Kafka erzählt in "Das Urteil" die Geschichte von Georg Bendemann, einem jungen Kaufmann. Dieser besucht seinen alten Vater in dessen Zimmer. Dort entspinnt sich ein Gespräch, an dessen Ende der Vater über den Sohn das Urteil, nämlich Tod durch Ertrinken, spricht. Was danach passiert, ist sprichwörtlich "kafkaesk"!
Das Hörbuch wird von Rainer Maria Ehrhardt gesprochen - seine Stimme ist aus TV-Reportagen und Werbespots bekannt, unter anderem ZDF, SAT1 und arte.
Iron and Wine is the stage name for one Samuel Beam, a Florida native that made his name by releasing lo fi tapes in Miami. After catching the attention of Sub Pop honcho Jonathan Poneman, Iron and Wine was asked to send material to the label for submission. After a few months, two CDs arrived in the mail, both being full length albums.
Every now and then (to be exactly only two times yet), I write little artcles for phlow.net , a very nice german webzine dedicated to music and "net culture". This time I wrote about musicians from a very littele town called "Weilheim" in the south of Germany. You may not know the town, but you may know some of the many bands from Weilheim. Bands like The Notwist, Lali Puna or Console. But allmost no musician from Weilheim plays in only one band. Most of the bands are sharing there members. So if you like indie rock, post rock, electronica, inditronica in other words "good music", there are plenty of files waiting to be downloaded. Read the article @ phlow.net
New York City Singer-Songwriter Nina Nastasia creates intimate, spectral music that evokes some lost, skewed take on Americana and that is often laced with haunting strains of viola, cello and bowed saw. She counts among her admirers the notoriously picky, celebrated producer Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies), who engineered her first two albums and who has vehemently sung her praises. More
The Wire:
"EITS come up with a rock'n'roll firework display that is dazzlingly played and wonderful to behold."
Becoming known with an insane quickness due to their reputation for scathingly intense live performance and a quickly sold-out CD-R demo, Explosions in the Sky are becoming touted as the next phenomenon in moody and dynamic instrumental indie rock, à la Mogwai and Godspeed You Black Emperor! More
Johannes M. Ackner holt Märchen und andere Literatur-Klassiker in die Moderne und bietet sie als MP3-Hörbücher an - völlig kostenfrei.
Johannes M. Ackner ist Journalist und Sprecher. Das würde als Vita freilich noch nicht ausreichen, um dem Mann aus Leipzig einen ganzen Artikel zu widmen. Interessant über seinen Bekanntenkreis hinaus wird der Mann mit dem Dreitagebart, dem verschmitzten Grinsen und der angenehmen Stimme erst, wenn er sich in einen digitalen Märchenonkel verwandelt.Mehr Info
Max Goldt, geboren 1958 in Göttingen, siedelt 1977 nach dem Abitur nach Berlin über, wo er eine Fotografenausbildung beginnt. Er bricht diese jedoch ab und widmet sich der Musik. Auf den Wogen der Neuen Deutschen Welle schwimmt er als Frontmann der Gruppe "Foyer des Arts". die er zusammen mit Gerd Pasemann 1981 gründet. Er ist als Musiker ebenso erfolgreich wie als Autor. Als Musiker hat er zahlreiche Schallplatten veröffentlicht, teils im Duo, teils solo; als Autor schreibt er seit 1989 für das Satire-Magazin Titanic. - Max Goldt lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. Mehr
Bardo Pond was the flagship band of Philly's "Psychedelphia" space rock movement, which also included the likes of Aspera, Asteroid No. 4, the Azusa Plane, and tangentially the Lilys. Explicitly drug-inspired -- their titles were filled with obscure references to psychedelics -- they favored lengthy, deliberate sound explorations filled with all the hallmarks of modern-day space rock: droning guitars, thick distortion, feedback, reverb, and washes of white noise. Hints of blues structure often cropped up, but Bardo Pond's earliest roots lay with avant-garde noisemakers from the realm of free jazz and from New York's no wave movement and downtown Knitting Factory scene. More
From the ZU Webpage:
Critic and hydiosincratic music made of drums, bass, and saxophones . Some call it freejazz, no-wave, or hard-core. It's soul music [...] Critic and hydiosincratic music made of drums, bass, and saxophones . Some call it freejazz, no-wave, or hard-core. It's soul music [...] John Zorn: "You have created a powerful and expressive music that totally blows away what most bands do these days!"
Austrian review:
[...] Sie versuchen, die Gräben zu überbrücken, die zwischen den verschiedenen Szenen (Improvisation, Rock, Jazz, New York Downtown, etc.) leider immer noch bestehen [...]
skug - online | David Krispel | 22-05-2001 |
Kinan Abou-afach was born March 26,1977 in Damascus, Syria. He commenced his musical studies at the age of seven with the ‘Ud (Arabic Lute), learning traditional Arabic repertoire and the maqam system (Arabic scale system). At the age of eight he began studying the Cello under Mr. Pavel Coupin at the Arabic Institute of music, he changed to Mr. Rasi Abdullaiev, one year later. At this institution he flourished into an equally over-achieving ‘Ud and Cello player. Music wasn’t his only mode of expression. Along with his music, Kinan was immersed into the world of visual arts.
Big Dada Special
Recently described as "the very best underground hip hop label" in the Observer Music Monthly, Big Dada have taken it upon themselves to release heaps of records on the sly without you even noticing.
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Ty featuring Roots Manuva – ‘So U Want Morre Refix'
Heavyweight pressure as two of the UK's finest MCs come together on a combination of the rawest, most bouncing beats around. Watch, listen and
learn.
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Infinite Livez featuring Barry Convex – ‘Baby One More Time’
Barry - a red teddy bear and the evil svengali behind Infinite Livez'worldwide success - takes centre-stage with a coruscating re-reading of the Britney classic. He may have only one eye, but what a pair of lungs.
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Diplo – ‘Indian Thick Jawns’
Straight from Florida via Philly, the man Diplo offers up more superb avant garde bounce while his buddy, System D-128, cuts up the vintage
erotica/exotica. Blimey, vicar!
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TTC – ‘Live’
Big in France. In fact just big. A short film of highlights from TTC's triumphant performance at Les Trois Elephants festival last summer. TTC are back this year with a new album and the track "Dans Le Club" is already an anthem and it ain't even out yet... Throw ya Hans Blick in the air!
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Busdriver featuring Abstract Rude – ‘Unnecessary Thinking’
Soon, the whole world will know of Busdriver. The LA Underground veteran with the unique flow, GSOH and continuity announcer diction has released a number of superb albums, both as himself and as part of The Weather. His latest teams him with Daddy Kev and D-Styles for maximum blindingness. Oh,
and if that ain't enough, the legendary Abstract Rude's on there, too.
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Bigg Jus – ‘Kingspitter’
Burn, Babylon... The former Company Flow man is about the drop the definitive and complete version of his legendary 'Black Mamba Serums' sessions. Recorded over the last four years in and around Atlanta, it's a must for anyone claiming even a passing interest in underground hip hop. "Kingspitter" is one of the newest tracks - a taster of Jus at his illest and most inflammatory.
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Their dark burlesque attire and awe-striking live energy have cemented the Dolls' growing cult following and secured them a spot in the roster of underground bands currently trying to exhume the lost art of impeccable musicianship paired with a tragicomic flair for the absurd. The Dolls recently finished recording an unreleased CD with producer Martin Bisi (SWANS, Sonic Youth) and have just begun work on a new EP with producer Sean Slade (Radiohead, Courtney Love). Stolen from here
The Roots are an influential Philadelphia-based alternative hip hop crew, known for uplifting lyrics and live instrumentation. Originally composed of Black Thought (rapper) and ?uestlove (drummer), The Roots soon added Malik B. Moving (rapper) and Hub (bassist) and earned themselves a respectable fanbase in Philadelphia. Their debut album, Organix, was released on Remedy Records. With significant hype, The Roots soon signed to DGC and released their major label debut, Do You Want More?!!!??! in 1995 (see 1995 in music).
Do You Want More?!!!??! included no samples and was recorded live; sales were slim among mainstream audiences, though it was very popular among devoted hip hop fans and some alternative rock audiences. Preceded by the moderate hit "Clones", 1996's Illadelph Halflife (1996, 1996 in music) included some samples but still did not sell well.
In 1999 (see 1999 in music) The Roots' Things Fall Apart (named after Things Fall Apart, a novel by Chinua Achebe) was a breakthrough commercial and critical success which made it on many best-of lists for the year. Though The Roots' were no superstars, they vastly expanded their fanbase, leading to high hopes for their follow-up, the long-awaited Phrenology, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music), which was similarly acclaimed, though sold somewhat less than Things Fall Apart. From the wikipedia
The Roots Live.com
Each month The Roots Live.com will host live shows from THE ROOTS. These shows are intended to be shared among Okayplayers and fans of The Roots . They ARE NOT to be SOLD or AUCTIONED in any manner.
"This piece is the result of my reflections on Mark Rothko's paintings currently on display in the Tate Modern. The display is set in a darkened room within the Tate, producing an intense and intimate experience.
I visited the Tate in March with a binaural microphone and a minidisc recorder, and sat contemplating the paintings. I tried to capture the experience and the environment by recording the sounds around me. The recordings were then processed (twisted, warped, granularised) to encode my own ideas about the paintings and the experience as a whole."
YOU KNOW THOSE FAKE SONGS put out by the labels on filesharing networks that have 20 seconds of music followed by intense screeching noise? Claire Chanel and Scary Sherman, the hilariously-pseudonymed music activists behind jayzconstructionset.com, are now telling us that these annoying fakes constitute an entirely new subgenre of music: the RIAA-mix (get it? re-mix, riaa-mix?). They’ve put out a compilation of some of the greats of this genre, including “remixes” of Aerosmith, 50 cent, Sheryl Crow, and G&R. More at:
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"chicks dig scars (blo up) - this is radio trash pt 2 spiffing noise-fest from everyones favourite bootlegger named don here. expect glitched, junglist, hardcore riddims. the tracklist reads like a smash hits giveaway cd, doesn't it?"
mouse on mars - download sofist
kid 606 - catstep, my kitten (hrvatski remix)
anthony red rose - under mi fat ting
doormouse - skelechairs (venetian snares remix)
mu chan clan - smash it with a brick
electronicat - frisco bay
annihilator - i'll show you my gun
knifehandchop - knifehandchop is my favourite dmx
surburban fox - battle zone 1996
schneider tm - reality check (mogwai remix)
Munich's Funkstörung have been described as the German Autechre, a description which probably has less to do with their sound than the interest the group has attracted to their Musik Aus Strom label. Similar to Autechre's Skam label, Musik Aus Strom (German, roughly, for "synthesizer music") has become one of the more collectible, obsessed-over underground electronica labels, coveted as much for the Skam-esque enigma about them as the increasing exchange between the two labels' rosters (a connection the two sealed in 1997 with the release of the limited edition Mask series, a collaboration between the labels and their respective artists). More
From the ZU Webpage:
Kinan Abou-afach was born March 26,1977 in Damascus, Syria. He commenced his musical studies at the age of seven with the ‘Ud (Arabic Lute), learning traditional Arabic repertoire and the maqam system (Arabic scale system). At the age of eight he began studying the Cello under Mr. Pavel Coupin at the Arabic Institute of music, he changed to Mr. Rasi Abdullaiev, one year later. At this institution he flourished into an equally over-achieving ‘Ud and Cello player. Music wasn’t his only mode of expression. Along with his music, Kinan was immersed into the world of visual arts.
Their dark burlesque attire and awe-striking live energy have cemented the Dolls' growing cult following and secured them a spot in the roster of underground bands currently trying to exhume the lost art of impeccable musicianship paired with a tragicomic flair for the absurd. The Dolls recently finished recording an unreleased CD with producer Martin Bisi (SWANS, Sonic Youth) and have just begun work on a new EP with producer Sean Slade (Radiohead, Courtney Love). 
