Plan Kruutntoone - wat doen de handen (SOTU Fest/ 12 April/ Zaal 100)

' ..and again I woke up. it renders Xenakis pale. shifting myself and stuff around in search of security. how to put it to make it to that?' The fifth album of Plan Kruutntoone is called ‘Wat doen de handen / What are the hands at’. The album stands out by bringing together Plan Kruutntoone’s uncompromising own music and pieces for string quartet, written by Hans. The notes bind it together, as do the disconcerting text fragments of Beckett (‘grope in a panic in the mud for the opener that is my life but of what cannot as much be said could not as much be always said my little lost always vast stretch of time’) alternated with those by Hans. They convey a sense of isolation that, by singing about it, opens up. The result is fragile at times, strangely compelling, harsh and repetitive at others.

VIOLENT MAGIC ORCHESTRA - Divorcer (SOTU Fest/13 April/Occii)

"VIOLENT MAGIC ORCHESTRA is an unique project comprised of dark techno prodigy Paul Régimbeau (Mondkopf, Extreme Precautions, Autrenoir), Japanese experimental black metal collective Vampillia and noise master Pete Swanson (ex-Yellow Swans). Their ten-tracks debut album "Catastrophic Anonymous" features vocal contributions from Attila Csihar (Sunn o))), Mayhem) and Chip King (The Body). VMO's overall sound is a multi-headed beast that can't be pitched in a single line. "Catastrophic Anonymous" roots are indubitably those of a harsh record, with expansive black metal guitars powered by Extreme Precautions-style glitchy textures & brain-melting drum machine work as well as Pete Swanson's noisy soundscapes. Then it also covers a wide range of genres - flirting with industrial techno, post-rock or drone - while always sounding effortlessly natural. Mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate, Atomsmasher) and illustrated by french artist Metastazis, "Catastrophic Anonymous" is the fruit of boundary-pushing people, and a refreshing, spectacular experience."
 

Lik de Kikker (SOTU Fest/ 12 April/ Zaal 100)

Lik de kikker @ "The loch is fucking dead-fest" 10/3/2018. Www.facebook.com/likdekikkernoise/ 🗣noisefrogs from the Netherlands fucking it up live @the loch is dead festival 🤘🐸🤘🔊🎛 the loch will be remembered! ☠️Kwaaken gaat doooooor!!

Dead Neanderthals - Womb of God (Tonight/ SOTU Fest/ Occii)

Released December 1, 2017 BWR048 c&p Dead Neanderthals / Burning World Records Otto Kokke - saxophone Colin Webster - saxophone René Aquarius - drums Otto and René recorded themselves in the rehearsal space, Nijmegen. Colin was recorded by Mark Jasper at Soundsavers Studio, London. Womb Of God was mixed and mastered by Marlon Wolterink at White Noise Studio, Winterswijk // whitenoisestudio.com Artwork by Sin-Eater

BSE - 27-6-17 (Tonight/SOTU FEST/10 April/ LIVE from 23:00/ radiopatapoe.nl)

As Frankie & Havan were preparing, Remon Zippo tumbled into the studio, barely able to stand on his feet - perfectly in shape though for some of his more deeply felt moans of desperation and madness. The adconverter went into total overdrive for the first 15 minutes. Boris stepped in with his magic suitcase of modulars and spaghetti wires projecting his noisy best into the feedback. With Frankie mumbling and making his setup scream. Bouk came to expose the magic of his octatrack. After an hour Shoko came in - going full on telling us stories and speaking to our understanding through waves not words. Waves were there alright, spitting screaching sensory overloads into the damp smelly atmosphere of out welcoming hangout - standers-by wandering what the hell, some curious, most running out in total confusion. Ending with just Havan and Bouk- going on quite a subtle note to make it ll come to rest (before ending in a totally disruptive Rot Op Patapoe) All of that in just nearly 5 hours!

Black Sand - Church of The Black Sand (SOTU Fest/13 April/Occii)

8 - Voice, Trb BSE - Electronics Vicky - Drums Recorded live at Mayhem, Copenhagen and Ms. Stubnitz, Hamburg during Multiversal North IV. Track 3, 4, 5, 6 features SORTSYN on electronics! contact: ottohorvath.org credits released March 2, 2018

Cyclikweetos - Arbeit macht dumm (SOTU Fest/ 14 April/ Occii Attic)

CYCLIKWEETOS (FR, Paris/93) (Indus Dark Mongol - Techno Punk) Cyclikweetos is the sound that comes out of your cereal box after 3 weeks of insomnia. When the waking nightmare ends up in irrepressible laughter and you strangle yourself with too much kibble. A trio of electronic torture then engrosses in your sick brain. A bizarre mix of martial arts and cheap music for gullible tourists who make your snot eyes squirt from the first note. Trying to escape your headache, you get lost in the streets and finish your evening wriggling on the dance floor of the geriatric ward of the public hospital where every old man wears telescopic glasses. One of them whispers you between two pirouettes that a Japanese medieval dog has encrusted in the evening. Suddenly panicked, you want to go get poisoned in the toilet to relax with the black fruit that the dealer of roses you exchanged an hour ago against the back of your girlfriend at the entrance of the building. Poison rises in your skeletal body that has nothing to lose. That your dance never stops.

Urban Grey - Artificial Lights (SOTU Fest/ 13th April/ Occii)

Analog Post-punk from Amsterdam. Our cassette 'Knife' will be out soon. Written and recorded by Urban Grey at de Binnenpret Amsterdam. Mastered by Beau Eckhardt at RPM Studio. //////////// To turn back to the essence of life To nature if you want Broad views of fields And Artificial lights Words can travel Through time and take us Make us travellers Bodies merge When playful days Are all that matter Waves of heat Can you feel it as well? ///// Take me by the hand And watch the old world shatter underneath our feet Step by step, traveling Running in the artificial light //////////// First performance in over 2 years!!

Laura Agnusdei - Night​/​Lights (SOTU Fest/ 15 April/ De Ruimte)

“‘Night/Lights’ is soulful electroacoustic music. It’s about loneliness and love, loss and discovery, fear and hope. It’s about darkness turning into light.” – Laura Agnusdei, The Hague, 27.viii.2017 credits released September 2, 2017 All tracks composed and performed by Laura Agnusdei. Mixed by Laura Agnusdei and Daniele Fabris. Mastered by Beto Machado. illustration by Emilie Josso. Originally released on tape via The Tapeworm. www.tapeworm.org.uk/ttw97.html

Shoko Nagamachi - A Song For Spring (SOTU Fest/ 12 April/ Zaal 100)

Shoko Nagamachi was born in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. When she was 7 years old, she composed her first piano piece called "A wolf and a sheep". It was the time when she started studying music composition apart from playing piano. After continuation of her music study, she studied composition and obtained BA in Music at the Kyoto City University of Arts in Kyoto, Japan, and MA in Music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. She compose music piece in order to embody the sound floating in the universe into her music.Shoko Nagamachi was born in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. When she was 7 years old, she composed her first piano piece called "A wolf and a sheep". It was the time when she started studying music composition apart from playing piano. After continuation of her music study, she studied composition and obtained BA in Music at the Kyoto City University of Arts in Kyoto, Japan, and MA in Music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. She compose music piece in order to embody the sound floating in the universe into her music.

Dj Matinee (SOTU Fest/14 April/ Occii Attic)

Heidi Hörsturz - T-Rex in love (SOTU Fest/14 April/ Occii)

The media artist “Heidi Hörsturz” is working with audiovisual performances, video and sound art. Her work has been presented at international exhibitions, gallerys and art festivals. Her animations, live shows and installations combine contemporary art and modern trash aesthetics. She published a series of limited sound art vinyls and audiotapes. These works research the connection between noise, artificial overstimulation and constructed visual associations. A key element of her work is the emphasis on the desire of the contemporary society to get more overstimulation in rapidly shrinking attention spans. Also Hörsturz believes that the search for shocking information and sexual content and the yearning for a colourful world tries to replace the current depression. The repression of self-reflection with audiovisual brain attacks represents a striving for an artificially constructed world.