We recommend checking out Possession at Cinefamily next Friday, July 5th at Midnight.

Capturing the energy generated when two people whose lives are so intensely fused and woven are forcibly split, Possession is an emotional nuclear explosion. If all we were given were its operatic and shamanistic performances by leads Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill, its impossible-to-describe music by Andrzej Korzynski, and its masterful, hyper-kinetical ballet of camera choreography — all delivered with the force of a long-repressed traumatic memory — then Possession would already be the best film about divorce ever filmed. But when the angels and demons of our inner nature are literally incarnated in phantasmagorical form — the kind requiring the talents of Oscar-winning creature FX master Carlo Rambaldi (who, instead of making a cutey-pie “E.T.”, concocts a tentacled Lovecraftian octo-sex-demon) — you have the kind of explosively cathartic and entertaining experience that leads to movie-lover nirvanic bliss. Welcome to Possession, your new favorite movie.
Dir. Andrzej Zulawski, 1981, 35mm, 123 min.

Visit Cinefamily for more information and tickets.

40 years in the making…cult legends Goblin will be performing for the first time in North America! 

The Italian Soundtrack Kings will perform all of their classic cuts, including scores from Deep Red, Suspiria, Tenebrae, Dawn of the Dead, Phenomena, Sleepless and other songs that are milestones among prog rock followers, including songs from Roller, Il fantastico Viaggio del Bagarozzo Mark, and most recently Back to the Goblin. Other famous scores never performed live anywhere will be included on this tour. - via EarBuddy

They will be performing in Los Angeles at The Egyptian Theater October 22nd. The night will also include a screening of Deep Red.

 

Once a Year by photographer Axel Hoedt documents participants of the annual Fasnacht Carnival in south west Germany. 

The Swabian-Alemannic carnival, known as Fasnacht, Fastnacht or Fasnet, is a custom in south west Germany when the cold and grim spirits of winter are symbolically hunted down and expelled. Every year around January and February processions of people make their way through the streets of Endingen, Sachsenheim, Kissleg, Singen, Wilfingen and Triberg dressed up lavishly as demons, witches, earthly spirits and fearful animals to enact this scene of symbolic expulsion. Photographer Axel Hoedt captured the embellished disguises of the revellers in a mixture of still life, polaroid snapshots and classical studio shots. The earnest poses away from the carnival revelry and established clichés remind the viewer of what a carnival used to be, ample amounts of merrymaking laced with sinister undertones. - LN-CC

You can purchase a copy on the LN-CC website.

Seinfeld gets brvtal.

Demdike Stare return to the lab with two extended new productions, inaugurating a series of untamed releases brought together under the Testpressing banner. ‘Collision’ was recorded in late 2012 and is pretty much unlike anything you’ll have heard from Demdike before, an intense high-frequency re-arrangement of Jungle and Noise, like a more brutal variant of the Demdike-affiliated HATE project, fed through a bank of analogue boxes and pedals, left to spin uncontrollably for 10 minutes before fading to black. ‘Misappropriation’ on the flip feeds off a different noise altogether, perched precariously between the mangled percussion you’d most commonly associate with Muslimgauze and the metallic clank of industry, a proper sunstroke riddim: angry and unforgiving.

Available for pre-order via Mount Analog.

Woke up this morning and fell down the rabbit hole going through some awesome videos on the Dark Entries Records YouTube page. This jam from Q4U, an Icelandic band which formed in the early 80’s, stood out. 

Q4U began with a stylish, aggressive punk image before experimenting with drum machines and synthesizers, which almost nobody did in Reykjavík at the time. The later sound had gothic leanings,often compared with Siouxsie and the Banshees and Xmal Deutschland. Their body of work is united by the powerful vocals of Ellý, who mostly sings in Icelandic about controversial, political experiences, much like Ari Up of The Slits.

Check out the Q1 Deluxe Edition 1980-1983 LP released on Dark Entries Records. 

A Facebook page has emerged with photos of Cambiare, a new bar in Toyko’s “Golden Gai” district in Shinjuku, which is inspired by Dario Argento’s classic, “Suspiria.”

From what we can see, it looks like they have a lot of the elements there - the stained glass, floral wall paper, Argento style lighting, and the abstract floors. Well done! 

R.I.P. Martin Lloyd

Martin Lloyd, one half of 80’s electronic pioneers Oppenheimer Analysis, passed away in April of liver failure, he was 63. Lloyd, with his band mate Andy Oppenheimer, formed Oppenheimer Analysis in the early 80’s and went on to release highly influential material such as 1982’s “New Mexico”.

The duo recently reunited and perennial favorite Minimal Wave has released some of their earlier work. He was truly prolific and will be missed.

PANDEMONIA



Pandemonia is a very tall, very plastic, very ironic piece of art. Covered head-to-toe in Latex, the shiny beauty queen is the epitome of a public obsession with surfaces. - iD

Pandemonia began publicly displaying her work over 4 years ago, appearing front row at fashion shows and at high profile events.



Pandemonia with Jerry Hall.



Pandemonia and Pam Hogg.



Pandemonia describes herself as “packaging artificiality and lack of content”, in the same way perhaps as Warhol’s Campbell Soup cans. Both are indicative of a consumerist society, both are icons of modern art and advocates of the Pop genre. -iD











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