Simply put, the most important mashup of our era (no matter in what era you happen to be reading this). Exactly like if ‘The Breakfast Club’ was a type of soggy sandwich, and it was being luxuriously yet ironically consumed by The Breakfast Club cast.
In a word: Angstibrattilicious!
‘DJ Morgoth is an excellent mashup creator and DJ based in Germany. He runs an awesome night called Mashup Your Bootz.’
The experimental Kyiv-based avant-folk arts collective DakhaBrakha mesmerized fans at the 2009 Gogol Fest celebrating the bicentennial of the legendary Ukrainian author's birth. Here's a video playlist I've compiled of their groundbreaking performances this year --
For all their studied eclecticism & avant-garde sensibilities, the group remains steeped in the various musical traditions of their native Ukraine. Their music has been described as Ethno-Chaos, for its dark, turbulent themes and often wild syntheses of folk musics from every corner of the world. I've been into this group for awhile, and it's exciting to see recently their effortless incorporation of new media into their performances.
Check out more DakhaBrakha, and if you're in the NYC area, you can see their US premiere July 23rd at Joe's Pub.
all robotic AI must assume a kind of Frankenstein quality of dissection and reparation: the robot of the future would have no choice but to share their creators' conclusion that we humans are simple products of sensory apprehension and nano-processing -- hopelessly backward machines enslaved by our appetites and desires.
but we needn't a time machine to uncover that same assumption among us today, within the chambers of psychoanalytic and postmodern media theory: we are slaves to the whims of our mechanical brides, the exploding eyes which just can't contain themselves from taking a voyeuristic peek at newly amputated body parts.
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