If any of this seems appealing to you, it might be worth checking out Network Awesome, a virtual TV station with four to six hours of old TV programming each day that’s nostalgic, entertaining, informative — and thrown together by a team of dedicated curators.

Pulgasari | Trailer

The site launched in early January 2011 as the brainchild of Berlin-based electronic musician Jason Forrest aka Donna Summer and his partner Greg Sadetsky, who does most of the coding for the site.

Since launch it has mostly relied on word-of-mouth to grow its daily viewer base, but viewers are catching on, with the site posting record traffic last Friday.

All the broadcasting is curated from YouTube. The Netwpork Awesome system stitches the various links together and presents it linearly to the viewer.N-A’s intent is to show something about TV culture as a whole.

This can manifest itself in a classic kids cartoon from the 30′s, an interview from the 60′s or a undiscovered movie from the 80′s. The main purpose of Network Awesome is to surface content that is otherwise difficult for nostalgic fans to find online.

Now, we want to celebrate NETWORK AWESOME’s first anniversary with an incredible party in the beautiful Sophiensaele in Berlin, with a “Greatest Hits” video screening, a Chuckamuck live performance and a DJ set by Monsieur Bonaparte. It’s gonna be incredible, don’t miss it!

We are giving away 2 x 2 tickets for NETWORK AWESOME First Anniversary Party. Just send a mail to win@digitalinberlin.de with “NETWORK AWESOME” as the subject.
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Network Awesome Birthday Party with Chuckamuck  LIVE
Dj: Monsieur Bonaparte

Friday, 20 January 2012 | 20:00 CET
Sophiensäle | Sophienstr. 18 | 10178 Berlin/Mitte

networkawesome.com | myspace.com/therealchuckamuck | sophiensaele.com
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Jason Forrest is an electronic music producer known for noisy experimental electronica and breakcore incorporating many ideas of mash-up and rock and roll. Until 2004 he recorded under the name Donna Summer, an allusion to disco singer Donna Summer.

Jason Forrest | Raunchy
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgAQ3TLnAUk

Best known for her theremin style, composer/musician Dorit Chrysler also has a prolific recording and performing career as a vocalist.

Dorit Chrysler | Animoso
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGHdYNEoKeQ

As a solo-artist Guido Möbius creates a very unique and intimate sound. A whole lot of instruments, most of them acoustic, define the soundcollage. Brittle soundtissues and sweet tones blend in complex arrangements. With his debut Möbius masters the thin line between lightness and complexity.

The list of the used instruments (guitar, bass, glockenspiel, voice, Jew´s harp, banjo, percussions, Portasound Samplingkeyboard, Moog…) alone shows the musical versatility and a mind to test and try. That he loves to collaborate with guest musicians (especially with those who play instruments he cannot master himself) rounds off the picture.
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DENSEHALL #11
with Jason Forrest, Dorit Chrysler, Guido Moebius LIVE

Saturday, 9th July 2011 | 22:00 CET
Jacki / Maria | An der Schillingbrücke| 10243 Berlin

www.jackiterrasse.com | www.dense-shop.de
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What is a Birthday Party? A Birthday Party is usually in a really dirty club and it is always more fun than going to a nice club. It’s cheap and sleazy. A Birthday Party is like that part in your favorite 80′s song you sing at karaoke mixed with that moment when you went to your first rave.

A Birthday Party is just a bit of fun trash that keeps you alive. The Birthday Party happens in Berlin once a month at various locations and it’s free or very cheap and people usually bring their friends because it’s more fun that way. We usually play a wide range of extatic up-beat party-jamz, from blog-electro to old-school rave, to Baltimore house, to techno to hip-hop to mashup-rock jamz.

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3 Years Birthday Party

Saturday, 31.07.2010 | 23:00 h
Jacki Terrasse / Maria | An der Schillingbrücke| 10243 Berlin

Live:
Party Catani (Supra Catanism)
Duranx3 (Cockrockdisco)
Breezy Nix (San Fransisco)
Plus: Special Surprise Guest!

And Birthday Party residents:
Uncle T, Mr. Ouzo, Lil’Jean, Sly1, OhBoyGeorgeMichelJacksonPolloc k & DJ Donna Summer

www.jackiterrasse.com | www.birthdaypartyberlin.com

FACTS:
1: Was formerly an art critic for the largest Newspaper in the
southeast, USA.
2: Has never taken LSD
3: Can play the saxophone

QUESTIONS:
1. What is the biggest inspiration for your music?
Well, I’d say it was the band Public Enemy, and then – more abstractly -
I’d say it has been my desire to re-use the old and make it new again.

When I was a kid I remember distinctly the first time I was able to spot
a sample. It was this one section of a Prince guitar solo which was in a
Public Enemy song.  The realization that a sampled bit of music could be
two artists “work” at once had a really major impact.

2. How and when did you get into making music?
After high school I started to play around with making weird noise tapes
and stuff, but it was always secondary to my visual art at the time. I
had a saxophone, a delay pedal, a Casio keyboard, and I recorded it all
with 2 radios and a video mixer. It was primitive!

Then waaaaay later when I moved to NYC I was- of course- broke and
making art cost money, whereas making music on a computer was free. Also
at the time I was pretty disgusted with the art-world and was meeting
other musicians and stuff. Somehow I just evolved into a musician
myself, pretty much without ever really even deciding to become one.

3. What are your 5 favorite albums of all time?
- Supertramp- Breakfast In America
- Public Enemy – Fear Of A Black Planet
- Steely Dan- Katy Lied
- His Name Is Alive – Mouth By Mouth
- Swans- White Light >From the Mouth Of Infinity

4. What do you associate with Berlin?
Freedom. It’s just such an open place and living as an “arty type” is a
respected way to live your life. Of course, it’s inexpensive, there’s
great clubs here, etc. But the freedom is really important!

5. What’s your favorite place in your town?
There’s a lot of places really, but I get really excited by the
Tiergarten! I love to run there and I’m always amazed by how “away” from
the city you can get inside of it.

6. If there was no music in the world, what would you do instead?
Probably Design. Maybe TV.

7. What was the last record you bought?
Vinyl- Paul McCartney and Wings- Greatest Hits
CD- I bought a bunch of Japanese Gabber comps in Tokyo
Mp3- Donkey Rollers – The Fusion of Sound

8. Who would you most like to collaborate with?
I had this plan to try to collaborate with all my favorite 70′s
soft-rock idols, like the guys from Supertramp and Gerry Rafferty, and
folks like that – I even tried to get in touch with some of them too,
but either they never replied or they never got the mail. I’ve tried to
collab with Michel Gira as well and same goes for Warren Defever from
HNIA (see above list) but it never worked out either- despite getting
closer!

9. What was your best gig (as performer or spectator)?
As a performer- it was no-doubt Pukkelpop way back in 2003. I was on in
the afternoon on a Friday at this big outdoor festival and my stage was
located right by the entrance. When I went on stage there were 2,000
young Dutch and Belgian kids there and they went absolutely insane! I
couldn’t believe it! When the crowd screamed it was louder than anything
I’ve ever heard in my life…

As a spectator- it was probably Meat Beat Manifesto on their “99%” tour.
It was my first real out-of-body rave experience.

10. How important is technology to your creative process?
Seeing as my music is all made inside the computer, it’s pretty damn
important. That said, over the years I’ve come to devalue the effect of
technology because ideas are the only thing that really matter. Good
ideas can change the world – or at least your life!

11. Do you have siblings and are they proud or jealous of you?
I have a brother. He’s pretty different from me but we get along great.
I think he’s proud of me, even though he doesn’t really get what I’m all
about. My whole family respects that I’ve been able to make a life for
myself and travel the world with my music. It’s a pretty special life to
have and I value it every single day! It’s my dream come true.

http://www.cockrockdisco.com |  http://www.myspace.com/jason_forrest