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:

Maria Floor – Listening Floor:
Ambient, Dubstep, Cosmic Disco, Electro, Beats und Sitzgelegenheiten.
22:00 – 23:30 Jenne (Diamonds & Pearls) & Jeff Pils (Touchin´ Bass)
23:30 – 01:00 Mo & El Puma (Elektro Music Department)
01:00 – 02:00 Xaver Naudascher (Supersoul)
02:00 – 02:30 Khan (of Finland) LIVE! (I´m Single)
02:30 – 03:15 Plastique de Rêve (DFA)
03:15 – 04:00 Suzi Wong (Tresor)
ab 04:00 DJ B.Side (Mellowbag) feat. Yaneq (Party Arty, Motor FM)

Josef Floor – Dance Floor:
House & Techno, Nebel und Strobo.

22:00 – 23:30 Silvio König (Splash) & Pick’n Roll (for heart & soul)
23:30 – 01:00 Marc FM (Tape) & Richard Zepezauer (Scape)
01:00 – 02:00 Acid Maria (Abe Duque Rec., Female Pressure)
02:00 – 03:00 Mitte Karaoke (aka Dom & Feed) (WMF)
03:00 – 04:00 Andi Teichmann (Festplatten)
04:00 – 05:00 Strobocop (Karaoke Kalk)
ab 5:00 Maciej und seine Acid Boys (Diller)

Alle DJs verzichten auf ihre Gage, mit den Erlösen der Veranstaltung werden der Kältebus der Berliner Stadtmission und die Kälte-Notübernachtung in der Lehrter Straße gefördert. Mit dem Kältebus und der Notübernachtung will die Berliner Stadtmission Kältetote in Berlin verhindern. Der Eintritt beträgt 5 Euro, keine Gästeliste, zusätzliche Spenden sind erwünscht!

Mehr Infos in unserem Blog: http://warmtanzen.wordpress.com/

Location: Club Josef und Maria am Ostbahnhof | An der Schillingbrücke | 10243 Berlin

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]

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

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 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.

“.. emerges with an exciting ass-shaking performance,
combining excellent music and ground-shaking visualz produced by He Man Trust On Power Dust.”

this is actually a funny story: Visual artist decide to form a band for doing their art, NOT being dependent on bands all the time. Plus: It’s really good stuff, only their 3rd gig, so they are really hot!

Myriad Creatures at Zapata, 22:00h (I saw them once, they are good, like the Kooks were students somehow)

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.

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.

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)

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..

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:

Auf zwei historischen Kohlenfrachtkähnen feiert die Spreekindcrew in der Nähe des Treptower Parks. Bei Sonnenuntergang geht es los, diesen Samstag spielen u.a. DJ Gene und Delfonic.

Immer eine Reise wert ist der wunderschöne Funkpark in der Nalepastraße (das ist eigentlich schon Karlshorst), eine Strandanlage mit Bar und Trampolin und angeschlossenem Club, der mit einer tollen Anlage beeindruckt. Dieses Wochenende kommt die Connaisseurcrew aus Frankfurt vorbei und spielt durch bis Sonntag abend.

Der eigentliche Open-Air-Tag ist natürlich der Sonntag, hier treffen sich ab mittag AfterhourGänger mit RaveKaffeetrinkern am Nachmittag. Diesen Sonntag konkurrieren gleich zwei große Events mit Staraufgebot:
Our Park mit u.a Jesse Rose, M.A.N.D.Y. und Hendrik Schwarz zugunsten von Terre des Hommes am Planetarium an der Prenzlauer Allee, derselbe Ort also, an dem traditionell der Karneval der Verpeilten den Open Air Sommerabschluss feiert.

Außerdem gibt es am Sonntag eine der seltenen Gelegenheiten, den Überproduzenten Martin Buttrich (u.a. für Loco Dice und Timo Maas) live zu erleben, bei der Cocoon@Strandgut-Party am Oststrand. Mit von der Partie sind die nicht minder unbekannten André Galluzzi, Tobi Neumann und Der Dritte Raum. Vielleicht schaut ja auch Labelpapa Sven Väth vorbei.

Dies ist nur ein kleiner Ausschnitt der vielen Berliner Open Air Parties, zu hoffen bleibt, dass es auch dieses Jahr wieder ein Patentblau Open Air geben wird. Gerade die Patentblau-Macher legen viel Wert auf Details wie außergewöhnliche Orte und outdoortaugliche Soundsysteme – ein Fakt, der bei vielen liebevoll improvisierten Draußen-Festen oftmals auf der Strecke bleibt.

Berghain, Berlin’s most famous techno temple and house of the Panorama Bar, will open it’s gates on a friday night for the first time (usually it’s only Panorama Bar on fridays) to host probably the biggest Dubstep party on the European continent so far: Shackleton, Scuba, Appleblim, Skull disco, Mala, DJ Distance – find more about the artists, links and music at Grimetime.

Moreover, you have the chance to enjoy Berhain’s new sound system: Funktion One. Paulie at Dubstepforum says about it: “It’s got the best sound I’ve ever heard in a big club. Funktion 1 rigs all the way round… ”

There’s a great mix by Applebim in the series of Resident Advisor’s podcasts: “Housestep? Dubhouse? Whatever you want to call it, Appleblim’s got it on this edition of the RA podcast”

Videoakt
Videoakt is a video art festival hosted by the organization GlogauAIR, a non profit organization founded with the intention of creating a meeting point between different artistic disciplines, important is their Artist in Residence Programme, lots of international artists, e.g. from South America live and work there.

Me, Stylewalker, have the big honour to create a musical scape for the video art, together with Steve (remember the House party, almost three years ago?) and VJ Hitektrash from 11pm, at Glogauer 16.

Mediaspree

This is what it might look like along the river in Berlin, where you find now so many great places like Yaam, Bar 25 or Kiki Blofeld, if the plans of Mediaspree become reality:

Pretty boring, huh? Xbergers and Fhainers, go vote, to prevent this! I’ve written about Mediaspree versenken before, and you can read the whole text about what Berlin really needs, why it is unique and why we love living here so much at Sounds of Sirens: Auf zu neuen Ufern.

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!

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:


Größere Kartenansicht

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.

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!

Located at what used to be the “Schwarzen Raben” at Neue Schönhauser Straße 13 and equipped with what you would call grandma’s old furniture it’s a cousy lounge for friendly people with fresh djs, like Oli deluxe (today) and Stylewalker (soon).

Hurry to see it because soon (july) it will be the clothing store “14 oz.”, run by Bread & Butter.

Download audio file (bohemiaz-clubderdichtentoten.mp3)

“trocken, minimal und vorallem schwedisch wirds morgen im Tresor. Das Malmoer Label „We Are” ist gleich mit 2 seiner Artists angerückt, die heiligen Hallen zu bespielen. Labelowner Agaric wird zeigen, dass er nicht nur gute Platten produzieren, sondern auch genau so begnadet an den Turntables rocken kann. Mikael Stavöstrand holt live (und hoffentlich analog) seine Livepeitsche raus. Aua, ist das geil!”

Download audio file (Mikael_Stavostrand_Live_Harry_Klein_21-4-2007.mp3)

Check out this and all the rest of the going out in Berlin underground party list—431c40d6e5ab8f1735c30f933bf4e6b6—>

For further dates check e.g. De-Bug or Nachtagenten Berlin. Thank you for all the emails, bulletins and forum entries!

For tomorrow you should check out the new club “Crush” on Behrenstr. 55 (very Mitte!), Pictoplasma Festival and some Djs like Strobocop or Touch of class. Read more here.

Watergate seen from the Oberbaum bridge, by Feffef

Watergate lightshow, by SgisToday, Watergate celebrates its fifth birthday which is a long time for a club in Berlin. Last years fourth birthday was massive already and you better come early because although its a wednesday it is going to be packed. You know: in Berlin there is no difference in between weekend and week, the party people will always be around.

So will the DJs tonight: André Galluzzi (Taksi, Ostgut Ton), Zip (Perlon), Sammy Dee (Perlon), Matt John (Perlon), Sebo K. (Mobilee, Get Physical), Tom Clark (Highgrade), Jens Bond Highgrade, Sender), Phage (Mobilee, Upon You), Daniel Dreier (Highgrade, Klang), Ruede Hagelstein (Upon You), Carsten Klemann (My My), Nick Höppner (My My) and many more.

Stylewalker appears behind the turntables again this saturday at Waldohreule near Schlesisches Tor, so be prepared!

Before you can go to Week-end to attend a lecture held by Sonar Kollektiv and Red Bull Music Academy about the last ten years in music business. Starts at 20pm and features Jürgen von Knoblauch, Claas Brieler, Stefan Leisering, Axel Reinemer (all Jazzanova), Steffen “Dixon” Berkhahn (Innervisions), Dirk Rumpff (Red Bull Music Academy) and Jan Joswig (De:Bug).

You can get there, taking the 55 bus and walk upwards to the castle, In summer, on weekend evenings it used to be open until 2am, now I assume they close a little earlier. Here is another little article about La Caseta del Migdia

At Cookies Phonique plays some records so at least the music will be ok. The people will be especially ok at PartyArty in 103 (creative, unconventional, entertaining), Zementgarten will be open tonight, for free, but the best party I guess will be beneath Schlossplatz across from Palast der Republik, between Karl-Liebknechtstr. and Rathausstr: PALACE RESISTANCE vs. FREAK CAMP @ Katakomben Schlossfreiheit.
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This is the first of a series of three films I shot this weekend while I had my aunt visiting. Nice mix of underground and overground culture.

Tomorrow, saturday, there will be some nice festival at Kiki Blofeld (e.g. with Puppetmastaz) and on sunday big Patentblau Open Air again. Partying in dim light under a metal skeleton, perfect after hour feel, open air, from 2 am to 10 pm, S Bahnhof Storkower Straße.

Picture by Vogel X on VA3 (Great party pictures!)One of the funniest and most-awaited outdoor events in Berlin takes place this sunday: The Karneval der Verpeilten. Situated in Prenzlauer Berg, in the Ernst Thälmann Park, next to an old planetarium.

Justine Electra, Matt John, Liebe ist cool, Oliver Koletzki and many others. 12am to 22pm, it’s free. Be responsible and take away your litter! The weather will not be great, I guess, but dry. See you there!

Update: Schön war’s, nette Fotos gibt es zum Beispiel hier.

Nochn Update: Im taz-Blog hat man genau hingeschaut und alles prima beschrieben.

View a map and a YouTube video after the click.


Größere Kartenansicht

The festival goes on for a week and there are people who actually spend almost all their time there. But the festival wristbands reveal many festival visitors also in parks, museums or in Budapest’s hot springs. All Budapest seems to be Sziget festival during these days, providing an impressive backdrop of art-nouveau, socialist and post-socialist architecture.

There is a nice blog, updated daily by Zeit magazine (in German) about Sziget, which I recommend, so I won’t be writing much here (to sum it up: We had good weather and bad, healthy food and greasy, good music and not so good.. ), just provide you with a short movie I cut together and some foto impressions.

Rain couldn’t stop us

Neither these girls

Get clean in the bodywash

A little classier in the famous Gellert spa

Situated in a hotel

even classier: the old (hundreds of years) Turkish bath

You need like three Palinkas after this

Drum’n’Bass in the afternoon

These “funny hats” never get out of style on festivals..

Make yourself a home at Sziget..

Enough of the past – here’s the future. If you want to go to festivals this weekend, you might want to check these out: Schwedenparty, which takes place on an island in Sweden, very peaceful, deserted and nice (but clean up after yourselfes!) and the Goldmund festival. All electronic and with special hedonistic underground Berlin feel.

Moreover there are some good parties in Berlin, like today at Freakmode at ZMF with some Cologne funky-minimal experts like Marc Lansley (download Marc Lansley’s latest and really exquisit mix here – it’s funky, it’s deep, it’s melodic, it’s something you want to hear a second time).

While that’s it for today (friday) tomorrow, saturday, there’s a lot going on. Like the Mittekill festival (for free) at Eschloraque, the last corner of independent and punky culture close to Hackescher Markt, starts at 14h! Also, there’s “Liebe ist Cool”s birthday party in a very cool location in Friedrichshain

The other is Sick Sinus playing at Mädcheninternat, a former Kindergarten right where Deep club used to be. Being around 20:00h at either place would be a good choice. Plus: you’ll get home at a civil time.

Tomchak, Shir Khan and Ben Mono

This is the case when Best Works, Sonar Kollektiv’s (amongst other artists, e.g. Fat Freddys Drop) booking and event agency host their Sundowner Parties – on the roof. I was there last time (one week ago) to see Shir Khan, Ben Mono and Tomchak and had a jolly good time. See some more pictures!
Update: See even more pictures thanks to Ben Mono who send them to me!

All following pictures are by Ben Mono. Thanks!!

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Picture by LotteLenya

It’s interesting: Two years ago, I was one of a few people who wrote about the Melt! festival and one a few people who posted their festival pictures on Flickr. YouTube didn’t exist back then. Last year, there were tons of pictures and videos. And this year, there are even many, many blog posts about this amazing festival on an extraordinary site, not to forget the Melt-forum which has an impressive way of self organization – one half of the people bitches about prices, the growing size, quality of the music and the other half defends their favorite festival with enthusiasm. So I watched many many videos on YouTube, scanned Flickr and the blogosphere just to get you the best and most relevant material on this year’s issue of one of the greatest festivals on the planet.

“...ein unerwarteter Schub von rechts und schon liege ich. Alle großen Momente meines Lebens (Fummeln bevor Anatomie in Bio drankam, der erste Jägermeister, Pilzragout auf’m Dorffest) ziehen nochmal vor meinem Auge entlang. Doch dann zieht mich die Hand, deren Anhängsel gerade für mein Fallen verantwortlich war, mit einem Lächeln wieder hoch. I can feel the community!”
Read the whole hilarious review at Wertaufholer [via Andreas]

So how was Melt X, the 10th issue of this tasty in-between indie and electronic music festival on a peninsula surrounded by gigantic machines? Overwhelming and amazing again I must say. I worked most of the time but it would be a lie to say that my job is not a great one. Taking care of the musicians as they come and wander around with their mouths open to see the venue and then get blown away by the audience. Few don’t get excited by that. Unfortunately Kelis was one of them. Let herself drive to the stage (20 meters..) and then sing like a man and move like a crash test dummy. Biggest disappointment.

And I felt a little bad for Snap! who had to play six o’clock in the morning after Deichkind had totally rocked out the energy of the crowd. So when “Rhythm is a dancer” set in, everybody just had to leave. Too bad, really. Opinions to Deichkind differ – some thought it was a little boring, the same show in the third year but thousands of enthusiastic people can’t lie and actually the band put more effort in the costumes and the show than ever. They always start many hours before stagetime and handicraft themselves into madness. I very much enjoyed the show this year again (which might also be connected to the many vodkas I had to drink in a very short time – boss’ order, what can you say).

Deichkind – Bon voyage:

“Melt Festival… OMG! What an amazing location for a rave/dance party, out in the middle of nowhere, amongst a heap of gigantic, massive, old, rusting, industrial, mining, digging, steal processing machines, all lit up with fantastic lighting, excellent sound and lighting everywhere, market stalls, diverse music line-up, lots of food and snacks, and cheap drinks.”
Read about a whole tour involving Melt, Tresor, Maria am Ufer, Berghain/Panorama Bar AND Knut in only three days at decoded_

Ok, but who was the best on the festival? Goose definitely rocked so unbelievably hard that I thought the roof was coming of. Such a perfect mix of rock and electro that blew everybody away. Best sound award goes to Trentemöller. He just put out a gigantic blanket of bass and melody over the crowd and everybody who expected club madness was surprised and delighted to be carried away by such a dubby experience. Polarkreis18 surely lived up to the expectations being one of the most interesting young German bands. I just hope they don’t get tired of all the playing and always delivering such an emotional performance.
Best entertainer: Dendemann. Even for those who don’t like Hiphop he did a good show with lots of head nodding and booty shaking.

Polarkreis18:

Goose – Ultimate Heavy Electro-Rock Alarm:

Trentemöller Dubby Drum club experience:

Two bands I did not see but listened to because I had to work, were Black Rebel Motorcycle Club who had a bright and fat sound but somewhat seemed to be a little fed up and overplayed. And then there were the Shout Out Louds who sounded like The Cure – great! Hot Chip surprised not only me but a lot of people. Disco-popping into the sunset. I personally very much liked Werle & Stankowski with their very unique mix of singer-songrwriter tunes, electro background and bluesy attitude. But there were so many great bands, impossible to mention them all. I subscribe to Tonspion’s view when they say:

“Wenn ihr wissen wollt wie der Jan Delay, der Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Shitdisco und Tocotronic waren, müsst ihr eure Freunde fragen. Sorry. Man kann nicht alles sehen, denn das Melt hat ein Luxusproblem: zuviel des Guten.”

But the unofficial, secret star of this festival certainly was Jake the Rapper. He played a live set and a DJ set one day later, he was always around, connecting and small talking and without him, I guess I had become target of a severe thunderstorm: Goldie in a bad mood.

The records and CDs of the charismatic entertainer, DJ, manager, writer and most of all godfather of Drum’n’Bass had been accidently transferred to London instead of Berlin (actually that happens quite often I must say). A DJ without music is a sad figure – what were we supposed to do? Thanks to Senuti and Jake’s Mac, Goldie could transfer many files from his iPod to Jake’s computer and burn seven cds. These he used for his three hour set and definitely made the people very, very happy. He was very happy himself, not to say enthusiastic: “You know when things go wrong like this and you have to improvise, that’s the best. Nothing new ever happens if you never have to improvise!” Said it, hugged me so hard I hardly could breathe and then ran off to meet Richie Hawtin (who he hadn’t met before). Climbed right on stage and hugged him as well. Very intense person, very charming and interesting. It was a pleasure to meet him, really.

Goldie and MC Lowqui begin:

and deliver:

Coming slowly to an end, I just want to pay credit to all the people who share their memory on the web, especially those who really made the effort to edit little movies about their Melt experience. There are many many interesting and cute documentaries out there.

While Justice/Simian Mobile Disco’s song “We are your friends” was the unofficial hit of the festival last year, this time it was Soulwax’s edit of the Klaxon’s song “Gravity’s rainbow“. I heard it over ten times in different locations, here, some people are dancing to it on the camping site:

Not everybody was so lucky:

“es kam was kommen mußte: Ich rutsche auf dem Arsch die Böschung hinunter bis ich im Schilf des Sees zum Stehen kam. Was für eine groteske Situation: 500 Meter hinter mir spielte gerade unüberhörbar Dizzie Rascal sein Set auf der Mainstage, während ich auf einmal in der Uferzone des Gremminer Sees eine Fangopackung genoß.” from Reality on the rocks

Here’s a short video about Red Bull’s music academy activities, very interesting and ambitious approach, still:

And I would like to finish the longest blog entry I have ever written with this video that shows Magda on the Big Wheel floor which was pure electro all the time. Out of the Minus crew, I like her best:

Here are some more links: Really good pictures have Tranzland and Sint@Flickr but you’ll find great pictures by other photographers all over. And here’s a list of not to be missed blog entries about Melt 07 aka Melt X.

Saturday, 21 July, 24:00 – alexanderplatz underground.
bring your own radio – every watt counts. tune into 95.2 FM. you bring your radio/boombox/receiver/xpod … to become part of the sound system! grime, dubstep, µrave and more.

via Grimetime

Update:
Check out this massive überdubby, tearprovoquing techdubhopmix:
Download audio file (Denis_the7notes_-_DUBDRIVE-16-06-2007.mp3)

Amazing.. [via Dubstepforum]

Apparently it was a very cool party, so writes Miss Glitter:
“Wenn mehr Gäste ein Radio mitgebracht hätte, wäre es noch besser gewesen aber der Sound reichte zum tanzen und gute Laune haben. Als Anlage dienten vier dieser Boomboxen. Ausreichend für Grime und so, für Dubstep gab es ein bisschen wenig Bass aber trotzdem toll. Stattgefunden hat das Ganze im Untergrundgraben zwischen Haus des Lehrers und Alex. Die Grimetime Leute haben an der Stelle in den letzten 2 Jahren schon Partys gemacht, die letztes Jahr wurde nach 2, 5 Stunden von der Polizei beendet (war allerdings auch überfüllt). Dieses Mal neu: die Radioidee Idee. Angemeldet war die Veranstaltung als Filmdreh (oder so) zwischen 0 und 4 Uhr, die Polizei ist nicht gekommen und um 4 sind alle brav weitergezogen (wir nach Hause, auch müde). Geklappt hat es super und im August gibt es den Spaß vielleicht noch mal.”

Pictures gibt’s bei Flickr-Boombx

A3000 mixt für Delikat, die ihr Party- und Künstlerimperium weiter ausbauen.

Download audio file (a3000_untitled.mp3)

Nach dem Klick gibts einen tollen Film der Delikat-Crew, die eine lange Partynacht von der Vorbereitung bis zum Piercingzungenschlag in wenigen Minuten zusammenfasst.

Feinkost @ DELIKAT-Berlin

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I will be working again as artist host which means I am the first person to talk to and take care of all the special needs of the musicians and their party. I had the chance to meet some really interesting people in the last two years, like Aphex Twin, Roni Size, Bloc Party, Hot Chip or Laid Back. This year I am honoured to be the host for Dizzie Rascal, Goldie, Trentemöller, Goose, Ladytron and Snap. Oh and Deickind again, haha. Probably, I’ll figure that out when I am there on friday.

Read all about Stylewalker’s experience at Melt! of the last two years.

Secret Shows sind kostenlose Konzerte, auf die man kommt, wenn man ein ausgedrucktes Myspace-Profil mit den Secret Shows als Topfreund dabei hat. Die ersten 50 in Hamburg kriegen auch noch ein T-Shirt und Justice Poster dazu.

East London consists of neighbourhoods like Hackney, Shoreditch, Whitechapel, Bow, Bethnal Green and so on. Especially the latter is famous for its galleries, e.g. One in the other where the McNally exhib was at. All in former industrial buildings, hidden in basements and behind metal curtains, focusing on young and raw artists, more the art of tomorrow than the art of today one finds in random and commercial central London galleries.

Every first thursday in a month, there is an event, that holds the whole scene together: firstthursdays – Late night art in East London. Over 80 galleries and museums open until 9pm. So, it is like: Tomorrow! If I’d still be in London I’d definitely check it out.

London is speed, business, danger, money. And when people go out there, they let loose and forget about their shitty service or administration jobs, they don’t care about the money, they just want to have a good time.

Fabric is a perfect place for that. We went there last friday, it was already 2am or so and there were three different lines to stand in. Some pretty wasted people around us, getting into trouble, some guy rapping about his ‘44 (caliber? I had no idea..), and suddenly it opens up and everybody rushes in. Inside: Massive drumnbass, an interior architecture you couldn’t figure out really, lots of stairs and different rooms, three dancefloors and overall an amazing sound. Crystalclear, fat and crisp, it wasn’t even too loud but just overwhelming. Sad enough, Fabric closes about half past 5, I would have liked to dance longer.

But walking around in the morning light on the Millenium bridge was a pleasure, too.. Ever since I listen to Drum’n’Bass again and there are some brilliant sources on the internet, like dnb-sets.de or newmixes.com.

Here, I picked out one DJ Hype mix from Kiss 100, especially the first tune is absolutely mindblowing:
DJ Hype for Kiss 100