Dälek (pronounced ‘Die-a-leck’) is an experimental hip hop duo from Newark, NJ. The group comprises MC Dälek (vocals) and the Oktopus (production). They have often toured with artists from radically different genres, such as Godflesh, Isis, Prince Paul, The Melvins, De La Soul, and Lovage. Dälek’s music is dark, noisy and atmospheric, equally inspired by industrial music like Einstürzende Neubauten (the band of Blixa Bargeld), the layered noise of My Bloody Valentine and the dense sound collages of Public Enemy. Their sound is often constructed through sampling and a musical base atypical of most hip-hop, making it difficult for people to classify their sound. They have been described as trip-hop, glitch-hop, and metal- shoegaze-hip-hop, as well as criticized for their broad range of sound.
Scorn is the project of former Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris. Scorn was a two man project with Harris and bassist/vocalist Nicholas Bullen. In fact, the first Scorn album featured a reunion of the three members of the original Napalm Death line up: Harris, Bullen, and Justin Broadrick (from Techno Animal, Jesu, Ice) who played session guitars. Early Scorn had a very dubby, gothic metal sound. Bullen was ejected from the band after a personal incident with Harris’ friend, and Harris changed the focus of the band to what it is known now.
Ballet Mécanique (1924) was a project by the American composer George Antheil and the filmmaker/artist Fernand Léger. Although the film was intended to use Antheil’s score as a soundtrack, the two parts were not brought together until the 1990s. In this film apear Kiki of Montparnasseas the woman with the weird lipstick smile. Kiki (real name Alice Prin) was a French artists’ model, nightclub singer, actress, and also painter.
This is a remake of Fernand Légers 1924 movie and George Anthiels’ original composition in Jesus Himself fashion.
Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995) was a French composer, noted as the inventor of musique concrète. He is generally acknowledged as being the first composer to make music using magnetic tape. Accordind to Wikipedia, musique concrète (concrete music), is a style of avant-garde music that relies on recorded sounds, including natural environmental sounds and other non-inherently-musical noises to create music.
Psyché Rock
Shaeffer composed the famous “Psyché Rock” wich is inspired from “Louie Louie” of The Kingsmen and it was designed to make a mockerie of that song. It sounds a bit like “Smells like teen spirit“, since Nirvana looted the same song and just fiddled with it to make it sound more grungy. Fatboy Slim made it a famous remix of the Psyché Rock song. The videoclip of this remix is a continuation of the original video on the Henry’s version that was showing living transistors and at the end a spacecraft leaving for other skies. The same spacecraft that is seen landing here, and the ‘cowboys’ transistors. An Americanization of the genial original French version.
“Poème électronique” (Electronic Poem) was composed in 1958 by Edgard Varèse, the father of electronic music, and Iannis Xénakis, one of the most important modernist composers of the 20th century, under the direction of Le Corbusier, one of the most important architects of the 20th century.
This recording is only an approximation of the true nature of the event from 1958, as it has none of the integral spatial effects that were created for the Philips Pavilion structure.
There is much information to understand the complexity of this giant project which was the first electronic-spatial environment to combine architecture, film, light and music to a total experience made to functions in time and space. I recomand to read the entire post.
Techno Animal was formed in 1990. A mechanoid manifestation of Justin Broadrick and Kevin Martin’s increasing appetite for studio explorations, the name was a practical abbreviation addressing the concept of a technological animal.
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Techno Animal have worked on a project with Alec Empire (Atari Teenage Riot) in 1998, called The Curse of the Golden Vampire.
Ultrasonic Meltdown (with Alec Empire)
This is a short film by R. Stevens Harris. A dark mechanical ballet to “Ultrasonic Meltdown” of Alec Empire and Techno Animal. Nurel dances and lures the hyperkinetic Motorhead, a coin operated machine-slave, to a misleading flight of freedom.
Swod is the recording project of Oliver Doerell (Belgium) and Stephan Wohrmann, two accomplished musicians who met in Berlin sometime in 1991. Oliver plays guitar, bass and all manner of electronics. Stephan plays piano and drums, arranging an almost neo-classical structure within a recording that already sounds ghostly and cinematic.
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