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Raíz – R Wave (live at Dasbunker) by Raíz
I’m a bit surprised it took me a month to stumble upon this. I like Raíz and their crew/label, Droid Behavior, quite a bit, and they seem to have a close relationship with Pandemic’s west coast cousins Das Bunker. Recorded live at DB’s retro night last year, it’s a flawlessly mixed set of excellent and often underrated tracks that flirts with industrial’s influences as much as its history.
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As their contract has expired with Mute Records, Throbbing Gristle has purchased all of the Industrial Records warehouse stock and will now be distributing it through their own label again. Industrial Records will also be releasing a final Throbbing Gristle album, titled Desertshore.
Industrial Records official site
Throbbing Gristle official site
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Adam X talks about the birth of his latest project, Traversable Wormhole, and the sounds that inspired it. Read more about him here on the FWD.dj site.
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We’re all excited about Pandemic on Friday, but on Saturday, there’s another event you might all be interested in (I know quite a few Pandemic djs will be there). To give you an idea why it’s relevant to a bunch of rivetheads, I’ll just quote Surgeon’s wikipedia page:
Surgeon’s musical style is characterised by his incorporation of the more cinematic and left field aspects of his musical background into his club-based material. His production, remix, and DJ repertoire are inspired by krautrock and industrial music bands such as Faust, Coil, and Whitehouse. In particular, the extent of Coil’s influence is such that most of the track titles from Surgeon’s Tresor album “Force and Form” are direct references to Coil recordings. Child also draws influence from Chicago house, Techno, Dub music, and Electro, and also from non-musical works by Mike Leigh, David Lynch, William S. Burroughs, Bret Easton Ellis, and Cindy Sherman.
Yeah…hell, *I* don’t even play Whitehouse in my sets. I’m a big fan of his FACT magazine podcast from last year, recorded live and including his own cover of Nitzer Ebb’s “Join In The Chant”. I can’t wait to hear what he does on Saturday.
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Surgeon’s website
Smartbar website
facebook event page
Kompute Musik » HI-FI // April 9 2011 // Chicago
In addition to our regular Pandemic on April 1, Pandemic will be doing a showcase on the lower level of Abbey Pub as part of Kompute’s HI-FI event series.
Kompute will fill the upper level with a solid lineup of techno djs, including myself [I am conveniently a member of both Pandemic and Kompute], while we put JenaMax, Pathogen, Kriegschrei, and Cytokine downstairs for all the industrial you can handle. I’ve been preaching about the cross-pollination of techno and industrial for a long time, so I’m pretty excited about this. In recent years, I’ve found so much similarity between the two, and so few people aware of it. This is a great opportunity to open ears to great music they might not otherwise be exposed to.
Stay tuned for details!
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See what we’ve been up to lately!!
Video footage taken from Pandemic at Exit, Chicago and Hostile Takeover at Funk, Chicago.
Music: “Destroy Improve Rebuild” by Faderhead, from their latest album Black Friday, available at www.blackfridayalbum.com
Thanks to Metropolis Records, Faderhead, Matt Fanale, the Pandemic DJs, Jeff Moyer, Syed and Nikki at Funk, the Exit staff, Carlos, Erick, Jessie, Cecily, Melissa, Chris, Matt, Brian, and everyone who comes out to dance and have fun with us at all of our events.
Click here to see the Resident Advisor interview; the podcast is now available on Perc’s soundcloud page.
There’s been something brewing in techno lately… it’s, um, industrial. Thanks to the likes of djs like Surgeon, Perc, Sawf, and The Hacker, industrial is making a comeback in the spaces between techno’s harsher tracks, and it sounds right at home. The best recent example of this is Perc’s latest Resident Advisor podcast, steeped in British industrial that doesn’t sound as old as it is. I highly recommend it.
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Tracklist:
The Vampire Lovers – Laura Is Dead/Marcilla Is Gone – Hammer OST
Throbbing Gristle – Industrial Introduction – Industrial Records
Scars Of Dracula – Innocent Victim – Hammer OST
Cabaret Voltaire – Automotivation 2 – Virgin
Chris & Cosey – Telepathic Exotika (Fred Giannelli Mix) – T&B Vinyl
Dave Clarke – Red 2 (Robert Hood Remix) – Deconstruction
Takt & Tick – Black Worms – Phunkit
Sawf – Slim – Perc Trax
Forward Strategy Group – Token Ring – Perc Trax
TVO/The Village Orchestra – Lost Memory – Broken20
Factory Floor – 16-16-9-20-1-14-9-7 – Blast First
Forward Strategy Group – Inside The Shadows – Stroboscopic Artefacts
Margaret Dygas – Reverse – Power Shovel Audio
V1NZ – Disposition – Android Muziq
Chris & Cosey – Cowboys Of Bangkok (Coil vs Elph Mix) – T&B Vinyl
Broadcast & The Focus Group – Inside Out – Ghost Box
Claudio PRC – Clear Depths (Silent Servant Remix) – Prologue
Perc – Pagan Drum Tools 1 & 2 – Perc Trax
Nitzer Ebb – Join In The Chant (Perc Drum Tools) – Mute/Unreleased
Cusp – Uranium – Swim
Ancient Methods – The Fifth Methods B1 – Ancient Methods
Traversable Wormhole – Exiting The Milkyway (Surgeon Remix) – CLR
Bas Mooy – Warsaw – Audio Assault
Daz Saund & Ben Tisdall – Juggernaut – Missile
Burial Hex – Eight Pentacles – Aurora Borealis
Anodyne – Close Your Eyes (Corporation Street Remix by Autechre) – Psychonavigation
Surgeon – Dinah’s Dream – Tresor
PANDEMIC✙ Friday, November 5th @ Exit
Come be part of Chicago’s industrial evolution. Pandemic invades Exit once again in November, bringing you the finest in classic and modern industrial, EBM, synthpop and rhythmic noise.
with DJs
Kriegschrei
Cytokine
Jeff Moyer
It’s DJ Cytokine’s birthday party! Woo!
PLUS: Exciting news! Our friends at Metropolis Records, America’s biggest purveyor of industrial music, have provided a bounty of gifts for November’s Pandemic! Prizes include:
Official CD release giveaways!
COMBICHRIST – Noise Collection Volume 1 (2cd)
FUNKER VOGT – Blutzoll
FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY – Improvised Electronic Device
HEIMATAERDE – Unwesen
Back Catalog giveaways from Die Form, Dope Stars Inc, Meat Beat Manifesto, Rotersand, The Birthday Massacre, Hanzel und Gretyl, KMFDM, Suicide Commando, IAMX, Imperative Reaction and Front Line Assembly
PLUS live DVDs from Apoptygma Berzerk and VNV Nation!
ALSO PLUS the super-secret, never-before-seen Metropolis Records one-time-only prize! It’s going to be extremely silly, so be forewarned.
LAST MINUTE ADDITION: Courtesy of Bottom Lounge, we have tickets to the Combichrist/Aesthetic Perfection show to give away as well! Details here.
Giveaways shall be conducted in dance-off format, much like our Faderhead – Black Friday release party! Prepare to be rewarded for your ferocity!
10pm-4am / 21+ / NO COVER ALL NIGHT / come ready to dance
click to go to the facebook event page
For the October installment of Pandemic, we will be hosting the official CD release party for Faderhead‘s new album Black Friday! Hear some of the new tracks and get to Exit early for a chance to win a copy of the album over a week before the release date.
On top of that, we will be hosting the official afterparty for local legend Caustic (who just so happens to be opening for Atari Teenage Riot at Bottom Lounge that night).
This WILL be the biggest Pandemic to date. Don’t miss out!
WOW! Thanks to everyone who came to PANDEMIC at Exit on Friday! We thought you brought it last month, but this month you blew the doors straight off the place. Thanks! Next up: Hostile Takeover at Funk on September 26 (it’s night of September 25, but technically it’s on the 26th at 3am). We also have some great surprises for Pandemic on October 1st!