Akademie-Gespräch: Das System Google
30 September 2008 – AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE – 19 Uhr · Pariser Platz 4, Plenarsaal, Berlin [GERMAN ARTICLE] Die Verdienste der weltweit größten Datensuchmaschine Google sind groß. Google ermöglicht vielen Menschen den Zugang zu Informationen, ist effizient in der Bündelung und Verbreitung von Wissen und in der Speicherung von Überliefertem. Das Monopol auf Informationen macht [...]
Hydrophobia by Entertainment for the Braindead
Kleines unscheinbares Album das ohne große Aufregung zu beeindrucken weiß. Wunderschön verspielte Songs und die sanfte Stimme machen das Album zu einem Geheimtipp das sich vor Künstlerinnen wie Piana oder Hanne Hukkelberg nicht zu verstecken braucht. (mr) [GERMAN ARTICLE] Hydrophobia by Entertainment for the Braindead, a young and very talented singer songwriter from Cologne, Germany. [...]
Speaker Buddies reflect child-like innocence
Clad in an all-white garb, Speaker Buddies are a rather inspired creation. Alex Underwood wanted to pay homage to an often neglected material: Expanded Polystyrene, something that’s regarded as a no good material. Alex proves otherwise in an amusing design for speakers tagged Speaker Buddies. These speakers work in pairs and are depictions of child-like [...]
The T-shirt Issue by Mashallah Design
The T-shirt Issue by Mashallah Design & Linda Kostowski. Berlin-based Mashallah Design & Linda Kostowski have created items of clothing by scanning human bodies and using the data to create sewing patterns.
Diesel XXX
Diesel SFW XXX invitation to 30th birthday party on 11th October 2008. 24 hours, 17 cities, 1 party: Tokyo, Beijing, Dubai, Athens, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Milan, Munich, Paris, Oslo, Stockholm, Zurich, London, Sau Paulo and New York. The international line up includes Mark Ronson, N*E*R*D, M.I.A., David Holmes, Chaka Khan, New Young Pony Club [...]
Warp’s banned “porno”!
This video below contains some explicit cartoon scenes, flashing lights and is FOR OVER 18′s ONLY. Directed by Eric Wareheim (Tim & Eric) in association with Warp Records and Warp Films. Music by Flying Lotus. Co Directed/ Animation by Devin Flynn. Co Directed/ Edited by Eric Fensler. More info at dancefloordale.com
Power charger for iPhones
Talk about a GreenerGadget! Swedish designer Peter Thuvander has designed an induction-powered yo-yo charger for iPhones and other Apple handheld devices. Housing a lithium ion cell, and based on the OLPC crank and this dandy wind-up remote, Peter is betting that the physics are close to there. “The remote control needs only 30 cranks–which is [...]
Volga at ausland
Live recorded at Ausland (one of my favorite Venue) in Berlin. Sounds like ethnic, folklore, industrial – good, unique and really strange psychedelic music. Angela Manukian, Alexei Borisov, Yuri Balashov and Roman Lebedev have created the most, and the only well-known, in international music area, Russian project, working in folklore/authentic style, connecting together Slavic ancient [...]
MURCOF FEATURE
His new Album, “The Versailles Sessions” will released first of December 2008. Murcof is the performing and recording name of Mexican electronica artist Fernando Corona. Corona was born in 1970 in Tijuana, Mexico and raised in Ensenada. He was for a time a member of the Tijuana-based Nortec Collective of electronic musicians under the Terrestre [...]
Wolfgang Voigt presents GAS LIVE
World Premiere: Wolfgang Voigt presents GAS LIVE centraltheater, leipzig, germany date: sunday, 28 september 2008 / time: 20:00 h Nach 12 Jahren weitgehender Bühnenabstinenz bringt Wolfgang Voigt sein legendäres Projekt GAS erstmals live zur Aufführung. Der in Köln ansässige Klangforscher, der seine Werke unter Pseudonymen wie Mike Ink, Blei, Love Inc. oder Grungerman veröffentlicht, zählt [...]
Nintendo Underwear
Adam Kimmel presents:
A Film by: Ari Marcopoulos Director of Photography: Colin Blackshear Producer: Neville Wakefield
New Buck 65 Video
Buck 65 — Shutterbuggin September 18, 2008 / “We have released an incredible new video for the track Shutterbuggin’ off Situation! It was directed by the amazing Christopher Mills and was inspired by the cult Beaver Kid Trilogy films.”
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ISAAC HAYES FEATURE
Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008 PURSUIT OF THE PIMPMOBILE / (STAX, 1974) From the Blaxploitation classic Truck Turner, this nine-minute odyssey was a cult underground hit on the early NYC circuit. It has an urgent orchestral feel with real drama, and you can hear the beginnings of disco in [...]
Mogwai new ALBUM
Mogwai seldom do much wrong when it comes to their LPs. You’d be pretty hard-pressed to find a dud amongst their previous five studio albums (or six, if you include the Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait soundtrack) but the band are hardly prone to deviating too far from their own, massively influential blueprint. Buy it [...]
Nintendub
Rustie, Kode9 and more get mixed with chip and hip-hop in Squincy Jones‘ genre-devouring mix tape. Download
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The MADEIRADIG Festival 2010
3-6.12.2010 | Madeira Island
From Beats, Wonky, Glitch and Downbeat to advanced Hip Hop, we present you extraordinary producers from around the world.
Live laptop concerts featuring contemporary new atmospheric sound scapes and field-recordings.
