en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal The Last.fm journal for unaesthetic. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2009/05/07/2pg9xd_tanzmuzik_opening_night_postponed_due_to_venue_closure Thu, 7 May 2009 15:41:50 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2009/05/07/2pg9xd_tanzmuzik_opening_night_postponed_due_to_venue_closure Hello all.

Sad to say the Orwell has closed down and so tomorrow nights inaugural TANZMUZIK will not be taking place. Many apologies to any of you planning to attend.

However, be assured that we will find another venue and London will have a neofolk - martial - industrial - power electronics night VERY SOON...

I'll keep you posted.

-unaesthetic-]]> http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2009/04/12/2n4rfm_new_london_clubnight_-_tanzmuzik_-_dark_ambient%2C_neofolk%2C_martial_industrial%2C_power_electronics%2C_rhythm_noise Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:34:57 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2009/04/12/2n4rfm_new_london_clubnight_-_tanzmuzik_-_dark_ambient%2C_neofolk%2C_martial_industrial%2C_power_electronics%2C_rhythm_noise Hello!

The opening night of Tanzmuzik will be 8th May at the Orwell, Essex Road, Islington. Entry will be £4 and the night will run from 9pm-2am.

Our music policy is to include the whole industrial and post-industrial spectrum that is neglected elsewhere. We probably won't play much you'll hear in other clubs:

dark ambient - ritual - drone - neofolk - military pop - martial industrial - neoclassical - medieval - apocalyptic folk - industrial records - metalbashing - power electronics - rhythm noise - black industrial - noise

Special guest DJs for our opening night will be: Andrew Trail from Knifeladder and AntiValium, playing metalbashing industrial and Alex B of Leech Woman and Sick & Twisted fame, rounding the night off with some hard old-skool industrial and rhythmic noise. Hosts Unaesthetic and SpeakMarauder will be opening the assault.

Please come if you are in London, and spread the word wherever you are!

we have a myspace and a facebook if you'd like to join:

http://www.myspace.com/444793304
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=43702619036

and the event on fbook:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=164365120385

Thanks!

]]> http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2009/04/02/2m8bx7_stop_whining_and_pay_for_something_for_once_in_your_life Thu, 2 Apr 2009 19:04:04 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2009/04/02/2m8bx7_stop_whining_and_pay_for_something_for_once_in_your_life i'm totally sick of the "keep last.fm free" and "strike from scrobbling" mewling bullshit that's going on at the moment. where did this sickening sense of entitlement come from?

1) last.fm is a BUSINESS. you've been using their services for free up till now. YOU'RE WELCOME. now pay for something. offline, you don't get shit for free. i can't walk into record stores and take all the music i fancy for free. to do that, i download things. (and feel guilty about it). i buy music whenever i can.

2) last.fm PAYS ROYALTIES to the bands who have music on here. where is this cash supposed to come from? not from the bail-out package for the banks, that's for sure. pay your way.

3) the main functionality of the site, the reason most of us are here in the first place - the collating of STATS - is unaffected. so from now on last.fm will only make charts for music you've PAID FOR or DOWNLOADED FOR FREE from somewhere else. boo fucking hoo.

4) i've liked this site from the moment i started using it. i've been a paid user for a couple of years, and i live in the uk where i don't have to pay for it. i'm a student and work part-time, but i can still afford to pay for this site. it's like £18 a year or something. if you can't afford that, you probably have more important things to worry about in your own life. i don't mean that to sound callous, but this site relates to our consumption of consumer goods. if you're not willing or unable to shell out the price of one album PER YEAR to have SHITLOADS of FREE MUSIC at your fingertips, then all i can really say is FUCK OFF AND STOP COMPLAINING.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2009/02/17/2hu23k_forty_thousand_strong Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:50:34 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2009/02/17/2hu23k_forty_thousand_strong well, i just passed 40,000 plays this afternoon, and i want to take a minute to look over my charts and my relationship with music.

first up is my top ten at this point: Einstürzende Neubauten, Skinny Puppy, Laibach, Coil, Swans, Front 242, Der Blutharsch, Front Line Assembly, Klinik, Deutsch Nepal. i'd say this is pretty representative of the main part of my taste, although i haven't listened to much d.n. in a while...

neubauten are by far my favourite band. if i'd started on last.fm a couple of years earlier, they would probably be well into the 2000 plays if not higher. i don't listen to them as much as i used to, which is a shame, but there is so much amazing music out there that i can't keep going over and over the classics. plus they are a band that i really like to listen to in complete-album form, and i'm not always in the mood for that. but how i feel about them hasn't changed in a long time.

then there's the rest of my charts. recent additions to my top 50 are Death in June, Absolute Body Control and Fad Gadget. i'd heard lots of dij before, but it hadn't really appealed to me. then i heard brown book and nada, and some of the earlier stuff, and i was totally hooked. the more electronic tracks by dij - "To Drown a Rose", "Carousel", "The Calling", "Come Before Christ and Murder Love" are brilliant, and very different from the strummy acoustic guitar stuff i'd heard before. a.b.c. almost sprang out of nowhere on me. i knew the name as a klinik-related project, but when i finally heard them i was surprised and enthralled in equal measure - a more conventional structure than klinik but still slightly strange, dark electronics. fad gadget were another surprise - i knew them all along, and i even had a 7" of "Back to Nature" from god knows when. i know i've danced to f.g. in clubs, i just never got around to playing it at home. well now i have a few albums, and all is well with the world.

the rest of my top 50 hasn't changed much as far as i can tell - the real fun is going on outside of it. i've been assimilating new music at a rate of knots recently. some new discoveries are bands i only have 1 or 2 tracks by, or perhaps a solitary album, so they have no chance of making it to the top. there are loads of post-punk, minimal wave and ebm acts lurking midway down my charts. current lesser-known faves would include Borghesia, Nine Circles, Vice Versa, Clair Obscur, Esplendor Geométrico, Sonar, Schleimer K, Click Click and Malaria!.

i've noticed a resurgence in a teenage listening habit recently. that is, playing one song over and over. i haven't done this for years but over the past six months i've caught myself indulging in repeat listens. tracks that have done this to me include: nine circles "Twinkling Stars", Tuxedomoon "No Tears" (both the original and the ADULT. remix), laibach "L'Homme Arme", esplendor geométrico "mosku esta heladú", and absolute body control "Is There an Exit?". i'm sure there are others...

i've been listening to a bit less martial industrial of late too, despite the upsurge in death in june plays. the last thing that got me excited was Triarii's new album. oh, and discovering Ophir, which is what the guy from Wappenbund did before wappenbund. i've been meaning to have a dark and stompy martial day for some time now to redress the balance.

hum, so. 40k plays. well done me.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2009/01/05/2diwlm_brave_exhibitions_all-dayer_setlist Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:36:53 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2009/01/05/2diwlm_brave_exhibitions_all-dayer_setlist at the old blue last

Public Image Ltd. - The Flowers Of Romance
The Birthday Party - Mutiny in Heaven
Throbbing Gristle - Discipline (Berlin)
Sprung aus den Wolken - No Waiting
Laibach - Država
Portion Control - Go Talk (remix)
KMFDM - Don't Blow Your Top
Death in June - Carousel
Snowy Red - The Long Run
Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop
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stav b
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Einstürzende Neubauten - Kollaps
Fad Gadget - Insecticide
Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope
Schleimer K - Hope Deep Inside
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maria and the mirrors
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Swans - Children of God
Cabaret Voltaire - Blue Heat (12" mix)
Kode 10 - Possessed
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no kisses
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The Human League - Black Hit Of Space
Para - Achterbahn
Nine Circles - Twinkling Stars
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no bra
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Absolute Body Control - Is There an Exit? (wind[re]wind version)
Ministry - Same Old Madness
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Verschwende Deine Jugend


i think i enjoyed last night more than any other time i've djed before. the set i played at the regular brave exhibitions was also great fun but i was fasting so i was going nutso from thirst, die klinik was also fun but i was just in a weird mood, the last martial set at sh5 was done on 2 dvd players to an empty room and so on. but last night was plain sailing. no pressure, i could play whatever i wanted, i got to watch all the live acts, and people kept coming up and saying "this song is great, who is it?" - this included a number of people being surprised by Death in June, which made me smile. also i got a number of people dancing, and a few compliments from the punters, which was bloody good for my self-confidence levels. anyway to those of you who were there, thanks for coming, and to those of you not there, look what you missed!]]> http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2008/12/31/2d70wt_brave_exhibitions_all-dayer_at_the_old_blue_last_4_jan Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:49:40 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2008/12/31/2d70wt_brave_exhibitions_all-dayer_at_the_old_blue_last_4_jan

lookee here

expect to hear post-punk no wave minimal synthpop goodies such as:

Absolute Body Control / Bollock Brothers / Cabaret Voltaire / Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft / Experimental Products / Fad Gadget / Gang of Four / The Human League / I Start Counting / Joy Division / Klinik / Liaisons Dangereuses / Malaria! / The Neon Judgement / OMD / Portion Control / Bourbonese Qualk ;) / The Royal Family and the Poor / Schleimer K / Throbbing Gristle / unaesthetic ;) / Vomito Negro / Wire / XeX / Yazoo / Zapp (er...)]]> http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2008/11/16/2a6gva_just_fascination_-_dissertation_on_politics_in_industrial%252C_martial_%2526_neofolk_music Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:33:27 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2008/11/16/2a6gva_just_fascination_-_dissertation_on_politics_in_industrial%252C_martial_%2526_neofolk_music I just finished the dissertation for my design degree. My chosen subject was the use of extreme political imagery by bands in the industrial milieu. The bands I covered included: Throbbing Gristle, Test Dept., Laibach, Death in June, Der Blutharsch, Blood Axis, (and unfortunately) Rammstein and Marilyn Manson. The latter two were used as a "mainstream" counterpoint, and to address the question of whether the political imagery of the neofolk and martial industrial artists could be considered "corrupting" or "immoral".

The dissertation is for a design degree. I've posted images of the finished design piece on my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/unaesthetic_kunst/ and i will be posting a pdf of the full text at some point.

[**edit**] thanks to everyone that's commented here or in other places! if you've seen this and want to read the full thing you can get a pdf or read the text online at my website: www.unaesthetic.com - just click on "dissertation".]]> http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2008/11/12/29uopi_pleasantly_surprised_by_ohgr Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:44:26 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2008/11/12/29uopi_pleasantly_surprised_by_ohgr having been hearing good things about the new album, i decided to give ohGr another chance.

i've never really liked ohGr. it was all too goofy for me, and the last two Skinny Puppy albums have sounded much too much like ohgr for me. i don't like that bouncy poppy hip-hop sound, i dislike ogre's new sing-song nursery-rhyme vocal style (i mean new since welt), and i really fucking despised the childish misspellings and uPpERcaSE/lOWerCaSe zany songtitles (although cevin is as guilty of this as ogre)

at least Devils In My Details steers away from a few of those elements. and i actually think i like this better than the last two skuppy albums too. it's certainly less goofy and tongue-in-cheek sounding than anything on TGWOTR. and it has *samples*, which even skuppy seem to have neglected of late.

DIMD is noiser, more distorted, less "pop", and certainly stranger than any of the skuppy clan's output in the last decade or so. if TGWOTR had sounded more like this, i'd have been a much happier puppy.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2008/10/22/28hvim_alphabetical_procrastination Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:40:18 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2008/10/22/28hvim_alphabetical_procrastination A Arditi
B Der Blutharsch (maybe cheating a bit here)
C Coil
D Deutsch Nepal
E Einstürzende Neubauten (obviously)
F Front 242
G Gaë Bolg and the Church of Fand
H The Human League
I In Slaughter Natives
J Joy Division
K Klinik
L Laibach
M MZ.412
N Nitzer Ebb
O Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio
P Portion Control
Q ... Qntal?
R Rasthof Dachau
S Skinny Puppy
T Test Dept.
U unaesthetic(!)
V Vomito Negro
W Wappenbund
X X-Marks the Pedwalk
Y Young Marble Giants
Z Zoviet France

waste of time i know...]]> http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2008/10/10/27porl_brave_exhibitions_08-10-08_setlist%28ish%29 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:52:41 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/unaesthetic/journal/2008/10/10/27porl_brave_exhibitions_08-10-08_setlist%28ish%29 i wasn't actually keeping track, but i certainly played these fine songs (vaguely in this order) :

23 Skidoo - The Gospel
Throbbing Gristle - See You Are (Live At The Factory, Manchester, 19 May 1979)
X-Mal Deutschland - Qual
Fad Gadget - 4M
Cabaret Voltaire - Just Fascination
KMFDM - Don't Blow Your Top
Psyche - The Saint Became a Lush
Iron Curtain - First Punk Wars
Sprung aus den Wolken - No Waiting
Killing Joke - Requiem
Para - Dich
Skinny Puppy - Dig It
The Human League - Black Hit Of Space
Einstürzende Neubauten - Für wen sind die Blumen?
Telepathic - We Are Telepathique
Ministry - All Day Remix
Front 242 - U-Men
Klinik - Black Leather
Nine Circles - Twinkling Stars
Doubting Thomas - Father Don't Cry
Hard Corps - C'est Pas Moi
Throbbing Gristle - Hot on the Heels of Love

i may have missed some of the stuff i played... anyhoo it was a great night, the live bands Jon Teknik and Oppenheimer Analysis were fab, and a bunch of chums came down, which made it extra good!]]>