Deutscher HipHop November 2011


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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Fluxus and me

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.

People in Beta festival and Awesome grant

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!

Movie about Berlin techno scene in the 90ies

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.

a2n Werkstatt für Musiker & Kreativarbeiter

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.

Awesome grant for birdhouses

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.

New York Indie movie screening

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!

Next conference invites international bloggers to Data Love

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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Best of Re:publica 2011

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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First Awesome foundation Berlin grant funds a Wilde Schlittenfahrt

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!