Brainclaw has booked its first show of 2007. It will be Tuesday May 1, 2007 at Philadelphia’s World Cafe Live.

There will be two short Brainclaw sets, with Philadelphia’s DJ Dave Ghoul and DJ Knobhead spinning all of your electro-industrial favorites before, between and after Brainclaw.

This concert series benefits musicians who were made homeless in the Hurricane Katrina disaster in new Orleans.

Suggested donation at the door is $10.00 and there will be dealer tables and brand-new Brainclaw merchandise as well.

Hope to see you there!

DJ Led Manville from Madrid, Spain has released a very cool megamix of the Covenant song “One World One Sky” mixed together with the Brainclaw instrumental “Icarus Wings“.

Led has been remixing for many years, and has a massive amount of material in his catalog, including remixes for just about every major electronic artist out there.

The two songs blend really well, and Manville creates a seamless mix that moves back and forth between the two songs. At certain points it almost seems like Eskil Simonsson is singing inside “Icarus Wings!” Very cool.

The megamix appears on his Versus Satanicus CD, available from his site for listening.

You can hear/download the full mix here.

Many thanks to DJ Led for this cool new use of an old Brainclaw favorite.

Brainclaw has completed an interesting collaboration with Japanese Cyberpunk author Kenji Siratori.

Kenji writes a very interesting form of free-verse poetry that could be compared with the work of William S. Burroughs, but with high-tech and dystopian flavors.

He approached us with a free-form poem called Pig, and asked us to compose music for it, and to utilize a recording of him reading the poem in Japanese as the vocal track.

We complied, and came up with a crazy song called Regenerator P.I.G.

We composed a song and then sliced and diced Kenji’s vocals into audio sushi, with heavy processing and tight, small edits. We liked the result, and so did Kenji!

He will be releasing the song and a remix that we are doing on his Hypermodern label in spring of 2007.

You can listen to a snippet of this new release here.

This week the Brainclaw Enclave received a very cool new remix of “Dead Monsters” from Ilker Yücel of Galvanax.

It is an extremely cool new look at the song, and takes it in some interesting new directions.

There is some excellent vocoder work, as well as some wicked noise elements and diverse sound design elements. The song also includes some deft vocal manipulation, especially of Tara’s contribution to the song.

Kudos to Ilker for this most exciting look at an old favorite! Ilker is also a staff writer for world-renowned Regen Music Magazine, and has regularly covered Brainclaw activities in his own unique style.

His music project, Galvanax, is a quickly-rising star in the electronic music world, and you would be remiss in not checking out his original music. His work has been described thus:

“Galvanax originally started as a collaboration between Scott of 8 Gauge Syringe and Ilker Yucel, formerly of Sigiltech. Upon Sigiltech’s dissolution and 8 Gauge’s good fortunes, Ilker took the project upon himself as a solo outfit to include various collaborators in different styles of industrial and electronica.”

You can download the Galvanax Remix of Dead monsters as an .mp3 file HERE. You can download it as a high-resolution .wav file HERE.

There is a brand-new behemoth of an interview with David and Tara of Brainclaw posted on Regen Music Magazine’s website as of this morning.

Regen Staff Writer Ilker Yücel conducted the interview by phone with Brainclaw last week, and it was a lengthy and interesting look into many aspects of the Brainclaw machine, and David and Tara’s lives.

Many diverse topics were covered, including inspirations for the two extant BC albums, what’s coming up next, politics, filesharing, media excesses, responsibilities of firearms ownership and dealing with personal demons.

In addition to this interesting peek into their personal lives, Regen also covered the newly-released Brainclaw re-imagining of Gordon Lightfoot’s classic Seventies ballad, “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald.” You can read the Regen review of the song here.

Many thanks to Ilker and Regen for the excellent press and most interesting and fun interview!