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.

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.

I am going to Denmarks capital tomorrow and I have some things to celebrate. So I need your help to give me some advice about where to go out, which areas, bars and clubs suit best for tomorrow night. And this is actually a little competition, sponsored by Defshop. They love Stylewalker and offered me a goodie to give away in a little quest, so all of you who help me to find some cool place to go, take part and can win this pants by the Danish brand Humör.

So please, post hints to the best bars and clubs in Copenhagen in the comments, thanks!

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!

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.

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

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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ZOE.LEELA “DESTROY SHE SAYS” from Zoe.Leela on Vimeo.

Zoe.Leela is hot new stuff from Berlin, out of the very active urban electronic pop scene: A very charismatic singer, great tunes and melodies, something in between Jahcoozi and Zero 7. The first album “Queendom Come” will be released by netlabel Rec 72, free, with a Creative Commons license. Release party on sunday, 13th, at Zapata, Berlin.

[Disclaimer: Wir helfen Zoe aus dem P3000 Team heraus mit der Online-Promotion]

This is a good line-up, especially Birdy Nam Nam who are a kick-ass, four headed DJ crew from France with lots of style and creativity. On four decks they manage to create entire songs, supertight and ready to dance. Their big achievement is to find ways in between turntable/nerdism and straight club feel. Together with Crookers and Léonard de Léonard this sounds like a night of sweat and fun.

from 11 pm at WMF, Klosterstr 44
Birdy Nam Nam (France / live)
Crookers (Italy)
Léonard de Léonard
DJ B.Side
Suzi Wong
DJ Schmitz

Crookers DJ mix:
Crookers.net livemix! (Paris-Social Club-FormaT-by Awdio.com) by Crookers.net

going out in Berlin tonight? Check this! I especially recommend the Netaudio festival.

And now listen to this before you go out and get in the close-your-eyes-and-get-lost-party-mood.
wester by Nils Westerlund

Das große Abschlusskonzert des Bandwettbewerbs “Nazis aus dem Takt bringen” findet am 6. September ab 14 Uhr im Stadion “An der Alten Försterei des 1. FC Union Berlin e.V.” statt. Die drei Gewinnerbands COSMA, HeMaTom und Empty Guns werden gemeinsam mit vielen namhaften Künstlern ihre starken Stimmen gegen Rechts präsentieren. Das Konzert ist kostenlos!

Das Line-up hat es in sich:
Beim kostenlosen Konzert in der Alten Försterei präsentieren neben den drei Gewinnerbands Dein Lieblingssoundsystem (DJ Binichnich aka Harris & Sido (Host Mc), Rainer von Vielen, OOMPH!, Myriad Creatures, RENFT, Mic Donet & QuietStorm. Und Jeanette Biedermann ist auch dabei, na gut.

HE MAN TRUST ON POWER DUST at KIM, Brunnenstr. 10, 22:30h

“.. emerges with an exciting ass-shaking performance,
combining excellent music and ground-shaking visualz produced by He Man Trust On Power Dust.”
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It’s going to be a pretty active weekend, I am not talking about riots. But there is lots of cool stuff going on in Berlin this weekend: Tonight, thursday, there is the money printing contest which will take place at Mariannenplatz 21 in Kreuzberg 36. (“Who hasn’t thought about it? The perfect solution in this time of global meltdown and financial disaster! We need to make our own money!”) Great, arty and subversive idea by Czentrifuga.

Tomorrow night, I will be playing at CRACKERS, Heidestrasse 5, a friend is organizing a party for friends, come if you’re a friend! (see the flyer to the left).

Then, saturday and sunday, I will be attending Politcamp09, a barcamp about politics. I’ll try to post an English summary here.

Tomorrow I’ll be talking about virtual worlds and social reasons for escaping into them at the Virtual worlds camp. The camp will take place at Frogster IP, in Hardenbergstraße 9a, Berlin, from 11.00h to 16:00h. I’m talking at 14:15, you can watch the whole conference on Hobnox.

Beside me, there will be other experts, like Computec Media AG CEO Johannes Sevket Gözalan, Sunny Park from Frogster Korea or Mirko Caspar from Metaversum, talking about virtual worlds, gaming in general, promotion and business models within that area.

There will be a party at night, too, where I’ll be djing at a secret place you will have to find out by asking the sausage seller at Choriner Str, corner to Schönhauser Alle. You can register for the event at amiando.

There is a big club dying and summer goodbye saying this weekend in Berlin. 103 Club is closing tonight, the Fire club as well, Ritter Butzke ends the summerseason with Grindcore, Teichmann und Dohse and we have the open air finishing with Karneval der Verpeilten on sunday. Check all the dates on Stylewalker’s party list.

On saturday, DJ Wool (another NYC pal in Berlin) celebrates his Gangsters & Models release on pale records at Picknick (see flyer above). If have been offered some download links for this nice piece of eurotrashy, ravy music including many remixes. Thanks, Glen, and I’m glad you like my blog!

The Star of East Berlin (Original)
The Star of East Berlin (Rampa Mix)
The Star of East Berlin (All Dom Wrong Mix)
The Star of East Berlin (Mike Dextro Mix)
Gangsters & Models ( Cobra Krames Start The Violence!!! Mix)

Melt Festival 08: Berlin Battery final show of the festival The last moment of a long DJ show at a festival often is a magical moment, especially when it’s the last gig on that stage. I remember Roni Size and Dynamite playing extra long into the sunlight, same for Goldie next year as last show on the big stage.

This year, Goldie again was part of a legendary show: Skream, Lowqui and the godfather of DnB rocked the Dubstep floor massively on saturday. Watch Skream crowdsurfing in a video below. And with this year sunday being the last day of the festival, the big honour to close Melt 08 laid in the hands of Berlin Battery who had several last records until finally the gates had to close and everybody had to go home, to sleep, or to rock on at the Sleepless floor outside. Despite all the criticism coming down to Melt! this year, with such a frenetic finishing, it cannot have been such a bad festival..

Trotz des eher bescheidenen Wetters lassen sich die umtriebigen Partymachers Berlins nicht beirren und starten jetzt, da sowohl die Berliner aus dem Urlaub wieder da als auch viele Sommertouristen immer noch da sind, richtig durch.

Nachdem die Bar25 in ihrem vielleicht letzten Jahr des Bestehens durch Filmvorführungen, Showcases, Modeschauen und allerlei weitere Mainstreamveranstaltungen noch einmal besonders viele Gäste in den Genuss ihres doch einzigartigen Flairs und Ortes kommen lassen möchte (dabei natürlich auch riskiert, ihr freakiges Stammpublikum zu verlieren), geht es an anderen Open Air-Orten etwas undergroundiger zu:
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Sunglasses, headphones, a record bag and of course an undefeatable attitude.. will get you into almost everything. “I am djing tonight.” is enough, it will even get you backstage to Australian parliament. Hilarious how-to video by RonJ on 5min.

This weekend in Berlin will see art, music, politics and overall a mashup of all: Friday night will see Substance, the biggest Dubstep party on the European continent so far, at Berghain, there is the big art festival Videoakt on friday and saturday where Stylewalker’s going to spin, and on sunday people living in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg have the chance to cast their votes for or against the urban development project Mediaspree.
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There’s less than a month to wait for Melt! festival taking off again. I’m looking forward to working there again, you can read about my experiences at this beautiful and excessive festival in several articles on stylewalker.net!

I don’t know which artists I am going to take care of this time, I’ll post it as soon as I know. But everything about the line up, maps, tickets, pics and videos you can find in the Melt! (blog me) SITE below. Repost it at your blog (just click “blog me”), Myspace or Facebook and take the chance to win tickets!

The Melt! (blog me) SITE is a product by PANORAMA3000 for Melt!

Funkpark / Rechenzentrum is one of Berlin’s most interesting locations right now. Situated right by the water, a little south-east from Treptower park, it is a beautiful outdoor area, with volleyball pitches, beach, little huts, bars and lots of sand. And during the weekends, the party moves to the indoor location Rechenzentrum, equipped with an impressive sound system.

Tomorrow, I have the big honor to play some tunes from 18h, then watch THE game (Ronaldo, I want to see you cry. Again.) and play on a little. So, please come around, find a map below. You can ride the bike from Ostkreuz (10min) or take the bus 21 from Frankfurter Tor, Bersarinplatz, Boxhagenerplatz and Ostkreuz (exit Markgrafendamm, then some meters to the right towards the crossing) stopping at Köpenickerchaussee/Blockdammweg. There’s a map after the click:
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“HIT-AND-RUN” stands for meeting up at one known place at a certain time and then walk altogether to a secret location. So, if you miss the departure, you’re out! If you do make it, you’re in for some very interesting and inspiring experience. Like the people who organize the Hit and Run Kino. Almost every wednesday you will find an email where to meet up in the evening an then will be guided to a unique and special place to watch unique and special films. It’s great!

Like today: Meet at 21:00h at Hauptbahnhof – Hauptausgang Europaplatz and walk to a abandoned hospital. In the operating room you will watch “Komm Süßer Tod”.

If you are lucky, you can get on this list and be informed next time.

Be sure to check out the Stylewalker Partylist (note to self: must change the blog layout so there’s space on the homepage for the list, a gallery, a video and a featured dj mix – left side navigation, center: textupdates), there’s some nice fiestas coming on, tonight Jamie Lidell and the last party at Salon zur Wilden Renate before the summer break, tomorrow Karneval der Kulturen parade, afterparty at Ritter Butzke and most of all the Home Sweet Home open air at Rechenzentrum, Nalepastraße.

Das BBbaby ist ein neuer Club, der temporär in den Räumen des ehemaligen “Schwarzen Raben” in der Neuen Schönhauser 13 residiert. Sehr simpel, sehr schick, sehr konzept: Eintritt sind stolze 15EUR, dafür findet man drinnen Kühlschränke voller Moritz Pilsener, Cava und Solan de Cabras (klasse Wasser) zur freien Verfügung der Anwesenden. Statt Bar, sozusagen. Andere sagen Flatrate.

Alles dies sind katalanische Köstlichkeiten, herrührend von der Verbbbindung der Macher nach Barcelona. Diese organisieren dort halbjährlich die Modemesse Bread&Butter und eröffnen zur Wintersaison einen Laden in Berlin, in der, genau, Schönhauser 13. Got it? Immer Dienstags, Donnerstags und Freitags zwischen 20h und 24h gibt es also Eklektisches vom Plattenteller und Eklektiker in den Sofas und an den Säulen lehnend. Diesen Dienstag (heute) gibt es Musik von Stylewalker (that’s me!) und Steve (somebody else!). Donnerstag den 24.04. auch (da geht es vielleicht auch ein bisschen länger)

Wer kommen will, sagt mir Bescheid, ich habe ein begrenztes Kontingent auf der Gästeliste und auch für alle anderen gibt es Rabatt. Bitte schreibt mir, ob ihr heute oder am Donnerstag kommen wollt, dann machen wir ne Flasche Cava auf und lassen sie in unsere Nabel perlen. Fins ara!

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