Watch this cool short experimental film/music video about a guy who looks at life through a scaffolding pipe (‘Steigerpijp means scaffolding pipe in Dutch). The actors featured in this film as well as the music were created by the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra (ICP), which is a group of jazz musicians from the Netherlands. In [...]
[Watch] ‘Steigerpijp’
April 26, 2011
[Go see] Tonight: New Talent Night Music Special @ Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
April 26, 2011
Vanavond presenteren BLEND, Streetlab en MassiveMusic een speciale New Talent Night in Pakhuis de Zwijger te Amsterdam. Voor de tweede keer zal de New Talent Night volledig in het teken staan van één discipline: muziek. Speciaal voor aanstormend productietalent, muzikanten, dj’s, programmeurs en bandjes staat er een zeer toonaangevende line-up van professionals klaar om vragen [...]
[Go see] ‘International Errorism’ @ SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
April 13, 2011
Go see this installation from a group who call themselves the ‘International Errorists’ in SMART Project Space Amsterdam. This group rejects perfectionism and has therefore started the ‘errorist movement.’ The International Errorist is an international organization that claims error as a philosofy on life. The group consists of visual artists, poets, puppeteers and actors. You [...]
[Listen] Gewapend Beton (ZXZW 2008) new album!
April 2, 2011
Amsterdam’ embryopunx Gewapend Beton (ZXZW 2008) recorded a new album called “Big Dumb Kids” which will be released on GSR Music next friday. You can stream the entire album now via this Soundclock page. Punx not dead!
[Go see] ‘We will never know for sure’ @ W139, Amsterdam
March 29, 2011
Located at the Warmoesstraat 139 in Amsterdam is gallery W139. W139 focusses on continuous production and presentation of contemporary art since 1979. Currently they’re hosting an exhibit called ‘We will never know for sure’. Tomorrow (!) 30th of March, Manon van Trier (who was one of the contenders of the New Jacks project at Incubate [...]
[Win] 2×2 tickets Konono #1 @ Melkweg, Amsterdam
February 28, 2011
Konono No. 1, which is short for: L’orchestre folklorique T.P. Konono Nº1 de Mingiedi; (“T.P.” is short for tout puissant, or “all powerful”), is coming all the way from Congo to play live in The Melkweg again. After amazing shows at the Amsterdam Roots Festival in 2005 and last year at the Bimhuis they are [...]
[Go To] The Night of the Unexpected
September 4, 2010
Less than one week from now Paradiso Amsterdam will host the Night of the Unexpected. Acts include KILLL (a Norwegian ’supergroup’ with members from among others Jaga Jazzist and JR Ewing) Knalpot, Ensemble Klang, Alex Nowitz. Furthermore American Men Pamelia Kurstin + Seb Rochford (Polar Bear), Francisco López, Project Wildeman, Ensemble MAE, Gong Semara Ratih, [...]
[Go See] KILLL
July 23, 2010
KILLL is a Norwegian ‘supergroup’ with members from among others Jaga Jazzist and JR Ewing. This live-only project will play during the Night of the Unexpected in Paradiso, Amsterdam. It will be their only show in the Netherlands. Other acts confirmed for this festival so far include Knalpot, Ensemble Klang, Alex Nowitz and Semara Ratih.
[WIN] 2×2 Tickets for Gétatchèw Mèkurya & The Ex @ Melkweg
May 31, 2010
Of course you were already planning to go and see The Ex during Incubate 2010, weren’t you? That’s cool! Cause they are curating an evening during the festival (which means they will book their own supportacts!) Speaking about The Ex, this Friday they’re playing in de Melkweg in Amsterdam. This time they’re backing up the [...]
[Go See] First Virtual Exhibition of Shows @ Art Amsterdam /Internet
May 18, 2010
From 26-30 May Trendbeheer presents the first virtual exhibition @ Art Space Amsterdam. Via live beam, more than 200 works of art from multiple artists in 24 exhibitions are available at the same time via the internet and in real life. For more information on this exhibition trendbeheer and whatspace will keep you posted.
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Bristol is musically probably best known for the “Bristol Sound”, which was the name given to a group of artist who broke through into the mainstream with a sound that was given the stamp ‘trip-hop’. Best known are probably Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky, but there were many others. Even though Portishead’s Geoff Barrow later [...]