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Towards the end, the crowd finally started defrosting and there was some front-row dancing and a sing-along to the poppiest Ariel Pink song ever: “Round and Round”. When the encore was finished, the bass player sprinted towards the entrance and started selling vinyls and T-shirts of a man french kissing a dog. His hands were still trembling from playing. The Hipsters retreated to the bar, where Mauro Pawlowski was hanging out with Hannelore Knuts. Some of the dEUS line-up came by to say hello. Mauro hooked up his iPhone to the soundsytem, ‘Irresistible Bitch’ by Prince started playing and the remaining models/socialites circled up on the dancefloor. All in all, a good night.”

There are certain posts on KNOTORYUS.com that get Google’s long tail wagging, setting off wave after wave of visitors for months on end. Ariel Pink posts are not like that. Ariel Pink posts are more like tiny gigs at 4 in the afternoon on a nearly deserted festival site. In front of the stage are about 100 people experiencing what they instinctively know is the future of music. A few years later, about ten people in that crowd start new bands and reinvent music all over again. And when they interview those bands ten years later, they will say: “It all started when I first heard Ariel Pink.”

FACT Magazine asked the man-boy-genius to come up with mix of his own influences. (As they did earlier with a.o. The XX and Lindstrom) The mix includes Prince, Devo and unknown Russians and … Read More »