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B-movies and Biracial Creatures
It is one of Norient's most favored music videos from the past years: «Nunca Tendremos Mar» from the Bolivian underground band Gato Diablo. Here rock critic Javier A. Rodríguez Camacho analyzes the...
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The Creature’s Grip
Gato Diablo's music video «Nunca Tendremos Mar» (We'll Never Have the Sea) discusses Bolivia's national trauma: the loss of its access to the sea in the War of the Pacific between 1879-1883. Read a...
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A Satire of Digital Culture?
Dux Content is one of the less well known but arguably most interesting acts under the umbrella of the controversial new London-based label PC Music. Their technical expertise, both with machines and...
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Is This the New Punk?
Punks didn't give a fuck. Dux Content cares. The second commentary on the music video «Life Style» by London-based digital pop duo Dux Content. Read the first commentary by Adam Harper here. From the...
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The New Hi-Tech Underground
In the past decade, culture was longing for the nostalgic and authentic. The new Internet underground celebrates the contrary: hi-tech, artificiality and kitsch. Is it a critique of capitalism or a...
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Locating Music
«Where is Music?» The task of locating something as immaterial as sound has, thanks to the digital revolution, become more complex than ever. Sounds today are de-territorialised, revealing their...
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Island Fever: Darker Than You’d Think
This is the first rendition of 1+1, a new worldwide recording project by Norient and Sound Development designed to give audiences a look into how a track is produced. One of the first female Iranian...
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Music and Place
The relationship between music and place has a long history. This article discusses the academic discourses regarding the relationship between music and place. From the Norient book «Seismographic...
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Seismographic Sounds – the Book
The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music, sounds and music videos. Niche Music from Johannesburg to Helsinki,...
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Seismographic Sounds – das Buch
Das zweite Norient-Buch «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» führt sie ein, in eine neue Welt voller vielfältiger Musik, Sounds und Musikvideos. Herausgegeben von Theresa Beyer, Thomas...
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On Native Aliens
Sandeep Bhagwati works in various musical traditions and has roots in Asia, Europe and North America. He self-identifies as a Native Alien and claims: to feel unquestioned ties to one’s own place. From...
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Being Free in Music
«I don't have a typical day», says Palestinian singer Kamilya Jubran and laughs. In the podcast she talks about her biography, living as a musician in Europe, the power of music, and her song «Suite...
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From Bebop to K-Pop: R&B Artist Minje
The R&B musician Minje is influenced by a multitude of music styles and art forms, from Nam June Paik's video art to Chet Baker's trumpet-playing. For him, music creates a wave that is constantly...
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In the song «Nunca Tendremos Mar» the Bolivian experimental hardcore punk band Gato Diablo is negotiating with a national trauma, that is, to have lost the access to the sea in the The War of the...
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Sugarbread and Whip
The austrian artist Soap&Skin makes highly dialectic music. In her self made video with grainy black-and-white images of the song «Sugarbread» she invokes nothing less than the cleansing power of...
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Das kleine Requiem
Der Song «Sugarbread» der Gothic-Musikerin Soap&Skin alias Anja Plaschg ist eine Teenager-Tragödie. Aber auch ein Exorzismus – und Plaschg eine Besessene und Priesterin zugleich. Denn sie ahnt: Der...
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«I’m the Result of a Remix»
Hyped singer of the Arab world, co-founder of an early Lebanese indie band Soapkills and a role in a Jim Jarmusch movie. Yasmine Hamdan talks about her fascination for Asmahan Al-Atrash being the first...
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Sampling Stories Vol. 5: COOL FOR YOU
High-pitched voices, unfamiliar harmonies, rumbling and raw rhythms: We are listening to the musical output of Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist, Vika Kirchenbauer. Under the moniker COOL FOR YOU...
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Overwrite Your Mind and Body
The human body is a drilled animal. The meta-national art and music collective NON Worldwide opposes this. Their performance «The Great Disappointment» at CTM Festival aimed at decolononizing the...
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Easterndaze Video-Selection
Far from folkloristic clichés and beyond the radar of the taste-shaping music press, there are alternative music scenes thriving in Central and Eastern Europe: from electronic music and noise to the...
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