Daniel Graves of Aesthetic Perfection reveals how he sins.
interview by Mike Kieffer
Daniel Graves is the founder and sole creative member of the electro-industrial band Aesthetic Perfection. This past November All Beauty Destroyed was released, the bands third album and first to be released by Metropolis Records. With this release, Graves has carved out a highly addictive album full of witty lyrics, powerful vocals, and smashing beats.
Lust – People magazine puts you on their cover, shortly thereafter young teenage girls deem you aesthetic perfection and therefore the new heartthrob. Explain your reaction and future actions.
Daniel Graves : I think I’d just be really confused and frightened. Teenage girls are insane, I’d probably have to be a hermit and never leave the house at that point.
Sloth – Three separate friends ask you to help them move for the next three weekends, do you help out or come up with excuses? If you do indeed decide to help out, what excuses would you have used?
DG : If all three were really good friends, I’d begrudgingly help them. I’d complain a lot, but I’d help. If we weren’t tight I think I wouldn’t even bother making up excuses. I imagine I’d just tell them that carrying a couch up a flight of stairs for a casual acquaintance is not how I picture a perfect weekend.
After truly enjoying Access to Arasaka’s releases Oppidan (’09) and void() (’10) we were excited for the upcoming release Geosynchron (12/13/11), but now after watching this video for “Lysithea” we are hyperexcited. The video is dark and creepy and will make you look twice at that ball of yarn sitting in your grandmothers basket.
Check out all the great music that was played out our 3 Year Anniversary Party on Friday in Buffalo, NY! We’d like to thank all the DJs for playing and keeping the party going all night!
Set lists from the Auxiliary Magazine 3 Year Anniversary Party
Darago (Mike Kieffer) Artist – Song
Android Lust – A New Heaven
Combichrist – Through These Eyes of Pain
Necro Facility – Skirk
We Love – Underwater
Mondkopf – Day of Anger
Ghost & Writer – Nightshift
Shiv-R – Lingerie
Aesthetic Perfection – The Little Death
ohGr – traGek
Emika – Professional Loving
Caustic – Orchid (feat. Unwoman)
Mind.in.a.box – Redefined
Dillon & Coma – Aiming for Destruction
Ellen Allien – Sun The Rain
IAMX – Volatile Times
Listen to this set list on Spotify : Darago – Auxiliary Magazine 3 year
DJ Aaron Andrews Artist – Song
Röyksopp – What Else Is There? (Trentmoller Remix)
The Prodigy – Girls (Rex The Dog Remix)
Yaz – Situation (Richard X Remix)
Sisters of Mercy – When You Don’t See Me
The Activator – Hate Lazer City
Massive Attack – Angel
Bauhaus – The Spy In The Cab
Goldfrapp – Ride A White Horse (Ewan Pearson Disco Odyssey)
Motor – Kick It
Daft Punk – End of the Line (Boys Noize Remix)
iVardensphere – Here Lies Lily Brant (iVs Vs. Pull Out Kings)
Psy’Aviah + Leæther Strip – Sheet Hard Revenge (Endziet Mix)
The Chemical Brothers – Believe
Underworld – Between Stars
Wolfsheim – Find Your Gone
Sneaker Pimps – Bloodsport
How To Destroy Angels – Fur Lined
Chemlab – Scornocopia (Scorpio Remix Die Warzaw)
Jason Draper Artist – Song
M83 – Midnight City
New Order – Ceremony
The Raveonettes – You Want The Candy
Crystal Castles feat. Robert Smith – Not In Love
Fischerspooner – The 15th
Killing Joke – Love Like Blood (Gestalt Mix)
Tricky – She Makes Me Wanna Die
SSQ – Walkman On
Depeche Mode – Policy of Truth
The Chameleons UK – Swamp Thing
School of Seven Bells – Half Asleep
My Favorite – Homeless Club Kids
Pet Shop Boys – Home and Dry
Put down your eggnog for a second, Santa Hates You has released a new video for “Raise the Devil” just in time for this holiday season! PS and Jinxy have some fun in this video along with some mutant looking man who reminds me of Thomas Rainer (Nachtmahr) if he had an allergic reaction.
We are approaching our 3 year anniversary! On Friday, December 9th, join us in celebrating three years of Auxiliary Magazine! The party is at Club Diablo in Buffalo NY and it will be a night full of fashion and music! There will be a Cats Like Us, the Buffalo based retro clothing boutique, fashion show and music will be provided by Edwin Somnambulist of Industrial Strength Nightmares Radio and the monthly Toronto event Neurodance, plus Aaron Andrews (regular Auxiliary Magazine music contributor), Jason Draper (Auxiliary Magazine contributor), and Darago (Auxiliary Magazine music editor Mike Kieffer). In addition we will be raffling off tons of gift certificates and great items from the event’s sponsors. If you’re in the area, we hope to see you there!
Perhaps the most well known modern EBM/futurepop group of today, Ronan Harris and Mark Jackson of VNV Nation continue on their vigilant quest to spread their music to any willing ear. Automatic is their newest weapon, which is powerful enough to please their fans and pull many more onto the VNV bandwagon.
Wrath – VNV Nation is entered in a fight to the death battle of the bands, who would you want to square off against and what weapon would you choose?
Ronan Harris : Not being a fan of violence or displays of testosteronal inspired violence, this is hard to imagine but if this was a scene in some far-fetched, postapocalypse, low-budget sci-fi movie with Christopher Lambert or JCVD as the cyborg leader whose very word means life or death through the medium of bad acting and interpretational dance, and including some obligatory cliché punk looking folk driving around in chopped up Pintos, firing shots into the air, while inexplicable gas explosions shoot up into the sky around an abandoned factory… etc. (see 1980s for more on this)… I guess I’d go up against Belinda Carlise, if nothing for the sheer bizarreness of it all. Was she a band, even if she was a solo act? Who cares. It’s my answer. VNV vs Belinda Carlisle. Weapon of choice; I think grenades or an MP5K should do it. It’d be quick. The after-party would be awesome.
Envy – If you could put one item on your tour rider that you would always get regardless of price what would it be?
RH : When we started out we used to put “One shaved Golden Condor” and some other necessary items on the rider that you really do need on tour but people didn’t seem to have the sense of humor we expected. Hell, it was for our amusement, no one else’s. If I could put an item on the rider now that I could actually have, it would be one of two things… One, a fabric-lined, wooden box containing a bottle of an ultra rare single-malt scotch that I happen to like, and a collection of handrolled Dominican Republic cigars. After load-out, when everyone’s gone home, the whole crew would all sit around and act like kings of the road, enjoying some fine scotch and discussing the day because our crew’s conversations are hilarious and it would be the high point of the day. Two, an inflatable bouncy castle to be erected in the corner of the hall. You can never go wrong with a bouncy castle. It’s the ultimate icebreaker at cocktail parties and promotes fine conversation covering a wide range of topics. That or people would take their shoes off, get on the thing and re-join the 8 year old mosh pit club, remembering what it was like to smash their nose while flying around on one, though without a parent to run to after.
Are you ready to take a journey through time and space? OK well maybe just be hypnotized for 11 min. or for as long as your ADHD will allow. BT’s latest video for the track “Le Nocturne de Lumière” from his Grammy-nominated full length album These Hopeful Machines, is a visual treat. Reminds me of when visuals were all the rage using Winamp.
Step 1: Turn down the lights
Step 2: Turn up your speakers
Step 3: Hit play
Step 4: View full screen
For over twelve years God Module has injected a healthy dose of creepy into the dark electro scene. We had the chance to interview Jasyn Bangert, the mastermind behind it all, as he once again sets loose his imagination and musical talents to eager fans with the release of God Module’s new album Séance on Metropolis Records.
interview by James S. Cole, Kelly Cole & Mike Kieffer
God Module seems to be a band that cares a lot about and has a close connection with it’s fans, how does this relationship effect the band?
Jasyn Bangert : One of the great things about God Module is that we have some very devoted and supportive fans. In response to this I have always made a point to go out of my way to stay in contact with our fan base on a personal level. Since I was a kid I have been deeply involved in the gothic/industrial/alternative scene and I still remember every time I met people in bands who were important to me. Now that things have changed and I find myself on the other side of these situations, I’ll be honest that I do find it strange from time to time but it is also just as important to me as it is to them. I don’t take our fans or our success for granted in anyway.
What is your personal favorite song on Séance and which song do you think will excite fans the most?
JB : At this point my favorite song is “Doppelgänger” for a few reasons. I really like the synths in the track and think they give the track a pretty but unsettling, eerie feeling. I used samples from the film Happy Birthday To Me when I had my yearly viewing on my birthday this year. They really fit perfectly with the lyrics and the theme of the song. As for the rest of the CD I think the songs “M.D.K.” and “Rituals” are going over really well live.
M83 released their new LP Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming today. Check out the video for “Midnight City” off the album and check out the October/November 2011 Issue to see our review of the album.
Former member of Atari Teenage Riot, Hanin Elias revels how she sins.
interview by Mike Kieffer
Envy – What would your reaction be to a fan getting plastic surgery to look exactly like you? Would you consider that self love?
Hanin Elias : I would be horrified! Plastic surgery already gives me shivers of horror when I see someone who had done it. I think you always see it and it just makes the person look very unsure and a poor victim of superficial narcissism and a fear of getting old is something I don’t have and I wish no one would have it. I would begin to doubt if the people really get my messages right…
Gluttony – You enter a food eating competition, what food would you choose to rule over and become the champion?
HE : I would choose maybe raspberries, I can eat tons of them!
