Some major news: we finally have the website of project/exhibition SEE-A-SOUND online! The exhibition SEE-A-SOUND shows you how music is seen by a designer and heard by a musician. How the one inspires the other. The exhibition runs at bkkc Tilburg (The Netherlands) from January 27 until April 20, 2012 and is initiated by Fremdtunes and Mashville and co-produced by bkkc.
Participating artists are COCO BRYCE, KID SUNDANCE, LOULOU & TUMMIE, MICHIEL SCHUURMAN, MISTER ADAM, SOLO MODERNA, SOOSH, STAYNICE, STUDIO BOOT, JULIAN EDWARDES, JEROEN EROSIE, KELPE, BORIS TELLEGEN, DJ OPTIMUS, DJ MACE, JAMESZOO, ATTAK, DJ GRAZZHOPPA, GRAPHIC SURGERY & SUPERNOVA.
And there’s a new DJ Mace mix online with tracks by Rob Swift, Free The Robots, Vc, Robot Koch/John Robinson, OptiMace, Ben Butler & Mousepad, Alkoholiks (subliminal remix by DJ Iron!) and many others – to satisfy your everlasting hunger for fresh tunes: http://www.mixcloud.com/Fremdtunes/dj-mace-october-2011-mix/.
To promote the new music release by OptiMace “This Music Is Not Music” (FREE), on Kitchen Dip, Kitchen Dip and Fremdtunes are holding a contest! This contest is based around the song “Invasion of the Lettermen”, a track (ft Erwin Vann & Shycop) which is the result of a collaboration between DJ’s/producers OptiMace and graphic artists Mashville. DJ Mace & DJ Optimus took turns with Dr. Jay & Mister Adam (Mashville) to create the musical & visual combination. The CD & Silkscreen Poster are very rare, only a handful were pressed.
Some extra info on Mashville: on October 7nd these guy’s will open their expo ‘Big Dushi Taes’ in Berlin (Pierce Warnecke will be performing amongst others!): take a look at: http://www.neurotitan.de/EN/archive/2011/111007_bigdushitales_en.html. Also: Mashville and Fremdtunes are working on a project called See-a-sound with 20 graphic designers and DJ’s/producers…more info soon!
First of all: we, under the alias of OptiMace, just released a brand new EP called ‘This music is not music’ on the great netlabel Kitchen Dip Recordings. A peculiar mix of jazz, hiphop, pop, soundscapes and electronics. It’s fresh, funky & free! Go download the EP at http://kitchendip.org/optimace-thismusicisnotmusic/.
More OptiMace news: we invited some of the finest artistst around to remix tracks of the ‘Used Future’ EPand one by one the remixes are coming in. We’ve decided to put ‘m out on 7-inch first (in a series of 3) and afterwards as digital release. So, vinyl-lovers first! The remixers are: Big Mister Doom, Deformer, DJ Devastate, DJ Mace, Eni-less. iET & Optimus, Ill Symphony, KRSUR and Moods. We’ll keep you posted on release-dates!
In the meantime, alotof good music hit ‘the streets’: classic Dutch hiphop crew The Proov just put out their new LP Off the cuf, Vindictiv dida nice remix, distorted and striking as ever, Frietboer just released Fiks and beatking Coco Bryce released a smashing 7-inch on Saturate. For more monthly musical hints – check our juno chart.
So, that’s the Weather Fremdcast for today. Stay tuned!
Superelectric and Mister Adam animated a part of the track ‘Pound for pound’ by DJ Optimus ft Prince Po. This song appears on our labelsampler ’Fremdtunes – the series 2′ (out on vinyl) and the forthcoming DJ Optimus debut ’Double Helix DNA’. Since Organized Konfusion’s ‘Fudge Pudge’ Prince Po has been one of our alltime favorite mc’s. If you want to know why, listen to: ‘releasing hypnotical gasses’, ‘bring it on’, ‘last of the greats’ and ofcourse ‘copy cats‘.
The past 3 years we’ve been sweating our heads off to accomplish this release and now it’s finally there: the official vinyl debut by OptiMace: ‘Used Future’. It sounds crispy & dusty and it looks shiny & enchanting.
Make sure you order the vinyl quickly: The record’s pressed in limited numbers! …
The EP is available at the following shops and probably soon available at a shop near you!
The digital version of the début EP Used Future by Dutch DJ’s/producers Mace and Optimus, together OptiMace, is out now! The EP is the result of an intensive cooperation between the two, using all types of equipment like vintage samplers & synthesizers, fx-pedals, turntables, ‘ordinary’ instruments and materials like stoves and brushes. OptiMace created a playful mixture of dusty, jazzy beats, electronics and soundscapes. The two, who also combine forces in label Fremdtunes, invited Belgium saxophone player Erwin Vann to add some mind-blowing brass to the tracks. The digital version comes with a bonus-track, Flash, featuring DJ Vindictiv. Rush Hour distributes the vinyl (out on 04/18/2011). The artwork is done by Klaas Verplancke and Mister Adam.
We at Fremdtunes are currently finishing the debut EP ‘Used Future’ by OptiMace. Klaas Verplancke & Mister Adam are finishing the artwork and we’re to start telling the world about this release. But before we can any further we’d like to introduce you to the track ‘OptiMaceVille – Invasion of the Lettermen ‘. It’s a track that resulted from a collaboration between OptiMace and Mashville in 2009. Mashville is a collaborative art project initiated by Mister Adam and drJay. They invite people to work with them by exchanging images in order to create a silkscreen print together. They create one image, pass it on to the collaborator to complete/change and get a completely different outcome back. They work on it some more and send it back again. Image ping-pong so to speak. Once satisfied with the outcome they’ll have it printed. In the case of OptiMace they worked on image-music-ping-pong (so to speak). OptiMace invited saxophone player Erwin Vann and guitarist Shycop to complete the track and this is the result:
Nikanika as known as Rosa Maria Koolhoven took some very great black & white pictures for us/of us – for promotional use only! Since we really like what this very friendly and talented misses did, we urge you to visit her blog and take a good look.
Here’s a little compilation of ímages of a great Fremdtunes night at ‘Land van Loos’ at 013, Tilburg, The Netherlands. Mister Adam and Superelectric did live art and visuals. DJ’s were Jameszoo & Coco Bryce and Fremdkunst ‘pocket size’ featuring Erwin Vann performed live. The track on the video is by Solo Moderna (Fremdkunst’s ‘Sidewalk surfers & eccentric dancers’ remix). Enjoy!
Some major news: we finally have the website of project/exhibition SEE-A-SOUND online! The exhibition SEE-A-SOUND shows you how music is seen by a designer and heard by a musician. How the one inspires the other. The exhibition runs at bkkc Tilburg (The Netherlands) from January 27 until April 20, 2012 and is initiated by Fremdtunes and Mashville and co-produced by bkkc.
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