Meltdown by ximekon

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Ten years ago, on June 14th, 2000 Alberto Adriano died from an attack of rightist extremists in the german city Dessau. Adriano was originally a contract worker from Mozambique who came to the German Democratic Republic in 1980. At the time of his death he had three children in the age between 5 months and [...]

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Abstract According to the RIAA the media industry is suffering heavy losses due to increased copying and file sharing in the last 10 years. Sanity and reason shows there must be something true with that argument. But are the numbers the media companies are providing correct? What can we learn from history? The following links [...]

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Something intelligent between Jazz and Downbeats taken from austrian Marcus Füreder’s (aka Parov Stelar) 2007 album “Shine”. » Wikipedia.org: Pavel Stelar…

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Nice mixture between punk, electro and indie. “Alphabet Pony” is taken from The Kills’ 2008 album “Midnight Boom”. » The Kills on Wikipedia… » TheKills.tv…

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When two guys from Denmark feel it is too narrow there and they decide to move to Brooklyn, so how does this sound then? Listen carefully to “My Eyes to See”. It is taken from AFM’s upcoming Album “Let This Be the Last Night We Care” (to be released on March 5th, 2010). Description? No, [...]

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London based Electro-Pop producer Sinclair seem to have visited Berlin during the last eight weeks. Yes since the end of december 2009 Berlin is full of snow. Picture is courtesy of Sinclair. You think: snow? Are those Berlin people crazy? Yes, we are. Snow is kinda very rare here in Berlin, although the winter gets [...]

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[Update] Former article title: [Muzaq] Dukes of Windows: It’s A War. Yes, you’d better not ask. And no, (sadly) Microsoft is not paying us for those typos… That’s the sound of Australians living here in Berlin. The song “It’s A War” is taken from their upcoming album “It’s A War”. Until then enjoy the latest [...]

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American actor Stephen Colbert pulled an unreleased Apple iPad yesterday at the Grammy Awards to read the list of nominees. Colbert said “I’m sorry where’s the list. Oh, I know! It’s on my iPad. Jay-z, did you not get one of these in your gift bag? Am I cooler than you?“ This product placement seems [...]

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The Situation As an addition to our periodical music reviews we now offer to get those tracks legally as mp3 downloads from our own site here. We don’t expect big sales here. We see this as another experiment in our large field of experiments. As this is all about gathering experiences, we currently offer this [...]

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Enjoy and go buying the MP3 at Amon Tobin’s Online Store. Find his discography on Discogs.

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Being too lazy to write long stories about the canadian producer Deadmau5, or the incident how he got this nick. Let’s just listen to this track. This remix is awesum. » Deadmau5 on Wikipedia… » Kaskade on Wikipedia… » Caspa on Rupert’s MySpace… » “I Remember” (Disk 2) on vinyl on Discogs…

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In August 2000 the world premiere of Tan Dun’s Waterpassion took place in Stuttgart’s Liederhalle. (..) Tan Dun, along with Sofia Gubaidulina, Osvaldo Golijov, and Wolfgang Rihm, was commissioned by Helmuth Rilling and the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart to write a piece for the Passion 2000 project in commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach. His contribution was [...]

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or Berlin Mitte’s transformation since 1997. People who were into electronic music in the 1990′s do know the E-Werk rather well. That location has become known all over the world for its amazing parties, and as an experimental playground for what has later been named Trance. The E-Werk and the Berlin Tresor were some of [...]

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Six years after their last EP “Antipop Consortium vs. Matthew Ship” the british alternative Hip-Hop group Antipop Consortium releases a new album: Fluorescent Black. After breaking up for doing solo projects in 2003, they reunited in 2007 and said in an August 2007 interview that they reunited with the intention of touring and releasing a [...]

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20th anniversary: Warp is creating the definitive Warp Album. According to the announcement the box set called Warp20 will include: The 192 catalogue book: artwork of every Warp release from 1989 to August 2009 Warp20 (Chosen) 2 x CD: Ten songs chosen by followers on Warp20.net, ten songs chosen by Steve Beckett (Warp co-founder) Warp20 [...]

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Everybody knows what DJ’s do: putting vinyl on the turntables an mix tracks into each other. This is basically the idea of DJing. The four guys Crazy-B, DJ Pone, DJ Need, and Little Mike (going under the name “Birdy Nam Nam”) are moving DJing at least one step beyond. They use their turntables more like [...]

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You know what Dub is?! You know what beatboxing is?! Lemme tell you: I suppose you really don’t. I really love Rahzel for what he does, but I gotta tell you Dub FX is really version 2.0 of human beatboxing. I strongly recommend to watch the video below to fully understand what he does and [...]

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The cat and mouse game goes into its next round. After the media companies have fought a quite successful lobby war against basic liberties, the operators of the PirateBay are now testing a service that anonymizes your traces as internet user. The Business Model 3,000 internet users are right now in beta testing. 180,000 people [...]

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