Rember “Minority Report”? The best thing in this movie were the fascinating interfaces the policemen used to gather information. Big touchscreens that react to the movements of several fingers or even several hands on interactive walls or table tops. Well, there is something like this in reality and of course, I liked the idea of the digital touchscreen turntable (as seen in the picture).

Jeff Hahn and his colleagues at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University are working on that and there’s an impressive movie clip to visualize their efforts. Mindblowing, music by Peter Kruder.

[via sounds.imnetz]

“It is a dance organized by the drug lords, where the violence and frustration explodes.”
Remember “City of God?” I recently watched this great movie again.

So, what’s the origin of violence and war? The answer seems simple: Angry young men. Sociologically this is summarized in the theory of the “Youth Bulge” which describes the battle of the sons for the powerful positions in a society. Happens all over the world for centuries, again and again. Terror and war are the most recent outcomes, the scientist Gunnar Heinsohn has written a fascinating book about the connection between the spare sons, fundamentalism, terror and war: “Söhne und Weltmacht” And now enjoy a short clip from the VICE travel DVD “Surviving the slums of Rio” Continue >>

While I am going to be in Hamburg this weekend, maybe my local readers are interested in some underground movements in Berlin.

There will be a party beneath the Schlossplatz, in the old catacombs. There will be a band, you have to find a whole in the ground to enter. Sounds amazing, here’s the announcement:
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I wish, we had such a sharpminded satiric in Germany to confront politicians with their everyday madness. Here are my favourite interviews with US congressmen from the Colbert report (the series is called “Better know a district”). Hilarious: A Republican who doesn’t know the ten commandments, the unopposed candidate whom Colbert asks to say things that would “really lose you the elcetion” (had he a challenger) or the Oregan congresswomen he asks if she is high. Click for the videos
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Shake your hips beneath the mirror ball, it’s disco time! A mix full of classics, singalongs and booty shakers. Put yourself into the saturday night fever, flip your fingers and tap your toes: It’s DJ Julian from New York in an überfunky discomix. With some nice changes he keeps the groove and has a good feel for the music.
A classic on Djs Anonymous I found lately.
I know, I should have posted this on Saturday night but I was busy partying.
Funky classics and rare disco edits from DJ Julian of New York City

Download the whole mix including the artwork

Dringg!
“Polizeipräsidium, hallo! … Ach, das Kanzleramt, wie nett.. Wer kommt? .. Ratspräsident..? Ja, tut uns sehr leid, sie wissen ja, wir müssen sparen.. Könnte der seine Polizisten vielleicht selber mitbringen?”

Dringg!
“FU Servicehotline, hallo! .. Ja, natürlich können Sie nach den Studiengebühren fragen, wo sind Sie denn geboren? Ja, ich brauche dann auch die Geburtsurkunde.. einen Augenblick, Hessen sagten Sie? .. Das sind dann 3567€ pro Semester.. Was, viel Geld?! Ja, seien Sie doch froh, dass sie aus Frankfurt kommen, für Bayern wäre es noch teurer!!.. Aber das sind ja keine Gebühren, wenn sie hier nach dem Studium eine Firma machen und mindestens zwei Leute zehn Jahre beschäftigen, bekommen Sie doch alles wieder zurück!”

Dringg!
“Guten Tag, sie sprechen mit dem automatischen Anrufbeantworter der Berlin Marketing GmbH. Wenn Sie einen maroden Plattenbau zu Lofts umbauen wollen, drücken Sie bitte die 5. Wenn Sie Informationen zum Art Forum, der Popkomm oder IFA wollen, die sind jetzt in Danzig, Ljubiljana und Prag. Planen Sie einen Ausflug nach Berlin? Dann schauen Sie doch in einem unserer zwei Museen vorbei! Wir bedauern, dass kein Personal für ein persönliches Gespräch vorhanden ist. Wenn Sie dennoch in Berlin investieren wollen, dann suchen Sie doch einfach im Internet.”

Foto by *n*o*o*r at FlickrIntersoup is a typical Berlin bar and restaurant with this special second hand charme, old furniture, funny wallpapers, old lamps and many sofas. They have the best priced soups (attention: spicy!) and friendly people at the bar. Tonight is Karaoke and since I rediscovered my love for singing last sunday at the fleamarket, I’ll be there yelling my lungs out after a cocktail or two. Come and enjoy! Intersoup, Schliemannst. 31.

Some say it’s kitsch, some say, the colours look like candy, I think, it’s the perfect autumn spectacle.
Imagine taking a walk with your date, down “Unter den Linden” to the Dome and the Old National Gallery, all iluminated in different moods, sitting down on some bench with a paper cup of tea in your hands. This should put you in the right atmosphere for getting to know each other..

Watch a 360° panorama of Berlins festival of lights
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[via Hauptstadtblog]

I just discovered the New York based team blog Palms Out Sounds. It is packed with lots of downloadable mp3s of underground acts, soon-going-to-be-stars people and overall many, many remixes: Trentemöller, Bonobo, Soulwax, Daft Punk, Mr Oizo, Simian, DJ Krush and many, many more. For me, it’s a must read from now on.

Believe or not, children, today I am actually working hard and thus have no time to blog. Neither can I read blogs, which leads to the assumption that people who write and / or read blogs have lots of time and therefore probably are unemployed or students.

Thank you all that passed by the fleamarket yesterday where I tried to sell some personal belongings such as books, clothes and records of great value. It was big fun meeting you all and singing the tunes of my 45″ singles collection to make them recognizable. I think, some people just bought stuff to make me stop..

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Find many, many really nice pictures of the Junge Helden Party at Bangaluu at Berlin4fun - Ein Bangaluu voller Helden @ Bangaluu (10.10.2006): Celebs, sexy people, stylish environment.

I like this video. Science, fights, only the music is missing. Edelman brings Technorati to the German market and the German blogosphere watchs critically and pretty unethusiastically. Get used to each other guys, maybe one day you’ll be doing business together! (or not).

(you can skip the introduction)
[via basicthinking]

“In a classic sting operation some 50 politicians were fooled into thinking they were being interviewed about aspects of next year’s draft budget, currently before parliament. Instead, a make-up artist with a satirical TV show swabbed their eyebrows to get a sample of their perspiration, which was then tested for traces of cannabis and cocaine. Twelve allegedly tested positive for cannabis and four for cocaine, all apparently taken in the 36 hours before being approached.”
Taken from The Guardian
Despite the methodological errors these are impressive yet not very surprsing findings. Hey, here in Germany we got aware of that phenomenon six years ago already!
Watch a clip of a drunk George W. Bush after the click. Continue >>

Stylewalker could have done this mix here. (Self-promotion:)Come tonight to see me and you’ll be enjoying a soulful, urban mix of funky and electric tunes!

Just like in this mix by Berlin DJ Hunee. He blends together all kinds of music to a very entertaining, soulful and dancy melange that you, my dear readers and listeners, will all like a lot.

Download the music
Download the cover and tracklist

And such I am going to do with famous people like Ian Pooley, Thees Uhlmann (Tomte) and Beatstakes. There will be a whole bunch of celebrities serving drinks: Jürgen Vogel, Nora Tschirner, Til Schweiger, Markus Kavka and many more. Click the image to see the whole flyer and read the news by Junge Helden.

The charity event for “Junge Helden“, an organization for promoting organ donation among young people in Germany, will take place tomorrow, tuesday, 10th of october at Bangaluu, Invalidenstr. 30

Samim is one part of the famous “Fuck Pony“. Together with Jay Haze he lifts the ubiquitous Berlin minimal sound to a sophistcated and even soulful level.

Recently the Swiss-Iranian moved from Zürich to Berlin to bring his musical career to a new level. Here is a brilliant liveset, very deep and subtle, recently released by his booking agency Contexterriorbookings. You can find DJ mixes of him there, too.

And he’s well connected on the web, you can find him at many social media sites, e.g. add Samim on Myspace and most of all, start reading his blog Robidog about netculture and with nice links to remixes and DJ sets.

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NOTIC NASTIC LIVE, OCTOBER 7TH, 2006, 00:00
GOLDEN GATE CLUB, BERLIN, MITTE, U8 JANNOWITZBRÜCKE, exit: SCHICKLERSTR.
DIRCKSENSTRASSE 77-78, www.goldengate-berlin.de

You can watch the complete version of the classic graffiti movie Style wars on Google video!

As drevhud on imdb puts it: “Many in the world of Hip Hop already know this film in and out. For those with only a passing interest in Hip Hop culture and Graffiti, this film is a must. Any lover of great documentary film making would appreciate Style Wars. Any individual who remembers, or wants to see, what New York City was like in the 70’s and 80’s should view this film. There are so many reasons to watch Style Wars”

[via republish]

Oh my, I don’t know how this happened, but Stylewalker got his own channel on Hype machine. Cool. So this site is now officially one of the best music blogs! (still long tail, I know..)

Oh yeah, Stylewalker has friends all over the world, e.g. in Taiwan.

As friends do, we share the same interests, so watch Johnny post some Taipeh street art.

While writing this, I am watching “Enemy of the state”. Who has not watched it, should. Of course, it’s an action thriller but with many good metaphors for what it means to be totally observed. And it has all these nice gadgets that geeks love so much.

Talking about control through media: Is Digital Rights Management (DRM) defective by design? This is an important issue, everybody should be aware of how much power we give to closed systems and how much free information is good for innovation. Here is more information about Digital Rights Management. While they call it Digital Restiction Management (DRM) is think we should use the term that is most discussed right now: Digital Rights Management.

[via Netzpolitik]

It’s a strange national holiday we have. In 1990, politicians could chose the date, and why on earth did they pick the 3rd of october? The French and Americans have plain summer on their national celebrations, dance in the streets and have open air festivals. Here, instead, leaves start falling, the sky is grey and everything is really calm and serious. What a pity. If you’re in Berlin and like electronic music, check this record fair, Suzi Wong plays some records and the rest of the people is bargaining or chilling. I drop by there later. And enjoy a mix of the man with the coolest DJ name: Erik Panzer.

“Panzer” is German for “tank”. While his music is less violent than the name insinuates, it’s not less powerful at all. Here is a mix from the Patentblau Open Air Party, minimal, dry, techy and very funky stuff. It’s like dusty techhouse.
And the funny thing is: Erik Panzer is his real name! That guy had to become a DJ..

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Update:Erik Panzer on Myspace

Second Update:The said open air was actually a partnership between “Barfuss” and “Patentblau“, two party crews who love to tame the wild places in Berlin and annex them for friendly parties. Here is another nice gallery from the Barfuss meets Patentblau event by Misu2020.

Turn the volume up and lets ride. Big sounds, brilliant graphics, a storyline and intelligent additional information. Since I never would be able to afford such a thing I cannot feel betrayed by the advertising and link to this masterpiece of webdesign: Audi R8 Microsite. I am still trying to find out who built it. Ideas, anyone?
[via basicthinking and lumma]

Birdy Nam nam are four turntablelists from Paris who have a very special taste for records with pianos, organs, pipes and hammonds. I love turntablelism, i can even watch battles and routines most people would find hard to digest but what these Francaises are doing here is so funky and jazzy, it should blow everyone’s mind: BirdyNamNam.com Go to the video section and select video number 5: “Kind of laid back au Point Ephémère”. Four guys and a jazzy shuffle beat, piano and organ scratches to the style maximum!

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