STOCK RAUS SONNE REIN, Sa 30.09.06 // 23Uhr
im Trend / Prenzlauer Allee 246 (gegenüber Tanke/Ibis Hotel) / Berlin
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Merlin Bronques went to Miami and..
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Rotation Records in Weinbergsweg is organizing a record fair for used records on October, 3rd at Zur Möbelfabrik. So if you have a massive stack of records that you have been waiting for the right opportunity to get rid off, this is your chance. All styles of electronic music are welcome, and there is no cost for registration or to be part of the event. Feel free to contact Rotation for details and registration. However, if you are looking for more records to complete your collection, this should be the right place, too!

Picture from DiscogsMinilogue are from Sweden and like most Swedish people they are great musicians. They have that certain scandinavian feel for nice and sometimes melancholic melodies. In this case, it is embedded into a very smooth, feathery and dreamy sound architecture. It’s hypnotizing, you want to close your eyes and raise your hands and dance.
Which is what the people in Berlin did. Enjoy a tremendous live set:

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Videopodcasts done by prominent bloggers and charismatic heads from the internetscene have been popping up recently (like the one I referred to yesterday) and here’s a little top 4 of what I think is worth watching.

Robert Scoble started a videoblog with interviewing Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s CEO

www.gruenderszene.de is a german videocast by one of the Spreadshirt founders Lukasz Gadowski focussing on German entrepreneurs like Continue >>

Claude von Stroke appears on San Francisco’s label Dirtybird and I have seen him on several DJ charts I trust recently. Here is a nice mix, very solid, dry, funky, synthie-techy and sometimes even a little ravy and dreamy. Give me a strobe for the stroke!

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The other day, Peter and I interview Yochai Benkler about commons based peer production. He is a very smart and witty man and absolutely able to communicate his visionary ideas. We talked about the wealth of networks, collaboration on a global, individual scale and knowledge- and production sharing. We had twenty minutes, a little camera and could ask four questions. A very interesting morning, watch the whole interview at The Waving Cat. He also wrote a book and published it for free. For me, the most interesting question was how a theory of production can be generalized to producing other goods than media and his answer (click to continue) is fascinating. Continue >>

“YouTube “Underground” Contest is on a quest to find the most talented and entertaining unsigned musicians and bands out there.” From october 2nd until october 18th bands can upload videos and win everything but a record deal (which might even a prize itself..): Promotion in New York, Gibson equipment, a professional phot shoot and a lot of internet fame of course. No more casting shows on TV, this genre is now officially moving to the internet.

“llJazz is a monthly mix podcast serving up soulful sounds from the past and present. It’s all about rare grooves, party breaks, selective hip-hop tracks, and vintage electronic cuts.” Illjazz is Andrew from New York djing, he’s a really sociable guy and has a great taste in music. As long as it’s good and funky it’s perfect for him. And for me, too!

I especially enjoyed his sheep meadows mix of soulful house music. The setting is like this: “Each weekend afternoon, hundreds of rollerskaters come down and dance on skates to funk, disco, garage, house, etc. mostly older people who used to party back in the 70s and 80s NYC club scene – Paradise Garage, The Loft, etc. Lot’s of funky ass people!!” Enjoy some original New York house:

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“Feierkondition” should be incorporated in the English language, just like “Angst”, “Weltschmerz” and, uhm, “Glockenspiel”. It’s what you need in cities like Berlin, with its overload of parties and interesting people to meet. I sometimes wonder how I keep up with the relentless pace of partymaking. But in the end, it always gives more engergy than it takes. So, looking back to a vivid week to an even more vivid weekend, I ask you: Can you compete with that?!
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One of the most savy bloggers, not only about music and the positive powers of the net, Johnny Haeusler (Spreeblick) meets Peter Zombik, director of IFPI Germany, one of the hardest fighters against music piracy. This is going to be an interesting discussion.

“Am Dienstag in Berlin: Das Internet und die Zukunft der Musik” – the future of music, a panel discussion at Grüner Salon der Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. September 19th, 20h, free, later some music.

One of my favourite fotographers, cute Gonzale has some pictures!

By the way, this is her blog, I found her because she made some pretty impressive pictures about the Paris students demonstrations this spring.

Also, die Party am Samstag war großartig, ich konnte alles spielen, von den spacigsten alten Disco-Dingern über dreckigen minimalen Funk bis zu Münchener Freiheit zu Dubstep, Madonna, Big Beat Krachern – der Dancefloor am Kochen. Höhepunkt war natürlich die Ping Pong Session mit Patrick, dabei hatte ich den miesen Plattenspieler (Rückkoppeln, Springen, Brummen, ein konstanter Ritt am Höchstbelastungslimit) und die unfehlbaren Hits und er den geilen Plattenspieler, die fehlerfreie Mixtechnik und den neusten Underground Scheiß. Dazu ein echtes Wohnungsparty-Feel, mit Kronleuchter, Parkett und Flügeltüren, also diese Villa kann ich für Parties nur empfehlen (Wer Interesse hat schreibt mir, ich vermittele dann..). Danke an alle die da waren, wir haben toll gefeiert und ich war mal wieder viel zu spät zu hause. Hier ein kleiner Videoeindruck von mir hinter den Decks (aber mach den Sound aus!):
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DJs Anonymous linked me as a friend! And they released a new mix by Ben Mono, see below. Great stuff, deep and funky, slow and grroovy, spacy bit hop soul infusion!

Moreover, Marco Delvai is going to play in Berlin, Yaneq invited him to Berliner Wald: spoken word unlimited with Wolf Hogekamp, Bas Böttcher, FlowinIMMO and Jim Dunloop at the funky Rhodes on thursday, 21.9.!

And from tomorrow I’ll be going to the Wizards of OS to see Lawrence Lessig and meet Yochai Benkler for a short interview. Not to talk about the party on saturday. So, some pretty interesting days coming up, stay tuned for some stories!

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It is about time to get back behind the turntables. This will happen next saturday, in Berlin, Landsberger Alle 54, in an old, empty house with a friendly partycrowd because we will celebrate two birthdays – an actress’ and a designers: so pretty, extrovert and stylish people are guaranteed. Patrick Gräser will join me on the decks, I will heat up and he’ll finish with his consequent club flavour. Be there, opens at 22:00h!

Photo by OutdoorAlex on FlickrThat’s right, I got the nice invitation to play some ball in Beach Mitte on sunday. I enjoyed not only the sun and the physical exercise (sweating out all the evil after two nights of partying) but also the inspiring moment to kick it over the wall (yes, THE wall) twice and climb over to retrieve it. Great fun and big recommendation while september is still sunny!
One hour is 12€, makes 3€ divided by at least 4 and worth it.
Update: Too bad, I missed this party..

There will be the great chance to book a DJ from Barcelona for your party in Berlin! Marco Delvai is going to be here and will bring his music. He is a resident in Barcelona’s famous club city hall (best day: sunday evening on the terrace..) and has been playing in many other sites in Spain and lately even in London with Mike Monday on an afterhour called WRONG.

Do you need to know more to be sure he knows what he’s doing? Check out the two mixes at the bottom and another blogpost! This guy is on the rise and you could be part of it. He will be here september 21st (thursday) to sep 26th (tuesday), drop me a mail and we’ll talk about the details! Continue >>

Wow, so many plans and no time to realize it all. So, note to self: Do it, lazy boy!

• 1st: Integrate tags into stylewalker – I have enough content now to tag it more thoroughly and it would be cool to let people participate – suggest tags and if I like them they will be part of the categorization. Does anyone know a good WP-plugin?

• Start a blog about organizational identity and weblogs. I am writing my master thesis and should export some wisdom to the net.

• Buy a DJ! A friend is coming from Barcelona, Marco Delvai, you can book him for little money and big fun! Expect more information later.

• A guide to MySpace – people keep asking me what to do there and I should write down all the things I tell each one of them.

And: A great mix at Miss Glitter – Bastard Cutz on bastard rec.

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Pentagonik is a netlabel which means they publish all their releases online, in this case for free and without any restricitions. The labelmakers and producers have an impressive and high quality output of bouncy techhouse tunes, often with a playful attitude. A good introduction to the pentagonik style is DJ Cotumo’s labelmix, out on Zerinnerung. Drives forward and gives you sunday teaparty at home nice after-hour feel!

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Pentagonik and Jahtari are two of the netlabels which will present their creative force on the netlabels party of the Wizards of OS conference, 14th to 16th september in Berlin – free culture, knowledge sharing, alternative licensing. Go!

Check out netzpolitik for more information about the WOS (and many more events, literature, IFA, etc) on netzpolitik.org

Systemtheoretiker und Konstruktivisten aufgepasst! Wenn wir die Welt nur durchs beobachten konstruieren (Matrix und so, vielleicht sind wir ja alle angeschlossen und keiner merkts, you know), dann ist das eine Beobachtung erster Ordnung, right? Wenn wir durch Medien wie TV oder Blogs die Welt beobachten, dann ist das wohl eine Beobachtung zweiter Ordnung.

Wenn Tita von Hardenberg, die eine eigene TV-Sendung hat, sich und Harald Schmidt mit der Kamera beobachtet und wir sie dann später auf ihrem Blog dabei beobachten, ja welche Beobachtungsordnung haben wir denn dann? Die Medien beobachten die Medien, wir beobachten die Medien und dabei die Welt und uns selbst. Mein Gott, als Systemtheoretiker muss man doch irgendwann wahnsinnig werden..
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It took me some time to figure out how to make the random header plugin work with my wordpress pool theme. Now I got it! Thx to Valentin and Pit also! You can now enjoy a new shiny header (the one on top) picture with every reload which also symbolizes Stylewalker being in Berlin now. What do you think? Does it work properly on your screen? Especially Safari and Mac IE users, tell me please!

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