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Unruly Music Magazine The Gluten-Free IssueMarch 2013

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The Gluten-Free Issue

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Top 5 We recommend

1 Movie: John Waters This month KaSKcinema (ghent) are screening John Wa-

ters’ uproarious comedy Desperate Living. Waters is this year’s guest of honor at the offscreen Film Festival and will perform his one-man theatre show This Filthy World on Saturday 09 March at Bozar.

2 Podcast: Live podcast at Bonnefooi From now on you’ll find yours truly every first Monday of

the month at Bonnefooi in Brussels mixing (or semi-mix-ing) our favourite tracks. expect lots of Tanki Tanki vibes, retro trance, psychedelic treasures from the rice fields of Cambodia and much more. Come hang!

3 Job: Looking for a new intern Subbacultcha! Belgium is searching for a new intern for

its office in ghent. To apply, send your recipe for oat-meal pancakes to [email protected] before 15 March. You’ll have to bear our weekly office dance but we’re looking forward to sharing all our secrets with you.

4 Life of leisure: Bike repair ever wanted to repair your own bike? here’s your chance.

during the month of March JC Kavka (antwerp) is or-ganising four Bike repair days. Fix those brakes, replace those tyres, lube that chain and get your hands dirty.

5 What’s next? Members, you didn’t receive a magazine in February. In-

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New Music This month’s recommendations By Zofia Ciechowska

This month’s recommendation New Music

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Apostillehttp://soundcloud.com/apostille

apostille is the new electro-ecstatic solo project of Michael Kas-paris, of psych-garage outfit Please and Night School records fame. From speaker-shredding basement shows at london’s dIY hub Pow-er lunches to sublime support slots for r. Stevie Moore and John Maus, these last few months have seen Kasparis grow into his new primal-pop trousers, now ragged about the dancing knees. using only a microphone, a sampler and a keyboard, apostille is both about self-realisation and actively engaging an audience, often amidst decided-ly dark subject matter.

Insistent flickering beats hold down a sturdy framework for apos-tille’s clouds of echoed vocals and synth cluster quests. Sometimes Kasparis’ voice soars above the music, hanging there like an appari-tion. other times he makes his cloaked notes surge forwards, bounc-ing between distorted handclaps, wonky bass lines and oblique incan-tations, to a deliriously wondrous effect.

apostille’s debut 7" is out now on the ever-awesome Manches-ter label Comfortable on a Tightrope. It’s a double a-side featuring standout live brain-bangers ‘The road To War and Wrong’ rubbing shoulders. The cover is bright orange with a spider-like crab creature clawing its way towards you. Something very wicked your way comes.

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Cathérine Plenevaux, spotted at the hundebiss records showcase at S.M.a.K. extra Time in ghent on 14 February 2013

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octo octa Features

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As a computer musician, it’s easy to get carried away and lock yourself up in the studio, not eating much, slowing down your metabolism and generally living a fairly unhealthy lifestyle. Do you have any particular dietary or health regimes that help offset this?

An older man (who dresses kind of like a cowboy) who frequents my

work suggested his diet to me, which is pretty much just yogurt, fruit, and various nuts. So I’ve been doing that for lunch for a while, which is great, but dinner-wise it’s still pretty much a shitshow of tan and brown foods. I’ve also been trying to go to the gym reg-ularly with my wife to offset my beer gut. Seems to be working!

Octo OctaBrooklyn-based house producer Octo Octa is

heading to Belgium early April and we couldn’t be more curious to ask him all about his secret diet. Being part of the extremely healthy 100%

Silk crew, Mike Morrison guaranteed us that he’s feeling more awake during the day now that he’s

discovered gluten-free lunches. Here is where all that extra energy leads to: sexy salads, anti-wheat ballads and enzyme battles!

Interview by Will MartinPhotos shot by Bobby Doherty in Brooklyn, USA

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What about on tour? Is overindulgence a concern?

I barely eat on tour. I pretty much only get to have dinner, which means I’ll eat anything as long as it has calo-ries. Any other food consumed is nor-mally just bread, since it’s cheap and filling. As for overindulgence, I guess I don’t really think about it. I’ll dive into overindulgence if it’s something like tacos. Tacos bring out the glutton in me I guess.House music as a genre doesn’t necessar-ily seem overly concerned with health issues. Have you ever felt compelled to change this?

I don’t think anyone is looking to dance to music that will scold their hedonism! I think house should try to continue as a genre that helps you get away from things. I don’t think I’ll be releasing anything in the future that will be asking, ‘Did you drink enough water today?’.…and after the party? Are you at all ritualistic in your methods for curing hangovers?

I need to find some methods.

Curling into a ball and sweating pro-fusely while your skin crawls on a plane isn’t fun. Hydration was drilled into me growing up, so it seems like the best thing to do in most situations. That and drinking all coffee available.What about alternative detox methods? Fasting, coffee enemas etc.

Haven’t tried any yet, but I’m sure the day will come when I’ll look for any relief I can. Maybe I’ll start using those weird pads you put on the bot-tom of your foot that draw out toxins as you sleep.Has gluten ever caused you any trouble?

Other than getting drunker than I intended from beer? I don’t think so. But, since having no gluten at lunch, I’ve been more awake during the day. Though that may have more to do with not eating garbage every day and less about my gluten-free meals.What about veganism? Do you have any connection with it?

My wife has been a vegetarian since she was nine and has eaten veg-an for some stretches. So I’ve kind of done it also by just being with her. I

‘I’ll dive into overindulgence if it’s something like tacos. Tacos bring out the glutton in me I guess.’

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applaud those who are into it, but I like cheese a little too much to go for it. The siren call of dairy is tough to disregard.Do you think vegetarianism is sexy?

Someone smells better if they’re not eating meat all the time, but I don’t think seeing someone wreck a salad is gonna get me going. Then again, maybe if it was a sexy salad.What about the sex appeal of whole-grain pasta?

A curvy noodle!? Are you kidding me? Who wouldn’t get excited?So basically what you’re saying is that a gluten-free diet isn’t sexy. Stay away from quinoa if you want to get laid?

I am sure here in Brooklyn one could find a great gluten-free fetish community to get into. I hear the freaks dig quinoa. And it’s all about the freaks.Do you think people adapt their diets in relation to who they are sleeping with?

Having the same diet will def-initely get you laid more, but may-

be you gotta do the opposite once you break up. Just purge that person’s ideas from your body. Maybe double down on the bread or dairy. Get a ba-guette going in each hand. If Morrissey is the musical ambassador for veganism, who do the gluten-free kids have?

Amanda Brown? She’s a raw foodist. That’s gluten-free, right? I want to hear the person who writes anti-wheat ballads.What about Octo Octa? The Late Nite Amaranth Sex Jams EP has a certain ring to it. You could sample some Zoo-ey Deschanel, apparently she has celiac disease.

Nice! I gotta stay with the times. I need that gimmick. Now I gotta fig-ure out the stage show for it. Enzyme battles?

octo octa plays live on 05 april at Troya in ghent. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

‘Someone smells better if they’re not eating meat all the time, but I don’t think seeing

someone wreck a salad is gonna get me going. Then again, maybe if it was a sexy salad’


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Melody’s Echo

ChamberFormerly of The Narcoleptic Dancers and My

Bee’s Garden, Melody Prochet has now embraced dream-pop with her Melody’s Echo Chamber

project. The classically trained Parisian recruited Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker to produce

her self-titled debut, making those closed-eye visuals a reality. Melody talked to us about her

weakness for dried figs and meditation.

‘I never eat before a show because most of the time I’m really nervous...’

Interview by Gerlin HeestermansPhotos shot by Camille Balenieri in Paris, France

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Do you ask for something special on your rider, food-wise?

We’re a young band, so we don’t really have the luxury to ask for crazy things. But I really have a passion for dried figs. No one in the band under-stands why I love them so much.I do, dried figs are amazing. Do you generally try to eat healthily on tour?

Yeah. When we were touring the US, we would try to go to Whole Foods as much as possible and eat or-ganic food. So we’re really trying to eat healthily. We don’t want to get too fat. It’s not always easy though. When you’re on the road, you’re more than often travelling from one truck stop to the other, so we have a lot of sand-wiches and hamburgers as well.Touring through Europe, bands gen-erally tend to get treated very well in terms of food (also in part because of the food culture here I reckon) but I bet the US is very different in that respect. Do promoters ever actually provide you with any food?

That depends. Sometimes they do. But most of the time you have to look after yourself. Grab a bite on the road while you’re driving from one place to the other. But that’s fun. We do our best to get some proper food.Would you consider yourself a healthy person?

These days I’m really into eat-ing healthily, yeah. I try to eat most-ly organic. I feel better when I do. But sometimes I love to eat junk food as well. I’m also into meditation. I got really inspired by David Lynch’s Transcendental Meditation methods recently. I just finished reading one of his books about it and it really opened my eyes. I’m trying to keep my brain and consciousness healthy as well.Does that mean you’re regularly found meditating on tour?

I haven’t tried it yet but I think it’s certainly possible. I’m definitely planning on giving it a try on the next tour. Just sit down for a while before the show to get relaxed.Do you eat before playing a show or are you too nervous to do that?

I never eat before a show because most of the time I’m really nervous, yeah. It’s not a nice feeling to be too full before or during a show either. But after the show I am really hungry.Who is the healthiest person you know?

That has to be Chris Taylor from Grizzly Bear, who is a friend of mine. He’s really into healthy food and cooking. He does yoga as well.Hah seems like meditation is the new big thing with artists/musicians!

Guess so! I think it’s really im-portant in order not to go crazy. You


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have to find ways to keep your cre-ativity flowing and not care too much about what other people think. You need to want it. I think it’s a good way to get rid of stress, anger, anxi-ety and fear.This issue is all about gluten-free food. For a lot of people, the term gluten-free is associated with the term hipster. How do you feel about that? And do you eat gluten-free yourself ?

‘Hipsters’. I think that’s a sil-ly word. I don’t really know what it means, actually. Personally I just try to

avoid gluten as much as possible be-cause I feel it makes me fat. But I’m not obsessed with eating gluten-free. It’s almost impossible to do on tour anyway. And I definitely don’t consid-er myself to be a hipster. It’s not a nice word. I’m just really curious about art and I think staying healthy is very im-portant.I couldn’t agree more. Thanks for your insights, Melody.

Melody’s echo Chamber play at Botanique, Brussels on 08 March.

‘You have to find ways to keep your creativity flowing and not care too much about what other

people think. You need to want it’

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Lexington, Kentucky has been my home for six years now. It’s beau-tiful here. The music scene is amazing. We’re close to dozens of bigger cities so touring is easy. The list goes on… Case has been here just as long. We moved here in ’06 to go to school and we never left. Coleman’s lived here his entire life.

I’m James Friley. I’ve been record-ing and performing as Idiot Glee for

just over three years now. Case Ma-han does the same as Street Gnar. Coleman Guyon is a videographer who’s got several excellent music vid-eos under his belt. He also performs as Trailblazer.

When we got here we met the noise guys: Robert Beatty, Eric Lan-ham, Mikey T, Chris Bush, Trevor Tremaine, Matt Minter, Ben Allen, etc. You probably know them by their

Always been curious about the music scene in other cities outside your own little cocoon? We assumed you were! From now on we’ll feed your

hunger for gossip, insights and secrets in the Scene Report. This very first edition tells you all

you want to know about the Lexington scene (Kentucky, USA), home for bands such as Idiot Glee, Street Gnar, and many more.

‘We’re all friends and there’s too much bleed-over stylistically to put everyone in their own corner’

Text by James FrileyPhotos shot by Coleman Guyon and Melissa Carter

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bands. Hair Police did some touring with Sonic Youth years ago. They’re an amazing three-piece featuring Robert, Trevor, and Mikey Connelly from Wolf Eyes. Eric and Chris are Caboladies. Mikey’s ever-evolving band was Warmer Milks. They dis-banded and Mikey went on to form CROSS. One of the earliest things Case and I ever did was record at Robert’s house for the Resonant Hole Vol. 1 compilation.

Somewhere along the line a lot of these guys took their experimen-tal sensibilities and started applying them to pop music. Robert’s Three Legged Race is now leaning to-wards minimal techno. Trevor’s AT-TEMPT is straight up Steely Dan-esque smooth rock and Eric makes amazing house music as Carl Calm. Ben is doing Live Island now. I was definitely influenced by these guys. They come from noise and I come from rock. Over time we all started to meet in the middle to some extent.

The scene here is incredibly sup-portive. Recently, Coleman and I

joined Case to form Street Gnar as a full band. There’s also hairy man Josh Blaine on guitar, who also plays in Jo-vontaes, a super good, sparse, psyche-delic, kraut-y band on Hello Sunshine Records (sub-label of Woodsist).

A lot of the scene here is focused around one particular block: Al’s Bar and Al’s Sidecar. The Sidecar is a tiny hole-in-the-wall bar with a shitty PA and just enough room for 50 people. It’s perfect. Everyone goes there: the punks, noise dudes, pop dudes... Re-ally they’re all just labels. We’re all friends and there’s too much bleed-over stylistically to put everyone in their own corner.

Al’s Bar is next door. It’s a step up from the Sidecar but not by much. In the past I’ve booked bands there like Ariel Pink, Beach House, Soft Moon, Dent May, and dozens more. This summer, Case booked Dirty Beach-es at the Sidecar on a Monday night. It was huge! He brought his crew, Eola and Run DMT, and they hung around for a few days. We had a blast. Alex and Makeout Videotape (Mac

Scene Report lexington, KY

‘The Sidecar is a tiny hole-in-the-wall bar with a shitty Pa and just enough room for 50 people.

It’s perfect’

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DeMarco) had come through town two years previously and played for 15 people. Peaking Lights did the same. My first gig was actually with them. We played to 15 people at the Void Skateshop. It’s been so good to see all these guys get so much love lately! Speaking of Peaking Lights, Robert actually made the cover for their lat-est album, Lucifer. If you don’t know, Robert is the man when it comes to record covers: Real Estate, Peak-ing Lights, Burning Star Core, Matt Duncan, and more. Oh, and speaking of Matt Duncan, if you’re looking for amazing throwback soul pop, he’s the best! Another fine KY artist.

The space here is amazing. Case and Coleman spent some time liv-ing in New York. Case worked at Captured Tracks and then Sniper’s (Mike Sniper, the man behind Cap-tured Tracks, ed.) record shop. Cole-man worked on music videos. It was draining though, financially, and it’s just hard to get as much done there. Lexington is cheaper. There are tons

of creative people here: great art-ists, musicians, writers… It’s all here. You can drive ten minutes and be no-where. You can drive 30 minutes and go to the most gorgeous state parks and gorges, natural bridges, and more. It’s inspirational.

Last year Case put out a tape of B-sides from his record Study Wall on Gnar Tapes. He’s got another excel-lent new pop record coming out soon. I’ve got an EP out 26 February this year. And then I’ll have a new LP out later this year! Coleman is working on a music video for me right now, too. We’re all staying busy and working together.

Essential Lexington spots: Al’s bar, Al’s Sidecar, Land Of

Tomorrow

Essential Lexington bands: Hair Police, Idiot Glee,

Street Gnar, Matt Duncan

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‘You can drive ten minutes and be nowhere. You can drive thirty minutes and go to the

most gorgeous state parks and gorges, natural bridges, and more. It’s inspirational’

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James Wijnen-

daeleJames Wijnendaele is a 23-year-old Ghen-tian with a background in graphic design who now and then allows himself to go on an artistic excursion. The following selection of images are taken from his tumblr profile, which he considers his visual trash can. They are mere accidents, aberrations that inciden-tally occurred during the design process of something completely different. Reluctant to label them as art, he admits they have a cer-tain visual quality.

Artist selected, liked and approved by Ladda & Topo Copy

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Agenda Shows in March

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COLIN STETSON 06.03

STEAK NUMBER EIGHT 08.03

THE MEN 15.03THE NEUTRINOS

WALLACE VANBORN + RAKETKANON 20.03

RADIO MODERN 22.03

FLAT EARTH SOCIETY 27.03

JACCO GARDNER + TALK NORMAL 29.03

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CHILLOW 19.04WHEN MC’S UNITE

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This portrait of Yannick Iluga, also known as Petite Noir, was taken by Nico Krijno in Cape Town. Petite Noir plays at STUK in Leuven on 07 March.

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Dignan Porch02 March - Madame Moustache, Brussels

20.00 | €5 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

London’s Dignan Porch remain the only UK band on the storied Captured Tracks roster. While the band’s first record, 2010’s Tendrils, was performed and recorded by singer Joe Walsh alone, Walsh subsequently recruited family and friends to form a five-piece band. The reinvented Dignan Porch just released their first album together last summer, titled Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen. These guys wear their ’90s influences on their flannelled sleeves, but imbue them with enough youthful optimism and odd touches to transform them into easy-going and highly hummable fuzzy pop songs.

Chad Valley04 March - Botanique, Brussels

19.30 | €16 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersCoincidentally or not, a great many of the artists initially tagged as chill-wave, such as Toro y Moi, Ducktails and Washed Out, have ended up follow-ing a similar trajectory away from the use of hazy soundscapes and buried vocals towards more traditional pop song structures. Oxford native Hugo Manuel’s work as Chad Valley is no exception, since his new full-length de-but, Young Hunger, shows that he too had a hankering for something more substantial than the Balearic bliss of his early EPs.

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Iceage06 March - Effenaar, Eindhoven (NL)


Like the Vikings before them, these boys come from Denmark to shake things up. But Iceage use axes of a different kind: with their minimalist sound they take stabs at both American hardcore and British post-punk. Get ready to pogo frantically in a desperate attempt to stay warm this winter!

Movie: Desperate Living07 March - KASKcinema, Ghent

20.30 | €5 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersThe seemingly uncomplimentary worlds of feminine fascism, organised les-bianism, and hippie nudism clash like they’ve never clashed before in this uproarious cult movie by the great filmmaker John Waters.

The Dubtapes14 March - Vooruit, Ghent


The Dubtapes is an audiovisual performance in which drummer/composer Jens Bouttery and filmmaker Daan Milius investigate the musical dimen-sions of the spoken word. What started out as a series of interviews with artists such as Han Bennink and Josse De Pauw about satisfaction, goals, and personal utopia, resulted in a quest for meaning.

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Rhyton + Decimus14 March - Audioplant (Scheld’apen), Antwerp


Rhyton features Dave Shuford (No Neck Blues Band), Jimy SeiTang (Psy-chic Ills), and Spencer Herbst (Messages, Matta Llama). Their latest album The Emerald Tablet is an excellent document of tripped-out modern instru-mental rock, drawn from open minds and extraordinary musicianship. Also on the bill is Pat Murano, who makes analogue cosmic synth music under the moniker Decimus.

Jacco Gardner29 March - De Kreun, Kortrijk


Jacco Gardner weaves harpsichord, strings, flutes and other classical in-struments with raw psychedelic effects to produce classic-sounding and highly palatable Paisley pop. His debut album is called Cabinet of Curios-ities and he’s got the Mad Hatter hat down, so you’d probably be wise to bring along your Alice in Wonderland blotter paper in preparation for a trip down the rabbit hole.

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Shows in March Agenda

Kraak Festival02 March - Netwerk, Aalst

If you are even remotely interested in the avant-garde and experimentalism, there should already be a huge red circle around 02 March in your calendar. The Kraak Festi-val is an annual festival with a reputation for being exceptionally contemporary while also being on hugging terms with the past. It’s definitely well worth the effort and explora-tion. This year’s highlights are sound artist Jonaš Gruska, Czech bard Jirí Wehle and Belgian avant-garde duo MAAN.

Dignan Porch02 March - Madame Moustache, Brussels

London’s Dignan Porch remain the only UK band on the storied Captured Tracks roster. Read more on page 36.

Chad Valley04 March - Botanique, Brussels

Hugo Manuel’s full-length debut shows that he too had a hankering for something more

substantial than the Balearic bliss of his early EPs. Read more on page 36.

Dead Ghosts05 March - Trix, Antwerp

If you love garage rock and live anywhere near Antwerp, you’re one lucky bastard. The Vancouver four-piece Dead Ghosts will summon you back to the skate park with their jangly, Black Lips-ish garage rock.

Iceage05 March - Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels

06 March - Effenaar, EindhovenLike the Vikings before them, these boys come from Denmark to shake things up. Read more on page 37.

Colin Stetson06 March - De Kreun, Kortrijk

Michigan-born, Montreal-based saxophonist Colin Stetson has worked with Bon Iver, Ar-cade Fire, Tom Waits and many other shit-hot musicians and bands, but his solo work

Jeremiah Jae plays at Vaartkapoen in Brussels.

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is something else entirely. Using unusual techniques and circular breathing, he man-ages to conjure a breathtaking variety of mournful, otherworldly sounds from his bass saxophone, creating stark and emotional-ly evocative work unlike anything else out there right now.

Petite Noir07 March - STUK, Leuven

Petite Noir is the moniker of 22-year-old Yannick Ilunga, a Brussels-born sing-er-songwriter of Congolese/Angolan de-scent. Natural, melodic African elements shimmer in his groovy and experimental soundscapes, which Ilunga describes as ‘noir wave’.

Metz11 March - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels

Like a spindly teenager turned beefcake, this Toronto power trio has used the five years since their live debut to transform their sound into the burly and robust post-hardcore flexed on their self-titled 2012 debut. Following in the footsteps of ag-gressive predecessors like The Jesus Liz-ard, Metz was impressive enough in its own right to muscle its way onto more than a few ‘Best of 2012’ lists.

The Dubtapes14 March - Vooruit, Ghent

The Dubtapes is an audiovisual perfor-mance in which drummer/composer Jens Bouttery and filmmaker Daan Milius investi-gate the musical dimensions of the spoken word. Read more on page 37.

Rhyton + Decimus14 March - Scheld’apen, Antwerp

29 March - Les Ateliers Claus, BrusselsRhyton’s latest album The Emerald Tablet is

an excellent chronicle of tripped-out mod-ern instrumental rock, drawn from open minds and extraordinary musicianship. Read more on page 38.

Internal Sun15 March - Kavka, Antwerp

Internal Sun is audiovisual duo, Andrew ‘Chi’ Claes and graphic artist VJ Natché. Their self-titled debut EP is coming out this month and the duo is taking its glitchy, beat-driven act over to the Kavka stage for what will, without a doubt, be a spectacular release show.

Lorenzo Senni15 March - KASKcinema, Ghent

Italian producer Lorenzo Senni is respon-sible for one of the best sound patterns re-leased this year. His latest opus Quantum Jelly consists of mind-blowing retro trance, recorded in one take with just one synth. No overdubs! No doubt a must-see.

The Men15 March - De Kreun, Kortrijk

16 March - Magasin 4, BrusselsBrooklyn four-piece The Men are as vir-ile and no-frills as their name implies, play-ing hardcore post-punk that’s melodic, dis-torted and LOUD. They come off as the kind of dudes that would shove you in the pit but immediately pick you back up if you fell, foaming beers in hand, faces flushed and beaming all the while. Look out for their new Sacred Bones release New Moon at the beginning of March.

Yo La Tengo16 March - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels

If you had to judge by their musical out-put as two thirds of quintessential indie rock band Yo La Tengo, then Ira Kaplan and

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Georgia Hubley must have a pretty awe-some marriage. Since they formed the band in Hoboken, New Jersey back in 1984, they’ve released album after album of multi-faceted, sprawling indie-rock imbued with a sense of peacefulness and playfulness you could seemingly only find when content. ‘Yo La Tengo’ means ‘I have it’ in Spanish, and that zen sense of confidence is reflected in every release.

The Feeling Of Love + Magnetix

21 March - Vaartkapoen, BrusselsBorn Bad Records has been a flagpole re-cord label in the French rock ’n’ roll scene for quite a while now and they’ve put to-gether a line-up that will shred your ears to pieces.

Nosaj Thing + Jeremiah Jae + Free The Robots

24 March - Vaartkapoen, BrusselsPart of that rare breed of musicians that al-ways hit and never miss, Nosaj Thing has had many aficionados of electronic music shaking their heads in disbelief. He’ll un-leash his sonic twirls with fellow beatsmith and Flying Lotus desciple Jeremiah Jae. We promise you’ll find even more to listen to in their music after a decent amount of Purple Haze. Dig deep.

MAAN + Divorce24 March - 019, Ghent

Divorce are young punks from the heart of Scotland who make music like they’re out to rip your heart out and feed it to the dogs of hell. They’re supported by MAAN, a young experimental duo from Ghent whose first release on Smeltkop definite-ly deserves your attention. The duo will be launching their new album, out via Kraak, on the night.

Mirroring25 March - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels

Like the fingers of two hands intertwined, Jesy Fortino’s electro-acoustic minimal folk as Tiny Vipers and Liz Harris’ electro-acous-tic ambient/noise work as Grouper effort-lessly and beautifully fit together in the form of Mirroring. 2012’s Foreign Body, their first collaboration, is a seamless fusion of their respective styles - a dreamlike and diapha-nous recording suitable as beautiful back-ground music, but dense enough to lend it-self to closer and repeated listens.

Wild Nothing26 March - Trix, Antwerp

Two albums in and Wild Nothing are noth-ing if not dreamy. The soothing mix of twee pop soft guitars melodies, and singer Jack Tatum’s nostalgia on new album Nocturne makes for timeless and upbeat pop songs that sound like a dream come true. It serves as a lovely companion to Beach House’s Bloom.

Legowelt27 March - Tijuana, Ghent

Dutch electronic synth nerd Danny Wolfers’ hybrid of deep house and romantic funk makes the perfect soundtrack to a Euro-pean horror flick. Experimenting more and more with ghetto sounds and Italian disco, his fusion of every electronic genre imag-inable has built him quite a fanbase. Don’t miss this if you know what’s good for you.

Jacco Gardner29 March - De Kreun, Kortrijk

Jacco Gardner weaves harpsichord, strings, flutes and other classical instruments with raw psychedelic effects to produce classic-sounding and highly palatable paisley pop. Read more on page 38.

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Overview of all Subbacultcha! shows in March

See all these shows for free. Join at www.subbacultcha.be

02 MarchDignan Porch

Madame Moustache, Brussels20.00 | €5 | Free for members

04 MarchChad Valley

Botanique, Brussels19.30 | €16 | Free for members

04 MarchSubbacultcha!

PodcastBonnefooi, Brussels

21.00 | Free for everybody

06 MarchIceage

Effenaar, Eindhoven (NL)20.00 | €10 | Free for members

07 MarchMovie: Desperate

LivingKASKcinema, Ghent

20.30 | €5 | Free for members

14 MarchThe Dubtapes

Vooruit, Ghent20.00 | €14 | Free for members

14 MarchRhyton + DecimusAudioplant (Scheld’apen), Antwerp


20 MarchFood: Croque

Monsieur Wednesday Karperstraat 26, Ghent


29 MarchJacco Gardner

De Kreun, Kortrijk20.00 | €13 | Free for members

Coming up: Octo Octa, Fang Island,

Sun Araw, 18+, Allah-Las

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