Implant Violence remix contest

wow, finally hope is here!

Is this the debut of a Music 2.0 movement like we saw happening in the web a couple years ago? I really which so.

Implant, this industrial/ebm group is coming out with a "remix" contest of their song "Violence". You can listen to the album version on their myspace page here: http://www.myspace.com/implant.

If you want to give a try to show your talent go to this page http://www.implant-music.be/remixcontest.htm to download the full kit in RAR file. This kit contain WAV and Midi file that you can use in your favorite audio program, i.e.: Ableton Live or Reason, or what ever you like.

For me I think it is a great opportunity to get closer to your fan and to see how they can picture you. Let see in couple of month what You can do with it.

Enjoy the track, discover this band, play with their parts while you play with yours.

just to let know :
Finished versions must be in June 30 2009, and can be mailed to : remixcontest@implant-music.be

http://www.implant-music.be/Implant

Good band, good visual, good music but very bad labeling marketing .

I think (in my personal and humble point of view) that some band push by the Majors should deserve a much better treatment in regards of the branding / labeling.

Last month (or maybe more) I've stumbled across a billboard on my way to work in the tram M8. A very kind of new-wave industrial look on it. The only thing that I was able to recognize when I was asking my self "what the f... is that product/show/art/anything these people wanted to say" was the distinctive square representing a album cover art.

The only wording on the billboard were "Command" and "Client" in bold red and outlined. Ok now for those you still don't know, WE ARE IN 2000 fucking 9. Meaning that those two words "Command" and "Client" are SO freakingly over used in this cyberworld for the last 20 years.

HELL-0

Let me clear this up right now. I don't have anything to say about concept-band. Specifically All-Female ultra stylish design with an over use of beat-box and cheesy keys. Yes I like that. One thing I hate and that truly wish every one can understand it is for an artist that communication is very import as much as your art. If the people cannot recognize you or even find you in the internet, you are left alone.

My point is that I like them, would like see them in concert and event but their album but I totally wish that they can get a better communication director from their record label to push them where they should be in the chart.


So here is "Client"

I very enjoy their dominant-military-uniform look they have. The music is not bad at all and their video are very beautiful and well done. Enjoy this one.


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Buy the new album Command from Amazon.com
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IAMX new record comming soon

I just find out that IAMX (the band that I miss last week in Berlin because it was soldout because I had to guide a friend of a friend of a friend from London because she was not available because .... well that part is not for you) will have a new album out on May 19.

You can read about him (Chris Corner) and his band IAMX on the website of Metropolis Record [click here to get it]
Also check their website http://www.iamx.eu/ to find out if they are playing close to you soon.




IAMX - Kingdom of Welcome Addiction
preorder it from Amazon.com

Combichrist doing an interview for PETA, is it time to blow a fuse.

Hi you all Combichrist lover and Andy LaPlegua fans.

Today I have found a link to an interview of Andy about animal cruelty and how he hate dog fight.
[you can read it here]

Personally I don't agree with everything from PETA and I hope you can do so. Please read, be inform, ask questions, read again and make up your own mind. In these day of the information age you have the power to find the all the data. Don't let anyone (especially me) push any unverified idea in your head.

Now, let's talk about the positive stuff. Because yes we can always find some and I think it is more important to focus on the Right one than the bad ones. It always nice to find interview of our loved artist and see what they think and how they get inspiration. I think that Mr. LaPlegua have a great future in front of him with his many musical projects and his sens of "In your Face Bastard".

One of the great thing from the PETA interview is that you can WIN, oh yeah, some really nice gift from Combichrist. Follow the link to find it out :-)



Learn more about Combichrist at peta2.com.


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the next big thing could be called "Bat For Lashes"

click here for the full article of DAZE magazine


Maybe I am late (yes she came out like 2 years ago) or maybe I just trap in this new summer album (that came out last month), but damn I really like the voice and style of this girl. The artist under this name called Natasha Khan have a good creative mind and can produce wonderful melodies with voice.

I wish you all to discover her through her 2 albums, videos or show. and Yes, I will be there, next week for her show at Postbahnhof here in Berlin.



For more info visit the official website http://www.batforlashes.com



buy the new album from Amazon.com
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns



This song "What's A Girl To Do" remind me a kind of blended extract from the old-school of Alternative (as it was called 20 years ago). A very nice mixture of Bauhaus + The Cure + Trisomie 21, kind of. I like this type bright mystical ambiance of a warm and sunny apocalyptic near future.

Enjoy