wnyc.org: "Every 11 years since 1984 Scott Walker, the James Joyce of Pop, has released an album that digs deeper into his unique, dark, musical world. A pop star back in the 60's with The Walker Brothers, Scott Walker began his journey into musical terra incognita with a series of solo albums that featured an improbable blend of crooning, surrealism, and experimentation. Walker's brand new album, "The Drift," is powerful, mysterious, astonishing, and compelling. While it seems to continue from where his previous album left off, it's otherwise utterly unlike anything else...The album is over a hour long, but host David Garland presents most of it on this show." Listen to this feature at Radio WNYC
forcedexposure.com: "This is the long-awaited fifth full-length solo album from Berlin's queen of fragile and poetic electro-pop -- now introducing the piano. It's three years since Barbara Morgenstern's acclaimed album Nichts Muss, and as The Grass Is Always Greener goes to show, she has come a long way. Her Goethe Institut-sponsored world tour and many recent collaborations with, among others, Robert Lippok and Bill Wells have clearly been an inspiration for this album." More
allmusic.com "First released in Australia and then in a slightly remastered version in the States, Psychic Secession finds the Yellow Swans further occupying the space between dark, glowering metal and hypnotic modern drone, aided and abetted by performers like Christina Carter and Adam Forkner. The core duo of Gabriel Mindel Saloman and Pete Swanson still leads the way, though, and that the album starts with a high-pitched feedback whine that rapidly increases in volume is as perfect a declaration of principles as any -- why cause tinnitus when the experience can be replicated on disc? Consisting of four lengthy tracks with either short, cryptic lyrics or none at all, Psychic Secession is well named, feeling like a disorienting divorce from a calmer state of mind, as tones mix and match in ways little heard outside of early Main albums." More
forcedexposure.com: "A Life Without Fear occasionally strays into Maher Shalal or 21st century Red Krayola Blues, Hollers and Hellos turf, but wait -- Franz Hautzinger's at the door. Droning, guitar-picked porch blues blend with whiskey-soaked vocals, voodoo jazz, and throbbing electronics while low hums rub up against scraped strings and a buzzed-out harmonica heard through a tin-can. This is rough-hewn experimental bluestronica mixed with graveyard dirt." More
dradio.de: "Über die Symptome des islamistischen Terrors werden wir fast täglich durch die Medien informiert. Der Islam-Experte Gilles Kepel hat in seinem Buch "Al-Qaida - Texte des Terrors" zentrale Botschaften der ideologischen Führer zusammengetragen und gibt einen Einblick in die Denkstrukturen der Terroristen.
Gilles Kepel ist ausgewiesener Experte für den Islam. Das hebt ihn wohltuend ab von jenen Fachleuten, die bei aufbrechenden aktuellen Problemen die Studios der Fernsehstationen bevölkern und ihr Publikum oft mit Binsenweisheiten meinen aufklären zu müssen." Weiter
Rezensionen: Biosphere, The Protagonist, Jozef van Wissem, Turpentine Brothers, Tor Lundvall, In Gowan Ring, Alex Fergusson, Gustav Hildebrand, Svartsinn, Bad Guy, Hardcore, Es war einmal..., Looking for Europe, Houellebecq, Susanne Heinrich.
wfmu.org: ""As the center of Current 93 and as a very frequent contributor to Steven Stapleton's Nurse With Wound, David Michael Tibet has defined himself as one of the most enigmatic figures to grace England's modern day experimental music, art and literature scenes. Starting in 1985, C93 emerged from the movement that put wind in the sails of peers like Coil and Psychic TV, but has evolved on its own over the years to a much more emotional song-based tradition while Tibet still continues to be a master of apocalyptic imagery." Listen here
wnyc.org: "Nearly a year after Apple began offering podcasts on iTunes, podcasting has become a surprisingly diverse audio genre - the Wild West of the media landscape. Thousands of companies and individuals offer podcasts on every conceivable subject. Today, we look at some of the best and worst of the medium, from those offering university lectures and stocktips to indie rock and more. We'll get a state of the podcast business and hear from a skeptic who believes it may just be a fad." Listen/Download here
npr.org: "Guitarist Tom Verlaine, best known for his work with the New York punk band Television, talks about his own work and shares some of his favorite recordings. Verlaine's just released two CDs, his first new work in 14 years. Hear selections from Around and Songs and Other Things, plus works that have inspired Verlaine over the years, like the classic soundtrack to The Day the Earth Stood Still and Henry Mancini's "Experiment in Terror." Listen/Download here
dradio.de: "In Ankara, Alexandria, St. Petersburg, Odessa und Rio hat Hans Nieswandt bereits an den Plattentellern gestanden. In Italien hatte er schon einen Nummer-eins-Hit. Nun hat der Kölner mit "Disko Ramallah. Und andere merkwürdige Orte zum Plattenauflegen" sein zweites Buch geschrieben, mit dem er gerade auf Lesereise ist." Weiter
dradio.de: "Die Ursache für die Zunahme von Allergien ist unklar. Vererbung spielt eine Rolle, auch Stress. Seit der Industrialisierung sind Allergien auf dem Vormarsch. Das könnte aber eher eine Folge von mehr Hygiene als von Schadstoffen sein.
In der DDR litten trotz höherer Luftverschmutzung weniger Kinder an Heuschnupfen und Asthma als im Westen. Man erklärt dies mit der so genannten Schmuddelhypothese: Weil die Kinder in der DDR früher in die Krippe kamen und durch die Kontakte mehr Infekte zu bekämpfen hatten, musste sich das Immunsystem "sinnvoll" beschäftigen. Die Antikörper hatten genug damit zu tun, Schnupfen- und Hustenviren zu besiegen statt sich unsinnigerweise auf Pollen zu stürzen. Zuviel Sauberkeit ist schädlich - besagt die Schmuddeltheorie." Weiter
www.interactivearchitecture.org
Interactive Architecture dot Org is a weblog about the emerging practice within architecture that aims to merge the digital virtual with tangible and physical spatial experience. Instead of defining a fixed architectural product it is an architecture in constant flux best suited to prototyping and semi-perminant installation
bbc.co.uk: "In celebration of Radio 1's One Big Weekend in Dundee we have a Scottish electronica special featuring live sets from Vince Watson, DJ Ala Fu, Dave Shades and Dj Sekonz."
Why didn't anybody tell me that Dr. Auratheft , the guy behind the fantastic Tsunami Terror Mixxx, a compilation of Sri Lanka dancehall & hiphop, has released a second King Tubby Mix ?!? Haven't downloaded it yet, but sure will.
swr.de: "Das Internet ist zum Kommunikationsmedium für den kontaktfreudigen, modernen Menschen geworden. Menschen tauschen untereinander Bücher, Knowhow und sogar die Wohnungen. Welt am Draht informiert über verschiedene Formen sozialer Netzwerke im Internet."
Themen
• Virtuelle Gemeinschaften wie flickr, Youtube.com und del.icio.us
• Bücher auf Wanderschaft: Bookcrossing
• Geschäftliche Netzwerke: openBC
• Häusertausch online: Homelink
• Hier anhören
dradio.de: "Trikont ist eine der ältesten und unabhängigen Plattenfirmen Deutschlands. Gruppen wie die 3 Tornados aus Berlin, Ton, Steine, Scherben, oder auch Albino & die Arbeitersache aus München gehörten zu den ersten Künstlern, die bei Trikont eine Heimat fanden. Seit mehr als 30 Jahren ist Achim Bergmann Chef des Unternehmens." Weiter
Some of the best photographs I've seen lately are those of Muir Vidler. The one above is from the "Israeli Death Metal" Project. Other projects inlude a photo series of Tony Alva, skateboar legend as seen in the movie Dogtown Boys, and also a nice project is the one about old Mods.
wnyc.org: "Every 11 years since 1984 Scott Walker, the James Joyce of Pop, has released an album that digs deeper into his unique, dark, musical world. A pop star back in the 60's with The Walker Brothers, Scott Walker began his journey into musical terra incognita with a series of solo albums that featured an improbable blend of crooning, surrealism, and experimentation. Walker's brand new album, "The Drift," is powerful, mysterious, astonishing, and compelling. While it seems to continue from where his previous album left off, it's otherwise utterly unlike anything else...The album is over a hour long, but host David Garland presents most of it on this show." 
forcedexposure.com: "This is the long-awaited fifth full-length solo album from Berlin's queen of fragile and poetic electro-pop -- now introducing the piano. It's three years since Barbara Morgenstern's acclaimed album Nichts Muss, and as The Grass Is Always Greener goes to show, she has come a long way. Her Goethe Institut-sponsored world tour and many recent collaborations with, among others, Robert Lippok and Bill Wells have clearly been an inspiration for this album." 
allmusic.com "First released in Australia and then in a slightly remastered version in the States, Psychic Secession finds the Yellow Swans further occupying the space between dark, glowering metal and hypnotic modern drone, aided and abetted by performers like Christina Carter and Adam Forkner. The core duo of Gabriel Mindel Saloman and Pete Swanson still leads the way, though, and that the album starts with a high-pitched feedback whine that rapidly increases in volume is as perfect a declaration of principles as any -- why cause tinnitus when the experience can be replicated on disc? Consisting of four lengthy tracks with either short, cryptic lyrics or none at all, Psychic Secession is well named, feeling like a disorienting divorce from a calmer state of mind, as tones mix and match in ways little heard outside of early Main albums." 
forcedexposure.com: "A Life Without Fear occasionally strays into Maher Shalal or 21st century Red Krayola Blues, Hollers and Hellos turf, but wait -- Franz Hautzinger's at the door. Droning, guitar-picked porch blues blend with whiskey-soaked vocals, voodoo jazz, and throbbing electronics while low hums rub up against scraped strings and a buzzed-out harmonica heard through a tin-can. This is rough-hewn experimental bluestronica mixed with graveyard dirt." 
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