The Bloody Beetroots Deathcrew77 – Sperm Donor (Live @ Stereo Bielefeld)

The song is Rifoki (Bob Rifo + Steve Aoki) – Sperm Donor

Bob Rifo seems unstoppable on his path to change Bloody Beetroots from electro house sensation into an hardcore band, and if this is what is going to be like, I can just say: go for it fast as you can Bob!

Their show is one of the sickest, funnier, energizer, most awesome act I ever partecipate and if you want to try just remember is not really safe to go in the middle of the crowd, but God it is fun!

“I want it all, and I want it now” generation

Via: Giavasan

If you liked the video, check out Motivation: why we do (or don’t) what we do too!

Liquid Mountaineering: take this Jesus!

When you’re tired of sunbathing on the shore or want to impress your friends and at the same time practise a new alternative sport (?) now you can walk on water! Or if you want to sound more professional you can exercise yourself in liquid mountaineering.

I still prefer the good old (new testament) Walking On Water™

This is so cool that no matter for how long I would try, I could never go farthest then 2 steps before drowning in shame.

Royksopp – Remind Me

A great video from the past, maybe 2002. I’m not a really big fan of music videos, but this is one of those beyond the simple definition of “music video”, is a 4 minutes infographic look up on a routine day for a white collar girl in London and everything she is connected with.

Photo of the day: iPad it’s coming to London

iPad ads in Tower Hill underground station, London

Motivation: why we do (or don’t) what we do

This is worth 10 minute of your life: smart & funny lesson about what motivate us with a beautiful animation video.

The day after: Miike Snow @ HMV Forum

Sometimes good things just happens! My flatmate sunday evening came out with “I have a spare ticket for Miike Snow friday, do you wanna come?”, of course I say yes!

It really bother me that I don’t remember the name of the support band (UPDATE: Baby Monster), they were good! Think about a more electronic oriented version of Sigur Ros and you’re close. I hope to find out the name and possibly one EP or LP from them.

Miike Snow are know as a pop  band (in the indie electronic scene ok, but still is pop) so I was extremely happy to find out that live they are really into EBM bass line and trance music. It was more a disco night then an electro pop concert, and a good disco night too!

The day after: Chemical Brothers @ Roundhouse

A piece of dance history has show up yesterday at the Roundhouse in Camden Town, you may have heard of them, they go under the name of Chemical Brothers!

The day after: Crystal Castles @ Heaven

One month later then scheduled, due to the dooming ash cloud which stopped the band in the USA back at the end of april, last night I finally saw Crystal Castles, or for being completely honest, I saw Alice Glass convulsion on stage and crowd surfing, a lot of stroboscopic lights, too many people for square foot close to the fence in front of the stage.

Enough with this preamble, let’s get down to business.

The day after: Delphic @ Electric Ballroom

First concert in a long week full of gig. The Electric Ballroom is a cool place in Camden Town, medium size, right for this kind of concert (bigger venue alienate the band from the public) and seems like everyone sooner or later end up playing there.

Everything Everything open the night, indie alternative band from Manchester, they’re touring with Delphic and I think is the right support, usually supporters sucks compared with headliners but this time they leave a good impression; on my radar for the future, hopefully a album will come out soon enough.

Delphic are a great live band, no doubt about that, the only big disappointment was the vocal on Submission by frontman James Cook: it sounded more like me under the shower than a professional singer.. really disturbing. But this is the only low in a performance I can easily say it left me favorably impressed way over my expectation.

New bus for London

Just read on the Londonist about the new Bus for London, and this thing looks gorgeous! Can’t wait 2012 when is going on service (thanks olympics!).

A 4 minute video presentation after the jump, for all the information on the new bus visit here.

Hi, I’m Alessandro and I’m a gig-aholic

Monday, a new week starts today, here is what is going to look like for me:

- Tuesday Delphic @ Electric Ballroom
- Wednesday Crystal Castles @ Heaven
- Thursday Chemical Brothers @ Roundhouse
- Friday Miike Snow @ HMV Forum

I think I might be out of control with music related event in this moment.

London for me is like Colombia for a cocaine-addict: you can never run out of fun and is all so cheap compared to back home!

Btw, saturday night I’m going to rest.. maybe.

How To Destroy Angels – The Space In Between

How To Destroy Angels is the new project from Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails, and his wife Mariqueen Maandig, West Indian Girl.

This song and video are both amazing, can’t wait for the EP due to be released later this summer.

Refuge, by Bas Princen

For who is lucky enough to be in New York now or till the end of june, I can suggest a nice architectural photographic exhibition called “Refuge” by Bas Princen.

Cooling Plant, Dubai, 2009

The day after: Chris Cunningham @ Royal Festival Hall

As I was saying in the last post, it’s more two weeks after, just because really I can’t describe the night, videos are the best way to tell this story.

This is a sequence of videos with more or less all the show!

The day after: Recoil @ O2 Islington Academy

It’s more a couple of week after, but I was just waiting for some video of the night to come out on youtube, because word can’t describe the night in itself, and because I’m lazy too.

So here we go, some videos from Recoil live at O2 Islingotn Academy, London, 25th april 2010

Want, best track of the night for me

The Chemical Brothers – Swoon

New video from the forthcoming album of Chemical Brothers, Further.

Swoon is fine, not a dance boom, but the right track to play this summer at some beach bar as the sun comes down and the night begin. The video doesn’t impress at all: from the guys who brought us videos like the one of Star Guitar or Hey Boy Hey Girl… I was expecting something better.

The day after: Planet Turbo @ Coronet

Tiga, Boys Noize, Erol Alkan. Alkan opened the night, probably the best on stage, Tiga lost it a little in the middle of the set slowing too much, but still Mind Dimension, What You Need and Shoes can do a lot dropped in the right moment. Boys Noize started amazingly well with Kontact Me and then slowly flew away in some electro loop that finished almost in a minimalistic way, in the end some bass line and bpm came back.. but it could be better.

Still, great night, a lot of fun, and a lot of dancing, every set 1 & 1/2 hour… at the end of the night I was death.

MGMT – Congratulations

A lot of words have been said about the new album of MGMT, Congratulations, personally I like it more than Oracular Spectacular, this indie psychedelic turn they have take is without doubt more various and interesting then the pop, synthpop style they were used to. I mean, you can think whatever you want, but there is a pure inspiration in a piece like Brian Eno, or Flash Delirium, and live they sounds as amazing as on the album.

Check out the SNL live performance last week for quick a confirmation.

Of sleepless nights, recursive thoughts and unanswered questions

Does is it really matter?
Should I follow a logic order, or some kind of order at all, in writing down this -whatever it is- or should I just write without brakes, without second thoughts, without fear, yes fear is the right word maybe, fear of saying too much, or say it wrong, or don’t say enough to make it worth the time I’m going to put in it … ?