Here are some free song dowmloads from this great new comp Halloween of Bloody Nightmares.
Special thanks to AeroCCCP Recordings for letting me share these tunes and for helping to bring Messer Chups to my party Kiss & Tell last March.

End – Everything in Excess (Halloween Version)

Messer Chups – Inferno Image (First Version)

Happy Halloween and enjoy!

Thank you Abigail for making me laugh for the first time today: failblog.org

Photos by dear friend Abigail Feldman (thank you)

my friend JG Thirlwell photo by Seze Devres
Link to The Stone site

and check this awesome line up: www.brainwavesfest.org

Pheek/Jean-Patrice Rémillard’s kitties in Montreal
(photo stolen from Pheek)

Bri3n with his new Turkish kitten Count Baklava

Stephen and baby All-Ball

Brilliant Photoshop collage by my friend Zach

my friend Nica off on her broomstick

I ended up having more fun at the smaller festival Mutek because of the intimacy of the events. We were only there for the last two days of the festival. Saturday night we headed over to Metropolis for an amazing line up. I was excited to see Chloe live but for me the best act of the night was a debut dubby set by Code 9 and Space Ape. This normally isn’t even the kind of music I like but there was something really transcendent about their performance. After their set ended DJ Olive said “Wow that was like Sun Ra!”

The real highlight of the weekend was the outdoor Picnic Electronique with Mathias Kaden & Onur Özur djing together. We danced all day in the foggy wet light rain. No one seemed to be phased by the crappy weather because the music and the vibe was so unbelievably good. In their totally creative set Mathias Kaden & Onur Özur mixed strings and horns into techno tracks. Plus they were super cute to watch as they picked records to play and danced together.

Here is David Last’s amazing photo documentation of Mutek 2008 on Flickr

Me and my new fellow pink haired new artist friend Megan, we instantly became friends after I walked up to her. Photo by my dear friend David Last

We arrived at Metropolis right when the night started, the empty dance floor filled up soon thereafter. Photo by Seze

The visuals were gorgeous and totally different for each act. Photo by Seze

Bunker Bryan with Philip Sherburne, one of my favorite music writers and a super nice person as well. Genevieve & Matt (Portland Techno Promoters Kulture Szene) and Derek are behind them.
Stupid snapshot by Seze

How lucky we are! We danced under a Calder sculpture all day in the rain.
Photo by Seze

I love the pee pee dance logo by Picnic Eletronik
Photo by Seze

hey cat lovers,

This is a photo my brother took with his cellphone, of a cat sitting on a guy’s head! WTF! If I tried to get Konrad to sit on my head while I walked around the city, I am certain it would end in my untimely death by scratching.

xoxo
Zoh

Photo by Zoh’s brother

Here is a phone photo of me & Konrad taken while Bryan and I were babysitting him.

Last Friday The Bunker presented a Raster-Noton label showcase. Carsten, Frank, and Olaf performed separately, with their own accompanying projected images, and then together as Signal. Their visual and audio work has been a huge influence on me for over a decade and I was super excited to see them live. They exceeded my expectations and did not disappoint. Here are some of my favorite photos I took from the event:

photo by Seze Devres

photo by Seze Devres

photo by Seze Devres

photo by Seze Devres

Full gallery at The Bunker Site

Friday May 16 Beyond Booking Presents
Raster-Noton Showcase:
Signal (Raster-Noton | Berlin) live pa
Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto (Raster-Noton | Berlin) live pa
Frank Bretschneider aka Komet (Raster-Noton | Berlin) live pa
Olaf Bender aka Byetone (Raster-Noton | Berlin) live pa
with opening a/v set from:
Morgan Packard & Joshue Ott (Anticipate, Microcosm | NYC)

Bryan’s Press Release for his night:
We don’t think it is an understatement to say that Raster-Noton is one of the most important record labels in the world. Formed when Carsten Nikolai’s “noton.archiv für ton und nichtton” record label merged with Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender’s Raster Music label in 2000, it quickly gained international acclaim with the ARS Electronica award winning “20′ to 2000” series of 12 cds released monthly in 1999, featuring 20 minute sound pieces from electronic music heavyweights like Wolfgang Voigt, Ryoji Ikeda, Mika Vainio, and Thomas Brinkmann alongside the core R-N artists. They have gone on to release many dozens of amazing projects since then, building a core group of fans who pretty much buy everything they put out. The sound of the label is decidedly minimal, composed of micro-elements, glitches, bleeps, static, and electronic interference sounds. Their sound is extremely different than most of the music which has been called “minimal techno” (pretty much a completely meaningless term at this point) in the past 5 years or so. It is deep and experimental, but not without humor and funk.

We have been wanting to present a Raster-Noton label night at The Bunker ever since we saw the same line-up we have for this show in Mutek back in 2004, which completely floored us. For various reasons, we were never able to connect with the label and pull it off on their visits to the USA. Then, back in October, we were at a small Raster-Noton show for Bender and Kangding Ray and Bunker photographer Seze found a cell phone on the floor. She got a panicked call on the phone from the German guy who lost the phone and told him to come back to the venue and get it. He was extremely grateful and bought us a few drinks and started talking to us. He was in town for his opening at Pace Wildenstein Gallery (this is a blue chip gallery for those of you not familiar with the visual art world). We were in disbelief when we put 2 and 2 together and realized the cell phone guy was Carsten Nikolai, and quickly invited him and the rest of the crew to the Thomas Fehlmann show at The Bunker that week. Well, he showed up and had a great time, agreed to come back for a Raster-Noton showcase, and everything fell into place.

My buddy Kevin McHugh sometimes lets me babysit his totally awesome radio show when he has better things to do, like DJ for thousands of people at The Natural History Museum with Matt Dear. Bruno Pronsato was in town to play at my boyfriend’s party and I was lucky enough to interview him on air. Here is what I played:
Muzlimgauze – Cairopractor, Dome of the Rock Ant Zen, 2003
Coil – Babylero Horse Rotorvator, 2003
Coil – Where Even the Darkness is Something to See, Love’s Secret Domain, 1991
Coil – Theme from Blue, Unnatural History II, 1995
Coil – Neither His nor Yours, Unnatural History II, 1995
Brood – Brood XIII
Cristian Vogel – remixed by Herbert La Isla Piscola Herbert’s Harbour Dub, Novamute, 2001
Cristian Vogel – Sarcastically Tempered Powers, Busca Invisibles Tresor, 1999
Einzelkind – Spam Bot, Playhouse, 2007
Audion – A Noiser Noiser / Fred’s Bells (12″) Spectral Sound, 2007
Dethlab’s funny Mash Up Perrey & Kingsley Vs. Ambivalent unreleased mp3
Soylent Green – La Forza Destino (Radio Slave Remix), Playhouse 2007
Alex Smoke – Meany
[a]pendics Shuffle – Saw Saw Soup
Kate Simko – She Said She Said Spectral
Bruno Pronsato – Open Your Eyes
Bruno Pronsato – At Home I am a Tourist, Why Can’t We Be Like Us, 2008
Bruno Pronsato – Nobody Calls, Where Did You Learn To Kiss That Way, Hello? Repeat
Bruno Pronsato – Why Can’t We Be Like Us, Why Can’t We Be Like Us, 2008

One of my oldest and dearest friends (and long time pen pal from LA) Damion Romero makes beautiful minimal noise music. He used one of my watercolor paintings for the entire gatefold image in his new double LP “Twins.” The original record looks amazing and it is my eleventh record cover collaboration with a musician and my first gatefold image ever.

Damion Romero – Twins
Inside watercolor painting by Seze Devres
PTapes/Tone Filth Records & Tapes, 2007
LP, edition of 500
Here is another release we have collaborated on:
Romero, Damion – Medium
(CD, edition of 500, each with a unique cover photogram)
P Tapes, 1996.

and other CD & Record covers I have worked on.

I met Kate Simko last year at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. After playing an amazing live set she was supposed to leave on a flight back to Chicago. But she had some really really bad flight luck and could not leave town. So she returned back to the festival in complete desperation, and we were the first people she ran into. Poor Kate was in the worst mood and I immediately adopted her as my own and made sure she had a good time for the remainder of the festival. Now we have become close friends and I am so excited for her and her budding career. She is one of the few women I personally know who is making her own electronic music. Yeah Kate!

Kate Simko, She Said (Spectral)
The Bunker Podcast 10: Kate Simko
Recorded live at The Bunker on March 7, 2008.

KATE SIMKO’S TOP TEN WOMEN COMPOSERS

Kate, photo by Seze