French filmmaker Jacqueline Caux‘ “Cycles of the Mental Machine” is a piece of visual art inspired by the legendary Detroit DJ, The Electrifying Mojo and his book, “The Mental Machine”. Cycles recently received an “Award of Merit” from the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood. “And what,” you may ask, “does this have to do [...]
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08 Dec, 2009
Posted by: babu In: News
Yes folks, there’s no more famous quote concerning techno music than Derrick May’s “techno is like Kraftwerk and George Clinton stuck together in an elevator.” And Kraftwerk has had a longstanding relationship with the Motor City, so when the New York Times thought to do a piece on the iconic electronic band, it only made [...]
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What happens when you let a bunch of artists, musicians, and (h)ac(k)tivists get together and plan their own festival? Well, if you’re in France (St. Etienne, to be exact), you get the Avataria Festival. Now in its tenth year, the festival brings a range of counter-culture elements together to mix it up in [...]
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Rebirth of a Nation,
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