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My impression of the stuff I saw at this year's State-X New Forms . I could give an overall impression: some bad, some good, but I'll just go over all the artists I saw. Unfortunately because I was invited to a cheese fondue I missed Merzbow . It would have been cool to have seen him live one time, but cheese is nice :). So the first thing I saw was Stellar OM Source . This was a rather cute act; anyone that has 'OM' in their name automatically has my sympathy really. After a heartfelt synth-solo, miss Source basically gave us a lot of arpeggios. This, the old-fashioned Windows screensaver tracked squares in the background and her robe gave the whole thing a distinct 70ties feeling. So thumbs up. Maybe it would have gotten boring if the concert had lasted over 20 minutes. But it didn't. Like a few other times during the festival, there were some technical difficulties and the schedule was kept tightly. Next I saw The Melvins . A legendary band, because as the progra...

Here's day 1 . The second day the State-X New Forms Festival was combined with the Dag in de Branding Festival (Day at the Breakers Festival, I think that is in English). Like State-X New Forms, this festival focuses on avant garde music, but then more with a focus on classical music. But actually the programmed styles of music of the two festival really seemed to blur into each other. The idea of the schedule of Dag in de Branding is that it's like a regular, few days festival, only spread out over four separate days during the year. The combination with State-X now was nice because I got a classical festival for free and people that came for classical get contemporary music as well, if they're up for the adventure. ' So today my festival started in the afternoon at the theatre at Het Spui. I probably would have skipped this part to get enough sleep, but I'd made an arrangements with a friend who went because she'd seen and liked the first act, the Lunapark...