New EP from Toxic Taboo

Coming October 31st... The new EP from Toxic Taboo. Toxic Taboo is DJ Restless aka Finger Painted Death, Black Saturn and FluiD. We've been working together for the past year and are now readying our first release, an as yet untitled EP.

http://www.myspace.com/toxictaboo

Toy Karma 2 @ Rotofugi Gallery

It's been two years since the first Toy Karma exhibit believe it or not! Our original ground-breaking exhibit featured a whole bunch of artists and exclusives and helped introduce Japanese toys and kaiju to the midwest and a greater audience of designer toy collectors. We had so much fun doing Toy Karma that we've asked our friend Mark Nagata (Max Toy Company) to reprise his role as curator and bring you Toy Karma 2!


Mark has put together an amazinng line-up of over 70 artists from Japan, the United States and even Germany, Mexico, Spain and Venezuela to share art inspired by their love of Japanese toys. Opening night is Saturday, September 5, 7-10PM with music by dep. In addition to the exhibit we'll have several exclusive toy releases by Charactics, Real Head, Rumble Monsters, Yamo-mark, Sunguts, Clap Monsters, Zollmen, The Lake Monsters, Skull Toys and maybe even more!


PLEASE NOTE: Just like our normal exhibits, artworks from the TK2 exhibit will be available to purchase first via our Gallery Previews List, but the exclusive toy releases will not. Line Tickets to purchase the exclusives will be available at Rotofugi Toy Store beginning at 12noon on Saturday, Sept. 5. Thanks!


Finally....for exhibit news, information about exclusives and sneak peeks please check out our TK2 Blog at http://toykarma.rotofugi.com

Celebration of Life Festival

Saturday, August 22, 2009... I will be performing at the 'Celebration of Life Festival'. The fest takes place at Swing State in Lake Villa, IL.

3:00… Fluid - www.myspace.com/fluidemusique
4:00… Actually - www.myspace.com/thisisactually
5:00… Earth Program - http://www.myspace.com/theearthprogram
6:00… All the Dim Stars - www.myspace.com/allthedimstars
7:00… grrRoPolis - www.myspace.com/grrropolis
8:00… Venice Gas House Trolley - www.myspace.com/flowpoetry
9:00… Ten Speed - www.myspace.com/theblockofwoodcollective
10:00… Mirrek - www.myspace.com/mirrekband

'The Face of Protest'

My track 'Black Jinn' has been included in a new DJ mix, 'The Face of Protest' from German DJs Unclean and Pripad. You can download or stream their mix at -

http://www.ds2shop.co.uk/news-38.html

ARTery pARTy 08.14.09

Friday August 14, 2009 @ The ARTery

New art will be on display by featured artists and ARTery artists. Music by FluiD [Chicago], X+X [Silvis] and a performance of 'Shock & AwE' [a musicial game of conduction, chance and improv].

Players in the game include but are not limited to: Andy Nightingale::Guitar//Jenn Craft::piano//Devon [MBB]::Sax and Banjo//Kasey::bass,percussion//Billy Harris::percussion//Chris Robinson [S.S]::bent electronics,noise//William Martin::percussion,melodic//Chris Gilmore [FluiD]:: keys, electronics.

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Friday August 14, 2009
The ARTery
1629 2nd Ave.
District Rock Island, IL

Fear Of Music - edition one

'Fear of Music - edition one', the first in a bi-weekly series of mixes inspired by my recent reading of 'Fear of Music' by David Stubbs. Each mix will be approx. 30 minutes in length and feature a mix of noise, improv, modern composition and electronic music. In the book 'Fear Of Music', the author poses the question, "why people get Rothko but don't get Stockhausen". The book examines the parallel histories of modern art and modern music and examines why one if embraced and understood and the other ignored, derided or regarded with bewilderment, as noisy, random nonsense perpetuated by, and listned to by the inexplicably crazed.



Tracklisting:



Nic Endo - 'Mask Indentity' (7:23)
Steve Roden - 'Rust' (3:40)
Gert Jan Prins - 'RingFlirtsinterlude' (1:36)
Worms In Dirt - '3' (2:36)
R/S One - '6:51' (6:51)
Kronos Quartet - 'Arioso' (7:24)
Autechre - 'Fold4,wrap5' (3:57)



http://www.archive.org/details/FearOfMusic-EditionOne

'Metal Compilation 1', on Grandpa Spaceship Net-Label

A compilation of metal projects of all sorts from all over.

Projects included are: Bleeding Out the Demons, Fetus Disease, TSSK, Anal Disgorge, Gore Back, Satan's Bastard Cannibal Fetus, Rectal Necrosis, Bring Me the Head of Orion, FluiD, Hunting Youth, and Oddgrim DoomHammer.

Please supports these guys, they're brutal!

http://www.archive.org/download/MetalCompilationVolume1grandpaSpaceshipNet-label/METAL.zip

http://grandpaspaceship.blogspot.com/