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)

The artist Johannes Kreidler created 33 seconds of music, using 70200 samples. On 12 Sept 08 he will register the musical work at GEMA (Germany’s RIAA) - using a truck full of standard forms. If you want to register a song at GEMA you have to fill in a form for each sample you use, even the tiniest bit. Watch a very fun telephone conversation between Johannes and the GEMA (in German):

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..

by Jesus PresleyI wrote about Melt05, Melt06 and Melt07 and in the first years I had the feeling to be one lonely chronist of this special festival, the last two years there has been an impressive coverage from press and blog, so this time I am only telling my own story and link to others to round everything up.

It has been the biggest Melt! festival so far with more than 20 000 visitors and three days of packed stages from rock to techno from bands to Djs. And things that grow hurt sometimes. It’s not easy to maintain the magic of a small festival with special bands if more and more people want to come and see it. It’s a big tease and a big challenge to let it grow, organize three days instead of two and produce a big show like the one Björk did on the last day, sunday.
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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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Es steht ein Haus in Neuruppin und es sieht ziemlich düster aus. Dreckiges Linoleum, Hängelampe und den elektrischen Bratenschneider auf dem Tisch. Drin sitzen K.I.Z und rappen über Mordfantasien. Man kann das Haus mit Mouseclicks durchlaufen und Schrecklichkeiten entdecken.

Produziert wurde dieses interaktive Musikvideo von der Webproduktionsschmiede Kubikfoto, die noch einige andere tolle Projekte im Netz haben, die sich mit klickbaren Foto- Videowelten beschäftigen - oft mit einem schön morbiden Touch.

KIZ - ein Haus in Neuruppin

And here, they have it. I received such a charming mail PLUS, I really did like the music of this Californian duo. Check them out at their Myspace. The singer has red hair and they have a lot of nice self designed covers: “There are six different covers. They are $5 each plus shipping. You want one.”

The music is something in between the Raveonettes and Broadcast, a little noisy, a little trashy and a little longing with nice melodies hiding between the strange chords. Download their supersong “Lovelies”:

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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!

When Hellsongs played their showcase at Hoppetosse two weeks ago, this song was one of the most beautiful and sums up pretty well the idea behind Hellsongs: To take powerful metal songs including the message and transform them into sensitive acoustic indie music.

In the case of the following video, the message is: protest! The best moment is from minute 3:00 when a tiny fist becomes a very powerful and by being so tiny, even more impressive symbol. Unfortunately, the very insisting introduction speech by singer Harriet Ohlsson is missing in video when she talked about Burma. Especially in such a situation of absolute powerlessness towards injustice it is a good feeling to at least raise your fist together..

Hellsongs Hymns in the key of 666 coverThere’s two albums that run on heavy rotation in the office: Hellsongs’s “Hymns in the key of 666″ and N.E.R.D.’s “Seeing Sounds”. Both are very classy yet new in their own special way.

Hellsong’s music especially gets a life on its own when played live. As seen yesterday when the young folks from Gothenbourg did a showcase on Hoppetosse. With lot of love to detail, the Swedes interpret classic metal songs like “Symphony of destruction” or “We’re not gonna take it”. And for someone who was never too much into Metal (like me), they sound just like really good accoustic pop songs to sing a long with - which proves the fact again that a good song is a good song, no matter in what kind of style it’s played in. The whole boat actually sang along, animated by the very charming singer Harriet Olsson. It was like a midsummery music sessions with your big family. Who needs “We’re from Barcelona” when the whole audience becomes your band?

N.E.R.D. - Seeing sounds coverAnother album that comes out june 10th will be a sure killer in clubs, cafés and living rooms. N.E.R.D.’s “Seeing sounds” is so funky and poppy and new on the other hand that it sticks to your head immediately. Rock Songs, Club sounds, electric funk tunes and even a great beatleesk hymn that never seems to end and accelerates the tension until the very end. So you really feel the need to see them play live Note to Berliners and Munich people - soon you have the chance, very soon! But these shows are still a secret so, shh!..

More summer music i absolutely like:
Clueso - So sehr dabei.
Nneka - No Longer At Ease
and Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs

So, we went to talk to Estelle about her new album “Shine”, working with Kanye West, playing live, being in New York and the remix culture of the internet. Marina asked the questions, Sven did the editing and I had the camera. A cheerful PANORAMA3000 production!

Estelle Video Interview from Stylewalker on Vimeo.

Picture from his MyspaceNow Jack Tennis not only has sympathetic glasses but is also a great dj who likes to rock crowds. Well, you’d say, is this not something any DJ likes? And again, I say, Jack Tennis REALLY likes to rock the crowd.

Here we have some nice neo-discoish remixes by this handsome scoundrel from Berlin. Together with Shir Khan and Supermarket they team up as Berlin Battery, play at parties and release remixes on the net. So, for frequent updates of his work, check Berlin Battery.

Sebastian Tellier - Kilometer (Jack Tennis Remix) on Zshare.
Neonman - Nightclubbing (Jack Tennis Remix)
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (A Jack Tennis Edit)

Awesomely intense singer Nneka in a very personal interview, questions via webcam by various editors. Most fascinating is how the talk voice who sounds so young and naive changes to the singing voice which is overwhelmingly strong and confident.

“Ich stehe ja für eine ganz bestimmte Idee: alte, abgehangene Sounds. Deswegen sammle ich alte Schlagzeugsets; wenn sie 30 oder 40 Jahre alt sind, ist es genau richtig. Das ist dann ein klassischer Sound.” So geht Questlove, Drummer und Mastermind der Roots an seine Produktionen heran und so klingt die neue Roots Platte “Rising Down” so klassisch wie neu und poppig zugleich wie man es sich von den Roots nur wünschen kann.

Die Loops rumpeln und funken vor sich hin, Bläsersätze und Synthiesounds rauschen dazwischen, die großartigen Gäste wie Mos Def (toll: gleich auf mehreren Tracks) und Talib Kweli peitschen die Lyrics mit einer wütenden Vehemenz darüber, dass man in der Frühlingssonne aus dem Kopfnicken gar nicht mehr herauskommt. Tracks wie “I will not apologize”, “Singin Man” oder “Criminal” will man mitrappen und mitsingen und alles in allem kann man es nicht erwarten, diese Truppe mal wieder live zu sehen.

Denn darauf kommt es, um zu Questlove zurück zu kehren an: “Ich spiele jede Show so, als ob mein Leben dranhängt - und so ist es tatsächlich.” (Auszüge aus einem sehr schönen Interview mit Questlove bei Intro.de).
Videos sehen, in das Album reinhören und Hintergründe zur Produktion gibt es auf der E-Card zu “Rising Down”. (geschrieben fürs P3000-Blog)

Coke DJ Culture Berlin Engelbrot from NachtagentenJust coming back from his tour with Theo Parrish, Omar S., Robert Owens and Quarion, Patrick has something else to celebrate: Together with Notic Nastic he releases “I’m very close” on Liebe*Detail, one of the most loved club labels these days.

So run to the record stores and get it while it’s hot! You can watch some pictures from the gig at Engelbrot in Berlin on Nachtagenten.

Ist doch praktisch, wozu muss man sich all die millionenschweren MCs leisten, wenn einer ausreicht, um für alle zu sprechen?

Auch der deutsche Blumio ist nicht schlecht.

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In a techno city like Berlin, Innercity, a regular club night held by the Innervisions crew (read about it at taz) used to be the haven of groovy and soulful club music, from old to new, from disco to house. Headed by Dixon with many guests over the years, Innervisions at Week-End was a sure standard in the club scene for elegant party goers.

On Saturday January 19th, Innervisions celebrated their third birthday and at the same time their last party at Week-end. As a thank you, they gave away a free CD to all of the party guests - and it’s brilliant. Starts with very slow and dreamy funk tunes, moving into more minmal housy tunes, featuring I:Cube, Château Flight and Martin Buttrich. (The RA-forum knows where you might get a copy from the net), here is a snippet:
boomp3.com

Also very nice in a very similar area nowadays called ‘bit hop’ is my man Ben Mono, who just released a new mixtape: Ben Mono in L.A.

[via kspace and the new worck]

Also: Die neuen Songs – super! Sehr noisy, fast schon industrial, sehr repetitiv und manchmal überraschend schnell, erinnerten an Tortoise oder Notwist. Dazu Beth Gibbons zerbrechliche Stimme über allem, das war schon sehr besonders.
Schade nur, dass es kein Konzert war, sondern eine Aufnahmesession für Radio 1, bei der man lediglich “dabei sein durfte”. Die Band stand in der Mitte, Rücken zum Publikum, keine Kommunikation. Manche nennen es arrogant, andere nerdig. Fast jeder Song wurde mehrmals begonnen, bis alles stimmte, die Musiker waren offensichtlich nicht eingespielt, einen Soundcheck hatte es wohl nicht gegeben und schließlich gab es zwischen den Stücken Pausen, die länger waren als die Musik selbst. Stimmung oder Atmosphäre konnte so nicht aufkommen. Irgendwie auch sehr typisch Portishead, für sie zählte die Aufnahme, dass die europäische Journaille angerückt war (u.a. auch sehr viele englische Journalisten), die sich beeindrucken lassen wollten, war ihnen offensichtlich ziemlich egal.
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A legendary band makes some noise again. On april 25th, a new album will be relased by the band from Bristol who is probably more responsible than any other for the category “trip hop”.

Tonight, Portishead will present “Third” in the famous Funkhaus Nalepastraße , the concert will be transmitted live later by radio station Konzert wird von Radio1. Fast fans have the chance to get tickets at Spreeblick (maybe for an hour or so).

First impressions and sounds are available here and here, here is the video to the strange and noisy single “Machine Gun“

That guy. Producing like a maniac (first record coming out on one of the hottest labels in electronic music: Liebe*Detail) and again here is one of his intriguing, take-me-away mixes with lots of groove and soul and deepness. Enjoy Patrick Gräsers “Breathless” Mix, soon he’ll be on tour with Theo Parrish and Robert Owens.

Get it at Stylewalker’s drop.io!

Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot, Mouse on Mars) explains the new music gadget by Yamaha: The Tenori On. Again, a very intuitive way for creating music with intelligent electronic devices.

Via Debug and Netzpolitik’s Twitter.

Check out my articles about multitouch displays and the Monome Midi Controller.

The shizl to the izl - Snoop is back, gangster, disco, oldschool - everything he likes blends into his new album Egotrippin. Take a listen and a look at what the self disputed master of the gangster party has for the heads, street and cheesy alike and take a quiz (in German) to find out if you’re a real Snoop expert!

Cklick blogme and put the whole thing to your site, blog, myspace or whatever there izl.

While I am almost off to Leipzig to attend the Lorna-night at Sweat with Patrick Gräser, I would like to recommend to all the poor souls who have to be in Berlin AGAIN my party list and this übercool, poppy and minimal mix, by Bohemiaz, picked up at Project Afterhour.

Oh my god, I just had a look at some screens of the upcoming Hobnox-Tools and I so much want to play around with that thing. There will be different virtual music machines, like a Roland 303 or a 909 and a bunch of effects which you can plug together. The amazing thing about it is: the sound engine is not build upon samples but the whole synthesizing process is emulated in flash!

As André Michelle, one of the developers writes: “The underlying audio engine is based on dynamic digital signal processing to provide very complex audio compositing in Flash. The graphical user interface is based on an unlimited sized desktop to layout your choosen devices as you wish to operate.” And here is another post by Joa, one of the flash developers.
David (Echolot.tumblr) has some more insights about how the whole Hobnox thing is going to continue.

Register now on Hobnox to be part of the closed Beta (including audio tool, live streaming and community features), starting from 1st of march - after that date, betatesting will only be possible via invitations by registered users!

Ich weiß schon, Frauen werden das wieder lieben. “Der ist ja sooo niedlich, dieser lustige Musikroboter, der mit den Ohren wackelt .. ”

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