This Thursday March 11, Katadreuffe is playing at a Noise Problems party at Occii (Amsterdam). Noise Problems is an organisation that records live shows and releases them as free downloads and streams. To celebrate their 50th release, they’re throwing a party with besides Katadreuffe a.o. the very nice Amsterdam-based bands Pony Pack and The Secret Love Parade. Needless to say that the evening will be recorded and released as well, so come check out the party and maybe we’ll hear your disordely conduct and whatnot on Noise Problem #50!
This Friday, February 5 2010, we’ll throw a party in one of Amsterdam’s coolest venues, Smart Project Space. It’s gonna get ugly with Boutros Bubba, Fine China Superbone and Katadreuffe. But there will also be some lushus spacing out situations going on with Hydrus and Puin + Hoop live sets. And to top that off, Hunter Complex will present his debut album Hunter Complex this night! An evening not to be missed, we would say! Be welcome from 20:30.
Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World got some mainstream attention in NRC Next: ‘Not all the remakes are evenly succesful, but I’m sure Eno will appreciate this album. After all, he always encouraged breaking down conventions.’
Lobo by Garçon Taupe, elected dance track of 2009 on Eclectro, made it into the playlist of Nalden, a prominent Dutch lifestyle blogger.
The Almighty Internet by Spoelstra has just been released, but already got two great reviews. Vital Weekly: ‘Shut down Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and go that nice bar around the corner, and have some of this great music, preferably played by Spoelstra, sweating over his equipment. Loud is best, cold beer in your hand, and Spoelstra’s quirky electro beats, chopped up synth lines, bits of noise will do the rest.’ Incendiary Magazine on Spoelstra: ‘I love it, and if you like the oddball, you’ll love it too.’
Incendiary Magazine also reviewed Katadreuffe’s Quel Gargantua EP: ‘It’s a long time I heard any band so wound up and truculent, to be honest. Fantastic stuff.’
Besides giving one great show after another, Katadreuffe also has spent some time in the studio. Later this year they will release some new material on Narrominded. The song Cut Up Comfort on 3voor12’s Hollandse Nieuwe 3 compilation is a taster of what is coming. And damn, it tastes good.
The Austrian e-zine Cracked reviews the album Slow Country For Old Men by Psychon: ‘Someday music archaeologists probably will look back and pronounce this the most important experimental album of the decade.’ Read the whole review here. The new Dutch blog Westerlingen is very enthusiastic about Katadreuffe’s Quel Gargantua! EP. ‘A band we should keep an eye on.’ Read that one here.
Katadreuffe talk to Hard//hoofd, the daily magazine about art and journalism, about the way they work, the high volume at their gigs and what their music has to do to the listener. ‘Our music should offer the experience of a horizontal waterfall.’ Read the whole interview here (it’s in Dutch). Also, check out this video from their performance at Ontzettend Leiden, September 25 2009.
Last weekend’s shows in Het Patronaat CafĂ© in Haarlem and CafĂ© De Vinger in The Hague were a lot of fun. Thanks to the bands (Katadreuffe, Fine China Superbone, Blisters, Peal and Boutros Bubba) and everybody who showed up. Also lots of thanks to Joeri, who evidentely discovered the sepia-function on his digital camera, for taking many many shots. The pictures are all in our diary section. Check them out here and here. The next rock show is Thursday October 29 at Sub071 in Leiden with Roll Call For the Second Site (UK), Silent Front (UK) and Boutros Bubba. Hope to see you there!
Dutch music magazine Oor calls Katadreuffe ‘the most talented band from Amsterdam’. In their review of Katadreuffe’s Quel Gargantua! EP they also say that the band sounds like a mix of jazzy hardcore with bits of noise madness. Read the whole review here.
Byron Coley and Thurston Moore call the Split LP by Mats Gustafsson and Cor Fuhler ‘amazing shit’. Read more here. The German student magazine Unikat reviews Katadreuffe’s Quel Gargantua! EP and thinks they are a band with a ‘trademark sound’. Read the whole review here. Dutch blog Eclectro says that Korrels by Living Ornaments ‘offers a refreshing look on idm, electro, ambient and techno’. More here. And finally, the free mp3 music culture magazine Phlow on Slow Country For Old Men by Psychon: ‘fluidity is the key-word’. Read that one here. The Psychon album was also added to the 3voor12 Luisterpaal.
The two shows by the Scottish band Hey Enemy! that were to take place in Het Patronaat CafĂ© in Haarlem and CafĂ© De Vinger in The Hague have unfortunately been cancelled. In fact Hey Enemy! cancelled the entire tour. But, there is also good news, ’cause we found some very nice replacements. On Friday October 9 the reunited Amsterdam noiserockers from Blisters will play their first show in eight years. Also on this amazing bill in Het Patronaat in Haarlem are Katadreuffe and Fine China Superbone. The day after, Saturday October 10, Boutros Bubba wil play in The Hague at CafĂ© De Vinger together with The Hague math kings Peal. See you there!
