Usually we announce new confirmations on Thursday, but because it’s World Goth Day we’re sharing some new confirmations for Incubate ’12 today. We reached a total of 95 confirmed artist with these four new additions:

We are very proud to present the exclusive performance by the legendary English goth rock band Fields of the Nephilim. By incorporating elements from heavy metal and Carl McCoy’s trademark growled vocals they have been setting the standard in the gothic scene since 1984. They haven’t performed  in the Netherlands since 1988! For World Goth Day (today!), the band has been awarded with ‘Best 90′s goth band’ and ‘Best 2000′s goth band’ of 2012. For an interview with Carl McCoy, head over to thequietus.com.
Friday, 14 September - Gothic rock, eighties, rock noir

Yes, we managed to get the rarely performing Darkwood to play Incubate 2012! Darkwood is the neofolk unity of many different elements. From traditional themes and acoustic instruments with experimental soundscapes and samples and mixing English and German lyrics. They only performed live 16 times and their last performance was in 2007, which makes this occasion extra special.
Friday, 14 September - Neofolk, dark folk, apocalyptic folk

Renowned extreme noise act Consumer Electronics will definitely make some ears bleed during Incubate. Vast walls of noise are coming your way with power electronics interspersed with industrial sound. Walls that will vaporize every eardrum that comes unprepared.
Saturday, 15 September - Noise, industrial, power electronics

The collective Drum Eyes led by Shigeru Ishihara aka DJ Scotch Egg, notorious from his Game Boy act.  With this collective he and his fellow musicians explore different facets of electronic music. As you can see from the numerous of different genre-tags used, this band is mixing more elements than your average blender.
Date TBA – Drone, kraut, electronic, post-rock, dub, psychedelic

Want to know more about the artists? Check the artist profiles on the Incubate website. Tickets for Incubate 2012 are on sale now. You might want to get your hands on a limited edition early-bird ticket which are still available for only €60,- until they run out. There are also Daytickets available. You can buy your tickets for Incubate 2012 on incubate.org or via the store below.

Attending Incubate 2012? Go to Facebook and Last.fm so you can see who of your friends are going as well and stay up to date on the Incubate 2012 news! Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist to listen to the confirmed artists.

Photo by Daniela Vorndran

One of our personal favorite albums of 2012 so far is the record of Young Magic. This trio headed by Australian Isaac Emmanual who recorded al lot of different sounds during his trip around the world. That’s why album title Melt is definitely the best way to describe this record. A weird mixture of psychedelic dreampop mixed with chillwave and contrary African rhythms. The result is a really stunning record, especially for fans of Yeasayer’s debut All Hour Cymbals.

Now the good part is that this band is coming to Tilburg this friday to play their album live at 013. And now the best part; the entrance is for free! So we can understand that you can’t go to every event that we are recommend, but this time it’s for free so make sure you don’t miss this. Besides friday, make sure you’ll be at 013 on Thursday as well; Yukon Blonde is playing.

Another 17 new artists are added to the bill of this year’s Incubate. And as you already knew, versatility is one of the things we love the most. From experimental neo hippie folk to the blackest kvlt metal purists. That’s the way we like it! We’re now on 91 confirmed artists, hitting the 100-confirmations-milestone really soon… Without further ado; these are the new additions in random order:

Want to know more about the artists? Check the artist profiles on the Incubate website. Tickets for Incubate 2012 are on sale now. You might want to get your hands on a limited edition early-bird ticket which are only €60,- until they run out. There are also Daytickets available. You can buy your tickets for Incubate 2012 on incubate.org or via the store below.

Attending Incubate 2012? Go to Facebook and Last.fm so you can see who of your friends are going as well and stay up to date on the Incubate 2012 news! Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist to listen to the confirmed artists.

It’s Thursday again, the Incubate office worked at full speed for all the confirmations for todays Incu Thursday. The line-up for Incubate 2012  already has 70 artists confirmed. Today we can add another four to the bill for the festival in September:

Want to know more about the artists? Check the artist profiles on the Incubate website. Tickets for Incubate 2012 are on sale now. You might want to get your hands on a limited edition early-bird ticket which are only €60,- until they run out. There are also Daytickets available. You can buy your tickets for Incubate 2012 on incubate.org or via the store below.

Attending Incubate 2012? Go to Facebook and Last.fm so you can see who of your friends are going as well and stay up to date on the Incubate 2012 news! Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist to listen to the confirmed artists.

Like we said yesterday; we’re in a generous mood this week, so also for this concert we’re gonna give away tickets. Go check out this exclusive session from Subbacultcha that she recorded last week and found out that you can’t miss this. Just send an email before this monday to win@incubate.org with your full name and maybe you going to have a nice evening next week’s Thursday. Don’t forget to use Chelsea Wolfe as subject!

(Photo by Erik Luyten)

Hurray, another Incu Thursday! Today we got six new names for you to announce for Incubate 2012, which happens on 10 to 16 September in Tilburg, NL.

We are glad to confirm the following artists for this year’s festival: Black Dice, Silver Apples, Mozes and the Firstborn, Paul Collins’ Beat, Die Jungen and The KVB.

Here’s some more info and audio previews of the artists:

Want to know more about the artists? Check the artist profiles on the Incubate website.

Attending Incubate 2012? Go to Facebook and Last.fm so you can see who of your friends are going as well and stay up to date on the Incubate 2011 news! You can check out the whole line-up on the last.fm page as well. Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist (also embedded above) to listen to the confirmed artists.

You can buy your tickets for Incubate 2012 here or via the store below. You might want to get your hands on a limited edition early-bird ticket which are only €60,- until they run out.

(Black Dice photo by Aylin Gungor)

After successful editions in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Rotterdam & Groningen NON-Records is finally coming to Tilburg. This friday Amsterdam’s finest new electronic recordlabel is having a labelnight at 013 where most of the label’s artist are present; Palmbomen, HyperHyper, Renkas and founder of the label Bear Damen. Marius, known from his last year released EP Things We Did, is also coming this friday and is doing a live show. This evening is also the afterparty from bkkc project See-A-Sound where we posted about a few months ago.

And to start your shitty monday nicely we are giving away 2 tickets for this cool evening. Just send an email with as subject NON Records to win@incubate.org before thursday with your full name and maybe we choose you to go dancing this friday.

Hurray, another Incu Thursday! Today we got a few hands full of new names for you to announce for Incubate 2012, which happens on 10 to 16 September in Tilburg, NL.

Incubate is elated to present an extensive Sacred Bones in Residence program. On Saturday September 15th and Sunday 16th, the record label will host a stage in the 013 venue. Currently confirmed artists are The Men, Iceage, War, Amen Dunes, Lower and Lust For Youth. More names will be added to this program soon.
Also confirmed for the music program are Luke Roberts, Killed By 9V Batteries, RM Hubbert and Pretty Lightning.

But wait, there’s more! Just like previous year, Incubate presents the DIY Conference. The first speakers and panels are now confirmed: - Keynote: Simon Reynolds on DIY Pop Culture - The Guerilla Filmmakers Guide with Chris Jones - British Sea Power, bird watching and fell walking: an interview with Roy Wilkinson - Q&A with Damo Suzuki (ex-Can)

Here are some audio previews of the confirmed music-artists:

Want to know more about the artists? Check the artist profiles on the Incubate website.

Attending Incubate 2012? Go to Facebook and Last.fm so you can see who of your friends are going as well and stay up to date on the Incubate 2011 news! You can check out the whole line-up on the last.fm page as well. Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist (also embedded above) to listen to the confirmed artists.

You can buy your tickets for Incubate 2012 here or via the store below. You might want to get your hands on a limited edition early-bird ticket which are only €60,- until they run out.

Upcoming Thursday will be another Incu Thursday, the day we announce the artists confirmed this week for Incubate 2012. But as usual you can be the first to know one of the bands that will be announced! Just like last week, Will Smith (and companion) can easily give you the best hint for the to-be-confirmed artist.

The hint is the image above.

NYC-based street artist Momo teamed up with Incubate in 2011 to fill our town with a little more colour. After working in New York, Barcelona, Toronto and Sao Paolo Momo he came to Tilburg and created a mural with Piet Dieleman and some other local artists.

Jef Monté, who created more films for Incubate, teamed up with Mark Thur for the audio recordings and they created the following video. A film that captures the atmosphere, process and result of one of the murals created.

Enjoy the following video, and you can check out our Vimeo page for more videos from Incubate.

In about two weeks there will be a new edition of our own Incubated. This evening, already the sixteenth time, there are two different bands playing; The Strange Boys and Woody & Paul. Tickets are still for sale for only €9,-. To get your tickets now, scroll down for the embeded store!

The core of the band The Strange Boys are the brothers Ryan and Philip Sambol. A few years ago they released their debut with the funny name ‘And Girls Club‘ where they get a little help from the now deceased Jay Reatard. Blogs as Pitchfork, NME and Tiny Mixtape were laudatory and released their second album, Be Brave, in 2010 and their third, Live Music, in 2011. Luckily they still got some time left to play at our Incubated-evening.

You wouldn’t say but the band Woody & Paul consists of four guys, instead of two. They’re from Eindhoven and play roots music. Maybe you will know Paul from his project Man From The South where I played at Incubate earlier before (go listen to the live recordings here). Now he and his three comrades are playing at the 5th of April at Incubated.

It’s Incu Thursday again and we got three artist to add to our slowly expanding line-up. You can find the complete line-up on our artist page.

The three confirmations for today are…

Want to know more about the artists? Hover and click on the bandnames above or check the artist profiles on the Incubate website.

Attending Incubate 2012? Head to Facebook and Last.fm to see who of your friends are going as well and stay up to date on the Incubate 2012 news! You can check out the whole line-up on the last.fm page as well. Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist to listen to the confirmed artist

You can buy your tickets for Incubate 2012 here, you might get your hands on a limited edition early-bird ticket which are only €60,-

Just want to give you guys a reminder for tomorrow. This Thursday there will be a new edition of Incubios at Hall of Fame. Again the entrance is free and again we’ve got two really cool films.

The first film will start at 20.30 (doors are open at 20.00!)  and is a Dutch short movie with the name Quattro Formaggi. After that we will have a short break and continue with the full-length movie Bad Posture. Watch the trailer below.

NYC-based street artist Momo made in collaboration with Incubate our town much better. After working in New York, Barcelona, Toronto and Sao Paolo Momo came to Tilburg and created a mural with Piet Dieleman and some other local artists.

This week Momo himself posted an article on his website and some photos how the creation is made including this short film below about the realization of this project.

Another live recording from Incubate ’11; this time it is the two piece Natural Snow Buildings. This French duo can be best described as experimental psychedelic folk. They rarely play live shows, and we $even got them to play in a church, the Pauluskerk. So these recordings are really rare in the already impressive oeuvre of NSB.

Enjoy!

Photo by Renate Engelen

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)

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

Maybe we told you earlier before, but just to be clear: tomorrow evening is our first Incubios! A cinema-night with a short movie (Het Bijzondere Leven Van Rocky De Vlaeminck) and a full-lenght movie (The Kingdom of Survival). Because it’s the first edition we’re going to make it special. First of all the entrance is for free. And now we got some more good news.. There’s gonna be free popcorn! So take all your friends and come to the Hall Of Fame tomorrow night at 8.30 pm. See you tomorrow!

Elk jaar in september komen er duizenden mensen van over de hele wereld naar Incubate. Een probleem voor deze bezoekers is het gebrek aan betaalbare overnachtingsmogelijkheden in Tilburg.
Daar willen we wat aan doen.

Samen met architectenbureau Buro 013 willen we lege kantoorpanden, leegstaande scholen, en andere niet-gebruikte gebouwen omvormen tot tijdelijke slaapplaatsen. Aan Tilburgers willen we vragen hierbij te helpen door tips te geven welke gebouwen hiervoor geschikt zijn. Via http://incu.at/leegstaan of hieronder kan iedereen tot 1 maart makkelijk tips doorgeven.

Frank Kimenai van Incubate: “Door leegstaande gebouwen in te zetten als tijdelijke verblijfplaats willen we niet alleen verloedering tegengaan maar ook een impuls aan de buurt geven. Niemand wordt blij van ongebruikt vastgoed. Daarnaast zullen ontmoetingen tussen internationale festivalbezoekers en de Tilburgers toenemen, wat de buurt levendig houdt.  Zo hebben de stad én de bezoeker er wat aan.”

Tilburgers kunnen hun tips tot 1 maart doorgeven via het formulier op http://incu.at/leegstaan, (of print het formulier uit), maar het makkelijkst vul je het gelijk hieronder in:

He’s the king of DIY. With more than 300 cassettes released since the 60′s, he never made it to the charts. It turned him into a prophet in the independent scene. We booked R. Stevie Moore for Incubated 12 in Paradox, together with Harry Merry and Gary War (stream his entire set here!). The show was… well… err… how shall we call it… unconventional? Inimitable? Authentic? Uncompromising? Let’s call it a bizarre clash between music, performance art, spoken word, absurdism, pop music and Ariel Pink.
And if, for some reason, you don’t know what we mean – you can now hear it for yourself! Because we’re streaming the entire show on our Soundcloud!

Listen to it below!

A sweaty ball of hair. That’s what Gary War looked like after finishing his show on the 12th edition Incubated. You can say what you want about him, but you can’t deny that he gave it all. His completely weirded-out feedback guitar strums, a programmed beat and completely blurred echo-y vocals made a psychedelic summer vibe on the winter day in Tilburg. This is music to close your eyes to and imagine you’re lying on a beach watching the sunset. Or maybe a summer day with a good spliff.

And we’re very happy that Gary War just confirmed that we’re allowed to release the audio for his show! So now you can eternally enjoy the psychedelic sounds of Gary War via our Soundcloud! You can find other artists there as well, such as that other Ariel Pink-protégé John Maus. And Dirty Beaches. And True Widow. And more.

But for now, enjoy the sounds and beats of Gary War!

Sigrid Calon graduated in 1993 at the academy of Tilburg. The first few years of her professional career she worked mostly as a designer. Since 2005 she chose to be a visual artist and works steadily on her artwork. Her art exists in the urge to explore, discover and create. Forcing new connections and the looking at the obvious from a different angle.

Research in identity is an important theme in her work. What is the essence, is there a new truth? Here she tries to arrange the chaos of possibilities and visualize it in clear, pure and fresh way. Aspects like intuition, ratio and humour are of importance.

Stad 11

Occupied Space IV

A wicked track about our hometown. Props to these guys!

The 2 lovely ladies that organised the We Eat INcubate, Joanne and Sanne, got great responses about the Eat-In. So they decided to make a new one: The Winter Eat-In! And you should all come. It’s on January 28th, at the Bomenlounge. You may know that place as the FAXX-building. And if you don’t know that either, it’s Dunantstraat 1 in Tilburg. It’s the street next to 013 Popcentre. It starts at 14:00.

If you don’t know what an Eat-In is, it’s simple. Everybody makes something to eat at home with at least one biological ingredient. You bring it to the Eat-In and put it on the table. And then everyone can pick whatever they want! Salads, desserts, carpaccio’s, you name it. So we hope to see you there with your best meal!

Here is a recap of We Eat INCubate:

Marcel Dingemanse (1967, Breda, works and lives in Tilburg) assumes that silence manifests itself on the border of truth-thinking. Human being and its abandonment are important aspects in his video’s and photographic work.  The video work adopts its appearance from performance and film and is in all cases made in a simple way: one camera, one actor, mostly one cameraposition.

In his photographic work Dingemanse use pinhole technology, in which space, light and time with their elementary property is a main starting point. Sometime the photographs exists of portraits, but usually landscapes. The video’s and analog prints refer to romanticism and suggest a story about individual presence in a rough, inhuman landscape.

Hondje from marcel dingemanse on Vimeo.

In November 2011 we posted a small preview of this record, but now you can hear it in full. Yeah they changed their name into the shorter Dodecahedron but the music is still just as chaotic, menacing, very well composed and executed as the first time you heard it.

We’re very proud that one of the best  black metal releases of 2012 is made by this horde from Tilburg. Check it out below (most probably only available to January 27th, so don’t waste your time). Or check it out on Spotify.

The 2 lovely ladies that organised the We Eat INcubate, Joanne and Sanne, got great responses about the Eat-In. So they decided to make a new one: The Winter Eat-In! And you should all come. It’s on January 28th, at the Bomenlounge. You may know that place as the FAXX-building. And if you don’t know that either, it’s Dunantstraat 1 in Tilburg. It’s the street next to 013 Popcentre. It starts at 14:00.

If you don’t know what an Eat-In is, it’s simple. Everybody makes something to eat at home with at least one biological ingredient. You bring it to the Eat-In and put it on the table. And then everyone can pick whatever they want! Salads, desserts, carpaccio’s, you name it.

So we hope to see you there with your best meal!

Without a doubt the highlight of ZXZW 2008 (yes, before we were even called Incubate. That long ago.) was Sun Ra Arkestra, who did up to six shows that week.
Sun Ra was one of the main innovators in jazz. The Arkestra is his future dream and his ancient body. It never was as popular as jazz’s best-known big bands, but it did have a steady following and was highly regarded in jazz circles. It appeared on “Saturday Night Live”, played a Central Park concert with Sonic Youth and was named best big band in Down Beat magazine’s critics poll five times. Sun Ra influenced the whole contemporary music scene and was a true independent mind.

Now, while we were digging through our archive, we found the recording of the Tuesday show in Paradox. It’s such a great show that we couldn’t keep it to ourselves. So here it is. The complete show. One of the six and the only one we could find. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Last year, it was the beginning of a tradition with 7 local organizations. This year, up to 14 organizations are hosting the new years event called Frisse Oren at the 013, Tilburg. The 14 organizations, Incubate is one of them, have collaborated and made a fresh and surprising program. A great way to start the new year with. The entrance is free and the doors are open at 13:30 on January 8th.

But what can you expect of Frisse Oren? You are going to be swept away by Amariszi‘s Balkanmusic from Dutch soil and be surprised by UIUIUI KOO with a mix of musical traditions. Third act on the bill are the Ping Pong Tactics, they mix different genres, from classical music to modern music.

There are various dance acts to keep you fascinated and you can decipher the mysteries of 013 with Indoor stadsgeheimen. You can enjoy all the different acts with some spectacular food from cookaholics. They make gastronomic taste sensation by using molecular cooking methods.

And if that’s not enough, Incubate presents a special guest! Topsecret! The only thing we will be telling you is: you do NOT want to miss it!

Frisse Oren is a big treat for the year 2012, with music, dance, food and of course having a great time! We hope to see you there, because we wouldn’t want to miss this great way to celebrate a new year!

Ping Pong Tactics

UIUIUI KOO