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Soulwax – Part of the Weekend Never Dies [Doco Screening and PARTY!]

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Dr Hitchcock

This doco about Soulwax’s travels around the world is amazing. It’s well shot, is put together in a clever way and the footage is brilliant. So yeah, we’re throwing a little Friday, late night screening on the 30th of Jan at Rialto. It’s only $5 donation/koha entry with all profits going to charity.
Peace,
Dr H
xox

Here are the details:
Friday 30th January at Rialto Cinema Christchurch
$5 donation/koha entry – all profits go to Christchurch Charity Hospital (www.charityhospital.org.nz)
Door sales only.

Movie Classification: M contains offensive language & nudity
Bar Open – 18+ ID Required
This event is limited to 100 party peeps

10:30pm: Theater opens with Dr Hitchcock on the decks
Midnight: “Part of the Weekend Never Dies” (This will start at Midnight, SHARP. Ow…)
1am: More DJ shizzle from Dr H (or maybe Apex Beat) until the wee hours.

Facebook entry: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=49654021775&ref=nf

Plot Summary:
A documentary about Soulwax: Director Saam Farahmand filmed Soulwax on their recent international dates, capturing all the excitement, chaos and humour of the world tour. Where the Beastie Boys filmed one gig with 50 cameras, Soulwax filmed 120 shows with one camera, in Europe, Japan, US, Latin America and Australia. The result is a snapshot of life on the road with one of the most exciting live bands in the world, and features their friends including 2manyDJ’s, James Murphy & Nancy Whang (LCD Soundsystem), Erol Alkan, Tiga, Justice, Busy P, So-Me, Peaches, Klaxons and many more in interview, as well as behind-the-scenes footage, and LOTS of music.

For more info:
http://starlifter.tv
http://www.rialto.co.nz
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1224448/
http://www.rdu.org.nz

Palace of Wisdom – True Man [Song review by Thom]

Posted on December 21, 2008 by Dr Hitchcock

http://www.myspace.com/inthepalaceofwisdom

The new Palace of Wisdom cut ‘True Man’ is a marriage of the old and new. Musically, this track lends itself to the monumental riffage of the husky bluemen and roughnut surf guitarists of the 50s and 60s. While never mimicking their emotive chops, their influence is certainly tangible. Lyrically, this track is a cutting criticism of modern society, capitalism and the banes of a watered down intellect, referencing an age where “working men wrote poetry and talked politics” as counterpoint to the modern ignorance of “the media man.” While this track is found a little wanting structurally, the open plan song structure works well with the kerouacian ‘stream of consciousness’ lyrical style to create a very listenable wee number.

Eye, Adam Willets, Grunge Genesis + Richard Neave [Event]

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Dr Hitchcock

Christchurch’s BORDERLINE BALLROOM put on some of the most interesting sound based events in town! Why not check out their latest offering:

EYE
ADAM WILLETTS
GRUNGE GENESIS + RICHARD NEAVE
Saturday 6th Dec,
Neibelheim (under SoFA Gallery, South Quad of the Arts Centre), Christchurch
8pm, $5

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EYE (DUN)
Eye are a Dunedin rock/electronic group who use a combination of guitars, drums, sampled sounds and shortwave radio to explore the extremities of both quiet and loud noise They formed in late 2003 as a trio of Peter Porteous (Empirical, Lapdog, Electricity), Nathan Thompson (Sandoz Lab Technicians, Sleep, Renderizors) and Peter Stapleton (Rain, Flies Inside the Sun, Sleep, A Handful of Dust, Terminals). Turntablist Ryan Cockburn, who also performs solo as Spit, was also a regular member throughout 2004 and 2005 and although now living in Melbourne still makes occasional live appearances with the group. So far Eye have released a split 10″ LP (with 3 Forks) and a CDR ‘Black Ice’ on the Dunedin label Unitedfairymoons and a second CDR ‘Meridian’ plus a 7″ single ‘Interlock’/ ‘Memory Slip’ on the Auckland CMR label. They have just completed a new CD ‘Winterwork’ scheduled for release in 2009. Eye last played in Christchurch at the Physics Room in 2005.

ADAM WILLETTS (CHCH)
Adam Willetts is a musician and artist whose practice shifts casually between hi-tech and handcrafted as he explores relationships and interfaces between people, technology and popular culture. His use of DIY electronics, radio, computers and game controllers creates dynamic and surprising live performances that carefully balance elements of fragile beauty with violent eruptions of static, electromagnetic interference and feedback. Adam has been performing and exhibiting throughout New Zealand and internationally since the late 1990s featuring at numerous festivals and exhibitions including Lines of Flight 2006 (Dunedin), TASIE 2006 (Beijing), S3D 2007 (Auckland), and Cloudland at ISEA 2008 (Singapore).

GRUNGE GENESIS + RICHARD NEAVE (CHCH)
Anyone who has seen that Youtube clip with the maggot crawling/extracted out of that woman’s head will know that the most horrifying aesthetic frisson always contains a humorous hint of incredible hypodermic detail – just enough to turn any creeping horripilation into a bit of a comic tickle. Horror and comedy occur as awkwardly proximate sidekicks. Horror’s so willing to descend into the depths of bathos rather than contracted ineluctable despair, while Comedy is eager to sink its teeth into that very Achilles’ Heel. The limits of the Sublime come forth in a similar way when we listen to the sounds issued by Crèche Grunge Genesis. Not a desertion of some archaic nineties apparel halcyon but a re-figuring of its formative promise via the albeit somewhat musty attire of its fin de siècle musical incline, Grunge Genesis will capsize the crescendo-oriented reason of Ravel’s Bolero by becoming tentatively yet radically anti-Terpischorean in its retreating crawl back from Pukers Baroque to Peter Gabriel-sanctioned World Music™ quiescence.

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this event is one leg of of a 2 WEEKEND, 2 CITY “radicalcartography” of Southern Sound… […forays into electromagnetic spectrum elucidation… expanded-field radiophony… noise-folk tradition… the social-geographics of soundculture reimagined as a poetics of city-drift… flat-earth frequencies for the google era… etc etc… featuring: EYE, ADAM WILLETTS, DIRT ROOM + TIM COSTER, GRUNGE GENESIS + RICHARD NEAVE, RADIO CEGESTE with NIGEL BUNN, A’SIDES for BETAVILLE, THE AUTO HARPIES, THE AESTHETICS, VOODOO GANGSTER…]