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2009 Update Log

Connexion Bizarre staff music picks of 2009

James Church
Hecq - Steeltongued
Defrag - Lament Element
Access To Arasaka - Oppidan
Skullduggery - You Are here [No.Where]
Stendeck - Somnambula
Totakeke - The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes
Millipede - All My Best Intentions
Randomform - Redapt EP
C/A/T - We Are Still Alive
Venetian Snares - Filth

Dutton Hauhart
Tonikom - The Sniper's Veil
Error Response - Zen
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Mimosa - Hostilis
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons
Moderat - Moderat
Marching Dynamics - The Workers Party of Haiti
Angina P - Sensitive Files
Stendeck - Sonnambula
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

Shannon Malik
Port-Royal - Dying in Time (n5md)
Lingouf - Ange Et Gruikk (Ant-Zen)
Disharmony - Evolution (Tympanik Audio)
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself (BPitch Control)
Stendeck - Sonnambula (Tympanik Audio)
Exocet - Grotesque Consumer (Ant-Zen)
Mc1R - Unusual Art (ISM-Records)
High Wycombe - Reverser (Wycombe Music)
LAN Formatique - The Sadness of Distances (Force of Nature Productions)
Totakeke - The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes (Tympanik Audio)

Alexei Monroe
Shift - Bulk (Silken Tofu Productions)
Rapoon - Dark Rivers (Lens Records)
Zilverhill - Latent-Active-Descent (Adeptsound, Blind Shouter)
Autopsia - Karl Rossmann Fragments (Illuminating Technologies)
Velehentor - Diatlov Pass (Infinite Fog Productions)
Manasyt vs. Beta Evers - Shibari (Bunker Records)
Legowelt - Liechtenstein (Open Concept Recordings)
S.K.E.T. - Depleted Uranium Weapons (Hands)
Iron Fist of the Sun - Behavioral Decline (Cold Spring)
Mika Vainio - Black Telephone of Matter (Touch)

Olivier Noel
Hadewych - Hadewych (Tuchtunie)
Karjalan Sissit - Fucking Whore Society (Cyclic Law)
Conure - Stream (Edgetone Records)
It-Clings - Fuck it All (Bugs Crawling out of People)
Empusae - Mortusae (Hands Productions)
Y.E.R.M.O. - Collision Zone (Idiosyncratics)
Hyios - Consuetudines (Malignant Records)
Lustmord - [BEYOND] (Vaultworks)
Zonk't - Beat wins you and me (Sound on Probation)
T/M/K - Need the Needle (Aentitainment)
Infected Mushroom - Legend of the Black Shawarma (Perfecto)

Miguel de Sousa
Prometheus Burning - Plague Called HuMANity
Marching Dynamics - The Workers Party of Haiti
End - The Dangerous Class
T/M/K - Need The Needle
:papercutz - Lylac
Wentworth Kersey - (O)
Solar Skeletons - Necroethyl
Skullduggery - You Are Here [No.Where]
Urceus Exit - Compensation For The Sound Of Silence
Broken Note - Terminal Static
+
Various - Electronic Manifesto 3: French Tribute to Mute Records

Kate Turgoose
Gossip - Music for Men
The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
The Wildhearts - Chutzpah
Wentworth Kersey - (O)
Peter Vanek - This Belief EP
:papercutz - Lylac
Displacer - Lost Mission EP
Fischerspooner - Entertainment
The Tiger Lillies - Freak Show
End - The Dangerous Class

Pedro Vieira
Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
Din [A] Tod - Westwerk
Krystal System - Voodoo Night Sessions EP
Geneviéve Pasquier - Le Cabaret Moi
Die Form - Noir Magnetique
Soko Friedhof - Totengraeber
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio - O N A N I [Practice Makes Perfect]
Antoni Maiovvi - Shadow Of The Bloodstained Kiss
Brite Lite Brite - Universe Universe
Katsen - It Hertz

Adam Williams
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
S.K.E.T. - Depleted Uranium Weapons
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
1349 - Revelations Of The Black Flame
Skullduggery - You Are Here [No.Where]
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Imminent - Cask Strength
Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
Necrotek - Menschenfeind

2009-12-28
Reviews: Gjöll "Sum Of Transformations", It-Clings "Fuck It All", tokee "PLUS"
Interviews: Everything Goes Cold
Podcast updated. The Connexion Bizarre podcast is now also available on the iTunes directory. It can also be subscribed using any podcast grabber (like Juicer) from the RSS link ( ).
Links: Why did Copenhagen fail to deliver a climate deal?, Nine Inch Nails "Another Version of the Truth: The Gift", Socrates in America - Arguing to Death, The idea of progress - Onwards and upwards, Being foreign - The others

2009-12-21
Reviews: The [Law-Rah] Collective "Solitaire", A Beautiful Curse "As It Should Be"
Podcast updated. The Connexion Bizarre podcast is now also available on the iTunes directory. It can also be subscribed using any podcast grabber (like Juicer) from the RSS link ( ).
Links: Weaponizer, AP INVESTIGATION: Monsanto seed biz role revealed, Mystery of Tony Blair's money solved, Ataque de Pánico!

2009-12-14
Reviews: Mono-Amine "Like A Machine", Various "Kod.eX Electronic Compilation"
Interviews: Access To Arasaka
Releases: Various "You Are Here: a Compilation of Indiana Electronics"
Podcast updated. The Connexion Bizarre podcast is now also available on the iTunes directory. It can also be subscribed using any podcast grabber (like Juicer) from the RSS link ( ).
Links: ATX "In A Green Room", Cairnia "24 hours in the city", MySpace/Imeem Deal Leaves Thousands of Artists Unpaid, Scepticism's Limits, Johann Hari: Leaders of the rich world are enacting a giant fraud, The climate denial industry is out to dupe the public. And it's working + The denial industry case notes

2009-12-07
Reviews: Zilverhill "Latent-Active-Descent", Geneviéve Pasquier "Le Cabaret Moi"
Interviews: B. Forrest of Mangadrive
Links: Taishin Inoue, Alter Der Ruine "beating a dead horse - the Relax and Ride it single ep", Angelspit "blood death and ivory remix album", Mandr01d "All I Want for Christmas is a Burnt Out Car", Torrent vaccine "remixude", Kinetik Festival statement on Rachel Haywire / machineKUNT Records / Experiment Haywire (official), How Robber Barons hijacked the "Victorian Internet", Signs of change in the Himalayas as Copenhagen summit begins, Do You Care About Privacy?

2009-11-29
Reviews: The Bureau Of Nonstandards "The Bureau Of Nonstandards", Wentworth Kersey "O"
Interviews: M.M. of Zhelezobeton
Links: Minor Label, State-X New Forms, T-Faktor "Bricks & Thunder", Darwin Tunes, A world of hits, Middle-class struggle, Splitting Time from Space

2009-11-23
Reviews: RMSonce "Reflections"
Releases: Phllox "h[a]unted"
Links: Countryside Alliance Crew, Retrigger "Ornitorrinco Voador", Sounds Good To Me - MP3 vs. Lossless Audio Compression, The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbulb, Scientists Create Bacteria that Glows to Reveal Land Mines, "The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov, Emotrance - the new name of bullshit

2009-11-16
Reviews: Cullen Miller "Stolen Nature"
Interviews: Dave Leach of Vendetta Music
Links: Bpitch Control, Marasm, Battleground Bristol, Club Transmediale, Welcome to the Collidoskope - Mr Brownstone's, The Death of Mistakes Means the Death of Rock, How To Sink Pirates, Mimicking the Building Prowess of Nature, Why Fundamentalism Will Fail, Jacko tried to buy Spider-man: 70 facts you didn't know about Marvel, How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insider’s Confession + Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell

2009-11-09
Reviews: Thermometerometer "Who Measures The Measurers?", Torrent Vaccine "Tentative Response", Transistor6 "Virgin Venom", Violence and the Sacred performing as Viosac "You Are Planning To Enjoy The Apocalypse", Talbot & Deru "Genus"
Links: Displacer "Lost Mission", João Aguardela / Megafone "Megafone - música para uma nova tradição", Stpocold "What happened outside", EU Telecom package: Final agreed text, Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really) + Large Hadron Collider scuttled by birdy baguette-bomber + The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate

2009-11-02
Reviews: Defrag "Lament/Element", dISHARMONY "Evolution", Gerostenkorp "Terre Brûlée", Aere Aeternus "Humanity Needs No Funeral"
Links: Arkronik, Umpako, Musée Bizarre, Marcus Reuter & Ian Boddy "Dervish Remixes", Mak's Chornyj "Sarkofagiya", Metaform free downloads, MI5 comes out against cutting off internet pirates, China looks to export censorship, The new fast ways of keeping in touch are driving us further apart, Criminal record checks are turning us into a nation of suspects, Virtual Geocities Tribute

2009-10-26
Reviews: Autoclav1.1 "Where Once Were Exit Wounds", Lacus Somniorum "Tideshaper", Cities Last Broadcast "The Cancelled Earth"
Links: Bandcamp, Dresden Codak, TuneCore, in[toxin] "ufo rave", t_error 404 "Modify", Various "That's Romance... (a tribute to John Zewizs) I" + "That's Romance... (a tribute to John Zewizs) II", , Amanda Palmer "Virtual Crowd-Surfing" + "Why I am not afraid to take your money", Null Device "Working the DIY angle"

2009-10-19
Reviews: Fhievel Pipe Smoking on a Balloon", Sunao Inami Disinfectant", Y.E.R.M.O. Collision Zone", [syndika:zero] Blindness", V/A Whiteline Vol. III"
Links: UMBkollektif
Net releases spotlight: Zahia "Zahia"
Other recommended links: Recording studios are being left out of the mix, L'affaire Jean Sarkozy est symbolique d'une "culture monarchiste", Remembrance of Things Future: The Mystery of Time

2009-10-11
Links: Elektrotribe, Buried Electric Records, Heavy 7 Productions, Xiled Radio
Other recommended links: Craig Colorusso's Sun Box Installation @ Important Records, Trafigura and the Probo Koala + links at Wikileaks (here and here and here), BBC, Spectator and here, Our weakened parliament, 'There will be incredulity that the party of Churchill chooses allies like this'

2009-10-05
Reviews: Wentworth Kersey "(O)", Millipede "All My Best Intentions", Skin Contact "Antitrust", Tzii "Rotten Friendship", V/A "Miwak 12", Roughhausen "Someone's Got To Pay", Brian E "Yellow Light District", Low Technicians "Riga"
Interviews: Ian Boddy of DiN
Links: Vaski, Chase Records, Sonic Circuits
Net releases spotlight: Amitron_7 "The Anton Phase Electro Clockwork Menagerie", Ikimashoo Aoi "Sun Bridge", Nheap "Skymotion"
Other recommended links: The Peter Principle, How to Publish a Scientific Comment in 1-2-3 Easy Steps, The $20 Theory of the Universe, Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child

2009-09-27
Net releases spotlight: b°tong "hysteria", Comaduster "Slip Through", Muhmood "6200 miles of silence", Rafael Flored & Lezrod "6", Various "Weezer - The 8-bit Album"
Other recommended links: Too Hot for MTV: The Best Music Videos You Have to Find Online, Musicians back 'three-strikes' rule for illegal filesharers, 39 Creative and Sometimes Controversial Examples of Playstation Advertising, Lifelounge Magazine, Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine, I was sentenced to life in a Chinese labour camp. This is my story., Revisiting DIY HERF Guns

2009-09-21
Reviews: Dead Voices on Air "Fast Falls the Eventide", Miel Noir "Der Honigflügel", Pål Asle Pettersen "Komposisjoner 2005-2008", Thunderwheel "Credo", Overdose Kunst "Was Ist Overdose Kunst?"
Links: AeroCCCP Records, Collins Comics
Net releases spotlight: Indo "Tangata Manu", TunçAk
Other recommended links: This professor of denial can't even answer his own questions on climate change, Cracking the Spine of Libel, Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs

2009-09-14
Reviews: Juan Matos Capote "Jabal", End "The Dangerous Class", Skullduggery "You Are Here. [Nowhere]", Zonk't "Beat Wins You And Me", Empire State Human "Audio Gothic", V/A "The Clock Machine Turns You On: Volume 2", Mad Therapist "Alien Element", Parallel Worlds "Shade", Abraxas Projekt "Baraka-Visions", 15 Degrees Below Zero "Resting On A", Dessau "The Truth Hurts (1985-2000)", the M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab "Modern Expressing Machines of Revolutionary Youth"
Interviews: Stefan Herwig of Dependent
Links: Solar Skeletons, Biothing
Net releases spotlight: Mach FoX "The Last Planet EP"
Other recommended links: A copyright black hole swallows our culture, Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars, How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers, Music industry cooks UK government's piracy stats, World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports, Religion is not the primary motivation of suicide bombersTreatment of Alan Turing was "appalling" - PMOn Influenza A (H1N1) - hacking H1N1Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America'

2009-09-07
Reviews: Alistair Crosbie "Music for Shipwrecks", Hyperbubble "Better Set Your Phasers to Stun", Mind Disruption "Fuck Yeah!", Poordream "Immaterial Monarch", Roto Visage + Worms Of The Earth "Celestial Malaise", Solar Skeletons "Necroethyl", Sturqen "Sturqen"
Interviews: Stefan Herwig of Dependent
Links: Basses Frequences, Frigio Records, Peace.Off, Cold Graey Netlabel, Cophosis Rec., Belgian Independent Music Festival, Festival Elektro Circus, Geek Pop, Schizophrenia, ze Sub:Culture, HALAS.am, Ill FM , Association Cycle Opérant, Alien E-Zine, DarkRoom Magazine, Kronic.it, Border Crossings
Net releases spotlight: Bacalao "Tribute to Micromusic", Collothen "Frenetic EP", Countryside Alliance Crew "Pure Rural Essentials EP", Gamma10 "Pamplona", d'incise "les lendemains étendus", Minusbaby "Left", Muckrackers vs. The Austrasian Goat "Muckrackers vs. The Austrasian Goat", Muckrackers vs. Dead For A Minute "Muckrackers vs. Dead For A Minute", Muckrackers vs. Kultur_Industrie "Muckrackers vs. Kultur_Industrie", Muckrackers vs. Stru[K]tur_D "Muckrackers vs. Stru[K]tur_D", Myrrman "PorNOsmagoria", Nuclear O'Reilly "Phoning It In", Phelios & False Mirror "Entropy Reversed",Les Poissons Autistes "Mal Foutu", Urceus Exit "Compensation For The Sound Of Silence", Zero Degree "Aufbruch", Various "Midinette All-Stars"
Other recommended links: Nuclear O'Reilly Music Production, Unpop Art, Die Rostigen Löffel "G Schroeder", "Alive in Joburg", Electro Violence, Take it to the Stage: Reflections on Live Laptop Music from Artists, Laptop Bands, Mastering 101, Do I Want to Buy Your CDR?, US music publishers sue online lyrics sites, Torrents and physical ownership score high for music fans, Climateprediction.net, "In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition", I Never Want To Hear The Word "Franchise" Again, "Disney Buy Marvel Comics For $4,000,000,000", "The Ten Questions Marvel And Disney Have To Answer", Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street, Copy©unts, Dave DeVrie's "The Monster Engine", "The Love Eaters", Mister Crimson, Sillof's Workshop 2009-08-03
Reviews: Hecq "Steeltongued", T/M/K "Need the Needle", Fujako "Landform", Hyios "Consuetudines", Pandora's Black Book "Black Brothel", Tapage "Fallen Clouds", Tyske Ludder "Anonymous", Black Lung "Full Spectrum Dominance", Horchata "Acytota", LAN Formatique "The Sadness of Distances", Accomplice Affair "Samotny Horyzont", Exocet "Grotesque Consumer", Hyperdriver "Naked Aggression", Sleepchamber "Sorcery, Spells and Serpent Charms", Violet "Violet Ray Gas and the Playback Singers"
Links: DOPE Records, First Fallen Star, Auflegware, Bitcrusher, Electric Sheep Comix
Net releases spotlight: Sick To The Back Teeth "I Hate Your Happiness", Various "Bitcrusher - Pixelation", Various "netBloc Volume 22 (Life on Ceres)"
Other recommended links: No Dirty Gold, Swan Songs?, Trent Reznor "my thoughts on what to do as a new / unknown artist", Large Hadron Collider Struggles, To the Moon - with extreme engineering, Buzz Aldrin weighs into NASA, Dancing with the Devil in Africa, Rough Justice - Victorian style

2009-07-27
Reviews: IP Neva "Symbiosis of Contradictions", Laurent Chambert "Eurêka", For Greater Good "For Greater Good"
Links: Operateur Fotokopieur, Midinette Records, Noise Central Festival, Noxious Art, Spektro Festival
Net releases spotlight: Operateur Fotokopieur "Atomic Spaceship", Various "TwoCircles 8"
Other recommended links: Noise Central Festival @ Summer of Darkness 2009, Playmate Ancilla Tilia strips for Wakker Dier, Vanish: self-destructing digital data, Pseudoscience is not a valid educational choice, The soldier in later Medieval England: an AHRC research project, American Telegram: Reasons People are Still Sending Telegram, "Confessions of a Superhero", Paul Robertson illustration, Zalgo Approaches

2009-07-20
Reviews: Psychic Space Invasion "Transmission"
Interviews: Peter Vanek, David Holmes of Summer Rain Recordings, Dean Dennis & Snook of Kibuka & Nohno (part 2)
Links: ConSouling Records, Electric Electics
Net releases spotlight: BLÆRG "Soulseek Days", monsieur connard "Connard Président", nin kuji "vision quest | the medicine man (jamsessions)", Paradigm "Textured Sound"
Other recommended links: VioSac, Xevor Records, 1984: Changing Perceptions of Surveillance, "The folly of pretence", "Riot police raid birthday barbecue for 'all-night' Facebook tag", "In New Procedure, Artificial Arm Listens to Brain", 10 Business Lessons I Learned from Playing Dungeons & Dragons, Opo Terser's photostream

2009-07-13
Reviews: Angina P "Sensitive Files", L'ombre "Letting Go At The Steering Wheel", A Wake A Week "Little Black Cloud", Mandelbrot "Evolution", V/A "United Vol.II"
Interviews: Dean Dennis & Snook of Kibuka & Nohno
Links: 64 Revolt, Kibuka, Caustic music industry blog, 12K, Dragon's Eye Recordings, Summer Rain Recordings, Shy The Sun
Net releases spotlight: 64 Revolt "What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse", Sector "Industrial Cosmetics", Shizuka / Zno "Koalition 01", Muckrackers / Beinhaus "Koalition 02"
Other recommended links for this week: Astropope, The Colony, LA 'ripped off' over Jackson gig

2009-07-06
Reviews: :papercutz "Lylac", SE "Epiphora", Coreline "Bone and Blood as Stone and Mud", Cyclotimia "Music For Stockmarkets", Surma "Allocutio", Aphorism "Surge", Noises of Russia "Experimental Structure", Samarkande "3 Synapses"
Net releases spotlight: Hezzel "Magnets", Various "X"
Other recommended links for this week: Bob Basset, 25 awesome Cross-platform games you can download for free

2009-06-29
Links: Pochette Surprise
Net releases spotlight: Ad-ver-sary "A Bright Cut Accross Velvet Sky"
Other recommended links for this week: GUD Magazine, Arrested Iranians face terrifying ordeal, The Iranian Election and the Revolution Test, Copyfraud: Poisoning the public domain, Jackson dies, almost takes Internet with himO2 arena counts cost as curtain closes on the greatest show of all

2009-06-22
Reviews: CTRL "Lost In Static", Bella Lune "Abstracted Visions"
Links: Skincage, V-Atak, Automation Records, Das Drehmoment, Intox Noize
Net releases spotlight: Mach FoX - "Dr. night EP"
Other recommended links for this week: Tatsuma's Iran Timeline update
JournalSquared: Iran's Netwar, Gwynne Dyer: the Rules for Street Demonstrations in Iran are different, Who's Who in Iran's Political System - Top 10 players in Iran's Power Struggle, Eyewitness: from Tehran's streets, In Iran, One Woman's Death May Have Many Consequences, Foreign Policy: would Iran be different under Mousavi?, How to set up a proxy for Iran citizens, The Dawning of Internet Censorship in Germany, Jail Sentence for Hentai Owner raises First Ammendment Issues, Ruling on NightJack author Richard Horton kills blogger anonimity

2009-06-15
Reviews: Connect_icut "They Showed Me The Secret Beaches", Flatline Skyline "All Sound / No Vision", Rubik "Carrion EP", UberByte "Dos"
Links: Skin Contact
Net releases spotlight: Various "Screaming Into The Void Vol.1"
Other recommended links for this week: Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has joined a huge rally against the result of last week's election, defying a government ban., Iran election: state moves to end 'Facebook revolution', Who Protects The Internet?, French court savages "three-strikes" law, tosses it out, Lawyers plan class-action to reclaim "$100M+" RIAA "stole", Army Mechanic's Garage Tinkering Yields 18-Foot Mecha Exoskeleton

2009-06-07
Links: Escape From Terra, MindHack
Net releases spotlight: Josie Gallows "Guilty Sunrise", the BRAINHOLE "Nothing (Feels Like...)"
Other recommended links for this week: "Green Porno", Somalia: one week in hell, The pirates will always win, says Carphone's Dunstone, Illegal downloads and dodgy figures, "Et tu, Marvel?"

2009-06-01
Reviews: Kreuzer / Surma "Viltis", Orchestramaxfieldparrish presents ÆRA "To the Last Man / Index of Dreaming", Totakeke "The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes", "Disintegration", Nommo Ogo "Space Cross"
Links: EE Tapes, Phantasma 13, Top 40
Net releases spotlight: Cisfinitum "0 vs 0", "Landschaft", "Malgyl"; Perfection Plastic "L'echec de la matiére"; "Soundtrack Of My Day" (Electrobel)
Other recommended links for this week: Lost in Space, epiSkin, R2-D2 Translator

2009-05-25
Reviews: Cisfinitum "Nevmenosis", v4w.enko "Harmonic Ratio", Murder By Static "Danceland Dead"
Interviews: Sebastien Béné-Le Touarin of Amesha Spenta
Links: NKS International, Intelligent Machinery, Phantom Circuit, Tunecore, PES, Night Of The Livind Dead: Reanimated
Net releases spotlight: Buben "Shtukar", Various "Get a Glimpse: Ad Noiseam Free Compilation for Spring 2009", Various "Klang!", Various "Lift Muzak", Various "Vox"
Other recommended links for this week: "Old Growth Media and the Future Of News", Still looking for the western feminists, BNP Stock Photography, "BSA piracy figures need a shot of reality", Mixed Feelings, Top 50 movie special effects shots, Eminem vs. the Punisher, Evolution of Technology

2009-05-17
Reviews: Anhedonia "Ontology", Kryptogen Rundfunk + Hladna "Rokton + Formanta", Niko Skorpio "Psylocibe Necrophilia", Taphephobia "Anomie", Ministry of Rites "Grid"
Links: Disease Foundry Recordings, Plague Haus, Instant Action Oject
Net releases spotlight: Various "Non-Pop #3"
Other recommended links for this week: "Killing The Scene" and "A Mild Taste Of Disdain" two downloadable mixes by DJ Intoner, Hadopi: la création sacrifiée, How Damaging is Illegal File-Sharing?, Pirated pop keeps stars popular, Political animals, "A Survival Guide for Decent Folk", Nightjack

2009-05-11
Reviews: Tonikom "The Sniper's Veil", Necrotek "Menschfeind", the Gothsicles "Sega Lugosi's Dead", Amesha Spenta "Amesha Spenta", Sister Loolomie & Kryptogen Rundfunk "[w]interloop[s]", High Wycombe "Reverser"
Interviews: Anhel Liaros of Spectraliquid
Links: Astor Bell
Net releases spotlight: The Gothsicles "NESferatwo", Wunderblock "Act!"
Other recommended links for this week: Completely Deaf - a follow-up discourse of music downloads, La Nouvelle Industrie Lorraine 3, "Lovecraft Country", a collection of Mythos-based short films ("A Lovecraft Dream", "The Hapless Antiquarian", "Between The Stars", "The Other Gods", "Ryleh"), My Manhattan Project, The danger of drugs... and data and Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Journal, "The Wandering Soul"

2009-05-04
Reviews: Aidan Baker & The Infant Cycle "Rural Sprawl", Prometheus Burning "Plague Called HuMANity", Keef Baker "Pen Fifteen", Blindhaed "Whether That Will Make People Want To Become Archaeologists, We'll Have To See"
Links: Mckmn, Fuck Parade
Net releases spotlight: Luminous "The House of Spades", Various "Silver Echo Records Compilation Vol.2"
Other recommended links for this week: Unauthorized Downloads - a discourse, Backlash UK, The Hunt For Gollum, Zombie Animals and the Parasites that Control Them

2009-04-27
Reviews: Lingouf "Kovoclak", MCKMN "Orphan Ristophe", Fractional "Still Life?"
Interviews: Laurent Perrier
Links: Black Montanas, Impulsive Art, Noise Central Festival,
Net releases spotlight: mind.area "Thenceforward EP", Interior Disposition "Therapy", Various "Absetzer", Various "Cd1d Compil #4"
Other recommended links for this week: Bankai, solipsistic NATION No. 138: Exquisite Corpse II, Fatwa Overload, A Cyber-Attack on an American City, Hackers: the China Syndrome, The Future Of Computing Will Be Good Enough, Fishy tales

2009-04-20
Reviews: V/A "Emerging Organisms Vol.2", Mika Goedrijk "Pellicules", This Morn' Omina "Momentum of Singular Clarity", V/A "Get A:Head", Contagious Orgasm "One Drop Water", Mobthrow "Mutant Dubstep Vol.3", l'Ascenseur "40 Below", U.S.O. Project "InharmoniCity"
Releases: K'teus "Audio Hypersigil 1 (The Awakening)"
Links: Dragon's Eye Recordings, dMute
Net releases spotlight: Sea of Ice "In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.", Various - "Mind Tree"
Other recommended links for this week: Tomatillos, "pop" & Neil Young by Steve Albini, "What the hell is Laibach all about?", Ants inhabit 'world without sex'

2009-04-13
Reviews: Kibuka "Dystopia", To Mega Therion "The Blood Rituals", Hoarfrost "Ground Zero", Lingouf "Area Keloza", Wolfskin "O Ajuntar Das Sombras", Candiru "Piscatorial Terror", V/A "Manoeuvres 2: A Collection of Vancouver Electronica"
Links: DiN, Vault 106, Deaf Clowns Kabaret, Lovecraft Is Missing, Ahlam Shibli
Net releases spotlight: Informatik "Beyond Remix Contest", Various "STUMM + BONG An Independant Tribute To Mute Records"
Other recommended links for this week: 3leds - Laetitia Morais, Frank Zappa invents filesharing business model... in 1989, The Most Dangerous Person in the World?, Legalisation of drugs could save UK £14bn, says study, Photocops: Home Office concedes concern - Zooming in on the snapper-stoppers, The Dark Side of Dubai, You are being lied to about pirates, Spontaneous Uprising? Corporate Lobbyists Helping To Orchestrate Radical Anti-Obama Tea Party Protests, Amazingly Unique and Weird Lobsters

2009-04-06
Reviews: Kirdec "Das Gemeinsame Schicksal", Sikhara "Anduni"
Links: Webbed Hand Records
Net releases spotlight: Pavonine "Pavonine", ME "Pocket Songs"
Other recommended links for this week: Net firms start storing user data, Paris liberation made 'whites only', London Zoo At City Hall

2009-03-30
Reviews: Marching Dynamics "The Workers Party Of Haiti", Syn- / E.3151 "Manolo on Juliet", Erdem Helvacioglu "Wounded Breath", Kreuzer "In Hoc Signo Vinces", Alaska Highway "Closure", I Am Immune "Entropy", Koolmorf Widesen "Melodies Fork Now", Kilowatts "Love On Saturn"
Links: Intolerance Records, Moment Sound, Bypass
Net releases spotlight: Dril "Ctor", Proyecto de Prueba / Void>Null "Proyecto de Prueba & Void>Null", Sobria Ebrietas "The Secret Chord"
Other recommended links for this week: Evolution Megalab, Pop art in the era of the pixel , "'Defamation of Religion' - Chilling thoughts at the UN" + World Jewish Congress Blasts UN Vote Threatening Freedom of Expression + New UN 'defamation of religion' measure troubling, religious liberty experts say, Graphic artists condemn plans to ban erotic comics, The Human Rights Act can't restrain the government, New campaign to urge Londoners to report suspicious activity, "I am NOT infected"

2009-03-23
Reviews: :papercutz "Ultravioleta rmx's", Art of Sampling "My Definition of Sound Vol.1", Roel Meelkop "An Ear For Numbers"
Links added: Colin Johnco Records, Sónar (es), Wasted (de), Metarc, Syrphe, Tonwellen Mastering
Net releases spotlight: Post Mortem Photographs "Post Mortem Photographs", Zi "Parla-pana"
Other recommended links for this week: A Model Of Control, Long Division With Remainders, "Harry Collins on science, scepticism and Thabo Mbeki", "Five Global Warming 'Tipping Points'", "Loo with a view: The world's toilets with the best vistas"

2009-03-16
Reviews: Skinwell "Tunnels", Conure "Stream", Stendeck "Sonnambula", Waste Disposal Machine "Interference", InnerPartySystem "InnerPartySystem", V/A "12. Elektrisch Festival", Snareburst "Alpha Demo"
Interviews: Jason Hollis of Endif
Links added: cd1d.com, Transistor Festival, Bedsitland (uk)
Net releases spotlight: RSM "Roztrwon Swoj Majatek", V/A "!!!!!CTXRB!!!!!"
Other recommended links for this week: Autopsia "Silent Past", Better than coffee: Cabaret Voltaire, Heavy Metal East: "Music is the Weapon of the Future", How the US forgot how to make Trident missilesUK filters in the Wikipedia amendments

2009-03-09
Reviews: The Other Colors "361", The Synthetic Dream Foundation "Behind the Gates of Horn and Ivory", Synapscape "Again", "Pangaea Noise - an international compilation", Igor Stevanovic "Devil's Night Jazz", Blue October "Walk Amongst The Living"
Interviews: Shane Talada of Marching Dynamics
Links added: Color Theory
Net releases spotlight: Joseph Scott "You Keep Me Hidden EP"
Other recommended links for this week: DOJ releases, abjures Bush administration surveillance memos, How To Think Critically, David Gorski on the insidious myth of 'balance' in science reporting, Toxic Napoli, The Vice Guide To North Korea, Elder Sign

2009-03-02
Reviews: CJ Borosque + Robert M. and INSTAGON "Beautiful", Inversion Effect "A Brief History", Alter Der Ruine "The Giants From Far Away", Ensslin "Holocaust In Heaven"
Interviews: label/collective Les Forces Alliées
Podcast updated. The Connexion Bizarre podcast is now also available on the iTunes directory. It can also be subscribed using any podcast grabber (like Juicer) from the RSS link ( ).
Links added: Waveform Records

2009-02-23
Reviews: no Xivic "Yksityisyys", Caustic "This Is Jizzcore", Dalglish "Ideom", Alfredo Costa Monteiro "Anatomy Of Inner Place"
Interviews: label/collective Les Forces Alliées
Podcast updated. The Connexion Bizarre podcast is now also available on the iTunes directory. It can also be subscribed using any podcast grabber (like Juicer) from the RSS link ( ).
Links added: Electronic Explorations, Solipsistic Nation, Stakanovismo08
Net releases spotlight: Agnivolok "Cherries", Click Point - "Aon Part 1"
Other recommended links for this week: Kultur-Industrie, This Is Why You're Fat

2009-02-16
Reviews: Metaform "Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants", ESA "The & The Silence", Zero Degree "The Inner Realm", Heft vs. Scaffolding "We Will Diminish", Phragments "Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood", Cacheflowe "Cache, Stacks & Queues EP", Hansel "Reshaping Linear Formulai", MMMF "In The Lab", Combichrist "Today We Are All Demons"
Interviews: double interview with C-drík about his activity as musician, dj, promoter, traveller and as labelhead of Syrphe
Links added: Jamez Dean and Squirrel Liberation Front, Violet And The Mutants, VortexSoundTech, La Manufacture de Bruit
Net releases spotlight: Children Egoism "Eleven Axis", Ex Delicto "Hostile", Ivan Ckonjevic "Plavi bicikl pod oblacima rdje", kdes vs. ps "live in Helsinki", Lindstorm "red lights ep", NaRick "Transcendental Storm", t_error 404 "Mecanizmo"
Other recommended links for this week: "Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live", Champagne, lobster and caviar: Robert Mugabe plans binge in land of hunger, Famous Berlin squat faces closure, Join New Zealand Internet blackout protest against insane copyright law, "The other Moore's law", "Suspended animation"

2009-02-09
Reviews: Ovro "Revisited", Steel Hook Prostheses "Atrocitizer", V/A "Electr-Ohm Compilation 2", Shadow Theater "Live in Kaiserslautern"
Interviews: Lucidstatic, Neon Cage Experiment.
Links added: Ex_Tension, Millimetric, Shunt
Net releases spotlight: Black Juggernaut "Images Of Doom"
Other recommended links for this week: Kultura Industrialna

2009-02-02
Reviews: Burikusu!!! "2080", Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words "Lost in Reflections", Stahlschlag "Acoustiphobie", Babylone Chaos "Les Machines Ecarlates", Broken Fabiola "Severed", Tracy Lee Summers "My Favourite Color", SynchDub "Twilight Last Glance", System:FX "High Definition Violence"
Interviews: Nao Sugimoto of Spekk
Links added: Terradisco
Net releases spotlight: Various "Audiotrauma Free MP3 Compilation"
Other recommended links for this week: The Antiphon, "'Immortal' jellyfish swarming across the world", Haunted Photos, Real Touch

2009-01-26
Interviews: Skyd of Pharmafabrik
Net releases spotlight: Fornax "Space Travel EP", t_error 404 "million thoughts", Werk 84 "Gears Keep Turning", Hezzel "Under Pressure"
Other recommended links for this week: Sunny Hundal: did you know... live music events could pose a terrorist threat?, Comedy Goldmine - Antarctica

2009-01-19
Reviews: Protoplasmic Reversion "Sunken Temples", Körperwlten "Avatars Of Rape And Rage", Techny-Call X "Evolution", Blipvert "Stop:Stronk:Explode!"
Interviews: Keef Baker
Releases: "You Are Here: a Compilation of Illinois Electronics" (NCB009) compiled by Nielsen.
Links added: Access To Arasaka, Nau-Zee-auN, Standeg, Flaming Fish Music
Other recommended links for this week: Familienministerin setzt Internet-Filter durch, IWF confirms Wayback Machine porn blacklisting, Report Calls Online Threats to Children Overblown, The Science of Back To The Future

2009-01-12
Reviews: Standeg "Ultra High Tech Violet", Die Baader-Meinhof Gruppe/Red Army Faction "DBMG/RAF", Knar / Mr Genetor "Split CD"
Interviews: Andrew Sega and Reagan Jones of Iris
Links added: DBMG/RAF, Record Label Records, Sound Proector
Net releases spotlight: href="ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/groups/enough_records/enrmp193_control_alt_deus_-_made_of_fire.zip" target="_blank">Control Alt Deus "Made Of Fire", the_maaaigs "Sociophobe", Photophob "Memeplex"
Other recommended links for this week: "Ghost Stories of an Antiquarian", Historical Tweets

2009-01-05
Reviews: "Rush For Black Celebration - Russian Industrial Depeche Mode Tribute", b°tong "Structures"
Links added: Camomille, Net-Lab, They Fell, Textura
Other recommended links for this week: Phantasma13, "2nd: the Face of Defeat", "Deep Throat Meets Data Mining"

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