Video bootleg from the Rephlex Disco Assault tour 2002. Three files, alltogether ca. 1GB !!! But don't expect great quality. Download here: www.thegurufs.net
"We're opening to 2005 in a grand way, putting out the first ever release by 16 year old Californian Melissa Welch. We are honored to showcase her beautiful yet tiny ep 'sleep-wake'; 3 tracks of eclectic bliss, filled with layers upon layers of sweetness and soul- warming vibes, all wrapped up in esotheric, candycane vocals. Absolutely a taste of what's to come from Melissa, who, to our eyes, has a dreamy sound with a future in music as solid as concrete."
Just a few days I posted a link to a great electronic remix of Johnny Cash's version of "I see a darkness" by DJ Acid Pauli (aka Console and member of The Notwist), which was a free track offered on his webpage as a free download.
Now it seems the track was removed because of Sony. DJ Acid Pauli was forced to remove the track. Disconizime another weblog which was also hosting this track, which made it into several "best of 2004" lists in Germany was also threatened by Sony. More info in german
Zufällig habe ich einige Links bezüglich der SPEX gefunden. Auf deren Homepage kann man sich jetzt sämtliche Cover aller jemals erschienen Ausgaben anschauen. Die erste Ausgabe liegt sogar komplett im PDF Format vor.
Die neuliche Beilage "Gute Aussichten - Junge deutsche Fotografie" hat eine eigene Homepage. Meine Favoriten stammen von Christian Hoerder
Sämtliche Best Of Listen, von 1981 bis 2003 findet man hier
"Finnish minimalist techno group Pan sonic are among the most active and well-known artists from that country's tiny experimental techno underground, and the first to reach acclaim at an international level. Pursuing the jagged edges of minimal techno and hardcore, the group have earned an enduring association with industrial and noise music through their incorporation of antiseptic production techniques and power-tool electronics, landing them in 1995 on the English Mute label's experimental subsidiary Blast First!" More
This is a remix of Johnny Cah's version of "I see a darkness", which is a song by Bonnie Prince Billy. Acid Pauli, aka Console is (according to me) one of the best german "electronic musicians". He is part of the Wielheim scene. Weilheim is a small town close to Munich in the south of Germany. Many great musicians, Like The Notwist or Lali Puna are based in Weilheim.
Rumors in the blogosphere of a new Bit Torrent application being developed by the folks at SuprNova.org. The name is Exeem and it’s supposedly a “decentralized BitTorrent network that basically makes everyone a Tracker. Individuals will share Torrents, and seed shared files to the network.”
At this time, details and the full potential of this project are being kept very quiet. However it appears this P2P application will completely replace SuprNova.org; no more web mirrors, no more bottle necks and no more slow downs.
When British sound artist Kaffe Matthews thinks about sound, she thinks about space, about time, about travel, about people, about radios strapped to bicycles. In her approach to making music, we find clues about what is so provocative and new about sound today: not songs, but sites; not scores, but algorithms; not notes, but empty hard drives. Her work has traces of the rich history of the art of sound, from ideas of space, duration and indeterminacy pioneered by John Cage, Alvin Lucier and LaMonte Young, to Nicolas Collins's and Ryoji Ikeda's work with feedback and failure. Her sound elegantly merges these aesthetics while at the same time articulating significant new departures. Read the whole interview
Politik kann so einfach sein. In einem Interview der Süddeutschen Zeitung erklärt Arnold Schwarzenegger seine ganz persönliche Vorgehensweise:
[...]Schwarzenegger: Es hängt immer von der Situation ab. Aber in der Regel ist mir der Kompromiss wichtiger. John Burton, der bis vor kurzem der Führer der Demokraten im Senat war, ist zu mir wegen der Gänseleber gekommen, weil die Tierschützer das Zwangsmästen der Gänse stoppen wollten. Das Kunststück war es, einen Weg zu finden, wie man die Tiere schützen kann, ohne das Geschäft der Gänseleber-Produzenten zu schädigen.
SZ: Und nun verhindern Sie Gänseleber-Produktion in Kalifornien?
Schwarzenegger: Es gibt nur einen Produzenten von Gänseleber in Kalifornien. Ein Südamerikaner. Also hat John angerufen, um herauszufinden, wie lange er im Geschäft bleiben will. Er sagte: „Ich bin 53, ich möchte noch arbeiten, bis ich 60 bin.“ Also sagte John: ,,Du meinst also, noch sieben Jahre.“ Er sagte: ,,Okay.“ Dann haben wir das Gesetz geschrieben.
SZ: Gilt das Prinzip auch für andere Gesetze?
Schwarzenegger: So machen wir es auch bei den Sozialprogrammen. [...]
Könnte man auch ohne weiteres auf z.B. Atomstrom anwenden. Benutzt man schnelle Brüter, reicht das Uran noch ca. 5000 Jahre. Danach könnte man Atomstrom für illegal erklären.
Found at boomselection.info if you haven't heard of shitmat, get to know him. he produces insane jungle/glitch/noise with a cheeky pop humour. sampled in this big mix are: snow (informer), whigfield, buggles, ub40 and the theme tunes to the fresh prince of bel air, thomas the tank engine, happy days and neighbours. fuck. this guy is fucking brilliant. imagine kid606 on a d'n'b pop tip. i went to see him live the other week and he is equally as impressive doing his live laptop thing. the guy is brilliant. this mix is brilliant. get his album 'full english breakfast' too.
Chris Cunningham's career as a music video director began in 1995 when, aged twenty-five and passionate about music, Chris met and persuaded Autechre to let him direct a promo for a track entitled "Second Bad Vilbel." Following on from this video, Chris was soon working with a range of artists during the early days of his career, waiting for that all-important track that would allow him the opportunity to create the images for the music that truly excited him.
In August 1997 Chris realised a long-term desire to collaborate with Richard James (the Aphex Twin) and directed the video for the single "Come to Daddy" through the production company RSA / Black Dog Films who he had recently joined. Not only did this video change the face of music videos, it catapulted his name into the public. Needless to say the video has since won a plethora of awards and accolades including the MCM grand prix du jury 1997. Read more
Brian Siskind, who records urban travelogues under the guise of Fognode, is building a new home studio. Taking a break from the maze of wires and software patches, he wandered out to his porch with a microphone, amplifier and lap steel guitar. The result of his afternoon break is a twenty minute EP of slowly evolving atmospherics. The Porch Music EP is lazy lullabies for when you want to let your brain go and unwind all the kinks in your spine and back.
Brian says this isn't his normal thing: more of an idle afternoon spent testing tones and looping sounds to their elastic point. Two of the tracks, "Verdant" and "Stall Sighting," are just a bit over two minutes long and they are short Frippertronic-type meditations on a single melodic phrase. The longest of the five tracks, "Graham Bell," wanders in slowly like the fog drifting across the bay in the early morning, slowly devouring the headland and the anchored ships.
Form rephlex.com :
Grime. Sublow. Dubstep. It's Music. Different people call it different things, depending on when they discovered it. In the 80's, maybe it was House, Techno and Electro. In the 90's it was UK-G, Drum and Bass, Breaks or whatever. Now there are so many terms for it that the journalists can’t pidgeon-hole it any more. This is a good thing - it's music. Moody music. Multifunctional, multifaceted music created by Humans with Brains, Hearts, Machines & Electricity. Music that’s great for dancing to in clubs, or submerging yourself within your headphones, your car, your home, wherever. Download here ca. 140MB
I added a few new links to my bloggroll
Sablog german
focusing on us-american tv shows. animeblog german
the name speaks for itself Last life in the universe german
movies,babes, games etc.
She is the author of my favourite fantays books, Earthsea. I started to read them in the early 1990s, when fantasy books (at least in germany)where not easy o get. Of course you could buy "lord of the rings" everywhere, but I bought these gems at a flea market. I couldn't get hold of the third so I didn't read the whole story, nowadays almost every fantasy book is easely availible but I didn't found the time to finsh the story. But the us-american tv station turned thefirst two books in a tv mini series! But it seems, the series is only loosely based on the books, and Mrs Le Guin doesn't like it.
Right now I am spending almost 3 hours on a train every day and surely will find the time to read the whole story.
Ein Cocktail heißt, wie sie heißen. Die Band the Cranberries haben einem bekannten Song nach ihnen benannt und eine Reihe weiterer Bands haben sie in ihre Namen oder Albumtitel aufgenommen. Michael Jackson lässt sie in seinem Thriller-Video als Staffage um sich tanzen. Und der Soziologe Ulrich Beck bezeichnet obsolete sozialwissenschaftliche Kategorien nach ihnen, die zwar nicht mehr zuträfen, aber in der gegenwärtigen Literatur weiterhin als Worthülsen ihr Unwesen trieben und nicht tot zu kriegen wären. Die Rede ist von Zombies - den lebenden Toten. Doch woher eigentlich kommen sie, die Zombies, und woher kennen wir sie? Mehr
Chris Cunningham's career as a music video director began in 1995 when, aged twenty-five and passionate about music, Chris met and persuaded Autechre to let him direct a promo for a track entitled "Second Bad Vilbel." Following on from this video, Chris was soon working with a range of artists during the early days of his career, waiting for that all-important track that would allow him the opportunity to create the images for the music that truly excited him.
