High Tech Low Life, the cyberpunk band from Okinawa, Japan, came as somewhat of a surprise to the European scene.
Not just a band, but an entire worldbuilding setting with their own characters and concept. Which is in itself nothing new, as many steampunk bands have done that. But their intent on doing better and saving the future is something done so well, I had to go and investigate.
So I…
First look! (Or listen…) Filthy ‘47 #dieselpunk audio drama
Filthy ’47, by Danvers Nettlefold, is an upcoming dieselpunk audio drama in four parts, two excerpts of which have been published on the narrator’s YouTube channel.
After watching and listening to the excerpts, I am rather intrigued concerning the whole story and I hope the final product will be significantly longer than the excerpts times four. But since the fist excerpt is labeled…
StepwiseRPM Orchestra describe themselves as Proto-Industrial Americana music with a dash of old-fashioned hiss and scratch, done in the spirit of free Jazz.
The orchestra composes and performs original scores to accompany films of the Silent Era, provides musical scores in collaborative multidisciplinary performances, records soundtrack music for contemporary films and regularly performs at…
What: pop-culture philharmonia When: December 26 (French) & 27 (Dutch) 2017 Where: Brussels Expo, Laeken (Brussels), Belgium Disney in Concert was a two day philharmonic concert event, taking place just after the holidays to keep the magic of Christmas just going a that little bit longer. The first show on December 26th focussed on French versions of the songs, whilst the second show on December…
There are these rare, very rare, moments where you find yourself sitting at a local festival, that couldn’t be further away from anything steampunk or dieselpunk if it actually tried, and you realise that the band that just started to perform on stage is in fact… a steampunk band. That was exactly what happened when I attended the annual Heist-op-den-Berg sheep shearing festival in Belgium on May…
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