Friday, July 10, 2009  12:50 am 

DanZe XtraVaganZa

Azari & III already made one of our favourite tunes of the year with the growling sexual menace of their malfunctioning, Voguing android, machine anthem, “Hungry For The Power”, and they continue to astound us with their latest high precision dancefloor killer in the making.

Around these parts anyone who sees fit to unleash the ghosts of chicago house upon unassuming night time marauders like the E.P.A. jerk who unwittingly shuts down the Ghostbuster’s spirit containment grid and lets loose a supernatural storm of activity upon NYC, is more than fine by us. Just imagine that grizzled old corpse in the taxi driver’s seat is in fact the grizzled old corpse of Hercules about to whisk you away into the black of the night for the cocaine joyride of your life, and the glowing blue gangling monstrosity that emerges from the subway in a flurry of screams and panic is the spirit of Ralphi Rosario returned to console all the fierce, yet sad eyed bubble divas in the world. Just know that somewhere in Vancouver luminescent beams of light are being projected through the roof of a long abandoned warehouse, still strong with the smell of dancing sweat and poppers, releasing these orbs of perfect jack-house energy into the atmosphere., and that’s a very good thing.

Azari & III – Reckless (With Your Love)

Continuing on with the good vibes, and on familiar future-Argento pool party territory we find ourselves hidden behind ruby velvet curtains gazing onwards with curiosity and abject horror at a group of semi robotic, re-animated eurotrash witches, all decked out in poison sleek, vintage black Gucci, snorting red mystery powders off of slabs of pure gold engraved with an indecipherable ancient scripture as they sway and cavort and absorb the pagan party atmosphere, spines tingling, aroused by the felt presence of their High Queen’s spirit, unseen, but lingering in the air waiting to be reborn, at the kind of gathering you would expect to find something like the Antoni Maiovvi’s Carpenter sex-scene, bloodied dagger disco sounds to be on inevitable heavy rotation. Anyone who can claim to having conceived their new album as the soundtrack to a nonexistent 1983 Italian sci-fi giallo starring Barbara Cupisti and Ian McCulloch surely deserves their place there?

Antoni Maiovvi – The Chase: Part 1

It’s the Loop festival this weekend in Brighton.

As well as featuring artists like  Joakim, Feaver Ray, Telepathe, Fujiya & Miyagi, The Juan Maclean and lots of your favourite bands Loop also incorporates digital arts, this year with help from the people of onedotzero.

ondotzero’s original ICA shows were the thing to be in for more cutting edge videos. They curated the best of computer generated work when the internet still wasn’t up to streaming video,  and it was a place you could go and see stuff that was maybe only shown on MTV2’s 120minutes.

The more abstract stuff that wasn’t a commission, you’d be hard pressed to find it accessible outside a gallery show.

This years Loop audio-visual content is all programmed in conjunction with onedotzero.

So it’s looking like a nice weekend for a trip to the seaside plus some great bands and multimedia fun. See you there!

Buy tickets for the Loop Festival here.

labels >> Antoni Maiovvi, Azari & III, xxjfg

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