“Melted romance. Psychotropic walks through painful hallucinations; mash-ups of the subconscious, with soundtracks to suit. All this and more from a Canadian woman, who wields knitting needles like the Lance of Longinus.” – Wm. M. Berger (of WFMU)
Modern Witch an electronic group made up of visual and musical artists from Denver, CO and Amsterdam… they are also involved in some sik zine-art produktion under the publishing name Drippy Bone Books. Open the triangle-mind for
hallucinatory synthtones wrapped in a dark beats and haunting black tarot-head visions perfect for a displaced and bleak landscape of broken technology. Modern Witch are putting the X in 2010.
DJ Harrison is the resident DJ and co-conspirator behind the Pendu-curated Tuesday weekly dance party @ Glasslands in Brooklyn known as “Horror Scores for the Dancefloor”… Get a hold of some exclusive mixes here and if you live in NYC, come out every Tuesday to see some of newest, sickest, darkest bands from all over… We’ve hosted S4LEM, Gatekeeper, Light Asylum, Led Er Est, Gavin Russom, Blondes… with so many more to come including WHITE CAR (Chicago) + Desert of Colors, this Tuesday March 9. Check out our Calendar of Events here.
TRACKLIST:
’scavenger’ – fostercare
‘mumbai’ – oOoOO
‘fear no fear’ – the detachments
’silver sash’ – follower
‘the choke’ – skinny puppy
‘a path’ – white car
‘reise nach deutschland’ – human puppets
‘hearts and minds’ – nitzer ebb
’suffocation’ – white ring
‘lovely day’ – front 242
‘video boys’ – circuit 7
‘the angel’ – ministry
‘the devil in us’ – black devil disco club
‘dark blue’ – crossover
‘frost’ – salem
TRACKLIST:
’suicide commando’ – no more
‘the calling’ – death in june
‘paradiessiets’ – cyberaktif
‘u-men’ – front 242
‘to the night’ – detachments
‘wait for you’ – led er est
‘we believe’ – ministry
‘driving blind’ – chris & cosey
‘the order of death’ – public image ltd.
‘no devotion’ – revolting cocks
The spirit of darkness has covered 2010 in a giant shroud of fog machines and awesome synth madness… This is the year of danceable gloom and doom… and White Car are bringing this spirit to NYC. PENDU is very excited to present the NYC debut of the duo known as White Car who along with Gatekeeper are putting Chicago on the map as one of they most exciting places currently producing new dark electronic dance music. White Car fuse elements of italo and horror soundtracks with spaced-out funk and post-punk leanings. There are elements that may point to the past, but these guys are no retro outfit trying to recapture a time long gone; these guys are reinventing the past to construct the future of 2010 and beyond. They released their EP on Rainbow Body Records only a few days ago, but it’s hype has been building for the last several months. Come out and see what the fuss is about. Below are videos and mp3’s as well as a link to a mixtape curated by White Car.
Come see WHITE CAR @ Glasslands in Brooklyn on March 9 as part of the Pendu-curated Weekly Dance Party known as HORROR SCORES FOR THE DANCEFLOOR… See you there. Check the flyer here: http://www.pendu.org/events
LISTEN: WHITE CAR
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Austin based performance artist Ernestina Forbes aka “How I Quit Crack” is a gem. Aesthetically her performances are thick with fog machines, lasers, and ornate effervescence via black light saturation. Objects such as feathers, skulls, fake flowers, and a black light reactive guitar are strewn about the stage and vividly glowing. Meanwhile, doomed out synth-scapes and dimension bending frequency washes allow you to slip into a trance as a soft voice guides you through the fog. She recently released 7in” titled “Gone Away” and is available on Answering Machine Records.
Take a listen to the title track from the 7”
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The viral that just doesn’t stop… it’s almost a pandemic by now. So 6 videos in and what have we learned, not much still. Every time anyone thinks they’re close to solving this mystery, IAM… somehow flips everything over again. Is this even interesting? Maybe, I’m not sure, but I’m a sucker for sleuthing, so… We now know that there is more to the name than we thought before, “I AM” is written out in blood in the snow during this new video, which leads us to believe that “I AM” is a part of this project’s name in some way.
Despite the deliberate misleading, there are couple of consistencies. The use of the number 6 repetitively -- 6 strawberries, 6 dogs, 6 crosses, 6 cakes, etc etc. Also in the keywords of the videos; 2 words come up in every one of the videos: “wood” and “disciple”.
Let’s see if SXSW is the inspiration for the user to be uploading these videos; maybe something (band or film) that will premier there? I’m leaning more and more in that direction everyday. Here it is, if you haven’t seen it already. Be careful, it could accidentally infect you with an unhealthy dose of curiosity.
23.5.12.3.15.13.5-8.15.13.5.3383
w.e.l.c.o.m.e-h.o.m.e.q (Welcome Home Q) — see our FEB 22 post for more on the codes….
The earlier video codes add up to:
KQ Educational
I Am I
It’s Me C
Mandragora C
Officinarum V
Welcome Home Q
We know that the sender’s username is 0098224788223158 and that they use the account iamamiwhoami@gmail.com to send the videos out. At some point, we hope to have the answers. Not much to go on really for now.
Pendu will be bringing DBHB on April 29 to Glasslands in Brooklyn… Keep checking the Events Calendar for more info. Destruction is imminent. Nihilism Now.
White Ring are the duo of Kendra Malia and Bryan Kurkimilis. They are quickly circulating around the internet with some heavy buzz over the last few months. They create dark electronic music in the vein of S4LEM and Mater Suspiria Vision influenced by Southern Hip-Hop, Trance, Gothic Shoegaze, and Industrial music. Deep groaning and buzzing basslines swell in a black pool of heavily layered oppressive atmospheres and depressive melodic synth lines. Visions and Occult images float within the pineal eye in a surrealist haze of black magick. This is danceable doom; haunting and visceral (and one of our favorite bands right now).
Not much is known yet about this project, but my interest is piqued. Features porn star Samantha Ryan and Directed by the infamous Sasha Grey… we shall see soon, right?
… also keep an eye out for the debut LP from ATelecine, an ambient death-dub project by Sasha Grey on Pendu Sound Recordings.
I’ve been following this viral video collection since the first one surfaced in late December. My friend sent a link in a Facebook email asking if I thought it was S4LEM?? No, it’s not, but now 2 months later, I’m still wondering who it is. They seem to be perfectly content leaving this a mystery with no hurry toward the big reveal if one ever comes. I have hunches as to who it is just like everyone else, although I can say quite confidently that it isn’t any of the suspects previously named such as Gaga, Christina Ag, Goldfrapp, The Knife, or any of those. It’s someone else entirely. But who? Not sure that I’m as obsessed anymore with the question of “who is it” anymore, it’s been too long, but I am enjoying the work they are producing.
A new video surfaced today, only a few hours ago, so I’ve decided to throw them all up here. The first three were originally uploaded with found footage from other youtube clips, but they were told to remove the found material. The videos were taken down and re-upped with simple clip art to refer to the found footage. The titles to each video use numbers sequence 1-26 as A-Z… sometimes there are several numbers together that must be added together and reduced to their alphabetical equivalent. The titles are decoded below. Whether we find out who is doing this or not, it’s an enjoyable guessing game with some great music and visuals; how can you go wrong with that?
15.6.6.9.3.9.14.1.18.21.13.56155
o.f.f.i.c.i.n.a.r.u.m.v (Officinarum V — Species Name for the Mandrake plant)
13.1.14.4.18.1.7.15.18.1.1110
m.a.n.d.r.a.g.o.r.a.c (Mandragora C — Genus Name for the Mandrake plant)
9.20.19.13.5.723378
i.t.s.m.e.c (It’s Me, C)
9.1.13.669321018
i.a.m.i. (I Am I)
Prelude 699130082.451322-5.4.21.3.1.20.9.15.14.1.12
kq-educational (Educational — A new title referring to the use of educational clips in the first 3 videos // Original title was “Prelude 699130082.451322″)
Documentation of a Performance Piece by AG DAVIS
BLACK PEARL WAREHOUSE, ST. AUGUSTINE, FL 02/12/10
All matter, all energy w/ a microphone / / / all noumenon, all phenomenon w/ MIC; ubiquitous MIC . . . all microphones intercepting channels; synapses attached; thought currents attached; eyes attached; ears attached; sex-organs attached; senses regulated. Your sex / extrasex tapped into: monitored, re-dispatched, reformed, re-implanted. Breathing, pissing, shitting, walking, running, pacing, gesticulating, talking, screaming, conversing, arguing, PURGING, eating, watching, growing, or rather, devolving. But there is one thing that is never touched by the microphone, or if it is touched, it is only from a sizable distance. Their form can never be even partially known. Or, if their form can be known, their insides, their life-substance, can’t be; it is impossible. BLACKHOLES. These vampires and succubae of information: raw energy; non-regulated energy: never countered by the microphone.
A microphone: the first immensely effective step in obtaining you, capturing you, using you, FUCKING you. raw-data exercise—remote molestation and modulation of your energy. Perfidious chamber pot amber—softened, sculpted, and then ossified.
The flies. The stench. The vomit. The shit. The piss. The ART.
i accept the microphone as an instrument of torture.
i use it as a tool for and against myself.
i use it as myself.
i use it IN myself.
DJ Harrison – Horror Scores for the Dancefloor Mix Vol.1 --- LISTEN NOW!!
DJ Harrison – Horror Scores for the Dancefloor Mix Vol.1 --- LISTEN NOW!!
MAJIKIAN’S TAROT
A New Divinatory Tarot Deck by Todd Pendu Brooks / Drawn by Jesse Gelaznik
ARTISTS & CATS
Artists & Cats is now in its Third Year. This time we're making a calendar. Photos will be collected until July 1, 2010. On September 1, 2010 we will release the Pendu presents: Artists & Cats 2011 calendar. More info to come.
Submissions are ongoing for the 2010 edition of Artists & Cats. Send a photo of you and your cat with your name, your cat's name, and a link to your blog, website, facebook, or myspace page to info(at)pendu.org.
The point of this exhibition is to show the relationship between cats and artists, so please only send photos of you and your cat together, not just a photo of your cat.
Pendu, Inc.
190 Bedford Ave. #134
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Email: info(at)pendu.org
SEEKING CONTRIBUTORS
Pendu Magazine is searching for writers/bloggers who want to contribute articles, interviews, features, essays, editorials, and music reviews. Pendu's focus leans toward new and unseen/unheard artists as well as themes of occultism and eroticism in the arts. We’re looking for knowledgeable writers who offer a unique and experiential point of view. Send a short bio with a sample of your writing to info(at)pendu.org. We’re looking forward to hearing from you.
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