Trap is all the rage these days, sparking internet memes and making tiny white kids seem cooler by proxy. But as we all know, when a “new” genre comes to town -brandishing legitimately interesting music- people hurdle over each other to take that “new” genre and paste it on everything in sight… and it is terrifying. 

This all started during the traditional Friday afternoon fries lunch (lunch feat. fries) when I remarked that I kind of liked Trap. TNGHT is alright in my book. Well, this didn’t sit very well with the older, more seasoned people at Incubate HQ. The following hours Joost Heijthuijsen set out to dig up some of the worst trap songs he could find, and subsequently ruined the entire genre for me (almost).

Here are the most excruciatingly cheesy and awful Trap songs he could find:

Lumineers Trap

Marilyn Manson Trap

AC/DC Trap

Bon Jovi Trap

Metellica Trap

Ozzy Osbourne Trap

Justin Timberlake Trap

Some things are not meant to be mixed.

Tonight we’re going to throw ourselves into other people at Thee Oh Sees who’ll be playing Area51. It’s probably going to be amazing. But before we take the train down Eindhoven-way, we can give away 2 x 2 tickets for another show in Area, next week.

Yes, you can win tickets for Purling Hiss, the dirty, lo-fi garage rockers straight outta Philidelphia, US. Support will be provided by Tilburg’s finest, Richie Dagger. To win the tickets you’ll need to answer the following “question”.

Purling Hiss sounds pretty sensual. What do you think it means? Let us know.

Send your “answer” to win@incubate.org with subjectline “PURLING HISS” and don’t forget to clearly state your full name in the mail. Make sure to send it before before Wednesday, the 22nd of May.

Attend the Facebook event here.

Listen to Mercury Retrograde below.

Our new assistant booker Jan Vrijens -from Brussels, Belgium- has already booked a couple of artists for upcoming Incubate, but his very first booking was the intense hardcore/black-metal/doom band Hessian. However, since Hessian was a Belgium band and we smelt some nepotism,  we let Jan go see Hessian live to see if they held up to our rigorous standards…

The four-piece of Hessian enters the stage in-between Iroha and Godflesh. They’ll have to shake the crowd awake  after a somewhat sluggish performance of the first band. One minute into the show and we are most certainly awake. Their metallic hardcore is so heavy and in-your-face that it doesn’t allow wandering thoughts.

Their recently released album Mànégarmr (Southern Lord Records) combines vintage hardcore with crust, black metal and doom. This mixture is a direct consequence of the line-up of the band: singer Bram Coussement earned his stripes in old-school H8000 hardcore band Losing Streak, Tim Bryon plays drums in The Black Heart Rebellion (also playing this years’ Incubate festival), and guitarist Seynaeve recently joined Belgian sludge gods Amenra. Live, this translates into one massive sound of screaming vocals, raging drums and blackened riffs backed up by the swampy bass of Kenneth Vanhoutte. They change in pace and style so fast that it makes it difficult to dance to -really- but all of this is brought with so much passion and craftsmanship that it can’t leave you untouched. Coussement looks for the interaction with the public, but you can tell that, with his roots in hardcore, he rather would have been doing his thing in the crowd than up on stage. If it wasn’t for the row of photographers, he would have probably jumped in. When Seynaeve takes over the vocals, we get a more repetitive song, kicking in slower but with the same result: devastation. In a short but fast show, Hessian convinced me and, judging from the reactions, a large part of the crowd that they are a band to keep an eye on. One of Belgian’s stars on the rise!

Words: Jan Vrijens
Photo credits Cutting Edge and François Berland

About a month ago Snowstar turned 10 years old. Over those ten years the Utrecht based indielabel has acquainted us with a variety of great artist and probably the most successful of those artists, I Am Oak, is now reissuing their fantastic debutalbum “On Claws”.

The album -that garnered a lot of praise back in 2010- was in due need for a reissue, seeing as that it had sold out a while back. Not that this great album full of melancholic folks song needs any justification for a reissue, but the addition of ‘Gold and Porcelain’ and ‘Oakestra’, two bonus songs that didn’t make an appearance on the original debut, are very welcome sight.

Snowstar is also organizing a special show during LeGuessWho in Utrecht, in the newly opened Kapitaal, where I Am Oak and The Future’s Dust will play. Herrek will play a “Herrek’s Favorites” show together with Lukas Dikker (LUIK). If you can make time in your insanely buse schedule during LGW, we implore you to go check it out. Attend here.

Listen to “On Claws” reissue below. The album is in stores on June 1st.

In our mind the weekend begins on Thursday. Why? Because Thursday = Incu Thursday = new names for Incubate 2013! Last week we added Clock DVA, T.A.G.C. and Shonen Knife to the line-up and today we are happy to announce 13 more artists.

The 13 additions are:

A Place To Bury Strangers
Neil Halstead
Wolf Eyes
Stare Case
Henry & Hazel Slaughter
Regression
Crazy Jim
Hooded Fang
Black Pus
Man Forever
Stranded Horse
Ice, Sea, Dead People
Dinner

We are very happy to announce that A Place To Bury Strangers (photo) will be joining us in September to play their crushing, yet strangely beautiful shoe-gaze. If that isn’t loud enough for you, we also have noiselegends Wolf Eyes who’ll give an absolutely obliterating live show. For the more delicate souls we have Neil Halstead, ex-member of legendary shoegaze band Slowdive, who’ll come over to play his beautiful folk and, subsequently, break our heart in two.

But there is more. All members of Wolf Eyes will play one of their numerous side projects: Stare Case (Nate Young and John Olson), Henry & Hazel Slaughter (John Olson), Regression (Nate Young) and Crazy Jim (Jim Baljo) will give the Incubate visitor ample opportunity to go see some eclectic, experimental and -sometimes confusing- noise performances. Five times Wolf Eyes!

That leaves 6 more names: Catchy garage/surf by Hooded Fang, experimental drum-performance by Man Forever, noisy and aggressive drum-punk by Black Pus (side project from Lightning Bolt), delicate folk on rare instruments by Stranded Horse, angular post-punk by Ice, Sea, Dead People and the amazing dancer/darkwave performer Dinner.

That makes 136 artists now confirmed for the Incubate week in September! For audio previews of (almost) all confirmed artists, check out our brand new website on www.incubate.org or the Incubate 2013 Spotify playlist.

Tune in next week for another Incu Thursday!

Attending Incubate?

See who of your friends’ also visiting Incubate on the Facebook event-page or head over to last.fm.

Tickets
Tickets for Incubate festival are on sale through www.incubate.org. Passe-partouts for all seven days of the festival are available as well as day tickets. Since accommodations in the city in previous years were at capacity around May already, Incubate has its own campsite next to the city center during the weekend.

Passe-partout for all 7 festival days:
80,00 EUR (69,00 GPB) in presale (90,00 EUR at the doors),

Day tickets for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday:
17,50 EUR (20,00 EUR at the doors)

Day tickets for Friday, Saturday and Sunday:
32,50 EUR (35,00 EUR at the doors).

Campsite (Friday, Saturday and Sunday night)
12,50 EUR a night / 32,50 EUR for three nights

Photek’s new 12″ “One”  is available right now and it includes killer track “Pyramid”. The 12″ also includes an “Oshun” remix by Beneath, who will play Incubate in September. Listen below.

Buy the vinyl here.

Listen below for Beneath’s contribution.

Shannon and the Clams make us happy. Their, catchy 50′s rock ‘n roll surf is the perfect thing to dispel the greyness we are experiencing today. So rejoice, because yesterday the AV Club premiered their upcoming album “Dreams in the Rat House” which is out May 21st on Hardly Art records.

Oh, and by the way, what a coincidence, luck has it, by sheer chance, Shannon and the Clams will play Incubate on September 22nd.

Listen below. Shaking, shaking, shaking…. twisting, twisting, twisting…

He’s Kyle Hall, or Kyle motherfucking Hall for the ladies, and he’s one of the most promising producers from Detroit. After 6 years of numerous Ep releases and collaborations (he was 15 when he debuted his first EP) the Detroit producer finally released his debut album “The Boat Party“; and it’s an absolute banger.

Mixing soulful, funky, and organic feels, with metallic, robotic sounding tracks the album is a reflection of everything Detroit. Soul and groove combined with rust and steel.The title is meant to juxtapose the bleak and desolate environment of modern Detroit with the decadent, ultra-hip dance parties that take place on boats in places like Florida and Cannes. Just look at that cover, does that look like a boat party to you? (we’d rather go to that one actually). The album got a 4 out of 5 on Resident Advisor and we really implore you to go listen to the record.

And after that throw some money over the internet to own it on sweet, sweet vinyl. Buy it here.

Kyle Hall will play Incubate on Friday, 20th of September.

Listen below for two fantastic songs from “The Boat Party”.

And this one is just irresistibly groovy 

Last Sunday we were able to give some mothers the best Mother’s Day present ever: A giant portrait of themselves that was lost (but now found)! Last year the inner city of Tilburg was invaded by portraits of mothers when Incubate got the epic art-project Inside Out, by French artist JR, into town. Because of logistic problems not all posters could be shown at that time. But last Sunday the mothers, who were taken hostage by customs for unknown reasons, were finally back!

A lot of people took the time to come to the Koepelhal to walk past the rows and rows of giant mother heads to find the one that matched his or hers mother (or their own face of course). Of the 650 portraits we were able to rejoin 400(!) with their legitimate owner. Just realizing how many living rooms now grace a larger than life version of their owners has made this reunion of mothers a great success.

Thank you to all who’ve shown up to come reclaim their mothers; a big thanks to the volunteers who helped this a smooth operation and thanks to Famke van den Berg for organizing the whole thing.

Photo’s by William van der Voort at http://cloakture.com/

Three weeks ago we sadly had to announce that Nightlands canceled his June 19th show. Luckily we have found a great replacement in the form of Shigeto. This electronic music producer from Detroit makes ambient glitch-hop reminiscent of Flying Lotus and Four Tet. During his Incubated show he will complement his intricate electronic sound-scapes with live drums and will close the evening after Idiot Glee and Nisennenmondai.

Incubated with Nissenenmondai + Idiot Glee + Shigeto, June 19th @ 013, Tilburg.

Let you friends know your going by attending the facebook event.

Listen to “Lineage” below.

One of our favorite garage/surf/indie/just-plain-cool bands, Hooded Fang, are releasing their third album, Gravez on 27th of May on Full Time Hobby. But… you can get an early listen for this Canadian lo-fi garage pop, because they JUST premiered their new album on Hype Machine. Well if the first single was any indication it’s gonna be another (maybe a bit more aggressive) album full of catchy songs. Excited!

Listen to it here.

Let’s hope that when September comes they’re somewhere near Incubate. *cough*

Attention: This Sunday, come reclaim your lost mother’s!

From 10 till 17 september 2012, the inner city of Tilburg was invaded by mothers when Incubate got the epic art-project Inside Out, by French artist JR into town. Because of logistic problems not all posters could be shown at that time. The mothers, who were taken hostage by customs for unknown reasons, will finally be shown on 12th of May, in ‘de Koepelhal‘.

Not only will the 650 ‘lost’ mothers finally be shown to the public, the rightful owners can also take the posters home; an unique chance to own a original JR!

So drop by and take your mom with you (literally of figuratively).

THIS SUNDAY, May 12th, 2013 between 12.00h and 17.00h.

Koepelhal – Spoorzone Tilburg

NS-Plein 3

5014 DA Tilburg

[Disclaimer: Only the mom's who were not shown in September last year will be exhibited. Taking a poster is only possible upon showing the original (your mom or the sent in photo) and only on May 12th. ]

Last week we opened a can of darkness with 15 metal names for Incubate 2013. So after adding some loud stuff, we are now announcing 17 artists that are more indie/pop/hipster/electronic/etc and match our sunny disposition. Here we go!

The 17 additions are:

Industrial pioneers Clock DVA and their side-projects T.A.G.C. , happy happy Japanese punk-rockers Shonen Knife and the hypnotic, uber-hip dance-act Eaux (photo).

But also dark synth pop from Geneva Jacuzzi, catchy pop from Golden Grrrls, poppy shoegaze from Beliefs, the Canadian Zola Jesus Terror Bird, dark industrial by Embers and new-wave industrial by Distel, lo-fi indie-pop from The Yawns and baritone indie-rock by Former Utopia, post-dubstep Tilburger Lemontrip, experimental free-jazzers Kanine, dirty german garage-rockers Part Time Bandits, Dutch troubadour and storyteller Willie Darktrousers and experimental noise-act good cop / naughty cop.

We also have some less good news because sadly Battilus had to cancel their show on Incubate this year.

That makes 123 artists now confirmed for the Incubate week in September, and we’re not even half way done! For audio previews of almost all confirmed artists, check out our brand new website on www.incubate.org or the Incubate 2013 Spotify playlist.
Tune in next week for another Incu Thursday!

Attending Incubate?

See who of your friends’ also visiting Incubate on the Facebook event-page or head over to last.fm.

Tickets
Tickets for Incubate festival are on sale through www.incubate.org. Passe-partouts for all seven days of the festival are available as well as day tickets. Since accommodations in the city in previous years were at capacity around May already, Incubate has its own campsite next to the city center during the weekend.

Passe-partout for all 7 festival days:
80,00 EUR (69,00 GPB) in presale (90,00 EUR at the doors),

Day tickets for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday:
17,50 EUR (20,00 EUR at the doors)

Day tickets for Friday, Saturday and Sunday:
32,50 EUR (35,00 EUR at the doors).

Campsite (Friday, Saturday and Sunday night)
12,50 EUR a night / 32,50 EUR for three nights

Some key features of www.incubate.org you’re really gonna like:

- Easy audio previews on the line-up page powered by our friends of Soundcloud
- Customisable  line-up page to show the artists related to your taste the best way possible
- Log in with Facebook, add your favorite artists and create your personal timetable
- A brand new personal timetable view, which will be really handy when showtimes are announced. You’ll be surprised…

So head over to www.incubate.org try it out. We hope you like it!

Regular Incubate visitors: if you’ve collected credits on incubate.org in earlier years, these are not lost! This feature will return on the website with an update later this month. This update will also include the wiki-features you’re used to use.

ps. Sorry Internet Explorer users, our website uses such advance technology your browser might not be able to handle all this awesomeness. Please use another browser like Firefox or Chrome.

The weather outside is too nice for our tastes. Damn the sun.  Update: It’s raining. We want to crawl into a nice dark hole and dance until it’s September. Lucky for us Kyle Hall, the Detroit Techno wunderkind released his fantastic debut album “The Boat Party“ on his own label last week, and now he has also dropped a podcast on Resident Advisor. Listen to it here (you do need to make and account to be able to download the podcast).

And while we’re at it, here is a recent ( well recent… January… sue us) mix by Levon Vincent if you’re in the mood for a proper warehouse set. Listen to it here.

Kyle Hall podcast

Levon Vincent mix

Ps: Thank’s to Hans van Houw for the heads up!

Vice -the international magazine for art, music and culture- is celebrating the release of their 2013 festival guide. Their yearly festival aphrodisiac (for as far as we’ll ever need something to get us enthusiastic for festivals) will be released in four Dutch cities, and our beautiful Tilburg has the honor to be first at bat.

On May 16th the Hall of Fame will see the release of the magazine full of interviews, do’s and don’ts, articles and the sharp observations Vice is known for. And although the festival guide is a good precursor to the festival madness that is bound to come, Vice is also giving us a good reason to flail our arms and drink beverages this very evening.

Reasons to 1. flail arms and 2. drink: Letherette from the UK; our very own local/not very local anymore hero Jameszoo (who played Incubate last year -and in the same venue too!); Flamboyant and Cintasoul will spin a home game and Hollywood & Vine will demonstrate how to apply soft-sex to italo, chicago, wave and disco.

To attend the party you’ll just need 2 minutes of your time to apply and then some good luck to be one of the people who’ll win the random lottery. You can apply for a ticket here. Oh, and let your facebook friends know you’re going.

If you miss this party there will be three more in Amsterdam, Eindhoven and Utrecht.

Our favorite German bodybuilder bouncer is back! Rummelsnuff is celebrating German Father’s Day by letting us know that real men do not use their tongs or other instruments to roll their sausage on the barbeque. Silly us.

The video features some of Rummelsnuffs trademarks uber-masculinity; a girl in irresponsibly little clothing for barbecuing (ever heard of flying grease?); making out with said girl while the rest watches; and some playful gut-punching to remind us of their impeccably toned muscles.

Watch below (seriously, watch)

Oh, and just look at that flyer.

The garage rockers of White Fence are returning to the Netherlands for a show in 013 and we are giving away two tickets! After a very great show at LeGuessWho last year and a new album full of more catchy garage tunes it’s a great chance to see the hard working Tim Presly and band at work again. Also playing will be the Dutch ‘psychedelicgaragediscobluesband’ Suit and Tie Johns.

To win the tickets you’ll just need to send the word ‘WIN’ to win@incubate.org with subjectline “WHITE FENCE” and don’t forget to clearly state your full name in the mail. Make sure to send it before before Monday, the 13th of May.

Cardiff’s very own This Concept released their music video for the song ‘Foundations’ on the 2^nd may. I’m glad I push the play button on Youtube once in a while, If not I wouldn’t have discovered these guys. Damn, this is some catchy stuff.

If you’re into melodic metal and hardcore this is certainly something for you. It’s the perfect blend of heavy music and emotional, touching lyrics. Their vocalist really gets me in some parts of the song. ‘Foundations’ intro, for example, starts with a mellow melody setting the tone for the vocalist to take the lead. Screaming “I will always build my foundations, Deeper and deeper to support myself from falling” will send shivers down your spine.

It’s Thursday again, which means we can finally open our mouths again and let loose on another part of the Incubate 2013 line-up. After adding 92 artists to the line-up the past few weeks and amazing feedback it’s time for another gutteral list of deathmetal, black metal, grindcore and slam death metal.

We are adding another 15 names to the Incubate line-up:

Behexen, Woe, Terzij de Horde, Downfall of Gaia, O, Link and Age Of Woe are added to the Friday Sept 20th line-up, joining earlier confirmed artists for this day Immortal, Mayhem, Khold, Gehenna (NO),  among many others.

Katalepsy, Disinter, Infernal Dominion, Pighead, Carnal Decay, Publikk Enema, King Of Pigs and Ggu:ll are confirmed for Sunday Sept 22nd.

That makes 107 artists now confirmed for the Incubate week in September, and we’re not even half way done! For audio previews of almost all confirmed artists, check www.incubate.org or the Incubate 2013 Spotify playlist.
Tune in next week for another Incu Thursday!

Attending Incubate?

See who of your friends’ also visiting Incubate on the Facebook event-page or head over to last.fm.

Tickets
Tickets for Incubate festival are on sale through www.incubate.org. Passe-partouts for all seven days of the festival are available as well as day tickets. Since accommodations in the city in previous years were at capacity around May already, Incubate has its own campsite next to the city center during the weekend.

Passe-partout for all 7 festival days:
80,00 EUR (69,00 GPB) in presale (90,00 EUR at the doors),

Day tickets for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday:
17,50 EUR (20,00 EUR at the doors)

Day tickets for Friday, Saturday and Sunday:
32,50 EUR (35,00 EUR at the doors).

Campsite (Friday, Saturday and Sunday night)
12,50 EUR a night / 32,50 EUR for three nights

Fawn Spots
Write catchy but very fuzzy punk rock songs. They were chosen by the legendary John Robb to play at Incubate last year, being a band who have never played outside of their hometown before at that time. They released a seven inch on Robb’s label and a very good split-LP with Cumstain some time later.

The KVB

I fell in love with the band Die Jungen, and it turned out Klaus von Barrel (KVB) was the man responsible for this band and so I also discovered The KVB. This cold-wave / post-punk band sounds as retromaniac (record collector rock) as their peers Moon Duo and The Soft Moon, but also as carefully crafted as these bands. Comes very recommended.

Albatre

It’s the heydays of jazzcore in the Netherlands with great bands like Dead Neanderthals, Cactus Truck, Heinz Karlhausen & The Diatonics and Albatre. I haven’t seen Albatre live (sharing members with Heinz Karlhausen) yet, but i heard they are INCREDIBLY LOUD!

Batard Festival is a yearly event for new artists in Brussels. For the 2013 edition they’re looking for your help!

WHAT?

For Bâtard 2013 we would love it if you could take the time to share your concerns with us!

With the question what are your concerns? we mean: what are the concerns that keep appearing in your (professional) practice but also in your private life, what are you concerned with or even worried about? Which questions or problems are you dealing with?

By harvesting these, we aim at creating a map of concerns.This map would crystallize the concerns and become a starting point for the rest of the festival.

HOW?

• Think about it for a while
• Write them down (they can be 2 as they can be 10)
• They can be keywords, or you can give us a small explanation or contextualization.
• Mail us:call@batard.be

WHAT?

Once we have this map of concerns, we will launch a second step in our process which is focusing on COOPERATION.

For this we want to form a group of people who will work in collaboration during quite a long, paid, period between mid-August and mid-September. The aim is to create work together, based on the map of concerns. This work will be showed during the actual festival, beginning of December.

WHO?

Emerging makers / Thinkers / Whoevers

 HOW?

In addition to sending us your concerns, please send us all the information you find relevant in order for us to understand your practice or your work. If you are giving a lecture, a show, opening your work process in any manner, send us the invitation and we will try to attend!

Based on this information we can start a conversation.

We urge you to hurry up. There’s only two days left to share your pressing concerns and to help make Bâtard 2013 a huge succes. Go here for more information.

Beneath, who we are delighted to welcome on Incubate this September, has made a contribution to the influential Tectonic Plates series. Over the last years Tectonic has proven to be an early indication for quality material, very early featuring artists like Digital Mystikz, Flying Lotus and Skream.

Listen to the song below.

And if you like what you’re hearing, listen to an amazing xlr8r mix by Kowton, who is also playing this years Incubate.

Our friends at the EKKO gave us 2 x 2 tickets to give away for Pissing in the Wind #2 on the 10th of May. After a fantastic first edition in February, the stage will this time once more be filled with five great bands and (live) electronic acts. In the evening (20:30-23:00) Mazes, Suit and Tie Johns and Badly Drawn Boys will play and after that, until 4:00 clock in the night, Tourist(Live), St Paul and DET will give the dancing feet (at least those who are not tired yet) what they desire.

The event is split in two parts for your convenience so you can just attend the night program for €5, or visit both for €7.

Or… You can win 2 tickets by answering the following question:

Pissing in the wind is one of the all-time classical mistakes, just like walking under a ladder or telling the hero what your villainous scheme is . To win the tickets you need  to come up with another thing that is magnifically stupid to do. 

Describe your totally retarded action in an e-mail and send it to win@incubate.org with subjectline “Pissing in the Wind” and don’t forget to clearly state your full name in the mail. Make sure to send it before before Wednesday, the 8th of May.

PS: Our example of a stupid choice: Throwing a party without a DJ, where everyone can pick their own song and subsequently ruin the party by fighting over the place of ABBA contrary to FALCO in the queue list.

As you may know our own Joost Heijthuijsen is one half of Cairo Liberation Front, a DJ duo dedicated to bring you the sound of the Egyptian underground, called Chaabi (which means “for the people”). Last week he was in Egypt with John Doran (the Quietus) to take in the culture, watch Arabian television and attend the wedding of MC Sadat.

You can read all about their amazing journey in the five articles John Doran wrote on the Quietus. Make some time, their as long as they are fascinating.

Below (in social media form) Joost and Doran’s journey.

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It’s sunday and you what that means, a new edition of Heavy Sunday. This week we have some serious badass Hardcore for you from the band Barrier. They recently released a new song called ‘Behind Closed Doors’. Give it a listen and enjoy. I have the feeling that these guys are going to be huge.

Next week on Tuesday, April 30th, we are getting a new king. Willem Alexander for President! Every citizen pays €1,94 and we get to party all day! The kings doesn’t have to pay for anything, he’s our king! And of course you’ve heard about the official crowning song and how everyone fell over each other to hate it with a vengeance.
Rejoice, there are more…

And we picked 6.

1. To Twelve – Leve het Koningspaar (Tilburg)

Rockacademie students, showing their skill in walking through the city and hugging Asians.

Lady should be singing the song. She cool.
 

2. The Voice Company – Lang Leve Alexander

A choir of very non-famous dutch ladies and a dude. Very gritty, very real.

… and a bit scary.

3. Surinaams Koningslied voor Willem Alexander

This one we actually like. From the first line on it’s very cozy and “gezellig”; unlike all that forced smiling we Dutchies cram into our video’s.

Just look at that. It looks like the best party ever.

4. I Chaos – Een kroon voor de leeuw

We need more songs like this. Simple, strong, catchy.

Perfect lyrics.

5. Helmus (Chopped and Screwed).

No video for this one sadly, but the description in the video more than makes up for it.
“When it was time for Willem Alexander to rap, he didn’t feel like it anymore because he was litterally burning piles of money everywhere shouting: Gewoon, omdat het kán! (Because I can! WA overheard some of the american guys say: “…apparently he’s got money to burn…”) so I asked if he maybe played an instrument. He said: do I play an instrument?, got on the phone and walked out.”

As you can see, there are enough alternatives to the dreadful (yet amazing) official song! We are looking forward to Tuesday when we can crown our new king.

6. K3- Koning Willem-Alexander

K3, while not busy having sex with Samson and Gert, take the time to sing a song for their king…

…or of course stalking Willem -Alexander when he is trying to find a quit place to take a dump. That’s also perfectly normal…

If you feel like watching the rest of them (there are a lot more) you can do that here.

After the previous two weeks’ big updates, we’ve been getting overwhelming positive feedback on the initial line-up. And it’s a good thing our tickets are mainly sold online, because if we had to print them, our printer would be only a pile of smoking melted plastic. Thanks for all the support so far!

But this week we also have got a couple of very exciting artists to announce, beginning with Dj Pierre! He was responsible for one of the first acid tracks ever as part of Phuture.  This means that our acid house evening on 21 September in 013 is complete. Check out the flyer for ACID FLASHBACK: 25 years of acid house below.

Also confirmed for Incubate 2013:

Supersilent feat. Stian Westerhus
Improvisational avant-garde supergroup that reportedly never rehearse before playing together

Fire!
Hypnotic free jazz featuring saxophone superhero Mats Gustafsson

Psychic Ills
Chilled and laidback psychedelic rock with unexpected hooks

Maybeshewill
Juxtaposing mayhem with moments of pure beauty in their well-balanced post-rock

Public Service Broadcasting
History lessons through a mix of post-rock and electronica

Matthew Friedberger
Experimental pop from one half of The Fiery Furnaces

Richard Dawson
Intense, rugged folk songs that remind us of Jeff Mangum

Aus
Free-jazz improv trio with super-trombonist and strong rhythm section

Zentralheizung Of Death Des Todes
German garageband making 40-year old women lose their shit

Mountain Bike
Swinging 60’s/70’s garage with a gooey pop centre; with members of Warm Toy Machine

Broken DC
Post-rock for the man on the move; instrumental Built to Spill from the 90′s

Bastions
Clear your throat, turn on moshpit mode. Bastions is ready to kick your hardcore arse

The Death Letter
‘Memento Mori’ put into song. violent folk by Dead Existence members.

For all info and the line-up so far, check www.incubate.org.

Attend Incubate!

See who’s also coming, and tell your friends about the Facebook event. And check out the Incubate 2013 Spotify playlist and check out acts you don’t know yet.

Tickets
Tickets for Incubate festival are on sale through www.incubate.org. Passe-partouts for all seven days of the festival are available as well as day tickets. Since accommodations in the city in previous years were at capacity around May already, Incubate has its own campsite next to the city center during the weekend.

Passe-partout for all 7 festival days:
80,00 EUR (69,00 GPB) in presale (90,00 EUR at the doors),

Day tickets for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday:
17,50 EUR (20,00 EUR at the doors)

Day tickets for Friday, Saturday and Sunday:
32,50 EUR (35,00 EUR at the doors).

Campsite (Friday, Saturday and Sunday night)
12,50 EUR a night / 32,50 EUR for three nights

Snowstar Records is 10 years old! And they’re giving us gifts? We ought to have gifts for them, seeing as they’ve been treating us for the last 10 years with some of the best bands from the Netherlands such as I Am Oak, Herrek and Kim Janssen (who all played Incubate).
We’re even too late for their birthday. But we’ll make it up somehow! 10 times hooray to Cedric Muyres and all the people at Snowstar.

Incubate has had a lot of Snowstar artists over the years and we’re looking forward to 10 more of those! Read an interview with label-boss Cedric, reflecting on 10 years Snowstar.

On to the next 10 years!

Listen below for your present, a free Snowstar 10 years compilation.

Nightlands sadly cancelled their entire European tour, which also includes our upcoming Incubated with Nisennenmondai and Idiot Glee, on the 19th of June.  Read below for a statement from Nightlands´ David Hartley.

“It was with great regret and no lack of deliberation that I cancelled the upcoming Nightlands tour.

I knew going in that I may not be able to bring my incredible band for financial reasons. I was prepared to come either solo (something I’ve done with success in the past) or with only my drummer Anthony (who is a talented singer in his own right), but as our last American tour with Efterklang progressed, my bandmates Jesse and Eliza just grew so much musically that they became utterly indispensable to me. We sing such amazing four part harmonies that I simply could not imagine Nightlands without them.. Even though I know I could do something totally acceptable and pleasant and even beautiful on my own, my heart would be breaking and it would be an injustice to deprive audiences of what they could be getting. To do so for simple financial reasons would be a travesty to me. I want to come to Europe with my band, in full power, and sing for audiences. It would fill my heart with joy and satisfaction to do so. It will happen and when it does you will know why I couldn’t imagine the music without them.

I’m incredibly sorry for any inconvenience or hardship this may have caused you.. I know what it means for you to go out on a limb for a new band, to invite them to play for you, to commit to pay them. It blows my mind and I’m so grateful. The decision to cancel the tour caused me many sleepless nights, believe me. I went back and forth and got very clouded by it. What it all boils down to, though, is the music. That’s why I would be flying there in the first place. Not to see the sights or try the food (though that’s nice too), but to play music with ferocity and passion. I just cannot abide doing so any less than to the fullest extent possible. I hope you can understand why I did this and why when Nightlands arrives in Europe, it will be together, as one, as a real BAND, an organic entity–what fans deserve. Sincerely, David Hartley”

We understand and respect Hartley´s choices and hope to welcome him back at a future time. At the moment we are looking for a replacement. We´ll keep you posted.