Happy New Year y'all!

The PAVLOV crew wishes you an outstanding 2011. With less traffic jams, oil spills, political crises, bad music, bad films, bad food, earthquakes, cheesy hit-40 remixes, tornadoes, right wing maniacs, left wing maniacs, boring cooking programmes, hangovers, rain, bloghouse, impolite waiters, horribly produced dubstep, long queues, African dictators, flu, and much more fun!

Holly Miranda

This is Holly Miranda. Born daughter of a priest, she was raised severely religious and learned to sing in church choir on Sundays. At sixteen she dropped out of school and moved to New York. Few years later she met up with TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek to record her first album “The Magician’s Private Library”. Live she is assisted by the talented Timmy Mislock who some of you might know from his solo project Abandoned Lighthouse.

Central narrative of her album is both sides of sleep: either staying awake or drifting away in dream. The thought that the night is always the hardest part when things get though, shimmers through songs like ‘Joints’, ‘Slow Burn Treason’ and ‘Sleep On Fire’. In ‘Waves’ and ‘No One Just is’ Miranda sings of long lost love, as she twists her hauntingly beautiful voice into the deep cavities of her soul. A very intimate and well produced album. Christmas present? Nah, keep it for yourself.

Choosing a single video-moment to go with this post has never been harder but I decided to show you the very same fragment I first saw of hers. ‘Pelican Rapids’ is an unrecorded song Holly uses as an encore for her gigs. It’s so raw and intense. Watch in HD, full screen and maximum volume to faint in absolute swoon.

Hannes

Bill Willingham - Fables

If you love a good fairytale, then better hold on to your socks for Fables! It's a comic book by Bill Willingham, who throws all the characters from fairy tales into one great story. Because all the characters are chased by their nemesis - the Adversary-, they have to seek refuge in the real world, where they find shelter in NY. It's a struggle to fit in with non-magic beings, in combination with the constant thread of the adversary.

The book gives a very nice twist at the fairy-tale creatures: making Pinochio an angry boy who just wants his balls to drop and grow up, while prince charming appears to be one big asshole. The realistic look on the creatures only heard from in stories we've been told is refreshing and the addventures they go through are beautifully written. This makes it really worth your while to pick up the book, because faibles will nail you down to your chair and leave you no less than amazed.

Emily

Brodinski - The Best of Everything pt.II

Woot Woot!

Brodinski's long awaited Best of Everything compilation finally dropped on XLR8R yesterday. Some great remixes of Brozzers favorite R&B and hiphop tracks by top notch producers as Djedjotronic, French Fries and Renaissance Man!

Grab it while it's still hot!

Free Beach House Christmas Single

Showing their grace to the kind and warm people that have supported them during this incredible year, Beach House, the dreamy indie rock duo consisting of French born Victoria Legrand and Baltimore based Alex Scally, have released a Christmas-single for free on their website. And it’s as sweet and wonderful as you imagine it to be.

Indulged by the swirling snowflakes and glooming white sceneries, the ever charming Legrand reflects on the past, present and future to decide: “Thou darkness come, so quick in time. Shortens our days, to longer nights. Snowflakes that fall across our eyes. It's all that matters, this time of year”

Grab it here.

Hannes

Icycle

Exams are right around the corner for most of you, and I know a little time-waster can be very helpful to get yourself back on the happy-track when you are trying to stuff your head full with knowledge in a too short timespan. If you find yourself tearing your hairs out as a result of frustration in combination with a cafeine overdose, a little game always proves useful tot ease the mind.

Icycle is pretty simple: a little balding guy rides his bike naked in what appears to be a new ice age. You have to bring him safely through eight levels. What makes this game so special and definitely worth playing, is its very neat design, its superb little sound-effects and the great artwork.

Play here. Enjoy!

Superamas - YOUDREAM

Imagine. A social network where people can share their dreams. Room for everybody throughout the European mainland to ventilate their wondrous adventures in the hazy shades of their dream world. That is what Superamas, a young and dynamic company, offer to their spectators in YOUDREAM.

Superamas have always been pleasantly surprising and innovating. With their new production they have yet again pushed their own limits quite a bit further. Operating from three different media (a television series, a website and a theatre show), YOUDREAM is spectacularly intimate as well as funny and amusing. On www.youdream.be it has been made possible for people all around the world to tell their dreams in front of their webcam and upload them to the YOUDREAM-database. These dreams, along with those from random spectators in the audience, are then incorporated in the absurd and highly entertaining theatre show. “Superamas make your dreams come true”. And how!

Truly, if you are rarely seen in a theatre-building or get uncomfortable even thinking about sitting still for an hour to watch people move and talk on a stage, this is the one show you really should drag yourself to. Utterly entertaining and staggeringly surprising, YOUDREAM will not let you or your dreams down.

Youdream plays at the VOORUIT GHENT on the 17th and 18th of December. Tickets and info www.vooruit.be

Hannes Dereere

FormaT - My 100 tracks of 2010

The Liège scenestars of FormaT have posted a quite impressive list of their 100 favorite tracks for 2010. Have a peek if you think you have missed something.

You can find the list here!

Blackbox Revelation - High on A Wire (Waxdolls Kills Your Television Remix)

The Ghent based electrorock/porncombo Waxdolls have made an edit of this awesome track by The Blackbox Revelation. This should get the hands in the air on your new year's eve homeparty. Waxdolls are giving the track away for free soon, but untill then we'll have to settle with a streaming version. As you can see I found a relevant picture of half-naked girls as a bonus.

 The Black Box Revelation - High On A Wire (Waxdolls Kills Your Television Remix) by WAXDOLLS

Das Racist

Maybe I'm a bit late with this, but I'm going out to see Das Racist in Ghent tonight. Their Sit Down, Man is one of the best rap-albums I have heard in years, so I'm pretty thrilled about the show. I Also found a 12inch of Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin to Fuck With in a record store this afternoon, so I'm feeling gangsta today.

Anyway, here's some Das Racist youtube proxy if you don't feel like going out.



Flx

Barbarella

If there is one film I always recommend to everybody, then it's barbarella. One of my favorite movies of all time. Barbarella is played by Jane Fonda, and her love and husband Roger Vadimis is the director. The movie is based on a comic book by Jean-Claude Forest, that was published in V-magazine.

It is an "erotic sience-fiction" wrapped in lots of fur. you won't see any 'real action', but it's constantly talked about. The mission of Barbarella is of course: love, and she brings the love in very very tiny outfits (and a lot of them too!).The special effects are intentionally not very realistic, andthe dialogues are not very complex, but it all makes the atmosphere more alive!

And also, movies that have devices like an Orgasmetron, you just got to love them!

Emily

Jonas Bendiksen- Satellites

Some of us already know his name. Maybe you know him as one of the youngest Magnum members, or maybe you saw his photograph for The Bony King of Nowhere's debut album Alas My Love. Bendiksen is Norwegian and was born in 1977. He made a couple magnificent documentaries, travelling around the globe. I want to share his first book Satellites. It contains a bunch of emotional, fascinating and beautifully composed pictures that he took during a trip of seven years across the former Soviet Union. A must see!

You can check more of Bendiksens work on www.jonasbendiksen.com.

Fien

Pavlov Mix-up 1: Kinne

We at PAVLOV are pleased to serve you a monthly mix-up by people that we think are great or who have payed us huge amounts of money to get their work up. First in row: local beat-puzzler Kinne and his unstoppable army of dance floor bombs.

Pavlovmix-Up 1: Kinne by Pavlovmixup on Mixcloud

Jamaica

The French electro-pop duo Jamaica hits Bruges this saturday. If you're into happy guitar hooks, electronic drum patterns and all-around catchyness you should put this show in your agenda. One for the hipster quiznight: Jamaica's first album was produced by Xavier de Rosnay of Justice (the one without the giant moustache that is).

Jamaica plays the Ma/Z on saturday 27 at 22:00. They sound like this:

JAMAICA - I Think I Like U 2 VIDEO from bermudapants on Vimeo.

More info + Tickets here.

Walkers pt. II

For those who still have doubts about how amazing The Walking Death really is (both comic and series)... The fine people from the Scream Awards thought so to and awarded the comic with the Best Comic Book or Graphic Novel-prize!

And here, just for you, the official trailer of The Walking Death Series. Enjoy!



Emily

Bryan Ferry - Shameless (Mylo Remix)

I'm having a lot of time on my hands these days, so spending it on the search for good music is one way of not boring myself to death. I found this awesome Mylo remix of Bryan Ferry in an earlybird internet search (9.10 A.M.). Mylo hasn't really produced anything worthwhile since his album Destroy Rock'n'Roll, but this elektropop take on Roxy Music style-icon Ferry is a groovy winner. I don't think I will be needing more music to get trough the day.

 Bryan Ferry - Shameless (Mylo remix) by mylo

If you like pretty girls, you might also want to check out the exposition of Roxy Music cover-art that is currently running in the shop Renaissance (Nationalestraat, Antwerp). It will look like this:

Flx

Eat this Jimmy Page!

Try playing Stairways to Heaven on this monster.

Hipster Hitler

This ironically dressed, fixie riding führer must be one of the funniest things on the web. Creators JC and APK turn Adolf in a 2010 hipster. He has a pitchfork-obsessed taste in obscure indy bands (like Arcade Führer), wears skinny jeans and organizes organic pic-nics.

Check out their comics here and get your own "I love juice", "Death Camp for Cuty" and "Eastside, Westside, Genocide" shirts

Flx

Kris Verdonck / A Two Dogs Company – K, A Society

Kris Verdonck’s K, A Society must surely be one of the most exciting installations and/or performances of the past year. Previous work has learned that his ability to create scenes and atmospheres that often go beyond the surreal, is truly inspiring and knows no borders. With this installation he, yet again, proves us his skill as he takes his spectators on a guided tour of a building where his works are displayed at different locations.

Time, space, reality, suicide and society are just some of the notions Verdonck investigates, as he takes us an a trip through different sceneries. His playfulness with the opposing concepts of reality and fiction, shows through extensive use of the medium film. The innovative way he uses space and installs his works in the rooms is to be admired: through dialogue with the surrounding areas, his installations gain spherical qualities, both in the positive as in the negative space.

As Verdonck asks his spectators at the start of the performance that he or she “mustn’t in any way seek meaning or coherence between the different installations”, the spectator gets pushed in more or less the same position of a little child that is asked not to eat the cookies that are standing right in front of him, on the top shelf of the cupboard; the spectators are stimulated to reflect on what he or she is seeing, just like the little kid is stimulated to get those cookies that have come right out of the oven, infusing the living room with the scent of chocolate and cinnamon. It is one of the playful paradoxes that mark Kris Verdonck’s way of thinking and give K, A Society a humorous and spontaneous touch.

An absolute must-see! K, A Society plays from the 26^th of February until the 6^th of March 2011 at Performatik festival in Kaaitheater, Brussels. More information over here: http://www.atwodogscompany.org

Hannes Dereere

Braiden - The Alps

DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!



Flx

Tom Callemin

Young gun Tom Callemin has thrown his work online. Tom studies photography at the KASK in Ghent. His photographs, always composed with great care for detail and composition, are meant to put question marks to our society. "They ask us questions, but do not provide the answers".

You can check the pictures full-scale during Tom's exposition in the 44gallery, from 17 untill 19 December.

To get a better view, go to Tom's site here!

Wavves

Wavves - "Post Acid" from GreenLabelSound on Vimeo.


Little hint for those who are looking for some fun music to dance the shitty autumn rain away: Check out
Wavves! They played the AB last Friday and were totally on fire. Frontman Nathan Williams has had an awful live reputation, after a really shitty performance in Barcelona, 2009. Drugs and alcohol caused him to insult both the public, the soundman and his drummer (who ran away in anger after a while). But now Wavves are back and killing it live. Their catchy mix of surf and punk (labeled "Shitgaze" by Pitchfork) made the crowd go berserk. I almost forgot how much I've liked their album since it came out last summer, but after the show they're back in high rotation on my Ipod.

Also, I found a free download of the track on Greenlabelsound.

Digitalism - Blitz

Probably old news for some of you, but 2008 scenestars Digitalism are working hard on the follow-up of their highly acclaimed debut album. Blitz is the first single and features some great Digitalism trademark sounds. Epic arpeggiated synths, a stomping kick and a rocky undertone. But I'm especially psyched about the unbelievably awesome Harvard Bass remix. Drop at 4.15 is so filthy it should be restricted 18+.

Bonus: Kitsuné was so kind to share this neat Moonlight Matters remix for free!

walkers

Walking Dead has been one of my favourite comics for quite a while now. Its a page-turning story made by Robert Kirkman about a zombie-outbreak, and the few people left trying to make it another day without dying (or something like that). A comic with a very human take on the world of zombies. And now Frank Darabont has turned this really awesome ongoing comic into a tv-series just as amazing as the comic itself! After watching the first episode I'm completely befuddled. If there ever will be a zombie outbreak, this is what's going to happen.



Emily

BLU

Blu is an Italian street artist. He paints on huge walls in big cities like Berlin or Milano.

His work is an unique combination between street-art and video-art. In addition to wall-paintings Blu also makes films where his paintings interact with their environment, and make it part of the artwork.


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Tony Senghore - sitzkrieg

Word on the streets that Tony Senghore's new EP will drop very soon, which is very good news, since it will contain Sitzkrieg! Completely hyped flat last fall, when Brodinski included it in his Mystery Mix, everyone kind of forgot about the track by now. But now sitzkrieg is back, with it's uncompromising bleepy sound, a dancefloor weapon of choice.



Felix

Our Broken Garden - Garden Grow

This definitely blew me away yesterday: Our Broken Garden. They played a show in the Ma/Z (Bruges) together with The Acorn (who were the reason for me to come down, but they appeared to be pretty mediocre). Efterklang pianist Anna Bronsted really is a great singer (and so cute all the boys wanted to take her home).  Add to this a Danish viking on bass who played his slowcore grooves like they were shredmetal riffs, and the picture is complete.

If you're into stuff like The Knife, you should check them out for sure.

Our Broken Garden - Garden Grow from Bella Union on Vimeo.

Felix

On Air!!!

We are officially launched right now. Feel free to drop by at the marquee in Bruges tonight, were local noisedudes MAZE and the not so mysterious Black Cocks of Death will be hosting a tiny, tiny free party.

Btw, this lazerstuff will never get boring.

Lazertits

You just have to love this.


http://www.lazertits.com/

Keith & Supabeatz - Higher Place E.P.

I've been planning to post about these guys for some time. Keith & Supabeatz are (in my humble opinion) Italia's most underestimated producers, spitting out fresh, perfectly produced tracks that keep surprising me. Ever since Supabeatz released his "Seven" mixtape with seven new tracks/remixes, I was nearly exploding with excitement every time I checked beatport (which is every day). Last week they finally released their Higher Place EP, which made me childishly happy. 'Stuffed' is absolutely the best track of the four, with its tech-house feel and groovy bassline.
 SEVEN MIXTAPE [03] by Supabeatz

   Keith & Supabeatz: Higher Place EP by Southern Fried Records

BONUS: Here's a mixtape that the gents made to promote their EP

Keith & Supabeatz - Higher Place Mixtape by Southernfriedrecords on Mixcloud

buy Higher Place on Beatport
Show them some love on facebook

Zombie Nation - Overshoot/Squeek

Teutonic beatshredder Zombie Nation has finally released his long awaited Squeek/Overshoot ep. After the great ZZafrika release last month (as ZZT, together with Tiga), this one again shows that mister Kernkraft hasn't lost any relevance in the constantly evolving scene.

Both Squeek and Overshoot are what could only be described as massive bangers. Although Overshoot clearly is my favorite, combining filtered vocals and a great bassline. Both Mehdi and Bart B-more deliver a great remix, the last one being available as a free download.

 Zombie Nation - SQUEEK (Original) by zombie nation

 Zombie Nation - OVERSHOOT (Original) by zombie nation

 Zombie Nation - OVERSHOOT (Dj-Mehdi-Remix) by zombie nation

 Zombie Nation - SQUEEK (Bart B More Remix) - DOWNLOAD by zombie nation

Buy at Beatport

Bonus: get Zombie's great november mixtape here

Rubber

If you're into some really weird shit you should check out Rubber, the new film by Quentin Dupieux (better known as Mr.Oizo). The bearded producer/graphic designer/director is known for his own take on things, including taking the piss out of fellow producers pretty boldly when needed. So I expected no less than avantgardish-semi-intellectual-nonsense and that's probably even an understatement.

Rubber is Dupieux's ode to the "no reason" that he discovers in every movie. It sort of gives him the freedom to tell the absurd story of a rubber tire (called "Robert") gifted with the power to destroy things with pure mental power. While bouncing around happily in the Californian desert, blowing up rabbits, crows and human heads, the tire suddenly falls in love with a girl (+very sexy French accent), a starts stalking her.

Al this utter nonsense is supported however by Dupieux clear talent for scenery, as Rubbers photography is no less than brilliant. The desolate Californian desert fits perfect, and as the story evolves and becomes even weirder, you still kind of get sucked up by it. I think I can recommend the film, although I'm still not sure if I really liked it. It's probably best that you go check it out for yourself.

RUBBER TEASER 1 ! from oizo mr on Vimeo.

And, there IS footage of Robert attending the premiere at Cannes. I'm starstruck.

Quentin Dupieux's "Rubber" world premiere at Cannes, lead actor Robert, ready to enjoy the screening from Julie Bernard on Vimeo.