Recently Dutch DJ/producer Coco Bryce released the free Strapped Ep and now here is .. “The Rest”. Coco Bryce played at Incubate 2010  and was so polite to take some time to answer a short Q&A, that you can find here.

Enjoy

The presale for this year’s Incubate festival will start on Thursday the March 1^st 2012, 10:00. The first artists performing at Incubate 2012 are announced during the Incubated concert series later that day. #incu12 takes place on 10 to 16 September 2012 in Tilburg, the Netherlands.

Just like previous editions, the line-up of Incubate offers music, performance, art, debate and film. There are day tickets as well as passe-partouts available for the seven-day festival. A limited amount of early bird passe-partout tickets is available for a 15-euro discount. Everyone who buys (early bird) passe-partout tickets at the record store Sounds in Tilburg or during one of the Incubated shows will receive a complimentary Incubate t-shirt or girlie as long as supplies last.

First names will be announced during the Incubated evening on Thursday March 1^st, 2012. The Norwegian band Shining and Pterodactyl from New York shall be performing that night. Tickets for Incubate 2012 can also be bought during the Incubated concert series. Tickets for Incubated on March 1^st are still available but running out quickly .

New confirmed acts will be announced every Thursday trough the diverse channels of Incubate, like the festival website, the blog www.inlog.org and social media channels.

Ticket prices for Incubate 2012:

Passe-partout: (valid 10 to 16 September)
Presale: €75,00
Early bird: €60,00 (until they run out)
At the Incubate Ticket & Info Center: €75,00

Incubate Premium:
This is a passe-partout for the full festival PLUS all nine Incubated concert series shows at Paradox between October 2012 and June 2013. If you buy tickets for all events separately, it will cost you €156,00. This one is for our die-hard fans.
Presale: €125,00

Day ticket for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday:
Presale: €15,00
At the Incubate Ticket & Info Center: €17,50

Day ticket for Friday, Saturday or Sunday:
Presale: €27,50
At the Incubate Ticket & Info Center: €30,00

Presale starts on Thursday March 1^st 2012, at 10:00 via www.incubate.org (€1,25 service fee) and in Tilburg at Sounds Music and the 013 Boxoffice (€2,00 service fee). There are also tickets available at Free Record Shop stores in Belgium and The Netherlands (€3,50 service fee). One Festival Guide (worth €1,00) is included in the ticket prices.

(Photo by Jan Rijk)

So much sadness. Not only did we hear that Christopher Reimer passed away this week, but now the sad news hit our office that Yuri Rudelev is not among us anymore either. Who, you ask? Are you kidding us? Yuri Rudelev! The famous Russian singer! The winner of our top 40 Worst Music Videos of 2011!

May he rest in peace. You can pay your dues somewhere on his site. If you know Russian, that is.

Here’s a sad song to accompany his passing:

Michael Cina is a designer from Minnesota, USA. He did work for companies like Nike, Coca-Cola and Mazda. But he also works as a DJ and made artwork for producers like Matthew Dear, Jacaszek and Mux Mool. And if he got some free time left he likes to make… art.

His last collection’s called TrueisTrue and is a collection consisting 124 different paintings which he made the last couple of years. All the paintings got one thing in common: They don’t contain a lot of words. The abstract images speak for themselves.

The Play Me I’m Yours project by Luke Jerram of Incubate 2011 already reached a lot of press attention, but now we hit the big one. This clip appeared on CNC World news network, a global news network that covers more than 100 countries and is based in Beijing.

Our apologies for all of those who talk in Dutch.

PLAY ME, I’M YOURS door tvnportal

Couple of weeks ago Malaysian artist Hong Yi (a.k.a. Red) took the internet by storm with her painting of Yoa Ming created with only red paint and a basketball. And now she’s done it again with a jawdropping painting of Taiwanese singer Jay Chou made with coffee stains.

Shearwater was originally formed as a sideproject bij Okkervil Rivers Jonathan Meiburg and Will Sheff. Sheff is nog longer with Shearwater and Meiburgs left Okkervil River in 2008 so he could entirely focus on Shearwater. Also check out band member Thor Harris ‘How to tour in a band or whatever‘ list for some knowledge on the road.

In 2007 Okkervil River released a free-for-download covers EP called Golden Opportunities. You can get the sequel, Golden Opportunities 2 on their site.

Enjoy!

Women, formed in 2007 by Reimer and fellow Azeda member Mike Wallace , released 2 studio albums. We had the privilege to had Women on stage in 2010. The band went on a permanent hiatus after the band seemingly imploded on stage in Victoria, BC.

Below, you can watch the band perform ‘Can’t you see’ at Incubate 2010

During their tour Lower Dens will attend The Netherlands 2 times. The dates are the following:

May 11, Walk the Line Festival, The Hague (Not yet confirmed by WTLF)
May 17, Worm, Rotterdam

Enjoy the video

MD will also attend some Dutch venues this June, the dates are the following:

Thursday, June 14. Effenaar, Eindhoven. (Moon Duo’s site says the location is Klokgebouw but they are wrong!)
Friday, June 15. De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam.
Saturday, June 16. Merleyn, Nijmegen.

Here is the Gary War remix of When you cut

Together with WXPN radio in Philadelphia they produce the Shaking Trough sessions. The documentary series Shaking Trough is about bringing a song to life. Each year 10 young artist are given the challenge to create one song in two days. Each session has a professional guest musician such as Peter Silberman (The Antlers), Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear) and more. The sessions are recorded by professional filmmakers and really shows the story behind the songs. All of the songs made have their own videos of how they are made and are free to download.

Check out this beautiful example of Nick Principe (Port St. Willow) together with youth friend Peter Silberman. Download the song Stay Even here and also try out the name-your-price EP of Port St. Willow here

Vice versa the “established” musician also learns from the experience

It also helped launching the career of Sharon van Etten, what once again yielded some striking footage.

We really enjoy the work of Weathervane Music and WXPN radio and we hope that you do to. All of their videos are exploring the essence of music, something that will be shrouded in mystery and mystic as long as art will be made. As a non-profit and community funded organisation they relay on donations and support from the community.

We’re happy to announce another release of our Incubate recordings. This time we are releasing the sound recordings made of Bebe Fang’s  performance at Incubated 11. This is our 45th release and  we are still counting. If you’re wondering about the other 44 you can find them here and on our Soundcloud.

The 11th edition of Incubated was in collaboration with the Dutch festival Popronde,  a festival that travels around Holland in search for the newest bands. Bebe Fang is  Berber Visser and was the first band to play that night. The dark ambient soundscapes  created an haunting atmosphere for the rest of the night. The beautiful voice of Visser together with atmospheric sound productions are the perfect combination for some dazzling good music.

Enjoy the audio of the entire Bebe Fang performance below and stay in touch, because more releases are coming soon…

Photo by Steph Byrne

Sindre Bjerga : cassette player drones and kitchen sink psychedelia, sound ghosts hidden deep in the molten magnetic tapes.. always aiming for that mind-altering head trip.

Andrew Perry : a mix of fuzzed-out 18-tog drone, balls-out noise, guitarish shimmer, lo-fi field recordings featuring snatches of conversation and tickly contact-mic closeness that makes you pull out your earphone and wiggle a finger in your aural cavity.

Both Bergja and Perry are well-known for vivid and experimental live performances. Check out these videos to illustrate what will be going down this Friday.

Sindre Bjerga

Andrew Perry

Laurent Malherbe normally works on location and not in a studio. He is composing installations, which at first seem architectural, have a sculptural basis. Malherbe calls himself a sculptor. Malherbe’s sculptures are rough and sketchy by nature and are made in response to the coordinates a space has to offer. His work has also been called “The twilight zone” of interior design. Here is some work by Laurent Malherbe

Het Torrentje, Almelo

Meet Factory, Prague

Eigen terrein, Eindhoven

Jef Monté filmed the process and created this video, we are very happy with the results.

Also check out the songs made during this project below or on our Soundcloud.

De Pont will show work of Ai Weiwei from the period of 2003 till 2011. Besides some sculptural work de Pont will show a lot of his video work. Ai Weiwei’s body of work is versatile. He says to be inspired by Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. Ai Weiwei uses typical Chinese  techniques in his work which have an alienating and at the same time a stunning effect. They defy western ideas about culture and values ​​and meanings attached to them.

The following documentary about Ai Weiwei and his ideology will air at the Movies that matter festival in The Hague.

The experimental art and music podium Gifgrond will be hosting a special evening next Saturday, the 3rd of March. This time for the celebration of the 25th edition of Gifgrond. The theme is ‘head over heals’  and they sure invited some acts and dj’s who will manage to do so.

The electro-diva Madmoizel will blow your head over heals with revamped 80′s electro combined with punky vocals and blasting synths.

Live performances are of great importance for Gifgrond, for this edition they invited John Fanning. Fanning combines  elements of often near over-stimulation within a short time structure, vocal exercises and exploration of the psyche while further exploring the physical aspects of performing as well as deconstructing the core elements of a performance.

In 2011 the British duo Ben Butler & Mousepad build quite a reputation. 71 shows, 1 album release, 3 EPs, 1 cassette, 7 remixes (that you can find here) and they contributed to 3 compilations. Lets hope they keep up the good work in 2012. You can see them on this edition of Gifgrond.

‘If you take the blue pill, you stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.’ The Dutch Down the rabbit hole will even take you deeper than Morpheus could ever take you.

It looks like this will be an awesome edition. The doors are open at 21:00 and the damage for the evening is 6 euro. Gifgrond situated at Gasthuisring 19G and it’s a five-minute walk from the train station in Tilburg.

Check out the first single of the upcoming Madmoizel album.

Finally it’s the end of the week, so again the highlights of our blog posts from this week.

We began this week with some art. Our art-specialist Merijn went to RE:Rotterdam & RAW and wrote a nice review about it. For other art go check out Julian Montague, Lisa Nilsson and the awesome tape roll-film from Johan Rijpma.

This week we also released live records from Felix Kubin live at Incubate. For other music go download this new free mini-album from our friend The Caretaker and go check out this new song from Torche. Oh.. and no official Spotifriday for today. At the office we are in a real carnaval-mode, so check out our carnaval-playlist instead!

By the way yesterday it was the first edition of Incubios. Two nice movies, free popcorn & a lot of people. Good news for the people who missed it, because we already announced a new edition of Incubios at the 15th of March. Talking about announcements; For our 16th edition of Incubated we  got a new name: Woody & Paul. Just so that you know; there are still some tickets left for our 15th edition about two weeks with Shining (NO) & Pterodactyl.

Hopefully you’re completely up to date right now & we wish you a nice weekend or carnaval!

Highlights:

Florence + The Serpentine, The Gaslampegat Killer, The Cats zat, You Me At Sansaveria, Freek De Jonge Jenever, Kotsenjammer,  16Hospower, Dave Grolsch, Zak eens ff Doors, Tom Barman (inkopper), OvergEefje De Visser, Hoempapa Roach, BavaRia Valk, India Arie Ribbens, Beppie Kraftwerk,  Bloemetjesgordon, Killing Joke stop toch met koken, Weet je wat ik wel zou willen zijn? Een bloemetjesgordijntje Oosterhuis, ‘s nachts na Slayer, Nobody Beats The Drunk, Schrobbelearth, Wind & Fire, ApfelKorn, Prins Hank Williams D’n Derde, The Mars Voltappen, The Artist Formerly Known As Prince carnaval

We love Twitter.

The last day of the week, so last day to win some tickets! At this friday you can win tickets for Crippled Black Phoenix. This band played at ZXZW in 2007 and made five different records. The creative mind behind the band is Justin Greaves but he plays live with members from bands like Mogwai and Electric Wizard. You wanna go see them live? Well.. that’s no problem because we’re gonna give away 3×2 tickets for their gig in Effenaar at the 14th of March! So if you weren’t lucky this week, you are maybe you getting lucky today! The assignment is easy as always; just send an email to win@incubate.org, with your name & as subject Crippled Black Phoenix.

Alaaf! Here are a 100 carnaval-songs for you! (it’s a YouTube playlist, so click next for, eh.. the next song)

We hope that you guys enjoyed it yesterday. We did! So much that we already planned our new Incubios night on March 15th! Same location (the new Hall Of Fame can be found at Gebouw 90, at the old NS-plein), same time (20:00h doors, 20:30h first film). We hope to see you there again.

These films will hit the screen:

Quattro Formaggi - Wytse Koetse (2011, NL, 5 min)

Being a pizza delivery boy statistically ranks amongst the most dangerous job categories, next to firefighting and stunt performing. This fact, stated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, inspired filmmaker Wytse Koetse to make a short movie. In doing so, he set out to the far outskirts of his hometown Barcelona. In these rough and dusty surroundings, being a pizza boy is definitely not all roses.

Bad Posture - Malcolm Murray (2011, US, 93 min)

The sleepy town of Albuquerque, encircled by high mountains and dusty deserts, in a suffocating summer: the perfect backdrop for this raw-realistic American indie western. 2 friends, Flo and Trey, fill their days with hanging about town; drinking, smoking an some occasional car stealing. When Flo falls in love with a girl of whom they steal a car, it puts him in a difficult position.
Malcolm Murray grew up in Albuquerque and could have been one of the characters in Bad Posture.  The script was written by Florian Brozek (playing Flo in the film) and the film was made with non-professional actors, portrayed by Murray with great empathy in an observational style that clearly reveals he started his career as a documentary maker. A visually powerful debut film.

Today it’s the fourth day in row that we are giving away tickets for a gig/festival. Today we got tickets for The Machine in 013. The Machine is a psydelic rockband that you maybe saw at Roadburn-festival last year. This next show is going to be a special show because this is the releaseparty for their fourth record called ‘Calmer Than You Are’. This album is gonna be released on vinyl and cd at Elektrohasch Records. For this evening they also invited their friends from Monomyth.

So if you wanna go to this evening in our favorite venue just send an email to win@incubate.org with as subject ‘The Machine‘ and again; don’t forget your name!

Photo by Hans Stakelbeek

(Oh and guys: hot punker chicks galore!)

In two weeks there is going to be a new edition of Incubated. We told you earlier that we are really proud that Shining (NO) are playing! They played at our festival (ZXZW) in 2008 and we are happy to say that their are going to play an exclusive Benelux show in Paradox at the 1st of March.

But don’t forget that Pterodactyl is playing as well. This band is part of the Brooklyn-movement and are releasing their records at Jagjaguwar label, known from for example Bon Iver, Black Mountain, Part & Labor and Dinosaur Jr. Make sure you don’t miss that as well!

Last but not least, Dead Neanderthals will be DJing before, in between and after the show.

Tickets are still for sale for only €9,-, but be quick because there are only a few tickets left!

Photo by Jeroen Dekker

The master of Sci-Fi Pop Felix Kubin has been involved with music since the age of 8. Ever since he got his hands on a monosynth his experiments really took off. As a very versatile artist he’s involved in animations, radio plays, experimental broadcasts besides noise, industrial and other futuristic electronic music. He’s  also the founder of Gagarin records that “releases music that rains on your head from the distillery of the velvet void”

For everyone who missed his show at Incubate 2011 we are happy we can release these sound recordings. You can listen the entire show on our Soundcloud.

You can also listen to it here below, enjoy!

Photo by Conor Clerx / 3voor12

James Kirby a.k.a. The Caretaker just released the soundtrack of the Grant Gee film Patience (After Sebald). Going along with it is this free mini-album Extra Patience (After Sebald) for free for a limited time. The mini-album contains alternate versions and different tracks from the soundtrack which didn’t  make the full release. Enjoy.

A very special reenactment of Barry Manilow by The Caretaker last Incubated.

We already told you that for our 16th edition of Incubated we booked the Strange Boys. Now we got some more good news for this gig at the 5th of April; Woody & Paul will be playing as well!

Woody & Paul is a band from Eindhoven and playing for a while. Last autumn they released their fourth record (at our favorite record store Sounds) that received lots of positive criticism. One part of the band, Paul van Hulten, is also known from his project Man From The South and played earlier at Incubate. We are really looking forward to see this band play! You to? Buy your tickets for Strange Boys + Woody and Paul for only €9,- below.