Born in South Africa’s East Coast, Culolethu Zulu aka Culoe De Song was unveiled at the 08′ Red Bull Academy which he got out of his country for the 1st time for. Now here comes a one hour-long mix (on this rapidshare link).
You’ll be the judge.
Interview here.
Tags: Africa, culoe de song, electronic, minimal, south africa
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The first word he ever said at 6 months was “Constantinople”, he was recruited by Andy Warhol who wanted someone to watch television for him at all hours of the night, and was enlisted as a designer for the World Trade Center tour II. But today, Paul Laffoley, 69 years old, is mostly known for his complex work as a painter. Lire la suite
Tags: america, contemporain art, cosmic, futurist, weird
My mom could have talked in this documentary at this point.
I always wonder: how can this even be possible? Another documentary on the Pistols… There we go, 30 years after Sid ODed on heroin, you still find some people to give their take on this punk icon. Lire la suite
Tags: classic, documentary, london, punk, sid vicious
This is gonna make you buy CDs again.
San Francisco-based Moldover created the ultimate tool to fight illegal-downloads. His new album comes with a special circuited-CD case that’s playable basicaly like a theremin. Lire la suite
Tags: electronic, experimental, moldover, san francisco, weird
Their film is going to be called ODDSAC.
“It’s kinda like a psychedelic film, it’s not like a narrative film or anything”, said Avery Tare from Animal Collective. Lire la suite
Tags: animal collective, electronic, experimental, film, new york, psychedelic
Tissues are not provided in this videogame.
After Artificial Girl, Sexy Beach and Rapelay, Japanese company Illusion based in Yokohama has come up with “Real Kanojo” (“Real Girlfriend” literaly). A perfect 3D-modelized chick paddling in the sea and splashing water at your cyber-face, waiting for you to interact with her via your webcam. Lire la suite
Hardcore DC legends back on stage for X-mas
We all know the common denominator between Nirvana and Foo-Fighters, but few of us remember drummer Dave Grohl’s first band, Scream. Formed in Northern Virginia in 1981, Scream belongs to the 80′s DC hardcore dream team with Minor Threat, the Bad Brains and State of Alert (Henry Rollins 1st band). This band was actualy the first on Dischord records to release a full length album. Lire la suite
Chinese artist goes undercover “Predator Style”
Chinese artist Liu Bolin plays hide n’seek without photo trickery. Some reliable sources claim that Al-Qaeda is already working on this new technology. Lire la suite
Tags: art, china, photography, weird
In mid November, New Zealand internet company Orcon Broadband enlisted punk legend Iggy Pop to make their phones and services look cool. Shot October the 30th in Pop’s studio in Miami, the ad features 9 local contest-winners musicians (out of the 200 who attended the audition) and of course Pop, performing his 77′s hit Passenger which was on the album Lust for Life. All of this being made possible via skype. Lire la suite
Who wants some cheeeeeeese?
It might be just a trend but documentaries about bands seem to be a little too pompous sometimes. I don’t know if this one about Blur will be any good, but the trailer looks like Damon Albarn and his friends were not just a band but some kind of heroes who fought the nazis or discovered the cure for cancer. Lire la suite
Tags: documentary, oldies, uk
Human computer interaction has made a big step forward. The d-touch drum machine is an augmented reality technology that enables with visual markers recognition systems, “the development of low-cost tangible user interfaces and mixed reality applications”. Lire la suite
Tags: augmented reality, computer, electronic, experimental, techology
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