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Unruly Music Magazine The Dutch Underground IssueMarch 2013

It’s the sound of the Dutch underground

THE CONVERSE ALL STAR WELL WORN COLLECTION

What’s that noise?When we started Subbacultcha! back in 2004, our main goal was to promote the Dutch underground music scene. Much has happened since then. We went from being a local concert promoter to a multidisciplinary platform with a magazine, label and membership. And our focus became more and more international ‒ mainly because for a long time we felt that Dutch bands were simply not as good as their international counterparts. But recently things have been changing for the better. More and more Dutch bands are approaching music from an uncompromising artistic perspective and not so much as a source of entertainment for a (potentially) large audience. This we like. And so we came up with the idea of organising a festival featuring only Dutch acts. We booked no less than 22 of them, and could have easily booked more. Needles to say the Dutch underground scene is thriving and therefore must be cherished, nurtured and celebrated. So that’s exactly what we’re going to do in this issue of the magazine. Enjoy, and don’t forget to drop by the Melkweg in Amsterdam on 21 March. Leon Caren and Bas Morsch

Content The Dutch Underground Issue

Samling

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WOLVON

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Art

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Nouveau Vélo

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What’s the sound?

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Agenda

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Colophon Who we are and what we do

Top 5 last month at our office

1 Graphic Novel: The Photographer This unique collaboration between French illustrators em-

manuel guibert and Frédéric lemercier and the (late) war photographer Didier lefèvre tells the story of a Doctors Without Borders mission in afghanistan during the Soviet occupation in the 1980s. The combination of the illustrat-ed narrative and the real-life photography gives a unique and compelling insight into the everyday reality of war.

2 Documentary: Searching for Sugar Man Thoroughly entertaining feel-good documentary about

american Folk singer Rodriquez making it big in South africa without knowing anything about it. go see it!

3 City: Santiago, Chile Sacred Bones has recently released new albums by The

holy Drug Couple and Föllakzoid, two great bands from Santiago, Chile (yes, that’s right, Chile). Föllakzoid espe-cially has been on heavy rotation here at the office, loud and groovy drone/krautrock that totally gets us in the zone.

4 Dutch Underground: Vakantie Rotterdam-based label Samling Recordings has a way of

wrapping you up in their comforting sounds. The upcom-ing release by improv duo Vakantie will set quite a differ-ent mood, though. Their synthesizer-fused hardcore tunes promise to knock you straight out of your snuggie. We like!

5 Food: Fries at Cido, Westerpark, Amsterdam The always-smiling owner peels the potatoes, chops them

into fries with an antique machine and fries them crisp and golden to absolute perfection. Snack heaven!

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This month’s recommendations New Music

For this issue revolving around the vibrant dutch underground scene, we changed the format of our New Music section and asked several Dutch musicians to reply to the fol-

lowing question:

What have you been listening to lately?‘The ending of the song “Feed Me With Your Kiss” by My Bloody Valentine, where they do this counting up. The first time they bang on this chord four times; the next time five and so on, until it’s ten times, which is the end. This song is so power-ful and I think that ending is really funny and cool.’ (Niek Leenders – Nouveau Vélo)

‘The self-titled debut 12" by Raajmahal is on in-finite repeat here; it keeps resonating in my head long after the last tone has died out. listening to this record feels like lying on a stone floor in a huge ancient temple while a sound of hallowed beauty from the next room is leaking in a puff of eternal reverb.’ (Keimpe Koldijk – Mike Koldin)

‘‘I listen to the jibber of my little boy (almost three months old). Some of his sounds are repeated more often and seem like words already. For in-stance: “ammam” (when hungry) or “errol” (state of grace). he is like a parrot talking backwards, how strange. oh well, together we listen to a lot of Six-

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What have you been listening to lately? New Music

ties pop and we especially like it when they play stuff backwards. and then all of a sudden he says, “eklnnn!” That’s my boy! Say it again! Yes, we’ve been listening to some eklin tapes. I’ve seen their brand new set in groningen and I’m really looking forward to seeing them again. Patience, my boy.’(Jan-Pieter van Weel – Spilt Milk)

‘The silence of winter is being filled with the call of birds, letting us know spring is to come. I am letting all these sounds really get inside of me, by standing very still and concentrating. one call is very high and clear, then there is the tick-tick-tick-ing of a woodpecker, the rough call of a crow and many more. and this is just Kralingse Bos in Rot-terdam on a sunny Thursday morning. Can you imagine what it must sound like in the rainforest? It is unbelievably beautiful.’ (Leontien Herkelman // Eklin)

‘‘Recently, my soul took a bungee jump out of my body for 15 minutes into what I would describe as the non-physical source that I come from. I’ll skip the travelogue. When I was thrown back, I remem-bered physicality as a sound, a hum, a tone, a drone, which became so dense that at a certain point it was no longer a sound but my body.’ (Rik Möhlmann – Vakantie)

‘I’ve been listening to the third album by Portis-head for over a year now and it never bores me. after seeing Beak> at le guess Who? last year, I’m more convinced than ever that these guys are some of the most talented musicians around.’ (Arnold van de Velde – Eklin/Bismuth)

New Music What have you been listening to lately?

‘Wonder Stone of the World, the latest record by Alasdair Roberts & Friends. It’s terrific, sounds like his version of english folk rock, with a Scottish accent and even a touch of New orleans here and there. his best in years, if you ask me. Will some-body please get him to the Netherlands?’ (Leo Fabriek – Mere Duo)

‘The album that I’ve been drowning and droning into the last couple of months is Mirrorring’s For-eign Body. good for those heartbroken reflective positive melancholia days. Mirrorring is the beauti-ful combination of Tiny Vipers and grouper. (Shane Burmania – Spilt Milk)

‘If not overruled by screeching car tyres, people yelling in their phone, the latest volkszanger or po-lice sirens, I have the sound of miniature glaciers accompanying me in my workspace. at first I thought the ceiling was coming down, but eventu-ally I noticed that it was created by big piles of snow and ice sliding down the internal drainpipe in the room. It amplified the sound: a long almost in-audible cracking at first, followed by a loud bang.’ (Wouter Venema – Mike Koldin)

‘I continuously listen to Tame Impala’s Lonerism. Kevin Parker`s beautiful voice, the “Beatlesque” harmonies and a mother-load of reverb under-neath and on top of it take me back to the good old days. Lonerism taught me that neurotic drumming can be awesome. groovy basslines, synths drown-ing in FX and of course the Roland Space echo make this, in my opinion, an exceptional album.’ (Ben Wennekers – Vox Von Braun)

This Months recommendations New Music

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Features The Dutch Underground Issue

What were the reasons for starting a la-bel together?

Lukas: ‘A few years ago we or-ganised so called “Kats” evenings in Leeuwarden, the city where we all studied, and later continued in a liv-ing room in Utrecht. We played there ourselves, asked friends to perform, recorded the show and burned CD copies which we sold afterwards. In June 2010 as a result of that, Sam-ling was born. It coincided with the release of the LUIK EP.’

Gerrit: ‘There was so much going on in our circle of friends; side proj-ects, interesting collaborations.We realised we all had the same taste in

music and wanted to give that a place.’Keimpe: ‘In Frisian “Samling”

means collective. That exactly de-scribes what we are.’

Lucas: ‘There’s also this scene from a movie where someone shouts “Samling!” In the subtitles it reads ‘“truth”. I looked it up, unfortunately it was translated wrong.’

Wouter: “That’s from Offret by Tarkovski.’

Would you consider yourselves as guard-ians of a certain sound?

Wouter: ‘I consider Samling more as a snapshot of a certain peri-od of time.’

Every few weeks the boys behind Dutch record label Samling Recordings get together to discuss upcoming releases. Their expanding catalogue is characterized not so much by genre but rather by an indefinable atmosphere. We joined the four friends – who are also active in Herrek,

Mike Koldin and Luik – at their headquarters in Rotterdam and tried to find out more about

the Samling sound

Interview by Brenda Bosma. Photos by Xiao Xiao Xu. The photo of Lukas Dikker was made by Merel Visser

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‘I guess what it all boils down to is that you share a certain feeling’

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Clockwise from top left: gerrit van der Scheer, Keimpe Koldijk, lukas Dikker and Wouter Venema,

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Lukas: ‘For me personally it is that, protecting that. We all operate in the same area and we want to show and archive that, but to say something else about it, is difficult. In the mean-time, we have also asked like-mind-ed people, not necessarily from our group, to release their music via Sam-ling. Those collaborations broaden the circle. It’s all about a personal and musical connection.’

Can this connection be captured in words or a kind of manifesto, maybe?

Keimpe: ‘This is something we ask ourselves almost every time, but I guess the rules keep being stretched.’

Wouter: ‘There is no manifesto. The album by Vakantie, our next re-lease, for instance, is very vibrant and raw, it will be the odd one out in our catalogue, but that’s not important. Foremost it’s about the vibe.’

Lukas: ‘We don’t want to focus on polished music. To us it’s about a certain spontaneity and freshness. To show the process of making some-thing in a short span of time and cap-ture that energy on record, that’s what we’re interested in.’

Where does the preference for this type of music ‒ let’s call it comforting and atmospheric ‒ come from? You seem

to have built your own little island in Rotterdam.

Wouter: ‘We simply share this collective thing. There’s also a lot of stuff that you help each other with, that keeps the circle intact.’

Keimpe: ‘We just do what we do, because we enjoy it, because it’s fun. It’s almost frustrating. I’d love to have some philosophical theories and fan-cy words to say about it, but we don’t. I guess we can safely say we lean heavily on intuition.’

Not only do you have a specific sound, but also an aesthetic very much your own. There’s a certain unity there. Do you direct that in any way?

Wouter: ‘In the beginning I only used black and white for all the art-work. Then Thijs from I Am Oak used lots of colours for his own release.’

Keimpe: ‘Wouter is very good at emphasising an atmosphere. Those little eyes from the Bonne Aparte art-work. That’s like a trademark.’

Wouter: ‘I just did what I was al-ready doing and used it for Samling.’

Gerrit: ‘I guess what it all boils down to is that you share a certain feeling.’

Wouter: ‘It’s interesting to know what that feeling is, but I can’t seem to put it into words.’


Keimpe: ‘Every time it’s this cha-os.’

Lukas: ‘Yesterday I saw an item about the ADM [squated area in Amsterdam] on TV. It focused on the social aspect of the free state. The people living next to it are not al-lowed within the confinements of the little society. When the ADM people were asked about their rules, they said they didn’t have any.’

Keimpe: ‘That’s it! We need a manifesto!’

Any big plans for the future?Gerrit: ‘There’s no plan to do

something big.’Wouter: ‘There’s only limited

ambition. We should print stickers of

that and put them on every release.’Keimpe: ‘We organised a few

showcases for several festivals like Le Mini Who? and Explore the North. We built a space cave in Utrecht, transformed a prison into a forest.’

Lukas: ‘Within the context of a festival we are willing to do some-thing special like that.’

Gerrit: ‘But to do it from scratch would be too much responsibility and take too much time.’

Keimpe: ‘We don’t promote our stuff very extensively. We have a web-site and that’s basically it.’

Lukas: ‘We’re so underground!’For more information about Samling and their releases visit www.samlingrecordings.com

'We built a space cave in Utrecht, transformed a prison into a forest.'

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Are you secretly werewolves or is WOL-VON just a reference to your big wolf beards?

Ike: ‘WOLVON actually comes from my third book that I never fin-ished. I had this great idea to write a novel before my 23rd birthday... I wrote the first three pages. It was about this sea cow that lived with some wolves in the desert. I changed all the vowels in this novel to Os, so from the Dutch wolven, we got WOLVON.’How did it all start?

Ike: ‘Way back in ’95 during the war.’

Bram: ‘In the cafeteria at the University of Groningen, we had a coffee together. We took the same classes. We were young and naive and we thought we’d be nice companions. We didn’t have beards then, except for Ruben.’

Ike: ‘Yeah, Bram and I would always meet up and say, “Hey, we should start a band” and then we wouldn’t and then we’d meet up and be like, “So hey, I’m in this band” and be like, “Okay,” and then after a really long time of this going back and forth we finally started our band. Then we asked Ruben to play bass for us. We

WOLVONWOLVON are three dudes with three beards from Groningen ‒ or Broningen, as they call

it. Ike, Bram and Ruben do not shy away from bribing border officials in the Balkans and

combing burger sauce out of their facial hair. They’re getting their ‘wolf on’ all right

Interview by Zofia Ciechowska. Photos by Julia Hendriks

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only asked because he had a good re-hearsal space and his girlfriend had a bass guitar; that also helped.’Where’s your music taken you so far?

Ike: ‘It’s taken us to Belgrade, Mitrovica and Skopje last summer when we went on tour. It also took us to Bosnia and Herzegovina but that REALLY didn’t work out. We went on tour with this band called Neon Rainbows and we were supposed to play at a festival that was in a fortress on a mountain. It took us two days to drive there, which also included the bribery of some crazy officer on the Croatian border. So we dragged all our shit up the mountain to the for-tress and on to the stage. Neon Rain-bows were on before us and just af-ter they started playing the singer got electrocuted by the mic. The dude passed out and bit his tongue, there was blood everywhere and he had to go to a Bosnian hospital. The festival got shut down.’

Bram: ‘We’re happy we were playing second.’How deep is the Dutch underground for you guys?

Ruben: ‘Not very deep, it’s pret-ty wide though. There’s no under-ground scene for one particular genre; instead it extends from singer-song-writers to noise rock, just people who like to help each other out. It’s more of a DIY scene than an underground scene. We don’t try to be obscure.’

Bram: ‘Yeah, maybe the differ-ence is that being underground is a choice, whereas DIY is a necessity. At our level you can’t make a living out of playing gigs, but we still want to have a good time and play music so we just do it ourselves.’

Ike: ‘I don’t see the Dutch under-ground as an underground, we all try to get some recognition, but we don’t particularly fit into any sort of main-stream music so we just float around the alternative circuit and that’s it. We’ve been putting on shows as Le-pel Concerts in Groningen for a few years now for people that we know. That’s our little piece of the Dutch underground.’

WolVoN will release their debut album on 25 april on Subroutine Records.

‘It’s more of a DIY scene than an underground scene. We don’t try to be obscure.’


Illustrations by Bert Scholten one question interviews Features

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What’s the sound of your underground?

HERREK‘The roaring machines at the packaging centre where I work to earn a little money is my sound of the underground. When I start the engine of one of those cars the radio of-ten blows my hair back, playing some popular Justin Bieber song at volume ten because someone left the car that way before I unsuspectingly took the keys. I can’t stand that feeling like you are being violated. Besides that, there are a lot of sounds that I choose to hear. I currently chose to start listening to the sounds of the village in Papua where I grew up and let them inspire me while working on our new album. For instance, the sound of a canoe gently gliding through still water. It’s funny that sound is only vibration in the air, but can be captured in your brain for years.’

H-SIK‘The sound of the underground for me is represented by the research of audio texture and a primitive chord of evolution space. A perfect focus on sequence which is represented by a respectful and connected, undefined melody. Underground for me means the territory of experimentation, a field where freedom is powerful and stimulated by nature, when in-telligence serves the spontaneity of your inspiration and vice versa. The sound of my un-derground is something unexpected, triggered and progressive.’

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SPILT MILK‘If there’s a band playing in the Dutch underground and there’s no one around to hear them, do they still make a sound? They play so quiet, you can hear the passing traffic. And the cars buzz by, and the wind blows. And I may walk past, and I may not. And someone may notice, or it may all slide right by. And you may love me, or you may not love me at all any more. But the sun will shine on Holland in the spring. And God will watch over the members of the orchestra for me with all his available energies. Yeah yeah.’

BODY II BODY‘In a perfect world, I would have something witty to say about what is the underground. In a perfect world I would be able to jump over a canyon in my sports car. IRL I don’t have much inspiration or a driver’s licence.’

KLEININDUSTRIE‘We play of our sound is Hardwire on always on is Freeze is infinite sustain I mean really really infinite is Bad Monkey got it from willem very cheap is Xotic bluesbreaker no blues is Boss OC3 left in front is Nanoswitch AB A goes to nowhere.’ [Editor’s note: we have no idea what this means, either.]


Nouveau Vélo is producing exciting pop songs with the right edge, the right hooks and the right amount of dissonance and reverb to be labelled ‘actually really good!’ And hey! the boys hail from Helmond, even better. With

outskirt-roots like that and an EP titled Moestuin – the predecessor to their upcoming release Daze - we felt they were the ultimate band to take to the cold, cold ground of the Dutch underground. Photographer Isolde

Woudstra accompanied them

Read the interview online. Photos by Isolde Woudstra

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SPACE SIREN‘To us, the sound of our ultimate Dutch underground is the guys from Subroutine Records together with Richard James Foster from Incendiary Magazine in a crawl space.’

NOUVEAU VÉLO‘The harsh buzz of the irrigation system located in the corner of our rehearsal space, in the basement of the garden shed of our drummer’s parents. Having this wonderful un-derground shelter for ourselves is perfect, but the crops need their water so once in a while the machine starts shrieking. Nevertheless, for our latest recordings we ascended to a first-floor apartment in de Bijlmer, and ended up doing vocals in our personal irriga-tion system (the shower).’


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APRIL‘It’s fun to go to, and every band has a rattling van pulled by a unicorn with a nosebag full of saffron, pedalling a golden bicycle.’

VOX VON BRAUN‘That would be the sound of distant sleigh bells and the engines of ships, far far away, making absolutely sure you can’t really tell what it is you’re listening to, but for some rea-son you can hear music in it.’

MIKE KOLDIN‘Beneath the cities that lay buried under the ashes, traces of even older cities were found, in their turn buried in a further past. Its inhabitants had built over the layers of ashes covering the previous city. Thus, layers of cities came into being; streets submerged be-neath streets, crossings below crossings; the city alive built on top of cities sleeping.’ Jean-Marie Guyau

Astrid Florentinus

Astrid Florentinus (1987) is an artist living and working in Groningen. She self-publish-es booklets, makes drawings and produces posters and illustrations for several cultural institutions. Her sensitive and translucent work radiates a comforting sort of melan-choly. Encompassing ‘Weltschmerz’, hope, desolation, love and despair, Astrid creates a uniquely enstranging, almost Lynchian world with simple elements such as houses, trees and mountains. Currently she is coor-dinating a special book project for Extrapool in Nijmegen.

www.astridflorentinus.com

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Music Reviews New releases worth your while By Carly Blair

Purling HissWater on Mars

(Drag City)

Philadelphia’s Mike Polizze played with jam-punks Birds of Maya before setting off on a solo mission to Planet Purling Hiss, a world where all previously re-corded traces of the existence of guitars were so corroded by ex-posure to harsh elements, they only vaguely resembled their earthly equivalents. After years of making music in the other-wise uninhabited world of his home recording studio, Polizze recruited a team of rock ’n’ roll rovers to help him explore a new garage rock galaxy, and Purling Hiss’ fourth album documents what they found. The great tunes that always seemed to be lurking under the scuzzy surface are now polished of their previous grime, revealing themselves to be teem-ing with life, and if you’re an Earthling like me, extended ex-posure to Water on Mars’s at-mosphere will likely leave you breathless.

SuunsImages du Futur

(Secretly Canadian)

The cover of Suuns’ sopho-more album, Images du Futur, depicts an androgynous wom-an with a neutral facial expres-sion, the contours of her face so soft around the edges she al-most looks like a painting. The image is actually made of sev-eral copies of the same pho-tograph, torn and layered atop one another in progressively larger pieces. At the bottom of these layers there’s presumably the image of the woman, and behind that image there’s the woman herself, but even if you could get to the bottom of it she’d remain a mystery. Perhaps the point of these images of the future is that it remains uncer-tain and the band anticipates it with neither anxiety nor hope. If the soundtrack to getting there consists of this kind of patient, groovy and evocative (albeit emotionally inert) prog rock, I’d be pretty content.

Music Reviews

Phosphorescent Muchacho

(Dead Oceans)

Like a little woodland creature seeking a warm place to hiber-nate for the winter, the contem-plative Americana of Matthew Houck’s early work as Phos-phorescent burrowed its way through the icy outer layers into a special place in my heart. 2009’s To Willie found Houck and his newly acquired backing band sounding uncharacteristi-cally traditional and loose, while its raucous follow-up, Here’s to Taking It Easy, had me worried that Houck had resigned him-self to becoming a drunkenly in-souciant lout. With twinkling, hymnal ‘Sun, Arise!’, Mucha-cho’s opening track, I’m instantly reassured, as that little creature emerges from his slumber, re-vealing himself over the course of the album to be grander sounding than ever, but no less capable of comforting or in need of a listener to comfort him.

Nosaj ThingHome

(Innovative Leisure)

LA’s Jason Chung was a band geek before a hip hop-loving bus driver, some bootlegged audio-editing software and productive friendships with Daedelus and Flying Lotus shaped him into the hip hop and dubstep-influ-enced IDM whizz he is today. His 2009 debut, Drift, found him floating on a cold and choppy sea of glitch hop, but af-ter a four-year hiatus we find Chung settled into a very dif-ferent place and ready to share a new world with us. The crisp sounds on Home’s eponymous opening track almost resemble the tossing up of sheets and the sweeping of floors, as though Chung was just finishing tidying up in anticipation of the listen-er’s arrival. Once you’ve crossed the threshold, Home reveals itself to be as painstakingly crafted as its predecessor, but filled with a sheltered sense of calm and wel-come warmth.

Music Reviews continued

DoldrumsLesser Evil

(Arbutus)

Montreal musician Airick Woodhead chose the name Dol-drums as tribute to the children’s book The Phantom Tollbooth. In the book, a bored little boy is transported to a magical king-dom, where he undergoes vari-ous misadventures on his mis-sion to rescue its rulers, Princess Rhyme and Princess Reason. His is one of the most apt band names I’ve encountered, since Woodhead is nothing if not a mischievous little imp whose panicky vocals navigate their way through a wonderland of chopped-up samples and psy-chedelic electronics, momentari-ly grasping then losing their grip on pop melodies. When first lis-tening to his proper debut, Less-er Evil, you might find yourself instinctively instructing him to calm down and play by the rules, not realising he’s the one who’s ultimately going to rescue YOU.

Pien FeithTough Love

(V2)

Amsterdam’s Pien Feith records under her own name and has worked with Neonbelle and The Very Sexuals. Much of her early work was stripped-down, emo-tionally bare folk music, but over time she’s collected band mem-bers and incorporated more electronic elements into her sound. Her new album is enti-tled Tough Love and though the phrase means treating someone you love harshly in order to ulti-mately help them, it isn’t a dra-matic departure from the slick electronic pop of 2011’s Dance On Time. On opener ‘The High-way’ she asks, ‘Won’t you drive me? I want you to drive me.’ She might as well be regarding the rest of the stage, since the most successful tracks aren’t the ones where she’s in control, but rath-er the ones where she’s sitting shotgun, propelled forward by her able backing band and sim-ply enjoying the ride.

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By Gert Verbeek and Basje Boer New films and DVDs Film

Le Grand Soir(Benoît Delépine / Gustave Kervern)

Like Matt Lucas is ‘the only gay in the village’ (that’s a Lit-tle Britain reference, people), Not (the excellent Benoît Poel-voorde) is the only punk who survived the ’80s. He and his dog hang around the sad shop-ping boulevard in a French no-man’s-land where his parents own a potato restaurant and his brother, Jean Pierre, has a rath-er depressing job selling mat-tresses. An outsider might think Jean Pierre’s got it made: he’s got a family, a respectable job. But this is the anarchistic uni-verse of Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern, who have dis-played an absurdist, Kaurismä-ki type of humour since their debut, Aaltra. So obviously the homeless, unemployed Not is Le Grand Soir’s hero, and he’s about to show his brother the true meaning of freedom. (BB)In theatres 21 March. Pre-release at Melkweg Cinema on 15 March

The Woodsman and the Rain

(Shûichi Okita, 2011)

Katsuhiko (Kôji Yakusho) spends his days cutting trees, mourning his deceased wife and having a hard time dealing with his adolescent son. In the for-est he meets young and insecure director Koichi (Shun Oguri), who’s shooting a cheap zom-bie flick. Reluctantly Katsuhiko helps him find locations. Before sunset he’s an extra as one of the zombies. Katsuhiko gets more excited about the project, grad-ually coming out of his cocoon and helping Koichi get out of his. The Woodsman and the Rain is a subtle, slow-paced com-edy about dealing with trau-matic events. The movie is not only about personal tragedy, but also an oddly moving meta-phor about national trauma and a country coming to terms with past disasters. Zombies make people feel alive again. (GV)Out now on import DVD

Instead of ‘Books’: a Rant

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perfo

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min

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I ju

st wa

tche

d Vo

x Vo

n Br

aun

perfo

rm o

n D

utch

na

tiona

l tele

visio

n. W

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wat

ched

them

the

day

afte

r, on

my

lapto

p, bu

t, yo

u kn

ow. Th

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layed

for

only

one

min

ute,

on yo

u pr

obab

ly k

now

what

god

-aw

ful

piec

e-of

-shi

t-of

-a-

show

I’m

ta

lkin

g ab

out,

and

they

wer

e re

ally

good

. Th

ey m

anag

ed to

cond

ense

a

lot o

f the

ir aw

esom

enes

s in

to t

hat

fuck

ing

min

ute,

and

their

aw

esom

e lea

d gu

itaris

t ev

en g

ot t

o do

a

little

bit

of a

weso

me

solo

-in

g by

the

end

of th

eir a

l-lo

tted

time.

Still

, sum

tin’ w

as cl

early

off.

H

ow d

id th

ese w

eirdo

s slip

th

roug

h th

e cr

acks

? W

ell,

they

got

‘lu

cky’,

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som

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than

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deb

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ethi

ng

which

so

me-

how

seem

s no

tewo

rthy

here

, so

here

you

go:

not

-ed

), de

spite

not

bein

g re

-lea

sed

by a

rec

ord-

label-

whos

e-na

me-

I-sh

all-n

ot-n

ame,

got p

icked

up

by a

fe

w jo

urna

lists,

one

of w

hom

writ

es fo

r De V

olksk

-ra

nt, a

favo

urab

le re

view

in sa

id (p

iece-

of-s

hit-

of-

a) n

ewsp

aper

bein

g a

mus

t if y

ou w

anna

hav

e an

y-th

ing

rese

mbl

ing

‘succ

ess’

in H

ollan

d...

The

next

ste

p us

ually

bein

g ap

pear

ing

on a

fore

men

tione

d pi

ece-

of-s

hit-

of-a

-sho

w, an

d m

aybe

on

som

e eve

n-wo

rse-p

iece-

of-s

hit-

of-a

-sho

w on

pu

blic

radi

o. Li

ke, a

roun

d th

ree m

inut

es p

ast m

idni

ght.

Oh,

and

you’

ll ge

t tre

ated

like

a p

iece

of s

hit,

too,

and

no

mon

ey. F

eelin

’ luck

y, pu

nk?

Well

, may

be yo

u do

. Goo

d fo

r you

. Tell

them

I sa

id

lol.

Or,

rath

er, f

uck

you.

And

fuck

you

, too

, the

n.

And

so,

now

that

we’v

e se

para

ted

the

borin

g lit

-

tle b

oys f

rom

us f

reak

s and

weir

dos,

let’s

finall

y ge

t to

our

main

obj

ectiv

e he

re: w

hat

is th

e so

und

of

the D

utch

und

ergr

ound

? Well

, wha

t see

ms t

o un

ify

mos

t of t

he a

cts o

f the

‘Dut

ch u

nder

grou

nd’ (

‘un-

derg

roun

d’ A

D 2

013

bein

g a

term

I h

ave

a wh

ole

lot

of p

robl

ems w

ith ‒

I re

ally

don’t

wan

na g

et in

to h

ere,

or m

aybe

just

this:

the

in-

tern

et k

illed

the

not

ion

of

anyt

hing

be

ing

anyt

hing

‘u

nder

grou

nd’,

for

bette

r an

d/or

wor

se.

Disc

uss)

is no

t so

muc

h a

‘soun

d’, b

ut

rath

er a

relu

ctan

ce t

o pl

ay

by t

hose

rul

es a

ny m

ore.

Sure

, we’l

l app

ear

on y

our

stupi

d lit

tle

show

s, an

y-th

ing

to m

ake

Mum

and

D

ad p

roud

(pl

us, a

nyth

ing

for

free

drin

ks);

just

don’t

ex

pect

us

to t

ake

any

of

this

serio

usly.

We’r

e ca

lling

bu

llshi

t.So

, hey

, chi

ldre

n, w

hat’s

our

so

und?

To

ask

the

ques

-tio

n is

to a

nswe

r it.

It’s

. O

ur. S

ound

. Not

the s

ound

of

yaw

n-in

ducin

g se

mi-c

orpo

rate

indi

e-sc

hmin

d-ie,

not

the

soun

d of

imita

ting

or im

plem

entin

g th

e so

unds

(and

look

s, fo

r fuc

k’s sa

ke) o

f las

t yea

r’s A

n-gl

o-Sa

xon

youn

g ho

pefu

ls. N

ot th

e so

und

of a

m-

bitio

n, sa

ve fo

r the

am

bitio

n to

hav

e no

am

bitio

n.

A s

ound

defi

ned

by n

egat

ion,

the

y’ll

say.

They

’re

wro

ng. W

e are

free

. We a

re fr

ee to

do

what

we w

an-

na d

o. W

e’re g

onna

get

load

ed. W

e’re g

onna

hav

e a

good

tim

e. Th

at’s w

hat w

e’re g

onna

do.

We’r

e gon

na

have

a go

od ti

me.

We’r

e gon

na h

ave a

par

ty. S

ee yo

u in

the M

elkwe

g on

the 2

1st o

f Mar

ch.

Nex

t mon

th M

ark’s

bac

k wi

th a

new

book

co

lum

n ca

lled

‘Roc

k ’n’

Rol

l’ Lib

rary

.

By M

arc v

an d

er H

olst

Illus

tratio

n by

Geo

ff K

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Tell us about your search...It begins with me and my

Dad biking through Middelburg.

Ha! So your dad became your per-sonal fashion stylist?

Well... he tried! Since I had a braid in my hair he kept on showing me these hippie dresses, but it wasn’t really the direction I was going for. Instead I found a beautiful black blouse for €5. I especially liked the fabric.

Nice find! And then?I figured I needed some co-

lour in my outfit so I bought this scarf for €1 although it belonged to a Hindi dress (so, I needed to separate them). I also want-ed some colourful accessories so I bought this bracelet and ring from a woman in a small and dusty Indian crafts store.

And what about the shoes?I work in a place for the

homeless and we have a clothing

room where they can buy items for a small price. At the time I felt bad about buying the shoes but I was tempted since they were only €0,75 and matched my outfit... and my budget!

Shirt - €5,00Hart & Ziel, Middelburg

Scarf - €1Schroeder, Den Haag

Stockings - €0,50Lotus, Middelburg

Shoes - €0,75From her work at the shelter

Bracelet - €3Ring - €4

De Kledij, Middelburg

Wanna go shopping for a €15 outfit? Please send an email to [email protected].

Fashion €15 outfit By Mandy Sharabani

Every month we give €15 to someone to compose a complete outfit for a good night out. Yes, quite a challenge.

This month Herrek’s keyboardist Ilse Hamelink, a former student of music therapy, is shopping for her own on-stage outfit.

Ilse Hamelink dressing up to go play with Herrek at the Sound of the Dutch Underground in Melkweg.

Budget spent: €14.50

Photos by Isolde Woudstra Fashion

€15 Outfit

Food Cooking with... By Zofia Ciechowska

What does your music taste of ?‘Our music tastes of lemon and sambal. Sometimes it’s real-ly soft, like ice cream. Actual-ly, it’s a lemon sorbet with sam-bal. But it’s also crunchy, it has nuts in it.’Do you have any good holiday food memories from when you were younger?Gijs: ‘I don’t like vakanties. I had a great cheese soufflé in Hunga-ry. I also had some green beans with fried breadcrumbs on top made for me by a Polish grand-mother.’Rik: ‘I always got stomach aches on holiday as a kid. Once I had a delicious tomato in Turkey. It

was the biggest, reddest, fresh-est tomato I have ever eaten. You could tell it was grown in the sun, not like a Dutch tomato.’What are your kitchens like?Gijs: ‘My kitchen looks like it’s from Brugman Keukens. I like cooking pad Thai in it.’Rik: ‘I live in an anti-squat in a school and our kitchen is in a classroom. We have a big table and basic running water, that’s it. I don’t really cook, I just put all my food on the big table and as-semble meals out of it. I eat a lot of raw stuff, like avocados, but not fanatically. I also like mak-ing weed ice cream, for medici-nal purposes.’

Vakantie

Photo by Carlijn Potma Food

Page 53

PAD THAI

125g flat wide rice noodles2 limessambal

4 spring onions150g beansprouts

2 tsp light muscovado sugar2 tbsp fish sauce

2 tbsp oil200g prawns

25g chopped peanutsfresh coriander

• Putthenoodlesinabowlofboil-ing water and leave them untiltheygosoft.Drainandrinseonceready.

• Mix the lime juice,sambal,sugarandfishsauceinasmallbowl,setaside.

• Heatsomeoil inawok,add theprawns,cookforaminuteortwoand add the spring onion andcooked noodles. Splash withyour fancy sauce, chuck in thebeansprouts,addhalfofthenutsand coriander, heat for anotherminute and dish up. Serve withmorenuts,corianderandlimeandsomemoresambal.

WEED ICE CREAM

25g butter530ml single cream

75g sugarpinch of salt

10g crushed bud (or just use your own judgment)

425g ripe bananas3 tablespoons rum

5 tablespoons honeycinnamon

• Gentlyheatthecreaminapot,don’tletitboilthough.

• Meltthebutterwiththesugarandsaltinaseparatepot.Crumbletheweedintothebutterandstirwell.Addtheheatedcreamtothebutterandwhiskaway.

• Mashyourbananasinabowl.Addthecream,rum,honeyandcinnamonandbeatuntilsmooth.

• Pour the mixture into a plasticcontainer. Cover it and freeze itforafewhoursuntilitturnsslushy.Scoopitoutintoabowl,whiskitagainuntilitissmoothandtrans-fer itback into itscontainer,cov-eritandfreezeituntilitturnsintoice cream. Take out of the freez-erabouttenminutesbeforeserv-ing.

Vakantie’s pad Thai and weed ice cream

Vakantie will release their new album Fotonen on 21 March via Samling Re-cordings.

Horoscope By Brenda Bosma

ARiES21 March –20 AprilYour obligations are

starting to irritate your ulcer. Re-sponsibilities give you a rash. As you catch your dad playing air guitar in the living room you shake your head. The adult life is so not your cup of tea this month.

TAuRuS21 April–21 MayAll is good and steady

this month for our leisure-loving connoisseurs. You know your way around the labyrinth of life. It even seems you have found that special corner. Leisurely love is in the air!

GEMiNi22 May–21 JuneYou are bored easi-

ly and lose your focus on the nitty-gritty. Well, at least you’ve got your imagination to fall back on. You imagine you are someone else this month.

CANCER22 June–22 JulyWhen you walk past

the table, you accidentally tip over the ashtray. Miraculously, the ash-tray lands on the ground with all the butts still in it. You start making a lot of open peanut butter sandwich-es. You feel lucky.

LEO23 July–22 Aug‘Don’t be sad, I still feel

warmth for you,’ you say to your heartbroken lover, after which you place your ice-cold hand on his/her shoulder.

ViRGO23 Aug–22 SeptYou have an unironic

but generally gloomy outlook on the universe in general. You love fluffy animals, but they too will die and, even worse, leave their fluff all over your clean floor.

LiBRA23 Sept–22 OctYou look at a Face-

book post by your ex-lover. It’s so thoughtfully funny. You giggle, but a moment later you’re crying in the corner of your badly-lit bedroom. A ‘like’ that cannot ever be a love. A modern tragedy.

SCORPiO23 Oct–21 NovA wild but meaning-

ful night it will be. You’ll be dragged out of the club like a boneless Christ. The next morning you won’t remem-ber a thing, but there’ll be pictures on the internet, so it must be true. As you try to wash your face, you notice three hickeys on your neck. You hear a rooster crow.

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SAGiTTARiuS22 Nov–21 DecYou know that thing

that megalomaniac fucks do with their fingers when they want to get the waiter’s attention? Yes? Well, just like that your now ex-lover went from totally empathetic, funny and all-round amazing into stone-cold distant. It may feel like you must sur-vive this. We’re both sad and happy to tell you, that is true.

CAPRiCORN22 Dec–20 JanLook at your face! It

has what might just be an eternal smile on it. Did you really complete that elaborate task that a normal hu-man being can only check off by re-incarnating as Superman?

AquARiuS21 Jan-19 FebYou always seem to find

that dry spot underneath a dripping pine tree when it’s raining like hell and you’ve lost your way in a forest. You feel loved by an invisible omni-presence this month.

PiSCES20 February–20 March

Certain people, you think, some-how don’t know how to feel, much less love, to say nothing of respect. We’re just bodies to you. Bodies and shoulders to lean on, bellies to pinch and punch, scarred knees to kick at some more. We are present, but is has almost ceased to mean. Furniture of your world, that’s what we are. What kind of furniture am I? Most probably the scratched leg of a side table, with positioned next to it the deceased culprit, Russell the Rottweiler, badly stuffed by an amateur taxider-mist and now falling over nine times out of ten. May the poor dog scratch in peace.

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Iceage06 March - AreaFiftyOne, Eindhoven

20.00 | €10 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

This young Danish band comes out of a lively punk scene in Copenhagen which also includes bands like Lower, VÅR and Hand of Dust. In spite of the competition, the refreshing mix of hardcore, goth and post-punk and the undeniable energy displayed on their precocious 2011 debut, New Bri-gade, had some singling them out as the saviours of punk rock. You’re Noth-ing is its follow-up, and in spite of the implied indifference of the title, it ac-tually finds them sounding more emotionally raw and vulnerable than ever.

Chad Valley07 March - Tivoli Spiegelbar, Utrecht

20.30 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersCoincidentally or not, a great many of the artists initially tagged as chill-wave, such as Toro y Moi, Ducktails and Washed Out, have ended up follow-ing a similar trajectory away from the use of hazy soundscapes and buried vocals towards more traditional pop-song structures. Oxford native Hugo Manuel’s work as Chad Valley is no exception, since his new full-length de-but, Young Hunger, shows that he too had a hankering for something more substantial than the Balearic bliss of his early EPs. Featuring guest appear-ances from a slew of synth-pop hot shots like El Perro del Mar, George Lewis Jr of Twin Shadow, Glasser and Active Child, it’s unsurprisingly var-ied but persistently pleasurable.

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Listen To This: Side Programme ft. Frank Alpine + Zes + Slagwerk Den Haag

08 March - Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam19.30 - Free performance by Slagwerk Den Haag

20.30 - Main Programme | €24 | €10 for Subbacultcha members22.00 - Subbacultcha Side Programme | Free for all

For the 08 March edition of the Listen to This series, wherein Colin Stet-son’s mind-blowing saxophone work will be paired with a simantra perfor-mance by Slagwerk Den Haag, Subbacultcha will be hosting a great side programme. After the main programme (€10 for Subbacultcha! members) you can enjoy LA noir-synth maniac Frank Alpine and hazy Dutch beatmak-er Zes. But please drop in early for a free preview by Slagwerk Den Haag (at 19.30), DJs, drinks and that magical Muziekgebouw ambiance.

Girls Names + Postmodem09 March - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam


Until this whole global warming thing pans out, I guess the weather in the United Kingdom will continue to be dreary and bleak. Until this whole economic recovery thing pans out, I guess the future of the United King-dom will continue to seem pretty dreary and bleak as well. It’s no surprise that both factors have inspired countless native bands to make dreary and bleak-sounding music over the years, and the fourth release from Belfast’s Girls Names finds them dropping in on the recent wave of post-punk re-vivalism. Over the last four years Girls Names has expanded from a duo to a four-piece and has expanded greatly on the sonic scope of their music.

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Film: Jagten 11 March - 16CC, Amsterdam


Thomas Vinterberg’s film Jagten made it into pretty much everyone’s 2012 end-of-year list. So if you haven’t seen it yet, well, then you missed out big time. Luckily, being the good Samaritans that we are, we’re offering you a chance to see it for free in one of Amsterdam’s cosiest cinemas. Enjoy and thank us later.

Film: Broken12 March - LantarenVenster, Rotterdam

tba | tba | Free for Subbacultcha! membersAcclaimed British theater director Rufus Norris makes his feature film de-but with Broken, a tender coming-of-age drama starring Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy and young upstart Eloise Laurence. Centred around eleven-year old Skunk, the film chronicles the turmoil in a dysfunctional suburban cul-de-sac populated by broken homes, broken souls and, increasingly, bro-ken bones. Broken is a culmination of unhinged emotional crises, thuggish crackups and fleeting moments of connection that basks in its cinematog-rapher’s consummate glow.

Film: Le Grand Soir – exclusive pre-release screening

15 March - Melkweg Cinema, Amsterdam 21.00 | €5 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

A week before the official release of Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern’s new film Le Grand Soir, we are teaming up with De Filmfreak for an exclusive pre-release screening at the wonderful Melkweg Cinema. So come on down for a sneak peak into the absurd, humorous and anarchistic universe of Not, an old French punk rocker who knows a thing or two about freedom. Read more on page 47.


The Sound of the Dutch Underground21 March - Melkweg, Amsterdam


Subbacultcha! got its start promoting Dutch bands, but has spent the past few years focusing a bit more on international acts. As the local music scene in the Netherlands just keeps getting more and more varied, inter-esting and interconnected, it’s high time we return to our roots! Our first festival will feature no less than 20 Dutch acts, from great labels like Sub-routine, Snowstar Records and Samling Recordings, playing on four differ-ent stages at The Melkweg.

Featuring

Herrek – Athmospheric dark folk. Vox Von Braun – Fuzzy stoner pop from Groningen.WOLVON - Uncompromising noise-rock trio. Glass Eyes - Electronic sighs.Spilt Milk - Amsterdam’s own slam-folk/dead-poet ensemble.Lemontrip – Melancholy galoreEarth Control - Lo-fi casio garage punk. Eklin – Haunting ambient sounds.zZz - Dark and groovy veteran sleaze duo. Bismuth - Duo Yuri Landman and Arnold van der Velde banging on their homebuilt experimental instru-ments.H-SIK – A bass heavy mix of dub, grime and footwork.

Façade - Haunting electronicsMike Koldin – Synthdrone ambient with stunning visuals. Kleinindustrie – In-your-face noiserock.April - Utrecht Wavepop trio.Space Siren - The loud sound of sadness.Those Foreign Kids - Noisy dance-punk/garage noise.Vakantie - Happy hardcore from Groningen.Mere Duo - Avant-garde/clas-sic/jazz.Nouveau Vélo - Perfect three-min-ute indiepop treasures.Body II Body – Slick and sexy dance tunes for a late-late night. Palmbomen (DJ-set) – Prolific Palmbomen spins personal favs.


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Jeremiah Jae21 march - Tivoli Spiegelbar, Utrecht


Chicago native Jeremiah Jae describes himself as an emcee, producer, vi-sual artist and healer. Affiliated with Young Black Preachers and the Black Jungle Squad Cxllective, Jae released several mixtapes and collaborations before starting to collaborate with Flying Lotus. Jae released 2011’s Rap-payamatantra via FlyLo’s Brainfeeder label, relocated to Brainfeeder’s home in LA and made the budding romance official by letting the label release his proper debut, Raw Money Raps, this past summer. Appropriate, given that mystical self-description, Jae uses spacey, psychedelic production reminis-cent of Flying Lotus’s own style to create a dream-like effect, while the way his vocals drift in and out of focus shapes him as a mysterious and mystical persona FlyLo himself referred to as ‘underrated and understated’.

Holly Herndon + Ignatz27 March - OT301, Amsterdam

20.30 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! members28 March - WORM, Rotterdam

21.00 | €7| Free for Subbacultcha! membersHolly Herndon is all about blurring the boundaries between man and ma-chine. The Tennessee native and lifelong choir singer lived in Berlin for years, where she was immersed in that city’s bustling club culture but also made an aborted attempt to master a ‘real instrument’ (the contrabass) in

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order to be taken more seriously as a composer. She returned to the US to study Electronic Music & Recording Media at Mill’s College, and being surrounded by students treating laptops as legitimate instruments inspired her to forgo ‘real instruments’ for good. On her 2012 debut, Movement, she manipulates her own crystalline voice with the precision of an ice sculptor, breaking it into chunks or crushing it into bits before carefully arranging it amidst chilly electronic soundscapes.

Lower + The Sweat Release of Death

29 March - WORM, Rotterdam21.00 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

In their recent paean to Nordic government policies, The Economist sug-gested that ‘if you had to be reborn anywhere in the world as a person with average talents and income, you would want to be a Viking.’ Appar-ently they didn’t interview bands like Iceage, Holograms and Lower be-fore arriving at this conclusion. The latter is the latest young band from up north that sounds like they’re mad as hell and they’re not going to take it any more. A brash and ballsy four-piece from Copenhagen, Lower burst on to the scene this past spring with their aptly titled Walk on Heads EP, a nine-minute maelstrom of pummelling drums, explosive high hats, screech-ing guitars and passionately shouted lyrics that railed against the monot-ony of daily life.

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Foam Photography MuseumOpen daily 10.00-18.00, Thur and Fri until 21.00

€8.50 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Foam is always free for members, and through late March there are sev-eral new exhibitions on display: the first major solo exhibition of Dutch duo WassinkLundgren; Jan Hoek’s photos of bizarre models (and the even more bizarre stories behind the pictures); the work of Toneelgroep Amster-dam scenographer/house photographer Jan Versweyveld (celebrating the theatre group’s 25th anniversary); plus a diverse selection of 19th-centu-ry Russian colour photography, from hand-tinted plates to mass-produced prints. Canary, a surreal and unsettling 2007 series by Japan’s Lieko Shi-ga, opens on the 22nd.

TENTOpen Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00

€4 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersVisiting this Rotterdam platform for contemporary art is free for members in March. The solo show by Rotterdam- and Berlin-based artists Libia Cas-tro & Ólafur Ólafsson that opened in February continues. This duo’s work examines the influence of socio-economic and political factors on the sur-rounding world in the form of installations, video works and neon sculp-tures, all produced over the last ten years.


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Crosslinx 2013 ft. The Dodos + Patrick Watson + Nils Frahm

28Feb-Vredenburg,Utrecht01Mar-Muziekgebouw,Eindhoven

02Mar-Paradiso,Amsterdam03Mar-DeDoelen,Rotterdam

04Mar-Oosterpoort,Groningen

As you might guess from its name if you thought about it long enough, this open-minded and innovative festival crisscrosses the Netherlands over the course of a few days, linking together musical genres and avant-garde artists ranging from indie rock to classical music, often via special collab-orative performances you won’t see any-where else. The festival also organises mini concerts in odd little locations such as boil-er rooms and cellars to showcase upcoming musicians via its Music Mining initiative.

STRP Biennial01Mar-10Mar-HetKlokgebouw,

EindhovenTen days of hybrid music, art and technol-ogy for curious people, housed in perhaps the most exciting and inspiring space in Eindhoven; The industrial STRIJP-S area. The festival features DJ sets by SBTRKT, Hudson Mohawke, Lunice, Apparat and

many more; a New Machine Era ‘proeftuin’; and a City of Cyborgs exhibition.

Brooke Candy01Mar-Paradiso,Amsterdam

Grimes fans will recognise Brooke Candy as the pink-haired Freaky Prince$$ from last year’s video for ‘Oblivion’. Not that you’d expect something subtle or uptight from a stripper-turned-rapper known for her two-metre-long neon-coloured braids and seemingly two-metre high heels, but just to make it clear: Candy canes misogynists and haters with all the subtlety of a sledgeham-mer and nary a spoonful of sweetness.

FIDLAR02Mar-Melkweg,Amsterdam

The name of this LA skate-punk quartet is an acronym for ‘Fuck It Dog, Life’s A Risk’, and at least on record they live according to this mantra with an almost religious dedica-tion. Alternately evoking the Black Lips, the Descendents, Wavves and even Blink-182, they make risky business like surfing, skat-ing, drinking cheap beer, doing cheap co-caine, smoking cheap weed and taking shitty pills sound like so much fun, you’ll be ready to convert as well.

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UV-Pop + Mytron06Mar-WinstonKingdom,Amsterdam

Sheffield’s John Kevin White started this downtrodden new wave/post-punk group as a solo project back in 1981, eventu-ally taking on band members and playing on and off until 1997, when he disbanded the band. White resurrected it in 2010 ex-clusively for live shows, including a well-re-ceived performance at Incubate 2012, and the reception of their recent re-releases has been warm enough to inspire them to record new material.

5 Days Off06Mar-10Mar-DeBalie,Melkwegand

Paradiso,Amsterdam5 Days Off brings the party back to the heart of Amsterdam. Straddled over the first two weeks of March and two of Amster-dam’s largest venues, the annual electronic music festival hosts both established acts and emerging talent. This year’s line-up fea-tures the likes of Hudson Mowhawke, Ara-abmuzik, Tom Trago, Gilles Peterson, Float-ing Points, Benji B and much more.

Iceage06Mar-Effenaar,Eindhoven

(Subbacultcha!)09Mar-Vera,Groningen

A refreshing mix of goth, hardcore and post-punk with undeniable energy. Read more on page 58.

Chad Valley07Mar-Tivoli,Utrecht(Subbacultcha!)

08Mar-SugarFactory,AmsterdamOxford native Hugo Manuel’s work as Chad Valley has gradually shifted away from the Balearic bliss of his early EPs towards more traditionally structured but still lovely synth pop. Read more on page 58.

Listen to This ft. Colin Stetson(WithSubbacultcha!sideprogramme)

08Mar-Muziekgebouwaan’tIJ,Amsterdam

Michigan-born, Montreal-based saxophonist Colin Stetson has worked with Bon Iver, Ar-cade Fire, Tom Waits and many other shit-hot musicians and bands, but his solo work is something else entirely. Using unusual techniques and circular breathing, he man-ages to conjure a breathtaking variety of mournful, otherworldly sounds from his bass saxophone, creating stark and emotional-ly evocative work unlike anything else out there right now. Subbacultcha! is in charge of the side programme tonight, and you can read more about it on page 59.

Girls Names09Mar-DeNieuweAnita(Subbacultcha!)Though their early work was more surf-rock inspired, the fourth release from Belfast’s Girls Names finds them dropping in on the recent wave of post-punk revivalism. Read more on page 59.

Heems13Mar-Paradiso,Amsterdam

14Mar-013,Tilburg(Free)Heems, aka Himanshu Suri, rose to fame rapping with now-defunct Das Racist, a hip hop trio whose deadpan rhymes filled with allusions to race and pop culture were often hilarious, but always left audiences guess-ing as to whether they were laughing with you or at you. Heems’ lyrical focus on socio-economic and political topics and probably ironic pretentiousness irks some, and in the past his delivery has occasionally crossed the line from casually cool to just plain slop-py, but his backing beats have always been solid, and his latest work on Wild Water Kingdom finds him adopting a welcome sin-cerity and focus.


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Pien Feith14Mar-Bitterzoet,Amsterdam

Much of Amsterdam’s Pien Feith’s early work was stripped down, emotionally bare folk music, but over time she’s collected band members and incorporated more elec-tronic elements into her sound. Though the title of her new album, Tough Love, means treating someone you love coldly or harsh-ly, Feith for sure isn’t referring to the experi-ence of taking in its warm and slick synth-pop goodness.

Herrek + I Am Oak16Mar-Patronaat,Haarlem(Free)

A great chance to see two of the best young bands in the Netherlands – for free! Groninger Gerrit van der Scheer cut his teeth as the frontman of Bonne Aparte and the guitarist for Adept before forming Her-rek as a more lyrically-focused project. Mu-sically, the band is purportedly inspired by bands incorporating tribal and mystical in-fluences, and Van der Scheer jacks up the jungle vibes with lyrics about his childhood on Papua on debut album Waktu Dulu. I am Oak, meanwhile, is the celebrated slowcore project of Utrecht’s Thijs Kuijken.

Nosaj Thing17Mar-Melkweg,Amsterdam

LA-based Jason Chung was destined to become a band geek, but then a hip hop-loving bus driver, some bootlegged audio-editing software and productive friendships with the likes of Daedelus and Flying Lotus shaped him into the hip hop- and dubstep-influenced IDM whizz he is today. His new album, Home, finds him letting some wel-come warmth into the cavernous chilliness of his early work.

Yo La Tengo17Mar-Paradiso,Amsterdam

If you had to judge by their musical out-put as two-thirds of quintessential indie rock band Yo La Tengo, then Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley must have a pretty awe-some marriage. Since they formed the band in Hoboken, New Jersey back in 1984, they’ve released album after album of multi-faceted, sprawling indie-rock imbued with a sense of peacefulness and playfulness you could seemingly only find when content. ‘Yo La Tengo’ means ‘I have it’ in Spanish, and that zen sense of confidence is reflected in every release.

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The Men17Mar-Paradiso,Amsterdam

20Mar-Merleyn,Nijmegen

Brooklyn four-piece The Men are as virile and no-frills as their name implies, playing hardcore post-punk that’s melodic, distort-ed and LOUD. They come off as the kind of dudes that would shove you in the pit but immediately pick you back up if you fell, foaming beers in hand, faces flushed and beaming all the while.

Kilo Kish + The Internet19Mar-Paradiso,Amsterdam

Basically, Kilo Kish is an extremely beau-tiful sort-of rapper with an extremely girl-ish vocal delivery not far removed from Kit-ty Pryde’s, but since she’s also got a whole legion of adoptive big brothers who just so happen to be producers, she finds herself surrounded by sick beats (and hype) in-stead of Hello Kitty pillows (and derision).

Egyptian Hip Hop19Mar-Tivoli,Utrecht

This Manchester band got sucked into the UK hype machine even before they had re-leased a first EP at the ripe old ages of 16 or 17. After the initial media blitz died down, they retreated from the spotlight, now emerging two years later with a refreshing-ly weird and warped sound reminiscent of Connan Mockasin.

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21Mar-Melkweg,Amsterdam(Subbacultcha!)

Our first festival will feature no less than 20 Dutch acts, from great labels like Subrou-tine, Snowstar Records and Samling Re-cordings, playing on four different stages at The Melkweg. Read more on page 61.

Jeremiah Jae21Mar-Tivoli,Utrecht(Subbacultcha!)

This LA-by-way-of-Chicago MC/producer and Brainfeeder signee uses spacey, psy-chedelic production reminiscent of Flying Lotus’ style to create a dream-like effect. FlyLo himself calls Jae ‘underrated and un-derstated’. Read more on page 62.

Klub 470 ft. Masha Qrella 22Mar-Goethe-Institut,Amsterdam

Klub 470 provides a podium for exciting upcoming German bands. This edition fea-tures Berlin based hazy pop singer Ma-sha Qrella.

Nobunny22Mar-Effenaar,Eindhoven

Justin Champlin’s work as Nobunny is something like the mix of garage rock and bubblepop pop that Hunx and His Punx are known for, except that he punx Hunx’s sil-ly moustache and cutesy outfits by taking things one step further, with a not silly but rather creepy bunny mask and not cutesy but rather disturbing (and hilarious) outfits of raw meat, garbage, ball gags and even firecrackers.

Food Film Festival22-24Mar-KriterionandStudio/K,

AmsterdamWith all the shows, drinking and dancing this month, we know your stomachs will be aching for a healthy meal. The Food Film Festival offers a sumptuous three days sat-urated with everything you need to know about nutritious, sustainable and whole-some grub with ‘tasty, high-quality products that are sustainably produced and free from dubious preservatives.’ There’ll be enough films, workshops, markets, food trucks and mouthwatering chow to make you slobber.


Lower23Mar-IndieIndie,Amsterdam

29Mar-WORM,Rotterdam(Subbacultcha!)

30Mar-ORKZBar,Groningen

A brash and ballsy punk four-piece from Copenhagen, Lower is the latest young band from up north that sounds like they’re mad as hell and they’re not going to take it any more. Read more on page 63.

Geertruida On Tour ft. Sexton Creeps, Glass Eyes, Vuurwerk

23Mar-Patronaat,HaarlemHaarlem house show haven Geertruida is famous for its living room shows, but to give the neighbours a break they sometimes take the show on the road. Following a suc-cessful first edition of ‘Geertruida on Tour’ at the Patronaat Café in November, they’ve put together another genre-defying line-up.

Mirrorring26Mar-Muziekgebouwaan’tIJ,

AmsterdamLike the fingers of two hands intertwined, Jesy Fortino’s electro-acoustic minimal folk as Tiny Vipers and Liz Harris’ electro-acous-tic ambient/noise work as Grouper fit to-gether in the form of Mirroring both effort-lessly and beautifully. 2012’s Foreign Body, their first collaboration, is a seamless fusion of their respective styles – a dreamlike and diaphanous recording suitable as beauti-ful background music, but dense enough to lend itself to closer and repeated listens.

Wild Nothing27Mar-Paradiso,Amsterdam

Jack Tatum’s 2010 debut, Gemini, was very well received. Partly because of the timeli-ness of Tatum’s nostalgia, but more impor-tantly because of his preternatural gift for

memorable melodies. His 2012 follow-up, Nocturne, was rife with timeless-sounding pop songs filled with graceful guitar melo-dies that sound like a dream come true no matter what time of day you hear them.

Tracks ft. Pekka Kuusisto 28Mar-HetConcertgebouw,AmsterdamThose of you who saw the amazing free-for-Subbacultcha!-members performance of young Finnish violin player Pekka Kuusis-to at Het Concertgebouw back in Novem-ber know that this one comes highly rec-ommended.

Holly Herndon27Mar-OT301,Amsterdam

(Subbacultcha!)28March-WORM,Rotterdam

(Subbacultcha!)This Tennessee native uses a laptop to ma-nipulate her crystalline voice with the pre-cision of an ice sculptor. Read more on page 62.

Jessie Ware28Mar-Melkweg,Amsterdam

London’s Jessica Lois ‘Jessie’ Ware is yet another beautiful and talented pop singer, but her music is elevated above the ordi-nary by her association with extraordinary producers like SBTRKT and Joker.

The King Khan & BBQ Show29Mar-Paradiso,Amsterdam

King Khan once shoved his bare and not particularly shapely ass in the face of Lind-sey Lohan while performing with the Black Lips side project the Almighty Defenders at Cannes Festival. His work with BBQ (aka Mark Sultan) is similarly unruly. Additional information to persuade you to witness this crackerjack’s antics live seems superfluous.

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Overview of all Subbacultcha! shows in March

06 Marchiceage + supports

AreaFiftyOne, Eindhoven20.00 | €10 | Free for members

07 MarchChad Valley

Tivoli Spiegelbar, Utrecht20.30 | €7 | Free for members

08 March Listen To This:

Side ProgrammeMuziekgebouw aan ’t IJ,

Amsterdam19.00 | Free for all

09 MarchGirls Names +

PostmodemDe Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam20.00 | €8 | Free for members

11 MarchFilm: Jagten

16CC, Amsterdam19.00 | €8 | Free for members

12 MarchFilm: Broken

LantarenVenster, Rotterdamtba | tba | Free for members

15 MarchFilm: Le Grand

SoirExclusive pre-release screeningMelkweg Cinema, Amsterdam 21.00 | €5 | Free for members

21 MarchThe Sound

of the Dutch underground

Melkweg, Amsterdam19.00 | €12 | Free for members

21 MarchJeremiah Jae

Tivoli Spiegelbar, Utrecht20.30 | €7 | Free for members

23 MarchFreezing Favela

Mediamatic Fabriek, Amsterdam

12.00-18.00 | €5 | Free for members

27 Marchignite 26

Mediamatic Fabriek, Amsterdam

19.30 | €8 | Free for members

27 MarchHolly Herndon

+ ignatzOT301, Amsterdam


28 MarchHolly Herndon

+ Maan + ignatzWORM, Rotterdam


29 MarchLower + The

Sweet Release of Death

WORM, Rotterdam20.30 | €7 | Free for members

All MonthFoam

Photography Museum

Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thur and Fri until 21.00€8.50 | Free for members

TENT Rotterdam

Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00€4 | Free for members

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