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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