#EBMday part I. - Euphorbia

Rivetheads of the world unite! It's february 24th or 24/2, in European and Brazilian date formats. Which reminds us of Front 242, and led the Electronic Body Music fans to declare it the international EBM day!

Today, in a series of posts we'll present you the bands that started it all, the ones that kept the machines running, those who are leading the scene today and those with a brilliant 'dark' future ahead.

Starting with my homeland, Brazil.
Brazil used to have a strong scene in the '90s when influential bands like Aghast View, Simbolo and Morgue gained a lot of attention on international music magazines and alternative dancefloors around the world.
But we can still find talented acts like the duo Euphorbia, from the southern Porto Alegre.

In this video, shot at Penumbra Cyberparty, ManMachine (electronics) and Messiah (voice) perform Pater Noster, a song from their EP Achromatopsia released on web label Phantasma 13.

New Combichrist video: Throat Full Of Glass

Combichrist has just released their new music video Throat Full of Glass, directed by talented photographer Chad Michael Ward.

Ward is well known for his creative nude and fetish photography and Combichrist has been spicing its industrial techno anthemns with blood and sex for quite a long. What else could we expect of a video joining them together?

But you'll have to wait to see the uncensored EXPLICIT version, announced to be released soon. The "clear version" made available now shows no nudity but keeps the violence, hotness and fun.

Throat Full of Glass is featured in the album Making Monsters released by Out of Line (Germany) and Metropolis (US) in 2010.

She Wants Revenge - Take the World

"All those moments. Will be lost in time..."

The new video from the US indie/post-punk band She Wants Revenge starts quoting the replicant Roy Batty from the proto-cyberpunk cult movie Blade Runner. And then gets better and better.

Apparently shot with a state of the art DSLR camera (maybe Canon 5D Mark-II) and directed by Adam Bravin (who also is a member of She Wants Revenge) the video makes a brilliant use of shallow depths of field - made possible by the affordable prime lenses for DSLR cameras - to portray the intimacy of beautiful and seductive models. Bravin shows that his talent confortably transpasses the border of music into the realm of photography. And we welcome that!

N-Sphere - Art Magazine

N-Sphere - February issue.

N-Sphere announces itself as "a monthly magazine featuring visual arts in various forms, from the old to the new, from the camera to the needle point. gradually expanding to form its own galaxy, the n-sphere includes an interconnected section with the music world." But it certainly goes beyond that. In the crossover between visual arts and music they also collide (no pun intended) with films and literature as in the article about David Cronemberg's 1996 film adaptation of J. G. Ballard's novel Crash (ok, now you see the pun) featured on january issue. The epigraph "See the breaking glass/ in the underpass" quotes the lyrics from the song Warm Leatherette, inspired by Ballard's novel and originally recorded by The Normal and later covered by dozens of artists including Grace Jones, Block 57, Duran Duran, Chicks on Speed, Pankow and is being covered right now by Aire'n Terre for their upcoming album Nowpunk!

The magazine features artwork from both unknown and stabilished artists from all over the word and you'll certainly recognize names as Kaos Beauty Klinik (aka Richard Kadrey - novelist author of The Sandman Slim and one of the quintessential '80s cyberpunk novels: Metrophage), also featured in the january issue.

Besides the magazine, the N-Sphere team also creates and provide art, design and video to audio artists. Of course you can expect high standard concepts in everything they create as in the video Melancholie for the electro-industrial german band KiEw.

The art/design team behind N-Sphere can be also found standing their ground in mostly every existing social media and online art community. Check the list at http://www.sfere.ro/outside/ and be sure you keep an eye on them!

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N-Sphere se anuncia com "uma revista mensal de artes visuais em suas várias formas, do velho ao novo, da câmera à lata furada. gradualmente se expandindo para formar sua própria galáxia, a n-sphere inclui uma seção interconectada ao mundo da música." Mas certamente vai muito além disso. No cruzamento entre as artes visuais e a música há a colisão (sem trocadilho) com o cinema e a literatura como no artigo sobre a adaptação em 1996 para o cinema de David Cronemberg do romance de J. G. Ballard Crash (ok, agora você entendeu o trocadilho) publicado na edição de janeiro. A epígrafe "See the breaking glass/ in the underpass" cita a letra da música Warm Leatherette, inspirada pelo romance de Ballard e originalmente gravada pelo projeto The Normal e mais tarde ganhando covers de dezenas de artistas, incluindo Grace Jones, Block 57, Duran Duran, Chicks on Speed, Pankow e está ganhando mais uma nova versão pelo Aire'n Terre em seu próximo álbum Nowpunk!

A revista traz trabalhos de artistas renomados e de iniciantes. Você reconhecerá nomes como Kaos Beauty Klinik (também conhecido como Richard Kadrey -autor do romance The Sandman Slim e de um dos romances seminais do cyberpunk nos anos 80: Metrophage), também na edição de janeiro.

Além da revista, o time por trás da N-Sphere cria e fornece arte, design and video para artistas sonoros. Obviamente se pode esperar um alto padrão conceitual no trabalho do grupo, como no vídeo Melancholie para a banda electro-industrial alemã KiEw.

A equipe de arte/design da N-Sphere também pode ser encontrada defendendo seu território em virtualmente toda rede social e comunidade de arte online. Confira a lista em http://www.sfere.ro/outside/ e não os perca de vista!


by Wandeclayt M.

Overclock Zine #6 - Call for contributions!

Achtung! - photo by Wandeclayt M.

Here we go again! A new printed issue of Overclock Zine is being assembled!
And we welcome your contributions!
Overclock is a cyberpunk zine. Focused on music, literature, films, comics, science, technology and visual arts.

Send us:
- Short Stories
- Interviews
- CD/Book/Film reviews
- Comics
- Photography
- Essays
- and pretty much everything cyberpunk related...

We certainly appreciate any original contribution but previously released material is equally welcome.
It's ok to recover the lost bytes on the bad blocks on that old hard disk. We'll find a comfy place for your corrupted data.

Send your contributions to overclock [at] gmail dot com

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A edição #6 do Overclock zine está na linha de montagem!
E estamos esperando sua contribuição!
O Overclock é um zine cyberpunk, focado em música, literatura, filmes, quadrinhos, ciência, tecnologia e artes visuais.

Envie-nos:
- Contos
- Entrevistas
- Resenhas de CD/Livro/Filme
- Quadrinhos
- Fotografia
- Artigos
- E qualquer coisa relacionada (ainda que vagamente) ao universo cyberpunk.

Certamente apreciamos o envio de material original, mas material previamente publicado será igualmente bem recebido.
Então é uma boa hora de recuperar os bytes perdidos nos setores defeituosos daquele velho HD. Encontraremos um abrigo confortável para seus dados corrompidos.

Envie suas contribuições para o email overclock [@] gmail [.] com

Doçura e Poder - a voz de Shannon Funchess

Se o assunto é vozes femininas no synthpop o nome Alison Moyet do duo britânico Yazoo vem instantaneamente à sua memória. mais do que justo. Afinal, Moyet e Vince Clarke (Erasure e Depeche Mode)tem seus hits de 1982 Don't Go e Situation ainda emplacando em pistas ao redor do mundo e escaladas em qualquer coletânea de synthpop dos anos 80.

Mas três décadas depois ja era hora de uma voz igualmente impressionante - doce e poderosa ao mesmo tempo - chegar a nossos ouvidos: Shannon Funchess do Light Asylum tem tudo para ser tão pegajosa quanto sua antecessora Alison Moyet. Sob a voz de Shannon os sintetizadores de Bruno Coviello presevam a atmosfera pós-punk dos anos 80 ao mesmo tempo em que injeta o ar fresco necessário para manter seu som contemporâneo nos anos 2010. Mantenha os ouvidos atentos e não deixe de prestar atenção nessa promissora banda!