When I was playing some Josephine Foster songs at the Incubate office earlier this week, someone dared to call her music “menstruation pop”. Reason for me to make a playlist in Spotify with music that proves that mysogyny in pop music is wrong. I reappropiated the name and called my playlist menstruation pop. Here’s the [...]
[Playlist] 75 “menstruation pop” songs
June 10, 2010
[WATCH] Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Bleed Like There Was No Other Flood
May 12, 2010
The excellent swedish duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums went to a church on Iceland to record 5 songs with the 12 strong Schola Cantorum Reykjavík Chamber Choir, known from Björk’s Medulla album. These choral arrangements were written by Mùm’s Hildur Guðnadóttir. The songs were record by Ben Frost en mixed by Valgeir Sigurðsson.
[Watch] Björk and Tony Ferrino – Short Term Affair
April 14, 2010
What would the soundtrack of your life sound like?
September 15, 2009
About a year ago three young and talented artists started a challenging project: composing music for youtube-clips. Now it is time for the Tilburg people to find out what the soundtrack of their lives sounds like! Join in and post your video! Confessions is an audio-visual project by composer Nico Muhly, singer-songwriter Teitur and the [...]
Special: Cool cover versions: Gloomy Sunday (Weekendbreak)
May 17, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOqiolytFw4] This week you can wake up to some cover versions to get you kickstarted! Today we shift our attention to the ‘Hungarian suicide song’ “Gloomy Sunday” originally composed by Hungarian pianist Rezső Seress who committed suicide in1968. It was covered many times here’s an overview containing Björk, Billie Holiday, Portishead, Diamanda Galas:
Special: Cool cover versions: Army of Me (Part 3 of 5)
May 13, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpGS-Z8opqk] This week you can wake up to some cover versions to get you kickstarted! A song that has been covered many times particularly by metal bands is Björk’s Army of Me (maybe that is because of the heavy metal umlaut in her name?). Helmet has done one (see ‘video’ above), Caliban, which I could [...]
Japenese Game: Don't Ram The Boobs!
April 27, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF2tEYcrmxc] Bjork sang: “I’ve seen it all, I’ve seen the dark. I’ve seen the brightness in one little spark. I’ve seen what I chose and I’ve seen what I need. And that is enough, to want more would be greed. I’ve seen what I was and I know what I’ll be I’ve seen it all [...]
Gucci, by Chris Cunningham
April 20, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykXkmVURI-w] Very cool ad by Chris Cunningham, who we all know from his very cool music videos like these: All is Full of Love, Rubber Johnny and the Playstation ad with the girl.
Wanderlust
March 26, 2008
The Bjork Wanderlust video looks great.
Cremaster
February 22, 2008
You might know this way too pretentious artist as the husband of a way too pretentious Icelandic singer. Though you can download Cremaster. Which is great.
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[Incubate Scene Report] A Guide to Bristol
May 21, 2012
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 [...]