That Paxahau event certainly made me homesick for the Motor City, however, this weekend NYC is full of great events...

Mr. Steve Bug, Ben Sims and the lovely Magda will be playing that clicky Techno aboard a boat on the Hudson this Sunday 8|25, compliments of Tronic Treatment. The ship boards at 7pm from Peir 40 at W. Houston and the West Side Highway. Mike and Troy provide after-party beats at Remote Lounge on Bowery.




"Picture Red Hook" is an ambitious multimedia site specific performance right here in our sleepy industrial neighborhood. [See Olivia's post from Tuesday.] It was created by choreographer Joanna Haigood, video artist Mary Ellen Strom, composer Lauren Weinger, lighting designer Jack Carpenter and set designer Wayne Campbell. Performed by the Zaccho Dance Theatre and produced by Dancing In The Streets, "Picture Red Hook" brings all these elements together on the side of the massive old Red Hook grain terminal. There's one more performance tonight at 9pm. I've gone to see it the past two nights, and it's well worth trudging out here for you Manhattanites and Willimasburgers. For those who live a bit further afield, we've documented the performance at Burnlab with photos and two short video clips.


Of course you know that Einst�rzende Neubauten is to music what Heiner M�ller was to theatre and Marcel Duchamp was to art. [Okay, that would actually be John Cage, but Blixa and co. are worthy successors.] Since they set the precedence for composing music with power tools and garage crafted devices which would make any mad scientist envious more than twenty years ago, the boys from Berlin are now redefining the way music is produced and distributed. Their next album will be created without the support of a record company, but with the support of the fans. A nominal sponsorships fee gains you behind the scenes access to the production process, exclusive downloads, and the album itself [when finished.] On Neubauten's brand new website, you can purchase the back-catalog in digital format, directly from the artists. These aren't radically new ideas, but to see a group this established simultaneously go back to indie ethics and embrace/exploit technology so comprehensively is pretty darn cool. We'll see if the Backstreet Boys and the like follow suit and ditch the support of record companies entirely.

News from the spirit world: Being friends with a liqour rep is a mixed blessing indeed. Cathryn Davis, who helped make Bombay Saphire the official beverage of industrial design, is now promoting a new super-premium vodka from Estonia called T�RI. Set to launch on September 1 with the support of *Surface magazine, T�RI features a gorgeously designed bottle and tastes splendid... for vodka. Tip top shelf stuff. Start asking for it now at your local watering hole.