Angelusnoctis - Bats inside my head

Look the CD cover of the latest Miss Kittin work!!!!

I love all those small bats, the illustraton style, the colors… ^^

I want a T-shirt with those drawings!!!!!!

Today I want to write about a great band. I knew about UnterArt some moths ago, through their myspace. I listened to the first song in their player, and the power of their music made me listen the other three songs. I had to look for some mp3…

I listened to their CD hundreds of times, and everytime I still listen it I think their music is better. Some songs are so deep… as ‘Aska’… and other are so industrial as ‘Hirntod’… Noise & Grace is a perfect combination of sounds through a well planned path of songs.

Last month I had the opportunity to go to a concert of them, in the Spktro Festival, which was made at my hometown, Vitoria. And it was great. I was excited by the idea of being in such a Festival (Aesthetic Perfection, UnterArt, RabiaSorda, Heimataerde and Grendel), as in Spain is not very usual to have these kind of events.

UnterArt was great, so great that I bought the CD at the end of the concert. I allways try to buy the music that I really like. It’s almost impossible to buy everything I want to listen, but I allways try to support bands I really like buying their music or merchandising, and going to their concerts. When I was buying UnterArt CD, Thomas Stein (one of them) appeared, and I told him I liked their concert a lot. I also confessed him that I had downloaded their CD from the internet, but I told him the difficulties we have to buy this kind of music in the mayority of the citys of Spain, and explained my reasons for buying the CD. It was a really nice night, as I was able to talk with him about the difficulties of making some work for this scene. We all have to work in our spare time, and we allways know that we are not going to get well paid for it unless we are really good and really famous.

So, I recommend you listen to UnterArt, and if you are able to do it, buy their CD (from Out of Line). It’s a good investment, as you’re gonna listen to it hundreds of times!!!

Some weeks ago searching for free photos in the internet (in the great community of http://www.sxc.hu) I found a curious one, that made me think about the design, the resources we use, and the small size of the dark electro scene.

The issue is that I found the photography of the latest CD cover for Combichrist. I was so amazed that I went to my Ipod to check that I was not confused. The photo uploaded by user ‘emsago‘, which is given free to use, was the one in the latest Combichrist CD (by the way, great CD, listening to ‘Shut Up and Swallow’ makes me dance even inside when I’m working quiet at the office!).

Immediately, I thought about all the times I have to do the same when designing for these kind of things, when I even make designs for free in my spare time just to help the scene grow a little bit with my job. For example, the poster I made in Halloween for a friend of mine, who owns a little but nice club in the city. I had to use several free images which I also took from Stock.schng, and today I’m revealing my work on this poster, and the photos that some people around the world decided to share.

As a designer, I want my works to be paid, but I think that maybe, the things I make and don’t use -beacuse finally I don’t like them- may be useful for others. I think sharing is a good way to optimize this work: sometimes my work is useful for others, and sometimes their work is useful for mine. At the end is just a big exchange of work among people from all over the world.