The tracklist is exquisite, Shir Khan features almost 80 songs with tracks by Diskokaine, Tomboy, Adamski, Sirius Mo, Plasticman, Malente, Egoexpress, Surkin and many others.

Check out the tracklist for part 1 and listen to it here:
Download audio file (Podcast_Mix_2008_08_21.mp3)

Check out the part 2 and listen to it here:
Download audio file (Podcast_Mix_2008_08_28.mp3)

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.

His name is Kid Fresh and I already wrote about him. Looking at the pictures on the partyblog accompanying the “Pimpin’ ain’t easy” parties in Hong Kong, he deals with a very fancy party crowd there.

Tonight he’ll be playing at Scala, Friedrichstr. Pimpin’ ain’t easy? In Kid Fresh’s case, this might be untrue.

Here is his Winter in Shang Hai Mix via Palmsout Sounds
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And here’s his Micromegamix on Zshare

I discovered Wordle in a Twitter-tweet by Steve Rubel where he compared Obama’s and McCain’s acceptance speeches with the help of this text analysis tool. It’s very open to interpretation indeed but somehow pretty and illustrative.

I compared two speeches of Müntefering and Merkel, the one Müntefering held at the Parteitag in Hamburg and one Merkel held to celebrate the Soziale Marktwirtschaft. They were surprisingly similar. A very interesting fact is that both use the word “müssen” a lot. Maybe German politicians should think about putting their messages into sentences with more “können”.

You can see Müntefering’s speech on the left side (obviously, Merkel wouldn’t say “Genossen”) and Merkel’s on the right side.

The people of CERN (European Nuclear Research Center) who run the big 17mile long atom smasher called Large Hadron Collider in between France and Switzerland made a very cool video about what they are doing and kind of questions their research adresses:

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)

10 YEARS KARNEVAL DER VERPEILTEN -
Bar25 and Bachstelzen Line up:
Witwe Bolte aka Christin & Ultraviolettnana & Mr. Mostash - live
david doradepilocka krach - live
Man of tomorrow - live/dj
heinrichs&hirtenfellner
one:shot:orchestra - live
gianni vitiello
sven dohse
the dose - live
m.a.n.d.y
philip b

www.maxundmoriz.de

Tomorrow (Sep04) there will be an opening, starts 20:30h, Peaches will be djing, I guess a bunch of marketing, design and otherwise scenish people will show up but if you look arty enough you have the chance to sneak in and grab some free beer.

See him painting after the click

Took a picture but I guess it means work to adjust it nicely to the design. We’ll see..

Next task: Disable this autocorrect thing.

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 Afterhour-Gänger mit Rave-Kaffeetrinkern 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.

And here, we have A LOT of music: ALL BBC One Essential mixes. It’s also a little sad. How can you EVER enjoy so much music? My favourite essential mixes are the ones done by Skream and Lindström with Prins Thomas.

And Soundcloud is intriguing, not least because so many professional musicians from the electronic scene already are members and share their songs before they come out to a selected network of contacts: Richie Hawtin, Tanith, the whole Compost crew to only name a few. One nice feature is the comment function where people can put a comment into the timeline of a track and thus precisely give feedback, e.g. ask for songnames in dj mixes. Here is an amazingly fresh yet powerful dubstepmix by Tanith.

Another feature is the dropbox, so here you can drop songs for me I should e.g. consider playing in dj sets or promote via stylewalker.net:

Send me your track

I have one 19 invites (thanks, Alex!) for Soundcloud left, so leave a comment if you’re interested.

Tomorrow, Alexander organizes a likemind meeting, 9 AM (!), so come around, have a coffee at Oberholz, Berlin.

by Jesus Presley

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.

by Jesus PresleyAnd it is a big responsibility not to spoil it over the ambition. So, many people were dissapointed by the organization, by the fact of having to wait so long to finally get in, to miss bands because venues were full or because schedules were changed or bands cancelled their gigs. And the heavy rain on the first day did not help at all either. But, there were so many great concerts! Like the dubstep parties with Caspah, Skream and, yes, Goldie (see picture above..), like cool and beautiful gigs by GusGus and Björk or the Battles (such crude music and such a warm audience) and over all to see so many beautiful and nice people from all over Europe having so much fun together.

So, before I want to tell my own story, here are some links so you can read for yourself what people blogged about the festival:
Mainstage , Rrrauschenlauschen: melt-2008-samstag-190708-fazit, Mocca-couture: Melt-2008, Fortschritt TV: Melt 2008 Review, Extrablau: Drei Tage krwach - wir feiern, Indiestreber: melt-2008-tut-mir-leid-wenn-ich-sage-fruher-war-alles-besser-aber-fruher-war-alles-besser/, Direkteingabe: Melt Erfahrungsbericht, Xdev: Melt 08 Festival, Plaiboi Melt Rückblick, Sonett 77, Sander S: Melt in Retrospect, Topfives: Besser schmelzen, Torsun: Die Stirn, Jetzt.de: Wir wollten unser letztes Melt.., Parkplatz Rave aufm Melt.

Especially in the Melt-Forum you can read a wide discussion about what went wrong and what should change next year. The nice thing about it is that many fans utter their discontent very openly but that the discussion never gets out of hands. If criticism is too harsh or exaggerated, there will instantly be discussion members who would soften things up to a serious level.

by Jesus PresleySo, getting to my own story: Actually, one of the dissapointments I could have prevented myself: Hercules and Love Affair were present on the festival, only the crew was still on their way from Berlin and would not have made it in time. But none of us had the idea to let the band play accoustic or in any other way to with the help of th festival crew! Why? I don’t know. And things got so hectic that I did not get on stage to tell the audience that Alter Ego were going to play instead. Afterwards I did, but that was definitely too late. Bugger. I had not expected this and was not sharpminded enough to make the right decisions. Apart from that, “my” stage, the Gemini stage was great. Mr Oizo rocked, distorted massively but he and the crowd had a good time. Feadz lost a Flat Eric toy but got it back, thanks to the note we printed out which you can see here. the whole Get physical crew (Booka Shade and M.A.N.D.Y.) did a good job and people danced on the wooden floor. That thing, by the way was tricky: If you just stood still, it swung so hard, it made you dance automatically!

Sunday I was also responsible for the Gemini stage which organized itself more or less: Berlin Battery rocked several hours and did a great closing show for this years Melt! I’ll post a video later in which you can see that despite all the justified criticism this year’s Melt cannot have been so bad!

So, I’ll be there next year, too, with more whit and preparation and so will everybody else who organizes this, in my eyes, still Germany’s greatest festival.

The Berlin street artist will not be present tonight when Circleculture gallery opens another streetart exhibtion, pushing the subversive power of free art in public places to another level. But many others will, so come around, 7pm!

Substance at Berghain was amazing - we waited for almost two hours to get in but it was worth every minute (Anyway, I like standing in line, it kind of hypes up the whole atmosphere and everybody is happy, once they are in).

Already in the ground floor, before walking up the stairs of Berghain, the walls where shaking. We literally jumped up the steps and minutes later stood right next to the DJ. The crowd was shaking from the soundscapes and booming basslines and especially when compared to Panorama bar’s (Kompakt crew played the typical club sound) ever-so-familiar bom-bom-bom one realized what a revolutionary concept in club music dubstep really is.

Directly, I looked for more dj mixes and found an excellent dark and complex-drummy banger by Scuba, dj and founder of London based label Hotflush recordings via Real Vinylz -
Scuba N16 mix:
Download audio file (Scuba%20N16%20Mix%20Jun07.mp3)

Download
More downloads from Hotflush.

Sunday (yesterday), the trailer celebrated its world premiere on Myspace -already, almost 10 000 watched the very emotional ride between party, excess, despair and paranoia. In the movie, Kalkbrenner stars DJ Ickarus who travels the world djing and is about to release his second album - like the Ikarus from Greek mythology he raises a little to high.. The movie comes to the theatres on october 2nd.

Berlin Calling - Offizieller Trailer zum Film

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.

Tom14, “born in Brazil and based in Barcelona”, who “is a street artist in more than one way. He works on the streets, sometimes literally on the surface of the road, but besides this, his work is also deals with the rights on the street. It’s all about reclaiming the streets from real estate investors who make large profits from urban planning projects and do nothing about improving the situation for the local people.”

Check it out: Tom 14, Barcelona street artist interview

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

183 000 Friedrichshain-Kreuzbergers can cast their vote concerning these plans of a big urban development project along the river Spree on July 13th. The project “Mediaspree” plans to build offices and buildings within the next years and is going to invest more than 2 billion Euro. The cost would be the loss of a lot of public urban space.

Urban development is a good thing, in this case though, many people fear to be left without being asked. All what is special about Berlin, the little, independent, free and creative places, the bars and clubs at the river, I would even go as far to say, the creativity itself, is in danger here. The intitiative with the martial name “Mediaspree versenken” demands no more than to leave a space of at least 50 meters between the river and the new houses, space to be used for all Berliners and all who come here. You can vote for this demand on July13th if you live in Friedrichshain or Kreuzberg - tell your friends!

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”:
Download audio file (lovelies.mp3)

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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!

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..

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

Weiter geht mein Artikel als Gastbeitrag bei den Blogpiloten

Daher freut es mich sehr, den Text auch als pdf-Download unter cc Lizenz anbieten zu können, voilá: “Zum Beitrag von Weblogs zur Konstitution von Organisationsidentität” (oder als HTML-Version), geschrieben an der FU Berlin, bei Juliana Raupp am Institut für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Arbeitsstelle Organisationskommunikation, bewertet mit einer sehr guten Note.

In der Arbeit gehe ich auf drei verschiedene Ansätze zur Definition von Organisationsidentität ein, einem marketingorientierten, einem sozialpsychologischen und einem systemtheoretischen. Tatsächlich war der Teil, die Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten der Ansätze herauszuarbeiten, einer der spannendsten der Arbeit. Im zweiten Teil werden wissenschaftliche Ansätze zu Praktiken der Weblognutzung herausgearbeitet, die schließlich mit den eingangs eingeführten Theorien in einen Zusammenhang gebracht werden. Garniert wird diese Zusammenführung mit einer Reihe von Beispielen, die zeigen, wie Weblogs Organisationsidentität fassbar machen, abbilden und auch beeinflussen können.

Im Endeffekt hat die Arbeit mit diesem Thema sehr viel Spaß gemacht und tief drinnen ist der Wunsch nach einer weiteren theoretischen Beschäftigung mit der Schnittstelle Organisationsidentität und Onlinekommunikation immer noch vorhanden. Wir werden sehen, was sich aus diesem Wunsch noch entwickelt. Verlegt wird die Arbeit vom VDM Verlag Dr Müller, mit dem die Zusammenarbeit sehr gut funktioniert hat. Wer Interesse hat, seine Abschlussarbeit auch dort zu veröffentlichen (im Gegensatz zu anderen Fachverlagen entstehen für den Autor keine Kosten), kann sich gerne an mich wenden.

Für die, die noch einmal nachvollziehen wollen, wie diese Arbeit zustande gekommen ist, habe ich hier noch ein paar Links aus der Vergangenheit:

August 2005: Meinungsmacher-Blog - das Blog zum Buch, an dem ich mitarbeiten durfte. Die erste tiefer gehende wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit Weblogs meinerseits.

Oktober 2005: Identity of organizations in networks - eine erste Studienarbeit für den Fachbereich Netzwerkökonomie am BWL-Institut der FU Berlin, für die wir ein Blog bei der Erarbeitung benutzt haben. Es ging v.a. um den systemtheoretischen Ansatz zu Organisationsidentität.

Mai 2006: Die erste Mindmap

Juli 2006: Organizational identity by means of narrations in weblogs (July 27, 2006) - eine schöne Anekdote zu Organizational Storytelling in Weblogs.

Februar 2007: What is organizational identity and what have blogs to do with this? Ein Zwischenstand der Forschungsbemühungen, wo mir die Richtung erst richtig klar wurde.

Juni 2007: Es ist geschafft! Ein kleiner Emo-Beitrag nach einer durchgetippten Nacht vor der Abgabe.

Und damit das hier noch komplett wird, der Abstract der Arbeit in English:

Abstract
Organizational identity describes what is central, distinctive and enduring about an organization, its unity and individuality. Basically, there are three theoretic approaches that describe organizational identity from a socio-psychological, a marketing and a systemic perspective. Weblogs are a new, internet-based form of communication, frequently updated websites with possibilities for dialogue and interaction that are perceived to be particularly personal and authentic.

This work introduces the different theoretic approaches to organizational identity and develops a comparison of these. The major features are then to be connected to the texts, conversations, structures and discourses in Weblogs to show how weblogs can contribute to the constitution of organizational identity.

Keywords: Organizational identity, organisational theory, weblogs, communication, discourse, corporate identity, social identity, narration, identification, system theory

The next edition, called “Calor 08″ will take place at the hotel “Chic & basic” in Calle Princesa 50, this Saturday, June 14th, from 11 AM to 9 PM. On the website you will find many slideshows with pictures from past shows.

Although I am not living there anymore, I can ensure that it’s still a very vibrant and creative city, especially in fashion. Not at last because of that it has become home of Bread&Butter..

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.

As much as he likes blending words, he likes to blend cultural styles. He mixes art, music, poetry, party and bar and there we have what he always wanted: The Vorspiel, located at Falkensteinstraße 47 (same house as club 103), open from wednesday to sunday, 18 - 02:00h. At first hand Vorspiel is a gallery that shows contemporary art, from street to comic and even sculptures. At second hand Vorspiel is a place for performances: dance, concerts, films and so on. Plus: These days, all Euro08 games will be shown on a big screen!

A very vibrant place with very urban and vibrant people, always open to ideas and creativity, definitely worth a visit. Here is a short interview with Yaneq by Carpe Berlin and to read more, here is a nice article from Berliner Zeitung about Vorspiel (in German).

Hellsongs Hymns in the key of 666 cover

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

Picture from his Myspace

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)