One Pig

Matthew Herbert’s new project One Pig is an album made exclusively from sound recordings made during a pig’s life, from birth to plate. Herbert was there, microphone in hand, as the animal was born. Continuing to visit it through its life, Herbert then documented its death, butchery and consumption, before making an album from the results. He also commissioned a series of unusual objects from the animal, including a pig skin drum, dye, paint, candelabra, and an instrument which plays the animal’s blood.

This is a remix by Micachu of the track ‘December’. Watch a short documentary made by Herbert about the album here

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IXC999

Heavy electronics from New York duo White Ring.

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INLAND


Inland is a studio/gallery complex situated in the heart of Camberwell. Run by artists Lauren Houlton, Keira Greene, Benji Jeffrey, Bella Marrin and Alice Mendelowitz, it is a new space for events, talks, workshops and exhibitions.

Their first show, Chimera, is a short film produced over a week in the Spanish village of Frailes.

CHIMERA creates a desolate union between the geographic and the psychological. A fictional space created around the town relocates Frailes in a new mythology using a combination of moving image, spoken word and music.

The original edit was premiered in the village after an intense week of filming and editing. The film’s London premiere and second edit will attempt to weave in additional English footage. This will link the geographic locations of the studio and the village.

PRIVATE VIEW

30/9

6pm-9pm

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

1/10 — 2/10

12pm-6pm

http://www.inlandstudios.co.uk

OM INTERVIEW: CHAD VANGAALEN

Chad VanGaalen is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, visual artist, record producer and general underground Renaissance man who over the course of his career has moved from being an experimental tape musician to crafting beautiful and abstract lo-fi ballads. We caught up with him ahead of his headline show at Cargo to chat about being mistaken for a singer-songwriter, tape experiments and failed albums.

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Eternal Tapestry

Free download of Eternal Tapestry’s ‘Doorways in the Sand’, from their album Beyond the 4th Door. Catch them live at Corsica Studios on the 24th October.

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Thank You

Free download of Thank You’s ‘The Whale’, taken from the sessions of their last album, Golden Worry.

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Champion Sound

Discover a bit more about where we do our radio show in this video from Boiler Room affiliated ISYS. I’ve never seen Dalston looking so idyllic. It’s also probably a good thing I didn’t put myself forward for the NTS football team, I think I would have been out of my depth. Look out for some serious skills on show near the end of this video.

NTS – CHAMPION SOUND from ISYS on Vimeo.

AQUARIUM


There’s a lot of video art around at the moment, especially in Peckham, and a lot it seems to be composed of retro 80s effects, baffling found footage from YouTube, and throwback analogue noodling. All well and good, and there have been some great things in this inaugural PAMI (Peckham Artist Moving Image) festival, the best in my opinion being a showing of the awesome Gabriel by Agnes Martin in the Hannah Barry Gallery. However it wasn’t until I took a rare trip to Shoreditch on Friday that I encountered a piece of video work that was inspiring, clear, clever, original and beautiful. You can watch Tobias Zehntner’s Aquarium here, and until September 18th at The Alekano Club on Kingsland Road.

A Choice, In Another Time

The Best Painting in London Right Now

The last painting I wrote about here was Miro’s The Hope of a Condemned Man, a stark triptych composed of snaking lines, wild drips and glowing patches of colour. Looking at Cy Twombly’s The Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, I can see a possible theme emerging, at least within my own taste. These four goliaths are currently holed up in the final room of the Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Arcadian Painters exhibition, which pairs the Canadian with seventeenth century master Nicolas Poussin.

The show follows the various similarities between the two artists, both thematically and stylistically, and focuses too on Twombly’s adulation of Poussin. The classicist’s clear, graphic style is thrown into sharp relief when stationed next to Twombly’s gestural paintings. Where Poussin was obsessed with disegno, or the triumph of logic and design over colour and excess, Twombly applies colour architecturally, building thick, porous layers, or scratching spindly spider-web designs into his delicate pinks and yellows.

The show pitches the two men against each other, subject by subject, room by room, but for me, it’s Twombly who emerges victorious. Though they both made a ‘painting in four parts’ of the four different seasons, it’s Twombly’s that is on show here, Poussin’s are tragically absent, represented instead by a small reproduction, completely dwarfed by Twombly’s four enormous canvasses. Each one is scrawled with clues to the season it represents, obscured writing in different languages, hiding amongst ferns, lifting clouds and birds. Look and see a raw sun pierce the canvas, a pillar of dappled light shimmering on the surface of a wide lake, snow bending the branches of trees. Much of the other work in the exhibition references classical mythology; epic poems, Greek and Roman Gods, ancient legend. The Four Seasons however, seem to me to be just about getting up in the morning, and going outside.

It finishes soon, on Septber 25th, go and see it.

TOP OFF

In 2009 we were part of Stag and Dagger, running an exhibition and club with our Skwee-loving  buddies Top Nice.
With the London leg of Stag & Dagger a mere 24 hours away, today’s mix marks the last in our series of 10 exclusive Cloudcasts that we’ve been releasing weekly in the lead up to the festival. There’s no time for tears though, as this mix is a celebration of another heavyweight collaboration, as regular Stockholm/London clubnight Top Nice join forces with the Off Modern collective of artists, writers and curators – the leading promoters of all things art/literature/music in the South East London area.

The result? Top Off. (Obviously). Not the most creative portmanteau you’ll ever hear, but their combined eclecticism more than makes up for it – their stage, at The Book Club, not only features “live Gameboy dancehall DJs” Hyper Black Bass, but also upcoming producer Sampha, Berlin-based pop artist Molly Nilsson, and a live photo-stream by Ivo Gormley & Gery Georgieva. There will of course also be residents from both Off Modern and Top Nice manning the decks, including the latter’s own Louis Enchanté, responsible for this week’s mix, “Made For Ravin’”, which is a thrilling ride through Hardcore circa 1991 and mid-‘90s Ghetto House, topped off (see what I did there?) with a track from the UK bass scene’s DJ du jour, Deadboy, who you’ll also be able to catch on Friday night at FACT’s stage at Scrutton Street Studios.

OFF MODERN RADIO /// SEPTEMBER

Our sonic exlporations continued on NTS live last tuesday. This months show features artist, curator, Emptyset guy and most importantly Off Modern contributor Paul Purgas. On top of that we talk to Simon Richardson from Leith Waterworld about his sublime edits. Technical problems were at a minimum this time round but you’ve got to whack it up pretty loud to hear Paul talk in the first half of the show, sorry. We’re 3.40 in…

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There’s an Alicia Keys edit from Chad Valley on the show, tracks from Holy Other and Beau as well as this track…

GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME???

 

Roadblock

Off Modern resident Tomfoolery and Big Chill resident Mangno join forces to bring you an awsome new monthly night at Catch Bar, Kingsland Rd, the home of packed out Saturday nights.

As well as being absolutely free each month will feature guest DJ’s from some of the best independant nights around London and resident Roadblock DJs.

Expect pure party music, from hip hop, garage, r’n'b, bass, ragga etc etc..

Don’t miss this!

 

The Wreck

A great friend of ours, illustrator, designer and Trekkie Rob Shuttleworth is opening a new venue in Camberwell. What used to be just ‘that room above The Castle’ is soon to become The Wreck, a destination for students and graduates in the area featuring music, games, publications, events, parties, snacks, and heavily discounted beverages. Participation is key; Rob wants people to redesign the logo every couple of months, or have a stab at putting a party on or launching a zine. For more information head to the blog here. It opens up on the 19th of September. Look for this sign above the door, head upstairs and take advantage of the £2 beers.

 

 

120 Megabytes

XXJFG have just started a new show on Network Awesome called 120 Megabytes, it’s a selection of music and some amazing video work, focusing on a weird and hallucinogenic mixture of the two. Like TOTP for a still tripping post-party sunday morning.

Record Of The Week – Prospect Hummer

The recovery of a meek music column acknowledges the resurrection of a modest musician. It’s hard to explain exactly how big a part Vashti Bunyan has played in shaping the songs and styles of musicians today, but Prospect Hummer (2005) drives some distance in showing. The EP is a collaborative effort shared by the woman herself, thirty-five years after the release of her gentle masterpiece, ‘Just Another Diamond Day’, and the acclaimed Animal Collective, a few months after ‘Feels’ and one year behind ‘Sung Tongs’.

The alliance formed out of a meeting in Scotland, shaped by Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden, whom the band were supporting, and who had just played with Bunyan during her first live performance in over thirty years.

Prospect Hummer is a wash of purring possibility and visioning vibrations that point to the past and reflect in the present, broadening opportunity for the future. Although, since it’s fabrication, Vashti has gone on to craft further solo work, it is apparent that this collaboration played a large part in building back her confidence as an artist. The record is playful, comforting and allowing, for Bunyan and for us. She says her daughter can hear her smiling whilst singing on the songs, recordings that were completed in just three days. They form a short, concentrated, beautiful and balanced channelling of musical minds in meeting. The graceful gathering is a pleasure to ride and the enjoyment is formed from the gratitude the artists have towards one another, which is peaceful and equal.

Animal Collective and Vashti Bunyan – It’s You

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