24/07/09 : @ PAVED Art and New Media, Saskatoon, Canada
23/07/09 : @ Steel Wheels, Edmonton, Canada
Info:
a mashup of jungle, hip-hop, eardrum bursting feedback and a healthy does of psychedelia, holzkopf uses broken machinery and homemade synthesizers to churn out this hellish cacophony as much influenced by beats, cuts and scratches as by total noise. "Whether you call it self-expression or just self-indulgent, there's no denying the disquieting, invigorating impact of this kind of outsider art." (The Wire)
WESTERN CANADIAN TOUR!!!
21/07/09 : @ Hoko's Sushi Bar, Vancouver, Canada
Brand new album "Credit Card Ache" for free download on Panospria!!! Download it here. This is what disquiet.com has to say about it:
"The group Soft Cell is best remembered for its languorous, metronomic pop, a precursor not only to minimal techno, but more broadly to the giddily presumptuous nonchalance that infuses much of the Internet’s amateur musicianship. There was always something in the musical rudimentaries of Soft Cell songs that suggested a flouting of traditional pop categories of quality — like, say, instrumental facility. Holzkopf opens its Credit Card Ache, a short album of hard noise, with a cover (MP3) of Soft Cell’s “Memorabilia.” The new rendition’s saw-tooth beats and static-heavy atmosphere bury the original’s lyrics — and so, even if you can’t quite make them out, someone presumably isn’t just singing, but also took to heart, its closing lines: “Go turn the beat around, got to hear percussion, turn it upside down.” Turning things upside down is Holzkopf’s modus operandi. Just check out “OK Times,” a broiling of beats if ever there were one (MP3); the song turns the beat around by showing, as did Alec Empire and so many other early chaos-friendly industrialists, that computerized rhythm and randomness aren’t incompatible — or, more to the point, that their seeming incompatibilities are the very source of the magic that occurs when they are combined."
holzkopf makes mass media appearances on tv, print and radio:
review of "fat in the sun/i'd be a fool (isolation dub)" on weird canada here.
if you read Dutch, check this review on the website for Netherlands national television here.
a feature in the Georgia Straight, a weekly from Vancouver, Canada is here.
holzkopf on City TV (Edmonton, Canada)!!! Check here under the heading "my ears are still ringing" for the blog with the video.
holzkopf on CJSR 88.5FM (cjsr.com)!!! 30 minute special with an interview about tours in Western Canada and Europe for the Spring of 2009. The show includes a couple of tracks performed live. listen here.
check out this bio printed in VUE magazine.
