Double Vision Presents Cabaret Voltaire DVD release on The Grey Area/Mute Oct. 4th in the UK, and Oct. 5 in North America.

On its original release in 1982, "Double Vision Presents Cabaret Voltaire" was one of the first independent long form videos ever made and features fourteen visual representations of Cabaret Voltaire tracks including 'Nag Nag Nag', 'Obsession' and 'Diskono'.

The communications company Double Vision was founded by Cabaret Voltaire and Paul Smith in 1982, initially as a vehicle for this particular release but also with a view to releasing affordable music based video for a fraction of the price.

Further releases included Throbbing Gristle, Derek Jarman, The Residents, Einsturzende Neubauten, Chris and Cosey (cti), 23 Skidoo, Tuxedomoon and many others. To help finance and compliment the video releases, records by Cabaret Voltaire, Chakk, Lydia Lunch, Arto Lindsay, Clock dva, The Hafler Trio and Eric Random helped to turn it into a forward thinking record label which organised various audio visual events and club nights around England. The label continued throughout the 80's and left behind an interesting legacy of experimental visual arts and music.

Also to be released by Mute in October, Laibach Anthems, a special 2CD hardbook package featuring the best of Laibach's anthemic songs, previously unreleased material and a 40 page booklet containing paintings, photographs and writing on the band by Alexei Monroe. A DVD is scheduled for release later in the month, and Laibach will tour North America in November for the first time in more than six years. Check here for dates.

+ a flurry of other Mute releases here.

976 tonight at Lit [downstairs]: italo, elektro and nu romantique with Katya Casio and Inform3r of Hong Kong Counterfeit, Chupacabras and your hosts Gibby Miller and Dave Elliott.

Lit is at 93 2nd Avenue between 5th and 6th, New York City
976 is every Wednesday in the basement, 11pm-4am and always free!

details at Make Out Club

from the Metro Times Best of Detroit 04

Best roaming monthly dance party with attitude: Les Infants Terribles

Calling their free pseudo-club experience dorkwave, this loose collective of DJs, producers, promoters and new-media oddballs is really just a bunch of talented music geeks who enjoy behaving badly. And, yes, that self-destructive behavior you might witness is unchoreographed. Some of the players: Jon Ozias, who co-produced Untitled with Ghostly International; Rob Theakston of the micro-tech production team ThinkBox and Michael Doyle, the Web prankster who powers Burnlab.net, an online zine with attitude read by intellectuals and anti-intellectuals alike. Check www.burnlab.net for locations.

Many thanks! It feels good to be loved.

Details for the October edition of Les Infants Terribles to be announced in the next couple days, as well as the next UNTITLED event and other upcoming Dorkwave adventures around town. Stay tuned.

in the "not sure what to make of that" department: i just saw an episode of "the real world" and was surprised to hear the opening bars of a track from geoff white's aeroc album...is this the beginning of the apocalypse?

side note, google-ing aeroc i came up with this

i also just caught a live solo/acoustic performance of alan sparhawk of low at the mercury lounge in nyc last night. it was hands down one of the most memorable shows i've been to. alan nervously smoked a joint from a crowd member then proceeded to ramble on about various things and play completely baked-ly for the next couple of hours...i have video if anyone's interested

Maybe I just missed it when it was put online earlier, but Mathew Jonson's set from Movement weekend brings back some fine Untitled-inspired memories.

Cranbrook makes the list of 12 must-visit architectural wonders according to MSNBC/Budget Travel. (I concur.) More recently built destinations here.

Richard Branson is all over the news this week. The question is, will his gigantic head fit inside his new spaceship?

planes
trains
spaceships
and mp3s

Something red states and blue states can finally agree on: Bush is al-Qaeda's candidate of choice. Who's up for a global holy war? Yee-haw!

Getting serious for a moment: I don't want to make light of the war on terror (er, "dealing with the al-Qaeda threat" to be more accurate and less catch-phrasey,) but how does the president not realize he has played right into Bin Laden's hands... his deranged and obvious master plan to divide the world and cause endless war? Al-Qaeda could not be more ecstatic that we are destabilizing the entire middle east (and are directly causing more anti-Americanism than they could dream of) with the invasion of Iraq. They didn't even have to prompt that. We did it all our own. What a gift. I thought the United States responded correctly in Afghanistan with a focused operation, but that needed to be coupled with a deep self-examination and a whole-hearted effort to eliminate the root causes of terrorism and anti-American sentiment. It was a matter of simply behaving in a more fair and humble manner... things we knew we should have been doing anyway. We of course did exactly the opposite. The opposite of common sense. The opposite of what Jesus would do. Not that I claim to be a biblical scholar or religious at all, but I got the point of the new testament in catechism... something George W. Bush apparently missed entirely. I've come to realize that the president is not actually just a sleazy businessman, but he truly believes everything he says and is driven by a self-righteous idealism which has no room for subtlety or self examination. An idealism that can only be described as fanatical. He's one paranoid, power-hungry, sick-in-the-head zealot (character descriptors, not name-calling) who is neither a good conservative or a good christian. I actually appreciate, or at leat understand many basic republican principles about unobtrusive government, fiscal responsibility and liberty, but can't understand how any republican can support this administration's policies which fly in the face of the party's core values.

With that, I direct you again to Erroll Morris' brillaint Switch ads.

The United States is a great nation. I want to stop being ashamed. I want it back.

"Stoned slackers?" According to Nielson Media Research, Viewers of Jon Stewart's show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch "The O'Reilly Factor."

Well, duh.

Transcript at Wonkette / Comedy Central's irony deficiency.

MacArthur Award recipients announced.

[via Marc at Archinect]

In regard to the Depeche Mode post, it truly pains me to criticize the Schmode camp, but do they really think lame knock-offs of MK12 and Nicola Kuperus will go unnoticed? All the style and none of the substance and subtlety. That video for Enjoy the Silence 04 is horrible (not to mention the remix itself,) and as SV4 puts it so eloquently, "Get a new look, Client... who the fuck is Client?"

Be original, please. We know you can. (Or at least don't be so obvious.)

Depeche Mode is releasing a new remixes album featuring current remixes of DM classics. You can check out the Enjoy The Silence '04 video on VIVA TV in Germany. I'm guessing it was done by MK12.com, or at least a studio that has a deep affinity for the Faint's Agenda Suicide.

Also, Client (on Andy Fletcher of DM's label, Toast-Hawaii) have released a new single, 'Radio', and album 'City'. City features guest vocals by Martin Gore.

de Animaris Walking Rhinoceros Transport and other incredible walking sculptures by Theo Jansen.

[via Beverly Tang]

We're trying to love you, seriously, but quit whinig for Christ sake... freak.

[via MCR]

Steal Our Look / Buy Our Munch

The third Interpol Space opened in London yesterday, joining gallery-esque marketing hubs in New York and Los Angeles. If you haven't heard about this, read the official statement:

The space will not be a museum to the band but rather an interactive experience. The interior and exterior will be completely inspired by Interpol, with the bands' artistic friends and acquaintances running the Interpol aesthetic through their own unique filters: from limited edition poster set and space design/art prints by Shepard Fairy (Obey/Giant), to a custom neon sign designed by Lite Brite Neon (Brooklyn, NY), to ten band commissioned short films to a host of other things.

I'm still trying to figure out just how facetious or serious the mega-branding of Interpol is. It's not very "indie", but my guess is that's the point. Opening a gallery space to sell your personal aesthetic is freaking brilliant. Actually, that's been Jon Ozias' premise behind UNTITLED all along: "we will tell you what to wear, what to listen to, what to drink, how to act, what to buy, and you will thank us for our insight." I know it sounds disgusting (because it kind of is) but it's what every magazine, DJ, indie boutique and multinational corporation does anyway. Really, that's what this very website is all about: for some reason people read Burnlab because they trust our aesthetics, and we're arrogant enough to believe we have something to say. :) UNTITLED is just blatant about it, and there is definitely some humor in the honesty. We sure are jealous Interpol beat us to the gallery concept. Just you wait for the UNTITLED magazine... that and the 100,000 sq. ft. Burnlab concept store in a Wes Jones designed apparatus opening above the former Halcyon space in Brooklyn. Blade Runner will be playing 24 hours a day on a giant outdoor screen to a loop of the bass line from Bella Lugosi's Dead. A second location will ocupy the top four floors of the Broderick Tower in Detroit, where Run.Stop.Restore will be playing records continioulsy.

In case you were wondering, the other Interpol is still looking for The Scream. Seriously, what do you do with a painting valued at well over $50 million? eBay?

Reminder that this Sunday is the Detroit Art Parade.



This creative parade experience will take place on September 26, 2004 beginning at noon. Pledged participants will travel on Woodward Avenue from the DIA to Ferndale (9 Mile) in their most creative costumes on foot and on bike and pulling non-motorized floats while raising money for local arts and cultural organizations through obtained pledges. Inspired by DAM Executive Director Aaron Timlin's "Got Art?" fundraiser trek from Detroit to New York City in the summer of 2000, this event gives participants the opportunity to handcraft an alter ego, become a handmade inanimate object, or induce any other identity for the day.

The Free Press ran a second story on Detroit area bloggers after a flood of e-mails pointing out the exclusion of several Motown blog institutions such as Whatevs, DetroitBlog and our friends Motor City Rocks from last week's column profiling "the state's best blogs".... none of which I have ever heard of. Of course Burnlab is still nowhere to be found, but we're not exactly local in nauture, and I'm not sure most Freep readers would get it anyway. (Who am I kidding - we love attention.) I do think Rob more than deserved a mention though. I see a third article on the topic in the near future.

Jon O, Swervo, Allen Gooodman and I are going to see Mouse On Mars at The Stick tonight. See you nerds there.

Break out the tinfoil hats, God is sending someone a message.

A candid look inside the studio and minds of Diller Scofidio + Renfro from Newsday.

I just love them more all the time.

[via Archinect]