The Felice brothers - Fire at the pageant (2011)
SimpleSongs - Contact/Impact (2011)
Tingle in the Netherlands - I lost my heart to a starship cleaner (2011)
Imperial teen – Runaway (2011)
The Jonbarr hinge - Spinning rocks (2011)
Future of the left - Polymers are forever EP (Xtra mile , 14/11/2011)
Danko Jones - Mouth to mouth (2011)
San taam (Mad detective) (Johnnie To & Ka-Fai Wai, 2007)
There is a reason why hip-hop is dead – it has betrayed its roots and completely sold itself to the evils against which this subculture rose against. It's easy to buy "production values" when you have enough money to throw in the air in clubs but the truth remains that those wannabes (to avoid Tom allusions here) are pathetic, vacuous, and disrespectful ignorant sell outs. Commercial hip-hop that is. Underground HH is alive and kicking, and at the forefront are titans like Dead prez, Paris, Immortal technique and Pharoahe monch. They are the democrats to the Lil' B & Minaj republicans. They are the voice that America needs to hear but prefers to mask with the bling shit of Jay Z and Drake (Drek in Yiddish fits better). The analogies can go on forever, but simply prick your ears to this interview IT gave while visiting Occupy Wall street. Then download his latest effort called The martyr. It's free, and it has some killer tracks.
The Brandt Brauer Frick ensemble ft. Emika – Pretend (from: Mr. Machine, !K7 24/10/2011)
Brown bird - Fingers to the bone (2011)
We cut corners - Pirate's life (2011)
The aprons - Firefly (from: Sound stains, Hi fidelity 11/2011)
Der Räuber (The robber) (Benjamin Heisenberg, 2010)
Julia Holter - Try to make yourself a work of art (from: Tragedy, Leaving 30/08/2011)
Whitehorse (Melissa McClelland & Luke Doucet) - Killing time is murder (2011)
Up – Figured out (2011)
Steven A. Clark – Stranded (2011)
Cave birds - Some lightning thrill (2011)
Trash talk - Awake (True panther, 11/10/2011)
Maybe the more conservative, closed, racist and money-obsessed a society is the more bleakly intense its true artists are. I thought that Haneke was hardcore (which he is), but then cam Seidl. Stark realism? With all due respect move aside Loach (I'm not talking about the Korine joke). No one comes close to such a brutal, grim, cold, hopeless and dismal portrayal of modern society as this guy. Now that I live in Vienna, I can understand why only they can make such films.
Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl, 2007)
Dead sons - Shotgun woman (2011)
Band of skulls - The devil takes care of his own (2011)
Big Scary - Gladiator (2011)
Matthew Herbert - One pig (Accidental, 10-10-2011)
Snowtown (Justin Kurzel, 2011)
Jûsan-nin no shikaku (13 assassins) (Takashi Miike, 2010)