totally worth it! How far would you go for a good photograph? Would you ever consider posing nude? Sure, if I had to I’d be willing to do it. I draw the line at ‘stuff with dead animals’. I would not do that. Wait, are you seriously asking me to pose nude? No, don’t worry. I don’t even know how to hold a camera. I’ve got this question for you, though: if your music was a temperature, how many degrees would it be? Hmm… let me think. I’d definitely say not too cold. But not too hot either. How about 21 degrees celsius? Still warm enough to be comfortable in just a T-shirt, but not scorching hot. What makes your heart melt? Good music and good food. And occasionally I look after a friend’s cat. And yeah, sometimes when I look at that little animal, my heart melts. Would you rather freeze to death or burn alive? Surely freezing to death would be better? I guess you’d become numb after a while anyway, so you wouldn’t really feel it any more. And I know from experience that burning your hand with boiling water is a lot worse than holding an ice cube.

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Lemontrip. Continued ‘I know from experience that burning your hand with boiling water is a lot worse than holding an ice cube’ What’s the coldest you’ve ever been? I’m pretty bad at judging the weather. I’ll think it’s summer when it’s actually still winter. So one time I thought the weather would be really good, and I went to school in just a T-shirt. A 45-minute bike ride in zero-degree weather is not something I would recommend. What about the coldest thing someone has ever said to you? Well, it’s hard to think of something specific, but I guess when I’ve worked on a song for a really long time and I let someone listen to it, and they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, nice.’ Nice? I’ve worked on this for months! To me, that’s cold. Your new album comes out in October. When that happens, it’s out of your hands, people will have opinions and they might not consider all the hard work that went into it. Does that scare you? In a way, yes. Of course you can’t please everyone, and I guess I’m not trying to either. But on the other hand, it would really suck if someone completely shits on one of my songs and it’s a song that I’ve made for someone special in my life, you know? Do you think music that takes a lot of effort to make should be praised accordingly? Not exactly. You could also make something really sick in a week. But when you’ve really put a lot of energy and time into it, it’s nice if the reactions reflect that. A lot Lemontrip plays on 23 October at OT301 of people don’t realise, so I’d forin Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbagive them for not understanding. cultcha! members.

The Cold Comfort Issue. Interview The genuine rock star is a rare breed. Endless days of touring with a severe lack of sleep and showers can take its toll, and even the most experienced bands will need to rely on their brothers. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what keeps

The Wytches Phone Interview by Sander van Dalsum Photos shot by Steven Glashier in Brighton, UK

this surf-doom trio floating. We called The Wytches drummer Gianni while he was shopping for groceries, and talked about frightening flights, online poker and not worrying your mum 33

The Wytches. Continued Hey Gianni. What’s the worst thing a person has called your music? I don’t know. No one ever said anything that bad. My nona [grandma] said we sound like dying pigs. That’s kind of harsh. Did you ever get pissed off at a review? Yeah, but I get pissed off at loads of things. Our singer Kristian doesn’t read any reviews. There’s no point; opinions are opinions. People have the right to think what they want. What’s the most uncomfortable situation The Wytches have ever gotten themselves into? That was probably on a flight back from America. We were doing loads of Xanax and were drinking a lot of Southern Comfort. We were jumping over the seats during takeoff and stuff. We were really super smashed, and we nearly got kicked off the flight. You’re afraid of flying? Yeah, Dan and I both are. Kristian really doesn’t give a fuck. That was the reason we started drinking, because we’re so scared of flying, so we get really hammered. Besides drinking and taking medication, what do you do to make a long flight comfortable? Well, I used to play poker for a living, and I still do a little bit. So Kristian and me play against each other for money. And how does a rock star cope with a life of being on the road and playing card games for money then? It doesn’t work, really. I’ve barely played poker this year. I had a really good two years, but all the money went into our self-funded tours. I plan on playing a lot more next year, because I love just zoning out and not having to think about music for a few hours. Something else: who’s the first person you seek contact with when you’re in trouble? That’s a good question. Probably my brother. I don’t like to

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stress my mum out, so I don’t really call her that much because she’ll get worried. What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever had to tell your mum then? She was quite impressed when I told her I met Johnny Marr. But my brother usually helps me solve quarrels and arguments. He’s a very strong-minded person. And he’s quite big, ha-ha. Who in The Wytches is the best shoulder to cry on? Both of them, really. We’ve all been there, man. We’ve all locked

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The Wytches. Continued ‘We’ve all locked our minds together and stuff. We’re actually like brothers, I think. It’s kind of strange’ our minds together and stuff. We’re actually like brothers, I think. It’s kind of strange. When was the last time you were a brother to Kristian or Dan? The first year of The Wytches, Kris lived in a box room. One day I met him in town and he was super ill, he could barely stand. We had a show that night but we cancelled it. That’s the only show we’ve ever cancelled. I took him back to my house and nursed him back to health. It took two days and lots of lemons and salad. He sweated the virus out in my bed. My mattress was never the same. Does this kind of stuff happen a lot? Tours get really hard, man. At the end of the last year – I think it was December – we did loads of tours in Europe, and we were pretty fucking dead. We were in Belgium and we found a big bowl and filled it up with vodka and orange juice and got really drunk. It was the last show, and we lost our minds in the van. One more thing: are you glad the summer is almost gone? I think Dan is, for sure. He’s just a Goth.

The Wytches play on 04 October at OCCII in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

The Morning After: Amen Dunes Photos shot by Kyle Tryhorn on Saturday, 13 September at 11.31am

The Morning After is a monthly photo series depicting the scenes of a bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s post-slumber lodgings the day after their Subbacultcha! show. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how Amen Dunes left their guest room after their show at Haperende Mens Festival.

Featured Artist

Janine van Oene We first saw the mysteriously beautiful paintings of Janine van Oene (1988) at her graduation exhibition of the HKU this year and were immediately intrigued by the dark interiors and heavy brushstrokes. Her paintings appear as glimpses from an alternate universe that, with its weird objects and perspectives, does feel oddly familiar. Van Oene is now in residency at De Ateliers in Amsterdam working on a new strategy, using her time to work, as she put it ‘…without any plans, allowing myself to make “ugly” things.’ www.janinevanoene.com

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Featured Artist: Janine van Oene

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Featured Artist: Janine van Oene Interview by Floor Kortman

How are you doing? I’m doing great! After my graduation a lot of good things started happening. First, I got the fantastic news that I’ve been accepted at De Ateliers. After that I heard I won the De Buning Brongers Prize, and I was also nominated for the Royal Award for Modern Painting. A lot of emails followed from galleries that were interested in exhibiting my work. This summer I was part of the Best of Graduates exhibition at Gallery Ron Mandos at which I sold a lot of paintings, including some to important collectors. I think it’s really interesting and fun to experience this side of the art world. Can you explain something about your work and the themes you address? I paint spaces, objects or moments through which I hope to be able to relate to the collective memory. They are descriptions of different moments or experiences such as passages from a book, fragments from films, something I read or saw. Sometimes it’s even an attempt to hold on to a memory. An image becomes interesting to me when it does not immediately tell a story or express meaning, but when

the forms and materials are there to start a thought process. I hope my work can be as exciting as exploring a new place, or it can drive the thoughts of the viewer back into a blurred memory or dream. You just started a residency at De Ateliers. Do you have a plan of what you’ll be exploring there? During my graduation period I tried to stick to one style as much as possible. I experimented, but at some point it was important that every painting was a ‘good’ painting. Since September I’ve been working in my new studio at De Ateliers, which offers me the space and time to let go of everything I was holding on to before. So now I’m going to paint like a four-year old for a little while, without any plans, allowing myself to make ‘ugly’ things. Aside from that I’m just going to continue what I was doing and I hope my new freedom will positively influence my new paintings.

Van Oene is part of a group exhibition for the Buning Brongers Prize at Arti et Amicitiae. The exhibition opens on 10 October.

Books: Self-Help Shelf No 6 By Marc van der Holst. Image by Lonneke van der Palen

Personae by Sergio de la Pava

Every month we offer a literary helping hand with the bigger questions in life niscent of John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse, David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress and David Foster Wallace's failed entertainments. Personae is a much shorter book than his debut A Naked Singularity (also originally self-published, and also picked up by The University of Chicago Press Books), but reading it in one sitting can have the same sort of emotional impact. So, come children. Then. Once the water’s restored you. Lay back and float. As you lay. Living. The current will raise you. Truth ascends. Lies stay stuck on the ground. Stare so intently at the sky Heaven’s gates begin to almost imperceptibly part. Then draw in some air, honey. Sweet air. And let the current bear you home.

The ensuing is the report of one reader Marc van der Holst. I am Marc van der Holst, the ensuing is my report, and it is not true that this sentence adds nothing to the first. Thus, more or less, begins Sergio de la Pava's second novel, Personae. What follows starts off as some sort of linguistic crime novel, but soon spirals off into ‘excerpts (…) of [an] introduction to [an] article [about] Bach, Gould and a conspirational silence,’ notes from a withered notebook, a short story, a Beckettian play, an unfinished novel or novella, an obituary, + footnotes. This isn't postmodernism though, not really. This is more like post-post-postmodernism. De la Pava continues to find new ways to use those old tricks to his and our advantage, reaching emotional heights and lyrical depths remi-

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 | N o4: A New Path to the Waterfall, by Raymond Carver | N o5: Restroom Zen, by Jimmy Chen | N o6: Museum of the Weird, by Amelia Gray

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 Krautrock trio Camera bring you their hypnotic, psychedelic sounds straight from the Berlin underground. They formed this month’s fashion inspiration for Vera le Blanc, a political communications graduate student and freelance writer.

for changing my mind, he kindly replied by saying, ‘That’s cool, kiddo,’ and we shook hands. Shoes first or last? I have to confess, they were a present. I did run into a pair of Nike Air Max, but they were too damaged and not ready for a second life. Fact is, they needed to complement my outfit and be subway proof. Now, what would you say is the most rock’n’roll subway station to go see a show? I’d say Rotterdam – it’s way more rock’n’roll than Amsterdam, for sure. Somewhere in the suburbs, maybe Schiedam is ghetto enough.

I could definitely see your gloomy outfit at a Camera show. When I heard their sound, I had a sinister, edgy look in mind – metro stylo. I figured if I was going to see them play, these layers would come in handy in case my headbanging got out of hand. What’s up with that fancy jacket? At first I saw a black leather jacket at Waterlooplein, but when I went to get some cash I stumbled on this Nike piece. You could say it’s one of those ‘no hassle’ jackets. I did sincerely apologise to the other guy

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Vera le Blanc's total budget spent: €15 XXXL Shirt: €4 - Waterlooplein / Nike jacket: €10 - Waterlooplein Stockings: €1 - HEMA / Shoes: €0 - Gift from brother & girlfriend

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

Xeno & Oaklander Every month we ask an artist to share a recipe for their favourite dish Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride of Xeno & Oaklander are always in pursuit of unique moments of culinary pleasure. Their stories include eating pinches of spicy homemade paprika powder made by a boilersuit-clad Hungarian woman, reading Cyrillic menus in a Boston steakhouse transplanted to Moscow and making recipes from Liz's futurist cookbook. It is the band’s love of conviviality that shines through on their new album, Par Avion. Sean: 'I recently discovered the joys of foods that have a disparate taste but similar textures. I’ve been making simple salads out of turnip, radish and apple. I chop them up so they all look the same, but when you taste them you are surprised by the sweetness of the apple, the sharp radish and the mild flavour of the turnip.' Liz: 'For me, cooking is more of

a fantasy thing, I have lots of dream recipes. In the past I have cooked with perfume, as it’s all about having a multi-sensory experience. I’ve had magical eating experiences that have made me fall off my chair and forget who I am.' How to make Liz and Sean's textured salad • Put the apple, turnip and radish in a small bowl and splash with balsamic vinegar. Set aside for 10 minutes, then drain the vinegar. • Make a bed of watercress in a nice serving bowl. Place the apple, turnip and radish on top. Drizzle olive oil and a lemon squeeze. Decorate with violet flowers. Add salt and pepper to taste. Xeno & Oaklander play on 29 October at Melkweg in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

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Music Reviews By Carly Blair

Perfume Genius Too Bright

Purling Hiss Weirdon

With the strikingly vulnerable and brutally honest storytelling shared on his first two albums, Seattle’s Mike Hadreas established himself as one of today’s most interesting singersongwriters. When he started writing his third album, he initially toned down the drama and shifted his focus to more universal themes in hopes of attaining crossover success. Thankfully, the results of this compromise bored him and he scrapped everything, opting to reinvent himself by instead tapping into his own deep well of righteous anger about various topics and soundtracking these sonic screeds with appropriately aggressive instrumentation. This may turn out to be an even more effective way of getting people to listen to him, for the bold, brave, even sassy persona he reveals on Too Bright is the most fascinating Mike Hadreas I’ve heard yet.

After years of recording in the otherwise uninhabited world of his home studio, Purling Hiss mastermind Mike Polizze recruited a team of rock’n’roll rovers to help him explore a grungy new galaxy on last year’s excellent Water on Mars. That album made clear that a world teeming with life had been lurking under the previously scuzzy surface of his songs and seemed to herald an extroverted new era for the band. Instead of continuing along the same trajectory, however, Polizze headed back into his basement to record its followup by himself. Somewhat surprisingly, Weirdon is neither reclusive nor alienatingly idiosyncratic, but rather contains the Hiss’s catchiest collection of songs to date, as if Polizze wanted to prove wrong anyone who suspected he couldn’t pull off weirdo pop perfection on his own.

Matador

Drag City

Music Reviews Iceage Plowing Into the Field of Love

Peaking Lights Cosmic Logic Weird World

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On their fourth album, this husbandand-wife dub-pop duo continue to construct a sonic universe governed by its own set of laws. While their previous albums fit into this universe like galaxies, smatterings of catchy clusters interconnected by a medium of psychedelic haze, Cosmic Logic is as sharply defined as a constellation, the brightest and perhaps most heavenly object I’ve observed in their universe thus far.

When they released their 2011 debut New Brigade, this bunch of then-barely-legal Danes charmed many with their precocious and passionate take on punk rock. 2013’s You’re Nothing proved they could age gracefully, as they channeled their angst into writing more refined and emotionally moving songs. With the revelation of their new album’s surprisingly loose, rockabilly-tinged lead single ‘The Lord’s Favorite’, Iceage hinted they had a growth spurt planned. Plowing Into the Field of Love finds the band expanding their sound by adding new instruments to their usual repertoire and more space to their compositions, creating a dramatic atmosphere that’s almost Nick Cave-like at times and the best context they’ve found for conveying their trademark desperation.

Caribou Our Love

City Slang/Merge As Dan Snaith’s approach to Caribou has floated further downstream from danceable psych pop towards straight-up dance music, his reputation has swelled, buoyed by a couple of bonafide hits and his band’s excellent live performances. On Our Love, the long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s much-loved Swim, he embraces electronica – and connecting with listeners – more wholeheartedly than ever.

New Films By Basje Boer

Under the Skin Jonathan Glazer - 2014

The thing is, most movie directors who got their start in music videos and TV commercials seem to lose themselves in glossy imagery, wholly forgetting that they're supposed to tell a story as well. But Jonathan Glazer really does get it. MTV’s 1997 Director of the Year made his feature-length debut with stylish thriller Sexy Beast in 2000, followed by mini masterpiece Birth in 2004. Now Glazer gets profoundly weird with Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson as – what else? – a sexy alien. Driving around desolate Scotland, Johansson picks up men and takes them home, where a death trap awaits them. But along the way, she finds out what it means to be human, making it impossible for her to continue her mission. Release: 16 October When you’ve finished this one, start watching... • It’s time to give Julia Leigh’s sorely overlooked Sleeping Beauty (2011) a second chance. In this case, it’s Emily Browning who’s exploring her sexual power by sleeping with filthy rich seniors. Yes, literally sleeping... • Scarlett Johansson may have found a whole new way to dispose of men (which you’ll have to see to believe), but the femme fatale is of all ages. In film noir Laura (1944) a homicide detective falls for such a dangerous lady. Never mind the fact that she’s a murder victim.

New Films

Drift

Winter Sleep

Benny Vandendriessche - 2014

Winter Sleep

There’s something about Drift that just won’t commit to one medium. This Belgian-Romanian co-production is part cinema, part video art and part performance art, with just a hint of modern dance. With minimal dialogue and barely a narrative, this daring debut by Belgian director Benny Vandendriessche manages to conjure up some unforgettable scenes. Like one where the griefstricken protagonist walks around carrying a stone on his face. Actor Dirk Hendrikx delivers a physical performance that’s reminiscent of art-house superstar Denis Lavant. Release: 09 October

Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 2014 If you’re not watching Turkish arthouse cinema, you’re missing out. Catch up with director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a Cannes favourite whose latest three-hour epic, Winter Sleep, won the Palme d’Or at this year’s festival. The story takes place in a small hotel in Anatolia, owned by former actor Aydin. While snow covers the landscape, Aydin clashes with his much younger wife Nihal, his sister Necla and a poor family that rents one of the houses he owns. Release: 25 September

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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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DJ Dodger Stadium (Live) + Torus (Live)

Camera Japan ft. Get Action!! screening + Cuushe + aus

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

03 October - LantarenVenster, Rotterdam Film at 17.00 | €9,50 Performances 21.30 | €12 | Free for members

LA has long provided musical influence, from Sinatra’s ‘LA Is My Lady’ to Kendrick Lamar’s gritty, urban vignettes. Jerome LOL and Samo Sound Boy have been equally inspired by the city they call home, recent LP Friend of Mine taking the form of an open letter to the City of Angels. Their sleek, modern dancefloor classics blend harder techno with the dreamier end of house, an expansive sound that echoes the never-ending urban sprawl of the concrete jungle. Following DJ stints in support of FKA Twigs and Le1f, our love affair with Torus continues at OT301. This time around he performs live, dealing in hypnotic loops that wash over you and build slowly to a peaceful climax.

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Part of the CAMERA JAPAN festival, this evening hosted by LantarenVenster has you watching Get Action!!, a documentary about the unruly garage-punk band Teengenerate. The programme follows on with flau records mastermind Yasuhiko Fukuzono, aka aus, and synth-pop act Cuushe. While pretty much everything on the Japanese label is brilliant, Cuushe is by far the star. Concocting dreamy, woozy landscapes, her breathy vocals and lush instrumentation complement some of the most blissful pop you’re likely to hear.

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The Wytches + Nancy Acid

trippy videos and mind-bending lyrics, they’ve happily admitted to borrowing from rock’n’roll and even Britpop to distinguish their sound from their psychedelic forefathers. Take ‘Take A Ride’, propelled along by an incessant, driving beat and a few choice solos, all topped off with Jonty Ball’s piercing vocals. It’s every bit as arresting and catchy as the accompanying video.

04 October - OCCII, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members Young, brash and up for a scrap. Many terms have been thrown at this surfpsych trio, but none really come close to summing up just what a thrilling ride The Wytches take you on. A dark, brooding psychedelia swirls through their music, but it’s not just about satanic majesties’ requests; there are some delicious riffs, infectious grooves and more than one sugar-sweet melody hiding behind the weirdness. ‘Surf doom’ they call it, as good a description as any for their murky, garage din. Complementing them are Nancy Acid, as lo-fi (but thrilling) a garage duo as you’re likely to find.

Vessel + Heartsnatcher

08 October - OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members We love Tri Angle Records. Having released albums by the likes of The Haxan Cloak, Forest Swords and Evian Christ, it’s the home of whip-smart, progressive electronica that’s ghostly, glitchy and oh-so seductive. Fitting neatly into this roster is Sebastian Gainsborough, aka Vessel. A self-confessed techie nerd with a first-class degree in technology, his love of all things sonic shines through on debut LP Order of Noise; equal parts oppressive, stimulating and compelling, intricate layers of sound swim up through mangled clangs and shuffling, nervous beats. This music sounds like nothing else, which is why it’s so special.

Desert Mountain Tribe + Those Foreign Kids

05 October - WORM, Rotterdam 19.30 | €7 | Free for members Hailing from Cologne and Croydon, there’s a delicious retro sheen to Desert Mountain Tribe’s hypnotic, catchy drone rock; imagine the Black Angels with their sights set on the top of the charts. And that’s not an insult – despite the

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Camera + Radar Men From The Moon

A retrofuturist manifesto that throws down the gauntlet to their peers, there’s a thrilling spontaneity to their music; conventional structures are ignored and strange effects are sprinkled liberally throughout. The 18 songs are split into seven suites, all with a science fiction/space theme, and while that might sound pretentious, it’s just Butler’s latest masterstroke as he continues to subvert norms.

18 October - EKKO, Utrecht 20.00 | €9 | Free for members

Dubbed ‘guerilla Krautrock’, Berlin trio Camera’s meandering drones pull in elements from math rock, new wave and jam bands of yore, songs bleeding into each other and stretched out beyond their normal limits. Imagine the bastard love child of Can, NEU! and Battles, and you’re halfway there. Feedback, distortion and a never-ending motorik groove drive everything forward, the ebb and flow from guitar to synth mirroring the waves of noise that wash over you. It’s powerful, sweaty stuff, and having performed with Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius, it’s easy to see why they’re so highly regarded.

Lemontrip Hollow album release

ft. Lemontrip + ZES + Oaktree & Avondlicht 23 October - OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €5 | Free for members

Shabazz Palaces

20 October - MC Theater, Amsterdam 19.30 | €15 | Free for members Former Digable Planets member Ishmael Butler has always pushed against the limits of what hip hop is, or could be, and together with bandmate and producer Tendai Maraire, recent album Lese Majesty finds him heading further into uncharted territory than ever before.

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After all the acclaim heaped on his 2012 release Nowhere, Amsterdam resident Pepijn Gaalman is back with his first, proper full-length – Hollow, out on Fog Mountain – which he’s showcasing at this headline show. A skilful producer, Gaalman has shifted from his earlier dream-like haze to craft a darker, more dramatic electronic landscape that’s been shaped by minimalist house and Eastern influences. The best new tracks double down on an anxious, claustrophobic atmosphere, and while it may be ‘experimental’, he doesn’t neglect the

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DJ Nigga Fox: 25 October

Perfect Pussy: 28 October

Perfect Pussy + Those Foreign Kids & Yuri Landman

PanTropical: DJ Nigga Fox + DJ Kolt

28 October - EKKO, Utrecht 20.00 | €10 | Free for members The snarl. The posturing. The ‘don’t give a fuck’ glint in the eye. Don’t let the fact that they essentially formed by accident, assembled for a movie, fool you: this five-piece from Syracuse, New York are every bit as ferocious and unforgiving as punk should be. Famed for their volatile, raucous live shows and signed to prestigious indie label Captured Tracks, they’ve blazed a trail across the world in just two short years, singer Meredith Graves’ brutally honest lyrics striking a chord with outcasts and the disenfranchised. Those Foreign Kids are every bit as blisteringly loud and passionate.

25 October - WORM, Rotterdam 23.00 | €7 | Free for members Soulwax once sang: ‘Everybody wants to be the DJ’, and it’s true – everyone thinks they can spin a few tunes. But these guys are the real deal, super talented mix masters who ‘warp far-out European club music to Angolan specifications’ according to Wire magazine. Specialising in a vibrant style of Batida that draws on kuduro, Afro house and tarraxinha, the duo have been tearing up Lisbon as part of the Príncipe label roster and the Blacksea Não Maya collective. That they’re coming north just shows how successful they’ve become. See you on the dancefloor, yeah?

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How To Dress Well: 01 November

Peaking Lights + Xeno & Oaklander

How To Dress Well 01 November - TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht 20.15 | €14 | Free for members

29 October - Melkweg, Amsterdam 19.00 | €15 | Free for members Dance music frequently has a hard edge that comes into play when the dancefloor gets serious, and people want to get their rave on. Not so with Peaking Lights; the music of Indra Dunnis and Aaron Coyes has a laid-back, soft-sheen haze that unfurls around your brain and body in languid waves. It’s unhurried yet full of energy, borrowing heavily from reggae and dub – especially new track ‘Breakdown’ from their forthcoming album Cosmic Logic. Xeno & Oaklander are cut from a similar cloth, their loops and samples focusing on repetition and a childlike sense of wonder.

In a world suddenly enthralled with 'alternative R&B', How To Dress Well’s Tom Krell sticks out. Wispy, emotive soundscapes may be all the rage but Krell brings a humanity and sadness to his music that few others manage. Bright, translucent and affecting, his songs swirl around you, hitting the sweet spot between pleasure and pain. His voice, previously relegated to a buried, haunting presence, is front and centre on ‘What Is This Heart?’, boring straight into your soul as he confronts the big questions we’re all too afraid to ask head on.

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Drift

Kathleen Hanna: The Punk Singer

Drift

Kathleen Hanna: The Punk Singer

09 October - EYE, Amsterdam 19.00 | €10 | Free for members

14 October - Melkweg, Amsterdam 20.00 | €8.50 | Free for members

The Romanian Carpathian mountains; a young Belgian couple. She’s suffering from an illness; he tries to comfort her the best way he can. The outcome is inevitable. After she’s gone, the griefstricken protagonist starts wandering, choosing not to speak ever again. His existence consists of strange, physical rituals that fascinate the locals. Once more, the outcome is inevitable, the man too slowly disappears. Drift is a daring debut film by Belgian director Benny Vandendriessche, starring actor and performance artist Dirk Hendrikx. A film like no other, mixing cinema with performance art, video art and modern dance.

With superior creds to her name such as fronting all-girl rock band Bikini Kill, electro trio Le Tigre and rock outfit The Julie Ruin, you can safely call Kathleen Hanna the original riot grrrl. Not to mention a feminist icon and all around badass. It took director Sini Anderson three years to put all there is to say about Hanna in a documentary, The Punk Singer, digging into 20 (!) years of archival footage and featuring intimate interviews with Hanna herself. The film premiered at the SXSW festival, revealing a shocking new fact about Hanna’s health.

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Under the Skin

It’s All Gone Pete Tong

Under the Skin

/Kult Film: It’s All Gone Pete Tong

15 October - Studio/K, Amsterdam 19.30 | €9 | Free for members

First, there is nothing. Then, there’s a girl. Jonathan Glazer (Birth, Sexy Beast) delivers one strange – and highly anticipated – movie, based on Michel Faber’s novel and starring a terrific Scarlett Johansson as a sexy alien. This alien is brought to Earth with a mission: to pick up men and bring them home, where a death trap awaits them. But gradually, the girl learns about what it means to be a human being, making it impossible for her to continue her mission. A beautiful movie, that combines social realism with glossy video art. Amazing score by Mica Levi (Micachu).

Apparently, the phrase ‘it’s all gone Pete Tong’ originates in house music. In case you were wondering: Pete Tong is a BBC radio host. What it means? That things aren’t exactly working out as planned. In Canadian indie director Michael Dowse’s movie of the same name, it’s Frankie Wilde’s life that is ‘all gone Pete Tong’. This once legendary DJ is now washed up, struggling with an addiction to drugs and alcohol. He's dropped by his record label and manager and he’s dumped by his wife and friends. But worst of all, he’s losing his hearing.

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

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Foam

Voc-Kade, Amsterdam Open Wed-Sun 13:00-18:00 €5 | Free for members Mediamatic’s new exhibition Kunstformen Der Natur is truly memorable. With larger-than-life illustrations by Ernst Haeckel, watercolours from Dutch architect HP Berlage, Radiolara lighting from Bernotat&Co and light objects from Rudy Guedj, Martin Huger, Olya Troitskaya and Sophie Rogg, the exhibition shows a fantastic collection of natural curiosities.

Keizersgracht, Amsterdam Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thur and Fri until 21.00 €9.50 | Free for members Foam presents some colourful exhibitions of contemporary photography throughout October. The Paul Huf Award winner Daniel Gordon shows a series of collage works, and the exhibition includes an interesting video of the photographer at work in his studio, revealing his play on perspective. JH Engström’s work in the downstairs gallery is raw and personal, and his prints have that demure analogue feel that is so characteristically ’90s.The main exhibition is Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography, a group show of photographers who share a love for new digital photographic techniques and a modern take on the meaning of photographic images.

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Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00 €5 | Free for members TENT is still showing the manifestation The Value of Nothing. A group exhibition with five new projects, fieldwork residencies and an extensive public pro-

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Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam Mark Cohen

exhibition by American street photographer Mark Cohen. Cohen has the peculiar habit of getting real close to his subjects without them knowing, and photographs only part of them, showing great detail in clothes and skin.

gramme on new directions in thought about the position of art within the economy. The exhibition shows the artist’s different outcomes on how it could conclude, new kinds of value systems, radically different economies and futuristic artistic practices.

Moving Futures Festival

Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam

Wilhelminakade, Rotterdam Open Tue-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat and Sun from 11.00 €9 | Free for members Still on view is the exhibition of the nominees of the Steenbergen Stipendium. The prize will be awarded on 05 October and if you visit the exhibition, you can still vote for your own favourite for the public award. Also on view is a large

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11 October - Dansmakers aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam 22.00 | €15 | Free for members Five dance institutions from the Netherlands join forces in this envelope-pushing itinerant festival showcasing works of young choreographers. We’ve reserved the late Triple Bill of performances by Katja Heitmann and Connor Schumacher, and the premiere of Fernando Belfiore’s AL13FB<3. The program at Dansmakers’ own warehouse on ‘t IJ continues deep into the night with BOKKO and DJ’s to keep your body moving.

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SUN 12 OCT CARIBOU

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THE HOLD STEADY

FRI 10 OCT

DZ DEATHRAYS

FRI 10 OCT

TYCHO

SUN 12 OCT

CARIBOU

TUE 14 OCT

GLENN BRANCA ENSEMBLE

TUE 14 OCT

KATHLEEN HANNA: THE PUNK SINGER

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THU 16 OCT FROM MON 20

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Agenda. October On the following pages you’ll find a fine selection of concerts, festivals and exhibitions taking place around the country Music: 40 Years Bimhuis KICK-OFF WEEKEND 01-04 October - Bimhuis, Amsterdam This year the Netherlands’ premier jazz club hits the big 4-0. Like a fine wine, Bimhuis keeps getting better with age, and to prove it they’ll host five days’ worth of exciting performances.

presents ten days of foreign wonder in Rotterdam and Amsterdam: an intense and topical selection of 43 films (!), with a side dish of lectures, exhibitions and live performances. Visit their website for the full scoop: http://camerajapan.nl Music: Future Islands 03 October - Melkweg, Amsterdam While these Baltimore synth-pop evangelists’ heartfelt romanticism and awe-inspiring live performances have helped them gradually build a devoted cult following, with their fantastic new album, Singles, they’re poised to finally hit the big time.

Music: Hundred Waters 01 October - Tolhuistuin, Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam This five-piece turned heads when they released their delicate debut, then left people scratching them when they signed and toured with Skrillex. No worries, though: their new album is just as exquisite as its predecessor.

Music: The Antlers 03 October - Paradiso, Amsterdam Since releasing their heartbreaking breakthrough album Hospice back in 2009, this Brooklyn three-piece has honed a slow-burning, elegant and extraordinarly lovely take on indie rock, which rewards attentive listeners.

Music: Suuns 02 October - Tolhuistuin, Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam Montreal’s Suuns brew up a heady prog-rock potion that’s found a thirsty following here in the Netherlands. Their latest album, 2013’s Images du Futur, finds them working that magic again.

Art: Amsterdam Zine Jam 04 October - Felix Meritis Zine makers, artists and independent publishers get their own playground at Felix Meritis one Saturday in October. You get to play along in the workshops or hide away in the Zine Forest; your choice.

Film: CAMERA JAPAN Festival 02-05 October - LantarenVenster, Rotterdam 06-09 October - Melkweg, Amsterdam 10-12 October - Kriterion, Amsterdam For its ninth edition, CAMERA JAPAN

Agenda. October Music: Nordic Delight Festival 04 October - Centraal Museum, Utrecht 16 October - Sugarfactory, Amsterdam This annual festival aims to win you over to the wonders of Nordic culture with a selection of upcoming bands, design, films, fashion and food that’s destined to delight us Lowlanders.

once again show their vision of the future in an exhibition that includes digital renderings and floating rocks. Music: Liars 10 October - Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam Liars are known for dramatic stylistic shifts between albums, relocating for inspiration and stubbornly refusing to give demanding fans what they want. True to form, their latest, Mess, is considerably ballsier than 2012’s remarkably introverted WIXIW.

Music: Bear in Heaven + Fear of Men 05 October - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam Brooklyn psych-pop outfit Bear in Heaven revealed its leanest and perhaps meanest side yet in Time Is Over One Day Old. Brighton trio Fear of Men’s Cranberries-flavoured dream pop will whet your appetite for the headliners.

Music: [P]Rewire ft. Andy Stott + Millie & Andrea 10 October - Canvas, Amsterdam Read more on page 76.

Music: Fat White Family 04 October - AreaFiftyOne, Eindhoven 05 October - EKKO, Utrecht Something like a less punk-oriented Black Lips, these South London dirtbags have been carving out a particularly greasy and cigarette-burned butt groove on the sofa of sleazy rock’n’roll.

Art: Buning Brongers Prijs 11-26 October - Arti et Amicitiae Subbacultcha! featured artist Janine van Oenen was one of the winners of the prestigious Buning Brongers Prize that is awarded twice a year to promising young artists. Art: The Future of Fashion is Now 11 October 2014-18 January 2015 - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Gathering work from more than 50 fashion designers around the world, this exhibition scrutinises the fashion industry in an attempt to critically (re-)formulate the role of clothes in contemporary society.

Music: TRAAMS 07 October - Paradiso, Amsterdam Noisy UK trio TRAAMS met by chance while taking shelter from a storm and formed the band right then and there. They’ve certainly hit the ground running, having quickly developed a diverse and melodic sound and a tight live show. Misc: Dansmakers - Moving Futures 09-12 October - Amsterdam In addition to a whole lotta dance and theatre, former Subbacultcha! residents Piet Langeveld & Gerda Postma will

Ballet: Back to Bach 11-19 October - Dutch National Opera & Ballet Although Bach never composed mu-

Agenda. October sic for dance, he often incorporated dance forms in his suites. Returning the compliment are four choreographers and collaborators of the Dutch National Ballet, keen on showing you that Bach swings.

world. Not for the faint of heart (nor the tight of budget), but if you love dance music, there’s surely at least one can’t-miss night on their agenda awaiting you. Music: Avi Buffalo 14 October - Tolhuistuin, Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam After making a big splash with their 2010 debut, recorded when they were still in high school, Long Beach’s Avi Buffalo have reemerged, older and a little wiser, with their long-awaited sophomore album, At Best Cuckold.

Music: Caribou + Jessy Lanza 12 October - Melkweg, Amsterdam Not only does Caribou’s latest album, Our Love, feature Jessy Lanza, but this Ontario dynamic duo is also touring together this fall. While Lanza’s R&B-inflected electro pop is sure to send chills down your spine, Caribou will provide the dance fix.

Art: Dutch Design Week 18-26 October - Eindhoven This year’s ambassador of the most important design festival in the country is artist Arne Hendriks. Hendriks challenges social issues and introduces possible solutions, as in his project The Incredible Shrinking Man, in which he calculated that people should grow shorter in order to solve the problem of food shortage.

Music: Sean Nicholas Savage 12 October - Paradiso, Amsterdam Montreal indie ringleader Sean Nicholas Savage uses cheesy, simplistic adultcontemporary instrumentation as a medium to convey poignant and fairly devastating sentiments. Music: Japanese New Music Festival 13 October - OCCII, Amsterdam This festival of sorts features three Japanese experimental legends – Tatsuya Yoshida of Ruins and Atsushi Tsuyama and Makoto Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple – playing together in eight different configurations with distinct musical visions.

Music: Cloud Boat 23 October - Paradiso, Amsterdam Though most of this London duo’s majestic music would sit comfortably next to James Blake or Vondelpark on a mixtape, their electronic elements are more ornamental than fundamental, since the limelight is fixed firmly on singer Tom Clarke’s stately vocals.

Music: Amsterdam Dance Event 15-19 October - Amsterdam Over the past two decades, this event has grown into the world’s largest electronic music conference and festival, with over 300,000 attendees and 2,000 artists and DJs from around the

Music: DJ Nigga Fox + DJ Kolt 23 October - OCCII, Amsterdam 25 October - WORM, Rotterdam Read more on page 63.

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Less Win, Lifeless Past Gratis Madensuyu, Urdanik Maybeshewill Aestrid Gratis Still Parade Gratis The Legendary Shack Shakers Breton Set It Off 2014: o.a. Slow Magic, Odesza Danny & The Darleans, Liquor Store

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Agenda. October Music: LV & Josh Idehen 25 October - MC Theater, Amsterdam South London production duo LV and MC Joshua Idehen hit MC Theater in support of their second collaborative album, Islands.

digital tricks, as well as their creative processes. Music: St. Vincent 30 October - Doornroosje, Nijmegen On St. Vincent, Annie Clark’s new follow-up to last year’s collaborative album with David Byrne and 2011’s Strange Mercy, the queen babe of indiedom sounds as virtuosic and clever as ever.

Music: Slow Club 25 October - Paradiso, Amsterdam The latest lovey-dovey effort from this Sheffield boy-girl indie-pop duo, Complete Surrender, finds their malleable sound morphing into Northern soul, and Rebecca Taylor flexing a heretofore downplayed vocal prowess to impressive effect.

Music: CATCH Festival ft. Larry Gus + Kelela + Tobacco + more 31 October - TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht For those who love Pitch Festival’s more intimate moments – as well as those who wish there were more of them – this new spin-off should offer plenty to cuddle up to, featuring the same caliber of cutting-edge electronic music in a cosy indoor setting.

Music: The War on Drugs + Steve Gunn 28 October - Paradiso, Amsterdam The War on Drugs lord Adam Granduciel transforms classic Americana influences into music that’s both comfortingly familiar and thrillingly new, while opener Steve Gunn has quietly built a devoted fanbase by mining the blues, jazz, and folk traditions to create his own distinctive, timeless style.

Music: London Calling ft. Spoon + Sebadoh + John Wizards + more 31 October - Paradiso, Amsterdam This semi-annual pop festival got its start in 1992 as a platform for up-andcoming UK bands. Though they've since ditched the UK focus, they haven't ditched their commitment to showcasing bands that often go on to become the next big thing.

Art: Playgrounds Festival 28-29 October - 013 Popstage & De NWE Vorst, Tilburg 30-31 October - Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam Digital art lovers meet every year at Playgrounds Festival, where animators, graphic designers and filmmakers showcase their latest work. The invited artists will talk your ear off about innovative technologies and intelligent post-production software, offering you a peek into their bag of

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Rewire For its fourth edition, Rewire has put together a showcase of experimental musicians that make a point of challenging your habitual listening experiences, restarting your brain and changing your musical sensibilities 07+08 November - The Hague

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[P]Rewire event - Andy Stott + Millie & Andrea + Still Serious Nic 10 October - Canvas, Amsterdam Prior to the event in The Hague, get soaked in some intelligent techno by Manchester-based producer Andy Stott, who will also be joined by his collaborator Miles Whittaker for a Millie & Andrea session that is likely to leave you staring down at your plate.

and LP Koch, consist of molecules of sound that aggregate at random and disintegrate at will, twisting your sense of duration. Dive into the wormhole. Colin Stetson Everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favourite saxophonist, Colin Stetson never fails to impress. Be it his technical virtuosity, his eye-opening compositions or his aweinspiring live performances, this is the stuff of stories worth sharing with your future grandkids.

Lee Gamble Oftentimes sat beside Actress, Lee Gamble has been producing abstract club music to listen to at home, inducing out-of-body experiences. Stripped of drumbeats and drops, it feels as if his latest releases, EP Kuang

Jozef van Wissem Friend and collaborator of Jim Jarmusch, Jozef van Wissem deserves your full attention. Composing music for the lute, he draws

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inspiration from baroque and no wave, speaking to the brooding, jaded soul over the ages and appeasing with no condescension all those who think they are the first to feel that way.

come off as self-effacing abstractions, they are borne out of a very personal set of circumstances. Gardland Aussie duo Alex Murray and Mark Smith operate within the trusty techno logic of mechanical sound. Their vibrant back-and-forth takes apart crackling noises, disabling the random occurrence factor, and arranging them in repetitive, improvised structures that overflow with downtempo beats.

Wanda Group WAVING NOT SHOUTING AT LOU AND HIS LOVE OF UPPER-CASE TYPEFACE. Wanda Groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Louis Johnston has set out on a sonic exploration that has him mixing musique concrĂ¨te and found sounds off of cassettes to the rhythm of homemade electronica. While his experiments in sound

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14 October

28 October

OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members

20.00 | €8.50 | Free for members

EKKO, Utrecht 20.00| €10 | Free for members

DJ Dodger Stadium (Live) + Torus (Live) 03 October

Camera Japan

LantarenVenster, Rotterdam Film at 17.00 | €9,50 Performances 21.30 | €12 Free for members

04 October

The Wytches + Nancy Acid

OCCII, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members

05 October

Desert Mountain Tribe + Those Foreign Kids

WORM, Rotterdam 19.30 | €7 | Free for members

08 October

Vessel + Heartsnatcher

OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members

09 October

Film: Drift

EYE, Amsterdam 19.00 | €10 | Free for members

11 October

Moving Futures

Dansmakers aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam 22.00 | €15 | Free for members

Film: Kathleen Hanna Perfect Pussy + - The Punk Singer Those Foreign Kids & Melkweg, Amsterdam Yuri Landman 15 October

Film: It’s All Gone Pete Tong

Studio/K, Amsterdam 21.30 | €9.50 | Free for members

18 October

Camera + Radar Men From The Moon

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EKKO, Utrecht 20.00 | €9 | Free for members

20 October

Shabazz Palaces

MC Theater, Amsterdam 19.30 | €15 | Free for members

21 October

Film: Under the Skin LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9.50 | Free for members

23 October

Lemontrip - Hollow Album Release

OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €5 | Free for members

25 October

PanTropical: DJ Nigga Fox + DJ Kolt

WORM, Rotterdam 23:00 | €7 | Free for members

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29 October

Peaking Lights + Xeno & Oaklander

Melkweg, Amsterdam 19.00 | €15 | Free for members

All Month

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

TENT

Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00 €5 | Free for members

Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam

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

Mediamatic

Voc-Kade, Amsterdam Open Wed-Sun 13:00-18:00 €5 | Free for members

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