Le Cabaret Sauvage – Qwak


A very different sound experience reaches us from the Luxembourgish combo of Le Cabaret Sauvage.

Just like a walk through the artist’s quarter in Paris, there are lots of different alleys with many different street performers to discover. Be it Chanson, Hip-Hop, Rock, Progressive, Songwriting, Indie, Funk, Jazz, everything is bundled in this album during which you can doubtlessly enjoy your coffee while wiggling your bum on the chair. Despite the varieties, all those different artists you’re going to meet never produce complete confusion.

Every time the feeling of monotony arises, be it due to the popish and funky construction or the smooth vocals, there will always be a prog or funky rock riff, or a guitar solo. Nicely placed by changes of tempo, they enlighten the alley you are walking trough. That solos apparently indicate that this guitarist is one of those guys that give their instruments girl names and have sexual intercourse with them.

Even if the boys sometimes stray through what you may call “standard French Pop”, I always found the melodies kind of catchy. Not to forget the climaxes, which coincide with my personal taste considering progressive music. Choose your side.

The vocals give their very own charm to the whole work, although Le Cabaret Sauvage would perfectly work without any singing at all. Pulsing percussions, trumpets and a groovy bass and drum play round out a many-faceted and modern French night.

As already mentioned, this is a very alternative way of making music for a group of young artists from Luxembourg. Cheeky, fresh, advisable!

Recommendations: Mr Stress, Ce n’est que le dééébut!, Qualibri.

PS: thumbs up for the even more enterprising newer stuff I could witness during the last live performance.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWkdEr829w]

Meet The Feebles

What is your favorite Peter Jackson movie? Braindead? Of course, this is a brilliant piece of art and probably the best comedy splatter movie ever made. So what is your second most favorite Jackson flick? Certainly Bad Taste but not for me.

Years ago, while I was on vacation with a few friends, I discovered this adult puppet movie in a dirty, little, obscure Dutch DVD shop. At that age I hadn’t quite a clue about B-Movies and I only had seen a few of the masterpieces like Braindead, Dead Dudes In The House, Dawn of the Dead, From Dusk till Dawn, and Slime City but I had never heard of Meet The Feebles.

One good thing about Holland is that nobody gives a damn shit about cutting, censoring and confiscating movies. I was eased because if the movie sucked asses, at least it would be an un-cut version of an ass-sucking movie. This may sounds weird but an un-cut version calms me down. I am more afraid of a censored or cut movie than of a bullshit movie. Call me if you want to interview the first human-being diagnosed with censorphobia.

I thought a lot about how to review this movie not by repeating myself but by bringing across the brilliancy of the story. I decided doing this by simply listing different characters and by describing them in a few words. Trust me it is going to work and at the end you can’t wait to see this perverse piece of shit.

First of all, the story is about The Feebles Variety Show, where all actors (except one) are puppets, wired, disgusting, sick, sexy and insane puppets! Here is the description of some of the wonderful cast:


Bletch (walrus) is the manager of the show. He is an abusing bastard who’s together with Heidi but fucks around with Samantha, the whore cat. Furthermore he runs a porno production.


Heidi (hippo) the female star of the show and responsible for a huge puppet massacre.


Trevor (rat) is Bletch’s assistant, porno director and drug dealer in one. A rat in just every fucking way.


Wynyard (frog) came back from Vietnam and is a complete drug addict. This dude is so nuts that he even manages to impale himself during a performance.


Harry (rabbit) is the male star of the show. As he is a rabbit he also screws like one. He gets a bit crazy believing most of the time that he is dying from a sexual transmitted disease.


Sebastian (fox) is a gay, extremely hyper-active chorus director.

Still not laughing, facepalming or shaking your head at this nonsense you just read? Read it again and remember that there are a whole bunch of other sick bastards. Meet the Feebles clearly makes a fool of the muppets, which results in a perverse melodramatic blood’n’trash orgy. My eyes pee every time I watch this shit. A beautiful movie for young and old!



Saturday Bloody Saturday

I feel pretty damn good today cause I bought these:

I already got one version of Night of The Living Dead but this limited edition is simply amazing. Bonus: Making-of, Trailer and a 28-pages long booklet plus the documentary Fan of the Dead !!!

Furthermore I discovered this:


Now, I got two versions of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Bonus of this edition includes: 3 Experts (Jörg Buttgereit, sociologist Dr. Roland Steim and media scientist Dr. Stefan Höltgen) talking about the history of censoring the movie. A 64-pages long booklet with expert evidences, enactments etc. Different documentaries, a guidance through the TTCM house and a lot more!

I need to buy a BluRay Player!

El Gore’s competition!!!

Even Diego is excited as hell! To celebrate El Gore’s 5000th visitor, we’d like to invite you to our anniversary contest!

Here is the deal: Post a movie we have to see and get the chance to win a nice little present!

Stuff we like to read/see:

  • “weird” and/or “strange” titles
  • Japanese/North Korean/Scandinavian movies. Trash or alternative, independent stuff (if you made a movie, submit that one!)
  • Make us suffer

Stuff we don’t like to read/see:

  • Modern Hollywood stuff (please no sawesque shit movies)
  • Snuff or any other illegal perverse shit!

El Gore choses 1 winner and  reviews the movie.

Start: Now

End: 21st April 2012

Submit us your suggestion (2 titles/person) via comment, mail (elgore1(at)hotmail.com) twitter or Facebook.

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Super Crate Box

Platform tested: iOS (iPad)

Developed by: Vlambeer

This one is quite simple, guys. 3 different levels, one easy task. Collect as many crates as possible. But beware! 3 different types of enemies will try to impede your crate collecting and each level has got 1 precipice at the bottom that turns your enemies into rabid destroyers, once they have fallen into. And this is the interesting part of the game, as it gets more and more challenging and fast-paced each time a new enemy falls into the precipice. But fortunately, a new collected crate means a new weapon for your character, be it a machinegun, rocket launcher or flamethrower. Let the rampage begin!

There really isn’t much more to add about “Super Crate Box”. It is so simple yet enjoyable to play. The perfect time waster and no-brainer. Just as I like it. Maybe the controls suck a little as it is not possible to play a jump’n run platformer properly on a touchscreen, but it’s manageable.

Go get it on your iOS device now! Vlambeer are a indie-game studio based in the Netherlands and you know you should support indie developers, don’t you?

Grab it while it’s hot! You don’t need your financial consultant’s opinion for this 2 bucks investment. Trust me.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT3QP9K110U]

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Eric

Rest

A few weeks ago my old pal jagaland (check out his blog here) sent me a link via direct message on twitter. I love this guy but as he has, amongst a few others of my friends, the shittiest taste in movies, I immediately thought that the short he sent me would be catastrophically ass. Nevertheless I clicked on the link and baaam I was right! Yet an other over-saturized modern bullshit zombie movie, where some people try to milk a dead cow, which in this case doesn’t come back to life.

Don’t get me wrong here. I love zombie flicks like Re-Animator, Dead Dudes In The House, Braindead, Dawn of the Dead (original), Day of the Dead (original), Night of the Living Dead, Evil Dead and stuff. I even really appreciate Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake and Land of the Dead. But for me the cult is over, the genre is dead, dead as Punk is dead (a bad allusion again).

I nearly immediately stopped watching the movie. But as it only lasts 10 minutes and as I was quite bored I gave it a try, and against all odds I was positively surprised! The short bases on an incredibly long build-up until it gets to an ending I would never have expected! I do not want to spoiler so I shut my mouth and command you to be patient and watch the film to the end. There are only three movies which made me cry like a little baby. First there is Braindead (biggest love story of all-time), then there is Tim Burton’s masterpiece Edward Scissorhands and finally there is Rest. I don’t even give a damn that the piece uses this modern over-hyped style of filming I don’t like and I don’t care that the story is at some points a bit questinable and unlogic (besides of that there is a dead man standing up out of his grave). Because in the end, all this stuff doesn’t matter anymore.

Certainly one of my favorite short movies this year!

-Luc-