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A$ap Ferg, Acid Arab live, Allah-Las, Band Of Skulls, Ben Klock, Bicep, Birdy Nam Nam, Boris Brejcha, Boys Noize, Dan Deacon, Danakil, Daniel Avery, Dave Clarke, David August, Deluxe, DJ EZ, DJ Premier &The Badder, Django Django, Etienne de Crécy presents Superdiscount 3 Live, Factory Floor, Fakear, Fat White Family, Fatima Al Qadiri, Fatima Yamaha, Floating Points live, Four Tet, Gold Panda, Gramatik, Henrik Schwarz, Ho99o9, Islam Chipsy & EEK, Jeanne Added, Kerri Chandler, King Khan & The Shrines, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Konono N°1, La Colonie de Vacances, La Femme, Lefto, Len Faki, Mac DeMarco, Maceo Plex, Maya Jane Coles, MCDE, Mobb Deep, Mr. Oizo, N’to Live Perc, Netsky LIVE, Nick Waterhouse, Nosaj Thing, Odesza, Odezenne, Oxmo Puccino, Pantha Du Prince presents The Triad, Peaches, Pixies, Poliça, PRhyme, Protomartyr, Rhye, Richie Hawtin, Rudimental, Salut c’est cool, Sigur Rós, Skepta, Spor, Stand High Patrol, STUFF., Suuns, The Prodigy, The Vaccines, Tiga live, Underworld, Wiz Khalifa, Yung Lean and many more

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Muscles are a matter of concern. After all, we all have them – some more than others, sure, but we can still wax philosophical about the

whole thing. Call them an artefact, a lifestyle, a testament to man’s transformative and

ephemeral corporeal manifestation. Or not – whatever. Fact is, you gotta flex the ones you cherish, as well as the ones you attribute. Put your triceps, hamstrings, glutes and deltoids

in a bag; add your eardrums, visual cortex and hippocampus, and have them dissolve into the one giant, pulsating appendage to be subjected to endless, ecstatic reps. Consider this month

a medley |of training. Get flexing!

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Artist: Elysia Crampton

With a challenging near-manifesto spanning geology and complex racial dynamics underpinning her latest works, let’s just say Elysia Crampton isn’t short of artistic ambition. But to place focus entirely on the surrounding concept doesn’t do her justice: newly released debut full-length American Drift stands on its own, a mind-blowing, near trans-cendent masterpiece blending Latin cumbia, Bolivian saya, tribalistic crunk and a healthy dose of DatPiff-worthy mixtape narration. After years of craft-ing sample-dependent (though no less incredible) sonic mosaics under the E+E moniker, she’s finally come into her own, and we’re reaping the benefits.

— soundcloud.com/eande

Artist: Peptalk

Having grown up in Tokyo, Los Angeles and San Juan, Shayna, Mike and Angelica of Peptalk merge their dispa-rate worlds by creating small musical islands of dreamy, exotica-inspired melodies with bird calls, synthesiz-ers and orchestral instruments. The

Brooklyn band brings an old fruit crate to their live sets, which when opened reveals a tiny jungle filled with fauna, flora and lights that is magni-fied and projected onto the walls, en-veloping the crowd in an otherworldly glow. Their debut album Islet is out on Home Assembly Records.

— soundcloud.com/peptalk_music

Magazine: Zweikommaseiben

When we first stumbled across Issue #10 of Swiss magazine Zweikom-maseiben, we were dumbfounded. Featuring in-depth interviews with the likes of M.E.S.H., Lena Willikens, Vessel, Powell and Torn Hawk, it was as though we’d found our soulmate. Someone somewhere else in the world knew exactly what we were thinking and what we’d want to read. For the Summer 2015 issue, they’ve turned their attention to another bevy of recent favourites: Beatrice Dillon, TCF, Danse Noir and Oneohtrix Point

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Contents

Woods 10

Endgame 22

Scene Report: Beijing 26

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Recommendations 11

We Visit You 14

Featured Artist 34

Books 40

Style 42

Films 46

Subbacultcha Shows 49

Overview 62

MANU CHAO LA VENTURA

EMIR KUSTURICA & THE NO SMOKING ORCHESTRA

ANOUSHKA SHANKARBIGFLO & OLILEE ‘SCRATCH’ PERRYBAKERMAT

PATTI SMITHST GERMAINDUB INCDELUXERONEODEZENNE

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Bump Festival

Since you never know where cool things are going to pop up, Kortrijk is setting the bar even higher with this month’s Bump Festival, a wonderland for graphic design buffs. With seven high-calibre speakers, including award-winning illustrator Yuko Shimizu and vision-ary creative director GMUNK, Bump promises to be one of the most inspiring and rewarding events to come roaming ’round the bend. Starts at 9am, Friday, 24 June, and ends late – we hear on a rooftop, with gin and tonics, and hope-fully lots of fanboy gushing. The potential is certainly there.

— bump-festival.be

Design: Ateliers J&J

It might have come to your attention that over the past couple of months, Brussels’ hippest places like Yeti, Mai-son du Peuple or Café Belga have seen their terraces refurbished with some

of the most minimalistic industrial designs. The metamorphosis was mas-terminded by Brussels-based Atelier J&J, a design and furniture-making workshop specialising in bent tubular steel. Located right off the canal, J&J was started by two craftsmen who wanted to offer solid, visually pleasing and accessible home furniture built from locally-sourced raw materials. If you’re looking to fill some of the space in your home while keeping the impression of depth, those guys might be the answer.

— ateliersjetj.com

Misc: Everything 8-bit

Let’s face it: not all of us were the football-playing, mid-fielding, outdoorsy nerd-bashing types. Hell, a lot of us were probably the nerds getting bashed. For us lucky outsiders: computers. And old

June Recommendations

Recent finds from our editorial team

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March Recommendations

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A N S A T Z D E R M A S C H I N E | I N W O LV E S | K A S S E T TB E R A A D G E S L A G E N | S C H N T Z L

M O O D P R I N T ( d j - s e t ) | C O L L E C T I V E N T R A N C EH A R T E D | E I L A N D | V I L L A B O T A B U S K E R S T A G E

A M Y N | T R I L L K V L T V R X / D X R D X N

computer games, regardless of your birth year, are always equal parts comforting, addictive and ultra fun. Over at 8bit.com, they’ve got it going on: PuzzleBobble, Super Mario World, Donkey Kong, Duck Hunt and enough has been said for you to forget your FitBit or whatever and do what the rest of us do: procrastinate and level up.

— 8bit.com

Music: BEA1991

Boys and girlies, meet your new all-pur-pose crush: BEA1991 is an Amsterdam-based artist, designer, possible model and definite mystery – though not for long. The latest Dev Hynes-approved act, BEA has already joined the ranks of the Solanges and FKA twigs of our hopes and dreams. A dreamy and oddly sophisti-cated brand of electropop combined with alluring yet unassuming visuals (think selfie sticks in a fog cloud), this is one to

claim to know before she makes it to the big time. And the wait will be short, dear Subba readers! Watch this space.

— bea1991.info

Misc: Breadfacing

Picture this: an Asian girl, by all standards hella cute and wearing funky make-up and a glittery/polka-dotty/(insert enviable print here) top, sits before a plate of bread and briefly looks at it before smashing her face into it. Yes, friends, this is a thing, and it’s freaking amazing. No bread is safe from this young one’s face: burger buns, baguettes, peasant loaves, even muffins get the full frontal treatment from this unnamed smoosher. At the time of writing, she’s posted 44 videos on her 62k follower-wide Instagram. You’re wasting your time reading about this; go and live the smoosh.

— instagram.com/breadfaceblog


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OAKTREE / SEIREN / THE BUDOS BAND POMRAD / THE GERMANS

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Tipi Bookshop

One that’s been on our radar for a while: the current Mecca of photo bookshops in Brussels is on Munthofstraat, it’s called Tipi and it’s boss. Focusing mainly on independent and self-published titles, their range and scope is impressive, and each visit is full of discoveries and surprises. Don’t be put off by the hefty price tags: the appreciation for crafts-manship is palpable in their selection, where the accent is not only on content but on presentation of publications that are closer to artefacts than books. Marta Bisbal’s gorgeous zine/film reel Kosmos is a fitting example. An unmissable visit next time Saint Gilles finds you, as it is prone to do.

— tipi-bookshop.be

Art: Brock Davis

Do a search on this guy and first thing you’ll find is that he was part of Banksy’s infamous Dismaland project last summer. Search a little further and it’ll become abundantly clear that Brock Davis is truly an artist of our times. Clever, cheeky, completely aloof yet piercingly observant, Davis has no single defining medium or style, apart from his trade-mark skewed worldview. A cucumber is clearly a killer whale. Stonehenge is made of Rice Krispies. Tree houses can be built on broccoli. It all makes sense the way he presents it, and it’s apt that one of his first exhibition spaces was his family fridge. Find him on social media, which, true to form, he pwns.

— itistheworldthatmadeyousmall.com


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Name: Eduardo Alexis García Duarte Age: 1990 - XZodiac Sign: Virgo

Tell us, what do you do in life?I am a chemistry student (biochemistry)-SLASH-cook (job) -SLASH-alternative bouncer (Hand of the King at Deep in House)-SLASH-strongman (passion)-SLASH-Rastafari chilling bass-banging swagger philos-opher mthfckr (spare time)-SLASH.

What do you like best about your place?The peaceful terrace: I can chill there, train hard or use it to observe the moon and stars at night or lie in bed under the sun like a cat.

What kind of music are you listening to at the moment?

I might wake up and hear fucking Adele or Rihanna on the radio, maybe even sing along. Then I’ll hit the show-er with some serious Freddie Gibbs. In the tram, I’ll be banging to seshol-lowaterboyz/TeamSESH/$uicideboy$/sadboys. In the kitchen, I’ll put on something random like Bones or Theo Parrish... I also like being continuous-ly bombarded by my musician friends! Shout-outs to my brotha Ernesto, aka Bear Bones Lay Low; friends Mike, Hugo and Thibault, aka Weird Dust, Regis Turner and TG Gondard. Shout outs to Viper Pit, to Tav Exotic; to

Fab, aka Le Motel; to my homies Kaf-im and Chris Ferreira; to Slice of Pie and Vaste Choses. MAKE SOME NOISE *HORNS* DOGS BARKING* BASSSS

What’s your favourite pastime?Googling good tutorials on any mar-tial-art technique imaginable, from delivering the perfect headbutt and pulling out nice armbars/armlocks (there’s a difference) to any fortify-ing exercise.

What does an ideal lazy Sunday look like for you?

If ‘lazy Sunday’ was a recipe, these would be the ingredients: Find the highest ratio of good sleep/early wake-up you can at your local store and if they have any form of physi-cal activity (besides sex, of course) go for it. If it’s in season, get the full workout. Add generous amounts of tastiness here and there through the process. Find all the laughs possible: ask your loved ones or Mary to give you a hand. Two keys for a success-ful recipe: the more loving, the tast-ier and the more chilling, the better you’ll digest.

Any guilty pleasures?You don’t wanna go there.

Every month we visit a Subbacultcha member’s place. If you want us to visit you, please send an email to [email protected]

We Visit YouPhoto by Tina Herbots

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I was just listening to your new record. The production is a bit different. This is the first record made entirely in a studio setting, right?

Yep. Yeah, we recorded it at a studio in Greenpoint in Brooklyn. The last record, we recorded probably about 85% of it in a studio, but there were a couple of home-recorded elements, but this one was complete-ly recorded at this studio Thump, in Greenpoint.

Woods, the psych-rock folk band formed by Jeremy and Jarvis in Brooklyn back in 2005, has a maturity and experience within the music scene that can be inspiring for any young art-ists taking their first few steps into the industry. Jeremy, lead singer and guitarist, took us for a stroll down the streets of Greenpoint, showed us his local pub and apartment, while we chatted about the early years of the band and how the music scene has evolved since then

Woods

Interview by Sasha Ermakov Photos by Richard Perez, shot in Brooklyn

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How did that feel?

Oh, it felt great. The place is kind of a studio in a small building, almost like an apartment building. It’s got a very at-home kind of feel.

What made you decide to record this particular album entirely in a studio?

I guess we were sort of trying new things. We’ve basically done every-thing ourselves for the last eight records, and Jarvis, who does most of the production, has been working at Thump on some other projects. We’re just getting more comfortable in that situation, and they have much better gear than we do at home. It’s the next step, the next logi-cal evolution to the sound that we’re going for.

What have you learned in the past ten years making these records?

Well, I guess the constant is me and Jarvis. We’re so good at work-ing together that we bounce ideas off each other, in this really great way where we’re kind of similar, you know? So I guess we’ve managed to sort of fine tune our relationship recording and writing together, to the point where it’s just super easy, and we work really fast and efficient-ly together. Also, for the last two records we’ve had the same people playing and touring, and so for this new one the band has brought into the studio a sound that’s more similar to what we do live.

Has the music scene changed since your first record?

Yeah, it’s quite different now. I feel a bit remote from it. I guess when we started there were a lot more DIY venues and bands. Sometimes we would play a couple of times a week, and there were multiple venues where you could just set up these DIY shows pretty easily. Nowadays, there aren’t many spaces like that any more, it’s, you know, kind of a proper venue

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scene. Now we only play New York a certain amount of times just based on touring schedules and playing larger venues and stuff like that. So, I guess the scene has changed, but I’m not really sure what happened. I guess the biggest thing is that a lot of the DIY venues have closed. Gentrification hap-pened fast, and it definitely pushed out a lot of these smaller venues that can’t pay the rent any more. I don’t know if there’s a new group of younger bands, kind of coming up like we did, around 2005-’06, I’m like totally out of it, so I don’t see it any more.

Do you miss those DIY venues?

I do, I miss being able to go down and check out a new and exciting band. I kinda feel like that’s sort of lost right now. I know that there are places, but I’ve just been so busy with other things that I haven’t been able to check them out. But I miss the sense of community that there once was around that time.

What’s one of your best memories of playing with Woods?

Hmmm wow. There’s been a lot… but let’s see… I guess some of the ear-ly shows. Around 2009, we played at SXSW and I did a Woodsist showcase, at this place called Mrs. B’s, and that was just like this giant fun experience where we had all these really good bands playing and thousands of people showed up. I would say it’s the last time that I remember SXSW being fun. I

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‘To my past self I guess I would say, “Slow down a bit and take a little more

time to think about writing and recording, and not to rush to release things”’

Woods

haven’t been in years, but I think it sort of changed a little bit, and became more corporate and more sterile. Before it was just this wild fun time, and I’m not sure we’ll experience that again.

It was around that time, where there were all these really good bands coming out of Brooklyn and California. We all sort of knew each other and everybody had basically just put out their first record and had started to get attention from the music media. So it all sort of fit at this one point, and that particular show was a good example of how it was growing so fast.

What advice would you give your past self?

Ah, to my past self I guess I would say, ‘Slow down a bit and take a lit-tle more time to think about writing and recording, and not to rush things out.’

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Woods plays DOK (Democrazy), Ghent on 23 June. The show is free for members!

For the past year, the HE4RTBROKEN parties have been introducing Brussels’ nightgoers to a revolutionary underground club scene that has some of its roots in the south-east of London. Among these south of the Thames revolution-aries, there is ENDGAME, who gives his own take on reggaeton, applying dark beats and soundscapes to create a twisted atmosphere. In preparation for his gig in Brussels this month, we decided to explore the older and lesser-known areas of The Barbican together, while we discussed his relationship with clubs and the importance of staying true to yourself

Endgame

Interview by Liyo Gong Photos by Laurence Von Thomas, shot in London

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You’re quite proactive in London’s progressive club scene – with your show on NTS Radio but also through the Bala Club and Endless nights. What’s your relation to the club?

I see the club as a space to cut loose and be yourself. My friends and I felt there wasn’t anything for us, so we built it ourselves. It’s a place for outsid-ers to feel at home, for people that feel that they don’t belong elsewhere.

The NTS Radio show is the same in a way. It’s like a place for music that doesn’t fit in anywhere. We’ve never cared if anyone from the industry comes or talks about it. It’s for us first. It’s about unity and solidarity.

How does it influence you as a producer, and as a DJ?

It’s encouraging me to stay true to what I believe in.

What’s your club culture DNA?

I was really into hardcore and metal as a teenager and I started going to clubs and grime raves when I was about 17. I was always attracted to the energy and that people went there to lose themselves and escape from their daily lives. This has really influenced my approach to making music and DJ-ing. I want people to feel free.

How would you describe London’s club scene right now?

Kinda peak. There are very few good raves and venues. You really have to do your own thing and find your own space.

You’ll be playing with Uli-K and Mechatok here in Brussels. How did you meet them?

I met Uli-K and Kamixlo some years ago at a party that Lexxi was organising.

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Endgame

We clicked immediately and realised we had a lot of the same influences and ideas, and we’ve been really close friends ever since. I’ve only met Me-chatok kinda recently, but yeah he’s definitely a kindred spirit, and one of the best producers and DJs I know!

You’re also involved a great deal in fashion and arts, I’m thinking of your collaborations with Cottweiler and Primitive. Is there a common statement that you find with music?

Cottweiler and Primitive have been close friends for years, and yeah I don’t see any distinction between collaborating musically and visually. They ap-proach creative expression in the same way; that is, pure and unfiltered. They’re also really interested in a kind of utopian vision of the future that I find really inspiring

How do you feel about the creative industry today in London? How do un-derground artists or musicians survive the economic situation?

It’s super difficult, you really have to do everything for yourself, hold it down, put in work and make money where you can. But London is always worth the struggle to me, it gives me life.

ENDGAME plays HE4RTBROKEN at Univer-sal Club, Brussels on 25 June. The show is free for members!

‘You really have to do everything for yourself, hold it down, put in work and

make money where you can’

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Scene ReportBeijing

Words by Joshua Frank Photos shot in Beijing, China by Joshua Frank

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I was born in Montreal, but have actually spent more time cumulatively in Beijing than any other city. Hot & Cold, too, has shifted between Beijing, Montreal, Toronto, New York, New Delhi and Taipei. We’ve released mu-sic on our own collective label, Rose Mansion Analog, as well as Beijing’s Genjing Records and US labels Night People and Moniker Records. Our lat-est record is a split 7” with another brother band from Florida, Tonstartss-bandht. I also play in two other Beijing duos, the percussive bass and gui-tar group 工工工 (Gong Gong Gong) and electronic project JDK-X.

Beijing is the closest thing I’ve experienced to home, and the only place I’ve really engaged with in a meaningful way while growing up. It’s also the harshest, most inhospitable place I’ve ever lived in – hot summers, cold winters, smog. The boulevards were built for military parades rather than pedestrians, and old buildings are torn down and refigured as new replicas of traditional architecture.

The first show Hot & Cold played at an actual music venue was in Bei-jing in 2006. It was at D-22, a seminal bar that was the spiritual home to a new wave of rock, punk and experimental groups from 2005 until it closed in 2011. Our duo began as a no wave-inspired noise band, with smashing

Scene Report — Beijing

Always been curious about the music scene in other cities outside your own little cocoon? We assumed you were! So we feed your hunger for insights and secrets in the Scene Report. This month we talked with Joshua Frank, a musician and filmmaker, who grew up in Beijing and lives there currently. He plays bass and synthe-sizer in Hot & Cold with his brother, Simon


gongs and shouting through megaphones, and gradually warped from that into post-punk, transnational blues and barebones psychedelic electronic music. I think we would still consider ourselves a band born out of Beijing.

Beijing’s reputation tends to be one of a rock music city – raw, unin-hibited and tough – which stems from its urban environment and climate. Shanghai is more polished, with greater emphasis on electronic music and DJs. There’s interaction between the cities’ scenes, but both are respected for different styles of music, and attract different musicians and audiences.

There’s a narrative in a lot of international reporting on Chinese music, which goes, ‘Look at these Chinese punk-rockers opposing Communist rule!’ In reality, there aren’t many bands that have an explicitly anti-gov-ernment message, and the few that do, honestly, don’t make very inter-esting-sounding music. Actually, the most threatening thing that a band or producer can accomplish is to build a grassroots community. That’s what arouses government suspicion, however unjustified it seems.

The positive response to a lot of music venues facing government pres-sure is that more alternative spaces are hosting performances, which has had an interesting effect on the atmosphere of music events, and I think made them feel friendlier in a scene where people are sometimes too shy to strike up conversation.

The weekly experimental music series and label Zoomin Night emerged out of the D-22 scene in 2009. When D-22’s younger sibling, XP, closed down last year, Zhu Wenbo, the organiser of Zoomin Night, started host-ing shows in an underpass beside the airport expressway near his apart-ment. By playing at the mouth of the tunnel and turning your speaker or

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‘Beijing’s reputation tends to be one of a rock music city – raw, uninhibited and tough’

instrument in different directions, you can alter how sounds reverberate through the space. The audience sits outside the tunnel, on a stairway that forms an auditorium-like semicircle.

Lately, more shows have been happening at fRUITYSPACE, a stageless venue and mini-record store in a basement underneath a hotpot restau-rant near the National Art Gallery. Because of noise complaints from neigh-bours, most performances are matinee shows. It makes for a good week-end afternoon, and everyone usually goes out to eat together afterwards.

At the start of this year, my brother Simon, my band-mate Tom Ng from 工工工 and I organised a mini-festival in Beijing. It was scheduled at Aotu, an improbable gallery and hair salon tucked in a grimy alley behind a sub-way station, but we had to change venues at the last minute. We ended up switching the location to one of our favourite bars, SOS, which had never hosted a performance before. It’s a small spot run by a couple; free jazz saxophist Wang Ziheng and drummer Zhou Qi. There’s a bar counter on one side, a fridge full of beer on the other, and a massive foam Japanese tengu mask stuck to the ceiling with its nose hanging dangerously close to people’s heads. People DJ music off their phones, and on a good night the tables are covered in empty bot-tles and sunflower seed shells.

That’s how I’d say you should spend a good night in Beijing: get some hotpot with friends and bring your own bottle of whiskey, go see a show in an ad-hoc venue, hang out on an alley rooftop, and wan-der in the smog.


Essentials

Labels: Genjing Records, Maybe Mars, Nasty Wizard, Sinotronics, Zoomin Night

Promoters and events: Antidote, Do Hits, Miji, Pangbianr, Subjam, Zoomin Night

Venues: Aotu Studio, Dada, fRUITYSPACE, SOS, What Bar

Music: Alpine Decline, Bu Zai Hua Xia, Chui Wan, Charm, Earsnail, Hot & Cold, Li Jianhong, Meng-han, Wang Ziheng, Wenliang, 工工工

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We met up with Bert Jacobs in his new atelier in Brussels, an old abandoned warehouse, soon to be demolished, date unknown. Party remnants

from last week linger here and there, but mostly it’s naked and ready to be consumed. Over a

beer we had a chat about art installations and how thinking less can give you more

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Interview by Valerie Steenhaut Photos shot by Tiny Geeroms at the artist’s studio in Brussels

Bert Jacobs

Wow. I can see why you like this place.Yeah, there are endless possibili-

ties. There’s no one to take into ac-count, no one to justify to. It’s a place for collectiveness; a place where we can invite people to, where we can organise events, exchange ideas. I feel like improvising and building here. The company left loads of objects, there’s wood, space, mirrors… It feels like a huge playground.

Do you collect a lot?I used to. In the beginning my work

could come into existence just by col-lecting and sorting materials or ob-jects. When I lived in Ghent, my friends and I organised events and exhibitions in my house. It was like a cabinet of curiosities. Every time we changed the scenography. Through that organic process of experimenting with space and art we ended up with installations.

How do you work nowadays?Well, I was thinking about my cre-

ative process earlier, and how to ex-plain it, so I wrote down some stuff [laughs]. You see, in general I work pretty intuitively, very in the moment. That’s why my work differs greatly de-pending on the moment or the lo-cation. Every piece of work is like a story or a memory. These can be of something tangible or of a situation

– it doesn’t matter – but my art is mostly about creating images.

Are installations about creating an im-age as well?

Yes, but also creating an expe-rience. I was living in Norway for a while, and there I saw lots of land-slides in the forest. In nature, when something is unstable, it breaks down. But in its fall it always finds stability again. So I recreated what I saw there in a temporary installation. I collected wood, dried it, piled it up and it end-ed up looking like a big waterfall of wood. It sculptured itself until finding stability. In the installation, I try to re-live and understand different aspects of my experience.

I like that kind of dialogue between coincidence and meaning. Not in a ‘meant to be’ kind of way, but more like playing with the ambivalence be-tween control and letting go, chaos and order. I try not to think about the why and how too much; to be as little conscious about the creative process as possible. It’s thoughts that catch me or things I encounter that initiate creativity, and the less I think about it the more the result pleases me.

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I like the dialogue between coincidence and meaning — the ambivalence between control

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BooksText by Gabriela González. Artwork by Michael Biggs.

There is a great introductory documentary about Mœbius, that mythi-cal cartoonist and writer without whom today’s sci-fi vernacular would be far less colourful and psychotic. In it, Alejandro Jodorowsky, fre-quent co-conspirator in dementedness, speaks with the usual cryptic, whimsical tone about their joint collaborations. The best-known is the Dune that never was. An esoteric dystopia, heavy on symbolism to the point of inanity yet not without a healthy undercurrent of satire; that’s what the so-called Jodoverse of Mœbius and Jodorowsky has in store for us. While it never materialised as a film, the Jodoverse can be fully appreciated in the graphic novel series The Incal.

Originally printed in French back in the ’80s, it’s been translated and reprinted numerous times, the most recent English edition published by Humanoids – supposedly with the nudity censored but with plenty of boobs in my copy. It must be said, the story is full-on insane, filled with pyramidal structures, talking pterodactyls and cosmic rites of worship for the elusive Light Incal sought after by cops, cults and bird-like aliens alike. The characters are, of course, modelled after cards of the Tarot. The hero, John DiFool, should be a clear indicator of what’s to come. The artwork is mind-blowing and perfectly apt to whatever Jodorowsky’s vision of the day was, conveying through mesmerisingly complex structures and fluidly interplaying elements the magnitude of the seer’s ambitions. Indeed, the lack of a tangible plot is irrelevant to the hold of this novel: like the Incal itself, its power is in its substance, in its subtle, inescapable grip.

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Filmsby Sabzian

Dissent! Homeland: Iraq Year Zero Abbas Fahdel, 2015 (334’)

‘“With this film I wanted to give a face to the Iraqi people.” What does it mean to give a face to a people? How can cinema accomplish this trying task? Twenty-five years ago, while commenting on the cover-age of the Persian Gulf War, Serge Daney remarked that one crucial element was missing: the eyes of the other. This was a conflict […] that was basically a faceoff between two ways of not making an image, as both camps pulled back to their own “visual,” consisting of nothing but a calculated flow of clichés and stereotypes which no longer testify to anything “other.” Shots without reverse shot, visualizations without information, winners without losers: nothing but an optical verifica-tion of power. In this sphere of pure signalization, nothing resists any longer.’ (Stoffel Debuysere)

The screening will be followed by a talk with director Abbas Fahdel. Bozar Cinema, Brussels, 11 June, 13.00

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Nicolas Humbert & Werner Penzel Programme

Humbert and Penzel’s oeuvre runs as an unexpected journey past strange countries, sometimes far away and sometimes very close by, in the here and now. They point their camera at the daily lives of men and women whose principal language consists of gestures and of breathing. Here, filming means looking

and listening, sharing the moment, restoring it with even more life, for us to discover the darkness of the cinema. Films and concerts in the presence of the directors.

Cinema Nova, Brussels 9-12 June

Landscape in the Mist Theo Angelopoulos, 1988

‘This last scene of “Landscape in the Mist” was a revelation for me. It is a unique […] moment, which surprised me, because I had always thought of the Greek tradition as exclusively one of stones, rocks, and gods. […] I saw in that scene a challenge to every inhibition and authority. This is why I would use

Bergman’s words to say that the goal of cinema is to bring the dream back into our life, to help us confront life’s difficulties.’ (Dusan Makavejev)

Cinema Zuid, Antwerp, 14 June, 20.00

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DiNSDAG 9 JULISUMAC (vs) + MAMMIFER (vs) + Janne Westerlund* (vs) (*Pharaoh Overlord, Circle)

Film: Eau Zoo02 October - Cinema Zuid,

Antwerp18.00 | €5 | Free for members

Emilie Verhamme is a promising young director. Her first full-length

was screened at several movie fes-tivals. Lou and Martin are adoles-cents living on an island with their overprotective parents, trying to escape. Against a backdrop of

landscapes beaten by the wind, the movie flirts with a certain anticipa-tion cinema, proves to be a Shake-spearean drama and becomes a captivating, peculiar tale.

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GNAR TAPES LABEL NIGHT WHITE FANG, MIND RAYS, THE FUTURE DEAD08.06 - DOK

THE VIOLENT HUSBANDS CD-RELEASE08.06 - DOK

JETT REBEL, RHEA11.06 - CHARLATAN

YEASAYER, FACES ON TV12.06 - HANDELSBEURS

DESTROYER, RYLEY WALKER16.06 - DOK

WOODS23.06 - DOK

BARBAARD02.07 - DOK

LOVELY DAYSTADT09.07 - DOK

OBLIVIANS26.07 - DOK

DOK BEACH PARTY06.08 - DOK

KEVIN MORBY26.08 - DOK

SHARON ROBINSON06.09 & 07.09 - MINARD

BIG NEXT WEEKENDRHEINZAND, KIKAGAKU MOYO, EXPLODED VIEW03.09 - DOK

BIG NEXT WEEKENDLANY, COCAINE PISS,ROBBING MILLIONS, AMANDA BERGMAN, WHISPERING SONS04.09 - DOK

GHENT SOUND SYSTEM ACADEMY10.09 - DOK

DE BELOFTEN17.09 - SINT-BAAFSWEIDE

HONG KONG DONG25.09 - DOK

OBIE TRICE07.10 - VOORUIT

LEFTO PRESENTS MADE IN BELGIUM09.10 - VOORUIT

BOMBINO29.10 - DE CENTRALE

AUTECHRE30.10 - VOORUIT

K’S CHOICE: THE BACKPACK SESSIONS10.11 - HANDELSBEURS

THE CAT EMPIRE, TINPAN ORANGE11.11 - VOORUIT

MURA MASA15.11 - VOORUIT

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Expo: Wendy Morris

Until 26 June - Argos, Brusselsvarious | €5 | Free for members

Wendy Morris’s initial project was to create a Silva Rerum – a multi-generational chronicle recording the memoirs of a family and its tradition – to retrace the history of her ancestors who left Europe to settle in South Africa in or-der to escape religious persecu-tion. As she travelled from France to the Netherlands, following her family trail, she kept traces of her quest with letters and a dia-ry recording her impressions and discoveries. It led to a multidi-mensional work reflecting on mi-gration, persecution and identity.

Expo: Pies in the SkiesUntil 26 June - Argos, Brusselsvarious | €5 | Free for members

Pies in the Skies compiles works from Argos collections that take us back to the roots of cinema, traditional Belgian surrealism and psychological experiments. It dis-plays works in different media by contemporary artists such as Heine Adval, Charley Case, Mes-sieurs Felmotte and Ken Koblans. They all relate to the represen-tation of dreams and the inter-pretation of our subconscious with one common goal: to escape from our everyday lives.

Cate Le Bon01 June - De Kreun, Kortrijk

20.00 | €15 | Free for members

Cate Le Bon hasn’t been rest-ing over the past couple of years, forming DRINKS with White Fence’s

On the following pages you’ll find all of this month’s Subbacultcha events. You can buy a ticket

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GNAR TAPES LABEL NIGHT WHITE FANG, MIND RAYS, THE FUTURE DEAD08.06 - DOK

THE VIOLENT HUSBANDS CD-RELEASE08.06 - DOK

JETT REBEL, RHEA11.06 - CHARLATAN

YEASAYER, FACES ON TV12.06 - HANDELSBEURS

DESTROYER, RYLEY WALKER16.06 - DOK

WOODS23.06 - DOK

BARBAARD02.07 - DOK

LOVELY DAYSTADT09.07 - DOK

OBLIVIANS26.07 - DOK

DOK BEACH PARTY06.08 - DOK

KEVIN MORBY26.08 - DOK

SHARON ROBINSON06.09 & 07.09 - MINARD

BIG NEXT WEEKENDRHEINZAND, KIKAGAKU MOYO, EXPLODED VIEW03.09 - DOK

BIG NEXT WEEKENDLANY, COCAINE PISS,ROBBING MILLIONS, AMANDA BERGMAN, WHISPERING SONS04.09 - DOK

GHENT SOUND SYSTEM ACADEMY10.09 - DOK

DE BELOFTEN17.09 - SINT-BAAFSWEIDE

HONG KONG DONG25.09 - DOK

OBIE TRICE07.10 - VOORUIT

LEFTO PRESENTS MADE IN BELGIUM09.10 - VOORUIT

BOMBINO29.10 - DE CENTRALE

AUTECHRE30.10 - VOORUIT

K’S CHOICE: THE BACKPACK SESSIONS10.11 - HANDELSBEURS

THE CAT EMPIRE, TINPAN ORANGE11.11 - VOORUIT

MURA MASA15.11 - VOORUIT

FUTURISTIC04.12 - CHARLATAN

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Tim Presley and working with Per-fume Genius and Gruff Rhys. She’ll premiere her new album, Crab Day, in an intimate show alongside Blackie & The Oohoos.

Jozef van Wissem + Christina Vantzou

03 June - Kino Corso Sankt Vith (Meakusma & arsVith), Liège

20.00 | €14 | Free for members

In his book Retromania, music crit-ic Simon Reynolds argued that cur-rent pop culture is a constant re-cycling of past musical tropes, a habit that will eventually lead to its demise. While you couldn’t get more retro than playing a medieval instrument such as the lute, Jozef van Wissem has both feet firmly planted in the present and his gaze towards the future. His arrange-ments place the morphed tones of this instrument amidst swirling gui-tar drones. This results in bewitch-ing music, which soundtracked Jim Jarmusch’s vampire flick Only Lov-ers Left Alive. In Corso Sankt Vith, he will provide live music to the si-lent film Partir to Live.

Film: Neon Bull

03 June - Cinema Zuid, Antwerp18.00 | €5 | Free for members

Iremar works at the Vaquejadas, a form of rodeo, practiced in the north-east of Brazil, in which two men on horseback try to bring a bull down by grabbing its tail. De-spite fitting naturally in the macho world of the Vaqueiros, Iremar is a calm and lonely man and aspires to be a fashion designer. Swing-ing in his hammock in the back of the truck of his travelling company, he dreams of pattern cuts and soft fabrics. Director of photography Diego García captures these rever-ies exquisitely and contrasts them with the harsh world of tradition-al Brazilian rodeo. No wonder the film earned the Venice Horizons Award – Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival this summer.

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#nuits16: Empress Of

07 June - Botanique, Brussels20.00 | €18 | Free for members

Empress Of, or Lorely Rodriguez, is a true solo artist. With the ex-ception of a couple of drum parts, she was in charge of the writing, performing, producing and en-gineering of each song on her new album. In her music, Rodri-guez combines vulnerability with strength. Her personal, and some-times critical, lyrics speak to many of us. The strong and upbeat mu-sic counters the honest lyrics, pre-venting the recalled memories from becoming dramatic recollec-tions. After sadness and confusion often comes euphoria.

The Abigails + Alpha Whale

12 June - Charlatan (Purple Pan-da), Ghent

20.00 I €7 I Free for members

Low-paced and enveloped in ciga-rette smoke and beer fumes, this peerless LA-based band revives blues and country-influenced mu-sic in charmingly nonchalant man-ner. Sheltered in the lowest tones of frontman Warren Thomas’s vo-cal range and pushed by his cre-ative hands, The Abigails offers an authentic piece of everyone’s soul with a big chunk of War-ren’s fucked-upness in it. Telling narcotic-driven stories and rais-ing grotesque human questions, the Americans rove in lands where Oostende support act Alpha Whale also have comfortable roots.

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OUT LOUD!: Psychic Ills + White Hills + NiXiE + Samowar

17 June - Beursschouwburg,Brussels

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A few days before their Europe-an tour kicks in, New York’s Psy-chic Ills will be releasing Inner Journey Out, the band’s fifth al-bum and third on the amazing Sa-cred Bones Records. The Ills have been experimenting with psyche-delic music since 2003, initially producing home electronic-cen-tered sounds to evolve today into a psych-rock band inspired by country, gospel and blues. Start-ing around the same year, the White Hills have been produc-ing a sound that holds elements of stoner, experimental and krau-trock music over an uncountable

amount of releases (about 40!). You got it, OUT LOUD! is shooting for an evening of mind daze.

Meet the author: Richard McGuire

17 June - Passa Porta, Brussels20.00 I €7 I Free for members

The view of a corner of a room has usually only the mere banal-ity of things at a given time to of-fer. From a chronological and lin-ear perspective, though, that same geographical space is a col-lection of memories, clues and emotions referring to a certain epoch and its specificities. With Here, a six-page comic published in 1989 in the anthological RAW, New Jersey-born Richard Mc-Guire creates a memorable soci-etal piece of work depicting life at the present time and going all the way back to prehistory and sees his career take an incredi-bly successful turn. Multi-instru-mentalist of the graphic arts, Mc-Guire is also an illustrator, a video animator, a book author and... a bass player.

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Woods

23 June - DOK (Democrazy), Ghent


One minute into City Sun Eater in the River of Light, the latest al-bum by Californian outfit Woods, you are in for a surprise. While the high falsetto of singer Jeremy Earl still curls its way around a pleasant groove, a reggae beat spins in the background and island horns bop around the guitars. Their sound al-ways evoked images of orange Cal-ifornian sunsets, so the blend of psych-folk and tropical sounds they attempt on their eighth album sounds completely natural. Don’t forget your sunglasses when you go see them at DOK.

Film: Star Wars Rip-offs double bill

24 June - Cinematek, Brussels19.30 | €4 | Free for members

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, George Lucas made the most successful sci-fi saga of all times and a thousand blatant rip-offs followed in his wake. Two of these Star Wars-ploitation flicks, Starcrash by Luigi Cozzi and Bat-tle Beyond the Stars by Jimmy T Murakami, will be screened in the Cinametek. With an average IMDB score of 4.5 you know what to ex-pect: pure unfiltered guilty plea-sure. These movies are packed full of cardboard spaceships, badly made-up meanies and cheeky cleavage.

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Party: HE4RTBROKEN with Uli K + Endgame

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25 June - Universal Club, Brussels23.00 I €8 I Free for members

Setting alight the club scene with their downtempo, hypnotic com-positions, good buddies Uli K and Endgame from London and Me-chatok from Berlin are taking the reins of a party where the ambient heat should surpass that of a clas-sic Belgian summer night. If you’re looking for dreamy, tear-drop-ping melodies, vocalist and pro-ducer Uli K will be your catch, while Endgame will revive your obscure side with his rowdy reggaeton-like beats. Finally, Mechatok, mem-ber of the Staycore collective and more famous for his production

works like with Uli K’s ‘Fix Up’, will keep you on your toes by touching the rougher sides of dance music.

Common Eider, King Eider + Gabriel Saloman + Brahmen

Raag29 June - Het Bos, Antwerp


Common Eider, King Eider sound like amateur ornithologists gone full-blown Wicca. While the bird species in the band name are some of the most colourful feathered friends you can spot in the Northern Hemisphere – think ducks dressed for the Rio carnival – the music that the band pro-duces is stocked with gentle, dark drones and disembodied voices, with monochrome nature infus-ing every note and every pause. Headphone fodder for your next owl-spotting trip, if you’re into that kind of thing. Introductory vibrations are courtesy of Gabri-el Saloman, former Yellow Swans member, and Hare Akedod-sign-ee Brahmen Raag.

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The Shivas + The Black Cult

30 June - Madame Moustache, Brussels


In this day and age, garages have become almost mythical plac-es. Beside being the spot where some of the most well-known Sili-con Valley companies were start-ed, garages everywhere breed enjoyable garage punk bands like they’re rabbits on the first day of spring. The twangy, fast music of the Shivas echos The Surfaris, if they made music for line-ups of zombie surfers on spots in the Bermuda Triangle. Their Gron-inger garage twins, The Black Cult, sound surprisingly less cult-ish,

and more like a Dutchie slacker version of Fidlar or Ty Segall.

Theatre: Aufstieg Und fall der Stadt

Mahagonny01 July - Opera, Antwerp

20.00 I €TBA I Free for members

‘For If we don’t find the next whis-key bar, I tell you we must die’. The lizard king’s rendition of these words is best known, but the song is actually part of the op-era-meets-cabaret ‘Aufstieg Und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny’. Centre stage in this libretto are three fu-gitives who found a pleasure town in a desolate no man’s land. Sharks from all over flock to the bait and the three fugitives profit exces-sively from their weaknesses, un-til the town becomes a living hell. The flamboyant production by Ca-lixto Bieito in Opera Vlaanderen is as illustrious as the original written by German composer Kurt Wei-ll. Members, reservations need to be made before Thursday, 30 June. Send an email to kasper-jan@ subbacultcha.be if you want to come.

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Expo: Pies in the SkiesUntil 26 June Argos, Brusselsvarious | €5 | Free for members

Expo: Wendy MorrisUntil 26 JuneArgos, Brussels11.00 | €5 | Free for members

Cate Le Bon01 JuneDe Kreun, Kortrijk20.00 | €15 | Free for members

Jozef van Wissem + Christina Vantzou03 June Kino Corso Sankt Vith (Meakusma & arsVith), Liège20.00 | €14 | Free for members

Film: Neon Bull03 JuneCinema Zuid, Antwerp18.00 | €5 | Free for members

#nuits16: Empress Of07 JuneBotanique, Brussels20.00 | €18 | Free for members

The Abigails + Alpha Whale12 JuneCharlatan (Purple Panda), Ghent20.00 I €7 I Free for members

Meet the author: Richard McGuire17 JunePassa Porta, Brussels20.00 I €7 I Free for members

Woods23 JuneDOK (Democrazy), Ghent19.30 I €17 I Free for members

Film: Star Wars Rip-offs double bill24 JuneCinematek, Brussels19.30 | €4 | Free for members

Party: Heartbroken with Uli K + Endgame + Mechatok25 JuneUniversal Club, Brussels23.00 I €8 I Free for members

Common Eider, King Eider + Gabriel Saloman + Brahmen Raag29 JuneHet Bos, Antwerp20.00 I €8 I Free for members

The Shivas + The Black Cult30 JuneMadame Moustache, Brussels20.00 I €8 I Free for members

Theatre: Aufstieg Und fall der Stadt Mahagonny01 JulyOpera, Antwerp20.00 I €TBA I Free for members

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