clubs

-athens-
(both are goth ones. underworld is a live venue too. dark sun hardly ever sets a live thing)

dark sun
underworld

- thessaloniki –

zenit
eightball

dance / theatre companies

yelp dance company
horos theatro [website in limbo]

djs

to pop up later on. pals who dj @  venues  where absurd fancies hangin’ out & getin’ drunk

festivals

electrograph
synch
2:13

friends/enemies

tasos stamou
dimosioypalliliko retire
coti k
eclipsis
fex & fex blog
dans mon salon & loop soup
ilios & antifrost
[Un]CommonSounds
bill kouligas aka. family battle snake
GardenBox
s_fx
george tragakis
(super pal, comic / book desinger. check his astro boy stories! trully rock for absurd!)
red dot comix
(absurd’s pal zenia’s comix zine. absurd has submitted a short story a couple of issued ago. plus the (ad)vance(d) cdr initially was to be a supplement to red dot but came out as an ‘obscurity’!)
phase!
reverse mouth
spyweirdos
nikos veliotis & nikos veliotis on myspace
www.loopersite.com
kyna (elusive russian artist)
1000+1 tilt
mecha/orga
grigoria vryttia (resident noise-below artist)
reddesert

live venues

- athens-

bios
underworld
six d.o.g.s.
knot gallery
katarameno syndromo

there’s also the basement of kallidromiou st, a kinda political venue though, however we prefer it as is better setting up things there than elsewhere. specializes in hardcore/punk live things but also pals set up experimental/noise things. sorry no site or other info at the moment. later

- thessaloniki -

zenit
protos orofos

zines

tranzistor
noiZine

odds&sods

www.speleo.gr
(the site for the hellenic speleological & exploration club, it rocks! check out the seminars & other ‘excursions’)
www.fex.gr
(site to xanthi’s folk museum, that has hosted so far a couple of killer sets organized by pals & absurd)
http://alex.eled.duth.gr/pakethra/
(one of the organisations absurd’s a member too)
www.ianrankin.net
(currently an absurd fave w/ paco ingacio taibo II too!)

record stores

- athens -

a strange attractor
(industrial/noise/avantgarde/contemporary,etc)
email : astrangeattractor at yahoo dot com
[tel : (+30) 2103803618]

vinyl microstore
(pop/electronica/experimental, as well as a large selection of local diy stuff)

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lotus
(pop/electronica/goth/industrial/techno/beats/folk (eclipse, etc)…)

wax records
(an eclectic mix of sounds from all over the place)

there’s also a record store specializing in experimental/electronica, etc in hania (crete) however don’t recall its name now nor any contact.

also there’s the record store of my friend mihalis kokologos in the city of amphissa (phokis) but well, is the only record store in the universe that you can visit, have your coffee/tsipouro, whatever, see records, listen to them… but mihalis is not selling them…