A true Stylewalker leans back. And waits and reads all the Michael Jackson posts and remixes and then selects the best for the reader. (the picture ist taken by the brilliant Ralph Uetzelhöffer who does very nice textportraits) Here we go:

LehtMoeJoe’s Beat it remix - in your face!

Bird Petersons Thriller remix - also very funky face

The Hood Internet / Ratatat Remix to Billie Jean - some kind of Roulé feely music sounds better with you’ish floor smoother

And finally a nice mash of “I want you back” with Lil’ Wayne (find more MJ mashs at Kickin Peanuts)

Boyz Noize - Eat it remix -heavy rock disco

Thriller Disco Tech Remix
- Prins Tomas space disco style, very close to the original

Louis La Roche Thriller remix
- another very compressed, tight floor filler with some fragments and happy moments

Thank you Hype Machine, Popwreckoning, Aimt.us, Chromekids

Danish is a funny language. Let alone pronouncing the Reboot11’s venue “Kedelhallen” correctly is a command of its own. It’s something like “cahilhäln” but we never got it right. Said it, looked into puzzled faces, wrote it down and were told “oh, you mean cahilhäln!” Finally got there, were amazed.

An old industrial building with several rooms, the walls covered with handwritten paper and plans and rooms and talks, with small wooden chairs outside and a 3d printer which can repair its 3d printer brother and a supercreative crowd who didn’t care about business cards and seemed to be really interested in answers (not the kind of people that ask “so, what do you do?” and then look the other way).

And: Whenever talks mentioned the word “crisis”, they never meant the financial crisis but were talking about the climate crisis ahead and how to adress it with smart technology and will. Most of the sessions I found interesting, but I was surprisingly dissapointed by two internet legends who seemed not to care so much about inspiring people: Dave Winer who just let the audience talk and produced a lot of unstructred noise (nothing against open mic but without some outlines there will be nothing of substance) and Stowe Boyd who told us to use our rights on the net. Yeah, thanks.

But some stuff was truly amazing, there was a hellride through all sorts of geo location examples and tools by Andrew Turner, a very dark yet humorous speech by Bruce Sterling (”get the best bed you can get!”) and again, the Placebo of tech festivals, David Weinberger about Cyberutopianism. Not to mention Tor Nørretranders who showed us how literally sharing your shit makes things better.

Look for more posts about reboot11, thank you again Peter for suggesting me to go!

Picture from lastnightsparty.com

So, you like the Berlin style, the groove, the noisy, excessive party? The wall-chique, the fabrics, the industrial meets prosecco scene? The slim jeans, the checked shirts, the sunglasses that are needed to cover worn faces from the morning sun? The guestlists, the sorry-today-only-invited parties, the secrets, the word of mouth hints to illegal places?

Yes, I know you do, that’s why you read Stylewalker. So now you can be part of such a thing, I am giving away 2 tickets for an exclusive party with some pumping music. The only thing you have to do is find out which party I am talking about!

This party is actually not so secret so it is possible to find out. And here are some hints:
1st it will take place july 2nd
2nd it is a party sponsored by a clothing brand
3rd friends of mine organize a blogger reachout so they asked me to give away tickets
4th you probably find out googeling some keywords because of 3rd
Go hunt!

First comment with the right answer wins.

Die GEMA will in Zukunft mehr Geld von Veranstaltern und das kann bei kleinen Locations schnell dazu führen, dass Konzerte mehr kosten als sie bringen und ergo: gar nicht mehr statt finden können. Auf der anderen Seite bemisst sich der Auszahlungsschlüssel an die von der GEMA vertretenen Künstlern nach Airplays und intransparent erhobenen Verkaufscharts. Weder die Forderung an Live-Veranstalter noch die Gelderverteilung sind angemessen und zeitgemäß. Das Verfahren muss politisch überprüft werden (schließlich ist die GEMA Monopolist) und dazu gibt es eine Petition.

Via Pianojoe im Wortlaut:

“Liebe Musiker und Nichtmusiker, das Universum braucht Eure Hilfe.
Wohl und Wehe der kleinen lokalen Musikszene hängt davon ab, bei Veranstaltungen Gewinn zu machen, d.h., die Kosten überschaubar zu halten. Ein großer Kostenfaktor sind die GEMA-Gebühren. Nun ist die GEMA prinzipiell eine sehr sinnreiche Einrichtung, allerdings sind die derzeitigen Abrechnungs- und Verteilungsmethoden sehr zum Nachteil von uns “Kleinen” (Veranstaltern, Komponisten und Musikern). Das liegt daran, dass nur die “Großen” im Vorstand sitzen.”

Zur Petition

Diese braucht bis 17.7.09 50000 Unterschriften um im Parlament zur Vorlage zu kommen. Zeichnet mit!

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Four days of wonderful magically walking around and seeing beautiful old and new stuff, enjoying the Italian dolce vita with good food, vine, sun and relaxation.

And here are some hints for this years Fête de la musique 2009 Berlin. Of course, I could also open a window and blast the streets with some Drum’n'Bass, all legal today!

You can get the whole Berlin program on fêtedelamusique.de, the Server is a little weak, Google Cache has a copy.

Hip Hop is important this year, many stages feature local acts. The most interesting in my view ist Word Up - Festival für Vielfalt und Toleranz, at Badstr / Behmstr, Wedding, with Zeugen Der Zeit (conscious, politischer hip hop, reggae), Gitta Spitta (underground rap von duman & gigaflow), Erko (hip hop), DJ Mesia (hip hop, electro), Sebi (flying steps)

At Lausitzer Platz you have rocky Elektro with Pitchtuner and Nachlader.

Art and Experiments you’ll find at Temporären Kunsthalle Berlin, Schlossfreiheit 1 with Egill Sæbjörnsson, Asia Today und DJ Jeep (Jan Joswig/ It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that yachtrock and softpop)

You get Indie-Pop with Virginia Jetzt, Super700, Element of Crime atAnnaBlumeSowohlAlsAuchZumDrittenMann-Bühne, Kollwitz with Sredzkistr.

And of course the biggest stage is in Mauerpark with Jazzanova, Kissogram, Warren Suicide and Mediengruppe Telekommander. Go out, the weather is great!

Deutsche Version im Hauptstadtblog

Junge Helden is an organization aiming to promote organ donation amongst young people. It is all about putting a card in your wallet saying that you are willing to donate your organs in case you are dead. Not a big deal, right? Of course everybody can say no, reality is that most people do not know about the necessity of carrying such a card although they would be willing to help other people.

Junge Helden do a great job in engaging celebreties. This weekend, june 20th, will be a party with Jürgen Vogel, Beatsteaks, Benno Fürmann, Max Herre, Mareile Höppner, Loretta Stern and Jasmin Gerat (all quite well known in Germany) serving drinks or wardrobing. Ian Pooley, Superfitness and others will be playing music, it takes place at Audiolarium, Bessermerstr 2-14, Tempelhof, Berlin

Disclaimer: I am also a member of Junge Helden

Bildungsstreik in Münster von Gedankenstuecke auf Flickr

Diese Woche streiken Schülerinnen, Schüler, Studenten für Verbesserungen des Bildungssystems. Die Demonstrierenden wenden sich gegen Studiengebühren, “Turbo-Abi” und vollgestopfte Bachelor-Studienpläne. Sie wenden sich gegen Bildungsprivatisierung, gegen Leistungs- und Konkurrenzdruck, gegen “Gesetze des Marktes” im Bereich der Bildung. Anders als in vorangegangenen Streiks haben es die Organisatoren dieses Mal geschafft, mehr als 150 000 auf die Straße zu bringen. Vor allem die Forderung, die Bachelor-Studienpläne zu überarbeiten ist immens wichtig.

Weiterlesen im Trabayo-Blog.

Great video by Notic Nastic at Berghain Kantine, performing at the Arhus Berlin Crush in april. Where you also good cakes served on a plate while dancing to the Djs later.

Spain strikes five against New Zealand, especially 3,4 and 5 are humiliating

Ich bin übers Wochenende verreist (Napoli, yeah!), aber vielleicht wollt ihr ja hier mitmachen:

Coole Sache, der Besitzer des „MultiKulti Spätverkauf“ in der Wienerstraße 40 in Kreuzberg wird satte 35% des innerhalb der Aktion erzielten Umsatzes dazu verwenden, sein Geschäft energieeffizienter umzubauen, und so langfristig die CO2-Bilanz des Ladens zu senken und damit das Klima zu schützen.

Trabayo is the name of an enterprise I am starting right now together with four friends and actually many more people you will all get to know soon. I am saying enterprise because it is going to be journey to see something become live we have been thinking about for a long time and of which we think might help a lot of people.

The idea is to give students a place to present a certain talent and a specific service. Students need ways to make a little money aside, in a flexible way and they have myriad talents from baysitting to fixing motobikes, from groceries for grandma to being a style and shopping assistant. We want to add useful tools to administer service deals and finally offer a pro version. On blog.trabayo.com you can follow our progress, even more detailed is twitter.com/trabayo.

If you register now on trabayo.com you will be using this service free, forever! Take the ride with us, I would be delighted.

Beatboxing is sure fascinating but can be pretty annoying too. But this thing here is absolutely brilliant. Dub FX performs a Dubstep tune, which is originally recorded with a loop machine plus and only his mouth. And it’s a great tune, deep, melodic, intense.

Filmed by Ben Dowden, I found it via Echolot, Stylespion has more videos.

I have 5 invitations, just comment below if you would like to test putpat too.

Putpat is another musicvideosite which aims to make it simple and easy to watch music videos like back in the ol’ days on MTV. A simple, flash based interface lets you skip videos, change channels, and love or ban videos. Based on this bans or loves plus on a tool called Veequalizer users can build their own channels which will then deliver videos according to taste and mood.
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Am 22.05. eröffnete das neue Restaurant der Sage Macher, in der Köpenickerstr 18, direkt an der Spree. Großes altes Industriegelände, sehr groß, sehr weitläufig, schön eingerichtet, super Essen. War eine tolle Eröffnung mit sehr vielen Leuten, netter Stimmung und guten Gesprächen. Zum Beispiel traf ich jenen Spirituosenhändler, der dem KDW den teuersten (7000 EUR) Cognac verkauft und außerdem einen pensionierten Filmemacher, der jetzt auf Kho Samui lebt. Von den Freunden mal ganz abgesehen.

Wenn ich da in der Nähe arbeiten würde, käme ich sicher mal mittags oder nach der Arbeit dort vorbei. So wird es für mich wohl die Ausnahme oder der besondere Anlass bleiben, dort hinzugehen.

Finally incorporated the Hype machine loved-tracks-badge into the sidebar. Hypemachine is a site which tracks conversations about music in blogs. Music files that blogs link to can be played directly at the site, combined with the comments from blogs, a zeitgeisty engine showing new and hyped tracks makes an incredible pool of new music to discover, especially killer remixes. Users can love tracks to show their, erm, love, and most of all to find them again. A list of the recently loved tracks can be embedded at websites. Which I just did so enjoy some Stylewalker love music. Hype! And here is their radio show featured on Soundcloud:

Just.blogsport put together a collection of summer mixtapes, which are niiice. Gould’s mixtape starts with Burial, how could I not love it.

[via Kopfbunt]

Samstag wird Tine Papendick ein Testsetup einer Körpervermischungs-Installation im Spielraumschaufenster aufbauen. Ihr könnt euch mit anderen Leute verdrehen, vermischen, überlagern oder auch einfach nur ein Bier mit uns trinken. Keine Party sondern das TO-DO bevor es in die Nacht geht. Das ganze findet statt im Spielraum (Tataaa!).

SAMSTAG, 16.05.2009
ab 21 Uhr
Reichenberger Straße 28
Berlin Kreuzberg

There is an intense discussion in the political German online sphere about centralizing control over access to websites for blocking child abuse content. It started with a campaign by the Minister for family affairs Ursula von der Leyen who urged the telcos to sign an agreement to block DNS access to sites who are identified on lists by the Federal Police office (BKA). The telcos signed it but urged the Minister to pass a proper bill in Parliament.

The position of the conservative politicians is that this is an important step to prevent child abuse content being seen on the internet. The opposing arguments not only by technical experts (read an article by Germany’s leading IT magazine c’t in German) but also by victims of child abuse (read an interview in German with child abuse victim Christian Bahls in German on Zeit Online) are myriad:

First: blocking DNS access to websites neither prevents children from being abused nor does it even delete the content from the servers, it simply puts a curtain in front of it. Experiments by e.g. CareChild (in German) show that all child abuse content that was found on servers in different countries could be deleted within a week by simply telling the hoster. Note the difference: von der Leyen wants to block access while it is possible to take it down completely.

Second: People who consume this kind of content do not find it on websites. They use peer to peer sharing or send CDs for they know it is far too dangerous for them to search on the www. Effective ways to prevent crimes would mean pursuing the criminals with more staff and equipment and trying stop it where it starts: in families.

Furthermore: giving one single institution the power to block websites for a whole country gives this institution very much power. Nobody is allowed to check the lists or even publish them, that would be a crime itself. The bill includes no way for people to get their sites off the list if they believe they got the by accident. Not to talk about the general smell of censorship structures being installed here which could fast also count for copyright protection and finally for any government critical content This last argument I do not understand as grave but rather as an extreme scenario. I think the German democracy and political system will prevent this law being signed in the first place and never will give this much power to one part of the executive system. Hopefully I am not too optimistic, nevertheless it is always important to think about where things could possibly end up in the future.

It is very difficult to discuss this subject. Critics of initiatives like this are accused to attack the fight against child abuse in general. Which is absolutely stupid considering all the possibilities to really do something about it.

Spreeblick posted an interesting and well read conversation about the German plan to implement internet filters by law between Johnny and a reader where the whole story is explained in more details.

Die Versprechen des mysteriösen, sich aber immer konkreter abzeichnenden Semantic Web sind groß. Nichts anderes als dass Maschinen tatsächlich verstehen sollen, was man gerade sucht und die Informationen und möglichen Entscheidungen entsprechend aufarbeiten will das semantische Web liefern. Ein Web der Daten, mehr als Daten im Web.

Artikel von mir im Trabayo-Blog weiterlesen

Viel Show, wenig Konkretes. Das Image der Übermutter bröckelt nicht erst seit Zensursula-Zeiten. Ich konnte sie schon bei dem Märchen-Quiz mit Kindern nicht ertragen, wo ihr Ehrgeiz jeglichen Spaß ihrer Mitspieler erstickte. Im YouTube Film wird die Familienministerin kritisch dabei beobachtet, wie sie Probleme weglächelt, ihre Kabinettskollegen ausspielt, die schwierige Arbeit andere machen lässt und dabei ihre Familie als Ideal inszeniert.

In diesem Kontext findet sich ein toller Artikel über Zensurpolitik beim Tagesspiegel: “Peng, du bist tot” zu Killerspielen und Netzzensur.

It’s going to be a pretty active weekend, I am not talking about riots. But there is lots of cool stuff going on in Berlin this weekend: Tonight, thursday, there is the money printing contest which will take place at Mariannenplatz 21 in Kreuzberg 36. (”Who hasn’t thought about it? The perfect solution in this time of global meltdown and financial disaster! We need to make our own money!”) Great, arty and subversive idea by Czentrifuga.

Tomorrow night, I will be playing at CRACKERS, Heidestrasse 5, a friend is organizing a party for friends, come if you’re a friend! (see the flyer to the left).

Then, saturday and sunday, I will be attending Politcamp09, a barcamp about politics. I’ll try to post an English summary here.

Why? Because discussion is building up there on a high level

Ich wollte immer schon gerne einmal dem Entscheidungsprozeß beiwohnen, in dem die fortschrittlichen gesellschaftlichen Kräfte darüber befinden, wie mit bürgerlich-individualistischen Konterrevolutionären zu verfahren ist.

Read in a comment here:
Soziale Unruhen und die Krise

[Disclaimer: I work for PANORAMA3000 and helped to build the Jusos Blog]

European parliament offers a nice widget on their European Parliament MySpace site which breaks down essential political questions in a very simple way. Here is the widget I did:

Too bad it does not show the meaning of the symbols but it goes like this: the cat is for taming financial markets, the sun is for solar energy (althought that’s a little short, I believe we need a mix, which includes nuclear energy BUT with a clear stop in the future), the lock is for open borders, the flash for electric energy for cars, the book is for investments in education (instead of agriculture) and the syringe is for genetic agriculture (and I do not mean Monsanto! I believe public science must undertake a much bigger effort than today to find, also genetically driven, solutions to make agriculture more sustainable and productive.

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