Stuttgart hat Jubiläum und Berlin fragt sich “Wer ist dieser Kennedy? Gib mir den Hennessy.”

(Achtung, nicht alle in dem Video können rappen, aber darum geht’s hier glaub ich gar nicht)
15 Jahre 0711, alles Gute!

Berlin bleibt deutlich, schön prollig, “Die Stadt überhaupt” von KD Supier, Megaloh, Said, Silla und Sera Finale. Sera hebt sich schön smart ab, ist eine “guter Orthopäde, der den Yuppies Beine macht” und der Rest ist ordentlich böse und schlecht gelaunt und manchmal auch witzig.

Nach dem Klick: Kool Savas und Eko Fresh
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Next friday I’ll be playing at an event with some legends from the 60ies Fluxus art movement. I am thrilled!

Come around to see Ben Patterson, one of the Fluxus founders, Iput, Eric Andersen and Willem de Ridder at the Schau Fenster Gallery at Lobeckstr.30, from 8pm. A good way to end the week and start the friday night!

The opening party is part of the “Fluxus Today” conference by the Akademie der Künste and the exhibition “The lunatics are on the loose“.

Pretty cool to see my name in such an arty environment. Let alone the question: What am I supposed to play?! Well, I have some days to think left, I guess. Suggestions for songs are welcome in the comments.

Last saturday, the People in Beta festival took place at Beta house with lots of workshops, games like VC-developer speed datings, the beta pitch and the Awesome foundation grant ceremony at Beta breakfast. Unfortunately I couldn’t be there, the little video summary by Beatriz Barragan Horn looks really nice. And the third Awesome grant this year goes to Figurerunning, which is running with a GPS while producing figures on a map – awesome!

The electronic music magazine Resident Advisor has started a new video series called “Real Scenes”. The third issue is about Berlin and its protagonists during the last 30 years. The film is great because it explains Berlins techno history in a very understandable way but also very well captures the feeling of getting lost and trying to escape from the pressure which always has and will be a motive for partying, especially in Berlin. The photography is nice with great scenes from Mauerpark, clandestine raves, clubs which have moved from underground to establishment like Watergate and Tresor and lots of squatted houses.

We hear people like Michael Hain (Hardwax), Tobias Rapp (author and Spiegel journalist), Dixon, Dimitri Hegemann (Tresor founder), Bene and Tom (Renate club), Sascha (Apparat) or Daniel Meteo from Shitkatapult. The protagonists explain the history of the openness of Berlin after the wall came down with lots of space and lack of rules. And also its transition from being a German underground city to a internationally known hotspot with all the good and bad this development brings.

You can find more “real scenes” documentaries about Bristol and Detroit.

Am 07.09. findet im HBC am Alexanderplatz die a2n Werkstatt statt, die sich an Musiker und Kreativarbeiter richtet und Wissen und Kontakte vermitteln will. Erfahrene Experten und Auskenner im Bereich Musik und Entertainment beurteilen Musikstücke und vermitteln anschließend in verschiedenen Workshops Wissen zu Lizenzierung, Versicherungen und Promotion. Ein tolles Angebot mit prima Leuten, das ich nur empfehlen kann.

Es geht los mit dem „Public Coaching“: Hier diskutieren Booker, Labelbetreiber und Musik-Journalisten zusammen mit den Musikern die eingereichten Songs. Ihr oder eure Musiker-Freunde können sich dafür ab sofort mit einem Song bewerben, den ihr in die a2n Dropbox schmeißt. Die “Werkstatt-Jury” wählt dann die Tracks aus, die live und vor dem geneigten Berlin Music Week-Publikum besprochen werden. Als Coaches sind illustre Menschen wie Sascha “Bleed” Kösch von der de:bug, Tim Renner von Motor Music oder Stephan Szillus von der Juice am Start.

Die anschließenden Workshops widmen sich Fragen wie: Wie funktioniert die Künstlersozialkasse? Gibt es Alternativen zur Gema? Wie geht Promotion im Netz? Was ist Crowdfunding? Wie lizensiere ich meine Musik für Filme?

Um Antworten bemüht sich ein ganzes Heer von Musik-Experten, darunter Stephan Benn, Rechtsanwalt und VUT-Vorstand, Artur Schock, Booker bei Audiolith, Tino Hanekamp vom Uebel + Gefährlich in Hamburg, oder Matthias Krebs von der UdK Berlin.
Checkt das gesamte Workshopprogramm.

The second Awesome foundation grant this year goes to (drumroll..) Jay Cousins and his idea to build bird houses in the city! Here is a bit of his plan:

“Make a little birdhouse in your Keats” will show people how to make bird houses from trash and then place them in public spaces – trees, lamp-posts, street signs and buildings. This process will educate people about waste, and engage them directly in improving directly their urban environment. The birdhouses themselves will create a provocation, bring birdsong to the streets and make the keat’s just that little bit nicer for everyone in it. The project would manifest in workshops – street actions and documented online with a how to replicate in your own keats.

Awesome! We look forward to seeing this in action.

The guys who brought to you “Captured” about the a video artist who documented New Yorks Lower East side in the 80ies will be here next week with a new flic: “Dirty Old Town”

On Monday 6/20 “Dirty Old Town” will premiere at the legendary Kino Babylon in Berlin with other engagements to follow. In addition my first film “Captured” will also be released theatrically at Kino Babylon in Berlin. Starts at 20:30!

DIRTY OLD TOWN: OFFICIAL PROMO – SPRING 2011 from Dirty Old Town on Vimeo.

I like the trailer because it looks like a very strange movie with lots of interesting characters. Don’t miss the chance to see it!

The Next conference has managed for several years now to invite international speakers who are able to cast a little blink at the future of digital business, marketing and communication. The Next conference 2011 will take place this year on may 17th and 18th in Berlin, main subject will be “Data love” and the value created out of information. The Next makers would love to see more international bloggers at this conference, so this is a call to my friends from Barcelona, London, New York, Stockholm and now also South America to get over here to mingle with the European internet scene.
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I am strolling through the blog posts about this years re:publica and I must admit it feels really sad not having spent more time there than the lousy two hours I played at the closing party. I had just came home from my trip, I was sick (still am), I had to get back into work at P3000, I just could not go. Tuesday evening I very shortly shook some hands at the Collaboratory meetup, but no way to go to the conference, neither to the Twitter reading or the Google party at Clärchens Ballhaus, not on thursday, not to #tassebier, nor on friday, it’s a shame. Because the feel transmitted by the mood videos and all the enthusiastic and thoughtful posts really make me miss having seen all the people I really would have liked to meet.

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Today, the Berlin chapter of the Awesome Foundation (which I am part of) was proud to announce the first grant winner. Many applicants were present this morning at Betahaus when we had the honour to hand over a brown paper bag filled with 1000 EUR to Konrad who convinced with his awesome idea.

Konrad will build a sleigh track with different lanes to enjoy winter and the snow. It will be maintained, so it lasts a while. He already has some locations in mind and is eager to realize his snowride soon. In this video, Konrad explains his idea with his own words.

We liked the idea because it spreads love and fun during a very hard, dark and cold time in Berlin: winter. It will bring people together and create a friendly environment. It is realizable soon and within the budget. Plus: We all look forward to riding that hill ourselves, awesome!

Thanks to everybody who submitted their ideas, we were amazed by the variety and number (more than 40) applications! It was really hard to decide, great fun took us a whole friday night and we look forward to the next pack of applications, If you think you’ve got an Awesome idea then get your submissions in now!

Nischiger, professioneller und urbaner Videocontent: I like! Und bei Konbinis Streetmapper Shows haben wir es mit solchen Inhalten zu tun. Auskenner und Szenegänger aus Paris, Berlin oder Barcelona ( stellen ihre Lieblingsplätze vor und erzählen dabei auch immer etwas über sich selbst. In Berlin sehr gut gelungen mit Philip Gaedicke, der u.a. den SOTO Laden macht. Have a look:

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I gotta say, I reignited my love for filmmaking. Documenting nice stuff with my camera and cut it together nicely (which usually takes more time than expected). So, here are the videos I shot within the last three weeks: A video documentary from the Picnic festival in Amsterdam, an event for creative entrepreneurs with lots of fun, interviews and technology which I did for Netzpiloten. Last week I did an interview with Jan Kage aka Yaneq who is the mastermind behind the Party Arty series who saw its 33rd issue this saturday. And finally a clip from the Party Arty which shows a massive moshpit going on during the Foreign Beggars show while performing their hit “Contact”. Watch enjoy and give me comments so I can improve my skills!

Am Freitag war ich auf der 50. IFA, der IFA 2010. Es gibt 3D Fernseher zu sehen, ein bisschen IFA-Atmo und die Suche nach einem Staubsaugerroboter. Leider hab ich das iPhone überschätzt: Hält man es hochkant, macht es leider auch Hochkantfilme. Jetzt weiß ich Beischeid.

Berlin has a fashion week, a social media week, a week full of movies (Berlinale), but despite the vibrant scene, no established big music event. Now, for the first time, Berlin will host the Berlin music week which is bunch of events like conference, fair, festival, lots of concerts and parties.

Of course, in its parts, it is nothing new. Alltogethernow (#a2n) as a conference saw it’s first issue last year. Popkomm as a global trade fair for the music industry has a tradition of over 20 years and is slowly getting back some of the relevance it lost while the major music labels had to fight with revenue losses. And the Berlin festival started 2005.

From a branding aspect, it is good idea to put all this under one umbrella and attract people from all sorts of music business, whether it be major or indie labels, concerts, live events or distribution. It will be a week packed with talks and meetups and of course many concerts. I am personally looking forward to being present at a panel at a2n about the myriad of possibilities of self marketing for artists and will be attending the Berlin festival, of course.

Brian O’Connor ist einer der Köpfe hinter dem iPad Magazin “The Iconist”, das der Axel Springer Verlag relativ aufwendig und exklusiv für das Gerät entwickelt hat. Im Gespräch erzählt er von der neuen Herangehensweise an ein Magazin auf dem iPad, Beispiele für Geschichten und gibt einen Ausblick auf die nächste Ausgabe.

MIt P3000 arbeite ich an einem “Blogger Reachout” um den Iconist in die deutsche Blogosphäre zu bringen. Am Dienstag abend hatten die Iconistmacher zu einer kleinen Runde ins Hotel de Rome geladen, zu dem wir unter anderem auch Julia (LesMads), Clemens (Ignant), Silke (Netzpiloten), Theresa (Flanellaparell) und Sachar (Massenpublikum) begrüßen konnten. Man konnte das Magazin ausprobieren, mit der Redaktion plaudern, Champagner trinken und sich lifestylig fühlen. Auf den Punkt brachte Inga Griese, Chefredakteurin des Iconist, in ihrer Begrüßungsrede den Lifestylejournalismus als “nicht zwingend nötig, aber wahnsinnig schön.”

I saw this band at the #tlgg2 party this saturday and was pretty impressed by their performance. It’s pure pop and a lot of energy, they certainly won many new fans that night. I think Zpyz has the potential to become pretty popular actually if they manage to build up an audience that reaches beyond Germany.

Take the arty attitude of Franz Ferdinand (just take a look at their website) , Goose’s raw energy, Chromeo’s synths and Phoenix’ pop appeal and you have Zpyz. They already played Melt! festival in 2008, remixed Polarkreis18 and have Köhncke and Koletzki remixing them which are good stories to tell.

Now they released a real hit, “She’s a dealer”, a song, almost too pop, but so catchy you cannot get away from it. It feels like you have heard it on the radio in the 80s, like Hall & Oates or Toto have come back. It’s brilliant:

Interestingly their music is released by DEAG, originally a live event company. Not a bad catch for DEAG since Zpyz can also cause a good dancing crowd beyond their spectators, getting them into the mood and groove with a tight sound and a great show, as you can see in this live clip:

Good luck guys with your music, I am pretty sure you’re gonna be big!

Rotation Records has the reputation of being one of the most competent and friendliest record stores in Berlin, I already mentioned it e.g. in this blogpost about Berlin’s best record stores. It is not only frequented by many local DJs but also by electronic music celebrities from all around the world and of course many vinyl lovers who come to this place to find some of the rare black gold which is ever more pushed away by digital formats.

Now the time also has come for Nico and his crew to shift the strategy towards a broader product range to make use of the perfect location at Rosenthaler Platz. Rotation Records becomes Rotation Boutique: Vinyl will still be there, but there will be more: Music, fashion and art. Suzi Wong will be part of the part of the team from now on and take care of exhibitions, workshops and fashion brands like Airbag, Bpitch Control, Fairliebt., Ghostly, Hirschkind, Lumabag, Paula Terra, Human Empire, JR Sewing, Kantasou, Ken Panda, Keregan, Killertaschen, Respekt(l)abel, Rockwell feat. Parra, Team Brûlé or Thokk Thokk.

To celebrate this new step, this saturday, 26th of June, Rotation will reopen from 12am, at Weinbergsweg 3 with music by Tama Sumo (Berghain), Sven VT (Memo / Bpitch Control), Boris (Berghain), Hauke Freer (Session Victim / Retreat), Strobocop (Karaoke Kalk), Pick & Roll (for Heart & Soul). Too bad I can’t be there to spin some music, too! Click more to read their original message (in German)
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Der Online-DIY-Ticketservice Amiando testet ein neues Promoter-Konzept am Beispiel der zwei Lady Gaga Konzerte am 10.05. in Hamburg und am 11.05. in Berlin.

Das Paket kann sich sehen lassen: Als Promoter erhält man das eigene Ticket umsonst und dazu einen Link, den man an seine Freunde verteilen kann. Die Tickets, die unter dem Link verkauft werden, sind im Gegensatz zum normalen Verkauf außerdem rabattiert. Zusätzlich erhält der/die Promoter/in eine Provision auf jedes über den eigenen Link verkaufte Ticket. Amiando will diese Form von Werbung testen um herauszufinden wie gut die Promotion über einzelne Personen und ihre Wirkung in den Freundeskreis, v.a. via Social Media funktioniert. Wer also gern zu Lady Gaga gehen möchte, und auch noch ein paar Freunde zu einem guten Preis mitnehmen will, sollte sich an ladygaga@amiando.com mit einem kurzen Text bewerben und hat eine gute Chance an diesem Experiment teilzunehmen.

A very simple, yet effective idea to paint the streets: Just put some kilos pigment on a very frequented crossing and the bikes and cars will do the painting. As seen yesterday at Rosenthaler Platz, Berlin, a yet to be named group of streetartists used the popular place in Berlin Mitte to install their spontaneous piece of art.

Here are some impressions via Flickr:

Not surprisingly, the story soon got twittered and blogged and some newspapers caught up the news as well:

“Minutes before, bikers had poured paint from big boxes in front of cars that waited for green lights. So the cars and their wheels, if the driver wanted it or not, became the brush tool for this guerilla public art piece.”
by The ambassador

I caught the fotos from Just Blogsport you can watch a video on Kraftfuttermischwerk, even De Telegraaf from the Netherlands had it as news, and Berlins daily newspaper BZ states:
“Die Autos verteilten die Farbe auf der Fahrbahn, bis eine überdimensionale Trikolore aus bunten Streifen enstand.”
by BZ

It is unclear who is behind this project, I have a guess and will research a bit more.

Wie bereits erwähnt , mische ich bei der Beck’s Gold Urban Experiences mit. Heute abend veranstalten wir wieder ein eigenes Event, und zwar die Präsentation des ersten Beck’s Gold Design-T-Shirts im Firmament Store. Der Künstler und Designer Dave Little wird vor Ort sein und signieren, außerdem gibt’s frisches Beck’s Gold und die ersten zehn Besucher bekommen eines der auf 500 Pieces limitierten Kollektion for free. Start ist um 19.30 im Firmament Store, Schröderstr. 8 in Berlin-Mitte. Kommt auf ein Bierchen vorbei!

In this video, Tom Littlewood takes us on a journey to places where the Cold War past of Berlin is still visible. So they go to Teufelsberg, an artificial hill where the NSA built a listening station in the 60ies to spy on the communist part of Berlin, consisting of strange big white balls on top of the hill. They takl with a former army commander and visit the bunker at airport Tempelhof where thousands of meters of war film burnt right after world war II. Great piece of work, entertaining and educating, I like.

A very nice branding combination as well: VBS teamed up with Palladium boots to produce this documentary. Taking the history of these french military boot brand into account, documentaries from interesting and forgotten places seem to represent Palladium pretty well.

This weekend, my mate Patrick Gräser will be part of “One night of confidence” – an old techno hero, Pascal Feos, will present his new album and also Patrick who gets more and more confident in his style of deep, rolling house inspired techno will show some of his new tracks. Enjoy also his new mixtape from february.

Mix Feb 10 by patrickgraeser

“Streit! Konstruktive Kontroverse” (Beef – constructive controversy) is Social Media Week Berlin’s motto 2010, in this post we explain why we think it is a good subject and how we see the state of digital Streit today.

Social Media has become a buzzword, so prominent, many people are already sick of it. Social Media needs to be in every marketing campaign, Social Media is finally the utopia “the internet” (in the 90ies) and “Web 2.0″ (in the 00 years) both couldn’t fulfill, Social Media can be done by everyone and everyone must do it unlesss he or she will fall into endless oblivion. Plus Obama used it. Obama!

We don’t think that that is all wrong nor are we sick of using all these handy tools to connect and interact, nor are we sick talking about it. But we want to take another stand, another perspective. That’s why we came up with the subject “Streit!”. Streit means conflict, controversy, beef! And we like it! Here is why.

Read on at SMWB blog

Die Social Media Week ist eine Veranstaltungswoche, die aus mehreren Events besteht und im Februar 2009 zum ersten Mal in New York statt fand. Dieses Jahr soll sie außerdem in Sao Paolo, Toronto, San Francisco, London und Berlin statt finden. Ich wurde gefragt, ob ich da mitmischen will und nun legen wir los und organisieren euch ein schönes Social Media Festival in der ersten Februarwoche.

Wir dabei, die eine oder andere eigene Veranstaltung zu organisieren, so soll es eine Soundcloudparty geben, eine Enterprise 2.0 Veranstaltung, etwas über Social Entrepreneurship, und ein Future of Web Strategy Meetup. Außerdem werden wir versuchen, viele Events, die ohnehin statt finden, unter das Dach der Social Media Week zu holen. Ich selbst möchte eine Veranstaltung zum Thema “Streit” organisieren, denn ich finde, das kommt bei all den Harmonieträumen und positiven Zukunftsvisionen immer etwas zu kurz, dass sich auch mal jemand streitet, vor allem im Internet. Was im zweiten Schritt ja auch wieder positiv sein kann. Quod erat demonstrandum.

Also, save the date, in der ersten Februarwoche, lest das Blog und den Twitter und wenn ihr selbst was machen wollt, sagt Bescheid! Nächstes Treffen ist Donnerstag, 19:30 im Gorki Park, wer was machen will, kommt vorbei!

Benefiz | Montag, 21.12.09 | Start 22h | Josef und Maria am Ostbahnhof

Gerade in der Vorweihnachtszeit kann man das Angenehme schon mal mit dem Nützlichen verbinden und über den Clubhorizont hinaus schauen. Heute auf zwei Floors der Maria am Ufer ist WARMTANZEN – eine Benefiz Party für alle Menschen, die in dieser Jahreszeit auf der Straße leben müssen, und die kein lauschiges warmes Plätzchen haben.

Deshalb der Aufruf an alle in Berlin Gebliebenen: Weitersagen, Kommen, Tanzen, Spenden,
und mit folgenden DJs einen schönen Abend mit Sinn und Verstand verbringen:
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