Back in (blog-) business and back in sync! That’s what I wanted to be for a long time and what I try to be right now! After “years” of silence finally a new blog entry. I’m a bit sorry, but honestly: we worked hard! But no more excuses … here we go:
For a long time I talked to my friend Nicolas Chaix aka I-Cube about the good old “sync” business. It’s all about syncing the machines (mainly Roland X0X) and just start to jam and see what’s coming out of the boxes. No more sitting in front of a computer screen for hours. No more backache! Just more fun: running around in the studio. Pulling and plugging cables, playing some real keyboards, turning on the arpeggiator (in sync!), being annoyed if some connection failed, struggeling with some analog equipment that’s not in tune, many many technical compromises, etc etc. But at the end: a fantastic sound straight out of the box, very human, very intuative and very spontaneous!
In March 2010 we are finally starting our new subscription round.
If you had the subscription in 2009, you already know that you will be getting extra gimmicks with it (a limited vinyl, a special shirt and a beautiful box for the records).
But this year we will even top that! To every subscription there will be added free wavs/mp3s and a special subscriber’s guestlist function.
For more infos check the video below.
Our good friends from Slam Jam Italy are cooperating with us on the design and production of all the special items included.
To purchase the subscription, please visit our webshop.
Our soundtrack project is in its final throes. Last year we have been asked by the TimeWarp festival to take part in the 2010 Edition of the Jetztmusikfestival which precedes the TimeWarp party on saturday. In the past years Laurent Garnier, Mathew Jonson, Moritz von Oswald with Ricardo Villalobos and Chateau Flight dealt with this task. In co-operation with the Murnau Stiftung we got access to the digitalized version of the influential “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” by Robert Wiene. This silent film is very famous for its Expressionist style and set design and is considered as one of the first horror movies ever. Till today the true story behind the movie is not really revealed and clarified.
As a lot of you realised already, last week all the downloadshops offered the new Innervisions by Henrik Schwarz / Âme / Dixon with the wrong content. Due to a problem with the ISRC code (a code that identifies artist, producer, label and artwork of a music file) the tracks that were announced as the IV 26 were actually tracks from Dixon Mix CD “Temporary Secretary”.
The shops are putting up the new files now and here are some with correct links already:
You can also check the right versions here and here on our YouTube-Channel!
And before you all start to speculate:
1. No – that was not a strange marketing strategy to make people buy the vinyl.
2. No – we don’t want to confuse all the illegal download sites by spamming them with wrong files.
3. No – that was not our way to guide you all to the only shop with the right files!
It was simply a big mistake and we apologize for that!
It started in Lissabon probably the most beautiful town in Europe. We as innervisions are doing a kind of residency there from now on at the famous Lux Club which includes 4 nights per year in different cast. Rui Vargas the resident there and a very good friend of us came up with this idea. He is a great dj and head of programming without him Portugal wont be a housenation like it is. Lux Fragil has a great architecture outside and inside too.
Best-of- and end-of-the-year charts are like assholes, everyone’s got one.
And yes, I know that it is almost February and shouldn’t bother because the curtain is drawn. Bla, bla…just take it in the vein of the slow food movement.
Actually, come to think of it, Brooklyn’s cherished Dope Jams record store is a bit like slow food. They don’t order every record, they (usually) love what they sell, could care less about the flavor of the month, take pride in their taste and try to communicate that to their customers. And that is what a record store should do, no? If you don’t think so, go and leave your money on iTunes. Kristian already recommended their store and some of their observations here, which caused a bit of a stir and some commentary here.
And what a read it is. Written in such a witty, entertaining and sometimes unfortunately very true manner, they kill some of their favorites next to holy cows, poke fun at a lot of people and hold up to the saying that you can’t polish a turd.
If you still feel disgusted by the “negativity”, rest assured that they give Pépé Bradock some well-deserved love of the decade, while they also reach fever pitch with ‘Never Forget’ by Hardrive 2000. A record I would rather want to forget about, as it not marks the end of a great era in NYC house, but rather the beginning of its demise. Yes, here we are again. Opinions are like assholes, everyone’s…and always look beyond your own backyard.
Time goes by and the amount of records at home has been seriously increased, it reached the point that i even got into trouble with my wife. But there is a good and a bad side of liking so many different type of music.
In Clubmusic we suffer from an oversupply of releases. But on the other hand a lot of different genres are not really well represented. Thats why i want to focus today on records aside the dancefloor. You might have realised some of our other preferences if you visited a clubnight with us recently.More … »
On my daily “waste of time internet search” I found this really interesting software from “Gleetchplug“. They have rebuild a nearly complete studio environment from the 50ies as a software. It’s called “Berna” and the video they posted on their site speaks for itself … and the price (around 10 Euros only) should prevent nobody to buy and try it! You got virtual oscillators, delays, tapes, mixers, noise generators etc. Looks like fun and (if it sounds good) it could be a very creative tool.
There have been a couple of revivals from that decade in the last years, but most of the times it had been just a very sketchy one. Like I said with “Les Disques du Crepuscule ” it had been one of the most creative moments for popmusic. Dadaism, Performance Art and Minimalism found their way into the mainstream and the subculture was very spirited, too. Nowadays there are a couple of very passionated fans who are reclaiming these vivant undergound. Some years ago i stumbled across the great compilation “Lost Tapes – A Compilation of European Minimal Wave from ‘81-’86 ” at the rushour recordstore in amsterdam.
That’s how it all started … just seen this (maybe already well known) video and having a lot of fun. Starring: Westbam, Jam-El-Mar (from Jam&Spoon and born in Karlsruhe by the way …), Snap, etc. It’s still “kind of” the same than today but see for yourself:
