Kulture

Culture


culture. Not a word you will often find the rest of society atributing to what we students call our daily lives, loves and activities.... But here at AUDIO-FREq, we aim to provide you guys, our fellow students, with a triple dose of music, arts and culture.... So what can you expect from us?

Frankly, big C Culture just aint our thing. If you want to que for 3 hours to see some saxon gold in birmingham museum (a prospect that would be amusing if it wasnt in fact a particularly dark episode from yours truly's second year) then thats great, but we are more interested in the stuff that makes students tick...

So, without further ado, we will be kicking off our podcasts with dose of seriousness (we know, we can hardly believe it either). Be prepared for our students eye analysis of the state of the graduate jobs market, and how it affects you and your prospects.

But dont be too alarmed. We cant keep up the serious act for long, so you can be expecting a raft of (hopefully) interesting comments and recomendations on how to make the most of the alternative student culture here in our birmingham.

Spaffing good Musik

Lend us your ears and we shall fill them with musical filth.

AUDIO-FREq will be bringing you the low-down on the musical scene in Brumz, home to some squelchingly good nights that go off under the student radar.  With exclusive material from home-grown talent and the best previews of nights that don't love Tom's mum and would shoot a ruddy bull and drink the vodka themselves, AUDIO-FREq will deliver a students take on the musical scene and where best to get your knickers dirty this week.

THIS WEEK AUDIO-FREq has mostly been listening to the Sick Girls exclusive mix for Jackmode.  Amazingly crunky bass driven sounds from a female partnership which swims against the strict Berlin techno diet. Sick Girls have recently signed with super agency Jackmode and forge bass driven beats with a dubstep/grime/gangster rap/whatever else takes their fancy.  Stick this on. Turn up the bass. Enjoy.

SICK GIRLS - IN BED WITH JACKMODE (LIVE-MIX 09/2010) by Jackmode

Also coming out of Jackmode in the last week is an absolute captain of a track from Alter Ego & the legendary Claude Von Stroke.  A beautiful sounding shuffle that incorporates everything you'd expect from such killer artists- namely a great vibesy feel and lyrics that you know but will perhaps like even more after a tinkering by the two.

ALTER EGO VS. CLAUDE VONSTROKE - WHO'S AFRAID OF MY NECK (CHRISTIAN MARTN EDIT) by Jackmode

AUDIO-FREq

ARTS.

Anticipate the arrival of our thoughts and audio-ramblings on all things arty in Birmingham. We will be riding the blog-hog to find art that we find exciting and think that you might too, whether it be in galleries, on t-shirts or building walls.

Go and have a look at AVPD's Hitchcock Hallway at the Ikon Eastside gallery in Digbeth. The Danish artists AVPD investigate the perceptual relationship between space and human response in their installation that will be exhibited at Ikon until the 14th of November. Inspired by AVDP's work on the space-body phenomenon, we shall be exploring how Birmingham's space is used to create an impression of atmosphere. Our findings shall soon be posted on AUDIO-FREq along with a podcast for your ears to enjoy.